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Actress/supermodel Bar Paly and Monk star Tony Shalhoub have joined the cast of Pain and Gain for Paramount Pictures and director Michael Bay. The story centers on Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson’s characters, two Miami bodybuilders who plan an elaborate extortion and kidnapping scheme, which goes horribly awry. Bar Paly will play Sabina Petrescu, a beauty queen and illegal immigrant who wants to be a star. Instead, she gets involved with Mark Wahlberg’s character, who convinces her he can make her rich and famous, if she does everything he says....

Paramount Pictures (and recently acquired Dreamworks Pictures) has released their first batch of sneak peek images for their films coming out in 2007, including Shrek the Third, Will Ferrell and Jon Heder in Blades of Glory, Jerry Seinfeld’s animated Bee Movie and Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy in Norbit. Click an image below to access the film’s fresh gallery of preview images. Movie Picture Starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Cuba Gooding, Jr....

Prepare a heaping bowl of salt for this one, but a rumor is now spreading that Mr. Bean star, Rowan Atkinson, is being sought after for a role in the upcoming season of Peaky Blinders. That role, none other than Adolf Hitler. Rumours have been furiously circulating about the actor’s involvement in the show as the Nazi leader, which were ignited by a tweet that you can read below. After the tweet started to make the rounds, a spokesperson for Peaky Blinders came forth and deemed this rumor to be fake news....

Universal Pictures has bought the rights to a New York Times article revolving around a group of soccer-playing refugee kids who settled near Atlanta. Worth between $2 million and $3 million, the deal includes the rights to the article, written by Warren St. John and published Sunday, and the life rights to the soccer team’s coach, a Jordan-born woman named Luma Mufleh. St. John plans to turn the article into a book; those rights were acquired as well, notes The Hollywood Reporter....

Get ready for this new Uwe Boll film on DVD and Blu-Ray this August. Postal will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on August 26. We have few details on this release, aside from the Blu-Ray version being priced at $34.99 SRP. We’ll update this story with the cover art and special features as soon as they become available. The film, which will be released theatrically on May 23 in a very limited release (four theaters), stars Zach Ward, Dave Foley and Chris Coppola....

Prom is gonna happen this fall! In a story from DavisDVD, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment will be releasing “a new widescreen edition of” Prom Night on October 2. Synopsis: This low-budget, tongue-in-cheek horror film of the slasher genre – which had recently been popularized by Halloween (1978) – stars that film’s lead, Jamie Lee Curtis, as Kim Hammond, a prom queen who becomes a scream queen. Six years ago, a little girl was taunted by four classmates and fell to her death from an abandoned schoolhouse....

Movie Picture Suddenly, I feel much like the falling bowl of petunias in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I’m staring at the box for Curse of the Zodiac, and all I can think is: “Oh no, not again.” And the reason I’m feeling like a quasi-sentient bowl of petunias is because, once again, I’m talking about yet another film from horror’s very own short bus, Ulli Lommel. I confess, I had some hope this time around....

A new international trailer has been released for Rio, which is set for release on April 15. Click on the video player below to watch this new glimpse at this animated adventure. Rio is a 3-D animation feature from the makers of the Ice Age films. Set in the magnificent city of Rio de Janeiro and the lush rainforest of Brazil, the comedy-adventure centers on Blu, a rare macaw who thinks he is the last of his kind....

The CW has shifted one of its actor over to Riverdale. It’s been confirmed that Sam Witwer will join the cast of the Archie Comic’s inspired show in its fourth season as Mr. Chipping. During Comic-Con, Cole Sprouse explained that Jughead will be shipped off to a prep school, or in the actor’s words, to a place of “the bane of [Jughead’s] existence.” Sprouse had this to say about the subplot....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, forging a partnership that illustrates the developing relationship between theatrical distributors and their online counterparts, indie Roadside Attractions is joining forces with DVD-by-mail firm Netflix to acquire North American rights to Jay and Mark Duplass’ romantic comedy The Puffy Chair. Under the joint venture, Roadside will release the film theatrically, co-financing all prints and advertising with Netflix. The companies will split video and TV release costs, with Netflix co-promoting the theatrical release on its Web site....

Director Rob Letterman discusses Gulliver’s Travels, working with Jack Black, the innovative DualMoCo camera process, Stretch Armstrong, and much more Back in 2004, director Rob Letterman made his feature directorial debut with the DreamWorks Animation movie Shark Tale, which featured a multi-talented voice cast including Jack Black. Six years later, and with another animated feature under his belt (Monsters Vs. Aliens), Rob Letterman made his live-action directorial debut with Gulliver’s Travels, starring Jack Black along with another talented cast....

Principal photography began July 9 on the dystopian action adventure Mad Max: Fury Road, a Kennedy Miller Mitchell production written and directed by Mad Max creator and Academy Award winner George Miller (Happy Feet). The film will be presented by Warner Bros. Pictures in association with Village Roadshow Pictures. It will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures....

DreamWorks FanSite has posted a brand new trailer for Madagascar 2: Escape From Africa. Click below to get a glimpse at your favorite animated critters. All the loveable characters are back – Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins – in Madagascar 2: Escape From Africa. Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work....

Marvel Entertainment Inc., has partnered with renowned Japanese animation studio Madhouse (Paprika, Tokyo Godfathers) to create four all new anime versions of classic Marvel Super Heroes. Get an exciting first glimpse of two of the planned four series at this year’s Comic-Con International, the country’s leading comics and popular arts convention. The Marvel Animation Panel will be held on Friday, July 24, and will include an exclusive first look at official teaser trailers for two of these new series, Iron Man and Wolverine, hosted by writer and multiple-Eagle Award winner Warren Ellis, who will appear to discuss writing the all new adventures of these re-imagined Super Heroes....

The release of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is still far away, but Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is ready to leave Black Manta behind and cross to the other side of the road, becoming a Marvel hero in Wonder Man, one of the upcoming MCU series, which keeps advancing at a safe pace. After confirming its main star and the return of Ben Kingsley’s Trevor Slattery, little has been known about the expected project....

There was a lot of excitement over the announcement of a Marvel Zombies series coming to Disney+. Now we know that the new animated What If…? spin-off will be more than just the one-off appearance seen in last year’s animated show, but it will also be the shortest Marvel series to date with just four episodes. However, as of yet, there has been no confirmation of how long those episodes will run, so it is hard to gauge just how short the series will be in actual length....

Michael Douglas is finalizing a deal to star in the CBS Films comedy Last Vegas, which is described as a senior citizens version of The Hangover. The actor was originally in talks for the project three years ago, but he backed away after being diagnosed with throat cancer in August 2010. The story centers on four aging, lifelong friends, who reunite for a wedding. The actor will play a ladies man who is marrying a woman half his age, and is in denial about growing old....

Michael Stuhlbarg has enjoyed a prolific career in television, film, and theater. Both an alumnus of Julliard’s Drama Division and the University of California, Los Angeles, he started his career on the stage and with classics. After five years of working in theater, Stuhlbarg made his feature film debut with 1998’s A Price Above Rubies, in which he played a minor role. While he simultaneously began to develop his film and stage careers even further, he attracted praise from critics, who cited him as one of the young actors to watch throughout the years....

Everyone’s favorite angel will help prevent Armageddon in the final two episodes of the season Misha Collins plays the angel Castiel on the hugely popular CW series Supernatural. Responsible for retrieving Dean Winchester from the bowels of Hell, he was introduced at the beginning of season 4 and has gone on to help the Winchester brothers battle a wide array of both angels and demons. Castiel will play an important part in stopping the impending Apocalypse in the final two episodes of the year....

Pre-production might be chugging along on Deadpool 3, but Morena Baccarin is still waiting to find out whether or not she’s involved. In 2016, Baccarin appeared in the original Deadpool movie alongside Ryan Reynolds. She would later reprise her role as Vanessa Carlysle in the 2018 sequel Deadpool 2. At this time, only Reynolds is confirmed for the cast of Deadpool 3, leaving it unclear if Baccarin will be back as Vanessa in the sequel....