Lionsgate has picked up the film Burst 3D, which is set to be directed by Neil Marshall. Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert are producing the film under their Ghost House banner. Here is the official press release: Lionsgate announced today that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Burst 3D, a horror/thriller to be produced by Ghost House Pictures. Neil Marshall, who wrote and directed Lionsgate’s 2006 horror success The Descent, will direct....
Fans of Vikings: Valhalla will be happy to know that the series will stick around for a while. Netflix has confirmed two more seasons of the Vikings spinoff are on the way, with seasons 2 and 3 making up the rest of the 24 overall episodes previously ordered by the streamer. The news comes after the first season climbed to No. 1 on the Netflix Top 10 with 113 million hours viewed and a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes....
Netflix’s true-crime docuseries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, streaming June 8, 2022, provides chilling footage from self-professed prophet Warren Jeffs’s days of religious dictatorship. Jeffs led a secretive polygamous sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). While at the helm of this radical arm of the Mormon Church of the Latter-Day Saints, Jeffs accumulated 78 wives, 24 of which were underage girls, and reportedly at least 60 children....
Netflix has debuted a teaser and first look photos for Tim Burton’s upcoming series Wednesday, starring Jenny Ortega in the titular role. The much-anticipated dark comedy is set for release later this year and also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams, Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams, and Christina Ricci, who brilliantly played the stoic Wednesday Adams in 1991’s The Addams Family and 1993’s The Addams Family Values films. Ricci’s role in the upcoming series has yet to be announced....
Will we be seeing more of those damn dirty apes again? It certainly seems so. CHUD recently spoke with screenwriter Scott Frank about the new film entitled Caesar and Frank told the site the film was not a remake of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, as the site previously reported. The site also reported that Fox’s Tom Rothman talked about the film on AMC this weekend, after the first Planet of the Apes was shown on the network....
A hi-res version of a pre-released photo plus three brand new promo photos have surfaced for James Wong’s Dragonball, thanks to Movieland and Moviesoon. Check out these photos below! The video game adaptation hits theaters April 10 and stars Justin Chatwin, James Marsters, Jamie Chung, Emmy Rossum, Eriko Tamura, Joon Park, Chow Yun-Fat, Texas Battle, Randall Duk Kim and Ernie Hudson. Dragonball is adapted from the manga created by Akira Toriyama; the work was also turned into a Japanese anime series that played all over the world....
Netflix, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Television, today announced a new multi-year exclusive subscription video on demand agreement for one of the most popular primetime comedies on air today. Season 1 of New Girl will be available for members to watch instantly beginning today, July 1st. Subsequent seasons of the Golden Globe nominated show will all be available to Netflix after the broadcast seasons. Here’s what Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos had to say about the New Girl deal in a statement....
YouTube has just added the first trailer for Phoebe in Wonderland, which is set to be released on September 12. Click below for your first look at this film, which stars Elle Fanning, Felicity Huffman, Bill Pullman and Patricia Clarkson. Phoebe in Wonderland is the fantastical tale of Phoebe (Elle Fanning), a young girl who longs to be in the school production of Alice in Wonderland. After her peculiar drama teacher Miss Dodger (Patricia Clarkson) casts her, Phoebe struggles to control her behavior so her Principal (Campbell Scott) won’t kick her out....
UPDATE: 3/19/10 10 AM PST Looks like MTV Movies Blog reached out to LucasFilm after this story ran and they gave a confirmation, of sorts, on this project. Here’s the response they received from a LucasFilm rep. We’ll be sure to keep you posted on any new developments on this animated TV series as soon as more information comes in. “Lucasfilm Animation has many projects in development. One is for a younger audience but it’s in very early development and too early for any details....
The actor discusses his love for the character, playing a superhero, and why he isn’t upset about not playing Superman As one of the most diverse and gifted actors of his generation, Nicolas Cage has a way of making every role he does his own. Wanting to play a comic book hero for many years now, Cage finally got his chance in director Mark Steven Johnson’s Ghost Rider. In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson (Eva Mendes), the love of his life....
Star Wars Rebels is getting ready to return for the second half of its third season, and as the show presses on, it is definitely becoming absolutely essential viewing for Star Wars fans. If that wasn’t made clear with the Darth Vader action at the end of last season, perhaps an epic rematch between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul will do the trick. If that sounds awesome to you, then you’re in luck!...
BBC America has revealed the first full trailer for the final season of the network’s award-winning clone drama, Orphan Black. The final trip begins Saturday, June 10th at 10/9c on BBCA. The show was renewed for a fifth and final season last June, just one day before the Season 4 finale. This past fall, series star Tatiana Maslany received her first Emmy Award for her multi-character performance as fourteen different clones to date, which also marks the first ever Emmy win for the BBCA original series....
Following three brief trailer previews, Paramount Pictures has finally debuted the first full trailer for Paranormal Activity 4. The studio has also released a new poster, that reveals the action takes place in November 2011. Take a look at this horror-thriller from directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, along with the new poster. Fans of Paranormal Activity are being empowered to bring the movie to their city first. Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, Inc....
Daniel Robert Epstein from SuicideGirls.com caught up with Concrete creator Paul Chadwick, who spoke about bringing the comic-book to the big screen and Peter Jackson’s involvement in the project: Concrete is a creator owned comic book that just celebrated its 20 year anniversary. It is the story of a former political speechwriter that is mysteriously kidnapped by aliens and has his brain transplanted into massive stone body with tremendous strength, endurance and vision....
Anyone who has hung on to every grisly crime carried out on the orders – or at the hands – of Edwardian England’s most famous gangster Tommy Shelby has been eagerly anticipating the next installment in the BBC’s international hit drama Peaky Blinders. Now that the television series has come to an end after six series, a film continuing the saga is in the works. So, now that Tommy Shelby’s story has reached the 1930s, what lies in store for the notorious gang from Birmingham?...
Dimension Films announced that it has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the film Penthouse North from director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping with the Enemy, The Forgotten, Return to Paradise). The thriller stars Michael Keaton (The Other Guys) and Michelle Monaghan (Source Code, Machine Gun Preacher). The announcement was made today by Bob Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company. Sara Taylor (Monaghan), a photojournalist blinded in Iraq, is forced to play a deadly game of cat and mouse with the sadistic criminal Hollander (Keaton) - a man who will stop at nothing to get a fortune of stolen diamonds hidden in Sara’s penthouse apartment....
Ten years ago, Quentin Tarantino shocked critics and moviegoers with Django Unchained, a racially incendiary film that to this day has not ceased to entertain and offend in equal measure. Originally conceived as an homage to Sergio Corbucci, the Spaghetti Western director who made the original Django (1966), Tarantino’s Django quickly became one of the most subversive and politically controversial Hollywood films of all time. This should come as no surprise as the film’s Spaghetti Western adventure plot concerns an African American slave becoming a bounty hunter and rescuing his wife from the clutches of a despicable cotton plantation owner in the Antebellum South....
Resident Evil fans! It’s here and we want to bring it to you! The trailer for Resident Evil: Extinction is now online! The third and final installment of the $100 million Resident Evil hits, Resident Evil: Extinction is again based on the wildly popular video game series and picks up where the last film left off. Alice (Milla Jovovich), now in hiding in the Nevada desert, once again joins forces with Carlos Olivera (Oded Fehr) and L....
Producers Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst are teaming up to bring Richard Preston’s 1994 non-fiction best-seller The Hot Zone to Fox as a limited series, which focuses on the Ebola virus. The project was initially conceived as a feature film, with the producers optioning the book two decades ago and never letting the rights lapse. Jeff Vintar (I, Robot) wrote the initial screenplay, which will now be turned into a limited series, with Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst producing alongside David Zucker and Jim Hart, who wrote an original screenplay entitled Crisis in the Hot Zone....
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, which was adapted from the hit Broadway musical of the same name (in turn, based on the book Matilda by Roald Dahl), tells the story of a little girl named Matilda Wormwood (Alisha Weir) who has the worst parents imaginable, as well as a sharp brain and a vibrant imagination. While her parents (portrayed by Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough) indulge in trashy television and dubious business ventures, she likes burying herself in the pages of her favorite books....
