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WTF: Shane Black’s ‘The Nice Guys’ Getting Female-Driven TV Reboot ‘The Nice Girls’ In this week’s edition of “sure, we guess?” news, the moderately successful, mostly forgottenShane Blacknoir comedyThe Nice Guysis getting the TV reboot that no one was really asking for — but with a genderbent twist. The Nice Guysis nowThe Nice Girls, a female-led TV reboot of the ’70s-set profane buddy-comedy starringRyan GoslingandRussell Crowe. While buddy-comedies are a dime a dozen on TV — we even got aLethal WeaponTV version recently — the news is eyebrow-raising particularly because the movie came out only last year, only to meet mostly positive reviews butan apathetic box office....

‘Bad Boys For Life’ Will Show “What Becomes Of Bad Boys When They’re Not Boys Anymore,” Says Joe Carnahan After being absent from the big screen for 13 years, Detective Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) were initially scheduled to return next June. Unfortunately, last weekwe heardSony had pushedBad Boys For Lifeto 2018. The reason for the delay? According to directorJoe Carnahan(The Grey), the decision was made partly because of scheduling....

‘Bad Boys II’ Remains Michael Bay’s Most Revealing (And Personal) Action Epic TheBad Boysmovies aren’t justMichael Baymovies—they are thedefinitiveMichael Bay movies. The first installment marked Bay’s film debut, which he now thinks looks like an indie compared to his subsequent work, and the sequel was the movie that showcased Michael Bay in all his most creative and insipid ways. The sequel showed Bay’s true self as an artist, the full id of his sensibilities....

‘Cruel Intentions’ Is Getting A TV Pilot Sequel At NBC Following in the footsteps ofLimitless, Minority ReportandRush Hour, another movie is being turned into a TV show. This time NBC has set their sights on the saucy, twisted romanceCruel Intentionsfrom 1999. However, instead of simply retelling the same story, the TV pilot ordered at the network will be a sequel to the film, picking up 15 years after the movie ended....

‘Dear Dictator’ Trailer: Michael Caine Teaches A Rebel Teen How To Deal With Mean Girls Dealing with high school is worse than ever with the advent of cell phones and social media. But what if you could deal with the worst people in your high school by getting advice from a feared international dictator? Dear Dictatorfollows a British-Caribbean dictator played byMichael Caineas he’s ousted from power and has only one place to flee: the suburban American home of a rebellious teenage girl (Odeya RushofLady Bird) with whom he’s been corresponding through letters....

‘Doom Patrol’ Trailer: DC Universe Gets Its Own Deeply Weird Superhero Team Meet Robotman, Negative Man, Elasti-Woman, and Crazy Jane, and Cyborg – the obscure characters featured in DC Universe’s new streaming seriesDoom Patrol. The first trailer is online, and you can see this unconventional superhero team in action below. Doom Patrol Trailer The Doom Patrol first appeared in live-action in the fourth episode of DC Universe’sTitansseries, and because producerGreg Berlantiisn’t busy enough (I’m kidding, he’s one of the busiest producers on Earth), he decided to spin these characters off into their own show....

‘Hair Love’ Director Sets King Tut Film At Sony Pictures Animation Matthew A. Cherrywon the Academy Award for Best Original Short for his 2019 short filmHair Love(which he wrote, produced, and directed) and soon he’ll beexpanding on that storyin a 2D animated series on HBO. But that isn’t the only animated project Cherry will be working on. The NFL player-turned-filmmaker has now lined up a King Tut movie to direct at Sony Pictures Animation, which will mark the first animated feature film of his career....

‘How To Train Your Dragon 2’ Early Buzz: Solid Reviews For Animated Sequel One of the biggest andmost anticipated filmsof the summer,How to Train Your Dragon 2, premiered at theCannes Film FestivalFriday. It was the first public screening of the sequel, which continues the story of Hiccup (Jay Baruchel)and Toothless in the kingdom of Berk.Buzz around the projecthas been solid but now that respected critics from around the world have seen the film, is it as good as we all hoped?...

‘Independence Day’ Producer Dean Devlin To Direct His Own Disaster Movie; Plus Bill Pullman Talks ‘ID4’ Sequels In the realm of global disaster films, the team of director Roland Emmerich andDean Devlinare first ballot Hall Of Famers. The pair not only collaborated onIndependence DayandGodzilla, they’re slowly working onputting together sequels for the former. Since those days, Emmerich has continued his reign of terror, destroying the world again inThe Day After Tomorrow(above) and2012....

‘It Chapter Two’ Clowns Only Screenings Coming To Alamo Drafthouse I suppose we should’ve seen this coming. Alamo Drafthouse is getting into theStephen Kingspirit withIt Chapter Twoclowns-only screenings. That’s right: audience members are being encouraged to dress up in clown regalia and take in the highly anticipated horror sequel. This isn’t the first time Drafthouse has clowned around: the theater also staged clowns-only screenings of the firstItback in 2017. It Chapter Two Clowns Only Screenings In 2017, Alamo Drafthouse hosted female-only screenings ofWonder Woman....

‘It Chapter Two’ Review: A Massive, Messy Horror Blockbuster That Understands What Makes Stephen King So Special “Maybe there aren’t any such things as good friends or bad friends,“Stephen Kingwrote in his epic horror novelIt. “Maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you’re hurt and who help you feel not so lonely…people who build their houses in your heart.” If there’s one thingIt Chapter Two, the highly-anticipated sequel to 2017’s blockbuster adaptation of King’s book, understands, it’s this....

‘Midnight Special’ Director Jeff Nichols Will Remake ‘Alien Nation’ We’re big fans of directorJeff Nicholsaround these parts. I loved his science fiction drama Midnight Specialwhen I saw it at SXSW earlier this yearandit’s still my favorite movie of 2016 so far. Hisother2016 release, the dramaLoving,was ranked number two on our list of most anticipated Fall moviesand our own Angie Hanhas written a rave review from TIFF. And then there’s the fact that his filmography also includes gems likeTake Shelter,Mud, andShotgun Stories....

‘Mrs. America’ Teaser: Rose Byrne And Cate Blanchett Battle Over Women’s Empowerment Rose ByrneandCate Blanchettget ready to do battle in the latestMrs. Americateaser — over the issue of women’s empowerment, and over potential awards buzz for their performances as opposing activists Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly, respectively, in theDahvi Waller’s limited FX series set to debut on Hulu. Fittingly, the new teaser is set to the famous “Battle Hymn Of The Republic,” which declares that “women’s time has come....