Anyone who worried that He-Man and the Masters of the Universe was dead in the water no longer need worry. The film has acquired itself a director, according to a source at Latino Review, and that director is none other than John Stevenson, the director of Kung Fu Panda. By all accounts, Stevenson went to producer Joel Silver and gave an amazing presentation about how he would handle the material, and Silver offered him the job....
One of the frontrunners with fans doing fantasy casting for the next James Bond is Henry Cavill, and a new deepfake video shows us what the Man of Steel star would have been like in the role. Or, at least, the 1980s version of 007 played by Timothy Dalton. The video, created by Stryder HD on YouTube, uses footage from Dalton’s movies with Cavill’s face placed over Dalton’s. You can check out the video below....
Whew, where to start. The second season of Heroes is finally beginning to pick up with the emphasis being placed on our old favorite characters in this episode entitled, Out of Time. We start with Hiro Nakamura as a prisoner in White Beard’s camp. Turns out Kensei has turned him in for half of the country and Yaeko as his princess. There’s just one problem - she’s in love with Hiro (and who can blame her really?...
Get ready to ride on over to Blu-Ray with Viggo this April. Hidalgo will be released on Blu-Ray on April 1. We don’t have any special features details on this release yet, but the disc will be priced at $29.99 SRP. The film stars Viggo Mortensen, Omar Sharif and Malcolm McDowell. Based on the true story of the greatest long-distance horse race ever run, Hidalgo is an epic action-adventure and one man’s journey of personal redemption....
Hollow Man is getting a little more depth. Just in time for Halloween, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing Hollow Man Director’s Cut, featuring approximately eight minutes of previously deleted scenes added back into the film. Director Paul Verhoeven’s (Robocop) $73.2 million box office hit stars Kevin Bacon (Apollo 13), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) and Josh Brolin (Grindhouse) in a dark and menacing film of a scientist desperate to become invisible....
Spoiler Warning: House of the Dragon Season One The story of House of the Dragon cannot adequately be told through tales of fire-breathing dragons and battle royals. Lesser characters are instrumental in shaping the future of Westeros. Any clever individual could, with a well-placed dagger strike or a discreetly filled cup of poison, disrupt the entirety of the royal lineage. As such, in times of intense political turmoil, rulers must take care to surround themselves with the greatest number of talented individuals possible....
Fantasy is one of the most common genres in film and television nowadays, as it’s often combined with others like sci-fi fantasy or horror fantasy. If there’s something whimsical about it, something supernatural or that can’t be explained by science, it’s often considered fantasy. It often makes an impact on pop culture too, as some of the biggest fantasy franchises like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are popular enough to stay relevant and keep going....
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is one of those miracle-shows that got canceled and came back stronger than ever. With the series closing its final doors with Season eight, it can be said that Brooklyn Nine-Nine had a thrilling roller coaster ride. Perhaps, its initial canceling by Fox was a much-needed push for the show to gain fame. With Andy Samberg taking on the lead role of detective Jake Peralta, the show began in 2013....
Where the Crawdads Sing is a murder mystery written by zoologist and conservationist Delia Owens and published in 2018. It was the author’s debut novel and an immediate success. Where the Crawdads Sing has sold over 12 million copies, making it one of the most sold novels of all time, and it spent over 150 consecutive weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Given the novel’s staggering success, it should not be surprising that it was subject to a film adaptation....
NBC’s hit summer reality series America’s Got Talent will be receiving an overhaul at the judges table next season, with reports surfacing that Howard Stern is in talks to be the new judge. Piers Morgan, who has judged the reality series since its inception, announced on his CNN talk show Piers Morgan Tonight that he will not return to America’s Got Talent next season. Nothing is official yet, but insiders claim that Howard Stern is eyeing a deal that could land him $15 million a year on America’s Got Talent....
Sony Pictures has provided us with many more images from the next James Bond film, Casino Royale hitting theatres on November 17. The photo gallery has images of Daniel Craig as James Bond, Judi Dench as “M”, three of the Bond girls, and other characters from the film. CLICK HERE to check out our gigantic Casino Royale photo gallery. Daniel Craig stars as “007” James Bond, the smoothest, sexiest, most lethal agent on Her Majesty’s Secret Service in Casino Royale....
Lionsgate is about to decide who will direct Hunger Games, an adaptation of the first novel in Suzanne Collins’ best selling trilogy. Sam Mendes, David Slade and Gary Ross are all front runners for the job. Deadline New York reports that the script, which was rewritten by Billy Ray, is being kept under tight wraps, and that it isn’t even allowed outside of Lionsgate’s headquarters. The storyline is set in a dystopia version of America, with an evil totalitarian government presiding over 12 districts that make up the entire country....
The publicist of Irene Cara gave sad news earlier this morning. The Oscar-winning singer and actress has passed away at 63. According to the tweet, which can be read below, the cause of death is currently unknown. Cara was a performer from the start. She started taking dance lessons at five years old. Her first steps in front of a camera were for appearances on such shows as Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show, and the 70’s educational show, The Electric Company....
Iron Man 2 star Sam Rockwell is ready and willing to bring Justin Hammer back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an interview with Cinemablend, it was brought to Rockwell’s attention that The Incredible Hulk actor Tim Roth has now reprised his role as Abomination in the ongoing Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law — something of which Rockwell was seemingly not aware. Nevertheless, Rockwell asserted his desire to follow in Roth’s footsteps and return to the world of Marvel....
Robert Downey Jr. is a smart business man. And his latest movie The Judge is coming from his own production company Team Downey. He wants to sell the movie, and what better way to do that than use his most popular character as leverage? So he’s going on various talk shows and saying various things, to get eyes on the real prize at the moment: His performance in this drama that opens this weekend....
Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron announced today that he will attempt to reach the world’s deepest point, the Mariana Trench, nearly 7 miles (11.2 km) beneath the ocean’s surface, in the coming weeks. Cameron’s dive in his specially designed submersible marks the launch of DeepSea Challenge, a joint scientific project by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep-ocean research and exploration to expand our knowledge and understanding of these largely unknown parts of the planet....
Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain is no stranger to the modern-day craze of comic book movies, having starred in the 2019 X-Men outing Dark Phoenix, but while that foray into the Marvel world was lacking, the actress is very open to joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in future. But only if she can play a “one-and-done" villain. Speaking in a recent interview with Comicbook.com, Chastain seemingly takes subtle issue with the character she was given to portray in Dark Phoenix, stating in no uncertain terms that, should she be offered a part in the MCU, it would have to be an “already established” character and not “a new thing....
John Travolta talks about voicing the title role for the new Disney DVD John Travolta-the box office heavyweight with two Oscar nominations and a slew of memorable films to his credit-is now going to the dogs. Or rather, playing a dog. But not just any canine…this pup is named Bolt, and he stars in his own action-adventure television series. Trouble is, he’s been taught to believe that the super powers he possesses onscreen (all the result of studio magic) are really his....
The Weinstein Company announced today that Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson (Almost Famous) will join the cast of Nine, Academy Award Nominee Rob Marshall’s (Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago) adaptation of the Tony Award Winning Broadway musical. The film stars Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood, My Left Foot) as world famous film director Guido Contini as he prepares his latest picture and balances the numerous women in his life played by Hudson and the previously announced Academy Award Winners Nicole Kidman (The Hours), Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose), Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love), Sophia Loren (La Ciociara) and Academy Award nominee Penelope Cruz (Volver)....
It seems that David Cronenberg’s new film has a new trio of stars. The Playlist discovered that Australian film company Hopscotch Films made an announcement on its Facebook page that Keira Knightley, and Inglourious Basterds actors Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender have signed on to star in The Cure. The company was making the announcement of the acquisition of the film, which will be directed by David Cronenberg, and the Hopscotch page released a brief synopsis of the film as well....
