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EXCLUSIVE: Legendary has set an all-star cast for their forthcoming film Animal Friends, combining live-action and animated characters from writing duo Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, with Ryan Reynolds (Deadpool 3), Jason Momoa (Fast X), Vince Vaughn (Bad Monkey) and Aubrey Plaza (Megalopolis) coming…

Legendary has set filmmaker Peter Atencio to direct The Machine with Comedian Bert Kreischer and Mark Hamill set to co-star in the film inspired by Kreischer's hit viral story. Atencio, Kreischer and Judi Marmel are producing the project.  Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, The Machine is a genre-bending…

Mark Pellington (Blindspot) is set to direct NBC drama pilot The Enemy Within, from Gotham executive producer Ken Woodruff, NBC executive-turned-producer Vernon Sanders and Universal TV. The Enemy Within is a character-driven investigative thriller set in the world of counterintelligence. It focuses on former CIA…

Jean Claude Van Damme’s recent career renaissance playing characters who as often as not are commentaries on his storied (and sometimes infamous) action movie career has been a lot of fun. Hopefully it won’t end soon, but it might be reaching its logical conclusion with Jean Claude Van Johnson, an upcoming Amazon…

Six weeks before its release date, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele’s feature-film debut Keanu got a very late-night audience screening at SXSW’s Paramount Theater as a work-in-progress. The sleepy crowd seemed — somewhat like the film itself — to lose some steam after a killer start. For the most part, Keanu is…

When the trailer for Keanu (watch it here) was launched into an unsuspecting world last month, there was nearly unanimous agreement that it was both hilarious and, thanks to the kitten at the center of the action comedy starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, absolutely adorable. The Peter Atencio-helmed film…