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Singer Elton John’s Rocket Pictures is currently prepping a sequel to 2011’s animated hit Gnomeo and Juliet, which took in over $190 million worldwide last year. Gnomeo and Juliet writers Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil are currently working on the sequel script, which is entitled Gnomeo and Juliet: Sherlock Gnomes, while Elton John is composing new music. James McAvoy and Emily Blunt are expected to reprise their roles voicing the title characters, but no deals have been made yet....

Death Ray Films announced today that it is fast-tracking the development of Journies, a rom-com that takes place in the online Hollywood journalist community. The film is being developed as a starring vehicle for Jaime King (Sin City and the upcoming Mother’s Day) and will be written and directed by Grant Boucher. Journies is a romantic comedy about an aspiring online journalist who gets the scoop of a lifetime when a one-on-one interview turns into an unexpected date with Hollywood’s hottest young ingénue....

According to This is Gloucestershire, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is going to return to Gloucester, where scenes from both Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were shot. They stated: Filming will take place at Gloucester Cathedral, with pupils from several local schools tipped to appear as extras in the multi million-pound production…{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}Now pupils from King’s, Crypt and Denmark Road High School for Girls have the opportunity to audition for roles in the film…{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}The cloisters at the Cathedral double up as areas in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Harry and friends Ron and Hermione, live out many of their fantastic adventures....

You’re playing a very different character in Meghan from what your fans have seen you as in a lot of other roles. So was there something that attracted you particularly to this role? Hilary Duff: You know what? I think I just like to have fun. It was a different character, which was exciting for me to get to play. And it was only a few days out of my life....

History has picked up a 10 episode third season of the acclaimed hit drama series, Vikings, it was announced today by Dirk Hoogstra, EVP and General Manager, History & H2. Created and written by Michael Hirst, the renewal comes just four episodes into Vikings’ second season. Six new episodes remain in the current season airing Thursdays at 10 p.m. with the season finale slated for Thursday, May 1 at 10 p....

(stars of The New World & Apocalypto) at premiere of Angels with AnglesThe film, Angels With Angles had three Angels peeking down from their Heavenly perch at the world premiere: George Burns, who is portrayed in the film by the late Frank Gorshin, and the recently departed Rodney Dangerfield, whose portrayal of God may award him some of the respect he was always trying to gain! We bet these three comedians are busy swapping one liners in Heaven....

The art of film has the ability to make us laugh, make us cry, make us think, make us sad, and, from time to time, has the power to completely emotionally devastate us. Some movies simply reduce us to sobbing, heaving, wrung out messes. Whether it’s the death of a dog, the (often unsatisfying) conclusion to a love story, watching a beloved character deal with a deadly illness, or any of the other storytelling tropes filmmakers use to manipulate the emotions of audiences, one thing is for sure – people always remember emotionally devastating movies, and many actually seek them out....

The sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer is returning for a fifth season on Paramount+ in October, and ahead of the new season’s premiere, a pair of sketches have been released online. From 2013 to 2016, the series had previously aired for four seasons on Comedy Central. It was announced last year that Schumer would be reviving the series for a 2022 return on Paramount+. In one new sketch, titled “Colorado,” Amy Schumer takes aim at the controversial reversal Roe v....

Fans of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad should prepare themselves for more TV projects, but shouldn’t hold out much hope of seeing a new movie anytime soon. While 2016’ Suicide Squad was not a completely terrible movie, 2021’s soft reboot was much better received and gave James Gunn a foothold on the DCEU. Usually, that would mean a sequel would be instantly green-lit, but Gunn isn’t currently interested in doing another movie as he has found a new love of TV shows instead....

Jason O’Mara has boarded a currently untitled CBS drama pilot from Ralph Lamb. The actor will co-star alongside Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis and Carrie-Anne Moss. The drama takes place in the 60’s and follows the true story of Ralph Lamb, a rodeo cowboy turned longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas, as well as Johnny Savino, a Chicago mob fixer whose entrepreneurial vision for transforming Las Vegas collides with the law-and-order mandate of Sheriff Lamb....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures has nabbed the remake rights to the French-Canadian film Fathers and Guns. They are going to develop an adaptation that will be developed and produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. Fathers and Guns is cited as an action-comedy that follows two police officers, father and son, who do not like each other. They are placed on the same investigation “to infiltrate an outdoor adventure group-therapy camp for fathers and sons....

Bart Simpson finally has a new teacher on The Simpsons. For almost a decade, Bart has gone without a permanent teacher for his fourth-grade class at Springfield Elementary following the death of actress Marcia Wallace in 2013. Because Simpsons producers couldn’t imagine recasting Wallace’s voice role as Mrs. Krabappel, it was also revealed in the animated series that the character, who’d married Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer), had passed away. Now, a new cast member has The Simpsons in a recurring role as Rayshelle Peyton, aka Ms....

The full cast for Netflix’s Master of the Universe: Revelation has been revealed, with Star Wars icon Mark Hamill leading the way as Skeletor. Kevin Smith (Clerks) is heading up the show, which will serve as a direct follow-up to the classic 80s animated series, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Smith has assembled an A-list voice cast for the episodic anime, which includes many familiar voices from his long career....

Rabbit Hole is an upcoming thriller series that follows the story of John Weir, a master manipulator in the world of corporate espionage, portrayed by Kiefer Sutherland. He is known for his role as Jack Bauer in 24, a series centered around counterterrorism. Rabbit Hole centers around Weir being framed for murder by powerful and influential individuals, forcing him to use all his resources and skills to uncover the truth and clear his name....

Producer Dan Lin is pushing forward with his proposed Untitled Lara Croft Tomb Raider Project, which will be a complete reboot of the original Angelina Jolie series based on the popular video game. Today, it is rumored that Olivia Wilde is being lined-up to take over the title role of Lara Croft from Angelina Jolie. An insider close to the project had this to say about the upcoming Untitled Lara Croft Tomb Raider Project....

Unmask the truth with the latest poster for The Batman, which puts the spotlight on the stellar supporting cast as well as giving us another look at Robert Pattinson in the iconic cape and cowl ensemble. Released by the Warner Bros. India Twitter account, the poster puts the Bat amongst the rogues, with The Dark Knight flanked by the likes of The Riddler, The Penguin, and Catwoman. As well as giving us another look at this gang of familiar DC heroes, villains, and antiheroes, the poster also shows off Pattinson as alter ego Bruce Wayne, who has been surrounded by one of The Riddler’s Zodiac Killer-style codes....

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit paid homage to late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with several Easter eggs hidden in this week’s new episode. Known for spending decades fighting for gender equality and women’s rights, Ginsburg was also highly recognizable for her black-and-white wardrobe. As she was clearly a big influence on Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), the most glaring reference to Ginsburg is a framed portrait of the progressive icon on display in her office....

Netflix has released the first trailer for Lilyhammer, the first original series from the online rental giant which debuts February 6. Take a look at the first video from this new series below, which stars Steve Van Zandt, and you can read the full press release below the trailer. Lilyhammer, a gripping fish-out-of-water story set in Norway and starring The Sopranos mainstay and E Street Band guitarist Steve Van Zandt, is a new Original Series premiering on Netflix to watch instantly on February 6, 2012 in the USA, Canada and Latin America....

Conceived in the 1970s, giallo (Italian for “yellow”) takes its name from the yellow covers of the sensational mystery novels popular in Italy at the time. Coinciding with the boom of “Spaghetti Western” movies, gialli (its plural form) were sometimes known as “Spaghetti Slashers,” and became a driving force of the larger Italian horror boom that began in the late ’60s and made the ’70s great for horror movies. It’s impossible to consider the greater thrust of horror and Italian cinema without looking first to the gialli and their directors....

Director Gil Cates Jr. talks about filming in post-Katrina Louisiana, the poker pros in the movie and future projects Director Gil Cates is a gambler at heart and his first film, Spent, was an semi-autobiographical tale of the perils of gambling. His latest film, Deal, which comes out on DVD on August 19, revolves around the high-stakes poker world, one which he had wanted to explore for awhile. I had the chance to speak with the co-writer/director over the phone and here’s what he had to say....