Month: March 2022

Sony has released the trailer for the action-thrilled “Bullet Train” starring Brad Pitt.  The film, based upon Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, comes from the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, with a screenplay by Zak Olkewicz.  Bullet Train is produced by Kelly McCormick, David Leitch and Antoine Fuqua.

In addition to Pitt, Bullet Train stars Joey King. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon and Benito A Martínez Ocasio.

Bullet Train arrives in theaters July 15. You can view the trailer at the link – here.

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AMC has announced its new ‘Walking Dead’ spinoff, ‘Isle of the Dead,’ which will follow Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s characters, Maggie and Negan. The Walking Dead ends this year in its 11th season.

The six-episode series will see Maggie and Negan’s uneasy partnership as they ‘travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.’

Walking Dead writer Eli Jorné will showrun and executive produce with Cohan and Morgan and Scott Gimple.  Cohan said in a statement: “Maggie is very close to my heart and I’m excited to continue her journey against the iconic backdrop of New York City, alongside my friend and collaborator, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. I cannot wait for the fans to see what we have in store for Maggie and Negan.”

Morgan added in a statement, “I’m delighted that Negan and Maggie’s journey continues. Walkers in an urban setting has always been such a cool image, but 5th Avenue, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty? The greatest city in the world?? The backdrop is amazing, but it’s the story that Eli Jorné cooked up that is even better.”

Isle of the Dead is expected to premiere in 2023.

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Pamela Anderson is set to make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in Chicago, in an eight-week engagement running from April 12 through June 5 at the Ambassador Theatre in N.Y.C.

The 54-year-old Anderson said in a press release:  “I have always been a huge fan of Bob Fosse’s & Gwen Verdon’s work. Ann Reinking, too. Playing Roxie Hart is a dream fulfilled.  Performing Fosse, you don’t have time to get in your head. You can’t dance, sing and think at the same time. There is a freedom, a unique joy in knowing it’s all about the work. Playing Roxie Hart is a sweet escape for me.”

The role of Roxie Hart was originated by Gwen Verdon in the 1975 Broadway production. Other big names who have stepped into Roxie’s dance shoes on stage over the years include Ann Reinking, Ashlee Simpson Ross and Michelle Williams, as well as Renée Zellweger in the 2002 Chicago film adaptation opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones as rival and fellow murderess Velma Kelly.

Tickets for Chicago can be purchased at chicagothemusical.com.

Pamela Anderson To Make Broadway Debut In ‘Chicago’ Next Month

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Michael Douglas has signed on to portray Benjamin Franklin in a limited series for Apple TV+. Douglas will also executive produce the series about Franklin and his diplomatic mission to France during the American Revolution.

The still-untitled series is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff’s book ‘A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.’  The series will depict Franklin at age 70 as he convinced France to supply military aid and funding for the founding of America. The eight year story led to the Franco-American alliance of 1778 and peace with England by l783.

Douglas most recently starred in Netflix’s ‘The Kominsky Method,’ which ended last year. That series earned Douglas three Emmy nominations for best lead actor in a comedy series. Douglas also portrays Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man’ movies, and is set to portray Ronald Reagan in a Paramount TV Studios limited series about the 40th president’s negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (Christoph Waltz).

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Peacock announced a new comedy series Twisted Metal, a half-hour live-action comedy based on the PlayStation game series of the same name. Anthony Mackie (‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’) will star in and executive produce the series. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland) will executive produce the series, along with Mackie, and Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai), who also serves as showrunner and writer.

According to a statement from NBCUniversal, Mackie will portray “John Doe, a smug milkman and motor-mouthed outsider who has forgotten his past. Doe is offered a chance at a better life if he is able to survive vehicular combat while delivering a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.”

Jeff Frost, president Sony Pictures Television Studios and Jason Clodfelter, co-president, said in a joint statement:  “We are thrilled that our first series with our good friends at Peacock is with our amazing partners at Electric Avenue, Universal Television and colleagues at PlayStation Productions. Michael Jonathan Smith and Rhett and Paul have ingeniously brought this high-action comedy to life and we are so fortunate to have Anthony at the center of the show. We look forward to this incredible team blowing audiences away with this twisted and inventive concept.”

‘Twisted Metal’: Peacock Lands Live-Action Video Game Adaptation Starring Anthony Mackie With Series Order

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