The popularity and cultural significance of Star Wars is largely derived from its merchandising. That's a fact. George Lucas definitely crafted a fantastic trilogy of movies but the initial popularity, eventual collectibility and amount of money derived from little plastic men has helped facilitate everything that came after it. Seems like an interesting story, no? Plastic…
Read MoreWhat is Page 2? 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 included 68 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If…
Read MoreThe X Factor and The Voice have concluded their respective Season 2 and Season 3 installments, and with the celebratory confetti swept up and carried…
Read MoreIt's going to be a blue Christmas for Leverage fans. TNT announced late Friday that it has officially pulled the plug on the drama after…
Read MoreThe second I heard the premise of Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, it immediately rose to the top of my anticipated list. Ralph is a large 8-bit video game bad guy, voiced by John C. Reilly, who is tired of being bested by his in game nemesis and good guy, Fix-It Felix (30 Rock's Jack McBrayer). Not content with…
Read MoreAs usual, this summer season looks to be stuffed with massively hyped, massively budgeted blockbusters, from May's The Avengers to August's The Expendables 2. Whenever you tire of glossy, expensive explosions in IMAX 3D, however -- and at some point you will -- there are plenty of other smaller movies on the calendar that could be worth…
Read MoreThe ever ubiquitous Stephen Root (Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife, Justified, etc.) has joined the cast of USA Network's untitled hour-long pilot from Numb3rs creators Nicolas Falacci and…
Read MorePay no attention to the man behind the curtain of chest hair -- or the Neilsen ratings, for that matter -- The X Factor is…
Read MoreEmily Blunt is getting her sci-fi on once again. The star of The Adjustment Bureau and the upcoming Looper is in talks to co-star with Tom Cruise in All You Need Is Kill, a sci-fi action film with a Groundhog Day twist. Doug Liman directs. Read more after the jump. Variety broke the news of…
Read MoreGame (still) on! Just as The League readies to air its final two episodes of Season 4 tonight, FX has renewed the ensemble comedy for…
Read MoreYou can't believe everything you hear on television, or so our mothers told us. But tonight's X Factor Season 2 performance finale drove home that…
Read MoreYou knew it was an Important Night on The Voice because not once did social-media dingbat Christina Milian begin one of her excruciating interview segments…
Read MoreStuart Beattie is currently directing Aaron Eckhart as a modern version of the creature from Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. The film I, Frankenstein is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Kevin Grevioux, with Eckhart taking a lot of inspiration for his version of the monster directly from the Shelly original. Now we've…
Read MoreArnold Schwarzenegger may not be as young as he once was, but James Cameron's convinced that his Terminator character has plenty of life left in him yet. Also after the jump: Grown-Ups 2 will shoot in Marblehead, MA Brad Bird probably won't direct Mission: Impossible 5 Cloverfield 2 is still searching for a new idea…
Read MoreSeveral years ago, Netflix ran a contest that would pay someone $1 million for improving their already solid recommendation engine. The algorithm, called Cinematch, took how you rated movies on Netflix's five star system and gave you personalized recommendations based on those ratings. The contest winner only needed to improve the system by a small…
Read MoreOn TV this Wednesday: The X Factor finale gets underway, diamonds make it rough for Chicago Firefighters, Top Chef is foiled again, and Joan Collins brings a smidge…
Read MoreWhen a big blaze hits this Wednesday's Christmas episode of Chicago Fire (NBC, 10/9c), it won't be the only thing steaming up the firefighter drama. Severide's new…
Read MoreThe Voice's Season 3 finale found coaches Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green joining a performance of Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"…
Read MoreGot questions about Monday's twisty, super-fun, cameo-packed Gossip Girl series finale? Well, we've got answers — straight from exec producer Stephanie Savage herself. RELATED | Gossip…
Read MoreI'm almost too excited to type the next sentence. A new Wes Anderson movie comes out next month. It's called Moonrise Kingdom and it's about a young boy scout who disappears with a local girl, turning the entire town on its head. Anderson's cast is as impressive as ever, featuring Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis,…
Read MoreGossip Girl had a bon voyage, all things being relative, as its two-hour series finale event night averaged 1.4 million total viewers and a 0.7…
Read MoreWelcome to The Voice's Season 3 finale: Rated EH...for Excessive Hyperbole! Shudder as Carson Daly introduces contestant Terry McDermott's reprise of a Foreigner track by…
Read MoreEarlier today, the world was introduced to David-8, the latest humanoid android from Weyland Industries. It's a character played by Michael Fassbender in Ridley Scott's upcoming sci-fi film Prometheus and the video shows a technology where robots can mimic human emotions even though they have no feelings. He also says he can perform tasks humans…
Read MorePart sequel, part spin-off, but all action-packed spy thriller, The Bourne Legacy is the rare live action summer blockbuster without aliens or superheros. It stars Jeremy Renner as an agent who, much like Matt Damon's Jason Bourne of the first three films, is a highly trained killing machine, triggered into action in a story related…
Read MoreAbby Elliott is headed to Happy Endings. The Saturday Night Live vet is slated to drop by a spring episode, EW.com reports, as a woman…
Read MorePaul McCartney may have been a guest on Saturday Night Live this past weekend, but the real Beatles-related joke was hearing The X Factor's L.A.…
Read MoreAs a fanatic of both SCTV (remember ingenious skits like Half Wits?) and the criminally underappreciated Primetime Glick (check out this wet your pants-worthy interview…
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