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A number of actors including Amy Poehler and Naomie Harris, have signed an open letter calling for an end to prejudice and discrimination towards disabled talent in Hollywood.
The letter claims there’s an “urgent need to act on disability inclusion” and urges major studios to appoint permanent disability officers.
It goes on to say the number of disabled characters on screen “continues to severely under-represent the actual US population living with disabilities”.
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House Party reboot casts Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Tosin Cole as leads
Deadline reports that the New Line Cinema reboot of House Party has found its two leads in Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Bumblebee) and Tosin Cole (Doctor Who). The Springhill Company has fast-tracked this film for franchise potential based on Reginald Hudlin’s House Party (1990), which became a huge part of the cultural zeitgeist over the last thirty years.
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Sylvester Stallone has confirmed that he will not be returning as Rocky Balboa in Creed III.READ MORE: 10 reasons why we love RockyThe actor has appeared in the previous two films as Adonis “Donnie” Johnson, Creed’s (Michael B. Jordan) mentor both of which continued Stallone’s Rocky series.
It was previously unclear whether Stallone would appear in the forthcoming third film but now his publicist has confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that he will not be taking

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Video: GvK’s Adam Wingard on His Favorite Godzilla Movie Era
Warner Bros. and Legendary provided ComingSoon.net with the chance to sit down 1:1 with Adam Wingard, director of the smash MonsterVerse crossover Godzilla vs. Kong! In this segment, we ask Wingard to choose his favorite of the three major eras of Godzilla movies: Shōwa era (1954–1975), Heisei era (1984–1995) and Millennium era (1999–2004). Check out what Wingard had t

Legendary to develop film adaptation of History’s Ancient Aliens series
Legendary and Counterbalance Entertainment are in the process of developing a film adaptation of Ancient Aliens, based on History Channel’s long-running sci-fi docuseries. The project hails from Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, who are executive producing through their Counterbalance banner. On top of producing, Heald has also signed on to helm the film from a screenplay th

Mystery Science Theater 3000 relaunch campaign begins
For more than 30 years, the award-winning comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been known as one of the best cult TV shows in history. The story of human hosts and their robot sidekicks trapped aboard a satellite and forced to watch cheesy movies by their captors, MST3K has maintained its reputation thanks largely to its devoted fan base, known as MSTies. In 2017 the show returned after an 18-year hiatus thanks to a reco

Ghostbusters and Jumanji rides set for new Columbia Pictures Aquaverse Park
Aquaverse, the world’s first-ever Columbia Pictures theme park is scheduled to open to the public beginning October 2021. Sony Pictures in partnership with Amazon Falls, Thailand’s premier theme park developers, announced plans that they have closed a deal to develop the new theme park destination.
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Exclusive trailer for star-studded horror-comedy Too Late!
As the film gears up for its world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival, Gravitas Ventures has provided ComingSoon.net with the exclusive first trailer for the horror-comedy Too Late featuring an ensemble cast of comedians including Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and Ron Lynch (Bob’s Burgers). The exclusive trailer can be viewed in the player below!
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Park Chan-Wook to helm A24’s series adaptation of The Sympathizer
A24 has acquired the rights to author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning debut novel The Sympathizer. The acclaimed studio has teamed up with Rhombus Media to develop the series adaptation of said novel, which centers around a Communist spy during the Vietnam war. Nguyen took to Twitter to also announce that award-winning South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-Wook has officially signed on to helm the project. This marks

Hans Zimmer has turned his hand to composing ringtones.
The film composer has teamed up with Chinese smartphone maker Oppo to offer users two ringtones and “an orchestra of system sounds”.
The new sounds also include a gentle alarm and a phone activation sound as well as “a range of energising text and notification alerts.”
In an Oppo-created promotional video, which you can view below, Zimmer says: “To me everything is a story. Ultimately it always ends up bei

The Mauritanian: Release date and trailer revealed
Based on a true story, The Mauritanian stars Jodie Foster (Inside Man), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet), Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), and Zachary Levi (Shazam!). The film hits digital on April 20, and Blu-Ray and DVD on May 11 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
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The Mauritanian follows one man’s decades-long fight fo

Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova and The Hate U Give actor Amandla Stenberg are set to lead A24 thriller Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.READ MORE: ‘Midsommar’ review – Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’ follow-up is genuinely disturbing tale of nature-worshiping pagansAccording to Deadline, Pete Davidson and Myha’la Herrold are also in talks to star in the film which is being billed as a “secret slasher film”.
Bodies, Bodies, Bodies is set to be

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Video: Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp & Fionn Whitehead on Voyagers
Ahead of its upcoming theatrical release, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat 1:1 with the cast of Voyagers, namely Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp and Fionn Whitehead. Check out the video interview in the player below!
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Batman: The Long Halloween Part One trailer drops
Warner Bros. Animation has released the trailer for Part One of its animated adaptationBatman: The Long Halloween. The film is scheduled to drop on Digital and Blu-ray sometime this summer, with Part 2 releasing in the fall. Watch the IGN exclusive trailer in the player below!
Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) debuts as Batman/Bruce Wayne, the actor having previously voiced The Red Hood/Jason Todd in Batman: Under the Red Hood. Selina Kyle/

Lionsgate announces 4K UHD edition of Saw Unrated!
As fans gear up for the return of the beloved horror franchise with the Chris Rock-led ninth installment in May, Lionsgate is getting the hype train rolling early for Spiral as they have announced that the original, unrated version of Saw is coming back to audiences for the first time on 4K Ultra HD on May 11!
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The Tomorrow War: Amazon nabs rights to Chris Pratt’s action sci-fi pic
Amazon Studios has successfully acquired the worldwide distribution rights to Paramount Pictures’ upcoming action sci-fi film The Tomorrow War. The acquisition deal reportedly cost the streamer around $200 million. Originally scheduled for a July 23, 2021 release, the Chris Pratt-led feature will now be making its debut on July 2, 2021, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.
The Tomorrow War was first set for a thea

The CW’s Ava DuVernay-produced Naomi pilot begins production
Weeks after casting its titular leading actress, Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay took to Twitter to share the first set photo of her upcoming series adaptation of DC Comics’ Naomi, confirming that production has officially begun on the The CW pilot. Should the pilot indeed secure a series order, this marks DuVernay’s second DC series with Warner Bros. Television, after HBO Max greenlit the Rosario Dawson-led DM

Eli Roth’s Borderlands movie adds Olivier Richters as Krom
Following the recent casting of Golden Globe nominee Edgar Ramirez as Atlas, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that professional bodybuilder Olivier Richters has been tapped to portray another villain character in Eli Roth’s upcoming film adaptation of Borderlands. The Dutch athlete-turned-actor is set to play the role of Krom, who is being described as the terrifying leader of the psycho bandits that rule Pandora

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Video: Director Neil Burger Talks Voyagers!
Ahead of its upcoming theatrical release, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to do a 1:1 video chat with Voyagers director Neil Burger (Limitless, Divergent, The Upside) to discuss his dystopian sci-fi thriller. Check it out in the player below!
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Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon adds Belleau & more
Apple Original Films announced William Belleau (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse), Louis Cancelmi (The Irishman) and Grammy Award winning singer-songwriters Jason Isbell & Sturgill Simpson (The Hunt) have joined Martin Scorsese’s eagerly anticipated upcoming Apple TV+ drama, Killers of the Flower Moon, where they will appear alongside Academy-Award winner Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street).
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Spy City teaser: Dominic Cooper stars in new AMC+ miniseries
AMC+ has released the teaser trailer for upcoming U.S. debut of action thriller drama Spy City starring Dominic Cooper (Preacher). The video features an English double agent as he goes on a mission to Berlin to uncover the person who has been leaking important information to the Russians. The six-part series is scheduled to premiere in the U.S. on Thursday, April 15. Check out the video in the player below!
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Mark Romanek returning to directing with Lionsgate horror Mother Land
It’s been a decade since filmmaker Mark Romanek was last seen in the feature world with the well-received romantic drama Never Let Me Go and now he’s ready to step back into the director’s chair for the Lionsgate horror-thriller Mother Land, according to Deadline.
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The Mosquito Coast trailer starring Justin Theroux and Melissa George
Apple TV+ has released the official trailer for their upcoming series adaptation of The Mosquito Coast, based on author Paul Theroux’s best-selling novel of the same name. The seven-episode adaptation is set to premiere its first two episodes on Friday, April 30 followed by new episodes every Friday on Apple TV+. Check out The Mosquito Coast trailer in the player below!
The video features Justin Theroux’

BEGIN SLIDESHOWJupiter’s Legacy trailer & poster serves up wild superhero action
Netflix has unveiled the first trailer and new poster for its upcoming superhero series Jupiter’s Legacy, based on Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s comic book series. Starring Josh Duhamel, the series is set to hit the streaming platform on May 7. The trailer, which shows off some of the series’ pulse-pounding action and decades-spanning story, can be viewed below!
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWFirst Ghostbusters: Afterlife clip features the return of Stay Puft
Sony Pictures has revealed the first clip from the forthcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife, featuring Paul Rudd’s teacher character Mr. Grooberson having an encounter with Mr. Stay Puft… many Mr. Stay Pufts, actually! Check out the new Ghostbusters: Afterlife clip in the player below!
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is a fictional product mascot that first appeared in the original 1984 Gho

Angelina Jolie’s Those Who Wish Me Dead unleashes intense trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema have unveiled an intense new trailer for director Taylor Sheridan’s upcoming neo-Western thriller film adaptation of Those Who Wish Me Dead, starring Oscar winner Angelina Jolie (Maleficent) and Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road). Check out the trailer in the player below!
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"Those men that came for your father - did you see their faces?" Warner Bros has debuted the first official trailer for a thriller titled Those Who Wish Me Dead, the latest feature directed by writer / filmmaker Taylor Sheridan after he broke out as a director with Wind River a few years back. While reeling from the loss of three lives she failed to save in a fire, smoke jumper Hannah comes across a traumatized 12-year-old boy with nowhere else to turn. Another tricky, twisty Sheridan plot - th

BEGIN SLIDESHOWEmma Stone is bringing trouble in new Cruella trailer & poster!
With just over a month left to go until the long-awaited arrival of the Emma Stone-led origin story for the iconic 101 Dalmatians villain, Disney has unveiled a new trailer and poster for Cruella promising that the devil will get her due. The trailer, which gives audiences a better look at the motivation behind the titular fashion designer’s
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"I will kill everyone linked to you." Well Go USA has released an official US trailer for a crazy fun Korean action thriller movie called Deliver Us From Evil, from filmmaker Won-Chon Hong, best known as the screenwriter of The Chaser, The Scam, The Yellow Sea, and Confession of Murder. This is actually more of a half Korea, half Thailand production, as most of the film is spent in Thailand. The film follows In-nam, a hitman who plans to retire after completing one final hit, but finds himself

"There's something about poetic justice that's just so… poetic." Disney has debuted a second official trailer for the new live-action Cruella movie, the new story about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil. We already featured the first teaser trailer and a "Sneak Preview" recently for this one, and here's a health helping of more footage. This reinvention of the classic 101 Dalmatian

Lady Gaga has released her short film Creative Freedom Is Power – check it out below.
The one-minute short was released in collaboration with Dom Pérignon as part of the multi-media advertising campaign The Queendom, shot by Nick Knight.READ MORE: Lady Gaga – ‘Chromatica’ review: pure pop celebration from an icon in a world of her ownCreative Freedom Is Power sees Gaga posing in high fashion outfits styled by her brand Haus of Gaga, set to ‘Free Woman’,

Morgan Freeman has become the latest high-profile star to record their own PSA to encourage Americans to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
The actor’s impassioned address comes as the US continues to battle the virus, with over 555,000 deaths at the time of writing.
“I’m not a doctor, but I trust science. And I’m told that, for some reason, people trust me,” Freeman says at the beginning of the video, which was created by the arts advocacy group The Creative Coalitio

Gearbox Software CEO Randy Pitchford has confirmed that the plot of the upcoming Borderlands film will not be exactly as the same as the beloved video game franchise.Read More: Life’s too short for boring video games!Pitchford took to Twitter on April 6 to share a brief statement following the release of the film’s official plot. “To the interested: The Borderlands Cinematic Universe is not identical to the Borderlands Videogame Universe,” he said.
“We are authentic

Country acts Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson will join the cast of the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film Killers Of The Flower Moon.
The film, set in 1920s Oklahoma, tells the story of the Reign of Terror, a series of murders against Osage Native Americans whose land was rich in oil. As Deadline reports, Isbell will play Bill Smith, an adversary of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Ernest Burkhart, while Sturgill will play bootlegger Henry Grammer.
Simpson and Isbell join a previously-announc

Country acts Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson will join the cast of the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film Killers Of The Flower Moon.
The film, set in 1920s Oklahoma, tells the story of the Reign of Terror, a series of murders against Osage Native Americans whose land was rich in oil. As Deadline reports, Isbell will play Bill Smith, an adversary of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Ernest Burkhart, while Sturgill will play bootlegger Henry Grammer.When I say I am EXCITED https://t.co/7fl0A6np