Director Zach Snyder takes a huge step back with his male adolescent fantasy, Sucker Punch. Snyder’s filmography had been impressive up to this point. Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen, and the CGI - Legends of the Guardians, were visually stunning fx films with dark undertones and significant storylines. Sucker Punch is essentially a two hour music video with panty and stocking-clad girls in ludicrous video game environments. The lack of dialogue is laughable....
Sylvester Stallone recently dropped some new information about his upcoming fifth installment of the John Rambo series Rambo V: A Savage Hunt to AICN, the first item being the new title. He also said that the film will indeed take place in the United States, but that it will be structured differently from the sequels we’ve seen in the past. According to Stallone himself, Rambo V: A Savage Hunt will take place in the Pacific Northwest, in the general area where First Blood took place....
Thor is one of the only original Avengers left standing, and he’s about to make MCU history. Thor: Love and Thunder will mark the fourth feature film centered around the God of Thunder, which is a feat no other Marvel hero has been able to accomplish over the last 14 years. After Thor: The Dark World was so poorly received in 2013, the future of the Thor standalone franchise was put into question....
Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon and Wilmer Valderrama from That ’70s Show reunite on camera to remember their earliest break into stardom and growing up on set; and members of one of Hollywood’s most comedic families - Keenen Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans - come together to share stories about their funniest sketches on In Living Color during Fox’s 25th Anniversary Special, airing Sunday, April 22 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT)....
Sylvester Stallone is an American actor and filmmaker with humble beginnings. Born to an Italian father hairdresser and French-Jewish mother women’s wrestler promoter, Stallone grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. During his birth, complications with forceps paralyzed the nerve in his face, giving him his well-known drooping appearance and slurred speech. The accident became a source for bullying, but he developed his self-esteem through bodybuilding and acting, qualities he could control....
It has been promised for ages, but it took the overwhelming popularity of the adult-loved, kid-friendly Yo Gabba Gabba! to finally see renowned superhero ska-rock band The Aquabats get their own TV show. The Hub, a new family friendly cable channel, has ordered 13 episodes of this rollicking, rocking adventure show which will pit the Orange County favorites against some of their most beloved foes, including the Sand Fleas, Powdered Milk Man, and the Floating Eye of Death....
Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios are beginning production tomorrow (Monday) on The Avengers and director Joss Whedon made an announcement via Whedonesque: Hi Pumpkins, joss here. Tomorrow we start shooting (I THINK I’m legally permitted to say that). Day one. That’s right. We’ll be shooting the pivotal death/betrayal/product placement/setting up the sequel/coming out scene, at the following address: [Marvel Lawyers rush in, take Joss’s keyboard, blowtorch a picture of his family like in “Stormy Monday”, drink his milkshake, leave the seat up, fluff his pillows, violently unfluff his pillows, leave]...
It seems a brand new rumor about an upcoming biopic of Kurt Cobain has been laid to rest already. British tabloid The Sun ran a story earlier today claiming that Robert Pattinson had “landed his dream role” playing Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain in new biopic Heavier Than Heaven, but Spin has shot the rumor down. The Sun’s piece also stated that Courtney Love wanted Scarlett Johansson to play her in the film, but Spin spoke with Love’s manager, Jonathan Daniel, who said he has never heard this come up before....
According to Deadline, Robert Zemeckis has dropped out of Warner Bros.’ drama, Replay, as the director moves forward with the Denzel Washington starred Paramount thriller, Flight. Warner Bros. is looking for another director for the Jason Smilovic-scripted Replay. Flight is written by John Gatins, and centers on a commercial airline pilot named Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington). When his plane malfunctions and a crash seems imminent, he saves the day with some heroic flying and manages to land the plane with minimal casualties....
The 1984 romantic action comedy Romancing the Stone will be remade as a new TV series for NBC and executive producer/director Shawn Levy. The Forgotten creator Mark Friedman will write the pilot script, which centers on a successful woman who teams up with an adventurer on weekly missions. Her ultimate goal is to find her missing brother. The Romancing the Stone movie starred Kathleen Turner as the successful woman and Michael Douglas as the risk-taker....
Action movie superstar and Hollywood icon Sylvester Stallone becomes a superhero in the first trailer for Samaritan. Released courtesy of the official Prime Video YouTube channel, the footage introduces Stallone as an aged, thought-dead superhero of old, who is tracked down by a young boy left wondering why the hero known as Samaritan walked away from his great power and his great responsibility. You can check out the first trailer for Samaritan below....
The trailer for the third season of Netflix’s breakout comedy series Sex Education has been released. Set in the fictional school of Moordale Secondary, the series focuses on sex and intimacy-related problems faced by the school’s students and adults. The trailer for season 3 of the show kicks things up a few notches with the introduction of a strict new principal who does not appreciate the school’s reputation for openness regarding sex issues....
Skydance is edging closer to its feature-length debut. The animation studio has just unveiled its first teaser trailer for Luck on, of all days, this past Friday, the 13th! The trailer can be viewed below. The teaser starts with an introduction to Bob, the black cat, as he explains how luck is treated in this magical world. The corporate-themed world is run by friendly-looking creatures such as rabbits, pigs, leprechauns, goats, and more....
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all worldwide rights to Smashed. The film, directed by James Ponsoldt (Off the Black), is produced by Jonathan Schwartz (Like Crazy) and Andrea Sperling (Like Crazy) of Super Crispy Entertainment, who were honored at Sundance this year with a Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing, as well as Jennifer Cochis. The film is executive produced by Audrey and Zygi Wilf....
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has signed a three-year marketing and distribution deal with CBS Films, under which Sony Pictures will handle international theatrical distribution of CBS Films productions as well as service worldwide distribution of the unit’s films in the home entertainment marketplace, it was announced today by Peter Schlessel, president, Worldwide Affairs for Sony Pictures, and Jeff Blake, chairman, Sony Pictures Worldwide Marketing & Distribution. CBS Films will handle domestic theatrical distribution of all titles and retains rights in a limited number of foreign territories....
While Lisa Kudrow may be popular with Friends viewers, reality TV star Spencer Pratt is definitely not a fan. Recently, Pratt posted a video to TikTok answering someone asking him to name the rudest celebrity he’s ever met. Without hesitation, he was quick to name Kudrow, though he kept it vague by not offering details about why he felt this way. In that video, Pratt had only referred to the Friends star as the “worst human” he’s ever met, and this even had fellow reality TV personality Bethenny Frankel chiming in to suggest she had her own interesting experience with Kudrow....
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story appeared to be the conclusion of Cassian Andor’s story. However, this is not the last time we will see Diego Luna in Star Wars. With all the latest reports and developments doing the rounds, we now officially know that Disney+ will release an all-new, 12-episode series called Andor, which gives us a detailed backstory of Cassian’s origin. The new show will be set five years prior to the events in the Rogue One storyline....
i>KINGDOM WEARS BOX-OFFICE CROWN Forbidden Kingdom, the martial-arts family film that brought together Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time, wound up at the top of the domestic box office over the weekend with an estimated $20.9 million in ticket sales. In an interview with Bloomberg News, Paul Dergarabedian, president of Media By Numbers, said, “The film is a good, solid action movie and audience, especially young audience, is looking for that shot of adrenaline....
AUGUST GENERATES BOX-OFFICE HEAT Ordinarily August is the time of year when many young moviegoers realize that they’ve blown a lot of money on the studios’ big blockbusters during the summer and now’s the time to cut back. Well, they haven’t reached that conclusion this August, which has seen big increases over last year. This past weekend, the top 12 movies earned about $125 million, according to studio estimates – up 12....
SCORSESE FINALLY SCORES AN OSCAR After being nominated six times for a best director Oscar, Martin Scorsese finally held the award in his hands Sunday night. Moreover, The Departed,the film that he won it for, also was awarded the top prize as best picture, which was accepted by producer Graham King. “So many people have been wishing this for me and my family,” Scorsese told the audience at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood and a worldwide TV audience....
