Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In Cocaine Cowboys Remake With Mark Wahlberg?

Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In Cocaine Cowboys Remake With Mark Wahlberg? Do we really need more coke overdoses in Hollywood? According toPage Six,Leonardo DiCapriois in talks to star oppositeMark Wahlbergin a live-action remake of the quite awesome documentaryCocaine Cowboys. DiCaprio would star asMickey Munday, a hick-type airplane pilot with an attitude and an insatiable appetite for the drug trade. I was just talking to a friend about this flick while listening to Toto’s"Africa,“and the role of Mickey Munday came up....

August 16, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Janet Sawyer

Marvel's 'Moon Knight' Disney+ Series To Be Helmed By 'Clash' Director Mohamed Diab

Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ Disney+ Series To Be Helmed By ‘Clash’ Director Mohamed Diab Marvel’sMoon Knightseries has found a director in Egyptian filmmakerMohamed Diab. The director behindClash, a 2016 revolutionary drama that was an official selection at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard category, has been tapped to helmMoon Knight, the Marvel series for Disney+ starringOscar Isaacas the titular mercenary with multiple alter egos. Deadline reports that Mohamed Diab has been tapped to directMoon Knight, Marvel’s latest TV series for Disney+....

August 16, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Raymond Elliott

McG Considered Releasing 'This Means War' With Alternate Endings

McG Considered Releasing ‘This Means War’ With Alternate Endings It takes a gutsy filmmaker — and, perhaps more to the point, a gutsy studio — to emulate the strange release of the 1985 filmClue. When originally released,Cluewent out with three different endings, and audiences didn’t know which one they were going to see. (There’s also a reported fourth ending, but that’s a topic for another post.) The endings were collected for the home video release, and most people have seen the edit ofCluewhere each possible ending is played in succession....

August 16, 2025 · 2 min · 329 words · Melissa Rush

Movie Trailer: Lebanon

Movie Trailer: Lebanon - Contained Tank Israeli War Film Sony Pictures Classics have released the trailer forSamuel Maoz’sLebanon, the contained tank Israeli war film which won the Golden Lion, the top prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival. The whole movie takes place inside a tank, from the perspective of the soliders inside the cramped quarters, as they attempt to rescue and free a paratrooper squad that is besieged by Syrian troops....

August 16, 2025 · 2 min · 359 words · Omar Day

Netflix Temporarily Re-Opens New York's Iconic Paris Theatre For 'Marriage Story' Limited Run

Netflix Temporarily Re-Opens New York’s Iconic Paris Theatre For ‘Marriage Story’ Limited Run When Manhattan’sParis Theatreclosed its doors in August, it was a huge loss for the New York movie-going community. The beloved theater was the last prestige single-screen movie house in the city. But while we may not always have Paris, Netflix ensures that we’ll have it for at least a couple more weeks this November. Netflix is setting aMarriage Storytheatrical release in New York at the Paris Theatre starting November 6, for a limited run....

August 16, 2025 · 3 min · 501 words · Theresa Brandt

Official Star Wars Databank Update: What Secret Does Starkiller Base Hold?

Official Star Wars Databank Update: What Secret Does Starkiller Base Hold? Coinciding with last week’s Force Friday festivities, the officialStar Warswebsite made a few additions to their databank that should have fans of the galaxy far, far away raising one of their eyebrows inquisitively. Some of them we already new about while others have some vague new details that just have us asking more questions. For example,at Comic-ConDomhnall Gleesonspoiled the fact that The First Order base inStar Wars: The Force Awakenswas calledStarkiller Base, inspired by the original surname for Skywalker in the first draft of the script for the first Star Wars movie....

August 16, 2025 · 4 min · 658 words · Ronald Michael

Patton Oswalt Explains His Caprica Character

Patton Oswalt Explains His Caprica Character TheAV Clubhas a brilliant and rather long interview withPatton Oswaltthis week, to celebrate the comic’s new CD/DVDMy Weakness is Strong. (Which is worth celebrating; it’s a great set.) The interview is worth your time if you have any interest in Oswalt and the art of stand-up comedy in general, but it also has a good tidbit of info that expands what we know about his role on theBattlestar Galacticaspin-offCaprica....

August 16, 2025 · 2 min · 304 words · Stacey Evans

Polar Bear Trailer: You Will Never Recover From The Cuteness Overload

Polar Bear Trailer: You Will Never Recover From The Cuteness Overload Today we have a new trailer forDisneynature’s “Polar Bears.” I suggest that you save this for after work, because if there were any dogs in my house right now, they’d be howling from the squeaky noises I made watching it. I have been debating over the cutest pic to use, and while I did post the cuddly one, I must also show you polar bear feeties because everyone needs this in their life....

August 16, 2025 · 3 min · 480 words · Paul Walker

Revisiting 'The Black Hole', Disney's Attempt To Make A Dark And Hellish 'Star Wars'

Revisiting ‘The Black Hole’, Disney’s Attempt To Make A Dark And Hellish ‘Star Wars’ (Welcome toOut of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)The post-Walt and Roy Disney era of Disney was a fascinating and very weird one. In the ’70s, Walt’s son-in-law Ron Miller took over has head of Walt Disney Productions, and set out to expand the scope of Disney movies to appeal to the profitable teenage market that was spending a ton of cash on movies other than the family-friendly Disney flicks....

August 16, 2025 · 5 min · 1055 words · Robert Davis

Rumor: Will Captain America And Iron Man Swing By The New 'Spider-Man'?

Rumor: Will Captain America And Iron Man Swing By The New ‘Spider-Man’? It’s no secret thatTom Holland’s Spider-Man will first swing by next year’sCaptain America: Civil War, getting caught up in the battle between Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Captain America (Chris Evans). But the question we haven’t really considered yet is who might swing by Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movie. Now an interesting bit of speculation suggests that Captain America and Iron Man might return the favor to their young friend, popping up in the Spider-Man solo outing due out in 2017....

August 16, 2025 · 2 min · 402 words · Monica Santana

Scott Derrickson Directing 'Dr. Strange' For Marvel

Scott Derrickson Directing ‘Dr. Strange’ For Marvel Marvel’s next film announcement isDr. Strange, and the film has a director.Scott Derrickson, who recently madeSinister, will directDr. Strange. Derrickson wasmentionedas being a possible choice a few months ago. He has also directedThe Exorcism of Emily Roseand the remake ofThe Day the Earth Stood Still. He has been in development on a film based on the video game seriesDeus Ex, but expectDr. Strangeto take priority....

August 16, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Andrew Glover

Scream Directors Reveal Details About The Spoiler-Y Cameo, You Know The One

Scream Directors Reveal Details About The Spoiler-Y Cameo, You Know The One Thenew “Scream"is chock-full ofhomages and allusionsto the franchise’s past, some overt and some more subtle. One of the biggest of them involves a legacy character who is no longer with us … and if you want to know more, get your butt ready for somespoilers. Billy Loomis (once again played by Skeet Ulrich) returns to us in the new “Scream,” anddirectors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpinopened up about the decision to include the beloved-yet-hated character in their film toColliderin an interview:...

August 16, 2025 · 4 min · 649 words · Edward Walker

Shane Black Explains How 'The Predator' Reshoots Changed The Movie

Shane Black Explains How ‘The Predator’ Reshoots Changed The Movie At San Diego Comic-Con, 20th Century Fox brought some exclusive footage from the upcoming sci-fi sequelThe Predator, and directorShane Blackwas on hand with the ensemble cast to tease what fans can expect from the return of one of the galaxy’s most deadly hunters. We already went over all that inour extensive Comic-Con coverage, but the director revealed a bit more about the movie outside of the film’s panel in Hall H....

August 16, 2025 · 4 min · 667 words · Brandon Willis