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This Week In Trailers: We Were Here, Sidewalls, The Road, Keep Our Secrets, Elevate, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

Tim Burton Almost Made A ‘Goosebumps’ Movie In The ’90s, But ‘Superman Lives’ Got In The Way In the 1990s,Tim Burtonalmost told audiences to say cheeseand diewith aGoosebumpsmovie. While a film based on the popular horror series for young readers would eventually splatter monster blood on filmgoers in 2015, writerR.L. Stinerecently revealed that a Tim BurtonGoosebumpsmovie was a real possibility in the mid-90s, but never came to pass. In the 1990s, Tim Burton was at the height of goth lord glory....

Tom Cruise Close To Signing For Time-Loop Sci-Fi War ‘All You Need Is Kill’ Looks likeTom Cruiseis really going to star inDoug Liman’sAll You Need Is Kill, the film that has been given the shorthand description ‘Starship TroopersmeetsGroundhog Day’ thanks to a plot that follows a soldier in a future war who is killed, but relives his final day like a gamer replaying a video game level over and over until he is able to think and fight his way out of the loop....

Upcoming Chris Pratt Movies To Keep On Your Radar (Welcome toOn Your Radar, a series where we take a look at what’s next for the biggest actors and filmmakers, and why you should be excited…or not.) Chris Pratt has undergone a pretty amazing transformation over the last handful of years in Hollywood. At one point, he was just known as the lovable goofball from “Parks and Recreation,” but thanks to the double whammy of “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Jurassic World” in 2014 and 2015, he became a massive movie star....

Werner Herzog’s My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Movie Trailer Oh, I’ve been waiting for this one.Werner Herzoghas recently completed not one film (Bad Lieutenant) but two, the second being theDavid Lynch-producedMy Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Both are going to show up at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. And nowMy Sonhas a trailer that is…well, just watch this sucker, after the break. The film is based on a real crime that took place in San Diego....

Why ‘Logan Lucky’ Is So Much More Than A Redneck ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ “They’re calling it Ocean’s 7-11,” a character says near the end of the goofy and wonderfully charming new filmLogan Lucky, marking a welcome return for filmmakerSteven Soderberghto the big screen. The winking in-joke, nodding to the 2000s-era trilogy that Soderbergh directed with a slew of massive movie stars making up the eponymous crew, might seem like it’s gilding the lily just a bit....

Why ‘Skull Island’s Surprise Reveal Confused Comic Con’s Hall H Saturday afternoon at the end of Legendary Pictures’ Hall H presentation at 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, Studio headThomas Tullleft the crowd with one last surprise —an announcement teaserfor aKing KongprequelSkull Island. Instead of surprise and excitement, the crowd was left confused. That was definitely not the reaction that Legendary had intended. Why did the packed Hall H crowd have that reaction?...

Did Rupert Murdoch Leak Wolverine? Or Was It The Scientologists? This story is too great not to post. According to an ‘unlawful termination’ suit that the lawyer for fired Fox columnistRoger Friedmanwill file in New York this week, theWolverineleak can actually be traced back to News Corp. headRupert Murdoch. Martin Garbus, Friedman’s lawyer, claims that Murdoch requested a DVD copy of the film, and “apparently, someone made another copy for themselves....

Directors Guild Of America Nominations For Outstanding Directorial Achievement In 2009 The last big bellwether for Oscar nominations is the nomination set forOutstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Filmfrom theDirectors Guild of America. The DGA nominations are the best indicator of what films and directors will be on the shortlist for the Best Director Oscar. Before the Best Picture Oscar field was widened to ten, the DGA noms were also a reasonable indicator of what films would be in contention for Best Picture, too....

New Photos From Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell Earlier today,MTVreleased four new photos fromDrag Me to Hell,Sam Raimi’s return to the horror film genre. For one reason or another, we’ve barely covered this film on /Film, so with Halloween on the horizon, I thought now might be as good of time as any other. Co-written by Raimi with his brother Ivan, Drag Me to Hell tels the story of a young woman who isdesperate to break an evil curse....

Stephen Graham’s Pirates 4 Role: Johnny Depp’s Sidekick; Plus First Pics Of New Ship Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tidesis gearing up to shoot in the next few weeks, so it’s time to hear about all the additional cast that will joinJohnny Depp,Penelope CruzandIan McShaneunder the direction ofRob Marhsall. A few weeks back we mentioned thatStephen Grahamwas among the new recruits. He was recently seen inThe Damned UnitedandPublic Enemies, but possibly best remembered for acting opposite Jason Statham inSnatch....