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Although plans to make Kick-Ass 3 never ended up happening following Kick-Ass 2’s release in 2013, this ultra-violent superhero property isn’t done being cinematically adapted. Back in 2018, it was announced that Kick-Ass would be rebooted under the guidance of Matthew Vaughn, who directed the first movie. Six years later, Vaughn has revealed some particularly interesting details about the reboot’s progress, though now I’m perplexed by what he has planned for the movie.Kick-Ass Will Be The Third Movie In A New…

After Alan Wake 2, all eyes are on Remedy, and the studio has plenty in store. It announced today that its previously announced project with Tencent will be rebooted with a few significant changes. In 2021, it was announced that Remedy and Tencent are partnering up to make a free-to-play co-op title. Codenamed Vanguard, the game is being developed with the Unreal Engine instead of Remedy’s in-house Northlight engine, and there are plans to release it on PC and consoles. With the reboot, the project has been renamed…

Seven tech giants have informed the European Union that its rebooted antitrust regime — the Digital Markets Act (DMA) — will apply to them. The initial seven, the majority of whom are US-based giants, are: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance (TikTok), Meta (Facebook), Microsoft and Samsung. The DMA takes an ex ante approach to antitrust enforcement on major platforms that act as intermediaries between other digital businesses and consumers. It does this by laying out an up-front set of obligations and…

via Universal If there was any justice in the world, Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro would have been given the opportunity to complete their widely-acclaimed Hellboy trilogy, especially when we keep getting fed reboots instead. The 2004 original and sequel The Golden Army may not have been box office monsters on a similar scale to many other comic book adaptations, but they both turned a decent enough profit and drew plenty of acclaim from critics and audiences. However, when the threequel wouldn’t come…

via Warner Bros. Ever since the opening scene of James Cameron’s classic original, fans had been desperate to see a full-scale war movie that captured the brutal battle between man and machine, but when they finally ended up getting it in Terminator Salvation, the results were as dry as the wastelands the conflict was fought on. While a $371 million take at the box office wasn’t bad, it wasn’t quite worth the $200 million investment, and neither was a Rotten Tomatoes score of only 33 percent. Even director McG…

Image via HBO Max users are upset with how the new streaming platform looks after its rebrand from HBO Max. Users revealed certain credits were being removed from the shows and films listed on the platform, which caused fans to be upset with Warner Bros Discovery. This change was pointed out by Reddit user u/Good-Skeleton on r/movies. They pointed out that directors and writers were no longer being credited on the renamed streaming platform. According to the thread’s author, only the show’s creators are listed,…

via Sony The cyclical churn of repurposed content has been going on for decades, to the extent that Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man endures as an example of what happens when way too many grubby fingers end up prodding at the same IP. A thinly-veiled remake of 1933 classic The Invisible Man – which was itself a literary adaptation that gave rise to dozens upon dozens of imitators and loose interpretations – the blockbuster $90 million hybrid of existential sci-fi and grisly body horror didn’t find much favor among…

Image via Disney Plus One day, the planets will align, and the birds will sing as the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s longest-awaited prophecy comes true; indeed, at some point, we will in fact be introduced to Kevin Feige’s iteration of the X-Men, and just how one of the world’s pop culture mega giants will handle the politically complex superhero team is anyone’s guess. But before you figure out how to portray the team, you have to figure out how to portray the members of said team, and there’s no better starting…

Warner Bros. originally adapted the Harry Potter books into a series of eight films starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint between 2001 and 2011. But according to Bloomberg, turning each book into a whole season of TV will “allow the writers to delve further” into the original stories. But since the release of the original movies, the franchise’s reputation has been caught up in its author JK Rowling’s increasingly controversial comments about the trans community. Vox has a thorough timeline of Rowling’s…

via Lionsgate Countless attempts at launching a shared cinematic universe have attempted to run long before they’d learned how to walk, and almost all of them have imploded as a result. No marketable property is ever going to be left gathering dust forever, though, but Netflix will be hoping its Power Rangers reboot fares markedly better than the last one. In a display of overconfidence that was destined to end in disaster, owners Saban and studio Lionsgate touted the reinvention of the long-running martial…