Last January, we were invited down to Los Angeles’ Warehouse District to get a little advanced taste of the upcoming big screen adaptation of the popular 1965 spy sitcom Get Smart. The film finds Steve Carell filling the shoes of Don Adams as Agent 86. Aka: Maxwell Smart. Other cast members include Terry Crews, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, and improv legend David Koechner. We spoke with Steve Carell about the film....
Marvel Studios has released seven clips from Marvel’s The Avengers, ahead of its release on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital and On-Demand platforms September 25. Included in these videos is the now-famous mid-credit scene, where the true villain is revealed. Relive some of your favorite moments from director Joss Whedon’s superhero ensemble with these new videos. You can also read on for special features details on these upcoming sets. Marvel Studios presents Marvel’s The Avengers -the team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow....
Sheila Vand has signed on to join the growing cast of Beverly Hills Cop for CBS and creator Shawn Ryan (The Shield). The actress will play Leila, a Beverly Hills detective who becomes annoyed and frustrated with rookie Aaron Foley (Brandon T. Jackson), who keeps secrets and refuses to play by the rules. Leila comes from a wealthy family, but she turned down a life of privilege to go her own separate way....
Spoiler Warning: Nier: Automata Ver1.1aNier: Automata Ver1.1a has officially started airing, coming out the gate with what looks to be an authentic recreation of the game’s story down to the soundtrack, set-pieces, and key moments. Coinciding with the first episode’s release, the official episode count for the series was also dropped, revealing a whopping 24 episodes split across two parts. Fans of the Nier franchise are elated, and while some may critique the show’s animation quality, those that can look past some dubious-looking CGI will find an anime series that genuinely captures what made the original game so compelling to begin with....
According to Variety, Harvey and Bob Weinstein’s nascent multimedia entity the Weinstein Co. is in final negotiations with Barbara Schneeweiss to develop a TV slate. Projects include a skein based on Alexander McCall Smith’s “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,” with Love Actually helmer-scribe Richard Curtis aboard to draft the pilot, with Anthony Minghella to direct. The bestseller centers on a female gumshoe in Botswana. Curtis and Minghella have together approached “Boston Legal” creator David E....
Warner Home Video will release the massive 62-disc boxed set Smallville: The Complete Series on DVD November 29, which features five hours of brand new bonus feature content and over 28 hours of special features in total. A featurette from this set has been released, which delves inside the Smallville series finale episode featuring the return of Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor, and how the producers needed to rework the episode to bring this villainous character back....
Producer Al Gough reveals scoops on the latest developments of the show and it’s characters We recently got a chance to speak with Smallville executive producer, Al Gough, to talk about the latest developments happening in season 7 of the show. Black Canary arrives this week and Green Arrow is back for the time being. How much are we going to start seeing each character in the show, from this point, through to the episode 15 cliffhanger, and beyond?...
The Good A very well made movie that manages to equally juggle many characters and not sacrifice a moment’s worth of action. The Bad Packaging was too small to contain this movie. Well, I had to think of something?!?! Smokin’ Aces is a quick paced, nonlinear shoot em’ up from hard hitting Director, Joe Carnahan. Buddy “Aces” Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a wanted man. He is about to testify against the mob and bring down known boss Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin)....
The animated series Solar Opposites returns with its third season on Hulu next month, set to bow with 11 new episodes on July 13, 2022. Ahead of the new season’s premiere, Screen Rant debuted the new official trailer and key art for season 3. You can check out the new trailer and key art below. Solar Opposites is aimed at adults and has an art style similar to Rick and Morty....
After Universal Pictures backed out of financing the first installment of Tintin, the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson directed trilogy was left without a studio to back it. Now, according to Variety, Sony Pictures Entertainment has stepped in to help Paramount Pictures bring the 3D motion capture series to the big screen. Tintin will be the next directing assignment for Spielberg, who will then produce the second chapter to be directed by Peter Jackson....
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered in May of this year, and along with it, we got a brand-new look at the early crew of the Enterprise. As most Trekkies might know, Gene Rodenberry originally intended his show to focus on Captain Christopher Pike, who was the focus of the original series pilot. But after NBC ended up scrapping Rodenberry’s script for a different version of the show starring James T....
With the recent debut of the Ms. Marvel trailer this past Tuesday, the official Disney+ calendar about upcoming series release dates is beginning to become a bit clearer now. With several Marvel and Star Wars projects already confirmed to be premiering this year, Star Wars: Andor, the Rogue One prequel series, still hasn’t officially been announced a release date yet. The next Star Wars project to premiere on Disney+ is the highly-anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi series, which will finally be arriving on May 25....
CROWDED MARQUEES; NEAR-EMPTY THEATERS Studios blamed inclement weather for the box office nosedive over the weekend. Ticket sales were down 44 percent from last weekend, as the top film, the comedy Yes Man, opened with just $18.2 million, the lowest opening gross ever for a Jim Carrey comedy. The movie had been expected to earn $25-30 million. The Will Smith drama Seven Poundscame in second with $16 million, a low for Smith, too....
INTEL TO GO LIVE WITH VIIVWith a panoply that included an appearance on stage of Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman and Danny DeVito, Intel showed off its Viiv technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Thursday. The technology was described as a method to bring home-entertainment devices under the control of a personal computer. “The capabilities we have built into Viiv are really fundamental to the way that consumers are going to use computers,’’ Intel CEO Paul Otellini told Bloomberg News....
i>WHO’S ON FIRST Whoville scored a massive victory at the box-office over the weekend as the G-rated Horton Hears a Who!hauled in an estimated $45.1 million, making it the best opening so far this year. Some analysts predicted that the actual take will turn out to be even higher when receipts from morning and matinee screenings for kids on Sunday are tallied. With spring break hitting many cities this week, the film is also expected to perform strongly through next weekend, which includes the Easter holiday....
It’s a little hard to believe, but it’s been 20 years since the release of Park Chan-wook’s influential thriller, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. Not only did it change the course of the director’s career, kicking off his renowned Vengeance Trilogy, it brought South Korean cinema to the global stage in a whole new way. So how did this grim, nihilistic film from 2002 come to have such an impact in terms of world cinema?...
Acclaimed filmmaker Taika Waititi has been tapped to write and direct a feature film adaptation of Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius’ famous graphic novel The Incal. The news came out earlier today and has taken fans by surprise. The Chilean-French filmmaker and novelist Alejandro Jodorowsky himself announced the news. Humanoids, the long-time publisher of The Incal, is producing the film adaptation. Waititi will write the screenplay with frequent collaborators Jemaine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows) and Peter Warren (Ghost Team)....
Because Matt Reeves felt that he had his perfect Dark Knight in Robert Pattinson, the director recalls feeling “devastated” over the actor’s casting in Tenet. As of now, The Batman is playing in movie theaters everywhere, introducing Pattinson as the newest incarnation of the World’s Greatest Detective. Reeves, who co-wrote and directed the film, knew pretty early on that Pattinson was who he wanted for the role, based on the range he’d seen the actor exhibit in prior movies....
Adored actor Brendan Fraser experienced a slight lull in his highly-decorated cinema career when The Mummy franchise was winding down; this could be attributed to a variety of reasons, but Fraser himself has said that he became reclusive and depressed after an unwanted sexual encounter in which he was assaulted. Fortunately, the beloved man has once again taken Hollywood by storm with a slew of notable and compelling performances in lauded TV shows and films....
The prolific and incredibly gifted Garry Marshall was a brilliant director, screenwriter and producer with a superb career that spanned over 50 years. He got his start writing for beloved classic ‘60s shows like The Lucy Show and The Dick Van Dyke Show before gaining notoriety for creating the iconic TV wonders Happy Days, Laverne & Shirly, and Mork and Mindy. The esteemed visionary eventually transitioned over to the big screen, making a name for himself in the cinematic world with ‘80s staples like the Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn-led Overboard and Bette Midler’s certifiable tear-jerker Beaches....
