It’s Showtime: A ‘Beetlejuice’ Musical Is Coming To Broadway If the Alamo Drafthouse’s upcoming celebration ofTim Burtonnext month,appropriately called Septemburton, wasn’t enough gothic circus fun for you folks, then we have some good news.Beetlejuicewill be getting the musical treatment on Broadway. Find out what we know about theBeetlejuicemusical after the jump. Warner Bros. is working with musical directorAlex Timbers(Rocky: The Muiscal, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher) to bring Tim Burton’s horror comedyBeetlejuiceto Broadway for the 2018-2019 season....

James Cameron Says Tech Improvements Should Speed Production Of ‘Avatar’ Sequels As has been the case almost every day for the past few years, theAvatarsequels areslowly moving ahead. Writer/director/mastermindJames Cameroncontinues to plug away on the three films, making sure everything is lined up to gointo production later this year. The first movie took four years to make, though, so with a December 2016 release date planned for part two, one might think there’ll be a rush to make not just one,but three movies, simultaneously....

Marvel Is Not Developing Falcon Or War-Machine Spin-Off Films WhileMarvelmovies are usually about one big name hero, there’s a lot of joy in the supporting characters. Two of the most intriguing ones, at least in Phase 2, areDon Cheadle’s Colonel James Rhodes, aka War Machine/Iron Patriot, fromIron Man 3andAnthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon, inCaptain America: The Winter Soldier. Each are formidable fighters in their own right; they just happen to play second fiddle to Iron Man and Captain America....

Marvel Unveils First ‘Ant-Man’ Footage [Comic-Con 2014] All those production delays meantAnt-Mandidn’t go in front of cameras early enough for Marvel to show usPaul RuddorMichael Douglasin action at Comic-Con. But it wouldn’t be like Marvel to show up to Hall H completely empty-handed, and so they “filmed a little something to show you guys,” asKevin Feigeput it. We were treated to a brief bit ofAnt-Manfootage, really an FX test with voiceover....

Mike Birbiglia Is Directing A Movie About Improv Called ‘Don’t Think Twice’ If you’re a fan of stand-up comedy, I hope that you’ve discovered the work ofMike Birbiglia. If not, Netflix Instant currently has two of his comedy specials,What I Should Have Said Was Nothing: Tales from My Secret Public JournalandMy Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, and I recommend watching them immediately. In addition, Birbiglia also made his directorial debut with his auto-biographical indie comedySleepwalk with Me, which played at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2012....

Movie Trailer: Doug Liman’s Fair Game Summit Entertainment have released the movie trailer forDoug Liman’s political dramaFair Game. The film starsNaomi Wattsas real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame andSean Pennas her husband Joe Wilson. We all know the story which captured the news headlines, but the movie tells the tale from a more personal perspective. I had a chance to screen this film at the Cannes Film Festival and very much enjoyed it....

Neil LaBute Making ‘Van Helsing’ As A TV Show For SyFy There have been two great depictions of Van Helsing on the big screen. Edward Van Sloan played him as a strong-willed doctor in 1931’sDracula. Then over 60 years later Sir Anthony Hopkins gave a completely different performance in Francis Ford Coppola’s (Apocalypse Now) adaptation, as a wild, funny, and arguably crazy Van Helsing. When Universal attempted to turn the character into an action hero played by Hugh Jackman in 2004 with Stephen Sommer’s CG-infested monster movie, the result was disastrous....

New Stills And Character Details Revealed For ‘The Lego Movie’ With direction byPhil LordandChris Millerand a voice cast that includesChris Pratt,Elizabeth Banks, andWill Ferrell– not to mention the timeless appeal of Legos themselves —The Lego Moviehas the potential to become one of the highlights of next year’s lineup. But althoughthe first trailerwas released all the way back in June, plot specifics have been kept pretty vague. Until now. A wealth of new information has just come out about the movie, including details about and new images of all the major characters....

New Toy Story 3 Character Revealed In Pixar’s Up, And Other Easter Eggs MTVhas confirmed something I have suspected since I screened the first teaser to Pixar’s Up. For those of you who don’t know, Pixar hides many easter eggs in their films (you can see our compilation of the WALL-E easter eggs here). They often like to include characters from their upcoming films in the backgrounds of the frame. For example, Boo’s fish toy inMonsters Incended up being the title character ofFinding Nemo....

Page 2: Star Wars, Rocketeer, Breaking Bad, Alien, Back To The Future, Game Of Thrones, Chuck Norris, Doctor Who, The Shining What 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 included48different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness....

Raiders Of The Lost Ark Could Have Included A Villain With Flamethrower Hands “Raiders of the Lost Ark” is,among other things,one of the greatest collections of pulp adventure tropes in a single movie. Director Steven Spielberg and producer/co-writer George Lucas, deliberately making an homage to the adventure films and movie serials of their youth, stuffed as many exciting ideas and elements into the movie as they could: bullwhip fu, gritty fisticuffs, Nazi’s getting owned,boulder chases,car chases, a literal Deus ex Machina, and of course, snakes —lots of snakes....

Securing Funding For The Original King Kong Was Almost As Impressive As The Film Itself I loved old monster movies when I was a little kid. I couldn’t get enough of bug-eyed mutants, lovestruck fish-men, and giant ants in the drains of Los Angeles. I especially got a thrill from enraged creatures rampaging through a city, so Ray Harryhausen’s “20 Million Miles to Earth,” “It Came From Beneath the Sea,” and “The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms” were particular favorites....

Sequel Bits: Ghostbusters 3, Beverly Hills Cop 4, Sharknado 3, Friday The 13th, Independence Day 2, Jurassic World There are some big updates on some really big sequel in this edition of Sequel Bits. Below, read about the following. Speaking toEmpire, co-writer and directorPaul Feigdropped a few small details on hisGhostbustersreboot. First, it’ll obviously be set in New York. “To me it’s such a New York movie and the biggest sin would be to pull it out of there,” said Feig....