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Capaldi On Excessive “Doctor Who” Backlash
BBC Former “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi, who played the lead role in the series form 2013 to 2017, tells The Times of London he doesn’t understand the severity of the ‘anti-woke’ backlash against the show. Capaldi exited the role with his twelfth Doctor regenerating into a thirteenth incarnation that saw Jodie Whittaker taking over […]
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Gunn: No “The Authority” Anytime Soon
DC Comics DC Studios chief James Gunn indicates that the planned “The Authority” movie seems to have stalled in development. Popping up on Threads recently, he says the script “wasn’t quite there” and, more importantly, it “doesn’t work in terms of the larger DCU both in terms of the story and practical concerns”. As a […]
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“Call of Duty” Movie Director Talks War Games
Activision A few months ago, it was made official – Paramount Pictures was moving forward with a live-action “Call of Duty” movie in development at Activision. Taylor Sheridan and Peter Berg are co-writing the script and Berg, who has handled plenty of action films, is directing. The film is currently slated for a June 2028 […]
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Middle East Funds Set Big Paramount-Warners Stake
Paramount Skydance has revealed in an FCC filing that approximately 49.5% of the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery will be 49.5% owned by foreign investors. In addition, about 38.5% of the new company’s total equity is held by a trio of Middle Eastern funds. Specifically, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will have a 15.1% equity stake; […]
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“Mandalorian & Grogu” Box-Office Projections Climb
Lucasfilm At last report the other week, tracking estimates for Disney and Lucasfilm’s “The Mandalorian & Grogu” suggested a worrisome domestic debut of at least $71 million over the Friday-Sunday opening weekend. While that may be in line with some of the biggest openings of the year, it would be the lowest opening of the […]
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Helgeland Pens Tarantino-Inspired “Django-Zorro” Film
Artwork courtesy Dynamite Entertainment Oscar winner Brian Helgeland (“LA Confidential,” “Mystic River”) has been set to pen the script for “Django/Zorro” at Sony Pictures. The project is dubbed a film continuation of a 2014 seven-issue crossover comic co-written by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner. The comic is seen as essentially the closest thing Tarantino did […]
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Teaser: Hathaway, Hartnett, Johnson In “Verity”
Amazon MGM Studios Amazon MGM Studios has released the teaser trailer for the psychological thriller “Verity” based on the novel by “It Ends with Us” author Colleen Hoover. The story follows renowned author Verity Crawford (Anne Hathaway) and Lowen Ashleigh (Dakota Johnson), a struggling writer who relocates to the remote Crawford estate to ghostwrite for […]
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Depression-Era Bank Robbers Hit “Derry” Season 2
HBO Andy Muschietti has offered new details about the second season of “IT: Welcome to Derry” during a recent Deadline TV panel for the HBO series. As expected, the new season will jump back in time to the 1930s, specifically 1935, and center on the Bradley Gang storyline which is an underexplored subplot within the […]
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“Enola Holmes 3” Set For July 1st Release
Netflix Netflix has announced a July 1st release date for the third film in the “Enola Holmes” franchise starring Millie Bobby Brown. Returning cast includes Millie Bobby Brown as Enola, Henry Cavill as her brother Sherlock Holmes, Louis Partridge as Tewkesbury, Helena Boham-Carter as Eudoria Holmes, Himesh Patel as Dr. John Watson, and Sharon Duncan-Brewster […]
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Statham, Ayer Re-Team For “John Doe”
Amazon MGM Studios, Studio Canal UK Following their prior teamings on “A Working Man” and the breakout hit “The Beekeeper,” actor Jason Statham and filmmaker David Ayer are re-teaming for the action-thriller “John Doe”. Statham is set to play an unnamed man with no memory, no past, and no name — and only one face […]