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There seems to be a hard and fast rule that any movie based on a popular franchise is going to come under criticism for not meeting some requirements that fans have in their heads. When it was announced that a Predator prequel movie was coming from Disney, with a female lead, social media immediate lit up with comments from Predator fans decrying the demise of the franchise. Of course, the last few Predator movies haven’t quite set the world alight and when Prey arrived its reviews bested even the original Arnold Schwarzenegger movie....

The Los Angeles Daily News caught up with Ron Perlman, who revealed that principal photography for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army will begin in May: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is the sequel to the 2003 movie based on Mike Mignola’s Dark Horse comic character. Acclaimed Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker Guillermo del Toro has just set off for Budapest to “zero in on the beginning of principal photography” for Hellboy 2: The Golden Army - the big-screen sequel to his surprise hit 2004 comic book adaptation....

Bring home Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert Redford and more all on one disc. Lions for Lambs will be released on DVD on April 8. The film will be available in both widescreen and fullscreen formats and will be priced at $29.98. The film stars Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Michael Pena, Derek Luke and Robert Redford, who also directs. Lions for Lambs consists of three interconnected storylines: Tom Cruise as a congressman who interacts with a journalist (Meryl Streep); Robert Redford as an idealistic professor who attempts to inspire a privileged student in his class; and a third storyline about a pair of American soldiers wounded in enemy territory, one of whom is Redford’s former student....

Ahead of its season one finale, AMC today announced that it has renewed its critically acclaimed modern fable Lodge 49 for a second season. Wyatt Russell (Black Mirror, Everybody Wants Some) will reprise his starring role as Sean “Dud” Dudley. Creator, writer and executive producer Jim Gavin returns as does Peter Ocko (Pushing Daisies, The Office) as executive producer and showrunner. Additional executive producers include Paul Giamatti (Billions, Sideways, Outsiders, Hoke), Dan Carey (Outsiders, Hoke, John Dies at the End, All Is Bright), and Jeff Freilich (Halt and Catch Fire, Grace and Frankie)....

While doing an interview with Louis Lombardi for the DVD release of his film Doughboys, the actor talked about reprising his role of Ronnie on Entourage as well as his new role on CSI: NY. I know you’re also coming back on Entourage. Can you talk about being in the season finale? Louis Lombardi: It comes out November 22nd or 23rd… this role is gonna be fun. I don’t want to talk too much about the role or what they do because I don’t want to give anything away, you know?...

Time to get the hoses out… Man on Fire will be released on Blu-Ray on January 8, the action flick’s first foray into hi-def. The 2004 movie stars Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Mickey Rourke and Marc Anthony. Synopsis A man whose ideals have been shattered for the last time is out for violent justice in this thriller. Creasy (Denzel Washington) is a former United State intelligence agent-turned-mercenary who has seen too much of the violence and corruption in the world and has become jaded and withdrawn....

The Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie has responded to Lady Gaga taking over the role of Harley Quinn in the upcoming Joker 2. And she could not be more excited about it. In a conversation with MTV News, Robbie declared that she is “so happy” to see someone else take on the character of Harley, with the actress revealing that she has always hoped that the role would become like “Macbeth or Batman....

One of the first things to expect when watching a superhero movie is the action. The action could be superpowers, seeing buildings explode in the background, or an intense scene between characters. Marvel certainly does not fail to bring comic book and superhero fans the right amount of action. However, their usage of comedy as of late has started to outshine the action and other serious moments. This trend started with their films and has now taken center stage in their shows....

Anthony Minghella’s son becomes a lead actor and a good one at that Max Minghella has had an auspicious start to his young career. With three films under his belt, he’s already worked with George Clooney, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, and Terry Zwigoff. Max is the son of Oscar winning director and screenwriter Anthony Minghella. I met Max last year during the interviews for Bee Season. Success hasn’t gone to his head so far....

Michael Shannon, Benicio Del Toro and James Franco will be starring in The Iceman, it was announced today in a joint statement made by Millennium Films and Bleiberg Entertainment. Ariel Vromen (Danika, Rx) is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with Morgan Land (Rx, The Point of No Return), based on the book The Iceman: The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer by Anthony Bruno and on interview footage from the documentary The Iceman Tapes: Conversations With a Killer by Jim Thebaut....

The wait is finally over for Marvel fans as the character Moon Knight finally made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut last week with the release of the first episode of his new series starring Oscar Isaac as Steve Grant/Marc Spector/Moon Knight. Even before the first episode of the series had been officially released, however, reviewers were already singing praises for the show’s brutality, its unique and interesting setting, and its handling of the character Steve Grant/Marc Spector/Moon Knight....

From Kevin Tancharoen - acclaimed director of Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, the viral sensation with 12 million YouTube hits - comes Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a must-see 9 episode anthology from Warner Premiere, arriving on Blu-ray November 8 from Warner Home Video. Created by a fan for the fans, the newest release lets the consumer dive deeper into the origins of one of the most enduring franchises in history and builds on the enormous success of the Warner Bros....

It seems the heroic four-season run of a once-popular NBC series has come to an official end. The Live Feed is reporting that NBC has officially canceled Heroes. It was said that the network was mulling over options for a shortened final season to give some closure to the remaining fans of the show, but it was ultimately decided that it wasn’t worth it. However, Deadline Hollywood is reporting that NBC is, “working on a way to wrap up the show....

NBC will renew its critically acclaimed comedy 30 Rock (returning to the network’s lineup on Thursday, April 5, with a special supersized episode at 8:40 p.m. - 9:20 p.m. ET) for the 2007-08 season, it was announced by Kevin Reilly, President, NBC Entertainment. The series will settle into its new time period of 9:00 - 9:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 12 for the remaining episodes. “From the beginning, 30 Rock has proven to be the kind of quality comedy that doesn’t come around very often, and we are very pleased to have this show back for a second season,” said Reilly....

Netflix has been the home of some very expensive shows in recent years, and while that has been a good thing mostly for fantasy fans with multiple seasons of Stranger Things and The Witcher being released on the platform, it has also caused a number of early cancellations when viewer numbers have not quite been enough to sustain a project beyond one series. Fans of The Sandman are hoping that the latter fate is not going to befall the series, which has been a success on the platform in its first two weeks, but according to Neil Gaiman that may not be enough to get the green light on a second season....

A pair of new images from the upcoming Predator prequel, Prey, further tease the feral take on the alien warrior that will hunt on Hulu next month. The first image comes courtesy of the latest issue of Empire Magazine, and finds the iconic movie monster emerging from the mist to demonstrate his bloody and brutal skills once again. Prey will explain how the Predator came to Earth for the first time, with the extra-terrestrial landing in 1719....

The next scene that Director Renny Harlin was going to shoot he actually demonstrated to the assembled press using two water bottles. This shot, in addition to having the blue screen all around the tall rock formation, is also going to have a blue screen applied to the ground because of the way the camera is going to be moving. This is actually an earlier part of the scene described in The Covenant Set Report #1....

Time might fly, but some things never change. This is made very apparent with some new photos taken at a recent cast reunion of the stars of the ’90s TV series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. The titular star of the cult classic series, Melissa Joan Hart just might be a witch in reality as she doesn’t appear to have aged a day. In a small collection of photographs posted on Hart’s personal Instagram account, the actress poses with many of her familiar Sabrina colleagues, and if you’re a big fan of the show, the pictures will give you the feels....

After a rumor surfaced last month that the Captain America: Civil War will be attached to prints of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, most fans assumed that we’d have to wait until December to see the first footage. However, earlier today, Jimmy Kimmel announced that Chris Evans (Captain America) and Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) will be appearing on tonight’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with a “big surprise” from Captain America: Civil War....

Not all dads wear business suits in the first poster for the upcoming Paramount+ superhero outing, Secret Headquarters. Loki star Owen Wilson is all superhero-suited up for the promo, with the actor sporting a suit that sits somewhere between Iron Man and RoboCop. Released to social media by Discussing Film, the poster for Secret Headquarters puts the bulky black-and-silver super-suit at its center and cuts Owen Wilson’s face in half. No doubt the disappointment of many....