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Ernie Hudson To Co-Star In QUANTUM LEAP Reboot

Ghostbusters franchise’s Ernie Hudson will star opposite Raymond Lee (Here and Now, Top Gun: Maverick) in NBC’s pilot for Quantum Leap, a reboot of the cult 1990s sci-fi series of the same name.

Written and executive produced by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, the reboot is set in the present day. It will follow a new team as they restart the Quantum Leap project in hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine, and its creator.

The original series follows a physicist (Scott Bakula) as he involuntarily leaps through spacetime during experiments in time travel, and temporarily takes the place of various people throughout the second half of the 20th century; each time, he must correct what he discovers are historical mistakes, in hopes of one day making it home.

Deadline reports that Ernie Hudson portrays Herbert “Magic” Williams in the pilot, a Vietnam war veteran and head of the time travel project at Quantum Leap. Meanwhile, Lee will play Dr. Ben Seong, a world-renowned physicist working on QL who gets stuck in the late 1980s with amnesia after using the technology. Hudson’s Williams will have to keep the Pentagon at bay and buy his team time to rescue Seong.

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Florence Pugh In Talks To Join DUNE: PART 2 In Major Role

Black Widow and Hawkeye actress Florence Pugh in talks for Dune Part 2

Black Widow and Midsommer actress Florence Pugh is in talks to join the all-star cast of Dune: Part 2, the sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s Oscar-nominated epic released last year.

The film, with its returning cast including Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, is casting three major parts. Pugh is in talks to play Princess Irulan Corrino, the eldest daughter of Emperor Shaddam IV; Dune: Part 2 will also introduce the ruler who sent the Atreides family to Arrakis, the Emperor himself, as well as Feyd-Rautha, the cunning nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Skarsgård) of House Harkonnen.

THR reports there are several hurdles that will need to be overcome before Florence Pugh can sign onto the project. Firstly, the script is still being written and the Hawkeye actress is said to be waiting for the latest draft. Secondly – and unsurprisingly, given that Pugh is one of the most in-demand actresses working right now –scheduling conflicts could arise should she land the lead role for the upcoming Madonna biopic, for which she is currently in contention.

Production is expected to start this autumn, with Dune: Part 2 due to release on October 20th, 2023.

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Rosario Dawson Fights To Survive In DMZ Trailer

Rosario Dawson stars in DMZ series at HBO Max

HBO Max has just released the first trailer to their limited series DMZ, based on the DC graphic novel of the same name by Brian Wood.

The events are set in a near future, where a Second American Civil War has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone, caught between forces of the United States of America and the secessionist Free States of America. Daredevil’s Rosario Dawson stars in the lead role as Alma Ortega, an NYC medic navigating the conflict-ridden DMZ in a harrowing quest to find her lost son.

The cast of DMZ also includes Benjamin Bratt (Doctor Strange, Coco), Hoon Lee (Iron Fist, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Freddy Miyares (When They See Us), Jordan Preston Carter (Shaft), and Venus Ariel (Exposed).

The series comes from showrunner and creator Robert Patino (Westworld), who executive produces alongside Ava DuVernay and Paul Garnes. Patino wrote the first episode, which is directed by DuVernay; The Walking Dead’s Ernest Dickerson directs the other three episodes.

DMZ is set to premiere on HBO Max on March 17th. Watch the trailer below:

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Will Smith & Michael B. Jordan To Star In I AM LEGEND Sequel

I Am Legend movie poster starring Will Smith

In an age of sequels we don’t want, one rises to challenge the tide: a follow-up to I Am Legend. Original star Will Smith, whose performance was widely and rightly praised, has signed on to reprise his role in the sequel to the post-apocalyptic 2007 film. Deadline also confirms that Black Panther‘s Michael B. Jordan is attached to star alongside Smith, and that the sequel will be written by the original film’s co-writer, Akiva Goldsman (Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Discovery, and I, Robot). Smith, Jordan and Goldsman will be producing.

There’s just one minor hiccup: *insert 15-year-old spoiler alert* Smith’s character, Dr. Robert Neville – a scientist attempting to find a cure for a plague that has killed off most of humanity and turned survivors into vampiric, cannibalistic mutants called Darkseekers – does die at the end of I Am Legend. As of yet, it’s therefore unclear how the actor might return for the sequel.

It’s possible it’ll have something to do with the alternate ending contained in the two-disc special edition DVD, released in 2008, which more closely followed the novel on which the film is based. In this other ending, Neville returns the female Darkseeker to her alpha mate; the Darkseekers spare his life and depart, leaving Neville to realise he has become the monster in the eyes of the infected.

He later abandons his search for a cure and instead joins Anna and Ethan on their journey to a survivors colony. This alternate end to the film, though not part of I Am Legend’s final cut, could well become the set up for a sequel.

No director is yet attached, as the project is still being developed. Francis Lawrence directed the original film, and has since gone on to helm three of the four The Hunger Games films and Red Sparrow, which also stars Jennifer Lawrence. His next project is the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a sequel to the Hunger Games trilogy centring on a young Cornelius Snow.

New ALIEN Film Coming From DON’T BREATHE Filmmaker Fede Álvarez

Fede Álvarez, the filmmaker behind Don’t Breathe, 2013’s Evil Dead and Netflix’s remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has been tapped to resurrect the Alien franchise. He will write and direct the upcoming sci-fi feature film for 20th Century Studios.

Though next-to-nothing is known about Álvarez’s take on the material, the feature will reportedly be unconnected to the franchise’s previous entries. Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1979 science fiction horror and returned for two further instalments (Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, both prequel films that attempted to tell the origin of the Xenomorphs), will produce via his Scott Free banner.

Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that Álvarez, a long-time and devoted fan of the Alien franchise, casually pitched his take for a film to Scott some years ago. The idea clearly stuck with Scott until late last year, when he reportedly called Álvarez out of the blue and asked him if he was still interested in making the feature.

Obviously, Álvarez was more than keen, and here we are. Stay tuned for further details as we get them!

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Kevin Smith Launches His Own Line Of Comics For Dark Horse

Kevin Smith is launching a creator-owned line of comics to be published by Dark Horse, called Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash Press – named after his New Jersey comic book store, Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. “2022 marks the 25th anniversary of my comic book store, Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. And after a quarter-century of selling comics, the Secret Stash is going to MAKE our own comics!” Smith said in a statement. Per a Hollywood Reporter exclusive, Smith will also serve as writer on the series.

The line will launch this autumn with Masquerade, an eight-issue series about a budding vigilante, followed by the ongoing anthology Quick Stops, which is set in Smith’s View Askewniverse and will include characters from films such as Mallrats, and the Jay & Silent Bob and Clerk films.

Smith may be known most widely for his filmmaking career, but this is hardly the first time the creator has ventured into comic book writing. Over his career, he has tackled the likes of Green Arrow, Batman and Daredevil, for Marvel, DC, and many other publishers. He previously worked with Dark Horse when they published Smith’s prequel to his Masters of the Universe: Revelation animated series.

Smith also has a third Clerks film expected to release this year, courtesy of Lionsgate.

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See The Noomi Rapace-Starring Folk Horror YOU WON’T BE ALONE

film you won't be alone stars noomi rapace

Focus Features has released a new trailer for You Won’t Be Alone, the Macedonian language folklore horror and the debut feature of writer-director Goran Stolevski.

Noomi Rapace (Lamb, Prometheus) stars as one of the human bodies inhabited by a shape-shifting witch in 19th century Macedonia, as she drifts from one life to the next in her search to understanding what it means to be human.

Sara Klimoska (Willow), Carloto Cotta and Alice Englert (Them That Follow, Ratched) also star as the witch’s other forms; Anamaria Marinca (Invasion, The Old Guard) also stars as the mysterious, demonic mother figure, alongside Arta Dobroshi (Gangs of London) and Félix Maritaud (120 BPM). Kristina Ceyton (The Babadook, The Nightingale) and Sam Jennings (Cargo) produce.

The gorgeously shot and sensitively portrayed film debuted to critical acclaim at Sundance Festival earlier this year, and will release in cinemas April 1st.

Check out the new trailer (complete with its fair share of rapturous pull quotes) for You Won’t Be Alone below:

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Jonathan Groff And Ben Aldridge Join KNOCK AT THE CABIN

Jonathan Groff as Agent Smith in The Matrix Resurrections

Ben Aldridge and Jonathan Groff have been tapped to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s highly-anticipated next feature, Knock at the Cabin, Deadline reports . The pair joins a growing cast that so far includes Dave Bautista (Army of the Dead, Guardians of the Galaxy), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise, Shyamalan’s Servant series) and Nikki Amuka-Bird (Old, Jupiter Ascending).

As with anything Shyamalan, plot details are being kept under strict lock and key for the foreseeable future, so we don’t know what sort of roles Aldridge and Groff might play. However, Bloody Disgusting reports that Knock at the Cabin is a “home invasion horror film that takes place during the apocalypse… akin to Paul Tremblay’s Cabin at the End of the World.“ It certainly sounds intriguing.

Aldridge is best known for starring as Thomas Wayne in the ongoing series Pennyworth, based on the Batman DC Comics. Meanwhile, Groff held the lead role in David Fincher’s critically-acclaimed Netflix series Mindhunter, and was more recently seen in The Matrix Resurrections opposite co-stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss.

Knock at the Cabin is due to be released February 3rd, 2023.

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AMITYVILLE IN SPACE, Because Why Not?

Once upon a time (well, beginning in 1979),The Amityville Horror series was an actual, coherent film franchise. Now tough, not so much. Comprising some thirty-odd titles that all peg their legit status on the word “Amityville” – including the unmissable Amityville Vibrator – the next unofficial entry in this film series is Amityville in Space.

The film depicts the ultimate battle against the Amityville curse after the infamous murder house is exorcised from Earth and thus, naturally, reappears in outer space in the year 3015. The newly-released trailer shows the haunted house emerge from a gigantic black hole, which leads the intrepid spacemen to the only feasible course of action: “We need to nuke that black hole!”

Amityville in Space comes from director Mark Polonia, the mind behind such works as Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse (basically The Meg), Sharkula (Dracula meets sharks), Sharkenstein, Shark Encounters of the Third Kind (“A group of hostile aliens crash land at the bottom of the ocean, and via mind control use sharks to terrorize a small town”), Bigfoot vs. Zombies, and many more. This latest project doesn’t look to feature sharks – for that, please refer to Amityville Shark House which is currently in post-production – but it does star Titus Himmelberger, Cassandra Hayes, Tim Hatch, Ryan Dalton, and Jeff Kirkendall.

Without further ado, here is the brand-new trailer for Amityville in Space, which releases July 2022:

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Euphoria Star Javon Walton Joins THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Euphoria star Javon Walton joins cast for Netflix The Umbrella Academy season 3

We heard a rumour… that Euphoria star Javon Walton is joining the cast of The Umbrella Academy season 3. The news – which has been confirmed by Netflix – comes shortly after the 15-year-old actor became the talk of the Twittersphere following Euphoria’s second season finale (no spoilers!), in which he plays Fezco’s (Angus Cloud) unofficially adopted younger brother Ashtray.

Walton also boasts the title of champion boxer and gymnast, having competed in the Junior Olympics and demonstrating his impressive athleticism opposite Dwayne Johnson in a 2018 Under Armour advert. Though the actor’s role in the upcoming third season of Netflix’s Umbrella Academy is unconfirmed, likelihood is he will have ample opportunity to demonstrate both his acting and sporting talents.

The Utopia actor joins an already packed cast, thanks to season 3’s introduction of an alternate timeline in which the Umbrella Academy is now the Sparrow Academy – complete with an entirely new group of superpowered kids. As always, you thank Vanya (or Five, or Reginald, depending on your point of view) for that.

Filming on the third season wrapped in September 2021, so expect the next chapter in the Netflix series to release later this year. The exact date is still to be announced.

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