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Lionsgate is going hard with its John Wick franchise at CinemaCon 2025 by announcing several projects, including John Wick 5, an animated prequel, and a confirmation for the Donnie Yen-directed spinoff featuring his blind assassin character, Caine. Before you ask, yes, Keanu Reeves returns for John Wick 5, with Chad Stahelski directing and producing alongside Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee.

Donnie Yen spoke to Collider‘s Steve Weintraub in January about possibly directing the Caine spinoff, saying, “I think both the fans, as well as the studio, want this to happen, and we’ll see,” Yen told Weintraub. “I don’t know, Steve. I can only tell you that much. But yes, we are talking, and we are talking intimately. We’ll see what happens.”

“But at the same time, I hold responsibility as well as a pressure that I don’t want to ruin the franchise,” Yen added.

Donnie Yen is returning to the world of “John Wick,” this time with some additional responsibilities.

The martial arts legend will star as Caine, the blind assassin from “John Wick: Chapter 4,” in a new spinoff film for Lionsgate. Yen will also direct the movie, which will begin production in Hong Kong later this year. The announcement was made as part of Lionsgate’s CinemaCon presentation.

Like all other installments in the ever-growing “John Wick” franchise, the Caine movie will be produced by Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee through their Thunder Road banner and by series director Chad Stahelski, who produces through his 87Eleven Entertainment production company. Yen will also serve as an executive producer.

The movie’s logline is being kept under wraps, probably in a locked drawer at the Continental.

Mattson Tomlin has also joined the project to write the film; a previous draft was written by Robert Askins.

The John Wick spinoff starring action legend Donnie Yen has found its director: action legend Donnie Yen.

Yen was already starring in the Lionsgate feature, reprising his role of the formidable blind assassin known as Caine. Now, the action star and filmmaker known for Hong Kong marital arts movies such as the Ip Man series, will step behind the camera to direct the project, the studio announced at its presentation at Cinemacon Tuesday.

The studio also said that Mattson Tomlin, writer of the upcoming The Batman Part II and Netflix’s adaptation of the Keanu Reeves-created comic book Brzrkr, has joined to write the project. The previous draft of the screenplay for the spinoff was written by Robert Askins.

Lionsgate is hoping to begin production later this year.

Producing the feature are Wick franchise producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road as well as Chad Stahelski, the director of the Wick films,...

After years of speculation about the franchise’s future, John Wick: Chapter 5 is officially moving forward at Lionsgate. Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski are both back for the feature, following the previous installment, which ended with the death of the titular assassin.

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson announced at CinemaCon on Tuesday that the studio is in development for a fifth installment in the action film franchise. Lionsgate is developing the movie with Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, franchise director and producer Stahelski and producer-star Reeves.

“Keanu, Chad, Basil and Erica would not return unless they had something truly phenomenal and fresh to say with these characters and this world,” Fogelson said about the franchise that has collected more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. “We can’t wait for audiences to see where the journey takes us next.”

Added Iwanyk and Lee in a joint statement,...

Lionsgate held its official panel at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this morning, finally delivering the announcement that fans have been waiting for. After confirming weeks ago that John Wick 5 was in development, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson revealed that Keanu Reeves will return and reprise his role as the Baba Yaga in the film, with veteran director Chad Stahelski set to helm the fifth installment. Lionsgate is also reuniting with Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who will produce the film alongside Reeves and Stahelski. Plot details and additional casting are being kept under wraps, and the studio declined to give a potential release date. Early development on John Wick 5 is officially underway, and a filming start date has not been set.

Since John Wick: Chapter 4 was released in theaters during the summer of 2023, the road to development for John Wick 5 has been a roller coaster.

Over four films, the titular assassin in the John Wick universe has traveled around the world, leaving the United States behind and globe-trotting to foreign destinations like Japan, Germany, and France. But soon, he’ll go on his biggest journey yet as he departs from live-action and throws himself full steam ahead into an animated journey. Today, during Lionsgate’s presentation at CinemaCon, Adam Fogelson, chair of the studio’s Motion Picture Group, addressed the packed-out Colosseum in Caesars Palace and delivered the tremendous news, revealing that a John Wick animated prequel film was on the way. There are a lot of upsides to the beloved gun-fu franchise going down the animated road for a prequel project, with a major one being that Keanu Reeves will be able to voice the assassin — which he’s expected to do.

Picking up long before the events of the 2014 film thatlaunched the massive franchise,...

John Wick lives…for real. After just announcing that Lionsgate would return to the world of John Wick with an animated prequel film, the studio is in development on a fifth John Wick movie — “Chapter 5” —with Keanu Reeves again set to return to the billion-dollar franchise.

Lionsgate is currently in development of the film, with Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, franchise director and producer Chad Stahelski, and star and producer Reeves.

While Lionsgate wasn’t done with Wick, having already released the series “The Continental,” soon releasing “Ballerina,” and being in the works on a video game, a fifth Wick film was never a certainty, in part because…well….Spoiler…Reeves’ Wick died at the end of the film and we even saw his tombstone. Seemed pretty final. But even death can’t stop John Wick.

The most recent film in the franchise, “John Wick: Chapter 4,...

John Wick isn’t dead. He’s so not dead that Lionsgate is literally exploiting the franchise at full tilt with an animated version, a Donnie Yen directed Caine character spinoff and yes, of course, a John Wick: Chapter 5 with Keanu Reeves returning to star, franchise filmmaker Chad Stahelski back to direct and produce and Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee also returning to produce.

All of this went down at Lionsgate’s beefy CinemaCon presentation this morning at Caesars Palace Colosseum in Las Vegas.

The most recent film in the franchise, John Wick: Chapter 4, took in over $440 million at the worldwide box office, with each of the first four films accomplishing the rare feat of outperforming its predecessor. The franchise as a whole has earned over $1 billion at the global box office. In addition to the four hit films, the John Wick Universe includes two spinoff films,...

John Wick will return in “Chapter 5,” as it was officially announced on Tuesday that Lionsgate is in development on the next film in the billion-dollar franchise. The announcement was made on the CinemaCon stage by Lionsgate Motion Picture Group chair Adam Fogelson.

Lionsgate is teaming on the development of the film with Thunder Road producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, franchise director and producer Chad Stahelski, and star and producer Keanu Reeves.

The most recent film in the franchise, “John Wick: Chapter 4,” took in over $440 million at the worldwide box office, with each of the first four films accomplishing the rare feat of outperforming its predecessor.

“Keanu, Chad, Basil and Erica would not return unless they had something truly phenomenal and fresh to say with these characters and this world,” Fogelson said on the CinemaCon stage. “We can’t wait for audiences to see where the journey takes us next.

It’s the end of Sundance as we know it and Hollywood feels … fine.

The indie film festival, created by Robert Redford in the 1970s but facing a crossroads in recent years with low sales and few breakout hits, is moving to Boulder, Colorado, starting in 2027.

Boulder, which rests about 30 miles north of Denver, beat out a Salt Lake City/Park City hybrid and Cincinnati, Ohio, in the final round of bidding. All of the industry insiders who spoke to TheWrap said the choice was solid, the change welcome and the move absolutely necessary for the long-running festival.

“It’s kind of sad not to go to a Sundance in Park City, but I am also kind of excited about the possibilities and maybe improvements in a different location,” Carla Gutierrez, a filmmaker and editor who’s been going to Sundance since 2004 and most recently attended with her documentary “Frida” in 2024, told TheWrap.

Written & directed by Francis Galluppi, “The Last Stop in Yuma County” is a crime thriller that unfolds almost entirely in a rural rest stop. It primarily follows a traveling salesman who finds himself and a local waitress taken hostage by a couple of bank robbers. The film follows their attempts at escaping this dreadful situation. Jim Cummings, known for his work in “Thunder Road,” stars as the unnamed salesman. Besides him, the film stars Jocelin Donahue (“Doctor Sleep”), Nicholas Logan (“Dark Winds”), Gene Jones (“No Country for Old Men”), Richard Brake, Michael Abbott Jr., Faizon Love, and Siera McCormick in important roles.

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The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:

Francis Galluppi’s “The Last Stop in Yuma County” follows a hostage situation that happens at a remote Arizona rest stop. A traveling salesman and a local waitress get caught up in this trouble by two...

Exclusive: Film tech firm Gathr, known for its “direct to audience” services for specialty film releases, is expanding and has hired a trio of senior executives.

The new arrivals include Neil Creque Williams, Head of Filmmaker Relations & Concierge Services; Jeffrey Abramson, Head of Strategic Partnerships & Brand Marketing; Chris Horton, Senior Strategist, Business Development & Film.

Williams previously produced the Independent Spirit Award and Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominated film Miss Juneteenth. He is an alum of the Sundance Creative Producing Lab, The Gotham Cannes Producer Fellowship and has been supported by the Austin Film Society and Cucalorus. Williams was an inaugural 2023 Blumhouse/K Period Screamwriting fellow for his horror script The Plat-Eye.

Abramson has more than 25 years of experience leading creative business teams at the intersection of storytelling, culture, technology, and brand marketing. He is Deputy Director of Bridge Entertainment Labs, a non-profit dedicated to promoting social cohesion in America. Previously,...

Exclusive: Badlands, the new indie genre label of longtime Sony exec Strauss and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road, has preemptively acquired Hivemind, a new spec script from Peter Gaffney.

Hivemind is billed as an environmental thriller about the evolution of a new breed of killer wasps and the small town authorities who team up to prevent a deadly global outbreak. Gaffney, Adam Rodin and Brad Luff will serve as producers.

The acquisition is the second for Badlands in recent weeks on the heels of Lions, Tigers, and Bears, a creature feature that came in as a pitch from screenwriter Jayson Rothwell. The first project set to emerge from the company, making an aggressive push into the genre space, is Arachnid, a spider thriller directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández and starring Matilda Lutz, which recently wrapped production.

“We went into production six months after acquiring Arachnid,” Strauss told Deadline.

Dave Bautista is returning to the sci-fi genre. After starring in Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy and Denis Villeneuve's two-part film adaptation of Dune, the actor has been tapped to headline the upcoming dystopian thriller, Dreadnought.

According to Deadline, Bautista will reunite with his Bushwick directors, Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, for Dreadnought. The screenplay, written by Joseph Greenberg, follows "Max (Bautista), whose world was devastated when an alien species crash-landed on Earth, unleashing a deadly plague that claimed his wife and much of humanity. In the fragile society that remains, humans have learned to coexist with their extraterrestrial invaders. But for Max, survival isn’t enough," reads the synopsis.

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Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista continues to cement himself as one of modern movie’s most interesting action heroes, with the former MCU actor signing on to lead the upcoming dystopian thriller, Dreadnought. Details of the project come courtesy of Deadline, with WME Independent all set to present Dreadnought at the European Film Market in Berlin. And no doubt many will want to snap the movie up, seeing as it not only finds Bautista in the lead but also sees him teaming up with the producers behind the iconic John Wick franchise.

Bautista will reunite with directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott on Dreadnought. The filmmaking pair and Dune star first worked together on the 2017 action thriller Bushwick, which finds Bautista caught in the middle of an invasion of New York City by a secessionist militia. The action outing proved to be divisive upon release (49% on Rotten Tomatoes), but boasts another gruff,...

Dave Bautista will soon be able to be seen in Paul W.S. Anderson’s newest fantasy action film with Milla Jovovich, In the Lost Lands. Anderson boasted, “With In the Lost Lands, we’ve created a movie with a completely unique visual style and storytelling that uses cutting-edge technology to bring the story to life like never before.” Anderson said in a statement, “So, it was always important to me that it be seen on the big screen. That’s why I couldn’t be more thrilled that Vertical is bringing In the Lost Lands to American theaters.“

Deadline now reports that the former Guardian of the Galaxy will be starring in another dystopian science-fiction film, Dreadnaught. For this movie, Bautista will reunite with his directors of the film Bushwick, Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott. The plot of the film will follow “Max (Bautista), whose world was devastated when an alien species crash-landed on Earth,...

Exclusive: Guardians Of The Galaxy and Dune star Dave Bautista is set to reunite with his Bushwick directors, Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott, to star in dystopian thriller, Dreadnought.

Penned by Joseph Greenberg, the screenplay follows “Max (Bautista), whose world was devastated when an alien species crash-landed on Earth, unleashing a deadly plague that claimed his wife and much of humanity. In the fragile society that remains, humans have learned to coexist with their extraterrestrial invaders. But for Max, survival isn’t enough.

“His older daughter, Greta, is dying from the disease. As her body weakens, an alien Sentinel lurks outside their home, drawing nearer and nearer as Greta takes her final breaths. This silent, unyielding predator is on a mission to collect her body to fulfill an unstoppable metamorphosis ritual. The government sanctions it. Society accepts it. But Max refuses to have anything else taken from him.”

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Exclusive: Badlands, the recently launched indie genre label of longtime Sony exec Strauss and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road, has acquired Jayson Rothwell’s pitch for Lions, Tigers, and Bears, a film inspired by a true story from 2001, involving a lion, tiger, and bear rescued from a drug dealer’s house in Atlanta.

In the pitch, the unsavory characters keeping the animals in captivity get their just desserts when these ultimate predators break free and team up for revenge. In real life, the animals continued to live together and formed a lifelong bond in sanctuary.

The project marks Badlands’ second creature feature collaboration with Rothwell, on the heels of horror thriller Arachnid, directed by Ángel Gómez Hernández and starring Matilda Lutz, which recently wrapped production. Rothwell is otherwise best known for penning Netflix’s Jonas Åkerlund action thriller Polar, starring Mads Mikkelsen.

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XYZ Films and Blue Finch Films have come on to represent North America and international rights, respectively, to the sci-fi horror thriller Redux Redux ahead of its world premiere in the Midnighter section at SXSW in March.

Hailing from brothers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, who were writers on Cobra Kai and co-directed The Block Island Sound and Funeral Kings, the story stars their sister Michaela McManus as Irene Kelly, who travels through parallel universes to kill her daughter’s murderer over and over again. As she grows addicted to revenge, the process begins to jeopardise her own humanity.

The...

XYZ Films and Blue Finch Films have come on to represent North America and international rights, respectively, to the sci-fi horror thriller Redux Redux ahead of its world premiere in the Midnighter section at SXSW in March.

Hailing from brothers Kevin McManus and Matthew McManus, who were writers on Cobra Kai and co-directed The Block Island Sound and Funeral Kings, the story stars their sister Michaela McManus as Irene Kelly, who travels through parallel universes to kill her daughter’s murderer over and over again. As she grows addicted to revenge, the process begins to jeopardise her own humanity.

The...

Hong Won-ki, the South Korean director of recent Busan sales title Gory: A Horror Tale, will direct the K-pop psychological thriller Perfect Girl for Badlands to starAdeline Rudolph and Arden Cho.Upgrade will introduce to EFM buyers next month, with CAA Media Finance handling US rights.

Based on the 2023 Black List script by Lynn Q. Yu, the project is styled as Scream meets Black Swan set in the competitive world of K-pop, where slots are up for grabs as a new super group is about to be unveiled at a massive concert.

When a talented and mysterious new girl is introduced at the last minute,...

Hong Won-ki, the South Korean director of recent Busan sales title Gory: A Horror Tale, will direct the K-pop psychological thriller Perfect Girl for Badlands to starAdeline Rudolph and Arden Cho.Upgrade will introduce to EFM buyers next month, with CAA Media Finance handling US rights.

Based on the 2023 Black List script by Lynn Q. Yu, the project is styled as Scream meets Black Swan set in the competitive world of K-pop, where slots are up for grabs as a new super group is about to be unveiled at a massive concert.

When a talented and mysterious new girl is introduced at the last minute,...

Rolling off her lead role in “Mortel Kombat 2,” Adeline Rudolph will star opposite Arden Cho in “Perfect Girl,” an elevated psychological thriller set in the competitive world of K-pop.

“Perfect Girl” (previously titled “Unnie”) will be directed by genre filmmaker Hong Won-ki, with an original soundtrack created by K-pop powerhouses Sunshine and Moonshine.

Upgrade will introduce the project to buyers in a couple weeks at the EFM in Berlin, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic rights.

The project hails from Badlands, a one-year-old new indie genre label which brings together Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road (“John Wick”) and former Sony executive Scott Strauss.

The screenplay, penned by Lynn Q. Yu, landed on the 2023 Black List script and has been described as a “Scream-meets-Black Swan,” revolving around a brand new K-Pop super group preparing to be launched to the world at a massive concert. “A group of girls...

Adeline Rudolph, star of this fall’s Mortal Kombat 2, and Arden Cho (Partner Track) are set to lead Perfect Girl, a psychological thriller set against the competitive world of K-pop, from director Hong Won-ki (Goedam) and Scott Strauss’s Badlands.

Billed as Scream meets Black Swan, the film is based on a 2023 Black List script by Lynn Q. Yu. We were first to report on director Hong’s attachment last summer when the project was known as Unnie. Upgrade will introduce the project to buyers next week at EFM, with CAA Media Finance handling domestic rights.

Perfect Girl centers on a brand-new K-Pop super group that’s preparing to be launched to the world at a massive concert. A group of girls have trained for years for only four spots, and the final cut is only a week away. The competition is off the charts. But when a talented...

Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat 2) and Arden Cho (Partner Track, Avatar: The Last Airbender) have been cast as the leads in Perfect Girl, a psychological thriller from director Hong Won-ki and Badlands, the genre label set up last year by John Wick producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee’s Thunder Road and longtime Screen Gems executive Scott Strauss.

Based on the 2023 Black List script Unnie by Lynn Q. Yu, Perfect Girl is set in the high-stakes world of K-pop. Described as Scream meets Black Swan, the story follows a group of trainees competing for four coveted spots in a new supergroup. When a talented and mysterious new girl is introduced to the casting competition at the last minute, things start to get strange: Girls are being hunted and attacked one by one.

Upgrade will launch Perfect Girl to international buyers at the European Film Market next month. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights.

Exclusive: Creature feature The Yeti has set cast with Brittany Allen (Dexter: Original Sin), Eric Nelsen (1883), Corbin Bernsen (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and William Sadler (Iron Man 3) joining Jim Cummings (Thunder Road).

Production will begin later this month in Buffalo, New York, on the horror film from recently launched Torfoot Entertainment Group.

As we previously revealed, Radiant Films launched sales at last year’s AFM. The company has inked pre-sales for UK, Germany, and Italy with Plaion; Turkey with Aqua Pinema; India with Empire Networks; Middle East with Phoenicia; and Australia and New Zealand with Rialto. Sales will continue at the upcoming EFM in Berlin.

Pic is co-written and will be co-directed by Gene Gallerano (The First Wave) and William Pisciotta (Thunder Road).

The synopsis reads: “Oil tycoon Merriell Sunday Sr. and renowned adventurer Hollis Bannister have disappeared without a trace. Their last known location is northern Alaska.

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In his autobiography "Born To Run," Bruce Springsteen wrote how when he was first struggling as a musician, songwriting was the skill he chose to concentrate on refining. His writing was "the most distinctive thing [he] had going," he felt back during the early '70s — as do his legions of fans to this day.

When I listen to Springsteen, I don't just feel a story being told or a mood being conjured, I feel the characters, as if years of inner life are conveyed in a few minutes. Springsteen's 1982 song "Atlantic City" is one of the most cinematic I've ever heard, with a simple but evocative story (a desperate young man in love turning to crime). The verses of "Atlantic City" escalate the hopelessness, but one coupled with a refrain of possibility in the chorus.

"Well, I got a job...

The latest scandal in New Jersey politics is a blip on the radar compared to the corruption of former US Senator Bob Menendez, but it’s a minor scandal nevertheless: Congressman Josh Gottheimer has been forced to admit he faked a social media post of an all-Bruce Springsteen Spotify Wrapped of his top songs.

Gottheimer posted the alleged screenshot on Friday (December 6th), appearing to show that his top five tracks were “Thunder Road,” “Because the Night,” “Glory Days,” “Badlands,” and “The Rising.”

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“No surprises here,” the Democratic Representative wrote. “Fun fact: My first ever concert was at Meadowlands to see The Boss!”

Considering the website for his gubernatorial campaign says Gottheimer grew up “catching a Springsteen show every chance he could get,” it all seemed believable enough. Plus, he came out to “Glory Days” while announcing his campaign for governor.

Had New Jersey Monitor editor Terrence T.

It’s not hard to be a Bruce Springsteen fan. Millions of people around the world do it every day effortlessly, relishing the power, the glory, the promise, the majesty, the mystery, and the ministry of rock & roll as only Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen can deliver it. It’s much harder to fake being a Bruce Springsteen fan. And yet that’s somehow the situation Josh Gottheimer, a Democratic politician from — you’ll never believe this — New Jersey, has found himself in.

Gottheimer has represented Jersey’s 5th congressional district...

Eric Church paid tribute to his home state of North Carolina and those affected by the flooding of Hurricane Helene with a performance of “Darkest Hour” at the 2024 CMA Awards.

Dressed in a black velvet blazer and accompanied by a choir (including longtime vocal foil Joanna Cotten), a horn section, and strings, Church delivered a grand version of the song, which he rush-released last month to help raise funds for disaster relief. “I’ll do everything in my power/To take even a minute off your darkest hour,” he sang...

Back in early 2023, it was announced that Best Actor Oscar nominee Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) and Lily James, who was nominated for an Emmy for her performance as Pamela Anderson in Pam & Tommy, had signed on to star in the thriller Relay for director David Mackenzie, whose credits include Outlaw King, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Best Picture nominee Hell or High Water. By the end of April, they were joined in the cast by Sam Worthington of the Avatar franchise and production was underway. A year and a half later, Relay has finally secured a U.S. distribution deal, with Bleecker Street revealing that they’re planning to give the film a theatrical release sometime in 2025.

Worthington and Mackenzie previously worked together on Under the Banner of Heaven. Details on his Relay character have not been revealed.

Mackenzie wrote the screenplay for Relay with Justin Piasecki,...

Buffalo 8 has acquired all North American rights to coming-of-age drama “Disfluency.” The film will open theatrically on Jan. 10th, 2025, with a digital release to follow on Jan. 24th, 2025.

“Disfluency” has fared well in the festival circuit, earning nine Best Narrative Feature jury awards (most notably at the Austin Film Festival), in addition to Best Actress and Best Screenplay at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

The film was executive produced by “Thunder Road” and “Last Stop in Yuma County” filmmaker Jim Cummings, and stars Libe Barer (“Sneaky Pete”), Ariela Barer (“How to Blow Up a Pipeline”), Chelsea Alden (“13 Reasons Why”) and Dylan Arnold (“Oppenheimer”).

The film follows the journey of Jane (Barer) as she retreats to her hometown after unexpectedly failing her final college class. With the support of her friends, family and a nostalgic summer on the lake, Jane comes to terms with the trauma that derailed her senior year.

From White Lightning to Cold Cases: ‘Moonshiners’ Investigates a Stock Car Racer’s Murder Hold on to your stills, “Moonshiners” fans. This time, it’s not about outsmarting the revenuers; it’s about cracking a decades-old cold case. In a special episode titled “Murder on Thunder Road,” airing Tuesday, November 5 at 8/7c on Discovery, Mark, Tim, and […]

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Bruce Springsteen’s recent appearance at a Philadelphia rally for Kamala Harris features in a new campaign ad that the rocker shared on social media just days before the election.

In the ad dubbed “Hopes and Dreams” — a nod to his song “Land of Hope and Dreams,” which he performed at the Temple University rally on Oct. 28 — Springsteen denounces Donald Trump and offers his compelling case why Americans should vote Harris-Walz on Election Day.

“This election is about a group of folks who want to fundamentally undermine our American way of life.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band offered up a fun treat on Halloween night (October 31st), opening their show at the Bell Centre in Montreal with a cover of Ray Parker Jr.’s “Ghostbusters.”

Fan-filmed footage shows the band walking out onto the stage to the spooky instrumental intro of “Ghostbusters,” as Springsteen greeted the crowd with, “Hello, Montreal! Bonsoir!”

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A moment later, drummer Max Weinberg launches the band into cover of the theme song to the classic 1984 movie by the same name. Springsteen sings the familiar lines, “If there’s something strange in your neighborhood/ Who you gonna call?,” as his backup singers and the audience respond with “Ghostbusters!”

The song plays perfectly to Springsteen’s current touring lineup, as the core E Street Band members are enhanced by an extended horn section and a handful of backup singers.

The Montreal show served as...

Philadelphia — Eight days out from the 2024 election, thousands of Pennsylvania Democrats gathered at Temple University’s Liacouras Center in answer to the ugly, grievance-filled ragefest hosted by the Trump campaign at New York’s Madison Square Garden the evening prior.

The Democrats’ event featured performances from Bruce Springsteen and John Legend between speeches from Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, and former President Barack Obama.

Amid the posterboard signs given out by the Harris campaign — emblazoned with the words “Vote,” “Freedom,” and “When We Fight, We Win” — the...

In what might be his biggest starring role in years since he was let go from the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise, Johnny Depp will star alongside Penélope Cruz in an action thriller for Lionsgate and director Marc Webb, the studio announced on Monday.

Depp and Cruz are teaming up on screen for what will be the fourth time in a thriller called “Day Drinker.” They previously starred together in “Blow,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” and “Murder on the Orient Express.”

“Day Drinker” follows a cruise ship bartender who meets a mysterious day drinker — only for both of them to find themselves entangled in a criminal underbelly, and connected in unexpected ways.

Webb is directing from an original spec screenplay by Zach Dean. Dean is the writer of “Fast X,” “The Tomorrow War,” “Deadfall,” and the upcoming “The Gorge” starring Anya Taylor-Joy.

The film is produced by “John Wick...

Lionsgate has closed a deal for Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz to reteam for a fourth time in “Day Drinker,” the studio announced on Monday.

The film will be directed by Marc Webb (“Snow White”). Depp and Cruz previously co-starred in the features “Blow,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” and “Murder on the Orient Express.”

In “Day Drinker,” a cruise ship bartender meets a mysterious day drinker—only for both of them to find themselves entangled in a criminal underbelly, and connected in unexpected ways.

Lionsgate is launching international sales at AFM. Chelsea Kujawa is overseeing the project for Lionsgate. Dan Freedman negotiated the deals for the studio.

The film is produced by Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who produce the “John Wick” franchise for Lionsgate, and Adam Kolbrenner, producer of “The Tomorrow War,” “Free Guy,” and “Prisoners,” and Zach Dean, who also wrote the original spec screenplay.

Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz are set to reunite on the big screen in Lionsgate’s Day Drinker from director Marc Webb (The Amazing Spider-Man), the studio announced this afternoon.

The project will be the pair’s fourth together, on the heels of Blow, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Murder on the Orient Express. First reported months ago — but at that time, with Sydney Sweeney starring opposite Depp — the project will mark the latter’s first big studio outing since the resolution of his defamation case against Amber Heard in 2022.

Based on an original spec screenplay by Zach Dean, Day Drinker watches as a cruise ship bartender meets a mysterious day drinker — only for both of them to find themselves entangled in a criminal underbelly, and connected in unexpected ways.

Producers include Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee (John Wick franchise), Adam Kolbrenner, and Dean.

Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz are reteaming for Day Drinker, a thriller that Marc Webb will direct for Lionsgate.

The company launches international sales on the title this week at the American Film Market. It marks Depp’s most high-profile attempt to mount a Hollywood comeback following the many controversies that arose from his messy divorce from actress Amber Heard. The actor in recent years starred in the French period drama Jeanne du Barry last year and directed the period indie Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness that just played at the Rome Film Festival, but those were not commercial plays and were made with European backers.

Drinker is squarely in the bankable action genre and has the players to prove it. Producing are Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who produce the John Wick franchise for Lionsgate. Adam Kolbrenner, whose credits include The Tomorrow War,...

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band immerses fans in the vibrant world of rock music's most iconic legend. Combining concert footage with intimate interviews, the documentary showcases Springsteen's music and the energy of live performance. Describing his vision as a chance to throw "the biggest party" post-covid, Springsteen invites audiences to experience the joy that live music brings. Directed by Thom Zimny, the film features personal reflections, archival footage, and candid rehearsals, creating a rich tapestry of sound and emotion.

As the band embarks on their first tour in six years, the documentary captures their resilience and evolution. Questions about recapturing their original spark and integrating new members are among the biggest reveals in the Bruce Springsteen documentary, showing the band at a critical juncture. Each song in the Road Diary soundtrack plays a pivotal role, highlighting the track's enduring legacy. For fans eager to explore this musical journey,...

Troy Duffy predicts when The Boondock Saints 3 will be released without his involvement. Duffy wrote and directed the first two films following the Irish-Catholic twin brothers who become vigilantes and clean up Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God. Initially a critical and commercial failure, the first film became a cult classic and was followed by a sequel, The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day in 2009, which was a modest success. Now, The Boondock Saints 3 is in development with Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus reprising their roles.

During an exclusive interview with Screen Rant for the first film's 25th anniversary, Troy Duffy predicted when The Boondock Saints 3 would be released. The original writer and director, who sold the rights to Thunder Road Films, says production is expected to begin in March 2026, end in August, and the third movie should be released in theaters by the end of 2026 or...

Exclusive: U.S. production outfit Torfoot Entertainment Group is launching with the horror movie Yeti, which Radiant Films will launch for next month’s American Film Market in Las Vegas.

Torfoot is an LA-based film and TV firm spearheaded by producer Johnathan Brownlee (The Standoff At Sparrow Creek) and Emmy-winning casting director-turned-producer Ross Meyerson (Damages).

The team is aiming to begin production on The Yeti this winter in New York. The synopsis reads: “Oil tycoon Merriell Sunday Sr. and renowned adventurer Hollis Bannister have disappeared without a trace. Their last known location is northern Alaska. Ellie Bannister and Merriell Sunday Jr., set out to search for their missing fathers and the truth behind what made them vanish. As the rescue team heads deeper into the heart of this frozen landscape, danger mounts. Something has taken notice of their trespassing expedition…and that prehistoric something is now stalking them…hunting them.

Update, 6:22 Pm: Hours after a Jane Roe took Garth Brooks to court on claims of rape and more, the singer is calling the accusations a shakedown for “millions of dollars.”

“For the last two months, I have been hassled to no end with threats, lies, and tragic tales of what my future would be if I did not write a check for many millions of dollars,” Brooks says in a statement his team sent to Deadline this evening. “It has been like having a loaded gun waved in my face.”

The ex-make-up artist and stylist to Brooks and his spouse and fellow country music superstar Trisha Yearwood has said in her filing Thursday in LA Superior Court that she was the victim of an extremely violent attack by the “Friends in Low Places” singer, as well as constant groping, lewd remarks and more for years starting in 2019. Stating that...

Just days after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band delivered an instantly classic set in Asbury Park, New Jersey for the Sea.Hear.Now Festival, the performance has been released as a live album, available on CD and streaming via the live music platform nugs.net.

The set, which take place on September 15th, was a homecoming of sorts for Springsteen and the E Street Band, who first got their start gigging around the Asbury Park area. Among its 30-song setlist were hits like “Dancing in the Dark” and “Born to Run,” plus bust-outs, like the tour premieres of “Blinded by the Light,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?”, “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” and more.

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One highlight from the performance came when Springsteen’s wife, Patti Scialfa, made an appearance for “Tougher Than the Rest.” Earlier this year, Scialfa revealed that she...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band gave Asbury Park, New Jersey a show to remember with an epic headlining set at Sea.Hear.Now festival on Sunday night.

The show was a homecoming for Springsteen and the band, who got their start playing gigs in and around Asbury Park in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Appropriately, the first half of the Sea.Hear.Now setlist leaned heavily into material from Springsteen’s debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., as well as other Jersey-centric songs. Notably, Springsteen performed tracks like “Blinded by the Light,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?,” “Thundercrack,” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” for the first time in nearly a decade.

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Elsewhere in the set, Springsteen was joined by his wife, Patti Scialfa, for a performance of “Tougher Than the Rest.” Scialfa recently revealed that she...

Joe Dante, best known for directing 1984's "Gremlins" and its sequel, thrives in the 1950s B-movie genre. Flashes of cartoon comedy can also be found in his work, such as 2003's "Looney Tunes: Back in Action," along with satirical dark comedic aspects in films like "The Burbs." The '80s experienced a boom in sci-fi adjacent films that mimicked the Spielbergian formula where the wondrous nostalgia of childhood mixed with the otherworldly awe of extraterrestrial existence, and Dante incorporated aspects of this in his 1985 science fantasy, "Explorers."

There are several factors behind the commercial failure that greeted the film on its release: a rushed production, along with the release of "Back to the Future" around the same time, overshadowed most of the film's merits, which were appraised positively by critics at the time. Although "Explorers" is no "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," the film's innate charm helped it garner a cult following over the years,...

Kevin & Matthew McManus, the brothers behind The Block Island Sound, have wrapped production on a new horror movie titled Redux Redux, Variety reports this afternoon.

In the upcoming Redux Redux, “Irene Kelly (Michaela McManus) travels through the multiverse, killing her daughter’s murderer over and over again.

“She grows addicted to the revenge streak, putting her own humanity in jeopardy.”

Michaela McManus stars alongside Jim Cummings, Jeremy Holm, Taylor Misiak (“Dave”), Grace Van Dien (“Stranger Things”) and Stella Marcus.

Redux Redux is the first movie from the McManus brothers’ Mothership Motion Pictures.

“We couldn’t be more excited to be working with the entire Mothership team to bring Redux Redux to the big screen,” said the McManus brothers. “We’re thrilled to follow up The Block Island Sound with another genre bender starring our sister in her most violent role yet. We can’t wait to share it with audiences next year.

Cinelounge Sunset is partnering with Rustic Films to present an outstanding weekend of movies on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood this weekend, August 17 & August 18.

The lineup includes Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead movies Resolution and The Endless, as well as Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road, a shorts block, and more.

Here’s the full lineup…

‘Resolution’

Resolution. Horror/Mystery. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Scott Moorhead. Written by Benson. Produced by Benson, Moorhead, and David Clarke Lawson Jr.

From Rustic Films. Starring Peter Cilelloa, Vinny Curran, Emily Montague, Kurt David Anderson, Skyler Meacham, Josh Higgins.

Soon-to-be-a-dad Michael makes a last-ditch effort to save his longtime but addicted friend Chris from a foreseeable drug related death. Visiting Chris and handcuffing him to an exposed plumbing pipe, Michael forces his buddy into detox, but while watching over his friend he also discovers that all is not right within the territory Chris has drifted into.

The world of “John Wick” is continuing to expand its footprint with Lionsgate Television developing a new sequel series.

The project, titled “John Wick: Under the High Table,” would pick up immediately after the events of “John Wick: Chapter 4.” The studio is currently shopping the idea, with no network or streaming service attached.

“John Wick has left the world of the High Table in a tenuous position and a collection of new characters will look to make a name for themselves while some of the franchise stalwart characters remain committed to the old-world order,” the longline states. “The series will combine new and old and thrust the Wick universe into a new age.”

The show comes from the team behind the “John Wick” film franchise, with Chad Stahelski directing the pilot and executive producing alongside his company 87Eleven Entertainment, Keanu Reeves and Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee of Thunder Road.