Movie Picture Now, I recently got my hands on the Masters of Horror: Season One Box Set, in the Mausoleum Pack, no less. Now that by itself is exciting news, but what’s even better is that the stuff that’s in it is pure-T gold. Okay, granted…some of it is better than others. But still, let’s face facts–by and large this was the top season of Masters of Horror. Which wasn’t hard considering what a total shit heap the second (and last) season was....
Reese Witherspoon, whose portrayal of June Carter Cash won her the coveted Oscar last spring, will team with another of this year’s winners, South African director Gavin Hood, on the upcoming New Line production, Rendition, according to FilmJerk. Hood, whose Tsotsi became the first film from the former Apartheid state to win an Academy Award, will make his Hollywood debut directing first-time screenwriter Kelley Sane’s multi-layered story centering on a CIA analyst based in Cairo who finds his world spinning out of control after he witnesses the interrogation of a foreign national by the Egyptian secret police....
Fans can get to know the Nature Boy better than ever before by checking out a new documentary featuring new interviews with never-before-told stories from the iconic pro wrestler. Dubbed Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair, the documentary has just arrived on the streaming platform Peacock, and Ric Flair could not be more excited. Taking to Facebook, Flair posted an image of himself streaming the doc while celebrating its arrival on Peacock....
The director of the third film in the franchise talks about his new film, more Mummy films and future proects Rob Cohen certainly has two pedigrees going for him that made him ideal to take on the directing efforts for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Deember 16. The first pedigree being an extensive background in action films (See: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, The Fast and the Furious andxXx) and the second being a deep respect and love for Chinese history and culture, both of which were a perfect match for this flick that moves the franchise from Egypt to China....
In the midst of continued protests and worldwide calls for police reform in the United States, A&E has gone ahead and pulled the plug on the reality TV series Live PD. Just days ago, the network had pulled the series from its television schedule while executives were reportedly evaluating their options. In a new update to the story, Deadline reports that A&E and MGM’s Big Fish Entertainment, the entity that produces the series, have mutually agreed to end the show’s run on the network....
The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant, who played X-Men character Caliban in the Wolverine movie Logan in 2017, alongside Hugh Jackman, Sir Patrick Stewart, and Richard E. Grant, is ready for his character to come to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Merchant spoke to Newsweek ahead of the launch of his new comedy-drama, The Outlaws, arriving at Prime Video on April 1st, 2022. Now that Marvel has been acquired by The Walt Disney Company, many of the X-Men and Marvel characters owned by 21st Century Fox are legally allowed to join the MCU, allowing Merchant to join too....
Val Kilmer (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”), Steve Zahn (Rescue Dawn), Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Rachel Griffiths (“Hilary and Jackie”, “Six Feet Under”), Karl Urban (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King), Linda Cardellini (“ER”), Elizabeth Banks (The 40 Year Old Virgin) and Wes Studi (“Into The West”) star in Comanche Moon, a new six-hour mini-series based on the book by Larry McMurtry, the prequel to McMurtry’s bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Lonesome Dove”, which was the basis for the multiple Emmy Award-winning mini-series Lonesome Dove, to be broadcast Sunday, Dec....
Look at Me: XXXTTentacion is a new documentary about the controversial rapper who died in 2018. XXXTentacion, known to his parents as Jahseh Onfroy, was a teenage superstar that made his own fame by producing his own music on Soundcloud. He also notably suffered from severe mental illness. He was diagnosed when he was a boy and again when he was a celebrity as having Bipolar disorder. He was also known as a prodigious misogynist of his time, most memorably when he was arrested for imprisoning and assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, Geneva Ayala....
The Good One can always use more Aaron Spelling programming in their DVD libraries. The Bad Lack of extra features.The Love Boat: Season One, Vol. 1 sails up with the first 12 episodes of this landmark show. Now before you scoff and say, “How in the world was The Love Boat Let me simply say that this show, which centered around the lives and loves of people on a cruise ship, ran for 10 years....
You can bring home the latest exploits of Don Draper and Co. on DVD and Blu-ray this July. Mad Men: Season Two will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 14th. We don’t have any pricing details as of yet, but this new set will contain all 13 episodes of the second season and you can take a look at the cover art below. The series stars Jon Hamm and January Jones....
There are some people on social media who have been critical of Ana de Armas’ casting as Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming biopic Blonde, but Monroe’s estate doesn’t want to hear it. Based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates and directed by Andrew Dominik, Blonde recently had an official trailer released presenting a sneak peek at the de Armas portraying the famous actress. Some viewers criticized the accent de Armas uses for Monroe while others have questioned the casting of a Cuban actress....
Mark Dindal, who directed the Walt Disney Co. hit Chicken Little, will make his live-action directorial debut on Sherlock’s Secretary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Walden Media and Nash Entertainment will produce the film and Julie Golden (The Calligrapher) is attached to write. The story is based on the little-known fact that real letters are being sent to the fictitious home of Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous detective and one of the 19th century’s great literary creations....
While out promoting his upcoming drama The Fighter, Mark Wahlberg revealed to MTV that he plans to shoot Broken City at the end of next year, with Allen Hughes directing. Here is what Mark Wahlberg had to say about the project: Brian Tucker wrote the screenplay for Broken City, which is a neo-noir thriller that finds Wahlberg starring as an ex-cop named Billy Taggart, who loses his job after shooting a sixteen year old high school student....
Screenwriter Marti Noxon discusses Fright Night, the Twilight influence, future projects, and more. Screenwriter Marti Noxon got her start on Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a writer/story editor/director and, naturally, moved up the Hollywood food chain rapidly. She wrote for and/or produced such shows as Angel, Private Practice, Prison Break, and Mad Men. Marti Noxon recently wrote the screenplay for the upcoming horror remake Fright Night, which hits theaters nationwide on August 19....
Marvel Television announced today the group of actors set to portray The Pride (a.k.a the parental characters) in Marvel’s Runaways, the highly anticipated project with popular streaming service, Hulu. Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Marvel’s Runaways is the story of six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other but who must unite against a common foe, their parents. Marvel previously announced Rhenzy Feliz (Alex Wilder), Lyrica Okano (Nico Minoru), Virginia Gardner (Karolina Dean), Ariela Barer (Gert Yorkes), Gregg Sulkin (Chase Stein) and Allegra Acosta (Molly Hernandez) were locked to play the title roles in the series....
There have been rumors for some time that the Thunderbolts are going to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Recent developments in shows like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have made that seem more inevitable than ever. It may not be tomorrow but it seems this group is poised to invade the MCU at some point down that line. That begs the question, who should make up the MCU’s Thunderbolts team?...
Back in January 2010, producer Mike De Luca revealed that his adaptation of the hit video game Metal Gear Solid was dead. Today, we have word that the project is back up and running with producer Avi Arad and Sony Pictures. Here’s what he had to say during an event for the video game in Tokyo today. The project has been in development since 2008, with a screenplay from David Hayter (X-Men)....
The death of one of the most beloved entertainers of all time has finally been determined. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Jackson’s death was ruled a homicide. A law enforcement official, speaking annonymously, told the Associated Press of the ruling, which was determined when the anesthetic propofol was found in Jackson’s system along with two other sedatives. It was said that the homicide ruling doesn’t necessarily indicate that a crime was committed, although it seems likely that charges will be filed against Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician....
MTV has learned that Sex and the City Emmy-award winning executive producer, Michael Patrick King, will direct the long-awaited big-screen adaptation of the popular HBO series. The movie will mark his big screen debut. “Michael Patrick King was kind of the creative force behind that show, [and] he’s going to be writing and directing the movie,” series regular Mario Cantone enthused. “I’ve known him for 24 years. He was always very brilliant....
Paramount continues to expand HD-DVD and Blu-ray technology via the Mission: Impossible III DVD. In a recent story from The Digital Bits, it appears that the HD-DVD and Blu-ray versions of Mission: Impossible III are going to be two disc sets. All of the extras are identical with the main difference being the commentary track on the HD-DVD being “picture-in-picture” and only audio on the Blu-ray disc. The sound on the Blu-ray Disc will be in regular Dolby Digital, while the sound on the HD-DVD will be Dolby Digital Plus....
