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Netflix has assembled its ensemble cast for the upcoming series Kaos, and it includes Hugh Grant in a major role. Per Deadline, the series will star Grant as the famous Greek god Zeus. Other members of the star-studded cast include Janet McTeer (Ozark), Cliff Curtis (Fear the Walking Dead), David Thewlis (Fargo), Killian Scott (Dublin Murders), Misia Butler (The School for Good and Evil), Leila Farzad (I Hate Suzie), Nabhaan Rizwan (Station Eleven), Rakie Ayola (The Pact), and Stanley Townsend (The Current War)....

Jake Gyllenhaal discusses his role in the new Jerry Bruckheimer film Jake Gyllenhaal has earned a reputation as one of the finest actors of his generation with powerful performances in several dramatic films including Donnie Darko, Zodiac, Rendition and Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. But now the actor is trying something new by taking on the role of action hero in the new Jerry Bruckheimer produced Disney film Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which is based on the classic video game and opens on May 28th....

Top Gun: Maverick was an enormous success for Paramount Pictures. The long-awaited sequel reached an astounding $1.48 billion at the box office, with positive reviews from both audiences and critics. The film saw the return of Tom Cruise to his beloved Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell role, reprising the part he played in the original Top Gun in 1986. Top Gun: Maverick introduced a whole crew of characters alongside Cruise’s established Maverick, including Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Jay Ellis, Danny Ramirez, and Glen Powell....

Jeremy Thomas is set to produce Annie’s Box about Charles Darwin, and hiring John Collee to write and directed by Jon Amiel. The film will be based on a biography of Darwin by Randall Keynes, the great-great grandson of the Victorian scientist. Variety notes it focuses on the period when Darwin was writing The Origin of the Species, his ground-breaking treatise on evolution, while living a family life at Down House in Kent, near London....

Jessica Lange reunites onscreen with hubby Sam Shepard in Don’t Come Knocking Jessica Lange has been a film stalwart for thirty years. She began her career in the first remake of King Kong in 1976 and has blazed a trail on the silver screen ever since. Don’t Come Knocking reunites Jessica with her husband, Sam Shepard, and Shepard’s longtime collaborator, director Wim Wenders. Don’t Come Knocking is the story of an aged western actor coming to grips with the people he left behind....

A video recorded of Johnny Depp at a children’s hospital in 2015 is making the rounds on social media recently due to comments the actor makes about his finger. As is now public knowledge, Depp suffered an injury during an altercation with ex-wife Amber Heard that resulted in the severing of one of his fingertips. On the stand, Depp testified that this happened when Heard threw a vodka bottle at him that shattered against his hand....

Hugh Jackman played the character of Wolverine for 17 years, from the first X-Men movie in 2000 through to Logan in 2017, a darker and more adult movie than the X-Men series that was meant to be a send-off for the beloved character. However, while Jackman’s Wolverine is gone, the MCU’s Wolverine, and the rest of the X-Men, is yet to make his screen debut, which was only made possible from Disney’s merger with 20th Century Fox....

The premiere of Star Wars Rebels season 3 is just around the corner and as excited as we already are for the show to come back after the exciting end to last season, we now have an all new reason to be amped for the return of Rebels. It turns out Katee Sackhoff will be returning to a galaxy far far away to reprise her role as Bo-Katan from Star Wars: The Clone Wars....

Kelly McGillis has joined the cast of Glass Eye Pix and Dark Sky Films upcoming vampire road trip thriller Stake Land. Dark Sky Films and Glass Eye Pix announced the news today, stating that the film would be directed by Jim Mickle from a script he co-wrote with his Mulberry Street partner Nick Damici, who also stars in the project. McGillis is set to play “Sister”, a nun who confronts a crisis of faith when bloodsuckers take over the world....

While he stood out as a talent to watch in the hit Fox and Comedy Central comedy sketch shows MadTV and Key & Peele, respectively, no one would have guessed that, in the span of a few years, we would be mentioning Jordan Peele’s name as one of the best horror/sci-fi filmmakers of the last decade. Hailing from New York City, Peele’s first break came in 2003, when he was cast as a performer in the ninth season of MadTV, alongside fellow comedic performer Keegan-Michael Key....

Fans of Killing Eve can rejoice as actress Jodie Comer revealed that the delayed series is finally filming. Speaking to Tom Allen on the BAFTA red carpet last week, the actress, who plays the charming and deadly Villanelle in the series, was asked if she had started filming yet, to which she replied, “Tomorrow.” This will be welcome news for the many fans who have been waiting patiently for the fourth and final season of the hit show....

Following Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio’s inclusion in the MCU, and the Netflix Marvel Universe now heading to Disney+ with all of Disney’s other Marvel content, there is now a lot of speculation about who else from those series could be soon dropping in on the MCU. One such star is Krysten Ritter, who played Jessica Jones on screen from 2015 through to 2019, is already the subject of a lot of rumors....

The actor gets in Deep trouble with Tyrese and The Game in his new film Normally, when most actors play such a memorable character, they try to change it up a little on their next role. Take Larenz Tate for example - he was gang partners with Ludacris in the Oscar-winning film Crash. In his newest film, Waist Deep, he plays the gangster, Lucky - with two partners, on different sides of the fence....

HBO has renewed Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for its third and fourth seasons, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Consisting of 35 shows apiece, Season 3 will run on HBO in 2016, to be followed by Season 4 in 2017. Here’s what HBO’s Michael Lombardo had to say about the renewal in a brief statement. Presenting a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events, as well as addressing broader issues, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned for its 35-episode second season Feb....

Laura Vandervoot has stated that Kara (also known as Supergirl) will be making a return for at least one episode in Season Eight of Smallville. According to a report by Comics Continuum Vandervoot spoke about her return to the series at the Fan Expo in Toronto. “In October, I’m shooting,” Vandervoort said during a panel with Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor for the first seven seasons. “I only know of one (episode) right now....

Former Scientologist Leah Remini is ending her docu-series Scientology and the Aftermath after three seasons on the A&E network, with the final episode airing this month. Since 2016, Remini has been documenting the inner-workings of the Church from her point of view, bringing some serious concerns to the public eye. The series has been a hit for the network, earning multiple Emmy nominations with a win in 2017 for Outstanding Informational Series....

It looks like Leigh Whannell could be reuniting with Universal as the director of The Green Hornet and Kato. According to Deadline, Universal started the ball rolling on a Green Hornet movie back in early 2020 by optioning the rights, but obviously the Covid pandemic meant things have been stalled for a while. Whannell seems to have been instantly snapped up to helm the picture after adding his name to the list of potential candidates, and considering the success he brought to Universal’s The Invisible Man, it is not surprising the studio want to work with the director again....

Good Mourning is Machine Gun Kelly’s addition to the world of stoner comedies. It’s worth mentioning that these movies seem to come out in a cycle with each generation. Cheech and Chong kicked off the genre with their set of comedy. Then in the ’90s, we had Half Baked and Dazed and Confused. The 2000s arguably became the genre’s golden age, giving us movies like Dude Where’s my Car?, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, Grandma’s Boy, and How High....

The Good The acting on this show is hyper realized yet somehow spot on. The Bad I would like to have seen a featurette on the creation of this show. What do you have when the Finnerty Family are dealing with sex, tattoos, bad dates, mean nuns and all other manner of jackassary? Well, it sounds like Grounded for Life: Season Four to me. In this season Sean, Claudia, Eddie and the rest of the clan experience all that’s mentioned above in this out of hand 28 episode set....

The new summer comedy Grown Ups will be released on both DVD and Blu-ray formats on November 9. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.96 SRP, the BD will go for $34.95 SRP and the two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack, which will also include a Digital Copy of the film, will be priced at $38.96 SRP. You can take a look at the cover art in a trade advertisement below. The film stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider....