Watch the SYFY: The Roast of Todd McFarlane Comic-Con@Home Panel!

Comic-Con wouldn’t be Comic-Con without Todd McFarlane, the innovative artist and entrepreneur who is the subject of the brand-new SYFY WIRE documentary film, Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t. You can watch the SYFY: The Roast of Todd McFarlane virtual panel as McFarlane is joined by Marc Silvestri and J. Scott Campbell as they commend (and roast) McFarlane on his contributions to the industry in the player below!

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Directed by David Oster, Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t follows the titular rebel who, at the beginning of his career, was turned away by numerous comic publications. He decided that since no one was recognizing his talent, he would take matters in his own hands. McFarlane eventually became the CEO of McFarlane Toys and President of Image Comics and Legendary Artist. The docu provides an in-depth view behind the mastermind that brought us Spawn and some of Marvel Comic’s most well-known artwork. It paints a portrait of his struggles to navigate and upend the status quo in the comic and toy industries.

The documentary will be released on Saturday, July 25 at 11:00 p.m. ET on SYFY’s YouTube channel, SYFY.com, and On Demand. Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t is produced by SYFY Wire through the network’s partnership with online content creation studio Tongal.

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SYFY Fan Fest will take place between July 25-August 2, and will also include the Season 4 premiere of Wynonna Earp, a special extended episode of the new hit series The Great Debate, a SYFY Wire After Dark original special, movie marathons, and more.

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Watch The New Mutants Comic-Con@Home Panel!

Writer/director Josh Boone and the cast of the highly-anticipated film The New Mutants are discussing 20th Century Studios and Marvel Entertainment’s upcoming original horror-thriller in a virtual Comic-Con@Home panel. You can watch it now in the player below!

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The New Mutants panel will feature stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga and will be moderated by Ira Madison III.

20th Century Studios in association with Marvel Entertainment presents The New Mutants, the upcoming horror-thriller set in an isolated hospital where a group of young mutants is being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.

Directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in our Stars) and written by Josh Boone & Knate Lee, The New Mutants stars Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones), Anya Taylor-Joy (Glass), Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things), Alice Braga (Predators), Blu Hunt (The Originals), and Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why).

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The film is produced by Simon Kinberg, p.g.a., Karen Rosenfelt, and Lauren Shuler Donner with Stan Lee and Michele Imperato Stabile serving as executive producers. The film is currently set for an August 28, 2020 release.

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Ryan Reynolds & Shawny Levy Action-Adventure Film Bought by Netflix

Netflix and Ryan Reynolds (6 Underground, Deadpool) are reteaming for an untitled action-adventure film starring Reynolds and directed by Oscar nominee Shawn Levy (Arrival, Stranger Things, Free Guy), according to Variety.

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The streaming giant reportedly bought the rights from Skydance Media, who backed 6 Underground as well as Netflix’s hit The Old Guard starring Charlize Theron. Reynolds and Levy previously worked together on the upcoming sci-fi action-comedy Free Guy, currently scheduled to release on December 11, 2020.

Reynolds and Levi will both produce the untitled action-adventure film. Jonathan Tropper (This Is Where I Leave You) is currently writing the latest draft of the movie according to the outlet, whose rewriting is based on scripts by TS Nowlin and Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett. The plot of the film is being kept tightly under wraps. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger will produce for Skydance.

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Reynolds’ upcoming slate also includes The Croods 2, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, and Netflix’s Red Notice, the action-comedy also starring Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot.

(Photo by Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Twentieth Century Fox )

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Joe Keery is a madman in Spree red-band trailer

Following its debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, RLJE Films has debuted the blood and profanity-filled red-band trailer for the upcoming horror comedy Spree starring Joe Keery (Stranger Things) as a deranged rideshare driver. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

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Meet Kurt (Keery), a 23-year-old rideshare driver for Spree, who is so desperate for social media attention that he’ll stop at nothing to go viral. He comes up with a plan to livestream a rampage as a shortcut to infamy – coining his evil scheme “#thelesson”, he installs a set of cameras in his car and begins streaming his rides. Wildly miscalculating the popularity that would come from his lethal scheme, Kurt’s desperation grows as he tries to find a way to overcome the plan’s flaws. In the middle of all this madness, a stand-up comedian with her own viral agenda crosses Kurt’s path and becomes the only hope to put a stop to his misguided carnage.

In addition to Keery, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live), Mischa Barton (The Cat and the Moon), John DeLuca (All Hallows’ Eve), David Arquette (Scream 5) and Kyle Mooney (The Unicorn).

The film is co-written by Eugene Kotlyarenko and Gene McHugh, with the former directing and producing alongside Sumaiya Kaveh, Matthew Budman and John H. Lang.

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Spree is set to hit select theaters, digital platforms and VOD on August 14!

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Exclusive Before/During/After Trailer From OITNB’s Finnerty Steeves

ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for Before/During/After, written by and starring Orange Is the New Black’s Finnerty Steeves. You can check out the trailer for the dramedy in the player below!

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Before/During/After is described as a sharp-witted dramedy that studies a middle-aged NYC theatre actress suddenly forced to figure out the kind of person she wants to portray in real life when her marriage comes to an end after she catches her husband cheating.

The film also stars John Pankow, Kristie Sutherland, Jeremy Davidson, Richard Masur, Susan Blackwell, Michael Emerson, and John Ellison Conlee.

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Before/During/After is co-directed by Stephen Kunken, who is known for his acting roles in Showtime’s Billions and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Jack Lewars whose previous films include Alligator Run, a documentary about two friends from Los Angeles who set out on a quest to drive their pet alligator cross-country to release it in the swamps of Gainesville, Florida, and acclaimed narrative feature Mount Joy.

The movie will have its world premiere at Greenpoint Film Festival on August 7.

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Universal in talks for Tom Cruise/Doug Liman space project

Though the Dark Universe may have crumbled around him at the major studio, Universal Pictures and Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible — Fallout) may reunite once again for the upcoming space-shot project set to be helmed by Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Though no deal is currently in place yet, sources are reporting that Universal is circling the project and is in talks to acquire the groundbreaking film that will be the first narrative feature to be shot in outer space. It’s unclear at this point if the film aboard the International Space Station is connected to the project Cruise is working on with SpaceX, but given Musk replied to Bridenstine’s tweet by saying “Should be a lot of fun!,” all signs point to the two science organizations working together on the movie. The film announced on Monday with SpaceX is set to be the first narrative feature shot in outer space and is reportedly not attached to Cruise’s long-running hit franchise Mission: Impossible.

Both Cruise and Liman are busy wrapping other projects at the moment. Cruise is waiting to get back to work with Christopher McQuarrie on Mission: Impossible 7, which was shut down due to the coronavirus; and has the recently completed Top Gun: Maverick waiting in the wings. Liman is in postproduction on Chaos Walking, starring Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland. Cruise and Liman were also working on a separate project together titled Luna Park for Paramount Pictures.

Cruise has become notorious in Hollywood for his meticulous nature of doing almost exclusively his own stunts, rivaling Jackie Chan (The Foreigner) for the heights and extremes he will go to deliver pulse-pounding set pieces throughout his various blockbuster films. While the first Mission: Impossible was a generally tame effort for stunts, Cruise has taken it bigger with each follow-up, beginning with the no-wire climb in Mission: Impossible 2 in Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park and continuing with the Shanghai skyscraper run in 3, scaling the Dubai skyscraper the Burj Khalifa and executing stunts 123 floors up in Ghost Protocol.

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The most notorious came in the sixth and most acclaimed installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Fallout, which saw him hang from a helicopter in flight and scale a hanging payload, followed by flying the chopper itself around the Siachen Glacier and conducting a real High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) jump. He also leaped between multiple rooftops for a foot chase sequence, which resulted in him infamously breaking his ankle and forcing production to halt on the film for two months.

(Photo Credit: D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)

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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me Being Adapted at HBO

HBO will adapt the critically acclaimed stage show, Between the World and Me, based on the #1 New York Times bestseller of the same name by author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, as an HBO Special Event to air this fall.

Originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater in 2018, the special will combine elements of that production, including powerful readings from Coates’ book, and will once again be directed by award-winning director and Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes. In addition to producing this special, HBO will be making a charitable donation to Howard University and the Apollo Theater.

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“Ta-Nehisi’s book is a modern literary classic that provides an essential message for our times,” says Casey Bloys, President, HBO Programming. “We are tremendously proud to bring this incredibly important event to our audiences.”

“I’ve been working with Kamilah for almost as long as I’ve been a writer,” said Ta-Nehisi Coates. “I can think of no one better to put Between the World and Me on screen and no better home for it than HBO.”

“As people across our country continue to speak out about violent, systemic racism and the urgent need for tangible change, Ta-Nehisi’s words resonate as strongly today as they did five years ago,” said Kamilah Forbes. “I’m excited to collaborate again with both Ta-Nehisi and HBO on this important special event, ensuring that the powerful voices in this work and the cry for justice from the Black community continue to reach a broader audience.”

Coates’ book Between the World and Me (available to order here) published by One World, is a New York Times Bestseller, National Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize finalist. First published in 2015, it is written as a letter to Coates’ teenage son and recounts the author’s experiences growing up in Baltimore’s inner city and his growing fear of daily violence against the Black community. The narrative explores Coates’ bold notion that American society structurally supports white supremacy.

The stage adaptation based on Between the World and Me was originally performed in 2018 as a limited engagement at the Apollo Theater and the Kennedy Center, with encore performances at the Apollo Theater and again in Atlanta in 2019. Kamilah Forbes, a close friend of Coates, is featured in the book as “Aunt Kamilah” and was immediately inspired to adapt Coates’ work to the stage after reading it. The pair met at Howard University, a pivotal time in both of their lives that has been a continued source of creativity and inspiration. Watson, also a Howard alum, participated in the staged reading at the Apollo and Kennedy Center.

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Between the World and Me will be directed by Kamilah Forbes who also serves as executive producer; executive produced by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Susan Kelechi Watson; produced by Roger Ross Williams. Williams’ production company ONE STORY UP produces.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Susan Kelechi Watson are also executive producers for the adaptation. Oscar-winning filmmaker Roger Ross Williams is producing. It will also incorporate documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation. The special will be produced under COVID-19 guidelines. Between the World and Me will be available on HBO and to stream on HBO Max.

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Patrick Lussier Talks Terminator: Genisys Sequels

Alan Taylor’s Terminator: Genisys was a dud with audiences and critics when it was released back in 2015, though it tried valiantly to take the series in a different direction. In a recent interview on The Production Meeting Podcast, co-writer Patrick Lussier revealed where he planned on taking the sequels.

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“We wrote like two drafts of the next one, the direct sequel, and had an outline for the third one, what that would be, that answered all the questions that were presented in ‘Genisys’ and brought it back around and closed it all off,” he explained.

He also argued that Genisys was introducing new characters who would have gone in a completely different direction in the follow up films.

“They dealt more with how the future and where Skynet comes from and what that sort of time loop is. You know, the Matt Smith character. It became much more of a focus, so they were probably a little trippier and stood away from ‘T2’ a little more. Started having their own identity. There’s sort of an interesting escaping the fatalistic part of it, how it opened was very cool… who knows? Maybe one day they’ll release it as a comic or something.”

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Directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World) Terminator: Genisys brought back Arnold Schwarzenegger as an older Terminator, joined by Jason Clarke as John Connor, Emilia Clarke as Sarah Connor, Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese, J.K. Simmons, Dayo Okeniyi, Byung Hun Lee and Matt Smith. The film grossed $440 million worldwide, making the second highest grossing entry in the franchise before inflation, against a $160 million budget. Only 27% of critics awarded the film a positive score.

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Dave Franco to portray Vanilla Ice in biopic To The Extreme

Dave Franco may be prepping for the wide release of his already well-received directorial debut The Rental but he’s not slowing down on work one bit as the 35-year-old is set to portray infamous ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice in a new biopic entitled To The Extreme, according to The Wrap.

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First announced in 2019, the film centers on the rise of its central subject, real name Robert Van Winkle, from his time as a high school dropout selling cars in Dallas to becoming the first hip-hop artist to have a single top the Billboard charts with 1990’s “Ice Ice Baby.” The film will also chronicle Ice’s struggles with stardom, extortion attempts and criticisms of selling out.

Written by Chris Goodwin and Phillip Van, Franco said in an interview with Insider that the tone of the film is being envisioned as akin to the 2017 acclaimed biographical dramedy The Disaster Artist, focused on Tommy Wiseau’s notorious cult classic The Room. Franco co-starred in Disaster alongside his brother James Franco, who also acted as producer and director on the hit.

“We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to preproduction,” Franco said. “With that movie, people expected us to make a broad comedy where we make fun of Tommy Wiseau, but the more real we played it, the funnier and heartfelt it was — that’s the tone we want for this one as well.”

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With production still shut down across the country, Franco confirmed that the project hasn’t set a production start date just yet and that there is no director currently attached to the film, but expressed his excitement at diving into the film and role.

“Rob is such a sweet and intelligent guy and he’s been super helpful in the process of getting all the details correct and making us privy to information the public doesn’t know,” Franco said. “Just talking to him I can’t help but think about the rabbit holes I’m going to go down to get ready for the role.”

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