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‘The Nightingale’: Director Mélanie Laurent Unites Dakota And Elle Fanning In WWII Drama By Ben Pearson/March 3, 2020 4:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Dakota and Elle Fanning have acted in the same movies before, lending their voices to the English dubs of My Neighbor Totoro and appearing in I Am Sam when they were very young. But now actress/director Mélanie Laurent will bring the sisters together in a major way in her newest film, The Nightingale, an adaptation of author Kristin Hannah’s bestselling World War II novel from 2015....

‘Tiger King’ TV Series Casts Nicolas Cage To Play Joe Exotic For ‘American Vandal’ Showrunner [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2020 12:10 pm EST A new report says Cage will suit up as Joe Exotic, the subject of the wildly popular Netflix documentary series Tiger King, in a new scripted series from the showrunner of Netflix’s American Vandal. Variety brings word about Cage’s first TV project, which will consist of eight episodes and is being produced by CBS Television Studios and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television Studios....

‘Venom 2’ Is Now Titled ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ – And Has Been Delayed Eight Months By Jacob Hall/April 21, 2020 10:30 am EST We all knew the Venom sequel was going to feature the villain Carnage. After all, the red-skinned symbiote and his partner-in-murder Cletus Kasady are the Marvel anti-hero’s most well-known villain. And the first film’s hilariously ill-conceived credits sequence featured a cameo appearance from Woody Harrelson, complete with a red wig seemingly borrowed from Party City, as an imprisoned Kasady....

‘Venom 2’ Officially Locks Down Andy Serkis To Direct [Updated] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 5, 2019 2:24 pm EST Update: It’s official – Andy Serkis will direct Venom 2 for Sony, via The Hollywood Reporter. Beyond the news that he’s locked down the gig, no other details are available at this time. Sony Pictures is on the hunt for a Venom 2 director, and the studio recently met with three high-profile contenders for the job....

‘Zoolander: Super Model’ Animated Miniseries Is Finally Available On CBS All Access By Ethan Anderton/May 27, 2020 6:00 am EST What’s that? You had no idea that there was an animated series based on Ben Stiller’s farcical fashion comedy Zoolander? Well, prepare to have your mind blown. Zoolander: Super Model was released on Netflix back in 2016 but only in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and it’s never been officially available in the United States....

About 120,000 Entertainment Industry Crew Jobs Have Been Lost Due To The Coronavirus Crisis By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 19, 2020 10:00 am EST Variety reports that about 120,000 below-the-line entertainment industry workers have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis, which represents about about 80% of the 150,000 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, according to the IATSE. The leaders of the International Cinematographers Guild, which has about 9,000 members, disclosed the IATSE estimate in a newsletter to their members, which painted a bleak outlook for the immediate future:...

Ethan Hawke Directing Documentary About Paul Newman And Joanne Woodward By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 15, 2020 3:15 pm EST Actor and sometimes filmmaker Ethan Hawke is set to direct a documentary about Hollywood couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Newman met Woodward while they were both working on the Broadway production Picnic, and the two married in 1958, and would remain married for 50 years until Newman’s death in 2008. Woodward is still alive as of the writing of this story....

I Guess All Your Favorite Characters Shop At Walmart, At Least According To This Cameo-Laden Super Bowl Commercial By Ben Pearson/Jan. 29, 2020 2:30 pm EST The Super Bowl is coming up this Sunday, and since we evidently live in a world in which Super Bowl commercials no longer debut during the actual Super Bowl anymore (get off my lawn, etc.), we’ve started to see a few trickle out a few days early....

Kylo Ren’s Dark Side Origins In ‘Star Wars’ Comics Won’t Please All Fans, Writer Warns By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 23, 2019 10:30 am EST Star Wars fans are a vocal bunch. So The Rise of Kylo Ren writer Charles Soule is forewarning fans that they may not all be pleased with how the Kylo Ren origins story goes down in his new comic book. Ahead of the highly-anticipated release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker this December, Disney is releasing a new Marvel comic detailing Ben Solo’s journey to the Dark Side in a four-part comic series written by Soule and drawn by Will Sliney....

LOL: Honest Trailers Tackles The Hellscape Of 2020 With Some Help From Patton Oswalt By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 1, 2021 7:00 am EST Normally the folks behind Honest Trailers are taking shots at movies new and old, but this year, they couldn’t help but take aim at the live-action adaptation of The Book of Revelation that encompasses the year 2020. Now that we’re officially in 2021, we can maybe have a bit of a laugh about how unbearable and increasingly terrible everything was last year....

M. Night Shyamalan Has Two Original Thrillers In The Works At Universal By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 16, 2019 2:00 pm EST Glass may not have shattered any box office records, and critics may be split on M. Night Shyamalan as a director, but Universal is investing in the filmmaker’s next two movies. Following the successful theatrical trifecta of The Visit, Split and Glass, Shyamalan is renewing his partnership with Universal for two more untitled thrillers, set to be released in 2021 and 2023....

Phil Lord & Chris Miller Sign New First Look Film Deal At Universal Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2019 1:00 pm EST Phil Lord & Chris Miller have been behind an impressive array of innovative films over the past decade. They gave the big screen TV adaptation new life with 21 Jump Street, somehow turned a building brick into a viable feature film with The LEGO Movie, and helped innovate in animation and comic book stories with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse....

Russo Brothers Want ‘Extraction’ Sequel To Spawn A Whole ‘Extraction’ Cinematic Universe By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 7, 2020 4:30 pm EST Hey, remember Extraction? It’s an utterly forgettable Netflix movie that got a lot of hype because it stars handsome man Chris Hemsworth and was produced by the Russo Brothers (Joe Russo also wrote it). Even though the action flick was pretty cut and dry and wrapped up its story rather definitively, it did really well (Netflix claims it’s their most-watched original film ever) and a sequel is being developed....

The Morning Watch: Conan O’Brien Visits Lucasfilm Headquarters, VFX Artists React To ‘Parasite’ & More By Ethan Anderton/May 18, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a flashback clip from 2007 where Conan O’Brien and his producer Jordan Schlansky visit Lucasfilm and point out some inconsistencies on the tour....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Les Diaboliques’ Is The Best Suspense Film Hitchcock Never Directed By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 30, 2020 7:00 am EST The movie takes place at a French boys’ boarding school run by a cruel and sadistic headmaster who is hated by the boys and staff alike, even the stunning teacher Nicole (Signoret) who until recently had been his mistress — until a black eye swiftly makes her change her mind....

Theme Park Bits: Disney Skyliner’s Opening Date, Abigail Disney Hits Back Against Disneyland, And More By Josh Spiegel/July 21, 2019 9:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The Disney Skyliner has an opening date. A Disney relative visited Disneyland recently, and wasn’t happy with what she found. Learn about the rock work in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Universal Studios Orlando’s Passholder Appreciation Days have been revealed And more!...

Theme Park Bits: Scat Cat’s Club Return, Disney World Layoffs, And More By Josh Spiegel/Sept. 24, 2019 12:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Tokyo Disneyland’s new land has an opening date. The Port Orleans Resort is getting some revived entertainment. Some Walt Disney World execs are getting laid off. And more! With the caveat that online petitions rarely have any impact, here’s a theme-park-related one that’s at least mildly intriguing....

Theme Park Bits: Smuggler’s Run With FastPass, DCA’s Future, And More By Josh Spiegel/Feb. 15, 2020 11:00 am EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Anaheim is getting FastPass. What’s coming next for Disney California Adventure? And more! When it opened at Disneyland, Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run was a particularly unique new attraction in that it didn’t offer FastPass or MaxPass options to guests. If you wanted to ride, you could either wait in a single-rider line (which I’ve done, and it’s pretty reasonable) or in a very long standby line....

This ‘6 Underground’ Poster May Be One Of The Worst Ever Created By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 14, 2019 8:40 am EST If you thought we were going to escape 2019 without a new Michael Bay movie, think again. Bay is back, baby! And he’s got a new Netflix movie arriving in less than a month! 6 Underground stars Ryan Reynolds as the leader of a team of elite operatives. There’s a new featurette/trailer that shows off footage from the film, and it’s full of the typical Bayhem....

Universal And Cinemark Strike A Deal For Shortened Theatrical Window – Here’s What You Need To Know By Ben Pearson/Nov. 16, 2020 3:00 pm EST Several months after Universal Filmed Entertainment Group signed a deal with AMC Theatres, the company has now signed a separate deal with Cinemark Theatres with a different set of details giving movies a shortened theatrical window. Here’s what you need to know. According to Deadline, Universal has signed a multi-year deal with Cinemark, the third most popular movie theater chain in the United States (behind AMC and Regal)....