Having already adapted A Huey P. Newton Story and Rodney King, Variety is reporting that Spike Lee is now set to film a third one-man stage show by his frequent collaborator Roger Guenveur Smith in Frederick Douglass Now. Frederick Douglass was a 19th abolitionist, social reformer and writer who escaped slavery to become the leader […]
Venom closing in on $675 million worldwide after huge China debut
Sony’s Venom is storming towards the $700 million mark at the global box office thanks to a whopping $111 million opening in China this weekend, the second-biggest for a superhero movie behind Avengers: Infinity War ($191 million). Venom’s $111 million weekend in China already puts it ahead of the total grosses of Logan ($106 million), […]
Kevin Feige teases the Quantum Realm’s importance to future Marvel movies
Since the release of Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp and its reference to time vortexes, there’s been increasing speculation that the Quantum Realm will play a major role in Avengers 4, likely as the means for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes to travel through time in an effort to thwart Thanos. Ant-Man and the Wasp director Peyton […]
Aquaman’s running time revealed, early reactions draw comparisons to Thor: Ragnarok
Last week, director James Wan took to social media to announce that he’d finished work on December’s Aquaman movie, and now the final running time for the next chapter of the DC Extended Universe has been revealed. Dark Horizons is reporting that the aquatic adventure clocks in at 143 minutes, which is exactly the same […]
Jason Mewes says Jay and Silent Bob Reboot will shoot in February, discusses Clerks III’s collapse
After plans for Clerks III and a Mallrats sequel/TV series fell through, Kevin Smith announced last year that he’d be revisiting the View Askewniverse with Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, a follow-up to 2001’s Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Production was originally slated to get underway this August, only for the month to come […]
Tom Cruise reportedly learning to actually fly fighter jets for Top Gun: Maverick
Despite the fact that cameras have been rolling on Top Gun: Maverick, it was announced back in August that production on the sequel to the 80s action classic would be going on hiatus, with Paramount pushing back the release of the film a year to 2020. At the time, it was reported that the delay […]
Mark Ruffalo joins Todd Haynes’ DuPont legal drama
After boarding the project as a producer earlier in the year, Collider is reporting that Avengers star Mark Ruffalo has signed on to star in Todd Haynes’ (Carol, Wonderstruck) untitled legal drama about the DuPont chemical company. The film, formerly titled Dry Run, is based upon the New York Times Magazine article ‘The Lawyer Who […]
Illumination Entertainment’s Super Mario Bros. movie is moving ahead
Back in February of this year it was announced that Nintendo was looking to get back into the movie business by teaming with Illumination Entertainment to develop an animated adaptation of the iconic video game series Super Mario Bros., and now comes word that the project is officially moving ahead. “I like that this was […]
Harrison Ford provides brief Indiana Jones 5 update
It’s been a couple of years now since it was officially confirmed that Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford are set to reunite for a fifth Indiana Jones adventure, but we’re still facing a lengthy wait until we see Ford dusting off the fedora and bullwhip for another outing. This summer, it was reported that Disney […]
The Wire creator developing alternate history series The Plot Against America
With The Deuce coming to an end, The Wire creator David Simon has found his next project and is set to reunite with HBO once again for an adaptation of Phillip Roth’s 2004 alternate history novel The Plot Against America. The official Amazon description for the novel reads: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid […]
