All good things must come to an end, unless it’s the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Then, you just throw the actor into the multiverse, and out comes a new beginning. In an unsurprising surprise move by Marvel, The Wrap exclusively reports that Chris Evans is set to make his formal return to the MCU.
Some people say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. However, can the old dog teach a new dog old tricks? We’ll discover the answer when the upcoming Simon West-directed action comedy Old Guy blasts into theaters. The Avenue debuted a trailer for Old Guy on Tuesday, starring Christoph Waltz (Inglorious Basterds, The Zero Therum) as a past-his-prime hitman tasked with training a bumbling recruit, played by Cooper Hoffman (Licorice Pizza, Saturday Night).
Here’s the official synopsis for Old Guy courtesy of The Avenue:
“An aging hitman (Christoph Waltz) is forced to train a young prodigy (Cooper Hoffman) when his employer moves to replace the old guard. But when they learn they are being betrayed, the unlikely pair turns into a lethal team – with their double-crossing bosses in their sights. Lucy Liu also stars in this action-packed comedy from the director of CON AIR and THE EXPENDABLES 2.”
Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) directs Old Guy from a screenplay by Greg Johnson (The Last Son). Ryan McParland, Ann Akinjirin, Jason Done, Tony Hirst, Kate Katzman, Conor Mullen, and Rory Mullen star, with Lucy Liu (Chicago, Charlie’s Angels) tackling a lead role.
In today’s Old Guy trailer, Danny Dolinski (Christoph Waltz) feels over the hill but still clings to whatever energy he can to remain in the game. When he learns that his boss is phasing out the new guard, replacing them with young and eager recruits, Danny gets saddled with Wihlborg (Cooper Hoffman), a hitman-to-be who’s wet behind the ears and didn’t play enough Metal Gear Solid. If he did, he’d be much better at hiding in cardboard boxes.
Anata (Lucy Liu) and Wihlborg tag along when Danny gets called to Ireland, but are they ready for what lies ahead? When bullets start flying, Danny learns that the organization he’s working for has set him up with a bum partner, and they’re in danger of getting bumped off. To escape and bring pain upon the ones who deceived them, Danny, Wihlborg, and Anata remove the kid gloves and start hitting back.
What do you think about today’s Old Guy trailer? Do you think Danny has what it takes to remain in the game, or will he retire after the mission? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Old Guy opens in select theaters and comes to Digital on February 21, 2025.
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Jamie Foxx has kept the circumstances surrounding his “mystery illness” close to his chest for a year and a half. While he would provide some details here and there, by and large the entire scenario was kept in the dark. But as he teased when announcing his new stand-up special, Jamie Foxx has opened up exponentially.
Aptly titled What Had Happened Was…, Jamie Foxx’s Netflix special (and his first in more than two decades) found the actor/musician/comedian opened up to the audience in an intimate – and funny – fashion, saying, “It is a mystery, we still don’t know exactly what happened to me. I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. Before I could get the aspirin, I went out. I don’t remember 20 days. What they told me was they took me to the first doctor and they gave me a cortisone shot and sent me home. I don’t know if you can do Yelps for doctors but that’s half a star. My sister said ‘No.’ Four foot eleven, and full of nothing but love, she said, ‘Something’s wrong with my brother.’”
But things were far more serious for Jamie Foxx than he or anyone in his family could have guessed. Foxx actually had a brain bleed, which led to a stroke. As Foxx joked, “I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel. Sh*t, am I going to the wrong place in this motherf*cker? Because I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the Devil like, ‘C’mon.’ Or is that Puffy?”
Doctor also told Jamie Foxx that recovery was possible but it would take a lot of work. And that’s evidently what Foxx put into it, focusing on getting better so the world could see him as he wants to be seen: healthy and ready for work. And while Foxx did have a short stint doing stand-up, he’ll next be promoting another aptly titled project: Back in Action, which co-stars Cameron Diaz (herself coming out of retirement) and hits Netflix on January 17th.
What Had Happened Was… is now available on Netflix.
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Jamie Foxx has kept the circumstances surrounding his “mystery illness” close to his chest for a year and a half. While he would provide some details here and there, by and large the entire scenario was kept in the dark. But as he teased when announcing his new stand-up special, Jamie Foxx has opened up exponentially.
Aptly titled What Had Happened Was…, Jamie Foxx’s Netflix special (and his first in more than two decades) found the actor/musician/comedian opened up to the audience in an intimate – and funny – fashion, saying, “It is a mystery, we still don’t know exactly what happened to me. I was having a bad headache and I asked my boy for an aspirin. Before I could get the aspirin, I went out. I don’t remember 20 days. What they told me was they took me to the first doctor and they gave me a cortisone shot and sent me home. I don’t know if you can do Yelps for doctors but that’s half a star. My sister said ‘No’. Four foot eleven, and full of nothing but love, she said something’s wrong with my brother.”
But things were far more serious for Jamie Foxx than he or anyone in his family could have guessed. Foxx actually had a brain bleed, which led to a stroke. As Foxx joked, “I saw the tunnel. I didn’t see the light. It was hot in that tunnel. Sh*t, am I going to the wrong place in this motherf*cker? Because I looked at the end of the tunnel, and I thought I saw the Devil like, ‘C’mon.’ Or is that Puffy?”
Doctor also told Jamie Foxx that recovery was possible but it would take a lot of work. And that’s evidently what Foxx put into it, focusing on getting better so the world could see him as he wants to be seen: healthy and ready for work. And while Foxx did have a short stint doing stand-up, he’ll next be promoting another aptly titled project: Back in Action, which co-stars Cameron Diaz (herself coming out of retirement) and hits Netflix on January 17th.
What Had Happened Was… is now available on Netflix.
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Director Guillermo del Toro has been spending this year working on one of his dream projects, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic tale Frankenstein that is set up at the Netflix streaming service. At one point, Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) was in the cast, but he had to drop out and was replaced by Jacob Elordi (Saltburn)… and it has been said that the role Garfield had passed over to Elordi was the Monster. Now, Garfield has confirmed that it was the role of “the Creature” that he missed out on – and while he’s disappointed that he missed out on the experience, he’s glad Elordi got to have it in his place.
Del Toro’s Frankenstein, which is a long-awaited passion project for the filmmaker, might have the following logline: Set in Eastern Europe in the 19th Century, the story of Dr. Pretorius, who needs to track down Frankenstein’s monster- who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before–in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein.
Elordi’s co-stars include Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight), Mia Goth (Pearl), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), and Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), with Ralph Ineson (The Witch) showing up for a pivotal cameo.
Speaking with Deadline Hollywood (with thanks to Total Film for the transcription), Garfield said, “I was just with Jacob Elordi, who ended up playing the character of The Creature, in Marrakech, so I was hearing about how amazing and satisfying that was for him. So I’m very, very glad that it was him doing it. I’m, of course, disappointed that I didn’t get to do it because I love Guillermo and I love Oscar and everyone that he assembled. But meeting Jacob felt really serendipitous so that I could really see and hear that, ‘No, maybe he needed that experience more than me.’ That was cool, to feel that he had a really spectacular time on that job.“
Del Toro has been talking about making a new version of Frankenstein for more than a decade. Years ago, he had the project set up at Universal, with Doug Jones (The Shape of Water) on board to play Frankenstein’s Monster. The movie got far enough into pre-production that Jones even saw a bust of the Monster that was inspired by Bernie Wrightson’s artwork in an illustrated adaptation of Shelley’s novel that Wrightson spent seven years working on. But then the project fell apart. Now it’s finally happening at the Netflix streaming service, which previously teamed with del Toro on Pinocchio and the anthology series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
Are you looking forward to Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein? What do you think of Jacob Elordi playing the Monster / Creature instead of Andrew Garfield? Let us know by leaving a comment below.
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If you’ve started playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Xbox or PC, you might be a few hours into exploring the Vatican City. And that’s cool, but I’m here to convince you to leave that place and go explore the other locations. Seriously. You’ll thank me later.
If you’ve started playing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on Xbox or PC, you might be a few hours into exploring the Vatican City. And that’s cool, but I’m here to convince you to leave that place and go explore the other locations. Seriously. You’ll thank me later.
Cyberpunk 2077 is four years old today, and CD Projekt Red is celebrating with a surprise patch for its open-world RPG that’s out now. The team held a live stream to run down some of the big changes coming in patch 2.2, which comes over a year after the Phantom Liberty expansion, 2.0 overhaul, and the big romance…
Cyberpunk 2077 is four years old today, and CD Projekt Red is celebrating with a surprise patch for its open-world RPG that’s out now. The team held a live stream to run down some of the big changes coming in patch 2.2, which comes over a year after the Phantom Liberty expansion, 2.0 overhaul, and the big romance…
The Witch, The Lighthouse, and The Northman writer/director Robert Eggers‘ remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent classic Nosferatu (watch it HERE) is set to reach theatres on Wednesday, December 25th – but before we reach that date, a three-night event called Nosferatu: The Immersive Experience is going to be held at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge in Hollywood Forever Cemetery! This experience will take place from December 16th through the 18th, 7:30pm to 11:30pm… and while tickets have already sold out, you can get your name on the waitlist at THIS LINK.
An unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the original Nosferatu has the following synopsis: In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok’s servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home. Werner Herzog directed his own remake of the film in 1979. Murnau’s film had a running time of 94 minutes and Herzog’s is 107 minutes long, so Eggers’ 132 minute version is substantially longer than its predecessors.
Eggers’ take on Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
The cast includes Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man: No Way Home) as crazy vampire hunter Von Franz, Lily-Rose Depp (The Idol) as Ellen Hutter and Nicholas Hoult (Renfield) as her husband Thomas – a role Skarsgard was going to play at one point. Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Bullet Train) is in there as Thomas’s friend Friedrich Harding, with Emma Corrin (The Crown) as Friedrich’s wife Anna, Ralph Ineson (The Witch) as Von Franz’s cohort Dr. Wilhelm Sievers, and Simon McBurney (The Conjuring 2) in an unspecified role. As mentioned, Bill Skarsgard is the title character and has said that playing Nosferatu / Count Orlok was like “conjuring pure evil. It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me. … I do not think people are gonna recognize me in it.“
The first reactions to the film recently made their way online, and they were very positive. Nosferatu has earned an R rating for bloody violent content, graphic nudity, and some sexual content. JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray highly recommends that you check it out, as he described the film as a new horror classic in his 10/10 review.
A collaboration between Focus Features, Thirteenth Floor Entertainment, Bloody Disgusting, and Cineverse, Nosferatu: The Immersive Experience has the following description: The famed Masonic Lodge in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles plays host to an exclusive 3-night live experience that will transport guests into the gothic ambiance of the film. Explore the carefully-curated dark spaces filled with screen-used props, occult artifacts, relics, and costumes. Revel in the eerie soundscape and epic score from the film’s composer, Robin Carolan. Encounter strange inhabitants. Experience the world of the film before its release. Guests will be able to observe screen-used props, occult artifacts, relics, and costumes; revel in the eerie soundscape and epic score from the film’s composer Robin Carolan; encounter strange inhabitants; uncover the place where Count Orlok lies; indulge in themed spirits, merchandise, and more.
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