Say what you will about the oft-ridiculed Prequel Trilogy and the divisive Sequel Trilogy, but the Star Wars Holiday Special may still be the most infamous chapter in the franchise’s 42-year history, and even in 2019, Mark Hamill continues to show remorse over the 1978 TV movie.
2019 is set to be a big year for movies portraying Charles Manson. Just next month, for instance, The Haunting of Sharon Tate will see Ben Mellish in the role opposite Hilary Duff as the killer’s most famous victim. After that, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will be bringing us Damon Herriman’s take on the figure when it drops in July. And in between, you have Charlie Says, which is headed for cinemas just under two months from now.
Since the start of this year, Sylvester Stallone has been taking to Instagram on a regular basis to share images from the upcoming Rambo V: Last Blood, with the intention being that each set of photos will show the next part of the story. So far, these pics have largely covered the peaceful opening stretch of the picture, when John Rambo is still living a quiet life on an Arizona ranch, but going by this latest post, it seems that Stallone is finally ready to give us a taste of the action to come.
By now, most DC fans have come to accept that Armie Hammer won’t be taking on the title role in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, but in case the actor hasn’t denied the rumor enough already, the Call Me by Your Name star has shot down the idea several more times in a new video from TMZ.
Seeing how Rob Zombie made his name in the music industry, it’s no accident that the director’s films tend to have pretty memorable, rock-oriented soundtracks, and in a new photo shared from the upcoming Three From Hell, we witness Otis B. Driftwood blasting a song from his prison cell.
By now, the evidence that Star Wars: Episode IX will see Kylo Ren wearing a helmet again is starting to look pretty convincing, but there remains some debate on just what his next piece of headwear will look like. On the one hand, reports and leaked concept art seem to indicate that J.J. Abrams’ upcoming film will feature a mended version of the helmet he smashed near the beginning of The Last Jedi, complete with red fissure lines where repairs were made. On the other hand, you have this new merchandise leak which shows the mask in a relatively healthy state.
After the post-credits cliffhanger that last year’s Avenges: Infinity War left us on, it’s long been assumed that Captain Marvel would find some way of connecting to next month’s Avengers: Endgame. Sure enough, Carol Danvers’ final scene in her solo debut brings us right back to the MCU of the present day, and thanks to one little detail on the face of her fellow hero, the sequence may reveal more than initially meets the eye.
With the launch of Disney Plus later this year, Marvel Studios will be able to explore new creative avenues that go well beyond the content of the films. But while many of their planned TV shows will still follow the continuity of the MCU, Slash Film is reporting of an animated series that will prove to be a major exception.
For these last few months, it’s consistently felt like the Disney/Fox merger was just around the corner, only for the deal to be pushed back further, but as per a new media release from Disney, it seems that we’re now slightly over a week away from the acquisition being finalized.
While production for the upcoming Birds of Prey has offered a generous array of set photos, Ewan McGregor’s Black Mask has remained one of the film’s more mysterious characters, partly because we’ve yet to get a clear, well-lit glimpse of the villain in his actual black mask. But for what it’s worth, the Trainspotting star was recently spotted on set once more, and he’s looking a little worse for wear.