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Emergency Trailer: A Dark College Comedy With A Timely Edge Another Sundance favorite is making its way to wider audiences, and this one looks like intense. “Emergency” follows two college best friends, both Black, as they attempt to help an unconscious girl they find in their apartment without calling the police. It’s an interesting premise for a serious thriller or drama, but “Emergency” throws a major curveball from the start: it’s actually a comedy....

Five Innovations In James Cameron’s Avatar Lets take a look at five of the many technological innovations thatJames Cameronemployed in his upcoming sci-fi epic 3D filmAvatar. Performance Capture Workflow:A lot of the film was captured using a performance capture technique similar to that of which Robert Zemeckis filmed Beowulf. So Cameron developed a virtual camera which will allow his to point it at his actors and see them as their computer generated characters in real time....

Friday The 13th Vs George Romero’s Dead Series – The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever [Round 12] Welcome to the Tournament of Terrors, a /Film bracket where we argue about the greatest horror franchise of all time, and you, the readers, get to decide the winners. The rules are simple: two iconic horror movie series enter the ring, each represented by a /Film writer ready to champion them. And you — yes, you, the person reading this right now — will vote on which one gets to move forward....

HBO’s ‘The Last Of Us’ Pilot To Be Helmed By ‘Chernobyl’ Director Johan Renck DirectorJohan Renckwas behind the camera for all five episodes of HBO’s spectacular miniseriesChernobylin 2019, and he ended up winning two well-deserved Emmys for his work on that show. Now the Swedish director is returning to HBO: Renck will direct the premium channel’sThe Last of Uspilot, which is based on the popular video game. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, Johan Renck will direct theLast of Uspilot for HBO, marking a return to the network where he earned the most acclaim of anything in his entire directing career when he executive produced and directedChernobyl, the bleak-but-captivating look at the Soviet nuclear disaster....

How IT Changed Bill Skarsgard Forever Some movie roles change a person. Pretending to be someone else for the length of a movie shoot can let that character into your head, and that’s a little scary when you’re playing someone like the murderous Pennywise the dancing clown from “It.” Actor Bill Skarsgård put on the white and red greasepaint not just once, but twice, for “It: Chapter One” and “It: Chapter Two....

John Lithgow To Star Opposite Jeff Bridges In FX’s ‘The Old Man’ With ‘Spider-Man’s Jon Watts Directing John Lithgowis the latest elderly gentleman to joinThe Old Mancast. Lithgow will be starring oppositeJeff Bridgesin the FX thriller seriesThe Old Man, withSpider-Man: Far From HomedirectorJon Wattsset to helm the pilot episode. In the wake of the Disney-Sony feud, Jon Watts’ future with theSpider-Manmay be getting a little sticky, but at least he’s got some old men to lean on....

Kick-Ass Is Getting A ‘Big’ Movie Reboot That Will Be ‘F***ing Nuts’ Before Deadpool or Harley Quinn were dropping f-bombs and violently killing the bad guys on the big screen, R-rated superhero movies were a rarity. Sure, there was the “Blade” franchise, but you weren’t exactly seeing folks in spandex and capes in adult-themed movies, and they definitely weren’t this vulgar. The 2010 comic adaptation “Kick-Ass” blew people’s minds with its brutal violence and profanity, following young vigilantes Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), along with Hit-Girl’s Batman-esque father, Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage)....

LEGO Unveils New Book Of Boba Fett Sets, Including Mando’s New Ship “The Book of Boba Fett” season 1 is behind us now, but you’re able to keep the fun going with some new LEGO sets (viaTHR). According to the site, LEGO is celebrating its 90th anniversary and will release over 245 sets in the first half of this year. There are two new “The Book of Boba Fett” sets available, including Boba Fett’s Throne Room, and The Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter that you can pre-order right now....

Maybe ‘Shazam’ Is Part Of The DC Movie Universe After All So isShazampart of the DC Movie Universe, or not? We originally thought it might be, but the film is from New Line rather than Warner Bros. proper, and comments from New Line head Toby Emmerich have suggestedShazammight be off on its own. But now a new post from DC has led people to thinking that the character Shazam is part of the same universe that also features Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman — which naturally has us wondering if he’ll fit into the bigJustice Leaguestory after all....

Netflix Suspends Three Employees, Struggles To Understand Fallout From Dave Chappelle’s The Closer We don’t typically write about small-scale suspensions or firings inside major tech companies, but a recent set of suspensions at Netflix warrants some exploration. Let’s take a quick look at what happened recently inside Hollywood’s biggest streamer, and how it could have consequences that extend far beyond the confines of the entertainment industry. Who Was Suspended? According toVariety, Netflix has suspended three employees for crashing a virtual meeting of Netflix executives....

New ‘Real Steel’ Featurette Shows Motion Capture Boxing And More I know I’m in the minority when I go on and on and abouthow excited I amforReal Steel. Most of you seeShawn Levy’s name,some robots fighting in the ringand think “Rock Em, Sock Em Robots” the movie. And come October 7, maybe you’ll be right. But I seeTransformersmeetsRocky.The TerminatormeetsThe Champ. C-3PO vs. R2-D2. I see the potential of a sci-fi action movie coupled with the predictable, yet effective, heart of a underdog sports movie....

New ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Footage: We’re All In This Until The End If you’re trying to stay away from seeing any newStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerfootage, today is the day you need to start being more careful online and while watching television. A new promo for the forthcomingStar Warssequel has arrived, and it features just enough new footage to get us even more excited for the film’s release next month....

Odessa Young Has Stepped In To Replace Riley Keough In ‘Masculinity Cult’ Thriller Manodrome Odessa Young is taking over the role originally set to be played by Riley Keough in the upcoming thriller “Manodrome,” which co-stars Jesse Eisenberg and Adrien Brody. Young’s star has been on the rise in the 2020s with her role opposite Elizabeth Moss in"Shirley"and her performance as Frannie Goldsmith in the CBS adaptation of"The Stand." When news of Eisenberg, Brody, and Keough’s casting first broke last year,Varietydescribed “Manodrome” as a film about “an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened....