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Another surprise hit yesterday when reporters were being taken for a tour through Marvel’s corporate offices in Burbank when they were suddenly treated to a sizzle reel and some comps from their upcoming Black Panther film. It’s still Marvel that leads the pack with the ability to have a single scene in a film that […]

Warning: this post contains spoilers regarding the plot of The Fate of the Furious. If you do NOT want to have certain plot points spoiled, stop reading before you get to the image below. If you continue to read on, then all bets or off. If you’d rather save the surprises for the theater, why […]

Jeremy Konrad is on the ground out there in Orlando at Star Wars Celebration and he managed to battle through the lines like a champ and get to the relative safety of the Hasbro booth (they’re in the exhibitor hall at location 2744). They have revealed one exclusive so far: a Luke Skywalker 6″ action […]

  [rwp-review-recap id=”0″] If your intent is to go see The Fate of the Furious this weekend, there’s a good chance that you’re no stranger to the franchise. You know it’s going to be a rather silly, there’ll be some cool car chases and stunts, there will be the requisite bootie-angle shots of scantily-clad starting-line women, and […]

Production for Escape Plan 2: Hades is still under way, but that hasn’t stopped Emmett Furla Oasis Films from signing their leading man, Sylvester Stallone, director Steven C. Miller (Marauders, Arsenal), and writer Miles Chapman on board for a third installment of their prison-escape/action series. The original starring Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger grossed nearly $140 million against […]

The full trailer has finally dropped for HBO’s upcoming non-fiction drama film, Wizard of Lies. The story is a look at investment tycoon and con man Bernie Madoff (played by Robert De Niro) and his family (Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife Ruth, and Alessandro Nivola and Nathan Darrow as his sons Mark and Andrew) as […]

In another skirmish in the ongoing cyberwars, one of Hollywood’s leading talent management agencies is the victim of a computer virus which has brought it’s internal network operations to a near-standstill. The United Talent Agency, with offices worldwide, was struck Monday, causing email, file access, and network communications in their Beverly Hills headquarters to shut […]

The winner of the Silliest Statement Made by a Studio Executive award for this week, Paramount distribution chief Kyle Davies was discussing the box office results for Ghost in the Shell with CBC: We had hopes for better results domestically. I think the conversation regarding casting impacted the reviews. You’ve got a movie that is very important […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] For full disclosure, I have not in fact ever read or watched Ghost in the Shell in any of its forms. I would have had to have been a hermit not to pass through the later 80s and into the 90s without at least encountering it’s fans and getting at least a passing […]

[rwp-review-recap id=”0″] When directors get the green light to make their passion projects, it often winds up on one of the two extreme ends. They either step outside of their normal box and create something that’s amazing (Denzel Washington’s Fences), or they make something that’s pretentious and unbelievably dull (Martin Scorsese’s Silence). Unfortunately Guardian’s of the […]