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EJ Moreno

Kevin James and Alan Ritchson team for action-comedy Playdate

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Kevin James and Alan Ritchson are combining forces for a new action-comedy romp. Screen Daily reveals the pair will star in Playdate for production companies Nickel City Pictures and A Higher Standard. Luke Greenfield will direct from a script written by Neil Goldman. The Playdate plot follows a down-on-his-luck Brian (James), who becomes an unexpected […]

Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare almost had a meta-style sequel

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Filmmaker Jeff Wadlow had a stellar sequel idea for a Truth or Dare sequel, but it doesn’t seem like Blumhouse will be moving forward with it. In a new interview to promote his upcoming horror film Imaginary, Wadlow reveals he had a wild follow-up for the 2018 film planned, stating: “We actually wrote a Truth […]

Joker: Folie à Deux budget hits insane $200 million

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How does one of Warner Bros most affordable blockbusters become as expensive as a Justice League film? That’s why the film industry is trying to figure out as reports drop that the Joker: Folie à Deux budget has “ballooned” to around $200 million, a massive increase from the $60 million cost of the first film. […]

Marvel’s Avengers 5 drops The Kang Dynasty from its title

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In a not-so-shocking update to the upcoming Avengers 5, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Marvel Studios will no longer be calling the fifth outing its original name of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. During a piece looking at how the MCU must retool itself, given recent backlash and overall superhero fatigue, the outlet also […]

Yorgos Lanthimos set to remake Save the Green Planet

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Yorgos Lanthimos has one of his follow-ups to Poor Things planned, and it’s a remake of an iconic South Korean fantasy comedy. Variety notes Lanthimos will helm Save the Green Planet, a new take on a 2003 South Korean film by Jang Joon-hwan. The filmmaker has been working on what Variety describes as a “long-gestated […]

Amazon’s Blade Runner 2099 lands director Jonathan van Tulleken

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Blade Runner 2099 is underway, and Amazon Studios just landed a prestige TV director as Deadline reports that Shōgun filmmaker Jonathan van Tulleken is set to helm the project. He’ll direct and executive produce the first two episodes. Tulleken is stepping in for Jeremy Podeswa, who was initially set for the project. Ridley Scott is executive […]

Six Overhated Modern Horror Movies

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EJ Moreno looks at six overhated recent horror movies… Horror is often the genre that gets this most unfair shake of things. Often, mainstream critics and audiencegoers don’t “get” what the genre film is going for and will write it off as ‘bad’ instead of ‘not for them.’ So, we’ve compiled a list of modern […]

Christopher Nolan would “love to make a horror film” if he can find “a really exceptional idea”

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Christopher Nolan has tackled superhero blockbusters and indie hits and even took a 3-hour drama to a billion dollars. But he’s never ventured into the world of horror filmmaking. While recently participating in the Q&A to promote Oppenheimer, Nolan was asked if he would tackle a horror film, and he’s very open to the idea. […]

Warner killed Superman & Lois to make room for James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy

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For years, DC was happy with multiple versions of their iconic heroes filling the television and film spaces. We had multiple versions of The Flash, a handful of Batman projects, and, of course, Superman & Lois began during a rocky time for Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel era.  This mindset isn’t the way of the […]