Willow himself, Warwick Davis, says he never got a chance to see the full series because it was removed from Disney+.

When Willow was unceremoniously dumped by Disney+, it almost felt like a betrayal to the character. Then again, a lot of people felt the show did the same to the movie. Either way, it left those directly involved with the show out of a job that at the very least gave a shot of nostalgia. Now, you can’t even find Willow on Disney+ at all, as if its entire existence is being wiped away by the House of Mouse. Close to two years after the final episode, star Warwick Davis thinks the removal is a kick in the face.

Warwick Davis took to social media this week to express his disdain for Willow being unavailable on Disney+, writing in part, “This image just came up as a photo memory. A BTS shot from the #Willow Series. It’s a travesty that ⁦⁦@DisneyPlus value shareholders over subscribers in their creative decision-making. #Justsaying I only ever saw each episode once!”

The Pulp Fiction director remains outspoken, and this time, he responds to the negative comments garnered by his praise of the Joker sequel.

Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to defending his views as he’s had to push back on controversy surrounding violence in his movies or racial content or character portrayal, such as Bruce Lee fans criticizing him for his scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Tarantino seems to now be a target for his praise of the movie Joker: Folie à Deux, which was panned by critics and fans alike and flopped at the box office. The director had gone on to say that Joaquin Phoenix had given “one of the best performances I’ve ever seen in my life.” And explained, “I really, really liked it, really. A lot. Like, tremendously, and I went to see it expecting to be impressed by the filmmaking. But I thought it was going to be an arms-length, intellectual exercise that ultimately I wouldn’t think worked like a movie, but that I would appreciate it for what it is.” 

According to Variety, Tarantino would appear on a recent Joe Rogan Experience episode where he addressed how his words caught fire and he’d see comments from various people who reacted very negatively to his impressions. He expounded,

I go on a show and I say that I like Joker 2. Now there’s 150 articles on it. One person listens to the thing and writes an article about it and there’s 150 ripoff articles on that. And then you read the comments: ‘Quentin is a fucking asshole. That movie fucking sucks. He’s a fucking asshole for saying that.’ Why am I a fucking asshole? I liked the fucking movie! That makes me a fucking asshole? You either like the movie or you don’t. I’m not plugging the movie. I’m not doing anything. I’m just saying I like it. Who gives a fuck what I like? What do you care what the fuck I like?”

He continues, “Then they say I’m a fucking asshole for not seeing something. What the fuck do you care what I see or don’t see? Someone will say, ‘Well I think he’s missing out.’ Well I am sure there is a lot of shit I could say you’re missing out on and I don’t care if you miss out on.” Here, it sounds as if he’s addressing his stance on not seeing Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies since he has watched David Lynch’s version, as well as his similar comments on the TV shows Ripley and Shōgun.

Other directors had also come to Joker: Folie à Deux‘s defense upon all the negative reception, including Francis Ford Coppola and John Waters. Waters would comment, “Finally, a love story I can relate to. So insane, so well thought out, so well directed, so much smoking! It’s Jailhouse Rock meets Busby Berkeley with a 9/11 That’s Entertainment! ending that will make you shake your head in cinematic astonishment. Stupid critics. Gaga so good. Joker so right. Die, dumbbells, die!”

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Conclave and Wicked lead the pack when it comes to film nominations for next month’s 30th annual Critics Choice Awards

The Critics Choice Association (CCA) has announced the film nominations for the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, and the mystery thriller Conclave and the stage musical adaptation Wicked are leading the pack this year, with 11 nominations going to each of them. Dune Part Two and the musical thriller Emilia Pérez follow close behind, with 10 nominations each. The winners will be revealed at the Critics Choice Awards gala hosted by Chelsea Handler, which will be broadcast live on E! on Sunday, January 12th, from 7:00 to 10:00pm ET / PT. The gala is being held in the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. The show will also be available to stream the next day on the Peacock streaming service. And by the way, JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray is one of the critics whose votes are being counted for this event!

CCA CEO Joey Berlin provided the following statement: “This year brought us an incredible wealth of storytelling and performances, leading to indescribably close races for nominations. We are honored to be able to celebrate our landmark 30th year of the Critics Choice Awards with this talented group of nominees and are thrilled to bring viewers our best show yet. Knowing how close the balloting for nominations was, we anticipate an exciting evening of high drama on January 12.“

The full list of film category nominations can be found below

BEST PICTURE 
A Complete Unknown 
Anora 
The Brutalist 
Conclave 
Dune: Part Two 
Emilia Pérez 
Nickel Boys 
Sing Sing 
The Substance 
Wicked
 
BEST ACTOR 
Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig – Queer 
Colman Domingo – Sing Sing 
Ralph Fiennes – Conclave 
Hugh Grant – Heretic 
 
BEST ACTRESS 
Cynthia Erivo – Wicked 
Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez 
Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths 
Angelina Jolie – Maria 
Mikey Madison – Anora 
Demi Moore – The Substance 
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 
Yura Borisov – Anora 
Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain 
Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing 
Edward Norton – A Complete Unknown 
Guy Pearce – The Brutalist 
Denzel Washington – Gladiator II 
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 
Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson 
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
Ariana Grande – Wicked 
Margaret Qualley – The Substance 
Isabella Rossellini – Conclave 
Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez 
 
BEST YOUNG ACTOR / ACTRESS 
Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga 
Elliott Heffernan – Blitz 
Maisy Stella – My Old Ass 
Izaac Wang – Didi 
Alisha Weir – Abigail 
Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet 
 
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 
Anora 
Conclave 
Emilia Pérez 
Saturday Night 
Sing Sing 
Wicked 
 
BEST DIRECTOR 
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez 
Sean Baker – Anora 
Edward Berger – Conclave 
Brady Corbet – The Brutalist 
Jon M. Chu – Wicked 
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Two 
 
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY 
Sean Baker – Anora 
Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5 
Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
Jesse Eisenberg – A Real Pain 
Coralie Fargeat – The Substance 
Justin Kuritzkes – Challengers 
 
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY 
Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez 
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox – Wicked
Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley – Sing Sing 
RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys 
Peter Straughan – Conclave
Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part Two 
 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 
Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu  
Alice Brooks – Wicked 
Lol Crawley – The Brutalist  
Stéphane Fontaine – Conclave  
Greig Fraser – Dune: Part Two  
Jomo Fray – Nickel Boys  
 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 
Judy Becker, Patricia Cuccia – The Brutalist 
Nathan Crowley, Lee Sandales – Wicked 
Suzie Davies – Conclave 
Craig Lathrop – Nosferatu  
Arthur Max, Jille Azis, Elli Griff – Gladiator II  
Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau – Dune: Part Two  
 
BEST EDITING 
Sean Baker – Anora
Marco Costa – Challengers 
Nick Emerson – Conclave  
David Jancso – The Brutalist  
Joe Walker – Dune: Part Two
Hansjörg Weißbrich – September 5
 
BEST COSTUME DESIGN 
Lisy Christl – Conclave  
Linda Muir – Nosferatu  
Massimo Cantini Parrini – Maria  
Paul Tazewell – Wicked  
Jacqueline West – Dune: Part Two  
Janty Yates, Dave Crossman – Gladiator II  
 
BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP 
Christine Blundell, Lesa Warrener, Neal Scanlan – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Hair and Makeup Team – Dune: Part Two
Hair and Makeup Team – The Substance  
Frances Hannon, Sarah Nuth, Laura Blount – Wicked  
Traci Loader, Suzanne Stokes-Munton, David White – Nosferatu  
Mike Marino, Sarah Graalman, Aaron Saucier – A Different Man  
 
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 
Mark Bakowski, Pietro Ponti, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould – Gladiator II  
Pablo Helman, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould, David Shirk – Wicked  
Paul Lambert, Stephen James, Rhys Salcombe, Gerd Nefzer – Dune: Part Two 
Luke Millar, David Clayton, Keith Herft, Peter Stubbs – Better Man  
Visual Effects Team – The Substance  
Erik Winquist, Stephen Unterfranz, Paul Story, Rodney Burke – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 
 
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Flow
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

BEST COMEDY 
A Real Pain 
Deadpool & Wolverine 
Hit Man 
My Old Ass 
Saturday Night
Thelma 
 
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 
All We Imagine as Light 
Emilia Pérez 
Flow 
I’m Still Here 
Kneecap 
The Seed of the Sacred Fig 
 
BEST SONG 
“Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
“Compress / Repress” – Challengers – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
“El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
“Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper – Kristen Wiig
“Kiss the Sky” – The Wild Robot – Maren Morris
“Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez – Selena Gomez
 
BEST SCORE 
Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist 
Kris Bowers – The Wild Robot 
Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez 
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Challengers
Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part Two

The Critics Choice Awards are bestowed annually to honor the finest in cinematic and television achievement. Historically, they are the most accurate predictor of Academy Award nominations. The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards show will be executive-produced by Bob Bain Productions and Berlin Entertainment. The Critics Choice Awards are represented by Dan Black at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. Sponsors of the Critics Choice Awards include FIJI Water and Milagro Tequila.

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Jack Quaid stars in an action comedy about a normal joe who uses his unique condition of not feeling pain on a rescue quest.

In the 1999 Pierce Brosnan James Bond film, The World is Not Enough, the villain Renard, played by Robert Carlyle, was a tough opposer for the 00-agent since he couldn’t feel pain. That concept is now being explored with a new twist as Jack Quaid plays an everyday man with a similar trait, only he is harnessing it to become a reluctant hero. Paramount has released the trailer to Novocaine, which stars Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh, Lou Beatty Jr., Van Hengst, Conrad Kemp and Jacob Batalon.

The official synopsis reads,
“When the girl of his dreams (Amber Midthunder) is kidnapped, everyman Nate (Jack Quaid) turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.”

The movie is currently unrated. However, with its concept, the trailer’s balls-to-the-wall tendency to explore every facet of this concept and the graphic action it brings, it stands to reason to predict it will eventually secure an R-rating. The trailer even already shows our hero digging bullets out of his arm, grabbing searing hot items and burning his hands in multiple ways, getting stabbed multiple times, thrown around into walls and getting shards of glass hammered into his fists.

Novocaine is directed by Dan Berk & Robert Olsen from a screenplay by Lars Jacobson. Producers on the film include Drew Simon, Tory Tunnell, Joby Harold, Sam Speiser, Matt Schwartz and Julian Rosenberg. Paul Barbeau, Glen Basner, Josh Adler, Lars Jacobson and Alison Cohen are all on board as executive producers.

Quaid has also completed filming on a sci-fi thriller, titled Companion, which is written by Drew Hancock and caught the attention of Barbarian‘s Zach Cregger. Cregger was so impressed by the screenplay that he considered making the film his directorial follow-up to Barbarian. Instead, Hancock will be making his feature directorial debut with Companion, while Cregger focuses on his own project, titled Weapons. Details on this one are being kept completely under wraps and there have been no announcements about the story or the character Quaid will be playing.

Meanwhile, you can catch Quaid in Novocaine when it opens in theaters on March 14, 2025.

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While Aaron Taylor-Johnson is well cast, Kraven the Hunter suffers from some atrocious dialogue and plotting.

PLOT: As a boy, Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) was mauled by a lion, only to be saved by a mysterious serum that granted him amazing physical and mental powers. Abandoning the criminal empire run by his father (Russell Crowe), Sergei, now known as Kraven, hunts down evildoers, only to be pulled back into his father’s orbit when his half-brother, Dmitri (Fred Hechinger) is kidnapped.

REVIEW: It’s gotten to the point now that when you see the Sony logo before an “in association with Marvel” banner, you can’t help but cringe. The live-action films the studio has made based on Spider-Man’s rogues gallery have been pretty terrible, with Morbius and Madame Web ranking among the worst superhero films ever. The fact that the Venom trilogy was mediocre is something of a triumph for the beleaguered slate of films, but for a while now, the director of Kraven the Hunter, J.C. Chandor, has been promising this would be different.

I went into the movie with decently high hopes, as I’d seen twenty minutes of footage a few weeks ago before interviewing Aaron Taylor-Johnson (look for our interview soon), and liked what I saw. I also think Chandor is a great director, having been a fan of all of his previous films, in particular A Most Violent Year and the underrated Triple Frontier. Sadly, the film is a total mess in a way the isolated bits of footage I saw earlier didn’t reveal.

Like other movies in the Spider-Verse, it feels made by committee, with any of the interesting elements Chandor brings to the film having been washed away in a sea of re-shoots and (I presume) re-edits. The script is a mess, with it never clear just exactly why Kraven hunts down evildoers and if he profits from it (his sprawling jungle hideaway and private pilot makes it seem like he does), with it loaded with corny dialogue that I find it impossible to believe comes from the pen of co-screenwriter Richard Wenk (known to be a very solid scribe). 

The tone of the movie is all over the place. For one thing, this is meant to be a hard R-action film, but there’s a lengthy, twenty-minute section featuring Sergei as a child that feels out of a YA fantasy film and will likely cause a massive chunk of the audience to tune out. When it starts to happen, the action is gory, but the choreography and editing make the action sequences hard to decipher, with no real standout moments to speak of. 

Every once in a while, you get a glimmer of what Chandor might be going for, with the opening ten-minute sequence (partly scored to Basil Poledouris’s music from The Hunt for Red October) having a stylishness and sense of pace, the rest of the movie doesn’t have. The script and many of the performances are pretty clunky, with Ariana DeBose as Kraven’t a future love interest – Calypso stuck with some clunky exposition she has a hard time delivering (who could blame her). 

The villains are a mixed bag, with Alessandro Nivola camping it up as Rhino. At the same time, Christopher Abbott delivers a quiet, almost method-like performance as an assassin based on the comic’s The Foreigner, who shows up too late to make any impact. The best of the three baddies is Russell Crowe as Sergei’s dad, but his screen time is sadly limited. 

All of which leaves us with Aaron Taylor-Johnson. So here’s the thing – Johnson is good as Kraven. He’s got the physical look and a sense of humour that makes me think he could be an A-plus action hero if given the chance. But, they give him next to nothing to work with, with the dialogue often atrocious and groan-worthy, while the movie’s concept about it being the birth of a super-villain is laughably tacked on in the last five minutes. 

While Chandor has advocated for the film throughout its lengthy production, I can’t help but feel like his version of the movie is not what we’re seeing here. Everyone’s been promising this would be “grounded,” but it’s also a movie featuring a man transforming into a rhinoceros. The CGI animals are poorly rendered and are bound to elicit chuckles from the audience that turns out to see this over the holidays. 

Kraven the Hunter’s failure is a shame, as Aaron Taylor-Johnson is well-cast, and had he been left to his own devices, I think Chandor would have delivered a good movie (heck – maybe there’s a fantastic director’s cut sitting on a hard drive somewhere). This feels like one of the bad superhero movies Fox regularly churned out in the 2000s. It’s marginally better than Madame Web or Morbius, but it’s still far from being a legitimately good film – although there was potential. 

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Iconic Events Releasing is bringing the horror film Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare to theatres for three days in January

Jagged Edge Productions and ITN Studios are building The Twisted Childhood Universe, which will consist of horror movies inspired by children’s stories. Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 got the universe started, paving the way for Bambi: The Reckoning, Pinocchio: Unstrung, and Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare (not to mention Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 3), building up to the crossover movie Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble. We’ve known for a while that Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare would be released sometime in 2025, and now we know exactly when it’s going to reach screens. Iconic Events Releasing will be bringing the film to theatres for three days only, from January 13th through the 15th.

Written and directed by Scott Chambers, who is also producing all of these Twisted Childhood movies, the film follows Wendy Darling as she strikes out in an attempt to rescue her brother Michael from “the clutches of the evil Peter Pan.” Along the way she meets Tinkerbell, who in this twisted version of the story will be seen taking heroine, convinced that it’s pixie dust.

Chambers previously told our friends at Bloody Disgusting, “This is tonally an extremely darker film to Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. When dealing with children being abducted, it felt right. All of the films from our Poohniverse will feel different from the last. So, if one isn’t for you, then maybe the next will be. Peter Pan is the most vicious of them all. He is twisted, cruel and cunning.“

Martin Portlock (Scream of the Wolf) plays Peter Pan and is joined in the cast by Megan Placito (Doctors) as Wendy Darling. Also in the cast are Peter Desouza-Feighoney (The Popes Exorcist), Kit Green (The Blazing Cannons), Nicholas Woodeson (Skyfall), Kierston Wareing (Fish Tank), Olumide Olorunfemi (Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Teresa Banham (No One Gets Out Alive), Charity Kase (RuPaul’s Drag Race UK), and Campbell Wallace (Anne). It has already been confirmed that Placito will be reprising the role of Wendy Darling in Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble, which also feature the likes of Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Owl, Piglet, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty, Bambi, The Mad Hatter, Peter Pan, and Tinkerbell.

Chambers is producing Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare alongside Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the director of the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films.

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The David Fincher / David Koepp home invasion thriller Panic Room, starring Jodie Foster, is getting a 4K UHD release

A while back, we featured director David Fincher’s 2002 home invasion thriller Panic Room on a list of hard to find movies, given the fact that the movie had never made it to Blu-ray. Thankfully, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has now decided to make the movie easier to find, as they have announced that they’re giving Panic Room a 4K UHD release on February 18th!

Scripted by David Koepp, Panic Room has the following synopsis: Trapped in their New York brownstone’s panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter, Sarah (Kristen Stewart), play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders—Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared Leto)—during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

The 4K UHD release will feature the following extras: 4K ULTRA HD DISC – Feature presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, supervised by Director David Fincher – English Dolby Atmos + English 5.1 FEATURE + SPECIAL FEATURE BLU-RAY DISCS – Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master – English 5.1 – Special Features: – Commentary by David Fincher – Commentary by Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker and Dwight Yoakam – Commentary by writer David Koepp and special guest – PRE-PRODUCTION: – 6 featurettes on the prep phase, from pre-visualization through testing – Interactive previsualization: Compare the pre-visualization, storyboards, dailies and final film in a multi-angle, multi-audio feature with optional commentary – PRODUCTION: – Shooting Panic Room: An hour-long documentary on the principal photography phase – Makeup effects featurette with Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. – Sequence breakdowns: An interactive look at the creation of four separate scenes in the film – POST-PRODUCTION: – 21 documentaries and featurettes on the visual effects – On Sound Design with Ren Klyce – Digital Intermediate and other featurettes dealing with the post-production phase – A multi-angle look at the scoring session conducted by Howard Shore

The Panic Room 4K will be available as a limited edition steelbook, and an image of the steelbook can be seen at the bottom of this article.

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Cody is a news editor and film critic, focused on the horror arm of JoBlo.com, and writes scripts for videos that are released through the JoBlo Originals and JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channels. In his spare time, he’s a globe-trotting digital nomad, runs a personal blog called Life Between Frames, and writes novels and screenplays.

Eddie Redmayne is joining Julia Roberts and Elizabeth Olsen in the thriller Panic Carefully, directed by Sam Esmail

Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail and Julia Roberts have worked together multiple times already. She starred in the series Homecoming, which he co-created; he was an executive producer on the limited series Gaslit, which she starred in; and she starred in his thriller Leave the World Behind, which was a big hit for the Netflix streaming service, landing on their list of Top 10 Most Popular Movies. As of right now, Leave the World Behind stands as Netflix’s fifth most popular English-language film of all time, with 143.4 million views. Last week, we learned that Esmail and Roberts are going to continue their working relationship with another thriller, this one called Panic Carefully, with Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) set to share the screen with Roberts. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Eddie Redmayne, whose credits include the new version of The Day of the Jackal, the Fantastic Beasts films, and an Oscar-winning performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, is also in the cast.

Esmail will be directing Panic Carefully from his own screenplay. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project is being described as “a paranoid thriller in the vein of Esmail’s Emmy and Golden Globe winner Mr. Robot, as well as The Silence of the Lambs.“ According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story involves the hunt for a cyber terrorist.

The project went out to assorted studios and streamers earlier this year, kicking off an intense bidding war. Warner Bros. came out the winner of that bidding war, and Deadline notes that their victory was “in part due to their commitment to a theatrical run.” So, while Esmail and Roberts had great success taking Leave the World Behind to streaming, they want this one to get more play on the big screen. (Leave the World Behind got a limited theatrical release about two weeks before it started streaming.)

Esmail and Chad Hamilton are producing Panic Carefully for Email Corp. Roberts is also producing the film, as are Scott Stuber, Marisa Yeres Gill, and Lisa Gillan. Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the project for Warner Bros. Filming will take place in England and cameras are expected to start rolling in January.

What do you think of Eddie Redmayne joining Julia Roberts and Elizabeth Olsen in the cast of the Sam Esmail thriller Panic Carefully? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Scott Eastwood finds himself in the middle of a double cross with a possible double agent and Sylvester Stallone is the only one he can trust.

While Sylvester Stallone is enjoying success on his show Tulsa King, he doesn’t stray too far from movies, but it’s looking more and more like his side hustle nowadays. Stallone was recently featured in Armor, which was a low-budget action thriller that primarily focused on a single location on a bridge. In his review, our Alex Maidy said Armor “is nowhere near mediocre due to formulaic action that cannot even muster enough energy to keep attention on screen.” Plus, there’s talk that Sly received a supposed $3.5 million for a single day’s work. Enter the trailer for Alarum, which flaunts Stallone in the marketing but looks as if he’s carved out the same deal for this film.

Grindstone Entertainment, which resides under Lionsgate, has released the trailer, which stars Scott Eastwood (The Fate of the Furious, Suicide Squad), Sylvester Stallone (Rocky franchise, Creed), Willa Fitzgerald (Strange Darling, “Scream: The TV Series”), Mike Colter (Men in Black, “Luke Cage”), Isis Valverde (“Pure Beauty,” “Edge of Desire”) and Joel Cohen (Desperation Road, Savage Salvation). The film is directed by Michael Polish (Twin Falls Idaho, Jackpot) and written by Alexander Vesha (Deadly Impact).

The official synopsis reads,
“Academy Award nominee Sylvester Stallone, Scott Eastwood, Mike Colter, and Willa Fitzgerald star in this explosive action-thriller about two married spies caught in the crosshairs of an international intelligence network that will stop at nothing to obtain a critical asset. Joe (Eastwood) and Lara (Fitzgerald) are agents living off the grid whose quiet retreat at a winter resort is blown to shreds when members of the old guard suspect the two may have joined an elite team of rogue spies, known as ALARUM.“

These side projects that Stallone picks up during break from Tulsa King are pretty lucrative, plus the Rocky star is also working on a new deal for his Paramount+ show with a new contract extension as the cinema icon returns back to Tulsa as Dwight Manfredi. The deal reportedly includes a pay bump for the Italian Stallion that would double his per-episode pay from $750,000 to $1.5 million. That equates to about fifteen million per season if they keep the ten-episode count that comprised the second season.

About the Author

E.J. is a News Editor at JoBlo, as well as a Video Editor, Writer, and Narrator for some of the movie retrospectives on our JoBlo Originals YouTube channel, including Reel Action, Revisited and some of the Top 10 lists. He is a graduate of the film program at Missouri Western State University with concentrations in performance, writing, editing and directing.