As someone excited to be a part of the live-action reimagining, Gal Gadot felt compelled to acknowledge the 85th anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Released in 1937, the animated classic, which is inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, still serves as one of the most beloved Disney movies of all time. It tells the story of a young woman whose stepmother, the Evil Queen, orders her to be killed....
While production was under way on Game of Thrones Season 6 last year, HBO didn’t confirm any new cast members, although there were numerous rumors, casting reports and set photos that gave fans some idea of who might be joining the show. It seems the network is following the same path for Game of Thrones Season 7, which makes sense, since the show has gone far beyond the George R.R. Martin books, as fans are still waiting for the sixth and seventh books in the series to arrive....
People all around the world want to watch the final season of Game of Thrones, quite literally, on record-setting levels. Fans of the hit HBO fantasy series had to wait nearly two years between the end of season 7 and the beginning of this final run of episodes. That only helped fuel the anticipation and the numbers seem to reflect that. Case in point, Game of Thrones season 8 has officially set a new, official world record....
Blood sucking leeches, maggots, all in a day’s work for The Dark Knight! Christian Bale is a hardcore, ass-kicking dude. Most A-list actors have their luxury trailers, army of underlings fetching cappuccinos, on-set masseuse to rub away the stress of acting, not Christian Bale; he’s too busy eating maggots and getting pulled by an ox in a Thai jungle. The guy is just not afraid of pushing himself. Bale stars in Rescue Dawn as Dieter Dengler....
AMC’s unscripted series Comic Book Men returns for its second season on Sunday, October 14 at 11:30 PM ET/PT. The sixteen-episode Season 2 is executive produced by Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy, Red State), Charlie Corwin’s Original Media (LA Ink, Storm Chasers, Swamp People) and Elyse Seiden (Red State). The series, which critics called “genial, good-natured, eccentric and dry-witted” (Newsday) and “a celebration of the deeply particular personalities involved when geeky merchandise changes hands,” (The New York Times), follows Smith and his crew of fan boys turned pop culture experts who live, work and breath comic books....
The CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event is coming to a close in just a few weeks. We have just received a trailer for part 4 of the event and it brings back Arrow’s Oliver Queen. DC fans have been waiting quite a while to figure out how this will all end for Queen and part 1 gave us a pretty good indication. Now, we can clearly see that Oliver Queen is back, but something just isn’t right in the brand-new footage....
Universal Pictures announced today that it has acquired the worldwide rights to the young adult fantasy novel Daughter of Smoke and Bone written by National Book Award Finalist Laini Taylor. The book was published this September and is the first in a trilogy. Universal’s Co-Presidents of Production Peter Cramer and Jeff Kirschenbaum made the announcement. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Since its release, Daughter of Smoke and Bone has been hailed with rave reviews across the board....
With a wide variety of tattoos sprawled across his entire body, Dave Bautista has a lot of ink, and there’s a story behind every individual tattoo. In a new interview with GQ, the Guardians of the Galaxy star breaks down the meaning behind all of his various tattoos, though one that seems to stand out is why he’s been inked with an image of Winnie the Pooh. As Bautista is not particularly known to be a big fan of the classic cartoon character, the image does seem peculiar compared to the rest of the artwork on the actor’s body....
Blue Man Group and producer Charlotte Huggins have set director David Russo to take the helm of the yet-to-be-titled Blue Man Group movie. According to Variety, the Imax 3D feature will be scripted by Lisa Robinson. The film will be the first to star the Blue Man Group, which has been seen onstage in hundreds of cities around the world and in commercials. The original Blue Men – Chris Wink, Phil Stanton and Matt Goldman – will star....
DC’s upcoming streaming platform, DC Universe has an all-new Swamp Thing series on the way from producer James Wan (Aquaman, The Conjuring) and we’re all excited to check it out as soon as it stomps out of the swamps later this year. But do you remember that Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven helmed a version of the classic monster back in 1982 starring Louis Jourdan, Ray Wise, and David Hess?...
The next chapter in the Stargate enterprise is a direct-to-DVD movie which puts a tidy end to the Ori storyline of the last two years of the series. Stargate SG-1 was the longest running sci-fi series on TV but even after 10 years there is more to tell. In this movie the SG-1 team searches for an ancient weapon to defeat the Ori once and for all. They discover it is in the Ori’s home galaxy and take the Odyssey on the mission to find the The Ark of Truth, which, when opened, will make everyone see the truth that the Ori are not gods....
It’s been another crazy, fun-filled summer inside the Big Brother house. It all began with 14 Houseguests and two interesting twists and each week the drama intensified. Dick Donato emerged triumphant last night as the Big Brother 8 grand prize winner of $500,000 based on the votes of his former housemates on the jury. Daniele Donato will receive $50,000 as the second place winner. After living in the Big Brother 8 house for 81 days, Dick Donato, the 44-year-old Bar Manager, from Los Angeles, Calif....
The story of Hercules is one as old as time – older than time, in fact. The Greek legend tells of a man who is half-God and stronger than anyone in the world, and Disney captured the spirit of this myth in its 1997 animated film Hercules. It is now time for this great classic film to rise from the ashes as a live-action remake, and we can’t wait to see what fun new directions Disney takes the film!...
The Walt Disney Studios announced the launch of Disney’s Magical Blu-ray Tour, which will visit 18 malls nationwide beginning August 17. The announcement was made by Bob Chapek, president of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Disney’s Magical Blu-ray Tour, sponsored by Panasonic, is an interactive exhibit designed to educate consumers about the new high-definition home entertainment technology and will feature interactive kiosks, viewing stations and a special presentation theater where consumers can experience first-hand the amazing capabilities and benefits of Blu-ray Disc technology....
Disney is preparing for a remake of the sci-fi adventure movie Flight of the Navigator. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brad Copeland is writing the remake, which is being produced by Mandeville partners David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. The 1986 original Flight of the Navigator told the story of a 12-year-old boy who is abducted by an alien spacecraft in 1978 and reappears eight years later, still the same age and with no memory of what happened....
According to Variety, DreamWorks Animation has licensed the classic Happy Troll Doll character from the Danish company Dam Things. Their plan is to make a bigscreen adaptation centered around this property. Brother and Sister team Adam Wilson and Melanie Wilson LaBracio are going to write the script. Initially created in 1959 by Danish woodcarver Thomas Dam as a present for his daughter, “the beady-eyed, fuzzy-haired dolls sparked an international craze in the early 1960s, with nostalgic revivals introducing the figures to subsequent generations as well....
E! Entertainment Television is set to take a comedic look at pop culture events through claymation re-enactments in a new half-hour series from the creator of MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch. Titled Starveillance, the series was one of many announcements made Tuesday by E! Networks president and CEO Ted Harbert during the Television Critics Assn.’s summer press tour at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel. Starveillance, from Deathmatch creator Eric Fogel, will give viewers a fly-on-the-wall view of real or possible events involving celebrities as they may have happened, including marriage proposals, intimate bedroom arguments and off-camera antics....
It seems that Kenny Powers is indeed coming back to HBO, although we’ll be seeing him south of the border. Deadline New York is reporting that the second season of Eastbound & Down will star production on its second season next month in Puerto Rico, which will stand in for Mexico. The site also reports that actors Michael Peña and Ana de la Reguera have signed on as series regulars. The second season will be set in Mexico, with Danny McBride’s Kenny Powers heading south to escape his problems, where he joins a local Mexican baseball team....
One of the more bizarre upcoming movie releases would be Cocaine Bear, a horror-comedy that imagines a bear turning violently aggressive after consuming large amounts of cocaine. Directed by Elizabeth Banks, the film is inspired by the real-life story of an American black bear that was found dead of an overdose in 1985 after a drug smuggler tossed a large duffel bag filled with cocaine from an airplane into the Georgia wilderness....
A stylish new teaser for director Baz Lurhmann’s upcoming biographical musical drama about rock and roll icon Elvis Presley, aptly titled Elvis, reveals our best look yet at Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… star Austin Butler in the title role. Looking as glitzy, glamorous, and epic as one would expect from a story about Elvis, but with an ominous mystery bubbling underneath, Baz Lurhmann promises that “I’ll have a trailer to share with you all on Thursday…”...
