LYNDSY FONSECA, RUSS TO STAR IN THRILLER ‘DON’T MOVE’ FROM JAMES MURRAY10/21/24 @ 10:11 pm EST
Source: Hollywood Reporter | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentA thriller feature from the mind of
Impractical Jokers star James “Murr” Murray is coming to life.
Lyndsy Fonseca (
Kick-Ass), music star Russ and Tom Cavanagh (
The Flash) are among the cast of
Don’t Move, which wrapped principal photography in Kansas City on Friday. The horror-thriller movie is based on the best-selling 2020 novel of the same name from co-authors Murray and Darren Wearmouth.
Maclain Nelson (
Vamp U) directed the film from the script he co-wrote with Murray and Wearmouth. Hunter King (
Life in Pieces), Rob Riggle (
The Hangover) and Joseph Lee Anderson (
Young Rock) round out the ensemble cast for the project that includes cameos from T-Pain, Matt Biedel and
Impractical Jokers members Murray and Brian Quinn.
Don’t Move centers on Megan Forrester (Fonseca), who joins her church group on a camping getaway after losing her family in a tragic accident. The trip takes a turn when the group, including mysterious member Ricky Vargas (Russ), mistakenly ends up in an area of the forest targeted by a dangerous predator. (via The Hollywood Reporter)
‘THE PENGUIN’ HITS ANOTHER VIEWERSHIP MILESTONE10/21/24 @ 10:04 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: DC | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentViewers don’t seem to mind the lack of true heroes on
The Penguin: the dark and violent drama from HBO Original continues to grow each week and, in fact, hit another series high on Sunday.
The Colin Farrell starrer averaged 1.8 million U.S. cross-platform viewers, the drama’s strongest single-day performance for the overall series in the U.S.
That’s up from the previous week’s episode, which drew 1.7M viewers cross-platform, according to Warner Bros. Discovery.
New episodes debut Sundays on HBO and stream on Max. (via Deadline)
WB BOSS SAYS ‘HARRY POTTER’ SERIES WILL BE MORE IN-DEPTH THAN FILMS10/21/24 @ 1:45 pm EST
Source: Hollywood Reporter | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentHBO‘s
Harry Potter series will be “a little bit more in-depth than a two-hour film,” the company’s television boss Channing Dungey has confirmed. Dungey was a keynote speaker at MIPCOM‘s C-Suite Conversations on Monday afternoon.
“There’s not a lot to talk about [on the
Harry Potter series] at this moment, Dungey said. "We’ve got our fantastic writing staff in place and they are doing what they need to do. And casting calls have opened up in the U.K. and Ireland, so the process is moving along. It’s going quite well.”
When probed further on the excitement of having an IP like J.K. Rowling’s
Harry Potter books to play with, Dungey said: “It’s an unbelievable dream, honestly, and as somebody who is a huge fan of books, the opportunity to get to explore them in maybe a little bit more in-depth than you can in just a two-hour film, that’s the whole reason we’re on this journey.” (via The Hollywood Reporter)
MATTEL AND AARDMAN TEAM-UP ON STOP-MOTION, ANIMATED 'PINGU' SERIES10/21/24 @ 1:48 pm EST
Source: Hollywood Reporter | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentBarbie giant Mattel is teaming up with award-winning animation studio Aardman (
Chicken Run,
Shaun the Sheep,
Wallace & Gromit) to co-develop a new stop-motion, animated
Pingu television series.
The series is inspired by Mattel’s beloved cheeky penguin who lives in the South Pole and has stayed on our screens for decades, famous for his mischief and catchphrase, “Noot Noot!” Designed by Otmar Gutmann in the 1980s, the show first aired on the U.K.’s BBC One in 1990.
Josh Silverman, chief franchise officer of Mattel, told The Hollywood Reporter
at MIPCOM Cannes on Monday: “You couldn’t ask for a more perfect marriage [than between Mattel and Aardman]. I was just with their team. We are overjoyed about the project. It’s going to be really, really special.
Pingu just continues to, organically, have a tremendous amount of affection and attention. And a tremendous amount of relevance.”
MIKE FLANAGAN TURNS STEPHEN KING'S 'CARRIE' INTO A TV SERIES10/21/24 @ 1:23 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentAfter scoring the big deal at the Toronto Film Festival with Neon for Audience Award winner
The Life of Chuck, director Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are right back at it. Deadline's The Dish is reporting that their next collaboration will be
Carrie, this time in an 8-episode series for Amazon. Flanagan will be the showrunner.
The 1974 novel put the young author King on the map, and also bolstered his worth as an author whose genre storytelling was most translatable to the big screen. Brian De Palma was the first director to adapt King’s coming of age story of a young sheltered girl with a domineering mother whose bullying caused unimaginable blood-soaked consequences due to her hyperkinetic powers. Sissy Spacek played the title character, and John Travolta, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley and William Katt also starred. After that 1976 hit, several follow-ups came later, including The Rage: Carrie 2, a 2002 telepic, and a 2013 remake that starred Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore.
They’re reportedly opening a writer’s room, so this one’s happening quickly.
AGATHA'S MCU CONNECTION TO DOLLY PARTON10/20/24 @ 12:57 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentDuring the sixth episode of
Agatha All Along we got a glimpse at what Agatha Harkness (
Kathryn Hahn) had been up to all those years between killing her coven and showing up in Westview. The series used newspaper clippings and internet searches to show that she had been at a lot of the major tragedies in the world like the Hindenburg explosion… and then we get a quick glimpse of a headline that claims Agatha was the inspiration for the
Dolly Parton hit song
Jolene. This has been confirmed by showrunner Jac Schaeffer as she explained how they had given the writers room an assignment to come up with five low-level nefarious things Agatha could’ve done in the past. “I remember being one of the most fun days in the room, was everybody coming in with their sort of low-level Agatha nasties. And that was
Laura Donney. She was like, ‘She’s Jolene.’ And we were just like, everybody fell out. It was so funny.” Parton has in the past revealed that the song was about a red-haired bank clerk that would flirt with Parton’s husband
Carl Dean.
COX AND D'ONOFRIO REVEAL PREMIERE DATE FOR DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN10/20/24 @ 12:43 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentNew York Comic Con attendees where surprised by an appearance of
Daredevil: Born Again stars
Charlie Cox and
Vincent D’Onofrio. Along with unveiling a teaser trailer for the new series, it was also revealed that the first episode will debut on Disney+ on March 4th, 2025. The nine-part series brings back Matt Murdock (Cox) and Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) from the original Netflix series that ran for three seasons and ended in 2018. The rest of the cast is filled with both returning actors and new including:
Margarita Levieva,
Deborah Ann Woll,
Elden Henson,
Zabryna Guevara,
Nikki James,
Genneya Walton,
Arty Froushan,
Clark Johnson,
Michael Gandolfini, with
Ayelet Zurer and
Jon Bernthal.
RHYS DARBY TO BOARD ANOTHER SHIP10/20/24 @ 12:30 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentIt was announced this weekend that
Our Flag Means Death star
Rhys Darby will be boarding a very different ship, one that flies through space. Darby will be a guest star in the upcoming third season of
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series is based on the Captain Christopher Pike (
Anson Mount) years on board The Enterprise with his first officer (
Rebecca Romijn) and science officer (
Ethan Peck). Details on Darby’s role remain a secret, but the series has added
Cillian O’Sullivan as the legacy character of Dr. Roger Korby. The third season is set to debut in 2025 on Paramount+.
TEEN'S REVEAL IN AGATHA ALL ALONG WASN'T ALWAYS THE PLAN!10/19/24 @ 1:20 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentFor those of us who are watching
Agatha All Along, it’s surprising to learn that
Joe Locke’s real identity in the show wasn’t always the plan.
Jac Schaeffer, creator of the series, explained, “I know it sort of feels like it should be self evident. I mean, we had an idea that we were locked on before the writers room. So it was early, but in my early brainstorming for
Agatha All Along, it was so important to me that it’d be her story … but once that piece clicked in, it did feel right.” No Billy? Schaeffer said, “So my early idea was I wanted some sort of a goth teen character, or a group of goth teens. I love
The Craft the movie, and I really liked the idea of this ancient witch coming in contact with younger witches. I feel that Agatha, at her best, is a mentor. So I was looking for that relationship. It was executive producer Mary Livanos who came up with the idea of Billy for that role. Then, once we were into it, okay, it’s going to be Billy, how do we do that? What do we do? Those specific conversations, with Marvel especially, I don’t remember a lot of detail to them. I mostly remember being in the writers room and trying to figure out who this young man is and how we can best serve him. The structure that we came up with, where he is this eager fanboy who loves witchcraft and is studying at the feet of these women, we loved front loading with that, but it felt thin and disingenuous to have that be all there is. So it was so fun to be able to bake it so that his complexity and darkness and the texture of him would detonate at the midpoint.” Now the powered version of Billy, called Wiccan, first appeared in the Young Avengers, a group of teen heroes that we’ve been meeting all over the MCU. Schaeffer was asked if this was part of bringing the team together. “I’m not working on anything right now for Marvel, but it is my hope that there will be more for him, both because I’m such an admirer of Joe, and because I think the character is really interesting.”
IS KRAVEN THE HUNTER ACTUALLY GRINDHOUSE?10/19/24 @ 12:57 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentSony showed the first seven minutes of
Kraven the Hunter at a panel at NYCC this weekend which featured the titular hunter being taken into a Russian prison as an inmate before revealing that he’s really there to kill a mob boss, which he does with the use of a tooth from a Siberian tiger rug… which is an interesting way to start a film. Kraven is then chased through the woods by a team of soldiers, one of whom gets a bear trap wrapped around his face. And if you can’t tell from the description, then Director
J.C. Chandor lays it out specifically by calling this “some really intense grindhouse.” Kraven being a grindhouse style movie was not on my bingo card but does make the film seem more interesting. Along with the director, start
Aaron Taylor-Johnson was on stage where he described Kraven as “He’s real, he’s not a visual effects monster, he’s a man who has made a choice to be a hunter,” and went on to talk about his connection to the environment. “Like all great hunters, Kraven respects his prey, top of the food chain … he’s a hunter, not a poacher. Like every hunter knows, sometimes you have to cull the herd, to call order. Once he applies to human beings, it becomes a dark story.”
Kraven the Hunter opens December 13.