When a mission is too impossible for stunts alone, you call in The Expendables! Lionsgate has released a trailer for Expendables 4, which is officially titled Expend4bles because movies are named by twelve-year-olds now (See the Fast and Furious series and its inexplicable title scheme). Expend4bles comes nine years after Expendables 3 and finds the …
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Is Marvel trying to tone down the propaganda in their movies? Probably not, but they seem to have gotten the message that they’re coming on a bit too strong. Marvel has announced via the official Marvel Studios Twitter account that Captain America: New World Order has been retitled Captain America: Brave New World. The film, …
It’s almost becoming a cliché to say that the behind-the-scenes or other real-world events surrounding a movie make a better story than the film itself, but the way Warner Bros. is marketing The Flash, as detailed in a Variety piece, is interesting. A lot of this is born of necessity because of the corner Ezra …
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DC Studios has an awful lot of faith in a movie that’s tracking to underperform. The newest DC rumor is that Andy Muschietti, the director of The Flash, will also helm the next Batman film (outside of the sequel to The Batman and Joker: Folie à Deux), The Brave and the Bold. Muschietti directing Batman’s …
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Universal and Vin Diesel finally smelled what The Rock was cooking. In a video message on his Twitter account, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson confirmed that his character, Luke Hobbs, is back in the Fast and Furious franchise. This isn’t a huge surprise for anyone who’s seen Fast X; the mid-credits scene left little doubt that …
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The hat is back. FX has released a trailer for Justified: City Primeval, the miniseries revival of Justified. Based on another book by Elmore Leonard, City Primeval catches up with Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens fifteen years after he left Harlan County, Kentucky. This time, Raylan finds himself in Detroit with his teenage daughter Willa, …
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How they refrained from calling this episode “Cat’s in the Cradle” I’ll never know, but they resisted. “Collision Course” is another decent entry in the trying third season of Superman & Lois, with some good plotlines and payoffs for the cancer arc mixed with annoying or incomprehensible behavior from some of the characters. Lois seeks …
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John Cleese is keeping one of his masterpieces intact. The Daily Mail recently reported that Cleese is bringing Monty Python’s Life of Brian to the stage, but the article has some errors Cleese cleared up on his Twitter account. The first is that the play will not be a musical, as Daily Mail said it …
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Lionsgate must have called in a marker. During a recent earnings call, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group president Joe Drake talked about the John Wick franchise, and in addition to discussing the future spinoffs and prequels (ugh) in various stages of development, he revealed something big: “What is official is that, as you know, Ballerina is …
The Flash has been a bumpy road. It started almost impeccably with an outstanding first season; unfortunately, that would also prove to be its best season. The following two were very good, but as The Flash moved to the middle of its run, it showed signs of wear. The writers struggled to make their villains …
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