Author: B A Walsh

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum is coming out this weekend and will show us Keanu Reeves as the title character dealing with having a $14 million bounty on his head. Reeves plays a former hit-man who just wants a quiet life in the popular action franchise. In the original John Wick (2014), his character came out of retirement to seek vengeance after a mobster stole his car and killed his dog. In John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), the dog-loving assassin’s plans to return to civilian life were derailed when he had to honor a past debt. So what would…

Adult Swim has announced that the fourth season of Rick and Morty will debut November 2019. The announcement was made at the WarnerMedia upfront presentation and on Twitter. The tweet included a video of the title characters making the announcement. It has been a long time coming for fans, as Season 3 ended in 2017. Last May it was announced that Adult Swim would put in an order for 70 new episodes of the animated series, which would bring the series total to 101 episodes. This was part of a long-term deal Adult Swim has with Rick and Morty creators…

According to the British newspaper The Sun, actor Daniel Craig was injured during the shooting of James Bond 25 in Jamaica and production on the movie, already rumored to have difficulties, has been suspended. The Sun’s source said, “He was sprinting during filming when he slipped and fell quite awkwardly” and that “He was in quite a lot of pain and was complaining about his ankle.” The actor was also reportedly angry and frustrated by the injury. Craig was flown to the U.S. for X-rays and has seen a specialist. Production in London’s Pinewood Studios, which was scheduled to begin…

It has been a long wait for the 8th and final season of Game of Thrones, reportedly the most expensive season of television ever shot ($15 million per episode). Anticipation has been high, so high that viewership records are being set. The season premiere has been awarded a Guinness World Record for Most in-demand TV Premiere. Parrot Analytics, a TV content analytics firm that tracks a metric called “demand expressions,“ which includes social media activity, photo sharing, blogging, and other sources in a composite of viewership and growth, did the number crunching. Parrot Analytics and Guinness charted worldwide demand for…

Casting for James Gunn’s Suicide Squad 2 has been pretty active recently, and the latest news is that Michael Rooker is in talks to take on the role of King Shark. Rooker and Gunn have worked together before, most notably in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise in which Rooker starred as Yondu Udonta in both films. This news was reported by the Wrap but has not been confirmed by Warner Bros. King Shark was first introduced in the Superboy comics in 1994. Nanaue or King Shark is a humanoid shark who is the son of “The King of All…

The story for Aquaman 2 is locked according to star Jason Momoa. The original Aquaman (2018) earned over $1 billion and became the DCEU’s highest grossing film, so a sequel was almost inevitable. However, Momoa says that he had already discussed some ideas for a follow-up movie with the studio before Aquaman was even in the theaters. Now it seems he has been working with David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick on some of those ideas and that the story for the sequel is “locked.” “I was excited to get back in there, and so I’ve been working with our previous writer, and…

Keanu Reeves is a busy man these days. John Wick 3 is coming out May 17, he is voicing a character in Toy Story 4 coming out June 21, and he may also be appearing in the Fast&Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw coming out August 2. And in addition to all of that, there is production on Bill & Ted 3, set for a 2020 release, and now there are talks of a Matrix 4 movie. But let us focus on the Hobbs and Shaw film. While Idris Elba (Brixton) will be playing the main villain, a cyber-enhanced “black superman,”…

Production on Jumanji 3 has officially wrapped. Kevin Hart posted a video of himself and co-stars Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Dwayne Johnson where he thanked those involved in the movie and stated that it would be “bigger and better than our last one.” Dwayne Johnson made his own post in which he talked about the hard work that went into the making of the film. He also thanked the fans that were waiting for him at the airport to say goodbye. Production on Jumanji 3 kicked off on February 14. At that time Johnson posted the first pictures from…

The new Spider-Man: Far from Home trailer is out and loaded with Endgame spoilers (grab your tissues). But what may be the most interesting aspect of the trailer is a tidbit about Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal). According to the trailer, the Quentin Beck/Mysterio in Far From Home is really far from home – he’s from an alternate universe! Nick Fury indicates that the snap did more than just decimate the universe’s population, it also “tore a hole in our dimension.” Given that there were actually four snaps in Infinity War and Endgame, and that the second snap was Thanos destroying the…

Will there be an R-rated Detective Pikachu sometime in our future? Probably not, although according to star Ryan Reynolds there is enough material to make one. Reynolds is the voice of the title character in the upcoming film. While he might not have gone full method as he teased in his “Outside the Actors’ Studio” video, he did spend a lot of his time filming by himself in motion capture gear. This meant he had time to experiment and Reynolds admits he came out with “85 options for any one joke.” and that “Everything ran the gamut from Rated R…