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New ‘Leprechaun’ Movie in the Works at Lionsgate (Exclusive)
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Owen Teague Talks ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ and Meeting with Andy Serkis for the New ‘Apes’ Movie
The 'Bloodline' alum and indie favorite will lead his first studio movie with next year's 'Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes,' and had to overcome self-doubt to find his way: "I had a bit of an existential crisis three weeks before we started shooting."
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Hugh Grant in Talks for A24 Thriller from ‘A Quiet Place’ Writers Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Beck and Woods will direct the feature, titled 'Heretic', that sources say follows two young missionaries who encounter a sinister wouldbe convert.
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Bites Off Big $8.8M in Box Office Previews
The film, starring Dominique Fishback and Anthony Ramos, hopes revive the toy-to-movie franchise.
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New ‘Leprechaun’ Movie in the Works at Lionsgate (Exclusive)
Lionsgate in gearing up for a new search for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Leprechaun, the longest-running franchise in Lionsgate history, will get a fresh start as the studio reimagines the horror title for a new generation of moviegoers. Felipe Vargas, helmer of the award-wining short film Milk Teeth, will direct […]
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Owen Teague Talks ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ and Meeting with Andy Serkis for the New ‘Apes’ Movie
As massive as the entertainment industry is, there’s a small-world aspect to it that You Hurt My Feelings star Owen Teague can attest to as much as anyone. The Florida native’s career really took off when he was cast to play a young version of Ben Mendelsohn’s Bloodline character, Danny Rayburn, in mere photographs and […]
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Hugh Grant in Talks for A24 Thriller from ‘A Quiet Place’ Writers Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Hugh Grant is in talks to star in the new movie from A Quiet Place creatives Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, which is being backed by A24. Beck and Woods wrote and will direct the movie, titled Heretic, is a horror with exact plot details being kept under wraps, but sources say that the story […]
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‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Bites Off Big $8.8M in Box Office Previews
The bots are back. From Paramount and Skydance, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts bit off a promising $8.8 million in previews as it battles for the hearts and souls of summer moviegoers. The preview grosses include select fan screenings on Wednesday and regular Thursday showings. The tentpole is considered a direct sequel to 2018’s Bumblebee […]
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Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh to Star in Skydance, Apple Feature ‘Mayday’
Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh are teaming up for Mayday, a feature that hails from Apple Original Films and Skydance. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley penned the script before the writers strike and will produce and direct the project. The duo most recently helmed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves for Paramount, and are […]
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‘Red Rooms’ Thriller to Open Fantasia Film Fest
The Fantasia Film Festival is set to open its 27th edition with Pascal Plante’s Red Rooms, a French-language thriller about a woman’s obsession with a high-profile serial killer case. The genre pic, which stars Maxwell McCabe-Lokos and Juliette Gariépy, will get a North American premiere in Montreal after bowing in competition in Karlovy Vary. […]
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‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Star Daniel Kaluuya on Creating Spider-Punk and Catching That Surprise Character
[This story contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.] Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse star Daniel Kaluuya was, quite literally, born to play Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk. The Oscar winner and his anti-establishment Spider-Man character are both from Camden Town, a borough in North West London, and so Kaluuya’s voice performance in Sony’s smash hit took inspiration from […]
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Marketing ‘The Flash’: No Ezra Miller, But Lots of Batman and TV Spots
In late August 2022, Ezra Miller trekked to Warner Bros. for their first meeting with film chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy. The sit-down followed months of legal and personal troubles for the actor, with a string of arrests and bad headlines threatening to derail The Flash, the $200 million feature Miller had been attached to […]
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50 Cent, Megan Fox Team Up With Sylvester Stallone in Action-Packed ‘Expendables 4’ Trailer
The first trailer for The Expendables 4 sees franchise stalwarts Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham teaming up with a cast of series newcomers like 50 Cent and Megan Fox. In the latest entry of the long-running action franchise, the old timers and newbies charged with averting World War III by taking out “terrorists [who] have […]
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‘Star Wars’ Series ‘Ahsoka’ Sets August Premiere Date
Disney+ has set a date with Ahsoka. The Star Wars series, which stars Rosario Dawson as the Jedi, will bow Aug. 23 on the streaming service. Ahsoka hails from Dave Filoni, the Star Wars mastermind who created the character in animation and went on to partner with Jon Favreau on The Mandalorian, where she was […]
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‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Star Laura Harrier on Remixing the 1992 Classic, ‘Spider-Man’ Memories and ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Impact
White Men Can’t Jump (2023) star Laura Harrier knows what it’s like to be the newcomer on set. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that she made what she considers to be her feature film debut opposite Michael Keaton in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). So, in Calmatic’s new take on Ron Shelton’s 1992 classic, White […]
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‘Rebel Moon’ Will Release as Two Films and Get Director’s Cut, Zack Snyder Says
Zack Snyder is preparing for a Rebel Moon universe. In a first look interview with Vanity Fair published Tuesday, the director shared his expanding plans for his latest project with Netflix, which is a concept Snyder has been mulling since college. The sci-fi adventure, which will debut on the streamer Dec. 22, follows a woman […]
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Marvel Announces ‘Captain America 4’ Retitled as ‘Brave New World’
Captain America 4 has a new moniker. Marvel Studios announced Tuesday morning via its Twitter account that the fourth Captain America installment — and the first to feature star Anthony Mackie as the lead — is now called Brave New World. The news came alongside a behind-the-scenes photo of stars Mackie and Harrison Ford. Last […]
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Adam Devine and Pierce Brosnan Team Up After a Bank Robbery in Netflix’s ‘The Out-Laws’ Trailer
Adam Devine discovers he has a lot to learn about Nina Dobrev’s family life after he meets her parents, played by Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin, in the trailer for the Netflix action-comedy film The Out-Laws. The feature from director Tyler Spindel (The Wrong Missy) centers on bank manager Owen (Devine), who finally meets the […]
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‘The Machine’ Star Bert Kreischer on His Improbable Journey to the Big Screen
Bert Kreischer is living proof that truth is stranger than fiction. In the mid-’90s, Kreischer went on a Florida State class trip to Russia, and to make a long story short, the Russian mafia forced the 22-year-old college kid to rob a passenger train that included his classmates. The Florida native somehow made it out […]
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Lukas Gage, Megan Suri and Harvey Guillén Join Jack Quaid in Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Companion’
Companion, the sci-fi thriller from the team behind last year’s horror hit Barbarian, has found a call sheet’s worth of friends. Lukas Gage, Megan Suri and Harvey Guillén have boarded the feature project that marks the directorial debut of scribe Drew Hancock. The trio join The Boys star Jack Quaid in the story whose plot details […]
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