The Morning Watch: 'Wonder Woman 1984' Gag Reel, Why Baseball Is The Best Movie Sport & More
In this edition, get some laughs from the Wonder Woman 1984 gag reel, find out why baseball is the best movie sport, and more.
Read MoreIn this edition, get some laughs from the Wonder Woman 1984 gag reel, find out why baseball is the best movie sport, and more.
Read MoreThese are the best movies streaming right now, including Gone Girl, His House, Moneyball, The Rock, 8MM, Unfriended, and more.
Read MoreRead our recommendations for films like Moneyball, Fargo, Her, and more of the best movies coming to Netflix in October 2020 – and get the full list, too.
Read MoreRead 11 biopic reactions from the real life subjects that the movies are based on:Mark Zuckerberg, Jordan Belfort, Henry Hill, Hunter S. Thompson and more.
Read MoreYou don't want to miss a scene or line of Sorkin's, especially in the case of his latest film, Steve Jobs. Here are some Aaron Sorkin screenwriting tips.
Read MoreThis morning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 84th Academy Awards. Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone, The Hunger Games) read the new Oscar nods, with by Academy President Tom Sherak. The big nominees were The Descendants, The Artist, and Hugo, all which come as no surprise. But Moneyball scored…
Read MoreEach year American Cinema Editors (ACE) recognizes the best editing of the year in narrative film, documentary and television through the Eddie Awards. The nominations for achievement in 2011 have been released. They include a couple of expected films such as Hugo and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and feature a couple other inclusions…
Read MoreHere's your best indicator yet as to what the crop of nominations for the Best Picture Oscar is likely to be. The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced its nominations for 2011 awards, which will be doled out on January 21. The ten films nominated for the PGA's top honor include expected pictures such…
Read MoreWe've posted the directors, actors, actresses, writers and now it's time for the people who bring them all together. Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty…
Read MoreGerard Butler, Woody Harrelson, Rashida Jones, and Sofia Vergara got up extra early this morning to announce the nominations for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 69th Golden Globes Awards, which will be televised on January 15, 2012. Returning host Ricky Gervais (called a "naughty, naughty schoolboy" this morning by Aida Takla-O’ Reilly, the president of…
Read MoreWe're getting into the full swing of the awards season for 2011, and this evening four organizations announced their picks for best achievement in film in 2011. The biggest group is the American Film Institute, which released a simple unranked list of ten 'movies of the year,' which includes Bridesmaids, The Girl With the Dragon…
Read MoreEvery year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
Read MoreEvery year at award season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For the…
Read MoreThis week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam run down some fall TV show premieres, praise the low-budget Trollhunter, try to make sense of Netflix's recent moves, and hear about some of the best films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Special guest Laremy Legel joins us from Film.com. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com,…
Read MoreMoneyball is a baseball movie, an underdog tale, a true story and a Brad Pitt vehicle. But more than any of those things, Moneyball is a character study about what it’s like to stand up against everyone and everything because you have faith in an idea. In 2001, the Oakland Athletics, with a payroll of…
Read MoreWhen I read Michael Lewis' book Moneyball back in 2003, the idea that a movie could be made never crossed my mind. The reality of the situation - A's general manager Billy Beane changing the game of baseball - was being played out in reality. Players like Nick Swisher and Kevin Youkilis, whom the book…
Read MoreRounding out today's batch of 'second-look' trailers (see also Killer Elite and In Time) we've got the alternate second trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, which stars Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill as two men whose stat-based approach to building a baseball team had a deep and lasting effect on the business behind the game. This…
Read MoreIf you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
Read MoreQuite a lot of new posters showed up on the internets during the first official day of Comic Con today, and there are a few good ones. The teaser poster for The Amazing Spider-Man isn't high-res, sadly, and it basically repurposes a shot of Spidey's back that we saw via EW last week. But it's…
Read MoreDid you skip the awful Entertainment Tonight presentation of the trailer for Bennett Miller's Moneyball, which came complete with unwanted additional voiceover? So did I, but we're all in luck now, as Sony has released a clean HD version of the trailer to Yahoo. Check it out below. I like the arc of this trailer…
Read MoreEditor's Update: Entertainment Tonight has aired the full trailer for Moneyball (with only minor annoying voice over). Watch it now embedded after the jump. Thanks to /Film reader Eric B for the tip. If you wind the clock back to mid-2009 and took a look at /Film you'd find the film Moneyball as one of…
Read MoreIf you read my top ten of 2010 you saw that, despite some diamonds in the rough, I felt 2010 was largely unimpressive in terms of film. Well, if potential says anything, 2011 is going to be amazing. We've got new films from filmmakers like Terrence Malick, Michel Gondry, Ron Howard and Jodie Foster, incredible…
Read MoreBennett Miller is finally directing Moneyball with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and here's the first look at Hoffman as Oakland A's manager Art Howe. Not the most remarkable photo, really, but it at least looks right. Hey, it's a baseball movie striving for at least some vague realism; you can't expect…
Read MoreAfter his movie The Cross seemed to fall apart, writer/director Andrew Niccol diverted to a slightly more mainstream sci-fi approach: he'll direct the 'action love story' I'm.mortal, which now has Amanda Seyfried set up to star. The film is about a society in which aging stops at the age of 25, which is as good…
Read MoreThe long saga of Moneyball is about to close -- after the film was set to shoot with Steven Soderbergh directing his rewrite of Steve Zaillian's script, Sony shut things down at the last minute. Aaron Sorkin was brought in to rewrite (though some of Zaillian's script is reportedly being used) and Bennett Miller is…
Read MoreHow many runs through a script can a studio take? Moneyball is supposed to shoot in a little over a month, after a year of wrangling and being on life support. Now Steve Zaillian, who wrote the draft that got the scrapped Steven Soderbergh version moving in the first place, is back on the picture.…
Read MoreAfter a year of wrangling and new talent, I'm still going to be surprised when the cameras start to roll on Moneyball. Director Bennett Miller and Sony seem determined to give me that surprise, however. They're in talks now with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright to bolster the cast, which still includes Brad Pitt…
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