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According to Variety, Gore Verbinski is not going to be taking the voyage in the next Pirates of the Caribbean films. The director recently told Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer that he will not be making the fourth installment that will begin production in 2010. Johnny Depp is returning as Captain Jack Sparrow. The current sequel is in development but has not yet obtained a greenlight. Verbinski will instead work on Bioshock for Universal and Rango for Paramount Pictures....

Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) and Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech) are both in discussions for starring roles in Mike Newell’s Great Expectations. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe is adapting the classic Charles Dickens novel for this new adaptation, which follows a young orphan who suddenly gets a glimpse into a life of luxury, thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Jeremy Irvine is in talks to play the young orphan Pip while Helena Bonham Carter will play the eccentric Miss Havisham if her deal is worked out....

Australian writer/director/producer Greg McLean still has plans to bring maniacal Wolf Creek’s Mick Taylor back to theatres…. Sometime, according to Moviehole. McLean says it’s still the plan to dress John Jarratt in his check cotton flannel again and have him terrorize some more tourists in the outback. “I possibly will be [doing the sequel]”, says the talented Melbourne-based filmmaker. “I want to do it. It’s such a great character”. McLean told Moviehole that The Weinstein’s wanted a sequel right away, but he decided to wait....

Halloween Ends is coming this fall to put a nail in the coffin of the popular Halloween franchise that’s been playing out for 44 years. Now that the trailer’s dropped, we see Laurie Strode and Michael Myers face to face in an epic showdown. And this time, Laurie is more determined for revenge than ever. She’s faced this invincible demon about 200 times and now looks ready to put an end to it....

Never fear, Marvel fans because Peggy Carter is coming back to the world of Marvel. No, Netflix didn’t finally decide to pick up a third season of Agent Carter, but Hayley Atwell will reprise her role as Peggy Carter in a different Marvel show. This time, she will be stepping in to voice the character on the animated series Marvel’s Avengers: Secret Wars. The news of Hayley Atwell’s return to the world of Marvel broke during the Marvel Animation Panel at New York Comic Con this weekend....

HBO Max is ramping up their streaming game by getting into the adult animated series business. Today, the streaming serviced announced it has ordered Santa Inc. from global content leader Lionsgate featuring voice performances by leads Sarah Silverman and Seth Rogen. The 8 episode, half-hour series will be written by showrunner Alexandra Rushfield (Shrill) and will be produced by Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures as part of their multiplatform partnership with Lionsgate....

We’ve all been there: you’re watching a show and someone’s face or voice feels so familiar, but you just can’t figure out where you know them from. With a cast packed with veteran actors, it’s not unlikely that you’ve experienced that feeling while watching His Dark Materials. There are plenty of characters in this HBO show who are played by actors who have been in a little bit of everything, making it extra hard to put your finger on where exactly you might have seen them before....

The return of the Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus 2 has been a success for Disney+, in viewership in not overwhelmingly in reviews. For some, the comedy of the sequel has overridden the spooky feel of the 1993 original, becoming overly silly and making the movie less likely to scare the small kiddies. However, even though Hocus Pocus managed to balance its comedy and low-level scares well back in the early 90s, according to the movie’s star it was almost a much scarier film....

Scottish actress Laura Fraser has snapped up the leading role in Showtime’s drama pilot Homeland, reports to Deadline. Plus, In Treatment’s Dane DeHaan will have a recurring role on HBO’s vampire drama True Blood, while Rebecca Wisocky is set for a key guest spot in the fourth season premiere. Homeland centers on Marine Sergeany Scott Brody, who returns home eight years after going missing in Iraq, and Carrie Anderson (Claire Danes), a driven CIA officer who suspects he might be plotting an attack on America....

You know what makes me laugh really hard? The thought of Dirty Harry Callahan having to ask himself if he fired six shots or only five because he is dealing with a touch of dementia and a bit of the ol’ Alzheimer’s. Well, that on-screen gag might just be coming to fruition soon as everything seems to indicate that Gran Torino is in fact Dirty Harry 6. Earlier this week, a mysterious film entitled Gran Torino was announced amidst a shroud of secrecy....

When it comes to Star Wars, no one character may be more loved than the legendary bounty hunter himself…Boba Fett. Ever since we were first introduced to him on the big screen in Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (following his debut in The Star Wars Holiday Special and his appearance on a Star Wars parade float in the late ’70s), fans have been slightly obsessed with the bounty hunter, despite the character only having four lines in the original trilogy....

Award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi was released on bail following a 7-month detaining. Panahi began a dry hunger strike in protest of his detention and was released “two days after starting his hunger strike for freedom,” according to the US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran. As The Guardian reports, the film director’s hunger strike announcement caught the attention of international audiences, who became increasingly concerned. Panahi’s wife issued a statement from the director, which included,...

James Cameron’s Avatar is still playing in theaters and will be released on a bare-bones DVD and Blu-ray release on Earth Day, April 22. While this new DVD and BD will not have any special features, a November special edition release is being planned and Sci Fi Wire attended a recent event where Cameron discussed some of these extras. We reported a few weeks ago that Avatar was also heading back to theaters for a re-release this summer and while Cameron isn’t entirely sure if that still will happen, he hinted that the controversial love scene between Sam Worthington’s Jake Sully and Zoe Saldana’s Neytiri would be included....

While the news hasn’t officially been confirmed by CBS at this time, The Wrap is reporting that Into the Woods star James Corden will be taking over hosting duties on The Late Late Show after current host Craig Ferguson departs later this year. Craig Ferguson announced in April that he will be leaving The Late Late Show sometime at the end of this year, although a specific end date has not been announced yet....

Star Trek: Discovery has really been coming together, despite a couple of setbacks that have prevented the show from debuting as early as CBS originally wanted. But a major piece of the puzzle, arguably the most important piece when it comes to a Star Trek project, has just been put into place. It looks like former Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs has been tapped to play the new captain in Star Trek Discovery....

For better or for worse, a new film set in the world of Escape from New York is reportedly in the works, but the original film’s director apparently isn’t involved. Last month, reports of a new take on the classic film emerged when it was announced that Radio Silence, the team behind the new Scream films and Ready or Not, would be setting their sights on Escape from New York. It was noted that their plan is to do a “continuation” of the original film rather than a remake, but there’s not yet been any indication that star Kurt Russell will be involved....

Very sad news has just come in as veteran filmmaker John R. Cherry III has passed away. The creator of the Ernest P. Worrell character famously portrayed by late actor Jim Varney, Cherry had directed nearly every installment of the Ernest movie series which had undoubtedly left a big impact on pop culture. On the official Ernest Facebook page, a statement was posted announcing that Cherry had died on Sunday after a battle with Parkinson’s disease....

Team Apatow talks about the life and times of Dewey Cox This afternoon, Sony Pictures invited us down to their Culver City Studios for a twenty-minute look at Judd Apatow’s latest creation Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. There has been some chatter lately, especially amongst Team Apatow itself, that this strong comedy enterprise they’ve created could fall on crippled knees at any moment. They discussed this at length during the Superbad junket, sighting the story of Dewey Cox as a film that could do them in....

Following its release, Jurassic World: Dominion has come to face some harsh critics, with some calling it “the worst movie of the series”. In his review for the New York Post, Oleksinski draws a contrast between this particular movie and the original Jurassic Park franchise, as he states: The movie may not have been able to achieve great heights, but there are certain features that should be commendable. It can be argued that Jurassic World: Dominion, which is the last in the infamous franchise, steps away from the usual focus on dinosaurs chasing men, and attempts to shed light on modern-day problems, which are linked to the corruption of humankind....

Kathryn Hahn may be in demand at the moment, but one project that will not be moving ahead is the Joan Rivers biopic series, The Comeback Girl, which was cancelled by Showtime after the producers were seemingly unable to secure the rights to the acid-tongued comedian’s life rights from her daughter. The rights to any production directly about Rivers’ life are held by Melissa Rivers, and without the authorization from the late star’s estate, the limited series would not have been able to use any of the controversial icon’s famous jokes or catchphrases and would have been forced to go down an unofficial route against the wishes of Rivers’ family....