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‘Robot & Frank’ Trailer: Frank Langella And His Robot Buddy Steal Jewels In Crowd-Pleasing Sundance Hit While it wasn’t a universally lauded smash on the order ofBeasts of the Southern Wild,Robot & Frankproved a minor hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival thanks to strong central performances and a fun premise.Frank Langellaplays the titular Frank, an elderly crank whose grown children (Liv TylerandJames Marsden) become concerned over his growing inability to take care of himself....

‘Rocky’ And ‘The Karate Kid’ Director John G. Avildsen Has Died At 81 After delivering two of the most iconic sports movies of all time, the Best Picture winningRockyand the 1980s classicThe Karate Kid, directorJohn G. Avildsenhas passed away at age 81. We remember the filmmaker’s career and contributions to cinema below. News of John G. Avildsen dead was confirmed by his sonAnthony Avildsen, revealing toThe Associated Pressthat the director had lost his battle with pancreatic cancer....

‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ Has Tons Of Hidden Stan Lee Cameos Nearly every single film adaptation of a Marvel Comics property features a cameo by the recently departed comic creatorStan Lee. Even though Lee is no longer with us, his legacy lives on thanks to his work in comics, but he also his handful of appearances left to be revealed in upcoming Marvel movies, including this week’s new animated Spider-Man movie....

‘The Devil All The Time’ Replaces Chris Evans With Sebastian Stan We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. WhenChris Evansgoes somewhere,Sebastian Stanusually isn’t far behind – at least in Marvel Studios movies. But that’s also turned out to be true today in the real world. Evans has just dropped out of an upcoming Netflix film calledThe Devil All The Time, but Stan has stepped in to replace him....

‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Photo: Is Mark Wahlberg On Cybertron? Transformers: The Last Knightpromises to take the franchise to all sorts of places it’s never been before, like Arthurian Britain and Nazi-era Germany. But one of the film’s most exciting locations looks to be entirely off-world. A new high-res still fromTransformers: The Last Knightshows Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) and Vivian Wembley (Laura Haddock) poking around some sort of mysterious ruin. It doesn’t look like anything on Earth, which has us wondering if the pair may have followed Optimus Prime into outer space in his search for the Creators....

25 More Films Added To The National Registry (With Video) Every year for the last 20 years, 25 motion pictures have been selected for archiving in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Here’s the full of list of this year’s films, while after the break I will embed full video for some of the shorts. Dog Day Afternoon, Dir. Sidney Lumet (1975)The Exiles, Dir. Kent MacKenzie (1961)Heroes All, Dir. Anthony Young (1920)Hot Dogs for Gauguin, Dir....

30% Think This Is The Best Live-Action Spider-Man Movie – Here’s Why They’re Wrong Which of the live-action Spider-Man movies is the best? We posed that question to hundreds of random people through SurveyMonkey, and the winner was surprising: more than 30% of the vote went to the original “Spider-Man” that came out in 2002. It’s understandable that our readers have a soft spot for the film where the series began — after all, the other films might not have come to us at all if audiences didn’t like the first one....

Alternate Blade Ending Would’ve Featured A Major Spider-Man Villain It’s difficult to remember a time when the box office wasn’t dominated by the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but when “Blade” hit theaters in 1998, it was a huge gamble. Just the second major movie inspired by a Marvel Comics character (following “Howard the Duck” in 1986, which wasn’t exactly a hit), the film starred Wesley Snipes as the titular vampire hunter. The movie, which has retained a passionate following over the decades, was successful enough to spawn two sequels and a short-lived TV show....

Avatar Running Time Is Over Two And A Half Hours Editor’s (Peter Sciretta) Note:Brendon filed this report yesterday, but I wasn’t initially willing to run it based on an unconfirmed source on a Twitter account. But since that time, /Film’s Russ Fischer was able to follow-up withAvatarproducerJohn Landau, who made an appearance at the Ubisoft booth during the E3 video game convention. Fischer asked about Avatar’s running time, and Landau confirmed that it is “definitely over two and a half hours....

Christian Bale Thought This Part Of His Batsuit Was Impractical Batman is one of the most known and popular superheroes on the planet, and the Batsuit is amongst the most iconic super suits. This is a suit that strikes fear in the hearts of superstitious cowardly criminals, a symbol that inspires hope even amongst the citizens of the worst city in the world. Across the 83-year history of the Batman, there have been many variations on the Batsuit, with each artist bringing their own take on what makes the Bat and evolving the character with the times....

Dan Clowes Still Working On ‘Wilson’ With Alexander Payne; Michel Gondry Collaborations Are Dead Last year, asAlexander Paynewas getting going onThe Descendants, we got word that he was alsoplanning an adaptationof the graphic novelWilson, byGhost WorldandArt School ConfidentialcreatorDaniel Clowes. We haven’t heard much about that project in a bit, but now Clowes says that the film is still in the works, and will be Payne’s next film after the black and white father/son roadtrip movieNebraska....

Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ Remake Wants Beyonce For Nala Who run the Pride Lands? PossiblyBeyonce. The R&B singer and diva extraordinaire may be heading to the big screen four years after her last stint with movies (voicing Tara inEpic), as Disney is reportedly eyeing her to play Nala in the upcoming remake ofTheLion King. The Lion KingdirectorJon Favreauhas reportedly listed Beyonce as his favorite to voice Nala, Simba’s childhood friend and love interest, in the CGI “reimagining” of the beloved 1994 animated film,according to Variety....

Don’t Expect Nudity, Violence, Or Foul Language In Apple’s New TV Shows Apple has been slowly easing into the world of original television programming over the past few months, hiring a couple of executives from Sony TV and setting up meetings all over town to hear pitches from content creators. But now we know a bit more about their plans, and it seems as if an early report that claimed they were on the hunt for shows likeGame of ThronesandBreaking Badwas off the mark....