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Now Robert Rodriguez Has His Own Cable Channel Just as the Weinstein Company skips cable and goes straight to Netflix, one-time Harvey Weinstein genre film creatorRobert Rodriguezis getting his own cable channel thanks to Comcast. Rodriguez proposedEl Rey, “designed to be an action-packed, general entertainment network in English for Latino and general audiences that includes a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, documentaries, news, music, comedy, and sports programming....

Paramount Focusing On Day-And-Date VOD Releases For Indie Titles It’s not an exaggeration to say that movie ticket prices cost more than ever nowadays. The average cost of admissionhit an all-time high of $8.38in 2013, up from $7.96 a year ago. And that’s just the national average, mind you. In New York, where I live, a ticket to an IMAX 3D film costs over $20 a person. Meanwhile, our at-home options have been getting better and better....

Paramount+ Ads Send ‘Star Trek’, ‘Jersey Shore’ And ‘Dora The Explorer’ Up The Paramount Mountain Last week, we got word thatCBS All Accesswould officially relaunch asParamount+starting in March. Though we’re still waiting to hear all the details on what the update will bring to the table for the ViacomCBS streaming service, Paramount+ isn’t wasting any time getting the word out about the forthcoming relaunch. Over the weekend, the first Paramount+ commercials arrived, bringing together characters fromStar Trek,Dora the Explorer,Blue Bloods,Jersey Shore,Beavis and Butt-Head, and more....

Pen15 Creators Maya Erskine And Anna Konkle Are Leaving The Door Open For More When Hulu’s middle school-set series “PEN15” announced itwould be endingafter only two seasons, it came as a shock to fans. The November announcement came just days before the season’s second half debuted, and seemed to many to be a heel-turn for creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, who had previously expressed interest in continuing the show. The creators recently explained their decision, and indicated that “PEN15” may not be gone forever....

Queen “Looking At Ideas” For A ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Sequel Curly-hairedQueenguitaristBrian Mayhas changed his tune on the possibility of aBohemian Rhapsodysequel. According to him, the band is now “looking at ideas” for one. IndieWirenotes that May, portrayed by actorGwilym LeeinBohemian Rhapsody, seemed to shoot down the likelihood of a sequel when speaking toRolling Stonelast summer: Between then and now, something appears to have changed. In a recent Instagram Live session (viaNME), May sounded more open to the idea of a sequel happening....

Ray Liotta Gave Cinema Its Greatest Voiceover Performance Ever In Goodfellas One of the first things a screenwriter learns is that voiceovers are evil. They are a crutch for lazy storytellers who lack the ability to relate their tale in a visual manner. For the most part, this is true. If you need your protagonist to dump a load of exposition and character motivation on your audience, you have failed abjectly as a storyteller....

Robert Eggers Directed A Silent, Black-And-White Hansel And Gretel Short — Watch It Now Robert Eggers is ready to plunge us into a good-old Nordic revenge drama withthe upcoming “The Northman,” but while you wait, here’s a 2006, black-and-white horror-ish short film shot by Eggers for your consideration. One of the first shorts by Eggers on hisIMDb resume, “Hansel & Gretel” is a 26-minute adaptation of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, shot in eerie, German expressionist, retro horror style....

Robert Patrick Remembers Every Time He’s Played The T-1000 Outside Of ‘Terminator 2’ I had the very great pleasure of sitting down withRobert Patrickat SXSW this year to discuss his fun, satirical midnight movieTone-Deaf, in which he plays an aging boomer who hates millennials so much he decides to AirBnB his isolated cabin so he can torment and kill one. Or course, this isn’t the first brush with darkness for the actor, who has pretty much made a career out of playing bad guys....

Ron Howard And Dustin Lance Black Teaming For ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’ Now thatThe Dark Towerhasfallenat Universal,Ron Howardis free to explore some of the other projects that he has in various stages of development. As a start, he’ll shoot the true-life Formula One racing movieRushlater this year, withChris HemsworthandDaniel Bruhlin the starring roles. Now we can add another project to his development pile: Warner Bros is packaging an adaptation ofJon Krakauer’s bookUnder the Banner of Heaven, withDustin Lance Black(Milk,J....

Rumor: Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor Cut From ‘Justice League’? Jesse Eisenberg’s manic portrayal of Lex Luthor was one of the most divisive aspects ofBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but he’sLex Luthor.Regardless of fan response, one of DC’s most recognizable charactershasto appear in aJustice Leaguefilm…doesn’t he? Well, not necessarily. A new rumor claims that, despite previous confirmation from Warner Bros. that he’d have a supporting role in the superhero sequel, Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor has been cut fromJustice Leaguein the wake of all of the recent changes to the film....

Sam Mendes Passes On ‘Bond 24’ The combination ofSam Mendesand James Bond proved a potent one inSkyfall, resulting in the highest box office grosses of the franchise’s 50-year history. No wonder, then, that producersBarbara BroccoliandMichael G. Wilsonwere eager to pull him back on board forBond 24. For a while it seemed they’d get their wish, but Mendes has now confirmed that he has passed on the project. Read more after the jump....

Sankofa Trailer: Ava Duvernay Spearheads A 4K Restoration Of A Lost Classic For Netflix Ava DuVernay (“Selma,” “A Wrinkle in Time”) and her ARRAY Releasing company are putting out a brand-new 4K restoration of legendary Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima’s “Sankofa,” a groundbreaking 1993 film set around the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the powerful resistance of a group of enslaved Africans in the American South. The re-release is landing on Netflix this coming Friday, September 24, as the streamer has put out all of ARRAY’s releases since 2016....

Set Photos: Ian McShane As Blackbeard In ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’; Rihanna In ‘Battleship’ The first set spy photo has emerged to showIan McShanein character as Blackbeard inPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and to complement that shot there’s a first-look shot from another ocean-going adventure. Our second groups of set pics showRhiannain costume forPeter Berg’sBattleship. Larger images and more info after the jump. First up: Ian McShane inOn Stranger Tides....