They hated each other. Now they love each other. That’s the story Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone copped to this evening during an interview on The Graham Norton Show. The two action stars were often sniping at each other in the press, to the point where Stallone said that “even our DNA hated each other.”
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There will be peace in Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s house after all this Halloween. None of the Green Lantern co-stars’ children will be labeled scabs by their father while they trick or treat, thanks to costume guidance clarification by SAG-AFTRA this evening. “SAG-AFTRA issued Halloween guidance in response to questions from content creators and
Disney/Marvel’s The Marvels has secured a China release on November 10, day-and-date with North America. The sequel to the $1 billion+ worldwide grossing Captain Marvel is the latest major studio tentpole to be granted access to the market since Oppenheimer went out August 30. It’s also wasting no time in spreading the word locally, leveraging
There’s a conspicuous hole in Seth Rogen’s miles-long resume as an actor, producer and writer. He’s never done a Marvel or DC film. This despite dabbling in superheroes with work on “The Green Hornet,” “The Boys,” and “Invincible.” Speaking with Polygon about the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem film, Rogen answered why he’s
Sony Pictures said Wednesday that it has removed from its release date schedule El Muerto, the Bad Bunny-starring Spider-Man spinoff movie that is being directed by Jonas Cuarón. The Columbia Pictures pic is set to be the first time a Latino character leads a Marvel live-action film. The studio had previously set El Muerto to hit theaters
After the massive weekend success of Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, many rival studios are looking at executing their comic book IP differently on the big screen. Quite often, animated superhero projects are released directly to the home (think Warner Bros-DC’s myriad superhero toon movies like 2010’s Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam and
As the launch bay door closed on Star Wars Celebration 2023, Disney’s Jedi Counsel announced the timing and location of the gathering’s next installment. Fans and talent will next get together and celebrate a galaxy far, far away in a year that may itself seem far away at this point: 2025. While jumping over a
Shazam! Fury of the Gods star Rachel Zegler took to social media over the weekend to lament what she called “senselessly mean” reactions to the film. The DC sequel had a lackluster opening at the global box office, landing with $65.5M worldwide and currently carries a 52% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Posting on Twitter,
Warner Bros/New Line/DC’s sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods hit early tracking Thursday and surprised many with a low projection of $35 million, which is under the first installment’s $53.5M opening in 2019. Realize it’s still early, and Warner Bros hasn’t fully fire-breathed its marketing campaign yet. The odd thing is that tracking was comping
Seth Rogen has drawn a line on superhero stuff. During a recent interview with Total Film, Rogen confessed he doesn’t love the MCU and its films. While that’s hardly an uncommon take, what makes it interesting is that Rogen is a comic book fan and has been involved in such adaptations as AMC’s Preacher, and is
James Gunn says don’t blame him for the recent cancellations of Doom Patrol and Titans. Warner Bros.-Discovery has announced that both shows will end with their fourth seasons, offering two legs of six episodes for a total of 12 shows to close things out. The cancellations were seen by some as part of the changes
There was a clilff-hanger ending to Season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things. So when cast member Sadie Sink spoke this morning on Today with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush on what may come in the fifth and final season of the series, fans were all ears to hear what may happen. Sink sunk hopes of
Netflix has released its trailer and key art for The Witcher: Blood Origin at the CCXP event in Brazil, also revealing that Joey Batey will star as Jaskier in the four-part series. It will bow on Sunday, December 25. Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will
Jason David Frank, an actor and mixed martial arts star, has died at 49 years old. The cause of death has not been revealed, but reports indicated it was by suicide. Frank was born in Covina, Calif., and was originally the Green Ranger, Tommy Oliver, in the early 1990s. He then became the White Ranger.
New DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran feel your fanboy/fangirl pain, and aren’t dismissing any possibilities. In a Sunday tweet thread, Gunn said he’s been reading Twitter in the early days of his cochair/co-CEO gig. Gunn wrote that he “Opened up Twitter at the end of a long, creative weekend to see the
Ncuti Gatwa, who will make his debut next year as the first Black actor to play the title role in Doctor Who, says the opportunity has implications on more than his own career trajectory. “My mouth gets paralyzed by the concept of playing this role,” he said during a lunch hosted by the BBC and
SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details & exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from the eighth and final episode of Season 1 of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which dropped on October 13. Watch past episodes of Inside the Ring here. The true identity of the villainous Sauron is unveiled, the Stranger’s journey begins, the
SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details & exclusive behind-the-scenes looks from the first episode of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which debuted on September 1. A new episode of Inside The Ring will drop every week of Season 1 of Rings of Power. Stick around for Episode 2 later today. “Our
EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of Warner Bros Discovery axing Batgirl for HBO Max, they have put forward a silver lining: Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel, Joker: Folie A Deux, is getting a Oct. 4, 2024 release date. Warners already had the day on hold previously for an untitled DC event film, so it’s not shocking to see Joker 2 wind up during the first
“I think the longevity of [the films] is really key to this one character [Gizmo], who is essentially like a baby,” director Joe Dante recently told the San Francisco Chronicle of the star of his classic Gremlins films. “Which brings me, of course, to the subject of Baby Yoda, who is completely stolen and is
SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals major plot points from the finale of Disney+’s Ms. Marvel. The Disney+ miniseries Ms. Marvel wrapped up Wednesday with a surprise post-credit scene that while expected was a lot of great fun to see play out. But before all that, let’s go back to the events of the episode, which
WARNING, spoilers ahead: After Stranger Things 4 had its monster sized, two-episode finale on Friday, the series’ writers took to Twitter to reveal three moments from that finale that weren’t in the script. At one point, Winona Ryder’s Joyce sees off David Harbour’s Hopper, who’s on his way to battle the prison’s Demogorgon. She asks
EXCLUSIVE: It’s all coming down to “The Man Who Sold The World” on The Man Who Fell To Earth. Named after David Bowie’s 1970 song, the season finale of the Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris-led sci-fi drama promises secrets are revealed and decisions have to be made. As you can see in the exclusive clip
“As we’re nearing the end of Phase 4, I think people will start to see where this next saga is going,” Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige recently told Total Film. “I think there have been many clues already, that are at least apparent to me, of where this whole saga is going. But we’ll be
“We cannot let fear define us in this moment,” proclaims Sonequa Martin-Green in the explosive trailer for Star Trek: Discovery’s upcoming fourth season. “The future remains uncertain, but the captain in me knows anything is possible,” Martin-Green’s Captain Michael Burnham adds amidst images of loss and also of laughter for the Paramount+ series Oh yeah,
The second season of Amazon Studios’ Eric Kripke-created superhero series The Boys based on the bestselling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson only gained in momentum and swagger. Debuting in September, the eight-episode sophomore season nearly doubled the Season 1 worldwide audience (+89%) in just its first two weeks, and even got a shout-out
Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson just got a major upgrade in the latest poster for Disney+’s The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. On Monday the Disney streaming platform dropped a poster for the spin-off series, which also stars Sebastian Stan, featuring Mackie’s Falcon wielding Captain America’s shield and donning a fresh and patriotic super suit, complete
As we first told you last month, Legendary and Warner Bros are poised to settle their fight over Godzilla vs. Kong, the fourth monster movie between the two which the former financed the $200 million-plus production at 75%, with the movie keeping its simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release date May 21. Meanwhile, a settlement over