An actor from The Bold and the Beautiful is said to be one of the finalists for the Superman role, so he put together a little extra effort.

Whenever there is a new Superman film being produced, the casting of the Man of Steel is one of the most arduous of tasks. Christopher Reeve beat out around two-hundred actors in a hunt for the fateful individual to bring Superman to the screen for the 1978 classic. The tradition of casting up-and-coming unknown actors would continue with Brandon Routh in Superman Returns, then Henry Cavill in Man of Steel. Now that James Gunn is in pre-production for his reboot, Superman: Legacy in the new continuity of the DC universe, he’s narrowing down his hopefuls for the last son of Krypton.

One of the purported frontrunners for the coveted part is an actor named Pierson Fodé. Fodé had been revealed to be one of the finalists earlier this month. In an effort to prove himself for the casting, ScreenRant reports that Fodé has taken the liberty of making a short stunt reel to show off his superhero prowess. The Instagram account of Action Factory shared a video on the social media site where Fodé is seen using a rig that helps to simulate his flying, as well as some fighting moves that involve Superman’s famous heat vision.

When casting for a role that brings so much to the table, actors usually screentest for a variety of factors that prove they can occupy all angles of the character. Tobey Maguire was a proven dramatic actor, but prior to his casting in Spider-Man, Maguire filmed an action screentest to show that he can handle the stunts. Christian Bale was a popular casting choice for Batman back when Christopher Nolan was casting Batman Begins, but he would still have to screentest in the cowl and cape costume.

Variety had reported that Fodé was a frontrunner when the actor submitted a self-tape to Gunn and the director found him to be “very Clark Kent-like childhood on a farm in the small town of Moses Lake, Wash.” Fodé looks to not want to leave anything to chance so he took the initiative to show off his super moves. The video is put together like a pre-visualization for choreographed action sequences and Fodé was able to utilize intricate rigs. However, it is also being said that recent casting reports suggest that his chances against the competition may be lowering.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan didn’t like that Negan remarried in the final season of The Walking Dead, saying it came out of nowhere.

If you thought Negan was poorly handled in the last season of The Walking Dead, you’re in good company, as his portrayer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, has come out to express disappointment over how the character was written, saying he would have much rather seen him “walk off into the sunset.”

Speaking on Kelly Ripa’s podcast (via Entertainment Weekly), Morgan said, “You know, I don’t know that he would’ve gotten married again, and they had Negan get married at the end of The Walking Dead…We never saw the story of how he met this person and why he would’ve married her, which always kind of bummed me out, because I think he was so in love with his wife, Lucille, and it had made such a production out of the whole Lucille of it all.” Lucille, of course, wasn’t just the name of Negan’s first wife, but his trusty baseball bat. “Having him show up with a wife without telling the story of why and how was always, like, a problem — an issue I had.”

Morgan added that The Walking Dead storyline with Negan remarrying – something that was created strictly for the show – came about due to an overcrowded cast. “You know, that’s what happens when you’re doing a show with 30 main characters. You’re not able to service each character as well as you may want to.” He added that he hopes the next entry in The Walking Dead franchise, Dead City, makes time to address the issue.

The Walking Dead: Dead City finds “Maggie [Lauren Cohan] and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.” Dead City is the fifth installment in The Walking Dead franchise but the first since the original to make Negan a character. Morgan has, however, voiced Negan on Robot Chicken and in the video game Tekken 7.

What is your take on how Negan was written in the last season of The Walking Dead? Give us your thoughts in the comments section below!

Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller and star Mads Mikkelsen are now in production on the horror movie Dust Bunny, co-starring Sigourney Weaver

Last November, it was announced that Hannibal TV series creator Bryan Fuller would be re-teaming with Hannibal himself, Mads Mikkelsen, for a family-oriented horror project Dust Bunny. Soon after, we learned that Fuller was also working on a Friday the 13th TV series called Crystal Lake for franchise rights holders Victor Miller and Rob Barsamian (plus Miller’s lawyer Marc Toberoff), A24, and the Peacock streaming service. And while Crystal Lake is currently at a standstill because of the writers strike, the strike hasn’t had any effect on Dust Bunny. Fuller shared a picture of himself and Mikkelsen to celebrate the fact that they’re “back in the saddle” together. You can take a look at the image in the embed at the bottom of this article.

Dust Bunny is currently filming in Budapest, with Fuller directing from his own screenplay. It hasn’t been announced in the trades, but earlier this month Sigourney Weaver told New York Social Diary that she’s in the cast as well. She said, “I’m about to go off to Budapest to do a wonderful small movie called Dust Bunny. I play another person who’s not so nice, opposite Mads Mikkelsen, the brilliant Danish actor (Casino Royale), with a really talented writer/director, Bryan Fuller (Hannibal). And I have really beautiful costumes!“

Fuller is also producing the film with Entertainment One and Thunder Road‘s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee. Said to be “a throwback to the family horror films of the ’80s”, Dust Bunny tells the story of an eight-year-old girl who recruits her strange neighbor to hunt and kill the monster living under her bed. The girl says the monster ate her family, and she wants revenge.

Does Dust Bunny sound interesting to you, and are you glad to see Bryan Fuller and Mads Mikkelsen working together again (with Sigourney Weaver in the mix as well)? Share your thoughts on this one by leaving a comment below.

I’m definitely interested in seeing a throwback to the family horror movies of the ’80s, especially with these names involved. I look forward to seeing how Dust Bunny is going to turn out.

Here’s Fuller and Mikkelsen, reunited:

Before Kara Zor-El met THE FLASH, she faced off against a witchy Faye Dunaway in her failed 1984 screen debut… SUPERGIRL!

Now that The Flash has hit theaters to reset the DC Universe, Awfully Good Movies is running back in time to watch the debut film for one of The Flash’s breakout characters, Helen Slater in 1984’s SUPERGIRL!

In between the disappointment of Superman III and the catastrophe of Superman IV, original franchise producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind decided to switch focus from the Man of Steel to his female cousin Kara Zor-El with an in-universe spinoff that’d have a cameo from Christopher Reeve himself to mentor his fellow Kryptonian and star Helen Slater in the young actress’ debut role. But after Reeve turned the film down before filming, and Warner Bros. grew so fed up with the Salkinds that they sold the distribution rights back to them, Supergirl would instead flop so hard at the box office that the Salkinds just gave up on the Superman film rights altogether, and it’s not hard to see why the Woman of Tomorrow failed here for reasons other than superpowered sexism.

From Slater’s flat lead performance that results from her badly written dialogue, to an incomprehensible plot about retrieving a magic power ball back for a visibly drunk Peter O’Toole before a visibly embarrassed Faye Dunaway uses it to magically take over the world, to special effects on Supergirl that look nearly as bad as her effects in The Flash, it’s no less of a disaster than pairing Superman up with Richard Pryor or nuclear powered musclemen. Still, Supergirl does deserve respect for being the first major female superhero in film history, even if the film itself doesn’t earn a single ounce of respect.

And hey, thank God this would be the last time that the names of Superman or Supergirl would ever be associated with a box office disappointment that suffered from the movie having subpar visual effects. Yep… nothing but cinematic quality from then on from DC… not a SINGLE problem!

The debut episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City drew in enough viewers to become the biggest cable drama premiere of the year

We’re about halfway done with 2023, and any cable drama premieres that come along in the second half of the year have a new viewership number to try to beat. The Hollywood Reporter shares the news that the Walking Dead spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (check out our review HERE) is now the biggest cable drama debut of the year, having drawn in 683,000 viewers as it aired on AMC last Sunday, with viewers of the simulcasts on BBC America and IFC, plus replays, boosting the number of viewers to 1.12 million. The Hollywood Reporter notes that “Dead City also became the top series premiere ever on the AMC+ streaming service, in both viewers and acquisition (i.e., people subscribing to watch a show), surpassing Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (though as usual with streaming platforms, detailed viewing figures aren’t made public).”

Of course, 1.12 million is far below the number of viewers that used to tune in for The Walking Dead at its peak, but it’s about in line with the viewership of the final season’s episodes, and as The Hollywood Reporter points out, “The days of millions of viewers watching a cable series on-air the night it debuts — at least one not named (or related to) Yellowstone — are largely past, but Dead City does compare favorably to several recent AMC premieres. The series beat the same-day viewer tallies for the first episodes of Interview With the Vampire (622,000 viewers), Mayfair Witches (577,000) and Tales of the Walking Dead (572,000).”

Eli Jorné, who has been a writer and co-executive producer on The Walking Dead for multiple seasons, serves as showrunner on The Walking Dead: Dead City. This show sees Maggie and Negan traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror. 

Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan have been playing Maggie and Negan since season 2 and 6 (respectively) of The Walking Dead. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Cohan was the first to reveal that The Walking Dead: Dead City picks up “a few years” after the conclusion of The Walking Dead.

Joining Cohan and Morgan in the cast are Mahina Napoleon (NCIS: Hawai’i), Zeljko Ivanek (Madam Secretary), and Jonathan Higginbotham (Shining Vale). Gaius Charles (Fright Night Lights) is playing Izaak, who is “confident, ruthless, and unyielding in the pursuit of what he believes is justice, with the force of his will and his menace. Izaak enjoys his work and intersperses humor with the terror he incites. This is a family man, devoted to building a safe world for his wife and daughters. His journey unearths a loss he is haunted by. He has patience and resilience and walks rather than runs from his mistakes.”

Cohan, Morgan, and Jorné are executive producing The Walking Dead: Dead City with Scott M. Gimple, the Chief Content Officer of the Walking Dead Universe.

Did you tune in for the debut of The Walking Dead: Dead City? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

New Killer Klowns from Outer Space Funko POP figures are now available for pre-order and will be shipping out in August

There’s more Killer Klowns from Outer Space merchandise heading our way! A couple days ago, we heard that Spirit Halloween stores are teaming up with Funko for a limited edition Funko POP! figure – called the Killer Klowns Movie Moment Funko – that will only be available in select Spirit stores and on the Spirit website. But that isn’t the only new Killer Klowns Funko POPs we’ll be seeing this year. Entertainment Earth is now accepting pre-orders for Funko POP! figures based on the Fatso and Baby Klown characters. Images of these figures can be seen at the bottom of this article.

Here’s the information on the Fatso POP!:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Fatso Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1423: The circus has come to town, all the way from outer space! Beware of the Killer Klowns when Fatso drops in your Funko POP! collection. Holding a heart-shaped box clown doll, and a blaster, Fatso is an intimidating addition to any horror lineup. This Killer Klowns from Outer Space Fatso Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1423 measures approximately 4 1/2-inches tall and comes packaged in a window display box. Get the troop back together under one big top, and order this Klown today!

And here’s the info on Baby Klown:

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Baby Klown Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1422: The circus has come to town, all the way from outer space! Beware of the Killer Klowns when this Baby Klown sprouts in your Funko POP! collection! Growing within a bucket of popcorn this Baby Klown is a terrifying addition to any horror lineup. This Killer Klowns from Outer Space Baby Klown Funko POP! Vinyl Figure #1422 measures approximately 5 3/4-inches tall and comes packaged in a window display box. Get the troop back together under one big top, and order this Baby Klown today!

Killer Klowns from Outer Space was directed by Stephen Chiodo from a screenplay he wrote with his brother Charles Chiodo. Stephen and Charles also produced the film with their other brother, Edward Chiodo. It has the following synopsis: When teenagers Mike and Debbie see a comet crash outside their sleepy small town, they investigate and discover a pack of murderous aliens who look very much like circus clowns. They try to warn the local authorities, but everyone assumes their story is a prank. Meanwhile, the clowns set about harvesting and eating as many people as they can. It’s not until they kidnap Debbie that Mike decides it’s up to him to stop the clowns’ bloody rampage.

Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson, Royal Dano, John Vernon, Michael S. Siegel, Peter Licassi, and Christopher Titus star.

The Fatso and Baby Klown Funk POP!s are expected to ship out in August. Will you be buying these Killer Klowns from Outer Space figures? Let us know by leaving a comment below.