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Ruben Fleischer, who most recently directed the break-out hit Zombieland, will develop to direct Columbia Pictures’ Babe in the Woods, it was announced today by Matthew Tolmach and Doug Belgrad, Presidents of Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by Mike White, is an action-comedy centering on a female freshman from the Midwest who arrives at Yale and becomes a target of the New Jersey mob. White will produce the project through his Rip Cord Productions banner....

In a story from The LA Times, Russell Crowe has attached himself to play the lead role in a movie version of The Equalizer. Crowe will embody the character of Robert McCall for the big screen. In the 1980s crime show, McCall was a mysterious agent that was brought to life by late actor Edward Woodward. McCall’s background was somewhat of a mystery. At one point he “worked for a top-secret agency, where he did some pretty horrible things” but he eventually found himself helping people every week on the show....

Marvel’s Scarlet Witch TV series reportedly has a title and it might include another major Marvel Cinematic Universe character. Back in September, it was announced that Tom Hiddleston’s Loki and Elizabeth Olsen as Scarlet Witch were getting their own shows on the upcoming Disney+ streaming service. It was later confirmed that the Loki show is in the works by Bob Iger, but he did not mention anything about the Scarlet Witch show....

Superhero movies tend to have a way of generating rumors without having to do anything to instigate it, and it looks like the same has happened when it comes to Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which doesn’t hit cinemas until 2023 but has already seen the internet buzzing with talk of Zachary Levi’s titular hero being set to become a part of the new Justice League in the DCEU’s near future....

English singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran has had a decade to remember since the release of his debut album “+” in 2011, becoming one of the biggest selling music artists in the world, winning multiple awards and even getting to star in an episode of Game of Thrones. While his cameo role in the George R. R. Martin TV series gained some very mixed reviews, it looks like the Yorkshire-born star is about to add to his acting resume by joining Black Panther’s Danny Sapani, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Winstone and Jennifer Saunders in action-comedy Sumotherhood, as revealed by The Hollywood Reporter....

Recently, MovieWeb went out to Phoenix, Arizona to attend the press junket for the Rob Schneider vehicle The Benchwarmers. In honor of spring training, this event was held at the Tempe Diablo Stadium where various members of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim could be seen practicing America’s Favorite Pastime. The Benchwarmers is a tale of three older men (Schneider, David Spade and Jon Heder) who were “benchwarmers” when they were kids....

The writers behind Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Pat Casey and Josh Miller, have now revealed the video game inspiration behind the upcoming threequel, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Appearing at the Klamath Community College Comic Con 2022, Casey and Miller discussed the release of the hugely successful video game sequel, which hit screens last month, before revealing the source material they will turn to when bringing that surprise mid-credits character into the fray in a future installment....

There had been grumblings that Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter was putting the kibosh on his planned spin-off Mayans MC in the wake of the Trump election. Sutter claimed he wanted to create a more positive landscape on television, but didn’t address his impending show directly. It appears that the spin-off is still moving ahead, as one Sons of Anarchy star has confirmed his involvement. Details on Mayans MC have remained fairly scare during the writing stages....

HOLLYWOOD BECKONS BECKHAM The $250-million deal to bring David Beckham to Los Angeles as the starring player for the Los Angeles Galaxy Major League Soccer team may only represent the prelude to a more intimate business relationship between him and Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of the team, and billionaire Phil Anschutz in particular, analysts observed Thursday. Following the success of his The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which was distributed by Disney, Anschutz has reportedly been planning a wider expansion of his film output, and the glamorous Beckham could provide him with significant international star appeal....

TIGHT RACE AT BOX OFFICE PREDICTED Box office analysts are having a tough time figuring out which film is likely to come out on top this weekend. Several figure that the George Clooney starrer Michael Clayton, which opened in limited release a week ago, is likely to take the lead this week, despite the fact that it is likely to see a significant drop in the major cities where it played....

MOURNING IMUS? The “other shoe” dropped on shock-jock Don Imus Thursday when CBS announced that it was canceling his radio program on its owned-and-operated WFAN-AM in New York and syndicated by its subsidiary Westwood One to stations all over the country. The cancellation came as Imus hosted a charity “radiothon” to raise money for The Tomorrow’s Children Fund and The Imus Ranch, which aid underprivileged children. During the final broadcast he again apologized for his “idiotic” remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team but noted that he was employing language used in the black community....

STUDIOS PLAN SWITCH FROM SAG TO AFTRA Twentieth Century Fox Television may shoot its programs with electronic cameras in order to scrap its contracts for those shows with the Screen Actors Guild, which ordinarily represents actors who appear on programs that are shot on film, the studio confirmed Tuesday. It will then renegotiate those contracts with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. The development was first reported Tuesday by Nikki Finke on her Deadline Hollywood Daily blog, who also published a statement she received from the studio: “With all the uncertainty surrounding the stalled negotiations with SAG, TCFTV is indeed considering shooting its spring pilots under the AFTRA agreement....

WHO SAYS THE NETS ARE DYING? The broadcast networks drew one of the biggest primetime audiences of the decade last week as viewers turned out en masse for CBS’s coverage of the AFC championship on Sunday, which attracted the biggest audience for an AFC title game in 21 years, and for the first two nights of the season of Fox’s American Idol. According to Nielsen Research, the game drew 46,695,000 viewers (compared with the 47,500,000 who tuned in for the New England-Miami contest on NBC in 1986)....

Speculation about the future of the DCEU’s Justice League has been increasing over the last few months following a number of changes at Warner Bros. Discovery, the seeming disbanding of the DCEU as it was, and moving on to something new. In the midst of this, the question of Henry Cavill’s possible return as Superman has been a constant among his many fans, and the imminent arrival of Black Adam, some alleged leaked footage, and plenty of Twitter comments have seen this reach new heights, including suggestions that Cavill could even have been filming new scenes as Superman for The Flash....

The new Supermarket Sweep will premiere this fall on ABC, and a first look teaser gives us a peek at the rebooted version of the series with new host Leslie Jones. Following previous reports that the reboot would be premiering this year, the new teaser reveals that Supermarket Sweep is now officially set to return on Oct. 18. “Sundays aren’t just the days before Monday anymore. That’s because I’m taking over Sunday nights with Supermarket Sweep,” Jones says in the teaser, which was posted on her Twitter account....

Last March, we reported that Nickelodeon is resurrecting the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a new animated series. Today, it has been revealed that the show will air its Season 1 Premiere Saturday, September 29 at 11 AM PT. The series will kick off with two back-to-back episodes to start the 26-episode season. Sean Astin voices the sai-wielding Raphael, Jason Biggs portrays the sword-swinging Leonardo, Greg Cipes plays the nunchuck-flinging Michelangelo, and Rob Paulsen rounds out the cast as the bo staff master Donatello....

The Avengers is currently in post-production, with a release date set for May 4, 2012. Even though this is a big-budget ensemble, some scenes were shot in an unconventional way, using an iPhone 4. Take a look at what director of photography Seamus McGarvey had to say about using the iPhone for several shots seen in The Avengers, some of which actually made it into the trailer. The cinematographer didn’t reveal which shots were crafted using the smart phone, but it doesn’t seem like there is any difference in quality throughout the trailer....

The Bear is an FX TV show, streaming on Hulu, that centers around a young chef, Carmen, who takes over the family restaurant when his brother dies. Prior to this, he had been a successful chef at a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York City. Returning to Chicago to run the Original Beef of Chicagoland creates a stark contrast between his past and present. Despite his obvious talent as a chef, star Jeremy Allen White – speaking to W Magazine – says that Carmen is “a fish out of water” in this more casual restaurant....

Stop-motion animation is one of the most time-honored mediums of film. For decades, storytelling through this method has become beloved by audiences because it exemplifies such a unique creative perspective. According to an article from Focus Features detailing the history of stop-motion: “Single frame by single frame (and there are 24 frames per second in a motion picture), animators subtly and painstakingly manipulate tangible objects (characters, props, sets, etc.) on a working stage… It is movie magic crafted by hand....

Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Mario, Drew Sidora and Anne Fletcher talk about their latest film Oh, the wonderful streets of Baltimore - they’ve never looked so good since The Wire. But really, HBO kind of showed the real side of the city. And before that, it was NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Streets. What makes these shows really ’true to the city’ is they were shot right on those very streets where the real deals go on....