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Superhero Bits: ‘Celebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee’ Clip, Why Nite Owl Didn’t Make It Into HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ & More Want to see a clip from the upcoming ABC specialCelebrating Marvel’s Stan Lee? Why wasn’tNite Owlin the first season ofWatchmen? Which critics group awardedJokerthe honor of Best Picture? What was a certain action sequence cut fromJustice League? DidSebastian Stanreally put on enough muscle that hisWinter Soldierarm doesn’t fit anymore? Would you like a full-onConstantineandLucifercrossover?...

Superhero Bits: The Dark Knight Rises, DC Universe Online, The Avengers, X-Men 4, Amazing Spider-Man When can you playDC Universe Onlinefor free? Is there a way to incorporate superheroes into an icy cold beverage? DoesThe Avengershave as much heart as it does action? Which member of theX-Mensays he’d love to come back forX-Men 4? Would you like to see a fan made teaser trailer forMan of Steel? Who is the most violent comic book superhero and how can you find out your own superhero name?...

SXSW Film Program Features ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Open Windows,’ And ‘Faults’ We got a list of part of the SXSW premiere lineup of films not long ago, withVeronica Marsand Jon Favreau’sChefannounced as the fest’sfirst wave of films. Now we’ve got most of the rest of the festival’s lineup. The midnight selections and some inevitable late-breaking additions are still to be announced, but this should be more than enough to get potential attendees excited about the 2014 lineup....

The Emotions Of ‘Inside Out’ Meet The Mind Heist Of ‘Inception’ In Trailer Mash-Up Hopefully by now you’ve met the voices inside your head by way of Pixar’s wonderfulInside Out. It’s a touching, funny, wonderful animated tale that will make you have all the feels. But now filmmakerNelson Carvajalhas givenInside Outa new feeling (no pun intended) by mashing it up with the trailer for Christopher Nolan’sInception. Pixar’s emotional adventure gets a little more dramatic by being set to Zack Hemsey’s “Mind Heist” track, making the proceedings that occur in Riley’s mind all the more urgent....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The World’s Toughest Race’ Is The Next Evolution Of Competition Reality Shows (Welcome toThe Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series:The World’s Toughest RaceWhere You Can Stream It: Amazon Prime VideoThe Pitch: What ifSurvivor…but without the game show structure? What ifThe Amazing Race…but actually physically grueling and mentally punishing? What ifMan vs. Wild…but with 66 teams, many of them fascinating and relatable men and women who put themselves through hell for personal, frequently heartfelt reasons?...

The Twilight Zone Film Adaptation Rod Serling Never Got To Finish Rod Serling’s classic sci-fi series"The Twilight Zone"is so legendary, its reputation has stood the test of not only time, but countless reboot series and a nightmarish movie adaptation. With Serling at the helm, the show that aired from 1959 to 1964 served as one of the foundational building blocks for humanistic science fiction as we know it today. Nothing that has come since can erase its importance, but a project Serling was working on shortly before its death still begs the question: in the dimension of imagination we call “The Twilight Zone,” what would a Serling-made adaptation of the series look like?...

Theme Park Bits: Sleeping Beauty Castle Unveiled, Tokyo DisneySea Expansion And More In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Whether or not you’re going to be at the grand opening ofStar Wars:Galaxy’s Edge on May 31 at Disneyland, or you might just be stopping by over the summer, you already know that you’re probably going to spring for some merch. And what better merch would there be to buy in aStar Wars-themed land than a lightsaber?...

TV, Interrupted: Pushing Daisies Is Still Waiting For The Pie-Maker’s Magic Touch (Welcome toTV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) “Pushing Daisies” suffered from the same “problem” as other equally complex movies and TV series — it was hard to market. Now, historically speaking, we know that this wasn’t itsonlyproblem, or rather this wasn’t the only issue that led to it being prematurely canceled....

Universal Approached Steven Spielberg About A ‘Jaws’ Reboot, And He Rightfully Said No Remakes of popular, classic movies feel inevitable, but one all-time great film that’s managed to avoid being remade or rebooted yet isJaws, the 1975Steven Spielbergfilm that helped invent the modern-day blockbuster. Sooner or later – probably after Spielberg has sadly shuffled off this mortal coil – Hollywood will get around to making aJawsreboot. But as long as Spielberg is still with us, it seemsJawsis safe....

Watch A 25-Minute ‘Game Of Thrones’ Season 3 Recap Video It’s unlikely that anyone who sat through the Red Wedding will soon forget it. Still, that was just one of many, many things that happened to many, many characters onGame of Throneslast season. Even the most devoted fan could be forgiven for losing track of a detail or two. That’s where thisGame of ThronesSeason 3 recap video comes in. Titled “Politics of Power,” it covers all of last season — roughly ten commercial-free hours of drama — in a trim 25 minutes....

What Does It Mean For Hollywood If Another Copyright Extension Doesn’t Pass This Year? Until the 20th century, works of art both great and small typically went from being owned by their creators to being owned by no one – or, perhaps more accurately, to being owned by everyone. In the public domain, a movie, song, or book can be reprinted or utilized by anyone at any time, without needing permission....

Where Do These ‘Halloween’ Deleted Scenes Fit In The Movie? Halloweenis now playing everywhere, and audiences are eating it up like a trick-or-treat bag overflowing with candy.David Gordon Green’s sequel/reboot is loaded with funny, scary and altogether memorable scenes. But what about scenes thatdidn’tmake the final cut? Some trailers and TV spots confirm there are a handful ofHalloweendeleted scenes that don’t appear in the final film. Let’s take a look at some of them below....

“Path Of A Lightsaber” Tracks The Journey Of Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Weapon, From Anakin To ‘The Force Awakens’ The lightsaber that belonged to both Anakin and Luke Skywalker plays a major role inStar Wars: the Force Awakens, essentially making it one of theStar Warssaga’s most prominent characters. A new video chronicling how it went from point A to point B has arrived online and it’s a surprisingly compelling look at one of cinema’s most iconic items....