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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver tackled the topic of Taiwan on Sunday night which made for the perfect opportunity to mock John Cena. Cena apologized to China in May after stating Taiwan is the first country to be able to watch F9 while being interviewed by a Taiwanese outlet about the action film’s upcoming…

EXCLUSIVE: F9: The Fast Saga and The Suicide Squad star John Cena is in negotiations to star in Pierre Morel (Taken) action-comedy film Freelance, which Stuart Ford’s AGC will be selling at the upcoming virtual American Film Market. Endurance Media’s Steve Richards will produce the package alongside Sentient…

The first teaser trailer for writer/director James Gunn’s Peacemaker has been released at DC FanDome. It was also revealed during the event that the series, written and directed by Gunn and produced by Peter Safran, will debut on Thursday, January 13 on HBO Max. Peacemaker will explore the origins of the character…

Kim Kardashian West showed off her social connections during her hosting stint on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, assembling an impressive roster of guest stars in the dating reality series parody skit The Dream Guy. A take on ABC’s The Bachelorette, it featured Kardashian as Rochelle, a single woman during a ritual…

Oscar winner Kathy Bates (Misery, American Horror Story) and former WWE star John Cena (F9: The Fast Saga) are joining Brian Cox (Succession) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim) in political thriller feature The Independent. Set during “the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history,” the…

John Cena’s mercenary character in DC’s Peacemaker may not exactly be the most politically correct guy by today’s measure in his expletives to friends, enemies and waitresses. Peacemaker follows the DC superhero who is dedicated to world peace and how he’s prepared to use force of arms to achieve it. Asked at today’s T…

The best thing Warner Bros did with its new The Suicide Squad was to bring in writer-director James Gunn, who has made this sequel to the flawed 2016 hit that starred Will Smith and Margot Robbie a hell of a lot more fun. Gunn clearly loves the DC comic book and has brought together a rollicking group of supervillains…

A stray thought for Hollywood: Just because Donald Trump is campaigning for free speech—last week, he announced a class-action anti-censorship lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google—doesn't mean it's a bad idea. Free speech, that is. I don't know about the lawsuit, which will have to reconcile the tech giants'…

Matthew Vaughn has set an all-star cast for his next big budget action project, which will start shooting this August in Europe. Argylle, which Vaughn will direct and produce via his banner Marv, will star Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O'Hara, John Cena and Samuel L. Jackson…

Right off the bat I can tell you I am really rooting for the success of F9, the latest addition to the Fast & Furious franchise, because if this one doesn’t floor it in theaters the pandemic may have claimed the multiplex as its latest victim. Designed to be seen with a raucous crowd applauding every jaw-dropping…

In a most unusual apology, wrestler-turned-actor John Cena has taped a video mea culpa to China and its moviegoers for describing Taiwan as a country in a promotional video for his latest installment of the Fast & Furious series. The backlash was immediate on Chinese social media against Cena for not identifying…

The Toretto family will be back in action this week as Universal's F9 speeds into early offshore release beginning in Korea and Hong Kong on Wednesday, followed by Russia and the Middle East on Thursday and China on Friday. In those markets combined, F9 is looking to drive off with an opening weekend in the $160M-$180M…