Disney’s Live-Action ‘Mulan’ Remake Adds Jet Li And Gong Li The casting process for Disney’s live-actionMulanremake is picking up steam. After recent news thatDonnie Yenhas joined the film, word comes thatGong LiandJet Lihave joined the cast as well. You wan’t moreMulancasting news? You got it.The Hollywood Reporterreveals that Disney’s latest live-action remake has added action superstar Jet Li andMiami Vice’s Gong Li to the ever-growing cast. Last night, word broke thatRogue One: A Star Wars StoryactorDonnie Yenhad boarded the film as well....

Gal Gadot Is Wonder Woman In ‘Batman Vs Superman’ Rumors have swirled for months about whether or not Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck will be joined by another hero in the sequel toMan of Steel. Now we have the answer:Gal Gadot(theFast and the Furiousseries) will be Wonder Woman inZack Snyder’s upcomingBatman Vs. Superman. Snyder said in a statement, Wonder Woman is arguably one of the most powerful female characters of all time and a fan favorite in the DC Universe....

George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord Gets A Star-Studded Music Video Half A Century After Its Release Godless atheists like me are a bundle of contradictions: we tap our feet to the occasional Christmas hymn, we clap along when Sidney Poitier sings “Amen” to Jesus Christ in “Lillies of the Field,” and, at least in this writer’s case, find great joy in George Harrison’s uplifting acoustic celebration of a universal god above secular interpretation, “My Sweet Lord....

George R.R. Martin On ‘The Lord Of The Rings’, Whether Tolkien Would Have Liked His Work, And One Big Regret [Interview] Last night in Los Angeles,A Song of Ice and FireauthorGeorge R.R. Martinmoderated a Q&A after a special screening ofTolkien, the biopic about the author behindThe Lord of the Rings. You canwatch that entire Q&A hereif you’re interested, but before the film began, I had the opportunity to speak with Martin about reading Tolkien’s work, how Tolkien impacted his own writing, and one of Martin’s big regrets....

How Dune’s Atreides Family Were Modeled On The Romanoffs [Exclusive] Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” is a breathtaking sci-fi epic, set in the distant future of a galactic empire. The sprawling tale covers everything from the rise and fall of empires to the power of destiny, and even manages a splash of colossal, extraterrestrial sand worms, threatening the lives of all who walk a particularly important desert planet. But before getting to matters of desert power or breaking down the details of the infamous sand walk, “Dune” introduces us to its core characters — the regal family of House Atreides....

How The ‘Blackout’ Haunted House Turned My Life Into A Real Horror Movie I fit the giant brass key into the door lock, turned it, and was terrified to hear it click open. This wasn’t my hotel room, and I didn’t know what was waiting inside for me. I just knew it was nothing good. My life had taken a strange turn in the past day, and I was living inside a horror movie at the Timberline Hotel, the iconic hotel that served as the outdoor setting forThe Shiningand the host of the horror-centricOverlook Film Festival....

James Gunn’s Secret Horror Movie Is Opening In November Right before this year’s San Diego Comic-Con,James Gunnteased the reveal of a secret horror project. Then all hell broke loose: Gunn was fired fromGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3for old, highly inappropriate jokes, and ended up not appearing on SDCC after all. But the Gunn-produced horror movie – whatever it is – is still on track. In fact, Sony will release the movie in November....

James Wan Almost Got The Green Hornet Gig - Who Didn’t Seth Rogen Approach? Here’s a mildly disorienting development – apparently,James Wanalmostgot theGreen Hornetgig. TheSawdirector momentarily posted an update on his Facebook profile which was caught by the Eagle Eyes of Larry CarrollMTV’s Splash Page. It read:Damn you Michel Gondry shaking fists Oh well the better man won. That’s right, he did. But it also seems that Wan is likely to work with Rogen in future....

Joss Whedon Explains ‘Avengers’ Deleted Scenes, Talks ‘S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Workload And More Joss Whedonis officially Marvel’s main man. After completing the studio’s most successful film to date,The Avengers(back in theaterstomorrow),the writer/director signed onto not only direct the2015 sequelbutdevelop an ABC TV showbased onS.H.I.E.L.D.and to just generally have his hands in whatever pie he wants:Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, you name it. Seems like a lot of work for just one man and, in an interview withVulture, Whedon discussed how he plans on stretching himself over all these properties....

Luis Guzmán In Talks To Play Gomez Addams In Tim Burton’s ‘Wednesday’ Looks likeTim Burtonhas found the Addams family patriarch for his new Netflix show. Luis Guzmán(Traffic,Punch-Drunk Love) is reportedly in “final talks” to play Gomez Addams inWednesday, a new live-action streaming series which will follow the famous fictional family’s daughter, Wednesday Addams, as she enrolls in a strange academy and solves mysteries.Colliderreports that Guzmán is in final discussions to play Gomez Addams, the delightfully odd father of Wednesday and her brother Pugsley, brother to the even-more-strange Fester, and the husband of Morticia....

New Star Wars Novel Confirms Some Tragic Anakin Skywalker Details Two very important steps in the evolution of Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) happen in 2002’s “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones”: he massacres an entire village of Sand People — including women and children — in retaliation for the murder of his mother Shmi (Pernilla August), and later weds Senator Padmé Amidala (Natalie Portman) in secret. These two opposite poles of his character do not happen in a vacuum, as Padmé is aware of the rage murder incident that has happened, so she knows what Anakin is capable of before she decides to fatefully tie that knot....

No Time To Die Owes A Major Debt To Another James Bond Classic Like any film 25 entries into a decades-old franchise, “No Time To Die”, the final installment in Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond, owes a great debt to the movies that came before it. “No Time To Die”, however, owes an uncommonly large debt to one of the best, but least talked about, films in the Bond franchise: 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service....

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