Among everything added to the Cult of the Lamb Unholy Alliance update, the centerpiece is undoubtedly the new co-op mode. It allows two players to take control of the eponymous lamb and a devious goat to go on crusades and manage the cult together. One arguable drawback is that it’s only meant for local play, but…
Among everything added to the Cult of the Lamb Unholy Alliance update, the centerpiece is undoubtedly the new co-op mode. It allows two players to take control of the eponymous lamb and a devious goat to go on crusades and manage the cult together. One arguable drawback is that it’s only meant for local play, but…
Starfield’s first expansion, Shattered Space, is nearly here. And ahead of the DLC’s release later this month, Bethesda has released a new, detail-filled 9-minute video showing off the alien world where the expansion takes place, as well as its inhabitants.
Starfield’s first expansion, Shattered Space, is nearly here. And ahead of the DLC’s release later this month, Bethesda has released a new, detail-filled 9-minute video showing off the alien world where the expansion takes place, as well as its inhabitants.
Back in early 2023, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan told Collider, “I have three movie ideas. I even have the structure of all three to some extent. And so it’s a very weird and interesting situation I’m feeling. I wish I could tell them faster. I wish I could get there faster, but there is no shortcut. I have to spend the six to nine months to write it. I have to storyboard for three months, and then we have pre-production, and then shooting it, and edit for as long as I can get every single second.“ Soon after, it was announced that he had secured a multi-year deal with Warner Bros. – and he immediately went to work on his recent thriller Trap. Now that Trap has made its way out into the world, it’s time for Shyamalan to start putting the second of those three movie ideas he said he had, his 17th feature film overall, and he has taken to social media to reveal that he’s currently gearing up to write the screenplay!
Sharing a picture of a notebook, Shyamalan wrote, “As a ritual for each film, I pick a notebook that speaks to me and I write notes, ideas for the new film in that. When it’s overflowing with ideas, I go to outline then script. This is the notebook for movie 17! This bright red felt just right! As Trap passes 80 million in theaters, I am so grateful and begin the new one inspired by all the support you have given me over the years.” His Instagram post can be seen at THIS LINK.
Yes, Shyamalan is already up to his movie 17 in his career. His breakthrough movie The Sixth Sense was actually his third feature; the full list goes like this: Praying with Anger, Wide Awake, The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village, Lady in the Water, The Happening, The Last Airbender, After Earth, The Visit, Split, Glass, Old, Knock at the Cabin, and Trap. He has also directed episodes of the TV shows Servant and Wayward Pines, and music videos for Andra Day and his daughter Saleka.
There have been Shyamalan movies that I haven’t liked and there are still a few that I haven’t seen at all, but I have also enjoyed several of his movies, including Trap, so I look forward to seeing what he’s going to do next.
Are you a Shyamalan fan? What would you like to see from his 17th film? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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While the world takes a break from Po after the release of Kung Fu Panda 4, Jackie Chan is ready to pick up the bamboo torch with Panda Plan, an upcoming action film starring the legendary martial artist in what looks like a family-friendly, animal cruelty-free flurry of fists and fur. Today’s Panda Plan trailer finds the 70-year-old Chan playing a version of himself alongside a panda bear co-star, with mercenaries and madcap comedy along for the wild ride.
Chinese filmmaker Zhang Luan (Song of Youth, Give Me Five) directed Panda Plan from a script he co-wrote with Meng Yida and Wei Xu. In the Panda Plan trailer, a rare panda with a dark circle under one eye becomes a worldwide sensation when he’s born at China’s Noah Zoo. However, when a Middle Eastern tycoon fancies the panda, he sends international mercenaries to kidnap the zoo’s new embarrassment of pandas. Chan, playing a version of himself, uses his decades of martial arts training to spearhead a rescue mission. According to Mandarin Motion Pictures, “a thrilling and hilarious panda defense battle then breaks out in this wild life park,” as Panda Plan unfolds.
Jackie Chan is still lighting up screens at 70, with multiple film projects on the way, like Karate Kid. Jonathan Entwistle directs Karate Kid from a script by Robert Mark Kamen and Rob Lieber. Plot details for Karate Kid are vague, though we know Chan, Ralph Macchio, Sadie Stanley, and Ming-Na Wen, Joshua Jackson star, with Ben Wang in the lead.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about working alongside Chan, Ralph Macchio said, “Jackie Chan is a legend, just to have that opportunity was exciting. He was wonderful,” Macchio said. “Lot of heart, lot of soul and caring, I will say that about Jackie. He loves being on set and it was like his first day every day. I love seeing that at his age and time of his career because I like to try to bring that as well, but a great young cast on that one, and we’ll see where it goes.”
What do you think about today’s Panda Plan trailer? I think Jackie’s gotta eat, and any excuse to watch him execute stunts is worthwhile. Chan still has a fire in his belly for making movies, and every one of them is a gift.
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On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin in Canada this July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. They have since been replaced by new showrunner Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry, the It prequel series that’s coming to HBO next year… and while we wait to hear what Kane is going to do with the show, original Friday the 13th producer and director Sean S. Cunningham, who was Miller’s opponent in that long copyright court battle, has revealed what he has heard about Crystal Lake.
During an appearance at Silver Scream Con in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cunningham said (with thanks to our friends at Bloody Disgusting for the transcription), “Last I heard, they’re talking about shooting (Crystal Lake) in Australia at the end of this year and releasing on Halloween 2025. But I’ve heard versions of that story for so long, I don’t put a lot of credibility into it. There’s just so many things that can go sideways.” We have to keep in mind that Cunningham is not involved with Crystal Lake, but if that information is accurate, it’s interesting to hear that production might take place in Australia rather than Canada. A24 was looking to lower the cost of the show; each episode of Crystal Lake (which would have an eight episode first season) was set to have a budget of $9.6 million, but A24 reportedly wanted to cut that in half. Maybe, assuming Cunningham has heard correctly, Australia offered them better incentives.
Cunningham went on to explain how the Friday the 13th franchise got to its current state: “Some time ago, the rights expired on the original script, so then there became doubt about who owns what after 35 years. That was being worked out by lawyers, and we were trying to figure out what we were going to do. We were trying to do a TV series, which we actually got pretty far down the road on. I was very happy with that. I thought it was going to be a lot of fun, and then the rights thing blew up and the TV series got postponed, and then the pandemic arrived. Finally, A24 decided that they would hook up with Peacock and do a Friday the 13th TV series.” According to Cunningham, Fuller was fired from Crystal Lake because his vision for the show was “too dark,” which is a different explanation than we had previously heard. When The Wrap tried to get to the bottom of the problems, they unearthed talk of unpaid writers, inexperienced executives, and questionable bookkeeping.
As Cunningham mentioned, he was developing a Friday the 13th TV series called Crystal Lake Chronicles, which was set up at The CW, several years ago. He described one sequence they had in mind for the scrapped show: “A bunch of kids – 8, 9 years old – are out on the ice playing peewee hockey. One kid does a breakaway, skates down, and who’s in the net but Jason. He tries to shoot, Jason blocks it. The kid who’s trailing scores the goal, and they go, ‘Yay!’ And Jason’s pissed. He starts chopping at the kids and the ice starts to crack, and then we cut out of that. The explanation would be that kids in the high school had shot this video as a joke, and it was going viral on the internet. But I thought it was so silly and so much fun. I wish we’d gotten a chance to shoot it.“
Crystal Lake Chronicles was abandoned long ago, but Crystal Lake is still moving forward under the guidance of Brad Caleb Kane. Will it be filming in Australia, like Cunningham said? Hopefully we’ll know for sure before much longer.
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At launch, Diablo IV felt barebones. It was lacking essential quality-of-life features and entertaining end-game content. Well, that’s slowly changing with each passing season, as Blizzard works to satiate the terrifying maws of level 100 players. So welcome to The Pit, which completely changes how many farm gear upon…
At launch, Diablo IV felt barebones. It was lacking essential quality-of-life features and entertaining end-game content. Well, that’s slowly changing with each passing season, as Blizzard works to satiate the terrifying maws of level 100 players. So welcome to The Pit, which completely changes how many farm gear upon…
Blizzard’s 2023 action RPG dungeon looter Diablo 4 has been criticized for its microtransactions and pricey skins. But apparently, that hasn’t stopped plenty of players from spending over $100 million on in-game cosmetics and other items since it launched.