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The cause of Bruce Lee’s death is still talked about today, almost 50 years after the Enter The Dragon star’s passing. While the autopsy on the then-32-year-old was said to confirm that he passed away due to cerebral edema, a brain swelling. It was believed that this had been caused by a reaction to medication the actor had taken just before his death. However, a new study has suggested an alternative reason for the legendary actor’s passing, which could have simply been that he drank too much water....

We’ve seen Nicolas Cage taking on all kinds of characters throughout the versatile actor’s legendary career, but John Woo’s Face/Off is still among his most memorable. In the action thriller, Cage plays elusive criminal Castor Troy opposite John Travolta as his arch-nemesis, agent Sean Archer. The two end up swapping faces as part of an undercover operation, but the plan goes awry when Castor escapes wearing Sean’s face and takes control of his life....

In the latest trailer for Orange is the New Black Season 5, the women of Litchfield are taking over the prison after the explosive conclusion to season 4. Season 4 of Orange Is the New Black saw the prison being privatized and brought a new set of racist guards that abused the women of Litchfield and their power. Tensions between the guards and inmates grew tighter and tighter throughout the season....

Bridesmaids director Paul Feig is reuniting with Universal Pictures for the comedy project The Better Woman. Amy Sherman (Gilmore Girls) is writing the script, which centers on a successful young executive who gets dumped by her boyfriend for an older woman. She becomes friends with the older woman to find out why her boyfriend left her, and reinvents herself along the way. Reese Witherspoon was previously circling the project, but the actress is no longer involved....

We recently caught up with director Paul W.S. Anderson and Producer Jeremy Bolt on the set of their latest movie. While any and all information regarding that film is on complete lockdown at this point in time, we did get a chance to ask Anderson and Bolt about a few of their upcoming projects. This is what the director and producer had to say for themselves: Are you still doing a remake of The Long Good Friday?...

There are currently a few different ideas being touted for future installments in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, but none of them include Johnny Depp’s iconic Captain Jack Sparrow. Well, this is something that does not sit right with Depp’s Pirates co-star, Kevin McNally, who personally cannot see any reason why Jack Sparrow should not return. While Kevin McNally, who has played Jack Sparrow’s First Mate Mr. Gibbs throughout the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, is not against further adventures, he clearly has an issue with Johnny Depp’s exclusion, believing that it is the character of Jack Sparrow that led to the franchise becoming so popular in the first place....

Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest should join Titanic and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King today as the only movies ever released to top $1 billion in worldwide grosses, according to Variety. The “Pirates” sequel has been out of the domestic top 10 for the past two weekends, but still managed to bring in $4.9 million during the Labor Day weekend to lift the North American box-office gross past $414 million – the sixth-highest on the all-time list....

I’ll just go ahead and say it, it’s been over twenty years since there has been a good “Predator” film … and that was the original. But the wait is over thanks to visionary filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal (the underrated “Armored”) who have finally put a strong script, good plot, excellent characters and phenomenal actors above body counts and special effects. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of dead bodies and amazing special effects to go around in Predators but it’s the film’s other qualities that make this movie a breakthrough and a triumph for the franchise....

“Oh boy!” Dr. Ben Seong must be saying to himself after taking his first journey across time in the new trailer for the upcoming revival of Quantum Leap. Released courtesy of The Quantum Leap Podcast, the brief teaser trailer finds Ben landing in 1986 Los Angeles and taking over the body of a female singer in a rock band. You can check out the trailer for Quantum Leap below. The problems are sure to start quickly, with the good doctor finding himself backstage and preparing to play a gig....

Okay, folks–it’s October. This is prime time for horror flicks. We’ve got Halloween bare weeks away, and those early nights spent locked in the house aren’t all that much farther off. Thus, what I’m gonna do for you is a godsend and a blessing–I’m gonna give you the line on one of the downright creepiest movies I’ve seen lately– The Legend of Lucy Keyes. So what we have here plotwise is a couple moving to the country to get a fresh start....

Hey everyone, Aaron here to bring you the report from the 5th Annual Incredible Two-Headed Horror Marathon: Don’t Go Into The Drexel. I’ve been attending this event for seventeen years, and the other folks here at MovieWeb suggested I should cover the event here. We had a pretty awesome line-up of films, including the midwest premiere of the hottest new vampire film out there - the incredible Let the Right One In....

The Loki series for Disney+ is gearing up to begin filming in early 2020. This, according to star Tom Hiddleston, who will be reprising his role as Thor’s brother, aka the God of mischief. We first learned that the character would be getting his own series back in November 2018. Though, it wasn’t officially confirmed by Marvel Studios until San Diego Comic-Con a couple of weeks back, Now that the cat is out of the bag, Hiddleston has revealed when they’re going to begin production....

Lori Loughlin took a heavy hit financially after her home was targeted by burglars. As reported by TMZ, the house Loughlin shares with husband Mossimo Giannulli was burglarized on January 3rd and was later discovered by a housekeeper. Loughlin and Giannulli were not home at the time and the police don’t yet know if their home was specifically targeted, possibly due to Loughlin’s celebrity status, or if it was a random burglary....

Director/leading man Alexander Loy and his co-star Corey Feldman are enjoying a serendipitous moment of perfect timing, as the premiere of their upcoming comedy Operation Belvis Bash, which depicts a successful undercover mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, ended on Sunday moments before Osama’s actual death was announced to the world. We recently caught up with Alexander Loy and Corey Feldman to talk about the surreal strangeness that has invaded their lives the last few days, and in the process, we also managed to get an update on Lost Boys 4!...

Move over Jason Voorhees. There’s a new monstrous, fully deranged mama’s boy in town, and he will make buyers think twice before purchasing a handful of “beef” jerky to snack on. Former professional bodybuilder and Incredible Hulk actor Lou Ferrigno is set to play the titular role of The Hermit. The film will mark Ferrigno’s first role playing any type of creature since his days as The Incredible Hulk on the CBS TV series of the same name....

After screening and winning the Audience Award at the Staten Island Film Festival, the Audience Choice Award at the Westchester Film Festival and winning Best Feature Film at last weekend’s Kent Festival (among others), actor/writer/director Louis Lombardi (24, the upcoming Frank Miller opus Will Eisner’s The Spirit) is seeing the stock for his indy effort Dough Boys soar. Made in Lombardi’s hometown of the Bronx, the film has proved to be a hit with audiences wherever it screens....

Writer-director Lynne Ramsay discusses We Need to Talk About Kevin, working with Tilda Swinton, and much more. Lynne Ramsay is a director who has gained a cult following through her first two movies, Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar, and (hopefully) will gain a larger following with her third offering, We Need to Talk About Kevin. This wonderful indie drama follows Eva Khatchadourian (Tilda Swinton), a mother whose traumatic plight we follow through a unique narrative style....

Over the last fourteen years, we have seen a lot of Nick Fury in the MCU, but in Disney+ series Secret Invasion, we are going to see more than just the enigmatic S.H.I.E.L.D agent taking on the bad guys. According to Samuel L. Jackson, the new Marvel Studios Disney+ series will dive into the private life of Fury, which aligns with the premise that this is definitely a Nick Fury story....

The Good This is one of those shows that makes you feel good after watching it. The Bad No Special Features. What makes a show like Mary Tyler Moore: The Complete Season 4 so good is that not only is it well written and filled with jokes, but it deals with life issues like death, dating and career advancement in an honest and truthful way. Filled with 24 episodes, this three disc set really gives us hilarious performances by the entire Mary Tyler Moore cast....

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) will help America’s troops overseas celebrate Independence Day this year by screening the studio’s Vietnam War biopic Rescue Dawn in Iraq. On July 4, 2007, over 2,000 troops stationed at Camp Anaconda, a large U.S. base near Balad, will screen the film highlighting the amazing life of Dieter Dengler, the only American to ever break out of a POW camp in the impenetrable Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War....