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As If! ‘Clueless’ Remake In The Works For Some Reason Cluelessis a wonderful time capsule into the 1990s, featuring a cast of young stars before they became famous and a wealth of great fashion choices. In short, it really doesn’t need a remake. But it’s getting one anyway! ACluelessremake is now in the works at Paramount, withGirls TripwriterTracy Oliverproducing andGLOWwriterMarquita Robinsonwriting the script. One can assume the remake will update the original’s ’90s setting into the 21st century, but why?...

Black Friday Geek Deals 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. Here is a list of Blu-rays on sale right now: Amazon is runninglightening dealsthroughout the day. Some awesome prices, but only available at the specific times listed below:...

Carrie Fisher Has Died It is with extreme sadness that we report to youCarrie Fisherhas died. Her family confirmed her passing in a statement through a spokesperson. TheStar Warsactress had recentlysuffered a heart attackon a flight. She was 60 years old. Simon Hallannounced Fisher’s passingon behalf of her daughter,Billie Lourd: It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning....

Chris Hemsworth Was Not Happy With The ‘Star Trek 4’ Script Star Trek 4was all set to bring backChris Hemsworthas Kirk’s father, and then it fell apart. Hemsworth and Chris Pine, who plays Kirk in the rebooted film franchise, both walked away from the project, putting the future ofStar Trek 4in serious doubt. Salary negotiations were cited as the reasoning behind Hemsworth and Pine jumping ship. But now, Hemsworth has revealed another reason: he wasn’t happy with the script....

CinemaCon Reactions: ‘Aquaman’, ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘Justice League’ & ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Warner Bros closed out the third day of CinemaCon with a presentation of their upcoming film slate, which included anAquamanconcept trailer, three clips fromWonder Woman, a slightly extendedJustice Leaguetrailer, and a behind the scenes featurette forBlade Runner 2049that featured a bunch of new footage. Read on to hear my thoughts on the lot of them. After the Warner Bros presentation, I recorded a video blog reaction with Steven Weintraub from Collider, which was posted live on Periscope (follow me on twitter @slashfilm for future live videos)....

Cloverfield Screenwriter Hired For Robopocalypse, Will Steven Spielberg Direct? While there is nothing concrete, industry insiders andDeadlineare speculating thatSteven Spielbergmight makeRobopocalypsehis next directorial feature film. DreamWorks Studios and Doubleday haveacquiredthe property in November in a pre-emptive deal.Daniel H. Wilson’s unpublished manuscript (due in 2011),Robopocalypsetells the story of “the fate of the human race following a robot uprising.“CloverfieldscreenwriterDrew Goddardhas been hired to pen the big screen adaptation. Spielberg directing a film about the robot apocalypse written by Goddard?...

Columbia Might Well Want To Replace Ivan Reitman For Ghostbusters 3, But They’ll Need To Get His Approval First In a particularly delayed case of “you reap what you sow”, the current administration at Sony Columbia are finding a little bit of an issue in some of their legacy contracts from the 80s. I’ve often heard that the three lead actors fromGhostbustersand original directorIvan Reitmanhave had power of veto over any proposed sequel, but didn’t suppose this would include the film’s director....

Disney+ Moves Its Original Series Releases To Wednesdays After ‘Loki’ Was Biggest Debut Yet Disney+ original shows will now debut on Wednesdays instead of Fridays. The release date shift of upcoming Disney+ series likeMonsters at WorkandTurner & Hoochcomes in the wake of the monumental success of Marvel Studios’Loki, which became themost-watched Marvel premierefor the streamer after moving its release to Wednesdays. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Disney+ is shifting its original series release dates from Fridays to Wednesdays, affecting all global original series including the Pixar spin-off seriesMonsters at Work,the live-action rebootTurner & Hooch, and new seasons of returning shows likeShort Circuitseason 2....

First Avatar Reactions Avatarscreened last night in London for members of the press and US screenings started this morning. I saw the film first thing today, and embargo keeps me from saying anything about it. Twitter has been fairly quiet, with those who’ve seen it abiding by the embargo so far. But some UK outlets don’t care as much about the embargo, and there is already a full-fledged review in The Sun and some useful comments in The Guardian....

FX On Their Louis C.K. Investigation And The Future Of ‘Better Things’ [TCA 2018] WhenLouis C.K.admitted to allegations that he forced women to watch him masturbate, FX cut ties with the comedian. C.K. had created his own show,Louie, for FX, and producedBasketsandBetter Things,FX Studios’OneMississippi, and the unproduced animated seriesThe Cops. BasketsandBetter Thingswill continue without C.K.’s involvement. Speaking to the Television Critics Association, FX CEOJohn Landgrafsaid the network conducted an investigation into C....

FX’s ‘Archer’ Ending After Season 10 Over the summer, FX renewed its spy spoofArcherfor not one, not two, butthreeseasons, bringing the total season count up to ten and keeping the show on air through about 2019. Once that season ends, though, it’ll be lights out for Sterling and Lana and Malory and the rest of the gang. “The plan is to endArcherafter season 10,” series creatorAdam Reedsaid in a recent interview....

FX’s ‘Legion’ Series Still Won’t Connect To The X-Men Movies, But A Different Mutant Series Will We’re just a few weeks away from FX unleashing their new comic book seriesLegion. The new TV show follows David (Dan Stevens), a man who has been schizophrenic since he was a child, being placed in and out of psychiatric hospitals. While David and all those around him have presumed that he’s merely mentally ill, the realization soon begins to set in that all of these voices and visions in his head may be a result of him being a mutant....

George Romero Adapting Zombie Novel ‘The Zombie Autopsies’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The king of the zombies,George Romero, is at it again but there will be no night, dawn, day, land, diary or survival for the dead this time. This time, he’s cutting them up. Romero is currently writing an adaptation of a 2011 bookThe Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the ApocalypsebySteven C. Schlozmanwhich is about shocking revelations when a group of scientists perform autopsies on zombies following a zombie apocalypse....