Ted Sarandos began his entertainment career running video stores and has a well-established passion for film. As Netflix’s head of content, he has spent the past few months green-lighting an array of ambitious feature projects as the streaming giant makes an aggressive push into the movie business.
Despite all of…
EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has struck a deal with Clay Epstein's Film Mode Entertainment for North American rights to Yale Productions' crime-thriller Crypto.Beau Knapp (Seven Seconds), Alexis Bledel (The Handmaid's Tale), Kurt Russell (The Hateful Eight), Luke Hemsworth (Westworld), Jeremie Harris (Leg…
EXCLUSIVE: When Val Kilmer was presented with the Grand Honorary Award for outstanding contribution to cinema at the Sitges genre festival in Spain last month, he wanted to do one interview about his career. The catch was, it had to be done in an email back and forth, because he is recovering from cancer treatments to…
Somehow you just knew that Kurt Russell would be the type of guy’s guy who’d punch your arm as a greeting. On last night’s Late Late Show with James Corden, Russell took the gag and ran with it, putting Corden through some increasingly bruising encounters.
Ok, so the bit’s not exactly unpredictable, particularly the…
Bigger in every way than the surprise 2014 blockbuster that brought this new franchise to the screen for the first time, the inevitable sequel Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 still has the best and most entertaining set of characters of any Marvel comic book movie — even if at times it seems bigger isn’t necessarily…
ABC late-night star Jimmy Kimmel announced on Thursday’s show that he will host the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on Monday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Chris Pratt, Kurt Russell, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Michael Rooker will participate.
Kimmel talked about the booking while introducing a video in which Pratt…
Chris Pratt unveiled the latest trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 on Tuesday night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, which introduces a brand new character fans have patiently been waiting for.
The video features a handful of the same scenes that have been seen in previous trailers and promos, with the superhero team…
EXCLUSIVE: Rick Nicita, the longtime CAA principal who transitioned to management, Â has told his clients today that he is exiting the rep business completely. His RPMedia will focus exclusively on producing and consulting. This ends a long run: Nicita has been a personal manager since serving as Co-Chairman of…
Shocking no one, rumors about Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 turned out to be true: Kurt Russell is playing Star Lord’s dad who turns out to be Ego, the Living Planet. Oh, and Sylvester Stallone is in the film too. In other words, Tango & Cash are reuniting in the Marvel Universe.
The reveals came courtesy of a new…
EXCLUSIVE: Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams is having a typically busy Cannes, locking down deals for Kurt Russell-starrer Bone Tomahawk and Daisy Ridley-narrated The Eagle Huntress. Bone Tomahawk has now virtually sold out, closing deals with Latin America (California Filmes), Benelux (Splendid), Scandinavia…
Fast & Furious 8 aka Fast 8 has the distinction of being the second film and the first big budget movie given the green light to shoot in Cuba since the start of improved relations between the island nation and the United States. The next installment of Universal’s guaranteed money-printing franchise is currently…
