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Benedict Cumberbatch Confirmed To Play ‘Doctor Strange’ After much speculation and a ton of unconfirmed reports, Marvel has finally officially announced thatBenedict Cumberbatchwill playDoctor Strange.We first got wordthat theSherlock/Star Trek Into Darknessstar was in talks to play the Sorcerer Supreme back in October. Cumberbatch got involved afterJoaquin Phoenixdropped out. It seemed like each day brought a new rumor about a potentialDoctor Strangelead. Names likeEthan Hawke,Jared Leto,Ewan McGregor,Matthew McConaughey,Colin Farrell,Jake Gyllenhaal, andOscar Isaacwere all floated as well....

Chris Pine Reveals How The Star Trek 4 Cast Reacted To The Movie’s Announcement Taking a leaf out of Disney’s playbook, Paramount used its investor day on June 22, 2025, to announce a whole slew offilms and seriescoming exclusively to Paramount+, along with a handful of movies intended for theatrical release. However,its gambit didn’t workand even caused the company’s stock to drop over worries about the logistics of its plans to, in essence, spend its way into profitability....

Comic-Con Announces In-Person Event For Thanksgiving Weekend, An Early Contender For Worst Idea Of 2021 Everyone knows Thanksgiving weekend is one of the busiest and most cumbersome travel weekends in the United States. But that’s not stopping Comic-Con International from trying to make it infinitely worse. Since San Diego Comic-Con has already been announced to be a virtual eventyet again this summer, the convention creators wanted to plan something for the fall when an in-person event would be much more safe and easier to plan....

Dan Stevens Joins Anne Hathaway For Sci-Fi ‘Colossal’ Production is underway right now onColossal,the next film from Spanish directorNacho Vigalondo(Timecrimes, Open Windows, Extraterrestrial). The film is shooting in Vancouver withAnne Hathawayon board the projectthat has been described asLost in TranslationmeetsGodzilla(we’ll explain that below). And now one more cast member has just been added. The GueststarDan Stevenshas taken one of the male leads in the film that has a very strange premise that seems to somehow blend romance and monster movies....

Disney Denies Adam Sandler Attempting ‘Three Men And A Baby’ Remake If someone showed you the trailer forAdam Sandler’sJack & Jillright beforeFunny Peoplewas released, you would have sworn it was a Judd Apatow joke. Unfortunately, that film isn’t a joke but the latest Sandler rumor is. According to a recent rumor, Sandler was inspired by an episode of MTV’sTrue Lifeto produce a remake ofThree Men and a Babyfeaturing his friendsDavid Spade, Chris Rock, andRob Schneider....

Disneyland’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Ride Update Will Feature A ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Monster Starting today, if you visitGuardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!at Disney’s California Adventure theme park in Anaheim, California, the ride experience changes during the evenings and a whole new storyline takes over. It’s calledGuardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark, and it’s happening between now and October 31 as a way for Disney visitors to celebrate the Halloween season....

Don’t Expect To Hear The ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’ Title Soon, Says Daisy Ridley Production is wrapped onStar Wars: Episode VIII, and with post-production underway, John Williamswill begin his work on the film’s scoreimminently. So far details have been pretty sparse on information about the sequel, which is exactly what we all expected. However, some fans have been hoping that we would get an official title for the movie sooner than later....

Employee Picks: A Rock Musical, Waterlogged Zombies, And A Revenge Thriller (Welcome toEmployee Picks, a series where Jacob Knight uses his day job expertise as a video store manager to recommend unique and often overlooked alternative options to the big movies hitting theaters and home video.) Now that we’re out of theHalloween season, it seems like it’s finally time to stick to the script. So, without further ado, here’s a legitimate, 100% to format, no-BS edition of Employee Picks....

First Official Look: Leonardo DiCaprio In ‘J. Edgar’ Here’s your first studio-approved still fromClint Eastwood’s latest prestige picture,J. Edgar. The shot is doesn’t replicate any one classic shot of the long-time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, but does capture his general image from the ’50s.Leonardo DiCapriostill doesn’t look a whole lot like Hoover, whose rounded, potato-spud face has exactly the deficit of appeal that DiCaprio’s does not. (The guy in the middle background on the right side looks more like the real thing....

Fox’s Batman Prequel ‘Gotham’ Has A Serious Case Of Prequel-Itis [TV Review] From a marketing standpoint, Fox’sGothamalready had the deck stacked heavily in its favor. It’s a gritty superhero origin story, at a time when gritty superhero origin stories are doing massive business. And the superhero in question isn’t some indie-comic third-stringer, but one of the most iconic, most beloved superheroes of all time. Those facts alone would be enough to makeGothamone of the most buzzed-about new shows of the 2014-2015 season, even without a seasoned, capable creator (Bruno Heller, ofRomeandThe Mentalist) and a thoroughly solid cast (Ben McKenzie,Donal Logue,Jada Pinkett-Smith)....

Francis Lawrence And ‘The Fighter’ Screenwriter Transform ‘Samson’ Into A New Superhero Story The Fighteris a great movie on many levels, and it is powered by a great screenplay byScott Silver. He has worked with real life characters who are larger than life (he also wrote8 Mile) and is now turning to a literal superhero. Or perhaps I should say mythic — even biblical — superhero, since his new project is based on the story of Samson and Delilah....

Green Lantern Movie On Fast Track? Justice League Back In Development? Production Weekly’s current issue has updated Warner Bros' adaptation of DC Comic’s The Green Lantern as being in active development: STATUS – Development PRODUCER: Donald De Line – Andrew Haas WRITER: Greg Berlanti – Marc Guggenheim – Michael J Green DC COMICS 1700 Broadway New York, NY 10019 WARNER BROS. PICTURES 4000 Warner Blvd. Burbank, CA 91522-0001 Each sector of space is protected by a Green Lantern, possessing a power ring that uses a powerful green energy to do anything within the limits of the user’s imagination and will power....

Is Todd McFarlane Gearing Up For A Spawn Cinematic Universe? Todd McFarlane is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to genre properties, working as a comic book creator, artist, writer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He’s best known for his work as the artist on “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the artist behind the first full appearance of Eddie Brock who would become “Venom,” and as the writer and artist on the superhero horror-fantasy series “Spawn....