Dawn of the Dead 2004’s Inna Korobkina and producing partner Ingrid J. Monday have launched a podcast called Rise Up & Fix It

Inna Korobkina played the pregnant woman Luda in director Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake of the George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead (watch the Snyder version HERE) – the character who gave birth to a zombie baby in one of the most popular and disturbing scenes in the film. Nineteen years later, Korobkina has launched a podcast called Rise Up & Fix It, which she hosts with her producing partner Ingrid J. Monday.

Korobkina is described as being “a granola eating, tree hugging mom of two”, while Rise Up & Fix It is said to center on “spirituality, creativity, and female empowerment.” Listeners are invited to join Korobkina and Monday as they “delve into the power of female creativity and modern feminism.”

The first episode of the weekly podcast was released on June 30th. Season 1 of the show is now available on all platforms and features the hosts “sharing stories and lessons from their own creative journeys, in the hopes of inspiring their listeners to dream big.” Production on season 2 will begin on July 19th, and that season promises to “feature fascinating guests who will be adding their unique expertise to the message these two creative women have set out to share.”

In addition to Dawn of the Dead, Korobkina’s credits include The Ladies Man, 1-800-Missing, The Newsroom, Riding the Bus with My Sister, Beautiful People, Angela’s Eyes, Across the River to Motor City, The Border, Let the Game Begin, Cra$h & Burn, 24, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and the Steven Seagal action film Driven to Kill. She also did voice work on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and voiced the character Shest’ in the Far Cry 6 crossover with Stranger Things.

The Rise Up & Fix It website can be found HERE. “Rise up to the challenges life presents you with, live a creative existence filled with deep human connection and a fulfilling contribution to society.”

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Ingrid J. Monday is also the author of the book The Secrets of Becoming a Boss Bitch With a Heart of Gold: How to Recover from Heartache, Trust in Your Superpowers, and Live the Life You Want Now! Copies are available on Amazon.

The mid-week, post-holiday release of Tom Cruise’s new action film starts its run humbly with the weekend to look forward to.

Ladies and gentlemen…the weekend. It’s time for audiences to unwind and enjoy some summer thrills and excitement. The promotion for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has been promising to deliver exactly that. The hype train for this one has been plugging along since the first preview was attached to Top Gun: Maverick. The major success of that movie should have left audiences with an appetite for more of Cruise’s brand of fearless entertainment.

The projections of this seventh entry in the film adaptation of the Bruce Geller series have been predicting a five-day take of $250 million worldwide. Deadline has reported that the two-day gross since the film’s official Wednesday release has garnered $25.8 million domestically while screening in 4,049 theaters. The Thursday showings were seen to have dropped 47% from the Wednesday opening. However, the weekend has just started, and business is expected to spike. The action film that marks the third collaboration between Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie in the franchise has an A CinemaScore rating with 96% certified fresh at Rottentomatoes and a 95% audience score.

While Dead Reckoning Part One was tracking to be a franchise-best with an opening of $250 million, Deadline also states, “A $90M 5-day seems unlikely with rivals spotting $50M over three days, and $73M 5-day.” The week will be an important one for the film as next week brings to theaters the one-two punch of Christopher Nolan’s atomic weapon drama, Oppenheimer, and the Margot Robbie-Ryan Gosling comedy satire, Barbie. Audiences have reportedly already been purchasing tickets for a double feature, according to AMC Theatres.

It’s also noteworthy that even though the buzz for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was a year in the making, there will be no promotion from the stars going forward with the recent events of the Screen Actors Guild strike, which prevent the cast from participating in any. This will also be true for next week’s big releases. It is indeed strange days ahead.

The book Soldier: From Script to Screen looks at the making of the 1998 Paul W.S. Anderson / Kurt Russell film

Back in 1998, the legendary Kurt Russell teamed up with Mortal Kombat and Event Horizon director Paul W.S. Anderson for a sci-fi action movie called Soldier – which is considered to be set in the same world as Blade Runner, and also shared screenwriter David Webb Peoples with that Ridley Scott classic. But Soldier came and went without many movie-goers noticing, sputtering out with just $14.6 million at the domestic box office. It has earned some fans over the years, like JoBlo’s own Jake Dee (who wrote about Soldier for the Black Sheep series)… and now author Danny Stewart has put together the book Soldier: From Script to Screen to pay tribute to the film, dig into the story of its production, and try to draw in some new fans.

Copies of Soldier: From Script to Screen can be purchased on Amazon.

The book includes: – An examination of the evolution of the western into a whole sub-genre of films and looks in detail behind the scenes of Soldier, one of the most obscure, overlooked, and underrated science fiction films. – A discussion of Soldier’s legacy and how it drew inspiration from George Steven’s 1953 western Shane. – An Overview of the Career of Actor Kurt Russell. – An exclusive interview with the Oscar-nominated Screenwriter David Webb Peoples. – An interview with the Oscar-nominated Production Designer David L. Snyder. – Interviews with Oscar-Winning and Nominated Make-up Artists Steve LaPorte and Peter Montagna. – Guest essays by John Hansen, Mark Stratton, and John Kenneth Muir. – Afterword by Paul M. Sammon, the author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, Conan the Phenomenon, and The Making of Starship Troopers.

Anderson’s Soldier has the following synopsis: Todd has been trained since birth, through brutal conditioning, to be an emotionless killing machine. After 40 years, Todd and his comrades are deemed obsolete when Col. Mekum promotes a new breed of genetically flawless soldiers. Discarded on the trash-covered planet of Arcadia 234, Todd is rescued by colonists Mace and Sandra — but he’s soon forced to face his stronger replacements when the military seeks to wipe out the colony.

Russell is joined in the cast by Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee, Gary Busey, and Michael Chiklis.

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The list of projects that are ceasing productions while the two unions remain steadfast continues to grow. This includes big franchises.

While this may get repetitive since nearly every film production is shutting down per the actors’ strike, there are notable big-budget tentpole films that are finding themselves in the middle of the trouble. It was already reported that Gladiator 2 and Mortal Kombat 2 were halted as soon as the actors’ strike took effect. Then, Deadpool 3 would follow as the next major franchise project to shut down, which is unfortunate timing since Hugh Jackman just teased a set pic featuring him in a full-on Wolverine comic-accurate costume. Inevitably, fans have been spreading the pic and already posting fan art merely hours after the reveal as fanboy excitement has shot up even more for the sequel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, two more follow-ups to blockbusters have ceased production amid the strike. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two, which had been filming back-to-back with this week’s release, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, has shut down. The ambitious two-part project had already experienced delays due to COVID. However, despite being filmed in conjunction with Part One, the production is as grand as ever as it films in multiple locations and even features scenes on an aircraft carrier. Furthermore, the film’s star, Tom Cruise, insists on practical filming, so the complicated process likely doesn’t allow for a swift filming schedule.

Some of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two‘s filming locations included more Italian cities after Part One took place in both Rome and Venice. Part Two recently had Cruise flying to Bari, which is the capital city of the Apulia region. Cruise and company were filming at the exotic location for a coastal shoot. Another blockbuster follow-up, Venom 3, just started filming in the Cartagena neighborhood of Los Mateos in Spain. The commencement was marked by Tom Hardy, who returns as the film’s star, when he posted a photo on his Instagram from location. The timing for this is comparable to Deadpool 3 as the movie just started filming a couple weeks ago.

Marvel has a ton of projects on its slate, even though it’s now planned that Bob Iger will be scaling back on the quantity. With the shutdowns, Marvel heads, Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito shared an email with the staff that stated, “We recognize how much you’ve all done on your specific projects and it’s disappointing when carefully laid plans have to shift, but constant change is the nature of the production business, and our teams are no stranger to unexpected challenges and rising to meet them. We deeply appreciate all your efforts to make the best of the situation, and we can all hope that a new agreement will be finalized soon so we can resume the great work we have in process.”

The Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, starring Norman Reedus, is set to premiere on AMC this September

The Walking Dead reached the end of its eleven season run last year, and the first of its follow-up spin-offs, The Walking Dead: Dead City, is currently making its way out into the world through AMC and the AMC+ streaming service. We’ve known for a while that the next spin-off, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, would begin airing sometime this fall – and now the specific premiere date has finally been announced! Variety has confirmed that The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon will begin airing on AMC at 9pm on Sunday, September 10th – and it will appear on AMC+ at the same time.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon has the following synopsis: Daryl (Norman Reedus) washes ashore in France and struggles to piece together how he got there and why. The series tracks his journey across a broken but resilient France as he hopes to find a way back home. As he makes the journey, though, the connections he forms along the way complicate his ultimate plan.

Showrunner David Zabel serves as executive producer alongside Reedus, Scott M. Gimple, Angela Kang, Greg Nicotero, Brian Bockrath, and Daniel Percival. AMC Studios is producing. The first season of the series will consist of six episodes.

Reedus is joined in the cast by Anne Charrier (The Last Deadly Mission), Eriq Ebanouey (Fox Hunt), Laika Blanc Francard (My Night), newcomer Louis Puech Scigliuzzi, and Romain Levi (The Tunnel). All of these cast members have “series regular” status – but the only things we know about their characters are their names. Charrier is playing Genet, Ebanouey is Fallou, Blanc Francard is Sylvie, Levi is Codron, and Puech Scigliuzzi is Laurent. We know a bit more about characters being played by Clémence Poésy (Tenet) and Adam Nagaitis (The Terror). Poésy is playing Isabelle, “a member of a progressive religious group, who joins forces with Daryl (Reedus) on a journey across France and finds herself confronting her dark past in Paris.” The character Nagaitis is playing is Quinn, “a displaced Brit who has become powerful in post-apocalyptic Paris as a black marketeer and the owner of the Demimonde, a sexy underground nightclub.”

Beyond The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, there’s another follow-up spin-off called The Walking Dead: Rick & Michonne to look forward to. That one is only expected to be a limited series.

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