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The Deal’s Not Quite Done REDPIXEL.PL/Shutterstock Though a strike has been avoided and productions will resume as usual on Monday, there’s another step to go before the new contracts are ratified. Just as IATSE members voted (in overwhelming numbers) to authorize a strike, they still have to give their vote to approve the deal. IATSE and the 13 Hollywood Locals have published a joint statement that confirms the tentative deal and praises the union’s members for their resolve:...

J.K. Rowling Answered A Bunch Of Your ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Questions On Twitter By Jacob Hall/Nov. 22, 2016 7:30 am EST Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is in theaters now and it’s pretty good! J.K. Rowling’s latest addition to the wizarding world she meticulously designed with her Harry Potter stories is slight but undeniably charming. While I’m still not sure how she and director David Yates plan to squeeze four more movies out of these characters, it felt good to be back in this familiar world, albeit in a different time period and an ocean away....

Jason Blum Is As Upset As You No One Saw Upgrade, Offers Update On TV Adaptation Blumhouse Productions By Anya Stanley/Oct. 13, 2021 9:37 am EST “Upgrade” is getting an upgrade. When the bonkers-in-Yonkers sci-fi action film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell, released in 2018, it received a pithy welcome at the box office, though critics like /Film’s Matt Donato had a good time with it. Whannell moved onto his bombshell hit “The Invisible Man” in 2020, and now that the dust has settled on the (pardon the pun) universal fanfare and praise surrounding the resurrected Universal Monsters franchise-launcher, the writer-director has signed a first-look deal with Blumhouse and is ready to return to “Upgrade” for an expansion to television....

John Krasinski Sings ‘The Office’ Theme Song And Has Creepy Twins On A Rejuvenated ‘Saturday Night Live’ By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 31, 2021 11:00 am EST Saturday Night Live closed out 2020 with a festive and fun Christmas episode hosted by veteran cast member and Wonder Woman 1984 co-star Kristen Wiig. It was the last SNL before the Presidential Inauguration gave us renewed hope for a year that wouldn’t be quite so full of nightmarish days....

Jordan Peele’s New Horror Movie Adds Oscar Nominee Steven Yeun By Ben Pearson/April 1, 2021 2:30 pm EST Steven Yeun, who just earned an Oscar nomination for his quiet and soulful performance in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, may have just found his next big project. A new report says the actor is in negotiations to join writer/director Jordan Peele’s mysterious new horror movie. Details are scarce, but can I get a “hell yes” from the crowd on just the mere thought of these two teaming up for a project?...

Luc Besson’s ‘Lucy 2’ Is Still Happening, And It’s Thanks To ‘Valerian’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 2, 2017 8:30 am EST Lucy was the film that helped launch star Scarlett Johansson into the coveted “bankable movie star” category, proving that the prestige actress-turned-Avenger could carry a successful blockbuster movie. Why that hasn’t translated into a Black Widow movie yet, we’ll never know, but it has translated into a sequel for the commercially successful 2014 sci-fi film....

Paranormal Activity: Next Of Kin Trailer: Horror Takes A Trip To Amish Country Paramount+ By Ryan Scott/Oct. 6, 2021 1:01 pm EST Today brings a brand new trailer for “Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin.” This is the first entry to come around in the found-footage series in some time, but no horror franchise is ever truly dead in Hollywood. And with Paramount+ in need of eye-catching content to attract subscribers, the stars finally aligned....

What’s So Perplexing About the World of Cars? Disney/Pixar Perhaps the biggest hurdle the world of Cars is trying to understand where these sentient vehicles come from. After all, there are no baby vehicles in the Cars franchise. Think about it! There are no children in the world of Cars. There are vehicles who are older or younger than other each other, but there is no evidence of there ever being infant Cars that grow up in adult vehicles....

Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ Novel Will Reveal Cliff Booth’s Backstory By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 2, 2021 2:00 pm EST Quentin Tarantino’s novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is almost as highly anticipated as his Oscar-winning 2019 film was, if only because it invites us to once again hang out in that world of 1960s Hollywood. A world that Tarantino plans to expand upon in his Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel, which will throw in a some deleted scenes as well as expand on the characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt....

Sons Of Anarchy Creator Is Making A Western For Netflix FX Productions By Anya Stanley/Nov. 30, 2021 12:21 pm EST Netflix can’t stand to see Kurt Sutter go. In a deal with the streaming powerhouse, the “Sons of Anarchy” creator and one-time “The Shield” director has locked in on his next project, a series titled “The Abandons” that relocates the grit of “Sons” to the Old West. Teased by Deadline as a “potential hourlong” show, the series is the result of a long-running desire on Sutter’s part to do a Western....

The 2021 Box Office Is Already Projected To Finish 80% Ahead Of 2020 MGM By Ryan Scott/Oct. 26, 2021 3:56 pm EST 2020 was, without exaggeration, downright apocalyptic for the movie business. The pandemic took its toll on a great many industries, and there were certainly more important things to focus on last year than heading to a theater to see “Tenet.” That said, the impact on a business that employs a great many people cannot be understated....

The Daily Stream: ‘Night Moves’ Stars Gene Hackman As A Sweaty Private Eye By Ben Pearson/Aug. 2, 2021 2:47 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: Night MovesWhere You Can Stream It: The Criterion ChannelThe Pitch: Gene Hackman plays Harry Moseby, a former football player who has become a low-rent private investigator in Los Angeles....

Skewed Perspectives NEON “Rashomon” by way of “Ms. 45,” “The Last Duel” tells the story of Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), a noblewoman in 14th century France who’s raped by a rival (Jacques Le Gris, played by Adam Driver) of her husband (Matt Damon as Jean de Carrouges). After Marguerite persists in pursuing some sort of justice, Jacques and Jean engage in a duel to the death to determine whose side God is on....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Bombay Rose’ Is Sheer Visual Poetry By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 23, 2021 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Bombay RoseWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: In the bustling city of Bombay, a young flower seller Kamala is the breadwinner for her younger sister and infirm grandfather....

‘Aquaman 2’ Has Begun Filming Under A Mysterious Working Title By Chris Evangelista/June 28, 2021 11:21 am EST Aquaman 2, AKA Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, is diving into production. Director James Wan took to social media to reveal the sequel to the 2018 hit is now before the cameras – and it has a mysterious, but telling, working title. Jason Momoa is back as the half-Atlantean, half-human, all-bro superhero, with Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Patrick Wilson returning as well....

‘Halloween Ends’ Won’t Be The Final ‘Halloween,’ Says Writer Danny McBride [Exclusive] By Fred Topel/July 25, 2019 7:30 am EST Universal revealed plans for two more Halloween sequels last week. Halloween Kills will pick up where the 2018 sequel left off. Halloween Ends promises (threatens?) to end the series once and for all. That will be the 11th sequel, and if you include the Rob Zombie remake and its sequel, there will be 13 movies total....

‘Highlander’ Reboot: Henry Cavill To Star For ‘John Wick’ Director Chad Stahelski By Ben Pearson/May 21, 2021 1:00 pm EST As far back as 2008, Hollywood has been trying to kickstart the Highlander franchise. Now it looks like it’s finally going to happen, with a new report stating that Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, The Witcher) is in talks for “one of the lead roles” in a new version to be directed by Chad Stahelski, the stuntman-turned-director behind the John Wick movies....

‘Legends Of The Hidden Temple’ Reboot: Release Date, Cast And More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2021 10:49 am EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Legends of the Hidden Temple is one of the staple game shows from Nickelodeon in the 1990s, and now it’s making a comeback on The CW....

‘Pulp Fiction’ At 25: The Path Of The Righteous Filmgoer Leads To Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Masterwork By Joshua Meyer/Oct. 14, 2019 9:00 am EST Pulp Fiction is a profanity-laden crime drama with drugs, sodomy, and exploding brains, but when it hit theaters in mid-October 1994, it was technically a Disney movie. After Disney acquired the independent film studio Miramax in 1993, Pulp Fiction was the first project to receive a greenlight....

‘Rugrats’ Trailer: Paramount+ Reboot Leans Hard Into CG Territory By Ben Pearson/May 5, 2021 1:30 pm EST Rugrats was a staple of the Nickelodeon lineup in the 1990s, and since we live in a world in which every piece of intellectual property is ripe for resurrection or reinterpretation, it’s now coming back in a reboot on the new Paramount+ streaming service. We knew the charming, 2D hand-drawn style from the original series would be gone, but the first official trailer has been released and you can see for yourselves just how plastic-y and cheap these characters look when rendered in three dimensions in a computer....