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TUESDAY, MARCH 25

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

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FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES---trailer released for the sequel.

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THE MUMMY---Jack Reynor (MIDSOMMAR) and Laia Costa (VICTORIA) will play a married couple with their daughter who encounter a deadly mummy in the Lee Cronin reboot movie. Cronin said, “This will be unlike any MUMMY movie you ever laid eyeballs on before. I’m digging deep into the earth to raise something very ancient and very frightening.”

UFO---untitled Joseph Kosinski/APPLE TV+ movie underway about two national security employees who discover a secret government program to recover and reverse-engineer crashed UFOs.

TWISTERS 2---a sequel to the 2024 movie is underway, but it is not known if Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones will return.

THE CANNONBALL RUN---Taylor Sheridan (YELLOWSTONE) is reportedly developing a Paramount+ tv series based on the 1981 road race comedy movie that starred Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Dom DeLuise, Adrienne Barbeau and Sammy Davis, Jr.

JUSTICE LEAGUE---Ben Affleck commented on why he is not interested in returning as Batman, "I am not interested in going down that particular genre again, not because of that bad experience, but just: I’ve lost interest in what was of interest about it to me. But I certainly wouldn’t want to replicate an experience like that. A lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations. And also by the way, I wasn’t bringing anything particularly wonderful to that equation at the time, either. I had my own failings, significant failings, in that process and at that time... in terms of why I had a bad experience, part of it is that what I was bringing to work every day was a lot of unhappiness. So I wasn’t bringing a lot of positive energy to the equation. I didn’t cause problems, but I came in and I did my job and I went home. But you’ve got to do a little bit better than that.”

72 HOURS---Kevin Hart will star in the Netflix comedy movie about a 40 year-old executive who tries to save his failing career by joining a group of 20-something co-workers on a three-day bachelor party.

BLACK WIDOW---Emmy Rossum and Amanda Seyfried are reportedly in talks to star in the Hulu tv series based on the 1987 movie that starred Debra Winger and Theresa Russell.

CRYSTAL LAKE---Linda Cardellini will play Jason Voorhees' mother in the Peacock tv prequel to FRIDAY THE 13TH.

TRIVIA---in the 1980 jewel heist movie ROUGH CUT, international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynold)s and his accomplice, Gillian Bromley (Lesley-Anne Down), arrived at the Antwerp airport disguised as Arabs. As they leave, Gillian said to Jack, "That was the worst Peter Sellers I have ever heard." Jack quipped, "I wasn't doing Peter Sellers. I was doing Peter Sellers doing Omar Sharif."
Peter Sellers, Lesley-Anne Down and Omar Sharif co-starred in THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN in 1976.

In ROUGH CUT, international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynold)s and his accomplice, Gillian Bromley (Lesley-Anne Down), arrived at the Antwerp airport disguised as Arabs. As they leave, Gillian said to Jack, "That was the worst Peter Sellers I have ever heard." Jack quipped, "I wasn't doing Peter Sellers. I was doing Peter Sellers doing Omar Sharif."

Peter Sellers, Lesley-Anne Down and Omar Sharif co-starred in THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN in 1976.

 

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

THE RITUAL---trailer released for the exorcism movie starring Al Pacino.

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DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN---mid-season trailer released for the Marvel/Disney+ tv series.

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE--FINAL RECKONING---sources claim the FINAL RECKONING's budget has reached $400 million which means it would need to make $1 billion to be profitable. By comparison, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE FALLOUT made $791 million and DEAD RECKONING made only $571 million which resulted in a loss of $100 million. The most expensive movie ever made was JJ Abrams' STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS which cost $447 million.

SNOW WHITE---VARIETY said the SNOW WHITE remake is a "Disaster" whose premiere made $34 million less than box office bomb JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX, but SNOW WHITE cost $70 million more to make. VARIETY said much of the blame falls on star Rachel Zegler whose controversial comments led to a deluge of fan criticism which resulted in producer Marc Platt, who flew to New York and spoke directly to Zegler, but she continued to make controversial comments. Consequently, Disney hired a "social media guru" to screen Zegler's online comments.
VARIETY also said, "Behind the scenes, death threats toward Zegler’s co-star Gal Gadot, who is Israeli, spiked, and Disney had to pay for additional security for the mother of four."
A Disney source said about Zegler, “She didn’t understand the repercussions of her actions as far as what that meant for the film, for Gal, for anyone."

THE NAKED GUN---Paul Walter Hauser announced his character in the reboot movie,“In NAKED GUN, I am playing the son of the George Kennedy character from the originals, Captain Ed Hocken. Liam Neeson is playing the son of Leslie Nielsen’s character, Frank Drebin Jr.“ Pamela Anderson and Danny Huston also star.

THE BOMBING OF PAN AM 103---synopsis released from the Netflix/BBC miniseries starring Patrick J. Adams about the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270 people in 1988, “The six-part series follows the untold story of the Scots-US investigation into the attack and the devastating effect it had on the small town and the families who lost loved ones. From the initial exhaustive search for evidence on the ground in Scotland, via the US and Malta to the trial at Camp Zeist in 2000, the series leads up to the upcoming new trial in the US. THE BOMBING OF PAN AM 103 also highlights the human impact on the investigators, the families and the Lockerbie community as it sought to rebuild and connect with bereaved families around the world.”

JOHN CARPENTER---John Carpenter commented on if he has plans to direct another movie after his last movie was THE WARD in 2010, "Plans? I don’t know. I would love to direct again, given the right circumstances. But I’m not the same kid anymore who will do it for any amount of money. I can’t back into a budget anymore. I’m too old. It’s too hard. But directing is the love of my life. I’ll never stop loving that."

BE MY BABY---Barry Jenkins (MOONLIGHT) will direct the biomovie about The Ronettes singer Ronnie Spector played by Zendaya.

ADOLESCENCE---the British miniseries set a Netflix miniseries record of 66.3 million views in two weeks.

RED SONJA---the reboot movie starring Matilda Lutz received a R-rating for "strong/bloody violence".

TRIVIA---the Ray Harryhausen movie THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD starred John Phillip Law and Caroline Munro. Orson Welles was supposed to play the Oracle of Knowledge, but when he wanted too much money for the role, producer Charles H. Schneer asked his friend, Robert Shaw, who was on vacation near the film site in Spain, to replace Welles. Shaw agreed, but he did not want to be included in the credits because thought the fantasy movie was beneath him. He was unrecognizable under the makeup and his voice was electronically altered. Shaw was paid $12,300 for 20 minutes to film the scene.

The Ray Harryhausen movie THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD starred John Phillip Law and Caroline Munro.

Orson Welles was supposed to play the Oracle of Knowledge, but when he wanted too much money for the role, producer Charles H. Schneer asked his friend, Robert Shaw, who was on vacation near the film site in Spain, to replace Welles. Shaw was unrecognizable under the makeup and his voice was electronically altered. Shaw was paid $12,300 for 20 minutes to film the scene.

 

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER---trailer released for the movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro.

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FIGHT OR FLIGHT---trailer released for the comedy skyjacking movie starring Josh Hartnett.

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RUST---trailer released from the Western movie starring Alec Baldwin in which cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally killed.

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AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY--the cast for the sequel was released.

Chris Hemsworth as Thor
Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Captain America
Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / The Winter Soldier
Letitia Wright as Shuri / Black Panther
Paul Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man
Wyatt Russell as John Walker / U.S. Agent
Tenoch Huerta Mejia as Namor
Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm / The Thing
Simu Liu as Shang-Chi
Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast
Lewis Pullman as Bob / Sentry
Danny Ramirez as Joaquin Torres / Falcon
Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm / Human Torch
David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
Winston Duke as M'Baku
Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost
Tom Hiddleston as Loki
Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier
Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Alan Cumming as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
Rebecca Romijn as Mystique
James Marsden as Scott Summers / Cyclops
Channing Tatum as Remy LeBeau / Gambit
Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic
Robert Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom

Among the list of MCU actors not returning in DOOMSADAY are: Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olsen, Chris Evans, Tom Holland,Hugh Jackman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Pratt, Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Reynolds, Jeremy Renner, Brie Larson, Don Cheadle, Paul Bettany, Benedict Wong, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Cox and Hayley Atwell.

THE ODYSSEY---photos from the film set in Italy show Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon (beard) as Odysseus and Zendaya as Athena, Goddess of Wisdom.

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING---Renee Zellweger has joined the cast in an undisclosed role for Season 5.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER---synopsis and poster released for the reboot movie, “When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge. As one by one the friends are stalked by a killer, they discover this has happened before, and they turn to two survivors of the legendary Southport Massacre of 1997 for help.”

YELLOWSTONE---movie insider Matthew Belloni said CBS is in the early stages of developing a YELLOWSTONE spinoff with Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton, "YELLOWSTONE news: CBS is developing a spinoff series starring Luke Grimes. This is a procedural and separate from the Cole Hauser/Kelly Reilly spinoff that is now in pre-production. Interesting fodder for legal question of what is a "spinoff" and thus goes to Peacock not Par+."
Also, CBS renewed WATSON and cancelled AFTER MIDNIGHT.

TRIVIA---in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Paul Maxwell played villain Panama Hat, who was killed when the freighter Vasquez de Coronado blew up and sank.
In HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, Maxwell played movie studio co-owner Jeffrey Clayton, who was killed by a brainwashed actor disguised as the Teenage Frankenstein.

In INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Paul Maxwell played villain Panama Hat, who was killed when the freighter Vasquez de Coronado blew up and sank.

In HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, Maxwell played movie studio co-owner Jeffrey Clayton, who was killed by a brainwashed actor disguised as the Teenage Frankenstein.

 

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FRIDAY, MARCH 28

THE ODYSSEY---photo released from the film set in Italy shows Tom Holland as Telemachus, the son of Odysseus.

BLADE---Cary Fukunaga is the latest director to leave the reboot movie starring Mahershala Ali, and Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige has reportedly picked Chad Stahelski (JOHN WICK) to be the top candidate to replace Fukunaga. Earlier, Stahelski said, "Of all the things out there, I would take a swing at BLADE in a second."

RESIDENT EVIL---Academy Award-winner Mikey Madison has reportedly been offered the lead role in the reboot movie.

PEACEMAKER---singer Brey Noelle will play Batman villain White Rabbit in Season 2.

SNOW WHITE---the Disney remake movie has earned only $94 million globally, but the movie's budget is now reported to be $350 million, not $270 million as stated earlier.

WHALEFALL---Josh Brolin is in talks to co-star with Austin Butler in the 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."

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER---Steven Yuen (THE WALKING DEAD) has joined the voice cast in an undisclosed role.

SCOOBY-DOO---Netflix live-action reboot tv series underway based on the animated tv series. The reboot series will have Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and Freddy investigating a lost Great Dane puppy who was a witness to a supernatural murder.

TRIVIA---Steve McQueen's legendary career as "The King of Cool" can be partially attributed to Sammy Davis, Jr. Davis was a co-star in John Sturges' World War II movie NEVER SO FEW which starred Frank Sinatra and Gina Lollobrigida. However, in an interview, Davis said he was a better singer than Sinatra, which infuriated Sinatra, who then had Davis replaced with McQueen. Sturges liked McQueen so much, he later hired him for THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN and THE GREAT ESCAPE, which helped launch McQueen's career as a superstar.

In John Sturges' NEVER SO FEW, Frank Sinatra had co-star Sammy Davis, Jr. replaced by Steve McQueen after Davis said in an interview that he was a better singer than Sinatra.

Sturges liked McQueen so much, he later hired him for THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN and THE GREAT ESCAPE, which helped launch McQueen's career as a superstar.

 

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MONDAY, MARCH 31

SUPERMAN---a source claims Bradley Cooper will have a cameo as Jor-El, Superman's father, "He appears in the first couple minutes of the movie..." Marlon Brando played Jor-El in the original 1978 movie.
A scooper posted about the movie, "The Superman movie is very much like All-Star Superman — no real central plot, just Lex scheming in different ways to kill Superman or get him locked up. A kaiju, a black hole in the sky, a conflict between nations, a clone — he throws everything at him. He also turns the public against Superman and gets him arrested."

ROAD OF BONES---movie underway based on the novel about an American who encounters a supernatural horror while filming a documentary on the 1,200 mile-long Kolyma Highway in Siberia where hundreds of thousands of inmates died while building the highway during the Stalin era and their bodies were left underneath.

BLADE---shortly after Chad Stahelski was reported to be the latest candidate to direct the Marvel reboot movie, another rumor claimed that Marvel has "nixed" the movie and it is longer in the active status.

CHIEF OF WAR---photo released of Jason Momoa as warrior Ka'iana in the Apple TV+ historical series set in 18th century Hawaii.

BRAWLER---Zack Snyder will direct the UFC movie whose plot is about a young fighter “from the rough streets of Los Angeles, who gets a shot at a UFC championship, battling his inner demons as he fights for redemption.”

CITADEL---Amazon Prime has delayed Season 2 until 2026 because it is "unhappy" with what has been seen of Season 2. Also, the spinoffs have been put on hold.

COYOTE VS. ACME---Ketchup Entertainment confirmed it has bought the shelved animated/live-action movie from Warner Bros.

BONES---Emily Deschanel said she and other cast members have talked about a revival of the crime series, “People talk about potentially rebooting the show in some way. It is the 20th anniversary this year, so it’d be fun to do something for that, but I don’t know. I’m not in charge of such things, but I’d be down for it.”

A MAN ON THE INSIDE---Ted Danson's wife, Mary Steenburgen, has joined the Season 2 cast as Mona Margadoff, “a former musician who factors heavily in the case Charles is trying to solve.”

TRIVIA---in Steven Spielberg's MINORITY REPORT, Jessica Capshaw, Spielberg's stepdaughter and the daughter of Spielberg's wife, Kate Capshaw, played Evanna, the Precrime transport pilot.

 

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TUESDAY, APRIL 1

STAR WARS---Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy denied reports that she is leaving her job. Kennedy said she is staying at Lucasfilm so she can continue George Lucas' vision of STAR WARS by personally supervising the production of SPACE BALLS 2: THE SCHWARTZ AWAKENS.

INDIANA JONES AND THE INVASION OF THE PEOPLE'S CAR---Harrison Ford returns as Indiana Jones using the latest ILM de-aging technology in the sequel set in 1940 Nazi Germany. Jones tries to sabotage the plan by Adolf Hitler and Ferdinand Porsche to convert thousands of Volkswagen Beetles, "the People's Car" which can float because of its "unibody construction, well-sealed doors and floor pan", to ferry over 250,000 German soldiers across the English Channel to invade England in Operation Sea Lion.

GALAXY QUEST 2: THE WRATH OF KRELL---aliens on the planet Krell receive tv signals of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY and the countless other cloned Paramount+ tv spinoffs and conclude that Earth is a dire threat to the galaxy, so Krell launches an invasion of Earth to stop the tv signals. The starship Enterprise-Z, commanded by Captain James T. Kirk, Commander Peter Quincy Taggart and their crews, travel into deep space where no man has gone before to repel the Krell invasion.

SNOW WHITE 2: THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN---in the sequel, the UC Berkeley Seismology Lab picks up a tremor of 8.9 on the Richter Scale at the Los Angeles cemetery where Walt Disney is turning over in his grave after it was reported that the SNOW WHITE remake might lose $300 million. The Seven Dwarfs dig up Disney's body and move it to prevent an earthquake from destroying Hollywood.

CHINATOWN 2: WATERWORLD---Jack Nicholson is coming out of retirement to star in the sequel to the classic 1974 movie in which private detective Jake Gittes investigates why there was inadequate water to fight the deadly 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles which was partly caused by incompetence and corruption in city hall, the city fire department and the governor's mansion.

JFK---after the government released thousands of documents on the John F. Kennedy assassination, Oliver Stone testified before the House of Representatives hearing on the assassination and said the released documents indicating Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone are not true. Stone then showed a deleted scene from his assassination movie JFK in which Woody Harrelson played his father, professional hitman Charles Harrelson, who was one of the "Three Tramps" who were arrested near Dealey Plaza after the assassination.
Stone testified the deleted scene is based on Woody Harrelson telling Stone his father admitted he was part of the assassination. The deleted scene shows Charles Harrelson (Woody Harrelson) telling District Attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) that the Three Tramps were part of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy that included Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.
Stone told the members of Congress he deleted the scene from the final movie because, "I feared everyone would think I was a conspiracy nut."

The "Three Tramps", including Charles Harrelson, are escorted by Dallas police after they were arrested near Dealey Plaza after the John F. Kennedy assassination.

AIRPLANE! 3: FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX---the ANYONE BUT YOU stars Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney reunite in the sequel to the classic 1982 spoof movie with Powell playing pilot Ted Striker and Sweeney playing stewardess Elaine Dickinson. In the sequel, Ted and Elaine are now married, and Ted still suffers from chronic PTSD and can barely function, but he finally accepts the job at Boeing where he is the Supervisor of Quality Control to Keep Parts From Falling Off Airliners in Mid-air.

MAROONED---Columbia Pictures is developing a remake of its 1969 outer space disaster movie that starred Gene Hackman, Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus and David Janssen. In the remake, NASA's first manned mission to Mars, the Boeing Capricorn One, has a systems failure which leaves its three astronauts drifting in space with only days to live. The President of the United States asks Cletus Ganz, the world's richest man and founder of Boeing's bitter rival, GalaXY Z, to launch its Kitty Hawk spaceship to rescue the crew of the derelict Boeing spacecraft before its crew dies.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN---Christopher Nolan commented on rumors his next movie is a remake of the high-tech helicopter movie BLUE THUNDER that starred Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell and Warren Oates. Nolan denied the rumors and said his next movie will be a remake of the high-tech helicopter tv series AIRWOLF that starred Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine and Jean Bruce Scott. Nolan said his AIRWOLF movie will star Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Kenneth Brannagh, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy and Matt Damon.

JOHN WICK---because Hollywood's endless number of assassin movies are making billions of dollars for Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences created a new Oscar category for the Best Assassin Picture, the John Wilkes Booth Academy Award, which is named after the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Keanu Reeves, whose JOHN WICK franchise led the way for the deluge of assassin movies, received the first John Wilkes Booth Oscar.

THE NAKED GUN 4 1/4: LAW OF TOUGHNESS---the reboot movie starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson has added Sean "Diddy" Combs, who will play LAPD Officer Nordberg. OJ Simpson played Nordberg in the original movies. Ironically, attorney Johnnie Cochran was part of OJ Simpson's "Dream Team" in which Simpson was found not guilty of two murders, and Cochrane was Combs's attorney in which Combs was found not guilty of bribery and possessing stolen weapons.

TRIVIA---the Netflix animated Dr. Seuss tv series GREEN EGGS AND HAM was cancelled in 2022 after the price of eggs soared to a record high. Netflix may revive the tv series after the price of eggs dropped 63% to an average of $3.27 a dozen.

 

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TUESDAY, APRIL 2

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH---trailer released for the Apple TV+ movie starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman.

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

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KARATE KID: LEGENDS---new trailer released for the sequel.

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ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD---Quentin Tarantino, director David Fincher and Brad Pitt are working on a Netflix sequel to the 2019 movie with Pitt returning as stuntman Cliff Booth. A source claimed that Margot Robbie's representative said, “She’s available if they need her”. Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in talks to return, but a source said, “It is not certain this will all work out, and it seems unlikely that DiCaprio will take part in this one.”
Tarantino's sequel screenplay evolved from his cancelled THE MOVIE CRITIC. The budget for the movie is said to be $200 million and filming is supposed to begin in July in California.

GUNDAM---Sydney Sweeney is in negotiations to star in the Legendary Pictures live-action movie based on the Japanese military sci fi franchise. Sweeney reportedly will be paid $7 million.

SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE---Sony Pictures release a photo from the animated sequel which premieres on June 4, 2027.

SPIDER-MAN---Marvel Studios announced the title for the new sequel is SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY. Tom Holland commented on the sequel, "I know we left you with a massive cliffhanger at the end of NO WAY HOME, so SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY is a fresh start. It is exactly that. That’s all I can say.”
Also, Tom Hardy was asked if studio politics prevented a crossover between Hardy's Venom and Tom Holland's Spider-Man, “I don’t know how to answer that question. We got close. We got as close as I could possibly imagine getting, apart from doing a film together, which I would have loved to have done because that just means so much fun. And for all the reasons that you explained ultimately in there.”

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 5---Lionsgate head Adam Fogelson confirmed that Keanu Reeves, director Chad Stahelski and producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are returning for the new sequel, “Keanu, Chad, Basil and Erica would not return unless they had something truly phenomenal and fresh to say with these characters and this world. We can’t wait for audiences to see where the journey takes us next.”
Reeves will also provide the voice for the untitled animated prequel movie in which John Wick kills his rivals in one night in order to fulfill his obligations to the High Table. The spinoff movie CAINE spinoff movie starring Donnie Yen is also underway.

THE HUNGER GAMES: SUNRISE ON THE REAPING---Billy Ray is returning to write the sequel screenplay and Francis Lawrence is in talks to return as director.

WARNER BROS.---Warner Bros. Animation is developing movies for Looney Tunes, The Flintstones and Tom and Jerry.

TRIVIA---the Orkan spacesuit worn by Robin Williams in MORK & MINDY was originally worn by Phillip Pine, who played Colonel Green, in the STAR TREK episode "The Savage Curtain". For MORK & MINDY, a silver triangle was added to the spacesuit. Paramount Pictures sold the spacesuit to a private collector, and it is now on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.

The Orkan spacesuit worn by Robin Williams in MORK & MINDY was originally worn by Phillip Pine, who played Colonel Green, in the STAR TREK episode "The Savage Curtain". For MORK & MINDY, a silver triangle was added to the spacesuit.

The Orkan spacesuit is now on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York with the dress worn by Robin Williams in MRS. DOUBTFIRE.

 

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THURSDAY, MARCH 3

PRIMITIVE WAR---trailer released for the soldiers vs. dinosaurs movie based on the novels.

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STAR WARS: TALES OF THE UNDERWORLD---trailer released for the Disney+ animated tv series.

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FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S 2---teaser trailer released for the horror sequel.

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THE ACCOUNTANT 2---trailer released for the sequel starring Ben Affleck.

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M3GAN 2.0---trailer released for the horror movie sequel.

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NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH---trailer released for the thriller movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Jack Quaid.

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PREDATOR---the title of the 20th Century Studios animated movie is PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS. It will be directed by PREY director Dan Trachtenberg and the plot reportedly involves, “The Predator working their way through three different kinds of warriors.”

BATMAN FOREVER---after Val Kilmer's death, fans have asked for Warner Bros. to release director Joel Schumacher's version. Akiva Goldsman, who was a co-writer on the movie, said, the Schumacher cut “does exist.”
He added, “It was darker. Bruce was haunted by his past. He felt guilt. It’s all the stuff you read. None of that is mysterious. It was a more modern interpretation of the narrative, and what’s not dissimilar to those [stories] that we sort of caught up with now.” Goldsman said he discussed releasing the Schumacher cut with Warner Bros. after Schumacher died in 2020.
The movie also starred Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman.

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS---photo of the reboot movie's official popcorn bucket shows The Thing's head.

ELLE---photo released from the Amazon Prime LEGALLY BLONDE prequel tv series starring Lexi Minetree.

TRIVIA---Richard Kiel, 7' 1-1/2", is best known for playing Jaws in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME and MOONRAKER. Kiel's wife, Diane, is 5' 1".

Richard Kiel, 7' 1-1/2", with Barbara Bach in THE SPY WHO LOVED ME.

Kiel's wife, Diane, is 5' 1".

 

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4

THE NAKED GUN----trailer released for the reboot movie starring Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.

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THUNDERBOLTS---featurette released for the Marvel superhero movie.

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THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS---THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER states that Marvel studios head Kevin Feige showed a trailer for the reboot movie at CinemaCon which shows Sue Storm is pregnant and a female Silver Surfer, "In the new trailer, which was not released online, Reed Richards and Sue Storm learn that they are expecting a baby, leading to a conflicted reaction. 'We can do this,' Kirby says assuringly.
As the team battles threats from Galactus, Kirby remains resolute. 'We will face this together,; she says in the trailer. 'We will fight it together — as a family.'
In the film, Reed Richards notes in a press conference to a worried populace, 'We will protect you.' The footage saves a big surprise for last, as the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) goes zooming along."
Also, photos were released of Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm and Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm as they prepare to journey into outer space.

PREDATOR: BADLANDS---the movie will have Elle Fanning as Thia, who teams up with a "good guy" Predator, who was exiled from his home planet, as they both seek redemption. Fanning said, “My character actually teams up with the Predator, and you get to see him in a whole new light.”
Also, more details of the animated movie PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS claim the movie has Predators battling foes in different eras that might include samurai in one era and pirates in another era.

AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY---Chris Pratt commented on if he will return for DOOMSDAY, “I can’t say, for fans of mine, where they’ll see Star-Lord again, but I can tell them we made a promise at the end of [GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY] VOL. 3 that the legendary Star-Lord will return, and he will return.”
A reported asked Halle Berry if she is returning as Storm in DOOMSDAY, “Fans want to see your name on the chair for the next announcement of Avengers: Doomsday, so we didn’t see Storm. So we want to see your name" and Berry replied, “Keep waiting. It’s not going to be there.”

FUBAR---Netflix Season 2 photo released of Carrie-Anne Moss joining the cast as Germany spy Greta Nelso.

TANGLED---Disney has put the live-action remake of the 2010 animated movie on pause.

THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS---Laurence Fishburne commented on why he did not return for the sequel, “I offered my services to the fourth MATRIX, and they didn’t respond well to that. Hey, it’s not like I didn’t say, ‘I’d like to offer my services.’ I did. And for whatever reason, that didn’t happen, OK.”
He also commented on if he might return for THE MATRIX 5, “It depends on the circumstances who was involved, how well the script has been written, if they offer me…We’ll see…”

ABC---ABC renewed SHIFTING GEARS, WILL TRENT, THE ROOKIE, 9-1-1 and GREY'S ANATOMY.

HONEY---BBC KILLING EVE prequel series about the early days of Carolyn Martens as a MI6 agent in 1982 East Berlin.

TRIVIA---Academy Award-winner Geena Davis is a member of Mensa International, the high-IQ organization whose members have an IQ in "the upper 2% of the general population" and whose membership is about 150,000 worldwide. Davis' IQ is reportedly 140.