Taking over the family business has never been seen as a bad thing, but getting ahead because of your lineage isn’t exactly honorable either. Acting families are everywhere in Hollywood, and despite it being a normal progression that children might follow in their parents’ footsteps, the debate around growing nepotism in the entertainment industry has been all the rage lately.
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Recommended Videos Titus Welliver has been cast in an unspecified role in Michael Bay’s upcoming Transformers4. The actor is probably best known for playing the Man in Black in ABC’s Lost, a character who only appears in three episodes but goes on to become a pivotal figure in the show’s overall mythology. Welliver has a whole raft of credits to his name, with recurring spots in Deadwood, Sons of Anarchy, and The Good Wife, as well as film roles in The Town, and Argo, both directed by Ben Affleck, and an uncredited role in RED 2.
Metallica has long been known as extremely reluctant to license their music for TV and cinema. But, as of Stranger Things this summer, that position has clearly relaxed. The season four finale saw their 1986 smash Master of Puppets played during the climactic moments, with Eddie Munson shredding to the metal classic as he tried to create a distraction in the Upside Down.
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It’s halfway to Halloween, and Disney is celebrating with some exciting news for those who love all things spooky.
Recommended Videos One of Disney’s best films and most-loved attractions is the Haunted Mansion. Eddie Murphy’s 2003 movie is a classic, but a reboot is heading to theaters in 2023, and the logo and synopsis were revealed for the project today.
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Call it a plague, a trend, or a naturally occurring response to the cultural zeitgeist, but it’s safe to say that Hollywood’s dedication to IP won’t be fizzling out any time soon, but this absolutely, positively doesn’t need to be a bad thing.
Recommended Videos A movie utilizing established IPs as its stomping ground has absolutely no bearing on whether it’s good or not; so long as it’s approached with genuine love and creative intention, you’re probably going to get a great film regardless of which familiar faces are wrapped up in it, and few features in the last few years have proven that quite as deftly as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, masterminded by Jeff Rowe and Seth Rogen.
You can’t exactly talk about a film without putting it in the context of its predecessors, especially with a superhero flick like Matt Reeves’ The Batman which will reboot the story of the Dark Knight for the nth time. And while we still don’t know everything about the director’s striking cisuals, or even the upcoming movie’s tonal and thematic resonance, Robert Pattinson has revealed that he actually did his audition in George Clooney’s suit from 1997’s Batman & Robin.
The anime adaptation of Solo Leveling arrives soon, which means Sung Jinwoo will now be subject to cross-anime power scaling debates against other shounen protagonists.
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The second season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch is one of the most anticipated Star Wars shows of 2023, with fans desperate to learn what becomes of the titular rag-tag group of mercenaries. But who are the voice actors for the upcoming show, and who will they be playing?
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Plenty of us have casually flipped through the channels only to stumble upon a truly bonkers film on Lifetime. At first, we might laugh at the oft-ridiculous title and wonder how such a silly movie could ever get made. Next thing you know, though, you’ve spent the past two hours glued to the TV screen in anticipation of what’ll happen next.
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