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More Details On The CW’s Next Big Superhero Crossover [TCA 2017] This morning, The CW President Mark Pedowitz teased the four part “Arrowverse” crossover: one night pairingSupergirlwithArrowfollowed the next day byThe FlashandLegends of Tomorrow. After aLegends of Tomorrowpanel, producer Mark Guggenheim, who also producesArrow, said the team led by Greg Berlanti is pitching the network on the crossover the following day, Thursday, August 3. In other words, today. “At the beginning of the year when Greg, Andrew [Kreisberg] and I first started talking about [the crossover], we were like, ‘There’s just no way we can top aliens last year....

Movie Review: The Comdemned What happened to all the bad action movies from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s? You know, the ones with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris. The Condemned is the closest thing I’ve seen to those b-action classics in the last few years. And watching The Condemned I felt myself yearning for those type of films. But sadly The Condemned is not. Although it came very close....

Movie Review: X-Men Origins: Wolverine Much as I went intoThe Fellowship of the Ringcaring more about Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen than I ever could about JRR Tolkien, my interest inX-Men Origins:Wolverinestems from the involvement ofGavin HoodandHugh Jackman,and not from the legacy of X-Men comic books. Having said that, I rather liked Singer’sX-Men, lovedX2and probably thought more ofThe Last Standthan most people, so Idohave a context in which I have invested in Wolverine-slash-Logan before....

Neal McDonough May Be Dum Dum Dugan In Captain America Here’s some goodCaptain America: The First Avengercasting news:Neal McDonough(Minority Report,Flags of Our Fathers) is reportedly in talks to play the ‘Howling Commando’ Dum Dum Dugan inJoe Johnston’s film. Deadlinehas the ‘in talks’ news, and if McDonough ends up in the film he’d likely fight alongsideSamuel L. Jackson’s Colonel Nick Fury — at least if we’re going by the commonly-used history of the characters....

Netflix Claims One-Stream-At-A-Time Restriction Was A Mistake Reports surfaced earlier this week that Netflix had quietly begun enforcing a one-stream-at-a-time limitation, at just about the same time that customers were finally feeling the effects of the company’snew pricing model. Although it’s been Netflix’s policy all along to allow customers to stream only as many videos as they had discs in their plan, it wasn’t until recently that customers began getting error messages that actually prevented them from watching multiple videos simultaneously....

New ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Revelations Help Flesh Out The Teaser Trailer When the teaser trailer forStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerdebuted, it was our first real look at the final installment of the Skywalker saga. There were plenty of new details to obsess over and theorize about, but much of what we saw still left us in the dark about exactly what we were seeing. However, thanks toVanity Fair’s new cover story, we can look back at the trailer and have a much better idea of what’s going on in the teaser trailer, who is involved, and what we can expect from the sequel....

New Venom: Let There Be Carnage Spot Teases An ‘Expanding’ Universe Are you ready tolet there be carnage? I sure hope so, because “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is almost upon us. The sequel to the massive hit “Venom” brings back Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, the reluctant superhero who is now forever linked with some alien goo that turns him into a giant, head-eating monster named Venom. This time, Venom and Eddie are up against Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson), a serial killer who gets some alien goo of his own – and turns into the villainous Carnage....

Oscar Hopeful Memoria Will Only Screen In One Theater A Time, Never Hit Streaming Or VOD Here’s an interesting one. The film “Memoria,” which co-won the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and has been selected as Colombia’s entry for Best International Feature Film at next year’s Academy Awards, is coming to theaters — exclusively and forever — as a never-ending U.S. tour. The film stars Tilda Swinton and is written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”), but if you want to see it, the only way to do that will be to wait for it to come to a cinema near you....

Platinum Dunes Takes Over New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Do you like yourTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesultra-gritty, ‘realistic’ and with a lot of violence, butwithouta lot of particularly interesting violence? Then you’re in luck! Paramount became the new home forTMNTlast year whenNickelodeon paid $60m for global rights to the characters, and the studio has now handed the development of a new feature film over toMichael Bay’sPlatinum Dunes. Deadlinesays that Dunes producers Michael Bay,Brad FullerandAndrew Formwill meet with writers in the next few weeks....

Raymond And Ray Will Make Ewan McGregor And Ethan Hawke Brothers In New Apple TV+ Movie Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke are headed to Apple TV+ with a new original movie, “Raymond and Ray,” which will see them showing off their dramatic chops as half-brothers. McGregor will play Raymond and Hawke will play Ray, andThe Wrapreports that the film will follow the alliterative brothers as they “reinvent themselves following their terrible father’s funeral....

Renfield Adds Ghostbusters' Bess Rous To Its Bloody Good Cast The cast of"Renfield,“the upcoming Universal film starring Nicolas Cage as Dracula and Nicholas Hoult as his put-upon servant, continues to fill out with the addition of Bess Rous. Deadline reports that Rous has joined the cast as “a member of a support group for people in toxic relationships.” Based on what we know of “Renfield” so far, it seems likely that Hoult’s title character might be attending this support group as he struggles to deal with the demands of his master, Dracula....

Republican Politician Rick Santorum Scores New Gig As Movie Studio Exec Rick Santorummay not be the president of the United States, but he’s about to become the king of Hollywood. Or a Dallas-based, Christian version of it, anyway. The former Pennsylvania senator has been named CEO ofEchoLight Studios, a production company that aims to make “honest, uplifting content” like 2011’sSoul Surfer, only without “water[ing] down the truth.” Hit the jump to learn about Santorum’s new gig, and to watch the trailer for EchoLight’s first theatrical release....

Shane Black Scribing A Doc Savage Movie For Star Trek Producers Yay? Nifty screenwriterShaneBlack(LethalWeapon,KissKissBangBang) is apparently at work on a new adaptation ofDocSavage—the pulpy 1930s alphamale hero—for the tentpole production duoRobertoOrciandAlexKurtzman(TransformersandStarTrekfranchises). What’s more, Black let it be known toAICNthat the project will be a period piece set in the aforementioned decade rather than one in modern day complete with hoverboards and H1N1. Consult a Ouija board or find details on what a Doc Savage is after the jump…...