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0 on ‘The Predator’: What the critics are sayingThe Predator is back on the big screen, and the reviews are in for Shane Black’s take on the iconic alien hunter. The critical consensus seems to be that the film is fun, funny and flawed — but mostly fun. Having appeared as an actor in the original film, Black takes the director’s chair and…
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Netflix is bringing several shows to New York Comic Con for panels. Marvel’s Daredevil is one of them, which we already knew, but this is Netflix’s official announcement on the matter and it comes with the Daredevil logo carved into a pumpkin!
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The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is abandoning the idea of a popular film Oscar®, at least for the 2019 ceremony. The Academy only announced the new category a month ago and it was met with harsh criticism all across the film industry. Now, they’ve wisely elected to give the category a little…
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Mission: Impossible headliner Rebecca Ferguson is in negotiations to star opposite Timothee Chalamet in Dune, Legendary’s adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel being directed by Denis Villeneuve. The company is eyeing an early 2019 production start for the ambitious project, which Villeneuve is producing along with Mary Parent and Cale Boyter.
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Box office: How Tom Cruise compares to Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Dwayne Johnson and Will Smith
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Thanks to Mission: Impossible – Fallout’s massive global figures, Tom Cruise’s cumulative global box office totals has reached the $10 billion mark. That makes him one of the biggest-grossing actors of all time, in terms of unadjusted global earnings. And while he’s not at the very top of the list (so sayeth Box Office Mojo),…
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AT&T’s newly branded WarnerMedia, which encompasses Warner Bros, Turner and HBO, has taken the wraps off a companywide policy outlining its commitment to diversity and inclusion both in front and behind the camera on its film, TV and digital output. The first project to fall under the new guidelines announced today is Just Mercy, Warner…
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Captain Planet was one of Powell’s favorite shows during his childhood but he told THR his version of the mulleted environmental avenger will be different. “I mean they’ve tried to make it into a superhero movie before, but they kind of did like an earnest take and ours is way more subversive and fun and…
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The summer is officially over, which means it’s time to note the big wins, the big losses, the various lessons and everything in between. For the moment, I wanted to look at a handful of genuine honest-to-goodness surprises that took place between April 27 and Aug. 31. In this era of relatively accurate tracking, preordained…
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Netflix is bringing the current face of Superman back to television. Henry Cavill has been tapped to star in the streaming giant’s straight-to-series drama The Witcher.
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Karl Urban confident ‘Star Trek 4’ negotiations with Chris Pine and Chris Hemsworth will be resolved
The status is they have a script and brought on a director, S.J. Clarkson. I have not had the pleasure [to meet her] yet, but others have. I just haven’t been in the vicinity. They plan to shoot in the U.K., which is where she’s based. J.J. is also over there shooting that other space…