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Aquaman 2: Jason Momoa’s New Suit Makes Big Changes to Hero’s Look

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will see the King of Atlantis return for another adventure next year. It’s a no-brainer after the first Aquaman movie scored the DCEU its first billion-dollar box office take, making the Jason Momoa superhero vehicle the highest grossing DC movie of all time. It’s a bit of a Cinderella story considering that before the massive success of the movie, Aquaman was often the butt of jokes for being the DC hero who talks to fish. Of course, when an actor as charismatic (and imposing) as Momoa is wearing the suit, he’s no joke at all.…
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Wrath of Man: Jason Statham Still Kicks Ass Even Without the Quips

If audiences are expecting Wrath of Man, the fourth collaboration between director Guy Ritchie and star Jason Statham, to have the rollicking, quirky vibe of previous Ritchie/Statham action joints, they should temper expectations right now. While Statham has always been adept with a one-liner, and Ritchie is more than willing to provide him a memorable one, Wrath of Man doesn’t have room for quips and giggles; Statham’s tongue has been removed from his cheek and is seldom used. This taut, suspenseful tale of vengeance is deathly serious and features one of the more stoic performances of Statham’s career. While the…
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Thunder Force: Why Jason Bateman Steals the Movie as The Crab

Most of the humor in the Melissa McCarthy–Octavia Spencer superhero comedy, Thunder Force, doesn’t really work. The film has nothing funny or interesting to say about superheroes, as concepts or movie franchises, and it relies way too heavily on messy montages that weirdly double down on comedic bits that didn’t work the first time. There are more laughs to be found in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. (Relax, I like ZSJL.) That said, Thunder Force features one thing that myself and the internet simply cannot get enough of: Jason Bateman as mid-level crime boss Jerry the Crab, a dude with crab…
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Titans Season 3 Red Hood Costume Honors Jason Todd’s DC Universe History

As Titans season 3 is creeping closer to HBO Max every day, Warner has been steadily trickling information out about what to expect from the first season for the show in its new home. The latest update included a look at Red Hood, our first glimpse of a live action Red Hood costume in history. And it’s…about what you would expect from a Red Hood costume. Check it out… Titans is apparently skipping one part of Jason Todd’s road from being Robin to becoming the Red Hood: his death at the hands of the Joker. While Jason (portrayed by Curran…
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Jason Blum Promises “Faithful” New Adaptation Of Stephen King’s Firestarter

Following the news that Zac Efron had been cast in Blumhouse Films’ new adaptation of the 1980 Stephen King novel Firestarter, we had a chance to speak with Blumhouse president Jason Blum about what to expect from the latest addition to the King cinematic canon. “It’s a relatively faithful version of the book,” says Blum, who is doing press this week for the upcoming Welcome to the Blumhouse series of genre movies. “We’re going to shoot it next year. I’ve got several things going with Stephen King, and he’s the ultimate icon to those of us like you and people…
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Jason Momoa Expresses Support for Ray Fisher in Justice League Investigation

Ray Fisher’s allegations about abuse of power on the set of Justice League continue to get more serious, and there’s no sign that the young actor, who played Cyborg in the film, is likely to back down any time soon. Fisher alleges that director Joss Whedon and producers Jon Berg and Geoff Johns behaved poorly during the Justice League production, and that attempts were made by studio executives to cover for them. But now he has another powerful ally in the form of his Justice League teammate, Jason Momoa. While Momoa didn’t offer any detailed comment on Fisher’s allegations, he…
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Ozark Season 4 Filming Start Date Set as Jason Bateman Prepares “for the Worst”

Jason Bateman has confirmed that Ozark’s fourth and final season is gearing up to start production in November. The critically acclaimed Netflix drama’s final run will be released in two blocks of seven episodes on the streaming service, hopefully in the second half of 2021. Bateman leads the cast of the series – which was created for Netflix by Bill Dubuque and Mark Williams – as patriarch Marty Byrde, and follows the Byrde family’s relocation to deep Missouri, where they become entangled with local criminals. “We’re going to start [filming] November 9,” Bateman confirmed in a new interview with IndieWire.…
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Jason Blum and Reinventing the Haunted House in You Should Have Left

Jason Blum needs no introduction to horror fans. His company, Blumhouse Productions, has produced or been associated with some of the biggest and most effective horror titles of the last 15 years: Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister, The Purge, Unfriended, Happy Death Day, and the recent Halloween reboot are all standouts on the Blumhouse slate. Like every other studio in Hollywood, Blumhouse had to shutdown nearly all production in March as the coronavirus pandemic sank its teeth into the world. The company’s last two projects, The Invisible Man and The Hunt, were just beginning their theatrical runs when movie theaters closed…
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Jason Blum: No Plans To Restart Universal Monsters Universe

It seems like an eternity ago — but it’s only been three years — that Universal Studios’ proposed “Dark Universe” collapsed after its disastrous debut with The Mummy. A proposed slate of interconnected films featuring Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s monster, Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll (not originally a Universal property, but whatever) and even Angelina Jolie as the Bride of Frankenstein was quietly entombed in the studio’s development crypt after The Mummy unraveled like a…you get the idea. Flash forward to 2020 and Universal took a tentative step back into the monster pool this…
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Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage and Jason Momoa to Star in Vampire Movie

Peter Dinklage and Jason Momoa, the smartest and the strongest characters on Game of Thrones, respectively, are teaming up for something which will probably be sillier, weaker, and more fun than a dozen Red Weddings: a vampire buddy movie. Indeed, the pair are set to star in the upcoming action horror film Good Bad & Undead, according to THR. Dinklage’s Tyrion Lannister and Momoa’s Khal Drogo never shared a scene on Game of Thrones, but they were kind of brothers due to their relationship with a dragon of a mother, Daenerys Targaryen. In Good Bad & Undead, Dinklage will play…
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How Jason Blum Changed Horror Movies

“I look at myself more as an entrepreneur than a producer,” Jason Blum tells Den of Geek ahead of the release of his latest buzzy horror movie. That film, The Invisible Man has already scooped an impressive $29 million opening weekend off a budget of $7 million as well as widespread critical success (check out our four star review, the movie is currently at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes).  It’s hard to deny that as an entrepreneur, Blum is a bloody good one. It’s been 20 years (“depending on where you start,” Blum clarifies) since his company Blumhouse Productions arrived to…
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