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MovieFest's Weekly NewsFest: • • Idris Elba is set to star, direct and produce the live-action remake of 'The Hunchback Of Notre Dame' for Netflix. What a weird choice! • • James Mangold has been tapped up by Lucasfilm and Disney to write and direct a Boba Fett movie. This could be interesting! • • Liam Neeson, Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson have all been cast to star in the new MIB flick. It will be directed by 'Fate And The Furious' director, F. Gary Gray. Love Hemsworth, but hating Hollywood for these unnecessary reboots! • • As you all know, John Wick 3 has began filming, but incase you didn't know, Fishburne and McShane will return and Halle Berry, Asia Kate Dillon, Anjelica Huston, Mark Dacascos and Jason Mantzoukas join the cast. Buzzing for this as our boy Wick has a $14 million dollar contract on his head, we all know what that means!!! CARNAGE!! • • Dennis Villeneuve confirms 'Dune' will be released in 2 parts! • • Sesame Str...

MovieFest's Weekly NewsFest • 'Gotham' may be coming to an end after it's fifth and final season, but we are going to get a new 10-episode series titled 'PennyWorth' from @epix which will delve into the life of a younger Alfred. • The awesome Rami Malek's, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' released it's first official trailer earlier on today... I'm Excited!! • • James Ransone has been cast as adult Eddie for 'It: Chapter 2!' • 'Agents Of Shield' has been renewed for a 6th season. Some people are saying it should be the end, I disagree! Thoughts? • YouTube Red's amazing hit series 'Cobra Kai' will return for a second season! • Spike Lee says his 'KKK' movie is a wake-up call for Trump's America! Check out the trailer if you haven't already! 👌 • Marvel sets 'Blacklist' writers for 'Eternals' movie. Slow down Marvel, focus on the properties you already have! Do we really need another Mar...

NewsFest: So as usual, I have surfed the web to bring you guys the most interesting news this week, and, I have to say wether it's good or bad there's enough to keep your brain busy: • Cathy Yan is set to direct the standalone Harley Quinn movie for Warner Bros and D.C. • Josh Brolin teases that Cable has a 4-movie arc. • Steven Spielberg to make D.C comics movie Blackhawk. • The H Collective and Vin Diesel’s One Race Films have acquired rights from Revolution Studios to the “xXx” film franchise and plan to begin shooting the fourth film in December. • David Fincher has put World War Z: 2 on the backseat as Mindhunter season 2 will start shooting first which confirms WWZ2 won't be shooting this fall. • First Poster for Halloween heralds the return of Michael Myers. • First trailer for Denzel Washington's Equalizer 2 has dropped and all I can say is.... HE'S BACK!

NewsFest: Just a quick update on this week's news as we have had some rather interesting bits floating about. • James McAvoy and Bill Hader are in talks to star alongside Jessica Chastain and Bill Skarsgard in 'It: Chapter 2' as adult Richie Tozier and Bill Denbrough. • Charlize Therone confirms that an 'Atomic Blonde' sequel is in production. • Netflix have confirmed Jessica Jones is returning for a third season, it's nothing we didn't know already, but it's still good nonetheless.

NewsFest: So as usual, I surfed the web to find this week's most interesting news to me and hopefully to you too and here's what I found: • After a few setbacks, Disney and Pixar have finally confirmed that Toy Story 4 will be released on June 21 2019. • 'A Quiet Place' delivers a not so quite $50 million opening which is bloody impressive for a horror! Kudos Krasinski! • AMC have announced that season 3 of 'Preacher' will premiere Sunday, June 24th at 10pm ET/PT on AMC! I absolutely love this show and cannot wait to see what happens next to these nutters! Can I get an Amen! • Colton Haynes is set to return as a series regular on Arrows 7th season. • Lots of rumours are floating about surrounding Woody Harrelson playing Carnage alongside Tom Hardy in 'Venom.'

NewsFest: So as usual, I surfed the web to find this week's most interesting news to me and hopefully to you too and here's what I found: • Tom Hardy looks mean AF as he released the first picture (on sunday) of him in the role of Al Capone for upcoming biopic 'Fonzo!' • The Season Premiere of Ridley Scott and AMC's new horror series, 'The Terror' was released yesterday and it's receiving rave reviews all-round. "One of the scariest shows in years" (Collider), "The Terror arrives to turn your blood to ice" (Den Of Geek). • According to Variety, British Comedian, actor and avid Arsenal supporter, Jack Whitehall will join Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Disney's 'Jungle Cruise.' • According to series producer, Shawn Levy, Stranger Things season 3 will take place close to one year after the events of season two in the summer of 1985 with 'Back To The Future' being a major reference. He also said it will f...

I have just come across some of the coolest news so far this year, well, for me anyway... Shia LaBeouf has announced that he will be making a movie based on and around his own life in which he will be playing his 'law-breaking, alcohol-abusing' father. The upcoming film will be titled Honey Boy, which was actually LaBeouf's childhood nickname. I have followed Shia's life story for years, he is genuinely one of the most interesting celebrities in the business. He rose to fame as a child star in Even Stevens but he then had a few troubled years; he has most recently re-emerged from a period of silence following his arrest in 2017 for racially charged expletive-laced disorderly conduct in Georgia, US. Lucas Hedges, who was Oscar-nominated for Manchester By The Sea, will play Shia opposite the actor, who will play his own father.

NewsFest: From Shazam updates to Tommy Wiseau's new film, I have it all! • Patty Jenkins confirms that Kristen wigg will star as the villain 'cheetah' in wonder woman sequel. This could be very interesting! • Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese are using 'The Killing Joke' for source material for there Joker origin movie. According to The Wrap, the film will portray Batman’s arch-nemesis as a failed 1980s comedian who develops the Joker persona after bombing with audiences. • Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero are collaborating with each other again in there new film called 'Scary Love.' Check the Trailer on YouTube. Will it be another cult classic? • Fans have finally been given there first look at Zachary Levi in full costume for 'Shazam' and I have to say it's the most comic accurate costume since Reeves' Superman. Not only do we get our first look at Captain Marvel, we also get our first look at one of his most powerful adversaries, D...

We’re not delusional—Legion‘s first super trippy season was absoluetly fantastic. However now we have to ask ourselves if anything we saw during it actually happened, because a new teaser for the upcoming second season wants us to know that everything we “think is real never occurred.” And even scarier, that everything that is coming is “very, very real.” The ominous, stylish new teaser features Aubrey Plaza‘s Lenny back in the psychiatrist chair treating us as her confused patient, telling us our experiences watching season one were merely projections of our repressed sexuality and broken psyche. She informs us that we’re all delusional, and that David, his friends, what happened to them last season, and even her, were not real. Anticipation Level: 99% Excitement Level: 99%

Zac Efron is currently wrapping up filming on his new movie about Ted Bundy, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, alongside his cast mates Lily Collins and Maze Runner star Kaya Scodelario. While we still have to wait for an official trailer to get an inside look into the production, the stars couldn’t hold back their excitement and decided to bring fans on-set with their latest Instagram posts.

I have two bits of news for you on this dark and gloomy night that revolve around the somewhat dark and gloomy universe that is D.C. The first one that's bouncing around the internet is, Michael Bay to direct a 'Lobo' movie for D.C aslong as the budget is right. I do not like the sound of this at all, I cannot stand Michael Bay and what he does to films, he's like a glorified teen that's been let loose on set, the way he cuts scenes, edits, the lack of substance, lack of logic, the cinematography and sound editing, I think that's about it. I love Lobo and I don't want him to be ruined by the likes of Michael Bay. Now, here's the second piece of movie news that's also bouncing around the internet like wildfire. Joaquin Phoenix is rumoured to be in talks with D.C over the role of 'The Joker' in a stand-alone movie directed by 'The Hangover' director, Todd Phillips. I love Phoenix, he's great, unique and just an all-round top ...

Great news for all you 'Big Bang' fans! Ted Bundy movie update: Jim Parsons, best-known for playing Sheldon in hit comedy series The Big Bang Theory, will portray Larry Simpson, the lead prosecutor during Bundy’s highly televised 1979 murder trial, leading to his execution in 1989, in the film. He joins Zac Efron, Lilly Collins and John malkovich. This keeps getting more interesting!

Don't do what I did and watch the first full trailer for A24's Hereditary at night with earphones in on full volume. Seriously. The movie—which stars Toni Collette, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne—absolutely set the Sundance Film Festival on fire. Word of mouth has already reached "audience members barfing in the aisles," Exorcist levels of hype. From the mind-bending first image closing in on what appears to be a perfect miniature home only to enter a very real bedroom, the trailer clues you in to the fact you're not watching cuts from any old horror movie. And It only spirals from there, getting crazier by the second, played alongside one of the most haunting background symphonys I've ever heard!

Currently showing in a limited 815 theaters, Best Picture nominee Call Me By Your Name has only earned $9 million thus far, which to me suggests that most movie fans have probably not yet seen the film (including me). Even so, director Luca Guadagnino is already planning on following Call Me By Your Name up with two more sequels to form his own equivalent to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy. Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer starred in Call Me By Your Name as 17-year-old and 24-year-old Americans, respectively, who fall in love in rural Italy back in 1983. According to Guadagnino, the sequel will be set five years later in 1988, and shift the focus more towards the height of the HIV and AIDS epidemic. So far, all I have heard Is ample good things about Call Me By Your Name, which only leads me to think the second will be just as good as the first if not better. I'm even more excited to wat...

WOW! I have only just caught onto the second trailer for 'Pacific Rim Uprising' that was released just 3 days ago and I have to say, it's really fulfilling all of my geeky dreams and expectations. My inner geek is ready to burst out! I mean what film/game nerd doesn't dream about some sort of monstrous robot, being a hero or a legend or even both, fighting monsters, villains or Kaiju. It's a no brainer, at some point in our lives I am sure we all have, wether it's in your subconscious buried away with all the other childhood dreams or there still to this day as fresh in your mind as the rain outside. This trailer provides us with some more detail on what the sequel might entail; there is a traitor in the midst, someone is letting the Kaiju in from our side and there's Kaiju flooding in, bigger, badder and beastier. Not only do we get a hole bunch of new pilots, Jaegers and Kaiju, we get a BAD JAEGER, a BIG BAD JAEGER and it looks fooking epic! Swipe r...

Oscar winner, Brie Larson, 28, was photographed in costume as Captain Marvel for the first time Wednesday afternoon while filming in Atlanta. Larson is signed on to play Carol Danvers, an Air Force pilot who gains superpowers after her DNA is fused with an alien following an accident, in the 1990s-set “Captain Marvel.” It will be the first Marvel solo film to focus on a female character. She can be seen wearing a green suit, that borrows heavily from the comics. Unlike recent Avengers outfits that have been stocked with new tech, the costume shares more in common with Captain America’s from The First Avenger (only because Stark hasn't got his hands on it yet). The movie, which will be directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, is expected to hit theaters on March 8, 2019.

Ray Bradbury's classic "Fahrenheit 451" is about to burst into flame via an upcoming HBO movie, and the network released its first teaser a few days back on Thursday. Michael B. Jordan ("Black Panther") and Michael Shannon ("Shape Of Water") star in the movie version of Bradbury's 1953 classic novel about a future where books are outlawed. Jordan plays one of the future firemen who torch all the tomes, with Shannon as his captain. The new epic short teaser doesn't reveal anything to big, like characters or anything, but there's an eerie scene of someone holding a copy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" as it blazes up, then dropping it onto a pile of other classics, including J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye." Is anyone as excited for this as I am? I love Shannon, I Love the idea and I'm loving the actor that Jordan is turning out to be!

Since they’re on such a phenomenally popular Netflix series, the young stars of Stranger Things are obviously going to be in very high demand for future projects in the coming years. However, due to their ages and the specific ages of their characters, their careers are, for the time being, solely intertwined with the show, that's completely understandable considering it's very time sensitive and them kids are growing FAST! Although, Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, did fit next year’s Godzilla: King of Monsters (3/22/19) in between S1 and S2, and now we know what might fit in between S3 (which starts filming soon) and S4. Millie Bobby Brown is now signed up with Legendary Entertainment (the company behind Godzilla: King of Monsters) to star in a series of films based on the Enola Holmes Mysteries by author Nancy Springer. As the title suggests, Enola is the (much) younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes who has been fe...

Great News as Starz CEO Chris Albrecht confirmed that they and Lionsgate are developing the previously rumored television series adaptation of the “John Wick” franchise. “The Continental” will be set in the John Wick universe, more specifically in a hyper-real version of Los Angeles, and it's focus is on the inner workings of the exclusive Continental Hotel which serves as a refuge for assassins. Chris Collins (“Sons of Anarchy,” “The Wire”) will write the series and serve as showrunner which I'm rather happy about. Collins, Basil Iwanyk, Chad Stahelski, Derek Kolstad, David Leitch and Keanu Reeves will all executive produce while Stahelski, who co-helmed the first film and directed the second solo, will direct the premiere episode. Starz will retain all domestic multiplatform pay TV and SVOD rights, while Lionsgate has all international and domestic distribution and home entertainment rights.