Angel has announced its newest acquisition, Fing!, starring Taika Waititi. The deal continues the studio’s push for high-profile projects with major Hollywood names attached. After debuting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the live-action fantasy film received generally positive reviews.
In a major casting development, actor Jim Caviezel will not return to portray Jesus in Mel Gibson’s upcoming sequel to The Passion of the Christ. The original film, released in 2004, was both a commercial success and a cultural lightning rod, earning over $600 million globally. Caviezel’s performance was central to the film’s identity, and his absence from the sequel represents a significant shift in the project’s direction.
Bob Gale, co-writer and co-producer of Back to the Future, recently made a suggestion that has fans buzzing. During a special event celebrating 40 years of the beloved film franchise, Gale floated the idea of a letter-writing campaign to bring back Back to the Future: The Ride at Universal theme parks.
Disney will roll out a meet and greet with Life Day Chewbacca, complete with his festive red robe at Jollywood Nights.
The fallout from Adam Driver’s revelation that Disney rejected the idea for a Kylo Ren-centric Star Wars film just hit the stratosphere — literally. Star Wars fans furious over Disney’s decision to kill The Hunt for Ben Solo have taken their protest airborne, flying a banner over Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, that read: “SAVE THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO.”
The Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) has officially stepped into the growing Hollywood power struggle, pledging to oppose any merger between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
We probably won’t be seeing Elizabeth Olsen in any Netflix-exclusive movies, as the actress recently told InStyle magazine that if a movie isn’t getting a theatrical release, she’ll pass on it.
“If a movie is made independently and only sells to a streamer, then fine. But I don’t want to make something where that’s the end-all,” she said.
When Disney purchased Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4.05 billion, George Lucas handed over more than just a company — he handed over his mythology to Disney CEO Bob Iger.
In a stunning revelation from The New York Times, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) reportedly turned down three separate acquisition offers from Paramount/Skydance, including one that would have made Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav the co-CEO and co-chairman of a merged company. The final proposal—The most aggressive Paramount WB bid yet—offered an 87% premium over WBD’s share price prior to news of the talks breaking last month.
Netflix has once again made its position clear: it has no interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, even as Hollywood braces for another major wave of consolidation.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has turned down a second acquisition bid from Paramount Skydance. The updated bid—valued at roughly $24 per share, up from the initial $20 offer—was swiftly rejected by CEO David Zaslav, signaling that WBD isn’t looking for a quick sale.
Fans can now add another title to the long list of Star Wars projects that failed to launch. In an interview with the Associated Press, Adam Driver, who played Kylo Ren (later revealed to be Ben Solo) in the Star Wars sequels that started with The Force Awakens, said he and director Steven Soderbergh spent two years independently developing a Star Wars movie called The Hunt for Ben Solo before presenting it to Lucasfilm and Disney executives.
In an interview on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast, director Andy Muschietti reflected on the poor reception to 2023’s The Flash, his DC Extended Universe (DCEU) movie and, unsurprisingly, blamed the fans and internet hate.