Author: Amy Davis

Filmmaker Peter Farrelly (“Green Book”) is attached to direct “I Play Rocky,” written by Peter Gamble (“Office Uprising”). The film is inspired by the true story of Sylvester Stallone making the 1976 boxing film “Rocky.” Made on a shoestring budget, the film went on to be a cultural phenomenon garnering 10 Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture. “I Play Rocky” “I Play Rocky,” “follows a struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment who writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the…

Actress Sydney Sweeney (“Euphoria”) is fresh off romcom “Anyone But You” and the horror “Immaculate.” It seems she will be switching up genres once again for a biopic about the trailblazing boxer Christy Martin. The new project is set to hit the market at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.  The currently untitled film will be directed by David Michôd (“The King”), from a script he co-wrote with Mirrah Foulkes (“Judy & Punch”). It tells the story of Martin’s rise to prominence in the 1990s. With the aid of her manager/husband, Jim Martin, she broke boundaries all over the sport. Martian…

Paramount Pictures has graced us with a 2nd trailer for its upcoming “A Quiet Place” prequel, “A Quiet Place: Day One.” Unlike previous films in the franchise, this one will take place before the Earth is overrun by bloodthirsty aliens. It stars Lupita Nyong’o (“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”), Joseph Quinn (“Stranger Things”), Djimon Hounsou (“Rebel Moon”), and Alex Wolff (“Oppenheimer”). The new trailer features Nyong’o’s character and her cat as some of the unlucky people trapped in New York during the start of the invasion. Even though the first film and 2020’s “A Quiet Place Part II” focus on the…

Here we woe again. Production on season 2 of Netflix’s “Wednesday” is in full swing in Ireland. The streaming giant just announced the full cast, with most of the regulars returning and some exciting new faces. It’s no surprise Jenna Ortega will return as the titular Wednesday Addams. Joined by her fictional family Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia, Luis Guzmán as Gomez, and Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley. Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Emma Myers, Joy Sunday, Hunter Doohan, Victor Dorobantu, Moosa Mostafa, and Georgie Farmer will also be returning. Alongside Fred Armisen and Jamie McShane in guest roles. The announcement was made with…

Los Angeles resident Erica Nese is a prop maker by day, ghostbuster by night. During the pandemic, she turned her Kia Soul into a version of the iconic Ecto-1 from the “Ghostbusters” franchise.  As you can imagine such a cool car gets a lot of attention, not all of it positive considering it was stolen on Monday, May 6th. Nese says someone attempted to break into her car last week by putting a screwdriver in the keyhole. She was going to a mechanic to get the damage repaired on Monday. But when she went to the parking garage underneath her…

The upcoming film “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”’s marketing campaign is really heating up. In late April, humans dressed as apes were spotted riding horses on California’s Venice Beach as a publicity stunt. Now, 20th Century Fox has released an almost 8-minute extended preview of the new movie! “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” will take place 300 years after the death of Caesar in 2017’s “War for the Planet of the Apes.” The film will follow Noa (Owen Teague), a young ape, who will embark on a journey that will lead him to question everything he…

In 1986, R. Lance Hill wrote the script for the film “Road House” under the penname David Lee Henry. The film starred Patrick Swayze, and has been a massive cultural phenomenon for decades. In 2024, the film was remade by Amazon Studios, MGM Studios, and United Artists. It starred Jake Gyllenhaal, and UFC fighter Conor McGregor. Hill sued the production over “blatant copyright infringement.” The three companies behind the remake are counter-suing, and it looks like it will only get messier from here. “Plaintiff’s Complaint ignores the well-established rule of copyright law that the author of a work made for…

Amazon Prime Video has released the first trailer for the fourth season of “The Boys,” it’s just as dystopian and violent as you’d expect. Based on a comic book co-created by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the show follows a group of vigilantes who set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their powers. The new trailer starts with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) narrating. “I look back at my life and all I see are messes I’ve made and I ain’t got time to fix it,” he says. “I can do one thing right with the time I’ve got…

We’re back with another edition of Urban Legend: Fact or Fiction. In this chapter, we are going to look at how a family accidentally became cannibals. So buckle up, because this one is a weird ride. The Story Around World War 2 a family moved from Europe to America but kept in touch with their relatives back home. They would exchange letters and care packages consisting of various regional treats about once a month. After a year of this, there was a several months-long silence from the recently emigrated family members to their European kin. While worrisome, they wrote it…

Did you think the trend of turning beloved childhood characters into blood-thirsty killers was ending? Nope, and now we are getting Winnie the Pooh duking it out with Mickey Mouse in “Mickey Vs. Winnie!” It is directed and written by Emmy-nominated choreographer Glenn Douglas Packard (“Pitchfork”) His production company, Untouchables Entertainment, and genre website iHorror, have already started production (possibly) in Michigan on the film. Winnie will be based on the now-public-domain character from A. A. Milne’s beloved children’s novel of the same name. The also-now-public-domain Mickey Mouse will be based on the character from the 1920s “Steamboat Willie” cartoon.…