Space Jam: A New Legacy just got a new trailer and it’s pitting the legendary Tune Squad against the villainous Goon Squad for the highly anticipated sequel. This time around, we get a closer look at LeBron James as a cartoon character, the all-star cast of Warner Bros. characters crossing into this universe, and the plot that’s previously been obscured. Watch the trailer below. The sequel to the 1996 smash hit centers around James’ relationship with his son Dom and his struggle to understand why he prefers creating games to playing games. When his son is pulled into a virtual server controlled by an A.I. villain named Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), James links up with the Toon Squad — Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Roadrunner, and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang — to defeat the Cheadle-...
25 years later and still one pin short, the Farrelly brothers are working on a sequel to the cult bowling comedy Kingpin. As Collider reports, Peter and Bobby Farrelly are serving as executive producers for a project in the very early stages of development. Released in 1996, Kingpin starred Woody Harrelson as an unfortunate bowler who loses his hand, Randy Quaid as an Amish pin prodigy, and Bill Murray as the villainous Ernie “Big Ern” McCracken. It was a modest financial success, though in the Farrellys’ filmography it’s always had an unassuming presence, since it arrived sandwiched between the box office blockbusters Dumb and Dumber (1994) and There’s Something About Mary (1998). Few details are known at this time, and it’s unclear if the...
Ernie Lively, veteran character actor and father of Blake Lively, has died at 74. Lively had struggled for decades with heart problems. After a 2003 heart attack, he reportedly had trouble walking even short distances without a rest. In 2013, he received experimental stem cell therapy. Via Deadline, he passed June 2nd, 2021 of cardiac complications. Born January 29th, 1947, Lively had been a constant presence on screens big and small since the mid 1970’s. He had parts in such beloved series and films as The Dukes of Hazzard, Murder, She Wrote, Turner and Hooch, The Beverly Hillbillies, The X-Files, Seinfeld, thirtysomething, That ’70s Show, and The West Wing. Related Video In 2005, he acted alongside his daughter Blake, performing as her character’s father in&...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T20:30:15+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 4:30pm ET Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, No Sudden Move, is set to land July 1st on HBO Max. Today, the streamer released a trailer for the crime thriller, which centers around a heist gone wrong in 1950s Detroit. The star-studded cast is led by Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Jon Hamm, and Brendan Fraser. Rounding out the ensemble are Kieran Culkin, Julia Fox, and Amy Seimetz. No Sudden Move is written by Ed Solomon. According to the official description, it follows “a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes horribly wrong, their search for w...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T21:39:31+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 5:39pm ET Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are in talks to star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor in She Said, a new movie about the investigations into Harvey Weinstein’s crimes. As Deadline reports, the film is based on Twohey and Kantor’s 2018 book She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement. Twohey and Kantor first outlined Weinstein’s predatory behavior in 2017 with a landmark article in the Times. It opened the floodgates, and eventually over 90 woman accused the disgraced producer of harassment or assault, while 15 accused him of rape. In the end, Weinstein was sentenc...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-07T18:14:49+00:00“>June 7, 2021 | 2:14pm ET Michelle Zauner, aka Japanese Breakfast, became a New York Times bestselling author when her memoir, Crying in H Mart, was released in April. Now, the book is set to be adapted as a movie by MGM’s Orion Pictures. The film will be produced by Stacey Sher and Jason Kim, with Zauner providing the soundtrack as Japanese Breakfast. “It is a surreal thrill to have the opportunity to memorialize my mother in film, and I consider it of the highest honor to pursue that task alongside creative luminaries such as Stacey Sher, Jason Kim, and Orion Pictures,” Zauner said in a statement. Related Video Crying in H Mart is based on a 2018&nbs...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-05T18:35:00+00:00“>June 5, 2021 | 2:35pm ET Disney has begun development on a sequel to Cruella, its live-action prequel to 101 Dalmations starring Emma Stone. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cruella director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Tony McNamara are both expected to return for the sequel. As Cruella served as the origin story of Cruella de Vil, one would assume that the sequel would pull from Dodie Smith’s 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians and Disney’s 1961 animated adaptation. ***SPOILER*** Then again, Gillespie and McNamara already took a significant detour from the book’s plot by introducing Roger and Anita as central figures in Cruella’s life. ...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-04T16:23:11+00:00“>June 4, 2021 | 12:23pm ET We’re starting to think this mission might actually be impossible. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, Mission: Impossible 7 has once again shut down production, as routine testing on the UK set revealed positive COVID-19 results. Originally, star Tom Cruise and director Christopher McQuarrie had planned to produce installments 7 and 8 back-to-back, so that they could be released consecutively in 2021 and 2022. But in February of 2020, the Venice, Italy film set became one of the first to shutter during the pandemic. Production resumed last summer in the UK, with Cruise securing a governmental exemption to skip the man...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-05T01:52:05+00:00“>June 4, 2021 | 9:52pm ET The Pitch: In 1981, paranormal investigators/real-life-con-artists-but-nevermind Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) are on the front lines of yet another demonic possession — this time of eight-year-old David Glatzel (Julian Hilliard), who pretzels his body and speaks in tongues while under the influence of a demonic force. Their exorcism is interrupted, however, by the intervention of Arne Johnson (Ruairi O’Connor), boyfriend of David’s sister Debbie (Sarah Catherine Hook), who draws the demon out of young David…and into himself. It’s not long after that that Arne commits a murder while ostensibly under the influe...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-05T02:48:09+00:00“>June 4, 2021 | 10:48pm ET Paramount is moving ahead with plans for A Quiet Place Part III from filmmaker Jeff Nichols. A release date has been set for March 31st, 2023. Nichols, who previously helmed films like Mud and Loving, is writing and directing Part III based on an original story conceived by John Krasinski. After co-writing and directing the first two films, Krasinski is expected to step back and guide the sequel in his capacity as a producer. After a lengthy delay caused by the pandemic, A Quiet Place Part II finally opened in theaters over Memorial Day weekend. The film earned an impressive four-day box office total of $57 million. Related Video ...
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-03T20:07:15+00:00“>June 3, 2021 | 4:07pm ET Forget about the history books. Netflix’s new animated comedy is ready to set the record straight when it comes to the formation of the US and our founding fathers. It’s called America: The Motion Picture and features an all-star voice cast led by Channing Tatum as George Washington. Watch the newly revealed trailer below. Billed as “the untold, totally legit, historically accurate origins of America,” America: The Motion Picture is a feature-length film satirizing the American Revolution. It comes from the producers of Archer (Matt Thompson) and Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse (the inimitable Phil Lord and Chris Miller), with Th...