Hong Kong Disneyland Will Close Again Due To New COVID-19 Outbreak After reopening on June 18,Hong Kong Disneylandis shutting down again due to a new COVID-19 outbreak. The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort hotels, however, will remain open with an adjusted level of services. This is the latest setback for Disney – they had to delay reopening Disneyland in California, and they’re currently facing heavy scrutiny for reopening Disney World in Orlando, despite a huge spike in coronavirus cases in Florida over the last several days....

Jeffrey Tambor On “Arrested Development” Movie: “It’s A Go.” Last winter, Jeffrey Tambor, the actor who played the scheming patriarch in Fox’s brilliant, underwatched and now-cancelledArrested Developmentappeared on The Ron & Fez Show on XM radio, saying that there was a “real push” to get a movie version of the TV series made. Then this summer, lead actor Jason Bateman also seemed to confirm that the wheels were in motion for the a film version ofArrested....

Jennifer Lawrence And Amy Schumer Are Working On A Movie Together Earlier this summer,Jennifer LawrenceandAmy Schumermade the whole world jealous by sharing photos of themselvesjet-skiing,building human pyramids, andgenerally living it upwith each other. As it turns out, though, they’re not just playing together — they’re also working together on a new project. According to Lawrence, they’re “almost done” writing the screenplay, and plan to co-star in the as-yet-unnamed movie. Get all the details on the Jennifer Lawrence Amy Schumer project after the jump....

Jessie Usher To Star In ‘Independence Day’ Sequel; Jeff Goldblum And Liam Hemsworth Confirmed Jessie Usher, who plays the lead role in the Starz seriesSurvivor’s Remorse, is now set to play one of the primary characters in theIndependence Daysequel, whichRoland Emmerichwill direct for release almost exactly 20 years after the drop of the original film. Usher will play Dylan Dubrow, who in the original movie was the young stepson of Will Smith’s character, and as such he’s probably either theIndependence Daysequel star, or one of them....

Lionsgate Drops ‘Gotti’ Biopic Starring John Travolta 10 Days Before Release LeaveGotti, take the cannoli. 10 days before its intended domestic release, the mobster biopic starringJohn Travoltahas been dropped by Lionsgate. The film follows John Gotti (Travolta), the infamous head of the Gambino crime family, as he rises to notoriety in the late 1980s and brings his son into a life of crime. The studio has sold the film back to its producers Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and Highland Film Group and Fiore Films, theTracking Boardreports....

Lucrecia Martel Turned Down ‘Black Widow’ Because Marvel Said “Don’t Worry About The Action Scenes” — Here’s Why It’s Not Unusual For Marvel’s highly anticipatedBlack Widowmovie, a solo outing that had been in demand for nearly a decade, the studio wanted to get it right. Over 65 female directors were considered at one point to direct theScarlett Johanssonvehicle, and that was slowly whittled down to a four-person shortlist. UltimatelyBerlin SyndromedirectorCate Shortlandearned the gig, but one other high-profile female director was initially approached for the job ofBlack Widowdirector, only to turn it down....

Netflix 2022 Movie Preview Gives Us Our First Look At Knives Out 2 And More I would be lying if I said I didn’t have very mixed feelings about Netflix. On the one hand, the streaming giant has provided a platform for adult-oriented films, mid-budget movies, and original tentpoles at a time when all of those things are struggling to draw a crowd in theaters (and not just during the pandemic, either)....

New X-Files Will Mix Mythology And Standalone Episodes During their executive session with the Television Critics Association, Fox showed a clip fromTheX-Filesnew event series and talked about how the film will mix mythology and standalone episodes. The scene screened at TCA featured Scully frantically arriving at Mulder’s farmhouse because he’d hung up on her earlier. He’s talking X-Files again and she’s worried for his sanity. She tells him he wants to believe so badly, and he says that the truth is out there, while discussing the leads a new character named Tad O’Malley has given him....

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Confirmed As Plutarch Heavenbee In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ They should retitle it “casting fire,” am I right? TheFrancis Lawrence-directed sequelThe Hunger Games: Catching Firejust got some serious Oscar clout asPhilip Seymour Hoffmanhas accepted the role of Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee, a role for whichhe was previously rumored. He joins the stellar returning cast, along withnew addition Jena Malone, for the film which starts shooting this fall....

Pop Culture Imports: French Whimsy, Spanish Heists, Canadian Zombies, Swedish Satire, And Brutal Korean Vengeance (Welcome toPop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign-language movies and TV shows streaming right now.) It’s almost mid-March, which means there’s a slew of new foreign titles on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and more. As the weather tries to make up its mind over whether it’s winter or spring, why not stay in and binge-watch some great foreign movies and shows instead?...

Ridley Scott Talks Prometheus At Comic-Con By Video Call Lost alumDamon Lindelofhit the stage at Comic-Con today to chat aboutPrometheus,Ridley Scott’supcoming science fiction film (which is also co-written by Lindelof). StarCharlize Theronjoined Lindelof on stage, and there was also a (not so) surprising appearance by Scott and co-starNoomi Rapacepiped in from Iceland, where the film is being shot. Theron said that her role was unusual for her. She’s playing a “suit” named Vickers that’s in charge of the central mission of the film....