The true test of the ongoing commercial appeal of "Star Wars" will not come with the release of Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. The true test will come when they finally leave the story of the Skywalker fa...
Things worked a bit differently at the very first Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The festival took place in the fall, for starters, while the top prize -- not yet named the Palme d'Or -- was shared between 11 films. Th...
Last year, Oscar analyst par excellence Mark Harris, whose insights we'll be missing this awards season, wrote a description of the average Best Foreign Language Film voter that was so specifically accurate that all I...
Hollywood studios have a habit of announcing big, ambitious projects only to then send them into limbo. We thought we'd check in on the status of a few long-promised films. Whether it's an anticipated sequel ("Gh...
Background: For years, the legal rights to Ridley Scott's seminal 1982 science-fiction classic "Blade Runner" have been a contentious muddled mess, and that same legal morass currently has the film...
Ready for more Hit-Girl?
The foul-mouthed, pint-sized heroine was the breakout hit of the cult comic series "Kick-Ass" and its 2010 film adaptation, and she's finally getting her own comic title to star i...
Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant made a meal of Bruce Robinson's remarkable dialogue in this brutal, woozy, beautiful memoir of acting students with no prospects in '60s London.
So far, Hollywood has had a tough time with adaptations of manga and anime titles; films like "Speed Racer" and "Dragonball: Evolution" have stalled at the box office, while M. Night Shyamalan...
Whedon is well-liked in Hollywood, certainly, but he's far better known for the success of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," "Angel," and even his work on "The Astonishing X-Men" in comic...
At this point, I think Warner Bros. should ask themselves if there's any figure at which they truly believe audiences are clamoring to see a mostly-white live-action version of "Akira" made for a profoundly ...
