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Dive Into ‘Jaws: Live!’ With Footage From This Certifiably Insane Theatrical Production This past July, the Austin, Texas-basedOld Murder House TheatretransportedSteven Spielberg’sJawsto the stage. Their production, a beat-for-beat recreation of the original film with only a few deliberate changes, was a thing of chaotic beauty. On sets made of cardboard, held together with duct tape and a prayer, the cast and crew created a show that was one part parody, one part homage, and one part, uh, something else altogether....

Don Cheadle Talks About War Machine In ET Set Visit Clip Entertainment Tonighthas been posting a series of little set visit video clips fromIron Man 2. There was thefirst oneshowingRobert Downey, Jr.and some on-set action, a second following the enthusiasm aroundMickey Rourke(embedded below) and nowDon Cheadlegets the spotlight as ET focuses on the War Machine, his armored alter-ego that we first saw infootage displayed at Comic Conthis year. If the first set visit clip didn’t give you what you were hoping for from Don Cheadle, this one might....

Green Lantern Screenwriter To Pen ‘Leonardo Da Vinci And The Soldiers Of Forever’ For Warner Bros. Did you ever watchHudson Hawkand think, “man,Leonardo Da Vincireally got screwed out of a chance for action stardom”? If so, you’re one of about five people, but Warner Bros. still has you covered. The studio is moving forward onLeonardo Da Vinci and the Soldiers of Forever, whichGreen LanternwriterMarc Guggenheimwill use to recast the Renaissance artist and inventor as an action hero....

How ‘Dumbo’ Used Real-Life Circus Performers To Ground The Heightened Experience “The unique thing about making a movie is making a sort of circus anyway,“DumboproducerJustin Springertold us and a group of journalists on theset visitto the Disney live-action movie. ButDumbotakes that circus to a whole new level. TheTim Burton-directed movie has a fantastical bent to it, a “storybook” approach to 1919 that’s seen in the anachronistic elements and the lavish settings....

How ‘The Expanse’ Changed With Its Move From SYFY To Amazon WhenThe Expansewas cancelled by SYFY, a core group of fans, lovingly called the Screaming Firehawks, worked hard to find it a new home. In May 2018, Jeff Bezos responded to everyone’s efforts, which included flying a plane with a banner that said “Save The Expanse” over Amazon Studios' main office, by announcing that Amazon Prime Video was picking up the show....

Huzzah! ‘The Great’ Season 2 Is Coming To Hulu The Greatwill continue its reign for a second season. Just two months afterThe FavouritewriterTony McNamara’s historical satire series debuted on Hulu to positive reviews and a healthy response from content-starved quarantine viewers, the streamer has renewedThe Greatfor a season 2. After all, Russia wasn’t changed in a day. What comes after the coup? Sure, we can look to history books to find out the truth of how Catherine the Great deposed Emperor Peter and rose to become the longest-reigning female rule in Russia’s history....

Immersive 007 Exhibitions Will Let You Enter The World Of Bond, James Bond If you’ve ever wanted to step into 007’s shoes and order one “shaken, not stirred,” you’ll actually have the opportunity to step into the espionage legend’s shoes in New York City with a new immersive James Bond exhibition. The “007xSKYSCAPE: The James Bond Immersive Exhibition” is where fans can step into “projection mapping and larger-than-life installations [that] take you inside the magic of 007,” located in the Skyscape in midtown Manhattan....

Joe Dante Pits Vampires Against Werewolves In ‘Ombra Amor’ Pitting vampires against werewolves isn’t a new thing, and it has even been done recently, in theUnderworldseries. But it can be done a lot better thanUnderworldmanaged, andJoe Dante(Gremlins,Burying the Ex) is going to see if he can be the one to do it. Dante has announced a film calledOmbra Amor, which is in fact a relaunch of an idea he was working on a few years back....

Kevin Feige Confirms ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’ Coming In Phase 4 Marvel had Phase Threemapped outback when they were still deep into Phase Two. So it should come as no surprise that even as they’re preparing to launch Phase Three with next month’sCaptain America: Civil War, they’re already making plans for Phase Four. The studio already has three 2020 dates locked in, and while they haven’t said exactly which titles will get them, Kevin Feige’s latest comments suggestGuardians of the Galaxy Vol....

New ‘Alien’ Not Trying To Undo ‘Alien 3’ And ‘Resurrection,’ Says Director Neill Blomkampdebuted his ideas for a newAlienfilm viaconcept artthat very clearly showed Hicks, the hero fromAlienswho is killed in the opening shots ofAlien 3. And hisfirst comments on video about the project, released yesterday, seemed very clear. “There’sAlien, andAliens, then this film,” he said. That, along with comments fromSigourney Weaverabout giving Ripley’s story a proper ending, all made a clear point: this upcoming film will basically ignoreAlien 3andAlien: Resurrection....

New Report Indicates Bryan Singer Fired From ‘Red Sonja’ Movie Last month, we got word thatRed Sonjawas on hold in the wake of even more sexual misconduct allegations against directorBryan Singer. Now, it looks like Singer is officially off the movie. The news of Singer’s removal came unceremoniously, buried within a much larger story about a completely different topic. Now let us all cross our fingers and hope we never have to hear about Bryan Singer again....

Oscar Breakout Timothée Chalamet To Play Henry V In Netflix’s ‘The King’ At 22,Timothée Chalametbecame the Oscar’s youngest Best Actor nominee in almost 80 years for his revelatory performance in Luca Guadagnino’s coming-of-age romance,Call Me By Your Name. How do you follow that up? By putting on a crown. On Netflix. Chalamet will play King Henry V in the Netflix feature filmThe King, according toThe Wrap. A historical drama following a young Henry V as he reluctantly ascends to the throne after the death of his brother in battle,The Kingwill be directed byWar Machine’sDavid Michodand written byJoel Edgertonand Michod....

Rogue One Bits: New Posters, New TV Spots, An MPAA Rating, And A Star Wars Branded Automobile In this edition of Rogue One Bits: Look, the days of movies getting one or two posters are long gone. These days, you need a teaser poster and a first poster and a second poster and then a collection of character posters and then an IMAX poster and then the specialty poster that you can only get at select screenings and then the expensive screen print created by Mondo or Bottleneck Gallery....