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In a story from Variety, James Cameron (Avatar) has optioned Charles Pellegrino’s soon to be released nonfiction book “The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back.” Cameron put up his own money to get the option going. The book, published by Henry Holt, is going to hit bookstores January 19. It takes place “over two days and weaves together eyewitness accounts of the Japanese civilians and American pilots who experienced the atomic explosions firsthand....

Fox has found its leading pair for their latest pilot. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jason Wiles and Daisy Betts have been tapped for the lead roles for Persons Unknown. The pilot was written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) and showrunner Remi Aubuchon. Michael Rhymer has come aboard to direct the pilot as well. The series revolves around a group of strangers who all wake up in a deserted town, with no idea how they ended up there, when they realize the presence of security cameras throughout the town....

Today, summer is known as the big season for movies. This is when some of the biggest hits of the year are released and when the box office sees some of its largest numbers. However, this wasn’t always the case. Summer was spent at the beaches or doing other outdoor activities, and audiences didn’t always want to spend their summer in a building watching a movie. That all changed in 1975, the year Steven Spielberg made his first huge splash with Jaws....

According to Variety, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is set to direct Fox 2000’s adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning Yann Martel novel “Life of Pi.” Jeunet has begun writing the script with Guillaume Laurant, his collaborator on Amelie and A Very Long Engagement. The book tells of a 16-year-old boy’s voyage from India to Canada, a trip that begins on a freighter carrying animals his father is transporting from the zoo. The ship sinks and the boy is the sole human survivor, sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra and a hungry tiger....

A new sneak peek photo of Jenna Ortega as she’ll appear in Wednesday has been revealed. Serving as a reboot of The Addams Family, the new Wednesday series will be coming to Netflix this fall just in time for the Halloween season. The series is directed by Tim Burton, marking the first time the filmmaker has directed a series, and is created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Taking to Instagram, Ortega shared an image with a simple caption that notes, “Good mourning....

CBS is readying a plan to bring Jericho back to life. According to Variety, the show will possibly be renewed for at least six or seven more episodes. CBS cancelled the series last month. The fan reaction to this decision has been deafening. They’ve shipped the television station pounds and pounds of peanuts to get their point across. They also found one of the executive’s cell phone numbers and left so many heated messages, the poor guy had to change his number....

It’s been a little over 20 years since the last episode of Seinfeld aired after a massively successful 9-season run that started in 1989. In a new interview, Jerry Seinfeld admits that he does not regret the decision to pull the plug at Season 9, despite the fact that NBC offered him an unprecedented $5 million per episode, which would have been a grand total of $100 million. The comedian spends his days looking at the present and is celebrating the 10th season of his Netflix series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee....

While Marvel Studios preps The Avengers for its May 4th release date, they have also been busy gathering cast and crew for their upcoming film The Runaways. According to Deadline, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist director Peter Sollett is in negotiations to helm the film, which is being called “The Breakfast Club with superheroes.” Over at The Playlist, they claim that Joss Whedon is in the running to direct this high profile project....

Jussie Smollett has just been sentenced after claiming to be the subject of an assault in 2019 that investigators say was a hoax. Per Variety, the Empire actor was sentenced to five months in jail with an additional order from Judge James Linn to pay $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago. Smollett must also serve 30 months of probation following his time in jail. The actor lashed out as he was led from the courtroom while maintaining that he was innocent....

Arnie Hammer has confirmed that he was cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman for George Miller’s now-shelved Justice League: Mortal. The actor spoke to E! Online about the project, and said that after the pre-production work they did on the film, he really hopes to see it still get made. Hammer commented on the fact that they were preparing to shoot in Australia where he and his fellow actors had undergone months of physical training to prepare for the film....

The director of this new installment talks about the new DVD, working with the original cast and a possible fifth film Justin Lin is a director who has proven he can succeed both in and out of the studio system. His breakthrough film, Better Luck Tomorrow, lead to such studio films as Annapolis and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but the director also found time between those projects to make the indie sensation Finishing the Game....

Fast Five director Justin Lin has signed on to take the helm of Lone Wolf and Cub for Kamala Films. David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples (12 Monkeys) are adapting the Japanese manga created by Kazuo Koike in the 1970s. The story takes place in feudal Japan, and centers on a Shogun executioner who is falsely accused of a crime and is forced to wander the country with his three-year-old son, finding work as an assassin for hire....

The Good An action film that keeps raising the stakes. The Bad This movie is highly implausible.Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is a family whose wife and daughter are killed in a home invasion. When hot shot prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) uses one of the killers to testify against the other, he feels that politically that makes more sense. However, the person who actually killed Shelton’s family is the one whose life is spared....

Last week during Comic-Con, showrunner Bryan Fuller revealed that his new Star Trek TV series would be entitled Star Trek Discovery, while also debuting the first trailer. The series will debut on CBS in early 2017 with a special preview, before the show transitions to its new home at CBS All Access, the network’s new streaming service. While we still have a few months before the show debuts, Rod Roddenberry, the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, had some great things to say about this show....

Halle Bailey is ready for you to join her under the sea. Though the star, who rose to fame as part of a singing duo with older sister Chloe, was initially nervous about taking on the titular role in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, Bailey told E! News that she no longer feels any pressure over playing Ariel. “I don’t feel pressure anymore. I think that before I started filming, I did feel some nerves naturally because the film is important to so many people,” she said of playing the Disney Princess....

Halloween Ends makes a bold attempt at something different and executes with a somewhat satisfying closure for both Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Michael Myers (Nick Castle). Unlike the previous films, Halloween Ends focuses its attention on emotion and character development rather than bloodshed. Curtis is at her best as Laurie while Michael takes a backseat throughout the entire film. Without a doubt, Halloween Ends contains some of the best kills in the series, but the body count doesn’t really rack up until the final act....

Netflix’s six-part docuseries, Harry & Meghan, focusing on Great Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was highly anticipated by many. Prince Harry, together with his brother Prince William, occupied special places in the hearts of the public, both in and beyond Great Britain, especially after the demise of their mother, Princess Diana. Given this, all eyes were on Prince Harry as he married Meghan Markle, who, prior to her marriage, was an American actress known for her role as Rachel Zane in the legal drama Suits....

It is hard to imagine anyone other than Peter Jackson at the helm of the Lord of the Rings franchise. However, that was almost going to be the case, as has recently been revealed by Jackson’s manager while commemorating the highlights of the franchise. According to Ken Kamins, the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein threatened to replace Peter Jackson with Quentin Tarantino to make him comply with the run time of the film....

As it turns out, a Lord of the Rings show was almost brought to life by an entirely different streaming service. In fact, two major companies pitched their ideas to the Tolkien estate, however, the family was not impressed. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix and HBO both took a crack at the beloved franchise and were met with little enthusiasm. HBO initially pitched an idea following Middle-earths Third Age, which would ultimately be a retelling of the story Peter Jackson brought to life in his feature film trilogy....

Star of Netflix’s Heartstopper and recent addition to the Doctor Who cast Yasmin Finney has her eyes set on another role: Bond girl. In an interview with the Daily Star, Finney expressed interest in being the first openly transgender Bond girl. “I love James Bond films. Every film I’ve seen, I’ve always thought, ‘I’d love to be that cool, sexy Bond girl,’” Finney, who’s best known for her role as Elle Argent in Heartstopper, said on Sunday....