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On Friday February 7 2025, NBC broadcasts an episode of the series Lopez vs Lopez!

Lopez vs Lockout Season 3 Episode 13 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Lopez vs Lopez,” titled “Lopez vs Lockout,” promises to deliver a mix of humor and heartfelt moments. This episode continues to explore the relationship between a father and daughter who have had their share of struggles. As they work to reconnect, the audience can expect to see the ups and downs that come with their unique family dynamic.

In “Lopez vs Lockout,” the father and daughter face a new challenge that tests their bond. With the rest of their quirky family involved, the episode is likely to highlight the chaos and joy that comes from their interactions. The show’s charm lies in its ability to balance dysfunction with warmth, and this episode seems set to continue that trend.

Viewers can look forward to a storyline filled with laughter,...

Lopez vs Lopez fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 3 Episode 13 episode titled Lopez vs Lockout!

Find out everything you need to know about the Lopez vs Lockout episode of Lopez vs Lopez, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Lopez vs Lopez Lopez vs Lockout Season 3 Episode 13 Preview

The upcoming episode of “Lopez vs Lopez,” titled “Lopez vs Lockout,” promises to bring a mix of laughter and heartfelt moments as the show continues to explore the relationship between George Lopez and his daughter, Mayan. Set to air on NBC at 8:30 Pm on February 7, 2025, this episode will dive deeper into the complexities of their reconnection after years of estrangement.

In “Lopez vs Lockout,” George and Mayan will find themselves navigating the challenges of family dynamics while dealing with the unique quirks of their offbeat family. As...

In the upcoming episode of “Lopez vs Lopez,” titled “Lopez vs Lockout,” viewers can expect another heartfelt and humorous journey between a father and daughter who are working to mend their relationship. This show has captured the essence of family dynamics, showcasing the ups and downs of reconnecting after years apart. As they navigate their unique challenges, the episode promises to deliver both laughter and poignant moments.

In this particular episode, the father-daughter duo finds themselves in a tricky situation that leads to a lockout. The chaos that ensues offers a perfect backdrop for the comedic and touching interactions that define the series. With the rest of their quirky family around, the episode is sure to highlight the importance of sticking together, even when times get tough.

As they face their latest challenge, viewers will see how the characters grow and learn from each other. The blend of dysfunction and...

A criminally lesser-known sci-fi action movie is all set to land on free streaming in the new year, meaning audiences can start things off right by discovering this delightful B-movie throwback starring MCU actor and Memento star Guy Pearce. Titled Lockout, the action flick borrows from all manner of cinematic greats, including the likes of Die Hard and John Carpenter’s Escape From New York, to deliver an experience that, while not fresh, is all kinds of fun.

Directed by James Mather and Stephen Saint Leger from a script written by Mather, Saint Leger, and Léon: The Professional and Taken’s Luc Besson, who also serves as an executive producer, Lockout stars Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Joe Gilgun, Lennie James and Peter Stormare alongside Guy Pearce. The action sci-fi movie is due to hit the free streaming platform Tubi on January 1, and you can check out the gloriously high-concept below.

From ‘Bad Boys’ to ‘Fargo,’ Tubi is bringing a few great titles to streaming in January 2025. All titles below begin streaming for free on January 1 unless otherwise noted:

Originals Action Don’T Mess With Grandma (1/24):

A drunk Army ranger must fight off the vicious robbers who plan to loot the cabin belonging to his sweet, oblivious grandmother.

Documentary TMZ Presents: UFO Revolution S2 (1/15):

Embed with UFO journalist Jeremy Corbell on his mission for transparency culminating in the explosive November 13, 2024 UFO congressional hearing.

Thriller Sugar Mama (1/3):

When a businesswoman pursues a relationship with a sugar baby for research purposes, her curiosity with him spirals into obsession.

A Kill For A Kill (1/17):

A deceptive motivational speaker becomes entangled in a deadly game with a fan who suggests they kill each other’s spouses.

Happy Anniversary (1/31):

A young woman assumes three identities to prey upon the men who...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of January titles. The Tubi January 2025 slate features new Tubi Originals, TV series, and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library of over 250,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of exclusive Originals, and nearly 250 live channels.

You can watch the Tubi January 2025 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

Tubi Originals...

No longer just a day, Black Friday sales now kick off the week before Thanksgiving.

In fact, Amazon has already launched sales on dozens of horror (and genre-adjacent) 4K Ultra HDs, Blu-rays, and DVD, compiled below.

These discounts aren’t guaranteed to last, so act fast!

4K Uhd Collections:

Dune / Dune: Part Two – $29.99 The Dark Knight Trilogy – $29.99 Rosemary’s Baby / Pet Sematary / Crawl / Smile / Sweeney Todd – $39.99 Friday the 13th Part 2 / Breakdown / World War Z / Orphan: First Kill – $47.39 Jurassic World: 6-Movie Collection – $49.99 The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy – $54.99 The Ring Collection – $59.29 Mad Max: 5-Film Collection – $69.99 Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment – $80.00 Universal Classic Monsters: 8-Film Collection – $96.98

4K Uhd Movies:

Escape From L.A. – $8.99 Cloverfield – $8.99 Brawl In Cell Block 99 – $9.96 Talk To Me – $9.99 King Kong (2005) – $10.99 Godzilla (2014) – $10.99 Kong: Skull Island – $10.99 Godzilla: King of the Monsters – $10.99 Godzilla vs Kong – $10.99 The Thing – $10.99 Shaun of the Dead – $10.99 The Shining – $10.99 A Quiet Place – $10.99 M3GAN – $10.99 Nope – $10.99 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse...

Post-covid Lockdown, I took a different approach to comic books.

Throughout my life, I’ve primarily followed Marvel and DC Comics, with the occasional dabbling in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I even enjoyed comics based on licensed franchises such as cartoons during my childhood.

But after the world opened up again, I felt something was missing. The way I consumed comics began to change.

Where was that excitement to turn the page? Why had I begun to feel less giddy as my eyes darted from panel to panel? The writing and the art were fascinating, but I needed to step outside of this comfort zone I’d lived in. I’ll always be a true believer in truth, justice, and a better tomorrow, but I wanted to step beyond.

I wanted stories that went against the norm. No capes, no cowls, just experiences. Bizarre. Relatable. Gritty. Wholesome. So, I took the dip.

Genre filmmaking legend John Carpenter has recently taken to Letterboxd to write some frank reviews of his own movies and others. The results are incredible.

Having made some of the greatest genre movies ever made, John Carpenter has quite deservedly shifted down a gear or two over the past decade or so. These days, he’s keeping himself busy with his music, playing videogames (he really loves Fallout 76), holding the occasional mercurial interview with the press – and, as it turns out, writing the odd review on Letterboxd.

Brilliantly, as spotted by Twitter’s Haunted Hippie (via our own John Moore), Carpenter has even cast his jaded eye over his own movies. Take Halloween II, for example, which he’s long admitted he wrote for the money. Here’s his Letterboxd review:

They paid me more money than I had ever seen to write a sequel to a film that did not need one.

The following article is written by Michael Lee Nirenberg, author of the forthcoming oral history Cinematic Immunity.

In light of recent labor actions by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA that have shut down commercial film and television for the foreseeable future, it’s a prime opportunity to share an excerpt from my forthcoming oral-history book, Cinematic Immunity. The 1990 Producer Lockout is a lesser-known chapter in the tense history of Hollywood’s labor relations. Personally, I only know about it from having worked with people who survived it. During the 2007 writer’s strike I was a rookie movie-tv scenic artist in United Scenic Artists Local 829. I got my union card earlier that year and was getting a crash course in organized labor.

During the 1990 negotiations with IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) the studios were pushing what was called the Hollywood Basic contract onto New York unions. They used this contract on the West Coast,...

The Chronicles of Riddick is a distinct franchise, and its most recent installment Riddick takes inspiration from a lot of other sci-fi movies, many of which are perfect candidates for viewing afterward. In the third movie in the trilogy, Vin Diesel's antihero Riddick has abdicated the throne of the Necromonger Empire and gone on a search for his home world of Furya, only to get stranded on a remote planet filled with danger everywhere. Not only is he being hunted by Mud Demons and all manner of wild creatures, but his distress beacon has also brought mercenaries and bounty hunters to his location.

In order to safely get off the world, everyone has to put their differences aside and work together to survive scorching heat, bloodthirsty aliens, and backstabbing betrayals. Fortunately, Riddick's full powers and abilities are more desirable than the bounty on his head, and he helps keep...

Spies have always been the center of action thrillers like the James Bond and Jason Bourne franchises. But, a new breed of espionage story has become popular in recent years. Chronicling the more realistic world of spycraft, which involves psychological measures on the spies and their targets, this new type of story trades explosions and car chases for dialogue and back-room dealings. While that may sound less exciting, you have not seen A Spy Among Friends (read our review).

Telling the true story of Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott, A Spy Among Friends tells the intricate and complex path that led to the discovery of a network of Soviet spies operating within the British secret intelligence agency. Based on the acclaimed book by Ben MacIntyre, A Spy Among Friends dramatizes how Elliott and Philby, long-time friends and colleagues, played a cat-and-mouse game with each other that eventually led to one...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And sometimes we’re lucky enough to talk to them directly!

Today is one of those glorious days. Conor and I are joined by Guy Pearce, the incomparable actor who’s got a new film coming out in theaters – Memory (April 29th!) – and plenty of accomplished past work to dig into as well.

We focus on The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hard Word, and Lockout (a.k.a. Space Jail). Plenty more is touched on in our 25 minutes of Guy Talk. Pearce explains his disappointment in Gillian Armstrong’s Death Defying Acts getting buried by Harvey Weinstein fifteen years ago, gets honest about certain movies he deems his “divorce films,” and highlights other B-Sides he’d...

Horror-Comedy Sci-fi Christmas Comic X-Maschina to Launch on Kickstarter: "Ho Ho Homicide! X- Maschina, a new horror-comedy sci-fi Christmas comic from creators Steve Urena, Misty Graves (Co-host on The Longbox of Darkness Podcast), and artist Lane Lloyd is coming to Kickstarter! The project will be live from December 1stto February 1st, 2021.

Twis'the year 2045,

And Santa is leaving

Christmas behind

He’s just stopped believing...

“Teaming up with Lane Lloyd and Misty Graves has made this Grinch love Christmas. Together we combined our favorite things: horror, humor, science fiction, and Christmas to create the perfect holiday concoction that we hope turns into a Holiday tradition.” - Steve Urena

The robots are taking over, and AI is snotty!

They’re judging everyone to be extremely naughty!

"Our Santa story is about what it takes to shine a light into the dark caverns of one’s soul, find that spark of Christmas joy,...

More than two weeks after Ariel Emanuel stepped down as a Live Nation board member after 14 years, the Department of Justice announced that he and fellow top Endeavor officer Mark Shapiro resigned their board positions after the DOJ expressed antitrust concerns, according to a DOJ statement Monday (June 21). The DOJ’s concern was that Emanuel’s and Shapiro’s “positions on the Live Nation Board created an illegal interlocking directorate,” i.e. a situation where one person — or an agent of one person or company — serves as an officer or director of two companies.

However, according to an SEC filing, Emanuel actually resigned on June 3, “effective immediately,” with Live Nation stating the move “was not the result of any disagreement with the company on any matter relating to the company’s operations, policies or practices.”

Emanuel had planned to leave following the launch of Endeavor’s IPO in April, Billboard reported earlier this month,...

Cinema has gone through many interesting phases. There was a time where there were two movies about the Lambada. We've seen films like Armegeddon and Deep Impact compete to be the number one in showing how the world is going to end. Platoon and Full Metal Jacket competed to be the Vietnam film of the 1980s, and in process kickstarted a whole genre of films about that conflict. Does anybody remember when just about every film was almost put in 3D? However, has there even been any time as interesting as that time that Hollywood tried to cash in on disco and roller skating with the film Skatetown, U.S.A.?

With other roller skating films like the seemingly better known Roller Boogie and Xandau, that were also trying to cash on this roller-disco fad, Skatetown U.S.A. is the standout. This film, centered around one night at a...

Lockout, starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace, is the best sci-fi prison break movie available on Netflix right now.

“Prison break movies are a dime a dozen. Going back to The Great Escape, there seems to be no shortage of masterminded criminals who can muscle their way out of maximum security detention. Whether it’s Cool Hand Luke or even Chicken Run, it’s a tried and true genre.”

Read more at Inverse.

Few movies are worse than one that’s a disappointing adaptation of your favorite book. Check out the ten worst sinners in recent years.

“Watching a film adaptation of your favorite book is a risky business. At best, you might walk away feeling entertained but slightly disappointed that certain characters or scenes didn’t make it into the movie. At worst, you could end up livid that filmmakers somehow got everything so wrong.”

Read more at Mental Floss.

In a powerful alliance, Paris-based premium kids content producer Cottonwood Media, German public broadcaster Zdf and its co-pro and distribution arm Zdf Enterprises, HBO Max and Brazil’s Globo are teaming to produce “Theodosia,” a big new live action kids adventure series targeting family audiences.

No budget is given for the 26-part half hour series. Its combination, however, of elements which make for high-end entertainment – period costume, action and foreseeable heavy Vxf – suggest this is another big play by two of Europe’s champions of ambitious live-action kids shows.

One is Cottonwood Media, the kids and family production company at Paris and L.A -based Federation Entertainment whose credits include Studiocanal’s Cannes 2019 pre-sales movie hit “Around the World in 80 Days,” to be screened at Berlin.

The other, Zdf and Zdfe, has a storied recent history in live action kids shows. “Theodosia” will “continue our successful Zdf live action productions such as ‘H2O,...

The name EuropaCorp might not mean much on first glance, but any self-respecting fan of the action genre has seen at least a handful of the production company’s movies. Founded by Luc Besson, EuropaCorp specializes in mid-budget and almost universally mediocre actioners that tend to provide a halfway decent slice of Friday night entertainment before fading entirely from memory. Responsible for the Transporter and Taken franchises along with Colombiana, Lockout, 3 Days to Kill, Brick Mansions, Anna and many more, you know exactly what to expect when you see their logo play in front of the credits.

Now, one of the studio’s more forgotten titles has become the latest unremarkable movie to have found an unexpected second life on Netflix, as From Paris with Love currently ranks as the eighth most-watched film on the streaming service in the United States. Though the reason behind its sudden burst of...

If you’ve seen even just one mid-budget and completely forgettable action movie in the last fifteen years, then there’s a distinct possibility that Luc Besson may have been involved.

The writer, director and producer has delivered some solid genre work behind the camera with the likes of La Femme Nikita, Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element and Lucy, but his EuropaCorp production company made their name churning out a series of generic shoot em’ ups that convinced a roster of A-list talents to try their luck at becoming action stars.

The most successful experiment by far was Taken, which launched Liam Neeson towards an unlikely late-career resurgence as an action hero, but for the most part, EuropaCorp’s output has been characterized by tepid reviews and lukewarm box office numbers. The Transporter was the only other movie lucky enough to spawn a franchise, but Jet Li’s Unleashed,...

A lot of underrated films regularly get a second life on streaming services years after release, and Netflix houses perhaps the most massive collection of these often forgotten experiences. 2020 has already seen plenty of examples of this, such as when Guy Pearce’s previously overlooked sci-fi thriller Lockout got noticed again after it became extremely popular and appeared on Netflix’s Top 10 list, or how Johnny Depp’s gangster flick Public Enemies picked up a lot of attention when it rapidly climbed the charts and gained some new fans.

Subscribers who enjoy discovering these types of films will be delighted to hear that September 7th marks the arrival of another criminally underrated movie that flew under the radar when it first released in theaters back in 2016, and if history repeats itself, it may find quite a following as a streaming option.

Midnight Special is a sci-fi thriller that follows Roy...

As the continuous presence of Adam Sandler more than shows, Netflix‘s Top 10 most-watched list is far from a barometer of quality. Admittedly, the best movies to be found on the streaming service often make their way to the top of the rankings, as does their lineup of star-powered blockbusters, but in recent months the charts have been throwing up a lot more surprises than usual.

Of course, a lot of this has to do with the continued effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, with millions of people finding themselves with a whole lot more free time than they’ve been used to, so it hardly comes a surprise that viewership numbers for every major platform have gone through the roof since March. That being said, some of the titles to rise to the upper echelons of the Top 10 have come completely out of nowhere, and it presents a bizarre snapshot...

On the July 10, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing: […]

The post Water Cooler: Hamilton, Palm Springs, Starship Troopers, Entourage, The Exorcist, Princess Bride, Japan Sinks: 2020, Walk Hard, Devolution, Downtown Disney, Lockout, Drive-In Movies appeared first on /Film.

Every couple of days we like to spotlight a film on Netflix that might’ve flown under most people’s radar upon its initial theatrical release, or just been under-appreciated at the time, but is now finding itself with newfound popularity.

It’s a surprisingly frequent trend as well, especially in this time of global lockdown. Indeed, it seems several times a week Netflix updates their Top 10 lists only to have a totally surprising/random movie wind up in a rather high spot. Or, in some cases, the surprise is seeing that film on the list at all. I mean, remember when 2010’s The Last Airbender, widely considered to be one of the worst movies ever made, ended up on the list of Netflix’s Top 10 Movies, and stayed there for several days?

Yes, it’s always fascinating to see what people are watching and today, Lockout has found itself creeping onto the aforementioned list,...

As the global lockdown continues, and folks begin seeking more and more ways to keep themselves entertained, Netflix has done a terrific job in helping us all, adding brand new movies and TV shows on a daily basis. And today is no different.

It might not be the meatiest content drop we’ve seen, but if you’ve found yourself seeking something fresh lately, having already binged through most of the streaming service’s top titles, you may be interested to know that 5 new films and 1 new TV show were added to Netflix today. And you can check out the full list of what arrived down below.

5 New Movies Added Today

Aerials (2016) In Paradox (2019) Lockout (2012) Si Doel the Movie (2018) Si Doel the Movie 2 (2019)

1 New TV Series Added Today

Scissor Seven (Season 2) Netflix Original

So, that’s your lot. Hardly the most appealing batch of movies and TV shows, and...

The "All Out War" of The Walking Dead Season 8 brought carnage to all of the communities and characters in the AMC series, and one of the most moving scenes of the entire season took place between Eric (Jordan Woods-Robinson) and Aaron (Ross Marquand). With Lionsgate releasing The Walking Dead Season 8 on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital beginning August 21st, we've been provided with an exclusive bonus feature clip that goes behind the scenes of Eric and Aaron's emotional (and heart-wrenching) scene.

From the Press Release: Santa Monica, CA – Worlds collide as “All Out War” breaks out between the factions when AMC’s blockbuster hit series “The Walking Dead”: The Complete Eighth Season arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital August 21 from Lionsgate. The explosive eighth season bridges the stories between “The Walking Dead” and its spinoff, “Fear the Walking Dead,” leading to a thrilling battle for freedom paved with casualties and tragedy.

There's been a bit of a shake-up with Sony's Bloodshot movie. The Valiant Comics adaptation has been in the works for some time now and just recently kicked off production, as announced by star Vin Diesel on Instagram. Now, just as filming has gotten underway, one of the core cast members, Michael Sheen, has been forced to exit the project. He's set to be replaced by Guy Pearce, who entered the situation in a hurry as the studio was in need of a replacement rather quickly.

Michael Sheen, according to a new report, was forced to depart the project over scheduling conflicts. That left room for Sony to enter into negotiations with Guy Pearce, who is in talks to join the Bloodshot ensemble currently. Pearce is no stranger to comic book movies, having starred in Shane Black's Iron Man 3. He's also a well-regarded actor with years of experience under his belt,...

Truth be told many people were not clamouring for a sequel to the 2013 prison break actioner Escape Plan, which is not the most memorable entry in its genre but was a tough throwback to the ‘80s and ‘90s and famed as the first full feature teaming (save for their brief scenes in The Expendables franchise) of action icons Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film was effective, boasted some great action, performances and a generous cast, so hopefully a sequel could at least offer some more fun right? Oh so wrong!

Schwarzenegger wisely sidesteps a sequel which bares a few worrying signs that all is not well, including the fact it was shot and then shelved, only attaining a home video release in the States and that a third film is already filmed and on the way! Escape Plan 2 is a sequel that tries and fails to go bigger and forgets to go better.

From The Fifth Element to Lucy, Besson’s gender-splicing sci-fi films have never played by Hollywood’s rules. Now he’s taking the biggest gamble of his career by sending Cara Delevingne into space in Valerian

No one needs a hit right now more than Luc Besson. His production company, EuropaCorp, recently posted record losses of $135m. He was ordered last year to pay nearly half a million dollars after being found guilty of plagiarising John Carpenter’s Escape from New York in his 2012 screenplay Lockout. And his new futuristic adventure, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is the most expensive independent movie ever made, with a budget of around $200m. The film needs to crack at least $400m worldwide (like his Scarlett Johansson action fantasy Lucy) to push the company back into the black. Right now, that looks as far fetched as any of the film’s 28th-century intergalactic escapades.

Return to the 1970s when the inspirational drama Showing Roots, starring Maggie Grace and Uzo Aduba, arrives on DVD at Walmart on June 20 from Lionsgate.

Return to the 1970s when the inspirational drama Showing Roots arrives on DVD at Walmart on June 20 from Lionsgate. The film tells the story of two women who cross racial boundaries to form a friendship and fight against inequality in their small town. Maggie Grace and Uzo Aduba lead an all-star cast that includes Adam Brody, Elizabeth McGovern, and Cicely Tyson.From director Michael Wilson (The Trip to Bountiful), the Showing Roots DVD includes a behind-the-scenes featurette and will be available for the suggested retail price of $14.98.

In 1977, as the miniseries “Roots” hits the airwaves, two women are inspired to try and integrate their small Southern town. In a place where there are still “right” and “wrong” sides of the tracks, these two young women — one white,...

Aftermath Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maggie Grace will be Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand from Lionsgate June 6th

Witness the gripping story of two lives forever bound by tragedy when Aftermath arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital HD), DVD and On Demand June 6 from Lionsgate. Inspired by true events, Golden Globe®winner Arnold Schwarzenegger (1977, New Star of the Year – Actor, Stay Hungry) stars as a husband fearlessly seeking revenge on the air traffic controller responsible for his family’s death. The AftermathBlu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $24.99 and $19.98, respectively.

Roman’s (Schwarzenegger) life changes forever when he loses his wife and daughter in a plane crash. He attempts to move on from the tragedy but soon finds that he cannot face life without confronting Jake (Scoot McNairy), the air traffic controller responsible for the accident.

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger Expendables Franchise, Maggie, Terminator Franchise

Scoot McNairy 12 Years a Slave,...

Simon Brew Feb 9, 2017

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maggie Grace star in Aftermath. Here’s the first trailer…

He’s currently on American TV screens as the host of Celebrity Apprentice, but Arnold Schwarzenegger has found time to fit in another movie too. He’s taken the lead in Aftermath, a film that co-stars Maggie Grace and Scott McNairy.

The movie is heading to cinemas in the Us and video on demand in early April, and it’s being released in UK cinemas on April 7th 2017 too.

Here, then, is the first trailer for the film, along with a synopsis. See what you make of this…

Here's the synopsis:

Two strangers’ lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Inspired by actual events, Aftermath tells a story of guilt and revenge after an air traffic controller’s (Scoot McNairy) error causes the death of a construction foreman’s (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wife and daughter.

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been watching Celebrity Apprentice because its him… Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Get To The Choppah”!!! in Predator will forever go down as one those great iconic Hollywood one-liners. His role as a grieving father in the Zombie apocalypse film Maggie showed a different side to the one-time Governor of California.

Now comes his turn as a father and husband bent on vengeance.

In cinemas and On-Demand on April 7th, watch the new trailer for Aftermath.

Two strangers’ lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Aftermath is inspired by the remarkable true story of the events that unfolded when a Russian passenger plane collided with a cargo plane over Germany in 2002. 71 people die.

Aftermath tells a story of guilt and revenge after an air traffic controller’s (Scoot McNairy) error causes the death of a construction foreman’s (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wife and daughter.

Worlds collide in the new trailer for Aftermath, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy (Our Brand Is Crisis, 12 Years A Slave) and Maggie Grace (The Taken Series, Lockout), alongside Martin Donovan. Catch the intense thriller, inspired by actual events, hitting theaters and on-demand April 7th! In addition to the trailer, we also have the first poster featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

This new trailer for Aftermath debuted on YouTube today, teasing quite the unique story. Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Inspired by actual events, Aftermath tells a story of guilt and revenge after an air traffic controller's (Scoot McNairy) error causes the death of a construction foreman's (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wife and daughter. We're choosing not to include any actual details about the true story the film is based on, since there will be some huge spoilers revealed if we did so.

The supporting cast is rounded out by Martin Donovan,...

Whatever you think about the films of Luc Besson, it’s hard not to admire their huge ambitions. From 12-year-old hit-woman thriller “Leon: The Professional” to science-fiction visions like “The Fifth Element” and “Lucy,” Besson has endless ideas that always have the potential to deliver big time. His next film, “Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets,” certainly fits the bill, and it seems like it’s going to be his most blockbuster effort to date. The movie’s source material is the graphic novel series “Valerian and Laureline,” which has one of those grand space opera stories that seemed like a no brainer for a film adaptation.

Read More: Comic Con 2016: Luc Besson’s ‘Valerian’ Footage Teases ‘Star Wars’-Level Ambition and ‘Fifth Element’ Fun

Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne star as government operatives charged with maintaining order throughout the universe. According to the film’s official...

Director John Carpenter's 1981 thriller Escape From New York celebrated its 35th anniversary this summer, and this timeless classic continues to inspire audiences to this day. Die-hard fans will be pleased to learn that they'll be able to own their very own countdown watch as worn by Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken in this dark sci-fi adventure. This watch is becoming a reality through a crowd funding campaign by the Ridgewood Watch Company.

As of now, the Kickstarter campaign has raised $48,772 of its $200,000 goal, with 34 days left in the campaign. These watches aren't exactly cheap, with the Lifeclock One "Snake Edition" starting at $399 and the high-end Uspf costing $799. While these watches will certainly cost a pretty penny, you'll definitely get your money's worth, since the Lifeclock One is much more than just a countdown watch. Here's the official description of this watch, inspired by the John Carpenter film.

"In John Carpenter's famous masterpiece,...

NEWSThe news from Brazil these days is focused on the Olympics, but the country's film culture has just gone through a shuddering convulsion with massive cuts to the Brazilian Cinematheque that, after an uproar, have been withheld. Luc Besson, the French mega-producer and director, has been ordered to pay €465,000 in damages to John Carpenter, his co-writer and StudioCanal for plagiarism of Carpenter's Escape from New York in Besson's 2012 film Lockout.The complete Venice Film Festival 2016 lineup is out. What are we looking forward to most? Terrence Malick's IMAX documentary Voyage of Time, and new films by Lav Diaz (The Woman Who Left), Andrei Konchalovsky (Paradise), Ulrich Siedl (Safari), Amir Naderi (Monte) and Sergei Loznitsa (Austerlitz).Recommended VIEWINGDespite some bumps, we continue to be champions of M. Night Shyamalan. The trailer for his latest, Split, seems to be made in the same lower budget style that inspired his last—and excellent—thriller,...

They say there is nothing new under the sun, but there is surely a difference between homage and plagiarism. That is the lesson dispensed this week by a Paris appeals court, which has ruled that Luc Besson, his EuropaCorp production company, and the co-writers/directors of the 2012 film Lockout (Stephen St. Leger and James Mather) plagiarized 1981’s Escape From New York.

This is the second ruling in the case. At the end of 2015, the court found in favour of Carpenter and his team, and awarded them $95,000. Carpenter’s camp had originally asked for $2.4 million. Besson’s team filed an appeal, however, and lost again. The result of this final ruling is that Luc Besson and his filmmaking associates must now pay over $500,000 to John Carpenter, his co-writer Nick Castle, and the production company StudioCanal.

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Given how, er ‘similar’ some movie plotlines tend to be to others, we’re surprised this sort of story doesn’t come up more often. Just take a look, for instance, at how many movies ‘pay tribute’ to something like Death Wish.

Anyway: filmmaker Luc Besson – currently hard at work on Valerian – has now been ordered by a court in Paris to pay John Carpenter the best part of half a million dollars. The reason? Plagiarism. One of Besson's projects has been ruled to be far too close to one of Carpenter's.

The two films at the centre of this are Carpenter’s classic Escape From New York, and the fun space-based jaunt Lockout of a few years' back, that Besson co-wrote and produced.

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A few years back, in the heady days of 2012, Luc Besson co-write, alongside directors Stephen S. Leger and James Mather, and took the executive producer role on Lock Out, a sci-fi actioner which saw Guy Pierce charged with rescuing the President’s daughter from a hi-tech space jail overrun by hardened criminals. Just looking at that brief synopsis, you may see what a lot of people saw, that it was Very similar to John Crapenter’s 1981 classic Escape from New York. One person who definitely thought so was Carpenter himself, who took Besson to court over the glaring similarities, and via Yahoo, we now have a verdict, with a Paris appeals court coming down in favour of Carpenter, ordering Besson to pay $500,000 after being found guilty of plagiarism. The basic premise of Lockout is indeed eerily similar to Escape from New York, and to a lesser extent it’s sequel Escape from L.A.,...

Do you remember the 2012 thriller Lockout from producer Luc Besson? While it may have slipped fairly quickly out of the public consciousness, John Carpenter certainly hasn't forgotten about it. And how could he? The movie has now been proven in court to be an almost exact replica of his 1981 cult classic Escape From New York, which introduced Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken.

Luc Besson has been ordered to pay John Carpenter half a million dollars after being found guilty of plagiarism, with the court ruling that Lockout directly ripped off the story in Escape From New York. Besson originally denied that his film was a copycat. In the original Escape From New York, New York's Manhattan Island has become a prison that houses the country's worst criminals. Snake is tasked with breaking in to save the president, whose plane has crashed within the borders of this massive walled off compound.

When the sci-fi action flick Lockout arrived in theaters in 2012, many reviews pegged the film written by Luc Besson as a half-ass remake of John Carpenter‘s 1981 classic Escape from New York with the action transported to a space prison instead of a dark future. It appears critics weren’t the only ones annoyed with […]

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2012’s fun-but-dumb sci-fi caper Lockout is becoming an increasingly expensive movie for co-writer and producer Luc Besson, who was forced last year by a French court to pay director John Carpenter for ripping off Escape From New York with the plot of the Guy Pearce-starring film. Back then, the amounts levied against Besson’s EuropaCorp production company were relatively minor—80,000 euros in all, split between Carpenter, his co-writer Nick Castle, and the film’s rights holder—but the appeals process has caused the bill to steadily pile up.

According to Deadline, a judge ruled today that Besson and company now owe 450,000 euros—roughly $500,000—to Carpenter for the now-legally plagiarized film, which sees Guy Pearce play the “athletic, rebellious, and cynical hero” type that Carpenter apparently owns in perpetuity. That’s a lot of potential funding for the director’s ongoing, keyboard-heavy music tours ...

Luc Besson and his EuropaCorp production company are out $500,000 (or 450,000 euros) following a ruling in a French appeals court Friday that the writer/director had plagiarized John Carpenter's Escape from New York with his 2012 sci-fi actioner Lockout, Deadline reports. The judgment, which found that Lockout "massively borrowed key elements" from Carpenter's 1981 cult classic, came down after Besson appealed an initial court ruling that ordered he and the film's co-writers and directors Stephen St. Leger and James Mather to pay Carpenter, screenwriter Nick Castle and Escape from New York rights-holder StudioCanal a measly $95,000 (or 85,000 euros). Whoops! Carpenter sought $3.3 million in his original suit, alleging Besson (who wrote Lockout's story and co-wrote the film's script in addition to producing the film) copied his 1981 hit and its 1996 sequel Escape from L.A. with its plot about a wrongly-convicted former CIA agent (Guy Pearce) who is offered his freedom if he can successfully rescue the U.

A Paris appeals court has ruled that Luc Besson must pay more than $500,000 (450,000 euros) in damages to John Carpenter and rights holder StudioCanal for plagiarizing Carpenter’s 1981 classic Escape From New York when he made the 2012 film Lockout. Agence France-Presse reported on the ruling today. This comes after Besson had appealed an original ruling in the case last fall that ordered Besson, his EuropaCorp production company and Besson’s Lockout co-writers/directors…...

You might be thinking you heard this news already, and in a way, you have. Last fall, a French court ruled in John Carpenter‘s favor after he took EuropaCorp and screenwriters Stephen St. Leger and James Mather to court alleging that Luc Besson‘s 2012 film “Lockout” was a ripoff of “Escape From New York.” Besson, who is credited […]

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Filmmaker Luc Besson has lost his appeal over a plagiarism case regarding the 2012 sci-fi film "Lockout" and how close the film is to John Carpenter's 1981 classic "Escape From New York".

Besson is credited with co-writing the screenplay and named in the suit which went before the courts last Fall who ruled in Carpenter's favor. Besson appealed the decision, and unfortunately for him the appeals court this week said verdict still stands.

Now, EuropaCorp, Besson and screenwriters Stephen St. Leger and James Mather have to pay Carpenter damages. The original ruling was for a total of 80,000 euros but the appeals court substantially increased the amount. Even so, it was a long way from the 2.4 million Carpenter was asking for.

In the ruling last year, the court said the surface differences of the film such as the setting and more modern hero were "not enough to differentiate the two films.

An appeals court has ruled that French filmmaker Luc Besson is guilty of plagiarizing from John Carpenter’s 1981 classic “Escape From New York” and must now pay the fellow filmmaker nearly half a million dollars.

As Yahoo reports, Besson has long denied that his 2012 thriller, “Lockout,” was a copy of Carpenter’s Kurt Russell-starring actioner. In Carpenter’s film, Russell plays a former government agent who is tasked with retrieving the U.S. president from the island of Manhattan — which has been turned into a massive prison — after his plane crashes there (thanks, Air Force One, thanks a lot). In “Lockout,” Pearce is a convict sent to a giant space jail who is given the chance to win back his freedom if he can rescue the U.S. president’s daughter, who is trapped in said giant space jail.

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The French filmmaker Luc Besson has been ordered to pay Hollywood’s self-styled “master of horror”, John Carpenter, nearly €450,000 for plagiarising his classic 1981 movie Escape from New York, according to a report published online on Friday.

The director of The Fifth Element and Nikita had denied that his 2012 film Lockout copied the cult futuristic thriller in which New York’s Manhattan island is a giant prison overrun by its inmates.

It’s always exciting to see a big-budget original sci-fi idea take flight, even when its director is someone as hit-and-miss as Luc Besson, who has delivered some straight-up classics to the genre (The Fifth Element, among others) but also his fair share of duds (Lucy and Lockout, anyone? Anyone? I didn’t think so).

His latest, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, is well into shooting, and there are some major reasons to be excited about it, as is highlighted in a set of new photos on Besson’s Facebook. The cast, led by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, is tremendously stacked, and the aesthetic Besson is gunning for here seems to fall somewhere between Speed Racer and Ex Machina in a way that could be really fun if executed correctly.

Moreover, the plot, based on a series of comics, is at least ambitious. DeHaan and Delevingne...