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Musician Jonathan Young has teamed with original Pokémon theme song singer Jason Paige for a hardcore take on the classic tune. And it’s earning rave reviews from fans of the franchise. related|NEGuJSzH0pfkJP Jonathan Young released this fun video to promote his new album, which is full of nothing but Pokemon metal songs. About pulling Jason Paige in to participate on the project, Young states, “Getting the opportunity to reimagine the Pokémon theme and sing it alongside Jason Paige was super cool....

IFC’s hit comedy series, Portlandia and The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret will make their first ever New York Comic Con appearances for two back-to-back panels on Sunday, October 16th starting at 11:00am. Portlandia’s (ifc.com/Portlandia/) creators, writers and stars, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein and Jonathan Krisel will appear to discuss the show’s highly anticipated second season and take questions from the audience. They will also unveil a special sneak peek from season two....

The in-universe company, Vought, is a play on the massive corporations that provide entertainment today. They are involved in pharmaceuticals, the movie and TV industry, books, video games, and more. Of course, Vought would have a streaming service too, and they want to be clear with what you’re getting into through an announcement tweet. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY The new subscription service will feature hit titles such as Black Noir: Insurrection, Queen Maeve: Her Majesty, Rising Tide, Translucent: Invisible Force 2, and, of course, Dawn of the Seven....

Principal photography begins today on Twentieth Century Fox and EuropaCorp’s action thriller Hitman directed by Xavier Gens (Frontières). Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood; Live Free Or Die Hard) stars in the title role with co-stars including Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible II; Desperate Housewives), Olga Kurylenko (Paris je t’aime), Robert Knepper (Prison Break), Ulrich Thomsen (Festen) and Michael Offei (Casino Royale). The screenplay was adapted by Skip Woods (“Swordfish”) from the hugely successful video game franchise....

Director Ridley Scott has moved the production of his sci-fi drama Prometheus from London to the small arctic country of Iceland. Production began today at the country’s Hekla volcano, where Ridley Scott gave a small press conference. Here’s what he had to say about the extent of production in Iceland. There were international news reports last week that the Hekla volcano was set to erupt, although those stories were proven to be false....

The Shrek franchise has seen immense success over the last twenty years, becoming a cultural icon and the second-highest-grossing animated film franchise of all time. The series was first expanded in 2011 with Puss in Boots, which told the origin story of the series’ iconic boots-wearing feline. That backstory will now be developed further with the sequel film Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, set to arrive in theaters this fall....

Robbie Coltrane became unforgettable for one of those rare combinations of the perfect actor for the perfect role — Rubeus Hagrid. Playing the gentle giant in the Harry Potter movies, Coltrane likely became one of the most beloved actors with the least-remembered name. That’s a shame, because beyond Coltrane’s sweet, gruff performance in the Wizarding World (where he immediately became the favorite uncle or grandfather audiences wished they’d had), Coltrane actually had a pretty wonderful career as a character actor and is especially adored and famous in Scotland and the UK....

Robert De Niro is returning to the gangster drama genre, and he’s sharing the screen with a Hollywood legend. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robert De Niro is set to star opposite Robert De Niro in Wise Guys for Warner Bros., a period mobster drama. The beloved actor plays two roles in the film, both leading parts. Wise Guys is intended to be released theatrically, with Barry Levinson helming the film....

Love Actually celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and that has meant a reunion of cast and crew members and the reveal of some long unspoken facts about the making of the movie. Writer-director Richard Curtis was among those reminiscing about the film, and at one point touched on late actor Alan Rickman and how one scene in the film caused the star a lot of annoyance due to some takes lasting for up to 11 minutes....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate’s Madea’s Family Reunion, a PG-13-rated comedy based on the play by Tyler Perry, dominated the boxoffice for the weekend with an estimated debut of a sterling $30.3 million. Madea averaged a robust $13,810 per theater from 2,194 venues and the opening proved significant for both Perry and Lionsgate. The debut for the Perry-helmed Madea marked the biggest so far this year and was the second-largest bow in Lionsgate history after Saw II ($31....

In the late 1970s and from within the deep multiversal world that is Marvel Comics, the artist Jack Kirby brought to life a human-like being from the Stone Age. With the blunt name of Moon Boy, this otherworldly cave dweller resides on another planet not our own and ends up befriending a young bright red dinosaur after saving its mother from a rival tribe called the Killer-Folk. Giving the young prehistoric creature the nickname of Devil from that point on, the duo would travel to different times and places, even encountering Godzilla and the Fallen Angels, a spin-off team from the X-Men franchise....

Netflix has released the official trailer for Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. The release of the trailer follows the film’s acclaimed opening night debut at BFI London Film Festival, and the film will be coming to Netflix for streaming on Christmas Day. To get a sneak peek at the new film, you can watch the trailer below. Matthew Warchus directed Raold Dahl’s Matilda the Musical using a script by Dennis Kelly....

A new trailer for director Kelly Reichardt’s Western Meek’s Cutoff has arrived. The film stars Michelle Williams and Paul Dano in a story about three families who become lost on the Oregon Trailer after taking a shortcut. You can check out the first footage from this gritty thriller below. The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains....

Michael Bay, the director of Transformers, posted a message on his personal message board about the status of the film’s teaser trailer: Transformers arrives in theaters on July 4th, 2007. It has been awhile since I’ve posted. Finished shooting end of Sept., on budget, just came under $300,000. I beat Pearl by a $100,000. I had a great time making this movie, the cast and crew were amazing. Today I just finished the new teaser for Christmas and I think it’s AWESOME!...

Parts & Labor’s Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy - the producing duo behind Mike Mills’ Oscar-winning film Beginners which won Christopher Plummer his first Academy Award last month - announced today that they are partnering with Todd Hagopian at Ocean Size Pictures, to produce Dirty White Boy. Michael K. Williams (The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) is set to star as the late hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (real name: Russell Jones)....

During an interview with Collider, Clark discusses the auditioning process and the lack of information when she read for her part. She says, “I didn’t know who I was auditioning for, which I think was probably quite good in my case because that would’ve been overwhelming.” MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Learning she was auditioning for a part in a Lord of the Rings project certainly added some pressure to the audition....

According to The Hollywood Reporter Morgan Spurlock and Dark Horse Productions are teaming up to turn his film Super Size Me into a graphic novel. The book will be called Supersized: Strange Tales From a Fast Food Culture. It will showcase some very interesting stories about the U.S.’s love of fast food that didn’t make it into the film. Spurlock will be penning the stories, and they will feature a variety of old and new artists writing the scripts and doing the drawings for the book....

Since last October, when Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual abuse was uncovered, scores of others have been outed as harassers or abusers, although the latest to be outed has a unique twist. New York Times journalist David Itzkoff is publishing a new biography on Robin Williams, simply entitled Robin, where the late actor’s Mork & Mindy co-star Pam Dawber admits she was often groped by the actor on set, but she never took offense because the comedian was simply, “so much fun....

STX Films has released the new trailer of its new film, National Champions, a fictional sports drama focusing on a protest raged by young athletes against team managers. The film focuses on two college athletes, football players eyeing for NFL selections in the future, who ignite a player’s strike three days before the national championship game. What follows is the efforts of the few college players to bring down an entire lineage of sports managers, executives, coaches, and profiteers in order to gain fair compensation and equal rights as other league players....

NBC has ordered early a full-season pickup for the 2007-08 season for the drama Heroes, it was announced by Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment. Heroes is the #1 new series of the season in adults 18-49, total viewers and other key categories and, through 16 weeks of the season, is tied for the #3 ranking among all shows in 18-49. Heroes is NBC’s highest-rated first-year drama in 18-49 in 12 years, since ER debuted in Fall 1994....