Cameron Crowe Is Sorry He Cast Emma Stone As An Asian Person In 'Aloha'

Cameron Crowe Is Sorry He Cast Emma Stone As An Asian Person In ‘Aloha’ As if the reviews forAlohaweren’t bad enough,Cameron Crowe’s new film has also come under fire featuring noted white personEmma Stoneas half-Asian character Allison Ng. Now the director himself is responding to his critics, offering “a heartfelt apology” for his peculiar casting choice. Read Crowe’s comments on theAloharace controversy after the jump. Crowe took to his own website,The Uncool, to address theAloharace controversy:...

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · Carla Thomas

Christopher McQuarrie Adapting 'Unforgiven' With Sandra Bullock For Netflix

Christopher McQuarrie Adapting ‘Unforgiven’ With Sandra Bullock For Netflix No,Sandra Bullockwon’t be starring in a remake of Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Oscar-winning revisionist western. But theOcean’s 8star will be headlining anUnforgivenof her own, this one a remake of the British miniseries of the same name. Bullock is set to lead the film version, which will be written byThe Usual SuspectsandMission: Impossible – FalloutscribeChristopher McQuarrie, and she’ll play “a woman released from prison on license after serving 15 years for the murder of two policemen....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Summer Ferrell

Cool Stuff: 'The LEGO Movie 2' Set Brings The Rexcelsior Ship To The Rescue

Cool Stuff: ‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Set Brings The Rexcelsior Ship To The Rescue InThe LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, our construction buddy Emmet (Chris Pratt) must head out on his own to save all of his fellow LEGO friends after being kidnapped by an alien known as General Mayhem. While traversing through space to the dangerous Sistar System, he gets picked up by quite the hero: Rex Dangervest, a galaxy defending archeologist, cowboy, and raptor trainer who also happens to be voiced by Chris Pratt....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 299 words · Gloria Mcintosh

Cool Stuff: Max Dalton's 'Pulp Fiction' Action Figure Collection Poster

Cool Stuff: Max Dalton’s ‘Pulp Fiction’ Action Figure Collection Poster This April in New York, Spoke Art is presenting a three day art show calledQuentin vs. Coens, featuring art based on the films ofThe Coen BrothersandQuentin Tarantino. We’vealready showed you a samplingof work from the show, which runs from April 7-9 at the Bold Hype Gallery in New York, and Spoke Art continues to reveal new pieces on a daily basis both on their Facebook and Tumblr pages....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Steven Martin

Cool Stuff: The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set

Cool Stuff: The Nicolas Cage Adventure Set Over the weekend, I found myself at a mall. It was awful. For a sec, I considered going to a movie, but then I realized the sight of hundreds of chubby teenage girls with chubbies forPasty Pattinsonwould give me an anxiety attack or the fear. Not only that, but every movie playing I had either seen or…lackedNicolas Cage. That’s when I realized: I would be tempted to seePrecious(yuck),The Blind Side(yuck) orNew Moon(girls and gays, you are on f***ing notice) if Cage was starring....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 533 words · Mark Peters

Cool Stuff: Toys R Us Unveils Jabba's Rancor Pit Black Series Action Figure Set For Comic-Con

Cool Stuff: Toys R Us Unveils Jabba’s Rancor Pit Black Series Action Figure Set For Comic-Con It’s hard to believe, butSan Diego Comic-Conis already less than two weeks away, and all of us here at SlashFilm will be running ourselves ragged to bring you all the latest news straight out of the convention center housing the biggest pop culture gathering in the country. And along with the big news coming out of Comic-Con also comes cool goodies that will only be available for purhcase at the convention, and then eventually eBay for those who weren’t lucky enough to be in San Diego....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 487 words · Cameron Mcclure

Could 'Cars 4' Replace Lightning McQueen In The Driver's Seat? [Interview]

Could ‘Cars 4’ Replace Lightning McQueen In The Driver’s Seat? [Interview] During my conversation withCars 3directorBrian Feelast week, I brought up the question of anotherCarsfilm. If this movie is a hit and they decide to make a fourth installment, couldOwen Wilson’s Lightning McQeen take a back seat (pun intended) while another character becomes the focal point of the series? Here’s what the filmmaker said about the possibility of aCars 4....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 327 words · Caitlyn Carlson

Disney Has Begun Issuing Furlough Notices To Employees "Whose Jobs Aren't Necessary At This Time" [Updated]

Disney Has Begun Issuing Furlough Notices To Employees “Whose Jobs Aren’t Necessary At This Time” [Updated] Update: According toThe Hollywood Reporter, furloughs have hit the Walt Disney Studios. Disney previously said it would be paying its employees through April 18, so it appears these furlough notices (which impact an undermined number of people) will go into effect on July 20, 2025. Our original article from April 3 continues below. As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic brings the entertainment industry to a complete standstill, theWalt Disney Companywill begin furloughing employees “whose jobs aren’t necessary at this time” this month....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 617 words · Todd Spencer

Don't Assume The Batman Sequel Will Bring Back [REDACTED]

Don’t Assume The Batman Sequel Will Bring Back [REDACTED] Warning: This article containsmajor spoilersfor “The Batman.” Please proceed with caution. In a world where almost every movie is expected to get a sequel, particularly ones based on ridiculously popular comic book characters, it’s perfectly natural for the audience to assume that a movie like"The Batman,“which is already set to be a jumping off point for TV spinoffs aboutGotham PDandthe Penguin, would also set the stage for the next feature film following Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader....

August 3, 2025 · 3 min · 602 words · Renee Dennis

Emma Stone Passed On New 'Ghostbusters'

Emma Stone Passed On New ‘Ghostbusters’ Fan casting forPaul Feig’s femaleGhostbustersreboot almost always includedEmma Stone. Fans wanted her in the film, and Stone has proved time and time again that she has not only dramatic chops, but a spot on comic sensibility, too. Seeing her busting ghosts seemed like a no-brainer. Then, when the four main leads were announced, Stone wasn’t there. It didn’t really matter, because Feig had knocked casting out of the park with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 307 words · Samantha Davis

Exclusive: 'The Goldbergs' Star Sean Giambrone Says Creator Adam F. Goldberg's Departure Hasn't Hurt The Show [TCA 2020]

Exclusive: ‘The Goldbergs’ Star Sean Giambrone Says Creator Adam F. Goldberg’s Departure Hasn’t Hurt The Show [TCA 2020] The GoldbergscreatorAdam F. Goldbergstepped back from the seriesbased on his own family in season seven. But Alex Barnow and Chris Bishop have continued telling the stories about Adam Goldberg (Sean Giambrone) and his family in the 1980s. Sean Giambrone was at ABC’s reception for the Television Critics Association and spoke with /Film about the current season....

August 3, 2025 · 4 min · 765 words · Julian Rose

Expect Star Trek Reviews On April 7th And A Rant On The Future Of Film Criticism

Expect Star Trek Reviews On April 7th And A Rant On The Future Of Film Criticism JJ Abrams’Star Trekwill make its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House on April 7th, which will kick off a world tour that includes Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Spain and Britain. What this means to you is that you should expect reviews to appear online more than a month before the film’s domestic theatrical release....

August 3, 2025 · 6 min · 1163 words · Troy Wilson

Girls! Girls! Girls! Star Laurel Goodwin Has Died At 79

Girls! Girls! Girls! Star Laurel Goodwin Has Died At 79 Actress Laurel Goodwin, who made her movie debut in “Girls! Girls! Girls!” opposite music icon Elvis Presley in 1962, has passed away at the age of 79. The news wasannouncedby her sister Maureen Scott (via Deadline). There was no listed cause of death. Goodwin also played a crew member in “The Cage,” the original pilot for “Star Trek,” which was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler in 1965....

August 3, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Jennifer Williams