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Josh Trank Will Direct A ‘Star Wars’ Standalone Movie AnotherStar Warsdirector has been revealed.Josh Trank, the director ofChronicleand the now-filmingFantastic Four, has signed to direct a Star Wars standalone film. Read the press release below. Here’s thepress releasevia Star Wars.com: In addition to the episodes of a new Star Wars trilogy, Lucasfilm and Disney continue development of multiple stand-alone movies that will offer new stories beyond the core Saga. The newest director to come on board is Josh Trank....

Legendary Pictures Brings The Warren Ellis Comic Series Gravel To The Screen Constantinedidn’t entirely work out as a franchise starter or as an adaptation of its source material, the comicHellblazer. But there’s room for more than one supernatural solider or detective on screens. So Legendary Pictures, which loves to develop comic book movies (recent Batman and Superman films,300,Watchmen,Jonah Hex) has picked up the rights toGravel, the series byWarren EllisandMike Wolferthat centers on British ‘combat magician’William Gravel....

Living Legends: Tim Curry Is The Master Of Frights, Funnies, And Fishnets (Welcome toLiving Legends, a series were we honor the titans, the geniuses, and icons who are still very much with us.) The term “living legend” is thrown around a lot. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s an overused term because we are living in a pretty exceptional time with so many talented actors, storytellers, athletes, and activists, but I will say that if we’re going to be looking at Hollywood’s living legends candidates then Tim Curry has to be somewhere near the top of that list....

LOL: ‘Jason And Friends’ Imagines The ‘Friday The 13th’ Saturday Morning Cartoon We Never Knew We Needed There was a time when tons of movies from the 1980s and 1990s were given their own animated series.Beetlejuice,Back to the Future,Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,Ghostbusters,Dumb & Dumber,Police Academy,RoboCop,The Mask, and many more all got their own shows. But there’s one staple film franchise that never got its due diligence as a cartoon:Friday the 13th....

Marvel Unlimited Spotlighting Black Creators And Artists With Free Digital Comics For the rest of the month,Marvel Unlimitedhas put together a free digital selection of comics from Black writers and artists, including work fromVita Ayala,Roxane Gay,Brian Stelfreeze,Method Man,Charlamagne tha God,Ta-Nehisi Coates, and many more, with characters includingBlack Panther,Deathlok,Ironheart,Shuri, and others. Update:You can also get these comics free onComixology. Marvel Unlimited has just made a whole bunch of comics from Black writers and artists available for free,right here....

Michael Moore Suing The Weinsteins Over ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Ask Roger Smith, George W. Bush, Charlton Heston and the heath care industry. If there’s one person you don’t want to screw over, it’sMichael Moore. Whether you agree with his politics or not, Moore is well-known for being extremely vocal and diligent. So when he audited his $200 million, 2004 hit filmFahrenheit 9/11and found “substantial irregularities in the accounting,” he went to the men responsible:Bob and Harvey Weinstein....

Mickey Mouse Is Walt Disney’s Shadow In The ‘Saving Mr. Banks’ Movie Poster Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has released the first movie poster forSaving Mr. BanksstarringEmma ThompsonandTom Hanks. The mouse house decided to premiere the one-sheet on theirDisneyParks Blog(which covers the company’s many theme parks). Check it out now, after the jump. Official Plot Info: Two-time Academy Award®–winner Emma Thompson and fellow double Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks topline Disney’s “Saving Mr....

New House Of Cards Showrunners Announced By Netflix Netflix has named two new show runners for their original seriesHouse of Cards, replacing the show’s creatorBeau Willimon. The streaming service is promoting two of the senior writers who have been working on the show since 2014. The new House of Cards showrunners will beMelissa James Gibson(whose plays includePlacebo,What Rhymes with America,This, [sic],Suitcase or, Those that Resemble Flies from a DistanceandBrooklyn Bridge) andFrank Pugliese(whose theater work includesAven’U Boys,The King of Connecticut,The Talk,The Alarm,The Democracy Project)....

Now Stream This: ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’, ‘A Simple Favor’, ‘Climax’, ‘Vice’, ‘A Clockwork Orange’, And More (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) A long holiday weekend is upon us, marking the end of summer. What will you do? Get together with friends for an end-of-summer BBQ? Or stay the hell inside and watch movies?...

Page 2: Transformers, Jaws, Ghostbusters, Frozen, Harry Potter, Gremlins, Twister, Star Wars, Muppets, Apes 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: Days of Future Extinctiont-shirt Let’s Dream-Castthe All-Lady ‘Ghostbusters 3’Ten Things I Learnedat the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con...

Promo Trailer: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Biutiful’ One of the films that has generated the most interest and buzz at Cannes this year isBiutiful, directed byAlejandro González Iñárrituand starringJavier Bardem. This time, the director ofAmores Perros,21 GramsandBabelwrote the film himself, having parted ways with creative partnerGuillermo Arriaga. Despite mixed reception, the film may still be a Palme d’Or contender, and will likely find distribution in the States. Until that happens, we’ve got an early promo trailer....

Report: Mark Hamill To Voice The Joker In ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Animated Movie A classic Joker story is getting a classic Joker. According to a new report,Mark Hamillis set to voice the Clown Prince of Crime inBatman: The Killing Joke, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment’s animated adaptation ofAlan MooreandBrian Bolland’s iconic comic book storyline. Get all the details on the Killing Joke Mark Hamill casting after the jump. From the moment Warner Bros....

Shang-Chi VFX Team On Animating Dragons And Why Movies Aren’t As Colorful Anymore [Interview] “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” almost feels likeseveral movies smashed into one, a statement that reflects the complicated comic book history of the character just as much as it accurately portrays the sheer scope and scale of the visual effects on display. At any given point in the film, viewers can expect to see sweeping battlefield vistas in the epic prologue that kicks off the action, a breathtaking scaffold fight that just might stand out as one of Marvel’s most effective and dynamic hand-to-hand fight sequences, fantastical creatures spanning from dragons to, well,the one and only Morris, and the stunning effects of the legendary Rings themselves....