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Early Reactions From “War for the Planet of the Apes” Screening

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‘War for the Planet of the Apes, screened Thursday night and early reactions on social media seem very positive. Those who have seen the film are raving about the film’s emotional tension and special effects, some calling it one of the best movie trilogies ever.

Hollywood Elsewhere is praising the film’s “world-class filmmaking” while, AICN’s Harry Knowles described the film “magical” while praising the performances of both apes and human actors.

Following the successful critical and commercial performances of both ‘Rise’ and ‘Dawn’, this looks like another winner for 20th Century Fox. The film is being closely watched by fans and the industry after Warner Bros. announced last February that the director is set to helm “The Batman”, with Ben Affleck playing the titular character.

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ a sequel to ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ (2014) and the third and final installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise which started with ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ (2011).

We will soon find out on July 14. Directed by Matt Reeves (who also directed ‘Dawn’), “War for the Planet of the Apes” stars Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell and Kodi Smit-McPhee.

See more early reactions after the jump and the film’s official synopsis.

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Danny Elfman To Compose ‘Justice League’ Score

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Following Zack Snyder’s departure from his directorial duties in May 2017 and Joss Whedon’s involvement to the project, Justice League is getting another radical reorg: according to a report from Hollywood Reporter, Danny Elfman is set to score this November’s Justice League.

With Elfman previously having worked with Whedon on ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, this news reinforce just how important the relationship and chemistry of a director and composer in creating the final product.

He is certainly not new to the genre, more specifically to DC Comics, having previously scored ‘Batman’ (1989) where he won a Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, as well as it’s sequel Batman Returns (1992). Elfman is a long-time collaborator of Tim Burton. In addition to Batman, they also worked together in Beetlejuice (1987), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Planet of the Apes (2001) among others.

Among his other high-profile work include Mission: Impossible (1995), Men in Black (1997), Spider-Man (2002), and most recently this year in Fifty Shades Darker and The Circle.

This makeover means Elfman is replacing Antonius Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL), who himself replaced Hans Zimmer. Holkenborg was co-composer for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” along with Zimmer, who stated last year that he is done composing for superhero films.

“As my mentor Hans Zimmer told me: you haven’t made it in Hollywood as a composer until you get replaced on a project,” said Holkenborg on a recent Twitter post. “So I guess I finally graduated this week. It pains me to leave the project, but a big thanks to Zack for asking me to be part of his vision, and I wish Danny, Joss, and Warner Bros. all the best with Justice League.”

This would be an interesting and significant shift of DCEU’s score in general, the tone of which began with Man of Steel and continued with Batman V Superman. Re-shoots and additional photography of Justice League is currently underway.

Justice League is scheduled to be released on November 17, 2017.

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Danai Gurira Joins “Avengers: Infinity War”

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Danai Gurira must have made a really good impression on Marvel Studios. Gurira, who plays Okoye in Black Panther, will be joining the The Avengers team in the sequel “Avengers: Infinity War”, Deadline reports.

We don’t know the extent Gurira’s Okoye part will be in Infinity War yet, but judging from what we have seen of her in “Black Panther” trailer, plus the fact that Gurira has been slaying a ton of zombies on the small screen as Michonne on AMC television horror drama series The Walking Dead, we already know Gurira’s fighting skills are going to be pretty busy.

A follow-up to 2015’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron”, Infinity War is supposed to be the culmination of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Panther hits cinemas on February 16, 2018, while the nineteenth film installment in MCU is scheduled for release a few months later on May 4, 2018.

The Tony-nominated playwright of Eclipse will next be on the big screen on June 16 in the Tupac Shakur biopic “All Eyez On Me” where she plays Tupac’s political activist mother Afeni Shakur.

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‘Flatliners’ First Trailer Shows Ellen Page Play With The Afterlife

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“You haven’t lived until you’ve died.” That’s that the tagline of the new movie “Flatliner”, a follow-up to Joel Schumacher’s 1990 film of the same name. Today, Sony’s dropped the new trailer which features Ellen Page and Diego Luna pushing the envelope of life and death.

Also featured in the film are Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons, and Kiefer Sutherland, the only returning cast member from the original cult psychological horror, which also starred Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt and Kevin Bacon. That film was nominated for Best Sound Editing at the Oscars in 1990, so this new film has big shoes to fill.

There’s a lot of elements in the trailer that shares similar plot points to the original. In this new trailer, we see Page’s character encouraging other students in a dangerous experiment of stopping their heart and crossing the afterlife for a short period of time. In the original, the ringleader was Sutherland’s character, who flatlines before his classmates resuscitate him. During their short period of “death” in both films, they experience various sequences of the afterlife which later haunted them.

“Flatliners” is directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev, from a screenplay by Ben Ripley and story by Peter Filardi, and is scheduled for release in the U.S. on September 29.

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2 Live Crew Film Being Developed at Lionsgate

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Lionsgate is developing the biopic of 2 Live Crew, The Book Of Luke, reports Deadline. The script will be an adaptation of ‘Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice and Liberty City’, an autobiography of the leader of the rap group Luther Campbell.

Campbell, who was once a concert promoter in Miami, ran Luke Skywalker Records (later Luke Records after Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas sued) in the mid 80s. He later served as The 2 Live Crew’s manager and lead vocalist, while also giving the group a record label.

The book itself is about Campbell’s beginnings in Miami and his eventual fame and fortune. The book tells the story of how he “invented Southern Hip-Hop, saved the First Amendment, and became a role model for his disenfranchised Miami neighborhood.”

According to Deadline, the film will be some sort of “Straight Outta Compton meets The People Vs. Larry Flynt”. Campbell was party to a landmark copyright law case related to one of 2 Live Crew’s songs which includes a parody of Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman”. U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Campbell, establishing as a result that commercial parody can qualify as fair use.

RJ Cyler, who recently played Blue Ranger Billy in Power Rangers, will play Campbell in the film.

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Actors and Industry Pay Tribute To Richard Donner

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Richard Donner

Richard Donner is greatly responsible for inspiring modern superhero movies with the success of Superman in 1978, and nearly a decade later for the buddy cop formula with Lethal Weapon. Both went on to become hugely successful film franchises, and together with classics The Goonies, The Omen, Maverick, Scrooged and a few others, Donner helped the development of Hollywood blockbuster industry.

Last Wednesday, it was film industry’s turn to honor the director as The Academy of Motion Picture Art and Sciences held the special ceremony in Los Angeles to honor Donner for all of his work.

But even with success, it was his kindness and generosity that people most remember. “There’s a true humility about the man; he refers to himself as a traffic cop, but he’s a f**ng genius,” says Mel Gibson, who played Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon series. “He has a voice that gets the attention of people getting on the bus two blocks away,” said John Savage (Inside Moves).

Also present during the tribute were DC Films president Geoff Johns and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, sharing the stage and retelling how they got their start in Hollywood working for Donner. “Dick and his wife Lauren gave me my first unpaid job in Hollywood, my first part-time in Hollywood, my first full time job in Hollywood, and my first producing credit, of which is the only reason I’m standing here,” Feige said, also calling Superman: The movie “the archetype of the perfect superhero film origin story.”

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TV’s Batman Adam West, Dies at 88

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Adam West as Batman. ABC Television


Adam West, iconic actor who starred in the popular “Batman” TV show in the 1960s, died Friday night Jun 9 in Los Angeles. He was 88. According to Variety, the actor “died after a short battle with leukemia.”

“Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans’ lives. He was and always will be our hero,” his family said in a statement.

Although West’s career spanned seven decades, it was the Batman role that made him a household name, a role that is both a blessing and a curse as he fell victim to being typecast long after the show ended. The campy superhero show ran from 1966 to 1968 on BC, while a feature-length film version was released in 1966.

He would later often reprise his Batman or Bruce Wayne role in various animated tv shows such as The New Adventures of Batman, Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show, The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians and for the tv special Legends of the Superheroes.

In 2012, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located in front of the Guinness Museum in Hollywood, California.

West is survived by his wife of 46 years Marcelle Lear. They had four children together, two from previous marriage to Ngahra Frisbie.

His family released the following statement: Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans’ lives. He will be missed.

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First Look At “Black Panther” On Teaser Trailer Debut

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There is plenty of action in the trailer debut of “Black Panther”, giving us a more extensive look at Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa / Black Panther, the ruler of the fictional, technologically-advanced African nation of Wakanda since his debut in Captain America: Civil War.

The highly-anticipated upcoming film from Marvel Studios is directed by Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station). The trailer debuted during the Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Disney’s ABC.

“Black Panther” follows the events of “Captain America: Civil War”. The story was set in motion after his father’s death, wherein T’Challa returns to Wakanda as king but is challenge by internal strife that threatens to bring down the kingdom.

Lupita Nyong’o appears in the film as one of Wakanda’s bodyguards Nakia, while Andy Serkis is back as Ulysses Klaue which appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Also in the movie are Forest Whitaker, Daniel Kaluuya, and Angela Bassett.

“Black Panther” is scheduled for release on February 15, 2018. See the trailer below.

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Pixar’s ‘Coco’: New Trailer And Poster

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Disney and Pixar just released a new trailer for ‘Coco’, the studio’s latest eye-candy and the second Pixar film of 2017 following the upcoming Cars 3. This follows the teaser attached to ‘Beauty and the Beast’ a few months ago, which focused on the music and introduced the look of the film. And now we have a full trailer.

Some might recall a similar film, that of 2014’s Jorge R. Gutierrez directed “The Book of Life” from 20th Century Fox, another 3D animated musical fantasy featuring a characterwho embarks on the afterlife on the Day of the Dead. That was a modest hit, grossing nearly $100 from $50 production cost.

With both Disney and Pixar’s brand behind the film, and one of the highest profile release dates of the year, ‘Coco’ would have no trouble at the boxoffice.

‘Coco’ follows Miguel (voiced by newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) as he search for his dream of becoming a successful musician but ends up in the Land of the Dead. Along the way, he meets a trickster named Hector (Gael García Bernal), and together they set off on an epic adventure. Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Edward James Olmos, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Jaime Camil, and Sofía Espinosa are also providing their voices to the film.

The trailer is colorful and whimsical, as one might expect from both Pixar and Disney. Even with Miguel being surrounded by a cast of animated skeletons and restless spirits from the afterlife, the trailer still manage to highlight the comedy and fun aspects of the film.

Directed by Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3) with co-director by Adrian Molina who also wrote the script, Coco is scheduled to open on thanksgiving weekend November 22, 2017.

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First Trailer For Action Thriller “American Made”

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Tom Cruise has an exciting new movie trailer this week and it shows the actor in flight gone awry. No, we’re not talking about The Mummy, which happens to land in cinemas this week.

Universal/Comcast Corp. just released a new trailer for ‘American Made’, Cruise’s latest film which reunites Cruise with director Doug Liman following their 2014 collaboration in the action sci-fi ‘Edge Of Tomorrow’.

Based on the trailer, “American Made” sits somewhere in the middle of what we might come to expect from a Cruise film, somewhat a break from his franchise driven, action-hero roles the past few years. Described as a crime thriller, the film is hinged on a more serious true to life subject matter, that of Barry Seal (Tom Cruise). Seal was a TWA pilot hired by the Medellin Cartel as a pilot and drug smuggler later imprisoned for a decade. Both a smuggler and informant, he run covert operations for the CIA against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Shot on location in Colombia, the film had a few setbacks during filming after a plane crash killed two people and injured a crew member. “American Made” hits theaters on September 29, and also stars Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, and Jayma Mays.

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