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We caught up with acclaimed filmmaker Ron Howard late last Monday night, the last day of shooting on Canon’s Project Imagin8ion short When You Find Me. He is producing alongside his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, the director of the film. During a lengthy discussion about this unique supernatural drama, which required Bryce and her writing partner Dane Charbeneau to create an original story from 8 winning photographs sent in from people across the globe, Ron let us know that he wasn’t able to direct When You Find Me himself, as originally intended, because he was knee deep in pre-production on the Formula 1 racing biopic Rush....

The second season of the anthology series Sacred Lies will feature a new cast and a storyline that draws inspiration from a story collected from the Brothers Grimm, The Singing Bone, as well as real-life murder cases. This season of Sacred Lies follows Elsie (Jordan Alexander) as she searches for the family she never knew after being abandoned as a child. The search leads her to her father, Peter (Ryan Kwanten), an inmate who may be guilty of more than the crimes he’s currently incarcerated for and Harper (Juliette Lewis), a telemarketer turned arm-chair detective with an obsessive hobby of searching for unidentified murder victims....

Image Entertainment has released the DVD trailer for She’s Not Our Sister, which hits DVD May 1. This musical stage play, directed by Vernon Snoop Robinson, stars Kellita Smith, Christian Keyes, and Drew Sidora and centers on three sisters who discover family secrets after their father passes away. Check it out. Sibling relationships are complicated–on a good day; but when three sisters learn that their estranged father may have left them a multi-million dollar inheritance, fireworks really ignite!...

Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was released in 2015, and its sequel Sicario: Day of the Soldado came out in 2018. Now, Sicario 3 is in development and will effectively conclude the trilogy that Villeneuve started. Though he chose not to direct Day of the Soldado, many believe that Villeneuve should return to direct Sicario 3. More than that, fans of the series also want to see Emily Blunt — who also wasn’t part of Day of the Soldado — to return as FBI Agent Kate Macer....

Newly launched Sony label Stage 6 Films has signed on to distribute the Butcher Brothers’ re-imagination of the 1986 horror classic April Fool’s Day, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is currently shooting in North Carolina. The new April Fool’s Day revolves around a party given by two uber rich siblings, played by Taylor Cole (Supernatural) and Josh Henderson (Desperate Housewives), for their friend (Scout Taylor-Compton of Halloween). Tragedy strikes when a friend falls over a balcony and dies....

The creators of South Park have never been known for steering clear of subjects that could lead to controversy, and it seems a canceled movie centering on Donald Trump was to be no exception. Trey Parker and Matt Stone have shared details of the project that they were set to work on just days before the first Covid shutdowns. Having not made a feature film since Team America: World Police in 2004, the movie, which would have made use of “deepfake” technology, would have been a welcome return to theaters for the duo....

Because all the kids love the smell of Jeremy Piven in the morning! Dimension Films announced today that Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 4D is taking moviegoers to a whole new dimension in 4D with Aromascope. Cutting edge filmmaker and director of the highly popular Spy Kids franchise, Robert Rodriguez, was one of the first to re-introduce audiences to 3D since its inception in the 1950s. After many years away from the cultural mindset Robert Rodriguez brought back a whole new wave and rebirth of 3D into mainstream cinema in 2003 with Spy Kids 3D: Game Over....

When it arrived on Netflix in 2021 Squid Game was not expected to be one of the biggest series to ever arrive on the platform, but audiences were happy to dictate otherwise. After releasing in September, Squid Game because the most-watched show of the year and in the platform’s history, racking up a number one streaming spot in 94 countries with 142 million subscribers watching 1.65 billion viewing hours in the first four weeks....

Stan Lee has made cameo appearances in almost every Marvel Comics-based film made to date, and has now completed his cameo appearance for Iron Man, and is in planning for his appearance in The Incredible Hulk. In an interview with Forbes, Lee discussed his cameos. Lee says: I’ve already done my Iron Man cameo. I think you’ll get a big kick out of it when you see it. They shot The Hulk I think in Toronto and other places and I wasn’t able to fly there....

With Star Wars: Episode VII being prepped for a 2015 theatrical release date, LucasFilm announced today that their animated TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming to an end after Season 5. They are now developing an untitled series to take its place, with no story details released at this time. Supervising director Dave Filoni appears in a video update, giving fans a sneak peek at some of the upcoming Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 5 episodes as it enters into some of the biggest story arcs the series has ever seen....

The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital Conference in Carlsbad, Calif. got an interesting meeting of the minds recently. In a story from Home Media Magazine, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, and chairman and co-founder of Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates, recently appeared together at the digital conference. The subject of discussion was the digital delivery of home entertainment. It seems that the movie business is trying to avoid some of the pitfalls that the music business ran up against....

WSJ: FRONT-END DEALS ARE PASSÉ With third-party financing deals drying up and DVD sales falling, Hollywood’s major studios are now cutting first-dollar deals with top stars – that is, deals that guarantee the actors a percentage of the gross whether or not the film is profitable, the Wall Street Journalreported today (Thursday). “The days…where the star gets whatever he wants and gets paid through the roof – those days are over, for everybody,” Eric Gold, a producer and manager of such clients as Jim Carrey and Ellen DeGeneres, told the newspaper....

DREAMWORKS’ DREAMGIRLS: THEY CAN DREAM, CAN’T THEY? Despite the fact that it will be playing in about a quarter of the theaters showing Paramount/Dreamworks’ Night at the Museum, analysts are predicting that the musical Dreamgirlshas a fighting chance of unseating the Ben Stiller fantasy-comedy as the box-office leader this weekend. Dreamgirls opened to a staggering $8.5 million on Christmas day, but it has not come close to equaling Museum’s mid-week grosses....

DARK KNIGHT IS NOW A DARK HORSE The Dark Knight, the most successful movie at the box office in 2008, may have been passed over by virtually all the critics groups for best film, but it did receive recognition from a group that really counts – the Producers Guild of America. The PGA announced that Knightwas one of five films nominated for its top award, the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, due to be presented on Jan....

i>KNIGHT SLAYS ANOTHER RECORD The Dark Knightlithely scaled another difficult hurdle at the box office this weekend, easily becoming the first movie in history to earn $300 million in 10 days. The Warner Bros. movie took in an estimated $75.6 million domestically to bring its total to $314 million since its debut on July 18, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers. The Will Ferrell comedy Step Brothers opened in second place with about $30 million, while another new film, The X-Files: I Want to Believeearned an unbelievably low $10 million (although a Fox spokesman maintained that the figure was “within our reasonable expectations”)....

BOX OFFICE FLUNKS INTELLIGENCE TEST Giving further evidence – if it were ever needed – that teenage boys rule the box office, Paramount’s gross-out stunts movie Jackass Number Tworaked in an estimated $28.1 million at the box office over the weekend, almost three times as much as another film aimed at the same audience – Jet Li’s Fearless,which came in second with $10.6 million. Yet another film aimed principally at teenage males came in third, Gridiron Gang, which took the top spot last week, this week earned an additional $9....

DISNEY MOVIE IS YEAR’S BIGGEST CABLE-TV DRAW Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place: The Moviedrew 11.4 million viewers Friday night, making it the most-watched entertainment telecast of the year on cable TV. The show also outdrew every other program airing on TV Friday night – broadcast or cable, attracting nearly twice the number of viewers who tuned in to the Washington Redskins/New England Patriots preseason football game, which pulled in 5....

PTC DEMANDING FCC FINE NBC FOR EMMY REMARKS L. Brent Bozell’s Parents Television Council, which has spearheaded the campaign against indecent language on television, has demanded that the FCC fine NBC for not censoring the comments by actresses Helen Mirren and Calista Flockhart during Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards telecast. Both had expressed concerns about falling “tits over ass” as they came up the stairs. Calling the common British colloquialism “vulgar and obscene,” Bozell said Thursday, “It is utterly irresponsible and atrocious for NBC to air this vulgar language during the safe harbor time [before 10:00 p....

Sylvester Stallone is finally be stepping away from starring roles in some of his biggest movie franchises like The Expendables and the Rocky spinoff Creed, but when looking back on more than five decades of movies, it seems that the Oscar-winner has one moment from all of his films that stands out more than the rest. Sharing on his Instagram account, Stallone made the surprise revelation that working on Rocky Balboa, the sixth movie in the Rocky franchise, is the highlight of his career....

You can bring home the film that shows us how a 60s cultural phenomena came to be on DVD and Blu-ray this December. Taking Woodstock will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 15. We don’t have any pricing details as of yet, but you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The film stars Demetri Martin, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Dan Fogler....