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Hocus Pocus 2 Has Begun Production With Original Cast Members Back To Wreak Witchy Havoc It looks like Disney+ has one more Halloween trick up their sleeve. Yesterday the streamer revealed a whole gaggle ofnew and returning castmembers for “Hocus Pocus 2,” including that modern-day man of a thousand faces Doug Jones (“Star Trek: Discovery,” “The Shape of Water”) coming back as the late Billy Butcherson. Today they have announced that lensing on the long-awaited sequel has begun in Rhode Island — subbing for Massachusetts — under the direction of Anne Fletcher (“Dumplin,'” “The Proposal”) from a screenplay by Jen D’Angelo (“Workaholics”) for a fall 2022 streaming debut....

Hugh Grant Says He Plays Six “Incredibly Evil” Characters In ‘Cloud Atlas’ And this is part of why I positionedCloud Atlas,written and directedbyTom Tykwer,Andy WachowskiandLana Wachowski, as my secondmost-anticipatedfilm of 2012. Let’s run through the basics again, for those who are just joining in: One film. Two parallel film units with three directors shooting six interconnected stories. Most of the cast plays multiple roles, sometimes switching genders and races in tales that range from classic adventure to detective thriller to dystopian sci-fi....

Ice Cube Is Making A Screen Capture Sci-Fi Thriller With The Director Of ‘Wanted’ Just two years ago,WantedandAbraham Lincoln: Vampire HunterdirectorTimur Bekmambetovsaid he wasdeveloping no less than 14 moviesthat would use his Screenlife screen capture technology to tell stories that unfolded across the screens of computers, tablets, and phones. This narrative format has already been used with the likes ofHost,Searching,Unfriended, and the sequel,Unfriended: Dark Web, which Bekmambetov produced. Now he’s got a new screen capture movie being fast-tracked at Universal, andIce Cubeis set to star in it....

J.B. Smoove Joins ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Cast TheSpider-Man: Far From Homecast is shaping up to be prettaaay, prettaaay, pretty good.Curb Your EnthusiasmstarJ.B. Smoovehas joined the upcoming Marvel Studios/Sony Pictures sequel, where he’ll star opposite the returningTom Hollandas Peter Parker/Spider-Man. But who is he playing? Deadlinesays J.B. Smoove is officially set to co-star inSpider-Man: Far From Home, the sequel to 2017’sSpider-Man: Homecoming. The actor/comedian’s role is being kept under lock and key for the moment, but Deadline says he’ll play “a lead in the ensemble” before returning to film the next season of Larry David’sCurb Your Enthusiasmfor HBO....

Jason Reitman Uses His Own Cast For ‘American Beauty’ Live Read With Gorgeous Results It’s a shame only 600 people got to seeJason Reitman’s Live Read ofAmerican Beautyon Thursday. If more people saw it, they’d be lining up to seeMen, Women and Childrenthis weekend. The cast proved they are wonderful together. As the kickoff to the 4th season of Live Reads at LACMA, Reitman presentedAlan Ball’s Oscar-winning 1999 script. For all the roles, he chose actors from his latest film....

Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing:’ Exclusive Images, Quotes And Pages From New Book We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. By now the story ofJoss Whedon’sMuch Ado About Nothingis well-known. On a break from post-production forThe Avengers, which would go on to gross $1.5 billion worldwide, the writer/director grabbed a bunch of friends and over 12 days shot a modernized version of the classic Shakespeare play at his own house....

Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret’ Is Finally Becoming A Movie Are you there Hollywood? It’sJudy Blume,finally allowing the movie industry to take a crack at her most beloved novel. The author has been famously reluctant to let Hollywood adapt her hugely influential 1970 coming-of-age novelAre You There God? It’s Me Margaret, but has now granted the rights to the team behindThe Edge of Seventeen. The long-awaited adaptation will be helmed byKelly Fremon Craig, who made her directorial debut with the vastly underrated teen dramedy....

Kevin Feige Confirms Line-Up For The Avengers Making a coherentAvengersfilm that somehow bridges the styles of the other Marvel universe movies probably won’t be an easy job for whoever gets the job. Fans of the comic series are fairly well prepared to see discordant arrangements of characters both crossover and team up, but for a mainstream crowd, the collage might seem a little jarring. Kevin Feige, the man that Marvel has awarded with the tricky role of orchestrating the whole multi-movie shebang, has recently given an interview toSFXmagazinehere in the UK....

Live-Action Voltron Movie Still In Development Earlier this week, it wasannouncedthat the live-action Voltron movie was officially dead, and that the giant robot franchise would instead re-appear on television, via a Nicktoons show calledVoltron Force. We’ve known about this Television show for a while; so we thought this was strange news. Turns out it wasn’t exactly true. Voltron producersRichard SuckleandTed Koplarconfirmed to MTV that the live-action feature film adaptation is still in development, and that a new screenwriter would be announced soon....

LOL: Adam Sandler’s Updated ‘Chanukah Song’ Includes Scarlett Johansson And More There wasn’t a new episode ofSaturday Night Livethis past weekend, but Ryan Gosling is the first host of three new shows for three weeks in a row starting December 5th, with Chris Hemsworth hosting the following week and Tina Fey and Amy Poehlerteaming up to host the last episode of the yearon December 19th. However, we’ve got a fun treat to pass the time on the last day of this weekend from anSNLveteran who doesn’t usually give us anything to be excited about anymore....

Mad Max: Fury Road’s Original Furiosa Design Desperately Needed A Rework Visuals are everything in George Miller’s 2015 masterclass “Mad Max: Fury Road.” Compared to almost any other modern action movie, the lack of reliance on tons of dialogue all but forces viewers to pay attention to everything else the film has at its disposal in order to communicate its story, characters, and action on a fundamental level. Think of the pulse-pounding score by Tom Holkenborg, the incredible desert chase scenes with that breathless editing (oftentimesremoving a handful of individual framesin order to make each punch, jump, and car crash leave that much more of an impact), and particularly, the carefully modulated look and design of all the characters....

Man Sues Marvel Claiming ‘X-Men’ Cartoon Theme Song Was Stolen From A Hungarian TV Series; Listen To Both And Compare For Yourself It’s been 22 years sinceX-Men(akaX-Men: The Animated Series) went off the air, but arguably the most famous aspect of that show – its stellar opening theme song – is now at the center of a lawsuit that was filed against companies like Marvel, Apple, Amazon, The Walt Disney Company, and more....

More Bat-Music From The Batman Is Coming To Bat-Streaming This Bat-Friday Sometimes, a movie is only as good as its music. Robert Pattinson’s take on Bruce Wayne in “The Batman” looks epic and emo in all the right ways, but the clips we’ve seen so far have mostly been assembled into trailer form, without the context of their specific original score. Luckily, with just over a month to go until the film hits theaters, we’re finally starting to hear more snippets of the soundtrack....