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Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior, who broke out playing Ratcatcher 2 in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad,” is in talks to join the cast of the 10th “Fast and Furious” movie alongside Vin Diesel, TheWrap has exclusively learned.

Plot details for “Fast 10” are still being kept under wraps, as are any character details. Melchior joins new cast member Jason Momoa who could reportedly star as one of the film’s villains in the action franchise.

Diesel is set to return to the franchise along with Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris and Sung Kang, as is director Justin Lin. Diesel and Lin are also producing “Fast and Furious 10,” which is still untitled.

Universal has “Fast and Furious 10” slated for release on May 19, 2023.

Along with “The Suicide Squad,” Melchior also did the Portuguese dubbing voice for Gwen Stacy in “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” which was originally voiced by Hailee Steinfeld. Melchior will next

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the largest union representing behind-the-scenes workers in North America, has joined the growing number of critics expressing their disapproval of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ decision to pre-record eight craft categories at the Oscars.

The eight categories to be aired retroactively as part of the awards broadcast on March 27 include film editing, make-up and hairstyling, production design, animated short and sound.

The statement released by IATSE President Matthew Loeb said, “By the nature of our jobs, behind the scenes, workers get little recognition as is, despite being the backbone of every production. The Academy Awards has been virtually the only venue where the very best on and off the big screen, above and below the line gather to honor each other’s incredible contributions through their crafts, inspiring millions who tune into the TV Broadcast in the process. We

"Pacific Rim" fans! We have some good news and bad news. The good news is that Netflix has released the first images for the second season of the "Pacific Rim: The Black" anime show, along with a release date. The bad news is that this will serve as the final season of the show.

Set in the far future after the events of "Pacific Rim: Uprising," this anime reveals that Kaiju have overrun the entire Australia continent, with abandoned Jaeger mechas being used by small pockets of the resistance to fight back. The show follows two teenage siblings who find an abandoned training Jaeger and set...

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After being shunted off to the Oscar pre-show last year, the performances for Best Original Song are set to rejoin the live telecast of the Academy Awards. Four of the five nominees will continue the Oscar tradition by singing each song throughout the night, and if you're wondering why ABC — a network that is dangerously obsessed with finding new ways to shorten the telecast — has decided to sprinkle these back in, just take a look at the big names this move promises. This year's nominees include Beyoncé and Billie Eilish! They're exactly the kind of superstars who...

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Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage might be finally transitioning away from strictly making smaller VOD features. Cage is playing himself in Lionsgate‘s meta-movie “The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent” and most recently was cast as Universal‘s newest incarnation of Count Dracula in the horror-comedy “Renfield” starring opposite Nicholas Hoult, which could mean he might continue that role in other Universal Monsters projects.

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No actor in the history of cinema has had a greater impact on how to craft a performance than Marlon Brando. A student of legendary acting teacher Stella Adler, Brando broke open what a performer could do on screen in terms of spontaneity, speech, and internality. Initially criticized as a mumbler, he quickly became a lightning rod nobody could ignore, and now every actor who wants to go method fancies themself a new Marlon Brando, despite the fact that Brando was not a method actor (at least by the modern definition of the term). What helped rocket Brando to superstardom was he found a...

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Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde” has already been attached to a few bombshells — and that’s not even counting its biopic subject, Marilyn Monroe.

Ana de Armas is set to play the “Some Like It Hot” star in the adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ 2000 book. The film stirred controversy surrounding de Armas’ casting as the iconic actress, as well as the material of Oates’ fictionalized telling of Monroe’s journey through a series of abusive relationships.

De Armas was announced to play Norma Jeane (Monroe’s real first name purposefully misspelled by Oates with an extra “e” at the end of Jean) in 2019, with the film originally set for a 2021 release. The Netflix film has since been pushed to a 2022 date.

Director Dominik selected de Armas after almost a decade of trying to cast the lead role. Jessica Chastain and Naomi Watts had reportedly been attached to the film, which was

High-profile French creators and showrunners, David Elkaïm, Vincent Poymiro, and producer Jeremy Sahel, are joining forces with Anca, a banner which is backed by German powerhouse Beta Group, to develop and produce ambitious TV series.

Anca was created in 2021 by Rose Brandford Griffith and Christophe Thoral, two former bosses of Lagardere Studios, to invest in production banners.

Elkaïm, Poymiro and Sahel’s production company Perpetual Soup marks Anca’s first investment with a minority stake. Poymiro and Elkaïm are known for having written a pair of top-rated drama series ordered by Arte, “Ainsi soient-ils” and “En Thérapie,” the French adaptation of Hagai Levi’s series “BeTipul” (“In Treatment”).

The Paris-based outfit is at Series Mania with “Le monde de demain,” a show about the birth of France’s hip-hop movement in the 1980s which will soon launch on Arte in France and Netflix globally. A critically acclaimed screenwriter involved in both movies and series,

Two of America's favorite Japanese pop culture imports are about to collide in comic book format. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are teaming up to battle against the scaled menace Godzilla for Idw's "Godzilla Vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," a new comic miniseries that pits the Rangers' giant mech against all kinds of kaiju in a battle for the ages. The comic was written by Cullen Bunn ("Deadpool") and drawn by Freddie Williams II ("Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"), and is set to hit comic book stands today, March 23, 2022. 

The first issue will feature multiple cover variants, including the standard cover, a "Cover B" by...

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Oscar producer Will Packer is in good spirits about producing this year’s 94th telecast. Like everyone globally, he’s spent the past two years having existential thoughts regarding his legacy, influence and priorities. But, a Hollywood outsider, Packer could be the right man for the job.

Packer and the Academy have received criticism following the announcement that eight categories, three shorts and five artisan, will be pre-recorded and edited into the live telecast for viewers at home. He says he has empathy and respect for the craftspeople. Still, he decided to treat the show as an entertainment property, saying: “I’m going to do the best I can to treat this show with the reverence and respect I think it deserves, but I’m also going to try to make an entertaining show.”

He compares creating a newly envisioned Oscars to the Super Bowl. “The NFL can never control who plays in the game,

Alec Baldwin will be going back to work as an actor in Italy after the fatal “Rust” accident last October, according to two Italian production companies.

Italy’s Minerva Pictures and Andrea Iervolino and Monica Bacardi’s Ilbe have revealed that both Alec Baldwin and his brother Daniel Baldwin have been cast in two films they are jointly producing, and which will soon shoot in Rome.

Minerva chief Gianluca Curti said Baldwin will be arriving in Rome on Saturday. Daniel Baldwin is already in the Italian capital.

Baldwin’s representative did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation.

Both pics are by Italian helmer Francesco Cinquemani, who directed William Baldwin in the 2021 live-action/animation family comedy “The Christmas Witch,” which Minerva and Ilbe also jointly produced. Cinquemani also previously directed Alec Baldwin in sci-fi actioner “Andron: The Black Labyrinth.”

The two Italian productions in which Alec Baldwin will star

They are partnering with Los Angeles-based non-profit theatre company Deaf West Theatre.

France’s Vendôme Pictures and Pathé are partnering with the US non-profit theatre group Deaf West Theatre to develop a stage musical adaptation of the Oscar-nominated feature Coda.

The coming-of-age drama about a talented teenage singer growing up as the only hearing member of a deaf family, has been a breakout title in this year’s awards season, most recently clinching the top prize at Producers Guild Awards (PGA) over the weekend.

Los Angeles’s Deaf West Theatre is best known for its Tony award-nominated productions Big River and Spring Awakening.

While many movies have used the setting of show business as a backdrop for larger stories about greed or ambition, few have done it with the venom of "All About Eve." Joseph L. Mankiewicz' 1950 film about the cruel and unforgiving world of the theater tells the story of two women at odds with one another: one older, an established and beloved actress, the other younger, hungry for more and prepared to do whatever she can to get it. Despite the movie being a classic backstage melodrama, with backstabbing and massive egos, there's a certain pathos to its story of an older actress...

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When "Mad Max: Fury Road" came along in 2015, it was a revelation. The fourth "Mad Max" film landed in theaters thirty years after "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," the third entry in the series. In a year where the box office was dominated by blockbusters like "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," "Jurassic World," and "Avengers: Age of Ultron," no one had any reason to suspect that this other old franchise would come roaring back to life with such great gusto, rather like a souped-up car engine in a post-apocalyptic desert "war party."

"Fury Road" received ten Academy Award nominations, including one for best picture...

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"Face/Off" is undoubtedly a bonkers movie, right down to the premise itself. In the early stages of the film's development, however, the plot was even crazier, which means that, amazingly, the final theatrical version is toned down from its original plans. That doesn't make Nicolas Cage's psychopathic performance as Castor Roy, or the face transplant surgical procedure, or the highly improbably but absolutely awesome action sequences any less admirably insane, of course. It just means that screenwriters have to aim high if they have any hope of seeing at least a portion of their most outlandish ideas make it to the screen.

Director John...

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From Sundance to Apple TV+ and, now, Oscar frontrunner status, the journey of “Coda” is next headed for the stage.

IndieWire can confirm that an official “Coda” musical is in the works, courtesy of Vendôme Pictures and Pathé partnering with Tony Award–winning Deaf West Theatre. “Coda,” which stands for Child of Deaf Adults, stars Emilia Jones as a teen trying to launch her singing career as the only hearing member of a deaf family. While Ruby’s life is centered on being an interpreter for her parents, played by Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur, plus working on their fishing boat with her brother (Daniel Durant), she dreams of attending a prestigious music school.

“Coda,” directed by Sian Heder, made history as the biggest Sundance acquisition ever, courtesy of Apple, which picked it up for $25 million. The film is nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor for Kotsur.

Superstar Korean actor and producer Gang Dong-won has signed up with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for representation outside Korea.

Gang joins a string of Korean on-screen talent securing international representation as the country’s creative sector is propelled to the fore by films such as “Parasite” and “Peninsula” and by TV shows such as “Squid Game.”

He continues to be represented in Korea and Japan by Lee Gi Wook at Yg Entertainment.

Gang, who has a mechanical engineering degree and was initially scouted as a model, transitioned to acting in 2004 with “Too Beautiful to Lie” and “Temptation of Wolves,” the latter of which earned him the best new actor award at the 24th Korean Association Critics Choice Awards.

Since then, he has had a string of hugely successful roles in hit films including crime tales “A Violent Prosecutor” and “Master,” as well as fantasy “Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard” and

If you spend any time at all on Instagram, there's no doubt you've stumbled across cottagecore at some point. Images usually boast flowy, linen dresses and dried flowers hanging in bunches from wooden rafters. It's a vibe that is meant to capture the delicacy and coziness of living in a small cabin in the woods. Those who abide by the cottagecore lifestyle probably like things like beekeeping and hand-sewing their own quilts and bloomers. Their idea of a good time is spending the afternoon wading waist deep into the nearest creek or lying lazily on the shore reading poetry under the shade...

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Before we go any further, let's all be grateful for the fact that I had just enough restraint to avoid filling this entire article with nothing more than pinched finger emojis or nonstop "House of Gucci" references, simply because of the Italian-ness of it all. Or maybe not doing so was an extreme tactical error on my part. I'm happy to accept any and all judgments for my actions.

With that out of the way, you're probably here for some actual news. Well, you may remember that Paramount first announced their plans to develop a new series about the making of "The Godfather" over a...

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"We've always loved horror, it's just that horror, unfortunately, hasn't always loved us," author and film historian Tananarive Due says in the opening to Shudder's extensive "Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror." The sweeping deep-dive confronts the truth about Black representation in horror, spanning from the infamous 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" through cinematic beacons such as "The Night of the Living Dead" to modern fare like Jordan Peele's "Get Out." Based on Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman's 2011 book of the same name, the documentary (directed by Xavier Burgin) is a deeply insightful and engaging document, rendering the Black voice as forever vital to the genre.

"Black history...

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