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The lawsuit filed against Shia LaBeouf by his former partner FKA Twigs continues to have major ramifications for the actor. It alleges extreme abusive behavior including strangulation, beatings, intentionally infecting her with an STD, and boasting about driving around LA shooting stray dogs. The consequences were swift as well, as he's apparently missed out on a big MCU role, and is now reportedly blacklisted in Hollywood and not attached to any upcoming projects.
COVID-19 may have changed the way we watch movies forever. With audiences unable or unwilling to congregate in busy enclosed spaces, nearly all studios are moving their films online now and Warner Bros., in particular, are going all-in with HBO Max.
It's been a tough year for poor old Tom Cruise. All he wants to do is deliver high-octane action movie thrills and a pesky global pandemic keeps getting in the way.
Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls franchise can make a decent claim to being the biggest RPG series in the world. Despite the last full instalment, the massively successful Skyrim, being released way back in 2011, it's remained very popular. Partially that's because the aforementioned game has been brought to practically every platform under the sun, but spinoffs like MMO The Elder Scrolls Online and mobile title The Elder Scrolls: Blades have also helped keep the franchise in the spotlight.
We've been waiting for Todd McFarlane's Spawn for quite a while now, with absolutely no signs that it's approaching production. The comic creator's dream project has been in development for years, but despite having assembled a great cast and talented crew, studios have been reluctant to sign up. This hesitation is apparently down to McFarlane insisting that he occupies the director's chair, making the pic his debut feature.
Shia LaBeouf had a long road to travel to rehabilitate his reputation after a 2017 traffic stop in which he told a black police officer that he was going to hell for the color of his skin, accused him of arresting him for being white, and ranted about his wife watching pornography featuring "black dicks." But, following a grovelling public apology, a year of probation and attending anger management therapy, he seemed to have accomplished it.