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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9

THE 'BURBS---trailer released for the Peacock mini-series based on the 1989 movie that starred Tom Hanks and Bruce Dern.

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YOUNGBLOOD---trailer released for the remake of the 1986 hockey movie that starred Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze.

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BLADE---movie insider Jeff Sneider says a rumor claims Marvel Studios has cancelled the long-gestating BLADE reboot movie starring Mahershala Ali and replaced it with MIDNIGHT SONS, “BLADE is dead. It’s a rumor. I’m hearing BLADE is dead and that it is a MIDNIGHT SONS movie. He will not be introduced in a solo movie, he’ll be introduced in MIDNIGHT SONS.”
Sneider added, “I think it’s just gotten to the point where, ‘Yeah, I don’t think you’re gonna get your own movie,’ we can’t have a sixty-year-old Mahershala Ali fronting new comic book movies. So, I think it’s gonna be MIDNIGHT SONS.“

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE---Mark Hatton (star/co-writer/director), Mark Sloan (star/co-writer), Alec Bladwin, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo and Tara Reid star in the latest NATIONAL LAMPOON movie in which an independent producer and a has-been actor team up to save their movie after someone stole the movie's production money.

WAR MACHINE---Netflix sci fi movie stars Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Jai Courtney and Esai Morales. The synopsis says, “In the final 24 Hours of the world’s toughest selection process, a team of Army Rangers encounter a threat beyond their imagination.“ The release date is March 6.

SWEET VENGEANCE---Brian De Palma will start filming the true crime movie he discussed in 2018 after an absence of almost seven years, “...inspired by two true stories of murders. For 30 or 40 years I have seen a number of true stories of crimes presented on television, as in the program 48 HOURS. I’m interested in how they tell the story of the crime, so I’ll do it the way they do it on television, based on two real cases.“

TANGLED---Kathryn Hahn (AGATHA ALL ALONG) is in talks to play villain Mother Gothel in the live-action remake of the 2010 Disney animated movie.

BLACK MIRROR---Netflix renewed the series for Season 8. Reportedly, Netflix has cancelled TERMINATOR ZERO and LEVIATHAN.

TRIVIA---soccer star Neymar, the world's second highest-paid soccer player, posted photos of his new replica of the Batmobile Tumbler from THE DARK KNIGHT with the caption, "Dreams can come true". Neymar paid $1.5 million for the working, but not street legal, replica that took about 50 specialists three years to complete. Neymar, a big Batman fan, posted photos of the Tumbler with his Dassault Falcon 900LX jet ($50 million) and his Airbus HI45 helicopter ($14 million).

 

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Some people just collect more expensive toys than TS.

 

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MONDAY, JANUARY 12

LEE CRONIN'S THE MUMMY---trailer released for the horror movie.

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THE BLUFF---trailer released for the Amazon Prime pirate movie starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Karl Urban.

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CRIME 101---trailer released for the heist movie starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM---Elijah Wood commented on Ian McKellen saying THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM will see a reunion of Gandalf and Frodo, “I can neither confirm nor deny. Listen, a wizard is to be trusted. Aside from any of that, I’m not really allowed to confirm. I’m really excited about the film… It really is a creative ‘getting the band back together.’"...Philippa [Boyens] I think, is co-writing it and producing it… that core original group [is] getting back together”
Also, a source commented on the search for the actor to replace Viggo Mortensen as Aragon because Mortensen is 67 years old, “The conversations I had over the weekend were with real people-not just anonymous names on the internet. Based on those conversations, auditions for Aragorn are taking place this week in London. Aragorn is being recast, with auditions happening both in London and New Zealand.
I’ve been told by people close to casting that Ben Barnes and Sebastian Stan are considered too old for the vision of Aragorn. The film reportedly takes place in the 20 years prior to THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING acting as a bridge between THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.”

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO---Toho released a poster announcing the sequel to the Academy Award-winning GODZILLA MINUS ONE will premiere in the US on November 6.

STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY---the spinoff tv series has a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 83% compared to STAR TREK: DISCOVERY's 82%. It has a Metacritic score of 65/100.

SPIDER-WOMAN---a source claims Sony has cancelled the Olivia Wilde Spider-Woman movie after its KRAVEN THE HUNTER bombed.

MCU---Marvel Studios is reportedly interested in getting Joe Keery (STRANGER THINGS) for future MCU projects.

EMILY HENRY---Netflix is developing two movies based on Emily Henry novels, HAPPY PLACE and FUNNY STORY.

TRIVIA---in his biography AMERICAN REBEL: THE LIFE OF CLINT EASTWOOD, author Marc Eliot wrote that Clint Eastwood had accepted the role of Two-Face on the 1960s hit tv series BATMAN, but the series was cancelled before filming began. Pop culture historian Martin Grams wrote, "Two-Face would have almost become a certainty [to appear] and consulting the production paperwork, it appears Clint Eastwood was slated for the role!"
In THE DARK KNIGHT, Aaron Eckhart played Two-Face, and, ironically, Eastwood directed Eckhart in the airliner disaster movie SULLY, where Eckart played US Airways Flight 1549 First officer Jeffrey Skiles.

In the 1960s tv series BATMAN, Clint Eastwood was going to play Two-Face, but the tv series was cancelled before filming began.

In THE DARK KNIGHT, Aaron Eckhart played Two-Face, and, ironically, Eastwood directed Eckhart in the airliner disaster movie SULLY, where Eckhart played US Airways Flight 1549 First officer Jeffrey Skiles.

 

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13

EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT---trailer released for the Elvis Presley movie from Baz Luhrmnan.

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MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS---trailer released for Season 2.

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MISDIRECTION---trailer released for the heist movie starring Frank Grillo and Olga Kurylenko.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS---Peter Jackson commented on fans wanting the "Mithril Cut---the extended, extended cut" to be released for all the THE LORD OF THE RING movies, “Are there great scenes that we never used? The answer is no. There are bits and pieces, I guess. But if you did an extended-extended cut, or whatever it will get called, it would be disappointing. It would be the extended cut with a few extra seconds of something here and there; it wouldn’t be worthwhile doing.”
Jackson hinted at a possible new documentary, “The footage contains alternative takes. It contains bloopers. It contains a bit more of a sense of the mechanics of making the films. But to this day, I haven’t persuaded [the studio], because obviously it’s a big undertaking.”

THE MUMMY 4---Brendan Fraser commented on the new sequel, “My lips are sealed! I’m hopeful to have good news soon because I know how popular the films were. People say, ‘I grew up watching that movie, and now I’ve got kids…’ Let’s all keep our fingers crossed and light a candle.”

THE TANK---the German World War II movie about a German Tiger I tank and its crew on a secret mission behind enemy lines is Amazon Prime's Number One movie globally.

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY---comic book writer Chris Claremont said Famke Janssen is returning as Jean Grey, “The thing I find most wonderful about it is they’re bringing back… the original cast, including Famke.”

HIGHEST-GROSSING ACTOR---Zoe Saldana has replaced Scrlett Johansson as the highest-grossing actor of all time with movies she appeared in have grossed $16.8 billion as compared to Johansson's movies which have grossed $16.4 billion. Saldana's co-starring in the AVATAR movies is the biggest factor in her surpassing Johansson.

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT---NBC is pulling the Season 27 episode "Corrosive" in which Timothy Busfield is a guest star after an arrest warrant was filed for Busfield, who is accused of sexual abusing a pair of 11-year-old twin boys while directing an episode of the tv series THE CLEANING LADY in 2024.

MAMMA MIA! 3---Stellan Skarsgard commented on Meryl Streep returning for the second sequel after her character died in the first sequel, “Everybody can be brought back in the movies. In the movies, it’s fantastic!”

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO---England's Sky has started a new tv series based on the 2005 novel.

TRIVIA---in the STAR TREK episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?", the starship Enterprise is surveying the planet Pollux IV, when it is grabbed by a giant green hand. Capt. Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, Chekov and Lt. Carolyn Palamas beam down to the planet's surface where they encounter a powerful being who claims to be the Greek god Apollo. The giant green hand was really STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry's hand.

 

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14

VANISHED---trailer released for the MGM+ thriller miniseries starring Kaley Cuoco.

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THE BLUFF---trailer released for the Amazon Prime pirate movie starring Priyanka Chopra and Karl Urban.

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THIS IS NOT A TEST---trailer released for the zombie movie.

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THE LINCOLN LAWYER---trailer released for Season 4.

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BEST PANCAKES IN THE COUNTRY---Nicolas Cage, Justin Long and Shelley Hennig star in the action movie set in a small-town diner where rogue federal agents, a con man and a waitress are involved in a deadly standoff.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE---the sequel has a 93% Rotten Tomatoes critics score based on 85 reviews which is the best of the franchise: 28 DAYS LATER--87%, 28 WEEKS LATER--73%, 28 YEARS LATER--89%.

THE ROCKFORD FILES---NBC pilot underway for a reboot of the private investigator tv series that starred James Garner. The synopsis says, “Newly paroled after doing time for a crime he didn’t commit, James Rockford returns to his life as a private investigator using his charm and wit to solve cases around Los Angeles. It doesn’t take long for his quest for legitimacy to land him squarely in the crosshairs of both local police and organized crime.”

GAME OF THRONES---Emilia Clarke commented on if she might return to the fantasy franchise, “You’re highly unlikely to see me get on a dragon, or even in the same frame as a dragon, ever again.”

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING---Jennifer Lawrence replied when asked when she will reunite with THE HUNGER GAMES director Francis Lawrence, “Maybe we already have”. She also commented on rumors she has cameo in SUNRISE ON THE REAPING, “Oh yeah, it is out on the internet, isn’t it?”.

TRIVIA---Carl Weathers is best known for playing Apollo Creed in the ROCKY movies, Col. Al Dillon in PREDATOR and Greef Karga in THE MANDALORIAN, but Weathers' first role was in Clint Eastwood's MAGNUM FORCE where he played a protestor as San Francisco Mafia boss Carmine Ricca is acquitted of mass murder and leaves the courthouse.

Carl Weathers is best known for playing Apollo Creed in the ROCKY movies, Col. Al Dillon in PREDATOR and Greef Karga in THE MANDALORIAN.

Weathers' first role was in Clint Eastwood's MAGNUM FORCE where he played a protestor as San Francisco Mafia boss Carmine Ricca is acquitted of mass murder and leaves the courthouse.

 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15

THE BRIDE!---trailer released for the horror movie starring Christian Bale.

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CORPORATE RETREAT---trailer released for the horror movie starring Alan Ruck.

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HOW TO GET TO HEAVEN FROM BELFAST---trailer released for the Netflix comedy series.

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ROSWELL---Scott Cooper (CRAZY HEART) is the writer/director of the untitled 20th Century sci fi movie about the 1947 incident in which the US Air Force supposedly recovered a crashed UFO and its alien occupants near Roswell, New Mexico.

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS---photo released of Martin Freeman playing Superintendent Battle in the Netflix miniseries based on the Agatha Christie novel THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY. Helena Bonham Carter also stars.

TOMB RAIDER---photo released of Sophie Turner playing Lara Croft in the Amazon Prime tv series based on the video game.

WILD THINGS---photo released of Jude Law and Andrew Garfield starring in the Apple TV miniseries about the Las Vegas magician act of Siegfried & Roy.

GOD OF WAR---Ryan Hurst (SONS OF ANARCHY) will play Kratos in the Amazon Prime live-action tv series based on the video game.

TRIVIA---the 1938 comic book ACTION COMICS NO. 1, which featured the first appearance of Superman and sold for ten cents, recently sold for $15 million at auction. The comic book was originally bought by Nicolas Cage in 1996 for $150,000. It was stolen in 2000 and recovered in 2011 with Cage then selling it for $2.2 million.

 

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16

ALL YOU NEED IS KILL---trailer released for the Japanese animated sci fi movie.

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TWISTED---trailer released for the horror movie starring Djimon Hounsou and Neal McDonough.

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STAR WARS---Kathleen Kennedy, who has officially retired as head of Lucasfilm, commented on the status of a number of STAR WARS movies whose fates will be determined by her successors, Dave Filoni and Lywnwen Brennan, "I’ve got to tread a bit carefully here. Jim Mangold and Beau Willimon wrote an incredible script, but it is definitely breaking the mold and it’s on hold. Taika [Waititi] has turned in a script that I think is hilarious and great. It’s not just my decision, especially when I’ve got a foot out the door. Donald Glover has turned in a script. And as you have read, Steve Soderbergh and Adam Driver turned in a script written by Scott Burns. It was just great. Anything’s a possibility if somebody’s willing to take a risk."
She added, "We’ve talked about this new trilogy and then the things that you’ve mentioned. Mangold’s is really on the back burner as is Soderbergh’s. I think the ones by Taika and Donald are still somewhat alive. That’s going to really be up to the new team to figure out. Dave, I know that Dave and Lynwen are very much on board with what Simon’s doing, and that would be a new trilogy. In the timeline of things, that takes you well into 2030 plus. So that’s really what’s up next.”
She did not comment on Patty Jenkins' ROGUE SQUADRON or Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's movie.
Kennedy also commented on Rian Johnson and THE LAST STARFIGHTER, "Once he made the Netflix deal and went off to start doing the KNIVES OUT films, that has occupied a huge amount of his time. That’s the other thing that happens here. After Shawn [Levy] and I started talking about STAR WARS, STRANGER THINGS kicks in and he was completely consumed for a while by that. That’s what happened with Rian. And then I do believe he got spooked by the online negativity. I think Rian made one of the best STAR WARS movies. He’s a brilliant filmmaker and he got spooked. This is the rough part. When people come into this space, I have every filmmaker and actors say to me, ‘What’s going to happen?’ They’re a little scared.”

THE MADISON---Paramount+ released photos of Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer starring in the new YELLOWSTONE spinoff series which premiers on March 14.

TESSERACT---Glen Powell is in negotiations to star in the sci fi thriller movie from Sam Esmail (MR. ROBOT). No [plot details were released.

GAME OF THRONES---George RR Martin said his novels will be different than the tv series, “[The book’s ending is] going to be significantly different. Some characters who are alive in my book are going to be dead in the show, and vice versa,"
Martin said about Tyrion and Sansa, “I was going to kill more people. Not the ones they killed [in the show]. They made it more of a happy ending. I don’t see a happy ending for Tyrion. His whole arc has been tragic from the first. I was going to have Sansa die, but she’s been so appealing in the show, maybe I’ll let her live.”
He also commented on the two novels, THE WINDS OF WINTER and A DREAM OF SPRING, “I have to write more DUNK AND EGG. There’s supposed to be another FIRE AND BLOOD book, too. I do think if I can just get some of these other things off my back, I could finish THE WINDS OF WINTER pretty soon. It’s been made clear to me that WINDS is the priority, but… I don’t know. Sometimes I’m not in the mood for that."

FEAR NOT---Anne Hathaway will star in the Paramount+ miniseries based on the true story of a serial killer who forms a bond with his latest kidnap victim.

APPLE---Apple TV announced a new, untitled tv series starring Dakota Fanning whose synopsis says, "Fanning will star as an undercover Treasury agent in a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate with world-changing political and criminal tentacles, who becomes conflicted between her mission and a belief that her principal target, the heir apparent to all that corrupt power, is at his core a good man and worthy of her love."

BLUE BEETLE---co-star Belissa Escobedo commented on a sequel to the 2023 superhero movie, “Oh, absolutely. That’s totally in the works and in talks. So hopefully that’s happening soon. I’m gonna see Xolo [Mariduena] soon. We’re going to do a Comic-Con together.” Director Angel Manuel Soto said, “Yeah, there have been conversations, and that’s all I can say. I mean, that’s fair. Conversations have been happening. And there’s definitely… James [Gunn] has been very vocal about keeping Blue Beetle in the DCU. So good things are coming for Jaime Reyes and his family.”

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON---Cate Blanchett will return as the Viking warrior Valka for the sequel.

TRIVIA---in the original 1963 THE PINK PANTHER, Inspector Jacques Clouseau was to be played by Peter Ustinov, and his wife, Simone, was to be played by Ava Gardner. However, when The Mirisch Company refused to meet Gardner's excessive demands for a personal staff, she left the movie. Ustinov, was reportedly unhappy with Gardner's exit, so he did not show up on the first day of filming and was fired and later sued by Mirisch for breach of contract (Ustinov may also have left because he did not want return for any sequels). Peter Sellers was picked to replace Ustinov after director Blake Edwards met him while vacationing in Rome. Edwards then hired Capucine to replace Gardner.
After leaving THE PINK PANTHER, Ustinov starred in the comedy heist movie TOPKAPI and won an Academy Award.

In THE PINK PANTHER, Peter Ustinov was to play Inspector Jacques Clouseau, and Ava Gardner was supposed to play his wife, Simone.

After Ustinov and Gardner left the movie, Peter Sellers replaced Ustinov, and Capucine replaced Gardner.

 

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MONDAY, JANUARY 19

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS---trailer released for the GAME OF THRONES spinoff series.

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THE MADISON---teaser trailer released for the Paramount+ YELLOWSTONE spinoff series starring Kurt Russell and Michelle Pfeiffer.

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INDIANA JONES---former Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy commented on the future of the INDIANA JONES franchise, "I don’t think Indy will ever be done, but I don’t think anybody is interested right now in exploring it. These are timeless movies, and Indy will never be done...You never know. But we are all still here, Steven [Spielberg] and Frank [Marshall] and I, and Harrison [Ford] and George [Lucas]. So we get to say whether there’s going to be any more, or not.”

STAR WARS---former Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy commented on Rian Johnson and STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI, “I do believe he got spooked by the online negativity. I think Rian made one of the best STAR WARS movies. He’s a brilliant filmmaker and he got spooked." Johnson posted his reply, "Lol zero spooked, sorry."
Kennedy also commented on SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, the first major STAR WARS movie to be a box office bomb, “I brought Larry Kasdan in on, and we were so excited about that idea. And then when you’re into something and you realize fundamentally, conceptually, you cannot replace Han Solo, at least right now. As wonderful as Alden Ehrenreich was, and he really was good, and is a wonderful actor, we put him in an impossible situation. And once you’re in it and once you’re committed, you’ve got to carry on. I think I have a bit of regret about that, but not about the moviemaking and filmmaking. I don’t have regrets about that. I just think that conceptually, we did it too soon.”

MAN OF TOMORROW---James Gunn said Batman and Wonder Woman are not in the movie which features a different female character.

LANDMAN---Billy Bob Thornton commented on rumors, “AI-generated crap. There’s an AI report that Demi and I are a couple now, and there’s one that I’m leaving the show. They have nothing to do with reality.”

SPEEDY GONZALEZ---Warner Bros. Animation is developing an untitled Speedy Gonzalez movie with director Jorge R. Gutierrez (TE BOOK OF LIFE).

DON'T GO IN THAT HOUSE---Snoop Dog will star in the Eli Roth horror movie that is described as the "ultimate haunted house movie".

MAMMA MIA! 3---Paul Feig will direct the sequel.

SHE WAS HERE---documentary about child actress Heather O'Rourke, who co-starred in POLTERGEIST, and the "Poltergeist Curse" and O'Rourke's death.

TRIVIA---character actors Val Avery and Mario Gallo appeared in two movies. In John Cassavetes' movie TOO LATE BLUES that starred Bobby Darin as a jazz singer, Val Avery played Milton Frielobe and Mario Gallo played the recording engineer. In THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN which starred Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern as San Francisco homicide detectives investigating nine people gunned down in a bus, Avery played SFPD Inspector John Pappas and Gallo played police snitch Bobby Mow.

In John Cassavetes' movie TOO LATE BLUES that starred Bobby Darin as a jazz singer, Val Avery played Milton Frielobe and Mario Gallo played the recording engineer.

In THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN which starred Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern as San Francisco homicide detectives investigating nine people gunned down in a bus, Avery played SFPD Inspector John Pappas and Gallo played police snitch Bobby Mow.

 

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 20

MAN OF TOMORROW---Nexus Point News reports that the unidentified female character mentioned by James Gunn is Maxima, who will be the movie's secondary villain along with Brainiac (Lars Eidinger). It also reports, “There are also reports of another hero being cast for the film who could potentially join Superman and Lex Luthor to fight off Brainiac’s invasion. Although unconfirmed, it’s possible that the Justice Gang can return to join the heroes along with characters like Supergirl, Peacemaker, and Lobo.”

STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY---White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted his thoughts on STARFLEET ACADEMY along with a film clip of Holly Hunter wearing eyeglasses, "Tragic. But it’s not too late for @paramountplus to save the franchise. Step 1: Reconcile with @WilliamShatner and give him total creative control."
William Shatner posted his reply,


I am so on the same page with you @StephenM!
The fact that they have not cure Hyperopia by the 32rd Century is an abysmal oversight on the writers!
Also @paramountplus needs to up the budget because I’m sure that a well oiled organization like Starfleet in the distant future could afford more than one pair of glasses for at least this hyperopic bridge crew.
Do they pass the glasses around while piloting the ship‽
Shame on the line producers!
That is what you meant, right‽
I am ready to assume command of the series!
Call me! !

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS---George RR Martin commented on the scene of Ser Duncan the Tall relieving himself by squatting behind a tree, “Yeah, that was a bit of a surprise. Not to say that my characters don’t take s***s, but I normally don’t write about them at any length...When I saw the rough cut, I wrote, ‘What is this? Where did this come from? I don’t know if we really need the s***,’”...But (showrunner Ira Parker) liked it for whatever reason.”

THE MUMMY---co-star John Hannah commented on if he will reunite with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for the new sequel, "Not officially. I mean, I've heard and seen the rumors same as everybody else, and that would be fun to do. It would be fun to hook up with everybody again."
He added he has talked to Fraser about the sequel, "[Fraser] said that what they were looking to do was bring the original cast back together again. Certainly, in terms of Brendan and Rachel], bringing them back together, and Rachel was up for it, by all accounts. She was willing to do that, you know, having gone off and created her own path, and been very successful as a producer, as an actor, Oscar-nominated, you know."

SHARK---Netflix bought the untitled Sony Pictures shark horror movie starring Phoebe Dynevor and Djimon Hounsou.

MARTY, LIFE IS SHORT--Lawrence Kasdan will direct the Netflix documentary about Martin Short.

NICK SABAN---ESPN six-part docuseries about college football Nick Saban and his six national titles at the University of Alabama.

EVERYTHING ON THE MENU WITH BRAUN STROWMAN---USA Network renewed the series for Season 2.

TRIVIA---Tony Curtis starred in two 1960s movies featuring a European car race. In Blake Edwards' THE GREAT RACE, Curtis played Leslie "The Great Leslie" Gallant, who is a contestant in a 1908 car race from New York to Paris, with his nemesis, the evil Prof. Fate played by Jack Lemmon. In Ken Annakin's THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY JALOPIES (the sequel to THOSE MAGNIFICENT YOUNG MEN IN THEIR FLYING MACHINES), Curtis played Chester Schofield, an American contestant in a 1920s car race in Europe to reach Monte Carlo. Director Ken Annakin described Tony Curtis as being, "brittle, self-centered and a bully".

Tony Curtis starred as "The Great Leslie' in THE GREAT RACE with Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood.

Curtis starred as Chester Schofield with Susan Hampshire in THOSE DARING YOUNG MEN IN THEIR JAUNTY JALOPIES.

 

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21

THE NIGHT AGENT---trailer released for Season 3.

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THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD---movie insider Jeff Sneider claims the Batman movie is being written by Christina Hodson (THE FLASH, BIRDS OF PREY), “I don’t know if her DC track record explains why Gunn wanted to keep this hire under wraps, but he has intimated that he hoped to shield the then-unnamed writer of The Brave and the Bold from the public pressure that comes with writing a Batman movie."
Sneider said the movie might be in “significant creative changes” and Hodson could be writing another DCU project, “But as of now, to the best of my knowledge, it’s Hodson whom Gunn has been referring to in his cryptic statements in recent months. Again, Hodson could be replaced tomorrow for all I know, but as of tonight, I have no reason to think it’s anyone else.”

THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS---Zack Snyder posted a photo of his pottery studio in which a copy of Frank Miller's graphic novel THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS is visible in the left side of the photo. This led to fans thinking Snyder is teasing an upcoming movie based on the graphic novel with one fan posting, “I love the easter egg on the left. I hope it’s a teaser for something what true DC fans were waiting for for almost a decade <3 #RestoreTheSnyderVerse.” Other fans posted, “Great pottery! And great Batman book as well,”, “Interesting placement of Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns.” and "Yes, I am convinced boss is going to direct the Dark Knight,” one comment read. Another claimed, “Looks like Ben’s finally gonna get to make his Batman film.”

LUCASFILM---a STARS WARS mystery tv series developed by director Rick Famuyiwa (THE MANDALORIAN) and a young Abner Ravenwood INDIANA JONES prequel tv series are both reportedly in limbo.

MCU---My Mom's Basement reporter Justin Kroll commented on Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, “He has been solely focused on [DOOMSDAY] and SECRET WARS for, like, a year straight. Like, this has been it…He puts Jake Schreier on, last year, as the director of X-MEN…He’s kind of let Amy Pascal handle a lot of the SPIDER-MAN stuff.
There wasn’t much, really – like, Sadie Sink is there, but other than that, he is focused on this return. So, just know that, people. He’s in London all the time.
If that dude has his mind set on just the one thing, like he used to do back in the day with IRON MAN or THOR, they turn out good. It’s when he has like eight other things that it gets a little tougher.”

BAYWATCH---McG will direct the Fox reboot tv pilot of the lifeguard tv series.

MURDER, SHE WROTE---Jason Moore will direct the Universal Pictures reboot starring Jamie Lee Curtis based on the murder mystery tv series that starred Angela Lansbury.

MANCHESTER UNITED---Lionsgate is developing a tv series based on the British soccer team that features its many historic moments.

TRIVIA---four character actors, Frank Overton, Fritz Weaver, Edward Binns and Sorrell Booke, had 1964 roles that featured Air Force bombers.
In the 1964 movie FAIL SAFE, a computer glitch accidentally sends nuclear-armed Vindicator bombers to destroy Moscow. Overton played US Air Force Gen. Bogan, Weaver played Col. Cascio, Binns played Vindicator pilot Col. Grady and Booke played Congressman Raskob.
In the 1964 tv series 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, B-17 Flying Fortress bombers of the 918th Bombardment Group bomb Nazi Germany. Overton played Maj. Stovall, Weaver played Luftwaffe pilot Col. Raff in the episode "The Hours Before Dawn", Booke played Sgt. Aronson in the episode "Faith, Hope and Sergeant Aronson" and Binns played newspaperman Clifford Moran in the episode "The Suspected".

In FAIL SAFE, Frank Overton played Gen. Bogan (left), Sorrell Booke played Congressman Raskob (middle) and Fritz Weaver played Col. Cascio (right).

In the tv series 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, Frank Overton played Maj. Stovall.

In 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, Sorrell Booke played Sgt. Aronson in the episode "Faith, Hope and Sergeant Aronson".

In 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, Fritz Weaver played Luftwaffe pilot Col. Raff in the episode "The Hours Before Dawn".

In FAIL SAFE, Edward Binns played Vindicator pilot Col. Grady.

In 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, Edward Binns played newspaperman Clifford Moran in the episode "The Suspected".

 

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

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

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STAR WARS: MAUL-SHADOW LORD---trailer released for the Disney+ animated tv series.

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MERCY---the sci fi movie starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson received a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 21% with 39 reviews and its Metacritics score is 34.

THE BIG FIX---Mark Wahlberg and Riz Ahmed will star in the Netflix movie based on a true story about an ex-Interpol agent working for FIFA, who investigates a worldwide soccer match-fixing conspiracy.

WERWULF---Bodhi Rae Breathnach (HAMNET) will co-star with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe in the Robert Eggers werewolf movie.

THE MUMMY---Oded Fehr, who played warrior Ardeth Bay in the original 1999 movie, commented on the new sequel, "I gotta tell you, man, I'm so excited that you're excited. I have no idea. I haven't been contacted. I don't know anything about it. I know that the internet has been saying it as though it exists and it's a done deal, but haven't heard anything about it. So I'm hoping it happens. I'm hoping I get to be in it. But there's nothing I can tell you about it."
He added, "I hope that happens. I can tell you that I love THE MUMMY. It's made me into working actor. I love the actors on it. I've gotten to see a few of them in the last couple of years, and I hope it happens, but I have not been contacted."

LANDMAN---the Season finale had 14.8 million views worldwide which is Paramount+'s biggest series finale ever.

TOMB RAIDER---Sophie Turner commented on Laura Croft in the Amazon Prime tv series by saying Croft will not be “sex bombshell...It’s about her and her story and what drives her, rather than what so many people also love about her, which is how hot she is in the games and the movies. But I really want to show the other side.”
She added, “She’s so unashamedly capable. She is not a woman who hides her strengths at all.”

CGI---Gore Verbinski (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN) commented on the decline of movie CGI, “I think the simplest answer is you’ve seen the Unreal gaming engine enter the visual effects landscape. So it used to be a divide, with Unreal Engine being very good at video games, but then people started thinking maybe movies can also use Unreal for finished visual effects. So you have this sort of gaming aesthetic entering the world of cinema.
I think that Unreal Engine coming in and replacing Maya as a sort of fundamental is the greatest slip backwards. It works with Marvel movies where you kind of know you’re in a heightened, unrealistic reality. I think it doesn’t work from a strictly photo-real standpoint.
I just don’t think it takes light the same way; I don’t think it fundamentally reacts to subsurface, scattering, and how light hits skin and reflects in the same way. So that’s how you get this uncanny valley when you come to creature animation, a lot of in-betweening is done for speed instead of being done by hand.
And then just what’s become acceptable from an executive standpoint, where they think no one will care that the ships in the ocean look like they’re not on the water. In the first PIRATES movie, we were actually going out to sea and getting on a boat.”

NETFLIX---Netflix cancelled THE ABANDONS and THE VINCE STAPLE SHOW.

CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY---Sydney Sweeney will star in the movie based on the novel where Sweeney will play "Undine Spragg, an ambitious Midwestern young woman who attempts to ascend the social ladder through ruthlessness, seduction, vanity, and manipulation in early 20th-century New York City society."

SEED: LEGACY---new sequel to the 2006 Uwe Boll serial killer horror movie in which Emily Bishop escapes and hunts down Max Seed in an ayslum.

TRIVIA---January 22, 2025 is the 146th anniversary of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in which 150 British soldiers defended a remote outpost in Natal, Africa under siege by 4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven of the defenders, including outpost commander Lt. John Chard, were awarded the Victoria Cross, England's highest military honor for valor in combat. In the Rorke's Drift movie ZULU, Chard was played by Stanley Baker, who was also the movie's producer. Baker owned a "cast copy" of Chard's VC, but after Baker's death in 1976, tests proved his VC was the real VC awarded to Chard. Baker died never knowing he owned the real VC.

In the Battle of Rorke's Drift movie ZULU, Stanley Baker (holding pistol) played outpost commander Lt. John Chard, who was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Baker owned a "cast copy" of Chard's Victoria Cross (left) which was proven, after Baker's death, to be the real VC awarded to Chard.