Author: B A Walsh

Alan Tudyk is a busy man. He’s been cast as Mr. Nobody in the DC Universe Doom Patrol Tv series. He’s also going to voice The Joker in the animated Harley Quinn series. And now comes word that the actor will voice the parrot Iago in Disney’s live-action Aladdin movie. Maybe this shouldn’t be surprising, as Tudyk has quite the history with Disney. He has voiced characters in Walt Disney’s Animation features since Wreck-It Ralph in 2012: King Candy (Wreck-It Ralph), Duke of Weselton (Frozen), Alistar Krei (Big Hero 6), Duke Weaselton (Zootopia), Hei Hei (Moana), and Knowsmore (Ralph Breaks…

The date for the season finale episode of the Big Bang Theory has been announced: Thursday, May 16, 2019. The twelfth season will conclude with two back-to-back episodes for an hour-long finale. The Big Bang Theory debuted on September 24, 2007. During its 11th season, it averaged 18.9 million viewers and was the second most-watched series, meaning it will be going out while it is still strong. Over the course of its run, it has won 56 awards out of 216 nominations, CBS and Warner Bros Television officially announced that season 12 would be the last for the show on…

Chuck Norris has a reputation. It looks like the a** kicking martial artist is still a threat to any and all who cross his path. Canadian political-science professor Francis Dupuis-Deri alleges that the Quebec police used that reputation to intimidate protesters at the 44th annual G7 summit that was held in Quebec from June 8-9, 2018. A poster from Norris’ film Invasion USA, in which the star is carrying a gun in each hand, was placed in the passenger side window of a riot van used to transport an arrested protester. Professor Dupuis-Deri feels that the poster was used “to…

Empire interviewed Captain Marvel co-writers and co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck for a spoiler-filled podcast. Some of the spoilers relate to the movies credit scenes. *SPOILER ALERT* The first was that the Russo brothers directed the mid-credits scene where Captain Marvel meets some of the surviving Avengers. It is unknown if that scene will be in the actual Avengers: Endgame movie. Another spoiler was that the post-credit scene might have been different. Instead of watching Goose the cat/Flerken hack up the Tesseract on Nick Fury’s desk, we might have seen a tie-in to Thor: Ragnarok with Jude Law’s Yon-Rogg.…

Terry Gilliam is adapting his 1981 movie Time Bandits into a TV series for Apple’s streaming service. The idea for a series has been around since at least 2015 and just last summer Apple made a deal to adapt the film to the small screen. The project is produced by Anonymous Content, Paramount Television, and Media Rights Capital. The Time Bandits movie featured the adventures of 11-year-old history buff Kevin and 6 time-traveling dwarves who steal from historical figures. It grossed $42.2 million dollars and has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Gilliam co-wrote, produced, and directed Time Bandits, which…

Dwayne Johnson playing Black Adam in a DC movie has been talked about for some time. In 2014 it was announced that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was cast as Black Adam, and at that time he was planned as the primary antagonist in the Shazam film. But instead, we have Dr. Sivana as the main villain in Shazam. Why no Black Adam as the villain? Shazam Director David F Sandberg said: “Sivana is kind of the oldest villain for Shazam. It was always that; when I came on board it was always Sivana – because I think they sort of…

Movieweb caught up with Jesse Eisenberg at SXSW where he was promoting The Art of Self Defense. During the interview, Eisenberg had this to say about the upcoming Zombieland 2: Double Tap: “It’s going really well. Just resting on our laurels and really cocky [laughs]. No, the opposite. We’re working so hard. It’s one of these movies that, people loved it for personal reasons. So it’s not just a big hit movie. People love it for personal reasons so you want to make sure it’s as funny and as personal as the other one.” The original Zombieland was released in…

Last August, Dr. Who fans were excited to hear that Matt Smith would have a role in Star Wars Episode IX. Now it appears that is not to be. When asked about appearing in the movie during a recent interview with Emily Zemler from the LA Times, while he was on break from filming Morbius the Living Vampire, the star is quoted as saying “As far as I can tell, I’m definitely not.” Is this just misdirection and studio secret keeping? It’s hard to tell, although his appearance was never officially confirmed by Lucasfilm. What do you think? is it…

The Hotel Transylvania franchise ($1.36 billion) is still going strong, with a release date for Hotel Transylvania 4 being announced for December 22, 2021. The first two films premiered in September, while the third film in the series had a July release date to coincide with its title: Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. Does that mean Hotel Transylvania 4 will get into the holiday spirit? It seems unlikely that the monsters would celebrate a holiday other than Halloween, but then who would have thought that they would go on a cruise? And Jack Skellington certainly caught the Christmas spirit from…

Alita: Battle Angel is a cyberpunk movie, based on the Japanese manga series Gunnm, that has to date grossed over $382 million worldwide. Its main character is a young cyborg who is determined to learn about her past when she awakens in a new body with no memory of who she is. But fiction became reality for a young girl from northern England who received state-of-the-art bionic hands from James Cameron and the team for Alita: Battle Angel. Tilly Lockey had her hands and some toes amputated after surviving meningococcal septicemia at age 15 months. But she hasn’t let that…