Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will executive produce the It Takes Two movie, which is now being developed by Amazon.
New details have been revealed for The Continental, the John Wick spinoff series that takes place 40 years before the films, including that Keanu Reeves will not be making an appearance.
Oscar-winning writer and director Taika Waititi has signed on to executive produce Frybread Face and Me. Waititi, who is Maori, has made it a priority to tell stories focused on Indigenous characters. His second feature in the director's chair, 2010's Boy, tells a coming-of-age story focused on a Maori pre-teen with elements of the story drawing from his own life. Waititi has also made an effort to include Maori actors into his movies, with New Zealanders Julian Dennison, Rachel House, and Rima Te Wiata appearing in Hunt for the Wilderpeople and, in House's …
When we spoke to Genndy Tartakovsky, the genius director behind the first three Hotel Transylvania films, earlier this summer, he told us that he would be returning to Hotel Transylvania 4, this time as an executive producer. More details on the animated sequel have emerged, including an additional role for Tartakovsky, who is actually directing, and an upgraded position for Selena Gomez. Variety is reporting that the new film will be directed by Jennifer Kluska and Derek Drymon, from a script by Tartakovsky. And Gomez will now be an executive producer, alongside her other duties voicing the franchise’s main …
When executive producer Marc Guggenheim started working on Netflix’s Trollhunters almost a decade ago, he had no idea where it would lead. Back then it was a single animated television series based on a story by Guillermo del Toro, but it would soon become much more. From a single series, about an average suburban kid tasked with defending the world from ancient evil, would spin an entire trilogy of shows. 3Below, a sci-fi take on the material, would follow. And now, Wizards, the final series, is about to launch. (You can read our review here.) So we were …
My man! In a delightful announcement out of TCA, HBO Max has greenlit a new Aquaman animated mini-series for HBO Max with Aquaman helmer James Wan set to executive produce. Titled Aquaman: King of Atlantis the three-part animated mini-series will feature standalone episodes, each following "the adventures of Aquaman as protector of the deep. Victor Courtright (ThunderCats Roar!) and Marly Halpern-Graser (Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) are lined up to serve as showrunners and co-executive producers. Per the press release, "the series begins with Aquaman’s first day on the job as king of …
Chris Pratt is set to executive produce and star in The Tomorrow War (originally Ghost Draft), a futuristic sci-fi thriller about war against aliens.
In Jojo Rabbit, filmmaker Taika Waititi uses the tools of comedy filmmaking to make a potent statement about hatred and prejudice in the human race. Now, by joining the upcoming film Night Raiders as an executive producer, Waititi is continuing to use his considerable talents and growing clout to further other filmmakers' engrossing statements. As reported by the Hollywood Reporter, Waititi joins a team including director Danis Goulet and stars Amanda Plummer, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Alex Tarrant, Brooklyn Letexier-Hart and Shaun Sipos. Waititi, a native New Zealander, is of Māori heritage. Goulet, who's directing her first feature …
We interview Star Wars Resistance executive producers Justin Ridge, Athena Portillo, and Brandon Auman about crafting the show's second season.
Upcoming Disney+/Marvel series Hawkeye is getting a major dose of television street cred thanks to the writer that has just been hired to pen the entire series. Hawkeye is Jeremy Renner's latest (and possibly last, depending on the designs of this spinoff series) outing as the titular top marksman and his first appearance as Hawkeye post-Avengers: Endgame. Per The Hollywood Reporter, former Mad Men writer Jonathan Igla has been tapped to both write Hawkeye as well as executive produce. Igla cut his teeth on the massively popular, prestige AMC series from the mind of Matthew Weiner which …
With Avengers: Endgame arriving in theaters on April 26th (like you didn’t know!), I recently sat down with executive producer Trinh Tran for an exclusive interview. Since the studio and the filmmakers are trying to keep everything about the storyline on Endgame under wraps, it’s a different kind of interview than a typical discussion. I could only ask spoiler-free questions, and when it comes to Endgame, pretty much everything is a spoiler. However, I don’t blame the studio or filmmakers. The fact is, the MCU has been building towards this film since Iron Man first arrived …
The filmmakers of Little told CinemaBlend about how this body-switch comedy made history with the mind of the Black-ish star as their secret weapon.
If you have a working internet connection and one to two functioning eyeballs, you may have noticed Brie Larson's name has been everywhere thanks to the impending debut of Captain Marvel. While that particular film aims to take the MCU higher, further, and faster, Larson herself is already eyeing her next move. TVLine reports the Oscar-winner will both executive-produce and star in an original series for Apple. The show—which has been given a straight-to-series order—is based on former spy Amaryllis Fox's upcoming memoir, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA. Exact …