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It’s official, Spaceballs 2 is going into full production. And luckily for us, most of the original cast is still alive and acting (RIP John Candy) and will be returning to the Star Wars parody when principal photography gets underway.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 1987 cult classic comedy will finally be getting the sequel that fans have been clamoring for since the late ’80s. With the likes of Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, and Bill Pullman, the film will surely give us older heads all the nostalgic feelings we can handle. With that being the case, the franchise will introduce new yet familiar actors to the franchise including Josh Gad (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Keke Palmer (NOPE), and Pullman’s real-life son, Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts).
The Hollywood Reporter reports:
Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Lewis Pullman will play a character named Starburst, the sun of Queen Vespa (Zuniga) and Lone Starr (Bill Pullman). Franchise newcomer Palmer will play a role by the name of Destiny. The two, along with Gad, are the leads.
One has to comb the desert to find plot details, but Amazon amiably describes the new project this way: “While the title, plot details, and rest of cast are being kept under wraps, the film has been described by those who have not yet read the script as ‘A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two’ but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film.”
Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Jeb Brody are producing alongside Gad, Brooks and Greenbaum. Kevin Slater, Adam Merims, Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez will executive produce.
Check out the teaser trailer for Spaceballs 2 below, and let us know if you’ll be checking it out when it hits theaters in 2027.
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Jade Cargill, who is the plot of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, for very obvious reasons, will make her acting debut in the upcoming film True Threat, opposite Jonathan Majors.
Cargill is no stranger to acting, as she does so every week when she laces up her wrestling boots and takes out her opponents with her “Jaded” finisher on SmackDown, but in the upcoming film True Threat, she will flex her acting muscles on the big screen.
Deadline exclusively reports that Cargill is the second big name announced for the Harlem-set action thriller directed by Gerard McMurray (The First Purge, Burning Sands) and produced by Alexis Garcia’s CAT5 with Charlamagne Tha God, Basil Iwanyk (John Wick, Nobody), and Karen Kinney’s under her new banner, Southland Stories.
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According to the website, True Threat follows Special Forces operative Vernon Threat (Majors), who returns home and wants justice for his murdered son at the hands of Harlem’s Apollo Kids gang. Threat infiltrates The Carter (yes, the same Carter from New Jack City) that is controlled by the gang and fights his way floor by floor, taking out boss after boss until he confronts the gang’s leader, who also happens to be his former mentor, Shadow.
In the film, Cargill will play Meeka, a key lieutenant in the Apollo Kids and one of the film’s main villains. She will control the red light district in The Carter and also operates as a “power broker” in the building.
Per Deadline, the role will see Cargill “in an intense, physical and highly stylized performance space that builds on her athletic background.”
We can’t wait to see Cargill in action.
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The producers of a horror movie starring 50 Cent are blasting the rapper’s “baseless” lawsuit aimed at blocking its release, calling it a “last-minute shakedown.”
Fifty (Curtis Jackson) sued earlier this year to stop the premiere of SkillHouse, an upcoming horror movie in which he plays a big role, over claims that he never signed off. He claimed producer Ryan Kavanaugh had not paid him “a dime” and he had “no creative input.”
But in a scathing response on Thursday, Kavanaugh’s attorneys say the rap star “time and time again” gave his clear approval for the project – and that he cannot now “kneecap the film on the eve of its release.”
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“After almost three years of acknowledging his agreement to appear in the film, Jackson seeks to enjoin SkillHouse from its impending theatrical release,” Kavanaugh’s lawyers write. “This is a baseless and last-minute shakedown.”
Set for release July 11, SkillHouse is billed as a “social media nightmare,” in which ten influencers are kidnapped and forced to compete in a “deadly showdown” where “every like, share, and follow is a fight for survival.” While 50 Cent has the top billing, the movie also stars actual creators (Bryce Hall and Hannah Stocking) with huge followings on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
Fifty filed his lawsuit in April, claiming he filmed the movie back in 2022 without a formal contract because he trusted that one would be signed later. But he says it never was — and that the producers cannot use his name and likeness without one.
“Defendants have billed Jackson as the star and producer of the film [and] have shamelessly and deceptively marketed the film as a ‘50 Cent Movie’ and ‘produced by 50 Cent,’ when it is nothing of the sort,” his lawyers wrote at the time.
But in Thursday’s response, attorneys for Kavanaugh and the movie’s production company say they have “a mountain of documentary evidence” that he did, in fact, agree to appear in and promote SkillHouse – including a tweet in which he bragged that it would “elevate horror to another level.” And they say 50 cannot “come close” to showing the kind of permanent damage that would necessitate an injunction blocking the movie’s premiere.
“Jackson cannot show irreparable harm from being associated with a well-received film he repeatedly touted his involvement in,” write Kavanaugh’s lawyers. “Moreover, he certainly cannot show an urgent need for action by the court when he, for almost three years, has known about (and approved) what he now contends is misappropriation.”
An attorney for 50 Cent did not immediately return a request for comment.
Just days after it was reported that Ariana Grande has been cast in Meet the Parents 4, the comedy series’ co-star, Robert De Niro, confirmed that he’ll be sharing screen time with the singer and Oscar-nominated Wicked star.
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On Monday night’s (June 9) Tonight Show, De Niro, 81, passed the lie detector test and said “that’s true,” when host Jimmy Fallon asked if the rumors about Grande’s casting were accurate. Asked if he knows Grande, De Niro said no, but recalled that they met seven or eight years ago when he dropped in to Saturday Night Live with one of his kids, who wanted to meet the singer.
“I didn’t do something with her, but she was on the same show,” De Niro recalled. “And we talked and I introduced her and one of my kids wanted to meet her.” At press time it was unknown what role Grande, 31, will play in the series about a taciturn retired CIA agent (De Niro) coming to grips with his bumbling, nebbish nurse son-in-law (Ben Stiller), though The Hollywood Reporter reported that the singer will play a “ball-busting” woman engaged to marry the now-adult son of Stiller and co-star Teri Polo’s Greg and Pam Focker.
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The cast has been talking up the latest edition to the franchise, with De Niro, Stiller, Polo and director Jay Roach celebrating the 25th anniversary of the original Meet the Parents while taking the stage at De Niro’s Tribeca Festival this week to talk about the sequel. Stiller, 59, called Grande “so talented… so great with comedy,” during a Q&A at the festival. And while Stiller said he couldn’t say too much about Grande’s character, he revealed that the role is “really, really funny and kind of the engine of the whole movie.”
When the interviewer joked that because of Grande’s inclusion the fourth go-round should, naturally, be a musical, De Niro quipped, “half the scenes that I have with her will be singing scenes.” John Hamburg, who co-wrote the first three movies, will direct the fourth one, the follow-up to Meet the Fockers (2004) and Little Fockers (2010).
Grande got her start on the Nickelodeon series Victorious and iCarly before becoming a breakout pop superstar and earning Oscar and Golden Globe best supporting actress nominations for her role as Glinda in the first part of the double-up big screen adaptation of the musical Wicked. It will be Grande’s first new film role following her acclaimed turn in Wicked, whose second installment, Wicked: For Good, is due out on Nov. 21.
Watch De Niro talk Grande on Tonight Show below.
Outer Banks star Jonathan Daviss has been tapped to play Snoop Dogg in an upcoming biopic from director Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Coming 2 America). According to The Hollywood Reporter, Brewer is currently working on revising the script previously written by Joe Robert Cole (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) that tells the story of Calvin […]
For a minute in the 1990s, Failure seemed destined for world domination. But the L.A. alt-rock band whose excesses superseded their successes and led to a crash out after less than a decade together will be re-born (again) in the upcoming documentary, Every Time You Lose Your Mind. The first trailer for the film that will premiere on Hulu/Disney+ on June 27 features testimonials from avowed superfan Paramore singer Hayley Williams, as well as Tool’s Maynard James Keenan and late producer/engineer Steve Albini.
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“Like a falling satellite blazing across the musical landscape, Failure flamed-out in the late ‘90s – their promising rise derailed by drug addiction and record company inertia,” reads a description of the doc, which was directed by singer/guitarist Ken Andrews. “But the pioneering trio left a profound imprint that transcended their affiliation with the LA alt-rock scene. Every Time You Lose Your Mind documents the origins, downfall and rebirth of a band that’s beloved by their peers and multiple generations of fans.”
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The shoegaze-y band formed in 1990 in L.A. by Andrews, bassist/keyboardist Greg Edwards and drummer Robert Gauss (who was replaced in 1993 by Kellii Scott) released their Albini-helmed debut album, Comfort, in 1992 and embarked on what would be the first of a series of tours opening up for Tool. Determined to find the sound they were looking for, Andrews and Edwards took over as producers for the trio’s second LP, 1994’s Magnified, which, like its predecessor, earned praise from peers, but failed to move the needle on radio or at MTV.
Tool’s Keenan recalls in the trailer that much of the music in Los Angeles during that early 1990s era was “formulaic, and Failure seemed to cut right up through the middle. They were just kind of their own unique presence.” Garbage drummer and Nirvana producer Butch Vig adds that Failure embraced “that darkness [and] dissonance,” while Paramore’s Williams notes that she’d “never really heard anything like that… it changed how I thought about music and it kind of just made me more than ever want to be in a band.”
The trio’s original run ended with 1996’s beloved album Fantastic Planet, which launched a modest Weezer-ish alt radio hit in “Stuck On You,” but again mostly fizzled on the charts. After a run on the final touring version of Lollapalooza — during which they did double duty when they got bumped from the second stage to main stage after Korn was forced to drop out, giving them both afternoon and evening slots — the band broke up in late 1997.
In the recent Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock’s Wildest Festival oral history, Andrews talked about Tool getting the band on the tour and being nervous that so many other bands would come over to watch their sets. “Especially if you’re the low band on the totem pole and you haven’t really proven yourself with a lot of success or notoriety,” he said. Edwards admitted to being strung out at the time, saying, “I was flying through that period. I was heavily self-medicated, and Lollapalooza was the beginning of a steep slope to the bottom.”
“Our fans have connected with the themes of depression and addiction in our music,” Andrews said in a statement about the film. “The film crystallizes those connections and, ultimately, communicates hope. We’re a band that faced a specific set of challenges and somehow managed to survive and thrive. It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up.”
Andrews and Edwards went on to form a series of bands in the ensuing years and reunited in 2013 with Scott, once again hitting the road to open for Tool and release the 2014 album The Heart Is a Monster. They followed up in 2018 with the first in a series of EPs and the album In the Future Your Body Will Be the Furthest Thing From Your Mind and 2021’s Wild Type Droid.
In the trailer, Edwards describes being on a “steady routine of uppers and downers, spinning around this spine of the heroin addiction” in a nod to the drug issues that sped the demise of the group. The preview also features snippets of interviews with actress/comedian Margaret Cho, former drummer and A Perfect Circle member Troy Van Leeuwen and actor/musician Jason Schwartzman.
Failure will celebrate the movie’s release on June 26 at the Harmony Gold Theater in L.A. with an acoustic set before the screening. The band is also booked to play at the Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, KY on Sept. 20 and the Aftershock Festival in Sacramento on Oct. 3.
Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind below.
Charli xcx says she’s been re-watching all the Final Destination movies lately in preparation to see the just-released recent installment, Final Destination Bloodlines, and the budding film mogul was so inspired she pitched her own bratty next chapter to the horror franchise.
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“The reason I love these movies is that they really just are about hot people getting killed,” she said in a poolside bikini TikTok video from a Sicily vacation. “You know, there’s no moral backbone to the story, it really is just, ‘they’re hot, they’re cursed and they deserve to die.’”
And here’s the thing: with so many irons currently in the fire in Hollywood, Charli has crunched the numbers on the six-film franchise that has grossed more than $350 million to date and she’s shooting her shot for an all “It Girl” version.
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“Basically, it doesn’t matter who’s in these films, they do, like, super-super well,” said Charli. “And so I was thinking, well, shouldn’t there be a sort of ‘it girl’ version of this franchise? You know like, a Final Destination with It Girls. Kind of like, Rachel Sennott, Alex Consani, Gabbriette, Romy Mars, Me, Quenlin Blackwell, Devon Lee Carlson… maybe there’s like a scream queen in there like Jenna (Ortega). Maybe there’s an OG scream queen like Sissy Spacek. And then it’s also directed by like a horror auteur, like Ty West (MaXXXine)?”
The most recent edition in the series in which the cast defy death only to have Death find the most baroque ways to kill them had a franchise-best opening earlier this month when it raked in nearly $52 million in its opening weekend.
Charli also pitched Robert Rodriguez as a possible director, suggesting that the Machete auteur could lean into the “b-movie-ness of it all” and do a version where “everyone is just getting completely massacred. It’s like bloody.” Or, she suggested, she could take a really “big swing” and see if Oscar-nominee David Fincher (Fight Club) would be interested.
“I just think that it would be a good idea and I don’t think… the films wouldn’t have to change their formula. I think the whole point is that they play into the lore. They kind of make fun of their own lore, and I don’t think this one would have to be any different, like I think that’s the point,” Charli said. “It’s really not trying to do anything other than have hot people die in the most brutal ways and play with some unbelievable dialogue.”
To be clear, there doesn’t appear to be any official pitch so far, but in the comments Sennott gave it a thumbs up. “Ok I’m in….” she wrote.
After winning the season with brat summer last year, Charli is doing a hard pivot to movies, with the singer recently lining up a gig to star in and produce the next movie from Japanese horror director Takashi Mike (Yakuza Apocalypse). No additional information was available on that film at press time, but it is slated to be the second project Charli will produce through her Studio365 banner, joining the upcoming A24 drama The Moment, based on her original idea.
In addition, she is slated to appear in Julia Jackman’s period drama 100 Nights of Hero, as well as Pete Ohs and Jeremy O. Harris’ Erupcja and director Daniel Goldhaber’s horror remake of the legendary shock cult film Faces of Death. Other movies on her list include director Greg Araki’s I Want Your Sex and Romain Garvas’ adventure comedy Sacrifice, as well as The Gallerist, in which she’ll appear with Natalie Portman, Ortega and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Charli also makes a cameo and produced the music for Benito Skinner’s new Prime Video comedy, Overcompensating.
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Just as hype for Avengers: Doomsday was beginning to really rev up thanks to rumors, leaks and secret set photos hitting the internet, fans were disheartened by the latest news coming out of Marvel Studios pertaining to the highly anticipated film.
According to Variety, the original release date for Marvel’s latest epic has been changed from May 1, 2026 to Dec. 18, 2026. But it doesn’t end there. Doomsday‘s follow-up, Avengers: Secret Wars, has also been pushed back from May 7, 2027 to Dec. 17, 2027. Though no reason was given for the new release dates for both films, we’re going to go out on a limb and place the blame on the Trump administration because what haven’t they made worse at this point? Just sayin’.
While we’re sure this isn’t the news that comic book fans wanted to hear coming out of Disney in relation to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this wasn’t the only change made to the MCU line-up as Disney continues to shake things up for unknown reasons.
Variety reports:
Disney announced both “Avengers” delays Thursday afternoon, alongside a sweeping reorganization of its coming theatrical slate. Notably, the new calendar saw the studio remove several unannounced Marvel titles off of its calendar. The date of Feb. 13, 2026, previously slotted for an “Untitled Marvel” project, has been removed from the schedule. Meanwhile, the dates of Nov. 6, 2026 and Nov. 5, 2027 — also both previously set for “Untitled Marvel” features — have been amended to simply “Untitled Disney” films.
With those changes, “Avengers: Doomsday” and Sony’s “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” are now the only Marvel Cinematic Universe entries slated to hit theaters in 2026. Also of note: the new pre-holiday December frame for both “Avengers” installments is the same one that “Spider-Man: No Way Home” launched on in 2021, which became one of the franchise’s highest-grossing installments at $1.9 billion worldwide.
Two huge Avengers films releasing for the Christmas holidays a year apart? Yeah, Marvel’s going to clean up at the box office.
That being said, it seems like Spider-Man: Brand New Day may be the film that will lead into Avengers: Doomsday as it will release four months before the fifth Avengers film on July 31, 2026. With word that the villains for Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be some classic Spidey villains in Tombstone, Scorpion and Boomerang, it should be interesting to see how that particular adventure would tie into Doctor Doom invading the MCU.
As underwhelming as those villains may be, Marvel Studios has yet to let us down with their Spider-Man films. And it would make sense as the next Spidey film will serve as a soft reboot of the franchise and cast Spider-Man as a more grounded superhero as he restarts his life following the events of the multiverse-centered Spider-Man: No Way Home.
But as long as Marvel Studios has a plan to get Spider-Man his black suit in Secret Wars a la the original comic book arc in 1984, and have him face off an actual evil Venom at some point in the future, we’ll let Marvel cook with its current plans.
What do y’all think about Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars getting their films pushed back to the Christmas holidays of 2026 and 2027? Let us know in the comments section below.
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It’s been three decades since us older heads had to endure that train wreck of a video game turned feature film, Street Fighter, and while it basically ended the short but successful career of Jean-Claude Van Damme, it seems like Hollywood will once again attempt to give the classic video game a proper live-action adaptation in the near future.
According to Deadline, a new Street Fighter film is in the works and though the good folks over at Capcom are remaining mum on the project, sources tell Deadline that some pretty big names are being floated around for casting in the upcoming project. Names like WWE superstar Roman Reigns and Hollywood action stars such as Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, and Noah Centineo are being flown around to star in the feature film though no word on which characters each man would be cast to play as the video game has an illustrious list of fighters who’ve come and gone over the decades throughout the franchise’s numerous installment. Naturally OG characters such as Ryu, Ken, and Guile (whom Van Damme portrayed in the disastrous 1994 film) are expected to be in the film, but we’d really love to see other fan favorites such as Akuma, Vega, and Necro make their big screen debut.
Still, we know little to nothing about the upcoming film as the studio is playing everything close to the chest, but all we can do is hope that they don’t give us another lackluster adaptation as the one we got in the mid 90’s.
Per Deadline:
Reps for the studio declined comment, and the plot of the film remains under wraps. In February, Bad Trip‘s Kitao Sakurai boarded as director, inheriting the project from Talk To Me‘s Danny & Michael Philippou, who attached themselves in April of 2023, following Legendary’s acquisition of exclusive film and TV rights to the Street Fighter IP. The film adaptation is being co-developed and co-produced alongside Capcom, the developer and publisher of the video games. No word has emerged yet on who has written and who specifically will produce the actioner.
We would say it couldn’t be any worse than 1994’s Street Fighter, but truth be told, anything is possible these days.
Who would you like to see get cast in the upcoming Street Fighter film and for which character? Let us know in the comments below.
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We’re still months away from finally seeing what James Gunn has been cooking in his DC Studios when Superman: Legacy hits theaters on July 11, and with all kinds of rumors being thrown around as to who’ll be appearing or making cameos, it seems like we’ve gotten confirmation as to which villain will be involved in the film and we aren’t talking about Lex Luthor.
According to Newsweek, it’s been leaked that Superman villain Ultraman will be part of Superman: Legacy and for those that aren’t familiar with the villain, he’s basically an evil version of Superman from an alternate universe. Confirmation came as the action figure for the villain was revealed online and fans were excited to learn that Superman would be going toe-to-toe with an bad version of himself (not like in 1983’s Superman III though. That was just weird).
As for a little backstory on the villain, Newsweek breaks it down.
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In the comics, Ultraman is from an alternate universe in which most of people who we know as heroes in DC comics are instead villains. For example, instead of the Justice League of America, Ultraman is part of the Crime Syndicate of America. A villain named Johnny Quick replaces The Flash, Power Ring instead of Green Lantern, Owlman instead of Batman, etc.
So if the Ultraman of “Superman” is – like his comic book counterpart – a Superman variant, the question is exactly how A.R.G.U.S. finds him and gets him to help them out. The Ultraman of the comics would need a whole lot of convincing to help A.R.G.U.S. or anyone else to work for something other than his own selfish designs; not to mention doing it while hiding his identity.
Y’all already know Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) might’ve figured out a way to pull off such a feat. He’s an evil mastermind for Christ’s sake.
The only question is, who’ll be behind the mask of Ultraman? With rumors that Henry Cavill is somehow a part of this film (fingers crossed), imagine the theater reaction to a reveal that Cavill is the evil Superman? Heads would explode. Just sayin.’
What do y’all think about Ultraman being a big baddie in Superman: Legacy? Do you have any expectations for the film? Let us know in the comments section below.
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