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A Complete List Of /Film’s D23 Coverage: Every Major Announcement From This Weekend’s Event This year’s D23 Expo has come and gone, but the fan convention was practically with news about every aspect of Disney, from its theme parks to movies and TV shows. So here’s a complete roundup of all of /Film’s D23 coverage in one easy-to-access location, marking the best place to visit to make sure you didn’t miss a single major announcement over the weekend....

A Fan Turned ‘Dunkirk’ Into A Stunning 8-Minute Silent Film Dunkirkis a feat of cinematic splendor, a visual and auditory assault that is less a standard film than it is a visceral experience. There is barely a plot toDunkirk— you could probably summarize the entire thing within five minutes — but it makes the film all the more affecting. There’s no need for dialogue telling youwho, what, when, where, whywhen you’re able to read the fear in the battle-worn soldiers' eyes and the apprehension in every British citizen’s face....

Amazon’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ Series Resumes Production In New Zealand, Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Soon To Follow Amazon’sThe Lord of the Ringsseries is returning to its quest. Filming has resumed in New Zealand on Amazon’sThe Lord of the RingsTV show, with Netflix’s live-actionCowboy Bebopsoon to follow the highly anticipated fantasy series to one of the only film production-friendly nations with its COVID-19 situation firmly under control. Two highly anticipated streaming shows are restarting production in New Zealand....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Star Letitia Wright Injured On Set While Filming Stunt According to a report from Deadline, actress Letitia Wright (“Small Axe,” “Black Panther”) has been hospitalized with “minor” injuries during a stunt gone wrong while filming “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” the highly anticipated sequel to Marvel Studios' 2018 juggernaut blockbuster. The injuries were sustained during an accident with a stunt rig, and a Marvel spokesperson issued the following statement regarding Wright’s condition:...

Casting Notes: Jamie Foxx In Kane & Lynch; Reese Witherspoon As The Pioneer Woman; Gregory Smith In Dream House An adaptation of the video gameKane & Lynch: Dead Menhas been in development at Lionsgate, with a script byKyle WardandBruce Willisseemingly set to star as Kane. NowJamie Foxxis apparently the co-star, news which first cropped up on Ward’sTwitter feed. That update has been deleted, butDeadlineand a handful of others are running with it, and Foxx’s publicist has yet to deny....

Chris Hemsworth Gets A ‘Ghostbusters’ Uniform, Too InGhostbusters, the original film, the closest Annie Potts got to suiting up for action was putting on a come-hither look for Harold Ramis’s character Egon. InGhostbusters, the new film fromPaul Feig,Chris Hemsworthplays a similar receptionist character to the one played by Potts in the original. This time, however, it seems like the new Ghostbuster team at least has an extra uniform laying around, as Hemsworth is suited up in a boiler suit similar to the one worn by the main cast (above)....

Cool Stuff: Cuyler Smith’s ‘Trading Cards 4’ Art Show Collects ‘Wayne’s World,’ ‘The Office’ & More Gallery 1988unleashed a new show this past weekend, and for all you collectible fans out there, artistCuyler Smithis back with another installment of hisTrading Cardsartwork. This is the fourth solo show that has taken various athletes and sports from film and television and given fictional characters their own trading cards, just as if they were available in the store to buy....

Cool Stuff: Tyler Stout’s ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Posters Mondo’sStar Warsposter series has come to an end with a finale fitting of George Lucas’s epic trilogy.Tyler Stout, the man whose work put movie prints and Mondo on the map, has done a series of six posters immortalizing the original trilogy in a waythat only Stout can: big, bold and boisterous.UGOexclusively revealed his posters forStar Wars, The Empire Strikes BackandReturn of the Jedi, plus variants of all three (including aRevenge of the Jedi!...

Damage Control: Terminator Assistant Director Sticks Up For Christian Bale You didn’t expectChristian Baleto issue a statement after histirade against DP Shane Hurlbut got leaked onto the interwebsyesterday, did you?Terminator Salvationassistant director and associate producerBruce Franklinhas now gone on record withE! Onlinewith a proper explanation for what happened – Bale’s outburst was okay because it was the most emotional scene in the movie And anyone in Hollywood knows, if you’re an actor who gets distracted during an intense scene, you have every right to go on a verbal tirade for up to three and a half minutes (the amount of time specified in the DGA and SAG rules)....

Elizabeth Banks May Direct ‘Red Queen,’ A YA Tale Of Magic And Royality We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Elizabeth Banks' first movie was a massive, massive surprise hit.Pitch Perfect 2has grossed over $250 million worldwide and counting with work already started on a sequel. We don’t know if she’ll be back for that, but we do know the actress turned director is looking at new projects....

First Look: Ellen Page And Rainn Wilson In James Gunn’s Super James Gunn’s strange homemade superhero filmSuper, starringRainn Wilson,Ellen Page,Liv TylerandKevin Bacon, will soon premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. (On September 10, to be exact.) In anticipation of that event, Gunn hasoffered upthe first still image showing Page and Wilson together. We saw them in footage debuted at Comic Con last month, but since then we’ve only seen images of Wilson and Tyler....

Fox Developing A U.S. Adaptation Of Torchwood Now this news came out of nowhere. THR’sLive Feed blogis reporting that Fox is developing a U.S. version of the British seriesTorchwood, which was a spinoff of the recentDr. Whoseries. Russell T. Davies, who launchedTorchwoodand the revampedDr. Who, is on-board to write the script. The rest of the original producing team is also on for the remake — in addition to Davies, exec. producers Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter will be crossing the pond as well....

Get Him To The Greek Red Band Trailer Among the onliners, I seemed to be the one who wasn’t doubled over with laughter while watchingthe first ‘safe’ trailerforGet Him to the Greek. The film vaguely follows on the heels ofForgetting Sarah Marshallby castingRussell Brandonce more as rocker Aldous Snow. But it diverges by havingJonah Hillplay a character different than he did inSarah Marshall; this time, he’s a lowly record company assistant who is given his dream job: get Aldous Snow from London to Los Angeles in 72 hours so that he can perform a concert....