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Alan Tudyk Will Be Back For ‘Frozen 2’ And ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’, Wants In On Marvel’s ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ When Disney decides it likes someone, it has a tendency to work with them again and again. And right now, there are few stars they seem to like more thanAlan Tudyk. Not only has he appeared in every Disney Animation feature sinceWreck-It Ralph— up to and including this fall’sMoana— he has a mo-cap role in this month’sRogue One: A Star Wars Story....

Amazon Wants More Of Woody Allen’s ‘Crisis In Six Scenes’, Teases ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ [TCA 2016] Amazon’s sessions for the Television Critics Association were filled with tidbits on their upcoming projects throughout the day. In his opening remarks on Sunday, Amazon’s Head of Half HourJoe Lewisdiscussed the Amazon seriesWoody Allenhas written and directed starringMiley Cyrus. “We have Woody Allen’s highly anticipated new series which is titledCrisis in Six Scenes,” Lewis said....

Dave Bautista Was Told He Was Too Young For His ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Role Towering at 6' 3" and boasting a thickset neck and torso,Dave Bautistais already an unlikely Hollywood star. The former professional wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter shot to stardom in 2014’sGuardians of the Galaxyas Drax, the gruff musclehead alien with a heart, and continues to shine in intriguing roles like that of the Replicant Sapper Morton inBlade Runner 2049....

Dead To Me Season 3 Has Had To Pause Production Due To Positive Covid Tests Another Netflix series bites the dust before its fourth season. The streaming giant’s dark comedy “Dead To Me” from CBS Studios has wrapped production for 2021, putting its third and last season on pause. This follows a breakout of the Omicron coronavirus variant in the show’s final weeks of shooting. AsDeadlinereports it, it sounds like the production did the right thing at several levels: an employee came down with symptoms on December 13, was sent home where they tested positive, along with positive test results from a crew member and one of their contacts later in the week....

Disney’s Cassian Andor ‘Star Wars’ Series Adds Stellan Skarsgard And Kyle Soller Stellan Skarsgardis already playing the villain in one space opera — why not add another? The star of Denis Villeneuve’s upcomingDuneadaptation is set to join the cast of the Disney+Rogue Onespin-off series centered aroundDiego Luna’s Rebel agentCassian Andor. Skarsgard is in talks to join the Cassian Andor series cast alongsidePoldark’sKyle Soller.Varietybroke the news that Stellan Skarsgard and Kyle Soller (Anna Karenina, The Titan) are set to star opposite Diego Luna in the Disney+ Cassian Andor series....

District 9 Star Sharlto Copley Joins I Am Number Four We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Sharlto Copley, better known as the star ofDistrict 9and the upcomingA-Teambig screen movie adaptation, is in talks to star in Dreamworks’Michael Bay/Steven Spielberg-producedD.J. Caruso-directed teen sci-fi alien adaptationI Am Number Four. He will joinAlex Rider: Operation StormbreakerandBeastlystarAlex Pettyfer, who is set to play the lead character – Four. According toHeatVision, Copley will be playing the man who “hailed from the alien world’s serving class but now is the title character’s adult guardian and mentor....

Elisabeth Moss To Lead Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Elisabeth Mossis entering the brave new world of streaming television. TheMad MenandTop of the Lakeactress is set to star in an adaptation ofMargaret Atwood’s dystopian classicThe Handmaid’s Tale, which has already received a straight-to-series order at Hulu. According toThe Hollywood Reporter,The Handmaid’s TaleTV series will consist of 10 episodes to debut in 2017. MGM Television is producing.Bruce Miller(The 100) wrote the script and will executive produce alongsideFran SearsandWarren Littlefield....

Escape From New York Remake: Now With Less Destruction? A couple years back, New Line Cinema was trying to remake John Carpenter’s 1981 sci-fi actionerEscape from New York. They first hiredLive Free or Die HardhelmerLen Wiseman, who got replaced withBrett Ratner. I wasn’t excited about either of the two filmmakers rebooting Snake Plissken, although Wiseman’s production design background made him the better choice of the two. This is a time right after300made huge bank at the box office, resulting in the casting of Gerard Butler as the new Plissken....

Ethan Anderton’s Top 10 Films Of 2020 In one of the most hellish years in recent memory, escaping to the movies became rather difficult, at least if you wanted to see them in theaters. Thankfully, through the magic of all the streaming services that we once complained about being too plentiful, we were still given a smorgasbord of cinema to feast upon, and it made for another challenging time for picking my favorite movies of the year....

Ethan Anderton’s Top 10 Movies Of 2021 The year 2021 was one of the worst of my adult life. On top of all the fresh hell that the world offered every single day, from insurrection to a pandemic that got worse (again), my incredible dad died unexpectedly at the end of January, and the entire year was filled with my family recovering in the aftermath. But others have had it far worse, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have at least some reprieve from the passing of 24 frames per second....

First Look: Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Starring Gael García Bernal Hot on the heels of yesterday’srelease date announcement,Jon Stewart’s directorial debutRosewaterhas just revealed a few first-look pics.Gael Garcia Bernalleads the fact-based story asMaziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian journalist who imprisoned and tortured for 118 days in Iran. As the subject matter suggests, Stewart’sRosewateris a serious drama — quite unlike the political comedy we’re used to getting from Stewart on his nightly show. Hit the jump to see the firstRosewaterimages....

Henry Cavill Will Take A Break From Punching Things With ‘The Rosie Project’ Henry Cavillis good at punching things. Really good. So good he has toc**k his fiststo reload. Now, despite already having a very busy schedule that includesChad Stahelski’sHighlanderrebootandMatthew Vaughn’s spy flickArgylle,he’s signed onto a project where he gets to be more subdued. Deadline reports that he is set to star inThe Rosie Project, a romance film about a university professor who can’t seem to find love and comes up with an unusual strategy to get it....

Joss Whedon Says Black Widow “Will Not Be The Only Female Character” In The Avengers As I’vediscussed previously,Joss Whedon(Buffy the Vampire Slayer,Dollhouse) is incredibly gifted when it comes to creating strong, intelligent, self-reliant and complex female characters. That may not mean much to some, but in an industry where strong female charactersare ararity, Whedon might as well be the face of the cinematic feminist movement. But what’s Whedon to do with this talent onThe Avengers, yet another film property dominated by a male cast?...