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Matt Reeves Has Signed A New Overall Deal With Warner Bros. TV

As the writer, producer and director on The Batman, Matt Reeves has been working with Warner Bros' film studio--now, he's moving his overall deal for TV content from 20th Century Fox to Warner Bros, THR reports.Reeves, along with his production studio, 6th and Idaho, will create and develop television projects for Warner Bros. TV destined for various platforms, including WarnerMedia's new streaming service HBO Max. Reeves currently has an exclusive first-look deal with Netflix for feature films.Reeves' past TV projects include WB's Felicity, The Passage on Fox, Tales From The

Michael Bay’s Pandemic Thriller Faces A Snag, As Union Blocks It From Shooting

Michael Bay is making a pandemic movie--because of course he is. But the film is now facing new controversy, as one of the biggest trade unions has told its members to not work on the film. Deadline reports that SAG-AFTRA has informed members to avoid the movie, Songbird, because it "failed to complete the signatory process and is therefore not signed to any applicable SAG-AFTRA agreement." The production company apparently did not file the necessary paperwork regarding health and safety measures related to COVID-19.The producers, Invisible Narratives, told Deadline that

Jaws Trivia: 24 Easter Eggs, References And Things You Didn’t Know About Steven Spielberg’s Masterpiece

It's been 45 years since Jaws took to the big screen, skyrocketing director Steven Spielberg's career and creating the summer blockbuster. Upon release in June of that year, it became the highest-grossing movie of all time. That's a title it held onto until Star Wars: A New Hope arrived in 1977.To this day, Spielberg's shark movie remains one of the most thrilling cinematic experiences of all time, as viewers are terrorized by the menacing beast as it chews its way through a list of victims--and more than one boat. Still,

Metal Gear Solid Movie Director Gives An Update On The Film

A movie based on Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid video game franchise is in the works, with Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts attached to direct it. Vogt-Roberts has now given an update on the project, but unfortunately for fans, it doesn't sound like it's happening anytime soon.In an appearance on Star Wars writer Gary Whitta's Animal Talking show, Vogt-Roberts said a script is finished, but he has yet to be given the greenlight from a studio to actually make it. He shared that he wants to do it at

Jurassic World: Dominion’s Returning Stars From Jurassic Park Will Have Major Roles, Not Just Cameos

Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth film in the wider Jurassic series, will bring back three major stars from the first film--and now one of those stars has promised that their roles are major. Sam Neill, who returns as Dr. Alan Grant for Dominion, has spoken about the roles offered to him, Laura Dern (Ellie Satler) and Jeff Goldblum (Dr. Ian Malcolm) for this film. Talking to Yahoo Movies, Neill has promised that these three returning characters are "all the way through the film," and will not just be making a

Shazam Star Zachary Levi To Play Former NFL QB Kurt Warner In Movie About His Life

Zachary Levi, the star of the DC movie Shazam and the voice of Flynn Rider in Disney's Tangled, is taking on a very different role for his next project. Lionsgate has announced that Levi will play former NFL standout QB Kurt Warner in sports drama called American Underdog, according to Collider.David Aaron Cohen, who worked on the football TV show Friday Night Lights, is writing the script. The story will follow the real life of Warner, who indeed had an underdog story. After playing college football, Warner did not get

Christopher Nolan Does Not Ban Chairs From Set, His Spokesperson Says

Big-name director Christopher Nolan recently faced some heat when Anne Hathaway complimented his decision to reportedly forbid chairs from his movie sets. If people can sit, they will stop working, and Nolan apparently is no fan of that. Hathaway said Nolan was "onto something" with this idea.Now, a spokesperson for Nolan has clarified the director's earlier comments, saying chairs are not, in fact, banned from Nolan's sets."For the record, the only things banned from [Christopher Nolan's] sets are cell phones (not always successfully) and smoking (very successfully)," spokesperson Kelly Bush

Anne Hathaway Talks Christopher Nolan’s Directing Style And Why He Doesn’t Allow Chairs

A surprising bit of trivia offering some insight into director Christopher Nolan's process has come out of a new interview from Variety's long-running Actor on Actors feature. Speaking to Hugh Jackman--who also worked with Nolan on 2006's The Prestige--Anne Hathaway shared Nolan's expectations for her stepping into the role of Catwoman in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises: Do as many of the stunts as you can, and you can forget sitting in chairs during the production.Hathaway recalled a conversation she had with Nolan: "When we did Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt trained

Anthony Mackie Talks About Falcon And The Winter Soldier TV Show, Says It’s Like A 6-Hour Movie

MCU actor Anthony Mackie has shared a little more insight on the upcoming Marvel TV show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Speaking to Variety, Mackie said the show--which reportedly carries a $150 million budget--is being filmed like a movie."We're shooting it exactly like a movie," he said. "Everybody who had worked on TV before was like, 'I've never worked on a TV show like this.' The way in which we were shooting, it feels exactly like we were shooting the movie cut up into the show. So instead of

Deadpool 2 Director’s Next Movie Sounds Like An Action Fan’s Dream

Deadpool 2 and Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch has announced his next movie, and it sounds like an all-out action affair that should be familiar territory for the director.Leitch is set to direct a new movie called Bullet Train that will focus on assassins on a train. Fear Street director Zak Olkewicz is writing the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The movie is likened to the Keanu Reeves movie Speed, but this time with a train ... and assassins. A group of hitmen and assassins are on a speeding