Oh dear, it’s the last Weakley Film News column… IN THIS WEEK’S “DC character studies” story, Long before “Joker” went into production at Warner Bros., it got its start as a pitch from Todd Phillips as the first film to make under a proposed subdivision of the studio’s DC Comics banner. The pitch was to…
Oh, it’s December already… IN THIS WEEK’S “The Doctor returns” story, Happy (early) Who Year, Whovians! BBC America has set the premiere date for Season 12 of Doctor Who, with the series set to make its triumphant return on New Year’s Day, 2020, the cable channel revealed Monday. The new Jodie Whittaker-led season will premiere…
Aaaah, more film news, eve though it’s a short holiday week…. IN THIS WEEK’S “Fessing up” story, John Boyega has confessed to being the “Star Wars” actor who nearly leaked the Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker script. The film’s director, J.J. Abrams, revealed on “Good Morning America” earlier this week that an unnamed actor…
Here comes Thanksgiving – and more film news! IN THIS WEEK’S “Supernatural project” story, Sam Worthington (Avatar, Terminator Salvation) and David Hyde Pierce (Frasier, A Bug’s Life) have landed lead roles alongside Oscar winner Russell Crowe in Miramax’s supernatural thriller The Georgetown Project. Being written and directed by Joshua John Miller and M.A. Fortin (Queen…
More filmy news stuff! IN THIS WEEK’S “Fix yesterday” story, Chris Pratt’s upcoming sci-fi actioner, which was recently retitled The Tomorrow War, has set a Christmas Day 2020 release date. The Paramount film was formerly titled Ghost Draft. It follows a man (played by Pratt) who is drafted to fight a future war in which…
Post Halloween doldrums, but there’s still film news. IN THIS WEEK’S “SHE’S the real Last Jedi” story, Carrie Fisher’s brother, Todd, tells Yahoo Entertainment that Abrams only had a minimal amount of footage to work with in order to ensure Fisher would make her mark in the last Skywalker saga film. “The truth is that…
Hey, is that more news I see? Why, yes, yes it is. IN THIS WEEK’S “In Memorium” story, Actor-comedian John Witherspoon, who memorably played Ice Cube’s father in the Friday films, has died. He was 77. His manager Alex Goodman confirmed that Witherspoon died in Los Angeles. No cause of death was released. The actor…
Another week of fresh film stories in the news! IN THIS WEEK’S “Vin Diesel does something very mutant-like.” story, Vin Diesel is coming back again and again in Sony Pictures’ first trailer for Bloodshot. In the forthcoming superhero adventure, Diesel portrays Ray Garrison a.k.a. Bloodshot, a soldier who gets rebuilt by a corporation following his…
Oh, hey, it’s another week of fascinating, kooky, news! IN THIS WEEK’S “G.I.Joe nonsense” story, No matter what the title of the next film in the ‘G.I. Joe’ is, you better believe Snake Eyes is nothing more than just a veiled attempt to reboot the franchise. And this is exactly why the latest news has Samara…
IN THIS WEEK’S “Rest in Confetti” story, Stand-up comedian and flamboyant star of film and TV Rip Taylor died Sunday in Beverly Hills, Deadline has learned. He was 84. Known for his confetti-clad campy comedy, Taylor was born Charles Elmer Taylor in Washington D.C. on January 13, 1935. His comedy career started when he joined…