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ArieScope Pictures and Dark Sky Films have hired BJ McDonnell to direct Hatchet III, which will serve as his directorial debut. BJ McDonnell worked with writer-director Adam Green on Hatchet and Hatchet II as a camera operator. It is said that Adam Green will work closely with BJ McDonnell on the production. Here’s what BJ McDonnell had to say about this horror franchise. Aside from his work in the Hatchet series, BJ McDonnell has served as a camera operator on major Hollywood productions such as Battle: Los Angeles, The Darkest Hour, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and he is currently in production on One Shot in Pittsburgh....

The Green Lantern series has survived the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, but while the project is still officially a go at HBO Max, some changes have been made ahead of production. According to a new report by THR, series writer and showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has exited the project amid many changes happening at HBO Max after the merger. Grahame-Smith’s completed scripts for all eight episodes of the planned series have also been scrapped, as the plan is to redevelop Green Lantern from scratch with a much smaller budget in mind....

The story of the infamous suicide cult Heaven’s Gate will be further explored in an upcoming docuseries on HBO Max. Inspired by the “Heaven’s Gate” podcast series on Stitcher, the four-part docuseries will be produced by CNN Originals exclusively for WarnerMedia’s upcoming streaming service. “Two years since its initial launch, Heaven’s Gate remains an enduring hit within the Stitcher catalog,” says Stitcher CEO Erik Diehn in a statement. He adds: “We are thrilled that the original reporting for this series will serve as the framework for telling the story from behind the camera lens to reach even more engaged audiences....

Disney may have branched out to explore other forms of media and filmmaking, thereby sharing fresh stories and new intellectual properties. However, the media conglomerate seems to be hanging on to its signature feature: movies based on its amusement park rides. Pirates of the Caribbean may have raised questions when it first began production, but it has since become a hugely successful franchise with no signs of stopping. Earlier this year, Disney released another movie-based-on-a-ride: Jungle Cruise, whose sequel was announced just months ago....

Since its inception in 1922, the box office has been used as a measure of a film’s success. Over the past 100 years, films have been hitting milestones such as $100 million and $1 billion at an increasing rate. In 1990, Dances with Wolves became the first film to gross over $100 million at the box office (per ABC News); however, it would take seven years for another movie, Titanic, to reach that billion-dollar milestone....

It seems that the canceled NBC series Heroes won’t get its proposed wrap-up movie, according to Entertainment Weekly. We reported back in June that Heroes creator Tim Kring had pitched a TV final to NBC. Now it seems that the network has shot down the proposed telefilm. NBC wouldn’t comment for the site’s article. Our report from June indicated that the proposed TV movie would have taken place a year after the series finale, and that it would have revolved around the aftermath of Claire’s (Hayden Panettiere) spoiler-heavy revelation....

While Live Free or Die Hard was the big individual winner over the holiday week, the industry as a whole was a winner as well. According to The Hollywood Reporter, overall DVD sales were up 6% from last year’s holiday weekend, and up an astounding 175% from last week. What’s even more impressive about those numbers is they do not include any data from Wal-Mart, which normally captures about 40% of the DVD market alone....

Spoiler Warning: House of the Dragon Season One, Episodes 1-4 Over the last decade, Game of Thrones changed the way we view TV. It started with a bang and, sadly, ended with a whimper, thanks to shoddy writing and a rushed timeline leading to a hasty conclusion. But there is no denying that Game of Thrones, which ended in 2019 after eight seasons, redefined what TV could do, both tonally and technically....

As he prepares for his role in the upcoming Marvel sequel The Wolverine, actor Hugh Jackman payed a visit to The Oprah Winfrey Show, which is currently shooting in Australia. Upon making his grand entrance, which had Hugh dropping in on the audience via a flying fox zip-wire, the action star flew head first into a lighting fixture, inuring his eye. Even though Jackman didn’t seem seriously hurt at the time of the incident, Oprah Winfrey, immediately concerned for the actor’s safety, halted production to tend to her banged-up guest....

X-Men star Hugh Jackman has further teased his return as Wolverine in Deadpool 3, describing the upcoming sequel as “Wolverine 10.” Speaking with People, Jackman could barely contain his excitement over sharing the screen with Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds, with the actor looking forward to “punching the s*** out of each other the whole time.” Despite movie fans thinking that we had seen the last of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the 2017 critically acclaimed comic book outing Logan, Ryan Reynolds took to social media in September to reveal that we were wrong....

Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville returned for a third season after the show became available for streaming on Disney+ following the Fox merger. While the show continued to be popular, and the cast was certainly up for more adventures on board the Star Trek-inspired spaceship, there has been no word on whether a fourth season will go ahead. In a recent interview with TV Line, Hulu, ABC Entertainment, and Disney Branded Television Streaming Originals president Craig Erwich finally offered an update on the future of the series, but it isn’t one that gives fans much to go on one way or the other....

Oscar-Shmoscar! Well, it’s 11:50 pm. The “78th Annual Academy Awards” are quite over; 24 hours and counting. Everyone in the business is still shaking the crust of last night’s hangover out of their eyes. And as I sit down at this Trojan-infected clicker to write my thoughts on yesterday’s events, I have to be honest and say…If one more mother f*cker tells me they knew for a “fact” that Crash was going to win Best Picture, even though every one else had placed deep pockets on Brokeback Mountain, I’m going to scream a song of raped angels into their lying ears and punch them in the mouth with a well deserved set of toothpick-scarred knuckles....

There is a saying that storytellers are tired of hearing, that goes something like this: Your hero is only as good as its villain. After all, how can a hero even be defined without an antagonistic force to overcome or protect people from? Without a good villain that challenges the hero, the story becomes stale, and the stakes are not high. This creates boring stories that the audience doesn’t care about since it is always too easy to predict what will happen....

Every generation has a talent come along that is sadly lost in the prime of their careers. James Dean and Jimi Hendrix, just to name a few. Heath Ledger very much falls into this group, as he sadly passed away in January 2008 from a drug overdose, just seven months before the release of The Dark Knight, featuring his Oscar-winning performance as the Joker. Throughout his short career, Ledger starred in some classic roles, with the Joker topping this list....

With the accepted notion that movies, like music, are eventually going to be available all over the internet, companies are trying figure out how to not only be competitive but also get a leg up on their competition. In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, they report that places like “Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Circuit City, and some retailers” are the main companies facing these questions. For starters, “Wal-Mart has launched its own movie download service, Best Buy is said to be in talks to start one, and Blockbuster explored buying movie download company Movielink earlier this year....

The Japanese manga series Attack on Titan is both written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama, and a whole host of artists has brought it to life with an epic television series. The show first aired in April 2013 and showed us what happens in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world, and especially what goes on when everything has been destroyed by giant people-eating humanoids called the Titans, forcing people to live protected by huge walls....

Dread Central is reporting some intriguing news that director Danny Boyle could return to direct an untitled sequel to 28 Days Later. Danny Boyle, of course, directed the original 28 Days Later, which followed a group of people trying to survive after the “rage virus” spread across the world, turning most of the Earth’s population into zombie-like creatures. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo directed the sequel, 28 Weeks Later, and now Dread Central reports that Danny Boyle may return for this proposed third installment....

Danny DeVito has been playing it rather subdued in the press this past week as he promotes his lead voice role in The Lorax to families across the country. But ask about the further exploits of Frank Reynolds, and a twinkle comes to his eye. This is one of Danny’s all-time favorite characters, and he simply can’t wait to get back to the role, and Frank’s weird, wonderful world. After a blood-soaked, drug-induced, anything goes run of episodes like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 7 it’s hard to image how The Paddy’s Pub gang is going to top itself this September....

Audiences look forward to the gadgets in the 007 films as much as they do James Bond the character. From the watches capable of locating “M” in any corner of the world to his signature cars which are the epitome of luxury, these tech devices often seemed out of public reach. The notion of touchscreen computers appeared so futuristic when they first showed up onscreen, some probably never saw a need for them....

Horror films have always seemed to be a good starting point for actors when trying to find their big break in Hollywood. Traditionally, acting in horror films was looked down upon, particularly in the 70s and 80s by the Hollywood elite, as it was considered just one step above acting in pornography. However, as we’ve seen throughout history, the horror genre has been an important stepping stone in the careers of some of the most talented and famous actors of all time....