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Briefs : Daredevil series is a continuation, Robbie’s 11, 4 quit SNL and more!

Plus the first eight minutes of “Stranger Things” Season 4 is online!

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In addition to a new “Pirates of the Caribbean”, Margot Robbie is also set to star in a relaunch of the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise. The film will be set decades before the Clooney/Pitt film. Jay Roach (“Austin Powers”) will direct the new film. [More…]

 

Matt Shakman will direct Apple TV+’s “Godzilla and the Titans” series. [More…]

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Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant & Kyle Mooney are exiting “Saturday Night Live” this year. [More…]

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A new film teaming director Paul Greengrass and actor Benedict Cumberbatch titled “The Hood” is being offered up at Cannes. [More…]

 

HBO announced that the critically acclaimed dark comedy series BARRY has been renewed for a fourth season. Season four will begin production in Los Angeles in June, with Bill Hader directing all eight episodes. Hader and Alec Berg are the series co-creators and executive producers.

 

Premium network EPIX® announced that the upcoming second season of Bridge and Tunnel will premiere on July 10, 2022. Written, directed and produced by Edward Burns (Saving Private Ryan, Public Morals) – who also stars – this six-episode, half-hour romantic comedy series set in the early 1980’s revolves around a group of recent college grads setting out to pursue their dreams in Manhattan while still clinging to the familiarity of their working-class Long Island hometown.

Season two opens in the summer of 1981, exactly one year after the events of the last season, and finds Jimmy, Jill and the rest of the gang no longer tethered to the leafy confines of the suburbs. They’ve now got one foot in Manhattan, and it will be a magical summer in the big city full of sexiness, vibrancy and excitement as they each fall in and out of love (with partners new and old) and take one step closer to making their dreams a reality.

 

Peacock announced today that Neve Campbell (Scream, Clouds) will recur as guest star in the new action-comedy series TWISTED METAL, a live-action adaptation of the global video game phenomenon. Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) is also starring and executive producing. Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) to co-star opposite Mackie, alongside Thomas Haden Church (Sideways, Divorce, Spider-Man: No Way Home).

Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), left, and Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) star in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s “Scream.”

 

Disney+ is resurrecting Marvel’s “Daredevil” as a TV series with original stars Charlie Cox (‘Matt Murdock’) and Vincent D’Onofrio (‘Kingpin’). According to THR, the series is envisioned as a continuation of the Netflix series, not a reboot.

 

 

Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie look to join Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon Ho’s next feature at Warner Bros. Based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, it “follows Mickey7, who is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.” [More…]

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The “She-Ra” live-action series in development at Amazon has brought on Nicole Kassell ( “Westworld,” “The Leftovers,” “The Americans,”) to direct. [More…]

 

Prime Video released the official teaser trailer and teaser poster for the highly anticipated ”The Terminal List”, starring Chris Pratt. All eight episodes, executive produced by Pratt, Antoine Fuqua, and David DiGilio, will premiere on July 1 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

 

The first eight minutes of “Stranger Things” Season 4 has been released online by Netflix.

https://youtu.be/5QiG9w0SUzk

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