Paramount To Make The Ring 3D It has been five years since the original sequel to the US remake ofThe Ring. 2005 saw the release ofThe Ring 2, in which Naomi Watts was directed by Hideo Nakata, the man behindRingu, the Japanese version of the film which helped kickstart the early ’00s infatuation with J-horror. Now the easy lure of a sequel and an increasing desire for 3D fodder has Paramount literally going back to the well....

Paramount+ Promo Reminds You That The Latest Streaming Service Launches This Week Paramount+ Promo Paramount+, the soon-to-launch streaming service from ViacomCBS, announced last week that they’re developingTV versions of filmslikeThe Italian Job,Fatal Attraction, andThe Parallax View, as well as revivals ofFrasier,Yo! MTV Raps(yes, seriously),Inside Amy Schumer,Rugrats, and more. It’s a nostalgia goldmine, but perhaps it might not be enough to persuade the casual home viewer who didn’t bother to watch a whole Investor Day presentation about upcoming shows....

Pop Culture Imports: ‘City Of God,’ A Gender-Bent Japanese ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ Netflix’s First Indian Horror Series, And More (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best, wackiest, and weirdest foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) Like the start of every school season, September brings with it something old and something new for this week’s Pop Culture Imports. The acclaimed Brazilian crime dramaCity of Godmakes its way to streaming, while HBO premieres its first international TV series with a gender-bent take onSherlock Holmes....

Questlove’s Sundance-Winning ‘Summer Of Soul’ Acquired By Searchlight Pictures, Will Play In Theaters And Stream On Hulu Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the drummer for The Roots, made his feature directorial debut withSummer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a documentary about a nearly-forgotten music festival held in Harlem in 1969. The movie was selected as one of the opening night films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and after earning an incredible amount of buzz there, it has now been picked up by Searchlight Pictures....

Robert Zemeckis And Universal Team For ‘Charles Fort,’ Called A ‘Ghostbusters’-Like Period Piece Now thatRobert Zemeckishas left behind the world of time-intensive performance-capture films, he is setting up projects left and right. As he prepares to filmFlightwith Denzel Washington, the producer/director has other projects simmering. One new possibility isCharles Fort, which has been called a period-set take onGhostbusters. There’s a lot more to Charles Fort, a real figure, than some pre-technological Peter Venkman, however....

Saturday Night Live Uses This Week’s Cold Open To Pay Tribute To Kyiv With A Ukrainian Chorus Last night’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” directly addressed two rather serious topics: the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the somewhat controversial return of comedianJohn Mulaneyas a host. The episode began by thoughtfully using the show’s cold open to pay a moving tribute to Ukraine. Kate McKinnon and Cecily Strong introduced the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, which sang a traditional Ukrainian anthem....

Such News! Dakota Johnson To Star In Netflix’s Modern Adaptation Of Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ Dakota Johnsonbetter brush up on some Austen, as she’s about to play one of the author’s iconic heroines. Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s modern retelling ofJane Austen’sPersuasion, which tells the story of an “older” heroine who rekindles a romance with a former beau.Varietyreports that Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s “modern, witty approach” to Jane Austen’s 1817 novelPersuasion, the author’s final novel published six months after her death....

Superhero Bits: Captain Planet, Batman, Spider-Man, Arrow, Iron Man 3, Riddler, The Avengers Where can you seeChristopher Nolanin New York City tonight? How about all theBatmanBatmobiles, as well as movie props, in Los Angeles later this week? Why isDon Cheadleback asCaptain Planet? WhichMarvelmovies could 20th Century Fox make underMark Millar? DidSpider-Manhave a mishap at the Thanksgiving Day parade? Is a mystery villain coming toArrow? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Comic Creators Want A New Marvel Vs DC Crossover, Evangeline Lilly Apologizes & More Could there be aMarvel vs DCcrossover that comes together after the coronavirus pandemic is through? Want to learn how to drawSpider-Man? When didAwesome Conget postponed to? WhichIron Man 2actor got arrested and why? Did you readEvangeline Lilly’s apology about her bad stance on coronavirus self-quarantine? What is the new premiere date forStargirl? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

Superhero Bits: Marvel Comics Shipping Again This Month, WWE Star Becky Lynch Has A Marvel Movie Role & More Which villain is coming to the next episode ofBatwoman? When willMarvel Comicsstart shipping comics again? IsGreen Arrow and the Canariesstill going to happen or what? What comic book character wouldLena Headeywant to play? WhichMarvelmovie might WWE starBecky Lynchappear in? What doesKevin Smithknow aboutThe Snyder CutofJustice League? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

The Batman Starts With Bruce Wayne And Alfred Not On Speaking Terms “The Batman” is on the way, and as you have probably seen from the trailer, we’re going dark. (I am trying very hard not to put in the meme with the tiny little bat yelling, “No, stop touching me! I am the night!") In addition to Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wanye, the film from director Matt Reeves will feature Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), the Riddler (Paul Dano), the Penguin (Colin Farrell and his makeup team) and, of course, Alfred (Andy Serkis)....

The Childhood Moment That Inspired Christopher Nolan To Make Interstellar Is Christopher Nolan more of a Stanley Kubrick type who make clinical films that raise heady questions about human nature and our place in the grand scheme of things? Or is he a showman who marries personal stories and themes with crowd-pleasing spectaclelike Steven Spielberg didin his blockbuster heyday? The answer is, arguably, a bit of both, and there’s no better example of this than Nolan’s 2014 sci-fi movie “Interstellar....

The Daily Stream: Memories Of Murder Continues To Haunt Long After The Real-Life Killer Was Found (Welcome toThe Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie:“Memories of Murder” Where You Can Stream It:Hulu The Pitch:Loosely based on the string of murders in the ’80s committed by Korea’s first confirmed serial killer, “Memories of Murder” was the crime thriller that put Bong Joon-ho on the map....