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We reported earlier this week that a brand new Judge Dredd film was in the works and that the film will be shot in 3D. Today a new press release from the production company Reliance BIG Pictures gives us some new information on the upcoming film. Here’s the full press release below. Reliance BIG Pictures, together with IM Global, the international sales company that Reliance acquired only last week, will finance DNA’s 3D production of Judge Dredd, a $45 million film adaptation of the iconic 2000 AD comic-book character created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra....

Wild Eye Releasing has just released the new trailer for the micro-budget film Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse. A ferocious, prehistoric Megalodon has returned to the surface, terrorizing a group of oil rig workers and members of a local fishing village. You know what you’re in for, dive in! Right off the bat, how much fun is it to say the word Aquapocalypse? Made you do it! Director Mark Polonia has gathered his film family for another round, including Jeff Kirkendall, Jamie Morgan, James Carolus, Tim Hatch, Kathryn Sue Young, Natalie Himmelberger, Kate Farber, Nico Bryant and Titus Himmelberger....

Fox is looking to reboot the 1984 action flick Romancing the Stone with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in the lead roles. Heigl would play Joan Wilder, originally played by Kathleen Turner, and Butler would play Jack Colton, originally played by Michael Douglas. In the original Romancing the Stone, Joan Wilder, a mousy romance novelist, receives a treasure map in the mail from her recently murdered brother-in-law. Meanwhile, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and the two criminals responsible demand that she travel to Colombia to exchange the map for her sister....

Kevin Heffernan was making the press rounds in support of Broken Lizard’s latest comedy release The Slammin’ Salmon this afternoon, which hits home on DVD and Blu-ray April 13th. While discussing that film, the subject of Broken Lizard’s new deal with Universal came up. According to Heffernan, Rogue Scholars will most likely be their next film. And the other project they currently have set up at Universal is Pot Quest, which will be a thematic follow-up to their 2006 film Beerfest....

The discussion over who should play the next James Bond continues, and Liam Hemsworth has entered the chat. In 2021, Daniel Craig ended his run in the role after five films, putting the franchise producers back at the drawing board to recast the role once again. Fans have been offering plenty of different ideas for actors they think would do great as Bond, and now, a former Bond actor himself has come forth with a new suggestion....

Greg Maletic is not your typical filmmaker. He just a few years he went from the co-founder a successful software company, to a job at Disney Imagineering to writing, directing editing and producing his documentary Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball, which is coming to DVD on April 8. I had the chance to talk with Greg over the phone about his film. I’ll get the obvious one out of the way first....

Having recently appeared in a TV advert as his Gremlins character Billy Peltzer, Zach Galligan is coming back to the Gremlins franchise again, as a new character in prequel animated series Gremlins: Secrets of The Mogwai. There has been speculation for over a decade that Gremlins 3 could be coming soon, with the little monstrous critters appearing in adverts and fan films to keep them very much on the public’s radar, and now the new HBO Max series has bolstered its cast with a huge list of guest stars led by Galligan....

Spoiler Warning: Grey’s Anatomy Season 18 For a show running for 18 seasons since 2005, Grey’s Anatomy has some seriously loyal fans. And one thing that the fans can all agree upon is that they have all lost track of the number of bombshells Shonda Rhimes has dropped on the show right from season 1. From shootings to bombings to even plan crashes and everything in between. This Shondaland production series is an American medical drama that has followed the lives of several surgical interns, residents, and attendings for almost two decades now....

If you are one of the many fans of Hellboy II: The Golden Army that have been patiently waiting for director Guillermo del Toro to return to this universe, you can forget it. Creator of the Hellboy comic book and franchise Mike Mignola claims that the director will never step behind the lens of a third chapter. In fact, Guillermo del Toro will most likely be dead before he finishes all the projects that stand in the way of a third Hellboy at this point in time....

Haley Joel Osment is the first actor to join the cast of Wake the Dead for director Jay Russell. Wake the Dead is based on the graphic novel series created by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), which puts a modern-day spin on the Frankenstein tale. Haley Joel Osment will portray Victor Franklin, a college student who is experimenting with procedures which could reverse death. Jay Russell will direct Wake the Dead from a screenplay he co-wrote with James V....

Hank Azaria, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth and Robert Patrick have joined Amanda Seyfried and Peter Sarsgaard for Lovelace. Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (Howl, the Celluloid Closet) will direct, from an original screenplay by Andy Bellin (Trust). A Millennium Films Production, Lovelace is produced by Heidi Jo Markel for Electric Pictures, Laura Rister and Jason Weinberg for Untitled Entertainment, and James M. Young for Animus Films, with executive producers Boaz Davidson, Danny Dimbort, Mark Gill, Merritt Johnson, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short and John Thompson for Nu Image/Millennium Films....

Though The Batman has only just hit screens following several delays and a lot of patiently waiting, talk has already turned to what we can expect from a sequel. While speaking with Vanity Fair, star Robert Pattinson revealed the villains he hopes to see, with the actor once again asserting his desire to see The Dark Knight take on the infamous Court of Owls. Not only does Pattinson hope to face off with the Court of Owls, he even states that the villains will “probably” be in The Batman 2....

Grammy(R)-winning recording artist and actor Marc Anthony has joined the cast of TNT’s Hawthorne, the powerful drama series starring and executive-produced by Jada Pinkett Smith. Marc Anthony will reprise the newly expanded role of Police Detective Nick Renata, the character he introduced as a guest star in two episodes last season. Hawthorne is scheduled to return for its third season this June. Marc Anthony joins Hawthorne as a series regular just as Jada Pinkett Smith’s Christina Hawthorne, Chief Nursing Officer of James River Hospital, struggles with news that she is pregnant....

Actor Ethan Hawke is pretty much the male ambassador for GenX ennui. (Winona Ryder is the female ambassador, naturally, in a close tie with Parker Posey.) He cemented his status as the GenX poster boy with his early roles in Dead Poet’s Society, Reality Bites, and the Before trilogy. As he’s aged, Hawke hasn’t remained stagnant. After all, he’d be pretty ridiculous playing the kind of slacker he played in his 20s in his 50s....

When there is a lack of diverse representation in mainstream media like movies and TV shows, it leads to “ethnic erasure” and, as Canadian writer Fiona Khan states, it starts to “imagine worlds without the very existence of South Asian people.” If mainstream media can be more diverse by including South Asian leads and characters who are not stereotyped, people will be able to appreciate different cultures and understand one another better....

Netflix is the undisputed champ of the online streaming market, at least for the moment. To get to that position, the company had to put out immense amounts of online content, from movies to shows. Not all of those shows survived the first season, leading to Netflix gaining notoriety for canceling promising shows for seemingly no reason. During the Paley International Council Summit, Netflix’s Global Head of TV, Bela Bajaria, explained why the streamer’s cancellation records are better than people imagine....

When Zendaya was first cast as MJ in Spider-Man: Homecoming, she created a lot of controversy for her lack of red hair. But now, after three movies with her as the female lead to Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, we can definitely say that she is the best female lead of any Spider-Man movie ever as her performances just continue to get better and better. And as we in the audience learn more about her character, we get to appreciate even more just how awesome she truly is....

There is nothing more enticing to an audience member than a venture into the realm of science fiction and fantasy. In cinema, this genre harkens back to even before the golden age. The 1902 silent motion picture entitled A Trip to the Moon represented a new era of movie-making. It transported audiences from our own world and into one we have never seen before. Science fiction films are massively profitable, especially when they have a bit of nostalgia....

It’s going to be the best Halloween yet for Hocus Pocus fans this year as the upcoming sequel will be landing on Disney+ during the spooky season in 2022. On Instagram, Hocus Pocus 2 executive producer Adam Shankman posted an image to reveal that the movie is officially wrapped with filming. In the caption, the filmmaker reveals the release date by noting, “Coming to you Halloween 2022 on Disney+.” This follows a recent post from Bette Midler that she had wrapped her work on the film....

While a lot of times big movies are shot at a studio in sunny California, whether it be Warner Bros. or Paramount, there are also flicks that go to a certain location to shoot. Some companies travel across the country, or go international to get the best setting for their films, but other times they pick a state, and the movie relies on the location for the plot. In North Carolina, there have been several big movies shot, gaining attention from big companies to their small towns and quaint cities....