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Josh Trank’s Original Fantastic Four Pitch Is Filled With Missed Opportunities We are more than two decades removed from 2000’s “X-Men” opening up the door for Hollywood’s ongoing obsession with superhero movies. Yes, “Blade” cracked the door open in 1998, but true mainstream success followed with Marvel’s mutants two years later — and Sam Raimi would truly break the whole thing wide open in2002 with “Spider-Man.“By 2015, we were a decade and a half into the superhero boom and the time for attempted reinvention was upon us, and that attempted reinvention came from director Josh Trank taking a stab at bringing Marvel’s first family to life in “Fantastic Four....

LOL: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Bids Farewell To Bobby Moynihan And Vanessa Bayer This past weekend brought the final episode in the 42nd season ofSaturday Night Live. The show was hosted by Dwayne Johnson, and while it was a solid collection of sketches, it didn’t feel like it quite had the pomp and circumstance that usually comes with the show’s season finales. But it was the last episode for a few cast members....

Marvel’s 2014 Mystery Movie Moves Back Three Months; Does This Confirm ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’? In 2011,Marvel Studiosannounced they would releasetwo films in 2014and even gave them release dates: May 16 and June 27. They then moved the June 27movie to April 4, and confirmed it would beCaptain America 2. So it looked like we were going to get new Marvel movies in back to back months. Then last week, the news broke thatthe second film would likely beGuardians of the Galaxy,still scheduled for May 16....

Natalie Portman In Talks For Alex Garland’s Adaptation Of ‘Annihilation’ The novelAnnihilation, byJeff VanderMeer, is really terrific. It’s good enough that you should just stop reading this now, go readAnnihilation(it’s short, only 125 pages or so) then come back. Because I’m a realist I’ll assume you didn’t do that, but to avoid spoilers about the novel I’ll just say this:Annihilationis kind of sci-fi and almost horror — it’s like Tarkovsky’sStalkercrossed with H....

New ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ Image Highlights Explosive Robot Action After gazing thoughtfully into the distance in thefirst official imagefromTransformers: Age of Extinction, directorMichael Bayis getting down to work in the latest pic from the set. This being Bay, though, a day at the office still looks pretty damn exciting. Check out the image after the jump. The debris flying around (and the fact that this is a Michael Bay movie set) point to a big explosion haven just taken place....

Page 2 For April 28th 2008 Here is a round up of stories that just didn’t make the /Film front page, or what we like to call…. Page 2! Expect the first reviews ofIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skullon Sunday May 18th at 6:30am-ish eastern time, as that is when press at Cannes will have seen the film. Domestic press will see the film later that afternoon/night at nationwide press screenings....

Page 2: Star Wars, Nightmare Before Christmas, Blade Runner, GoT, Dexter, Patton Oswalt, Alien 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. Header Photo:Star WarsLight-Up Red LightsaberSunglasses A Guideto Hollywood’s Next Generation of Male Stars-in-the-MakingRankingthe Best One-Man Movies...

Page 2: Totoro, Jurassic Park, Star Trek, Edgar Wright, Star Wars, Guillermo Del Toro, Muppets, Nightmare On Elm Street, Breaking Bad, Gary Busey, James Bond What is Page 2?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 included46different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Possible Obi-Wan Kenobi Spin-Off Movie Details Arrive And There’s Something Odd About Them We all know it’s coming. The fans demand it. It’s only a matter of time before Lucasfilm and Disney officially announce theObi-Wan spin-off. As we wait for the inevitable official announcement, possible new Obi-Wan spin-off movie details have seemingly surfaced. But there’s something fishy about them, even as they reflect what could be the truth. For years,Star Warsfans have been hoping for an Obi-Wan spin-off starringEwan McGregor....

Producer Describes ‘Asteroids’ Concept As “More Of A Space Opera” Than A Disaster Movie Asteroidsis one of those video game properties that Hollywood has toyed with cracking open for a while. The name has recognition for any gamer who knows their classics, and is evocative even to those who don’t. There’s no story to the game, however, just a ship blasting away to stay alive. No wonder it has been in development for several years; while there’s potential, there’s also not much to go on, and therefore room for dithering and competing ideas....

Ridley Scott Casts Matthew Macfadyen As The Sheriff Of Nottingham In Robin Hood Initially the screenplay forRidley Scott’sRobin Hoodcalled forRussell Croweto play a dual role as both the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood, but that idea was dropped early on. Scott decided to go a different direction. He has said ininterviewsthat the Sheriff character is “less important”, and that the main villain of the story is actually the country of France....

Rumor: ‘Jurassic Park 4’ Plot Details Revealed? [UPDATED] [UPDATE:It’s worth pointing out thatJoBlo’s story refers toRick JaffaandAmanda Silveras the writers of Jurassic Park 4. In fact, Trevorrow andDerek Connollywere behind the latest script rewrite. The details apparently come from an earlier draft by Jaffa and Silver that predates Trevorrow’s involvement. Original story follows.] When Universal decided to pullJurassic Park 4off the 2014 calendar, one of the reports floating around claimed the the delay had to do with the scope of the film....

Sequel Bits: ‘Super Troopers 2’, ‘Horrible Bosses 2’, ‘Dredd 2’, ‘Expendables 3’ Karl Urbanis pinning his hope on the fans to makeDredd2happen. Also after the jump: AfterDredd’s dim box office performance, the odds of getting aDredd 2seemed vanishingly slim. But that was before the sci-fi film found new life on home video. Now starKarl Urbanis hoping that the fans can rally and make a sequel happen. The more people that campaign for it, the more people that email, Twitter, write-in to Lionsgate saying ‘we want to see more of this,’ then the more likelihood we will get to see it; we’re certainly doing everything we can to verify it happens....