John Carpenter to Get Fantasia Lifetime Achievement Award and Masterclass

The horror masterJohn Carpenteris set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. Carpenter, known best as the director of genre classics such asHalloweenandEscape from New York, is being honored as part of this year’s version of the long-running festival. Like many major events still pressing forward this year, Fantasia will be digital. Even so, Carpenter will not only be receiving the organization’s highest honor, but the filmmaker will also be giving a master class, covering his entire career....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 475 words · Sarah Hampton

John Cena Refuses to Take Sides in The Rock's Feud with Vin Diesel

John Cenais hoping to see a positive resolution to the feud between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson andVin Diesel. This is an interesting position for Cena as he’s someone who knows both actors very well. Cena previously worked with The Rock in WWE where they had a storyline feud of their own. More recently, Cena co-starred inF9as the brother of Diesel’s character. In a recent interview per Pardon My Take (as transcribed byWrestling Inc....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 549 words · Carolyn Smith

Jorja Fox Exits CSI: Vegas After William Petersen's Departure

Say goodbye to Sara Sidle. After Jorja Fox reprised her role from the originalCSIshow in the recent revival seriesCSI: Vegas, the show was given an official renewal for season 2 by CBS. Along with that news came word that William Petersen would not be returning as Gil Grissom in season 2, as he only signed on to star in one season of the revival. Fox has now announced that she won’t be coming back either, as she can’t fathom seeing Sara and Gil separated once again....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 537 words · Joe Bailey

Justice League to End Box Office Run with Disappointing $675M Worldwide

It looks likeJustice Leagueis going to wrap up itsbox office runwith a pretty disappointing haul. Relatively speaking, anyway. For most movies, taking in nearly $700 million worldwide would be an absolute home run, worthy of celebration. However,Justice Leagueis not most movies and withStar Wars: The Last Jedidominating the box office now for the rest of the year, the DC superhero flick is getting edged out and is nearing the end of its box office run....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 437 words · Christopher Mitchell

Kate Bishop Is Beat-up and Tired in New Hawkeye Image Shared by Hailee Steinfeld

Hailee Steinfeld has shared a new image from the set of theHawkeyeDisney+ series. The young actress is portraying Kate Bishop in the highly anticipated continuation of the MCU, and by the looks of the new picture, she has seen some action. Steinfeld was rumored to be taking part in the series for months before anything was confirmed, which found her avoiding Marvel Cinematic Universe questions, or flat out denying that she had any involvement with Marvel Studios at all....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Christine Cameron

Kiefer Sutherland Takes the Lead in The Fugitive TV Reboot for Quibi

Kiefer Sutherland will soon be chasing someone on the run, as the24star is reportedly leading the cast of a remake of The Fugitive. Originally a 1960s TV drama, it was later turned into a successful 1993 movie starring Harrison Ford. This new version will be a TV series for Quibi, and Sutherland has been cast in the lead role of Detective Clay Bryce. Co-starring withKiefer Sutherlandwill be Boyd Holbrook as Mike Ferro, a fugitive on the run in a role similar to the one originally played by Ford....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 515 words · Anthony Ho DDS

L.A. Confidential 2 Would Have Starred Chadwick Boseman, But Warner Bros. Passed

When Chadwick Boseman passed away in August last year, everyone was well aware that the world had been robbed of a great actor, possibly one of the best given time. It seems that we could have already seen more of theBlack Pantherstar if a planned sequel to the Russell Crowe noir thrillerL.A. Confidentialhad gone ahead. A report byThe Ringerhas revealed that Boseman was set to appear in the movie, which would have seen him working again with Brian Helgeland, the director of the original movie who Boseman worked with on42back in 2013....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 492 words · Samuel Holder

Mary Poppins Returns Begins Shooting, Full Cast Announced

Production onMary Poppins Returns, the all new sequel to Disney’s 1964 film Mary Poppins, has commenced at Shepperton Studios. The film, which stars Golden Globe winnerEmily Blunt(The Girl on the Train, Into the Woods) and Emmy, GRAMMY and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana) and is directed and produced by Oscar nominee, Emmy and DGA Award winner Rob Marshall (Into the Woods, Chicago), is scheduled for release July 03, 2025....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 637 words · Sara Colon

Maze Runner: Scorch Trials Trailer #2 Goes Beyond the Glade

Just weeks afterThe Maze Runner: The Scorch Trialscast and filmmakers appeared atComic-Conduring 20th Century Fox’sHall Hpanel, the studio has debuted a new trailer for this highly-anticipated sequel. The trailer gives us a new look atGame of ThronesstarAidan Gillen, who plays the mysterious Janson, referred to in the James Dashner novels as “Rat-Man,” the second-highest ranking WICKED official behind Chancellor Paige (Patricia Clarkson). If that wasn’t enough, we also have new character posters, featuring the six main characters in this highly-anticipated sequel....

June 18, 2025 · 2 min · 341 words · Julie Matthews

Mortal Kombat Movie Actors Reunite 24 Years Later to Play Iconic Video Game

1995’s originalMortal Kombatbroke the video game movie curse. Now, 24 years later, stars Robin Shou (Liu Kang) and Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage) have reunited to play the iconic arcade game. Shou and Ashby have remained close over the years and revealed that they hung out two months ago at a party. When tackling the game after all of this time, both actors were comfortable and even recited lines from the movie when reenacting the battles Kang vs....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 457 words · Richard Macdonald

Official MCU Timeline Revealed by Marvel

Some MCU fans have been confused as to when each Marvel movie takes place. Well, now you don’t have to worry about any time discrepancies or conceived plot holes based on when and where some of these stories take place.Marvelhas mapped it all out, with a clearly defined year for each adventure. The official timeline comes from theMarvel Studios: The First 10 Yearssourcebook. And it’s helping to clear up any confusion about when certain things happened between the first MCU movie in 2008, which was the mega-blockbusterIron Man, and the second to last released movie, which is this past summer’sInfinity War....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 516 words · Robert Hansen

Original John Wick Script Only Had 3 Kills

Sleek, stylish, over-the-top violence has become the calling card of theJohn Wickfranchise, with the title character regularly mowing down leagues of assassins on his quest to avenge his dog’s death and retire from a life of being the world’s greatest killer. In an interview, the creator of the series, Chad Stahelski revealed that the first draft of the originalJohn Wickscript featured much less violence and only 3 deaths. “I think [Keanu Reeves] sent [the script] to me on a Friday and I read it maybe that day and thought about it over the weekend....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 493 words · Donna Burns

Paul Verhoeven Reunites with RoboCop Writer for Political Thriller Young Sinner

Paul Verhoeven is set to make his return to Hollywood with a political thriller,Young Sinner, written by Edward Neumeier (RoboCop, Starship Troopers). Verhoeven hasn’t made an English-language film since 2000’sHollow Man. That’s not to say he hasn’t kept busy, though. Since his departure from Hollywood, Verhoeven has churned out some provocative but spectacular international films, like his latest,Benedetta, a biographical film about two nuns having a love affair in 17th century Italy, and the 2016 French psychological thriller,Elle....

June 18, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Jaime Mercado