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‘A Quiet Place 2’ Has Quietly Begun Filming By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 15, 2019 11:30 am EST Production has quietly begun for A Quiet Place 2, the highly anticipated sequel to John Krasinski’s 2018 horror sensation. Krasinski returns to helm the film that helped establish himself as a rising director, though he won’t be back in front of the camera for the sequel. Returning for A Quiet Place 2 are Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, and Noah Jupe as the Abbott family....

‘Avengers: Endgame’ Honest Trailer: That Expensive Backdoor Pilot To Three Disney+ Shows By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 7, 2019 6:00 am EST Avengers: Endgame may have been the culmination of 21 movies that came before it, but it’s far from the end for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After all, even if this the end of the Infinity Saga (with the exception of the epilogue provided by Spider-Man: Far From Home), this still has to set up sequels for Phase Four and a handful of Disney+ shows....

‘Being The Ricardos’: Nicole Kidman And Javier Bardem Will Play Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz For Director Aaron Sorkin By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 11, 2021 2:00 pm EST Deadline has the scoop on Being the Ricardos, which will star Nicole Kidman as Lucille Ball and Javier Bardem as Desi Arnaz, with Aaron Sorkin writing and directing. The film is “set during one production week of I Love Lucy — Monday table read through Friday audience filming — when Lucy and Desi face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage....

‘Bloodshot’ Coming To Digital Next Week, Less Than Two Weeks After It Hit Theaters By Chris Evangelista/March 18, 2020 2:30 pm EST Less than two weeks after it hit theaters, Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot is headed to digital. It’s just the latest big title to break the theatrical window in light of the coronavirus (aka COVID-19), which has decimated the movie-going experience due to theater closings across the globe. Diesel’s sci-fi action film will be available for digital purchase starting next week....

‘Paddington 3’ Will Happen, But Not With Director Paul King By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2020 10:30 am EST Few thought that a children’s series about a marmalade-loving bear could earn the critical acclaim that Paddington has, but writer-director Paul King elevated a silly premise into some of the best and most heartwarming films of the decade. And in unprecedented times like these, we need Paddington more than ever. And we may be getting it, as King confirmed that Paddington 3 is still happening — just without him....

Sound of Metal Sound of Metal wasn’t the best film I saw at TIFF last year, but it was one of the most memorable. Riz Ahmed delivers a career-best performance here, and the way director Darius Marder brings us into Ahmed’s character’s headspace is often stunning. As I wrote in my review: To adequately portray Ruben’s deafness, Marder and a fully stacked sound department burrow deep into an aural landscape – and lack thereof....

‘The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart’ Trailer: How Deep Is Your Love For The Trio? By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2020 11:00 am EST Even if you didn’t grow up during the disco era, you undoubtedly know at least one song by The Bee Gees. The trio of brothers Barry, Maurice & Robin Gibb delivered such hits as “Stayin’ Alive” and “Night Fever” from the hit film Saturday Night Fever, not to mention other classic tunes like “How Deep Is Your Love” and “You Should Be Dancing....

‘The Stand’ Early Buzz: The CBS All Access Stephen King Adaptation Gets Mixed Results By Ben Pearson/Dec. 15, 2020 2:00 pm EST Director Mick Garris adapted Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic tome The Stand into a TV mini-series back in 1994, but now The New Mutants director (and noted King fanatic) Josh Boone has taken a crack at it for CBS All Access. The nine-episode limited series premieres on that platform this week, and we’ve rounded up some early reactions from critics who have seen the first several episodes....

Animated ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ TV Series Sprinting To Netflix By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 10, 2020 1:30 pm EST Netflix tweeted, then deleted, an announcement that a 3D animated Sonic the Hedgehog TV series is headed our way, so I guess we all have to stop whatever the hell it is we’re doing and talk about this now. There are next to zero details about this thing just yet, other than the fact that it’s going to be animated, it’s going to premiere in 2022, and that it’s coming from Sega and production companies WildBrain and Man of Action Entertainment....

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Releases New ‘Star Wars’ 3.75-Inch Action Figure Packs To Celebrate The Saga By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 24, 2020 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Last year, Star Wars fans were disappointed to see that Hasbro didn’t release any traditional 3.75-inch action figures for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. It seems the toy company is leaving behind the action figure line that is usually geared towards kids in favor of The Vintage Collection and Black Series figures....

David Oyelowo On ‘Don’t Let Go’ And Preparing For His Directorial Debut [Interview] By Steven Prokopy/Aug. 30, 2019 11:00 am EST The latest film starring actor David Oyelowo, Don’t Let Go, is a difficult one to categorize. And the odds are good that if you don’t try to, you might really end up finding it one of the more intriguing concepts of any film out there right now. In it, Oyelowo plays a police detective, whose brother (Brian Tyree Henry) and his family are murdered mysteriously, and shortly after this horrible crime, he receives a phone call from niece Ashley (Storm Reid, from A Wrinkle In Time), who was among those killed....

Dwayne Johnson And Issa Rae Are Making A Backyard Wrestling Show For HBO By Ben Pearson/April 21, 2020 5:30 pm EST There’s an entire generation that might only know Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a movie star, but the former professional wrestler seems to be going out of his way to be involved in wrestling-adjacent projects these days. He produced and appeared in last year’s Fighting With My Family, he has a show about his early wrestling days called Young Rock in development at NBC, and now he’s teaming up with Insecure star Issa Rae to executive produce a backyard wrestling show for HBO....

From Yetis To Little Women: Every Female-Directed Film Remaining In 2019 By Amelia Emberwing/Aug. 29, 2019 8:00 am EST Despite what wildly disappointing statistics would lead you to believe, women direct movies! Exceptional ones, in fact! Even now, over halfway through the year, there are still several (but not enough) films directed by ladies heading to the big screen. Strangely enough, the majority of them are in November. I have no idea why, but I’m going to need all of you to get your butts to the theater at least five times that month....

Golden Globes Won’t Allow ‘Minari’ To Compete In The Regular Best Picture Categories By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2020 10:30 am EST The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has made a controversial decision about which categories A24’s new family drama Minari will be allowed to compete in for the 2021 Golden Globes. Though studios are allowed to choose which categories that their films are submitted for, the 89 journalists from around the world are the ones who choose whether or not to accept them....

James Lipton, Host Of ‘Inside The Actors Studio’, Dies At Age 93 By Ben Pearson/March 2, 2020 11:00 am EST Actor and television personality James Lipton has died at the age of 93. Lipton was best known as the creator and host of the long-running TV series Inside the Actors Studio, which he hosted for 22 seasons. He won an Emmy for his work on the show, was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Emmys, and won a Critics’ Choice Award for Best Reality Show Host in 2016....

Jamie Foxx’s Electro Won’t Be Blue In Marvel’s ‘Spider-Man 3’ By Ben Pearson/Oct. 2, 2020 3:30 pm EST In 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Jamie Foxx’s nebbish Max Dillon falls into an eel tank and is electrified, turning his skin blue and transforming him into the supervillain Electro. The movie ended up being such a disaster that it derailed Sony’s plans to make more sequels…but as we learned this week, Foxx’s Electro is making a surprise return in Sony and Marvel Studios’ next Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland....

Lana Condor Teases The Third And Final ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ Film By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 14, 2020 3:30 pm EST What happens after happily ever after? A lot of growing up, according to To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You star Lana Condor. The naive protagonist of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before will write her final letter with To All the Boys 3, which has already wrapped filming, according to Condor....

Let’s Say A Proper Goodbye To Bib Fortuna, Lackey To Jabba The Hutt And Unlikely Offscreen Crime Lord By Evan Saathoff/Jan. 12, 2021 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Galaxy-Wide Star Wars Character Guide, where we give proper due to the smaller figures in Star Wars history.)Things move fast these days, and the season finale of The Mandalorian already feels like old news, despite only arriving a few weeks ago. Nevertheless, not everything that happened has been talked to death yet....

Master Of Deception Kevin Feige Stops Short Of Confirming ‘Spider-Man 3’ Casting Rumors By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 11, 2021 10:30 am EST Kevin Feige, that master of deception, that ace of spies, that international man of mystery, is very good at not giving anything away. As the head honcho over at Marvel Studios, part of Feige’s job includes deftly dancing around rumors about upcoming Marvel projects to keep an air of mystery and surprise intact....

Michael Bay WIll Direct ‘Speed’-Like Action Movie ‘Ambulance’ Starring Jake Gyllenhaal By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 11, 2020 3:00 pm EST Jake Gyllenhaal wants in on some Bayhem so he’s in talks to star in Ambulance, the latest from Michael Bay. The script for the film, penned by Chris Fedak, has actually been kicking around for a while. At one point, Big Bad Wolves directors Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales were attached to helm....