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Action director, producer and former stuntman Chad Stahelski has revealed that there are currently ideas being kicked around for several Day Shift sequels. Released last week, Day Shift finds Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx as an everyman pool cleaner who is really a vampire hunter. While asserting that he isn’t focused on making franchises, Stahelski reveals to DiscussingFilm that “he currently has three ideas for possible Day Shift sequels with ‘two on paper already ready to f—ing go....

DC Entertainment, founded in September 2009 to unleash the power of the DC Comics library of characters across all media platforms, has named its executive management team, including new co-publishers of DC Comics and a Chief Creative Officer, as well as heads of Sales/Marketing/Business Development and Finance/Administration. Diane Nelson, President, DC Entertainment, made the announcement today. The new senior executive team includes Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, who have been named Co-Publishers of DC Comics, and Geoff Johns, who will serve as Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment....

Geoff Johns, the renowned writer behind popular DC Comics such as Green Lantern, Action Comics and Justice Society of America, has been brought on to write the saga of the DC Universe Online (DCUO) massively multiplayer action game from Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) in a first-ever collaboration with legendary comic artist Jim Lee, the company announced today. DCUO for the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and the PC is currently in development by SOE in collaboration with DC Comics and Warner Bros....

The final poster for the highly anticipated Marvel outing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness teases the absolute chaos that the good doctor will suffer as he attempts to put the madness of the multiverse back in its box. Released courtesy of the official Twitter account, the retro looking poster is as psychedelic as they come, as Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange is flanked by multiple variants of himself and others....

Donnie Wahlberg and Jon Avnet have joined forces with TNT to develop a crime drama, tentatively titled Morse Code, from Warner Horizon TV. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story is about a young war hero-turned-Drug Enforcement Administration officer working in his hometown of Boston. Wahlberg, a Boston native, is expected to star. Michael Wright, TNT’s top programmer, described the project – one of several expected to be announced Wednesday at Turner’s upfront presentation – as in the vein of The Departed, with the commingling of law enforcement and organized crime....

Chris Hemsworth celebrated his 39th birthdays earlier this week, and his wife Elsa Pataky celebrated by sharing a new look at her Thor: Love and Thunder cameo appearance along with family shots of Hemsworth. Thor: Love and Thunder become a real family affair for Hemsworth as along with Pataky, the couple’s daughter India Rose Hemsworth played Love, the daughter of Gorr the God Butcher, and of course his brother Luke made an appearance as “actor” Thor....

Disney’s Encanto is the 60th film in studio’s catalog of animated movies. It’s full of magic and quirks that make it feel different from any other film in Disney’s line-up. The film tells the story of the close-knit Madrigal family, who live in a magical part of Colombia where each member of the family possesses a unique gift that is used to help their village thrive. Family is an integral theme of Encanto....

Metal fans and lovers of animation have reason to rejoice. Especially those looking for something to binge in this moment of social distancing and self-isolation. Adult Swim has come to the rescue making every single episode of Metalocalypse available to stream for free via its website. The network made the announcement over on Twitter saying the following. Adult Swim typically has select episodes and shows available to stream on its website....

Netflix has released the first full trailer for their new original series Everything Sucks, which will be quite the throwback for those who grew up in the 1990s. And even more so for anyone who grew up anywhere near Boring, Oregon, which we assure you is a very real place. Netflix has also released a new poster, which features the cast sitting on piles of VHS tapes, along with seven new photos from this series featuring a cast full of rising stars....

In 2020, the hit Hulu romance series Normal People dropped and took the audience’s breath away with a captivating love story about two college students who wove in and out of each other’s love lives. Here, they were first introduced to newcomer Daisy Edgar Jones, the Irish actress that embodied the strength and vulnerability of the woman lead, Marianne. The actress may be new, but her bold portrayal of the emotionally damaged Marianne captured the audience’s hearts, making her name one fans won’t soon forget....

The bullet-like trajectories of Alison Pill and Sarah Gadon have intersected frequently throughout their nearly three decades in the entertainment industry, artistic ricochets reverberating each time they meet. The two Toronto natives enrolled in the Claude Watson School for the Arts in North York, and then at the Vaughan Road Academy, and have been in multiple films together in their youth. They went their separate ways in the early 2000s, each embarking on an impressive career — Pill has appeared in Goon, The Newsroom, Scott Pilgrim vs....

Connor Bates (Ray Nicholson) spends his time in the library and jogging ever since he’s been released from prison for an assault charge. He does his best to reintegrate into society while his probation officer (Hank Azaria) keeps a close eye on him. Marilyn Chambers (Diane Kruger) is the wife of a wealthy businessman. They lust for each other, eventually discussing how they can murder her husband and get away with it....

Never Back Down is hitting the theaters on March 14, but we’ve got the perfect video to get you pumped up for this fighting film. We have an exclusive featurette with the star of the film, Sean Faris and professional MMA fighter and trainer Bas Rutten showing you how to perform a few takedowns. Check out this exclusive video below. Set against the action-packed world of Mixed Martial Arts, Never Back Down is the story of Jake Tyler, a tough kid who leads with his fists, and, often, with his heart....

Warner Bros. has set 2022 and 2023 to be big years for DC Comics, as they are planning to release many films based on their comic book properties. Movies based on heroes like Batman, The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman, with even Krypto the Super-Dog leading his own animated film. Yet one film stands apart, Black Adam, which is set to focus on one of the company’s villains and might radically alter the DCEU....

Spoiler Warning: FBI: Most WantedAfter Jess LaCroix, head of the FBI: Most Wanted task force, was killed off the series he spearheaded for three seasons, fans are left wondering what’s next for the third installment of the police procedural television drama. Created by Emmy Award winner Dick Wolf and his production team from the Law & Order franchise, FBI: Most Wanted is geared primarily towards depicting the day-to-day operations of the Fugitive Task Force, relentlessly capturing the most vicious and notorious criminals on the Bureau of Intelligence’s Most Wanted list....

Universal Pictures and Focus Features announced that they will partner together in the development of a film based on E L James’ #1 Bestseller, Fifty Shades of Grey. Focus Features will market and distribute the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey in partnership with Universal Pictures. Universal Pictures’ Chairman Adam Fogelson and co-chairman Donna Langley exclaimed, “The Fifty Shades Trilogy is a one-of-a-kind series of stories and we’re thrilled to be collaborating with E L James to bring them to the big screen…Like so many readers all over the globe, we’ve fallen in love with Fifty Shades of Grey....

There usually comes a time when horror franchises hit a brick wall that they struggle to get over, and with Final Destination 5 in 2011 it looked like the story of a group of teens being stalked by Death had finally met its maker. At the time, Candyman star Tony Todd said that if the fifth movie was a box office hit, then two more sequels would film back to back, but other than director Steven Quale making brief mention of the possible sequels in August that year, they slipped off radar never to be mentioned again....

Last week we passed along the news that SyFy’s upcoming Critters movie was all set to begin filming next month, and today we have an update on the upcoming Critters: A New Binge web series. The show went into production back in May and June of this past year over in Vancouver, and today’s update comes to us from a Facebook page called Critters: Rehatched. It features some killer behind-the-scenes pics from the upcoming show including the Krites putting together some kind of crude catapult, chomping on a severed arm, getting split down the middle (with resulting goop and gore), and of course, forming their trademark huge ball of Krites....

Gal Gadot has wrapped her work as the Evil Queen on Disney’s upcoming Snow White movie. A live-action reimagining of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the new film will star Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) as the titular Disney princess opposite Gadot as the antagonist. An official release date hasn’t yet been set by Disney but production is nearing its end with one of its lead stars now finished working on the movie....

Earlier this week we reported that Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam’s first script, entitled Vlad was being developed by Summit Entertainment, for Anthony Handler to direct. Now Entertainment Weekly has spoken to Hunnam, who offered more details about his first screenplay - including the news that the film will not revolve around vampires. The true story of Vlad Dracula, known best by the brutal nickname Vlad the Impaler, a 15th Century warrior who fought against the reign of the Ottoman Empire, was used as the name basis for Bram Stoker’s original Dracula novel, but Hunnam’s take will center on the real Vlad’s story....