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Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been cast as lead role in Sony’s Marvel film Kraven the Hunter. Deadline first reported last summer that J.C. Chandor would direct the film, which is a new entry in Sony Pictures’ universe of Marvel characters. One of Sony Pictures’ universe of Marvel characters, Kraven is one of the most iconic and notorious antiheroes.

“School of Rock” star Kevin Clark, who played the drummer, is dead after a motorist hit him while he was cycling around Chicago … TMZ has learned. The professional drummer — best known as Freddy Jones, aka Spazzy McGee — was riding his bicycle on the Northwest Side of Chicago early Wednesday morning when he

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is tightening new membership numbers by roughly half of the large class annually admitted in recent years, an initiative originally begun in 2016 when the previous year’s number of new members was doubled. This was largely in order to correct the imbalance of the organization’s then reported

The date and time for Xbox and Bethesda’s E3 2021 showcase have just been officially announced for Sunday, June 13. After sitting out 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual E3 event returns in an all-digital form this year, and a long list of the industry’s top publishers and developers are coming along for the ride.

EXCLUSIVE: Diane Kruger, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Jeffrey Donovan and Sydney Park have joined romantic drama First Love from writer/director A.J. Edwards. Produced by Henry Kittredge, Lucas Jarach, Nadine de Barros and Edwards, the film is currently in production in LA. Kruger serves as an executive producer and De Barros’ Fortitude International is fully financing. The story

Editors note: On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police, renowned civil rights attorney and Floyd family lawyer Ben Crump examines the history and the legacy of that horrific day in a guest column for Deadline. Today, on the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s horrific death, it’s worth remembering that from the

EXCLUSIVE: Princess Nymeria has found her chronicler. Amanda Segel, co-exec producer on Hulu’s Helstrom and Person of Interest, has been tapped to write one of the Game of Thrones spinoffs. Deadline understands that Segel is tackling the 10,000 Ships project, which is one of three spinoffs that we revealed were in the works at HBO.

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. For the first time in over twenty years, Disney’s 101 Dalmatians’ Cruella de Vil is returning to the big screen with Emma Stone’s take on the iconic villain. The origin story follows the

Amazon has greenlit a local version of hit entertainment show The Masked Singer in Japan. Hosted by multi-hyphenated Yo Oizumi, the series will feature 12 celebrities performing in elaborate costumes, while a panel of judges attempts to guess their identity. It marks the first time The Masked Singer has been adapted in Japan after the

Bam Margera could be taking the “Jackass” drama a little too personally — because the franchise’s director just filed for a restraining order against him. Jeff Tremaine — who’s shepherded the “Jackass” movies for years now — just filed for a temporary restraining order against his onetime pal and star, Bam … this following a

In a most unusual apology, wrestler-turned-actor John Cena has taped a video mea culpa to China and its moviegoers for describing Taiwan as a country in a promotional video for his latest installment of the Fast & Furious series. The backlash was immediate on Chinese social media against Cena for not identifying Taiwan as part

Superstar Marvel Comics artist Russell Dauterman’s latest X-Men variant cover showcases Storm‘s different costumes over her comic history. The original teenage team may have made their debut in pretty bland yellow and blue uniforms, but over the decades the X-Men have become associated with some of the most stunning superhero costume designs of all time. Ororo Munroe, better known

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences, and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. Today’s subject is Darren Lynn Bousman, the

Sony Pictures has set a summer 2022 release date for 65, a film starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt. The pic will hit theaters nearly a year from now, on May 13, with plot details still being kept under wraps. Written and directed by Scott Beck & Bryan Woods — who together scripted A Quiet Place — 65

Steve McQueen’s anthology series Small Axe and Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You dominated the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Monday. Small Axe clinched five wins, the most on a night that celebrated behind-the-scenes craftspeople, but it was I May Destroy You that secured two of the biggest gongs for Coel: Director: Diction, and Writer:

It’s unclear whether the Highlander reboot is going to be a straight remake of the 1986 film starring Christopher Lambert, Sean, Connery and Clancy Brown, or simply a new story that takes the concept of the franchise, that the world is full of immortals all trying to cut each others’ heads off, and go in

EXCLUSIVE: UK producer-seller MSR Media has renewed its production deal with Caribbean island Nevis, and set the next film to shoot on the island. First out of the gate as part of the new three-year multi-picture deal will be rom-com Two Weeks In Paradise, written by Kate Wood (Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop) and

Texas-born actor Cayden Boyd was only 10 years old when he took on his most notable role as the fantasizing young kid Max — who daydreams about all the action and adventure going down on Planet Drool — in the 2005 kid’s film “The Adventures Of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.” CB was joined on

EXCLUSIVE: Pet Sematary, Stephen King’s self-proclaimed scariest property ever, next installment in the franchise has gained momentum as it looks like it has found its director. Sources tell Deadline, Lindsey Beer has signed on to direct Paramount Players’ follow-up adaptation of the successful 2019 horror pic based on Stephen King’s best-seller. Beer has become one of

The internet’s latest gaming craze, Among Us, is going old school thanks to one fan’s nostalgic recreation. Even though an online multiplayer social deduction game was far beyond the capabilities of the original PlayStation when it was released back in 1994, a re-imagining of Among Us for the console is incredibly authentic. Among Us became one of the

The familiar vengeance payback genre has some goofy and entirely welcome top-spin applied to it in Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders Of Justice. The Danish film also features a version of Mads Mikkelsen — currently at a career peak — that we’ve never seen before, with his handsome face hidden behind an Ozark-style full beard as

The domestic box office isn’t going to get interesting until next weekend when Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II and Disney’s Cruella launch the summer season. From that point on, we largely won’t have any weekends where the major studios are taking a break from releasing wide entries, which is the case this weekend as Lionsgate’s Spiral: From the Book

On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 14 new deaths resulting from Covid-19, and 265 new positive cases. While the number of hospitalizations continues to decrease across the County as vaccines are doled out, the number of deaths and confirmed cases reported may reflect delays in weekend reporting. The numbers reported

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links. Walking wrestling encyclopedia and passionate Dungeons and Dragons fan Joe Manganiello has carved out a remarkable career for himself over the years, appearing in dozens of movies and TV shows. During that time,

My Adventures with Superman, with Jack Quaid lending his voice to the titular hero, has landed a two-season order at HBO Max and Cartoon Network. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and based on characters from DC, My Adventures with Superman follows the adventures of Superman and Lois Lane. The animated series features twenty-somethings Clark Kent,

A crazy post-crash site has a lot of people reminiscing on early 2000s horror — because it looks eerily similar to a killer moment from the ‘Final Destination’ franchise. A guy named Aaron Cox posted a video showing a giant wood log piercing the windshield of a white van, pulled over behind a transport truck

The besieged Hollywood Foreign Press Association has release its updated Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct, in the wake of backlash against the Golden Globes group’s admitted lack of diversity. The six-page document (read it here) lays out the international journalist organization’s “commitment to diversity and inclusion” as well as prohibiting harassment and discrimination and

Alfred Hitchcock and Cary Grant have collaborated multiple times to produce some of the best thrillers of all time, but how do the duo’s movies rank in quality and impact? The director and the leading man have left an indelible mark on Hollywood’s history, considering Cary Grant is one of the most prolific actors and personalities of

EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo have signed on to write MGM’s adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s The Antisocial Network, which tells one of the biggest news stories of the year, about a ragtag group of amateur investors, gamers and Internet trolls who brought Wall Street to its knees. MGM landed the rights to Mezrich’s