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John Cena returning for Daddy’s Home 2
11 March 2017 11:25 AM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
THR is reporting that WWE star John Cena is returning for the upcoming sequel Daddy’s Home 2, and will enjoy a more prominent role in the movie following his cameo at the end of the 2015 comedy.
Daddy’s Home 2 is set to hit cinemas on November 10th this year, and will reunite stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, while Mel Gibson and John Lithgow have also signed on to portray the older generation of fathers.
Cena, whose recent credits includes the comedies Trainwreck and Sisters, will next be seen on the big screen in the Iraq War thriller The Wall from director Doug Liman, and will soon start shooting the 2018 comedy The Pact with Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz and Haley Lu Richardson. »
- Gary Collinson
John Cena Is Going To Be In The Sadly Inevitable Daddy’s Home 2
10 March 2017 10:41 AM, PST | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Stop the presses! I’ve got the hottest movie news of the week right here. Forget the latest on The Last Jedi, or rumours of what’s to happen in Infinity War or Justice League, this knocks all that into a cocked hat. Get this – wrestler John Cena is going to appear in Daddy’s Home 2! I’ll give you a moment to recover from that earthshaking news. Composed yourself? Put those knocked off socks back on? Had a soothing cup of camomile tea?
Fans of the original, currently sitting at a mighty 31% on the Tomatometer, will remember Cena’s cameo during the climax. But it appears that he’ll be upgrading to a full role in this most highly anticipated of sequels. He’ll join Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, continuing their roles as the feuding dad and stepdad from the original, this time combining their powers to give »
- David James
WWE superstar John Cena is returning for Daddy’s Home 2
10 March 2017 9:57 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
John Cena has been confirmed to be returning for Daddy’s Home 2, the sequel to the 2015 movie starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. Deadline broke the news of Cena’s return. The WWE legend appeared in a very short cameo at the end of the first movie and that character will be featured prominently in the sequel, which kicks off filming later this year.
Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini, Owen Vaccaro and Scarlett Estevez are amongst the cast of the Paramount Pictures sequel, which sees a father and stepfather, Dusty (Wahlberg) and Brad (Ferrell), who are now working together to give their kids a perfect Christmas. When Dusty’s Dad (Gibson) and Brad’s Dad (Lithgow) arrive, their blended family conflicts rise to the surface. According to the trade blog, Cena’s character shifts the macho dynamics as Dusty faces the challenges of being a stepfather in the face of a more ripped rival. »
- Paul Heath
John Cena Back For ‘Daddy’s Home 2’
10 March 2017 9:10 AM, PST | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »
Exclusive: John Cena, the WWE champ who has been transitioning to movies with Trainwreck and Daddy’s Home, has signed on to co-star in the Daddy’s Home sequel about to get underway in Boston. Cena served up a macho cameo at the end of the first film, and this time he figures prominently in the sequel storyline. He joins Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Linda Cardellini, Owen Vaccaro and Scarlett Estevez in the Paramount comedy. In the sequel, father… »
Milo Gibson’s ‘All the Devil’s Men’ Scores Foreign Sales as Production Starts (Exclusive)
10 March 2017 6:33 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Production in launching in London on the action-thriller “All the Devil’s Men,” starring Milo Gibson, Sylvia Hoeks, William Fichtner and Gbenga Akinnagbe.
Gfm launched sales at the Berlin Film Festival and has closed deals for Eastern Europe with Spi International, Latin America with California Filmes, Middle East with Ecs Film Distribution, Portugal with Outsider Films, Indonesia with Pt Prima Cinema Multimedia, Singapore with Shaw Renters and Greece with Odeon.
Gibson, who starred in his father Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” will play a battle-scarred war on terror bounty hunter who’s forced to go to London on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative. Fichtner and Akinnagbe play the other members of his team. They find themselves locked in deadly urban tactical combat with their former military comrade and his private army, who are protecting the operative. Hoeks will play the determined CIA handler in command of the mission. »
- Dave McNary
‘Doctor Strange’ Joins Trio of Oscar Winners on Disc Sales Charts
9 March 2017 9:30 AM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The latest Marvel superhero movie distributed by Walt Disney Studios, “Doctor Strange,” shot to the top of the national home video sales charts the week ended March 5, outselling its nearest competitor by a margin of more than four to one.
The film, which earned nearly $233 million in U.S. theaters, topped both the Npd VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales, and Npd’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc sales chart.
Meanwhile, this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Lionsgate’s “Moonlight,” debuted at No. 6 on both charts.
“Hacksaw Ridge,” one of two Academy Award winners – and Best Picture nominees – released on disc by Lionsgate just before the Oscars, slipped to No. 2 on both charts. Directed by Mel Gibson, the biopic about a pacifist war medic won Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Film Editing and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing.
The other Oscar winner, »
- Thomas K. Arnold
More Superheroes On The Way
8 March 2017 12:26 PM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
With the current success of the Marvel Entertainment/20th Century Fox, R-rated feature "Logan", following the impressive box office earnings of "Deadpool", some movie studios are now looking to shift their family-targeted audiences, into more 'mature' realms of superhero entertainment:
One traditional strategy for the superhero movie genre is to take comic book characters that have been around for years and reboot them for modern audiences, including director Patty Jenkins' upcoming "Wonder Woman" and Zack Snyder's "Justice League".
While the superhero genre continues to look for new ways to entertain, it has has also influenced online casinos with many slot machine games created around superhero themes.
This appetite for more mature superhero fare, has Warners reportedly interested in crafting an adult targeted superhero movie to fit within their 'Dceu' universe.
With Mel Gibson talking to Warners about directing "Suicide Sqaud 2", the future is looking brighter for more realistic superhero fare. »
- Michael Stevens
Black Mirror season 4: what do we know so far?
8 March 2017 4:21 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Den Of Geek Mar 8, 2017
Charlie Brooker's dark anthology series will be back soon enough, so what can we expect from the fourth season of Black Mirror?
When Netflix bought Black Mirror from Channel 4, the initial announcement told us to expect twelve new episodes from Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones' misery-inducing anthology series.
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So far, six of these stories have arrived online, and Brooker has told us to expect more of a lighter look at the emotional minefield of technology with the next lot.
"I do think that at the moment, as we're doing new episodes, there's a limit to how much constant nihilistic bleakness I can take,” he told The Telegraph.
“And the world is in a place at the moment where I think maybe people appreciate things that aren't so unremittingly horrible. »
Brimstone: Guy Pearce On The Dark Western Thriller
7 March 2017 8:00 AM, PST | LRMonline.com | See recent LRM Online news »
Ever since his breakout role in L.A. Confidential twenty years ago, Australian actor Guy Pearce has been able to create prestige for himself with memorable roles in Christopher Nolan’s early film Memento and others. (For instance, he appeared in two recent Best Picture winners in The Hurt Locker and The King’s Speech). More importantly, he's been able to star in a series of fantastic genre films from The Proposition and Animal Kingdom to the Guillermo del Toro-produced Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Ridley Scott's Prometheus.
Brimstone, from Dutch filmmaker Martin Koolhoven (Winter in Watime), puts Pearce back in familiar Western territory as The Proposition, playing a very different character, an ultra-pious Dutch preacher known only as “The Reverend” who spends the movie chasing after a young woman, played by Dakota Fanning. There’s a lot more to the story, which is told »
- Edward Douglas
Louis Tomlinson -- Paparazzo Bragged to Stern He Incites Celebs to Lose It (Audio + Video + Photo)
6 March 2017 2:53 PM, PST | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »
[[tmz:video id="0_ft78kfqe"]] The paparazzo who Louis Tomlinson allegedly attacked has gloated that he sometimes berates and incites celebrities and then watches them unravel on camera. Karl Larsen -- the photog who says Louis smashed his head on the floor at Lax Friday -- went on 'Howard Stern' back in 2010 and boasted about his super aggressive tactics ... in particular his confrontation with Mel Gibson. At the beginning you hear Larsen say, "We're gonna be rich." [[tmz:video id="0_7qie5dci"]] Larsen »
- TMZ Staff
'Lethal Weapon': THR's 1987 Review
6 March 2017 8:30 AM, PST | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »
On March 6, 1987, Warner Bros.' R-rated buddy-cop drama Lethal Weapon, pairing Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, opened in theaters. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
Lethal Weapon has got a full chamber: Mel Gibson is starring, Eric Clapton performing, Los Angeles backdropping. It's loaded up with other hotshot elements as well. A cop thriller, this one's got all the grooves notched for a sure hit. But when the b.o. report comes back from the lab, Warner Bros. is likely to see that this seemingly sure-fire has scored much further from the box-office bull's-eye than it had anticipated. »
- THR Staff
Lethal Weapon review – big guns, fast cars and a dodgy death
3 March 2017 10:20 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The cop classic speeds on to the small screen, and with its spectacular car chases and buddy banter it feels like The Grand Tour – but with better dialogue
A cinematic ghost from the 1980s and 90s reappears in your living room on Friday nights. In Lethal Weapon (ITV, after airing on Fox in the Us), Damon Wayans plays the Danny Glover character, Roger Murtaugh, a senior Lapd cop returning to work after a heart attack. Clayne Crawford is Martin Riggs – originally played by Mel Gibson – the younger, wilder former Navy Seal with a penchant for big guns and a death wish.
The plot of this pilot even vaguely follows the original film. After being introduced to devoted family man Murtaugh and to Riggs, who we learn has lost his wife and unborn child in a tragic car crash, we see the two paired up and set to work on a »
- Sam Wollaston
Oscar Winners ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ ‘Manchester’ Soar to Top of Disc Charts
2 March 2017 3:02 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Two Academy Award winners – and Best Picture nominees – were released on disc by Lionsgate just before the Oscars and promptly vaulted to the top of the national home video sales charts the week ended Feb. 26.
“Hacksaw Ridge,” the Mel Gibson-directed biopic of a pacifist war medic that won Oscars for Best Achievement in Film Editing and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, debuted at No. 1 on both the Npd VideoScan overall disc sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales, and Npd’s dedicated Blu-ray Disc Sales chart.
The film earned $67 million in U.S. theaters.
“Manchester by the Sea,” the $46.9 million-grossing drama about an uncle (Casey Affleck) forced to return home to take care of his nephew after the death of his brother, debuted at No. 4 on both charts. Affleck won an Oscar for Best Actor; the film also picked up Best Original Screenplay honors for Kenneth Lonergan, »
- Thomas K. Arnold
Stranger Things Star David Harbour Eyed To Take On Cable Role In Deadpool 2
2 March 2017 2:40 PM, PST | LRMonline.com | See recent LRM Online news »
Things continue to be ever-interesting over at Deadpool 2-land. While one would have imagined this sequel to have been rushed into casting and production a mere six months to a year after the success of Deadpool, 20th Century Fox has allowed this one to take the slow, meditative steps it needs to be a worthy follow-up to the surprising original. Between the loss of director Tim Miller, and the current rewrites, it looks like the production is only just starting to go through the process of casting the character Cable, who was hinted out in the first Deadpool film.
Since the release of Deadpool, fans have been wondering who will play the ripped, middle-aged, metal-armed badass. Deadpool himself hinted at Mel Gibson taking on the role, but that was only a base reference for what they were looking for. In the time since, there have been a lot of »
- Joseph Medina
X-Men: Michael Jackson wanted to play Professor X
2 March 2017 12:17 PM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Joseph Baxter Mar 3, 2017
The original X-Men movie had some potentially very different casting, as one of its writers reveals...
With Logan out in cinemas now, showcasing what will apparently be Hugh Jackman’s final outing in his 17-year cinematic run as Wolverine, some are understandably nostalgic about the legendary tenure. In a recent interview, screenwriter David Hayter – a key component of Fox's early X-Men movie franchise – discusses some casting prospects that the original production considered in director Bryan Singer’s genre-defining 2000 original film.
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Speaking with THR, Hayter looks back on the days of the X-Men film's gestation.
Hayter, a name video game connoisseurs will recognise as the perennial voice of Solid Snake in the Metal Gear series, wrote the screenplay to 2000’s X-Men, based on a story collaboration with Singer and Tom DeSanto, later tackling sequel X2: X-Men United and Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. »
EW Review: Hugh Jackman Bids Farewell to Wolverine in Logan
1 March 2017 2:30 PM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
This article originally appeared on EW.com.
James Mangold’s Logan, the third and latest stand-alone Wolverine movie, is a strange contradiction: It’s both the most violent film in the series and the most sentimental one. When it’s not showering you in blood, it’s trying to make you spill tears. It’s much more comfortable with the former than the latter. The last time we saw Logan in a significant role was 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, where we got a backwards glance at our razor-clawed antihero’s time-traveling exploits during the ’70s. Here, we get a peek into the future… »
- Chris Nashawaty
‘Moonlight’ Postmortem: How To Win Best Picture in 5 (Not So) Easy Steps
1 March 2017 9:28 AM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
Let’s talk about the biggest news of an unforgettable Oscar night — and it’s got nothing to do with the Twitter-happy accountant who apparently gave Warren Beatty the wrong envelope. Here’s the real story: A $1.5 million gay, African-American, coming-of-age movie won Best Picture.
It’s the first gay movie to grab the big prize, one that was denied “Brokeback Mountain” a decade ago. It’s the first Best Picture winner with an all-black cast. It also showed that when a small-scale indie is involved, guild wins (“La La Land” won the PGA,”Hidden Figures” took SAG Ensemble) are no longer reliable Oscar predictors.
And never underestimate the potential of the underdog to come from behind (See: “12 Years a Slave,” “Spotlight,” “Argo”). This year’s passion vote was split among three movies: “La La Land,” “Moonlight,” and “Manchester By the Sea.”
Here’s how everything went right for “Moonlight. »
- Anne Thompson
‘Moonlight’ Postmortem: How To Win Best Picture in 5 (Not So) Easy Steps
1 March 2017 9:28 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
Let’s talk about the biggest news of an unforgettable Oscar night — and it’s got nothing to do with the Twitter-happy accountant who apparently gave Warren Beatty the wrong envelope. Here’s the real story: A $1.5 million gay, African-American, coming-of-age movie won Best Picture.
It’s the first gay movie to grab the big prize, one that was denied “Brokeback Mountain” a decade ago. It’s the first Best Picture winner with an all-black cast. It also showed that when a small-scale indie is involved, guild wins (“La La Land” won the PGA,”Hidden Figures” took SAG Ensemble) are no longer reliable Oscar predictors.
And never underestimate the potential of the underdog to come from behind (See: “12 Years a Slave,” “Spotlight,” “Argo”). This year’s passion vote was split among three movies: “La La Land,” “Moonlight,” and “Manchester By the Sea.”
Here’s how everything went right for “Moonlight. »
- Anne Thompson
The Berlin International Film Festival and the European Film Market, Part 2
28 February 2017 7:09 AM, PST | Sydney's Buzz | See recent Sydney's Buzz news »
As the film-business-crowds move through meetings designed to meet all sorts of movie-related objectives in this vast mix of people, and the movie-going public lines up for films in the Competition, Out-of-Competition, Panorama, Forum and Retrospectives; and families attend the Generation series, some for kindergarteners and others for preteens and some for those 14 and up, and as the constant exchange of ideas continues, there is lots of buzz, mostly positive about the Hungarian Competition film “On Body and Soul”.“On Body and Soul” by Ildikó Enyedi
Buzz continues the next day both pro and con about Oren Moverman’s Competition film, “The Dinner” which is definitely a must-see for each to decide on one’s own response to it. As Scott Roxborough in The Hollywood Reporter says, it “looks like just the political dish the times demand.” Produced by Caldecot Chubb, the script was originally to be written by Moverman for Cate Blanchett to direct. »
- Sydney Levine
Mel Gibson Confirms Early Talks for ‘Suicide Squad 2’: ”We’ll See”
28 February 2017 6:30 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Mel Gibson likely has more clout in his hands right now than he’s had in years. His well-made World War II drama, Hacksaw Ridge, grossed over $175 million at the worldwide box-office, was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director, and picked up two Academy Awards last night. Following his biggest success in years, what’s next for the filmmaker? […]
The post Mel Gibson Confirms Early Talks for ‘Suicide Squad 2’: ”We’ll See” appeared first on /Film. »
- Jack Giroux
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