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Thanks to the success of billion dollar brands "G.I. Joe" and "Transformers", Paramount continues developing Hasbro Studio's "M.A.S.K.", aka 'Mobile Armored Strike Kommand', to be directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay by Chis Bremner, described as "a contemporary subculture movie with a youth empowerment angle":

"...'Matt Trakker' and his allies battle massive mutated creatures in the bowels of the Earth as an internal power struggle threatens to tear the 'M.A.S.K.' team apart. But if M.A.S.K. survives the monsters, can they survive each other?..."

Created by Kenner, then acquired by Hasbro, "M.A.S.K." originally follows the fight between an underground task force, led by 'Matt Trakker' and the criminal organization 'V.E.N.O.M.'. aka 'Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem' led by 'Myles Mahem'.

After its initial launch in 1985, the franchise spawned four series of action figures,...

Thanks to the movie success of toy brands "G.I. Joe" and "Transformers", Paramount continues developing Hasbro Studio's "M.A.S.K.", aka 'Mobile Armored Strike Kommand', to be directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay by Chis Bremner, described as "a contemporary subculture movie with a youth empowerment angle":

"...'Matt Trakker' and his allies battle massive mutated creatures in the bowels of the Earth as an internal power struggle threatens to tear the 'M.A.S.K.' team apart. But if M.A.S.K. survives the monsters, can they survive each other?..."

Created by Kenner, then acquired by Hasbro, "M.A.S.K." originally follows the fight between an underground task force, led by 'Matt Trakker' and the criminal organization 'V.E.N.O.M.'. aka 'Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem' led by 'Myles Mahem'.

After its initial launch in 1985, the franchise...

Thanks to the success of billion dollar brands "G.I. Joe" and "Transformers", Paramount continues developing Hasbro Studio's "M.A.S.K.", aka 'Mobile Armored Strike Kommand', to be directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay by Chis Bremner, described as "a contemporary subculture movie with a youth empowerment angle":

"...'Matt Trakker' and his allies battle massive mutated creatures in the bowels of the Earth as an internal power struggle threatens to tear the 'M.A.S.K.' team apart. But if M.A.S.K. survives the monsters, can they survive each other?..."

Created by Kenner, then acquired by Hasbro, "M.A.S.K." originally follows the fight between an underground task force, led by 'Matt Trakker' and the criminal organization 'V.E.N.O.M.'. aka 'Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem' led by 'Myles Mahem'.

After its initial launch in 1985, the franchise spawned four series of action figures,...

Jeff Fowler (“Sonic the Hedgehog”) will direct a live-action CGI-hybrid feature film reimagining of “Pink Panther” for MGM, the studio announced on Thursday.

Chris Bremner will write the script.

Lawrence Mirisch, Julie Andrews Edwards of Geoffrey Productions, Rideback’s Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich will produce. Walter Mirisch and Rideback’s Ryan Halprin will executive produce.

“The Pink Panther” is MGM’s longest and most successful comedy franchise, created by writer-director Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews Edwards’ late husband, in partnership with producer Walter Mirisch.

“Popular the world over, the legacy of the iconic Pink Panther has endured for more than 50 years and continues to be discovered by new generations,” says Michael De Luca, MGM Film Group Chairman and Pamela Abdy, MGM Film Group President, in a statement to TheWrap. “We are so happy to come together with Jeff, Chris, Larry, Julie, Dan, Jonathan, Walter and Ryan to bring one of...

Hasbro have been desperate for years to turn their most lucrative toy lines into blockbuster movie franchises, and the results have been less than stellar so far. Michael Bay’s Transformers series may have raked in close to $4.5 billion at the box office, but the quality seemed to get progressively worse with each subsequent sequel, not to mention takings dropping by $500 million between Age of Extinction and The Last Knight.

Competing scripts were commissioned earlier this year for a new entry, one a straightforward reboot written by Joby Harold and the other a Beast Wars adaptation to be scripted by James Vanderbilt. It’s the former that seems to be moving quicker, though, with Creed II‘s Steven Caple Jr. hired to direct earlier this week.

Not only that, but insider Mikey Sutton is now claiming that this is the start of the Hasbro Cinematic Universe taking shape, with How to Train Your Dragon...

Exclusive: Will Gluck is set to direct the upcoming cop-con man feature Blackfriars for eOne.

Set in 1978, Blackfriars is the true story of a Boston police officer and a con-man-turned-witness, who become unlikely friends hiding out in Bermuda, ultimately perpetrating a con on the Boston Da they’re tasked to serve. Chris Bremner wrote the screenplay. eOne’s Brian Goldner will produce under his Altar Rock label alongside Gluck and Jodi Hildebrand under their Olive Bridge Entertainment banner.

Gluck’s feature credits, include Sony’s Peter Rabbit franchise. The first movie grossed $351M WW and the sequel Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway is set for a Jan. 15, 2021 release. He also helmed Annie, Easy A and Friends With Benefits. Gluck and Olive Bridge Entertainment are represented by UTA and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern.

Bremner most recently wrote the highest grossing movie of 2020, Bad Boys for Life which made $424.7M. He is...

The 1980s cartoon favorite finds a new streaming home!

“Thunder….Thunder….ThunderCats! Hooooooooooooo!”

If just hearing those words gave you a Pavlovian impulse to grab a Rubik’s cube and some bagel bites, you are not alone. Although never as popular as a say G.I. Joe or a Jem, ThunderCats was another successful cartoon series based on a popular toy line — in this case one in which alien felines squared off against an evil mummy. Because 1980s, awesome.

Debuting in syndication in 1985 and usually scheduled in after school time slots alongside shows like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Transformers, M.A.S.K. and, er, Heathcliff, the show’s initial run spawned 130 episodes of feline inter-spacial conflict. In it the wake of the show’s immediate popularity came the success of not only the Ljn toy line that kicked the whole saga off but ancillary products like comics and clothes,...

Thanks to the success of billion dollar brands "G.I. Joe" and "Transformers", Paramount continues developing Hasbro Studio's "M.A.S.K.", aka 'Mobile Armored Strike Kommand', to be directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay by Chis Bremner, described as "a contemporary subculture movie with a youth empowerment angle": 

"...'Matt Trakker' and his allies battle massive mutated creatures in the bowels of the Earth as an internal power struggle threatens to tear the 'M.A.S.K.' team apart. But if M.A.S.K. survives the monsters, can they survive each other?..."

Created by Kenner, then acquired by Hasbro, "M.A.S.K." originally follows the fight between an underground task force, led by 'Matt Trakker' and the criminal organization 'V.E.N.O.M.'. aka 'Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem' led by 'Myles Mahem'.

After its initial launch in 1985, the...

Bad Boys for Life screenwriter Chris Bremner has been hired to script the upcoming film M.A.S.K., based on the popular toy line from the 1980s. As reported by THR, the film is another joint production between Paramount and Hasbro, who have enjoyed billions of dollars of success with the Transformers franchise. M.A.S.K. was a toy line by Kenner that aimed to combine the best parts of competing toy lines G.I. Joe and Transformers. The toys (and subsequent cartoon series) followed the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, a task force of commandos driving transforming armored …...

Paramount has tapped Bad Boys for Life co-writer Chris Bremner to write their upcoming M.A.S.K. movie. The Fate of the Furious and Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray has been attached to helm the project for nearly two years now. It is believed Gray will still direct the long-awaited movie, though no production start has been revealed. Gray is also on board as a producer for the movie, which is based on the iconic 1980s cartoon and toy line.

M.A.S.K. stands for Mobile Armored Strike Kommand and was launched as a cartoon series and toy line in 1985. A live-action movie has been in development for years now and for a while, it looked like it had been placed on the backburner. However, now that Chris Bremner has been brought on, it appears that Hasbro and Paramount are ready to finally move forward with the project. It's unclear what direction Bremner will take the story,...

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Want a quality action film, but you only have an hour and a half? Step this way...

Looking back over the genre, action films definitely haven’t suffered from the trend to make everything longer. They’ve always been pretty long, regularly clocking in at over two hours. Perhaps because of all the slo-mo? But while the sweet spot for action classics seems to be the 100-110 minute mark, there are those that have cut the genre right down to basics, and succeeded all the more for it.

Below is my pick of 25 great action films 90 minutes or under. Even more so than other genres, action crosses many other films - picking a pure ‘action’ flick is all but impossible. So below I’ve chosen films that retain action sequences as their main narrative device, and keep the action at the heart of the movie, rather than as a extra.

The beautiful Duchess of Cambridge has the kind of beauty girls everywhere covet--and now, thanks to a September Vanity Fair article, Kate's beauty must-haves are out of the bag! Get the details here! Kate Middleton, 30, is one of the most beautiful women in the world, and since she's always in the public eye, maintaining her appearance is a virtue! In a new article in September's Vanity Fair, the Duchess dishes her buzz-worthy beauty secret: Before official engagements, she swears by a $250 bee-venom facial by Deborah Mitchell of London's Hale Clinic and the Heaven salon in Shropsire. The treatment is a natural alternative to Botox and was recommended to her by Camilla soon after her engagement. Kate has reportedly been a convert ever since. She even uses the Heaven Bee Venom Mask at home and loves the results. Though exotic, this treatment just might be the priciest thing in her regimen: As it turns out,...