Ben Pearson
School
University Of Florida
Expertise
Hollywood History, Game Of Thrones, The Fast And Furious Franchise
- Ben is a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
- He has produced and recorded hundreds of hours of podcasts devoted to film and television over the last decade.
- Ben also worked at Paramount Pictures, where he was able to gain valuable experience and first-hand insights into how the industry really operates.
Experience
Ben has been writing professionally about film and television since 2009. He has attended and covered the Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, AFI Fest, San Diego Comic-Con, CinemaCon, and other major events, and he's traveled to multiple countries to report on movies being filmed. He has interviewed hundreds of directors, writers, actors, and craftspeople over the course of his career. Ben has worked as a writer and editor at several movie websites, and joined /Film in 2017. He co-hosts the /Film Daily podcast.
Education
Ben graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in Telecommunications.
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Stories By Ben Pearson
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Dark Matter season 2 is coming to Apple TV+, despite the first season adapting the entirety of the book. Here's what season 2 could be about.
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Somehow, Smell-O-Vision returned. Would you want a product that releases smells that are synced to what you're watching at home?
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Before James Cameron was a household name, Steven Spielberg offered a suggestion about how to write the Xenomorphs in Aliens. Thankfully, Cameron didn't listen.
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Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, the first part of Kevin Costner's sprawling Western epic, is coming to streaming next week.
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Some of the best movies about filmmaking, like Bowfinger, One Cut of the Dead, Ed Wood, Singin' in the Rain, Be Kind Rewind, and more, have something in common.
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In the pantheon of boneheaded notes from studio execs, the suggestion to cut the final drum scene from Damien Chazelle's Whiplash may be in a class all its own.
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After losing folks like Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, there are only two major actors still alive from Mel Brooks' classic satire Blazing Saddles.
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Lucasfilm offered a sneak peek at Din Djarin and Grogu's first big screen adventure, The Mandalorian and Grogu, at the D23 Expo.
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Pixar revealed new information about Toy Story 5 at D23, plus news of a brand new Pixar original coming out in 2026. Here's what you need to know.
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Pixar's Inside Out 2, the highest-grossing movie of 2024 and biggest fully animated movie ever, will soon be available to watch at home. Get the details here.
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Jeremy Saulnier, the director of Green Room, is back with Netflix's Rebel Ridge, which has one of the best trailers of 2024.
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House of the Dragon has a problem that's plagued the series since season 1, and if the showrunner's recent comments are accurate, that problem may stick around.
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One of M. Night Shyamalan's very best movies has experienced a slow reappraisal over the past few years, and the director is working on a 4K physical release.
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M. Night Shyamalan's career trajectory is arguably as interesting as his movies, and 2016's Split helped cement his resurgence in a huge way.
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After nearly playing Gambit in his own Marvel movie, Channing Tatum thought he lost the opportunity forever. But Deadpool & Wolverine made his dream come true.
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The Old Guard 2 wrapped in 2022, but it has yet to drop on Netflix. Charlize Theron explains the delay and teases when we might see the comic book movie sequel.
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Ryan Reynolds is a huge fan of actor John Candy, and Deadpool & Wolverine features a blink-and-you'll-miss-it easter egg from one of Candy's very best movies.
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A Deadpool & Wolverine producer told us about an early idea for what Deadpool 3 could have been like before Hugh Jackman joined, and it's cracking us up.
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James Mangold's Logan is the best overall film in the X-Men franchise, but when it comes to the best X-Men movie, X2 walks away with it.
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Scarlett Johansson hasn't been given a ton of opportunities to have fun on screen, but her performance in Fly Me to the Moon proves she should do more comedies.
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The director of Oddity pieced together his supernatural horror film from several disparate ideas, not realizing the risk of that approach until post-production.
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Decades after filming the Gilligan's Island pilot, the director remained furious at the production manager who booked them on a janky flight to Hawaii.
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When the Duffer Brothers recruited Winona Ryder to play Joyce Byers in Stranger Things, the actor had one stipulation about taking the role.
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Michael Mann is known as an innovator, and the director may have just changed the game again with a new archive that takes users behind the scenes of Ferrari.
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Action maestro John Woo is back with the trailer for Peacock's The Killer, a remake of Woo's own 1989 classic. Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy lead the cast.
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One Twilight Zone episode about a cruise ship sailing across the ocean has a similar ending to the one in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Following Kurt Russell's 1991 firemen-centric thriller Backdraft, Universal Studios created a theme park attraction that let visitors feel the heat.