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Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Will Premiere At The New York Film Festival; See First Look Images Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipatedThe Irishmanwill have its world premiere at this year’s New York Film Festival. There was some question about whether or not Scorsese’s crime epic would be a part of festival season, as the filmmaker was still putting the finishing touch on extensive VFX work for the movie. Now it looks like Scorsese is confident enough to unleash the pic to a crowd, as it becomes the Opening Night film of the 57th New York Film Festival....

Marvel CCO Joe Quesada Says Creators Will Be More Involved With Television And Movies Marvel’s Chief Creative OfficeJoe Quesada, says it best. “Back in the day, so many of us in the creative community would sit back and watch someone produce a TV show or a movie based on a comic book and see it flop miserably because those people didn’t understand what made those characters work. We’d sit there going, ‘Why didn’t they hire comic book people?...

Movie Review: Land Of The Lost Rocks (Peter Travers Can Suck It!) It was a little before the half-way mark toLand of the Lostwhen a little kid started crying in the theater as theSleestaksopened their reptilian beaks, revealing row after row of neat, razor-sharp teeth. We hadn’t even reached the scene in whichDanny McBride’s misogynist, would-be casino maven,Will Stanton, stared directly into the camera while sitting in a swimming pool, tripping his fucking mind out on “narcotic” alien fruit-juice....

New Muppet Movie Gets The Pixar Touch When in doubt, turn to Pixar. That appears to be the new adopted motto by Disney, who only weeks after being revealed to have hada helping handby the world’s most celebrated studio onTron, have now turned to Pixar once again to receive input on the newMuppetmovie (previously titledThe Greatest Muppet of All Time, or possibly,The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made, according toIMDB). More after the break....

Our Most Anticipated SXSW 2017 Movies: Old Gods, Muppet Docs, And Crimes Of All Sizes The2017 SXSW Film Festivalkicks off today and /Film will be there for the duration, bringing you reviews of major premieres and new discoveries alike. While we’re bound to uncover a gem (or three) that come out of nowhere, a few movies are already on our radar as must-sees. Let’s run down the films we’re prioritizing this year....

Revisiting ‘The Liberty Story’, Disney’s Patriotic And Problematic Tribute To An America That Never Was (Welcome toOut of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)One of the most important things you have to know about Walt Disney is that he was a patriot. Every word of that sentence is true, and in different ways. It’s not just that Walt Disney’s story feels like the truest embodiment of the American Dream....

Ridley Scott Producing ‘Child 44’ With Tom Hardy And Noomi Rapace This week we spoke with Damon Lindelof about the sequel toPrometheusand,in the conversation, he mentioned thatRidley Scottwas finishingThe Counselorand had “Child 44lined up right behind it.” That was an interesting statement, making it sound like Scott was directing the film. Scott is not directing the film, he’s producing, but it’s a project we haven’t written about much on the site (just Page 2 mentionsand one story) so we figured we’d fill you in on the details, even though it’s not exactly breaking news....

Rumor Mill: The Rock’s Commando Remake? Megan Fox: Vampire Slayer? Bond 23 In Afghanistan? A couple rumors are circulating the interwebs this week, so I thought I’d put together a small round-up. First up,JoBlocaught wind of an article in the Australian magazine RCI that claims a remake of the 1980’sArnold Schwarzeneggeraction classicCommandois being developed. Another site,Cinefools, has also heard rumblings of a Commando reboot, withDwayne “The Rock” Johnsonrumored to star. Hollywood is rebooting all the other Schwarzenegger action films (Predator, Total Recall....

Sequel Bits: ‘Chungking Express 2’, More ‘Spenser Confidential’, The ‘Boss Baby’ Gets Down To Some ‘Family Business’, The Future Of ‘National Treasure’, And More In this edition of Sequel Bits: Spenser Confidential, a Netflix movie I’m pretty sure everyone already forgot about, is getting a sequel. Speaking withCollider,SpenserdirectorPeter Bergsaid: “Brian Helgeland, who wrote the first script, just turned in a first draft last week. So we’re definitely going to do Spenser Confidential 2, we’re just trying to figure out the dates....

Snow White Casting Rumors: Charlize Theron And Julia Roberts As Rival Evil Queens; A Relative Unknown For Snow White The effort to get a new Snow White film into production could be on the verge of becoming a breakneck race between Relativity Media and Universal Pictures. Universal hasSnow White and the Huntsmanin development, to be directed byRupert Sanders, while Relativity hasThe Brothers Grimm: Snow White, to bedirectedbyTarsem. The films will likely end up being very different despite the common source....

Sundance Movie Review: World’s Greatest Dad Bob Goldthwait’s 2006 filmSleeping Dogs Lie(originally titled “Stay”) was about a relationship that is destroyed when a guy’s girlfriend reveals a past indiscretion (read: blowjob) with a dog. Believe it or not, Goldthwait’s 2009 follow-up is at least 10 times more twisted and probably 20 times funnier. The film seems to be unofficially inspired byChuck Palahniuk’s infamous short storyGutsand theA Million Little Piecesfiasco.Robin Williamsplays Lance Clayton, an aspiring writer / working high school English teacher who discovers his unlikable loser loner son (Daryl Sabara) dead of autoerotic exfixiation....

Superhero Bits: How Honest Trailers Impacted Marvel Movies, ‘Birds Of Prey’ Test Screening & More Want aBatmanfigure that looks like it belongs in a Lipton Brisk Iced Tea commercial? What wouldZoe Saldanalike to explore withGamora? How didTom Hiddlestonget the part ofLoki? Was there aBatmanmovie that was almost made in the 1980s beforeTim Burton’s? How did videos likeHonest Trailersimpact Marvel’s planning process? Who is rumored to be part ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol....

Superhero Bits: Robin Wielding An Axe, Civil War IMAX Posters, Sad Joss Whedon & More Why didJoss Whedonfeel like a “miserable failure” afterAvengers: Age of Ultron? Where can we expect the nextX-Menmovie to go afterX-Men: Apocalypse? Did a certainJustice Leaguecartoon serve as a blueprint forZack Snyder’s take on Superman? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits. Here’s an extended trailer for the arrival ofAzraelon an upcoming episode ofGotham....