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‘Valerian’ Director Luc Besson On His New Sci-Fi Epic (And Our Reaction To The New Trailer) It’s not every day a studio rents out a theater and hosts an event just to debut a trailer, but that’s exactly what STX Entertainment did last night in Hollywood with the new trailer forLuc Besson’ssci-fi thrillerValerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Besson, his wife and producerVirginie Silla, and starCara Delevingnewere in attendance, and I had the chance to speak with them about this jaw-dropping new look at the film....

‘Widows’ Editor Joe Walker On Constructing The Year’s Tightest Thriller [Interview] During the Toronto International Film Festival, I sat down with two-time Oscar-nominated film editorJoe Walker. Walker was attending the festival for the world premiere of Steve McQueen’s new film,Widows. Our conversation in Toronto, which took place prior to the world premiere, where the filmwas met with glowing reviews. Widowsopens in theaters tomorrow,August 01, 2025.You’ve had a significant history working with both Steve McQueen and Denis Villeneuve....

A Fourth ‘Before’ Movie Was In The Works With Richard Linklater, But Julie Delpy Turned It Down The films inRichard Linklater’sBeforeromantic drama trilogy were released nine years apart, and the most recent entry,Before Midnight, came out in 2013. So if that established pattern were to continue, the fourthBeforemovie should come out in 2022 – but unless something completely unexpected happens, audiences may have seen the end of Jesse and Céline....

Avengers Actors Will Assemble For New ‘Interactive Dining Adventure’ On Disney Cruise Lines The new Disney cruise ship, the Disney Wish, will have a lot of extra bells and whistles once it sets sail in the summer of 2022. In addition toa Star Wars-themed bar, the vessel will also boast a Marvel cinematic dining experience. This experience, dubbed “Avengers: Quantum Encounter,” is advertised as an ambitious dining event where Ant-Man and The Wasp kick off their first speaking engagement as official Avengers and show off some growing and shrinking objects before being interrupted by an heretofore unknown villain....

Black Friday Week Geek Deals [Day 2]: Cars, The Lion King, Office Space, Ronin, Dodgeball, Jarhead, Leatherheads, Weeds And MORE We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It is Black Friday Week, and that means there will be a ton of geek deals to be had. We’ll be posting all the deals throughout the week on the site, so keep it tuned to /Film in the morning....

Bluegrass, Low Budgets, And Professional Wrestling: How The Indie Sensation ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Was Made For years, moviegoers and fans of wrestling have found themselves the unlikeliest of bedfellows. In wrestling, cinema lovers can share their love of detail character work and precise stunts with a brand new audience; in many ways, wrestling is the perfect allegory for those who want to beat the odds and carve out a Hollywood career....

Brad Bird Talks 1906 It has been well known thatThe Incrediblesdirector Brad Bird’s next film is likely to be an adaptation of1906. Based on the novel by James Dalessandro, which is a fictionalized account of the famous 1906 Earthquake in San Francisco. Bird, while promotingRatatouillein the UK, spoke withRotten Tomatoesabout his future. And while he doesn’t mention 1906 by name, you’re able to be sure that’s what he’s talking about....

Ciao Alberto Trailer: Pixar Returns To The World Of Luca With A New Short Film This past summer, Pixar Animation took us on an adventure in the picturesque Italian seaside town of Portorosso with “Luca.” In the animated feature, two young sea monster boys named Luca and Alberto got a taste of human life on land as they tried to achieve their dream of cruising along the countryside on a Vespa scooter without a care in the world, making a new friend and bringing together humans and sea monsters in harmony....

Cool Stuff: Sideshow’s New ‘Scream’ Ghost Face Figure Will Slash The Rest Of Your Collectibles It’s October, which means it’s time for all your favorite slashers to come slicing through your television. But if you’ve got some extra scratch lying around, and you need a high-end collectible to show your love for Halloween, Sideshow Collectibles has something that will gut the rest of your decorations like a fish. TheScreamslasher known as Ghost Face has been turned into a 1/6 scale collectible figure by Sideshow Collectibles....

Coronavirus Entertainment Updates: Tina Fey’s Relief Telethon, Disney Singalong Adds More Performers, Alamo Drafthouse Considering A No-Sneeze Policy, And More As the coronavirus pandemic rages on and Hollywood considers how to safely ramp up production again on a wide scale, several of the city’s denizens are making headlines for their efforts to help provide some relief to those who need it most. Others are joining family singalong casts to help add some joy for audiences....

David Lynch Directs A Surreal Music Video For Scottish Psychedelic Folk Singer Donovan’s 75th Birthday It’s been four years sinceTwin Peaks: The Returnwent off the air and a whopping 15 years sinceDavid Lynchlast directed a feature film, but the filmmaker at least has been gracing us with his regular weather reports, and occasionally, a short film. So it’s always a blessing when Lynch unleashes his surreal brand of artistry, even in a five-minute music video....

Film Festivals Are Back: Fantastic Fest 2021 And Sundance 2022 Details Revealed After an extremely weird year of cancellations, adaptations, and virtual film festivals, things appear to be slowly inching back toward “normal” in the United States in the film fest lineup. Fantastic Fest announced today that this year’s event will be held in person in Austin, Texas, while new Sundance 2022 details reveal that next year’s festival will be another hybrid of in-person screenings and virtual ones....

Harry Potter: The Exhibition Tickets Now On Sale Tickets are now on sale forHarry Potter: The Exhibition, which will open at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago on April 30th 2009. Hogwarts film sets. The exhibition will give visitors the opportunity to see “the craftsmanship of the authentic costumes and props from the films displayed in settings inspired by the Hogwarts film sets.” The concept art looks pretty cool, but if the Star Wars exhibition has taught me anything — these things usually suck and are extremely overpriced....