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Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is a movie that has taken the legendary film director some time to get into production, but the cast isn’t done growing yet, with Shia LaBeouf the latest star to join the $100 million movie (via THR). Coppola’s film has been in gestation for a very long time, having first been conceived around the time of Apocalypse, Now and having an original screenplay written around 2001, but the attack on New York on September 11 put the project on hold....

Shia LaBeouf,one of Hollywood’s most sought after young actors will star in The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman for Mandate Pictures. Dante Ariola will direct the romantic actioner from an original screenplay by Matt Drake. Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa of Bona Fide Productions will produce along with William Horberg. Dean Parisot and Mandate president Nathan Kahane will executive produce. Bona Fide’s Carlo Martinelli will serve as a co-producer. Lawrence Grey will oversee the project on behalf of the company....

Okay DVD lovers, mark your calendars because on April 25th Shopgirl comes to DVD from Touchstone Home Entertainment. Based on Steve Martin’s bestselling novella, this funny and poignant story of love in the modern age stars the multi-talented Steve Martin (“Bringing Down The House,” “Cheaper By The Dozen”) and Claire Danes (“The Family Stone,” “Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines”). Jason Schwartzman (“I Heart Huckabees,” “Bewitched”) and Bridgette Wilson-Sampras (“The Wedding Planner,” “Extreme Ops”) also star....

The duo behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are teaming up for a new TV series. Nick Frost and Simon Pegg recently launched a production company, Stolen Picture. The production company has been operating since last year and they already have a feature coming out later this year. Now we have word that they’re working on their first TV series, which is titled Truth Seekers and will center on the paranormal....

The new White Men Can’t Jump remake has locked in its lead stars. Following the prior casting announcement that rapper Jack Harlow would be starring in a remake of the 1992 sports comedy movie, Deadline has reported that Sinqua Walls (Power, American Soul) has just signed on to play a new version of the character originally played by Wesley Snipes. He’ll be starring opposite Harlow, who is taking over Woody Harrelson’s role....

Saturday Night Live weighed in on the controversy surrounding Jussie Smollett, with Chris Redd portraying the Empire star in a scathing sketch. On the new episode of the long-running sketch comedy series, Grey’s Anatomy star Sandra Oh served as the host, appearing with musical guest Tame Impala. For one sketch featuring a meeting between Smollett and Empire producers, Oh played the actor’s agent, with Kenan Thompson portraying Empire head Lee Daniels....

The Good A solid film with strong acting and a strong director. The Bad No extras.Snow Angels is a movie that on the surface seems like standard indy fare. You have a rustic small town, people living disparate lives, they intersect, and we see how, due to their pasts, they were never really that far apart to begin with. In the end, some things get resolved but for the most part the movie ends where our characters begin....

The Comedy Central hit series South Park is returning with Season 17 September 25, although it will be slightly shorter than previous seasons. Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed that the Season 17 Premiere will kick off a 10-episode season that will air back-to-back, instead of the show’s normal format of 14 episodes split into seven-episode halves. Here’s what Matt Stone had to say about the format switch....

As a horror movie fan, it kinda goes hand-in-hand that I’m a big fan of Sylvester Stallone. After all, Rambo is basically Jason Voorhees with a machine gun and a crossbow, and Cobra is pretty much a straight-up horror flick. Anyhow, this is all to say that when there is a Stallone project in the works, this guy takes notice. Case in point, today we have word that the big man is teaming up with - of all Networks - the History channel for a new cop-drama currently going by the working title The Tenderloin....

Once upon a time, Quentin Tarantino wanted to make a Star Trek movie. In 2017, he went to Paramount Pictures and pitched a Star Trek movie that the company was excited to accept. When fans got wind of the event, everyone began talking about what Reservoir Dogs in space would look like. There were fan posters, memes, and pictures of Tarantino in a Starfleet uniform; nearly anything you could imagine was created....

Legendary director Steven Spielberg has just lined up another next big project. Deadline reports that Spielberg has gotten attached to direct a new movie that follows Frank Bullitt, the fictional action hero played by Steve McQueen in the 1968 thriller Bullitt. Spielberg will also produce the feature alongside Kristie Macosko Krieger, with Josh Singer writing the screenplay. This likely won’t be the next movie Spielberg directs as the screenplay is still not yet finished, leaving it unclear when the project might be developed....

As the Writers Guild of America strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers enters its second week, it certainly doesn’t appear that a quick fix is in sight. The main issue of the strike regards residual payments that writers receive from DVD’s and other digital media. The writers claim these payments are based off an archaic formula that was instituted more than 20 years ago during the advent of VHS, and that they’re entitled to more....

IGER: NO PLANS TO REVIVE TALKS WITH SAG Disney chief Robert Iger, who is often credited with having found common ground between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and thereby ending the writers’ strike, has suggested that a similar accord with the Screen Actors Guild is unlikely to come about. Speaking during a conference call to discuss Disney’s latest quarterly results, Iger said that producers are unlikely to “offer to SAG terms that are different than what the other guilds agreed to....

BLOCKBUSTER TO MAKE STORES OUT OF TIVOS Blockbuster, which has been reeling from intense competition from online video renters in general and Netflix in particular, is expected to announce today (Wednesday) that it will begin delivering movies to the 800,000 owners of TiVo digital video recorders that are able to connect to the Internet, the New York Timesreported today. The newspaper said that no money will exchange hands as part of the deal but that Blockbuster will begin selling TiVo DVRs at many of its 4,000 U....

TWILIGHT TAKES A SMALLER BITE After the teen vampire flick Twilightopened with a sensational $35 million box-office take on Friday, some analysts were predicting a flood of repeat business over the weekend and a final total of $75-80 million. However, when Saturday’s gross declined to $21 million, they revised their weekend estimate to $70.6 million. But Sunday’s ticket sales came to only $12 million, bringing the actual total to $69.6 million – still, the fourth-best November opening in history (behind the Harry Potter movies) and the fourth best opening of the year....

BOX OFFICE STUMBLES; WORST SINCE 2003 Last weekend’s box office tumbled to its lowest gross since 2003 as the top-12 films grossed just $50.3 million, down 32 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago and down 23 percent from last weekend. The Nicolas Cage film Bangkok Dangerousfrom Lionsgate finished as the leader, but its $7.8 million gross was the lowest for any No. 1 film this year. Its per-screen average of $2,937 was slightly less than that of No....

ABC MAKES COMEBACK AT SEASON START ABC, the seemingly forever-struggling broadcast network, wound up in first place for the first week of the new season among adults 18-49, according to the latest ratings from Nielsen Research. Much of the credit went to Grey’s Anatomy, which moved to Thursday night and beat out CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the usual weekly winner. NBC also had plenty to brag about as it finished in second place for the week, improving 12 percent in its overall numbers for the first week of last season (18 percent among adults 18-49) and despite a disastrous debut for its expensive new Wednesday-night series Kidnapped....

Diggle (David Ramsey) vehemently disagrees with Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) and her decision to form a team comprised of dangerous convicts in a scene from this week’s episode of Arrow, aptly entitled “Suicide Squad”. This scene also features Diggle arguing with Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) about this squad, which includes Deadshot (guest star Michael Rowe), Bronze Tiger (guest star Michael Jai White) and Shrapnel (guest star Sean Maher). Take a look at the latest footage before this new episode debuts Wednesday, March 19 at 8 PM ET on The CW Network, then read on for more details about several of The Flash spin-off stars getting introduced in an upcoming Arrow episode....

Superman, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo, and Tom and Jerry are not going away with the end of The WB; they’ll be back for a five-hour animation block for the new CW in the fall. The Hollywood Reporter says the kid’s schedule will be named Too Big for Your TV and will feature four new series, four returning series and two series that will comprise of the Pillow Head Hour, a block of programming designed to meet federally mandated education and informational programming requirements....

The Rocky franchise has been lucrative over the years, spanning 6 Rocky films and a sequel series, Creed, that has, so far, had two films with a third due out in November 2022. But things are not harmonious behind the scenes as a rift has grown between the producer of the Rocky films and their writer and star. And much like his most famous role, Sylvester Stallone has taken off the gloves and is pulling no punches as he fights for what he believes in....