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Once Rian Johnson has completed his promotional run for the upcoming mystery film Knives Out, which he wrote and directed, he will step back into a galaxy far, far away to continue working on the first installment in his Star Wars trilogy. Prior to the theatrical release of 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lucasfilm and Disney announced that Johnson would […]
Disney wasn’t happy with the performance of 20th Century Fox’s film arm in their first quarter as part of the movie-making giant. CEO Bob Iger made that clear on an earnings call last week, noting that the film division performed well below expectations. However, a new report from Variety seems to suggest that some of […]
Jussie Smollett‘s hate-crime scandal has cast a dark cloud over Empire, which is why it’s somewhat surprising that the series has gone to the scene of the crime—well, alleged crime. On Tuesday, production vehicles for Empire’s sixth and final season were spotted in Streeterville, Chicago, the area where Smollett claims he was attacked by racist, homophobic Trump-supporters. Several […]
The highly anticipated Sopranos prequel movie, The Many Saints of Newark, started production earlier this year with a tentative release of Sept. 25, 2020. James Gandolfini’s son Michael Gandolfini is set to star as a young Tony Soprano, while the rest of impressive cast’s characters have been kept mostly under wraps. Gandolfini, whose father died in in 2013, […]
A relic of the peak Pussy Posse era is back in mainstream discussions this week. That relic, a largely improvised independent project put together in the mid-90s and starring Leonardo DiCarpio and Tobey Maguire, is the subject of a New York Post piece published Monday that’s now giving other publications plenty to pull from in the […]
Success paired with a smile, at least according to Dwayne Johnson, is the key to silencing those considered clowns in a metaphorical sense. That’s the takeaway from a pair of tweets he shared in which a “clown,” notably not outright identified, is vaguely noted for his perceived clown activities. First, over the weekend, The Rock […]
During a recent interview on Bill Simmons’ podcast, Sarah Silverman said that she was dropped from an upcoming film because of a 2007 episode of her Comedy Central show The Sarah Silverman Program in which she wore blackface. “I recently was going to do two days on a movie, a sweet part in a cool […]
In an interview with Deadline, Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb says the division of Marvel Entertainment was “blindsided” by Netflix canceling their properties: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and Punisher. “The hardest part was while the situation at Netflix, which I really can’t go into other than to say that we were blindsided and the things that were to come weren’t finished […]
According to an exclusive from Deadline, both Shia LaBeouf and Robert De Niro have committed to star in the crime redemption drama After Exile. For those who can’t tell much about a movie from a two-word title (i.e. everybody) the movie will be about Mike Delany (played by LaBeouf), a recently released prisoner who had […]
The Eddie Murphy revival continues with Monday’s reveal of the trailer for Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Name. Brewer’s biographical Netflix film stars Murphy as the late multi-hyphenate Rudy Ray Moore, whose 1975 blaxploitation classic Dolemite inspired a run of sequels and related continuations that spanned four decades. The original Dolemite takes the […]
