The A League of Their Own TV series cast is ready to take the field. Broad City‘s Abbi Jacobson, The Good Place‘s D’Arcy Carden, and more, will lead the series inspired by the Penny Marshall film of the same name about the first professional all-female baseball league in the 1940s. The show is currently in the pilot stage and follows new characters rather than characters seen in the 1992 movie.
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I always love it when actors test their limits and push themselves to try things they’ve never done before. That’s why I’m thrilled that Samuel L. Jackson will be playing – get this – a retired hitman in a new untitled movie from the directors of Focus. Jackson as a hitman? What a concept! Read More »
In this edition of TV Bits:
- Netflix has already canceled Spinning Out.
- Benjamin Bratt joins the cast of HBO Max’s DMZ.
- Power gets three spin-offs at Starz.
- BBC Studios is making a TV series with Greta Thunberg.
- Billions is back, baby!
- Watch a trailer for Mrs. America…
- …And a trailer for Little Fires Everywhere.
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Get ready to Run with a trailer for a new HBO series from executive producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Merritt Wever and Domhnall Gleeson are college sweethearts who haven’t seen each other in over a decade – and that’s about to change. The duo made a pact 17 years ago to run away from whatever their lives may be if they sent each other a one-word text – a pact they now intend to honor.
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Writer/director Taika Waititi is coming off an Oscar win for Best Adapted Screenplay thanks to his sharp anti-hate, Nazi-centric satire Jojo Rabbit. Now there’s a chance the filmmaker may be teaming with Jude Law for a new satirical project at Showtime called The Auteur, a series aimed right at the heart of Hollywood and its eccentric filmmakers. Read More »
In this edition of Theme Park Bits:
- Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Anaheim is getting FastPass.
- What’s coming next for Disney California Adventure?
- And more!
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Elvis Presley has been prominently featured in a number of films, ranging from the horror comedy of Bubba Ho-Tep to the meeting of Elvis and Tricky Dick in Elvis & Nixon. But there hasn’t been a definitive biopic about the man who was dubbed the King of Rock and Roll. That’s about to change with Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrman tackling the musician’s life, and another name has just been added to the film’s cast. Rufus Sewell (A Knight’s Tale, The Man in the High Castle) has joined the Elvis biopic as The King’s “reserved, soft-spoken” father Vernon Presley. Read More »
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?
This week we get religious with a look at Scientology, travel really far for a good time, see Donny Yen become the martial arts version of The Nutty Professor, watch a scandal unfold in Toronto, and have our hearts broken by a swindler.
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Are you going to pre-order the new Marvel’s Avengers video game? Where is The Suicide Squad shooting now? How many Kids’ Choice Awards nominations did Marvel Studios get? Who is returning for the 100th episode of Supergirl? Could The Batman‘s symbol on his chest be made of something from his past? Who is rumored to direct and star in a developing Spider-Woman movie? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. Read More »
Cool Posts From Around the Web:
We’re finally getting an NSYNC movie, but there are some strings attached. First of all, it’s not quite an NSYNC movie. And second, there’s no hope of Justin Timberlake reuniting with his old boy bandmates. The untitled NSYNC movie, which TriStar Pictures has just picked up, will center around NSYNC…superfans who followed the boy band on tour in 2001.
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