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Making a return to the feature film world, Jennifer Beals has signed on to join The Book of Eli, the Denzel Washington-starring action thriller that Albert and Allen Hughes are directing for Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the script was written by Gary Whitta with a rewrite by Anthony Peckham, and centers on a lone hero named Eli (Washington) who must fight his way across the wasteland of a near-future America to protect a sacred book that might hold the key to saving humanity....

Nora West-Allen is back! After her mysterious demise in Season 5 of The Flash, it was has recently announced The Flash: Jessica Parker Kennedy returns for 150th episode | EW.com her return to the show. She is reported to appear for an undisclosed amount of episodes that includes the landmark 150th episode of the show. Additionally, she will most likely cross paths with her brother Bart Allen, who has also been confirmed to appear in upcoming episodes....

Walt Disney Pictures and Robert Zemeckis will make A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey as Ebenezer Scrooge and the three ghosts that haunt him: the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Future. The rumor that circulated earlier this week has now been confirmed by both The Hollywood Reporter andVariety. The film is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale that Zemeckis wrote and will direct....

Actors John Hawkes and Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) have signed on to star in Switch, a prequel to the Elmore Leonard adaptation Jackie Brown. Robert De Niro starred as the ex-con Louis Gara in Jackie Brown, with Samuel L. Jackson starring as the low-rent arms dealer Ordell Robbie. Switch is set 15 years before the events of Jackie Brown, where Louis Gara and Ordell Robbie pair up to kidnap Mickey Dawson, the wife of a Detroit real estate tycoon....

Director John Moore has a new zombie film in the works and he really wants the lead of his latest film back for this film. MTV Splash Page recently sat down with Moore and asked who he’d like to star in his new feature, Virulents. Only one name came to mind. “Mark [Wahlberg]. We had a hell of a time on Max Payne. I think he’s an actor of unlimited potential and I’d just love to go around with him again....

The legal battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard continues. After a six-week televised trial with both actors suing one another for defamation, the jury sided pretty heavily in Depp’s favor. He was awarded $15 million in damages which was later reduced to $10.35 million due to Virginia law. However, Heard did pick up a small victory with the jury also finding Depp liable for defamation in Heard’s counterclaim based on public comments made by his previous attorney, Adam Waldman....

Johnny Depp has a stacked schedule of upcoming projects on the horizon, none more anticipated than the Jerry Bruckheimer produced, Gore Verbinski directed reboot of Lone Ranger. Depp will play the title character’s sidekick, Tonto, in a role that he hopes will offer him a chance to pay tribute to Native Americans, whom he feels have never been portrayed in a good light in terms of cinema. Depp also calls the current version of the script “very funny”, which indicates that this will be a more lighthearted take on the material as opposed to a more gritty, action-filled Western....

The Clown Prince of Crime’s sequel could be entering development next year. Ever since the immense success of Todd Phillips’ Joker in 2019, there have been rumors of the supervillain origin story getting its own sequel. These rumors continue to persist, and the latest word out of the rumor mill is that the sequel has just taken a big step forward with a tentative start date in place. According to Heroic Hollywood, a Warner Bros....

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum head back to school in the film adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The 80’s TV drama made Johnny Depp a star, but gets a comedic update for 21st century audiences. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play a pair of goofball rookies chosen to uncover a dangerous new drug’s source at a Los Angeles High School. Ice Cube co-stars as their profane and frustrated Captain, while Rob Riggle almost steals the film as the hard-charging phys ed teacher....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney and Imax have decided to add a lot more giant 3-D screens to the Feb. 27 release of Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience. That would mean that there would be 1,100 3-D venues and 55 Imax screens showing the film. With the new 3-D still in its infant stages, Disney could potentially be going into all the available 3-D screen in North America....

Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas will be getting verbally scorched on Netflix for the streaming service’s first family roast special. Dubbed as the Jonas Brothers Family Roast, the comedy special is set to premiere on Netflix in November, but ahead of the release, an announcement teaser has been released. You can watch the teaser for what’s billed as “the universal truth that no one can get under your skin quite like your own family” below....

Jurassic World: Dominion has already begun its international rollout and is set to open in theaters in the United States on June 12, 2022. Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow returns to the franchise in what is being billed as the end of the Jurassic era, as it is set to conclude the storyline of not just the Jurassic World trilogy but also the original three Jurassic Park films. Jurassic World: Dominion will unite Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) with the lead characters from the original film including Alan Grant (Sam Neil), Dr....

Ken Watanabe will star in Clint Eastwood’s Red Sun, Black Sand, the Japanese companion piece to his Iwo Jima drama Flags of Our Fathers. According to Variety, he film is set to begin production next week in Los Angeles. Steven Spielberg is a producer on both films, which tell the story of the famous WWII battle from each side. DreamWorks and Warner Bros. are partnering on the pics, which will have a staggered release later this year....

Hot on the heels of the news that Garry Shandling is on the set of Iron Man 2, it turns out that there is another famous Gary prowling around the film. Gary Oldman has been seen on set, according to our friends at IESB. Oldman, who is probably best known to superhero fans for his turn as Commissioner Jim Gordon in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, is on the set at the present, although it is currently unknown what character he might be playing....

Sony has officially set a release date for the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Per Deadline, the film is scheduled to hit movie theaters on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. This news follows a recent announcement from director Jason Reitman and writer Gil Kenan on Ghostbusters Day earlier this month that a sequel is now in the works. The filmmakers also teased that the movie will take the story back to Manhattan and that the film is currently in development under the working title Firehouse, suggesting a return to a certain iconic location from the earlier movies....

According to Home Media Retailing, The Godfather DVD Collection is being rereleased on March 21st, 2006 the same day as the Electronic Arts video game of the movie hits shelves. The big difference with the new Godfather DVD Collection, which is the same collection that was previously released back in 2001, is that there will be an extra disc to bring up people’s awareness about the new video game in which players can virtually join the Corleone family....

Guillermo Del Toro has been all over the map recently with his directing projects. In addition to the highly regarded Pan’s Labyrinth, he has just recently wrapped shooting on Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Beyond that, the director is rumored to be in talks to direct The Hobbit. And now he tells Empire Online that he is interested in possibly bringing Marvel Comic’s Dr. Strange to the big screen. Strange is less well-known than such Marvel mainstays as Spider-Man, the X-Men or The Hulk, but is an important figure in Marvel mythology, serving as the Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth’s dimension....

In less than two weeks Potterheads’ dreams will come true, with the grand reunion of the cast and crew of the cinematic world of Harry Potter with the HBO Max special, Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts. The new trailier for the event will have fans shedding a tear along with the cast, as the fans’ devotion to the saga, that forever changed them, is mirrored by the actors who brought the magical world to life....

The Hawkeye series is officially a go! We had heard previously that Marvel was working on giving Clint Barton his very own TV show, but now it’s been confirmed. This welcome bit of news came as part of Marvel’s massive presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. They didn’t disappoint, as the first wave of Phase 4 titles were announced for both the big and small screen. Jeremy Renner’s arrow-slinging hero will be making his first trip to TV, and he’s bringing Kate Bishop with him....

Netflix has unveiled the first look at Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher series. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is adapting Andrzej Sapkowski’s popular fantasy novels for the streaming platform. The show has been in development for quite a while, but it was announced in 2017 that Hissrich was on board and it was later revealed in September of this year that Henry Cavill had officially signed on to star in the series....