WTF: Nick Cave Wanted To Call His ‘Gladiator 2’ Script ‘Christ Killer’ Leave it to the literate and persistently perverse musician/lyricist/screenwriterNick Caveto totally upend the basic idea of a Hollywood sequel. (This is the man who, for instance, incarnated his fascination with violent folk songs by tossing out all subtlety on the albumMurder Ballads, which among other tunes contains an almost shockingly profane revamp of the song ‘Stagger Lee.') You may or may not have heard that Russell Crowe once called up Cave to hire him as a screenwriter forGladiator 2....

‘6 Underground’ Trailer: Michael Bay Sends Six Vigilantes To Take Down Criminals Michael Bayhas been very busy since giving us one of the worst installments in theTransformersfranchise. The director went from Los Angeles to Italy to the United Arab Emirates to shoot the action movie starringRyan Reynolds, and now he’s delivered the first trailer for6 Underground, a movie about six people who form a vigilante squad after faking their deaths, all so they can take down some of the most notorious criminals at large....

‘Anna And The Apocalypse’ Trailer: The Zombie Musical Everyone Keeps Singing About How many genres and sub-genres can one film pack in? How about a comedy, that’s also musical, that’s also a zombie film, andalsoa holiday movie as well? That’s the case withAnna and the Apocalypse, a new zom-com that’s riding a wave of positive festival buzz. A newAnna and the Apocalypsetrailer has arrived to offer a better look and the film, while revealing some toe-tapping tunes....

‘Annette’ Review: A Deeply Flawed, Deeply Weird Musical With Moments Of Brilliance [Cannes] 2021 has been good for the band Sparks. First of all, there’s Edgar Wright’senthusiastic celebrationof their decades-long career, a definitive primer on a pair of brothers rode waves of raising and diminishing popularity thanks to an ever evolving sound. Now there’sAnnette, a long gestating musical that sees its debut as the opening night gala of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival....

‘Artemis Fowl’ Trailer: Book Fans, Prepare To Be Enraged “How does one describe Artemis Fowl? Various psychiatrists have tried and failed. The main problem is Artemis’s own intelligence. He has puzzled the greatest medical minds, and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals.” Yet, we see none of that in the official trailer forArtemis Fowl, Disney’s feature film adaptation of the beloved Eoin Colfer books about a ruthless, cold-blooded young criminal mastermind....

‘Attack The Block 2’ Finally Happening, Star John Boyega And Director Joe Cornish Both Returning At long last,Attack the Block 2is a go. Studiocanal, Film4, Complete Fiction Pictures & UpperRoom Productions are finally moving forward with anAttack the Blocksequel that will bring back directorJoe Cornishand starJohn Boyega. Cornish and Boyega have been talking about a potential sequel for years now, and at long last, it’s becoming a reality. In the original 2011 film, Boyega played Moses, the leader of a teen street gang that has to deal with aliens that have invaded a council estate in South London....

‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Writers Are As Confused By Some Of The Post-Credits Scenes As You While the post-credit scene has become a staple of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the scenes themselves don’t always make sense. Sometimes. they screw-up continuity and raise more questions than provide answers. If you’ve ever come away from MCU post-credits scenes confused, you’re in good company.Christopher MarkusandStephen McFeely, screenwriters ofAvengers: Infinity War, are confused by them sometimes, too....

‘Birds Of Prey’ Cast Finally Finds Its Cassandra Cain The last big holdout in theBirds of Preycast has been found. NewcomerElla Jay Bascois in talks to play Cassandra Cain, one of the Batgirls, in the female-driven superhero film. Basco joins a cast that includesMargot Robbie,Mary Elizabeth Winstead,Jurnee Smollett-Bell,Rosie PerezandEwan McGregor.Cathy Yanis directing from a script byChristina Hodson, who is also writing theBatgirlmovie. Varietyreports that the last major unfilled role inBirds of Preyis on the verge of being locked-down....

‘Churchill’ Trailer: Brian Cox Struggles With War As Winston Churchill Hollywood loves history, but it can be a real challenge to bring a real life event to the big screen, especially when it involves people that some of the public lived through and experienced through the radio and television.Churchillwill attempt to chronicle the struggle of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) as he deals with the impending start of D-Day during World War II in 1944....

‘Cloverfield’ Fan Film ‘Megan’ Centers On A Never-Before-Seen Character Paramount and Bad Robot’sCloverfieldfranchise took a dive in quality with this year’sThe Cloverfield Paradox, but the franchise isn’t dead yet. We still don’t know with certainty whether this year’sWWII sci-fi thrillerOverlordtakes place in theCloverfielduniverse, and producerJ.J. Abramshas promised thata “proper” sequel is on the way. In the meantime, though, a group of Hollywood filmmakers – VFX artists, cinematographers, writers, producers, and actors – have banded together to make aCloverfieldfan film set in that universe that focuses on a character that was referenced in the10 Cloverfield LaneARG campaign: Megan Stambler, the daughter of John Goodman’s character....

‘Ghost In The Shell’ Reveals New Footage, Trailer Coming This Sunday I have no dog in the race when it comes toGhost in the Shell,Rupert Sanders' upcoming adaptation of the massively popular Japanese science fiction franchise. I have not read the original manga and I haven’t seen the the animated films or television shows based on it. Honestly, my knowledge of the whole thing practically begins and ends with “female cyborg police officer goes on adventures throughout future Tokyo....

‘Gravity Falls’ Creator Lands A Netflix Deal, ‘Rick And Morty’ Creator Takes ‘Solar Opposites’ To Hulu The roster of animated programming at Netflix and Hulu is about to expand in an exciting way. Gravity FallscreatorAlex Hirschhas landed an overall multi-year deal at Netflix to exclusively develop new series and feature films for the streaming platform. Meanwhile,Rick and Mortycreator and executive producerJustin Roilandis taking a new series calledSolar Oppositesover to Hulu, and he’s bringing one of the writers assistants fromRick and Mortywith him....

‘In The Heights’ Moves Up Release Date One Week We’re one week closer to visiting Washington Heights. Warner Bros. has pushed up the release date forJon M. Chu’s feature musicalIn the Heights, which opens in both theaters and HBO Max this June. Warner Bros. has moved theIn the Heightsrelease date up toJune 11, 2021. It vacates its old June 18 slot, making Disney/Pixar’sLucathe only wide release that weekend. The release date change comes a few days aftertwo new trailersforIn the Heightsdropped, teasing some of the big song and dance numbers from the feature adaptation of the Tony-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda stage musical....