EXCLUSIVE: Chad Stahelski, the former stuntman who debuted as co-director on John Wick and has subsequently helmed three Keanu Reeves hits with a fourth coming along with film and TV spinoffs, is ramping up 87eleven Entertainment, a new offshoot of the overall company he formed years back with his John Wick co-director David Leitch. To
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1 minute ago Either Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are truly good friends, or the two must be really sick of each other by now. The pair are about to appear in their fourth film together in three years in Jumanji: The Next Level and it seems a foregone conclusion this won’t be the last
Marvel Television as we’ve known it the past decade will be no more. With its slate dwindling over the past year and its head Jeph Loeb set to depart, the television-focused Marvel division will be phased out. The Marvel TV projects that are currently in production will continue but any further development is being scrapped.
TMZ/Alamy President Trump’s reelection campaign apparently likes to think of their boss as an equal to the destroyer of worlds, the villainous Thanos … but the ‘Avengers’ character’s creator is NOT having it. A Twitter account managed by Trump’s reelection team posted a super-produced clip in which DT’s head is superimposed over Thanos’ body from
Disney-owned streaming platform Hotstar, the dominant VOD service in the Indian market, has now crossed 400 million app downloads in the country after a bumper 2019. The platform’s growth was three-times higher in 2019 than the previous year, according to a report published by the company, and downloads were twice as high than in 2018.
The Justice League Snyder Cut is full of parallels to The Lord of the Rings. The original, 214-minute DC story was going to take inspiration from the iconic story by J.R.R. Tolkien in more ways the one, but that didn’t end up happening due to the film’s extensive reshoots. Despite some misconceptions, Zack Snyder’s original framework for the DC
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts has unveiled nominees for its 9th AACTA International Awards with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman leading at six mentions. Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood landed five nods while Todd Philipps’ Joker and Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite have four each. Those titles will compete for the International
Producers of Broadway’s Tony-nominated Beetlejuice said Monday that the comedic musical based on Tim Burton’s 1988 cult movie will play its final performance at the Winter Garden Theatre on June 6. A national tour is being mounted to kick off in fall 2021. Beetlejuice the musical opened April 25, 2019 and was nominated for eight
Sao Paulo went Onward at CCXP on Saturday as director Dan Scanlon of the forthcoming Pixar film featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer took the dais at the pop culture confab. The animated pic may be set in a visually stunning fantasy world where unicorns roam the streets eating
26 seconds ago If you’re someone who suffers from epilepsy, you’ll want to be careful seeing Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in theaters. The final chapter of both the Sequel Trilogy and the entire Skywalker Saga is a little under two weeks away from release, and media empire Disney is making sure that photosensitive
Juliette Binoche jetted into Macao today (December 9) to take part in a masterclass in which she discussed her career working with many of the international biz’s greatest directors. The French actress is a talent ambassador for the 2019 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) and participated in a two-part discussion, initially with festival
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Rian Johnson is just like the rest of us when it comes to the new ‘Star Wars’ movie … he hasn’t seen it yet, despite him directing its predecessor in the series. The filmmaker opened up to us this weekend in NYC about whether he’d gotten any sort of sneak
When it comes to categorizing, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been marching to its own beat. It nominated Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black in the drama field for the show’s first season in 2014, which was designated as a comedy at the Emmys later that year. The TV Academy re-classified the series as
Baby Yoda is dressed up as Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker in new fan artwork for The Mandalorian. The Mandalorian was one of the most anticipated shows that came to Disney+, and thankfully for most fans, it hasn’t disappointed. While fans were excited to see Pedro Pascal suit up as a Mandalorian, Baby Yoda has kind of stolen the spotlight.
Once again, the fans at CCXP proved that they are the world’s most passionate fans as they erupted with off-the-charts applause when Free Guy director Shawn Levy and actors Ryan Reynolds and Joe Keery took the stage to talk about the 20th Century Fox action-comedy about bank teller who realizes he is a background character
Refresh for latest…: Sony’s Jumanji: The Next Level is out in 18 early overseas release markets ahead of domestic next weekend, and in many, the movie is stepping up versus predecessor Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. Overall, the Jake Kasdan-directed sequel opened to $52.5M at the international box office, slightly down on the last film’s
The 2019 edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) closed its industry program last night (December 8), with the event’s Best Project Award going to Dear Wormwood, a supernatural horror from the Philippines. The project is in advanced development and has secured $85,000 of its planned $525,000 budget to date. It comes
Gal Gadot is hardly the first star to express antipathy towards wearing burden-some superhero outfits, and it’s definitely a personal sacrifice that actors perform in the effort of making these movies as good as possible while honoring the source material. Costume designers do everything in their power to try and make things as easy as
CCXP ended huge with a panel for Wonder Woman 1984 featuring director Patty Jenkins and the titular superhero Gal Gadot. Kicking things off with a crazy light show complete with illuminated “gauntlets” given to the crowd, the livestreamed event for Wonder Woman 1984 was a first for the Sao Paulo pop culture confab. When Jenkins came
Backgrid Ryan Reynolds put his action hero skills to use this weekend in Brazil — where he was almost flattened by a barricade that gave way to a massive swarm over overzealous fans. The actor was in Sao Paulo Saturday for CCXP 2019, a comic con event which had some heavy hitters from the States
When Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige announced that he was heading south of the equator to attend CCXP in Sao Paulo, there were rumblings of what he would unveil for phase four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When the panel started, the crowd, once again, erupted with an ovation that rivals Hall H — and
Marvel Studios reveals The Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV show first look images at Comic Con Experience in Sãu Paulo, Brazil this weekend. At San Diego Comic-Con this summer, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige confirmed part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4 slate, which includes both movies and television series. Feige confirmed a number
Georgian filmmaker Zaza Urushadze, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated drama Tangerines, has died at the age of 53, according to local reports. The news broke last night (December 7) during the closing weekend of the Tbilisi International Film Festival, which ran in the Georgian capital throughout this week. Attendees at the fest took to social
The doldrums of December are here and is standard following the lucrative Thanksgiving-Black Friday period most major distributors abstain from opening any wide entries, except for STX which is handling animated feature Playmobil, which isn’t looking so hot with a 3-day of $905K, one of the lowest openings ever for a pic north of 2,000
We are mere weeks away from the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but as Disney and Lucasfilm close the final chapter of this saga, director JJ Abrams as well as stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac took the dais at CCXP to share the end of this adventure with the
32 minutes ago After a long and rough start, Matt Reeves’ The Batman has been surprising us on a pretty regular basis with casting info. And, Reeves himself has been using his Twitter feed to update fans on many of the casting decisions made so far. Just today he posted a welcoming gif of actor
Peter Sarsgaard has been added to the cast of The Batman, Warner Bros and DC’s latest take on the superhero franchise. Director Matt Reeves tweeted out the news Friday, while not revealing any character information. But he does join a pic toplined by Robert Pattinson as Batman, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, Andy Serkis as Pennyworth,
Exclusive Getty Composite Meg Ryan‘s no longer an island girl … she’s unloaded her Chappaquiddick Island mansion, and it’s gotta connection with Barack and Michelle Obama‘s new island pad. Our Massachusetts real estate sources tell us Meg just closed the deal to sell her 6,600-sq-ft crib for $9.125 million. She’s been in the home —
The television business is becoming increasingly global, fueled by the rapid expansion of the major streaming platforms. That also goes for the major Hollywood talent agencies. Reps have always looked for opportunities beyond the U.S. But now, because of the increased demand for locally produced international content, they have stepped up their efforts. Also factoring
Alien vs. Predator finally happened in 2004, but 17 years earlier, Predator 2 featured an Alien Easter egg that served to tease the crossover. When it comes to sci-fi/horror, few franchises boast the credibility of Alien and Predator. Alien’s fearsome Xenomorph first appeared in 1979’s Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, and doing battle with Sigourney