Ms. Marvel actress Iman Vellani is co-writing a new Ms. Marvel comic that reintroduces the character as a member of the mutant community.
Much like the Goonies, superheroes never say die. Exciting comic book news comes from Entertainment Weekly this Friday, with word that Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani is co-writing a new Ms. Marvel comic as a part of the character’s embiggened reintroduction to Marvel Comics. Before we share the details, you should know that Marvel recently killed Ms. Marvel after the character sacrificed herself earlier this year in Amazing Spider-Man #26. Ms. Marvel’s death elicited mixed reactions from fans, but like most things in comics, there’s always a plan.
Vellani will co-write a new Ms. Marvel comic alongside Ms. Marvel TV writer Sabir Pirzada. Carlos Gomez and Adam Gorham supply the art, with Sara Pichelli creating covers for the series.
“This was way scarier than joining the MCU for me,” Vellani tells Entertainment Weekly. “Those projects feel like they live in their own dimension, so I guess I can separate myself easier. But you can hold a comic book! I’ve never written anything before in my entire life, but I have read many comics, so I just wrote what I would want to read. I was given a very professional tool to write what is essentially my own fan fiction.”
The new comic is titled Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant, which refers to Kamala Khan’s second life on the printed page. Kamala’s mutant lineage was teased in the final episodes of Ms. Marvel, a plot detail continued in the comics. Even though Kamala is dead, Professor X and some of Marvel’s mutant community live on Krakoa, home to a complex system that allows the island’s inhabitants to cheat death. Thanks, Egg and the rest of the Five!
Before you sharpen your pitchforks, Vellani and Pirzada won’t be doing any Inhuman erasure regarding Ms. Marvel’s heritage. Instead, Kamala’s mutant awakening adds to her complex past, giving the character a more complex background than your garden-variety Child of X.
“I want to make it very, very clear that we are not retconning her Inhuman origin. That’s a part of Kamala’s identity that Marvel editorial and myself would very much like to keep and protect,” Vellani says. “Our book will absolutely reflect all those core themes of identity that the Ms. Marvel comics have consistently explored — only now there’s a whole new label that Kamala has to learn to accept. It’s going to be pretty crazy.”
Vellani continues, “Hopefully those readers who are kind of getting into the comics after the Disney+ show are are going to have something fun to look forward to on shelves.”
Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant features a costume redesign by Jamie McKelvie, who designed the character’s original costume. In discussing his collaboration with Vellani, Pirzada says the young actress knows her stuff better than he does. “She was throwing out references to specific comics that came out before either of us were born. She has a very great eye for what makes for a good sequence on the page as drawn by an artist. It was very impressive to me to see her throw out all these references to different artists that she’s been following through the years.”
As a hardcore Ms. Marvel fan, I can’t wait to see what Vellani and Pirzada bring to the character upon her return. Kamala is one of Marvel’s most essential characters in decades, and it’s nice to see her legacy grow with each new idea and evolution. Bring it on!
Seasons three through six of Friends had some of Chandler Bing’s funniest and most character-defining moments. There he is handcuffed, without pants, to a filing cabinet; remaining in “time out” in a box for nearly a full episode; hooking up with—and later marrying—Monica…We all remember them fondly. The one who doesn’t? Matthew Perry, who says these seasons were a blur due to his problems with substance abuse.
But to truly understand what the fuck happened to Matthew Perry, we go back to the beginning. And the beginning began when he was born on August 19th in Williamstown, MA, the son of two prominent people: actor John Bennett Perry and mother Suzanne, who later served as press secretary to Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau (father of Justin, who Perry says he beat up in school).
Perry developed an interest in acting after he served it up on the tennis court as a youth, moving from Canada to L.A. to live with his father, starting with small bits on shows like 240-Robert (1979)—a series that starred his father and is considered lost—and HBO sketch series Not Necessarily the News (1983), along with more popular fare like Charles in Charge and Silver Spoons. After TV movie Morning Maggie, Perry got his first consistent acting job on the Fox sitcom Second Chance aka Boys Will Be Boys, retitled to focus more on Perry’s character, Chazz. It only lasted one season, but the year it ended, 1988, was a turning point for the actor.
Although most of us haven’t heard of the titles, Matthew Perry was getting steady work. There was TV movie Dance ‘Til Dawn alongside Christina Applegate, Alyssa Milano and Tracey Gold; a one-off on sitcom Just the Ten of Us; a two-episode stint on fantasy Highway to Heaven; and his feature debut, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (River Phoenix was Jimmy). In 1989, he appeared in the Tony Danza-starring comedy She’s Out of Control, not to mention a three-episode arc on Growing Pains, playing Gold’s boyfriend who drinks and drives, resulting in his death—as part of the “very special episode” craze.
Around this time, he would call it quits on being credited as Matthew L. Perry, which seemed like sort of a good luck charm, since he landed his first lead in a sitcom, co-headlining CBS’ Sydney (1990, with Valerie Bertinelli and Craig Bierko, the fool who turned down Friends a few years later). But it was hardly a good luck charm, with Perry looking to becoming trapped in a series of TV movies and shows, playing Desi Arnaz Jr. in Call Me Anna (1990) and doing one-offs on Beverly Hills 90210 (1991), Dream On (1992), Sibs (1992) before sticking another series, 1993’s Home Free, for ABC, which lasted just 11 episodes (with two unaired). There would also be TV movies such as Deadly Relations (1993) and Parallel Lives (1994), as well as L.A.X. 2194, an unaired pilot that he was too busy doing to initially take a little show called Six of One…He, too, did Doug Liman’s DTV Getting In…And yes, Perry would be getting in the business in a major way that same year…
After Bierko dropped out, Matthew Perry joined the cast of Six of One fortunately renamed to Friends, as the youngest member, playing Chandler Bing, the sarcastic one of the group. Either way, he was a fan favorite. Perry and the cast would end up earning up to $1 million per episode in the last two seasons (up from $22,500 in the first season). This money, tragically, would come in handy…
It was during this run that Perry went full-on with his drug addiction—he always wanted to be famous but neglected to take into account some of its trappings—first becoming addicted to Vicodin following a jet ski accident in 1997, something that later turned into a 55-pill/day habit, only enhanced by the mounting pressures of shooting Fools Rush In (1997), an innocent yet generic flick that proved a major departure from the TV environment. In 1998, Perry co-starred opposite Chris Farley in Almost Heroes. Far from a Farley/Spade pairing, it remains a tarnish on Farley’s filmography. 1999 would bring another non-challenging rom-com, Three to Tango, while the next year saw the decent enough The Whole Nine Yards, which excels more due to Bruce Willis and his chemistry with Perry and everyone else in the cast. The same year, Perry suffered from pancreatitis, brought on by alcohol abuse, something his Friends co-stars tried and failed to get him off of. By 2001, Perry was heavily into alcohol, Vicodin, methadone, and amphetamines.
This came to a head in 2002 while Perry was filming Serving Sara with Elizabeth Hurley. With less than two weeks left in production, his addictions truly started affecting his work, as his quart of vodka/day habit sent him to much-needed rehab…but only because he thought he would die. To date, Perry estimates he spent around $9 million to get sober, going to rehab more than 60 times.
The next few years would see a two-episode stint on Ally McBeal and Perry giving drama a legit go, with three episodes on The West Wing (2003)—earning two Emmy nods—and co-starring in his first play, David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago (more commonly known for its big screen adaptation, About Last Night). But he couldn’t avoid comedy, next starring in the pointless sequel The Whole Ten Yards (2004), and directing an episode of Scrubs alongside his father.
Following Friends’ end in 2004, many in the cast wondered what would come of their careers. Perry waited until 2006 to get in front of the camera, starring in TV movie The Ron Clark Story to Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations. So began a fairly reliable pattern of passable but still forgettable TV and movie work that still seems to be active. There was the promising but failed, one-season Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, playing the head writer of an SNL-esque show; 2007’s Numb, which went DTV in the US despite a strong enough turn as a depressive with depersonalization disorder; indie attempt Birds of America (2008); the casually charming 17 Again (2009) with Zac Efron—which capped off the decade and surprisingly and unjustly still remains his most recent feature.
The 2010s started off with potential, with the creators giving him a voice in the video game Fallout: New Vegas based on his avid love for the series. 2011 brought another series, ABC’s Mr. Sunshine—which Perry co-created and wrote episodes of—but that was canceled after just nine episodes. Perry again returned to drama with a four-episode arc as an attorney on The Good Wife (2012-2013), which he’d reprise for a 2017 three-episode run on The Good Fight. Perry yet again was given a shot at headlining a sitcom, playing a sportscaster on Go On, which, yes, was canned after one season. The same year that ended, Perry gave back in a most noble way, opening a Malibu rehab center that unfortunately shut down in 2015—but that’s twice as long as most of his shows at least…That same year, Perry latched onto the Oscar Madison role in an Odd Couple reboot, which miraculously lasted three seasons. In 2016, Perry returned to the stage, writing The End of Longing, which played London and off-Broadway. In 2017, Perry seemed to want to let his fans in more on his personal life, playing famous boozer Ted Kennedy in TV movie The Kennedys: After Camelot.
And then his colon exploded. No, really. His aggressive OxyContin abuse in the latter part of the decade led to an exploded colon, leaving him with a colostomy bag. His abuse also put him in a coma with two weeks on life support, with doctors giving him a 2% chance of survival, detailed graphically and effectively in his 2022 memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.
And still Matthew Perry survived and has been sober since 2021. Could he be any luckier?
Kill Her Goats director Steve Wolsh and his company Living Dead Media are developing a reboot of The Return of the Living Dead
Almost forty years ago, writer/director Dan O’Bannon delivered one of the most highly entertaining zombie movies of all time with The Return of the Living Dead (watch it HERE)… and in the process, spawned a franchise. There was the goofy comedy of The Return of the Living Dead Part II, the “Romeo and Juliet with zombies” love story Return of the Living Dead ///, and a couple sequels nobody paid much attention to, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis and Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave. The franchise has been dormant for eighteen years – but it may be revived very soon. It has come to our attention that Muck and Kill Her Goats director Steve Wolsh, who also happens to be the CEO of the company Living Dead Media, is developing a reboot of The Return of the Living Dead.
The only information on this reboot can be found on the Living Dead Media website, where it says: Our reboot of Return of the Living Dead will expand the existing world created by the original 5 films, while staying true to the R-rated, sci-fi, horror, dark comedy roots adored by fans of the cult classic around the world for the last 35 years. We are excited to resurrect this storied franchise for current fans and new generations of zombie fans.
Also listed as potential projects on the website are a National Lampoon collaboration called Dead Serious (described as “Animal House in a funeral home”), a version of The Return of the Living Dead that would use the original script for the film, and sequel to Night of the Living Dead called The Night Returns.
Night of the Living Dead alums Rudy Ricci, John A. Russo, and Russell Streiner crafted the initial story for The Return of the Living Dead, intending for it to be a follow-up to Night. Then O’Bannon got involved and did a complete overhaul, telling the following story: When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout Louisville, Ky., and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
The film stars Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, Miguel A. Nunez Jr., John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Brian Peck, Linnea Quigley, Mark Venturini, Jonathan Terry, and Allan Trautman.
We’ll keep you updated on Living Dead Media’s Return of the Living Dead reboot as more information is revealed. In the meantime, let us know: are you interested in seeing a new Return of the Living Dead movie? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.
The latest issue of Fangoria magazine gives a good look at the version of Dracula played by Javier Botet in The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Universal Pictures will be giving the horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter, which is based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, a theatrical release on August 11th. If you don’t want to wait another month to get a good look at the version of Dracula that Javier Botet of the It films plays in the movie, all you have to do is take a look at the cover for the new issue of Fangoria magazine! Botet’s Dracula is featured on the cover in all his glory, and you can check it out at the bottom of this article.
Escaping development hell twenty years after the script was first written (Bragi F. Schut, Stefan Ruzowitzky, and Zak Olkewicz all receive writing credits on the finished film), The Last Voyage of the Demeter tells the story of the merchant ship Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – fifty unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. Strange events befall the doomed crew as they attempt to survive the ocean voyage, stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship. When the Demeter finally arrives off the shores of England, it is a charred, derelict wreck. There is no trace of the crew.
The film stars Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton) as Clemens, a doctor who joins the Demeter crew; Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale) as an unwitting stowaway; Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones) as the ship’s captain; and David Dastmalchian (the Ant-Man franchise) as the Demeter’s first mate. Also in the cast are Jon Jon Briones (American Horror Story), Stefan Kapicic (Deadpool films), Nikolai Nikolaeff (Stranger Things), and the aforementioned Javier Botet.
Directed by André Øvredal, The Last Voyage of the Demeter is coming to us from DreamWorks Pictures. The project was produced by Brad Fischer and Mike Medavoy and Arnold Messer for Phoenix Pictures. Matthew Hirsch serves as executive producer.
What do you think of The Last Voyage of the Demeter‘s version of Dracula? Are you looking forward to watching this movie? Let us know by leaving a comment below. Our own Chris Bumbray had the chance to see some footage from The Last Voyage of the Demeter at CinemaCon last year, and he said the movie looks epic, gory, and classy.
Plot: More than a century after the season one finale, tension mounts throughout the galaxy in “Foundation” season two. As the Cleons unravel, a vengeful queen plots to destroy Empire from within. Hari, Gaal, and Salvor discover a colony of Mentalics with psionic abilities that threaten to alter psychohistory itself. The Foundation has entered its religious phase, promulgating the Church of Seldon throughout the Outer Reach and inciting the Second Crisis: war with Empire. The monumental adaptation of “Foundation” chronicles the stories of four crucial individuals transcending space and time as they overcome deadly crises, shifting loyalties and complicated relationships that will ultimately determine the fate of humanity.
Review: Isaac Asimov’s iconic Foundation novels are not Game of Thrones. Foundation has long been considered unfilmable, an intelligent blend of science fiction and philosophical drama. The first season adaptation, created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, bridged the gap from the written page to the screen by adding a heaping dose of sex and violence to offset the dialogue-heavy exercises in math and politics. The resulting series boasted solid production values and top-notch special effects while missing out on a level of energy from the narrative to make it worth investing in for multiple seasons. Thankfully, the second season of Foundation ups the ante on the story’s emotional resonance while maintaining the action, sex, and violence from the first run. The result is a solid sophomore season that will keep fans happy but may not be enough to win over new ones.
Picking up 138 years after the primary time period of the first season, the new season of Foundation opens with Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) learning that Salvor Hardin (Leah Harvey) is her daughter, and the duo works to free themselves from their exile. At the same time, the radiant of Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) is put through trials by an alien intelligence testing his resolve. The bulk of the season featuring these characters feels like a side quest rather than the season’s main arc and feels like a secondary plot in the overall narrative of Foundation. As great as Jared Harris is, Goyer and Friedman’s take on Hari Seldon is far different than the character from Asimov’s novels. Seldon, a major character throughout the entire series, exists mainly in the form of recordings and memories in the books. On-screen, that would not work and has been changed in a way that gives Seldon a legitimate reason to appear on screen but still is bogged down by countless monologues weighed down by unwieldy technobabble.
What works the best this season is the enhanced palace intrigue centered on Empire, played again by Lee Pace as Brother Day, Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk, and Cassian Bilton as Brother Dawn. Pace, who played multiple iterations of Brother Day in the first season here, portrays Cleon XVII, five generations past his role as Cleon XII. While Pace played one hell of a villain in the first season, this sophomore run opens immediately with an action-packed sequence that sets the pace and tone for all of the Trantor-set moments this season. Echoing Game of Thrones’ early seasons and the diabolical games between the warring families, we are given an assassination attempt, a prospective marriage that would combine the Empire with a powerful dominion as an ally, and multiple secret alliances that forge the best part of this season’s arc. While Terrence Mann once again plays Brother Dusk as the elder and wiser leader, Cassian Bilton’s Brother Dawn becomes more significant as the youthful heir. Pace, a stellar actor in everything he does, chews the scenery wonderfully through this entire season and commands the screen in every scene he appears.
The shift between the Trantor scenes and those in the galaxy’s far reaches showcases the vast disconnect between the two elements of this series. Like Succession and Yellowstone, we love to watch those in power implode, and seeing how the Empire begins to show cracks after twelve thousand years in power is deliciously entertaining. But, unlike Star Wars and other similar science fiction series, the rebellious faction we are meant to root for in Foundation is not nearly as rousing as it should be. I continually enjoyed the shared screen time between Jared Harris, Lou Llobell, and Leah Harvey, but their plotlines feel like they drag to fill the ten-episode season order. Conversely, Laura Birn is the best of the cast this season as the android Eto Demerzel becomes more prominent than before this year. This season’s additions to the cast, including Ella-Rae Smith, Ben Daniels, and Isabella Laughland, accentuate the ensemble.
Director Alex Graves, who helmed three episodes of the first season, returns to maintain the visual tone and style this year. The direction is solid throughout, but the writing does show some improvement thanks to the addition of Jane Espenson (Game of Thrones) and Liz Phang (Yellowjackets, The Haunting of Hill House). Working alongside David S. Goyer, who co-wrote five episodes this season, Espenson and Phang have credits on eight of the ten chapters. Both writers bring a stronger voice to the complex narrative of Asimov’s books which includes updating characters and plots, further taking Foundation away from the source material while staying true to the overall plot of the novels. Overall, this season of Foundation is stronger than the first but still piles so much into these ten episodes that each chapter feels twice as long as its hour-long running time. The finale works as a satisfying conclusion should Apple elect not to continue this series for a third season, but it also keeps the door open with yet another massive time jump.
Foundation continues to feel like a series that wants to be epic yet cannot quite grasp how to do it. Lee Pace’s performance alone makes the second season of this series worth checking out, but I am again left feeling somewhat hollow after watching the season finale. Foundation takes inspiration from a book series that has been beloved alongside Dune, The Lord of the Rings, and countless other works of genre literature, but there is just not enough here to earn my viewership outside of a reviewer capacity. I feel like I should love Foundation, and giving it a bad review is hard. There is nothing inherently wrong with the series; it just doesn’t come close to being as good as it should be.
Season 2 of Foundation premieres on July 14th on AppleTV+.
Marvel’s Deadpool 3 production halted after SAG-AFTRA members joined the WGA in striking for better film industry terms and conditions.
You might want to put your chimichangas in the freezer because it will be a while before we’re eating them in celebration of the arrival of Deadpool 3. Unfortunately, the Marvel threequel is the latest tentpole project to fall victim to the SAG-AFTRA strike. News about the project’s hibernation comes after Ryan Reynolds shared a photo of himself and Hugh Jackman in full costume for the upcoming superhero buddy-action comedy. Fans can expect delays for the project until negotiations between the WGA, SAG-AFTRA, and AMPTP resolve.
The upcoming Deadpool sequel will see the return of Morena Baccarin as Vanessa, Leslie Uggams as Blind Al, Karan Soni as Dopinder, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Shioli Kutsuna as Yukio, Stefan Kapičić as the voice of Colossus, and Rob Delaney as Peter. Deadpool 3 will also star Emma Corrin, who is expected to play the villain, and Matthew Macfadyen in an undisclosed role. The film also finds Jennifer Garner returning as Elektra for a “cameo-like” appearance. In addition to Garner’s Elektra, rumors say Ben Affleck was spotted on the Deadpool 3 set, leading fans to believe he’ll cameo alongside Garner as Daredevil. That said, Affleck’s participation is not confirmed.
Of course, the most significant addition to the cast is Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, who finally broke down after being pestered by Ryan Reynolds for many years. Reynolds said that Deadpool 3 will present a new challenge for Jackman. “I think [Jackman] was excited and what we pitched him was enough of a divergence from the character that he knows and the character that he’s left behind,” Reynolds said, “that it gives him something completely new to play and something that he’s really excited to do. “Clearly, all that pestering paid off. “I mean, I never stopped,” Reynolds said. “I was just pestering him like a gnat over the last many years. I actually just think… I believe in timing … and I think he was ready.”
Marvel’s Deadpool 3 is scheduled for a May 3, 2024 release. However, the film could be delayed with production grinding to a halt. We’ll bring you any updates we find as they happen.
A clip from the Seth Rogen-produced horror film Cobweb offers a preview of a scene involving an awkward house visit
Four and a half years ago, Lionsgate – a studio that had once been a prominent force in the horror genre, with releases like The Devil’s Rejects, Cabin Fever, the Hostel films, and of course the Saw franchise – announced that they were developing a genre project called Cobweb with the intention of taking back their “ownership” of horror. We’re now just one week away from having the chance to see the finished film, as Cobweb will be receiving a theatrical release on July 21st… and now a clip from the movie has arrived online, offering a preview of an awkward house visit scene. You can check it out in the embed above.
Directed by Samuel Bodin, who created Netflix’s short-lived French horror series Marianne, from a screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin (Leatherface), Cobweb has the following synopsis: Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall – a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter’s fear intensifies, he believes that his parents could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that?
We previously saw a synopsis that said a boy’s abusive parents have always told him the voices he hears in the walls of his house are only in his head. But when he discovers that they’re real, he conspires to let them out.
The film stars Lizzy Caplan (Fatal Attraction), Antony Starr (The Boys), Cleopatra Coleman (Infinity Pool), and Woody Norman (C’mon C’mon).
Cobweb was produced by Point Grey’s Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver, along with Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee. Vertigo’s Andrew Childs serves as executive producer with Jonathan McCoy and Josh Fagen, who oversaw the project for Point Grey. Jim Miller and Meredith Wieck oversaw the project for Lionsgate. Rogen isn’t an obvious producer for an intense horror project, but we’re also living in a world where Kevin Smith made a horror movie about a man being surgically turned into a walrus and where Danny McBride has co-written three Halloween sequels.
What did you think of the Cobweb clip? Are you looking forward to seeing this movie next week? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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.”
Are you a fan of Inna Korobkina’s work, and will you be checking out the Rise Up & Fix It podcast? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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 Soldierfor 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.
Are you a fan of Soldier, and will you be picking up a copy of Soldier: From Script to Screen? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
