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Joel Silver has had a history with producing numerous big-budget, high-profile action films, including Die Hard, Predator, Lethal Weapon and The Matrix. But he has never had the pleasure of seeing any of his films marketed for children. At least, not until now. Speed Racer, coming in May, will be able to market to kids in a very broad-based approach, according to Variety. Silver explains that Speed Racer needs all the attention it can get in a highly competitive summer, with the film opening only one week after Paramount unveils Iron Man....

In 1977, cinema fans were astonished by an extraordinary new adventure in a galaxy far, far away. Star Wars birthed a new generation of nerd culture spanning all ages, races, and genders. Prolific characters like Leia Organa, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader captivated audiences with one film. As fans bought lightsabers to pretend to be Luke, one character stood out because of how terrifying he was, both in physical presence and when he spoke....

The release of Tales of the Jedi is imminent, as the series is set to debut on Disney+ on Oct. 26. The series of shorts starring some fan-favorite characters has left fans with excitement, as the show will be a drastic change from some recent Star Wars projects released on the streaming service. Ahsoka Tano, the apprentice to Anakin Skywalker, is the star of the latest teaser from the official Star Wars Twitter account....

It has been almost three years since the last Star Wars film hit theaters. The ninth episode of the Skywalker Saga, The Rise of Skywalker, brought the newest of the franchise’s trilogies to an end while, supposedly, also completing the Skywalker Saga as a whole. However, there has been plenty of new Star Wars material to keep fans happy in the years since. The first season of The Mandalorian began airing on Disney+ about a month prior to The Rise of Skywalker’s release, and since then the franchise has really embraced television....

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.” - Picasso No art is created in a vacuum. When new art emerges it is inherently participating in a dialogue with all works preceding it. The history of art is a continuum of humanity’s creative side. Though art does not necessarily have any winners or losers, it does have its successes and failures. Successful artists live up to their predecessors, channeling their heroes’ works with ingenuity and nuance....

Two days before the first half of season one concludes with the mid-season finale this Saturday, September 27th at 9pm ET/PT, Starz announced that its hit series Outlander will return with the remaining eight episodes from season one on Saturday, April 4th, 2015. The critically - acclaimed series adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling books and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation) has already been picked up for a second season....

Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has come out as gay. Schnapp, who plays the (confirmed) closeted teen Will Byers on the Netflix sci-fi series, took to TikTok Thursday evening to joke about his friends and family’s unsurprised reaction to his sexuality, captioning the video “I guess I’m more similar to Will than I thought.” Though the actor, 18, writes in the on-screen text that he spent his entire life afraid to come out to friends and family—they already knew, and it wasn’t a big deal....

BLACK EYE ON WALL STREET Shares in CBS Corp., which plummeted 21 percent on Friday, dropped an additional 4 percent by midday today (Monday), trading at $7.77. Only a year ago, they were trading at $31.46, a decrease of more than 75 percent. The stock has been hit hard in recent days following an announcement by the company on Friday that it is cutting its outlook for the year and taking a $14-billion charge....

Paramount Pictures decided to roll out its summer adventure Super 8 a day early, earning a cool $1 million in select theaters. The movie, which stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, and Joel Courtney, opened in 324 theaters yesterday; screenings which were hosted by the social networking website Twitter. Super 8 opened in 1,200 theaters for midnight shows last night, which earned an estimated $500,000. The movie is projected to open somewhere between $20 million and $30 million for its opening weekend, which falls in line with Paramount’s expectations....

Our good friend Kellvin over at Latino Review has gotten his hands on a couple of interesting photographs from the highly anticipated Chev Chelios sequel Crank 2. They feature the new robotic heart that Chev will receive after Chinese mobsters steal his real, nearly indestructible heart for nefarious reasons. To get a look at these photos, CLICK HERE Latino Review’s anonymous source states: Chev has been outfitted with an ABIOCOR TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART....

When people think of Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) they also think of Robert Downey Jr. Aside from Benedict Cumberbatch, fans of Sherlock Holmes also long for the days of seeing Downey conduct some brilliant deducing on the big screen. It has been 11 years since Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law starred in the franchise. The ending of 2011’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows set things up things where audiences could expect a sequel with Sherlock literally coming back from the dead and correcting Watson’s paper, adding “The End?...

There are few more controversial people in show business than the likes of Chevy Chase. The abrasive and uncompromising funnyman has been performing for decades, getting his start within the original cast of Saturday Night Live, and after his departure from the program maintained a stellar movie career, becoming a major household name by the late ’70s. Chase’s performances included equal parts bumbling oaf and quick-witted smooth talker, garnering massive popularity from general audiences who fondly remember his iconic roles to this day....

According to Variety the presence of Roy Rogers is going to be coming back to theaters via a planned film trilogy that will be launched by 821 Entertainment. The company, based out of Nashville, has teamed up with Roy Rogers Family Entertainment Corp. to bring out a King of the Cowboys film trilogy. In addition to this there will animated TV, interactive game and other merchandising initiatives. According to Eric Geadelmann, 821 Entertainment Group CEO, this deal will enable his company “to exploit all the intellectual property controlled by the estate....

NBC’s ER (Thursdays, 10-11 p.m. ET) will provide a showcase for several marquee Emmy Award-winning and nominated guest stars this fall with a roster that includes Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street), John Mahoney (Frasier) and a return appearance of Oscar and Emmy winner Sally Field, who reprises the series role that won her an Emmy. In addition, John Stamos (Jake in Progress,Full House) will become a series regular when he resumes his previous guest-starring role from last year as Tony Gates, a savvy paramedic and medical student....

According to Variety Sci Fi is rebooting the 1980s film Alien Nation. The movie was the basis of a TV show that aired on Fox. Tim Minear (Angel) is hard at work writing this new version of the franchise. Producing is Fox 21. Alien Nation examines “the partnership between a veteran cop and his alien detective partner, set against the larger tale of alien ’newcomers’ who move to Earth and attempt to assimilate into society....

Ahead of the premiere of the fifth Scream movie in January, a trio of character posters have been released featuring the legacy cast members. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette have all three consistently starred in every movie in the series since the original was released in 1996. Each has been given their own character poster for Scream, with the “It’s always someone you know” tagline teasing that perhaps one of them could be behind the mask this time around....

This past Friday we revealed the full Friday schedule for Comic-Con 2010 and now it seems one of those panels will not be happening after all. Hitfix is reporting that The Weinstein Company is pulling its Piranha 3D panel from Comic-Con 2010. The new story reveals that Comic-Con denied the footage that they were planning on showing from the film, because it wasn’t family-friendly enough for the convention, according to Comic-Con’s director of marketing and public relations, Daniel Glanzer, who spoke to the site....

Beginning with DC Showcase: The Spectre on the DVD and Blu-ray for Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, DC Universe Animated Original Movies introduced DC Showcase Original Shorts, a series of ten minute animated short films featuring a lesser known DC character in their own adventure. The idea is that each new full-length film that is released from DC Universe Animated Original Movies will also feature a DC Showcase Original Short....

We travel to Atlanta, Georgia to speak with actor Paul Walker, director Justin Lin, and picture car coordinator Dennis McCarthy about the explosive new film It’s time to rev up your engines and get ready for another explosive chapter of the extremely popular film franchise, The Fast and the Furious. The series began in 2001 with it’s first chapter, The Fast and the Furious, and soon followed with more installments including 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Fast & Furious....

Seth Rogen has paved a successful career in Hollywood over the past two decades. The 40-year-old actor starred in countless comedies since his rise to fame in 2007’s Knocked Up, including Superbad, Pineapple Express, and This is the End. Now, Rogen is continuing his success with 2016’s Sausage Party, as he recently announced Sausage Party: Foodtopia, a new comedy series currently in the works for Prime Video. The actor seems to find success anywhere he turns, as audiences continue to fill theaters during his movie premieres....