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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

DEATH OF A UNICORN---trailer released for the monster movie starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega.

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HAVOC---trailer released for the Netflix movie starring Tom Hardy.

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THE ASSESSMENT---trailer released for the sci fi movie starring Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander.

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BOSCH: LEGACY---trailer released for the last season.

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DISCLOSURE---photo released of Steven Spielberg and Emily Blunt on the film set of the UFO movie in New Jersey.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD---the sequel has earned $290 million worldwide, but its earnings dropped 68% after its first weekend which indicates it chances of reaching $400 million to breakeven are not guaranteed.

JAMES BOND---a source said Christopher Nolan was interested in directing a James Bond movie, but producer Barbara Broccoli did not want Nolan because she had final say on the movie, “Broccoli made clear that no director would have final cut while Bond was under her purview”. Nolan decide to pass on the 007 movie and made OPPENHEIMER which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and made almost $1 billion.

JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX---Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav reportedly had Warner Bros. co-heads Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy fly to company headquarters in New York to complain about FOLIE A DEUX being a box office bomb. Zaslav "railed against the performance of the film… [and] decried the mounting costs of the studio’s upcoming releases”. A Warner Bros. spokesperson denied the repor,t and said it only a “straightforward Joker 2 postmortem”.
Warner Bros. has lost over 50% of its market share since Warner Bros. and Discovery merged in 2022.

THE BEEKEEPER 2---Timo Tjahjanto (NOBODY 2) will direct the sequel to the 2024 Jason Statham action movie.

TRIVIA---Robert Cornthwaite is best known for playing scientists in sci fi classics including THE WAR OF THE WORLDS , THE THING (FROM ANOTHER WORLD) and other movies. Cornthwaite also provided the voice for Dr. Otto Martens in the 1961 Danish revived-dinosaur movie REPTILICUS.

Robert Cornthwaite played Dr. Arthur Carrington in THE THING (FROM ANOTHER WORLD).

Cornthwaite played Dr. Pryor in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.

Cornthwaite provided the voice for Dr. Otto Martens in the US version of the Danish revived-dinosaur movie REPTILICUS.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28

A WORKING MAN---trailer released for the Jason Statham action movie.

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A MINECRAFT MOVIE---trailer released for the movie starring Jason Momoa.

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CONTROL FREAK---trailer released for the Hulu horror movie starring Kelly Marie Tran.

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STAR WARS---Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy denied reports she is retiring as head of Lucasfilm, “I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies. That is the first thing that’s important to say. I am not retiring. What’s happening at Lucasfilm is I have been talking for quite some time with both [Disney’s] Bob [Iger] and Alan [Bergman] about what eventual succession might look like.”
She added, "We’ve been talking about [succession], as I said, nonstop for the last couple of years because for obvious reasons, I’m not going to be here forever. George [Lucas] asked me 13 years ago to step in, and now I’m looking at who’s going to replace me. And as I said, we have a bench of people internally to handle the business, the creative side. The job has grown also since I stepped in. There was no streaming, there weren’t a lot of the things that we’re involved in right now going on. So it has grown.”
Kennedy also commented on the status of three STAR WARS movie projects. She said Shawn Levy's movie is set after the Skywalker Saga, “Shawn’s is a standalone STAR WARS story that’ll take place post-nine, maybe five or six years out...And with this, it’s all pretty much new characters. We may bring some of the characters back from the sequel saga, but pretty much new characters.” Ryan Gosling is in talks to star in the Levy movie.
Kennedy commented on the Taika Waititi STAR WARS movie, “I keep waiting for Taika, and he is working with another writer now. He’s so busy.”
She added, “I love him. I think if we ever do get a script from Taika, it’s going to be fantastic. I already saw a first act that I loved, but tying him down, it’s tricky.”
In 2023, Waititi said, “My thing is I want to take my time with that and get it right. I don’t want to rush this movie.”
Kennedy also commented on the status of the Simon Kinberg trilogy, which will continue the Skywalker Saga, “That has gone exceptionally well, and he’s literally going to script as we speak. We’ll see something probably around June. “

CLAYFACE---James Gunn commented on rumors that Daniel Radcliffe will co-star in the DC Studios movie, “Because we don’t have a director yet, we haven’t even started the casting process. Daniel is great but we certainly haven’t talked to or considered him. So this one is 100% false.”

REMAIN---Jake Gyllenhaal and Alicia Vikander will star in the "supernatural romantic thriller" movie directed and co-written by M. Night Shyamalan.

DEXTER: RESURRECTION---Krysten Ritter will have a recurring role as Mia Lapierre, who may be a serial killer.

DEEP CUTS---Austin Butler and Saoirse Ronan will star in the movie based on the upcoming novel whose synopsis says, “Set in the 2000s, DEEP CUTS is a love story about two music-obsessed twentysomethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade.”

TRIVIA---the HBO WESTWORLD tv series was based on Michael Crichton's hit sci fi movie which starred Richard Benjamin and Yul Bryner. However, the first tv series based on the movie was the 1980 tv sequel BEYOND WESTWORLD in which John Moore, Delos Corporation's Security Chief, must stop mad scientist Simon Quaid from using the theme park's androids to conquer the world. BEYOND WESTWORLD starred Jim McMullan, James Wainwright and Connie Selleca. The series was cancelled after only three episodes aired.

The HBO WESTWORLD tv series was based on the 1973 Michael Crichton movie/novel that starred Richard Benjamin and Yul Bryner.

The first tv series based on the WESTWORLD movie was the 1980 tv sequel BEYOND WESTWORLD, which was cancelled after three episodes.

 

[marco55]

Maybe all those drones and UFO's flying over New Jersey was Spielberg making his movie.
Mark

 

[dragon53]

MONDAY, MARCH 3

BALLERINA---tv ad released for the JOHN WICK spinoff assassin movie starring Ana de Armas.

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DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for Season 2.

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THE ELECTRIC STATE---new trailer released for the Netflix sci fi movie.

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PARENTING---trailer released for the Max comedy horror movie starring Lisa Kudrow and Brian Cox.

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LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM---Andy Serkis update the premiere date for the movie, “Yeah, it is not 2026. It was originally going to be December 2026. It is going to be December 2027. We are right at the beginning of the writing process. We will be prepping later this year. Prep takes a good chunk of time, six or seven months, and then we will be shooting next year. So, it backs into that December 2027 release date.”

ICHABOD---Timothee Chalamet has reportedly been offered the starring role in the Disney live-action movie based on "The Legend of Sleep Hollow" short story.

MAD MAX---George Miller commented on a possible new movie in the franchise, “We’ve got another [MAD MAX] script, but having been doing this long enough where I’m habituated to storytelling, I find myself with way too many stories — not only in my head, but in the form of screenplays or at least very detailed notes that are within reach of screenplays. I’m a professional daydreamer, really. This was seen as my big deficit as a kid: ‘George would do better at school if he didn’t daydream so much’ was on my report card.
So, there’s lots of stories. Indeed, one of them is a MAD MAX. It is not something I would do next, because there’s two things I’m keen to do next. But if for whatever reason the planets align, you can never tell. Too often, you’re lining up to do a movie and then something happens. Some things fall into place and some don’t, so all I can say is we’ll see.”

MCU---Marvel TV head Brad Winderbaum commented on if AVENGERS: SECRET WARS will lead to a reboot of the MCU, “[a reboot] a very difficult thing to do to a living, breathing fictional universe to just start from scratch, because of all of the fan investment and love for the stories that have come so far.”
He was asked if a MCU reboot had ever been discussed, “You’re going to have to ask Kevin [Feige] about the features. I’m on the TV side, but we do navigate the same waters and live in the same universe.”

ACADEMY AWARDS---fans were irate at the 97th Academy Awards "In Memoriam" segment for actors who died since last year's ceremony that were not mentioned. Those ignored included Tony Roberts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Tony Todd, Alain Delon, Martin Mull, Shannen Doherty and Olivia Hussy.

CRAZY RICH ASIANS---Max is developing a tv series based on the 2018 movie.

MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED---Tatiana Maslany will star in the Apple TV+ tv series whose synopsis says, “The half-hour-long series centers around a newly divorced mom (Maslany), who falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer. "

TRIVIA---Academy Award trivia.
Walt Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards won by an individual with 26 Oscars.
Among the 26 Oscars are FERDINAND THE BULL for Best Short Subject, Cartoon in 1938 (the voice of Ferdinand's mother was Walt Disney) and DER FUHRER'S FACE, Best Short Subject, Cartoon in1943 which promoted buying war bonds during World War II.

 

[dragon53]

TUESDAY, MARCH 4

THE WOMAN IN THE YARD---trailer released for the horror movie.

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SIDE QUEST---trailer released for the Apple TV+ fantasy anthology tv series.

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LANTERNS--photo released from the HBO/DCU tv series starring Aaron Pierre as John Stewart and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan.

ACADEMY AWARDS---Adrien Brody's acceptance speech for Best Actor in THE BRUTALIST set a Guinness World Record of 5 minutes and 40 seconds which broke the 1943 record set by Greer Garson for Best Actress in MRS. MINIVER of 5 minutes and 30 seconds.

JOHN WICK 5---Keanu Reeves commented on a new sequel, “You know, the character’s dead. He died in JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4. I know, in Hollywood you can [revive dead characters]. I know, I know, it’s the Hollywood story. Right now, there isn’t [any plans].”

JAMES BOND---William Boyd, author of SOLO: A JAMES BOND NOVEL, commented on Amazon MGM Studios buying the creative rights to the James Bond franchise, "It is too late. The great schism is that the films have nothing to do with the novels. The films are preposterous action movies that have to sell globally and so cannot have too much dialogue."
He added, “Certainly wait for Bond aftershave – and for the theme park and the dinner jackets. The new owners will have to commodify everything about their billion-dollar purchase, so there will be nightclubs and vodkas.”

JENNIFER'S BODY---Amanda Seyfried commented on if a sequel to the 2009 cannibal movie that starred Megan Fox and Seyfried is underway, "We’re making another one.”

TIANA---Disney+ shelved the animated tv series based on the 2009 animated movie THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG.

TRIVIA---sci fi/horror writer Richard Matheson was happy with how Richard Donner directed his screenplay for the classic THE TWILIGHT ZONE episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"---except for the episode's Gremlin. The original director was Jacques Tourneur, who wanted the Gremlin to be as Matheson described it in his screenplay, "It was a hideously malignant face, a face not human. Its skin was grimy, of a wide-pored coarseness; its nose a squat, discolored lump; its lips misshapen, cracked, forced apart by teeth of a grotesque size and crookedness; its eyes recessed and small — unblinking. All framed by shaggy, tangled hair which sprouted, too, in furry tufts from the man’s ears and nose, birdlike, down across his cheeks."
However, Tourneur was replaced by Donner (who later gained fame as the director of SUPERMAN and the LETHAL WEAPON movies) for an unknown reason, and Donner wanted the Gremlin to be a creature. Matheson added, "I didn't think much of that thing on the wing. I wish Jacques Tourneur had directed it, because he had a different idea. The man who was inside that suit looked exactly the way I described him in the story. All they had to do was use him the way he was. Tourneur was going to put a dark suit on him and cover him with diamond dust so that you hardly saw what was out there. This thing looked like a panda bear."

 

[dragon53]

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

THE BONDSMAN---red band trailer released for the Amazon Prime supernatural bounty hunter movie starring Kevin Bacon.

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MOBLAND---trailer released for the Paramount+ crime series starring Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren.

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WARFARE---featurette released for the Alex Garland movie about the Iraq War.

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HAPPY FACE---trailer released for the Paramount+ two-part serial killer miniseries starring Dennis Quaid.

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VERTIGO---Steven Knight (PEAKY BLINDERS) commented on the status of Robert Downey Jr.'s remake of the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Jimmy Stewart, “It’s swirling around in my head as we speak. I’m having flashbacks to about an hour ago when I was writing. It’s an interesting—I mean, of course, people consider it the best film ever made. So you’d have to be an idiot to adapt it, and so that’s what I am."
He added, “…But, you know, I like stuff like that. I like it. It’s just so weird to try and do it and just give it a go. Taking that plot apart is like diffusing a second World War time bomb. It’s all over. It’s very complex, but it’s what’s occupying my waking hours.”

THE BATMAN 2---Robert Pattinson was asked if the sequel will start filming soon, “I f—ing hope so [laughing]. I started out as young Batman, and I’m going to be f—ing old Batman by the sequel.”

SCREAM 7---David Arquette is returning as Deputy Dewey Riley, who was killed off in SCREAM 5.

FBI---CBS cancelled FBI: MOST WANTED and FBI: INTERNATIONAL.

TRIVIA---Academy Award-winning director George Miller, best known as the creator of the MAD MAX movies, was a physician before he turned to making movies. During his final year of medical school, Miller and his younger brother, Chris, made the short film ST. VINCENT'S FILM REVUE for a student competition and won first prize. One of the two cinematographers on the short film was Phillip Noyce, who later directed the Jack Ryan movies PATRIOT GAMES and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER starring Harrison Ford.

Academy Award-winning director George Miller, best known as the creator of the MAD MAX movies, was a physician before he turned to making movies.

Miller's short film ST. VINCENT'S FILM REVUE won a student competition award and one of the short film's cinematographers was Phillip Noyce, who later directed the Jack Ryan movies PATRIOT GAMES and CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER starring Harrison Ford.

 

[dragon53]

THURSDAY, MARCH 6

ANDOR---featurette released for Season 2.

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GUNSLINGERS---trailer released for the Western movie starring Nicolas Cage.

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JAMES BOND---Christopher Nolan is reportedly Amazon MGM Studios' top candidate to direct the next James Bond movie with “half a dozen industry insiders” saying “Nolan remains both the top choice and the perfect filmmaker to reinvigorate Bond." One source said, “There is [a] strong mutual desire to make it happen.”
Pierce Brosnan commented on rumors he is returning as the older James Bond, “I’ve heard of that. Of course, how could I not be interested? But it’s a delicate situation now. I think it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie, really. I think so. It’s a rather romantic notion and idea, but I think everything changes, everything falls apart. I think that it’s best left to another man, really. Fresh blood.”

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY---co-director Joe Russo said Robert Downey, Jr. is writing Dr. Doom's backstory, "...writing backstory [and sharing] costume ideas. We were just on the phone with him this morning before we got here talking about it…He just loves really rich, three-dimensional characters. I think he sees a real opportunity here with that character.”
Russo said Millie Bobby Brown, who starred in the Russo Brothers' THE ELECTRIC STATE, might return in other Russo projects, “Millie’s on the list for every project. You can’t honestly, you just can’t ask for a bigger star right now…Yeah, we’ll put her in anything.”

THE LAST OF US---Joe Pantoliano (THE SOPRANOS, THE FUGITIVE) will play Eugene in Season 2.

MONOPOLY---John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES) will write the screenplay for the movie based on the board game.

ENOLA HOLMES 3---Millie Bobby Brown commented on the status of the sequel, “I’m going to be doing an ENOLA HOLMES 3 this year. We start filming in the coming weeks. I’m very excited.”

THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE---Scott M. Gimple commented on a possible sequel to the miniseries, "The plan was to keep [THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE] limited,”. However, he added, “You never know.”

INVINCIBLE---Jeffrey Dean Morgan will reportedly provide the voice for Conquest in Season 3.

THE ARK---SYFY renewed the series for Season 3.

THE RECRUIT---Netflix cancelled the series.

TRIVIA---Matthew Vaughn is best known for directing X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE. Vaughn is married to supermodel Claudia Schiffer, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for appearing on over 1,000 magazine covers.

Matthew Vaughn is best known for directing X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE.

Vaughn is married to supermodel Claudia Schiffer, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for appearing on over 1,000 magazine covers.

 

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7

THE WOMAN WITH RED HAIR---trailer released for the AI-created World War II French Resistance movie.

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GOVERNMENT CHEESE---trailer released for the Apple TV+ comedy series starring David Oyelowo.

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BLADE RUNNER 2099---star Tom Burke commented on the Amazon Prime tv sequel to the two movies by saying the tv series is “much closer to the aesthetic of the first movie than the second movie.”

EVEL KNIEVEL ON TOUR---Adrien Brody is in talks to co-star with Leonardo DiCaprio in Damien Chazelle's Evel Knievel biomovie. Brody would reportedly play sports promoter Shelly Saltman, who was attacked by Knievel with an aluminum bat. Brody's deal is dependent on DiCaprio's, “No formal offer has gone out, and nothing can be done until DiCaprio closes his deal, the sources stressed.”

KAROSHI---Cynthia Erivo (WICKED) will co-star in the movie that is described as a “corporate thriller with a samurai twist.”

JAMES BOND---James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli commented on Amazon MGM Studios executives in a WALL STREET JOURNAL article, "These people are f*cking idiots." A source said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos "read her quote in the JOURNAL and got on the phone and said, ‘I don’t care what it costs, get rid of her.'"
John Cork, James Bond documentarian, commented on Amazon MGM Studios and 007, “People think they know James Bond because they know the iconography of the martini and the gun and the gadgets. But there is a very particular set of things that occur below the surface that have kept the character resonating for over 60 years. There’s a line from the novel GOLDFINGER about how high tension was Bond’s ‘natural way of life’ and that ‘pressure and danger relaxed him’. Amazon is going to need to get people in the room who understand that.”

WHALEFALL---Austin Abrams (WOLFS) will star in the survival movie based on the novel whose synopsis says, "Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.
The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale."

SAS: ROGUE HEROES---creator Steven Knight said Season 3 is being planned, “We can’t leave it there. We can’t leave it there. No, no, we will. There’s more to come. You wait ‘til [Season] 3. Oh my god.”
He added, “We want to take this to the end of the war, and just a bit beyond.”

THE RECRUIT---executive producer Alexi Hawley posted the possibility of a movie sequel after Netflix cancelled the CIA series, “Is two seasons and a movie a thing? Cause we’d all be there in a heartbeat.”

S.W.A.T.---CBS cancelled the series again.

TRIVIA---in WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE?, Robert Morley played Max Vandeveer, publisher of EPICURUS MAGAZINE, whose article features the world's four greatest meals and thir chefs, but then someone starts killing the four chefs one by one. Morley's portrayal of the culinary connoisseur led to him being awarded the Best Supporting Actor from both the National Society of Film Critics Awards (1979) and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (1978). It also led to Morley making a series of lucrative tv ads for Heinz soup as "Mr. Soup".


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[dragon53]

MONDAY, MARCH 10

THE LAST OF US---trailer released for Season 2.
Also, showrunner Craig Mazin commented on Season 2, “All I’ll say is that for the people who want to see more of the infected… Buckle up!” Creator Neil Druckmann added, “You get to see a different evolution of this infection. It’s kept certain parts of their brain alive, so they are smarter. They coordinate and hide and do things that we’ve never seen any other infected do on this show.”

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BRZRKR---Justin Lin (FAST & FURIOUS) will direct the Netflix movie based on the graphic novel co-created by Keanu Reeves.

STAR WARS---FORBES said new financial statements filed in England show how many Lucasfilm projects went over budget. Also, Daisy Ridley commented on if Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy will be involved with STAR WARS: NEW JEDI ORDER, "I believe that she’s very involved. I think there was reporting that was not true. So yeah, very [involved].”

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS---Within Budget
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY---Over Budget
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI---Over Budget
SOLO: A STAR WAR STORY---Over Budget
STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER---Under Budget
ANDOR Season 1---Within Budget
THE ACOLYTE---Over Budget
ANDOR Season 2---Within Budget

HARRY POTTER---Janet McTeer is in negotiations to play Prof. Minerva McGonagall and Paapa Essiedu is in negotiations to play Prof. Severus Snape in the HBO tv series.

JAMES BOND---a British tabloid's source claims an Amazon MGM Studios leaked internal memo confirms that the new James Bond will be a male actor from England or the Commonwealth., "There have been so many erroneous rumours about the future of Bond. Amazon is committed to keeping the spirit of Bond alive and that means he has to be British or from the Commonwealth – and he has to be male."

A QUIET PLACE 3---producer Brad Fuller commented on the sequel which focuses on Emily Blunt's character, “So, DAY ONE is not A QUIET PLACE 3, just to be clear . . . A QUIET PLACE 3, we’re starting to put it together right now. You know, when we made the first one, John [Krasinski] didn’t have a lot on his plate. He had just come off THE OFFICE, and he wanted to be a director. Now, he’s so in demand, and it’s hard to get him… He’s making a movie now, so as soon as he finishes that, hopefully, he will turn his attention to [A QUIET PLACE 3]. We all want to finish that trilogy, and I’m hopeful there’s even more QUIET PLACE movies beyond that.”

CLOVERFIELD 2---director Babak Anvari (UNDER THE SHADOW) commented on rumors he will direct the sequel to the 2008 monster movie, "If I tell you, I may get [shot] by snipers. They're all there. So, sadly, I cannot divulge anything. [What is my relationship with CLOVERFIELD?] I loved the first one. I watched it twice in the theater, and it was so good. I love tension, so it's a very stressful watch, and I love that."

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR---Taylor Russell (BONES AND ALL) will co-star with Michael B. Jordan in the remake of the 1968 movie that starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway.

PUNISHER SPECIAL PRESENTATION---Jon Bernthal commented on the Disney+ special, “It’s going to be dark; Frank has no interest in breaking out the darkness. It’s not going to be easy. It will not be Punisher-lite, I promise you that.”

TRIVIA---in the tv series MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS, Kurt Russell plays Colonel Lee Shaw, who battles the prehistoric Godzilla and other monsters. One scene has Godzilla attacking a school bus. Ironically, Kurt's father, Bing Russell, appeared in the 1957 sci fi movie THE DEADLY MANTIS in which he played a State Trooper investigating a giant prehistoric Mantis that attacked a bus.

In the tv series MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS, Kurt Russell plays Colonel Lee Shaw, who battles the prehistoric Godzilla and other monsters. One scene has Godzilla attacking a school bus.

Ironically, Kurt's father, Bing Russell, appeared in the 1957 sci fi movie THE DEADLY MANTIS in which he played a State Trooper investigating a giant prehistoric Mantis that attacked a bus.

 

[dragon53]

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

SNOW WHITE---Disney released a film clip from the remake movie.

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SUPERMAN---James Gunn posted a photo of Maria Gabriela De Faria as The Engineer with the caption, “Happy Anniversary to the Engineer, created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, who you can see played to sinister perfection by puppy in human form @thefaria in #Superman this July!”
Gunn also posted a photo of Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific with the caption, "Happy Birthday to my great friend and great actor Edi Gathegi, who you can see in all his technological glory in #Superman in July!"

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON---showrunner Ryan Condal commented on Season 3, "We start [filming] in a couple of weeks."
He added, “For Season 3, there’s much more shape and depth to it right out of the gate, because you’re writing for people you know. There are some major new characters this season, but 85% of them we already knew who they were and it just makes it much more rewarding to write.
Season 2 is huge. Season 3 is huger, in many ways. There are, by my quick count on stage, four major events from the book that we get to adapt and realize in three dimensions in this season. That’s really exciting on a scope-and-scale perspective, and I think it’s the thing the show does really well. The things that we’re building are mind-boggling."

AVATAR: FIRE AND ICE---James Cameron said his wife, actress Suzy Amis Cameron, watched an early version of the new sequel, an eventful watch: “My wife watched the whole thing from end to end – she had kept herself away from it and I wasn’t showing her bits and pieces as we went along. This was December 22nd.
She bawled for four hours. She kept trying to get her s*** back together so she could tell me specific reactions, and then she’d just tear up and start crying again. Finally, I’m like, ‘Honey, I’ve got to go to bed. Sorry, we’ll talk about it some other time’.”

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN---the DC tv series had 7.5 million views which made it Disney+'s biggest premiere of 2025. By comparison, in 2024, AGATHA ALL ALONG had 9.3 million views in its first week, and in 2023, LOKI Season 2's premiere had 10.9 million views in only its first three days.

DEXTER: RESURRECTION---Eric Stonestreet (MODERN FAMILY) will play Al, a serial killer suspect.

LANTERNS---Nicole Ari Parker will play Bernadette, Green Lantern's mother.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD---CBS renewed the series for Season 8 which will be the last season.

CRUEL INTENTIONS---Amazon Prime cancelled the series.

DOCTOR WHO---Russell T. Davies said there talks are underway to find his successor as the showrunner, "...I’m not getting younger, darling. But I will need to slow down at some point. That’ll come. Last time it was Steven Moffat [who replaced him], that wasn’t even a day’s work, like, 'Right, off you go!'
There’s thinking about that, there’s conversations about that, but it’s hard. It’s a tricky one. But they better exist… imagine, I’m dead at the desk. The cliche would kill me!"

TRIVIA---British actress Wanda Ventham is probably best known for playing Colonel Virginia Lake on the 1970s sci fi tv series UFO. Ventham was featured in PEOPLE magazine as one of its "Most Beautiful People in the World". Ventham and her husband, actor Timothy Carlton, are the parents of Benedict Cumberbatch. Ventham and Carlton played the parents of Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes on SHERLOCK in 2014.

British actress Wanda Ventham is probably best known for playing Colonel Virginia Lake on the 1970s sci fi tv series UFO.

Ventham and her husband, actor Timothy Carlton, are the parents of Benedict Cumberbatch. Ventham and Carlton played the parents of Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes on SHERLOCK in 2014.

 

[dragon53]

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

LILO & STITCH---trailer released for the Disney animated movie.

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CUJO---Netflix movie underway based on the Stephen King novel about a woman and her son trapped in a car by their rabid St. Bernard. The 1983 movie version starred Dee Wallace.

MICKEY 17---Puck reported the Robert Pattinson sci fi movie directed by Bong Joon-ho could lose $100 million, “...a knowledgeable source told me that Warners had come up with an alternative cut of Mickey 17 that tested 10 points higher. But the director had final cut and got his way. (Another source familiar with the situation insists the second cut did not test any higher than the first.) Based on the film’s $19 million domestic opening and B Cinemascore, a source estimates that the movie will fall $100 million short of breakeven at the box office. And industry insiders expect a rising tide of red ink as more of the studio’s risky movies open in theaters.”

JOHN WICK---Lionsgate Executive Vice President Jenefer Brown confirmed the new sequel is underway, but did not mention if Keanu Reeves is returning, "Up next, of course, is BALLERINA, which is our first spin-off movie and [we] can't wait for that to release to the world. Of course, we've announced we're working on a fifth JOHN WICK film. I think there are more spinoffs to come, a TV series, video game. We've shared that we're developing a fifth JOHN WICK. [John Wick] may be [dead]. We are all on bated breath waiting to find out."

HARRY POTTER---Jessie Cave, who played Lavender Brown, has started an OnlyFans account for hair fetish members because she is in debt, “I am launching an OnlyFans, it’s not a sexual one. It’s a fetish. Fetish doesn’t necessarily mean sexual.”
She added, “One year. I’ll try for one year. My aim?... To get out of debt. My aim? To empower myself? To prove to those in the past who have misjudged me that I’m not so sweet? To put time into something I never invested in before: self-love...Were my years of Harry Potter conventions in fact research? [It feels] like I’m doing something naughty, something a little f*cked up. I like that. Ripping up the good little actress rule book.”

JOSEPH MERRICK---Jack Huston will direct the biomovie about Joseph Merrick, who suffered from massive deformities and was known as "The Elephant Man". The 1980 David Lynch movie THE ELEPHANT MAN starred John Hurt.

THE MANDALORIAN---Giancarlo Esposito commented on if he will return as Moff Gideon in a future STAR WARS project, “There is a big movie coming out that’s focusing on Mando and The Child. I can’t say it’ll be that. But I hope to be able to join that franchise again, because I think there’s more road for Moff Gideon.”

SNOW WHITE---VARIETY reported that the Disney remake's Hollywood red carpet premiere will be limited to a few photographers and Disney employees instead of the usual dozens of media outlets. The media reduction will ensure that star Rachel Zegler will have minimal interaction with the media due to her many previous controversial comments, including bashing the original 1937 animated movie.

BLACK WIDOW---Scarlett Johansson commented on if she might return as Black Widow in a future MCU project, “Natasha is dead. She is dead. She’s dead. Okay? They just don’t want to believe it. They’re like, ‘But she could come back!’ Look, I think the balance of the entire universe is held in her hand. We’re going to have to let her go. She saved the world. Let her have her hero moment.”

GIANT---Woody Harrelson and Kerry Condon will star in the US remake of the Argentinian movie CORAZON DE LEON in which a female lawyer gets a phone call from the man who found her lost phone and after she develops a phone call relationship with him, she discovers he is short.

LANDMAN---Paramount+ renewed the series for Season 2.

TRIVIA---two stars of hit Western tv shows are descendants of pioneer Daniel Boone. Richard Boone, who starred in HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, is related to Daniel Boone as Richard's father, a corporate attorney, is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Squire Boone, Daniel Boone's brother. Randy Boone, who starred on THE VIRGINIAN, is the nephew of Richard Boone (and the cousin of Pat Boone).
Ironically, Richard Boone and Randy Boone guest starred together on the tv Western CIMARRON STRIP episode "The Roarer".

Pioneer Daniel Boone.

Richard Boone, who starred in HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, is related to Daniel Boone as Richard's father, a corporate attorney, is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Squire Boone, Daniel Boone's brother.

Randy Boone (center), who starred on THE VIRGINIAN, is the nephew of Richard Boone (and the cousin of Pat Boone).

Ironically, Richard Boone and Randy Boone guest starred together on the tv Western CIMARRON STRIP episode "The Roarer".

 

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THURSDAY, MARCH 13

SPINAL TAP II---teaser trailer released for the sequel to the 1984 movie.

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THE ODYSSEY---film set photo released shows Christopher Noland and Tom Holland on a boat. Holland's role is speculated to be Telemachus, the son of Odysseus and Penelope. Another photo shows Holland and Jon Bernthal.

SPIDER-MAN 4---Sadie Sink (STRANGER THINGS) has joined the sequel cast in an undisclosed role.

THUNDERBOLTS---photo released of Bucky Barnes as a Congressman.

BILLION DOLLAR SPY---Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey will star in the movie based on the true story of Russian engineer Adolf Tolkachev, who tried unsuccessfully to give secret military information to the US until a CIA agent was convinced the offer was legitimate.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA---Daniel Craig has reportedly been offered a role in the Netflix movie directed by Greta Gerwig. Speculation is that Craig would play London magician Uncle Andrew Ketterley.

LANTERNS---Nathan Fillion commented on his role as Guy Gardener in the HBO/DC superhero tv series,, “What’s important to know is, you don’t have to be good to be a Green Lantern; you just have to be fearless. So Guy Gardner is fearless, and he is not very good.
He’s not nice, which is very freeing as an actor because you just think to yourself, what is the most selfish, self-serving thing I can do in this moment? And that’s the answer. That’s what you do in that moment. I think if he has a superpower, it might be his overconfidence, in that he thinks he could take on Superman. He can’t!”

NFL---Tracy Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe will star in the untitled NBC comedy series in which a disgraced NFL star seeks to rehabilitate his image by hiring a famous filmmaker to move into his mansion to film a documentary about the player.

THE PERFECT COUPLE---Netflix is developing Season 2 to the mystery series starring Nicole Kidman which will be based on the novel SWAN SONG and will have a new cast. The novel's synopsis says, “It follows what happens when the mysterious Richardson family buys a $22 million house on Nantucket. The Richardsons throw huge parties, flirt with locals, own two yachts and raise the hopes of everyone they meet. When their house burns down and the family’s most essential employee goes missing, the island’s residents are beside themselves.”

TRIVIA---Grace Lee Whitney is best known for playing Yeoman Janice RAND on STAR TREK. Whitney also was the first Chicken of the Sea tuna mermaid in 1952 when she appeared as the mermaid on THE EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW on CBS Radio. Whitney said, "We did the show on a stage before a large studio audience, so the visual part of the show was still important. It was important that the mermaid who sang the tuna jingle look the part. Because I couldn't walk in that costume, stagehands had to pick me up and carry me onstage. I would sing the commercial, then they'd pick me up and carry me off again as I waved my wand to the audience."
Chicken of the Sea states, "....in 1952, our mermaid mascot made her debut. The original illustration, with her tall blonde beehive and button nose, was modeled after Grace Lee Whitney—the actress who played Yeoman Janice Rand on the original Star Trek series."

Grace Lee Whitney is best known for playing Yeoman Janice Rand on STAR TREK.

Whitney also was the first Chicken of the Sea tuna mermaid in 1952 when she appeared as the mermaid on THE EDGAR BERGEN AND CHARLIE McCARTHY SHOW on CBS Radio.

 

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FRIDAY, MARCH 14

F1---trailer released for the racing movie starring Brad Pitt.

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THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA---trailer released for the movie about infamous game show contestant Michael Larson.

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PSYCHO THERAPY---trailer released for the comedy serial killer movie starring Steve Buscemi.

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SUPERMAN---movie insider Jeff Sneider claims Tom Cruise might have a cameo as Jor-El, Superman's father.

HAWAII---Leonardo DiCaprio, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt will star in the untitled Martin Scorsese movie about a Hawaiian mob boss who wages war on rival crime syndicates in the 1960s and 1970s. Netflix is reportedly the top bidder to acquire the movie.

THE TOXIC AVENGER---photo released of Peter Dinklage starring in the remake of the 1984 environmental horror movie.

SINGLE WHITE FEMALE---Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell are in negotiations to star in the remake of the 1992 movie that starred Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

THE NATURAL ORDER---Glen Powell will star in the sci fi movie whose plot is described as, "an elevated sci-fi thriller revolving around the pursuit of eternal life.”

ALTERED STATES---Trey Edward Shults (IT CAME AT NIGHT) will reportedly direct the remake of the 1980 Ken Russell sci fi movie that starred William Hurt.

LEGACY OF SPIES---Matthew Macfadyen will reportedly lay George Smiley in the tv series based on the John le Carre novel. The tv series will be shopped to various outlets.

PRISON BREAK---the Hulu reboot series stars Lukas Gage (EUPHORIA) as a congressional candidate, Drake Rodger (THE WINCHESTERS) as a prison inmate and Emily Browning (AMERICAN GODS) as a corrections officer.

TRIVIA---in Michael Bay's sci fi disaster movie ARMAGEDDON, a Texas-size asteroid is on a collision course with Earth which would destroy mankind. NASA trains a team of blue-collar oil drillers to land on the asteroid and drill a deep hole to insert a nuclear warhead in the asteroid to destroy it. Co-star Ben Affleck asked Bay wouldn't it be easier for NASA to train astronauts to drill and plant the nuclear warhead instead of training oil drillers training to be astronauts. Affleck added, “He told me to shut the f—k up, so that was the end of that talk.”

 

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MONDAY, MARCH 17

THE SHROUDS---trailer released for the David Cronenberg movie starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger.

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FREAKIER FRIDAY---teaser trailer released for the sequel.

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STARSHIP TROOPERS---Neill Blomkamp will write and direct a new movie based on the Robert A. Heinlein novel with “the goal is to go back to the source material”.
The 1997 Paul Verhoeven movie starred Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards and Michael Ironside.

THE ODYSSEY---cast characters for the Christopher Nolan Greek mythology movie are reported to be Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as Telemachus (Odysseus' son), Anne Hathaway as Penelope (Odysseus' wife), Charlize Theron as Circe (Goddess of Sorcery), Zendaya as Athena (Goddess of Wisdom), Benny Safdie as Agamemnon (King of Mycenae) and Lupita Nyong'o as Clytemnestra (Agamemnon's wife).

QUENTIN TARANTINO---movie insider Jeff Sneider said Quentin Tarantino is returning for his last movie after he scrapped THE MOVIE CRITIC, “[Tarantino's] movie is coming back together for an end-of-the-year shoot, or possibly early next year.”
He added, "It could be something else, I don’t know what he’s going to do, but I hear that Quentin is, in fact, going to get back behind the camera in the next 12 months.”

BODY HEAT---Emma Stone has reportedly been offered the starring role in the remake of the 1981 erotic thriller that starred Kathleen Turner and William Hurt.

SPIDER-NOIR---Lukas Haas hinted the Amazon tv series starring Nicolas Cage might be released in color and in black and white, “It was just an incredible project. Everybody involved was amazing. Brendan Gleason, he plays my boss. Just getting to, to do that noir thing. It was very genuine film noir, the way they filmed it, like the long shadows.
We filmed it in — I think it may come out in both black and white and color, but when we filmed it, the monitors were all black and white, so you got this feeling and it looked very, very authentic. To the point that I would actually go and look at the monitor and think I was looking at some older footage, but it was actually just a monitor of what was on the camera at the time. They did a beautiful job with the filters and all that stuff, making it look like genuine old 1930s, black and white film. But obviously, just the writing, and Nic is incredible. It’s just a really fun project and I cannot wait to see how it turns out.”

JAMES BOND---Joe Russo commented on if he and brother Anthony would like the direct a James Bond movie, “We’re focused on the next two AVENGERS movies. But we love Bond. We love working with Amazon. We’ve got a number of projects at AGBO that we’re developing for us to direct right after the AVENGERS films.”

X-MEN---Sadie Sink (STRANGER THINGS) commented on rumors she has met with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige to play Jean Grey in an X-MEN movie, “No. I have nothing to say about this. The rumors are really cool, though. It’s an awesome rumor.”

MCU---Jenna Ortega commented on rumors she will return to the MCU after her brief appearance as the Vice President's daughter in IRON MAN 3, “I did it once. But it was one of the first jobs I ever did, and they took all my lines out.”
She joked, “They even took my name away. I count that, and I move on.”

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS---Disney+ renewed the series for Season 3.

TRIVIA---Danny Glover and Steve Kahan played LAPD cops in two movie franchises. In the LETHAL WEAPON movies, Glover played LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh and Kahan played his boss, Captain Ed Murphy. In PREDATOR 2, Glover played LAPD Lieutenant Michael Harrigan and Kahan played SWAT leader Sergeant Neal Reeger.

In the LETHAL WEAPON movies, Danny Glover played LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh and Steve Kahan played his boss, Captain Ed Murphy.

In PREDATOR 2, Glover played LAPD Lieutenant Michael Harrigan and Kahan played SWAT leader Sergeant Neal Reeger.

 

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TUESDAY, MARCH 18

HAPPY GILMORE 2---trailer released for the Netflix golf sequel starring Adam Sandler.

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THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH---trailer released for the Amazon Prime World War II POW movie starring Jacob Elordi and Ciaran Hinds.

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SHADOW FORCE---trailer released for the action movie starring Omar Sy and Kerry Washington.

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MATERIALISTS---trailer released for the movie starring Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans.

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SGT. ROCK---Colin Farrell is in talks to replace Daniel Craig in the DC Studios movie based on the DC Comics World War II hero.

MORTAL KOMBAT 2---photo released from the sequel shows Karl Urban as Johnny Cage.

CUJO---Darren Aronofsky (THE WHALE) is reportedly in negotiations to direct the Netflix movie based on the Stephen King novel.

MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS---Apple TV+ photo from Season 2 shows Cate (Anna Sawai), May (Kiersey Clemons), Kentaro (Ren Watabe) and Hiroshi (Takehiro Hira) celebrating in front of a crashed Operation Hourglass vehicle.

DUSTER---photo released from the JJ Abrams/Max crime tv series starring Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson set in 1972 where the first black female FBI agent and a getaway driver team up to take down a black mobster.

SAW XI---co-writer Patrick Melton commented on rumors that Lionsgate has cancelled the sequel, “It’s stalled at a managerial level. It has nothing to do with the creative or anything else. There’s higher-level things at play. The reason it’s held up is just, there’s inter-squabbling between producers and Lionsgate. They just can’t quite get on the same page.”

9-1-1: NASHVILLE---Chris O'Donnell will star in the ABC spinoff as Fire Captain Don Sharpe.

TRIVIA---while casting for THE EXORCIST was underway, the role of Chris McNeil was offered to Audrey Hepburn, Anne Bancroft and Jane Fonda. Hepburn turned the role down because she did not want leave her home in Rome to film in the US. Bancroft rejected the role because she was pregnant. In the documentary THE FEAR OF GOD: 25 YEARS OF THE EXORCIST, director William Friedkin said Fonda turned the role down with a telegram saying, “Why would I wanna be involved with a capitalist rip-off piece of sh-t like this?” Friedkin noted, “She was in her anti-Vietnam phase.”
Writer William Peter Blatty said Fonda visited him personally and denied Friedkin's account, with Fonda saying she turned the role down because she "didn't believe in magic."

Jane Fonda turned the Chris McNeil role down with a telegram to director William Friedkin that said, “Why would I wanna be involved with a capitalist rip-off piece of **** like this?” Ironically, at the 1972 Academy Awards, Fonda, with her Oscar for KLUTE, stood next to Friedkin, with his Oscar for THE FRENCH CONNECTION.

 

[marco55]

Looking forward to the Odyssey.
Mark

 

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19

FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK: BALLERINA---trailer released for the spinoff movie starring Ana de Armas.

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DYING FOR SEX---trailer released for the FX miniseries starring Michelle Williams.

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FOG OF WAR---trailer released for the World War II movie starring Jake Abel and John Cusack.

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PREY 2---Amber Midthunder commented on the status of the PREY sequel, “I don’t know what’s happening. I genuinely don’t. I also want to do another one. I would be happy to do another one.”

LEGENDS---Steve Coogan (PHILOMENA) and Tom Burke (FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA) will star in the Netflix heist miniseries whose synopsis says, “Set in the early ’90s, the series follows a group of ordinary British Customs officers, who are given a top-secret mission: infiltrate the country’s most notorious criminal drug gangs, and help take them down from the inside.”

47 RONIN---director Carl Rinsch was arrested for wire fraud and money laundering after he was accused of taking $11 million from Netflix that was intended for his WHITE HORSE sci fi tv series. Prosecutors claim Rinsch spent the $11 million on $1.8 million for credit card bills, $1 million on lawyers to sue Netflix for "more money," $3.8 million on furniture and antiques, $2.4 million for five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari and $652,000 on watches and clothes.

THE LAST RESORT---Daisy Ridley and Alden Ehrenreich will star in the Donald Petrie movie about a hotel magnate's daughter, who travels to the Philippines to scout a location for a new resort, and falls in love with an expatriate pilot.

TULSA KING---Paramount+ renewed the series for Season 3.

AMAZON PRIME---Amazon Prime renewed GOD OF WAR and HOUSE OF DAVID.

SOLAR OPPOSITES---Hulu cancelled the series with Season 6 being the last season.

THE SEX LIVES OF COLLEGE GIRLS---Max cancelled the series, but it may be offered to Netflix.

TRIVIA---David McCallum is best known for playing Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS for 20 seasons. But before NCIS, McCallum became a sex symbol on the 1960s spy spoof tv series THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., where he played Illya Kuryakin, the Russian sidekick for spy Napoleon Solo. At one point, McCallum was receiving 30,000 letters a month from female fans---more than Elvis Presley.
McCallum recalled, “It was wild and at times dangerous. On one occasion I was at a graduation ceremony in Louisiana and all hell broke loose. All these girls were chasing me and these security guys locked me in a toilet for my own safety. In the melee I had chunks of hair pulled out and my clothes were ripped to shreds.”
When Kuryakin had his first tv kiss, 2,000 female students at Wellesley College threatened to blow up the MGM tv studios. MGM's bosses had McCallum send a telegram to Wellesley explaining the kiss was really part of a plot by the evil THRUSH organization, U.N.C.L.E.'s nemesis.
He added, “In New York I went for a walk in Central Park once. It took two police on horseback to rescue me."
McCallum once quipped, “On my gravestone it will say, ‘Here lies David McCallum, also known as Illya Kuryakin, or vice versa’.”
In an episode of NCIS, Special Agent Caitlin Todd asked her boss, Jethro Gibbs, “What did Ducky look like when he was younger?” Gibbs replied, “Illya Kuryakin.”

David McCallum is best known for playing Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS for 20 seasons.

Before NCIS, McCallum became a sex symbol on the 1960s spy spoof tv series THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., where he played Illya Kuryakin.

 

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THURSDAY, MARCH 20

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER---teaser trailer released for the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn.

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DUSTER---trailer released for the JJ Abrams/Max action tv series starring Josh Holloway.

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THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU---the spinoff movie's budget is $166.4 million. By comparison the budgets for other STAR WARS movies are:
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI---$317 million
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY and STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER---$275 million
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS---$245 million
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY---$200 million

STAR TREK: SECTION 31---co-star Rob Kazinsky commented on the Paramount+ tv movie that bombed because fans complained it was not really connected to STAR TREK, “When I got this job I was like… why are they doing a SECTION 31 movie? It’s going to going to be hated from the get-go, no one’s going to want to watch a SECTION 31 movie, and we’re doing a TV budget movie… this isn’t going to be what people want.
Then I spoke to Alex [Kurtzman, producer] and I spoke to Olatunde [Osunsanmi, director] and they explained to me that STAR TREK is dying. I don’t know if people know that. I was talking about STAR TREK at my gym. I’m a boxer and I train with a lot of kids and none of them knew what STAR TREK was.
Can you imagine that? I mean just conceive of that for a second. I would say STAR TREK and they were like 'STAR WARS?’ I’m like 'no STAR TREK' and they were like ‘um I think I’ve heard of it’. Now that was pretty upsetting for me.
STAR TREK’s fan base has never been enormous it’s always been small and Incredibly passionate group, it’s never compared to the HARRY POTTER fan groups or the STAR WARS fan groups it’s never had hundreds of millions of fans around the world. Its always been a dedicated group, and that dedicated group is aging and we are really we are going to lose STAR TREK if we don’t bring in new fans, new eyes and new ways of getting people to love the things that we love.”
He added, “Once I’d heard this I was 100% behind this movie. [It] was you have to make different flavors of STAR TREK for a different time you have to try and bring in new people as you that’s what STARFLEET ACADEMY is going to be about. That’s what SECTION 31’s about. I’m sorry to say it, it wasn’t made for people that love STAR TREK it was made to make people want to learn more about STAR TREK that was the idea – it was for it to bring in new eyes, new people and then introduce them to that world.”

WARNER BROS.---Warner Bros. Discovery is in talks to sell the cancelled COYOTE VS. ACME animated movie to Ketchup Entertainment (FERRARI, THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE). However, movie insider Jeff Sneider said Warner Bros. is not going to sell the cancelled BATGIRL movie, “My sources unfortunately don’t expect that superhero movie to ever see the light of day.”

MCU---Netflix head Ted Sarandos commented on Netflix and Marvel Studios over the past decade and fan complaints about tv shows that looked cheap, “On our shows, we were dealing with the old Marvel television regime, which operated independently at Disney. And they were thrifty. And every time we wanted to make the shows bigger or better, we had to bang on them. Our incentives were not well aligned. We wanted to make great television; they wanted to make money. I thought we could make money with great television.
You want to work with people whose incentives are aligned with yours. When people are producing for you, they’re trying to produce as cheaply as possible. My incentive is to make it as great as possible. That’s a lesson that I take forever. As producers, whatever [Marvel] didn’t spend, they kept. So every time we wanted to add something to the show to make it better, it was a fistfight.”

APPLE TV+---two sources claim Apple TV+ is losing over $5 billion per year since the streamer was launched in 2019.

POWER RANGERS---Disney+, Hasbro and the team that created PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS are in talks to develop a live-action tv series.

SCHOOL SPIRITS---Paramount+ renewed the series for Season 3.

TRIVIA---AIRPORT '77 was the second movie in the AIRPORT disaster movie franchise and was about a skyjacked Boeing 747 jumbo jet that crashes into the Bermuda Triangle where the survivors try to escape from the submerged airliner before they drown.
The sequel starred Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin and George Kennedy. Ironically, Academy Award-winner Olivia de Havilland's cousin is Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the aviation designer and pioneer whose company, de Havilland Aircraft Company, produced the Comet, the world's first jet airliner.
Olivia de Havilland had other aviation-related connections: she had a relationship with her AIRPORT '77 co-star Jimmy Stewart, a highly-decorated bomber pilot in World War II. She also had a relationship with tycoon, aviator and filmmaker Howard Hughes, who set a world record of flying around the world in 91 hours.

In AIRPORT '77, a skyjacked Boeing 747 jumbo jet that crashes into the Bermuda Triangle where the survivors try to find a way to escape the submerged airliner before they drown.

Ironically, Academy Award-winner Olivia de Havilland's cousin is Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, the aviation designer and pioneer whose company, de Havilland Aircraft Company, produced the Comet, the world's first jet airliner.

Olivia de Havilland had other aviation-related connections: she had a relationship with her AIRPORT '77 co-star Jimmy Stewart, a highly-decorated bomber pilot in World War II.

Olivia de Havilland also had a relationship with tycoon, aviator and filmmaker Howard Hughes, who set a world record of flying around the world in 91 hours.

 

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FRIDAY, MARCH 21

THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY---trailer released for Season 2.

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THE TOXIC AVENGER---trailer released for the remake movie starring Peter Dinklage.

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THE FOUR SEASONS---trailer released for the Netflix miniseries starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey that is a remake of the 1981 Alan Alda movie.

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SPIDER-MAN 4---insider rumors claim the sequel will introduce a female villain that will be played by a “... red-haired actress with the initials SS”. Sadie Sink is rumored to play Mary Jane Watson, so this led to speculation the female villain is Sarah Snook or Susan Sarandon. One source said Anne-Hathaway turned the villain role down.

JAMES BOND---Amazon MGM Studios is in negotiations with producers David Heyman (HARRY POTTER, BARBIE) and Amy Pascal (SPIDER-MAN, CASINO ROYALE) to replace the Broccoli family as the producers of the James Bond franchise.

SNOW WHITE---the Disney remake movie has a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 47% based on 97 reviews. This is the second-lowest score of all Disney remake movies with the 2022 PINOCCHIO remake having a score of 27%.

MISSING DAUGHTER---Sydney Sweeney will star in the untitled movie based on the Reddit short story whose plot is described as “a young woman who shows up at a family’s doorsteps ten years after their 18-year-old daughter went missing. Her plan is to convince the family she is their missing child, and stay just for one night — long enough to steal some valuables and get away.” Joe Roth (FORREST GUMP) is the writer.

RESIDENT EVIL---Austin Abrams (EUPHORIA) is reportedly in negotiations to star in the Sony Pictures reboot movie.

MEET THE PARENTS 4---John Hamburg (ME TIME) is in negotiations to direct the sequel.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO---reboot movie underway starring Rege-Jean Page.

SEVERANCE---Apple TV+ renewed the series for Season 3.

TRIVIA---Elvis Presley had blonde hair, but he dyed it black because he thought it emphasized his blue eyes. Graceland archivist Angie Marchese said, “Elvis was born blonde-haired, blue-eyed. He dyed his hair black as he thought it brought out his facial features better on film." He originally used shoe polish to blacken his hair, but when he achieved success, he could afford to buy real hair dyes that included "signature mix of hair dyes: Miss Clairol 51D and Black Velvet / Mink Brown by Paramount."
Priscilla Presley said when she first met Elvis, he wanted her to dye her hair to black to build up the resemblance between them, "He did want me to dye my hair black when I was young so we could look alike a little bit."

 

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MONDAY, MARCH 24

ALIEN: EARTH---trailer released for the FX spinoff tv series.

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DOCTOR WHO---trailer released for Season 15.

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SNOW WHITE---the Disney live-action remake made only $43 million in its US premiere which made it the lowest-earning Disney live-action remake in recent years. The projection was for a $67 million premiere. Tim Burton's 2019 DUMBO remake had a $46 million premiere which would be $57 million in 2025 dollars.

JAMES BOND---Puck's Matthew Belloni commented on rumors that Alfonse Cuaron is in talks to direct the next James Bond movie, “It’s an informed, speculative pick here…And it is not Chris Nolan. I think the fact that he’s tied up for the next year and a half on THE ODYSSEY, I just don’t think Amazon wants to wait that long. I think Jeff Bezos says, ‘Give me my Bond movie now,’ and they just cannot wait. The fact that they went directly to these producers suggests…But they want to move pretty fast on this. I think it’s going to be Alfonso Cuarón.”
Belloni thinks new co-producer David Heyman's relationship with Cuaron will be a big factor, “They go back to GRAVITY. They go back 21, 22 years to HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN. They’ve worked together a long time, they’re friendly. I have heard that there are some talks, that there is a take, and that they are serious. Now, it’s not like he’s negotiating or anything like that, but my prediction is that Alfonso Cuarón will direct the next James Bond.”

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER---the revival series will have Sarah Michelle Gellar returning as Buffy, who is a mentor to Nova, who is a “determined and fearless high school vampire hunter”.

VANISHED---Kaley Cuoco, Sam Claflin and Matthias Schweighofer will star in the mystery tv series whose synopsis says, “When a romantic getaway to Paris takes a dark turn with the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.”

BOSCH---Titus Welliver said he and author Michael Connelley have discussed the possibility of a BOSCH spinoff movie, including Bosch tracking down a killer in England, "Mike and I have certainly bandied about the idea of doing a Bosch feature. There's always a distinct possibility, like they've done with JACK RYAN and REACHER, [for] spun-off feature-length films. So, is there a possibility of life for that character? I think so."

MY COUSIN VINNY---Ralph Macchio said there may be a reboot of the 1992 lawyer movie with Joe Pesci maybe returning in a cameo role, "Yeah, I've had conversations with other writers about that.... Yeah, that one's a beloved piece. It's about finding the smart angle in.
[Pesci] could FaceTime it in here."

TRIVIA--Leslie Nielsen and Richard Anderson co-starred together twice in which Anderson's character was killed. In the sci fi classic movie FORBIDDEN PLANET, Nielsen played Commander JJ Adams and Anderson played Chief Quinn, who was killed by the Monster From the Id. In the COLUMBO episode "Lady in Waiting", Nielsen played lawyer Peter Hamilton and Anderson played Bryce Chadwick, who was killed by his sister, Beth, played by Susan Clark.

In the sci fi classic movie FORBIDDEN PLANET, Leslie Nielsen played Commander JJ Adams and Richard Anderson played Chief Quinn, who was killed by the Monster From the Id.

In the COLUMBO episode "Lady in Waiting", Nielsen played lawyer Peter Hamilton and Anderson played Bryce Chadwick, who was killed by his sister, Beth, played by Susan Clark.