Tag: pop

Justin Lin to Direct a ‘Hot Wheels’ Movie

Mattel Entertainment and Legendary are now teaming up for a Hot Wheels movie in earnest. The toy car icon will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in the summer of 2018, so I’d be surprised if they weren’t aiming for a well-timed release date. Since 2011, Legendary was in talks to acquire the movie rights from Mattel. Since then, the…

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‘Jumanji’: New Details Reveal Video Game Theme

The movie, led by Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson, in the jungle, which spurred a few questions about Doctor Who breakout Karen Gillan‘s outfit in the movie. Well, some of those questions should be answered by the revelations about the movie that have come to light. Younger cast members have been added to the cast – Alex…

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‘Thor: Ragarok’: Sam Neill Joines the Cast

Sam Neill was recently interviewed by Shortlist about his role in Thor: Ragnarok, to which he replied, “I’m not really allowed to say this and I can’t tell you what it is… I did a couple of days on Thor just before I came over here. If I say anything else, Marvel’s secret agents — and they…

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‘Fuller House’ Season 2 Premiere Date Announced

Last year, Netflix launched what ended up being a fairly polarizing reboot of the iconic family series Full House in Fuller House, riding the waves of nostalgia that has brought us innumerable other reboots and restarts in the past few years (of wavering quality). Now, Netflix has finally revealed the premiere date for the return…

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Time Warner CEO Says “Room for Improvement” With DCEU

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said during an investors conference (via Variety) that there is “a little room for improvement” in the creative execution of WB’s DC Comics adaptations, adding, “The DC Comics characters… have a little more lightness in them than maybe what you saw in [Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad], so we’re thinking…

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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Prequel Reportedly Being Made

A new report from Australia’s Herald Sun states that a Mad Max: Fury Road prequel is not only in the works over at Warner Bros., it could start filming in Australia as soon as this year with George Miller returning at the helm. Now that is the kind of story I would love to believe,…

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Michael Giacchino Steps in to Score ‘Rogue One’

Alexandre Desplat will no longer create the score for the first Star Wars standalone film. BUT: The incredible Oscar-winning Michael Giacchino will take his place. Desplat, who previously composed Argo and The Grand Budapest Hotel, was no longer available to score, due to schedule conflicts introduced by the reshoots for Rogue One. In the search for a…

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Natalie Portman Possibly in Oscar Race

One of the movies at Toronto International Film Festival was the Jackie Kennedy biopic Jackie, which is anything but your standard biopic. Fox Searchlight has secured domestic distribution rights to the film and has already staked out a very Oscar friendly December 9th release date. It was subsequently produced independently, with Aronofsky remaining involved as a…

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‘Pokemon Generations’: Animated Series For YouTube

For longtime fans of the franchise and newcomers alike, one aspect that has long been missing from the pantheon of marketing material was a show that was more closely tied into the video games themselves. Recent news confirms that The Pokemon Company has answered that call with a new animated web series named Pokemon Generations looking to fill in that…

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‘G.I. Joe 3’ Delayed Due to The Rock’s Schedule

Back in 2009, Paramount Pictures and Hasbro rolled out their live-action G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra adaptation, hoping for a repeat of the 2007 live-action Transformers success. Unfortunately, building your franchise on the a busy actor like Dwayne Johnson means that continuing your franchise is now dependent on his schedule. That fact was confirmed by co-star Byung-hun Lee during…

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