One week closer to the Oscars! IN THIS WEEK’S “Before Suicide Squad 2, Superman” story, Since James Gunn was unfortunately fired from directing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, he’s now jumped over to Warner Bros. Pictures to tackle their own misfit comic book sequel, The Suicide Squad. However, before the studio gave him control…
DetailsWe’re a month into 2019! IN THIS WEEK’S “Finally, some good news” story, Johnny Depp will no longer appear in Universal’s reboot of The Invisible Man, a source tells TheWrap. Leigh Whannell, the director of Insidious: Chapter 3 and Upgrade, has signed on to direct the remake of The Invisible Man, which Universal Pictures is…
DetailsVFX Bake-Off 2019/VFX Oscar Noms So, a couple weeks ago I had the pleasure of being invited to attend the visual Effects Bake-Off. For those not in the know, the VFX Bake-Off is the presentation by the Academy where the ten films chosen to be the finalists in the achievement for Visual Effects Oscar are…
DetailsOh look – more things happening! IN THIS WEEK’S ” Beyond Method” story, who would be good to play a young Tony Soprano in the Sopranos prequel? How about the son of actor James Gandolfini? Yep, Micheal Gandolfini will play a young Tony Soprano in the film, The Many Saints of Newark. IN THIS WEEK’S…
DetailsAaaand, another week of film goings-on! IN THIS WEEK’S “Back on track” story, Sony’s Uncharted big-screen adaptation may be back on track. Weeks after director Shawn Levy formally left to direct Free Guy for Fox, Sony is bringing on board Dan Trachtenberg to sit in the captain’s chair. Tom Holland remains on board to star…
DetailsAnother week of fresh movie stuff! IN THIS WEEK’S “Venom scribe” story, Sony Pictures is putting the wheels in motion for a sequel to the antihero adventure. The studio has tapped Kelly Marcel, one of the screenwriters from the first movie, to pen the script. Sources close to the negotiation tell Variety that, although an…
DetailsWelcome to the new year! 2019 already kinda sucks because: IN THIS WEEK’S “In memoriam” story, we have already lost 3 significant figures in entertainment. Gene Okerlund, a gentlemanly wrestling announcer who went by “Mean Gene” and specialized in interviewing the biggest, loudest and most obnoxious professional grapplers in the business, died Jan. 2 at…
DetailsIt’s the week before Christmas, and plenty is stirring in film news this week! IN THIS WEEK’S “In memorium” story, Penny Marshall, who starred alongside Cindy Williams in the hit ABC comedy “Laverne & Shirley” and then became a successful director, died on Monday night at her Hollywood Hills home due to complications from diabetes,…
DetailsWelcome to another week of movie madness! IN THIS WEEK’S “Onward!” story, Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer have been set to lead the voice cast of Onward, the next film in the works at Pixar Animation Studios. Dan Scanlon (Monsters University) is directing the pic, which is set to hit theaters…
DetailsOh, December. It’s the holidays! Let’s see if the film news is merry! There certainly is a TON of it this week! IN THIS WEEK’s “Not a French musical” story, Wes Anderson is finally put the finishing touches on pre-production for his latest film, his tenth overall. According to IndieWire, the filmmaker recently began production…
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