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LeBron James Producing House Party Reboot Starring Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Tosin Cole
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T15:24:32+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 11:24am ET Wave your hands in the air, everybody, because it’s time to party again. Deadline reports that LeBron James is producing a remake of the 1990 cult favorite comedy House Party for New Line. James and his SpringHill Company partner Maverick Carter have long had their eyes on the classic House Party franchise, with news of the reboot first breaking in 2018. Things seem to be heating up on the project, as music video director Calmatic (Vince Staples, Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road”) has been tapped to helm the movie as his feature-length debut and New Line has entered negotiations with Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Boogie, the MCU Spider-Man series) a...
Indiana Jones 5 Casts Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Harrison Ford’s Co-Star
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T17:29:21+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 1:29pm ET Phoebe Waller-Bridge has been cast as the female lead in the upcoming Indiana Jones movie. According to Deadline, the Emmy-winning Fleabag actress will co-star alongside Harrison Ford in the fifth installment of the iconic adventure series. Unlike the first four movies, the most recent being 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg will switch from director to producer, while James Mangold (Ford v Ferrari, Logan) will step into the directors seat. Don’t worry, though: legendary composer John Williams, who’s scored every film in the franchise, will return to craft its soundtrack. Th...
Netflix’s Thunder Force Isn’t Super, But It’s Alright: Review
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-09T07:00:59+00:00“>April 9, 2021 | 3:00am ET The Pitch: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone suit up for Thunder Force. It’s a chummy riff on the superhero craze, built around Lydia (McCarthy), a Chicago forklift operator who likes drinking Old Style on the job and wears her Cubs and Bears merchandise with pride. But also her old friend Emily (Octavia Spencer), a straight-A tech genius, on the cusp of an evolutionary breakthrough developing superhero steroids for (likely) high-paying consumers. The two are estranged, and as mismatch comedies sometimes begin, one thing leads to another, and soon McCarthy is an ill-mannered Superwoman and Spencer a taser-wielding Invisible Woman. Toget...
Cher Helps Rescue “The World’s Loneliest Elephant” in New Documentary Trailer: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T20:45:46+00:00“>April 8, 2021 | 4:45pm ET In late 2020, Cher made a herculean effort to move “the world’s loneliest elephant” to a sanctuary in Cambodia. Her animal rights work became the subject of a documentary, Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, which you can preview via the trailer below. The documentary follows the singer as she travels to Pakistan to oversee the relocation of the elephant, named Kaavan, who became known as the “world’s loneliest elephant” after his partner Saheli died in 2012. Kaavan, who was a gift from the government of Sri Lanka to the head of the Pakistani army 35 years ago, had become increasingly lonely and depressed while spending over a dozen yea...
Angelina Jolie Fights Off Assassins and Wildfires in Those Who Wish Me Dead Trailer: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T00:25:15+00:00“>April 7, 2021 | 8:25pm ET The official trailer for director Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming neo-Western, Those Who Wish Me Dead, has arrived, and it stars Angelina Jolie as a smoke jumper who must protect a 12-year-old murder witness. Check it out below. Those Who Wish Me Dead marks Sheridan’s follow-up to his 2017 Western, Wind River. The film is based on Michael Kortya’s 2014 novel of the same name and centers around Hannah Faber (Jolie), a survival expert who is tasked with saving Connor Casserly (Finn Little) from the assassin Blackwell brothers, played by Nicholas Hoult and Aidan Gillen. Jon Bernthal, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber, and Medina Senghore round out the c...
R.I.P. Walter Olkewicz, Twin Peaks Dead at 72
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T01:31:18+00:00“>April 7, 2021 | 9:31pm ET Character actor Walter Olkewicz, best known for his roles on Twin Peaks and Grace Under Fire, has died at the age of 72. Olkewicz passed away early Tuesday morning at his Reseda home in Los Angeles, as revealed by his son, screenwriter Zak Olkewicz, to The Hollywood Reporter. Over the past 20 years, he struggled with health issues and had a series of knee surgeries that caused infections, forcing him to take a leave from acting. In Twin Peaks, Olkewicz portrayed the Canadian bartender and croupier Jacques Renault during season one. He returned for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, and the 201...
Ray Fisher Details Justice League Drama with Joss Whedon and Warner Bros.
Any fan who has watched Zack Snyder’s Justice League realizes that Ray Fisher was done dirty by the theatrically released version spearheaded by Joss Whedon and Warner Bros. brass. But you need not have seen either movie to know that, as the Cyborg actor has been telling everyone for the last year about Whedon’s “gross, abusive, unprofessional” conduct on set and WB’s allegedly sketchy, racist attempts to cover up Fisher’s complaints. Today, The Hollywood Reporter published an extensive interview with Fisher, who digs into the weeds of his allegations against Whedon and studio executives Geoff Johns, Walter Hamada, and Jon Berg. He detailed how his concerns over representation of DC’s first live-action Black superhero were dismissed by the studio, which pushed for the character “to be...
Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson to star in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Jason Isbell (photo by Ben Kaye), Sturgill Simpson (photo by Ben Kaye), and Martin Scorsese (photo by Jordan Strauss) The cast for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon is adding even more star power. First it was reported that Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio would star in the new thriller, and then news broke that Jesse Plemons would take on the lead role. Now, it looks like country rockers Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson are the latest to be cast in what’s shaping up to be a truly star-studded affair. Based on David Grann’s 2017 nonfiction book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon follows FBI agent Tom White (Plemons) as he tries to solve the serial murders of members of the Osage Nation over oil rights. A prominent local cattleman named Will...
Morgan Freeman Films COVID-19 Vaccine PSA: “If You Trust Me, You’ll Get the Vaccine”
Despite well over 500,000 reported deaths from COVID-19 in the United States alone and nearly 3 million worldwide, many people are still reluctant to get vaccinated against the highly infectious and devastating disease. In response, the multi-time voice of God and legendary actor Morgan Freeman, has been brought in for a PSA about the vaccine. Watch it below. “I’m not a doctor, but I trust science. And I’m told that, for some reason, people trust me,” the legendary actor says at the beginning of the video, which was created by arts advocacy group The Creative Coalition and the National Blue Ribbon Task Force to stem COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. He continues, “So here I am to say I trust science and I got the vaccine. If you trust me, you’ll get the vaccine. In math, it’s called the distribu...
R.I.P. Paul Ritter, Chernobyl and Harry Potter Actor Dead at 54
Paul Ritter, the English actor known for his roles in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl and films like Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Quantum of Solace, has died at the age of 54. According to a statement released by his agent, Ritter passed away Monday (April 5th) from complications related to a brain tumor. “Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill,” Ritter’s agent said in a statement. “He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.” In Chernobyl, Ritter portrayed Anatoly Dyatlov, the deputy chief engineer at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The 2019 mini-series went on to win 10 Emmy Awards and two Golden Globes. On-screen, Ritter will be remembered for his role a...
We Are the Thousand Solidifies Foo Fighters As One of Rock’s Most Inspiring Bands: Review
The Pitch: Anyone who has ever lived in a small town understands the frustration of being constantly passed over by bands in favor of larger markets and bigger venues. While most just grumble about it, there are those dedicated fans who will do whatever it takes to experience a live performance from a treasured artist. For most, that means a road trip. But for marine biologist Fabio Zaffagnini, it meant thinking out of the box in a dramatic and unprecedented way. In 2015, Zaffagnini hatched an elaborate plan to lure his favorite band—Foo Fighters—to his small Italian town of Cesena. Gathering 1,000 local musicians together to simultaneously play one of the band’s songs, Zaffagnini and his crew of enthusiastic friends recorded and released the performance on YouTube in hopes to capture the ...
Godzilla Vs. Kong Sets Pandemic Box Office Record with $48.5 Million Opening
Godzilla vs. Kong (Legendary) In news that will have movie theater operators smiling for days, Godzilla vs. Kong opened in the US this weekend to a massive box office haul of $48.5 million. It marks the biggest domestic opening for a film since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Variety. What makes the news even more impressive is the fact that Godzilla vs. Kong was simultaneously released in theaters and on HBO Max. Despite its streaming availability, as well the reality that some some 40% of theaters in the US remain shuttered (and those that are open are at a reduced capacity), the Legendary blockbuster still managed to triple the previous box office high during the pandemic. Prior to this weekend, Wonder Woman 1984 had the biggest three-day opening with $16.7 million, fol...
