House of the Dragon has everything that made Game of Thrones great. The HBO prequel series features soaring dragons, massive battle sequences, and political drama as several players vie for the Iron Throne. And in terms of audience success, House of the Dragon is on par with its predecessor. The debut episode of season 1, which premiered last month on Aug. 21, saw 10 million viewers tune in during launch night....
Roadside Attractions and Liddell Entertainment have acquired U.S. and Canadian rights from EuropaCorp to I Love You Phillip Morris, co-directed and co-written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (co-writers of Bad Santa), based on the non-fiction book by former Houston Chronicle investigative reporter Steve McVicker, and starring Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann and Rodrigo Santoro. The eagerly-anticipated film, produced by Andrew Lazar and Far Shariat with Luc Besson as executive producer, has been a buzz-worthy title since world premiering at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, screening as part of Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and opening to huge critical-acclaim internationally....
Things can get a bit chilly in the fourth quarter for DVD sales, which is why Fox is hoping to thaw them out releasing Ice Age: The Meltdown on November 21. According to Home Media Retailing, the film, which took in $193 million in the U.S., is poised to take advantage of “Black Friday” following Thanksgiving. The Ice Age: The Meltdown DVD will contain “a never-before-seen computer-animated short, No Time for Nuts, created exclusively for the DVD....
Jaime King has joined Mother’s Day, Darren Lynn Bousman’s remake of Charles Kaufman’s 1980 cult classic. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shawn Ashmore, Briana Evigan, Alexa Vega and Matt O’Leary are in talks to join the production. The original Mother’s Day revolved around three female friends who, while camping, run afoul of two brothers who engage in murder and rape to impress their deranged mother. The new version, written by Scott Milam, is being remolded as a psychological thriller in which the wicked family returns to the house where they grew up to terrorize the new owners and their guests....
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 unveiled its first trailer at the San Diego Comic-Con recently. While it isn’t available online because of unfinished VFX, the footage is said to have left several attendees in tears, and the movie will be even harder to bear, per James Gunn and the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 cast. James Gunn, along with Karen Gillan and Pom Klementieff, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter recently to talk about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....
Vincent Bugliosi’s book about the assassination of JFK is huge. There are more than sixteen hundred pages. That hasn’t stopped someone from trying to adapt it for the screen. According to Variety, HBO plans on turning Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy into a miniseries. It will be a ten part program, which debunks all of Oliver Stone’s crazy conspiracy theories and proves once and for all that Lee Harvey Oswald did the deed of killing JFK alone....
Joel Silver and his Dark Castle Entertainment production house have signed a deal with Warner Brothers to start producing Direct-to-DVD movies. According to Variety, the film company will be making two or three home videos a year. The first of these will be a sequel entitled Return to House on Haunted Hill. Dark Castle will also be producing content for the Internet and certain mobile services which will revolve around the film....
Blu-ray Disc is taking part in another first… In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, it seems that the Weinstein Co., Genius Products and Midway Games are going to make “the first video game/movie hybrid Blu-ray Disc.” John Woo’s Stranglehold Collector’s Edition, which will arrive “for PlayStation 3 in the summer” will give consumers “a full game as well as a high-definition version of director John Woo’s Hard Boiled.” The cost of this release will be $70....
Cobra Kai Season 2 is looking to kick things into high gear with the latest trailer. Sensei John Kreese is back and declares “Cobra Kai never dies,” while also sending Johnny Lawrence through a mirror, which is pretty crazy after not seeing him for so long. It appears Season 1, while excellent, was just setting the tables for the second season. “Cobra Kai is back where it belongs,” Lawrence boasts beneath his headband like the old days and concludes by saying, “Back on top....
AMC’s The Walking Dead is currently filming the 9th Season in Senoia, Atlanta and Jon Bernthal was seen near the set along with former castmates Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus. Bernthal was an integral part of the first two season of the hit AMC show, but was killed off and he’s now the star of Netflix’s massively popular The Punisher series. Since Bernthal was last seen filming The Punisher in New York, many have speculated that he’s in Atlanta to possibly film a cameo for the 9th Season of The Walking Dead....
The director of this popular series talks about the film, the new DVD and The Da Vinci Code. Jon Turtletaub is one happy man and who could blame him. After the overwhelming success of the first National Treasure film, a sequel was almost inevitable. Turtletaub and Co. delivered with National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets, which comes to DVD and Blu-Ray on May 20. I had the privelege of talking with the director over the phone about this series and here’s what he had to say....
The upcoming film Creed III promises to be an action-packed, high-intensity blockbuster, and that’s partly because Michael B. Jordan not only stars in the film as heavyweight boxing champion Adonis Creed but also directed it. Jordan’s direction and leadership on set have led to some genuinely intense moments, as co-star Jonathan Majors recently revealed. Majors, who is quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors thanks to his roles in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, plays the main antagonist in both films....
NBCUniversal and Monkeypaw have had several successes on the film side, including the recent Candyman, which was distributed by Universal and produced by Monkeypaw along with MGM. Directed by Nia DaCosta, Candyman debuted last weekend at No. 1 at the box office, making DaCosta the first Black female filmmaker to achieve this. Peele and Rosenfeld also co-wrote the film with DaCosta. Rosenfeld shared his excitement for this new deal and for the chance to continue working with NBCU....
Josh Hartnett has signed on to star in the comic book adaptation film, 30 Days of Night for Columbia Pictures. The IDW comic book was written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Ben Templesmith; the story is set in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the U.S., where the sun does not appear for more than 30 days during the dead of winter. The Hollywood Reporter says an evil force emerges from the darkness, striking terror in the town....
Do you know what C.H.U.D. stands for? This was a question that often came up in schoolyards among kids who may have caught a glimpse of the often syndicated movie on ’80s and ’90s television. The answer is actually twofold for anyone who was paying close attention to the New World Pictures cult hit from 1984 that starred Home Alone’s Daniel Stern and John Heard as well as Kim Greist from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil....
Amid continued controversy surrounding Kanye West, a completed documentary about him has been shelved. Per Variety, it has been announced by the executives behind the doc, MRC’s Modi Miczyk, Asif Satchu, and Scott Tenley, have pulled the documentary from its planned release. This decision had been made despite the fact that the film had already been completed, as the filmmakers feel that it’s no longer appropriate to release the doc in light of controversial comments recently made by the hip-hop mogul....
One of the greatest National Parks is turning 150 years old, and it has found its main man to host the epic birthday party. According to Collider, Fox Nation streaming service has officially announced that its upcoming four-part docuseries, Yellowstone: One-Fifty and will be narrated and hosted by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner. The docuseries will be part of the park’s 150th anniversary celebration. It is expected to debut at the end of this year....
Lionsgate, a leading diversified global entertainment company, and SModcast Pictures announced today that they have partnered to create an innovative approach to distribute Kevin Smith’s controversial thriller Red State, announced Jim Packer, Lionsgate President of Worldwide Television and Digital Distribution, and SModcast’s Kevin Smith. Under the terms of the arrangement, Lionsgate obtains the rights to distribute the title on all packaged media, Video-On-Demand (VOD), Subscription Video-On-Demand (SVOD), Electronic Sell-Through (EST) and Television in the United States, while SModcast has retained the theatrical distribution rights throughout the US....
It was revealed today that the upcoming return of Arrested Development has landed cameos from comedic heavyweights Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogen. Season 4 is set to focus on just one member of the Bluth family at a time per episode, so its likely that these guest star appearances will be a one-off deal. Seth Rogen’s role on the long-absent series was not revealed. Though, the mystery behind Kristen Wiig’s appearance has been lifted, and it’s safe to say that this intriguing bit of insider information is a Major Spoiler for fans of the show hoping to be surprised when Arrested Development becomes available on Netflix this spring....
Disney has set Garrett Hedlund to star in director Joseph Kosinski’s Tron, which sequels the 1982 cult classic of the same name. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hedlund made his debut in 2004’s Troy, and has since appeared in Friday Night Lights, Four Brothers, Eragon, and he appeared opposite Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman in Georgia Rule. Hedlund has been considered one of those actors that is on the cusp within the industry, though without much of a profile in middle America....
