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Po and the Furious Five to return as Kung Fu Panda 4 sets 2024 release date

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Universal Pictures has summoned Po and the Furious Five to save the world once again by announcing that Kung Fu Panda 4 will be released on March 8th, 2024.  Jack Black’s furry Kung Fu master has kicked his way towards over $1.8 billion at the worldwide box-office since 2008’s original, so it comes as no […]

Super Mario Bros. animated film delayed until Spring 2023

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While the casting of Chris Pratt hasn’t delighted everyone, there was some interest in the Super Mario Bros. film set for release later this year. Those curious fans will have to wait just a little longer to hear the sounds of Pratt’s Mario. This week, the announcement came that the upcoming Super Mario Bros. movie […]

Movie Review – Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)

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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, 2022. Written and Directed by Richard Linklater. Featuring the voice talents of Glen Powell, Zachary Levi, Milo Coy, Lee Eddy, Bill Wise, Jack Black, Josh Wiggins, Natalie L’Amoreaux, Jessica Brynn Cohen, Sam Chipman, Danielle Guilbot, Samuel Davis, Nick Stevenson, Brian Villalobos, David DeLao, Holt Boggs, and Avery Joy Davis. […]

Jack Black and Kung Fu Panda return for new Netflix series The Dragon Knight

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As odd as it sounds, National Panda Day is the perfect day to bring back a beloved animated character. Taking to his official Tik Tok account, Jack Black has announced that he will be reprising his role as the Kung Fu Panda, Po, with the Dreamworks character returning in the new Netflix series Kung Fu […]

Netflix launches trailer for Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood

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Employing the same rotoscoping techniques used on his 2006 Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater returns with  Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, which tells the story of the first moon landing in 1969 from two different perspectives – the astronaut and mission control, and through the eyes of a boy […]

Movie Review – Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

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Jumanji: The Next Level, 2019. Directed by Jake Kasdan. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Danny DeVito, Awkwafina, Danny Glover, Rhys Darby, Alex Wolff, Ser’Darius Blain, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Rory McCann, Dania Ramirez, Darin Ferraro, Sal Longobardo, Massi Furlan, Michael Beasley, Colin Hanks, and Ashley Scott. SYNOPSIS: In Jumanji: […]

Jack Black and Ice Cube to team up for Sony Pictures comedy Oh Hell No

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Jack Black is in discussions to star alongside Ice Cube in Sony Pictures comedy Oh Hell No, the new film from Bad Trip creator Kitao Sakurai. Sakurai is hot property in the comedy world at the moment, having scored a high profile Netflix gig with the Eric André and Tiffany Haddish streaming hit Bad Trip, […]

Borderlands movie characters teased with new images

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Earlier this week we got our first glimpse of Lilith (Cate Blanchett) from the upcoming Borderlands movie, and now a new batch of teaser silhouettes have been revealed from Eli Roth’s video game adaptation for Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), Roland (Kevin Hart), Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Krieg (Florian Munteanu), and Claptrap (Jack Black); take a […]

Jack Black to play Claptrap in Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie

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Lionsgate has announced that Jack Black is set to join Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Hart in Borderlands, the upcoming video game adaptation from director Eli Roth (Hostel). The project, based on the hugely successful video game franchise from Gearbox Software, will reunite Black with Roth and Blanchett, the trio having recently worked […]