In a story from Moviehole, Robert Rodriguez is overtly courting Arnold Schwarzenegger for his Predators movie. Apparently, the Governor of California is a little busy at the moment so he hasn’t responded, yet. The biggest problem with this is that the shoot is coming up soon so Schwarzenegger needs to get in touch with Rodriguez if this is going to happen. Moviehole’s source goes on to say that a role has even been written for Arnold....
The ’90s are filled with a handful of gems from the sci-fi genre, including hits such as Total Recall, Jurassic Park, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, The Fifth Element, and The Matrix. Competition is fierce, but the 1997 film Contact finds a way to stand out among the rest. The film was directed by Academy Award winner Robert Zemeckis, who also directed the Back to the Future trilogy, Cast Away, Forrest Gump, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit....
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is in talks to acquire Stephen King’s novel 11/22/63 for a TV series adaptation. The project was previously set up as a feature film, with Jonathan Demme attached to direct, but it fell apart in December when the filmmaker backed out. The story centers on Jake, a high school English teacher who discovers a portal in his friend’s diner that can take people back to the year 1958....
Oscar-nominated actress Janet McTeer has been selected to star opposite Brendan Gleeson in Churchill at War, HBO Films/BBC Films’ follow-up to The Gathering Storm, their much-heralded biopic of Winston Churchill. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Churchill at War, from Scott Free Prods. and Rainmark Films, picks up where The Gathering Storm left off and explores how the traits that made Churchill (Gleeson) a great wartime leader during World War II were the same ones that resulted in his ouster within weeks of the war’s end....
Mke Richards is officially out at Jeopardy! following a slew of controversies pertaining to his brief run as host. Richards, who also served as an executive producer for the beloved game show, was recently announced as the next full-time host of the beloved game show. This resulted in backlash with Richards stepping down just nine days later, though the plan was for him to remain on board to produce. Due to the ongoing controversy, Richards has been fired from that job as well....
He may seem like a newcomer, but comedy and drama film-goers know Jeremy Strong from many roles before his breakout performance as one of the Roys from HBO’s Succession. With idols like Daniel Day-Lewis and Dustin Hoffman, Strong brings an indescribable amount of passion to his art. A highly debated form of acting, method acting is Strong’s preference when approaching a role, possibly because he takes each character he plays so seriously....
Netflix has started to promote Season 4 of the hugely successful series Black Mirror. They kick off things with an episode titled Arkangel. This story was directed by Jodie Foster, and it looks like every parent’s worst nightmare. While the new season of Black Mirror isn’t expected to premiere until early 2018, an official date has yet to be announced. The streaming giant has decided to start sharing some information about all 6 of the brand-new episodes in what they’re calling 13 Days of Black Mirror....
In a story from SCI FI Wire, director Joe Johnston (The Wolfman) recently discussed the casting of The First Avenger: Captain America. Aside from this quote, Johnson was very noncommittal about actual specifics on the film. He said that shooting probably won’t happen “until the end of June.” “We need to cast it soon,” Johnston said. “We have a very short list, but we’re still juggling actors here. I’d say within the next couple of weeks we’ll have ourselves a Captain America, I hope....
Having only been announced at this year’s Star Wars Celebration, new series Skeleton Crew appears to have already started filming. According to a new report by The Bespin Bulletin, the Jude Law-led Star Wars series actually set cameras rolling at the end of June in the same Californian studios that have housed every other recent Star Wars show including The Mandalorian, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka. Although the series is very much under wraps at the moment, Skeleton Crew is described as “a galactic version of classic Amblin coming of age adventure films of the 80s....
Screenwriter Justin Theroux discusses writing the continued adventures of Tony Stark in the most anticipated film of the summer Justin Theroux first gained fame as an actor for his roles in films like Mullholand Drive, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and Miami Vice but he is now enjoying a very successful career as a screenwriter thanks to the film Tropic Thunder. In fact, actor Robert Downey Jr. was so impressed with Theroux’s work on that film that he lobbied director Jon Favreau to hire him to write the screenplay for Iron Man 2, which hits theaters on May 7th....
Fans of Keanu Reeves’ Constantine were surprised last year when a sequel to his 2005 DC movie was finally announced. After years of asking for another appearance by Reeves as the comic book demonologist, and several other actors having played the role in other projects, the Constantine 2 announcement came out of nowhere. However, one person who is certainly happy to see the movie get the green light is star Keanu Reeves, who recently told Total Film that it is something he has lobbied for constantly....
The Oscar-nominated actress Keira Knightley finished filming her last scene this week as pirate wench Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End, according to the Daily Mail. The United Kingdom based newspaper says that Knightley has told the movie’s producers that she doesn’t want to participate in any further sequels. Keira’s co-star in the series, Johnny Depp, has already said that he would consider playing the ramshackle pirate Captain Jack Sparrow - famously modeled on Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards - as long as the scripts remained good....
Two-time Grammy Award winner Kelly Clarkson and punk-pop dynamo Avril Lavigne are set to perform on Teen Choice 2007 Sunday, Aug. 26 (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. Clarkson will perform the “Never Again” and Lavigne will sing her infectious hit “Girlfriend.” As previously announced, Hilary Duff and Nick Cannon will co-host the ninth annual special, where the coolest stars will receive coveted Teen Choice Surfboard awards. After the tremendous success of 2004’s “Breakaway,” which sold 6 million albums in the U....
HBO is taking audiences back to Westeros in August with House of the Dragon, a prequel series to the wildly successful fantasy epic Game of Thrones. The network is currently developing a variety of different spin-offs that will take place before the events of Thrones, but a new report is saying one project that’s in the works will be set after the final season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a Thrones sequel series is in early development, and will be focused on none other than Jon Snow....
Legendary actor Leonard Nimoy is gone but not forgotten. Nimoy, who’s known worldwide for his role as Spock in the Star Trek franchise, passed away in 2015 at the age of 83. Seven years after Nimoy’s death, his children posted messages of tribute online to remember their late father. Taking to Twitter, the actor’s son, Adam Nimoy, posted a photo of himself from his childhood alongside Nimoy along with a touching message....
Gary Oldman has been a fixture of Hollywood for four decades since making his debut in the 1982 movie Remembrance. Still, by the actor’s own admission, he has delivered a lot more performances in his past than he has left to give in his future. The last few years have given many people around the world time to consider their futures, and actors are certainly no exception to that. It seems that Oldman has been thinking a lot about his future and where that will be taking him, which at some point could mean retirement....
With just over a month left before its premiere on the Netflix streaming service, the second trailer has arrived for G.L.O.W. This upcoming series will debut the entire 10-episode first season Friday, June 23. G.L.O.W. is loosely based on the actual 1980s series GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which was based in Las Vegas and aired for four seasons between 1986 and 1989. GLOW tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women’s wrestling....
The Good Alex Gibney is an amazing documentarian. The Bad For some reason Johnny Depp bugs me for the same reason that Sean Penn’s “friendship” with Charles Bukowski bugs me.Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson does a fine job of taking viewers into the world of this pioneering journalist. Filled with insights and recollections into the life and work of this man who went where few journalists ever tried to go, this DVD really does its best to give us as comprehensive a picture as possible about who Hunter S....
1993 was an iconic year in film. A list of critically adored movies as long as Lebron’s arm was released throughout the year that Beanie Babies first went on sale, Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar was killed by Search Bloc, Bill Clinton became President of the United States, and Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their third NBA championship in consecutive years. Yet, it was the film industry that stole the headlines in ‘93 with classics like Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, and Groundhog Day, so let’s take a look at some of the great movies having their 30th anniversary this year....
In 1978, filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill released Halloween. The independent horror film starred Jamie Lee Curtis, then-unknown, and told the tense story of an escaped murderer named Michael Myers hunting babysitters on Halloween night. Incredibly successful, the film inspired a deluge of imitators and spawned four sequels (five, if you count the unconnected Halloween III: Season of the Witch). With a premise as simple as the original, it was inevitable that further entries would start to muddy the waters with changes to the mythology that robbed Myers of his mystery, thus turning him into just another movie monster....
