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Black Sabbath wrote the book on heavy, and their first decade’s worth of albums represent the Old Testament in the book of metal. From the clanging opening chords of “Black Sabbath” and lumbering siren’s call of “War Pigs” to the demon’s cry of “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” and proto-thrash riffs of “Symptom of the Universe,” the Iron Man laid the blueprint for the genre on their first eight albums.

Those LPs will now make up a new vinyl-only box set, The Vinyl Collection 1970 – 1978, which is due out September 6th.

Santa Claus is coming to town and he’ll be played by Mel Gibson.

The actor, 63, will take on the role of the man in red in the forthcoming comedy Fatman, which tells the story of a 12-year-old who hires a hitman to kill Santa after the child gets a lump of coal in his stocking. Meanwhile, this rowdy Santa is already down on his luck due to his business decline.

“Mel is the perfect choice as Kris Kringle like we’ve never seen him before,” producer Nadine de Barros said in a statement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I...

Exclusive: Colin Farrell is to star in the BBC’s adaptation of The North Water. Deadline understands that the Minority Report star will front the series, written and directed by Lean on Pete and 45 Years’ Andrew Haigh, and produced by Top of the Lake producer See-Saw Films.

Farrell plays Henry Drax in the drama, a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

Deadline understands that the BBC is in talks with a number of A-list actors for the role of...

Foo Fighters played a sold-out pre-Super Bowl concert Saturday night in Atlanta, a gig that was live-streamed over Twitter.

The Atlanta Station show featured a number of special guests, including Zac Brown and Tom Morello, who joined the Foo Fighters at the two-hour mark of the video below to perform Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs.”

The performance marked the third time Brown had performed the Paranoid classic with Foo Fighters, a collaboration that happened twice in 2014 following the country singer’s appearance on Sonic Highways.

After “War Pigs,” Morello and...

An amazing lineup of artists gathered last night at L.A.’s Forum to honor the late Chris Cornell, including Metallica, Foo Fighters, Josh Homme, Ryan Adams, the Melvins, Miley Cyrus, Ziggy Marley, and the surviving members of Audioslave, Temple of the Dog and Soundgarden.

“We all know how music can change us, but Chris did something more extraordinary – he changed music and paved the way for so many from Seattle to across the globe,” Cornell’s widow Vicky told the crowd. “And that legacy, and his influence, will live for generations to come.

Tagline: "Evil Begets Evil." The Appearance is a dramatic thriller. From director Kurt Knight (We All Fall Down), the film follows several inquisitors as they investigate strange goings-on. A witch is caught, leading to a brutal interrogation. As well, The Appearance was recently shown in theatres, this month. Now, the film is slated for a home entertainment launch, on DVD and Blu-ray formats. Gravitas Ventures will handle the release. And, The Appearance centrally stars: Jake Stormoen (War Pigs), Kristian Nairn ("Ripper Street"), Adam Johnson and several others. A preview of the film's latest launch is hosted here. The official synopsis mentions the inquisitor Mateho (Stormoen). He is tasked, by the Church, to question a supposed witch. When science cannot explain her powers, Mateho is forced to admit the presence of a supernatural force. The Appearance is currently available on Amazon Prime. On February 12th, this title will show on DVD and Blu-ray formats.

Guy Ritchie is rounding up quite a cast for his next feature ‘Toff Guys’. The newest name added to the impressive cast list comes in the form of Widows’ Colin Farrell.

Farrell joins Matthew McConaughey, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong and Michelle Dockery on the cast.

Ritchie’s film will focus on the collision of old-money, European wealth and the modern marijuana industrial complex. It follows a British drug lord attempting to cash out on his highly profitable empire by selling it off to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires. McConaughey will play the role of an ultimate “inside outsider”. Details for Beckinsale and Golding’s characters are yet to be revealed.

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Ritchie alongside Marn Davies and Ivan Atkinson have written the script on the film which is set to start filming in Autumn.

Mel Gibson has signed on to direct, executive produce, and co-write a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s classic Western “Wild Bunch,” a person with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

Released in 1969 and starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine, “Wild Bunch” follows a group of aging outlaws trying to go for one last heist in the dying days of the Wild West. Gibson will co-write his version with Bryan Bagby.

Gibson, who earned a Best Director Oscar nomination for “Hacksaw Ridge” in 2017, will star in the upcoming action film “War Pigs” with Colin Farrell. The next project he plans to direct is another WWII drama, “Destroyer,” which is still looking for financing with the hopes of starting shooting early next year.

Gibson and Bagby are repped by CAA. The deal was first reported by Deadline.

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Ozzy Osbourne has always delighted in playing dealmaker with his audiences: “The crazier you fuckers go, the longer we play,” he told the crowd at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s Ppl Center several times on Thursday night. Looking around, though, he may have been the craziest one there. Although the 10,000 or so fans screamed, clapped their hands, chanted “Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy” like sports fans and even peppered in the random, heart-spilling “I love you, Ozzy” from the upper seats — by all metrics the kind of crowd any performer would kill for — he...

Exclusive: Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell are set to star in War Pigs, a Millennium Films actioner that Tommy Wirkola will direct, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian producing through di Bonaventura Productions, along with Matt Berenson. Production is to start October.

Scripted by Nick Ball & John Niven, the project first got set up as The Takedown. A group of disillusioned ex-marines go on one last mission to get revenge on the cartel that murdered one of their own while making off with millions of dollars in drug money. Farrell plays Drex and Gibson plays The Pastor.

Gibson will make the movie before focusing on directing the WWII action film Destroyer with Mark Wahlberg starring, and financing being sewn up. Farrell wrapped the Steve McQueen-directed Widows and the Tim Burton-directed Dumbo, and will play Oliver North in an Amazon miniseries about the Iran Contra scandal. The Norwegian-born...