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Credited as the first picture of a two-part adaptation (and remake to the 1984 motion picture), the 2021 breakout science fiction film Dune is based on the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert, which also covers the first half of the plot. Nearly five months after the international premiere, in September 2021, this first part of Dune crossed the $400 million mark at the worldwide box office, grossing over $107.9 million domestically and $292....

Emancipation horrifies with an unvarnished portrayal of slavery’s barbaric subjugation. Director Antoine Fuqua and Will Smith shine an ugly light on humanity’s worst instincts. They tell the gut-wrenching true story of “Whipped Peter”, an escaped slave whose savagely scarred back was photographed in 1863 during the Civil War. Monochromatic cinematography captures awful cruelty with brilliant artistry. The film is magnificent to see. Unfortunately, a gripping start loses tension in a flawed climax....

Open Road Films has set September 28, 2012 for the nationwide release of Exclusive Media’s, in association with Emmett/Furla Films, highly-anticipated film, End of Watch, which stars Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Academy Award nominee Anna Kendrick, Frank Grillo and America Ferrera and is written and directed by David Ayer (writer/director of Street Kings and Harsh Times; screenwriter of Training Day, The Fast and the Furious and S.W.A.T.)....

Alison Brie rose to stardom acting in diametrically opposite television series with equally rabid fan followings, starring in Mad Men and Community simultaneously. From there, she somehow became even more widely known with big comedies like The Five-Year Engagement and Get Hard, along with more dramatic, acclaimed titles like GLOW and Promising Young Woman, but the huge star decided to step behind the screen and write her own character in the 2020 film Horse Girl....

Frank Grillo has become one of the busiest people in show business. As an actor, he’s credited with a dozen films in the past two years, and a dozen more either in production or being released soon. As a producer, Grillo worked with director Joe Carnahan to form Warparty Films, responsible for immensely entertaining recent movies like Boss Level and Copshop. He’s currently starring alongside Morgan Freeman, Juliette Binoche, and Cameron Monaghan in the great movie Paradise Highway....

The Lair has a tremendous premise — in the 1980s, when Soviet troops were invading Afghanistan and fighting the Mujahideen, they set up a military bunker that doubled as a scientific outpost. When Gorbachev withdrew forces in the late ’80s, this labyrinthine underground lair was left behind, only to be rediscovered 30 years later during the much bigger war involving Afghanistan. Evading a group of insurgents after being shot down, a pilot hides out in the bunker and discovers the awful developments some Soviet scientists had made....

The Rocker tells the story of a failed, over-the-hill drummer who gets a second chance at fame. Robert “Fish” Fishman is the extremely dedicated and astoundingly passionate (not to mention sweaty) drummer for the eighties hair band Vesuvius who is living the rock ’n’ roll dream until he is unceremoniously kicked out of the group. Unfortunately for Fish, this happens right before Vesuvius becomes one of the biggest bands in the world....

Principal photography will begin next week in South Florida on the independent feature Finding Joy, starring Josh Cooke, Liane Balaban, Barry Bostwick and Lainie Kazan. Carlo De Rosa is making his feature film directorial debut with Finding Joy, a comedy written by Shona Tuckman. The film is being produced by Richard DiPatri. The executive producer is Brad Tuckman. Finding Joy is the delightfully offbeat story of a self-absorbed writer who is forced to move back home with his family when his luck and money run out....

Freida Pinto has boarded director Tarsem Singh’s War of the Gods, which centers on a Greek mythological battle for Relativity Media. According to Variety, the story follows a young warrior Theseus who leads his men into battle with the immortal Greek gods to defeat evil and the powerful elder gods of the Titans in order to save mankind. The Slumdog Millionaire star will portray Phaedra, an oracle priestess who must join Theseus – played by Henry Cavill (The Tudors) – on his quest to prevent the cataclysmic war from erupting....

A few days ago we reported on some new details regarding an Untitled Midnight Run Sequel which seemed to indicate that one of the original stars wouldn’t appear in the sequel. Today Ain’t It Cool News reports that Charles Grodin may indeed return as Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas in the sequel. Robert De Niro revealed in the initial report that the film would center on Mardukas’ son and De Niro’s character, but a scooper for Ain’t It Cool News says that Grodin’s Mardukas character is actually in the script for the Untitled Midnight Run Sequel....

The late John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd formed The Blues Brothers as part of a soul and revivalist band as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1978. That stroke of genius would evolve into a hit 1980 movie of the same name and pulled in several iconic artists like James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, and Aretha Franklin. To this day, The Blue Brothers is still one of the few successful movies based on characters from SNL and the characters maintain a faithful fan following....

Ryan Reynolds will be the face of two superhero movie franchises with DC’s Green Lantern, due out on June 17, 2011, and Marvel’s Deadpool, which is currently in development. Ryan Reynolds recently spoke with The Los Angeles Times, where he said that Deadpool won’t be your typical superhero movie. Here’s an excerpt from the site’s article: Reynolds also compared the film to being a new inmate in prison: “It goes in such a different direction than a superhero movie usually goes....

After previously playing Kitty Forman for That ’70s Show, Debra Jo Rupp is back in the role for Netflix’s spinoff series That ’90s Show. Joined by Kurtwood Smith as Red Forman, the two are back in the same old house in Point Place, Wisconsin, but with an all-new group of youths hanging out in their basement. While some things are different, others haven’t changed at all, and the latter would include the trademark laugh often uttered by Kitty....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness looks set to kick off the summer blockbuster season, having already taken $42 million in advance box office sales a week before the movie is due to release. Having taken six years to arrive, Benedict Cumberbatch’s second solo Doctor Strange movie is more than just a sequel to his 2016 debut. With the integrated story of the MCU now seeing more crossovers and connections between movies, Multiverse of Madness is also a follow-up of Spider-Man: No Way Home and also Disney+ series WandaVision and Loki....

Disney XD has released the first teaser trailer and poster for the highly-anticipated animated reboot series DuckTales, which confirm the series will debut sometime in the Summer of 2017. While the teaser doesn’t feature any actual footage, the poster does features our first look at Launchpad McQuack, Scrooge McDuck’s personal pilot. This colorful character is seen driving a Jeep, while Scrooge McDuck tries to reach a golden idol with his cane, as his brother Donald Duck holds on to the roof of this vehicle for dear life....

Friends actor Matthew Perry wanted to be honest with his new memoir, and that meant owning up to a lot of his mistakes made throughout his life. Notably, that includes the struggles he’s had with addiction and how that would affect the productions he was involved with. Not only does that include Friends, but it would bleed into Perry’s film work as well, as was the case with the film Serving Sara....

Only a week after BBC director-general Tim Davie pledged to never again broadcast or license its controversial 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, Deadline reports that clips from the program will be featured in an upcoming documentary. Excerpts of the interview—where a vulnerable Diana opened up to now-disgraced reporter Martin Bashir about her eating disorders, troubles in her marriage, and other woes—will be included in Ed Perkins’ The Princess, airing on Sky and Now TV August 14....

Mechanical banana replacement gnome. That sentence makes about as much sense (but is not nearly as funny) as Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It’s appropriate, then, that interviews with its creators, Dave Willis and Matt Maiellaro, would quickly devolve into comedy bits and surrealist non sequiturs. Perhaps that’s for the best. Aqua Teen Hunger Force was about anthropomorphic food friends (Frylock, Meatwad, and Master Shake) who share a house and get into trouble....

Cameron Monaghan is a serious performer; one can tell by speaking with him how much reverence he has from filmmaking and acting. This can be seen in the hesitant care he takes in choosing words and the self-awareness he has for his craft, which has led to beloved work in Shameless, Star Wars video games, and the underrated Jamie Marks is Dead, not to mention, of course, his adored work in Gotham (playing a Joker that even Mark Hamill loves)....

Netflix will very soon release the final episodes of Grace and Frankie, wrapping up the hit series with a run of seven seasons at the end of the month. The release of the final episodes will officially have Grace and Frankie set the record for the longest-running Netflix original series. Given how Netflix seems to have a reputation for axing so many shows after one or two seasons, it’s all the more remarkable that Grace and Frankie made it to seven....