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James Franco Will Return For HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ Season 2 James Francois coming back for round two ofThe Deuce.Franco plays the pair of twin brothers at the center ofGeorge PelecanosandDavid Simon’s grimy HBO series exploring the early years of the porn industry in 1970s New York City. Franco’s return for the second season of the drama series had been called into question after allegations of the actor’s sexual misconduct surfaced, andHouse of Cardsstar Kevin Spacey was replaced for similar allegations....

John Mulaney And Bill Hader Dreamed Up An ‘SNL’ Movie For Stefon, But It’ll Probably Never Happen Back whenBill Haderwas a cast member onSaturday Night Live, the character he became best known for playing was undoubtedly Stefon. The nightlife expert frequently appeared on Weekend Update to offer advice on New York’s hottest locations for various holidays and activities (even though he initially appearedin a completely different sketchwhen he was first created)....

Joseph Gordon-Levitt And Marion Cotillard’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Roles Revealed Warner Brothers has just released a press release confirming what we already knew:Joseph Gordon-LevittandMarion Cotillardare inChristopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight Rises.The big news, though, is that we now finally have confirmations of each actor’s role. Gordon-Levitt will play"John Blake, a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon"and Cotillard is"Miranda Tate, a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a still-grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father’s philanthropic endeavors for Gotham....

Let Toni Collette Terrify You With This ‘Hereditary’ Promo If you’re not hyped enough forHereditaryyet, please enjoy this incredible promo featuringToni Colletteunleashing all her pent-up rage and fury. It’s effective as hell, and darn scary too boot. Can we fast-forward to the release date for this already? Check out theHereditarypromo below. My excitement forHereditaryis getting out of control at this point. I thinkThe Witch(another A24 joint) was the last horror film that had me this hyped, and that film didn’t disappoint....

LOL: Netflix Bug (Or Marketing Stunt) Creates Movies We’d Love To See It’s a favorite complaint of cinephiles that there just don’t seem to be any original ideas left in Hollywood anymore. ButNetflix, it seems, has plenty to spare. Or at least a bug within the service’s works does. A glitch has led the system to combine synopses of completely separate movies, leading to delightfully bizarre mash-up summaries like “A reprogrammed Terminator arrives from the future to protect young John Connor from a relentless shape-shifting cyborg gumball machine....

Lucasfilm Appears To Be Lining Up Future Film And TV Shoots In New London Production Facility Ever since Disney purchased Lucasfilm, all of theStar Warsmovies have been filmed at Pinewood Studios in London. But it looks like the next batch of films set in a galaxy far, far away may have found a new home. Reports of a newly-registered production company (which could potentially hint at a newStar Warsproject’s working title) have been linked to Lucasfilm and suggest thatStar Warsmay be packing up from Pinewood and moving across town to East London, to the new East Brook Studios which is slated to be open by the end of this year....

Milo Ventimiglia’s Evel Knievel Limited Series Not Moving Forward At USA Network Milo Ventimiglia’s Evel Knievel series didn’t stick the landing at USA Network. The network will not be going forward with the limited series, which would’ve been titledEvel, about the daredevil stuntman. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic shut down the series right before production was set to begin.The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news that USA Network has scrapped the Evel Knievel limited series starring Milo Ventimiglia as the famous daredevil....

National Association Of Theater Owners Pushes For Shorter Movie Trailers A well crafted trailer for a highly anticipated picture is a thing of beauty, but there are lots of ways trailers can annoy as well. They might be sloppily edited or downright misleading. They can show too much of the movie, or feature too many scenes that aren’t in the film at all. They can be time-consuming hurdles to the features we’ve actually paid to see....

Nearly 30% Said This Is Their Most Anticipated Animated Movie Of 2022 We asked you which animated films you were most looking forward to in 2022, and the results are in! There are some wonderful treats coming out this year for animation fans, so the competition was rich. However, one title in particular played a little dirty simply by being tied to one of the most audience-friendly franchises of all time....

New ‘Goosebumps 2’ Writer Hired, Jack Black May Not Return Goosebumpsmay not have been the best family horror film, but it was surprisingly fun, and apparently a big enough hit to warrant a sequel. Sony has just hired a new writer to pen the latest adventure set in the wild world of R.L. Stine, but the new script comes with a caveat:Jack Black, star of the firstGoosebumps, may not be returning forGoosebumps 2....

New Rumor Of Vision’s Role In ‘Captain America: Civil War’ May Take Him To Other Marvel Movies Some new rumored details suggest that whatever happens to the Vision inCaptain America: Civil Warcould open up some doors to his arrival in some other future Marvel Studios movies. But to understand how he gets there, we have to talk about some potentialCivil Warspoilers. So if that worries you, I’d recommend sitting out for the rest of this story....

New Screenwriter Hired For Live-Action Akira Remake; Albert Hughes Talks PG-13 It’s taken a while for Warner Bros. to get a plan together with respect to the live-action adaptation ofKatsuhiro Otomo’s six-volume mangaAkira, which Otomo previously directed as anime. That 1988 version became a landmark effort in anime, setting a bar for the remake that many fans consider impossibly high. But the anime, massively condensed from the manga and with an alternate ending, has an awkward, exposition-heavy narrative that isn’t nearly as engrossing as the beautiful animation....

O-T Fagbenle’s Black Widow Character Might Return In Future Projects [Exclusive] In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “people who don’t have friends” call Rick Mason, the character played by O-T Fagbenle in"Black Widow.“As a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent turned free agent and weapons supplier, Mason was there for Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) when she was on the run from the U.S. government after the events of “Captain America: Civil War.” In the future, it’s quite possible he will be there for other Marvel superheroes, as well....