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EJ Moreno

Universal Pictures developing How To Train Your Dragon live-action movie

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Universal is taking a page from the Disney playbook and will adapt one of its most iconic animated films to a live-action film. Universal Pictures is moving forward with a live-action version of How to Train Your Dragon from Dreamworks Animation. Dean DeBlois will write, direct and produce this new version; DeBlois is the filmmaker […]

Ishana Night Shyamalan follows in father’s footsteps, sets debut film The Watchers

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When your father is one of the most well-known filmmakers working today, it’s hard not to stumble into the industry. The journey has been exciting for Ishana Night Shyamalan, and she is set to take off in a new direction. Deadline reports Shyamalan will helm The Watchers, a new thriller that New Line is fast-tracking. […]

Video Review – Irreversible: Straight Cut perfects Gaspar Noé’s shock art masterpiece

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EJ Moreno reviews the Irreversible: Straight Cut… Irreversible, 2003. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel. “One of the most infamous films in history is finally restored and coming to the U.S. with a brand new director’s re-cut of the film that puts the notorious revenge tale in chronological order.” […]

HBO Max’s controversial Velma series has a second season in development

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Controversy creates cash; that’s how the saying used to go. At the very least, enough online chatter and hate-watching can land you a second season; look at HBO Max’s Velma series.  Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group, spoke to Deadline this week about her work for the studio and her upcoming […]

Lady Gaga goes feral for Joaquin Phoenix in Joker: Folie À Deux first look

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Lady Gaga’s coming out party as Harley Quinn is finally here in our first look at Joker: Folie À Deux. The megastar-turned-Academy Award-nominated actress will co-star alongside Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming DC sequel to 2019’s Joker, and the new image reveal promises a bad romance. In the preview image shared by Gaga, we see […]

Emma Roberts teams with Laurence Fishburne for sci-fi film The Astronaut

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The unlikely duo of Emma Roberts and Laurence Fishburne could lead to wild delights in their upcoming sci-fi thriller as Deadline reports that the pair will star in The Astronaut from writer/director Jess Varley.  In the film, “Sam Walker (Roberts) is found miraculously alive in a punctured capsule floating deep off the coast of the […]

The Crown’s Emma Corrin joins Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool 3

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While it took forever to get to this place, we are finally casting for the upcoming third Deadpool movie. In a tweet from Ryan Reynolds, the actor welcomed the latest addition to the last, the regal and royal Emma Corrin. Corrin marks the first new addition to the cast since Hugh Jackman was announced to […]

Batgirl star Leslie Grace opens about the movie’s devastating cancellation

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Having a project bomb is never easy for a filmmaker, but having the project flat-out shelved before anyone could judge it seems like the lowest blow. Actress Leslie Grace recently went through that as Warner Bros. Discovery canceled her Batgirl film. The film came from directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and it was […]

John Leguizamo says he was almost The Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming

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Michael Keaton returned to the world of comic book movies in 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, where he starred as the villain Adrian Toomes/Vulture. But it seems we almost had a different actor take up this role as during a recent interview with ComicBook.com, John Leguizamo claims he was once up for the part and almost landed […]