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Jeremy Renner To Play Journalist David Armstrong, Who Exposed The Sackler Family Opioid Scandal Hawkeye has a new target: the opioid crisis. Jeremy Renner will appear in an upcoming film as David Armstrong, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who was instrumental in uncovering the involvement of billionaire pharmaceutical chief Richard Sackler and his family in the U.S. opioid epidemic. The as-yet-untitled movie has been in the works since at least early 2020, when 101 Studios committed to financing and distributing it....

Jim Carrey Says ‘Bruce Almighty’ And ‘Dumb And Dumber’ Sequels Might Be In The Offing That’s not the worldJim Carreyhas on a yo-yo string in the photo above; it is our comedy-loving heart. sob! So does Jim Carrey (or his agent) think it’s time for him to go back to some established crowd-pleasing roles? It sounds that way. He’s got the kid-friendlyMr. Popper’s Penguinscoming out shortly, but while promoting that film he said that he’s considering new films featuring characters that performed well in the past....

Keira Knightley To Play ‘Catherine The Great’ For Director Barbra Streisand Last December, we got word thatBarbra Streisandwas considering a return to directingfor the first time in 20 years, after helmingThe Mirror Has Two Facesin 1996. The project that was calling the singing icon and actress back behind the camera wasCatherine the Great, a biopic about titular Russian empress. It appears Streisand has stuck with the project since then, and nowPride and PrejudiceandPirates of the CaribbeanstarKeira Knightleyis in talks for the lead role....

Kickstarter Product Lets You Swing Through The Air Like Spider-Man And Will Possibly Kill You Have you ever wanted to swing through the air like radioactive superhero Spider-Man? What about death – are you interested in that? A new Spider-Man Kickstarter product might give you the chance to achieve both of those dreams! I’m at a bit of a loss here. There’s a newKickstarter pagefor something called “Air-Ropes: The Grappling Hook Experience” and I watched the video presentation wondering if it was supposed to be a joke....

Listen To The ‘Back To The Future: The Musical’ Version Of “Back In Time” Going back in time feels a little different in 2019.Back to the Future: The Musicalis all in on the nostalgia, but theJohn Rando-helmed musical, which is set to begin a three-month run at the Manchester Opera House starting in February 2020, has a new version of one of the most iconic songs fromBack to the Future.StarOlly Dobson,who take son the role of Marty McFly originated on screen by Michael J....

Long ‘Sin City: A Dame To Kill For’ TV Spot Condenses The Sales Pitch Nearly ten years after the originalSin City,Robert RodriguezandFrank Millergo back to seedy streets withSin City: A Dame to Kill For. The aesthetic approach is the same: black and white, dotted with color. The technique, which heavily relies upon green screen shooting, is hopefully much refined after a decade of practice and technological advances. There’s a new longSin City: A Dame to Kill ForTV spot today; and the one-minute mini-trailer is a good way to take a look at the film....

Marisa Tomei Offered Aunt May Role In ‘Spider-Man’ Tom Holland is the new Peter Parker in Marvel Studios' and Sony’s upcomingSpider-Man, and now the producers may have found their new Aunt May. According to one source,Marisa Tomeiis the choice for Aunt May, Peter Parker’s guardian, for the new solo film which is set for release in 2017. An offer has been extended to Tomei, at least, which puts this news as something that will need some follow-up....

Mark Wahlberg Creating ‘Alien Bounty Hunter’ Comic, Just So It Can Become A Movie We have seen countless movies based on comic books. In almost all cases, those comic books existed independently of the film adaptation and they just happened to land a movie deal. However, there have been some instances where comic books were created with the sole purpose of being a pitch for a major motion picture. And that’s whatMark Wahlbergis working on right now....

Michael Bay Movies Are Making You Fat (According To One Study) Michael Bay’s movies are the cinematic equivalent of junk food, and now science suggests they may be leading us to eat more actual junk food. In a recent study, researchers found that people ate twice as much while watching Bay’sThe Islandas they did while viewing its polar opposite, the PBS talk showCharlie Rose. Find out why that might be after the jump....

Michael Myers Maze Coming To Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights At San Diego Comic Con International 2015,Guillermo del Toroannounced that there would bea Crimson Peak maze for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. It has since been revealed that Focus Features and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are teaming with Universal Studios in both Hollywood and Orlando to createall-new mazes based on theInsidiousfilm franchise. And now Universal Studios has announced that Halloween will come home this year at HHN....

Movie Poster: ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Over the next couple weeks you’re going to be seeing quite a bit of reports focusing onJon Favreau’s next film,Cowboys & Aliens. The first salvo comes today as the film’s first teaser poster has arrived. There will be a trailer on Wednesday afternoon, but in the meantime let this image prime you for the film’s genre mash-up. So what we’ve got here is a shadowy image ofDaniel Craigas the film’s hero, armed with the rifle and alien tech wrist-thingy that Mr....

Netflix Thinks We Need To Stop Romanticizing The Cinema Experience… And I Kind-Of Agree?! (Welcome toThe Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, and opinionated about something that makes us very happy…or fills us with indescribable rage. In this edition: why Netflix may be kind-of, sort-of right about film fans needing to stop romanticizing movie theaters.) Watching a movie at home on TV simply isn’t the same as going to the movie theater and watching a film on the big screen with an audience....

On-Set Interview: Michael Bay Talks ‘Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction’ In August 2013, I flew to Detroit Michigan to visit the set ofMichael Bay’sTransformers 4: Age of Extinction. You canread about what I learned on the visit here. While on set, we also got a chance to talk to the cast and crew. We’ll be posting those interviews throughout the week. First up is our roundtable interview with directorMichael Bay. We were able to grab some time with the director in between shots as the crew reloaded explosives and reconfigured elaborate tentpole action set-ups....