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How The Conjuring Changed Vera Farmiga Forever In James Wan’s “The Conjuring” series, which has spawned an entire"Conjuring" universe, Vera Farmiga plays Lorraine Warren, a real-life paranormal investigator and devout Catholic with psychic abilities who was involved with the famous “Amityville Horror” mystery. Alongside her devoted husband Ed Warren (played by Patrick Wilson), she battles ghosts, ancient witches, and demons. Lorraine is resilient and dedicated to her faith, family, and helping others....

How The Jurassic World Team Pulled Off That Gyrosphere Scene Colin Trevorrow’s “Jurassic World” had one of the most expansive release structures in film history, opening in 4,273 theaters simultaneously. It also opened on 809 IMAX screens around the world, making it the third-largest release in that format. This overwhelming worldwide saturation of dinosaurs was likely the key contributing factor in “Jurassic World”’s box office track record: It opened to $524 million in its first weekend (!...

Huge News Day 2008 Every year there is one day that all the major, almost unbelievable news stories break. Today seems to be that day. There are so many huge announcements, and crazy leaks happening that we just can’t cover them all. So I’ve decided,like last year, to compile a list of links to the huge entertainment stories that have broke today. If you don’t see something listed below, please leave the url in the comments and I’ll be sure to add it to our continuing coverage of HUGE News Day 2008....

James Cameron Almost Fired His ‘Avatar’ Sequel Writers' Room Now that she’s no longer running for president, Marianne Williamson is spending her free time interviewingJames Cameron. Williamson is a reported big fan ofAvatar, and she recently spoke toAvatargrandaddy Cameron onThe Marianne Williamson Podcast.There, the filmmaker dropped the surprising reveal that he came close to firing hisAvatarsequel writers' room because the team was so focused on new stuff instead of obsessively combing over the things that made the first film such a success....

Jim Carrey Reunites With ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’ Director Michel Gondry For Showtime Series Jim CarreyandMichel Gondryare meeting again, though not in Montauk. TheEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mindstar and director are teaming up for a Showtime series titledKidding, a half-hour comedy series about a former children’s TV personality who starts to slowly lose his sanity in the face of a disintegrating family life. It’s no trippy backwards love story, but it sounds like the two will be tapping into the existential dreamscape that madeEternal Sunshinesuch a revelation....

Living Legend Mel Brooks Will Release A Memoir Later This Year If you’re at all like me, you have a mini-heart attack every time you seeMel Brooks' name or photo repeatedly appear on your social media timelines because that tends to only mean really bad news or really good news. Thankfully, the reason for today’s proliferation of Mel Brooks is good news. The man behind classics likeThe Producers,Blazing Saddles, andYoung Frankensteinis not only still with us, he’s releasing a memoir at the end of this year....

Marvel-Themed Land Officially Coming To Disney California Adventure [D23 Expo 2017] The newGuardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout!ride at Disney California Adventure was just the tip of the iceberg. At D23 today, Disney confirmed that an entire Marvel-themed land is coming to Disneyland’s sister park, taking what begin with the Guardians and adding other Marvel superheroes to mix. You may remember that Disney teased theme park fans witha mysterious hatchoutside ofMission: Breakout!...

Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, And Oscar Isaac Also On ‘Doctor Strange’ Shortlist For a while there, it looked like theDoctor Strangecasting rumors were finally coming to a rest. ThenJoaquin Phoenixdecided hedidn’t want to do the movieafter all. That sent Marvel back to square one, and the rest of us gossiping and speculating all over again about who might get the part. A couple weeks ago, we got wordEthan Hawkewasup for the role, and yesterday we heardEwan McGregorwasbeing looked atas well....

Michael Bay Says 60% Of ‘Transformers: Age Of Extinction’ Fills IMAX Screen Transformers: Age of Extinctionis the first feature film to shoot witha brand new, digital IMAX 3D camera. It’s also one of two films being released in full IMAX this year. So for directorMichael Bayto urge fans to see the film in IMAX 3D is kind of a no-brainer. But he did so anyway, just to be safe. Read his statement below....

Movie Trailer: Stuart Beattie’s Tomorrow When The War Began Paramount Pictures International has released the full length movie trailer forStuart Beattie’s directorial debutTomorrow When The War Began. You might recognize Beattie’s name as he is a big Hollywood screenwriter behind such films asPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, Australia, andG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. The action adventure drama is based on John Marsden’s critically- acclaimed novel, and tells the story of “eight unlikely high school teenagers band together to fight when their country is invaded and their families are taken....

Nightmare Alley Composer Nathan Johnson On The Music Of ‘Con Men And Hucksters’ [Interview] Nathan Johnson is known for one of the great film noir scores of this century, Rian Johnson’s “Brick.” Now, the composer behind that cult classic and “Knives Out” has scored another film noir, “Nightmare Alley,” that’s destined to last. However, Johnson didn’t approach the music for Guillermo del Toro’s lavish film thinking about genre, but only about the characters on screen....

Page 2: Jurassic Park, BTTF, Doctor Who, Breaking Bad, Hobbit, Pacific Rim, Star Wars Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Header Photo: ArtistPatrick Connan’s “Turn Off The Light!...

Paranormal Activity: Next Of Kin Review: The Franchise Gets A Facelift With This Fright-Free Tale “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin” asks a question, and that question is, “Do you think Amish people are scary?” If so, get ready for goosebumps, because there’s wall-to-wall spooky Amish stuff here, baby. This facelift to the seemingly endless found-footage series tries some new things — for instance, it completely abandons the demon “Toby” that was so prevalent in the previous entries — and for that, I commend it....