007’s next adventure is slated to open between a pair of Warner Bros. releases, including a new DC movie. Should Warners land the Bond franchise, expect the studio to shuffle those other release dates.
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Dakota Johnson co-stars as a kind nurse who helps LaBeouf get a young man with Down syndrome (newcomer Zachary Gottsagen) to a professional wresting school in rural North Carolina.
Taika Waititi directed the comic book movie, which looks just like most Marvel movies, but with more of the filmmaker’s trademark quirky humor and a couple of nifty haircuts for our two leads.
Marvel also revealed that Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast at Dr. Bill Foster, and it confirmed the Tracking Board’s scoop that Randall Park will play Jimmy Woo.
The new sci-fi series features a diverse cast that includes Jason Isaacs, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, James Frain, Mary Wiseman, Shazad Latif and Anthony Rapp, the latter of whom plays the first openly gay Star Trek character on TV.
In this big-screen battle for Ninjago City, Dave Franco plays young Master Builder Lloyd, who is a secret ninja warrior along with his friends. Led by Master Wu (Jackie Chan), they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon (Justin Theroux), who also happens to be Lloyd’s dad.
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Flashpoint sees Barry Allen travel back in time to save his mother from being murdered. However, when he returns to the present, the world is in chaos and the Justice League isn’t around to help, forcing the Flash to save the day on his own.
Don’t be surprised if the cast is overshadowed by the appearance of pop culture icons such as the Iron Giant, Freddy Krueger and the DeLorean from Back to the Future, not to mention references to Akira.
Released in 1997, the original Spawn movie grossed $87 million worldwide, though the soundtrack was better than the actual movie. By taking the reins himself this time, McFarlane seems to be acknowledging that the first film left room for improvement.
Collider’s Christina Radish joins the show to discuss Matt Damon’s RFK biopic landing the Dark Tower director, and the secret movie that Steven Soderbergh shot on an iPhone.
Sheen plays a man trapped in a North Tower elevator along with Gina Gershon, Luis Guzman, Wood Harris, Olga Fonda, Bruce Davison and Jacqueline Bisset.
Given the other Bermuda Triangle projects in the works around town, including one at Skydance from director Sam Raimi, Universal is understandably keeping plot details surrounding Esmail’s take under wraps.
Joseph Kosinski directed the firefighter drama, which stars Miles Teller, Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale and Taylor Kitsch as the Granite Mountain Hotshots.
The primary villain in the Fantastic Four comics, Doctor Doom was previously played on the big screen by Julian McMahon and Toby Kebbell. Hawley would like recast the role, according to insiders.
Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace and Edgar Ramirez co-star alongside Lucy Fry, Ike Barinholtz, Jay Hernandez, Margaret Cho, Dawn Olivieri and Kenneth Choi.
Universal will release the untitled horror movie two days before Marvel drops Ant-Man and the Wasp and Lionsgate unveils The Spy Who Dumped Me.
The Spierig brothers are directing this latest chapter, so maybe it will be a return to form for the franchise, not that its fans seem to care. After all, these movies have grossed more than $870 million worldwide.
Doug Liman is directing Lionsgate’s post-apocalyptic thriller, which is based on the bestselling YA novel by Patrick Ness.
Set in a future where people are enhancing their lives with smart technology implants, Augmented follows a successful criminal defense attorney who has her body hijacked by an anonymous hacker and struggles to prevent him from using her to commit a series of proxy murders.
There’s no word on what direction the new movie will take, but the material lends itself toward political allegory, and the right director could have a field day with this time-tested property.
RFK has been a longtime passion project of Damon’s, and the role could very well put him in the 2018 awards race, should the film debut before the end of next year.
Kodi Smit-McPhee stars as a young man who is injured and left for dead after a bison hunt goes horribly wrong. Finding himself broken, alone, and miles from his village, he must learn to survive and navigate the harsh and unforgiving wilderness with the help of a lone wolf named Alpha.
Ever since Bubble, Soderbergh has been more open to experimentation in both the production and distribution realms, so the idea that he has used his iPhone to shoot a secret movie with an up-and-coming actress isn’t as big a surprise as it might seem on the surface.
Girls Trip stars Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish, and could take some wind out of the box office sails of its big-budget competitors Dunkirk and Valerian.
Joe Epstein wrote the script, and Aronofsky will produce under his Paramount-based Protozoa banner. The studio will release the director’s thriller mother! this fall.
DCEU titles that are currently without release dates include Suicide Squad 2, Wonder Woman 2, The Batman, The Flash, Shazam, Black Adam, Gotham City Sirens, Nightwing, Batgirl and Justice League Dark.
Her feature credits include Divergent, Hope Springs and Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming film The Shape of Water.
Baldwin and writer Aaron Sorkin will executive produce along with Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, and the televised play is expected to air in the second quarter of 2018.
Rather than the typical tale of terror in Texas, the film follows a deranged lawman on the trail of four psychopaths who have escaped from a mental hospital, one of whom turns out to become the iconic slasher known as Leatherface.
