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TUESDAY, JULY 23

JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX---trailer released for the sequel.

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REBEL MOON---Netflix released the trailer for the R-rated director's cut of the Zack Snyder sci fi movie.

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FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION DOLLAR HEIST---trailer released for the Peacock heist miniseries starring Kevin Hart and Samuel L. Jackson.

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THE PENGUIN---photo released from the HBO/Max tv series starring Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti.

NOVA---Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said Disney+ is developing a tv series based on the Marvel comic book superhero.

DIE, MY LOVE---Robert Pattinson is in negotiations to co-star with Jennifer Lawrence in the movie based on the novel whose synopsis says, “In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down,” the novel’s description reads. “Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behavior, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the brutality of ‘another person carrying your heart forever’: Die, My Love faces all this with a raw intensity. It’s not a question of if a breaking point will be reached, but rather when, and how violent a form will it take?”

SHADOW TIGER---movie underway based on the Indian comic book superhero. The writers are the IRON MAN and THE EXPANSE team of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby.

STRANGLEHOLD---Ashley Benson and Justin Long will star in the movie about a stripper and her ex-soldier husband who decide to rob the strip club where she works.

TRIVIA---in ICE STATION ZEBRA, the Navy submarine USS Tigerfish carries two British spies to the Arctic weather research station Ice Station Zebra to recover the film capsule from a Russian satellite that filmed top secret US missile bases, but someone on the submarine is a traitor. Patrick McGoohan played MI6 agent David Jones and Ron Masak played Tigerfish radioman Paul Zabrinczski. McGoohan and Masak reunited to appear in the COLUMBO episode "Ashes to Ashes" in which McGoohan played prominent undertaker Eric Prince, who murdered a gossip columnist, and Masak played taxi driver Eddie Fenelle.

In ICE STATION ZEBRA, Patrick McGoohan played MI6 agent David Jones and Ron Masak played Tigerfish radioman Paul Zabrinczski.

In the COLUMBO episode "Ashes to Ashes", McGoohan played prominent undertaker Eric Prince, who murdered a gossip columnist, and Masak played taxi driver Eddie Fenelle.

 

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN---trailer released for the Bob Dylan biomovie starring Timothee Chalamet.

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SUPERMAN & LOIS---trailer released for the last season.

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BAD MONKEY---trailer released for the Apple TV+ comedy cop series starring Vince Vaughn.

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TERRIFIER 3---trailer released for the sequel.

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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON---James Wan (AQUAMAN, THE CONJURING) will reportedly direct the remake of the classic 1954 Universal Pictures monster movie that starred Julie Adams and Richard Carlson.

MCU---Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige commented on rumors that Robert Downey, Jr. returning as Iron Man and the possibility of other MCU characters returning after being killed off, "That’s the key, right? How do you do it in a way that maintains what has come before, and in a great way? And we’ve been spending, you know, the last two-plus years figuring that out for Wolverine. So, what’s to come? We’ll see. We’re just proud that we, I think, have figured it out for Wolverine. I think Hugh’s appearance and starring role in [DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE] is a great sign that it can be done — if great care is taken."
Feige also commented on a MCU/DCU crossover project, “I think about it occasionally, like any fan would think about it. I don’t know when in the heck that would ever happen, or how that would happen. But we’ve been talking too long for me to go, “Never! We’d never be able to do that.” We’ll never say never, but no, no plans. I’ve seen the paparazzi shots of the Superman set looking cool. So he’s focusing on that. We’re focusing on this.“

THE PENGUIN---executive producer Dylan Clark said another Batman spinoff series is underway, “There’s another television exploration we’re going to do. We’re looking at this entire world as it relates to who Batman is — the antagonists around them, all the crime that has to be navigated in the city — and trying to figure out where are the areas that are best to explore.”

MINOR THREATS---Netflix live-action tv series underway based on the Patton Oswalt comic book.

LAW & ORDER---Maura Tierney has joined the cast as a NYPD lieutenant.

SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR---Lucy Lawless is returning as Lucretia for the Starz spinoff series.

TRIVIA---character actor Edson Stroll is best known to comedy tv fans as appearing in the World War II comedy tv series McHALE'S NAVY as PT 73 gunner's mate Virgil Edwards. To sci fi fans, Stroll is is best known for playing Walter Smith in the classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Eye of the Beholder" in which a hideous woman awaits the results of her eleventh surgery to look normal. He appeared with THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES co-star Donna Douglas. Stroll also appeared in THE TWILIGHT ZONE "The Trade-Ins" in which an elderly couple are at a medical center to trade their bodies for younger bodies.

To comedy tv fans, Edson Stroll (left) is best known to comedy tv fans as appearing in the World War II comedy tv series McHALE'S NAVY as PT 73 gunner's mate Virgil Edwards.

To sci fi fans, Stroll is is best known for playing Walter Smith in the classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Eye of the Beholder" in which a hideous woman awaits the results of her eleventh surgery to look normal. He appeared with THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES co-star Donna Douglas.

Stroll also appeared in THE TWILIGHT ZONE "The Trade-Ins" in which an elderly couple are at a medical center to trade their bodies for younger bodies.

 

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THURSDAY, JULY 25

KAOS---trailer released for the Netflix comedy series starring Jeff Goldblum.

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THE THICKET---trailer released for the Tubi bounty hunter movie starring Peter Dinklage.

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THE FANTASTIC FOUR---Pedro Pascal (Mr. Fantastic) posted a photo of himself with Vanessa Kirby (The Invisible Woman), Joseph Quinn (The Human Torch) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Thing).

THE CORSAIR CODE---Chris Hemsworth will star in the Apple Studios sci fi movie based on a short story by Jonathan Tropper, who will also write the screenplay. No plot details were released.

THE LONG WALK---Lionsgate movie underway based on the Stephen King novel. Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang and Cooper Hoffman star.

SKIBALDI TOILET---Michael Bay and Paramount Pictures are developing a movie/tv franchise based on the popular YouTube series about a head in a toilet.

WORST ROOMMATE EVER---Paul Feig will direct the movie based on the Netflix series about a woman who sublets a room to a man who is really a squatter.

INSIDE OUT 2----the sequel earned $1.46 billion which made it the highest-grossing animated movie ever.

TRIVIA---before Noah Beery, Jr. became famous on THE ROCKFORD FILES as private detective Jim Rockford's father, "Rocky", he starred in the 1935 Universal Pictures 12-part serial CALL OF THE SAVAGE. Beery played Jan Trevor, a Tarzan-like character who grew up in the African jungle after he was separated from his scientist father. Fifteen years later, Jan reunited with his father to keep two evil scientists from obtaining the secret formula he invented. The studio condensed the serial into the movie THE SAVAGE FURY which was released for tv in 1956.

 

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FRIDAY, JULY 26

THE ARCTIC CONVOY---trailer released for the Norwegian World War II movie.

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TEACUP---teaser trailer released for the Peacock eight-part horror miniseries based on the novel.

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TRANSFORMERS ONE---trailer released for the animated prequel starring Chris Hemsworth.

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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE---Ryan Reynolds said the movie's title was changed at the last minute, “The movie was originally called DEADPOOL & FRIEND. I am actually not joking. On the eve of the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl is where we first launched the trailer for DEADPOOL & — not FRIEND, but WOLVERINE — it leaked because of the son of the b*****s on the internet. The title leaked. We looked at it and listened, and they f****** hated that title. We were not feeling so good about that anymore.”

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA---Ron D. Moore said he regrets how he ended the series, but he does not want a reunion, "I don't know. I said goodbye. To me, I wanted [BATTLESTAR GALACTICA] to have a definitive ending. I felt strongly at the time that I didn't want to then try to put the gang back together later on, so I destroyed the Galactica, sent this fleet into the sun, landed them on Earth, and said, 'This is the end."'
He added, "There's a part of me that wishes I hadn't done that because how much fun would it be to work with Eddie again? How much fun would it be with Mary and James, Katie and Tricia, and all of them? Now I'm going to forget their names, but I love all of them. There's a part of me that would have very much enjoyed doing that, but I feel like we said everything we wanted to say and we've gone off stage at the right point. I'm happy to leave that desire as our legacy."

I AM LEGEND 2---writer Akiva Goldsman commented on the sequel to the 2007 movie, "Here’s what’s going on with I AM LEGEND 2: I wrote a draft. The idea is both Michael B. Jordan and Will Smith. I wrote a draft, and that draft put me and Will and Mike, and our producing partners in a room where we spent a week doing really fun stuff of talking story. I wrote another draft based on that week, and I imagine there will be some very good news shortly."
He added, "Yeah, and I will tell you something about LEGEND —it's counterintuitive, what happens to New York after 30 years, because you imagine a post-apocalyptic scenario, but if you actually do research about what happens to cities, it's pretty much the opposite. The world returns, and it returns in a way that is kind of spectacular. So, that's a really exciting playground for all of us because it's not your father’s I AM LEGEND."

THE LONG WALK---Mark Hamill and Judy Greer have joined the cast of the movie based on the Stephen King novel.

HOUSE OF GUINNESS---Netflix miniseries about the famous brewery whose synopsis says, "The 8-part series from PEAKY BLINDERS creator Steven Knight reimagines the period immediately after the death of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the man responsible for the extraordinary success of the Guinness brewery."

PEAKY BLINDERS---Rebecca Ferguson will co-star with Cillian Murphy in the movie based on the crime tv series. Her role was not disclosed.

ALTAR---Kyle Maclachlan and January Jones will a star in the horror movie based on the Philip Fricassi short story. Egor Abramenko (SPUTNIK) is the director.

JAMES BOND---George Lazenby, 84, who replaced Sean Connery as James bond, announced he has retired from acting, "This hasn’t been an easy decision but it’s time to announce my retirement from work. Therefore, I won’t be doing any more acting or making public appearances, doing any more interviews or signing any more autographs as of today.”

THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS---Mark Hamill will provide the voice for The Flying Dutchman.

KRAPOPOLIS---Fox renewed the series for Season 4.

TRIVIA---Nichelle Nichols stated in her autobiography, BEYOND UHURA: STAR TREK AND OTHER MEMORIES, in the last season of STAR TREK, she was offered the role of Peggy Fair on the private detective series MANNIX, but Gene Roddenberry refused to let her out of her contract. The role went to Gail Fisher.

 

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MONDAY, JULY 29

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER---trailer released for Season 2.

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JURASSIC WORLD: CHAOS THEORY---trailer released for Season 2.

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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS---trailer released for Season 3.

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HELLBOY: THE CROOKED MAN---trailer released for the reboot movie.

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THE DAY OF THE JACKAL---trailer released for the Peacock assassin miniseries based on the novel. The 1973 movie version starred Edward Fox.

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DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for the Christmas special.

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AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY---the fifth movie in the series is underway with Robert Downey, Jr. returning as villain Dr. Doom. Downey said, “New mask, same task… What I tell ya I like playing complicated characters.” Joe and Anthony Russo are returning as co-directors.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE---the Marvel superhero movie premiere earned $438.3 million worldwide which set a number of records including: biggest premiere for Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and Shawn Levy; biggest R-rated premiere (domestic/worldwide); biggest premiere of 2024 (domestic/worldwide), biggest July premiere ever (domestic); eighth biggest premiere ever (domestic) and pushed Marvel Studios' earnings past $30 billion.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR---the official title for the reboot movie is THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD---Giancarlo Esposito will play villain Sidewinder, head of the Serpent Society. A film clip shows President Ross (Harrison Ford) turning into Red Hulk at the White House podium.

STAR TREK---Paramount+ is developing a live-action comedy tv series whose synopsis says, "In this live-action comedy, Federation Outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant." Alex Kurtzman is a co-writer.
Also, Robert Picardo and Tig Notaro are returning as cast regulars and Oded Fehr will return as a recurring guest star for STARFLEET ACADEMY.

BROADSWORD---Henry Cavill and Marion Cotillard are in talks to co-star with Tom Cruise in the World War II movie whose synopsis says, "[BROADSWORD] will tell the story of an S.O.E. operation and a marine captain who crashes in France and becomes the sole survivor. Against all odds, he must complete his mission amidst the chaos of war."

UFO---Josh O'Connor will co-star with Emily Blunt in the Steven Spielberg UFO movie whose title is reportedly THE DISH.

DEXTER: RESURRECTION---Michael C. Hall is returning as Dexter Morgan in the Showtime sequel series set in the present.

TRIVIA---actress/model Victoria Vetri was PLAYBOY's Playmate Of The Year in 1968, appeared in ROSEMARY'S BABY and starred in Hammer Films's WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH. Vetri appeared in tv shows including BATMAN, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, PERRY MASON, BONANZA, THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., HOGAN'S HEROES, McHALE'S NAVY, THE BIG VALLEY and others.
Vetri was close friends with director Roman Polanski and his wife, Sharon Tate. Vetri, under the stage name of Angela Dorian, appeared in Polanski's classic ROSEMARY'S BABY. In one scene, Mia Farrow tells Vetri's character, Teresa, "I thought you were Victoria Vetri, the actress", and Teresa replies, "That's OK. Everybody thinks I'm Victoria. I don't see the resemblance, though."
Vetri was visiting the home of Polanski and pregnant Sharon Tate when Charles Manson also visited the home with audio tapes in hopes of launching a recording career. Vetri said about Manson, "He looks like a weirdo!'" Vetri was supposed to visit Tate the night of the Manson Murders in which Tate and four others were murdered. Vetri thought Manson heard her "weirdo" comment and blamed herself for the murders believing Manson killed Tate in retaliation for the comment. Vetri became extremely paranoid that Manson would also have her murdered from prison.
In 2010, Vetri shot husband and rocker Bruce Rathgeb, after accusing him of cheating on her and being involved with drugs. Rathgeb denied the accusation and claimed Vetri's paranoia about the Manson Murders led her to shoot him because she thought he was Manson. Vetri was charged with attempted murder and pleaded no contest to attempted voluntary manslaughter. She was sentenced to prison for nine years and was granted parole in 2018 when she was 73 years old.

Victoria Vetri (Angela Dorian) was PLAYBOY's Playmate of the Year in 1968.

Vetri starred in Hammer Films's WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH.

Vetri (stage name Angela Dorian) appeared in her good friend Roman Polanski's classic ROSEMARY'S BABY.

Vetri at her 2011 trial for the attempted murder of her husband Bruce Rathgeb.

 

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TUESDAY, JULY 30

BAGMAN---trailer released for the horror movie starring Sam Claflin.

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THE WALKING DEAD: DARYL DIXON-THE BOOK OF CAROL---trailer released for the spinoff series.

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HELL HOLE---trailer released for the Shudder horror movie.

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AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY---Disney will play Joe and Anthony Russo $80 million to direct two AVENGERS movies and their deal also includes "performance escalators" which kick at the thresholds of $750 million and $800 million. Robert Downey, Jr. will be paid "significantly more" than the Russo brothers and his deal includes private jet travel, dedicated security and a "trailer encampment. An inside source said Downey's one condition to return to the MCU was for the Russo brothers to return as the directors, “They were the only ones he would work with.” Downey has earned about $500 million-$600 million for his previous Marvel movies.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS---director Matt Shakman commented on the reboot movie, “One of the things we decided early on was not to do an origin story. One of the ways we’re making it our own thing is we’re not telling the story of them going up and being changed, and starting our story [there].There’s a lot of well-known narrative that leads into that moment, right? And then you’re making up your new story starting basically at the end of the first act, and we thought, ‘Well, let’s just start this thing off on a completely new foot. So we are beginning after that’.”

SHIFTING GEAR---new ABC comedy tv series starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings in which a crusty classic car restorer has to deal with his estranged daughter and her kids moving in.

ORDAINED---Derek Kolstad (JOHN WICK) will write the screenplay for a project based on the comic book. It is not known if it will be a movie or a tv series.

RENEGADE NELL--Disney+ cancelled the series.

TRIVIA---in the original INVADERS FROM MARS, Jimmy Hunt played the boy who saw a Martian flying saucer land behind his house and Luce Potter played the Martian leader. Hunt said Potter was his mother's high school classmate, "the Supreme Being, the little tentacles person in the bubble, the funny thing about that is the fact that she was a classmate in high school with my mother. It was a little lady that played that part, Luce Potter, and yeah, she was a classmate with my mother, so it was kind of funny when they met on the stage there on the day, "Hey, how have you been, I haven't seen you in all these years!"

 

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31

SLINGSHOT---trailer released for the sci fi movie starring Casey Affleck.

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GREEDY PEOPLE---trailer released for the comedy movie starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON---about 30 minutes of the Season 2 finale were leaked on X and Tik Tok for three hours before they were deleted. HBO commented on the leaks, “We are aware that the tenth episode of House of the Dragon has been posted on illegal torrent sites. It appears to have originated from a distribution partner in the EMEA region. HBO is aggressively monitoring and pulling these copies from the internet. We’re disappointed that this unlawful action has disrupted the viewing experience for loyal fans of the show, who will get to see a pristine version of the episode when it premieres Sunday on HBO and HBO Max, where it will stream exclusively in 4K.”

ALIEN: ROMULUS---new poster released for the movie starring Cailee Spaeny.

BEFORE---photo released of Billy Crystal starring in the Apple TV+ 10-part miniseries about a child psychologist helping a troubled boy.

CONSTANTINE 2---Akiva Goldsman commented on the sequel script to the 2005 Keanu Reeves horror movie, “It’s going fine,” he said. “I’m writing a script about CONASTANTINE 2. It’s good. I hope to have a script for my partners soon.”
He added, “The movie we made, we thought was PG-13, and then it was R because of demons. So, everybody sort of felt like, “Gee, if it was going to be R, we might have dug a little more deeply into some of the stuff we were working with.”

ST. ELMO'S FIRE---Rob Lowe commented on the status of the Sony Pictures sequel to his 1985 movie that also starred Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy and Mare Winningham, “This is a real thing. It’s very, very, very, very, very early stages, and I don’t really wanna say more than that, other than it’s early stages, real thing.”

SCREAM 7---Neve Campbell said the sequel will focus on her character, Sidney Prescott, “We are going to follow Sidney. They did pitch the concept to me, and it’s the reason that I jumped on board.”

YOUNG SHERLOCK---Donal Finn (THE WHEEL OF TIME) will play James Moriarity in the Guy Ritchie/Amazon Prime prequel series whose synopsis says, “It is an action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in an explosive re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.”

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE---the title for the Jason Reitman movie about SNL is SATURDAY NIGHT.

TRIVIA---character actress Marianna Hill played the villain's girlfriend in two Western roles. In THE WILD WILD WEST episode "The Night of the Bogus Bandits", Hill played Belladonna, the girlfriend of Dr. Miguelito Loveless. In Clint Eastwood's HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, Hill played Callie Travers, the girlfriend/town tramp of Lago bigwig Morgan Allen and gunslinger Stacy Bridges.

In THE WILD WILD WEST episode "The Night of the Bogus Bandits", Marianna Hill played Belladonna, the girlfriend of Dr. Miguelito Loveless.

In Clint Eastwood's HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER, Hill played Callie Travers, the girlfriend/town tramp of Lago bigwig Morgan Allen and gunslinger Stacy Bridges.

 

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1

TERMINATOR ZERO---trailer released for the Netflix animated series.

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CITADEL: HONEY BUNNY---Amazon Prime spinoff spy series set in India.

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SUBSERVIENCE---trailer released for the killer robot movie starring Megan Fox.

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STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW---photos released from the Disney+ tv series starring Jude Law as Jod Na Nawood. It is set several years after RETURN OF THE JEDI. Premiere is on December 3.

MCU---Jamie Lee Curtis apologized for her derogatory remarks about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, "My comments about Marvel were stupid and I will do better. I've reached out to Kevin Feige and will no longer play in that mud slinging sandbox of competition we call the internet nor will I engage in the toilet paper promotion or game play that is designed for clicks not content or conversation." Curtis was recently asked what phase MCU is currently in, and she replied, "Bad." Earlier, Curtis made negative comments about DR. STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS compared to her EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE.

DISCLAIMER---photo released of Cate Blanchett starring in the Apple TV+ miniseries based on the novel about an investigate journalist who receives a mysterious novel in which she is the main character.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA---Peacock cancelled the planned reboot series.

LITTLE RED---horror movie underway based on the Little Red Riding Hood fable. Neil Marshall is the producer.

COBRA KAI---co-creator Hayden Schlossberg said a Mr. Miyagi spinoff series is under consideration, “It is one of the reasons why we did the Miyagi box story this season. It opens up all these questions about Mr. Miyagi and what his life was like, and that’s been something we’ve been wanting to do for a while.
We’ve talked to Robert Mark Kamen, the writer of the original Karate Kid who based this whole movie off his sensei who studied Okinawan karate; we’ve been talking about all this Miyagi backstory with him, which helped us with season six stuff. Now that we’re done, we can actually start getting into this stuff.
He added, “I would say that we definitely want to do that and have been talking about that… it is definitely something that we’ve been wanting to do. It’s just that we want to wait until we get finished with COBRA KAI first before we get into that.”

SQUID GAME---Netflix announced that Season 3 will be the last season.

TRIVIA---Roddy McDowall and Paul Comi appeared in two Rod Serling-connected sci fi projects. In THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "People are Alike All Over", written by Serling, two astronauts played by McDowall and Comi, are the first men to land on Mars. In CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, a sequel to Serling's PLANET OF THE APES, McDowall played chimpanzee Caesar and Comi played a policeman who helps arrest Caesar.

In THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "People are Alike All Over", written by Rod Serling, two astronauts played by McDowall and Comi, are the first men to land on Mars.

In CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, a sequel to Serling's PLANET OF THE APES, McDowall played chimpanzee Caesar and Comi (black uniform-top) played a policeman who helps arrest Caesar.

 

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2

BLINK TWICE---trailer released for the movie starring Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie.

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DOCTOR ODYSSEY---teaser trailer released for the ABC medical series starring Joshua Jackson.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD---Harrison Ford commented on why he decided to join the MCU as General Thunderbolt Ross, “What did it take? It took not caring. It took being an idiot for money, which I’ve done before. I don’t mean to disparage it. I’m just saying you have to do certain things that normally your mother would not want you to do – or your acting coach, if you had one. But it’s fun, and I enjoyed it. I had a great time, and I’m delighted at the response that we got with the trailer.”

THE MARVELS---Brie Larson commented on if she might reunite with co-stars Teynoah Parris and Iman Vellani after THE MARVELS was a box office disappointment, “I just loved being with those ladies so much. And I think that the sentiment of it is so right to me and is much more where I’m at in my life, which is, there’s no one superhero that can save us. It takes all kinds of people that have their own special skill sets and the ability to understand that the brink of disaster cannot be stopped by one. It’s all of us coming together. So that feels really right to me. And you know, as for the future, there’s things that I know, but I can’t tell you.”
She also commented on if she will return as Captain America for the two new AVENGERS sequels, “I can’t say anything and I can’t even say that I don’t know anything because that might mean that there’s something to say or not say. So I’ll just say that I can’t say."

NATIONAL TREASURE 3---writer Dan Elliot said he has finished the sequel script, “Riley has changed more [than anyone]. If you just look at the two points that are established for him in the first and second movies. In the first one, he is the uninformed audience. That’s the role he plays. He’s the guy who says, ‘What are you talking about there?’ In the second one, he’s written a book about cryptohistory. And he’s right! He knows something Ben didn’t know about history. I just have to think that that’s continued. It becomes more difficult to do the history exposition because there are things [Riley] can know now. In terms of writing the third movie, there is, I think, a change to Ben and Riley’s inner relationship that I think both actors will really enjoy.”
He added, “Agent Sudusky is dead. I’m treating the TV series [NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY] as canon. I’m trying to do something different with the FBI than was done in the previous two movies. There’s still the pursuers, there’s still the force for law and order, but just the way they operate I’m trying to do something just a little bit different.”

THE MADISON---Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer and Patrick J. Adams will star in the YELLOWSTONE spinoff series. The plot is rumored to focus on wealthy matriarch Stacy Clyburn moving her family from New York to Montana after her husband and brother-in-law were killed in a plane crash. Earlier rumors said Matthew McConaughey was going to star in the spinoff.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE---the sequel uses the F-word a record 116 times. DEADPOOL 2 used the F-word 90 times.

THE INVISIBLE WOMAN---director Elizabeth Banks said the sequel to the 2020 THE INVISIBLE MAN has been put on hold by Universal Pictures.

THE WATERFRONT---Holt McCallany will star in the Netflix series whose synopsis says, "Inspired by true events, the series dives into the flawed Buckley family as their attempts to retain control of their crumbling North Carolina fishing empire drive them to increasingly dangerous means to keep themselves afloat.”

TRIVIA---Warren Beatty's HEAVEN CAN WAIT was nominated for nine Academy Awards including Best Original Score by Dave Grusin. Paul McCartney wrote the song "Did We Meet Somewhere Before?" for the movie, but Beatty rejected it, although it was later used in the movie ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 5

KILLING GAWKER---Ben Affleck is a candidate to star in the movie based on the book CONSPIRACY: PETER THIEL, HULK HOGAN, GAWKER AND THE ANATOMY OF INTRIGUE which is about Hulk Hogan's lawsuit, secretly funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, against celebrity gossip website Gawker after it posted negative comments about Hogan. Hogan was awarded $115 million which led to Gawker's demise. Matt Damon would reportedly play Thiel.

JOHN WICK: UNDER THE HIGH TABLE---tv series sequel underway that focuses on the High Table and a “collection of new characters will look to make a name for themselves while some of the franchise stalwart characters remain committed to the old-world order.” The series is set immediately after CHAPTER 4. Keanu Reeves and Chad Stahelski are returning as co-producers. The series will be shopped to outlets.

THE RUNNING MAN---Sydney Sweeney may reunite with her ANYONE BUT YOU co-star Glen Powell in Edgar Wright's remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie based on the Stephen King novel.

BAT BOY---Netflix comedy horror series underway based on the 1992 WEEKLY WORLD NEWS tabloid cover creature that became the second best-selling issue in the tabloid's history. The series will focus on teenager Bobby Bates, who belonged to a carnival, entering a new high school while something horrible is occurring in the nearby Florida swamp.

DRAGO---Florian Munteanu (CREED II) commented on the spinoff movie starring Dolph Lundgren, "I'm the most excited about it. We have worked for a couple of years now on this project. I can confidently say that we're in a very good place right now. I think me and Dolph are very happy with where we are at right now. It's just a lot of people have to make decisions here, and we have to find a compromise.
The tone of that movie has to be slightly darker than what we have seen in Creed just because those characters come from a different world, different environment, different upbringing. So we want to stay true to what the characters are, keep the essence of what the characters are. But we are in a very good place. Hopefully next year, we're going to hear more about what's going to happen."

ROAD HOUSE 2---director Doug Liman commented on the Amazon Prime remake sequel, "I've never done a sequel but am super proud of the character that Jake [Gyllenhaal] and I created. That's not the kind of character Jake normally plays. And I love in general in my movies, showcasing actors in a way you've never seen them before. So Matt Damon in a comedy, or Casey Affleck as a leading man in a big commercial movie. And in ROAD HOUSE, seeing Jake as a winning lead in a big, commercial movie, it was such a fun thing. And Jake's a really close friend. So, it's hard for me to imagine anyone else doing that [sequel] with him. So, I don't know."

THE ORVILLE---Scott Grimes said Season 4 will start filming shortly after New Years in 2025.

EVIL DEAD---Bruce Campbell said he is returning as Ash for the animated series based on the horror movie, “We are developing an animated version, like a series. I’ll do that. I’ll do Ash’s voice all day long because my voice hasn’t aged as much as I have.”

TRIVIA---THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW episode "The Farmer Takes a Wife" was the beginning of two famous lines in television history. The episode is the first time Deputy Barney Fife says, 'Nip it in the bud!" which was used in future episodes. Also in the episode, Alan Hale, Jr. played farmer Big Jeff Pruitt, who refers to Fife as "Little Buddy". Hale used the line in real life, so when he got the role of The Skipper on "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND, he suggested it to producer Sherwood Schwartz, who incorporated it into the series. "Nip it in the bud!" is now associated with Barney Fife and "Little Buddy" is now a fan nickname for Gilligan and Bob Denver.

In THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW episode "The Farmer Takes a Wife", Deputy Barney Fife said for the first time, "Nip it in the bud!" which was used in future episodes.

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Also, in "The Farmer Takes a Wife", farmer Big Jeff Pruitt (Alan Hale, Jr.) referred to Barney Fife as "Little Buddy" and which was later incorporated into GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and became a fan nickname for Gilligan and Bob Denver.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6

OUT COME THE WOLVES---trailer released for the survival movie starring Missy Peregrym.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON---co-creator Ryan Condal said HOUSE OF THE DRAGON will end with Season 4.
He also commented on fan criticism of the Season 2 finale, “We were trying to give the Gullet, which is arguably the most anticipated — well, I would say maybe the second most anticipated action event of ‘Fire & Blood,’ — trying to give it the time and the space that it deserved.
I know everybody wants this to come out every summer. It’s just that the show is so complex that we’re really making multiple feature films every season. So I apologize for the wait, but I will just say if Rooks Rest and the Red Sowing were good then the team that we have together…we’re gonna pull off a hell of a win The Battle of the Gullet.”
Condal said Season 3 will feature the Battle of the Gullet, the biggest battle of the series, “Obviously, to anybody that’s seen the finale, we are building to that. That event will happen very shortly in terms of the storytelling of this, of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Based on what we know now, I mean, it should be the biggest thing to date that we’ve pulled off, and we just wanted to have the time and the space to do that at a level that is going to excite and satisfy the fans in the way that is deserved.”
He added, ” I will just say if Rook’s Rest and the Red Sowing are any indication, [with] the team that we have together, we’re going to pull off a hell of a win with the Battle of the Gullet in the future.”
George RR Martin said there seven spinoff series being developed: four animated and three live-action.

MCU---Film Threat founder Chris Gore claims Marvel Studios has cleaned house after the failure of THE MARVELS and other bombs, "I do know people who work at Marvel. They have cleaned house, They quietly, months ago, fired all the producers that could be labeled activist...Kevin Feige recognizes… basically, he said that ‘we tried it, it didn’t work. ...He’s talking about Phase 4. It didn’t work. No Kang. None of these side characters that don’t have the legacy of classic characters. And if DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE proves anything, you’ve heard that phrase ‘male and pale is stale’ — that was spoken aloud across studios, but if you look at box office this year, I would say male and pale is money. And that’s the phrase that I think people should more adopt."
However, Gore said Lucasfilm is still committed to woke movies, "Unlike Lucasfilm. Lucasfilm is lost. They’re lost. They are doubling down on all the nonsense. You will never get anything good out of Lucasfilm and STAR WARS. That’s it”

THE WRECKING CREW---Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa and Claes Bang will star in the Amazon MGM Studios comedy action movie about two estranged half-brothers, a cop and a SEAL, who team up to solve their father's murder. Bang will play the villain.

SUPERNATURAL ENTITY---Jenna Ortega is in negotiations to co-star with Glen Powell in the untitled JJ Abrams-directed movie whose plot is described as "a young married couple struggling to survive against a supernatural entity.”

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE---Ryan Reynolds commented on a Nicolas Cage cameo as Ghost Rider, “Yes...came to a conversation for sure. Yeah, but no.”

BALLS UP---Daniela Melchior will co-star with Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser in the Peter Farrelly comedy movie whose plot is described as "two American executives who get the boot for sabotaging a client sponsorship and decide to use their free tickets to a professional soccer match. After a few drinks too many, the duo finds themselves on the run while being hunted by every person across the country."

HIGH ON LIFE---JB Smoove (CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM) is the producer and possible star of an animated tv series based on the video game.

TRIVIA---in GLADIATOR, after the opening battle scene, Maximus feeds an apple to his horse while a crew member in blue jeans walks by in the background.

 

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7

SUCCUBUS---trailer released for the vampire movie starring Ron Perlman.

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ALIEN: ROMULUS---new trailer released for the movie.

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DISCLAIMER---trailer released for the Apple TV+ miniseries starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline.

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WARCHIEF---trailer released for the fantasy monster movie.

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STAR WARS---Shawn Levy said his STAR WARS movie will be a standalone movie not directly connected to earlier movies, “There’s only so many times that STAR WARS movies can revisit the same section of the timeline. I don’t want to do a STAR WARS film that is redundant to others. Nor am I interested in doing one that has to serve another movie.”

R.U.R.---Anthony LaPaglia and Mallory Jansen will star in the sci fi movie based on the play in which a woman journeys to a robot factory on an island to emancipate the robots.

PRESUMED INNOCENT---Peter Saarsgard said he will not be returning as prosecutor Tommy Molto for Season 2, “I’m not really that interested in sequels. I think I’ve only ever done one season of anything . . . I think I’m a one-season person.”

CONFESS, FLETCH---director Greg Mottola posted that Miramx cancelled the sequel starring Jon Hamm, "Alas, the new head of Miramax, who controls the rights to all the books, shot down my sequel project. The Fletch curse got me."

TRIVIA---the classic tv comedy I LOVE LUCY co-starred William Frawley as Fred Mertz and Vivian Vance as his wife, Ethel Mertz. In reality, the two actors despised one another. When the series ended in 1959, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz offered Frawley and Vance the chance to star in their own spinoff series, FRED AND ETHEL. Frawley was agreeable, but Vance refused because she could not stand having to work with Frawley any longer. Frawley, who had a well-deserved reputation in Hollywood for being unpleasant, once said of Vance, "She's one of the finest girls to come out of Kansas. But I often wish she'd go back there." In 1966, Vance was having dinner with her husband in a restaurant when she heard that Frawley had suffered a fatal heart attack and reportedly exclaimed, "Champagne for everybody!"

 

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8

ADAM SANDLER: I LOVE YOU---trailer released for the Netflix Adam Sandler comedy special.

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PRESENCE---teaser trailer released for the Steven Soderbergh/NEON horror movie.

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AMERICAN SPORTS STORY: AARON HERNANDEZ---teaser trailer released for the FX sports anthology series.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS---Cate Blanchett was asked about her salary playing Galadriel in in THE LORD OF THE RINGS, “Are you kidding me? No, no one got paid anything to do that movie...I basically got free sandwiches, and I got to keep my [elf] ears." She later said, “Women don’t get paid much as you think they do.”
When asked her if she “got a piece of the backend", Blanchett said, “No! That was way before any of that. No, nothing.”
Blanchett said money was not her motivation to work with Peter Jackson, “I wanted to work with the guy who made BRAINDEAD [DEAD ALIVE in the US]."

SATURDAY NIGHT---photo released from the Jason Reitman movie about the premiere of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE ion 1975.
Also, Steve Martin commented on why he turned down Lorne Michaels's offer to play Kamala Harris's running mate, Governor Tim Walz, on SNL, “I wanted to say no and, by the way, he wanted me to say no, I said, ‘Lorne, I’m not an impressionist. You need someone who can really nail the guy.’ I was picked because I have gray hair and glasses.”
He added, “It’s ongoing. It’s not like you do it once and get applause and never do it again. Again, they need a real impressionist to do that. They’re gonna find somebody really, really good. I’d be struggling.”
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THE HUMAN VAPOR---Netflix/Toho live-action tv series underway based on the 1960 Toho movie about an experiment gone awry in which a librarian is transformed into a vapor and resorts to murder and robbery to finance the dancing career of his girlfriend. Yeon Sang-ho (TRAIN TO BUSAN) is the director. The original movie was directed by Ishiro Honda (GODZILLA).

ARMY OF THE DEAD---Netflix cancelled the Zack Snyder zombie franchise including a planned animated tv series.

WOLFS---the comedy movie starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival crime fixers will no longer get a wide theatrical release, but it will have a limited theatrical release and then be streamed on Apple TV+. A sequel was confirmed to be underway.

DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY---co-producer Stacey Sher commented on the status of the miniseries based on the book about serial killer HH Holmes and the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair architect Daniel Burnham, “I mean, I hope so. It’s not imminent, but it is not ever far from my mind.” Sher said Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are still co-producers. The miniseries originally would have starred Keanu Reeves, who left, and was then cancelled by Hulu.

SCRUBS---creator Bill Lawrence commented on the status of the comedy medical series reboot, "We're definitely going to do it, just because we've all been enjoying hanging out.
Look, there's no huge drive because everybody's successful, and I think the show was on for like, 72 years, but on the other hand, medical people over here right now are very heroic to me. It's been a tough road, and no one's becoming a doctor right now to get rich here in America, and we've all been hanging out and talking.
So I'm open to it. I'm open to it, and I don't want to do it as a movie, but I'm definitely open to doing a couple more years of that show. It would not only be fun to see where the characters I used to love are now, but also to see what a young doctor nowadays looks like, as far as the kids coming in behind them, you know.
So we've been talking a lot about it, and I think we'll figure it out in the next six months or so what we want to do. I'm just busy too, man, in a great way."

BLUE BLOODS---Donnie Wahlberg said the series may continue in the future, “Well, we filmed the apparent last season of Blue Bloods, and it’ll air starting in October. Maybe there’ll be something else after that. I don’t know anything officially yet, but there’s things in the works. So maybe something awesome will happen.”

TRIVIA---the original 1949 giant gorilla movie MIGHTY JOE YOUNG starred Terry Moore and Ben Johnson. Willis O'Brien received an Academy Award for Best Special Effects, and Ray Harryhausen, in his first movie job, was O'Brien's top assistant and lead animator. Moore and Harryhausen reunited for cameos in the 1998 MIGHTY JOE YOUNG remake which starred Charlize Theron and Bill Paxton.

The 1949 MIGHTY JOE YOUNG starred Terry Moore.

Ray Harryhausen was the lead animator and top assistant to Willis O'Brien, who received an Academy award for Best Special Effects.

Moore and Harryhausen reunited for cameos in the 1998 MIGHTY JOE YOUNG remake which starred Charlize Theron and Bill Paxton. Moore's character looks at Theron's character and says, "She reminds me of somebody, but I can't think who." Harryhausen replies, "You, when we first met."

 

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 9

THE THING EXPANDED---trailer released for the new documentary which is being released as a $99.99 bluray set or $49 digital-only at: https://thethingexpanded.com/.

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SATURDAY NIGHT---trailer released about the premiere of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE in 1975.

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UGLIES---trailer released for the Netflix sci fi movie based on the novel.

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DEAD MONEY---trailer released for the movie starring Emile Hirsch.

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BORDERLANDS---the movie based on the video game and starring Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis has a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 0% based on 24 reviews. On Metacritic, it scored 32/100 which makes it the fifth-lowest movie of 2024.

STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW---photo released of official costumes from the Disney+ tv series starring Jude Law.

THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE---Ketchup Entertainment will release the Looney Tunes movie in theaters after HBO shelved the movie in 2021.

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A CELEBRITY?---synopsis released for the Amazon Prime spinoff quiz series hosted by Travis Kelce, “ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A CELEBRITY? offers a fun, new twist on the premise of the original popular format. Hosted by Travis Kelce, each game will welcome an adult contestant who will rely on a classroom full of celebrities from comedy, screen, and sports to help them answer 11 questions on a range of subjects, pulled from elementary curriculum, in an effort to win a $100,000 prize, Rather than compete against the stars, contestants enlist their help and, in some cases, can even ‘cheat’ off of them. And on the final question, worth $100,000, the contestant selects one celebrity to discuss the answer with before locking in. The final question is always at the 6th-grade level.”

TRIVIA---in THE FUGITIVE tv series, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) was convicted of murdering his wife, but he claimed the real killer was a one-armed man. Bill Raisch, who played The One-Armed Man, lost his arm in World War II when he was a member of the US Merchant Marine and was badly burned while fighting a shipboard fire which led to the amputation of part of his right arm. In 2013, TV GUIDE ranked The One-Armed Man as No. 5 on its "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time".
The series finale, Episode 120, "Judgment: Part II", is where The One-Armed Man was proven to be the murderer and is the third most-watched series finale ever and just behind the series finales of M*A*S*H and CHEERS.

 

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MONDAY, AUGUST 12

STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW---trailer released for the Disney+ tv series starring Jude Law.

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WOMAN OF THE HOUR---trailer released for the movie based on the true story of a woman on THE DATING GAME who picked a serial killer.

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MUFASA: THE LION KING---trailer released for the Disney prequel movie.

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SNOW WHITE---trailer released for the Disney remake movie starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.

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AVATAR 3---logo released for the sequel whose title is AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH.

DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE---the sequel earned $1.03 billion worldwide which places it second behind THE JOKER's $1.07 billion as the only two R-rated movies to reach $1 billion worldwide.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX---Joaquin Phoenix left the untitled gay private detective movie five days before production was to begin in Mexico without explanation. The Todd Haynes movie is considered dead without Phoenix.

THUNDERBOLTS---photo released of Florence Pugh returning as Yelena Belova in the Marvel superhero movie.

GAME OF THRONES---Kit Harington commented on fan criticism of the last season, “I think if there was any fault with the end of THRONES , is that we were all so f--cking tired, we couldn't have gone on longer. And so I understand some people thought it was rushed and I might agree with them. But I’m not sure there was any alternative. I look at pictures of me in that final season and I look exhausted. I look spent. I didn't have another season in me.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I think there were mistakes made, story-wise, towards the end maybe. I think there were some interesting choices that didn’t quite work.”

CRAWL 2---Alexandre Aja is returning to direct the sequel to the 2019 alligator horror movie which will be set in New York with a new cast.

FREAKY FRIDAY 2---the sequel title is FREAKIER FRIDAY and the synopsis says, "A sequel to the beloved 2003 film with a multigenerational twist, the film picks up years after Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and Anna (Lindsay Lohan) endured an identity crisis. Anna now has a daughter of her own and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the myriad challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might indeed strike twice.”

TRIVIA---character actor George Roubicek had brief appearances in movies that were huge box office hits. Roubicek played a NASA astronaut in the James Bond movie YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. He played Private Arthur James Gardner, who is hanged in THE DIRTY DOZEN. Roubicek played Stromberg One submarine commander in the James Bond movie THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. However, Roubicek is most famous for playing Imperial Military Commander Praji in STAR WARS. He said about STAR WARS, "I don't think anyone knew [what STAR WARS was], except maybe George Lucas, and I'm not sure he knew all the time! We certainly didn't know. I wouldn't say this was just another job – there's no such thing as just another job – but I didn't realize how special it was going to be at the time."

George Roubicek played a NASA astronaut in the James Bond movie YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE.

Roubicek played Private Arthur James Gardner, who is hanged in THE DIRTY DOZEN.

Roubicek played Stromberg One submarine commander in the James Bond movie THE SPY WHO LOVED ME.

Roubicek is most famous for playing Imperial Military Commander Praji in STAR WARS.

 

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 13

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING---trailer released for Season 4.

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SLOW HORSES----trailer released for Season 4.

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THE MONKEY---teaser trailer released for the movie based on the Stephen King short story.

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TERMINATOR---James Cameron was asked about the TERMINATOR ZERO animated tv series and he replied that he is not involved with ZERO, but he is working on a new TERMINATOR project, “It looks interesting. My relationship to that is very much like THE SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES-–other people spinning stories in a world I set in motion is interesting to me. What’s their takeaway? What intrigued them about it? Where are they going with it? It looks like they’re going back to the root cause of JUDGMENT DAY- – he nuclear war- – and whether that’s an ultimate timeline.
I’d be curious to see what they’ve come up with. I’m working on my own TERMINATOR stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with that. Like with THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, they occasionally touched on things I had been playing with completely independently. So there’s some curiosity there. It’s not a burning curiosity, but, obviously, it’d be nice to see it succeed.”
He added, “It’s totally classified. I don’t want to have to send out a potentially dangerous robotic agent if you were to talk about it, even retroactively.”

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON---a source claims Universal Pictures wants Scarlett Johansson to star in its remake of the 1954 monster movie.

DEADPOOL---Halle Berry commented on if she was asked to return as Storm for DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE, "No. Blake [Lively] asked me one time, I ran into her at a Marc Jacobs fashion show, and she said, 'Would you ever be in my husband's movie as Storm?' I said, 'Yeah, if he asked me,' but he never asked me."

SHOOTER----Mark Wahlberg commented on a possible sequel to the 2007 movie based on the novel POINT OF IMPACT, “Well, I think my good friends over at Skydance just took over Paramount, so I think that’s a possibility. We got a pretty good library over there with, not only SHOOTER, with THE ITALIAN JOB, even FOUR BROTHERS, THE FIGHTER. And then other things that they have in the library that could be interesting to revisit, or revamp, but that one in particular.”
He added, “Anywhere I go for the last 20 years, people are always coming up to me about that movie. They don’t always turn out the way you want. But that particular movie? If myself, Antoine Fuqua (Director), and if they get Michael Peña back, that would be very cool.”

GHOSTBUSTERS---Netflix 3D animated tv series underway, but no plot details were released.

TONY---Dominic Sessa (THE HOLDOVERS) will star in the chef Anthony Bourdain biomovie.

TRIVIA---Guinness World Records claims Bram Stoker's Count Dracula has appeared in more movies than any other literary character, "As of August, 2015, Bram Stoker's Count Dracula has been portrayed in a total of 538 films (both cinema releases and TV films)--more than any other literary character. This puts him a long way ahead of his closest literary character rival, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, with 299 appearances as of the same date."

 

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14

KRAVEN THE HUNTER---trailer released for the superhero movie starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER---trailer released for Season 2.

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WOLFS---trailer released for the Apple TV+ movie starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt.

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TEACUP---teaser trailer released for the Peacock horror series based on the novel STINGER.

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ETERNALS---VARIETY said Marvel Studios is not planning a sequel, "Marvel is reportedly not developing a sequel at this time." The movie only earned $402 million worldwide which is low for a Marvel movie.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE---Roland Emmerich commented on why he left the 2007 remake of the 1966 sci fi movie that starred Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch, “James Cameron is very overbearing, and so I, at one point, just gave up. Because it’s like, ‘Is it your movie or my movie?’
Cameron replied, “I’ve never said anything negative about Roland. But anyway: Yes, I’m overbearing. **** right. When it’s a project where I’ve contributed to the writing, I might actually have an opinion on it. I actually don’t even remember talking to Roland Emmerich about Fantastic. I remember the other directors that we worked with for months on end trying to develop that project. If I talked to Roland, it was for two minutes. I have a pretty good memory and I don’t remember that at all.”

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH---James Cameron said Michelle Yeoh is not in FIRE AND ASH, “Michelle Yeoh won’t be in 3. She’s in 4 and 5. So that got a little bit misreported. She will be coming in soon to do her part, which is an interesting, fun character. I mean, we’re getting ahead of ourselves now. This whole thing has been planned for years and years. The scripts were all written years ago, through the end of movie 5. So we’ve been working on parts of 4 even as we go along, mostly because we’ve got this young cast. We had to shoot them all while they were still young.”

BOY GEORGE---TriStar Boy George biomovie underway with JC Lee as the writer.

TRIVIA---Tom Hardy might be best known for starring in the VENOM Marvel comic monster movies, but his first leading role was in the 2006 SyFy Channel monster movie MINOTAUR based on the Greek mythology fable of a man battling a half man and half bull monster. MINOTAUR also starred Rutger Hauer, Tony Todd and Ingrid Pitt.

Tom Hardy might be best known for starring in the VENOM Marvel comic monster movies.

Hardy's first leading role was in the 2006 SyFy Channel monster movie MINOTAUR based on the Greek mythology fable of a man battling a half man and half bull monster. MINOTAUR also starred Rutger Hauer, Tony Todd and Ingrid Pitt.

 

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 15

THE SUBSTANCE---trailer released for the horror movie starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.

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LEE---trailer released for the biomovie about World War II photojournalist Lee Miller starring Kate Winslet.

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TERMINATOR ZERO---trailer released for the Netflix animated tv series.

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TULSA KING---trailer released for Season 2.

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AMERICAN SPORTS STORY: AARON HERNANDEZ---trailer released for the FX sports anthology series.

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WOLFS---sources claim George Clooney and Brad Pitt were paid $45 million each to star in the Apple TV+ comedy movie about rival professional fixers.

THE ASSASSIN---Matthew Fox will star in the Max tv series about Victor, an assassin who is betrayed and targeted by other assassins and the CIA. The synopsis says, “To stay alive, Victor must uncover the identity of his betrayer while grappling with a buried spark of humanity that begins to resurface within him and might just be the greatest threat to his survival.”

REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES---Sally Field is in negotiations to star in the Netflix movie based on the novel whose synopsis says, “After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she’s been doing since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat in Puget Sound over thirty years ago. Tova becomes acquainted with curmudgeonly Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus living at the aquarium. Marcellus knows more than anyone can imagine but wouldn’t dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors—until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova. Ever the detective, Marcellus deduces what happened the night Tova’s son disappeared. And now Marcellus must use every trick his old invertebrate body can muster to unearth the truth for her before it’s too late.”

MODERN FAMILY---Sofia Vegara said she hopes the tv series will have a sequel, possibly as a tv movie, “I’d die to be on that set. It’d be so much fun. A TV movie, maybe?”
She said she keeps in touch with Ed O'Neill, “I always joke with him [saying], ‘Ed, don’t die because if we do the sequel, it will take some time, and you’re the oldest of us. You can’t be dead.'"

TRIVIA---the World War II action movie WHERE EAGLES DARE starred Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood and was a big hit as the No. 7 movie in England and No. 13 in the US in 1969. Steven Spielberg gave the movie its ultimate compliment by saying WHERE EAGLES DARE is his favorite war movie.
The movie's origin began after Burton married Elizabeth Taylor, "I decided to do the picture because Elizabeth's two sons said they were fed up with me making films they weren't allowed to see, or in which I get killed. They wanted me to kill a few people instead." Burton consulted producer Elliott Kastner "and asked him if he had some super-hero stuff for me where I don't get killed at the end." Kastner contacted novelist Alister MacLean (THE GUNS OF NAVARONE), who wrote the screenplay (and novel) in six weeks with the title CASTLE OF EAGLES. Kastner did not like the "Awful f*****g title," and changed it to WHERE EAGLES DARE, a line from William Shakespeare's RICHARD III.
Ironically, Burton and MacLean are both buried in the tiny cemetery, Vieux Cimitiere, in Celigny, Switzerland.

Ironically, Richard Burton and Alistair MacLean are both buried in the tiny cemetery, Vieux Cimitiere, in Celigny, Switzerland.

 

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 16

AMBER ALERT---trailer released for the horror movie starring Hayden Panettiere.

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HERE AFTER---trailer released for the horror movie starring Connie Britton.

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MADDEN---Nicolas Cage will star in the David O. Russell biomovie based on the life of Pro Football Hall of Fame coach and sports commentator John Madden.

ANDOR---Diego Luna commented on Season 2, the last season with Ben Mendelsohn and Alan Tudyk returning, “I think people watching ROGUE ONE, after watching Season 2, are going to see a different film. Everything will be signified differently knowing what had to happen for K-2 to be there. It’s going to make you witness the journey of ROGUE ONE in a different way, I think.
And not just with K-2, but with many other characters. I think it’ll be really cool. You’re going to see why K-2 is so important in ROGUE ONE, and how does he get to be such an important character for the Rebellion.”

PLASTIC MAN---Darren Aronofsky (THE WHALE) will reportedly direct the movie based on the comic book for DC Studios.

X-MEN '97---creator Beau DeMayo claimed he was fired by Marvel Studios after he posted fan art of himself during Gay Pride Month. Marvel replied, "Mr. DeMayo was terminated in March 2024 following an internal investigation. Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him immediately and he has no further affiliation with Marvel.” Marvel sources said DeMayo was fired because of accusations of sexual misconduct.

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE---Camila Mendes (RIVERDALE) will play Teela in the live-action movie.

NETFLIX---Netflix renewed THE GENTLEMEN and SUPACELL.

TRIVIA---In THE NAKED GUN's opening fight scene in which Lieutenant Frank Drebin battles international dictators, the hump on Leslie Nielsen's back is a back brace due to an injury that Nielsen suffered in rehearsals for the fight scene.

 

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MONDAY, AUGUST 19

GOODRICH---trailer released for the comedy movie starring Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis.

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UFO---Colin Firth is in talks to co-star with Emily Blunt in the untitled Steven Spielberg movie that reportedly is about UFOs.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS---director Matt Shakman commented on the reboot movie, "I’m not so much looking at the other movies. I’m looking at the comics themselves. I’m a huge comic book fan. I’ve been a big fan of the Fantastic Four since I was a kid.
So going back to Kirby and Lee and Byrne and following all the way up to what’s happening, certainly Hickman and Waid and Ryan North, what he’s been doing. I’m trying to figure out who these characters are to me and how to bring them to life in the best possible way, and that’s really where I’ve started and how we’ve approached it.”

SUPERNATURAL---Harrison Ford is reportedly a candidate to co-star in the untitled JJ Abrams movie starring Glen Powell and Jenna Ortega whose plot is rumored to be about a “young married couple struggling to survive against a supernatural entity”.

BATGIRL---Michael Keaton commented on the superhero movie that was shelved by Warner Bros., “No, I didn't care one way or another. Big, fun, nice check. I like those boys. They're nice guys (BATGIRL directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah). I pull for them. I want them to succeed, and I think they felt very badly, and that made me feel bad. Me? I'm good.”

CATWOMAN---Halle Berry commented on her box office bomb on its 20th anniversary, “I loved it. It got panned. The critics said it sucked b****. And b**** aren’t that bad. What I’m happy about is that the children have found it now on the internet, and they love it. So, it’s so vindicating. Because now they’re saying it’s cool and what the heck was everybody’s problem with it.”

SUPERHEROES---actor Brian Cox said cinema is in bad shape and superhero movies are partly to blame, “What’s happened is that television is doing what cinema used to do. I think cinema is in a very bad way. I think it’s lost its place because of, partly, the grandiose element between Marvel, DC and all of that. And I think it’s beginning to implode, actually. You’re kind of losing the plot.”
He added, “I mean, I’ve done those kind of [projects]. Deadpool meets the guy… Wolverine, who I created, but I’ve forgotten. Actually, when those films are on, there’s always a bit of me [as Stryker] and they never pay me any money…
So it’s just become a party time for certain actors to do this stuff. When you know that Hugh Jackman can do a bit more, Ryan Reynolds… but it’s because they go down that road and it’s box office. They make a lot of money. You can’t knock it.”

BARBIE---Mattel and Illumination are in talks of developing a Barbie animated movie franchise.

DARK MATTER---Apple TV+ renewed the series for Season 2.

TRIVIA---character actress Anne-Marie Martin is best known to tv fans for co-starring on the 1986 comedy cop series SLEDGE HAMMER! where she played police detective Dori Doreau. Martin had a minor role in Michael Crichton's 1984 sci fi movie RUNAWAY (Tom Selleck) where she played villain Dr. Charles Luther's (Gene Simmons) prostitute. In 1987, Martin married Crichton, and they later co-wrote the hit movie TWISTER. They divorced in 2003.

Anne-Marie Martin is best known to tv fans for co-starring on the 1986 comedy cop series SLEDGE HAMMER! where she played police detective Dori Doreau.

Martin had a minor role in Michael Crichton's 1984 sci fi movie RUNAWAY (Tom Selleck) where she played villain Dr. Charles Luther's (Gene Simmons) prostitute.

In 1987, Martin married Crichton, and they later co-wrote the hit movie TWISTER.