SIGNATURE ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES THRILLER ‘UNIT 234’ FOR UK & IRELAND05/16/24 @ 11:42 am EST
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Unit 234, a thriller starring Don Johnson (
Knives Out), Isabelle Fuhrman (
Orphan: First Kill) and Jack Huston (
Kill Your Darlings) from sales agent Radiant Films. The feature is directed by Tennant from a script written by Derek Steiner and is produced by Blythe Frank
(Being Charlie), Hadeel Reda (The Ride), Lee Dreyfuss (
The Misfits) and Productivity Media’s William Santor (
Stockholm) and Doug Murray (
Unplugging). The synopsis: After the shocking discovery of an unconscious man in a locked unit, the lone employee of a remote storage facility must fight to survive the night against a ruthless gang, dead set on retrieving their precious cargo – at any cost. (via
Deadline)
TOM CRUISE IN EARLY TALKS FOR DAYS OF THUNDER SEQUEL11/02/24 @ 10:57 am EST
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Top Gun: Maverick. Latest word is Paramount Pictures is looking to fire up another 35-year dormant
Tom Cruise franchise and return to
Days of Thunder. The actor is said to be in early talks to reprise his role as Cole Tickle in the 1990 NASCAR themed film that also starred
Nicole Kidman,
Robert Duvall,
Cary Elwes,
Randy Quaid,
Michael Rooker and
John C. Reilly. At this rate, the next big action movie in Cruise’s catalog the studio might want to make a sequel to would be
Mission: Impossible from 1996… except he’s still making those thirty years later.
JOHN KRASINSKI TO RETURN AS JACK RYAN IN NEW MOVIE11/02/24 @ 10:43 am EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentJohn Krasinski’s days as
Jack Ryan are not over after all. Word is that Amazon MGM Studios will be evolving the franchise into a new phase, moving from doing seasons of the series to movies.
Wendell Pierce will also return, and
Michael Kelly is in negotiations to do the same. The writer for season four,
Aaron Rabin, will script the film and second season director
Andrew Bernstein will helm the project. The series will continue from the four seasons of the series, but no word if it will try to adapt some of
Tom Clancy’s original Jack Ryan novels or if it will continue doing new stories.
AGATHA ENDS WITH STRONG NUMBERS11/02/24 @ 10:37 am EST
Source: Deadline | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentAgatha All Along ended with a bang according to the view numbers. The final two episodes were released at the same time with episode eight gaining 4.6 million views, up 48% from the series premiere and up 400,000 views from episode seven. Interestingly, the ninth episode got 3.9 million viewers. The dip in audience could be explained by people not knowing there were two episodes or wanting to save the final for the next night, Halloween. Also, the way the eighth episode ended could’ve left viewers believing that it was the finale. Marvel has been changing its release schedule with the last few projects with What If…?! season two releasing each episode on sequential nights and the Echo releasing all at once, now Agatha released weekly except the first two and last two episodes were released in pairs. The next two release will be a third series of What If…?! in December and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in January. The next live action is Daredevil: Born Again in March where we’ll see if they do the two episode drops again.
MARVEL STUDIOS VARIANT COVER FOR 'SCARLET WITCH '#7 FEATURES 'AGATHA ALL ALONG' ART11/01/24 @ 4:40 pm EST
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Agatha All Along is now streaming on Disney+! To celebrate the series, upcoming issues of the SCARLET WITCH current solo comic series will have special Marvel Studios Variant Covers highlighting concept art from the show. Following the SCARLET WITCH #6 MARVEL STUDIOS VARIANT COVER spotlighting Kathryn Hahn’s Agatha Harkness, the SCARLET WITCH #7 MARVEL STUDIOS VARIANT COVER is now revealed to feature Aubrey Plaza’s Rio! After an unforgettable journey down the Witches’ Road, this special cover gives fans a chance to commemorate one of the show’s most talked-about mysteries.
In SCARLET WITCH #7, written by Steve Orlando and drawn by Lorenzo Tammetta, Scarlet Witch, Wiccan, Speed, and Amaranth are trapped in a torturous carnival fun house! Wanda is faced with a choice: save her children or her mysterious new pupil! But as Amaranth's powers come to light, the real question may be who is saving who…?
Check out the Marvel Studios Variant Cover and preorder SCARLET WITCH #7 at your local comic shop today!
NEW ‘GODZILLA’ MOVIE FROM ‘GODZILLA MINUS ONE’ DIRECTOR GREENLIT BY TOHO11/01/24 @ 4:23 pm EST
Source: Variety | Categories: Godzilla | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentA new “Godzilla” movie, from the director of last year’s Oscar-winning Japanese film “Godzilla Minus One,” has been officially greenlit. Toho, the Japanese entertainment company and creator of Godzilla, made the announcement on Friday.
Takashi Yamazaki, who wrote and directed the surprise hit “Godzilla Minus One,” will return for the new film. He’s once again handling the VFX, after winning the Academy Award for best visual effects in 2023.
“Godzilla Minus One” was Toho 33rd “Godzilla” movie and the 37th to include the famous monster. The Japanese film is unrelated to Hollywood’s recent portrayals of Godzilla in Warner Bros. and Legendary’s Monsterverse, which includes King Kong.
It’s unclear if the new movie is a direct sequel to “Godzilla Minus One”; however, the film did end on a cliffhanger for the rampaging lizard. After Godzilla is defeated, it’s revealed that a piece of the monster’s flesh is regenerating in the bottom of the ocean. There’s also the issue of Shikishima’s girlfriend, Noriko Ōishi, who survived a run-in with Godzilla but is left with a mysterious black marking on her neck. (via Variety)
‘SKELETON CREW’: JUDE LAW HELPS A RAGTAG GROUP OF KIDS GET HOME IN ‘STAR WARS’ SERIES TRAILER11/01/24 @ 4:13 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: Star Wars | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentWith just over a month before the premiere of
Skeleton Crew, Disney has unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming series.
The latest preview for the
Star Wars series sees Jude Law fighting his way across the galaxy to try to help a ragtag group of kids get back to their families after their mischief gets the best of them and they find themselves very far from home.
Watch the full trailer below.
Skeleton Crew has its two-episode premiere December 3 on Disney+.
The
Star Wars series executive produced by Jon Watts takes place in the same timeline as
The Mandalorian and
Book Of Boba Fett. (via Deadline)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/f19gfOMZTtg
TOM HOLLAND-AUSTIN BUTLER PACKAGE ‘AMERICAN SPEED’ LANDS AT AMAZON MGM STUDIOS11/01/24 @ 4:06 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentFollowing a competitive auction, Amazon MGM Studios has landed
American Speed, a package with Tom Holland and Austin Butler attached to star. Oscar-winning producer Charles Roven (
Oppenheimer) is attached to produce via his Atlas Entertainment banner alongside RD Whittington and Douglas Banker. Atlas’ Ryan Sanak will executive produce.
Dan Wiedenhaupt is writing the script, which is based on the true story of the Whittington brothers —three historically famous race car drivers, two of whom were part of the 1980s IMSA scandal, in which a number of drivers were charged with financing their racing activities with proceeds from drug smuggling, money laundering or tax evasion.
Holland has had himself a week prior to this news, with the next installment in his
Spider-Man franchise officially announcing Destin Daniel Cretton will come on as director and the film claiming a July 2026 release date. Butler has had himself quite the 2024 that began with his scene-stealing role opposite Timothée Chalamet in
Dune: Part Two. (via Deadline)
'X-MEN ‘97' SEASON 2 MISSING FROM MARVEL SLATE10/31/24 @ 4:00 pm EST
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Marvel Studios released a “Look Ahead” video teasing its biggest upcoming releases of the next year, but X-Men ’97 was conspicuously absent. The series got a multi-season order before it premiered, and showrunner Beau DeMayo was reported to have finished writing Season 2 before he was fired earlier this year. Fans are now wondering if the season will be delayed, but so far all we have is speculation.
Marvel’s new “Look Ahead” video was released alongside the season finale of Agatha All Along, and it had a lot to talk about. It promised the upcoming animated series What If…? and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man due out soon on Disney+, as well as the live action series Daredevil: Born Again and Ironheart. It also included looks at the animated shows Eyes of Wakanda and Marvel Zombies, and finally the live-action series Wonder Man. That seems to be all fans can expect on Disney+ between now and December of 2025, leaving many to assume that X-Men ’97 won’t be out next year.
The announcement said nothing of X-Men ’97, and Marvel has not commented on fan speculation
X-Men ’97 Season 2 is in production, and Season 3 is in development. There is no release date scheduled for any future installments. Season 1 is streaming now on Disney+. (via ComicBook.com) EXORCISM CAN’T SAVE YOU FROM 'PLAGUE HOUSE' #110/31/24 @ 3:42 pm EST
Source: Oni Press | Categories: Oni Press | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a Comment Oni Press invites you to PLAGUE HOUSE #1 – the FIRST ISSUE of a tense and turbulent four-issue ghost story from acclaimed writer Michael W. Conrad (Wonder Woman, Double Walker) and 2024 Ringo Award-winning artist Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound) coming to comic shops everywhere in April 2025.
“I swear I saw a ghost as a child, floating in the living room of my family home,” says writer Michael W. Conrad. “I wasn’t dreaming. The man bobbed in the corner staring at me, wordlessly pleading for help. Plague House is about answering that call, and discovering the true nature of hauntings, imprinted memories, and the demands places can make of the living.”
In PLAGUE HOUSE, a trio of eclectic ghost hunters – Jacob, the holy man, Holland, the skeptic, and leader Del, the believer – explore haunted locales, hoping to prove the existence of the undead and exorcize malicious spirits. At the McCabe House, the scene of a grisly quadruple homicide, the group senses the deep pain left in the wake of the crime. As Orin McCabe sits in prison, Del learns from his family’s ghosts what it will require to cleanse the home of their restless spirits…
“I’ve been a fan of Dave [Chisholm]’s art for a very long time,” said Conrad. “It’s been a delight to bring him into this corrupted place, and watch him dwell in the darkness. I hope he comes out of it okay, and I hope the readers understand the dangers this book presents to us as the creators, as well as to those bold enough to join us in its pages.”
Chisholm, who won a 2024 Ringo Award for his graphic novel Miles Davis and the Search for Sound, is well-known for the vibrant, synesthetic elements in his music-focused comics, but that rich environmental aura takes on a sinister new feel in his depiction of the hauntings of PLAGUE HOUSE.
“With Plague House, Michael flips the haunted house trope on its head in a really clever, chilling way that immediately got me hyped to tackle the visuals for this book,” said Chisholm. “I’m drawing, coloring, and lettering this thing, and that allows me to dig into some of those comic-centric structural or formal ideas that show up in the music-based work that has become my calling card. Music and horror...they're really similar, right? Just like in music, properly telling a horrific story is all about timing! The weirdest thing is, though – you know, putting these pages together takes a lot of time. It can really isolate a person, and your mind can wander and drift, sort of putting you into a meditative state. And then, when I come out of that state, I've noticed things around my studio have moved, have been misplaced, or strange objects just show up on a bookshelf or a desk. I'm starting to think that there's more to Michael's script than meets the eye…”
KEVIN & DAN HAGEMAN TAPPED TO SCRIPT LEGO NINJAGO MOVIE10/31/24 @ 3:33 pm EST
Source: Deadline | Categories: MIsc | Comments (0) | E-mail Article | Add a CommentAfter creating and writing the first many seasons of the long-running animated series
Ninjago for The Lego Group, brothers Kevin and Dan Hageman have been enlisted to script a new live-action film in the Lego Ninjago franchise for Universal Pictures.
News of the new Ninjago comes following word that Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins and Joe Cornish are on board to direct live-action Lego movies for Universal. Details as to the plot of the Hagemans’ film are under wraps.
Ninjago was introduced in 2011 as a line of ninja-themed construction toys before evolving into a major multimedia property. The story surrounding it follows a group of young ninja warriors who protect their world, known as Ninjago, from various evil forces. In addition to assorted video games, books and graphic novels, Lego Ninjago is the focus of the aforementioned, hugely popular animated series
Ninjago, which ran for 15 seasons across Cartoon Network and Netflix. Building on this popularity, Lego expanded Ninjago to other formats, including 2017’s
The LEGO Ninjago Movie at Warner Bros. The world of Ninjago is also highlighted with attractions at amusement parks like Legoland. (via Deadline)