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Best Western Ever on TCM tonight.
Good, Bad, & Ugly...
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MONDAY, AUGUST 2
VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE---trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FmWuCgJmxo
SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS---Djimon Hounsou was photographed on the film set in Atlanta.
THE LAIR---Charlotte Kirk (THE RECKONING) and Jamie Bamber (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) star in Neil Marshall's new horror movie about a female RAF pilot who is shot down over Afghanistan. She seeks refuge in an underground bunker inhabited by flesh-eating human/alien hybrid creatures. When she escapes and is flown to a US Army base, the creatures follow her.
AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM---producer Peter Safran said fan campaigns to fire Amber Heard from the sequel are being ignored, “I don’t think we’re ever going to react to, honestly, pure fan pressure. You gotta do what’s best for the movie. We felt that if it’s [director] James Wan and [star] Jason Momoa, it should be Amber Heard. That’s really what it was.
One is not unaware of what is going on in the Twitter-verse, but that doesn’t mean you have to react to it or take it as gospel or accede to their wishes. You have to do what’s right for the film, and that’s really where we landed on it.”
Many fans have criticized Heard after her controversial divorce from Johnny Depp.
THE EXPENDABLES 4---Sylvester Stallone posted a photo hinting the latest sequel is underway, "Just finished the [sic] designing the new ring for EXPENDABLE 4 It’s a little heavy, but it’ll definitely put some muscles on your fingertips."
FLASH GORDON---producer John Davis said the Taika Waititi movie will be live-action instead of animated, "He initially said to me, ‘Let’s do it animated.’ I said, ‘Okay.’ Then we got into it and started developing it and he said, ‘No, let’s do it live-action.’ I said, ‘Even better.'”
STAR TREK---CBS and Alex Kurtzman agreed to an expanded contract extension through 2026.
JUNGLE CRUISE---Dwayne Johnson said sequel talks are underway.
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---Jake Johnson confirmed he is not returning for the sequel due to a schedule problem and the pandemic.
FLEDGLING---JJ Abrams/HBO series underway based on the vampire novel.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Israeli actress Daliah Lavi appeared in four James Bond spoof movies: THE SILENCERS, THE SPY WITH A COLD NOSE, CASINO ROYALE (original) and SOME GIRLS DO.
Daliah Lavi played Tina Batori with Dean Martin in THE SILENCERS based on the Matt Helm spy novel.
Lavia played Princess Natasha Romanova in THE SPY WITH A COLD NOSE.
Lavi played The Detainer with Woody Allen in the original CASINO ROYALE based on the Ian Fleming novel.
Lavi played assassin Helga Hagen with Richard Johnson in SOME GIRLS DO inspired by the Bulldog Drummond novels.
VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE---trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FmWuCgJmxo
SHAZAM! FURY OF THE GODS---Djimon Hounsou was photographed on the film set in Atlanta.
THE LAIR---Charlotte Kirk (THE RECKONING) and Jamie Bamber (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) star in Neil Marshall's new horror movie about a female RAF pilot who is shot down over Afghanistan. She seeks refuge in an underground bunker inhabited by flesh-eating human/alien hybrid creatures. When she escapes and is flown to a US Army base, the creatures follow her.
AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM---producer Peter Safran said fan campaigns to fire Amber Heard from the sequel are being ignored, “I don’t think we’re ever going to react to, honestly, pure fan pressure. You gotta do what’s best for the movie. We felt that if it’s [director] James Wan and [star] Jason Momoa, it should be Amber Heard. That’s really what it was.
One is not unaware of what is going on in the Twitter-verse, but that doesn’t mean you have to react to it or take it as gospel or accede to their wishes. You have to do what’s right for the film, and that’s really where we landed on it.”
Many fans have criticized Heard after her controversial divorce from Johnny Depp.
THE EXPENDABLES 4---Sylvester Stallone posted a photo hinting the latest sequel is underway, "Just finished the [sic] designing the new ring for EXPENDABLE 4 It’s a little heavy, but it’ll definitely put some muscles on your fingertips."
FLASH GORDON---producer John Davis said the Taika Waititi movie will be live-action instead of animated, "He initially said to me, ‘Let’s do it animated.’ I said, ‘Okay.’ Then we got into it and started developing it and he said, ‘No, let’s do it live-action.’ I said, ‘Even better.'”
STAR TREK---CBS and Alex Kurtzman agreed to an expanded contract extension through 2026.
JUNGLE CRUISE---Dwayne Johnson said sequel talks are underway.
JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION---Jake Johnson confirmed he is not returning for the sequel due to a schedule problem and the pandemic.
FLEDGLING---JJ Abrams/HBO series underway based on the vampire novel.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Israeli actress Daliah Lavi appeared in four James Bond spoof movies: THE SILENCERS, THE SPY WITH A COLD NOSE, CASINO ROYALE (original) and SOME GIRLS DO.
Daliah Lavi played Tina Batori with Dean Martin in THE SILENCERS based on the Matt Helm spy novel.
Lavia played Princess Natasha Romanova in THE SPY WITH A COLD NOSE.
Lavi played The Detainer with Woody Allen in the original CASINO ROYALE based on the Ian Fleming novel.
Lavi played assassin Helga Hagen with Richard Johnson in SOME GIRLS DO inspired by the Bulldog Drummond novels.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3
BLACK WIDOW---sources claim Scarlett Johansson blames Walt Disney head Bob Chapek for the movie being released theatrically and on Disney+, which reduced ticket sales and lowered Johansson's share of ticket sales. Johannson had expressed concern to Disney in 2019, a year before the pandemic, and Disney assured her BLACK WIDOW would be released only in theaters. When Warner Bros. premiered its movies in theaters and streaming due to the pandemic, it renegotiated its contracts with the actors. Disney did not attempt to renegotiate Johansson's BLACK WIDOW contract.
Reportedly, Chapek's predeccessor, Bob Iger is "mortified" about Johansson's lawsuit. TheWrap quoted sources that the lawsuit has created a rift between Iger and Chapek, "It seems that Iger either intentionally allowed Chapek to shoot himself in the foot with Johansson’s team by failing to step in and negotiate an alternative to a lawsuit, or that he is so disconnected from his successor that he was not in the loop to step in as he usually would." A Disney representative denied reports of the rift.
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is "angry and embarrassed” about Disney not settling the situation earlier which led to Johansson''s lawsuit.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS---Amazon announced Season 1 has finished filming in New Zealand and will premiere on September 2, 2022.
AMERICAN CRIME STORY: IMPEACHMENT---poster released for the FX series about the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal.
BLUE BEETLE---Xolo Mariduena (COBRA KAI) is in talks to star in the HBO Max/Warner Bros./DC superhero movie.
DAN BROWN'S THE LOST SYMBOL---photo released from the Peacock tv series based on the Robert Langdon novel.
DOCTOR WHO---J. Michael Straczynski (BABYLON 5) replied to a fan about his interest in succeeding Chris Chibnall as DOCTOR WHO's new showrunner, "I don't know if the BBC would ever consider an American to show-run #DoctorWho, but if so, I would be there in a heartbeat. (Well, technically two heartbeats, since two hearts....)"
Joe Hill, Stephen king's son, said he once submitted several ideas for DOCTOR WHO to the BBC and received an unpleasant reply which emphasized that only British writers had ever written for the series.
THE MIGHTY DUCKS---Disney+ renewed the revival series for Season 2.
THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT---HBO cancelled the movie based on the novel because Natalie Portman exited due to “unforeseen personal reasons.”
TRIVIA---Quentin Tarantino said Uma Thurman hated her yellow costume in KILL BILL: VOLUME 1, “Uma hated the yellow tracksuit. Hated it. Didn't get it. Thought she looked like a Popsicle -- a banana Popsicle. She was just not into it. She had no idea who Bruce Lee, practically. I finally had to show her GAME OF DEATH. She sorta kind of got it. Now, since then it's become this totally iconic thing. And she probably doesn't even remember it, But she was like, ‘You're trying to make me look like a clown!’”
BLACK WIDOW---sources claim Scarlett Johansson blames Walt Disney head Bob Chapek for the movie being released theatrically and on Disney+, which reduced ticket sales and lowered Johansson's share of ticket sales. Johannson had expressed concern to Disney in 2019, a year before the pandemic, and Disney assured her BLACK WIDOW would be released only in theaters. When Warner Bros. premiered its movies in theaters and streaming due to the pandemic, it renegotiated its contracts with the actors. Disney did not attempt to renegotiate Johansson's BLACK WIDOW contract.
Reportedly, Chapek's predeccessor, Bob Iger is "mortified" about Johansson's lawsuit. TheWrap quoted sources that the lawsuit has created a rift between Iger and Chapek, "It seems that Iger either intentionally allowed Chapek to shoot himself in the foot with Johansson’s team by failing to step in and negotiate an alternative to a lawsuit, or that he is so disconnected from his successor that he was not in the loop to step in as he usually would." A Disney representative denied reports of the rift.
Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is "angry and embarrassed” about Disney not settling the situation earlier which led to Johansson''s lawsuit.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS---Amazon announced Season 1 has finished filming in New Zealand and will premiere on September 2, 2022.
AMERICAN CRIME STORY: IMPEACHMENT---poster released for the FX series about the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky scandal.
BLUE BEETLE---Xolo Mariduena (COBRA KAI) is in talks to star in the HBO Max/Warner Bros./DC superhero movie.
DAN BROWN'S THE LOST SYMBOL---photo released from the Peacock tv series based on the Robert Langdon novel.
DOCTOR WHO---J. Michael Straczynski (BABYLON 5) replied to a fan about his interest in succeeding Chris Chibnall as DOCTOR WHO's new showrunner, "I don't know if the BBC would ever consider an American to show-run #DoctorWho, but if so, I would be there in a heartbeat. (Well, technically two heartbeats, since two hearts....)"
Joe Hill, Stephen king's son, said he once submitted several ideas for DOCTOR WHO to the BBC and received an unpleasant reply which emphasized that only British writers had ever written for the series.
THE MIGHTY DUCKS---Disney+ renewed the revival series for Season 2.
THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT---HBO cancelled the movie based on the novel because Natalie Portman exited due to “unforeseen personal reasons.”
TRIVIA---Quentin Tarantino said Uma Thurman hated her yellow costume in KILL BILL: VOLUME 1, “Uma hated the yellow tracksuit. Hated it. Didn't get it. Thought she looked like a Popsicle -- a banana Popsicle. She was just not into it. She had no idea who Bruce Lee, practically. I finally had to show her GAME OF DEATH. She sorta kind of got it. Now, since then it's become this totally iconic thing. And she probably doesn't even remember it, But she was like, ‘You're trying to make me look like a clown!’”
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I would think Emma Stone and Scarlett Johannson have a pretty good case against Disney. Makes a huge difference to box office if bring out on streaming on same day. A large family might pay for streaming but that is significantly less than what they would pay in the cinema.
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Do people still go out to movies? I read Johannson made $20M from the movie.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4
KATE---trailer released for the Netflix poisoned assassin movie starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gByVl0E_fI
CINDERELLA---trailer released for the Amazon Prime movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1NeHRuPpoM
DON'T BREATHE 2---Red Band trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCDLPlZAoeY
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER---photograph released of Christian Bale as villain Gorr the God Butcher.
DUNE---Jason Momoa commented on the Denis Villeneuve two-part movie, “It was a cool movie. You know what they need to do? They need to make the four-to-six hour version of the first half. It’s like, ‘Let’s watch the four-to-five-hour movie like a TV show; I can choose when I want to watch the whole thing.’ I want to see Denis’s whole vision. I don’t want it to be trimmed.”
Momoa also defended superhero movies after Martin Scorsese criticized them, "It’s like how people say that music is poppy and this music cool. But you know how hard it is just to get your music out there for people to hear? It’s all subjective. I try not to pick on anything. So, yeah, superhero movies are bubble gum, but they’re like Greek mythology: They have good and evil and heartbreaking moments. And, gosh, you’re taking away other art forms if you stop making them. You’re taking away visual effects, you’re taking away what you can do with makeup. I’m not someone who gets hired to play in a lot of cinema, but by being able to do a superhero movie, I can make a movie about something I really care about. I have a vision for the whole totality of Aquaman. There are environmental issues that I get to put into it. So while you’re going, ‘Oh yeah, it’s just this popcorn movie,’ I’m like, ‘Well, I get to open people’s eyes to things that are important to me.’"
RENFIELD---Nicholas Hoult will play the title role of Dracula's servant in the vampire movie. Chris McKay (THE TOMORROW WAR) is in negotiations to direct.
THREE-BODY PROBLEM---Eiza Gonzalez is in negotiations to appear in the Netflix series based on the sci fi novel trilogy about Earth making contact with aliens.
YOUR PLACE OR MINE---Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher will star in this Netflix romantic comedy movie about best friends who trade their houses for a week with big results.
TRIVIA---Michael Sheard is best known as Admiral Ozzel, who was telekinetically strangled by Darth Vader in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK which starred Harrison Ford. Sheard appeared with Ford in three other movies: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
Michael Sheard appeared in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE as German Sergeant Bauer, who is shot by Harrison Ford.
Sheard played the doomed Admiral Ozzel, who was telekinetically strangled by Darth Vader in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Sheard played the U-26 submarine commander (far left) in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
Sheard played Adolf Hitler in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
KATE---trailer released for the Netflix poisoned assassin movie starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gByVl0E_fI
CINDERELLA---trailer released for the Amazon Prime movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1NeHRuPpoM
DON'T BREATHE 2---Red Band trailer released for the sequel.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCDLPlZAoeY
THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER---photograph released of Christian Bale as villain Gorr the God Butcher.
DUNE---Jason Momoa commented on the Denis Villeneuve two-part movie, “It was a cool movie. You know what they need to do? They need to make the four-to-six hour version of the first half. It’s like, ‘Let’s watch the four-to-five-hour movie like a TV show; I can choose when I want to watch the whole thing.’ I want to see Denis’s whole vision. I don’t want it to be trimmed.”
Momoa also defended superhero movies after Martin Scorsese criticized them, "It’s like how people say that music is poppy and this music cool. But you know how hard it is just to get your music out there for people to hear? It’s all subjective. I try not to pick on anything. So, yeah, superhero movies are bubble gum, but they’re like Greek mythology: They have good and evil and heartbreaking moments. And, gosh, you’re taking away other art forms if you stop making them. You’re taking away visual effects, you’re taking away what you can do with makeup. I’m not someone who gets hired to play in a lot of cinema, but by being able to do a superhero movie, I can make a movie about something I really care about. I have a vision for the whole totality of Aquaman. There are environmental issues that I get to put into it. So while you’re going, ‘Oh yeah, it’s just this popcorn movie,’ I’m like, ‘Well, I get to open people’s eyes to things that are important to me.’"
RENFIELD---Nicholas Hoult will play the title role of Dracula's servant in the vampire movie. Chris McKay (THE TOMORROW WAR) is in negotiations to direct.
THREE-BODY PROBLEM---Eiza Gonzalez is in negotiations to appear in the Netflix series based on the sci fi novel trilogy about Earth making contact with aliens.
YOUR PLACE OR MINE---Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher will star in this Netflix romantic comedy movie about best friends who trade their houses for a week with big results.
TRIVIA---Michael Sheard is best known as Admiral Ozzel, who was telekinetically strangled by Darth Vader in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK which starred Harrison Ford. Sheard appeared with Ford in three other movies: FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
Michael Sheard appeared in FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE as German Sergeant Bauer, who is shot by Harrison Ford.
Sheard played the doomed Admiral Ozzel, who was telekinetically strangled by Darth Vader in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Sheard played the U-26 submarine commander (far left) in RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK.
Sheard played Adolf Hitler in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---teaser trailer released for the FX series about the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15UmitLVxw
YELLOWJACKETS---trailer released for the Showtime all-female survival/revenge series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj9KamJ72JU
STARFLEET ACADEMY---Alex Kurtzman confirmed he is developing a Paramount+ tv series which is, “built around the Starfleet Academy, which will be aimed at a younger audience.” He did not disclose if it is a live-action or animated series.
Also Kurtzman is developing the spy series STAR TREK: SECTION 31, and he added, “I think we’re just getting started. There’s just so much more to be had...I want to get much weirder with the franchise...pushing the boundaries much further than I think most people would want. I think we might get there. Marvel has actually proven that you can. But you have to build a certain foundation in order to get there and we’re still building our foundation.”
1883---Sam Elliott, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw will star in the Paramount+ prequel to YELLOWSTONE. The plot involves guide Shea Brennan (Elliott) leading James Dutton (McGraw) and his wife, Margaret (Hill) as they journey from Texas to Montana.
DOOGIE KAMEALOHA, M.D.---photo released of Peyton Elizabeth Lee starring in the Disney+ female reboot of DOOGIE HOWSER, M.D.
SHIBUMI---Warner Bros movie underway based on the assassin novel. Chad Stahelski is the producer and might be the director.
MARVEL STUDIOS---James Gunn commented on Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel Studios superhero movies while promoting his movie, THE IRISHMAN, “I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel — and then that is the only thing that would get him press for his movie. He’s creating his movie in the shadow of the Marvel films, and so he uses that to get attention for something he wasn’t getting as much attention as he wanted for it.”
STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH---Disney+ renewed the series for Season 2.
PHYSICAL---Apple TV= renewed the series for Season 2.
TUCA & BERTIE---Adult Swim renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---in the HBO miniseries THE PACIFIC, Academy Award-winner Rami Malek played Private/Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton. After World War II ended, Shelton returned to his native Louisiana where he became an air conditioning repairman and raised a family. His house later became the home of Derrick Todd Lee, "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer" who killed at least seven women. After being sentenced to death, Lee died of a heart attack.
In the HBO miniseries THE PACIFIC, Academy Award-winner Rami Malek played Private/Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton.
Shelton (right) and Private Eugene Sledge (left), whose book,WITH THE OLD BREED: AT PELELIU AND OKINAWA, was an inspiration for THE PACIFIC.
Shelton's house later became the home of Derrick Todd Lee, "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer" who killed at least seven women. After being sentenced to death, Lee died of a heart attack.
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---teaser trailer released for the FX series about the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15UmitLVxw
YELLOWJACKETS---trailer released for the Showtime all-female survival/revenge series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj9KamJ72JU
STARFLEET ACADEMY---Alex Kurtzman confirmed he is developing a Paramount+ tv series which is, “built around the Starfleet Academy, which will be aimed at a younger audience.” He did not disclose if it is a live-action or animated series.
Also Kurtzman is developing the spy series STAR TREK: SECTION 31, and he added, “I think we’re just getting started. There’s just so much more to be had...I want to get much weirder with the franchise...pushing the boundaries much further than I think most people would want. I think we might get there. Marvel has actually proven that you can. But you have to build a certain foundation in order to get there and we’re still building our foundation.”
1883---Sam Elliott, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw will star in the Paramount+ prequel to YELLOWSTONE. The plot involves guide Shea Brennan (Elliott) leading James Dutton (McGraw) and his wife, Margaret (Hill) as they journey from Texas to Montana.
DOOGIE KAMEALOHA, M.D.---photo released of Peyton Elizabeth Lee starring in the Disney+ female reboot of DOOGIE HOWSER, M.D.
SHIBUMI---Warner Bros movie underway based on the assassin novel. Chad Stahelski is the producer and might be the director.
MARVEL STUDIOS---James Gunn commented on Martin Scorsese's criticism of Marvel Studios superhero movies while promoting his movie, THE IRISHMAN, “I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel — and then that is the only thing that would get him press for his movie. He’s creating his movie in the shadow of the Marvel films, and so he uses that to get attention for something he wasn’t getting as much attention as he wanted for it.”
STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH---Disney+ renewed the series for Season 2.
PHYSICAL---Apple TV= renewed the series for Season 2.
TUCA & BERTIE---Adult Swim renewed the series for Season 3.
TRIVIA---in the HBO miniseries THE PACIFIC, Academy Award-winner Rami Malek played Private/Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton. After World War II ended, Shelton returned to his native Louisiana where he became an air conditioning repairman and raised a family. His house later became the home of Derrick Todd Lee, "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer" who killed at least seven women. After being sentenced to death, Lee died of a heart attack.
In the HBO miniseries THE PACIFIC, Academy Award-winner Rami Malek played Private/Corporal Merriell "Snafu" Shelton.
Shelton (right) and Private Eugene Sledge (left), whose book,WITH THE OLD BREED: AT PELELIU AND OKINAWA, was an inspiration for THE PACIFIC.
Shelton's house later became the home of Derrick Todd Lee, "The Baton Rouge Serial Killer" who killed at least seven women. After being sentenced to death, Lee died of a heart attack.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 6
CRY MACHO---trailer released for the Clint Eastwood movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGqUKFKksxQ
STRANGER THINGS---trailer released for Season 4.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5OVZtq8xM
COPSHOP---trailer released for the movie starring Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdLO-U2mDQ
Y: THE LAST MAN---trailer released for the FX sci fi series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEQ5Lj-cXM
THE WALKING DEAD---trailer released for Season 11.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXieAMD27Rg
THE RAVAGERS---James Gunn said he wants to develop a tv series based on The Ravagers, the interstellar crime group from the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, “I always thought The Ravagers would be a great show. Whether that was with Sly Stallone’s Ravagers or even more in-depth with just the pirates and what they were doing. I told Kevin Feige that when he first visited set when we were on the Ravagers ship for GUARDIANS 1, I said we should make a Ravagers show. He said if this movie’s a hit you can do whatever you want. Still no Ravagers show, so I don’t know what happened.”
CHRONICLE---producer John Davis commented on the reboot of the 2012 movie, “We’re working on CHRONICLE 2 right now, and I think it’s going to be great. We’re working on it at Fox (20th Century Studios). It’s going to give us a chance to tell the story in a different way. We’re going to tell it from the female point of view.
It will have been ten years since the event happened in Seattle, and a lot of it’s going to deal with fake news and real news and cover-ups. More interestingly, it’s the next generation getting these powers that are corruptive.
These are young women just finishing college, they are empowered, and this is their journey. I mean, what a new and interesting story you can tell there.”
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---Cobie Smulders will play Ann Coulter in the FX series based on the Bil Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal. Betty Gilpin withdrew due to a schedule problem.
OVERLOOK---HBO Max has shelved the JJ Abrams THE SHINING spinoff series. Netflix might pick it up instead.
TRIVIA---in Michael Mann's HEAT, British SAS commandos were brought in to advise on the ten-minute shootout scene. Val Kilmer's firing in different directions and reloading with no cuts was so convincing, the scene was used to train Special Forces commandos at Fort Bragg. Mann said, “We did everything for real. [The actors] got so good that the footage of Val Kilmer, firing in two directions and doing a reload without a cut, they used that at Fort Bragg for Special Forces training.”
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0nd-KJCLqY
CRY MACHO---trailer released for the Clint Eastwood movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGqUKFKksxQ
STRANGER THINGS---trailer released for Season 4.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5OVZtq8xM
COPSHOP---trailer released for the movie starring Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdLO-U2mDQ
Y: THE LAST MAN---trailer released for the FX sci fi series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EEQ5Lj-cXM
THE WALKING DEAD---trailer released for Season 11.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXieAMD27Rg
THE RAVAGERS---James Gunn said he wants to develop a tv series based on The Ravagers, the interstellar crime group from the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, “I always thought The Ravagers would be a great show. Whether that was with Sly Stallone’s Ravagers or even more in-depth with just the pirates and what they were doing. I told Kevin Feige that when he first visited set when we were on the Ravagers ship for GUARDIANS 1, I said we should make a Ravagers show. He said if this movie’s a hit you can do whatever you want. Still no Ravagers show, so I don’t know what happened.”
CHRONICLE---producer John Davis commented on the reboot of the 2012 movie, “We’re working on CHRONICLE 2 right now, and I think it’s going to be great. We’re working on it at Fox (20th Century Studios). It’s going to give us a chance to tell the story in a different way. We’re going to tell it from the female point of view.
It will have been ten years since the event happened in Seattle, and a lot of it’s going to deal with fake news and real news and cover-ups. More interestingly, it’s the next generation getting these powers that are corruptive.
These are young women just finishing college, they are empowered, and this is their journey. I mean, what a new and interesting story you can tell there.”
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---Cobie Smulders will play Ann Coulter in the FX series based on the Bil Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal. Betty Gilpin withdrew due to a schedule problem.
OVERLOOK---HBO Max has shelved the JJ Abrams THE SHINING spinoff series. Netflix might pick it up instead.
TRIVIA---in Michael Mann's HEAT, British SAS commandos were brought in to advise on the ten-minute shootout scene. Val Kilmer's firing in different directions and reloading with no cuts was so convincing, the scene was used to train Special Forces commandos at Fort Bragg. Mann said, “We did everything for real. [The actors] got so good that the footage of Val Kilmer, firing in two directions and doing a reload without a cut, they used that at Fort Bragg for Special Forces training.”
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0nd-KJCLqY
MONDAY, AUGUST 9
THE WITCHER: NIGHTMARE OF THE WOLF---trailer released for the Netflix animated series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J365hQpaWRw
MIDNIGHT MASS--trailer released for the Mike Flanagan/Netflix horror miniseries.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UV8vmWXlY
THE SUICIDE SQUAD---the movie had a disappointing three-day premiere of $26.5 million in over 4,000 theaters. The movie's cost was $185 million plus a $100 million promotion budget.
SUE MENGERS---Jennifer Lawrence will star in this untitled biomovie about talent agent Sue Mengers whose clients included Steve McQueen, Barbara Streisand, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Burt Reynolds, Sidney Lumet and Mike Nichols.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA---Dwayne Johnson commented on the status of the sequel to the John Carpenter movie that starred Kurt Russell, “It’s still an ambition of ours but unfortunately there are complications that come with a legacy property like that which has so much attached to it from over the years.
We have a really fun idea on what we’d want to do with it, especially since our goal was never to remake BIG TROUBLE but simply continue it. Similar to what we did with JUMANJI we would continue the story and make sure the original stands on it’s own since it means so much to us and fans all around the world.
So needless to say we are still working on making that happen but as with any great project the road is not easy but we are sticking to it! We’re going to figure out a way to continue the story of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.”
THE ORVILLE---Hulu's Jordan Helman commented on the status of Season 3 by saying its premiere has been, "...complicated on a variety of levels as it pertains to production.” He hinted at additional seasons, “[The] future of the show remains an open conversation and there have been no conversations otherwise. I believe the fans of the show that are coming to us from Fox will be deeply excited and satiated. I also think for new fans that maybe didn’t experience it, it will feel new to them.”
WEDNESDAY---Luiz Guzman will play Gomez Addams in the Netflix live-action comedy series based on the cartoon characters.
GUN HONEY---tv series underway based on the graphic novel.
REGINALD THE VAMPIRE---Jacob Bacalon will star in the Syfy tv series based on the vampire books.
PANIC---Amazon cancelled the series.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig picked FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE as their favorite James Bond movie.
THE WITCHER: NIGHTMARE OF THE WOLF---trailer released for the Netflix animated series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J365hQpaWRw
MIDNIGHT MASS--trailer released for the Mike Flanagan/Netflix horror miniseries.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89UV8vmWXlY
THE SUICIDE SQUAD---the movie had a disappointing three-day premiere of $26.5 million in over 4,000 theaters. The movie's cost was $185 million plus a $100 million promotion budget.
SUE MENGERS---Jennifer Lawrence will star in this untitled biomovie about talent agent Sue Mengers whose clients included Steve McQueen, Barbara Streisand, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway, Burt Reynolds, Sidney Lumet and Mike Nichols.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA---Dwayne Johnson commented on the status of the sequel to the John Carpenter movie that starred Kurt Russell, “It’s still an ambition of ours but unfortunately there are complications that come with a legacy property like that which has so much attached to it from over the years.
We have a really fun idea on what we’d want to do with it, especially since our goal was never to remake BIG TROUBLE but simply continue it. Similar to what we did with JUMANJI we would continue the story and make sure the original stands on it’s own since it means so much to us and fans all around the world.
So needless to say we are still working on making that happen but as with any great project the road is not easy but we are sticking to it! We’re going to figure out a way to continue the story of BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA.”
THE ORVILLE---Hulu's Jordan Helman commented on the status of Season 3 by saying its premiere has been, "...complicated on a variety of levels as it pertains to production.” He hinted at additional seasons, “[The] future of the show remains an open conversation and there have been no conversations otherwise. I believe the fans of the show that are coming to us from Fox will be deeply excited and satiated. I also think for new fans that maybe didn’t experience it, it will feel new to them.”
WEDNESDAY---Luiz Guzman will play Gomez Addams in the Netflix live-action comedy series based on the cartoon characters.
GUN HONEY---tv series underway based on the graphic novel.
REGINALD THE VAMPIRE---Jacob Bacalon will star in the Syfy tv series based on the vampire books.
PANIC---Amazon cancelled the series.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig picked FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE as their favorite James Bond movie.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10
WORTH---trailer released for the 9/11 terrorist attack movie starring Michael Keaton.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAemeB9CAw
DUNE---cast poster released for the remake movie.
NO TIME TO DIE---the MI6 HQ website said NO TIME TO DIE's total budget is $450 million plus a $450 million cut for theaters which means the sequel will need $900 million just to break even.
RAMBO---Quentin Tarantino talked about a possible remake of RAMBO "If I just wanted to make a good movie, that I knew would be good, I would take David Morrell's novel for First Blood and do the novel. Not the movie that was made out of First Blood. I would do the novel. And Kurt Russell would play the sheriff, and [Adam Driver] would play Rambo. Every time I read it, the dialogue is so fantastic in the David Morrell novel that you're reading it out loud. It would be so good. But now I want to do more than that. But if it was just about to make a good movie, that's out there."
WEDNESDAY---Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Morticia Addams in the Netflix tv series. Carolyn Jones played Morticia in the original tv series.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4---Clancy Brown joined the sequel cast in an undisclosed role.
BAD MONKEY---Vince Vaughn will star in this Apple TV+ tv series based on the Carl Hiaasen private detective novel.
TRIVIA---in the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER episode "Horror In The Heights", the Rakshasa, a flesh-eating Hindu monster, preys on Chicago. The episode was written by British writer Jimmy Sangster, who is best known for Hammer Films horror movies including the classics CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and DRACULA (1958).
In the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER episode "Horror In The Heights", the Rakshasa, a flesh-eating Hindu monster, preys on Chicago.
"Horror In The Heights" was written by British writer Jimmy Sangster, who is best known for Hammer Films horror movies including the classics CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and DRACULA (1958).
WORTH---trailer released for the 9/11 terrorist attack movie starring Michael Keaton.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOAemeB9CAw
DUNE---cast poster released for the remake movie.
NO TIME TO DIE---the MI6 HQ website said NO TIME TO DIE's total budget is $450 million plus a $450 million cut for theaters which means the sequel will need $900 million just to break even.
RAMBO---Quentin Tarantino talked about a possible remake of RAMBO "If I just wanted to make a good movie, that I knew would be good, I would take David Morrell's novel for First Blood and do the novel. Not the movie that was made out of First Blood. I would do the novel. And Kurt Russell would play the sheriff, and [Adam Driver] would play Rambo. Every time I read it, the dialogue is so fantastic in the David Morrell novel that you're reading it out loud. It would be so good. But now I want to do more than that. But if it was just about to make a good movie, that's out there."
WEDNESDAY---Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Morticia Addams in the Netflix tv series. Carolyn Jones played Morticia in the original tv series.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4---Clancy Brown joined the sequel cast in an undisclosed role.
BAD MONKEY---Vince Vaughn will star in this Apple TV+ tv series based on the Carl Hiaasen private detective novel.
TRIVIA---in the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER episode "Horror In The Heights", the Rakshasa, a flesh-eating Hindu monster, preys on Chicago. The episode was written by British writer Jimmy Sangster, who is best known for Hammer Films horror movies including the classics CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and DRACULA (1958).
In the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER episode "Horror In The Heights", the Rakshasa, a flesh-eating Hindu monster, preys on Chicago.
"Horror In The Heights" was written by British writer Jimmy Sangster, who is best known for Hammer Films horror movies including the classics CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) and DRACULA (1958).
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND---trailer released for the Nicolas Cage movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDBIKpbOY9M
STAR TREK---writer Mark L. Smith (THE REVENANT) commented on the now-cancelled STAR TREK movie he and Quentin Tarantino were working on, “They just called me and said, ‘Hey, are you up for it? Do you want to go? Quentin wants to hook up.’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ And that was the first day I met Quentin, in the room and he’s reading a scene that he wrote and it was this awesome cool gangster scene, and he’s acting it out and back and forth. I told him, I was so mad I didn’t record it on my phone. It would be so valuable. It was amazing.
Then just we started working. I would go hang out at his house one night and we would watch old gangster films. We were there for hours… We were just kicking back watching gangster films, laughing at the bad dialogue, but talking about how it would bleed into what we wanted to do
Kirk’s in it, we’ve got him. All the characters are there. It would be those guys. I guess you would look at it like all the episodes of the show didn’t really connect. So this would be almost its own episode. A very cool episode. There’s a little time travel stuff going on. There’s all this other… it’s really wild.”
The Tarantino movie resembles the plot of the original STAR TREK episode "A Piece Of The Action".
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON---John Lithgow has joined the cast of the Martin Scorsese movie that includes Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
HALLOWEEN---James Jude Courtney, who played Michael Myers in the 2018 movie, commented on a deleted scene, "There’s a scene that we shot for the ending of 2018 that we didn’t use. It was a big fight scene between Jamie and I. In that fight scene, and keep in mind, we’re doing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 takes of things sometimes. So the scene where I’m holding a blade down like this and I throw her around and she swings the rifle like a baseball bat and I was like 'Oh *****. This isn’t gonna be good.’ She hit it, the knife, and I was like ‘well that was a good shot.’ 30 takes and she never missed one. 30 takes. And she swung it like she was going for the fence."
WES ANDERSON---Margot Robbie has joined the cast of the untitled Wes Anderson movie cast that includes Bill Murray, Adrien Brody and Tom Hanks.
MORBIUS---director Daniel Espinosa accidentally mentioned that Tom Hardy has joined the cast, “When you look at the schedule and read names like Michael Keaton, Jared Leto, Tom Hardy, then it feels cool and very exciting.”
THE ORVILLE---Seth MacFarlane posted that Season 3 is finished and hopes for additional seasons, And that is a wrap on season 3 of The Orville! Thank you to our incredible cast and crew for all their tireless and brilliant work, and I sincerely hope this is not the last time we all go to space."
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2---Idris Elba will provide the voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the sequel.
THE WHITE LOTUS---HBO renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---the classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare At 20,00 Feet" had two actors who played tv spaceship captains. William Shatner played unbalanced airline passenger Bob Wilson, who claims a gremlin is on the airliner's wing. Shatner achieved stardom as Captain James T. Kirk on STAR TREK. Ed Kemmer played the airliner's flight engineer, who does not believe there is a gremlin on the wing. Kemmer played Commander Buzz Corry on SPACE PATROL (1951-1956).
The classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" starred William Shatner (left) and Ed Kemmer (center).
Shatner achieved stardom as Captain James T. Kirk on STAR TREK.
Kemmer played Commander Buzz Corry on SPACE PATROL (1951-1956).
PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND---trailer released for the Nicolas Cage movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDBIKpbOY9M
STAR TREK---writer Mark L. Smith (THE REVENANT) commented on the now-cancelled STAR TREK movie he and Quentin Tarantino were working on, “They just called me and said, ‘Hey, are you up for it? Do you want to go? Quentin wants to hook up.’ And I said, ‘Yeah.’ And that was the first day I met Quentin, in the room and he’s reading a scene that he wrote and it was this awesome cool gangster scene, and he’s acting it out and back and forth. I told him, I was so mad I didn’t record it on my phone. It would be so valuable. It was amazing.
Then just we started working. I would go hang out at his house one night and we would watch old gangster films. We were there for hours… We were just kicking back watching gangster films, laughing at the bad dialogue, but talking about how it would bleed into what we wanted to do
Kirk’s in it, we’ve got him. All the characters are there. It would be those guys. I guess you would look at it like all the episodes of the show didn’t really connect. So this would be almost its own episode. A very cool episode. There’s a little time travel stuff going on. There’s all this other… it’s really wild.”
The Tarantino movie resembles the plot of the original STAR TREK episode "A Piece Of The Action".
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON---John Lithgow has joined the cast of the Martin Scorsese movie that includes Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
HALLOWEEN---James Jude Courtney, who played Michael Myers in the 2018 movie, commented on a deleted scene, "There’s a scene that we shot for the ending of 2018 that we didn’t use. It was a big fight scene between Jamie and I. In that fight scene, and keep in mind, we’re doing 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 takes of things sometimes. So the scene where I’m holding a blade down like this and I throw her around and she swings the rifle like a baseball bat and I was like 'Oh *****. This isn’t gonna be good.’ She hit it, the knife, and I was like ‘well that was a good shot.’ 30 takes and she never missed one. 30 takes. And she swung it like she was going for the fence."
WES ANDERSON---Margot Robbie has joined the cast of the untitled Wes Anderson movie cast that includes Bill Murray, Adrien Brody and Tom Hanks.
MORBIUS---director Daniel Espinosa accidentally mentioned that Tom Hardy has joined the cast, “When you look at the schedule and read names like Michael Keaton, Jared Leto, Tom Hardy, then it feels cool and very exciting.”
THE ORVILLE---Seth MacFarlane posted that Season 3 is finished and hopes for additional seasons, And that is a wrap on season 3 of The Orville! Thank you to our incredible cast and crew for all their tireless and brilliant work, and I sincerely hope this is not the last time we all go to space."
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2---Idris Elba will provide the voice of Knuckles the Echidna in the sequel.
THE WHITE LOTUS---HBO renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---the classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare At 20,00 Feet" had two actors who played tv spaceship captains. William Shatner played unbalanced airline passenger Bob Wilson, who claims a gremlin is on the airliner's wing. Shatner achieved stardom as Captain James T. Kirk on STAR TREK. Ed Kemmer played the airliner's flight engineer, who does not believe there is a gremlin on the wing. Kemmer played Commander Buzz Corry on SPACE PATROL (1951-1956).
The classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" starred William Shatner (left) and Ed Kemmer (center).
Shatner achieved stardom as Captain James T. Kirk on STAR TREK.
Kemmer played Commander Buzz Corry on SPACE PATROL (1951-1956).
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12
NIGHT OF THE ANIMATED DEAD---trailer released for the animated zombie movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST31UGwzc4o
STAR WARS: AHSOKA---sources confirm Lucasfilm is looking for an actress to play Sabine Wren in the Disney+ live-action THE MANDALORIAN spinoff series starring Rosario Dawson. Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kenned said THE MANDALORIAN, STAR WARS: AHSOKA and RANGERS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC will lead to a "climactic story event."
STAR WARS---Taika Waititi commented on the status his upcoming STAR WARS, “It’s still in the ‘EXT. SPACE’ stage. But we’ve got a story. I’m really excited by it because it feels very me. I tend to go down that little sincerity alleyway in my films. I like to fool the viewer into thinking ‘ha it’s this’ and then them going, ‘**** it, you made me feel something!'”
THE FLASH---Michael Keaton commented on putting on the Batsuit for the first time in almost 30 years, “It was shockingly normal. It was weird. I was like, ‘Oh, oh yeah, that’s right.’ But then you also start to play the scenes and it’s a lot of memories. A lot of memories. A lot of interesting things like sense memories actually.”
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY---Queen member Brian May said a sequel is being considered, “We are looking at it. Yeah, we have been looking at ideas. It’s going to be hard to follow that one as none of us could have predicted how massive that was going to be. We put a lot of heart and soul into making it and no one could have predicted [its success] as it was bigger than GONE WITH THE WIND. But yes, we are thinking maybe it could happen, but it would have to be a great script. It’s going to take a while to figure that out.”
SPIDER-MAN---Tom Hardy said he is lobbying for a Spider-Man and Venom crossover movie, “I would be remiss if I wasn’t trying to steer any kind of connectivity. I wouldn’t be doing the job if I wasn’t awake and open to any opportunity or eventuality or be excited by that.
Obviously, that’s a large canyon to leap, to be bridged by one person alone, and it would take a much higher level of diplomacy and intelligence, sitting down and talking, to take on an arena such as that.
Should both sides be willing, and it be beneficial to both sides, I don’t see why it couldn’t be."
MARVEL STUDIOS---executive producer Brad Winderbaum said Marvel is working on "multiple" animated tv projects for Disney+.
HELLRAISER---director David Bruckner commented on the reboot movie, "All I’ll say is that we are aiming to be as true as we can to the original material. [Clive Barker’s original story] 'The Hellbound Heart' is also a primary source of inspiration, as well as the original film. But then it is something of a small reimagining and we are currently working on it."
HOME SWEET HOME ALONE---the Disney+ tv series based on HOME ALONE will premiere on November 12.
TRIVIA---Steven Spielberg sent his script for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND to NASA hoping for an endorsement, "I had wanted co-operation from them, but when they read the script they got very angry and felt it was a film that would be dangerous. I think they mainly wrote the letter because JAWS convinced to many people around the world that there are sharks in toilets and bathtubs, not just in the oceans and rivers. They were afraid the same kind of epidemic would happen with UFOs."
NIGHT OF THE ANIMATED DEAD---trailer released for the animated zombie movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST31UGwzc4o
STAR WARS: AHSOKA---sources confirm Lucasfilm is looking for an actress to play Sabine Wren in the Disney+ live-action THE MANDALORIAN spinoff series starring Rosario Dawson. Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kenned said THE MANDALORIAN, STAR WARS: AHSOKA and RANGERS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC will lead to a "climactic story event."
STAR WARS---Taika Waititi commented on the status his upcoming STAR WARS, “It’s still in the ‘EXT. SPACE’ stage. But we’ve got a story. I’m really excited by it because it feels very me. I tend to go down that little sincerity alleyway in my films. I like to fool the viewer into thinking ‘ha it’s this’ and then them going, ‘**** it, you made me feel something!'”
THE FLASH---Michael Keaton commented on putting on the Batsuit for the first time in almost 30 years, “It was shockingly normal. It was weird. I was like, ‘Oh, oh yeah, that’s right.’ But then you also start to play the scenes and it’s a lot of memories. A lot of memories. A lot of interesting things like sense memories actually.”
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY---Queen member Brian May said a sequel is being considered, “We are looking at it. Yeah, we have been looking at ideas. It’s going to be hard to follow that one as none of us could have predicted how massive that was going to be. We put a lot of heart and soul into making it and no one could have predicted [its success] as it was bigger than GONE WITH THE WIND. But yes, we are thinking maybe it could happen, but it would have to be a great script. It’s going to take a while to figure that out.”
SPIDER-MAN---Tom Hardy said he is lobbying for a Spider-Man and Venom crossover movie, “I would be remiss if I wasn’t trying to steer any kind of connectivity. I wouldn’t be doing the job if I wasn’t awake and open to any opportunity or eventuality or be excited by that.
Obviously, that’s a large canyon to leap, to be bridged by one person alone, and it would take a much higher level of diplomacy and intelligence, sitting down and talking, to take on an arena such as that.
Should both sides be willing, and it be beneficial to both sides, I don’t see why it couldn’t be."
MARVEL STUDIOS---executive producer Brad Winderbaum said Marvel is working on "multiple" animated tv projects for Disney+.
HELLRAISER---director David Bruckner commented on the reboot movie, "All I’ll say is that we are aiming to be as true as we can to the original material. [Clive Barker’s original story] 'The Hellbound Heart' is also a primary source of inspiration, as well as the original film. But then it is something of a small reimagining and we are currently working on it."
HOME SWEET HOME ALONE---the Disney+ tv series based on HOME ALONE will premiere on November 12.
TRIVIA---Steven Spielberg sent his script for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND to NASA hoping for an endorsement, "I had wanted co-operation from them, but when they read the script they got very angry and felt it was a film that would be dangerous. I think they mainly wrote the letter because JAWS convinced to many people around the world that there are sharks in toilets and bathtubs, not just in the oceans and rivers. They were afraid the same kind of epidemic would happen with UFOs."
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---trailer released for the FX series about the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Also, spinoffs include AMERICAN SPORTS STORY about NFL star Aaron Hernandez, AMERICAN LOVE STORY about the romance of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette and STUDIO 54: AMERICAN CRIME STORY about the famous Manhattan disco and its owners.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtipQ3EsGWo
FINCH---photo released of Tom Hanks starring in the Apple TV+ sci fi movie about a post-apocalyptic robot engineer who builds a robot to take care of his beloved dog when the engineer dies.
WHITE KNUCKLE---Gina Carano, in her first post-THE MANDALORIAN role, will star in this movie based on the Eric Red novel WHITE KNUCKLE in which a woman survivor of the White Knuckle truck driver/serial killer teams up with a truck driver to hunt the killer down. Red's movie scripts include NEAR DARK and THE HITCHER.
THE WONDER---photo released of Florence Pugh starring in the Netflix movie based on the novel which is described as,"Florence Pugh stars in THE WONDER — a psychological thriller set in 1862 about an English nurse who is brought to a tiny Irish village to observe a child who is said to have survived without food for months. Is she a saint or are there more ominous motives at work?"
BULLET TRAIN---Sandra Bullock will play Brad Pitt's handler, Maria Beetle, in the movie based on the Japanese novel. Bullock replaced Lady Gaga, who had schedule problems with HOUSE OF GUCCI.
PINKERTON---Emily Blunt will star in this untitled Amazon biomovie about Kate Warne, the first female detective for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the 1850s.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE---Australian actor Sam Reid will play Lestat in the AMC vampire series based on the novel.
DARK CITY---Alex Proyas said he is developing a tv series based on his 1998 sci fi movie.
CAT'S CRADLE---FX canceled plans to develop the Noah Hawley tv series based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel.
TRIVIA---David Naughton is best known for starring in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Naughton's first acting role was playing Dr. Stole, an ape doctor in the 1974 PLANET OF THE APES tv series episode "The Surgeon" which starred his older brother, James Naughton.
David Naughton is best known for starring in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.
Naughton's first acting role was playing Dr. Stole, an ape doctor in the 1974 PLANET OF THE APES tv series episode "The Surgeon" which starred his older brother, James Naughton (bottom photo, right).
IMPEACHMENT: AMERICAN CRIME STORY---trailer released for the FX series about the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
Also, spinoffs include AMERICAN SPORTS STORY about NFL star Aaron Hernandez, AMERICAN LOVE STORY about the romance of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette and STUDIO 54: AMERICAN CRIME STORY about the famous Manhattan disco and its owners.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtipQ3EsGWo
FINCH---photo released of Tom Hanks starring in the Apple TV+ sci fi movie about a post-apocalyptic robot engineer who builds a robot to take care of his beloved dog when the engineer dies.
WHITE KNUCKLE---Gina Carano, in her first post-THE MANDALORIAN role, will star in this movie based on the Eric Red novel WHITE KNUCKLE in which a woman survivor of the White Knuckle truck driver/serial killer teams up with a truck driver to hunt the killer down. Red's movie scripts include NEAR DARK and THE HITCHER.
THE WONDER---photo released of Florence Pugh starring in the Netflix movie based on the novel which is described as,"Florence Pugh stars in THE WONDER — a psychological thriller set in 1862 about an English nurse who is brought to a tiny Irish village to observe a child who is said to have survived without food for months. Is she a saint or are there more ominous motives at work?"
BULLET TRAIN---Sandra Bullock will play Brad Pitt's handler, Maria Beetle, in the movie based on the Japanese novel. Bullock replaced Lady Gaga, who had schedule problems with HOUSE OF GUCCI.
PINKERTON---Emily Blunt will star in this untitled Amazon biomovie about Kate Warne, the first female detective for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the 1850s.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE---Australian actor Sam Reid will play Lestat in the AMC vampire series based on the novel.
DARK CITY---Alex Proyas said he is developing a tv series based on his 1998 sci fi movie.
CAT'S CRADLE---FX canceled plans to develop the Noah Hawley tv series based on the Kurt Vonnegut novel.
TRIVIA---David Naughton is best known for starring in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Naughton's first acting role was playing Dr. Stole, an ape doctor in the 1974 PLANET OF THE APES tv series episode "The Surgeon" which starred his older brother, James Naughton.
David Naughton is best known for starring in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.
Naughton's first acting role was playing Dr. Stole, an ape doctor in the 1974 PLANET OF THE APES tv series episode "The Surgeon" which starred his older brother, James Naughton (bottom photo, right).
MONDAY, AUGUST 16
MONSTER IN THE SHADOWS---trailer released for the new Peacock anthology series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiX5n3CEKyo
DUNE: PART TWO---Denis Villeneuve said the main character for the second movie will be Chani (Zendaya), “I can’t wait to shoot the second part of Dune to get [Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya] back together. Knowing that in the next chapter, Zendaya will be the protagonist of the story.”
ALIEN---FX head John Landgraf commented on the upcoming Noah Hawley tv series, "I think Noah’s very conscious of the fact that there’s a cinematic universe. [There’s] some inventiveness and originality that is uniquely Noah… [but] I think you’ll also see that the show will feel like a part of the cinematic universe you’re familiar with in terms of ALIEN.”
He added that the tv series is, “a beast… a really big, world-building exercise.”
GREEN LANTERN---director Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE) said he is partly to blame for the failure of the 2011 DC Comics superhero movie, “But you know what? The film did not work, really. That’s the point, and I’m partly responsible for that. I shouldn’t have done it. Because with something like Bond – I love Bond, and I watched every Bond film before I ever directed it. Superhero movies are not my cup of tea, and for that reason, I shouldn’t have done it. But directors always have to carry the can for the failures. What do they say? Success has many fathers; failure has one. And that’s me.”
THE BOYS---showrunner Eric Kripke commented on Season 3, “Season 3 delves a lot more into the history of how we got here through this character of Soldier Boy. We were able to dig into both the history of the country and also really look at toxic masculinity, and masculine roles, and what a s—show that’s overall caused. This whole f—ing, independent Marlboro man thing.”
ZERO FAIL---tv series underway based on the book about failings of the Secret Service beginning with John F. Kennedy's assassination.
MacGRUBER---Billy Zane will play villain Brigadier General Enos Queeth.
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: AMERICAN HORROR STORIES---FX renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
While filming locations in Japan for YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, director Lewis Gilbert, production designer Ken Adam and cinematographer Freddie Young were scheduled to fly on BOAC Flight 911 from Tokyo to Hong Kong. Two hours before Flight 911 was to depart, the movie crew accepted an unscheduled invitation to a ninja demonstration and missed the flight.
Twenty-five minutes after Flight 911 took off, it disintegrated in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji, killing all 124 people on board.
Ironically, when Flight 911 took off from Tokyo International Airport, it taxied past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 which crashed the night before due to poor visibility with only eight survivors out of 72 people on board.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, director Lewis Gilbert, production designer Ken Adam and cinematographer Freddie Young attended an unscheduled ninja demonstration and missed BOAC Flight 911 from Tokyo to Hong Kong.
Twenty-five minutes after Flight 911 took off, it disintegrated in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji, killing all 124 people on board.
Ironically, when Flight 911 took off, it taxied past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 which crashed the night before.
MONSTER IN THE SHADOWS---trailer released for the new Peacock anthology series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiX5n3CEKyo
DUNE: PART TWO---Denis Villeneuve said the main character for the second movie will be Chani (Zendaya), “I can’t wait to shoot the second part of Dune to get [Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya] back together. Knowing that in the next chapter, Zendaya will be the protagonist of the story.”
ALIEN---FX head John Landgraf commented on the upcoming Noah Hawley tv series, "I think Noah’s very conscious of the fact that there’s a cinematic universe. [There’s] some inventiveness and originality that is uniquely Noah… [but] I think you’ll also see that the show will feel like a part of the cinematic universe you’re familiar with in terms of ALIEN.”
He added that the tv series is, “a beast… a really big, world-building exercise.”
GREEN LANTERN---director Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE) said he is partly to blame for the failure of the 2011 DC Comics superhero movie, “But you know what? The film did not work, really. That’s the point, and I’m partly responsible for that. I shouldn’t have done it. Because with something like Bond – I love Bond, and I watched every Bond film before I ever directed it. Superhero movies are not my cup of tea, and for that reason, I shouldn’t have done it. But directors always have to carry the can for the failures. What do they say? Success has many fathers; failure has one. And that’s me.”
THE BOYS---showrunner Eric Kripke commented on Season 3, “Season 3 delves a lot more into the history of how we got here through this character of Soldier Boy. We were able to dig into both the history of the country and also really look at toxic masculinity, and masculine roles, and what a s—show that’s overall caused. This whole f—ing, independent Marlboro man thing.”
ZERO FAIL---tv series underway based on the book about failings of the Secret Service beginning with John F. Kennedy's assassination.
MacGRUBER---Billy Zane will play villain Brigadier General Enos Queeth.
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: AMERICAN HORROR STORIES---FX renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
While filming locations in Japan for YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, director Lewis Gilbert, production designer Ken Adam and cinematographer Freddie Young were scheduled to fly on BOAC Flight 911 from Tokyo to Hong Kong. Two hours before Flight 911 was to depart, the movie crew accepted an unscheduled invitation to a ninja demonstration and missed the flight.
Twenty-five minutes after Flight 911 took off, it disintegrated in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji, killing all 124 people on board.
Ironically, when Flight 911 took off from Tokyo International Airport, it taxied past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 which crashed the night before due to poor visibility with only eight survivors out of 72 people on board.
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, director Lewis Gilbert, production designer Ken Adam and cinematographer Freddie Young attended an unscheduled ninja demonstration and missed BOAC Flight 911 from Tokyo to Hong Kong.
Twenty-five minutes after Flight 911 took off, it disintegrated in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji, killing all 124 people on board.
Ironically, when Flight 911 took off, it taxied past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 which crashed the night before.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18
THE SURVIVALIST---trailer released for the movie starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFb8y86SG0
DUNE: PART TWO---Denis Villeneuve said he is writing the PART TWO script and added, “We have been hearing in the past few decades that it’s not possible to adapt this book and that it’s an impossible task. I think that in the back of the mind of the studio, it’s still the same. So the first thing was to prove that there was a beautiful, popular movie that can exist, and I think that I proved that – everybody at Warner Bros and Legendary, they are 100 percent behind the project. They feel that it would need a really bad outcome at the box office to not have a DUNE: PART TWO, because they love the movie. They are proud of the movie, so they want the movie to move forward. And they still did half of it. So, you know, I’m very optimistic.”
MURDER MYSTERY 2---Adam Sandler and Jenifer Aniston are returning for the Netflix sequel. Jeremy Garelick is the director.
JURASSIC WORLD---Colin Trevorrow posted a tweet from director Phil Lord, who has been lobbying for another hybrid dinosaur, Brontosaurus Rex, be added to the franchise.
FRASIER---Kelsey Grammer commented on the status of the revival tv series, “We’re negotiating with everybody. We want everybody back, that’s my dream.” Grammer said the new creative team has come up with “alternative ideas and scenarios”.
THE GREAT CHINESE ART HEIST---Jon M. Chu will direct the movie about European armies that ransacked art treasures from Chinese palaces and museums in the 1840s.
THE FLASH---Michael Keaton commented on why is returning as Batman, "Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that motherf*cker.’ And so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’"
ME TIME---Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg will star in this Netflix comedy movie about a stay-at-home father who reunites with his ex-best friend which leads to a wild weekend.
LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES---AMC is in the early stages of developing a tv series based on the Anne Rice novel.
TRIVIA---the cult classic movie SOMEWHERE IN TIME was based on the novel BID TIME RETURN by Richard Matheson. Matheson wrote the screenplay and has a cameo as a Grand Hotel guest who is surprised after playwright/time traveler Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) cuts himself shaving with a straight razor.
THE SURVIVALIST---trailer released for the movie starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFb8y86SG0
DUNE: PART TWO---Denis Villeneuve said he is writing the PART TWO script and added, “We have been hearing in the past few decades that it’s not possible to adapt this book and that it’s an impossible task. I think that in the back of the mind of the studio, it’s still the same. So the first thing was to prove that there was a beautiful, popular movie that can exist, and I think that I proved that – everybody at Warner Bros and Legendary, they are 100 percent behind the project. They feel that it would need a really bad outcome at the box office to not have a DUNE: PART TWO, because they love the movie. They are proud of the movie, so they want the movie to move forward. And they still did half of it. So, you know, I’m very optimistic.”
MURDER MYSTERY 2---Adam Sandler and Jenifer Aniston are returning for the Netflix sequel. Jeremy Garelick is the director.
JURASSIC WORLD---Colin Trevorrow posted a tweet from director Phil Lord, who has been lobbying for another hybrid dinosaur, Brontosaurus Rex, be added to the franchise.
FRASIER---Kelsey Grammer commented on the status of the revival tv series, “We’re negotiating with everybody. We want everybody back, that’s my dream.” Grammer said the new creative team has come up with “alternative ideas and scenarios”.
THE GREAT CHINESE ART HEIST---Jon M. Chu will direct the movie about European armies that ransacked art treasures from Chinese palaces and museums in the 1840s.
THE FLASH---Michael Keaton commented on why is returning as Batman, "Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that motherf*cker.’ And so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’"
ME TIME---Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg will star in this Netflix comedy movie about a stay-at-home father who reunites with his ex-best friend which leads to a wild weekend.
LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES---AMC is in the early stages of developing a tv series based on the Anne Rice novel.
TRIVIA---the cult classic movie SOMEWHERE IN TIME was based on the novel BID TIME RETURN by Richard Matheson. Matheson wrote the screenplay and has a cameo as a Grand Hotel guest who is surprised after playwright/time traveler Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) cuts himself shaving with a straight razor.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 19
ETERNALS---trailer released for the Marvel Studios movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_me3xsvDgk
FOUNDATION---trailer released for the Apple TV+ series based on the Isaac Asimov novels.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QYV5GTz7c\
HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE---trailer released for the Netflix animated series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXApnj-ztIE
AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM---James Wan said THE LOST KINGDOM was inspired by the 1965 Mario Bava horror movie PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES which also inspired ALIEN, “Well, the first movie took a lot of people by surprise, right? And that’s partially because they were not familiar with the comic book, which deals in this very lurid, strange world. People were taken aback that I didn’t throw all that stuff away and make a dark, heavy film. But I didn’t feel that would have been right for it. So with the second film, I feel it will be easier for people to accept where we go because I’ve already laid the foundation.”
THE WHEEL OF TIME---photo released from the Amazon sci fi series based on the novels.
WOOL---Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins will star in the Apple TV+ sci fi series based on the novel about a community that lives in a huge underground silo.
JAMES BOND---producer Barbara Broccoli commented on a future James Bond tv series on Amazon after Amazon bought MGM's library which included the 007 franchise, "We make films. We make films for the cinema. That’s what we do."
MANIFEST---Netflix is in negotiations to acquire the series for Season 4.
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER---Jack O'Connell and Emma Corrin will star in this Netflix movie based on the DH Lawrence novel.
FBOY ISLAND---HBO max renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---in NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT, Anna Nicole Smith played notorious bomber Rocco Dillon's girlfriend, Tanya Peters. At the movie's end, villain Pahpshmir is sitting on his jet's commode reading PLAYBOY, the February, 1994 issue which features Smith on the cover.
ETERNALS---trailer released for the Marvel Studios movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_me3xsvDgk
FOUNDATION---trailer released for the Apple TV+ series based on the Isaac Asimov novels.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4QYV5GTz7c\
HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE---trailer released for the Netflix animated series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXApnj-ztIE
AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM---James Wan said THE LOST KINGDOM was inspired by the 1965 Mario Bava horror movie PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES which also inspired ALIEN, “Well, the first movie took a lot of people by surprise, right? And that’s partially because they were not familiar with the comic book, which deals in this very lurid, strange world. People were taken aback that I didn’t throw all that stuff away and make a dark, heavy film. But I didn’t feel that would have been right for it. So with the second film, I feel it will be easier for people to accept where we go because I’ve already laid the foundation.”
THE WHEEL OF TIME---photo released from the Amazon sci fi series based on the novels.
WOOL---Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Robbins will star in the Apple TV+ sci fi series based on the novel about a community that lives in a huge underground silo.
JAMES BOND---producer Barbara Broccoli commented on a future James Bond tv series on Amazon after Amazon bought MGM's library which included the 007 franchise, "We make films. We make films for the cinema. That’s what we do."
MANIFEST---Netflix is in negotiations to acquire the series for Season 4.
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER---Jack O'Connell and Emma Corrin will star in this Netflix movie based on the DH Lawrence novel.
FBOY ISLAND---HBO max renewed the series for Season 2.
TRIVIA---in NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT, Anna Nicole Smith played notorious bomber Rocco Dillon's girlfriend, Tanya Peters. At the movie's end, villain Pahpshmir is sitting on his jet's commode reading PLAYBOY, the February, 1994 issue which features Smith on the cover.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20
STAR TREK---Roddenberry Entertainment is developing a Gene Roddenberry biomovie. Adam Mazer is the writer.
DUNE---Denis Villeneuve commented on Jason Momoa wanting an extended cut of the remake movie to be released, “Jason is an exuberant being, larger than life in everything he does. He loves the movie, which he has seen four times so far. And every time he calls me to tell me how happy he is. It is true that if Joe [Joe Walker, the editor] and I had let go, we could have done a version of several hours because I filmed a lot. But the final version is really the one that ends up on the screen. I have never done a director's cut of any of my films."
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER---Dominique Thorne will play Ironheart in the sequel.
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM---Netflix series underway based on the novel trilogy about an alien invasion of Earth. Derek Tsang is the director. GAME OF THRONES creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss are the showrunners.
SECRET WARS---former Marvel Comics Editor-Chief Jim Shooter said Marvel Studios is apparently working on a SECRET WARS movie. Shooter said. “This one clown called me from Marvel. He wasn’t an editor, but some executive of property management which was a little odd. He asked me if I wanted to write a novelization of SECRET WARS.” Shooter rejected the offer which led to a phone call from Marvel Studios Vice President of Operations & Procurement David Bogart, who said Marvel wanted to buy the rights to SECRET WARS. Shooter asked, “This means you’re making a movie, right?” Bogart replied, “I’m not allowed to tell you that." Shooter then said, “Well, I think you just did.”
JEOPARDY---JEOPARDY executive producer Mike Richards stepped down as host nine days after getting the position due to sexist comments he made in 2013 and 2014 podcasts surfaced. After the announcement, guest host LeVar Burton tweeted, “Happy Friday, y’all". Burton was a fan favorite to get the host position.
STRANGER THINGS---David Harbour and Winona Ryder are getting $350,000-$400,00 per episode.
PUNKY BREWSTER---Peacock cancelled the revival series.
SQUAD---Lionsgate Television is developing a tv series based on the high school lesbian werewolf comic book.
TRIVIA---William Friedkin (THE EXORCIST, THE FRENCH CONNECTION) directed the "Nightcrawlers" episode of the 1985 revival of THE TWILIGHT ZONE in which a Vietnam War deserter is pursued by the ghosts of his comrades.
STAR TREK---Roddenberry Entertainment is developing a Gene Roddenberry biomovie. Adam Mazer is the writer.
DUNE---Denis Villeneuve commented on Jason Momoa wanting an extended cut of the remake movie to be released, “Jason is an exuberant being, larger than life in everything he does. He loves the movie, which he has seen four times so far. And every time he calls me to tell me how happy he is. It is true that if Joe [Joe Walker, the editor] and I had let go, we could have done a version of several hours because I filmed a lot. But the final version is really the one that ends up on the screen. I have never done a director's cut of any of my films."
BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER---Dominique Thorne will play Ironheart in the sequel.
THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM---Netflix series underway based on the novel trilogy about an alien invasion of Earth. Derek Tsang is the director. GAME OF THRONES creators David Benioff and Dan Weiss are the showrunners.
SECRET WARS---former Marvel Comics Editor-Chief Jim Shooter said Marvel Studios is apparently working on a SECRET WARS movie. Shooter said. “This one clown called me from Marvel. He wasn’t an editor, but some executive of property management which was a little odd. He asked me if I wanted to write a novelization of SECRET WARS.” Shooter rejected the offer which led to a phone call from Marvel Studios Vice President of Operations & Procurement David Bogart, who said Marvel wanted to buy the rights to SECRET WARS. Shooter asked, “This means you’re making a movie, right?” Bogart replied, “I’m not allowed to tell you that." Shooter then said, “Well, I think you just did.”
JEOPARDY---JEOPARDY executive producer Mike Richards stepped down as host nine days after getting the position due to sexist comments he made in 2013 and 2014 podcasts surfaced. After the announcement, guest host LeVar Burton tweeted, “Happy Friday, y’all". Burton was a fan favorite to get the host position.
STRANGER THINGS---David Harbour and Winona Ryder are getting $350,000-$400,00 per episode.
PUNKY BREWSTER---Peacock cancelled the revival series.
SQUAD---Lionsgate Television is developing a tv series based on the high school lesbian werewolf comic book.
TRIVIA---William Friedkin (THE EXORCIST, THE FRENCH CONNECTION) directed the "Nightcrawlers" episode of the 1985 revival of THE TWILIGHT ZONE in which a Vietnam War deserter is pursued by the ghosts of his comrades.
MONDAY, AUGUST 23
DUNE 3---Denis Villeneuve said there might be trilogy third movie planned, “There is DUNE’s second book, THE MESSIAH OF DUNE which could make an extraordinary film. I always saw that there could be a trilogy; after that, we’ll see. It’s years of work; I can’t think of going further than that.”
ALIEN 5---Neill Blomkamp half-joked that Ridley Scott canceled Blomkamp's ALIEN 5 because his CHAPPIE sci fi movie bombed, “It’s possible that Ridley watched CHAPPIE and he was like, this guy can’t do Alien so let’s just go ahead and move on."
Blomkamp also said, “My assumption is that it’s completely dead. It was a case of both projects were moving forward at Fox simultaneously and one of them was picked. Fox just clearly doesn’t want it. I haven’t had anything to do with that for years.”
Blomkamp added, “I also felt bad for Sigourney [Weaver] because she was really into what I had brought forward. I felt like [for] audiences who loved Aliens, there was an opportunity to do one more film with Sigourney in a way that may have satiated what people were looking for and what I think I was looking for. What doesn’t make sense is that I feel like it’s what the audience wanted so it’s strange because Fox would never really turn down money.”
BACK TO THE FUTURE---Michael J. Fox posted a photo of his reunion with Christopher Lloyd for the 36th anniversary of the classic movie.
COWBOY BEBOP---photo released from the Netflix live-action series based on the anime.
BLACK CANARY---Jurnee Smollett is returning as Black Canary for the HBO Max movie based on the DC comics superhero.
MOST DANGEROUS GAME---the Roku Channel renewed the series for Season 2.
MAGIC: THE GATHERING---the Russo brothers and co-writers Henry Gilroy and Jose Molina left the Netflix animated series.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Henry Cavill auditioned for the James Bond role in the remake of CASINO ROYALE, but he lost out to Daniel Craig. Cavill was considered too young for the role at age 21, but also because director Martin Campbell thought Cavill was overweight, "It was his tough love way of saying, 'Look, mate, you're in a Bond screen test. Next time you come to a screen test, really focus hard on making sure you lean up if it's for something like Bond.' And I wasn't by any means chubby, but I was probably overweight for taking my shirt off on camera."
DUNE 3---Denis Villeneuve said there might be trilogy third movie planned, “There is DUNE’s second book, THE MESSIAH OF DUNE which could make an extraordinary film. I always saw that there could be a trilogy; after that, we’ll see. It’s years of work; I can’t think of going further than that.”
ALIEN 5---Neill Blomkamp half-joked that Ridley Scott canceled Blomkamp's ALIEN 5 because his CHAPPIE sci fi movie bombed, “It’s possible that Ridley watched CHAPPIE and he was like, this guy can’t do Alien so let’s just go ahead and move on."
Blomkamp also said, “My assumption is that it’s completely dead. It was a case of both projects were moving forward at Fox simultaneously and one of them was picked. Fox just clearly doesn’t want it. I haven’t had anything to do with that for years.”
Blomkamp added, “I also felt bad for Sigourney [Weaver] because she was really into what I had brought forward. I felt like [for] audiences who loved Aliens, there was an opportunity to do one more film with Sigourney in a way that may have satiated what people were looking for and what I think I was looking for. What doesn’t make sense is that I feel like it’s what the audience wanted so it’s strange because Fox would never really turn down money.”
BACK TO THE FUTURE---Michael J. Fox posted a photo of his reunion with Christopher Lloyd for the 36th anniversary of the classic movie.
COWBOY BEBOP---photo released from the Netflix live-action series based on the anime.
BLACK CANARY---Jurnee Smollett is returning as Black Canary for the HBO Max movie based on the DC comics superhero.
MOST DANGEROUS GAME---the Roku Channel renewed the series for Season 2.
MAGIC: THE GATHERING---the Russo brothers and co-writers Henry Gilroy and Jose Molina left the Netflix animated series.
TRIVIA---more James Bond movie trivia.
Henry Cavill auditioned for the James Bond role in the remake of CASINO ROYALE, but he lost out to Daniel Craig. Cavill was considered too young for the role at age 21, but also because director Martin Campbell thought Cavill was overweight, "It was his tough love way of saying, 'Look, mate, you're in a Bond screen test. Next time you come to a screen test, really focus hard on making sure you lean up if it's for something like Bond.' And I wasn't by any means chubby, but I was probably overweight for taking my shirt off on camera."
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
STAR TREK: PRODIGY---main title sequence released for the Paramount+ animated tv series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9Zv8D70hA
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN---trailer released for the Paramount+ tv series starring Jeremy Renner, Diane Wiest and Kyle Chandler.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP1htMIeID8
MEGALOPOLIS---THE GODFATHER team of Francis Ford Coppola and James Caan will reunite for Coppola's epic movie. Oscar Issac, Jon Voight, Cate Blanchett and Forest Whitaker are in talks to co-star with Caan. Other cast candidates include Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange and Zendaya.
Coppola said, “The concept of the film is a Roman epic, in the traditional Cecile B. DeMille or BEN-HUR way, but told as a modern counterpart focusing on America. It’s based on The Catiline Conspiracy, which comes to us from ancient Rome. This was a famous duel between a patrician, Catiline, and that part will be played by Oscar Isaac, and the famous Cicero, who will be Forest Whitaker. He is now the beleaguered mayor of New York, during a financial crisis, close to the one that Mayor Dinkins had. This story takes place in a new Rome, a Roman epic sent in modern times. The time set is not a specific year in modern New York, it’s an impression of modern New York, which I call New Rome.”
THE EXPENDABLES 4---the fourth movie in the franchise is underway starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Megan Fox, Randy Couture, Tony Jaa and 50 Cent Jackson.
PEACEMAKER---James Gunn released the poster of HBO Max THE SUICIDE SQUAD spinoff series starring John Cena.
ALIEN 5---Neill Blomkamp commented on if he is interested in resurrecting his cancelled sequel, "It was a case of both projects [Ridley Scott’s prequel and Blomkamp’s sequel] were moving forward at Fox simultaneously, and one of them was picked. Sigourney [Weaver] was unbelievably supportive and amazing. I have nothing but the best things to say about Sigourney. I’m such a fan of hers on every level. She was always into the project, but Fox just clearly doesn’t want it. I haven’t had anything to do with that for years. I wonder if it’s possible to do an entire loop, where you’re really into it up until the point it gets shut down, then you lose interest and years go by and you loop all the way back around to being really into it again. Maybe that’s hypothetically possible.”
DOWNTON ABBEY---a British tabloid claims a major character will be killed off in the movie based on the tv series. A source said, "Those who have seen the scenes said they are so emotional. They will really leave fans in floods. It's heartbreak at Highclere Castle and there won't be a dry eye in cinemas."
THE BEE KEEPER---Jason Statham will star in this thriller movie centering on beekeeping.
CUCKOOO---John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella will star in this Tilman Singer horror movie. No plot details were released.
TRIVIA---character actor William Schallert appeared in two giant mutant ant movies: THEM! (James Whitmore, James Arness) and Joe Dante's MATINEE (John Goodman, Cathy Moriarity).
In THEM!, Schallert played the ambulance attendant and in MATINEE, he played doomed dentist Dr. Grabow.
William Schallert played the ambulance attendant in THEM!
Schallert played doomed dentist Dr. Grabow in MATINEE.
STAR TREK: PRODIGY---main title sequence released for the Paramount+ animated tv series.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9Zv8D70hA
MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN---trailer released for the Paramount+ tv series starring Jeremy Renner, Diane Wiest and Kyle Chandler.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP1htMIeID8
MEGALOPOLIS---THE GODFATHER team of Francis Ford Coppola and James Caan will reunite for Coppola's epic movie. Oscar Issac, Jon Voight, Cate Blanchett and Forest Whitaker are in talks to co-star with Caan. Other cast candidates include Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange and Zendaya.
Coppola said, “The concept of the film is a Roman epic, in the traditional Cecile B. DeMille or BEN-HUR way, but told as a modern counterpart focusing on America. It’s based on The Catiline Conspiracy, which comes to us from ancient Rome. This was a famous duel between a patrician, Catiline, and that part will be played by Oscar Isaac, and the famous Cicero, who will be Forest Whitaker. He is now the beleaguered mayor of New York, during a financial crisis, close to the one that Mayor Dinkins had. This story takes place in a new Rome, a Roman epic sent in modern times. The time set is not a specific year in modern New York, it’s an impression of modern New York, which I call New Rome.”
THE EXPENDABLES 4---the fourth movie in the franchise is underway starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Megan Fox, Randy Couture, Tony Jaa and 50 Cent Jackson.
PEACEMAKER---James Gunn released the poster of HBO Max THE SUICIDE SQUAD spinoff series starring John Cena.
ALIEN 5---Neill Blomkamp commented on if he is interested in resurrecting his cancelled sequel, "It was a case of both projects [Ridley Scott’s prequel and Blomkamp’s sequel] were moving forward at Fox simultaneously, and one of them was picked. Sigourney [Weaver] was unbelievably supportive and amazing. I have nothing but the best things to say about Sigourney. I’m such a fan of hers on every level. She was always into the project, but Fox just clearly doesn’t want it. I haven’t had anything to do with that for years. I wonder if it’s possible to do an entire loop, where you’re really into it up until the point it gets shut down, then you lose interest and years go by and you loop all the way back around to being really into it again. Maybe that’s hypothetically possible.”
DOWNTON ABBEY---a British tabloid claims a major character will be killed off in the movie based on the tv series. A source said, "Those who have seen the scenes said they are so emotional. They will really leave fans in floods. It's heartbreak at Highclere Castle and there won't be a dry eye in cinemas."
THE BEE KEEPER---Jason Statham will star in this thriller movie centering on beekeeping.
CUCKOOO---John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella will star in this Tilman Singer horror movie. No plot details were released.
TRIVIA---character actor William Schallert appeared in two giant mutant ant movies: THEM! (James Whitmore, James Arness) and Joe Dante's MATINEE (John Goodman, Cathy Moriarity).
In THEM!, Schallert played the ambulance attendant and in MATINEE, he played doomed dentist Dr. Grabow.
William Schallert played the ambulance attendant in THEM!
Schallert played doomed dentist Dr. Grabow in MATINEE.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2
MOONFALL---trailer released for the Roland Emmerich sci fi movie starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbsmbr4HFM
RED NOTICE---trailer released for the Netflix heist movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6l3mM7AWew
MY SON---trailer released for the Peacock kidnapping movie starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDXnNwbP2I
THE WHEEL OF TIME---trailer released for the Amazon tv series based on the fantasy novels.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES---Andrew Lincoln, F. Murray Abraham, Peter Weller, Ben Barnes, Crispin Glover and Luke Roberts will star in the Guillermo del Toro/Netflix horror anthology series.
BIG SHOTS---Disney+ renewed the series for Season 2.
DICKINSON---Apple TV+ announced Season 3 will be the last season.
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY---Kasi Lemmons will direct the Whitney Houston biomovie starring Naomie Ackie.
TRIVIA---character actress Kathleen Freeman appeared in two comedy cop movies based on a cop tv series: DRAGNET and THE NAKED 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT.
DRAGNET (Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks) was based on the tv series DRAGNET 1967 (Jack Webb, Harry Morgan). THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley) was based on POLICE SQUAD! (Leslie Nielsen, Alan North).
Kathleen Freeman played apartment complex manager Enid Borden in DRAGNET (Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks) which was based on the tv series DRAGNET 1967 (Jack Webb, Harry Morgan). Ironically, Freeman appeared in the DRAGNET 1967 episode "The Gun" as Mrs. Sunshine Pound.
Freeman played Muriel Dillon in THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley) which was based on the tv series POLICE SQUAD! (Leslie Nielsen, Alan North).
MOONFALL---trailer released for the Roland Emmerich sci fi movie starring Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbsmbr4HFM
RED NOTICE---trailer released for the Netflix heist movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6l3mM7AWew
MY SON---trailer released for the Peacock kidnapping movie starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRDXnNwbP2I
THE WHEEL OF TIME---trailer released for the Amazon tv series based on the fantasy novels.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fus4Xb_TLg
CABINET OF CURIOSITIES---Andrew Lincoln, F. Murray Abraham, Peter Weller, Ben Barnes, Crispin Glover and Luke Roberts will star in the Guillermo del Toro/Netflix horror anthology series.
BIG SHOTS---Disney+ renewed the series for Season 2.
DICKINSON---Apple TV+ announced Season 3 will be the last season.
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY---Kasi Lemmons will direct the Whitney Houston biomovie starring Naomie Ackie.
TRIVIA---character actress Kathleen Freeman appeared in two comedy cop movies based on a cop tv series: DRAGNET and THE NAKED 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT.
DRAGNET (Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks) was based on the tv series DRAGNET 1967 (Jack Webb, Harry Morgan). THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley) was based on POLICE SQUAD! (Leslie Nielsen, Alan North).
Kathleen Freeman played apartment complex manager Enid Borden in DRAGNET (Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks) which was based on the tv series DRAGNET 1967 (Jack Webb, Harry Morgan). Ironically, Freeman appeared in the DRAGNET 1967 episode "The Gun" as Mrs. Sunshine Pound.
Freeman played Muriel Dillon in THE NAKED GUN 33 1/3: THE FINAL INSULT (Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley) which was based on the tv series POLICE SQUAD! (Leslie Nielsen, Alan North).