• /Response: Your Favorite Car Chases In Movie History

    (Welcome to /Response, the companion piece to our /Answers series and a space where /Film readers can chime in and offer their two cents on a particular question.) Earlier this week, the /Film team wrote about their favorite car chases in movie history. We then opened the floor to our readers: what is your favorite movie car chase? And…

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  • Lee Child Comments On Next Jack Reacher Film

    Jack Reacher is almost certainly going to find himself alongside a teen girl in his next movie. The first film adaptation of the long-running novel series by Lee Child was only a modest hit, but a sequel is in development based on the 18th Reacher novel, Never Go Back. In that book, Jack Reacher returns to…

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  • Will The 'Jack Reacher' Sequel Feature A Smart Female Teen Sidekick?

    There will almost certainly be a Jack Reacher sequel -- the questions are "when," and "by whom"? Notice that we don't have to ask which of the many Lee Child novels the film will be based on, because Tom Cruise, Skydance Productions, and Paramount are now developing the most recent book, Never Go Back, as the sequel.…

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  • Paramount Refunds Moviegoer After Complaint About Misleading 'Jack Reacher' Trailer

    Ostensibly, trailers are supposed to tell audiences what a movie is about. In practice, though, some are more successful at that task than others. Trailers can be too revealing or not revealing enough, and in some cases can even be downright misleading. What counts as "misleading," though, is fairly subjective. A New Zealand man identified…

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  • 'Jack Reacher' Crosses $200 Million Worldwide, Paramount Working On Sequel

    In January, the rumor coming from Paramount was that the Tom Cruise action film Jack Reacher, which at the time had grossed about $73 million domestic and was about to open in Asia, had to gross $250 million worldwide to generate interest in a sequel. It seems that number may have dropped when executives looked at…

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  • Sequel Bits: 'Jack Reacher' Needs Asian Coin To Buy A Sequel, Plus Possible Dan Brown Movies, 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation,' 'Twins 2'

    When Christopher McQuarrie was set to direct One Shot, which eventually became Jack Reacher starring Tom Cruise, the idea was to launch a franchise based on the dozen-plus Reacher books by Lee Child. Turns out that Jack Reacher may be the character's one shot at the big screen, at least in this incarnation. The movie wasn't…

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  • /Filmcast Ep. 212 - Jack Reacher

    Dave, Devindra, and Adam discuss the politics of Zero Dark Thirty, praise the ingenuity of Girl Walk / All Day, ponder what's wrong at AMC, and take a look at Tom Cruise's latest. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: Subscribe to…

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  • 'Jack Reacher' Japanese Trailer Gives Up Much More Plot And Action

    Here's the best trailer yet released for Christopher McQuarrie's Jack Reacher, which stars Tom Cruise as Lee Child's ultra-capable former military cop Jack Reacher. Unfortunately, for those who haven't read the source novel One Shot, it's also the most plot-heavy trailer yet. While the voiceover narration here is in Japanese, you won't need a translation…

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  • 'Jack Reacher' TV Spots Feature Werner Herzog And Brazen Intimidation

    Here are two TV spots for the Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher, in which Cruise plays the ex-MP wanderer of the film's title. Created by author Lee Child, Jack Reacher is a character who lives in more than a dozen novels full of violence and danger. And while the trailers for the film, and these…

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  • New 'Jack Reacher' Trailer Offers A Look At Werner Herzog As The Villain

    Most people have been focused on the big thing that changed as the character Jack Reacher moved from the page to the screen: Jack Reacher is no longer big thing, as he's played by Tom Cruise. The character is written as a hulk of a man, an ex-MP who wanders America and has violent adventures…

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