Play video content The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast Did you know Shaquille O’Neal could have been John Coffey in “The Green Mile?!?” It’s true … so says the NBA legend, who revealed on the “The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast” this week that he was initially offered the star role in the
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Death is the natural order of things, but what if you could prevent your families and friends from feeling sadness and grief due to your death. Would you take that opportunity? If you’ve ever lost someone, you may identify with the moral struggle at the heart of writer/director Benjamin Cleary’s Apple TV+ sci-fi drama Swan
It turns out that because of the Marvel Television/ABC Studios series, Inhumans, Marvel had to put one specific restriction on the writers of Eternals. While the newest entry in the MCU is being met with mixed reviews from both critics and fans, the final product is vastly superior to Marvel’s first attempt at a heroic group of ancient aliens living in
It’s not easy to reboot a movie franchise, especially one which is close to 20 years old and based on a video game series that’s 25 years old. But when it came to tackling a new iteration of Constantin/Screen Gems’ Resident Evil after longtime collaborators filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson and star Milla Jovovich hung up
Sony Pictures Classics releases Telluride-darling documentary Julia with a national TV push, culinary events and virtual screenings through November hosted by famous chefs from Alice Waters (San Francisco) and Johnny Spero (Boston) to Jamie Bissonnette (Houston) and luminaries from New York, LA, Philly and Miami. Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen talked up the film
Young girls hide from drug cartels in Prayers For The Stolen, Mexico’s powerful entry to the International Feature Oscar race. Directed by Tatiana Huezo and loosely based on Jennifer Clement’s novel, the film, which screens at AFI Fest on November 14 and releases theatrically and on Netflix in the U.S. and select regions on November 17, centers on three girls living
The Harry Potter franchise has been entertaining audiences for decades, on the page, screen, and stage. The young cast that director Chris Columbus found became household names as a result of their gigs, including Hermione actress Emma Watson. But it turns out that one iconic Hermione scene wasn’t actually played by the Little Women star.
Good afternoon International Insiders. Max Goldbart here with your weekly batch of headlines and analysis. To get this sent to your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Disney+ Day Height of fashion: As we eagerly await news of what promises to be a packed Disney+ US slate, the streamer delved deeper into its European originals
Winter, the dolphin that grabbed global attention after being the focus of the movie “Dolphin Tale” is fighting for her life after developing a serious infection. Winter, who lost her tail in 2005 at just 2 months old when it became entangled in a crab trap, had been cared for at The Clearwater Marine Aquarium
Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi will feature notable connections to the broader Star Wars canon; here’s every reveal from the new video. The recent official clip for the upcoming Disney+ series includes footage of Ewan McGregor, who will be reprising his role as the titular Jedi Master for the first time since 2005, as he promotes
Graeme Edge, the Moody Blues drummer who co-founded the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group and stayed with it for more than 50 years, died today. He was 80. His longtime bandmate Justin Hayward posted the news on the English group’s website but offered no details. “It’s a very sad day,” Hayward wrote. “Graeme’s
Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog, which is taking advantage of the Veterans Day holiday, leashed second place on its opening day Wednesday with $2.3M, which includes previews at 3,407 theaters. The Walt Becker-directed feature adaptation of the 58-year-old Scholastic children’s book IP also is available on Paramount+ as some studios practice a hybrid form of distribution
EXCLUSIVE: Italian distributor TVCO has taken world sales rights for Dace Pūce sci-fi thriller Manny, the first ever Indo-Latvian co-production. Written and starring Sonal Sehgal as lead, the film is a complex story depicting the world’s growing dependence on AI. It follows an Indian woman who travels to Latvia for a writers retreat to work
The holiday season is about to get started at Disneyland Resort, and while that means Christmas or Chanukah for most people, the Star Wars galaxy has its own winter holiday to celebrate and that means that Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be getting in on the seasonal festivities with its own event surrounding that great
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed — the armorer for “Rust” — is doubling down, claiming she was targeted for sabotage and she thinks she’s now being framed … this according to her lawyer. Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney Jason Bowles tells TMZ … “We are convinced that this was sabotage and Hannah is being framed.” This is a step beyond what
The teaser trailer for Focus Features’ Downton Abbey: A New Era has been set to run exclusively in theaters on fellow Focus title Belfast this weekend. Above is a preview of the teaser while below are first-look photos from the sequel to 2019’s global hit. Downton Abbey: A New Era is due to open globally
Warning! Potential spoilers for Timeless #1 by Marvel Comics In a new variant cover by Iban Coello, some of the greatest different versions of the Hulk from across the Marvel Universe band together in a stunning image. This week, Marvel Comics revealed several new covers for the upcoming Timeless #1 one-shot. In Coello’s cover, Maestro, Joe Fixit,
EXCLUSIVE: Move over Squid Games, it’s Time To Hunt. In an interesting development, we can reveal that Netflix is remaking its Korean-language movie Time To Hunt, marking the first time the streamer has adapted one of its local-language movies into English. The studio has come full circle, you might say. Netflix has set director Adam
Paramount will continue to experiment with a theatrical day-and-date release model during the pandemic with eOne’s Clifford the Big Red Dog, a live-action CGI hybrid take of the 1963 Scholastic children’s book classic which hit theaters today at 1:30PM, goes wide tomorrow at 3,695 theaters and also drops on Paramount+. The movie is expected to do between
More adventures are on the horizon for the crew of the U.S.S. Protostar. Ahead of its Season 1 midseason finale, Paramount+ has renewed popular animated kids series Star Trek: Prodigy for a second season. The streamer has ordered a 10-episode second season for premiere sometime next year. The renewal announcement comes amid strong viewership for
Lady Gaga has been a musical icon for almost a decade and a half now, but she’s also been making a name for herself on the acting front. Thus far her biggest role has been her Academy Award-nominated turn as Ally Maine opposite Bradley Cooper’s Jackson Maine in 2018’s A Star is Born, but in
Martin Scorsese Joins ‘Evolution’ As Exec Producer Martin Scorsese is joining Kornél Mundruczó’s Cannes title Evolution as an executive producer. This marks his second collaboration with the filmmaker and screenwriter Kata Wéber after Oscar nominee Pieces Of A Woman. “Every new movie by Mundruczó and Wéber comes as a welcome shock to the senses for
There was another horrific injury on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie “Rust” … a film worker was bitten by a poisonous spider … and the wounds look disgusting and painful. Seriously, these grisly images of the man’s injuries are not for the faint of heart … because you can literally see the insides
The Red Sea International Film Festival has set the lineup for its inaugural edition which runs from December 6-15 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The roster includes 138 titles from 67 countries and will open with MGM’s Joe Wright-directed musical romance Cyrano. The film previously played Telluride and Rome among others and releases domestically on December
Eternals actress Lauren Ridloff has chimed in on the debate of whether or not Makkari is faster than The Flash. The actress makes her Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Eternals, which debuts this weekend. Eternals is directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and introduces the MCU to a brand-new team of cosmic superheroes with a wide
New Republic Pictures, Francis Lawrence’s about:blank and Electric Shepherd Productions are teaming to adapt Philip K. Dick’s novel Vulcan’s Hammer for the big screen, with Hunger Games sequels helmer Lawrence set to direct. Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer of New Republic will produce alongside Lawrence and Cameron MacConomy from about:blank, and Isa Dick Hackett from
AMC Entertainment saw revenue jump to $763 million last quarter, beating Wall Street forecasts on a strong movie slate and accelerating theatrical recovery. Adjusted EPS losses of 44 cents a share shrank from a loss of $8.41 a year ago. Analysts had anticipated sales of $708 million with an EPS loss of 53 cents. As
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a clip of Netflix’s Animal from Plimsoll Productions, which launches Wednesday. Narrated by big-hitters Bryan Cranston, Rashida Jones, Rebel Wilson and Pedro Pascal, the series utilizes the latest filming tech such as gimbals and drones to follow eight families of the natural world including big cats, dogs, marsupials and octopuses. Series two, which features
The western movie Rust starring Alec Baldwin and Jensen Ackles already was suffering from the most tragic reputation, following the accidental discharge of a live round in a prop gun that led to the death of the production’s cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. The movie is no longer shooting, and now may never happen, and yet the
World Productions Boss and YouTube EMEA Head Win RTS Fellowships Line of Duty (pictured) producer World Productions CEO Simon Heath and YouTube Regional Director, EMEA, Ben McOwen Wilson are among the six winners of this year’s Royal Television Society (RTS) Fellowships. CPL Productions MD Danielle Lux, BBC News At Ten‘s Clive Myrie, ITV Continuing Drama