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Ace Showbiz has released an early promo trailer for the upcoming Jason Statham film The Mechanic, which is currently seeking a release date. Click on the player below to get your first early look at the new film, a remake of the 1972 film starring Charles Bronson. The film is a reinvention of the 1972 Charles Bronson action classic The Mechanic. In the film, Bronson played Arthur Bishop, a mob hit man who operates in a world of his own an uncompromising world where conventional rules of morality don’t apply and where one wrong move could cost him his life....

Putting to rest weeks of rampant speculation about director and cast, Constantin Film and Unique Features announced today that Harald Zwart will direct actress Lily Collins in the hotly anticipated film adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s #1 best-selling book series The Mortal Instruments. In the series’ first book “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”, set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons....

Spoiler Warning: The Northman (2022) The Northman is the newest film from auteur director Robert Eggers, who, for the first time, dives into the mainstream with a Viking revenge-thriller. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, a boy prince whose father, King Aurvandill (Ethan Hawke), is murdered by his bastard brother, Fjölnir (Claes Bang). After King Aurvandill is slain, Amleth flees on a boat, swearing to take revenge on Fjölnir to avenge his father....

That’s a wrap! The Punisher season 1 has officially finished production. Netflix has been very busy over the last couple of years creating their own little corner of the Marvel Universe, which is mostly centered on some of the more street level heroes and, in this case, antiheroes from the Marvel canon. Netflix will be expanding upon that later this year when The Punisher arrives for his very own series....

The Punisher Season 2 will see the return of Debora Ann Woll’s Karen Page. Additionally, showrunner Steve Lightfoot revealed that Ben Barnes’ take on Jigsaw will differ from the comic book source material. The show was an instant hit for Netflix when it premiered late last year and fans have been impatiently waiting for some new footage ever since. From Leaked set images we knew that Barnes was back as Billy, but we have yet to see any images of Woll from the set....

Howdy friendo’s. Brian Gallagher here with another look that all the news that wasn’t fit for print in the past seven days. There’s a lot to get through this week so lets start by two funny little bits from one of my favorite shows on TV, Community. Paintball Marks Still On the Community Set and Betty White’s End-Credit Segment - via Gillian Jacobs and Hulu The hilarious misftis of Glendale Community College are back this season on the NBC hit comedy Community and it seems that part of the one last season’s best episodes can still be found on the set....

Principal photography has begun on Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga’s New Moon, it was announced today by Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner reprise their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen and Jacob Black. Academy Award-nominee Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass) is the director. New Moon is filming on locations in Vancouver, BC and Tuscany, Italy. Also rejoining the movie are Ashley Greene as Alice, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme, Kellan Lutz as Emmett, Nikki Reed as Rosalie, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper, Edi Gathegi as Laurent, Rachelle Lafevre as Victoria and Billy Burke as Charlie Swan....

Another seven days has come and gone and left us with another slew of movie news, box office figures and new official websites for upcoming flicks. So lets not make haste and get this ball a rollin’ with this week’s Notables. NOTABLES “Breckin Meyer and Adam Scott Topline Ted’s MBA” - Monday, December 12 I’m not so sure about this one. I’ve never been a fan of the dopey Breckin Meyer and Adam Scott’s resume isn’t a whole lot better either....

Storylines in horror movies have taken a brutal beating throughout the years, experiencing severe challenges while attempting to factor in creativity. John Carpenter’s Halloween helped to cultivate the final girl cliché fans of the genre have been long subjected to, but did it well with psychological and emotional development. Viewers were able to look into the perplexing backstory of Michael Myers and pick up on his occasional emotional ties to sister Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, in Halloween, was technically his sister in many of the films), specifically through the end of Halloween (‘78) and Halloween 2....

Romance has been a leading genre in cinema, giving us countless memorable stories that warm our hearts. With that said, any story of romance certainly comes with some drama. Love is always complicated and there are always going to be ups and downs. Luckily, these types of drama and conflict usually make for good cinema. A romantic film can be comedic, inspiring, and sometimes even traumatic. In many stories about love, there comes a story about loss....

Director Taika Waititi has teased some major cameo appearances in the upcoming Marvel sequel Thor: Love and Thunder. Cameos that he hopes will remain a secret until release. In a new interview with Comicbook.com, Waititi was asked whether Thor: Love and Thunder will feature cameos to rival those seen in Thor: Ragnarok, which of course, saw the likes of Matt Damon and Sam Neill enter the MCU. The filmmaker answered simply “Yes,” before adding that it would make no sense to hint at who these cameos might be....

Thor is a certified hit, having pulled in $225 million worldwide, which has Marvel Studios already talking about Thor 2. According to sources close to the studio, Marvel wants to have Thor 2 ready to go as soon as The Avengers is done shooting, so that they can have it in theaters by 2013, debuting close to Iron Man 3. Storylines are already being drafted for Thor 2, and two early contenders for the main villains this time out are The Enchantress and The Executioner....

Tim Burton’s reimagining of The Addams Family will be hitting Netflix in November, with the new series Wednesday introducing Jenna Ortega as a new incarnation of Wednesday Addams. Someone else featured in the first half of the series is Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus, The Walking Dead) who’d been cast in a key role as Tamara Novak, Wednesday’s dorm mother at Nevermore Academy. In December of last year, it was reported that Birch had abruptly left the series partway through production due to a “personal matter,” the details of which were not revealed....

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks, known professionally as Tom Hanks, is an American actor and director who was born on July 9, 1956. He is one of the most well-known and recognizable movie performers in the world and is considered an American cultural icon. He is known for both his humorous and serious parts. Hanks is the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America, with his films having brought in more than $4 billion in the continent and more than $9 billion globally....

Sony Pictures has released the official synopsis for Total Recall, director Len Wiseman’s remake of the 1990 sci-fi adventure, which hits theaters August 3. Take a look at the official plot rundown below. Total Recall is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories....

This extraordinary choreographer cum actor teaches us how to save the world one dance off at a time! In the new coming-of-age dance-off drama How She Move, Tre Armstrong plays the tough-minded Michelle. The girl is gifted in step dancing, yet must turn to her rival and one-time friend Raya Green (Rutina Wesley) for help on and off the dance floor. The two girls resolve their differences through a dance-off, and go on to help each other with the tough world that surrounds them in their youth....

The hit show True Blood will end its run in 2014, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Consisting of ten episodes, the previously announced Season 7 will launch next summer. Here’s what Michael Lombardo had to say in a statement about the critically-acclaimed series. Series creator and executive producer Alan Ball had this to say in his own statement. “True Blood has been nothing short of a defining show for HBO....

Outsourced? Boo! Those who’ve devoted their time to watching Parks and Recreation grow into one of the smartest, funniest episodic sitcoms on broadcast television over the past two years may be predisposed to contractually hate NBC for replacing it with Outsourced. Just as Thursday night’s Must See TV kicks back into high gear for fall of 2010. Sure, at first, it was easy to despise Parks and Recreation for being an Office clone, shot in that increasingly disreputable mockumentary format....

Earlier this morning, I had the pleasure of chatting with Tyrese Gibson about the Blu-ray and DVD release of Fast Five, which hits the shelves October 4. Even before the phenomenal success of Fast Five, Universal Pictures launched plans in mid-April for Fast & Furious 6, hiring Chris Morgan to once again write the script for this sequel (he wrote The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, and Fast Five)....

USA Network brings you its biggest summer ever with powerful weeknight blocks of nine original series. Two of summer’s hottest hits, White Collar and Covert Affairs, kick it off with the return of all new seasons on Tuesday, June 7 at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively. Next up, Burn Notice returns for a sizzling fifth season, followed by the much-anticipated new series launch of Suits (fka A Legal Mind), premiering Thursday, June 23 at 9/8c and 10/9c, respectively....