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Jack Black and Kung Fu Panda return for new Netflix series The Dragon Knight

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As odd as it sounds, National Panda Day is the perfect day to bring back a beloved animated character. Taking to his official Tik Tok account, Jack Black has announced that he will be reprising his role as the Kung Fu Panda, Po, with the Dreamworks character returning in the new Netflix series Kung Fu […]

Netflix launches trailer for Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood

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Employing the same rotoscoping techniques used on his 2006 Philip K. Dick adaptation A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater returns with  Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood, which tells the story of the first moon landing in 1969 from two different perspectives – the astronaut and mission control, and through the eyes of a boy […]

The John Cusack Pinnacle: Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity

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Tom Jolliffe looks at the two films that most typify John Cusack’s qualities, Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity… Top five John Cusack films? Well, Say Anything has got to be there. Perhaps the thoroughly underrated Grifters? What else? Being John Malkovich has got to be in the running too. During Cusack’s rising years in […]

Jack Black and Ice Cube to team up for Sony Pictures comedy Oh Hell No

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Jack Black is in discussions to star alongside Ice Cube in Sony Pictures comedy Oh Hell No, the new film from Bad Trip creator Kitao Sakurai. Sakurai is hot property in the comedy world at the moment, having scored a high profile Netflix gig with the Eric André and Tiffany Haddish streaming hit Bad Trip, […]

Borderlands movie characters teased with new images

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Earlier this week we got our first glimpse of Lilith (Cate Blanchett) from the upcoming Borderlands movie, and now a new batch of teaser silhouettes have been revealed from Eli Roth’s video game adaptation for Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), Roland (Kevin Hart), Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Krieg (Florian Munteanu), and Claptrap (Jack Black); take a […]

Jack Black to play Claptrap in Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie

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Lionsgate has announced that Jack Black is set to join Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Hart in Borderlands, the upcoming video game adaptation from director Eli Roth (Hostel). The project, based on the hugely successful video game franchise from Gearbox Software, will reunite Black with Roth and Blanchett, the trio having recently worked […]

Jumanji: The Next Level director hints that the four main game avatars could return for the next instalment

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After the hugely successful Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the follow-up Jumanji: The Next Level both critically and financially, a third film is most likely set to enter production in the future. Now, in a recent interview with NME, director Jake Kasdan has strongly hinted that the four main cast members (Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, […]

Jack Black opens up about his early retirement plans, Jumanji: The Next Level may be his final film

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Actor and musician Jack Black has opened up about his early retirement plans, claiming he originally intended for Jumanji: The Next Level to be his final film. “Well, I’ve got another Tenacious D record that I’d like to make. Maybe one more movie,” Black told Balance. “I’m kind of enjoying the idea of early retirement… I’ve […]

Video Review – Jumanji: The Next Level

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Jumanji: The Next Level, 2019 Directed by Jake Kasdan. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Danny DeVito, Awkwafina, Danny Glover, Rhys Darby, Alex Wolff, Ser’Darius Blain, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Rory McCann, Dania Ramirez, Darin Ferraro, Sal Longobardo, Massi Furlan, Michael Beasley, Colin Hanks, and Ashley Scott. In this video […]