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THURSDAY, MARCH 26

THE END OF OAK STREET---trailer released for the dinosaur movie starring Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE---teaser trailer released for the HBO tv series.

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PRESSURE---trailer released for the D-Day movie starring Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott.

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STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM '85---trailer released for the Netflix animated spinoff series.

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STAR CITY---trailer released for the Apple TV FOR ALL MANKIND spinoff series.

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HIVE---trailer released for the Tubi horror movie.

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PROJECT HAIL MARY---the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER commented on a possible sequel to the hit sci fi movie starring Ryan Gosling that is based on the Andy Weir novel, "While there are no official conversations underway between Weir and Amazon MGM, insiders confirm a sequel isn’t out of the question...Both Amazon MGM and reps for Weir declined comment on a follow-up book or movie sequel. But sources close to MGM stress that Weir is in the driver’s seat. The acclaimed author has never penned a sequel to one of his books before, and he is currently working on a mysterious new novel that is unrelated to Hail Mary. But he has said he is toying with potential sequel ideas, though he does not have anything solid enough for a book, yet."

THE X-FILES---Himesh Patel and Danielle Deadwyler will star in the Ryan Coogler/Hulu reboot tv series of the 1990s sci fi/horror tv series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Patel and Deadwyler will play new, original characters.

TIME OUT---Adam Sandler and Willem Dafoe star in the Netflix movie about a man who lies to his family about being fired from his job and copes by starting a crooked investment scheme.

STRANGER---Gwyneth Paltrow will star in the Netflix movie based on the novel whose synopsis says, “In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume."

TRIVIA---legendary Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune almost played Lakota Chief Crazyhorse in the 20th Century Fox movie THE DAY CUSTER FELL in which Lt. Col. George Armstrong and 268 troopers of the 7th Cavalry were massacred at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as "Custer's Last Stand". Mifune said, "I've never played an Indian before. Just one Mexican."
Robert Mitchum would have played Capt. Frederick Benteen, but the movie was never made.

 

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FRIDAY, MARCH 27

ROSEBUSH PRUNING---trailer released for the MUBI dark comedy movie starring Callum Turner and Elle Fanning.

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FORGE---trailer released for the art forgery movie starring Kelly Marie Tran.

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LIMINAL---Vanessa Kirby and Yahya Abdul-Mateen will star in the Apple TV sci fi movie based on the J. Michael Straczynski graphic novel TELEPATHS.

THE MADISON---the premiere of the Paramount+ YELLOWSTONE spinoff which starred Michelle Pfeiffer and Kurt Russell drew 8 million views in its first 10 days which makes it the biggest premiere of any Taylor Sheridan series.

THE SUPER MARIO GALAXY MOVIE---Glen Powell will be the voice of Fox McCloud in the animated sequel.

GOD OF WAR---Sanya Walger (LOST, FOR ALL MANKIND) will play Freya, Odin's ex-wife in the Amazon Prime tv series.

THE COMEBACKER---Tom Hanks will star in the baseball movie based on the short story whose plot is described as a “pitching coach of a major league hurler whose life is upended when he is hit in the head by a line drive on the mound. his life changes in all kinds of ways.”

THE TODAY SHOW---Savannah Guthrie returns since her last appearance on January 30th after the reported kidnapping of her mother, Nancy Guthrie.

STOP THAT TRAIN---RuPaul and Sarah Michelle Gellar star in the comedy movie in which disaster strikes a high-speed train that is carrying drag queens.

TRIVIA---in George Pal's TOM THUMB movie based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Peter Sellers played villain Antony and Terry-Thomas played his co-hort, Ivan. In Stanley Kramer's IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, Sellers was offered the role of British Army officer Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne, but Sellers wanted too much money so the role went to Thomas.

In George Pal's TOM THUMB movie based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Peter Sellers played villain Antony and Terry-Thomas played his co-hort, Ivan.

In Stanley Kramer's IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD, Peter Sellers was offered the role of British Army officer Lt. Col. J. Algernon Hawthorne, but Sellers wanted too much money so the role went to Terry-Thomas.

 

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MONDAY, MARCH 30

PAW PATROL: THE DINO MOVIE---trailer released for the Paramount Pictures animated sequel.

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STOP! THAT! TRAIN!---trailer released for the comedy movie starring RuPaul and Sarah Michelle Gellar.

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THE GHOST IN THE SHELL---trailer released for the Amazon Prime anime series.

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SUPERGIRL---new photos show Milly Alcock as Supergirl, Jason Momoa as Lobo, David Krumholtz as Zor-El and Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem of the Yellow Hills.

STAR TREK---author Andy Weir (PROJECT HAIL MARY, THE MARTIAN) said he proposed a new STAR TREK series to Paramount+ which was rejected. Weir said although he liked STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS and STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, he is not a fan of Paramount+'s other TREK tv series, “I’ll give you my opinion and I’m just a consumer. I like STRANGE NEW WORLDS. I think it’s pretty good. I didn’t hate ENTERPRISE. I thought it was kind of weird. LOWER DECKS. I thought was entertaining and fun. All the others, they can go. And here’s another thing: I pitched a STAR TREK show to Paramount and I was in Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [executive producer Alex Kurtzman]. I don’t like a lot of the new TREK. He, as a person, is a really nice guy. But at the same time, those shows are sh-t. He is a nice guy. But they didn’t accept my pitch so, you know, f-ck ’em.”
Weir commented on Paramount+ cancelling STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY, “It’s gone baby! It’s all gone.”

SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY---movie insider Jeff Sneider claims Sadie Sink is playing Jean Grey in the sequel.

THE EXORCIST---photo from the New York film set shows Scarlett Johansson with a pistol and her stunt double.

SCANDALOUS---Kim Novak said she does not approve of Sydney Sweeney playing her in the movie about Novak's affair with Sammy Davis, Jr., because with Sweeney sticks out so much above the waist." Novak added, “There’s no way it wouldn’t be a sexual relationship because Sydney Sweeney looks sexy all the time. She was totally wrong to play me.”

AVENGERS: SECRET WARS---Elizabeth Olsen commented on if she will appear as Wanda Maximoff in the new AVENGERS sequel, "I know nothing. I know nothing about any of it.”

CBS---CBS cancelled WATSON and DMV.

TRIVIA---Majel Barrett, Gene Roddenberry's wife, is best known for playing Nurse Chapel in Roddenberry's STAR TREK. Barrett also appeared in another sci fi hit as Miss Carrie, the robotic saloon bordello madame in Michael Crichton's WESTWORLD.

Majel Barrett, Gene Roddenberry's wife, is best known for playing Nurse Chapel in Roddenberry's STAR TREK.

Barrett also appeared in another sci fi hit as Miss Carrie, the robotic saloon bordello madame in Michael Crichton's WESTWORLD.

 

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TUESDAY, MARCH 31

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE---trailer released for the movie based on the Mattel toy line.

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CAPE FEAR---trailer released for the Apple TV miniseries remake starring Amy Adams and Javier Bardem.

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THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU---featurette released for the movie starring Pedro Pascal.

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EUPHORIA---trailer released for Season 3.

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STAR TREK---author Andy Weir (PROJECT HAIL MARY) apologized to STAR TREK producer Alex Kurtzman for negative remarks he made about Paramount+ and its STAR TREK tv franchise after Paramount+ rejected his idea for a new STAR TREK tv series, “Hey, Alex. Andy Weir here. I’m posting to apologize for stuff I said on the Critical Drinker‘s podcast. I feel like my quotes were taken out of context as salacious sound bites. I hope you saw the other parts where I said how much I like you as a person and what a nice guy you are. Also, how I like SNW and LD.
I was trying to be funny, but in retrospect, it comes off as disrespectful and mean. So I’m sorry for that. I was also trying to be self-deprecating when I said ‘but they didn’t like my pitch so f–k ’em!’ But out of context it can read like I actually meant it. I’m a blunt person – always have been. And it’s been 10 years since the media cared what I had to say about anything so I kind of forgot to watch my words when I have a film in theaters. In a couple months I’ll be back in my cave writing novels, and no one will care again.
Anyway, if you want to talk about it in real time – even if it’s just to rip me a new one – I’m happy to hop on the phone or Zoom.”

PERVERSION OF JUSTICE---Laura Dern will star in the Sony Pictures Television miniseries based on MIAMI HERALD writer Julie K. Brown's book PERVERSION OF JUSTICE: THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN STORY. The synopsis says the miniseries will be “an explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors. Drawing from Brown’s experience as a groundbreaking reporter for the MIAMI HERALD, the book and the limited series follow her relentless years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, persuaded key survivors to go on the record, and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests."

MIAMI VICE---sources claim the rumor that Tom Cruise will play the villain in the movie based on the Don Johnson tv series has been "debunked".

TALAMASCA: THE SECRET ORDER---AMC cancelled the horror series.

TRIVIA---hard rock band Guns N' Roses had its first major movie appearance in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry movie THE DEAD POOL. The movie featured the band's "Welcome to the Jungle" being mimed by rock star Johnny Squares (Jim Carrey). The band appeared as uncredited mourners at Squares's funeral with Dirty Harry and horror movie Peter Swan (Liam Neeson).

 

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1

F1: SPEED KILLS---trailer released for the sequel to the Brad Pitt racing movie.

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AIRPORT 2026: AND DON'T CALL ME SURLY---an all-star cast of Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset, Steve Martin, Cary Grant, William Shatner, Tom Hanks and Rep. Sonny Bono will star, via Industrial Light and Magic AI,in the latest sequel to the 1970 hit movie AIRPORT which started the disaster movie wave.
In the sequel, a Trans American airliner carrying vacationing Congressional members back to Washington, DC for a vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA employees is skyjacked by two Congressman who are angry because their vacations have been cut short.
In the cockpit, pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and stewardess Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) must prevent Rep. Vick Venal (Rep. Sonny Bono) from blowing up the airliner with a bomb he smuggled onboard in a brief case. In the rear of the airliner, co-pilot Vern Demerest (Dean Martin) and stewardess Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset) must prevent Sen. D.O. Guerrero (Van Heflin) from blowing up the airliner with a bomb he also smuggled onboard in a brief case.
In the middle of the airliner, passenger Robert Wilson (William Shatner), driven nearly insane by waiting in the airport for many hours, thinks he sees a vacationing Congressman on the airliner's wing.
In the airport terminal, advertising executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) angrily confronts an airline ticket agent who called him surly and rude because he protested having to wait in line for over four hours. Page angrily replies, "I've been in this f-cking airport, in this crowded f-cking terminal, in this long f-cking line for over four f-cking hours, and I want to get on a f-cking plane right f-cking now so I can fly home to f-cking Chicago to see my f-cking family and you can wipe that f-cking dumbass smile off your rosy f-cking cheeks-----and don't call me SURLY!"
In the terminal, Viktor Navoski (Tom Hanks) has waited in in the terminal for five days and falls asleep and misses his flight's departure, so he has to wait another five days for the next flight.
Also in the terminal, angry advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) has been waiting in line for his Northwest Airlines flight for so long that his ticket has expired because Northwest Airlines merged with Delta Airlines years ago. An irate Thornhill demands a new ticket and is then arrested by police for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

In the cockpit, pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and stewardess Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) must prevent Rep. Vick Venal (Rep. Sonny Bono) from blowing up the airliner with a bomb he smuggled onboard in a brief case because his vacation was cut short.

In the rear of the airliner, co-pilot Vern Demerest (Dean Martin) and stewardess Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bissett) must prevent Sen. D.O. Guerrero (Van Heflin) from blowing up the airliner with a bomb he also smuggled onboard in a brief case because his vacation was cut short.

In the middle of the airliner, passenger Robert Wilson (William Shatner), driven nearly insane by waiting in the airport for many hours, thinks he sees a vacationing Congressman on the airliner's wing.

In the airport terminal, advertising executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) angrily confronts an airline ticket agent who called him surly and rude because he protested having to wait in line for over four hours. Page angrily replies, "I've been in this f-cking airport, in this crowded f-cking terminal, in this long f-cking line for over four f-cking hours and I want to get on a f-cking plane right f-cking now so I can fly home to f-cking Chicago to see my f-cking family and you can wipe that f-cking dumbass smile off your rosy f-cking cheeks-----and don't call me SURLY!"

In the terminal, Viktor Navoski (Tom Hanks) has waited in in the terminal for five days and falls asleep and misses his flight's departure, so he has to wait another five days for the next flight.

In the terminal, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) has been waiting in line for his Northwest Airlines flight for so long that his ticket has expired because Northwest Airlines merged with Delta Airlines years ago. An irate Thornhill demands a new ticket and is then arrested by police for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT ESCAPE---Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones, who is sent on mission by the OSS to prevent Adolf Hilter from escaping from Germany to South America in the BV 238, a massive, six-engine seaplane that was the largest airplane built by the Nazis in World War II. Jones infiltrates Berlin disguised as a German soldier late in the war as Russian troops begin the siege of the city. To guarantee the sequel's success and help erase the failure of INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY, the new sequel will have Indiana Jones in a classic motorcycle scene inspired by Steve McQueen's iconic motorcycle scene in THE GREAT ESCAPE.

JURASSIC WORLD: YOU'RE ONE UGLY MOTHERF-CKER---Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as Dutch Schaefer and Scarlet Johansson returns as Zora Bennett as they lead a team of fellow mercenaries hired by the CIA to battle the Predator, who returned to the South American jungle to battle the monsters that replaced man as the deadliest warrior on Earth----the genetic hybrid dinosaurs from JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH.

STAR TREK: KOBAYASHI MARU---Paramount+ will replace the cancelled STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY with STAR TREK: KOBAYASHI MARU which focuses on when James T. Kirk and Hikaru Sulu were cadets at Starfleet Academy. When Kirk changed the Academy's Kobayashi Maru "no-win scenario" test by reprogramming it, he received a commendation for original thinking and was not punished for cheating which paved the way to Kirk becoming captain of the starship Enterprise. Sulu is consumed with anger that he flunked the test and that he is only a lieutenant assigned to the Enterprise as Kirk's subordinate which led to a never-ending feud between the two.

BATTLEFIELD EARTH : THE RISE OF TERL---former Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy said she is continuing her legacy of producing outstanding sci fi movies by producing the sequel to BATTLEFIELD EARTH with John Travolta returning as Terl.

1947---Harrison Ford returns for the latest YELLOWSTONE spinoff series in which Jacob Dutton and his family battle aliens from another planet who invade the Dutton ranch in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN---Rachel Zegler will star in another movie that features small people when she stars in the remake of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN which starred Lily Tomlin. The remake is seen as a metaphor for Zegler's shrinking career after she criticized her SNOW WHITE remake which turned the fans away causing Disney to lose $170 million.

TRIVIA---Melinda Dillon received her first Academy Award nomination for playing Jillian Guiler in CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Her first role in a major movie was playing Leslie Hopkins in THE APRIL FOOLS which starred Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve.