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Twitter Trend: #Firstdraftmovies This week on twitter a new internet meme has popped up calledthe First Draft Movies game. Basically everyone and anyone contributes by tweeting a famous or iconic movie line, as it could have appeared in the first draft of a screenplay (before a clever rewrite transformed it into the awesome line we know and love). Everyone tags their contributions with the hashtag #1stdraftmovies(or #firstdraftmovies), which has now become a trending topic on the microblogging service ....

Watch The 2016 Winners Of The Jameson First Shot Filmmaking Contest For the past five years, Jameson Irish Whiskey held theJameson First Shotinternational short film competition which promises to give new filmmaking talent an opportunity to break into the industry by working withKevin Spacy, Dana Brunetti, andTrigger Street Productions. Last week, the top three winners of the fifth annual competition were announced at an event this weekend in Los Angeles calledThe Weekender....

Wonder Women: Amazing Female Directors And The Comic Books They Should Adapt Wonder Woman’sPatty Jenkinshas quite a weight on her shoulders. Not only is she directing the big screen adaptation of DC’s beloved heroine, but she has to prove something to the world: that women can direct a blockbuster just as well as the big boys in the movie industry. And with all of the positive reviews out there, Patty seems to be winning that battle....

‘A Christmas Story’, ‘Rent’ & ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Are The Next Live Musicals On Network TV The trend of live broadcast musical productions on network television will continue in the coming year with three new projects announced at the competing networks of NBC and FOX. The two have been going back and forth with musical productions in recent years with NBC tackling the likes of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz and Hairspray and FOX taking on Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show....

‘Assassin’s Creed’ Photos: Michael Fassbender Is Ready For Action In The Past And The Present Justin Kurzel’sAssassin’s Creedadaptation has a pretty killer cast to begin with, and making things even better is the fact that he’s giving us twoMichael Fassbenders for the price of one. Well, sort of. Fassbender doesn’t seem to get a whole lot of scenes with himself, but he does play two different characters: modern-day man Callum Lynch, who discovers that he is descended from a long line of Assassins, and his ancestor Aguilar, who was one of said Assassins in 15th century Spain....

‘Cloverfield’ Crossover Briefly Considered By J.J. Abrams; Other Secrets Revealed Just in case you’re not burned out onCloverfieldnews, here’s something new. Bad Robot big cheeseJ.J. Abramstook part in a Facebook Q&A forThe Cloverfield Projectand revealed that he once considered aCloverfieldcrossover that would tie all the movies together and reunite past characters. One of my favorite things about theCloverfieldfranchise is that (for the most part) the films aren’t directly connected. The way I see it,Cloverfieldis a brand name used to distribute supernatural/sci-fi-type stories, sort of like feature-length versions ofThe Twilight Zone....

‘Early Man’ Trailer: The Creators Of ‘Wallace And Gromit’ Bring You Back To The Bronze Age While hand-drawn animation seems to be all but extinct in the feature film business, claymation will make one last gasp for relevancy with a new film by the talented creators and animation studio behind the still-greatWallace and Gromit. Lo and beholdEarly Man, the stop-motion animated film from Aardman Studios about a caveman who discovers that civilization has quickly advanced all around him — immediately making him and his tribe endangered....

‘Field Of Dreams’ TV Series From ‘Parks And Recreation’ Creator Heads To Peacock If you build it, they will come. Those words spoken in the filmField of Dreamsapply to more than just baseball fields, apparently. Hot on the heels of thesuccessful production put on by Major League Baseball, where the New York Yankees played a regular season game against the Chicago White Sox right across from the actual Iowa-based field from the beloved baseball movie, Peacock has given a straight-to-series green light for aField of Dreamsseries to be produced by writer, creator, and super-producerMichael Schur, ofParks and RecreationandThe Good Placefame....

‘French Exit’ Review: The Discreet Smarm Of The Bourgeoisie [NYFF] Azazel Jacobs' previous film,The Lovers, establishes its overarching and consistent tone from the time the opening studio logo appears. A self-consciously melodramatic piece of score cues the audience to recognize Jacobs' perspective. He humorously heightens the stakes for an otherwise mundane story of aging lovers and their affairs. His follow-up feature, an adaptation of Patrick DeWitt’s novelFrench Exit, contains no less vibrant an expression of Jacobs' directorial stamp....

‘Hotel Artemis’ Director Drew Pearce On Making His Personal Genre Movie, His Influences, And More [Interview] Drew Pearce’s feature-length directorial debut,Hotel Artemis, is the sort of movie that’s a real breath of fresh air during the summer moviegoing season. It’s an original story, for starters, but it’s also a movie that relies more on its characters and all-star cast to generate spectacle than the set pieces.Jodie Fosterplaying a fast-talking, hard-drinking nurse tending to criminals andJeff Goldblumas “The Wolf King of Los Angeles” has far more entertainment than watching a city get destroyed....

‘It Follows’ Director David Robert Mitchell Is Making A Noir With Andrew Garfield I’m in the bag forDavid Robert Mitchell. His stellar horror filmIt Followswas one of my ten favorite films of 2015and I really like his heartfelt (and tragically under-seen) debut,The Myth of the American Sleepover. Despite his first two films existing in completely different genres, his voice is crystal clear in both of them, with each movie exploring the pain of growing up and the fear of facing the world alone....

‘Mortal Kombat’ Featurette Looks At The Creation Of The Fantastical, Bloody Fight Scenes Mortal Kombatis out in theaters and on HBO Max, and if you’re wondering how directorSimon McQuoidbrought the video game action to life, a new featurette digs into the creation of the fight scenes. They didn’t even need to use a player’s guide to pull off the killer combos. Mortal Kombat Featurette Even though Mortal Kombat takes some liberties with the mythology of the video games, the fight sequences are still rather impressive....

‘Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl’ Video Game Will Let Your Favorite Childhood Icons Beat Each Other To A Pulp As my good man Nigel Thornberry would say, “Smashing!” You will soon be able to duke it out with your favorite Nickelodeon characters inNickelodeon All-Star Brawl, a game clearly inspired by theSuper Smash Brothersfranchise. The game pits favorites from multiple generations of Nickelodeon cartoons in glorious, colorful battle to determine who is the Nickeloden All-Star....