In this edition, check out some of The Mandalorian season 2 Easter eggs you might have missed, see what VFX artists think of Cabin in the Woods, and more.
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We rounded up what we thought were the 20 best movie posters of the decade, regardless of the quality of the movie involved. What do you think of our picks?
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Crimson Peak is not the first time a marketing team has chosen to sell a completely different movie. Let's look back at 15 movies with misleading trailers.
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The characters of Cabin in the Woods would've done anything to get out of the titular house of horrors, but Universal Orlando hopes that fans of Cabin in the Woods will be equally eager to get in. The theme park has announced a maze based on the movie, which will open this fall for Halloween…
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After a great many delays, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's genre-twisting film The Cabin in the Woods is finally almost ready for release. The film screened at Harry Knowles' birthday party/film fest BNAT at the end of last year, and wowed that audience. (Including Germain and Peter.) It will open the SXSW Film Festival later…
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This week, Dave Chen, Devindra, and Adam chat about the virtues of Downton Abbey, debate the merits of Another Earth, and discuss their most anticipated films of 2012. Special guest Alison Willmore joins us from Movieline. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Join us at Slashfilm's Live…
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Where can you be the among the first audiences ever to see The Cabin in the Woods, The Grey, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the first trailers for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and G.I. Joe Retaliation as well as huge upcoming titles like The Adventures of Tintin, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and…
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Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard are both responsible for some pretty fantastic pieces of recent popular culture. Whedon, of course, made Firefly, Buffy and Angel, Goddard had a hand in Alias, Lost and Cloverfield and currently the former is making The Avengers and the other is writing Spielberg's Robopocalypse. But, several years ago, the two…
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One of the films that got caught up in the tumultuous financial collapse at MGM was The Cabin in the Woods, which Joss Whedon co-wrote with Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard, who also directed. The film stars Chris Hemsworth (Thor) in a story that tweaks the classic horror plot setup that plops a handful of people…
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We've known in the past 24 hours that Sony and MGM were working on a deal that would allow Sony to again distribute James Bond, and that would also carry forward as a real partnership between the studios. Now we have more details, and some of them are quite good. The deal will allow Sony…
Read MoreOn Thursday, July 23rd 2010, Entertainment Weekly held a panel at Comic-Con entitled "The Visionaries", which was basically a "discussion with geek gods J. J. Abrams (Star Trek) and Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on the future of pop culture" conducted by EW's Jeff "Doc" Jensen. "EW presents an in-depth conversation with these two…
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MGM's dire financial troubles have already spelled doom or delay for several films: the next Bond movie was indefinitely postposed, The Hobbit is delayed to the point where Guillermo del Toro walked as director, and the Red Dawn remake is shelved for the time being, because the studio doesn't have enough money to release the…
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In this week's /Filmcast, Dave Chen, Devindra Hardawar and Adam Quigley discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of 3D conversion, compare A Serious Man to Barton Fink, and confirm or deny whether or not Couples Retreat is, in fact, a complete trainwreck. Special guest writer/director Rian Johnson joins us for this episode. Rian's latest film,…
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Brian White's filmography is spattered with rather aggressive sounding titles from Stomp the Yard to the upcoming Fighting and 12 Rounds. Cooling things down a little are the relatively sedate sounding handles for his two next projects - Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself and Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin…
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Kristen Connolly (Revolutionary Road), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Anna Hutchison (Underbelly), Fran Kranz (Dollhouse) and Jesse Williams (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2) have been cast in the Joss Whedon-scripted, Drew Goddard directed horror thriller Cabin in the Woods. They will join the previously announced cast of Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) and Bradley Whitford…
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Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard have done their very best to keep the details of their upcoming "horror movie to end all horror movies" Cabin in the Woods as absolutely under wraps as they can, but there was always going to be some point when the cover would be pulled back and we'd get a…
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Drew Goodard’s Cabin in the Woods is finally showing signs of progress to the outside world, with the casting announcement of two supporting roles. Richard Jenkins (above left) has signed, and Bradley Whitford (above right) is close to signing, for two associated roles as "white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the cabin". I love…
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