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Paul Walter Hauser to play Captain Ed in The Naked Gun reboot

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The Naked Gun remake has found its Captain Ed as Deadline reports Paul Walter Hauser signed onto the production, continuing his hot streak of roles recently. The actor, who just became attached to play Chris Farley in a new biopic, will take over the role of Captain Ed Hocken from George Kennedy, who portrayed the […]

Pamela Anderson-led The Last Showgirl heading to Cannes

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Pamela Anderon is beginning her comeback. First, she joined The Naked Gun reboot, and now her starring indie effort is heading to Cannes for sale. Per Deadline, Goodfellas and Utopia are teaming up for a co-sell deal on Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl. The film stars Pamela Anderson as a veteran Las Vegas showgirl reinventing […]

StudioCanal developing new live-action Asterix movie

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The French comic strip hero Asterix is heading back to pop culture, and back to the big screen. French publishing house Éditions Albert René celebrates the 65th anniversary of the comic character, created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, with a new live-action adaptation. Studiocanal and Editions Albert René have signed an exclusive development, which […]

First look image from Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis released

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As Francis Ford Coppola’s return approaches, we’re bracing ourselves for whatever he’s cooking up with Megalopolis and we now have our first look at the film, with Vanity Fair dropping a new image featuring Adam Driver as an idealistic architect looking to rebuild a city. Megalopolis follows “the rebuilding of a metropolis after it has fallen […]

Chris Hemsworth says he “didn’t stick the landing” on Thor: Love and Thunder

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Even though the actor already shaded the film last year, calling the fourth Thor movie ‘too silly’ for its own good, Chris Hemsworth is back more feelings to unleash about 2022’s Thor: Love and Thunder. While promoting Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga in an interview with Vanity Fair’s May 2024 issue, Hemsworth says he looks […]

Sally Hawkins teams with Talk To Me directors for new horror film Bring Her Back

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Actress Sally Hawkins has dipped her toe into the world of horror before, first appearing in a 2007 genre film and then starring in the Academy Award-winning horror love fantasy The Shape of Water. Deadline reports that Hawkins is using that training to topline a brand-new horror film from A24. She’ll star in Bring Her […]

Live-action Scooby-Doo series coming to Netflix from Greg Berlanti

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Are we seeing the residents of Coolsville get a Riverdale-like makeover? A new Greg Berlanti-helmed Scooby-Doo series could mean teen angst is heading to Mystery Incorporated. This week, news broke that Greg Berlanti will executive produce a live-action update, which Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg will write. Per the reports, the project has a “script-to-series […]

Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King drops first teaser trailer

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Return to Pride Rock and discover the story behind one of the most iconic Disney characters. In a new prequel story to The Lion King, Disney has released the first look at Mufasa: The Lion King.  Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins steps into the director’s chair and takes you back to find out how Mufasa became […]

Cameron Monaghan says TRON: Ares looks “pretty phenomenal”

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With filmmaker Joachim Rønning taking over the TRON franchise, a third installment could completely shatter expectations and filmmaking notions. One of the stars behind TRON: Ares is hyping up the film with Cameron Monaghan comparing it to the movie that came before it. Speaking to Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, Monaghan dishes on the upcoming Disney production, […]