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Guillermo Del Toro Video Game ‘Silent Hills’ Canceled The video game partnership betweenGuillermo del ToroandHideo Kojima,announcedvia a mysterious demo released last year, is already dead.Silent Hillswas to be led by game design veteran Hideo Kojima with significant input from co-director Guillermo del Toro, and a lead character modeled after and performed byNorman Reedus. But Kojima had a falling out with publisher Konami, and the game has officially been canceled. Word first started getting out this weekend thanks to a tweet that reported the filmmaker’s comment about the status of the game:...

Halo Star And Proud Canadian Pablo Schreiber Wants To Play Wolverine It’s been a long-time coming, but we finally have a big-budget live-action “Halo” TV show. Based on the iconic video game franchise of the same name, which centers on an intergalactic war between humanity and an alien race called The Covenant. Pablo Schreiber stars as Master Chief, ausually masked, genetically enhanced super-soldier who encounters an artifact that has huge consequences for the war, and the universe as he knows it....

Hancock Is A Ssssmash: So What Did You Think? Since Tuesday,Hancockhas grossed over $40 million domestically and is on track to stack $100 million plus by wke’s end. While early word from critics and geeks is decidedly mixed, that’s a lot of moolah forWill Smith, directorPeter Berg(his first major hit), andSony. How puzzling then thatNikke Finkesays there are serious doubts circling inside the studio regardingHancock’s franchise potential—she even compares the film’s buzz toWild Wild West....

James McAvoy, Son Of Dune, Has Advice For His Father, Dune Star Timothée Chalamet Frank Herbert’s “Dune” is a dense, monumental sci-fi tome with several feature film disasters to its name. David Lynch’s 1984 “Dune” was such a critical and commercial bomb that the filmmaker disowned it. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s failed attempt to adapt the sci-fi classic was so infamous that the entire thing was chronicled in an acclaimed 2013 documentary by Frank Pavich....

John Mulaney Elevates An Average ‘Saturday Night Live’ With Help From Ben Stiller And Robert De Niro After writing forSaturday Night Livefrom 2008 to 2013, comedianJohn Mulaneyreturned to Studio 8H as one of the rare hosts who had only written on the sketch series rather than being a full fledged cast member. Due to his time spent onSNL, Mulaney had no problem with some of the issues that first-time hosts can struggle with, such as performing live, reading cue cards and hitting marks, but it wasn’t exactly smooth sailing....

Jurassic World Dominion Ends The Trilogy, But There Could Be More Jurassic Movies To Come [Exclusive] It seems the second age of dinosaurs may have only just begun. The upcoming"Jurassic World Dominion"will act as a conclusion to the stories from both the first two “Jurassic World” movies and the “Jurassic Park” film trilogy before it, even bringing back Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum to reprise their roles from Steven Spielberg’s original dino-blockbuster....

Kevin Smith Responds To Sexist ‘Masters Of The Universe: Revelation’ Complainers: “Deal With It” In news that surprises absolutely no one, a bunch of entitled, whiny fans are review bombing a new series for not living up to their fanboy expectations. The series isMasters of the Universe: Revelation, andcreatorKevin Smithhas a pretty expected response: “Deal with it.” Spoilersfor the new Netflix series ahead! Smith, Skeletor, and Some Angry Fanboys Smith, best known for vulgar stoner comedies about adult nerds,recently spoke with Varietyto talk all things He-Man andMasters of the Universe....

Lawsuit Seeks To Derail The Hobbit, No Bilbo Casting At Comic Con Yesterday we helped perpetuate therumorthatGuillermo del ToroandPeter Jacksonmight announce the actor who’ll play Bilbo Baggins inThe Hobbitwhile at San Diego Comic Con next week. But reportedly, that isn’t happening. No surprise, but too bad. News would have livened up the Con quite a bit. Why won’t we hear anything? Because according to Peter Jackson, who spoke toEmpire, the script isn’t done....

Lorenzo Di Bonaventura Hires Writers For Korea-Set Action Thriller ‘DMZ’ ProducerLorenzo di Bonaventurahas hiredJeremy Passmore(Red Dawn) andAndre Fabrizioto write the script for an action thriller calledDMZ, which is set in the tense zone between North and South Korea. The film will be a sort of political action movie, but it also has another component, as a task force sent into the zone discovers something other than the influence of a crazed father-son dictator team waiting within....

Lots Of New ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Photos Online Lots of blockbuster sequels are headed our way in the next few months and the one we probably know least about isDawn of the Planet of the Apes.Matt Reeves' sequel to the surprise 2011 hitRise of the Planet of the Apestakes places several years later as humanity is attempting to put itself back together after a deadly virus wiped out much of the world....

Michael B. Jordan Says ‘Fantastic Four’ Is Changing On The Fly DirectorJosh Trankand theFantastic Fourhave been quietly filming their big Marvel movie in Louisiana for the past few months. I say “quietly” for two reasons. One, we haven’t seen a lot of set photos of the stars in costume or anything. And two, co-starMichael B. Jordanagrees. In a new interview with MTV, the actor talked about filming the movie as being in “our own world....

Namor Rights Back At Marvel Studios, According To Joe Quesada It may feel at times like Marvel Studios is slowly taking over the world, but the truth is even their cinematic universe has its limits. The X-Men and the Fantastic Four remain off-limits, for example, because they’re still set up at Fox, and it was only recently that they were able to work out a deal with Sony to share Spider-Man....

Netflix Snags Lord & Miller’s Animated ‘Connected’ Movie, Now Titled ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’ Phil LordandChris Miller’s animated sci-fi family adventure movieConnectedhas been one of the many moviesdelayed by the coronavirus pandemic. Sony Pictures held on to the movie with the hopes of releasing it in theaters, but it seems like the possibility of movie theater business being stagnant for at least the first half of 2021 has forced them to send the movie to streaming....