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Hollywood advocacy groups are coming to Scarlett Johansson’s defense. Earlier this week, the Oscar-nominated actress filed a lawsuit against Disney over its decision to simultaneously release Black Widow in theaters and on Disney+. Johansson claimed the move was a breach of contract and would potentially cost her tens of millions of dollars in backend compensation. Disney described the filing as “meritless” and “callous […]
Another Will Smith project is headed to the small screen. According to Deadline, Netflix has secured the global rights to Fast & Loose, a STXfilms action-thriller that was at the center of a a major bidding war that reportedly involved Warner Bros, Paramount, MGM, and Sony. The film tells the story of John Riley (Smith), an American who wakes up in Tijuana with […]
In partnership with Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Productions, Universal acquired the worldwide rights to The Exorcist for $400 million with its sights set on a trilogy starring Leslie Odom Jr., Variety has learned. Ellen Burstyn will reprise her Oscar-nominated role as Chris MacNeil in the 1973 film by the same name. Odom will play a father who tracks down MacNeil after his […]
During her time working on American Beauty in 1999, actress Mena Suvari said she had one particularly strange encounter with her co-star Kevin Spacey. In October 2017, Spacey was accused of making sexual advances towards actor Anthony Rapp when he was a minor. Spacey eventually addressed the allegations, but over a dozen others accused him of sexual […]
Yasiin Bey will return to the silver screen in a forthcoming biopic about the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. Bey will play the title role in Thelonious, which is slated to start up production in the summer of 2022. Jupiter Rising Film co-founders Alberto Marzan and Peter Lord Moreland announced Wednesday that Bey has signed on to play the lead role. […]
After a nearly two-year delay, SopranosCon is returning and taking place at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey on July 24-25. The creators are making the event bigger and better this time around, and instead of focusing on just The Sopranos, they’re expanding the convention to cover the entire mob movie genre and calling […]
Ahead of its release this Friday (July 23), Paramount Pictures has released the final trailer for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. Henry Golding, who’s best known for starring in Crazy Rich Asians and Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, takes on the lead role of Snake Eyes, as he learns the ways of the ninja warrior from an ancient Japanese clan called […]
Deadline reports Antonio Banderas has been added to an already powerhouse cast for the forthcoming fifth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise. Harrison Ford is returning as the titular character, and will be joined by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round, Doctor Strange, Hannibal), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), and Shaunette Renée Wilson (Black Panther). Steven Spielberg has chosen to step […]
Early reactions for the James Gunn-directed movie The Suicide Squad have arrived and the folks that got to see it really enjoyed it. Reactions from critics and journalists were pretty positive, with many saying the film was violent, gory, chaotic, funny, unique, and had some great acting. It definitely seems like the movie fully utilized its R-rating. “Any doubts you might have […]
WandaVision director Matt Shakman has just been tapped to direct the next Star Trek movie that will be coming out of Paramount and JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot. According to Deadline, Shakman chose to direct Star Trek out of a laundry list of other projects he could have taken on. After WandaVision just landed a boggling 23 Emmy nominations, Shakman has become an […]
