Interview: ‘Blair Witch’ Director Adam Wingard & Writer Simon Barrett On Reinventing A Horror Legend For 2016 DirectorAdam Wingardand screenwriterSimon Barretthave become two of the most exciting new voices in horror over the past five years with films likeA Horrible Way to Die,You’re Next, andThe Guest(as well as memorable segments in bothVHSmovies andThe ABCs of Death). Now, the duo have decided to enter someone else’s playground withBlair Witch, a sequel to the 1999 classicThe Blair Witch Project....

J.J. Abrams Suggests ‘Star Wars’ Could Prevent Him Making ‘Star Trek 3’ Since being hired to directStar Wars: Episode VII,J.J. Abramshas had a secondary role in addition to keeping theStar Trekseries on track: being a cheerleader for two very different series owned by different companies. As the new captain ofTrek, Abrams is just about to launch his second Enterprise mission, and then will have to quickly shift over intoStar Warsmode to getEpisode VIIrolling early next year....

Jack Black’s Canceled Green Lantern Movie Could Have Changed DC Forever The Green Lantern is probably the best superhero to be named after a piece of camping equipment. I jest, of course, but I think even the character’s most die-hard fans would have to admit that the Green Lantern is a surreal concept. The character belongs to a corps of high-powered space police who said about the cosmos under the power of magical rings that glow with a green light....

Josh Brolin Turned Down ‘Avatar’ Sequels And James Cameron Was Pissed Not only is directorJames Cameronbeing quite ambitious by planning fourAvatarsequels that are being shot back-to-back, but he’s making some surprising choices for his cast. While it was expected thatSam WorthingtonandZoe Saldanawould reprise their roles as Jake Sully, in his Na-vi avatar body, and the Pandora native Neytiri, we’ve since learned that in addition toSigourney Weaverreturning as a new character, the deceased villains played byStephen LangandMatt Geraldwill somehow be coming backas the same characters....

Kevin Feige Had A Surprising Hand In Crafting Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine In a world currently dominated by superhero movies, it’s sometimes difficult to think back to a time when making one of these films was anything but a sure bet. DC characters such as Batman and Superman had movies that were bonafide hits, though by the time the late ’90s rolled around, the former had crashed and burned with 1997’s still reviled"Batman and Robin,“and the latter hadn’t been seen in a movie since the disastrous “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace....

Kirsten Dunst Wants To Play Mary Jane Again In The Marvel Multiverse It is absolutely no secret at this point that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is in full-on multiverse mode. Shows like “Loki” and “WandaVision” laid some groundwork but “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ripped things wide open, with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” poised to more than double down on that craziness. Now, an actor from Marvel’s past has expressed interest in getting in on the action in the form of Kirsten Dunst, who played Mary Jane Watson in director Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” trilogy alongside Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker....

Page 2: Transformers, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Miyazaki, Matrix, Fifth Element, WALL-E, MacGyver, Last Star Fighter, Star Wars We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Pistol Review: A Punk Rock Miniseries As Raw And Powerful As The Band That Inspired It Music fans have argued for decades about the origin of punk music, with some claiming it began in New York City with the Ramones, while others claim it all began in London with the Sex Pistols. Though they both originated in the mid-1970s, it’s impossible to deny the strong political statement of the Sex Pistols, whose songs were a primal scream against authority and commercialism....

Plot Description And Poster For Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘11-11-11’ DirectorDarren Lynn Bousman’s latest film,Mother’s Day, won’t be released until April 1 (though we saw itat Fantastic Fest) but the man behindSaw II, IIIandIVis just about ready to shoot his follow up. It’s called11-11-11and outside of the genre, title and release date, we haven’t really heard much about the movie. Until now.The official websitefor the film is up giving us our first hints and our friends atBloody Disgustinghave even more details....

Robert Forster Playing Ronald Reagan In One-Man Stage Show And Film There is a rather rare, very specific film subgenre that we rarely have a chance to discuss: Single-Actor Films Based on One-Man Stage Plays About US Presidents. There isSecret Honor, for instance, in which Philip Baker Hall did a magnificent job as Richard Nixon for director Robert Altman. And there isGive ‘Em Hell, Harry!, in which James Whitmore played Harry S Truman....

Rumor: Megan Fox Eyed For Poison Ivy In ‘Suicide Squad’ Spinoff ‘Gotham City Sirens’ This week brought the news thatSuicide Squad’sDavid Ayerwould be directingGotham City Sirens, a female DC supervillain team-up.Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn is slated to return (and Robbie herself is an executive producer on the project), but the question now is which other characters could join her — and who might play them. Well, it should come as no surprise that Harley Quinn’s BFF Poison Ivy is believed to be involved in the movie, but what’s more interesting is who’s rumored to play her....

Rust Director Released From Hospital After On-Set Death Of Halyna Hutchins Actress Frances Fisher, who stars in “Rust” — the film production that was halted afterAlec Baldwin allegedly discharged a prop gunthat killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza — revealed that the filmmaker had been discharged from the hospital following the injury. Late in the evening on October 21, Fisher confirmed in a Twitter conversation with actress Patricia Arquette that the director told her himself that he had left the hospital....

Ryan Gosling Is The Ken To Margot Robbie’s Barbie In Warner Bros.' Live-Action Movie Prepare your pink plastic shoes and clean out the dream house, because the Margot Robbie “Barbie” movie has found its Ken. According toDeadline, Ryan Gosling is in final negotiations to portray the darling doll that’s Barbie’s long-time love. Gerwig’s Even Littler Woman “Little Women” directorGreta Gerwigis taking on this tale of a very different kind of little woman, based on a script she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach....