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Gerard Butler’s ‘Greenland’ Sequel Sells To STX For A Whopping $75 Million Greenlandis full of surprises. It’s a surprisingly goodGerard Butlerend-of-the-world movie, and it’s also (surprisingly!) getting a sequel. That sequel is calledGreenland: Migration, and STX, who distributed the first movie, just plopped down a huge chunk of change for the rights. The sequel will follow Butler’s character and his family after “surviving near-extinction by traversing across the decimated frozen wasteland of Europe to find a new home....

Gillian Anderson, Dominic West Join Rowan Atkinson In ‘Johnny English Reborn’ Anyone clamoring for a sequel the 2003 comedyJohnny Englishis in luck. Not only isJohnny English Rebornnow shooting in the United Kingdom, but it will now co-starGillian Anderson(The X-Files),Dominic West(The Wire),Rosamund Pike(Die Another Day) andDaniel KaluuyaalongsideRowan Atkinsonas the title character. It’ll be directed byOliver Parker(The Importance of Being Earnest). Johnny Englishis character that sort of blends Mr. Bean and James Bond in a spoof of the spy genre....

Halo Dives Into The Master Chief’s Past With A Wheel-Spinning Second Episode In a lot of ways, second episodes can be even tougher to pull off than series premieres. The sheer amount of introductions, backstory, world-building, and tone-setting that all need to be established in such a short amount of time can easily command the majority of the creative team’s attention and help paper over any potential misgivings. Generally speaking, viewers may be more inclined to be forgiving and willing tosee the potential through the flawsthe first time around....

Jack Huston Is ‘Ben-Hur’ The newBen-Hurhas its new Ben-Hur.Jack Hustonhas just been set for the lead in the Bible-times epic, whichTimur Bekmambetovis directing.Morgan Freemanpreviouslyjoined the castas Ildarin, who turns the slave Ben-Hur into a champion chariot racer. Hit the jump for more on theBen-HurJack Huston casting. Deadlinereported the news. Huston steps into a role that won Charlton Heston the Oscar in 1960. The upcomingBen-Hurisn’t exactly a remake, but reportedly a more faithful re-adaptation ofLew Wallace’s 1880 novel....

Jake Gyllenhaal Is The Prince Of Persia The Hollywood Reporter has just confirmed a story that was rumored on internet websites last month,Jake Gyllenhaalhas been crowned thePrince of Persiain the big screen Disney live-action adaptation of the popular video game series. Prince of Persia is an action adventure video game which follows an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world....

LionsGate Picks Up ‘Dredd,’ ‘Protection’ And ‘Safe’ In advance of the American Film Market, LionsGate has picked up US distribution rights to three films:Dredd(based on theJudge Dreddcomics),SafeandProtection. All three films are from financing/sales company IM Global. Info on all three films is after the break. The first release will beSafe, directed byBoaz YakinwithJason Stathamstarring; the film is in production right now. Basic info pegs Jason Statham as former agent of some sort who rescues a kidnapped girl and then “finds himself in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and corrupt New York City politicians and police....

Lost Boys Remake In The Works With It And Quiet Place Stars One thing about Hollywood I could never stomach: all the damn remakes. Okay, so that’s not totally true, but it was too good of an opportunity to rephrase that great line from “The Lost Boys” in a story about a pending remake of that very movie. Truth is that there’s a surprisingly solid trend of strong genre remakes....

Love Life Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) After having so much success on the sneakily dark and twisty thriller “A Simple Plan,” Paul Feig and Anna Kendrick decided to reteam for a more traditional rom-com on HBO Max with “Love Life....

M Night Shyamalan Talks The Last Airbender M Night Shyamalanhas been doing limited press to promote his new filmThe Happening, and has been talking about his big screen adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon Anime-influenced animated seriesAvatar: The Last Airbender. When the hostile Fire Nation threatens to enslave the Water, Earth, and Air Nations, a reluctant and irresponsible twelve-year-old named Aang, who must forgo his selfish wandering to learn to master his latent powers and face his destiny as the Avatar, the Chosen One who can restore the world order....

Meet The New Toy Story 3 Characters: Chunk And Chatter Telephone As you may have noticed over the past month, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar’sToy Story 3by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. We’ve been trying to keep track of all the new characters as they have been revealed. After the jump you can see the new toys, Chunk and Chatter Telephone, and learn more about the characters....

Michael Jackson’s This Is It Enters The Top-25 Advance Ticket Sellers Of All-Time Three weeks prior to its October 28th release,Michael Jackson’s This Is Itis now one of the MovieTickets.comTop-25 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time, bumpingThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ringfrom the Number 25 slot. At the same point in the sales cycle,Michael Jackson’s This Is Itis on the heels ofHannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds, the highest grossing concert film of all-time....

Michael Shannon Is Elvis To Kevin Spacey’s Nixon In ‘Elvis & Nixon’ Elvis Presleyhas been portrayed by many actors over the decades since his death in 1977. That doesn’t make the idea of seeingMichael Shannonplay the singer any less head-turningly odd. Pair him withKevin SpaceyasRichard M. Nixonand you might have something really… weird. The two actors have been cast in Elvis & Nixon, which is inspired by the unlikely photo op that resulted in the photo above, taken in 1977....

Netflix Gets Streaming Rights For 53 IFC Movies Netflix’s plan to bring streaming to the masses seems to be proceeding swimmingly. Under their “Netflix Watch Instantly” program they’ve been streaming a selection of 17,000 films on various platforms such as the PC, Roku, andXbox 360for quite some time now, and they recently addedPS3 functionalitywith the promise of moving to theWiiin the future. But they’ve also been active on the content side, signinga groundbreaking deal with Starzlast year to stream thousands of high-quality films....