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Frequent Superhero Dabbler Ben Affleck Calls Marvel’s Kevin Feige The Greatest Producer “Who’s Ever Lived” It’s safe to say thatBen Affleck, an Oscar-winning polymath who’s worked as a director/actor/writer/producer, knows a thing or two about producing movies. And during a recent roundtable discussion, he had some strong praise for fellow film producerKevin Feige, calling him the “greatest” and “most successful producer who’s ever lived.” During a conversation onTHR’s Awards Chatter podcast(viaCollider), Affleck, formerDaredevilstar and the world’s once and future Batman, had this to say about hisDaredevilco-worker:...

George Lucas' Scrapped ‘Star Wars: Underworld’ TV Series Had Dozens Of Finished Scripts And A Massive Scope George Lucas’Star Wars: Underworldseries was one of many projects lost during the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm. The long-in-development live-action series was a source of excitement for manyStar Warsfans, who gobbled up new rumors, concept art leaks, and reports of scripts being written. Alas, the project never came to be, but formerStar Wars: UnderworldwriterRonald D....

Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ Casts Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Finn Wolfhard As The Oscar-Winning Director Signs Overall Netflix Deal Guillermo del Torofans have long known to temper their excitement for the filmmaker’s developing projects, as the filmmaker’s most ambitious films frequently fall apart before they reach the screen. But with streaming giant Netflix behind him, del Toro has been able to resurrect his long-gestatingPinocchiomovie and turn it into a sure thing....

HBO Rolls Out New Trailers For ‘Vinyl’, ‘Sesame Street’, And ‘Togetherness’ As a premium cable channel, HBO can show pretty much whatever the hell they want, and when it comes to their prestige dramas they rarely pass up an opportunity to do just that. Colorful curses? Great. Graphic, gory violence? Fantastic. Nudity? Yes please, and preferably while some esteemed British character actor is delivering a boring exposition dump. But that’s notallHBO does....

Here’s The 2020 “Black List” Of The Year’s Best Unproduced Screenplays Every year, theBlack Listshows off the most well-liked but not-yet-produced screenplays of year. And each year, the Black List offers a glimpse into a world of not just unmade scripts, but of talented writers waiting for their big moment and film projects just waiting for the right person to say “yes.” The 2020 Black List is no different. There is a lot of imagination on this list of unmade scripts....

Hulu Wants To Build Its Own George R.R. Martin Universe With Two ‘Wild Cards’ TV Shows AsGame of Throneswinds down to its final season, other networks and streaming services are eagerly jumping at the chance to build their ownGeorge R.R. Martinuniverse. Next in line isHulu, which is set to develop not one, but twoWild Cardsshows, based on the sci-fi series written by multiple authors and edited by Martin. Varietyreports that Hulu is opening a writer’s room for two series based on Martin’sWild Cards, a collection of sci-fi novels and anthologies that take place in an alternative American timeline in which an alien virus released in 1946 has devastated humanity....

John Ridley To Write And Direct Blumhouse Superhero Movie ‘The American Way’ Having conquered horror, Blumhouse now wants to get in on the superhero game.12 Years a SlavewriterJohn Ridleywill write and direct the Blumhouse superhero movieThe American Way, inspired by the comic book series of the same name. What’s next for Blumhouse? How about a superhero movie?Deadlinereports that the production company has hired John Ridley to write and directThe American Way, a superhero film adapted from Ridley’s own comic book series (with illustrator George Jeanty)The American Way: Those Above And Those Below....

Kenneth Branagh Stopped Anthony Hopkins From Retiring While Making Thor Sir Anthony Hopkinswon his second Oscarfor Best Actor this year for his performance in “The Father,” but it might never have happened had another knight of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire kept him from retiring … with a role in a Marvel movie. That’s right: it was Sir Kenneth Branagh, the director of the first “Thor” film, who convinced Hopkins not to retire by having him play Odin the Allfather....

Kevin Hart To Host The 2019 Academy Awards We finally have our 2019 Oscars host. Actor-comedianKevin Hartis officially set to host the 91st annual Academy Awards ceremony. Kevin Hart took to Instagram to confirm that he is the official 2019 Oscars host,following reportsthat theNight Schoolstar was being eyed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science to host the February ceremony. “I appreciate @TheAcademy for the opportunity,” wrote Hart in hispost, adding, “now it’s time to rise to the occasion....

Leonardo DiCaprio Re-Teaming With ‘The Revenant’ Writer For ‘Conquest’ It’s not entirelyMark L. Smith’s fault that Leonardo DiCaprio found himself chowing down on raw bison liver and risking hypothermia in freezing cold water on the set ofThe Revenant. But as the screenwriter, Smith definitely bears some responsibility. He’s the one who wrote Hugh Glass into a world that gets “colder, icier, more frozen and harder,” as his journey continues, after all....

Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon Among The Star-Studded Presenters At The 2020 Golden Globes Awards season is heating up and this weekend the Golden Globes will kick it into high gear with a glitzy, buzzy (and hopefully slightly buzzed) ceremony. The 2020 Golden Globe presenters have been announced, and the line-up is as star-studded as you’d expect, withLeonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon,andTiffany Haddishamong the glamorous stars set to present at the ceremony....

Midnight Run Sequel Will Star Regina Hall, Robert De Niro To Produce Have you ever caught yourself wistfully thinking that they just don’t make ‘em like “Midnight Run” anymore? Well, somebody in Hollywood must have heard those thoughts because the adored 1988 buddy comedy is being revived with yet another attempt at averylong-delayed sequel. The original film starred Robert de Niro and Charles Grodin flawlessly playing off one another as, respectively, an ex-cop bounty hunter and embezzling mob accountant....

Mission: Impossible 4 Being Prepped? Aint It Cool Newshave run a story from one of their readers, reporting thatTom Cruisehas appeared on Japanese television and revealed plans for the 4thMission: Impossiblefilm. See above, images from said show. As I learned from ‘supastring’, the AICN scooper, Cruise was a guest on SMAPxSMAP. According to Wikipedia, the show is hosted by the Idol group SMAP – presumably an aging Idol group as the show has apparently been on air for around 13 years (take that Take That)....