Dune Featurette Teases A Wildly Ambitious Sci-Fi Epic If you’ve got three minutes to spare and an abiding interest in"Dune"(not to mention an abiding love for the music of Pink Floyd), there’s a new featurette out, which gives us a look at some fresh “Dune” footage. It also gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of Denis Villeneuve’s much-anticipated film adaptation of the classic Frank Herbert science-fiction novel. And yes, there’s a cover of “Eclipse” from Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” featured....

Get Out, Eternal Sunshine, And The Social Network Top The WGA’s 101 Greatest Screenplays Of The 21st Century (So Far) Around this time every year, the Black List names its annual list of thebest unproduced screenplays, but what about movies that have already been made? What are the greatest screenplays of the last two decades? That’s the question at the heart of a new list compiled by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) West and East....

How ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ And ‘Akira’ Are Forever Connected This article contains spoilers forAkiraand the Batman-centric DCAU films and TV shows.A giant explosion of light and sound. Biker gangs and crime-ridden streets. A city run by crooked politicians and a militarized police force. A flawed hero who operates outside the law and is pitted against a villain who thrives on chaos. All these makeBatman: Mask of the Phantasm, the spinoff film ofBatman: The Animated Series, one of the most iconic representations of the DC Comics hero ever put to a screen, but they’re also major parts of what make the legendary anime filmAkiratick, too....

How The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Luke Kirby Feels About Exploring Lenny Bruce’s Dark Side Perhaps one of the most interesting creative decisions in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” was to make the most notable comedian in Midge’s (Rachel Brosnahan) life not a completely fictional character, but an actual real-life comedian from the ’60s. Portrayed by Luke Kirby, the Lenny Bruce of this show tends to pop up once or twice a season to bail Midge out of jail or give her some much-needed advice about the stand-up comedy business....

J.J. Abrams And B-Movie Legend Larry Cohen Are Making An Anthology Series J.J. Abramsdoesn’t waste his clout. TheStar Wars: The Force Awakensdirectorbacks sometalented filmmakers and even once oversaw a4K restorationof the cult horror classicPhantasm. Abrams and Bad Robot did the restoration out of love for director Don Conscarelli’s work. Now, Abrams is collaborating with another filmmaker he admires, B-movie iconLarry Cohen, who directedIt’s AliveandThe Stuff. The two of them are developing an anthology series at the moment....

Jason Blum Says ‘Halloween’ Reboot ‘Respects The DNA Of The Franchise’ Jason Blumhas seen a cut of the newHalloweenreboot, and proclaimed it a success. Blum isn’t exactly an impartial witness here, since he’s producing the film, but we’ll take anyHalloweeninfo we can get at this point. I would like to seeDavid Gordon Green’sHalloweenreboot/sequel right now, please and thank you. Or at the very least, some footage. I’m sure we’ll get a trailer soon, but for now, we’ll have to live vicariously through Jason Blum....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Mallrats’ Sequel Will Tackle The Illusion Of “Happily Ever After” Writer/directorKevin Smithhas definitely made the most of his time in quarantine. On top of his regular podcasts and partaking in a recent watch party ofMallrats, he’s been working on the script for a sequel to the 1995 cult classic that will bring back the whole gang. The movie is calledTwilight of the Mallrats, and now that Smith has completed the first draft of the movie, he’s given fans a taste of what they can expect, and it sounds like maybe there’s not quite as much of a “happily ever after” as the end of the original movie seemed to indicate....

Leaked ‘Avatar Land’ Blueprints Reveal Possible 3D Simulator And Water Ride When last we leftthe complicated developmentof anAvatartheme park at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom,James Cameronwasn’t happy. Rumors circulated that he and the Imagineersweren’t seeing eye to eyeand, as a result, the park might be delayed. Bad news for fans of Cameron, Pandora and Disney. Now onto the good news. New rumors have begun circulating that Cameron has finally signed off on Disney’s plans and things are once again full steam ahead....

Magnet Announces Six Shooter Film Series 2.0: Bronson, Ong Bak 2 And More When you’ve got a slate of niche films, sometimes coming up with an umbrella label to market them all as one package is the best way to go. Magnolia / Magnet tried this to good effect last year with theSix Shooter Film Series, which packaged international genre films likeLet the Right One In,Big Man JapanandTimecrimesfor release On Demand and in theatres....

Movie Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs - An Unlikely Success Consider me shocked thatCloudy with a Chance of Meatballsis not only a good kids film, but a great comedy in general. The first film from formerHow I Met Your MotherandClone Highwriter/producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller,Cloudymanages to take the premise from the classic children’s book and transform it into a madcap comedy that proudly displays a unique sense of humor....

National Lampoon Biopic Cast: Who’s Playing Bill Murray, John Belushi And Harold Ramis? Just last month we found outNetflix was developing a filmaboutDoug Kenney, the co-founder ofNational Lampoon, the humor magazine that eventually evolved into creating comedy records and movies in the 1970s and 1980s. The film is calledA Futile & Stupid Gestureand shines a light on the history of National Lampoon through the eyes of Kenney, who will be played bySaturday Night Liveveteran andLast Man on EarthstarWill Forte....

New Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Funko POPs Are Pretty Gnarly On the heels of theFunkoweenfigure reveals yesterday, Funko has given us even more goodies. Today we have the second wave of brand new Funko Pop! figures and keychains for Marvel’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” The companyshared pics on social mediatoday, inviting fans to “test the limits of reality and leap into the Marvel multiverse.”...

Page 2: Star Wars, Pan’s Labyrinth, Steve Buscemi, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, Amy Schumer, Fincher, Kubrick, Always Sunny, Homeland 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:GREAT SHOWDOWNS: THE REVENGEHARDCOVERBY SCOTT C....