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‘The School For Good And Evil’ Adaptation Headed To Netflix With Director Paul Feig Paul Feigis headed to Netflix to enroll inThe School For Good And Evil. Feig will helm the adaptation ofSoman Chainani’s book of the same name, which is the first in a series of six books where students of the titular enchanted school are trained to become fairytale heroes or villains.David Magee(Life of Pi, Mary Poppins Returns, Finding Neverland)andLaura Solon(Office Christmas Party, Let It Snow) will tackle the script....

‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ Adaptation Will Be Apple’s Second Collaboration With A24 We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. To help support its upcoming streaming service, Apple has gotten into the film production gameby striking a dealto co-produce movies with the arthouse indie studio A24. They’re already in production on their first film,On the Rocks, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones, but now they’ve lined up their second film as part of their multi-year agreement....

‘The Terror’ Featurette: AMC’s New Horror Drama Looks Incredible AMC is about to unleash your next TV obsession:The Terror. The historical horror show adapts theDan Simmonsnovel of the same name, based on the true story of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition in the late 1800s. AThe Terrorfeaturette goes behind-the-scenes of the newRidley Scott-produced series.Dan Simmons' lengthy tomeThe Terrormakes for a great read, and will likely make for an even greater TV series....

‘Tone-Deaf’ Trailer: Things Get Real Crazy Real Fast In This New Horror Film Want to watch something weird? Then check out the trailer forTone-Deaf, a new horror movie that apparently dips into the surreal while spilling a lot of blood. InTone-Deaf, a recently fired young woman tries to get away from it all by renting a house in the country. Unfortunately, the owner of the house doesn’t seem to be on the sane side....

‘Total Recall’ Lead Offered To Colin Farrell The ‘offer’ story is one of the more useless developments in the movie news business. Because offers go out all the time, and the reason we don’t hear about most of them is that they’re meaningless as news. The offer is part of the process of getting a film made, but until it actually turns into an actor making a deal with a part it isn’t really news....

/Film Gets A New Blogger - Director Alex Proyas Editor’s Note:You probably knowAlex Proyasas the director of films likeThe Crow, Dark City, Garage Days, I RobotandKnowing, but for the next few weeks the filmmaker has agreed to become a guest blogger on /Film. Proyas will be blogging a couple times a week, talking about his inspirations, the state of sci-fi cinema, Dark City, and his upcoming film Knowing. Below you can find a quick introduction post from Alex....

/Film Previews 20 Minutes Of ‘Maleficent’ [Video Blog] This weekend WonderCon took place in Anaheim California. Despite the fact that the Anaheim Convention Center is a few steps away from Disneyland, Disney decided not to have a presentation at the convention. Instead they launched a 20 minute preview of Maleficent in their theme park across the street. The preview is being shown in the Bugs Life Theater in Disney California Adventure theme park until June so all park visitor will have a chance to experience the magic complete with 4D effects....

A ‘Star Wars’ Animated Character Might’ve Appeared In A Live-Action Star Wars Movie? When Disney bought Lucasfilm and unifiedStar Warscanon across all storytelling mediums, it created the possibility of characters introduced in the books, televisions shows and video games crossing over into the live-action big screen movies. AndStar Wars RebelsproducersSimon KinbergandDave Filonihave both expressed interest in that possibilityin previous interviews. But it turns out that one of the characters created for the Star Wars animated series might have already appeared in a live-actionStar Warsfilm....

Babylon Footage Reaction: Damien Chazelle Takes Brad Pitt And Margot Robbie Back To 1920s Hollywood [CinemaCon 2022] It’s true: writer-director Damien Chazelle’s highly-anticipated follow-up to “La La Land” has finally released some footage. The first look for"Babylon"— a film that explores the transition out of silent films in 1920s Hollywood — has arrived from CinemaCon. The movie has been in the works since pre-pandemic 2019, and with such an incredible cast (we’re talking Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Olivia Wilde, Spike Jonze, Diego Calva, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Tobey Maguire, Jean Smart, Samara Weaving, Katherine Waterson, Phoebe Tonkin, Max Minghella, Lukas Haas, Eric Roberts, P....

Bounty Hunters, Sad Lawyers, And Football Coaches: Our Favorite Television Of 2020 Look, you’re not going to find a human being on this planet who doesn’t want to close the book on 2020. But in that sea of darkness and abject misery, there are silver linings to be found. Silver linings like…well, the television was pretty damn good. Join us, the /Film staff, as we run down the best TV we watched in 2020....

Casey Affleck And Andrew Dominik Shooting New Crime Picture In January; Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe Film Delayed? Earlier this week a single line in aNew York Timespiece got my hopes up, by saying thatCasey Affleckwould soon work again with directorAndrew Dominik. That would be a re-teaming of two of the primaries fromThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. (Affleck played Ford, Brad Pitt played James; hopefully this is a superfluous recap....

China Has Made A ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Rip-Off Called ‘Mad Shelia’ And There’s A Trailer And Everything Foreign filmmakers blatantly ripping off Hollywood movies is a tradition with a rich and storied history. Name an American film that had a sizable cultural impact over the past fifty years and you are guaranteed to find anunofficial Turkish or Italian remakelurking somewhere on the fringes of the industry. While modern copyright laws have forced these low-budget rip-offs to get a little more creative in how they steal from larger movies, they still exist, offering a fascinating look at how other cultures absorb and interpret American cinema....

Christmas Comedy ‘Godmothered’ Will Debut Exclusively On Disney+ In December Godmothered, a new Disney movie that started filming right before the coronavirus lockdowns, is done and headed to Disney+ in time for Christmas. The holiday film, which starsJillian BellandIsla Fisher, will premiere exclusively on the Disney streaming service in December. InGodmothered, Bell plays an “inexperienced fairy godmother-in-training.“Sharon Maguire’sGodmotheredstarted filming in January of this year and wrapped in April, just in time to skirt around the impending shutdowns triggered by COVID-19....