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Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy's classic sci-fi sports movie starring Wolverine actor Hugh Jackman will soon hit a major streaming service. Real Steel will arrive on Peacock on January 1.

Directed and co-produced by Levy for DreamWorks Pictures, Real Steel is based on Richard Matheson's short story "Steel," published in the May 1956 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and adapted into a 1963 Twilight Zone episode. The movie features a former boxer whose sport is now performed by robot competitors, leading him to build and train his own robot with his son. The film also starred the McU's Anthony Mackie and Evangeline Lilly. Olga Fonda, Kari Yune, Kevin Durand, Hope Davis, James Rebhorn, and Gregory Sims also had roles in Real Steel.

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Real Steel director Shawn Levy is well aware that fans are craving a sequel to the 2011 sci-fi sports movie starring Hugh Jackman. While a sequel is still waiting to be greenlit, Levy shared that the franchise's forthcoming series on Disney+ has found its writing team.

In an interview with Collider at CinemaCon 2024, Levy was asked if the Real Steel Disney+ series, which was announced in January 2022, had a writing team. "Gosh, do I need to lie? Yes is the answer," the director said with a laugh. Levy previously offered an update on the small-screen continuation of Real Steel in December 2022, where he shared that he was "fiercely protective" of the franchise. "I'd rather make no show than the wrong show," he said at the time. "And I finally heard a take that takes the lore of the movie and does some really exciting things with it. I'm finally getting really excited about where we're headed.

Fans of the 2011 sci-fi movie Real Steel will be happy to learn that a possible sequel to the film is constantly a topic of discussion for its director and leading star. Deadpool & Wolverine's Shawn Levy recently disclosed that he and Hugh Jackman still talk about Real Steel 2.

Levy was in attendance at Las Vegas' Cinemacon, where he presented a new Deadpool & Wolverine footage. The filmmaker told Screen Rant at the film industry event about his Real Steel 2 musings with Jackman, "We always talk about Real Steel 2. Because the world won't let us forget, and I'm glad for that," he said. The comment keeps hopes alive for a sequel to the original, which was a modest box-office success, grossing almost $300 million worldwide against its $110 million production budget. The movie garnered mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and scored a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 84th Academy Awards.

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Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Gregory Sims, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Connor Paolo, Mac Brandt | Written by Johnny Lozano, Michael McClung | Directed by Mark Burman

Ambush, from director Mark Burman and his co-writers Johnny Lozano and Michael McClung (American Martyr) is the latest film to try and turn one of the most divisive events in American history, the Vietnam War, into mainstream entertainment. Despite a burst of “Namsploitation” films like Missing in Action, The Last Hunter and Siege of Firebase Gloria in the 1980s, the war has resisted attempts to make it the subject of action films, and this doesn’t seem likely to change that.

General Drummond sends Special Forces Captain Mora to a remote firebase to pick up a binder full of names and locations of Vietnamese operatives. Before he can bring it back to headquarters the Viet Cong attack and steal the binder back. This does not sit well with...

Boasting an intriguing premise, a compelling ensemble and frequently crisp, handsome filmmaking, Mark Burman’s “Ambush” almost qualifies as an above-average Vietnam-era nailbiter — were it not for the hopelessly below-average performances contributed by the two actors whose names stand tallest in its credits block. Aaron Eckhart and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, usually complex and appealing even in roles as small as these, play characters perched lazily outside the main story while Connor Paolo, Gregory Sims, Jason Genao and others do the narrative heavy lifting that remains after their more sellable co-stars cashed their paychecks.

Nevertheless smarter and more entertaining than one might expect from a small-scale, outwardly familiar story like this, “Ambush” feels like a throwback — mostly in a good way — to the ‘Namsploitation films that companies like Cannon churned out in the 1980s, when stories about the war were at their most commercially popular.

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Deals close in UK, Australia, France, Germany, South Korea, Middle East.

Highland Film Group has closed multiple territory sales on Aaron Eckhart Vietnam War action thriller Ambush which has been filming in Colombia and relocates to southern California at the end of the month.

Saban Films is set to release Ambush in North America and Highland has licensed rights in the UK (Signature), France and French-speaking Switzerland (Crome Films), Germany, Benelux and German-speaking Switzerland (Splendid Film), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution), Italy (Notorious Pictures), Scandinavia (Mis.Label) and South Korea (Jane & U).

Further deals have closed in Taiwan (Cai...

Chicago – Try selling a friend on paying to see a movie with you about machine-operated boxing where humans control robots for money.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Just call your friend on his Motorola DynaTAC retro brickphone and say: “Hey, Billy! Remember all those swell nights we had as kids when I smoked you every time in Rock’em Sock’em Robots with our two dueling robot boxers mechanically manipulated by us? There’s a new movie out that pays homage to all those times you wasted trying to decapitate my robot’s head.”

Read Adam Fendelman’s full review of “Real Steel”.

From that vapid premise alone, you’d likely have better luck snagging a date to a film about vaginal dentata.

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This latest installment of Soundtrack Round Up kicks off with White Lion, a film about a poor little lion cub called Letsatsi who is outcast from his family and forced to undergo trials and tribulations before he may take his rightful place as leader of his pride as an adult. Sound familiar? White Lion (as far as I can tell from the soundtrack’s cover art) implements live action lions, however, so it might actually be quite interesting to watch. The film’s score is by Philip Miller and is similarly derivative, though not in an unpleasant way – ‘Chicken Hok and the Porcupine’ is rather fun. The soundtrack as well as the plot evokes memories of a certain Disney film, though perhaps that is symptomatic of any music that includes African chants and vocalisations over light orchestrations. Seventh track ‘Mother’ is weirdly reminiscent of the lullaby from Ocarina of Time.

Last weekend Dread Central decided to get a bit of culture and headed over to Sacred Fools Theater to check out film/TV/viral director Ben Rock's (Alien Raiders) intense new project, Baal.

Based on the 1918 story by Bertolt Brecht, Baal is the trippy little story about a destructive and alcoholic poet named Baal (played by Gregory Sims) who destroys anything and anyone in his path. Baal has no issue with seducing friends' wives and girlfriends, deflowering young teenage girls, and drinking himself into a stupor on a regular basis. The world is for Baal's taking, no matter what the cost.

While not necessarily horror, the ramifications of Baal's downward spiral into excess are quite horrific as he manages to leave a body count in his wake. The reinterpretation of Brecht's story by Peter Mellencamp is bold, startling, and devastating. When the play finishes, you can...