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In a massive $450 million deal, Netflix has purchased the rights to two Knives Out sequels from Media Rights Capital, per Variety. Daniel Craig is reported to reprise his role as detective Benoit Blanc in both sequels, with writer-director Rian Johnson also set to return. The first Knives Out was produced by Media Rights Capital and distributed by Lionsgate. The whodunnit went on to become a sizable box office success, […]

HBO is staying in the George R.R. Martin business. The Game of Thrones writer has signed an overall deal to develop original programming for the network and its streaming service HBO Max, per The Hollywood Reporter. The contract spans five years and is worth mid-eight figures. The deal represents an effort from HBO to continue the momentum of Game of Thrones, the network's most popular and most-award-winning series of all time. […]

Paramount continues to double-down on its Autobots business. Angel Manuel Soto, the director of last year's teen drama Charm City Kings, is set to direct a new standalone Transformers film, per The Hollywood Reporter. Marco Ramirez is attached to write the script. While plot details are being kept under wraps, the project is being developed outside of the universe established by previous mainline Transformers movies. The story will not connect […]

No Time to Die director Cary Fukunaga will direct a feature adaptation of the Image comic series Tokyo Ghost for Legendary, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Tokyo Ghost is a cyberpunk series set in the year 2089 that imagines a future where the human race has become addicted to technology and gangsters run the world. The series follows Led Dent and Debbie Decay, two constables looking for a ticket out of the […]

For his birthday, William Shatner is beaming himself up into the digital world. The Star Trek legend, who just turned 90 years old on Monday, announced on Twitter that he is collaborating with Los Angeles-based tech company StoryFile to create an interactive AI-powered video of himself. "This is for all my children and all my children's children and all my children's loved ones and all the loved ones of the […]

Benedict Cumberbatch has found another wizard's robe to slip into. Director Colin Trevorrow reportedly is set to direct the actor in War Magician, per Deadline. The long-gestating Studiocanal project will be written by Nicholas Mariani and is based on the book of the same name by David Fisher. War Magician will follow the story of Jasper Maskelyne, an illusionist who volunteered in the British Army during World War II. Stationed […]

A new Netflix test may indicate that the streamer will attempt to prevent users from sharing accounts in the future. In the past week, Netflix has introduced a verification system for users across multiple countries that displays a warning: "If you don't live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching." The new prompt was first reported on by GammaWire. The test allows users to authenticate […]

Director James Cameron is coming back for his crown. The filmmaker's 2009 blockbuster Avatar will receive a wide re-release in China on Friday, per The Hollywood Reporter. It will be available to exhibitors in both IMAX 3D and ordinary 3D. The official screening greenlight by China's Film Bureau comes only three days before the planned rollout. With such a short window between the two dates, it seems that some theaters may […]

The biggest movie of 2021 so far is Coming 2 America. At least according to Amazon, which premiered the movie on its Amazon Prime streaming platform. Although official numbers haven't been released by Amazon, the streamer has claimed that the long-awaited Eddie Murphy sequel drew the largest weekend debut viewership of any streaming movie in the past 12 months of the pandemic. Amazon cited research firm Screen Engine/ASI in its […]