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Briefs : Winchesters kerfuffle, Wahlberg/Hart two-hander, Johansson passes on Indy 5 & more!

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Former “X-Files” star Laurie Holden has joined the cast of Amazon’s “The Boys”, playing Crimson Countess. [More…]

Jared Padalecki wasn’t initially happy that he wasn’t advised about the recently-announced “Supernatural” prequel. [More…]

Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart are circling the new two-hander “Me Time”. The comedy sees Hart play “a stay-at-home dad who takes a week off while his family takes a spring break vacation, meeting up with an old friend for a fun weekend together before all hell breaks loose.” Wahlberg would play the role of Sonny’s (Hart) long-time friend Huck. [More...]

According to Patreon scooper Daniel Richtman, “Black Widow” actress Scarlett Johansson passed on a villainous role in the new “Indiana Jones” film. [More…]

A number of new set pics from Andy Muschietti’s “The Flash” are online; there’s sneak peeks at Sasha Calle’s Supergirl and Michael Keaton’s Bruce Wayne here.

Matthew Robinson (“The Invention of Lying”) is writing Disney’s upcoming “Star Wars” movie “Rogue Squadron”. [More…]

MGM has landed global distribution rights to the new horror-thriller “Pussy Island”, starring Naomi Ackie and Channing Tatum. [More…]

The “Fletch” reboot has added Marcia Gay Harden, Kyle MacLachlan and Ray Wood Jr to its call sheet. The Greg Mottola-directed “Confess, Fletch” begins filming on Monday. [More…]

James Ashcroft is directing a feature adaptation of Max Brooks’ bigfoot horror “Devolution” for Legendary. [More…]

NBC’s “Good Girls” has been axed. Despite suggestions it might continue on at Netflix, reports suggest negotiations didn’t come off. [More…]

Sony thriller “I Heart Murder”, which has Matt Spicer writing and directing, has cast Phoebe Dynevor in the lead role.[More…]

Actress Elizabeth Olsen tells Vanity Fair that the upcoming “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness” will encompass a much darker tone than most “Indiana Jones” films. “I think it’s scarier than Indiana Jones. I think it definitely feels more Sam Raimi than that. So maybe that was the goal, but it definitely became something darker… The horror genre feeling of constant fear and thrill and misleads and playing with camera, playing with how the perspective of the depth of field in order to make the audience feel more anxious. I think it’s more than like a glossy Indiana Jones movie, which I love Indiana Jones, but I feel like it has a darker thing going on.”

Appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher last week, Quentin Tarantino mentioned that he briefly considered a remake of “Reservoir Dogs” [More..]

Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” has been delayed from October 1 to 22 in North America [More…]

Henry Cavill is rumored to be getting his own 007-like franchise. [More…]

Trailer : Halloween Kills

Briefs : 3 Sequels begin filming, Lithgow back for Dexter, Perlman joins Transformers & more!