Star Trek: Section 31 certainly looks like a departure for the long-running franchise, and one star is “terrified” of how the fans will react.

Robert Kazinsky, who plays Zeph in the streaming movie, expressed his concerns while speaking with SFX Magazine. “I’m terrified of how it’s going to be received, because it’s not the Trek people want,” he said. “The Trek that people want, the Trek that we all want, is just 1,000 more episodes of [The Next Generation]. Everyone’s always furious that they’re not getting more TNG, whilst at the same time, when TNG came out, everybody hated it.“

Kazinsky continued, “So this is going to come along and it’s not going to feel like any Trek that they’ve ever seen. My fear was that it might not feel like Trek at all. So for you to tell me that it still feels like Trek whilst being a completely different flavour of Trek, that encourages me. In 10 years time, we’ll look back and we’ll love every single one of these Treks.” Fan reaction to the trailer has been… mixed, to put it mildly, but I’m willing to give the film a chance.

Star Trek: Section 31 stars Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, who joins a secret division of Starfleet. Tasked with protecting the United Federation of Planets, she also must face the sins of her past. The film also stars Omari Hardwick, Sam Richardson, Kacey Rohl, Sven Ruygrok, James Hiroyuki, Humberly Gonzalez, Joe Pingue, and Miku Martineau.

Even if Section 31 doesn’t end up being to your liking, there are more Star Trek projects just over the horizon. The third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will debut in 2025, with a fourth season already ordered. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is currently in production. Set in the 32nd century, the series follows the first new class of Starfleet cadets in over a century as they come of age and train to be officers. It has already been renewed for a second season, with Tatiana Maslany joining the cast.

Star Trek: Section 31 will debut on Paramount+ on January 24, 2025.

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We’ve seen many incarnations of the Wolf Man over the decades, but the iconic monster will soon receive another update, this time from writer/director Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man). Whannell has already teased that his version of the Wolf Man is unlike any that’s come before it, but he admitted to SFX Magazine that some people probably won’t like it.

“I think you have to bring a new approach,” Whannell said. “Maybe there are some people that won’t like it because they love the traditional wolf too much, but that was the approach I wanted.” He added that his Wolf Man is “100% practical, all make-up – there are no CGI elements.“

I’ll admit to being a big fan of the classic Wolf Man design, but I’m also not opposed to something different. We haven’t gotten a clear look at the new design yet, but the version seen at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios didn’t win over many fans. However, Whannell has indicated that that design was not their Wolf Man. “No, I mean, without spoiling anything, that’s not our Wolf Man,” Whannell said. “And I guess, movies have so many different people involved. It’s like this huge octopus with many tentacles and you can’t always control every single aspect of something. So sometimes something might get out there that doesn’t represent what you’re doing and it just falls through the cracks. So no, it doesn’t represent [our movie].“

Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as Blake, a San Francisco husband and father, who inherits his remote childhood home in rural Oregon after his own father vanishes and is presumed dead. With his marriage to his high-powered wife, Charlotte (Julia Garner), fraying, Blake persuades Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit the property with their young daughter, Ginger (Matlida Firth). But as the family approaches the farmhouse in the dead of night, they’re attacked by an unseen animal and, in a desperate escape, barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. As the night stretches on, however, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable, and Charlotte will be forced to decide whether the terror within their house is more lethal than the danger without.

Wolf Man will hit theaters on January 17, 2025.

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“Get off my plane…again!” Harrison Ford starred in Air Force One as President James Marshall, who must retake the titular plane when a group of terrorists hijack it and take everyone hostage, including his wife and daughter. The film was a major success upon its release in 1997, grossing over $315 million worldwide. Although there’s been talk of an Air Force One sequel, nothing has come together. However, scooper Daniel Richtman says Sony Pictures is developing a follow-up, which may include the return of its leading man.

We’ll take this rumour with a big ol’ helping of salt at this point, but Richtman has heard that the studio is developing an Air Force One sequel (which could also be a reboot) and that Harrison Ford might be starring in it. This is just me spitballing, but it’s easy to imagine Marshall attending the inauguration of the new president (his daughter?) when terrorists attack, forcing the family to be evacuated on Air Force One. Rinse and repeat.

Air Force One screenwriter Andrew W. Marlowe confirmed earlier this year that there had been talks of a possible sequel but admitted that they had trouble cracking the idea. “We had talked about it, but there are always challenges with that [kind of] franchise. You get into the Die Hard problem of every time John McClane goes on vacation or goes anywhere, the terrorists take over. So we were very cautious,” Marlowe said. “We had conversations with Beacon and all the folks involved, but we never landed on a story that we thought could do justice to what we had accomplished in the main film. We had set the bar incredibly high. Harrison as as president goes someplace, he’s on an Air Force carrier, it’s attacked, he’s in the middle of an unstable geopolitical situation. And so, there are things he can and can’t do, because you don’t want to inflame it. He’s got to navigate it and he’s the person at the heart of it. There are many variations on it and with the tuning fork, we didn’t get it to the point where we are all like, “Ah, that’s perfect! We’re not repeating the first movie. We’re building on it.“

Not every successful movie needs a sequel, and I’m not convinced audiences are really clamouring for Harrison Ford to sock bad guys in the jaw at 82 years old; We’ve got Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny for that.

Would you like to see Harrison Ford return for a sequel to Air Force One?

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Earlier this year, we shared updates as a cast was assembled for the Prime Video limited series Blade Runner 2099 – which is, of course, a continuation of the franchise that began with the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner and then got a long-awaited follow-up called Blade Runner 2049, which had Denis Villeneuve at the helm, in 2017. Now, Discussing Film has shared a short and simple update on the project: Blade Runner 2099 has wrapped filming!

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) star in the series alongside Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga), Dimitri Abold (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy), Katelyn Rose Downey (The Nun II), Daniel Rigby (Renegade Nell), Johnny Harris (A Gentleman in Moscow”), Amy Lennox (Only Child), Sheila Atim (The Woman King), Maurizio Lombardi (Ripley), and Matthew Needham (House of the Dragon).

Abold, Gribben, Downey, and Rigby have series regular status, while Harris, Lennox, Atim, and Needham are recurring guest stars. Burke and Lombardi both have recurring roles on the show.

Blade Runner 2099 was originally expected to start shooting in Belfast in the summer of 2023, but the Hollywood strikes put the kibosh on that plan. Once the show went into production earlier this year, filming took place place in Prague and then moved over to Barcelona.

Shining Girls creator Silka Luisa is the writer, showrunner, and executive producer of the series, which has Ridley Scott executive producing through his Scott Free production banner. Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Tom Spezialy, Richard Sharkey, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, and Isa Dick Hackett are also executive producing. Steven Johnson is co-executive producer. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) directed the first two episodes.

When this project was first announced in 2022, Amazon Studios head of global television Vernon Sanders said, “We are honored to be able to present this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and are confident that by teaming up with Ridley, Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and the remarkably talented Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of its film predecessors.“

Are you looking forward to Blade Runner 2099, and are you glad to hear that the show has wrapped filming? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Steam’s latest mini-sensation has arrived and it’s called MiSide. The meta thriller in the vein of Doki Doki Literature Club has already racked up one of the highest ratings on Valve’s storefront just a couple weeks after its completely under-the-radar launch, thanks in part to streams by Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach…

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Steam’s latest mini-sensation has arrived and it’s called MiSide. The meta thriller in the vein of Doki Doki Literature Club has already racked up one of the highest ratings on Valve’s storefront just a couple weeks after its completely under-the-radar launch, thanks in part to streams by Mark “Markiplier” Fischbach…

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Cinematic continuity be damned, Jason Momoa is putting the fish gills down for tattoos and violence. According to reports from Deadline, the man known around the world as Aquaman formally announced his return to the DC universe as the invulnerable Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

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Cinematic continuity be damned, Jason Momoa is putting the fish gills down for tattoos and violence. According to reports from Deadline, the man known around the world as Aquaman formally announced his return to the DC universe as the invulnerable Lobo in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

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During the lead-up to this year’s holiday madness, a rumor concerning the R-rated live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin film began making the rounds. According to industry insider MyTimeToShineH, Aquaman and Malignant director James Wan could helm the upcoming adaptation of The Last Ronin.

Tyler Burton Smith (Boy Kills World, Child’s Play) is writing the screenplay for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, with former DC Film honcho Walter Hamada producing through his 18hz production studio. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is based on the limited comic book series by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz. The story is inspired by an older tale written by Eastman and Peter Laird. The limited run includes Esau and Isaac Escorza, Ben Bishop, and Eastman artwork.

Here’s a synopsis for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin courtesy of Amazon:

A New York Times Bestseller! Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost. From legendary TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, get ready for the final story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three decades in the making!

What terrible events destroyed his family and left New York a crumbling, post-apocalyptic nightmare? All will be revealed in this climactic Turtle tale that sees longtime friends becoming enemies and new allies emerging in the most unexpected places. Can the surviving Turtle triumph?

James Wan has plenty of box office bangers, including The Conjuring and Annabelle franchises. It’s no surprise that Paramount would want him for an adaptation of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin. Still, take this news with a massive grain of salt, as there’s been no confirmation or follow-up concerning the rumor. Wan is a fantastic choice to helm The Last Ronin, even if there are plenty of directors suited for the gig. The Last Ronin wouldn’t be R-rated for language alone. The story is extremely dark, with the lone turtle haunted by the ghosts and memories of his fallen brothers. It’s a psychological story with emotional milestones around every corner. I can’t wait to see how it all comes together. How about you? Let us know in the comments section below.

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When people think about the Deadpool film franchise, they think of fast-talking banter, over-the-top violence, and money—lots and lots of money. In 2016, director Tim Miller brought the Merc with a Mouth to cinemas for an unconventional superhero splatterfest starring Ryan Reynolds in the role he was born to play. The Assassin in Red Pajamas quickly became an overnight sensation, with the film earning $782 million worldwide. Indeed, Tim Miller received a big piece of that pie, right? He’s the director, after all. He probably made millions. Wrong! During a panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, for his Secret Level animated series, Miller revealed his salary for directing Deadpool. He made $225,000! I’m gonna let that sink in.

While $225,000 is a decent chunk of change for us, imagine getting paid that pittance when the thing you made banked $782 million! That must sting worse than a Chimichanga covered in Fire Sauce coming out of your backend. When asked to react to pay gap, Miller told Collider‘s Steve Weintraub that he’s thrilled to have played a part in Deadpool’s silver-screen popularity.

“You know what I feel? Nothing but pride. I mean, I feel like every time I walk down the aisles out there on the floor of CCXP and I see all these Deadpool figurines, I think they wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t made that film. And I feel uniquely fortunate that I could be part of it. Then, my second thought is, I wish my director deals had a piece of the merchandising so that I could get some money from all of that.”

“You guys might not know, but it’s not really a profitable thing to be a first-time director in Hollywood, and I’ll tell you exactly,” Miller continued. “I got $225,000 to direct Deadpool. I know it sounds like a lot of money, but for two years of work, that’s not a ton of money. Not that I’m not grateful, I’m fucking grateful, that’s the way it is because you’re supposed to when you’re a first-time director. My agent said ‘Dude, you make more on an episode of The Walking Dead!’”

Wow! Miller has a fantastic attitude about his compensation for directing Deadpool. I would be livid if I saw those numbers, knowing Marvel paid me in couch change. Miller’s got a point, though. Pioneering Deadpool’s resurgence is an honor. Deadpool makes many people happy, and that, my friends, is priceless.

What do you think about Miller’s paycheck for Deadpool? Did Marvel get away with monetary murder? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.

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