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Ryan Coogler, Mattson Tomlin Team for ‘A Vicious Circle’ at Universal (Exclusive)
Tomlin will write the adaptation of the Boom! Studios comic he co-created with artist Lee Bermejo.
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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Director Michael Sarnoski Interviewed Only About the Cat
Writer-director Sarnoski answers 12 burning questions about his breakout animal character Frodo: "Everyone assumed we wouldn't pull it off."
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Denis Villeneuve’s Next Film Gets 2026 Release From Warner Bros.
The feature could potentially be 'Dune: Messiah,' though the filmmaker previously stated he'd make something else before returning to that world.
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Comic-Con: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment Teams with Heidi MacDonald’s Comics Beat for Daily News Show (Exclusive)
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con is getting a spotlight though a journalistic lens via award-winning website Comics Beat and OTT app and FAST channel ElectricNOW. The comics news site, run by longtime comics journalist Heidi MacDonald, has partnered with the division of the media company created by Dean Devlin to produce Con Daily Powered by […]
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Ryan Coogler, Mattson Tomlin Team for ‘A Vicious Circle’ at Universal (Exclusive)
Universal Pictures has landed the rights to A Vicious Circle, a Boom! Studios graphic novel series created by Terminator Zero showrunner Mattson Tomlin and artist Lee Bermejo. Tomlin will write the screenplay adapting his own work while Ryan Coogler, the filmmaker behind the Black Panther movies, will produce via his Proximity Media banner. Also producing are […]
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‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ Director Michael Sarnoski Interviewed Only About the Cat
Sarnoski answers all our burning questions about Frodo the cat (like why he never hisses at the aliens), plus teases a potential sequel.
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Denis Villeneuve’s Next Film Gets 2026 Release From Warner Bros.
Denis Villeneuve’s next feature is getting a holiday release, though it’s uncertain what that project will ultimately be. Warner Bros. announced Friday that the filmmaker’s next “event film” will hit theaters Dec. 18, 2026, and that it hails from Legendary Entertainment, home to his Dune movies. Plot details have not yet been shared, but Villeneuve, […]
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‘Inside Out 2’ Writer Reflects on the Anxiety of Writing a Movie About Anxiety
It’s a practical joke to ask a screenwriter to write about anxiety. The very nature of the occupation is to walk around constantly asking yourself: What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen in this moment? To this character? To someone the character loves? To someone I love? To me? But there’s a special kind […]
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Digital Comic Company Webtoon Launches IPO as It Aims for Inroads into Hollywood
Webtoon already changed the face of 21st century comics by pioneering the mobile webcomic format. Yesterday, the company took a major step toward global and Hollywood domination by launching its initial public offering on the Nasdaq. With a ticker symbol of WBTN, the company, backed by South Korean tech titan Naver, quickly gained a valuation […]
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Alec Baldwin Trains Novice With a Dark Past in ‘Clear Cut’ Trailer
Alec Baldwin and Stephen Dorff get caught up in the dangerous world of cutting timber in the Pacific Northwest in the trailer for Clear Cut. Lionsgate releases director Brian Skiba’s thriller feature theatrically and via digital and on-demand on July 19. Clive Standen, Lucy Martin, Jesse Metcalfe and Tom Welling also star in the movie […]
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‘Under Paris’ Director Used Hollywood Tricks to Make an “Anti-Hollywood” Netflix Hit
[This story contains spoilers for the Netflix movie Under Paris.] Slicing Paris in half, the river Seine flows through the heart of French identity, past the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral, and the Académie Française, the centuries-old institution of letters that guards against the bastardization of the French language, leading a valiant resistance to American cultural expansion. In these sacrosanct waters and […]
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‘Black Panther’ Star Letitia Wright Teases More Shuri: “A Lot Coming Up”
Letitia Wright is teasing the possibility of returning to her role as Shuri from the Black Panther films. “Let’s just say … I would like to continue with Shuri,” Wright said during a Wednesday appearance on The View when asked about her appearing in future Avengers movies The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars, set for […]
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‘Street Fighter’ Movie Lands 2026 Release From Sony
Street Fighter is preparing to boom into theaters in 2026. Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that the new movie based on the popular video game franchise will be released theatrically on March 20, 2026. The Legendary film is co-developed and produced with Capcom, the company behind the long-running series of fighting games. Also set to hit […]
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‘Deadpool 3’ Was Dead in the Water. Then Hugh Jackman Called Ryan Reynolds and Brought It Back to Life
Ryan Reynolds felt like he had one more Deadpool movie in him, but finding the right story took years — and help from Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy. One day while on the set of The Adam Project after pitching several ideas to Marvel for Deadpool 3, Reynolds told Levy that he wanted to […]
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Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Find Love While De-Aged in Robert Zemeckis’ ‘Here’ Trailer
Tom Hanks and Robin Wright experience pivotal moments at one very important place in the trailer for Here. Sony’s TriStar Pictures is set to release director Robert Zemeckis’ drama feature in theaters on Nov. 15. Here tells the story of multiple families over the course of generations, with the entire film taking place in a […]
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Green Lantern Series Finally a Go at HBO
HBO is at long last signing up with the Lantern Corps. The premium cable outlet has given a straight-to-series order for Lanterns, based on the long-running Green Lantern characters — specifically John Stewart and Hal Jordan — from DC Comics. Chris Mundy (Ozark) will serve as showrunner on the eight-episode drama and co-write the series with Damon […]
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Amazon MGM, Ryan Gosling Team for Zombie Comedy ‘I Used to Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale’
Amazon MGM Studios has landed zombie comedy film package I Used to Eat Brains, Now I Eat Kale. Ryan Gosling will produce the feature with Jessie Henderson, his partner at General Admission, the production banner the duo launched earlier this year. The project will fall under the company’s first-look deal with Amazon. Twins Adam and […]
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Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans Search for Santa in ‘Red One’ Trailer
Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans face an unusual array of holiday challenges in the first trailer for their Christmas movie Red One. Jake Kasdan’s action-comedy feature from Amazon MGM Studios is set for worldwide theatrical release on Nov. 15. Red One centers on North Pole head of security Callum Drift (Johnson) and naughty-lister Jack O’Malley […]
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Hugh Grant Imprisons His Houseguests in Chilling ‘Heretic’ Trailer
Hugh Grant has a unique strategy for discouraging unsolicited visitors in the first trailer for A24’s psychological horror feature Heretic. The movie from writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods hits theaters Nov. 15. Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East co-star as two Christian missionaries who are invited into the house of Mr. Reed (Grant) after knocking […]
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