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Aussie website Moviehole.net did a little investigative reporting of their own to explore the rumors surrounding possible Star Wars movies Episodes 7, 8 and 9 after NDA agreements were being talked about over at TheForce.net. Well, in talks with Lucasfilm Moviehole learned the rumors were completely false as a Lucasfilm representative told the site there won’t be…

Alexandre Desplat was nominated last year for his scores for The Imitation Game and The Grand Budapest Hotel, the latter of which he won the Oscar for. His work last year didn’t end there though, scoring The Monuments Men, Unbroken and Godzilla and Film Music Reporter has learned via an interview with Desplat on Radio Classique’s Culture Club that Desplat will be returning to work with Godzilla helmer Gareth Edwards on his…

With this year’s Best Actor Oscar by his side, the acting world is Eddie Redmanye‘s oyster for the moment, and it looks like Warner Bros. wants to rope the young actor into their latest hot property. If recent reports are to be believed, The Theory of Everything star could lead their upcoming Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find…

Recently I wrote up a piece about Fox’s upcoming Babylon A.D. talking about how I felt folks should give the film a chance and blah, blah, blah. Some commented and agreed with me. Only a day or so later I learned Babylon A.D. would not be screened for critics and I don’t think I have seen a single advertisement…

Below is the nearly 50-minute press conference with Quentin Tarantino from this year’s Cannes Film Festival where he introduced a remastered version of Sergio Leone‘s Fistful of Dollars and a 35mm screening of Pulp Fiction took place. Now why is it important to mention it was a 35mm screening? Well, as Cannes director Thierry Frémaux mentions at the beginning of the press conference, Pulp Fiction was the only…

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention there is now some sort of a movement to remove the scene featured below from Tropic Thunder because it is offensive. My advice, don’t go see the movie if you are going to be offended by it, thereby avoiding the offense. Yay! Idiots! Simple Jack has more brains than some…

The day has finally arrived. I opened the RopeofSilicon Contenders section in April of 2010 and all that’s left on the Awards Schedule are tonight’s Oscars and I am happy to say you are in for approximately six hours of non-stop commentary from not only myself, but also from RopeofSilicon resident Box-Office Oracle Laremy Legel as we will tag team this year’s red carpet and…

Next was Alice in Wonderland with director Tim Burton making his Comic Con debut, and making his way to the stage to a rousing applause. A short back-and-forth between Oswalt and Burton had Burton telling us the film used “every [filmmaking] technique. There’s lots of different ways to do things and we ended up mixing them together…

We’ve known the major bad guy dinosaur in the upcoming Jurassic World is a genetically engineered dinosaur called the Indominus Rex and now, courtesy of scanned pages from Empire Magazine we have the following full look at the gaping maw of the beast. Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park,…

Terminator 5 is moving from the rumor bin to reality as Skydance Productions, Annapurna Pictures and Paramount Pictures have announced a June 26, 2015 release for the fifth film in the franchise described as the first film in a new “standalone trilogy” with Laeta Kalorgridis (Avatar, Shutter Island) and Patrick Lussier (Drive Angry) attached to write the screenplay. Arnold Schwarzenegger will return in the…