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Mad Max: Fury Road’s Car Chases Look So Good Because They Were So Dangerous To Shoot When “Mad Max: Fury Road” came along in 2015, it was a revelation. The fourth “Mad Max” film landed in theaters thirty years after “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” the third entry in the series. In a year where the box office was dominated by blockbusters like “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Jurassic World,” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” no one had any reason to suspect that this other old franchise would comeroaring back to lifewith such great gusto, rather like a souped-up car engine in a post-apocalyptic desert “war party....

Metal Lords First Look: Game Of Thrones Co-Creator Takes On Rock Music This feels like a clickbait title, but you’ll never guess what former"Game of Thrones" showrunnerD.B. Weiss is doing next. I say that, because instead of returning to Westeros to work on the suite of"Game of Thrones" prequelsthat will soon be unleashed upon the world, he’s joined up with Netflix to create a high school heavy metal movie called “Metal Lords....

Mortal Kombat Sequel Is Happening, Moon Knight Writer To Script The Fatalities “Get over here!” Warner Bros. commanded, and many “Mortal Kombat” fans obliged, either by streaming the studio’s movie reboot of the video game fighting franchise or watching it in theaters. Despite mixed reviews, the R-rated martial arts fantasy adventure was a success by the standards of the pandemic, grossing $84 million at the box office and becoming one of HBO Max’s most streamed titles in 2021....

Movie Trailer: Ben Affleck’s The Town Warner Bros has released the first trailer for theBen Affleck-directed big screen adaptation of theChuck HogannovelThe Prince of Thieveswhich is titledThe Town. Affleck stars as a career thief who falls in love with the manager of a bank he robbed. I know that might not sound like an interesting concept for a movie, but the trailer presents it as a gripping dramatic thriller. The film co-starsJon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Pete Postlethwaite, andChris Cooper....

New ‘How To Train Your Dragon 3’ Details Tease Flashbacks, A Bittersweet Farewell & Much More Next spring will bring the third installment of DreawmWorks Animation’s strongest franchise withHow to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and a bunch of new details have arrived to shine a light on the final journey of Hiccup and his trust dragon, Toothless. Find the newHow to Train Your Dragon 3details below. Where Have All the Dragons Gone?...

New On Blu-Ray: ‘Rocketman’, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’, ‘Stand By Me’, ‘Cruising’, ‘Brightburn’ Calling all physical media phans! There are a whole lot of great new Blu-rays youmustpurchase. That’s right, I saidmust. Empty your bank account! Or don’t, whatever, I’m not your boss. But this week really does offer up some wonderful films, and I urge you to check them out. These are the new Blu-ray releases you should check out this week....

Page 2: Star Wars, Breaking Bad, Doctor Who, Transformers, Guillermo Del Toro, Eternal Sunshine, John Landis, Archer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oz, Steven Tobolowsky, Walking Dead 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 included46 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Rebel Moon Concept Art Revealed By Director Zack Snyder Back in early 2013, Zack Snyder’s representatives denied a report claiming he was developing a “Star Wars” film inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 adventure movie “Seven Samurai.” As we found out years later, though, that denial wasn’texactlytrue. Snyder did in fact come up with the idea for a film set in a galaxy far, far away. Had he made it, the plot would have centered on a motley crew of Jedi warriors going on a mission, much like the titular samurai in Kurosawa’s classic....

Sing 2, Matrix Resurrections Are No Match For Spider-Man At The Box Office Movie theaters enjoyed a long, five-day Christmas weekend with many new releases for moviegoers to choose from, which resulted in a flood of moviegoers making their way to the box office over the holiday frame. Once again, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” crushed the competition, as was expected. But there were some silver linings this weekend, as opposed to last week when everything else drowned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s wake....

Skydance Media Ditches Paramount, Sets New Deal With Apple Skydance Media, the studio behind the “Mission: Impossible” and “Terminator” franchises, has signed a new deal with Apple, and that means big things for the future of streaming on the movie side. It also means that Paramount Pictures, who had been Skydance’s biggest partner for roughly a decade, are going to be left out in the cold to some degree. Basically, it is shifting a producer of giant, crowd-pleasing blockbusters out of the hands a traditional movie studio (woefully short on its own big franchises) to a streaming-focused tech company....

Superhero Bits: ‘Black Panther’ Opening Weekend, ‘Aquaman’ Trailer Not Coming Soon & More Which superhero movie was the second highest grossing Blu-ray and DVD of 2017? What are the latest box office predictions forBlack Panther’s opening weekend? Why didKevin Feigehave a sandwich thrown at him during a meeting aboutSpider-Manrights with Sony? Is the firstAquamantrailer coming soon or not? Have we see the last ofConstantineonDC’s Legends of Tomorrow? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

The 15 Best Animated Movies Of The Decade (This article is part of ourBest of the Decadeseries.) Animation is a thriving and endlessly creative industry that, more often gets dismissed as being CG-animated cash grabs catered only for children. But as the past decade has shown, animation is more than your talking angry bird or your sentient emojis. Animated films from the past 10 years have pushed the limits of the medium, delivering unto us some of the most visually dazzling, groundbreaking, emotionally stirring films in any form....

The Morning Watch: ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Edition: Tarantino References, Character Breakdown & More The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this specialOnce Upon a Time in Hollywoodedition, run through a video that points out the various connections the movie has to other Quentin Tarantino movies....