Now Stream This: 'Free Solo', 'The Aviator', 'Triple Frontier', 'Christopher Robin' And More
Now Stream This highlights the best movies streaming right now, including Free Solo, Triple Frontier, Gamer, Gone Baby Gone and more.
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The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In March 2019
Here are all the new TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in January 2019, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Triple Frontier, and more.
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Our Top 15 Favorite Theme Park Movies And Scenes
In honor of Disney's Tomorrowland, hitting theaters on May 22nd, we decided to count down some of the best theme park movies and scenes. Check it out!
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'Saving Mr. Banks' Deleted Scene: "Goodbye Pamela"
In this Saving Mr Banks deleted scene, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks and Paul Giamatti discuss broken promises and Mary Poppins.
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Read Many Of 2013's Best Screenplays, From '12 Years A Slave' To 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'
If you're both 1) desperate for some distraction from the holiday hubbub and 2) eager to get a leg up on the rest of your office for the annual Oscar pool, here's a way to kill two birds with one stone. Over thirty screenplays for some of 2013's top films have just been made available,…
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Interview: Kelly Marcel On Writing 'Saving Mr. Banks'
A few weeks back I got a chance to talk with Kelly Marcel, the screenwriter of Disney's Saving Mr. Banks. After seeing the movie it would be hard to imagine it not being a Disney movie, but many of you might be surprised to learn that Saving Mr. Banks was originally written on spec outside of…
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Videos: Recreating 1961 Disneyland For 'Saving Mr. Banks'
It's a Walt Disney movie, set at Disney, about Walt Disney. There's all kinds of meta going on in John Lee Hancock's Saving Mr. Banks, a dramatization of the events that lead the film Mary Poppins to the big screen. Golden Globe nominee Emma Thompson plays author PL Travers and Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, who…
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See 'Saving Mr. Banks' On The Disney Backlot In Burbank, CA
Plenty of movies are made in studios, but Saving Mr. Banks is different. Besides shooting scenes inside sound stages, many scenes were shot outside at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA, too, on the walking paths current Disney employees frequent going to work. That's because those walkways are where the true story of P.L. Travers'…
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'Saving Mr. Banks' Video Blog/Review: A Disney Movie Made With Disney Magic
If all the Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, animation and theme park coverage weren't hints enough, we here at /Film are Disney fans. Big time. So a film like Saving Mr. Banks, which is about Walt Disney's struggle to make one of the studio's greatest films, Mary Poppins, is right in our wheelhouse. The film opens December…
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Early Buzz: 'Saving Mr. Banks' Delivers Disney Delights, For Better And Worse
Disney has three big films coming out this holiday season, but only one is about the company itself. That's Saving Mr. Banks, the true story of Walt Disney's courting of author P.L. Travers for the rights to her book, Mary Poppins. Directed by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side), the film features Tom Hanks as Disney and Emma…
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D23 Video Reactions: Marvel Sequels, Maleficent, Tomorrowland, Saving Mr. Banks
Saturday at the D23 Expo, Disney held a huge panel presenting information and footage from the company's next few years of live-action film projects. You can read about most of the news breaks elsewhere on the site. After the presentation, I got together with Germain Lussier to record a video blog giving our reactions to…
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'Saving Mr. Banks' Clips Highlight Humor, Tension, And Disney Magic At D23
Saturday's live-action panel at D23 closed with the studio's big awards-season hopeful, the making-of drama Saving Mr. Banks. Directed by John Lee Hancock from a Black List script by Kelly Marcel, the drama depicts Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) in his years-long effort to convince author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to fork over the rights to…
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Mickey Mouse Is Walt Disney's Shadow In The 'Saving Mr. Banks' Movie Poster
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures has released the first movie poster for Saving Mr. Banks starring Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks. The mouse house decided to premiere the one-sheet on their DisneyParks Blog (which covers the company's many theme parks). Check it out now, after the jump. Official Plot Info: Two-time Academy Award®–winner Emma Thompson…
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'Tomorrowland,' 'Frozen,' 'Good Dinosaur' And 'Thor 2' Will Be At D23 Expo; No Mention Of 'Star Wars Episode VII'
One of the biggest no-shows at this year's San Diego Comic-Con is Disney. The company who owns Pixar, Lucasfilm and more is letting its comic book division, Marvel, give a presentation to the crowd but the rest of the stacked upcoming Disney slate is nowhere to be found. The reason is that the company's very…
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'Saving Mr. Banks' Trailer: Disney Follows 'Mary Poppins's' Rocky Path To Film
There's a certain kind of stress that comes with watching a favorite book get adapted into movies, and I can only imagine that the process must be even more nerve-wracking for the authors of those books. It can't be easy for them to see their work chopped up and rearranged, or to find that what…
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First Official Look: Tom Hanks And Emma Thompson In 'Saving Mr. Banks'
Watching Disney's Mary Poppins as a small child, I remember being amazed by the (in my view) radical technology that allowed real movie stars to stand alongside cartoon critters. Little did I know that combining animation and live-action was the least of the struggles in getting the picture made. The upcoming drama Saving Mr. Banks…
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Disney Release Dates: Muppets Sequel Now 'Muppets Most Wanted,' Plus New Marvel Films In 2016 And 2017
Disney just changed a bunch of release dates and titles, offering a glimpse at what the company that owns Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm has in store in the coming years. No Star Wars Episode VII news yet, but here are the highlights: The Muppets ...Again has changed its title to Muppets Most Wanted. It still…
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First Look: Tom Hanks As Walt Disney In 'Saving Mr. Banks'
IMAGE REMOVED When filming a major Hollywood movie at one of the busiest locations on the planet, a photo or two is bound to leak out. That's just happened with Saving Mr. Banks. Tom Hanks, who plays Walt Disney in the film, has been spotted in character during filming at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The…
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Marvel And Disney Release Info: 'Ant-Man' Gets Official Release Date, 'Iron Man 3' And 'Thor: The Dark World' Will Be 3D
Edgar Wright's Ant-Man will be released November 6, 2015. That's the biggest news coming from Disney this morning as they've released an update to their schedule. They also confirm that Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World will be in 3D, a new Pixar movie will be released on November 25, 2015 and the…
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Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, And Ruth Wilson Board Disney's 'Saving Mr. Banks'
When a project starts out with A-list leads like Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, it's not surprising when the supporting cast turns out to be equally impressive. Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, and Ruth Wilson have just joined the cast of Saving Mr. Banks, Disney's drama about the making of Mary Poppins. Though the film's still…
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Biopic Casting Bits: Ashley Charles As Keith Richards; Donal Logue Helps Out At 'CBGB;' Colin Farrell In 'Saving Mr. Banks'
It seems like biopics and other similar true life stories are exploding in development right now, and we've got casting for three big ones. First up, the Jimi Hendrix film All is By My Side has just added a young Keith Richards. British actor Ashley Charles will play the Rolling Stones songwriter and guitarist. John…
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Tom Hanks To Play Walt Disney In 'Mary Poppins' Making-Of Drama 'Saving Mr. Banks'
The way Disney's Saving Mr. Banks is shaping up, we might as well pencil it in now for the 2014 Oscar race. Based on true events, Kelly Marcel's 2011 Black List script centers around company founder's Walt Disney's 14-year effort to convince Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers to turn over the rights to her book. Since the…
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'The Blind Side' Director In Talks For Making Of 'Mary Poppins' Drama 'Saving Mr. Banks'
Last year, one of the scripts that placed well on the Black List, aka a rundown of popular unproduced screenplays, was Saving Mr. Banks by Kelly Marcel. The script tells of the decade-plus effort by Walt Disney to get P.L. Travers to allow Disney to make a film based on her book Mary Poppins. Disney…
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Disney Nearing Deal For Black List Script 'Saving Mr. Banks', Tom Hanks And Meryl Streep Rumored To Be Circling
When it first came out in 1964, Mary Poppins was a smash hit both commercially and critically: it out-earned The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady at the box office, received thirteen Academy Award nominations and won five. Now, nearly fifty years later, Disney is looking toward returning to the Mary Poppins well -- but…
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The 2011 Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays
Each December since 2004, studio executive Franklin Leonard has compiled the best unproduced screenplays of the year, as voted by hundreds of execs, agency guys, and high-level assistants. Titled The Black List, the compendium highlights both established screenwriters and up-and-comers, and has served as a launching pad in the past for projects like Juno, Lars…
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