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Germain’s Goodbye To Slashfilm Slashfilm has always been my favorite website. It’s where a young New Yorker writing about local entertainment went to learn about Hollywood movies likeTransformersandThe Dark Knight. Believe it or not, it’s where I first came in contact with the works of artists like Tyler Stout, Scott Campbell and places like Mondo and Gallery 1988 — names that would literally change my life. After I moved to Los Angeles, I’d see Peter Sciretta at events and geek out like a star-struck fanboy....

Goro Miyazaki To Direct New Film For Studio Ghibli Goro Miyazaki, the son of master animator Hayao Miyzaki, will direct a new film for famed company Studio Gibli. The picture will adapt the 1980 mangaKokuriko-Zaka KarabyChizuru TakahashiandTetsur? Sayama. Goro Miyazaki has made one other film for Studio Ghibli: the poorly-receivedTales From Earthsea. The poor reception was due to the fact that the film is thin and not particularly compelling; add the weight of expectation based on the fact that the director is the son of one of the world’s greatest animators, and there were very high expectations the film had no ability to meet....

Interview: Director F. Gary Gray On ‘The Fate Of The Furious,’ Shooting Car Chases On Melting Ice, And More TheFast and Furiousfranchise is known for its crazy action scenes and bombastic explosions, but the core of the saga has always been about one thing: family. Sixteen years after the original movie hit theaters,The Fate of the Furiouscomes roaring into theaters this Friday, and while it does feature a hefty number of explosions, the most important thing the film blows up is the series' central thesis....

John Carpenter To Create Horror Audio Shows For Serial Box, Calls It “A New Way To Strike Fear Into The Hearts Of Our Audience” Horror maestroJohn Carpenterhasn’t directed a movie in more than a decade, and that doesn’t seem likely to change any time soon. But the director of movies likeThe Thing,Halloween, andThe Fogis now set to explore the horror genre through a new medium: audio. Carpenter and his wife, producerSandy King Carpenter, have signed a deal with Serial Box to develop multiple horror audio shows and podcasts over the next two years which will fall under a new “John Carpenter Presents” banner....

Katherine Waterston Starring In ‘Alien: Covenant’ This is not a bad year to beKatherine Waterston. The actress broke out last year withInherent Vice, and since then, she’s delivered an emotional performance inSteve Jobsand shot thehighly anticipatedFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The actresses' next job? A starring role inRidley Scott’sPrometheussequel,Alien: Covenant. Learn more about Scott’s film after the jump. Alien: Covenantis the director’snextfilm, and it’ll shoot next year. The Hollywood Reporter says Waterstonwill starin the sequel, and adds, “the story once again sees a space crew facing the deadly chest-bursting, acid blood-spewing creatures....

Legendary Swaps Rights For ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ To Get ‘Interstellar’ Legendary’sexit from under the Warner Bros. umbrellais one of those insider Hollywood business deals that made waves in studio boardrooms, but not anywhere else. Their latest deal is kind of the same thing – it won’t affect fans at all – but it’s still a very interesting and kind of awesome turn of events. Warner Bros. and Paramount are co-financing Christopher Nolan’sInterstellar,which just started filming....

Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Show Will Feature F9 Star Sung Kang Wielding A Lightsaber To the surprise of nobody, Disney and Lucasfilm are keeping very quiet about the upcoming “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series. Ewan McGregor had to lie about it for years. They’re not going to tell us anything. So, we’re left to extrapolate what we can when some poor actors try to say nothing, while saying something, during press junkets. Luckily, Sung Kang recently spilled some tea during an interview....

Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Has Started Filming Martin Scorsese’s next feature film has begun production.Killers of the Flower Moonhas officially started principal photography, according to the Oklahoma Film + Music Office (OF+MO) and Apple Original Films, the latter of which is producing the project to debut on its streaming platformApple TV+. Martin Scorsese’s follow-up toThe Irishmanbegan filming in Oklahoma on April 19, the filmmaker announced. Scorsese said in a statement:...

Marvel Confirms Russo Brothers To Direct ‘Avengers: Infinity War Parts 1 And 2’ Update: Marvel has now confirmed this story from March 23.Read the press release here. Original story follows. Big news coming out of Marvel Studios.Badass Digestreports thatAnthony and Joe Russohave just closed their deal to directAvengers: Infinity War Parts 1 and 2. They’re about to go into production onCaptain America: Civil Warand will do back to backAvengersfilms after that....

Ncuti Gatwa Kept His Doctor Who Casting A Secret Even From His Barbie Castmates Ncuti Gatwais the next Doctor in the “Doctor Who” series, and we’re not the only ones who are excited — Gatwa’s “Barbie” castmates are as well. You might think that being close to Gatwa on set every day would have given them a heads up about the Fourteenth Doctor’s identity, but you couldn’t be more wrong. Gatwa didn’t say a word....

Netflix Trailers: ‘Voyeur,’ ‘Saving Capitalism,’ ‘Barbra,’ And ‘DeRay Davis: How To Act Black’ Netflix doesn’t care if you’ve been struggling to find time to binge watchStranger Things 2: they just laugh and continue to unleash more and more content, confident you’ll spend the rest of your days trying to catch up with the never-ending stream of movies and shows rolling down from their palatial estate on the peak of Streaming Mountain....

New ‘Scream’ Movie Gearing Up To Reference More Scary Movies Are you ready to head back to Woodsboro?Scream, the horror trivia-obsessed franchise from the late Wes Craven, is getting ready to live again. A newScreammovie is reportedly in the works at Spyglass Entertainment, but beyond that, details are sketchy. Will this be a reboot? Or will it be the canonical fifth entry in the film franchise? And who is going to direct now that Wes Craven has departed us?...

No Time To Die Director Addresses Daniel Craig’s Final Moments As James Bond It’s no secret that"No Time to Die"is Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond, but if you’ve been living under a rock, the particulars of his exit may indeed be a secret still. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga is out now discussing those particulars in a new interview withEmpire, which is obviously laden withmajorspoilers. Read no further if you haven’t seen the movie....