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Australia’s Rhino Buggies will be used in both the upcoming Daybreakers, starring Ethan Hawke, and in the Hugh Jackman-starring X-Men Origins: Wolverine. According to a newsletter fans of Rhino Buggies, the extreme 4WDs will be featured heavily in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Their newsletter states: As you are probably aware, Rhino Buggies extreme 4WDs are the weapon of choice in the upcoming flick Daybreakers, staring Ethan Hawke. Just as exciting, our vehicles will also be featured in the next X-Men movie called Wolverine....

In a story from Variety, YouTube, Ridley Scott (Robin Hood) and Kevin Macdonald (State of Play) are asking for filmed contributions for their new project Life in a Day. This project is being called “the first user-generated feature-length documentary feature shot in one day – July 24, 2010.” Scott Free Prods. will produce and Macdonald will direct. The film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January and on YouTube at no cost....

Ridley Scott is negotiating with Angelina Jolie to take the lead femme fatale role in Gucci, a drama about murder and decadence in the Gucci fashion dynasty, according to Variety. Scott is talking with Jolie to play Patrizia Reggiano, who was sentenced to 29 years in jail for plotting the murder of her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci. The studio is about to hire a scribe to rewrite the drama that recaptures the glamorous days of the Gucci family dynasty in the 1970s and ’80s, when the family was selling $500 million in product annually....

A singing and dancing crocodile enriches the lives of a timid boy, his parents, and flamboyant showman in bustling New York City. Based on the beloved children’s books by Bernard Waber, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile will entrance the youngest tykes. Big-budget CGI animation and Shawn Mendes’ soaring vocals will have them dancing in the aisles. Their parents won’t be as entertained. The family drama and bad neighbor subplots are too simplistic. Javier Bardem gives the best effort to bridge the gap between age groups....

Although there has been a lot of secrecy around the filming of the upcoming Barbie movie, that hasn’t stopped a number of set videos and photos appearing on the internet in the last few days. In a new piece of footage, Margot Robbie’s Barbie voice is heard for the first time as she roller-skates down the street with go star America Ferrera. While there has been a lot of speculation about exactly what the Barbie movie is going to entail, with comments from Robbie that she wants to defy expectations, so far, it appears to be very much conforming to exactly what most people expected....

Wanted and Kick-Ass comic book author Mark Millar has announced on his official website that he will make his directorial debut with a superhero feature: Bet you didn’t see THAT coming, laddies and lassies! But this is one of several big surprises planned for next year and you’ll hear a bit more about this in February when we start to release details. What is it? Who is it about? Well, that’s all a secret for now, but I learned a lot from Kick-Ass and love having the same creative freedom I have with comics when I work in cinema....

Mark Wahlberg, a singer turned actor, has made quite the name for himself over the years. His best filmography covers many genres from comedies like Ted to thrillers like The Departed, the latter for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Earlier this year, Wahlberg starred in a film based on a popular video game called Uncharted, which grossed over $400 million at the box office despite receiving mixed reviews from critics and fans....

A new NBC mid-season series is now searching for a new lead actress. According to The Hollywood Reporter, actress Maura Tierney has left the new comedy series Parenthood. It was announced in July that NBC was moving the series from a fall premiere to mid-season after Tierney’s then-undisclosed illness, which she later revealed to be breast cancer. Production was postponed until November, for Tierney to undergo treatment, but now it seems her treatment will take longer than expected....

The MCU is constantly branching out to near-unstoppable lengths. Introducing new superheroes became the talk of the town as soon as we entered Phase 4 of the franchise and left behind the iconic Infinity Saga. Through franchises like Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Black Panther, the MCU slowly introduced advanced technology, science, and thought it what was originally a more-grounded approach to the comic book superhero movie. Phase 4 effectively widened the scope, further diving into the Multiverse, magic, and the intersection of technology, science, and ethics....

For other filmmakers, the tradition is to drop hints and clues, also known as Easter eggs, from their previous movies in their later works. In true time-bending fashion, filmmaker Christopher Nolan has revealed that an Easter egg for his latest movie Tenet actually showed up in one of his earliest films, 2000’s Memento. Memento was one of the earliest showcases of Nolan’s obsession with subjective reality and non-linear narrative. The entire story unfolded in two parts, one moving forward, and the other movie backward, as the film’s protagonist, who suffered from short-term memory loss, tried to put the pieces of his life back together and figure out who murdered his wife....

Quentin Tarantino has cast Michael Bacall (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation), Eli Roth (Hostel) and newcomer Omar Doom in his half of Grindhouse, the highly anticipated double feature he is making with Robert Rodriguez, which will include two films joined by faux ads and trailers. Rodriguez’s movie is called Planet Terror, while Tarantino’s movie is Death Proof, a slasher flick. Bacall, Roth and Doom are cast in Death Proof alongside Kurt Russell and Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Marley Shelton, Tracie Thoms and Mary Elizabeth Winstead who were previously announced in July at the 2006 San Diego Comic Con International....

Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr. and Ashley Judd are in talks to star in Alcon Entertainment’s 3D family adventure A Dolphin’s Tale. According to Variety, Charles Martin Smith will direct from a screenplay by Karen Janszen with revisions by Smith and Jordan Roberts. The script’s based on an original treatment by Noam Dromi. A Dolphin’s Tale centers on a young dolphin that loses her tail in a crab trap and an introverted 11-year-old boy who rallies friends and family to save it by persuading a doctor to create a prosthetic attachment to restore the dolphin’s ability to swim....

Ophelia Lovibond has joined the cast of Fox’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins, the family comedy starring Jim Carrey being directed by Mark Waters. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mr. Popper’s Penguins is based on the award-winning book by Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater, and tells the story of a high-powered businessman (Jim Carrey) who inherits six penguins. As he gets acquainted with, and increasingly attached to, his winged roommates, Popper’s life quickly unravels....

NBC has announced premiere dates for its 2017-18 fall schedule, which includes broadcast television’s #1 program, Sunday Night Football, last season’s #1 new series, This Is Us and the return of one of the most honored and beloved comedies of all time, Will & Grace. Dominant reality show and three-time Emmy Award winner The Voice is also returning, with the Edie Falco-starrer Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, new Monday night drama The Brave and the sophomore season of Mike Schur’s mind-bending comedy, The Good Place....

There have been a lot of firsts for LGBTQ+ content in the last few years, and it only makes sense that we see another from the talent behind Schitt’s Creek. Dan Levy will be making his directorial debut with Good Grief, a film full of humor and heart that is coming to Netflix in the near future. What we know for sure is this film will make us laugh, cry, and rejoice in the honesty of Levy’s honest depiction of LGBTQ+ life....

Troy Duffy’s long awaited sequel to the hugely popular crime drama Boondock Saints is set to hit theaters October 30th. The first trailer for the upcoming film Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day has just arrived courtesy of IGN, and you can get a look at all of the excitement in the clip below: CLICK HERE to watch the Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day for yourself. Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day is the continuation of Troy Duffy’s tough, stylized cutting edge saga of fraternal twins, the MacManus brothers (Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery)....

Damian Shannon and Mark Swift have been hired to write Friday the 13th, the remake of the horror classic being produced by Platinum Dunes for New Line, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Paramount and MTV Films also are involved with the project. Paramount released the original Friday the 13th in 1980, making Jason – the unstoppable hockey mask-wearing killer – a horror icon, though the serial killer made only a brief appearance in the final frames of the first movie and never killed anyone....

A handful of new images from the upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series, Shrinking, offer our first look at Harrison Ford and Jason Segel as a pair of therapists with an unorthodox and unethical approach to therapy. Released alongside the first trailer for the show, Shrinking comes from the minds of How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel and Ted Lasso’s Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein and is due to land on the streaming service in January....

According to Variety, Universal has upped the stakes on “The Break-Up,” moving the laffer starring Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn to a summer date. Originally slated for February 17, “The Break-Up” is now skedded for a June 2 bow, which will put it up against one of Paramount’s big summer bets, the Jack Black wrestling comedy Nacho Libre. In other dating developments, New Line’s planted the flag more than two years out for The Golden Compass, announcing a December 7, 2007, release date for the first installment of the Philip Pullman fantasy trilogy “His Dark Materials....

Searchlight Pictures has just released the final trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s thriller remake Nightmare Alley. They’ve also acquainted us with the players in the haunting new posters. Can our wiley Stanton Carlisle triumph in his ultimate grift to gain the riches of the society elites? Who can be counted on as friend or foe? Let’s find out. The official synopsis reads, “When charismatic but down-on-his-luck Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society....