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Rob Marshall on The Little Mermaid casting backlash, says Halle Bailey was hired with “no agenda”

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It’s fair to say the backlash for The Little Mermaid has been a bit absurd. But the director of the live-action Disney remake Rob Marshall wasn’t fully prepared to see his casting cause such a stir.Looking at the drama with Entertainment Weekly, Marshall gets candid about his naivety. “I wasn’t anticipating that because, in a […]

Gabriel Byrne joins John Wick spin-off Ballerina

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Legendary actor Gabriel Byrne is checking into The Continental and joining the world of John Wick as The Usual Suspects star has become the latest actor to join the cast of Ballerina, the upcoming spinoff film currently in production under filmmaker Len Wiseman, who is directing the project from a script written by Shay Hatten.Byrne will […]

James Cameron on why Terminator: Dark Fate didn’t work: “It just didn’t mean that much to me to do it”

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While promoting his latest blockbuster, James Cameron took the time to reflect on his previous work and owned up to one of his most recent flops.The filmmaker sat down to dive into Avatar: The Way of Water. The film just opened with an impressive $435 million at the global box office, which happens to be […]

Quentin Tarantino finally confirms that Adam Sandler was originally set to star in Inglourious Basterds

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Quentin Tarantino is, without a doubt, a talented filmmaker known for casting some of the best in the business. Now, we have confirmation we almost got a Tarantino collab with The Sandman himself, Adam Sandler.While appearing on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast alongside Judd Apatow, the trio got into a conversation about Inglourious Basterds. More […]

Nick Cutter’s The Deep adaptation heading to Amazon

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The deep-sea thriller from Nick Cutter, The Deep, is getting a small screen adaptation from Amazon.Deadline reports C. Henry Chaisson will pen the adaptation. Chaisson is best known for writing the Keri Russell-fronted horror film Antlers and M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant on Apple. He’s currently penning Diary of a Murderer, the English-language feature adaptation of Young-ha Kim’s […]

The new Escape From New York movie won’t be a remake

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Radio Silence, the filmmaker group that includes Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, and Chad Villella, is set to direct a new Escape From New York.Thankfully for many fans, Entertainment Weekly has reported that the film wouldn’t be a remake. Radio Silence is adding to their ranks of “requels” (a term coined in their 2022 film Scream) […]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse poster teases the various versions of Spidey

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We saw the explosive and high-energy debut trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse; now we are diving more into all the Spideys featured.In the first-look poster of the upcoming new Sony Pictures animated film, there’s a more detailed look at the heroes and (possible antagonist) that Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy will come across. The poster […]

DC confirms Superman ’78 and Batman ’89 exist in same universe

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Did you know Tim Burton’s Batman and Richard Donner’s Superman took place on the same DC Earth? Well, now we have confirmation from DC Comics themselves.In Dark Crisis: Big Bang #1 by DC Comics, there was a brief blurb that put Michael Keaton’s Batman and Christopher Reeve’s Superman on Earth-789, meaning these two icons exist in […]

Five Nights At Freddy’s movie casts Matthew Lillard, Josh Hutcherson and more

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For years, the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie has been in development. Now with the announcement of casting, it finally feels real.Deadline broke the story that Matthew Lillard and Josh Hutcherson would join the cast of the video game adaptation. While there’s no official confirmation, rumors say that Lillard will play William Afton, the main […]