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It’s been since March 2009 that we’ve heard any kind of substantial news about the big screen adaptation of DC Comics Shazam!, which had Dwayne Johnson attached in some capacity. It’s not know if the Journey 2: The Mysterious Island actor is still planning to don tights for this superhero adventure (various reports had him playing both Shazam! and Black Adam), but we do have a confirmation from screenwriter and comic book creator Geoff Johns (Green Lantern) that the movie is not dead....

Host/executive producer Shira Lazar discusses the innovative and informative web series What’s Trending Over the past few years, web series’ have come a long way from being low-rent alternatives to TV programming to high-quality content which just happens to be distributed online. It was only a matter of time before a premium news show was developed as a web series, with the first example being What’s Trending, which streams live on CBSNews....

Shudder, purveyors of movies that make you white-knuckle your couch in the dark, have purchased the distribution rights to When Evil Lurks. This new film by Argentine director Demián Rugna is set to wrap in 2023. The jack-of-all-trades writer/director/editor/producer has been at the forefront of a new wave of horror since 2002. Hailing from Buenos Aires, the 43-year-old director has quite a number of credits to his name. People familiar with the director’s history will know that this type of psychological horror is not new to him....

Can you believe this? Idiocracy is slowly but surely living up to its prophecies. For the first time in history, a super hero will appear on a piece of legal tender. Yes, that’s right. For a brief moment in time, the Silver Surfer will be replacing George Washington on the American Quarter. 20th Century Fox and the Franklin Mint have teamed up to make a coin that celebrates the release of Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer....

Although there was an obscene amount of success tied to the theatrical release of Spider-Man: No Way Home back in 2021, the action film ended up coming in short against Dune in the Best Visual Effects category, while at the 2022 Academy Award ceremony. Released through Sony pictures, the latest Spider-Man project quickly became the highest-grossing film ever released by the multinational corporation, while also holding the titled as the fourth-biggest film to gross an obscene amount of money over time....

IMAX Corporation and Columbia Pictures today announced that the highly-anticipated action-adventure Spider-Man 4, will be released to IMAX theatres simultaneously with the film’s worldwide release on May 5, 2011. The fourth installment of the successful Spider-Man franchise, based on the Marvel Comicbook character, will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience. The film will be distributed by Columbia Pictures domestically and by Sony Pictures Releasing International overseas....

Squid Game rightfully became the biggest series launch in Netflix history. Audiences around the globe binge-watched the show and are eager to know what is next. The series left off on a major cliffhanger with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) running out of the airport, most likely on a mission to stop next year’s games. We have watched Gi-hun grow a lot since the start of the first season. He started out as a selfish gambler who stole from his mother and failed as a father....

Michelle Yeoh is officially going to boldly go and lead her own Star Trek Black Ops Spin-Off. Yeoh first appeared as Philippa Georgiou, a member of the mysterious shadowy organization Section 31 that exists within the confines of the Federation, during season 1 of the CBS All Access series. Since then, rumors have swirled that Yeoh could be tapped to head up her very own Star Trek series and, as it just so happens, those rumors turned out to be true....

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas brought us the phenomenal world of Star Wars. The one-time independent film has since blossomed into a multimedia franchise that now has become one of the highest-grossing movie franchises ever, and even has its own theme park with rides and attractions revolving around the world within the films and TV shows. Star Wars is now one of the most popular franchises on the planet, which has triggered the release of a great deal of fresh stories, including The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Andor....

Despite his resolute belief in the cinematic experience, Steven Spielberg has admitted that there is one movie that he now believes he would have considered as a streaming movie: The Post. Although Spielberg has previously been very vocal about streaming movies not being worthy of Oscar nominations, it seems that his stance may have evolved over the last few years, and in his latest interview with the New York Times, he commented on how he would not consider a different approach to the release of The Post....

The trend of turning hit movies into TV shows continues, with CBS putting a new series based on the hit 1981 movie Stripes into development. The show hails from Trevor Moore, Sam Brown and Zach Cregger, three of the five creators of the hit IFC series The Whitest Kids U’Know. Ivan Reitman, who directed the original movie, is on board to executive produce and direct the pilot episode, although it remains unclear if any of the stars of the original movie, like Bill Murray, will have any involvement in the series....

SAG CONTINUES TWO-FRONT BATTLE Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday accused the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers of offering a union contract worth tens of millions of dollars less than the one it signed with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. “It’s obvious that they are trying to get us to bargain up to a deal they already know is unacceptable,” SAG executive director Doug Allen told the Associated Press....

WAS KOPPEL SQUEEZED OUT? In an interview with New Yorkmagazine, Ted Koppel has implied that he was squeezed out of ABC’s Nightlinewhen ABC made him an offer “that they knew I wouldn’t accept.” Koppel also has indicated that he had been at odds with ABC News chief David Westin and other ABC network officials who had wanted to revamp the late-night news program. “I’m not a stupid guy,” Koppel told New York....

GIBSON’S DEPARTURE LEAVES ABC NEWS IN FLUX The largely perfunctory manner in which it was announced that Diane Sawyer would replace Charles Gibson as anchor of ABC’s World News has left many analysts questioning the timing of Gibson’s announcement and the network’s response to it. Many noted that in Gibson’s lengthy farewell message to ABC staff members, he made no mention at all of Sawyer. And news chief David Westin’s statement merely suggested that he had no other candidate in mind when he decided to elevate Sawyer to the anchor post....

The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnolia Pictures announced today they have acquired US rights to Take This Waltz, the eagerly anticipated new film written, directed and produced by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and acclaimed actress Sarah Polley. Starring two-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby and Sarah Silverman, Take This Waltz is an insightful, sophisticated film about a young woman struggling to choose between a husband that she loves and another man that she has fallen passionately in love with....

SFX Magazine recently got to chat with The Avengers director Joss Whedon, who spoke about the main difficulties in bringing this ensemble movie to the big screen. Here’s an excerpt from the site’s article: You can CLICK HERE to read the site’s entire interview with Joss Whedon. “What I will struggle with, in the outline and throughout, is that I would like to put these actors in a room and just make Glengarry Glen Ross,” he laughs....

The Avengers is currently shooting in Cleveland, Ohio, working towards a May 4, 2012 release date. The production has transformed the city’s East 9th Street to resemble New York City’s 42nd Street for a pivotal battle sequence. Principle photography on this epic fight scene begins August 15, after the cast members wrap up their shoot at NASA’s Plum Brook facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Here’s what executive producer Patricia Whitcher had to say about this upcoming shoot in Cleveland....

The latest trailer for The Batman was unleashed on an unsuspecting (ok, suspecting) public at the DC FanDome event in October 2021. Starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Zoë Kravitz as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth, Paul Dano as Edward Nashton/Riddler, Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin, and Jeffrey Wright as Commissioner James Gordon, the trailer has been a massive success online, racking up more than 33 million views since its debut....

Imagine having millions, if not billions, of people bowing down to your every whim. As Mel Brooks said in History of the World, Part I, “It’s good to be the king.” It’s also good to be emperor, president for life, or whatever other title your realm bestows on you. As history as told us countless times, not all political leaders are looking out for their citizens. Some are greedy, power-hungry scumbags who will do anything to maintain their grip on power....

Cinema is something that should constantly be evolving. With that said, it’s rare to see movies that break free from the typical structure of filmmaking that we know. In 1980, a horrifying film entitled Cannibal Holocaust came on the market and shocked critics and audiences alike. Many consider this movie to be the first found footage film in history. It introduced us to a new type of movie where even though the plot is fiction, the film is made in such a way that it feels as if you’re watching real footage....