King Richard Is Now Available On Premium VOD And Comes To Blu-Ray In February “King Richard"has been garnering Oscar buzz for Will Smith and is one of the 10 films that made the American Film Institute’sMovies of the Yearlist for 2021. It’s already up for numerous festival and critic awards and has won several, but until now, the movie has been exclusive to theaters after a limited day-and-date launch on HBO Max....
Lord And Miller Producing ‘Strays’, A Live-Action Comedy About An Abandoned Dog Seeking Revenge Phil LordandChris Millerare continuing their path to producing dominance withStrays, a live-action comedy that’s just been picked up by Universal Pictures. Based on an original pitch from writerDan Perrault, the film will follow a dog looking to enact revenge against the human that abandoned it, and that’s the kind of premise I can get behind.Josh Greenbaum, who helmed the wonderfully sillyBarb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, will direct the pic....
Matt Reeves And ‘Paranormal Activity’ Producer Team For 1940s Horror Movie ‘Switchboard’ DirectorMatt Reeves(above) iscurrently hard at workon the latest iteration of The Dark Knight with the forthcoming movieThe Batman. Unfortunately, we’ll be waiting until 2022 before we get to see it, but in the meantime, Reeves is dipping his toes back into horror by producing a new movie calledSwitchboardwithParanormal ActivityproducerSteven Schneider. What’s the movie about? Find out below. The Hollywood Reporterhas news on theSwitchboardhorror movie in the works, though it doesn’t appear to have a studio home yet....
Moira Buffini’s Vampire Story Headed To The Big Screen, More Let The Right One In Than Twilight What the world needs now is another vampire movie like I need two holes in my neck. Of course, it’s going to get one, and a whole lot more than one. Perhaps the most interesting one on the cards, however, is a big screen adaptation ofMoira Buffini’s playA Vampire Storyto be calledByzantium. The play was commissioned as part of the NT Connections program in London last year and I’m not even the tiniest bit surprised the movie adaptation is coming....
New On Blu-Ray And Digital: ‘Birds Of Prey’, ‘War Of The Worlds’, ‘The Mask Of Zorro’, ‘Gretel And Hansel’, ‘Tigers Are Not Afraid’ Hello again, friend of a friend. It’s time yet again to take a look at the latest Blu-ray and digital releases to keep you company in these uncertain, strange times. These are the new Blu-ray releases (and digital releases, too) you should check out this week. Birds of Prey Birds of Preywas not the box office bomb many made it out to be, but it wasn’t really a hit, either....
Original T. Rex Returns In ‘Jurassic World,’ This Film “Is Her Unforgiven” Jurassic Worldhas a few direct callbacks toSteven Spielberg’s originalJurassic Park. There’s the shell of the old visitor center, for one, with that famous banner still on the floor. And the original design for one of the first film’s signature attractions was used to bring her back to life for this fourth movie. That’s right: the T. rex is back, and it’s not just a Tyrannosaurus, but the Tyrannosaurus that menaced Ian Malcolm and everyone else in the original movie....
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Quentin Tarantino Is Writing The Basterds Prequel, But It Isn’t His Next Movie One of the great things aboutInglourious Basterdsgetting loads of critic association awards is thatQuentin Tarantinois still out talking to people, and naturally he’s talking about his next possible projects. (Talking is still what Tarantino does best.) So, what does the director’s 2010 calendar have in store, at least as he envisions it this week? Talk of a prequel toInglourious Basterdscontinues, and in an interview withVultureTarantino says he’s got forty pages written....
Rami Malek Almost Appeared In ‘Rocketman’ As Freddie Mercury, Studio Considered PG-13 Rating After ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s Success Rocketman, the Elton John musical starringTaron Egerton, nearly established a connected cinematic universe with last year’s Queen biopicBohemian Rhapsody.Rami Malek, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury inBohemian Rhapsody, almost reprised that role for a small cameo inRocketman, a connection the film’s director said “would have been amazing.” And speaking ofBohemian Rhapsody, after that film became one of 2018’s biggest surprise hits, Paramount considered turningRocketmaninto a PG-13 movie to try to copy the earlier movie’s success....
Read Potential ‘Batman Vs. Superman’ Spoilers About Lex Luthor Almost a week has passed since Warner Bros.dropped the casting bombshellthat Oscar-nominated actorJesse Eisenbergwould be playing Lex Luthor in 2016’sBatman vs. Superman. Some fans raged over the idea of Eisenberg, a young, short man with lots of hair, playing the bald baddie. Since then, many have warmed to the interesting idea, others have simply gotten over it, but few are asking exactly why directorZack Snyderwent this way with his casting....
Robert Rodriguez Turned Down $70 Million Budget For Barbarella Because Of His Kids Some will be sad, some will rejoice, others still will shrug butRobert RodriguezandRose McGowan’s proposedBarbarellais, according to the man himself, dead. Talking toMTV, the director has revealed that he turned down $70 million in finance because of a tricky little clause in the small print. The money would have come from a German company and they were requesting he shoot and carry out post in Germany too....
Sean Connery, Famed James Bond Actor And Oscar Winner, Has Died At 90 For many, the quintessential image ofJames Bondcomes fromSean Connery, the iconic actor who played the British spy across seven total films in the franchise but did so with his trademark Scottish accent. Sadly, the star ofDr. NoandFrom Russian with Lovehas passed away at age 90, leaving behind a long legacy of memorable roles. In a statement from Sean Connery’s publicist Nancy Seltzer, it was confirmed that the actor died peacefully in his sleep overnight surrounding by family....
See The Image That Got' Yoga Hosers' An R-Rating, Kevin Smith Files MPAA Appeal Kevin Smithhas, once again, found himself in a dispute with the MPAA. TheMotion Picture Association of America has branded Smith’s latest film,Yoga Hosers, with an R-rating. This isn’t the director’s first time appealing a rating, but in this instance, the reasoning behind the R-rating — a drawn pair of testicles – is laughable, even by the MPAA’s standards....
