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If You Ask The Writer, Bruce Willis Was Never Die Hard’s Protagonist In a typical action movie, there is always a hero and a villain. Usually, the hero doesn’t know they’re the hero until they find themselves inexplicably face to face with the villain and the villain’s evil plan. But once the hero realizes they alone must work to stop the villain from, say, world domination, they step up to the plate and get ready to take the villain on....

Jaime King And Jamie Chung Join ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For;’ Major Casting Still Underway As soon asRobert Rodriguezfinished filmingMachete Kills, he jumped right into his next movie. That movie isSin City 2, akaSin City: A Dame To Kill For, whichbegan filming on Mondaywith two actresses familiar with the genre.Jaime Kingis returning for the sequel, playing the sister of her character from the first movie, andJamie Chungis playing the role Devon Aoki had in the 2005 original....

James Wan Boards ‘Gideon Falls’ Comic Adaptation As Executive Producer James Wanis currently at work on his return to the horror genre with a movie calledMalignant, but that’s not the only horror project he has in the works. The filmmaker and his Atomic Monster production company are joining Hivemind in executive producing an adaptation ofGideon Falls, the Image Comics series created byJeff LemireandAndrea Sorrentino. Find out more about theGideon Fallsseries below....

Judd Apatow Confirms New Film Will Not Be A ‘Knocked Up’ Sequel Or Prequel, But A Spin-Off Last night it wasrevealedthatPaul RuddandLeslie Mannwould reunite withJudd Apatowin the comedy director’s currently untitled comedyset for release June 04, 2025. Not a huge surprise considering that Mann has appeared in every single one of her husband’s films, and Rudd had only missed one (Funny People). But we weren’t expecting Mann and Rudd to be reprising roles as husband and wife from Apatow’s 2007 hitKnocked Up....

Last Night In Soho Spoiler Review: A Technically Astonishing And Often Muddy Horror Tale Warning:major spoilersahead for “Last Night in Soho.” We live in a time that’s positively drowning in nostalgia, this escapist obsession with an often idealized past that’s frequently inaccurate and sometimes, indeed, dangerous. When the past becomes an obsession, it’s as easy to get disconnected from our world as it is to misunderstand and romanticize days or eras gone by....

Maisie Williams Still Optimistic About ‘The Last Of Us’ Talk ofMaisie Williamsplaying one of the two lead roles in video game adaptationThe Last of Usbegan this past summer at Comic Con when producerSam RaimiandThe Last of Usvideo game creative director,Neil Druckmann, who is scripting the film,announced the developmentduring Screen Gems' panel. During that conversation Raimimentioned that he had metwith the youngGame of Thronesactress to play Ellie, the young woman who navigates a sort of post-apocalyptic world after a viral pandemic ravages humanity....

Marvel’s All Hail The King Short Film Arrives On Disney+ As A Prelude To Shang-Chi This week finally brings “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"to theaters, but before you head out to see the latest superhero offering from Marvel Studios, you might want to watch one of their One-Shot short films that was just recently made available on Disney+ for the first time. Since “Shang-Chi” deals with the terrorist ring leader known as The Mandarin, there’s a little bit of background information provided in the short film “All Hail the King” that clarifies the events of “Iron Man 3,” where The Mandarin was revealed to be a faux villain used as a front for the nefarious activities of Aldrich Killian and his Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) company....

Meryl Streep To Play Margaret Thatcher Somehow this hasn’t already happened, and it probably goes without saying that the idea is fairly perfect:Meryl Streepis in talks to playMargaret Thatcher, in a film from herMamma Mia!directorPhyllida Lloyd. THR says that Thatcher would cast Streep as the British Prime Minister in a story set in 1982 as the political crisis between England and Argentina over the Falkland Islands escalated into war.Jim Broadbentis in talks to play Thatcher’s husband....

Michael Keaton To Play Tech Giant John McAfee In ‘King Of The Jungle,’ Replacing Johnny Depp Hopefully you won’t have to update your computer in order to see the true story of tech giantJohn McAfeein a new project calledKing of the Junglethat will be directed byGlenn FicarraandJohn Requa(I Love You, Phillip Morris). That might not sound all that exciting on the surface, butMichael Keatonis on board to play McAfee in a movie that is being described as more of a dark comedy than a traditional biopic....

Netflix Adds 15 Million Subscribers Amid Coronavirus, ‘Tiger King’ Boom; Warns Of Downturn In Future While Wall Street analystshave ranked Netflixas the favorite of “stay at home” stocks, Netflix warned of a potential downturn in the future. “In our 20+ year history, we have never seen a future more uncertain or unsettling,” the company said in a letter to shareholders. The letter notes that growth will likely slow “after the lockdown is lifted country-by-country,” and that executives expect “viewing to decline and membership growth to decelerate as home confinement ends, which we hope is soon....

New ‘Power Rangers’ Photo Is Here To Shake Your Faith To Its Very Core I’ve gone on the record before about my personal history withPower Rangers: I was young enough when its earliest incarnation arrived in that I watched and enjoyed it for a brief period of time. I bear no love for it now, but I also bear it no ill will and have found the majority of the fans I have encountered online to be friendly, reasonable, and frequently self-aware in their love for this incredibly goofy series....

New Images: Matt Damon In ‘Elysium’ And Ryan Gosling In ‘Only God Forgives’ The two films represented here couldn’t be more different in many ways, but they share a couple of significant characteristics. WhileElysiumis a gritty science fiction thriller andOnly God Forgivesis a sort of Western revenge film set in Thailand, both movies are the new projects from directors whose last films turned them into huge names.Elysiumis the second feature fromDistrict 9directorNeill Blomkamp, and the footage shown off last summer at Comic Conblew us away....

Noah Hawley’s ‘Star Trek’ Movie May Not Be ‘Star Trek 4,’ Says Simon Pegg TheStar Trekfeature films may be exploring strange new worlds, and abandoning old story plans — and possibly even its familiar cast. The fate ofStar Trek 4has been in question since the departure of starsChris HemsworthandChris Pinein 2018, followed soon by directorS.J. Clarkson. Last month, it seemed like phasers were set to go again with the boarding ofLucy in the SkydirectorNoah Hawley....