Krysten Ritter Geeks Out About Being Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones’ Lots of fans were thrilled whenKrysten Ritterwas cast as the leadof Marvel’s new Netflix seriesA.K.A. Jessica Jones, but it seems Ritter herself wasn’t one of them. A fan, that is — Ritter admits she didn’t have much comic book experience before she booked the role. However, that’s changing as Ritter gets deep into preparations for the project. In a new interview, she geeks about the role, declaring the Jessica Jones comics to be the the most addictive thing since NPR’sSerial....

Kylo Ren Comic Provides Backstory Into Ben Solo’s Turn To The Dark Side Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalkeris about to end the Skywalker Saga, and bring about a conclusion to the story of Kylo Ren. But what about the beginning of that story? A new Kylo Ren comic,Marvel’s Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren, is here to fill in those details. The first issue is now available, and it’s loaded with info regarding Ben Solo’s turn to the Dark Side....

LOL: What If Disney Produced A VHS Version Of ‘Frozen’? Watch The VHS Trailer The above photo of aFrozenVHSstartedmaking the rounds around the internet earlier this week, and took me back. I’m sure one universal memory most people who grew up during the 1980’s or early 1990’s has is opening up one of those large plastic clamshell cases, popping a Disney animated film into the VHS player and waiting for the magic to begin....

Marc Webb Explains There Aren’t Too Many Villains In ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ Are there too many villains inThe Amazing Spider-Man 2? DirectorMarc Webbknows you might be concerned that this sequel has too many characters for its own good. A common complaint about Sam Raimi’sSpider-Man 3was that the film featured too many villains, and was consequently unfocused and unable to do justice to any of them. So withThe Amazing Spider-Man 2having not only Electro as the core baddie, but also the Rhino and some version of the Green Goblin, fans have wondered if this film would follow the same path....

Matt Damon Counts The Days In Two New Images From Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’ Just last month,the first imagesfromRidley Scott’s sci-fi dramaThe Martiansurfaced, showing offMatt Damonstranded on Mars. We’re not sure when the first trailer will pop up, but now we have another glimpse at the film as two more photos have surfaced, one with our first look atThe NewsroomstarJeff Danielsin the film as well. Check outThe Martianphotos after the jump!...

Neil Gaiman Announces Graveyard Book Film By Neil Jordan Neil Gaimanappeared on this morning’s Today Show to discussCoraline, as well as his newly Newberry winningThe Graveyard Book. Shortly before he went on air, Gaimantwitteredthat he had been given the go ahead to reveal who was set to write and direct a big screen adaptation ofThe Graveyard Bookand once he was in the hot seat, he was good to his word....

Outsiders Trailer: Is This ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Meets ‘Justified’? WGN America released a trailer for their new dramatic seriesOutsiders. The trailer premiered with the season two premiere of WGN’s critically acclaimed seriesManhattan. Billed as “provocative”, the action-packed drama will explore the “epic struggle between the Farrell Clan, who have lived atop the rugged Shay Mountain for over two hundred years, and their battle to defend their land and their way of life from the town below and anyone who would dare to challenge them....

Page 2: Kevin Smith, Sirius And XM, Sunshine Cleaning, Scarlett Johansson, Academy Awards And More I never thought I’d see the day when they would have a college class to study Kevin Smith’s films. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, I’d take it — Hell, I could teach it: CA 520J – Films of Kevin Smith (1 credit hour) This course will examine the films of prolific Indy film director Kevin Smith....

Page 2: Star Wars, Godzilla, Indiana Jones, GoT, Star Trek, Seth Rogen, 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: Father of the Yeart-shirt Here’sHow MTV’sCatfishActually WorksWhyGodzillaKicked Pacific Rim’s Ass at the Box Office Tired of Summer Blockbusters?...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge Contributed More To No Time To Die Than You May Think We’re right in the middle of the “Twiddling our thumbs” phase of the “No Time to Die” cycle — far enough away from release that we’ve already been exposed to the majority of marketing (doubly so, considering the film’s many delays and false starts), but close enough that we have nothing better to do except hang onto every new quote that comes out these days....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘Volver,’ ‘A Whisker Away,’ ‘Alice,’ And More (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) With businesses re-opening and the sun shining, it’s probably tempting to go out and enjoy the summer right now. And while I can’t tell you what you can or can’t do, I can encourage you to stay at home instead and continue to brush up on your quarantine viewing with some fantastic foreign-language films....

Sony Attempting To Secure Rights For An Animated ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Movie The last time a US company made a movie based onSuper Mario Bros.,things did not go so well. The terrible production, awful film and disappointing results pretty much souredNintendoon making live-action movies of their characters, period. Still, the popular video game company did continue to make some animated films, mostly based onPokemon. It seems they were more open to that idea with their iconic roster of characters....

Superhero Bits: The Flash, Gotham, Hulk, Apocalypse, Thor: Ragnarok, Sinister Six, Constantine What soldBen AffleckonBatman v Superman? Where will the nextCaptain America: Civil Warfootage be revealed? What’s with Apocalypse’s costume inX-Men? Why won’tJames Gunnuse the Sneepers inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? DoesMark Ruffalolike Amadeus Cho as the newHulk? How does Scarlet Witch fit intoCaptain America: Civil War? What doesDrew Goddardhave to say about theSinister Sixmovie that never was? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....