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‘Wicked’ Loses Another Director As Stephen Daldry Exits The Universal Adaptation Wickedis having a tough time taking off. Universal’s long-awaited feature film adaptation of the hit musical just lost another director withStephen Daldry(Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close), who has exited the project after being attached to the film for a year. Deadline reports that Stephen Daldry has exited Universal’sWicked, more than a year after theBilly Elliotdirectorwas announcedto be helming the film....

/Film Interview: Channing Tatum On The Set Of ‘White House Down’ Channing Tatumdoesn’t act like he’s famous. Even on the set of his upcoming movie,White House Down, the star of G.I. Joe, Magic Mike, Step Up and 21 Jump Street is humble, down to Earth and honest about his career. We spoke to the actor in Montreal last September. He said, after he next few movies, he wasn’t going to make another movie until he could direct himself, though a list of great directors could change his mind....

ABC Family Trying To Play It Cool With New Network Name You knowABC Family, right? They’re the network that has all those shows likePretty Little LiarsandThe Fostersthat are like high school soap operas, but they also playThe Nightmare Before Christmasand theHarry Pottermovies a lot, not to mention reruns ofReba(yeah, that’s a show starring Reba McEntire) andBoy Meets World. Well, they’re about to get a little bit of a makeover. Starting in January 2016, ABC Family will be rebranding itself asFreeformin an effort to gear itself towards the younger audience its been pulling in for years....

Anna Kendrick Getting Jolly As A Female Santa Claus For Disney Comedy After setting Kevin Hart to play Santa Claus in aholiday comedy calledDashing Through the Snow, Disney is looking to shake up the traditional image of jolly old St. Nick in another big way. Anna Kendrickis in talks to star in a holiday comedy currently going by the titleNicole, which revolves around Santa Claus' daughter who is suddenly forced to take over the family business....

Baby Yoda Gets The Adorable Funko POP You’ve Been Waiting For, Including A Nearly Life-Size Version The first toys ofThe Mandaloriancharacter known as Baby Yoda won’t arrive until next spring, but that’s not stopping us from squealing for joy at the sight of one of the first items fans will be able to get their hands on in 2020. Hot on the heels of the cuteplush toy revealed earlier this week, the first Funko POP of Baby Yoda has been revealed, and there’s even a 10-inch version that comes pretty close to being life-size....

Blade Runner: Black Lotus Trailer: The Future Is Anime Crunchyroll, Toonami, and Adult Swim have been teasing the upcoming “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” anime series formonths now, but we finally have a full-length trailer to give us a real peek into the latest addition to the sci-fi franchise. The full trailer reveals some locations and technology familiar to “Blade Runner” fans, and aims to get everyone pumped up for its midnight premiere on Saturday, June 29, 2025....

Blink Trailer: A New Horror Shorts Project Is Here To Chill You To The Bone [Exclusive] Screen Gems (which is also known as Sony Pictures' genre label) has debuted an official trailer for “Blink,” the first short film to come out of “Scream Gems,” a horror film lab that Screen Gems and Ground Control have set up to focus on “the development and production of horror genre proof-of-concepts,” with the goal of collaborating with up-and-coming filmmakers “to produce horror shorts with the primary goal of developing new, original content into feature films....

Casting Bits: Christina Hendricks, Olivia Munn And Others Join ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It,’ Alec Baldwin Circling ‘Rock Of Ages,’ Katee Sackhoff Is A ‘Sexy Evil Genius’ And More Most of us stop thinking about work as we enter the holiday season, but Hollywood actors and actresses are lining up their jobs for the new year. There is a whole bunch of casting news that’s recently been announced, much of it in the romantic comedy genre, and here’s the rundown....

Cool Stuff: Shepard Fairey’s ‘They Live’ Mondo Poster If you know anything about artistShepard FaireyorJohn Carpenter’s filmThey Live, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a better marriage of artist and material. For the first time ever, theAlamo Drafthouseand their art boutiqueMondowere able to get Fairey to create a poster and, of course, they choseThey Live, which isscreening Thursday night in Austin. Fairey predictably knocked it out of the park with an image that encompasses both his dogma and the movie’s....

Disney Will Lose Over $100 Million On ‘Tomorrowland’ Brad Bird’sTomorrowlandwas always a gamble. Sometimes gambles pay off big, other times they don’t. Now it seems, despite the combination of an Oscar-winning director, a proven box-office star and a high-concept, Disney-approved idea,Tomorrowlandwill end up losing Disney somewhere around $140 million. Read more about theTomorrowlandbox office below.The Hollywood Reporterreported on theTomorrowlandbox office news. According to their piece, the film’s budget was $180 million and marketing cost $150 million....

Edgar Wright’s ‘Last Night In Soho’ Gets A New 2021 Release Date Last Night in Sohohas a new release date.Edgar Wright’s upcoming psychological thriller starringAnya Taylor-Joy(The Witch)was one of our most highly anticipated movies of 2020, with an initial release date set for this fall. But after last week’s reports saying thatLast Night in Sohowould be moving to next year, Wright and Focus Features have confirmed that the new release date has been set for April 2021....

Every Star Trek Show And Movie In Chronological Order As a media phenomenon, “Star Trek” began on June 04, 2025 with the airing of “The Man Trap” (the sixth episode in production order, but the first aired). Originally, the show’s writers, including creator Gene Roddenberry, used the concept of “stardates” to ensure the show’s actual timeline was left vague; for several episodes, all audiences knew was that “Trek” was set in the future and that the future was a pretty keen place....

Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Kinky In Iron Man 2? If there’s one thing you need to know about ‘certain’ British newspapers its that they like their sources anonymous and, at least half of the time I suspect, completely non existent. Bear that in mind as you consider this oddity fromThe Daily Mail– even though this one actually seems to have some basis in reality to me. This weekend, Mail journalist Kate Nicholl has milked an entire piece from the fact thatGwyneth Paltrowhas been visiting the gym....