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31 Aug

The Original Rocketeer 2 Plans Were Very Different

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The Rocketeer celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this summer. The 1991 film starred Bill Campbell as Cliff Secord, a young stunt pilot who ends up in possession of an experimental jetpack and ends up embroiled in a crossfire between Nazi spies (led by Timothy Dalton), and the mafia (led by Paul Sorvino). It’s a terrific, charming action-adventure film, effectively paying homage to the movie serials of the 1930s and other Hollywood flicks of the era, all set to one of James Horner’s very best scores. But despite positive reviews, The Rocketeer wasn’t quite the Batman-sized blockbuster that studio Buena Vista…

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21 May

Did Rangers of the New Republic Plans Change Because of Gina Carano’s Firing?

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When Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy announced the future of the Star Wars live-action TV universe on Disney+, she named several new series spinning out of The Mandalorian. A series called Ahsoka would pick up where the Jedi’s cameo in season 2 of Mando left off, as she continued her search for Grand Admiral Thrawn. The Book of Boba Fett would follow the further adventures of the franchise’s foremost bounty hunter and the assassin Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen). Then there’s the more mysteriously titled Rangers of the New Republic, a series that up to this point we know little about beyond…

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07 May

Link Tank: Army of the Dead Scrapped Plans for a Whole Zombified Zoo

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Zack Snyder’s upcoming Army of the Dead features a zombified tiger, but the film almost had a whole zombified zoo. “Along with thinking, organized zombies, Zack Snyder’s living mercenaries in the upcoming Army of the Dead will have to deal with at least one undead white tiger as they venture into the overrun ruins of Las Vegas in search of $200 million dollars stashed in an abandoned casino. The idea of an army of zombies having an inexhaustible tiger among their ranks is alarming enough, but according to director Snyder, at one point he decided to go a bit bigger.”…

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09 Mar

WandaVision Had Early Plans for a CSI-Inspired Episode

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Every TV series comes along with its own set of TV influences. But few shows in recent memory have shouted out their televised inspirations more loudly than Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+. Of course, that was all by design as Mind Stone-altered magic user Wanda Maximoff found herself in a world of her own making. Since the Maximoff family really enjoyed their sitcoms back in Sokovia, Wanda’s days in Westview paid homage to the classics like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, The Brady Bunch, Family Ties, Malcolm in the Middle, Modern Family, and more. But according to the series showrunner Jac…

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24 Jul

New Mutants: Plans for Potential Trilogy Revealed

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Despite being named after one X-Men spinoff team, the New Mutants movie is more like an x-factor. We don’t know how it’s going to be (despite the insistence that it’s coming at the end of August). We don’t know when it’s actually going to get released. We don’t know what Marvel superhero reality it’s going to take place in. We aren’t 100% sure if it’s going to be in theaters at all or just get thrown onto Disney+ or Hulu. We don’t even know if its potential success will even matter due to the bizarre nature of its existence. On…

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20 Jul

Tenet Delayed Indefinitely as Studio Still Plans for 2020 Release

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After all these years of Christopher Nolan bending time to his will in movie after movie, a Nolan film must now bend to the times instead. In news that hardly comes as a surprise, we can now confirm Tenet has been delayed in definitely from its Aug. 12 release date. The reluctant move by Warner Bros. comes after months of hand-wringing about the fate of Nolan’s original blockbuster event in which John David Washington appears to unravel a conspiracy involving a kind of time travel. The movie was originally slated to have already premiered on July 17, and proved to…

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01 Jul

New Power Rangers Showrunner Reveals Dino Fury Plans

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Back in January fans of Power Rangers learned through an IMDB post that Simon Bennett, director of many Ninja Steel and Beast Morphers episodes and producer of several well-known New Zealand dramas, had “taken over the reins as EP (executive producer) of Hasbro’s famed Power Rangers TV series.” He later stated that he was also the showrunner as well.  At the time this left fans a bit confused since Chip Lynn, who’d worked on the show back in the 90’s and returned in 2015 for Dino Charge, was the executive producer. While TV shows having two executive producers isn’t uncommon the…

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26 Jun

Scott Pilgrim Anime Plans Afoot

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright hopes we may see the Sex Bob-Omb bassist back in action sooner rather than later, if plans for a new anime project take off. In an interview with EW celebrating the film’s 10th anniversary, Wright confirms that he, Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, and the film’s producer, Jared LeBoff, have been mulling the possibility of making a Scott Pilgrim anime for some time. “There’s some plans — and there’s nothing official yet — but there are some plans to revisit the material in an animation way. We’ve been talking with Bryan…

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24 Jun

Henry Cavill Plans to Play Superman for Years to Come

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Henry Cavill’s big screen DC Extended Universe tenure as Superman is far from finished… at least if he has anything to say about the matter. In an “Actors on Actors” Variety interview with Patrick Stewart, Cavill conveys apparent unbridled enthusiasm for his run as Superman; a role that, per a 2018 trade report, he was believed to have exited after an alleged shakeup by Warner Bros. in the financially and critically underwhelming aftermath of 2017 megamovie Justice League. Pertinently, Cavill’s sudden surge of Superman sanguineness arrives shortly after a late-May report’s claim that he is in talks with the studio…

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20 Jun

Jason Blum: No Plans To Restart Universal Monsters Universe

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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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10 Jun

AMC Theatres Plans to Fully Reopen in July, After Reporting $2.2 Billion COVID-19 Loss

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If there’s any industry that can make it through social distancing restrictions, it’s the theater business, says AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. CEO Adam Aron. Although the 2020 fiscal year started strongly with earnings up nearly 10 percent compared to 2019, the theater chain’s revenue plunged after coronavirus-related social distancing guidelines forced all theaters to close on March 17. AMC reported a loss of $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2020. In spite of bankruptcy concerns and “substantial doubt” the chain will be “a going concern,” the company plans to fully reopen worldwide in July, according to Deadline. “These are…

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10 Jun

Event Horizon: Plans for Remastered Blu-Ray Release Unveiled

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It seems a little hard to comprehend now, but Paul W.S. Anderson’s Event Horizon totally flopped back in 1997. The sci-fi horror project just did not find the audience it was looking for, but like many genre films, it went on to became a cult classic. Starring Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Joely Richardson and Jason Isaacs, Event Horizon sends its characters to explore the titular ship, which disappears and then reappears after opening a rift in the space-time continuum. It’s all downhill for them after that, as a nightmare of discovery unfolds at a brisk pace. Of course, it’s set…

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12 May

Rob Liefeld Rips Into Marvel, Says Studio Has “Zero” Plans for Deadpool 3

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It took ages to bring the first Deadpool movie to the screen, but the blood, sweat and tears of everyone involved really paid off. The unconventional anti-hero’s origin story turned out pretty well in the end, and with a global box office to the tune of $782 million, a sequel blasted onto screens within two years, racking up another $785 for its studio, Fox. The sky was the limit for the franchise, despite its content being aimed at older fans. For those who were looking forward to a third Deadpool movie, or maybe even an X-Force spinoff, worrying news arrived…

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