The thriller The Woman in the Yard, which is coming our way from Blumhouse Productions, Universal Pictures, and director Jaume Collet-Serra, was once set to reach theatres on January 10, 2025, but it was recently bumped off the Universal release slate entirely to make room for another Blumhouse / Universal collaboration, the Wolf Man reboot directed by Leigh Whannell. (Wolf Man is now scheduled for a January 17 release.) The release date shake-up isn’t slowing down The Woman in the Yard‘s momentum, though. Deadline reports that the project has just added another cast member: Russell Hornsby of The Hate U Give and Fences.
Hornsby joins the previously announced Danielle Deadwyler of The Devil to Pay and Till in the cast. Okwui Okpokwasili of The Exorcist: Believer and I Am Legend is also in there.
The Woman in the Yard has been written by Sam Stefanak, who was previously a staff writer and...
Hornsby joins the previously announced Danielle Deadwyler of The Devil to Pay and Till in the cast. Okwui Okpokwasili of The Exorcist: Believer and I Am Legend is also in there.
The Woman in the Yard has been written by Sam Stefanak, who was previously a staff writer and...
- 4/15/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Danielle Deadwyler of The Devil to Pay and Till has signed on to star in the thriller The Woman in the Yard, which is coming our way from Blumhouse Productions, Universal Pictures, and director Jaume Collet-Serra. Universal just announced that they have moved the release of the Blumhouse / Atomic Monster horror movie M3GAN 2.0 back from its originally announced release date on January 17, 2025 to a new date in May – but the studio won’t be without a Blumhouse release in January, because now they have The Woman in the Yard scheduled to reach theatres on January 10, 2025.
The Woman in the Yard has been written by Sam Stefanak, who was previously a staff writer and story editor on the Netflix animated series F Is for Family, but details on the story are being kept under wraps.
Blumhouse founder Jason Blum told Variety that he has been looking for the right project...
The Woman in the Yard has been written by Sam Stefanak, who was previously a staff writer and story editor on the Netflix animated series F Is for Family, but details on the story are being kept under wraps.
Blumhouse founder Jason Blum told Variety that he has been looking for the right project...
- 2/15/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Before we get to know Nick Cannon’s beautiful and amazing children, let’s know who Nick Cannon actually is. Born in October 1980, Nicholas Scott Cannon is a popular American singer, TV presenter, actor, rapper, comedian, and instrumentalist. He started his television career from All That and then hosted The Masked Singer, Lip Sync Battle, Shorties, Wild ’n Out, America’s Got Talent, and The Nick Cannon Show. In 2003, Nick Cannon released his debut album in collaboration with singer R. Kelly. In 2007, he played the character of the fictional footballer, Tj Harper, in the movie, Goal II: Living the Dream.
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- 9/4/2021
- by Kiran Yasmin
- TVovermind.com
Jaume Collet-Serra has built something of a reputation as Liam Neeson’s go-to guy when it comes to action thrillers, with the duo having collaborated on Unknown, Non-Stop, Run All Night and The Commuter, but the 46 year-old filmmaker got his start in the horror genre with 2005’s House of Wax remake and then moved onto bizarre fantasy soccer sequel Goal II: Living the Dream.
Before getting into the Neeson business, Collet-Serra also helmed 2009 horror Orphan, which was a decent sized hit at the box office after raking in almost $80 million on a $20 million budget. There was a surprising amount of star power behind the scenes as well with Joel Silver, Leonardo DiCaprio and Susan Downey all involved as producers, but the breakout success of the movie was youngster Isabelle Fuhrman.
The teenager played Esther, the problem child adopted by a married couple who soon starts to display some murderous tendencies...
Before getting into the Neeson business, Collet-Serra also helmed 2009 horror Orphan, which was a decent sized hit at the box office after raking in almost $80 million on a $20 million budget. There was a surprising amount of star power behind the scenes as well with Joel Silver, Leonardo DiCaprio and Susan Downey all involved as producers, but the breakout success of the movie was youngster Isabelle Fuhrman.
The teenager played Esther, the problem child adopted by a married couple who soon starts to display some murderous tendencies...
- 11/2/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
The coronavirus pandemic has affected the movie business in a pretty big way, from leaving big cinema chains like AMC on the brink of bankruptcy to countless movie delays, and Jungle Cruise is no different. The Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt Disney adventure has been delayed to 2021 due to the ongoing global health emergency. Disney made the announcement in April, well ahead of the movie’s original July premiere.
Regarding this Disney romp, Johnson‘s big-screen backlog is a proverbial battle royal of major movies, but few are as intriguing given the pedigree of who he’s partnered with (i.e. not Vin Diesel or Jason Statham) as Jungle Cruise. Based on a Disneyland and Disney World riverboat theme park ride, this branded project is clearly designed to recreate the same lucrative ride-to-movie magic of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but with Blunt co-starring in the film, it also...
Regarding this Disney romp, Johnson‘s big-screen backlog is a proverbial battle royal of major movies, but few are as intriguing given the pedigree of who he’s partnered with (i.e. not Vin Diesel or Jason Statham) as Jungle Cruise. Based on a Disneyland and Disney World riverboat theme park ride, this branded project is clearly designed to recreate the same lucrative ride-to-movie magic of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but with Blunt co-starring in the film, it also...
- 4/3/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Joseph Baxter Oct 11, 2019
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt strive to find their own African Queen in the new trailer for Disney's Jungle Cruise.
Dwayne Johnson's big screen backlog is a proverbial battle royal of major movies, but few are as intriguing given the pedigree of who he's partnered with (i.e. not Vin Diesel or Jason Statham) as Disney's Jungle Cruise. Based on a Disneyland and Disney World riverboat theme park ride, this branded project is clearly designed to recreate the same lucrative ride-to-movie magic of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but with Emily Blunt co-starring in the film, it also looks intentionally evocative of classic Hollywood star two-handers, most notably being Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen (1951). Director Jaume Collet-Serra helms the ship, coming off thrillers like The Shallows and Run All Night.
This also follows in the trend of Johnson hitting magic with jungle themed movies.
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt strive to find their own African Queen in the new trailer for Disney's Jungle Cruise.
Dwayne Johnson's big screen backlog is a proverbial battle royal of major movies, but few are as intriguing given the pedigree of who he's partnered with (i.e. not Vin Diesel or Jason Statham) as Disney's Jungle Cruise. Based on a Disneyland and Disney World riverboat theme park ride, this branded project is clearly designed to recreate the same lucrative ride-to-movie magic of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but with Emily Blunt co-starring in the film, it also looks intentionally evocative of classic Hollywood star two-handers, most notably being Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in The African Queen (1951). Director Jaume Collet-Serra helms the ship, coming off thrillers like The Shallows and Run All Night.
This also follows in the trend of Johnson hitting magic with jungle themed movies.
- 8/20/2015
- Den of Geek
Some of the best things in life come in pairs, and film is no different. No, I don’t mean sequels and/or remakes, because I think we all know how those often turn out. Instead, I mean those actors and directors who very frequently collaborate on films, so much so that it feels odd when the actor does not appear in one of the director’s films.
There have been some incredible collaborations throughout cinema history; Kurosawa Akira and Toshiro Mifune brought the samurai film to life, Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone breathed new life into the dying western in the 1960s, and Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro brought audiences some of the best films to come out of New Hollywood in the 1970s and into the 90s. And of course there are amazing collaborations in modern cinema: Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson, Wes Anderson and his troupe of actors,...
There have been some incredible collaborations throughout cinema history; Kurosawa Akira and Toshiro Mifune brought the samurai film to life, Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone breathed new life into the dying western in the 1960s, and Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro brought audiences some of the best films to come out of New Hollywood in the 1970s and into the 90s. And of course there are amazing collaborations in modern cinema: Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson, Wes Anderson and his troupe of actors,...
- 8/14/2015
- by William Penix
- SoundOnSight
Even the best football movies struggle to capture the sport's drama on film. The worst (and there are many) are truly abysmal
Why has cinema found football to be such a tricky customer? Football scenes in film and television are traditionally very awkward affairs, with the "defenders" tip-toeing nervously around the "attackers" as they advance, the goal finally coming via the sort of impractical flying volley you just never see on a real pitch. It's clearly very difficult to let someone score a script-dictated goal while pretending to try to stop them but, at the same time, trying not to look like you're pretending to try to stop them. Perhaps they teach it at Rada, who knows?
Furthermore, filmmakers have the challenge of adding a fictional big-screen gloss to what is already an overwhelmingly camera-friendly and consistently dramatic spectacle in its own right. Real-life football already has its own "script...
Why has cinema found football to be such a tricky customer? Football scenes in film and television are traditionally very awkward affairs, with the "defenders" tip-toeing nervously around the "attackers" as they advance, the goal finally coming via the sort of impractical flying volley you just never see on a real pitch. It's clearly very difficult to let someone score a script-dictated goal while pretending to try to stop them but, at the same time, trying not to look like you're pretending to try to stop them. Perhaps they teach it at Rada, who knows?
Furthermore, filmmakers have the challenge of adding a fictional big-screen gloss to what is already an overwhelmingly camera-friendly and consistently dramatic spectacle in its own right. Real-life football already has its own "script...
- 2/27/2014
- by Adam Hurrey
- The Guardian - Film News
It may not have been everybody’s cup of tea, but Jaume Collet-Serra’s 2009 film "Orphan" was bold and bonkers enough that it made us sit up and pay a little more attention to the director, whose previous efforts had been a “House of Wax” remake and “Goal II: Living the Dream.” He followed “Orphan” with last year’s Liam Neeson vehicle/”Taken” cash-in “Unknown,” and it looks like Collet-Serra enjoyed being in the Neeson business.
The Catalan director looks set to sign on to Joel Silver’s Neeson-starring thriller “Non-Stop,” which takes place on an international flight on which Neeson is forced into shutting down a grave threat (probably swarthy foreigners). Of course, that sounds terribly derivative, but we always think there’s some potential in any of these stripped-back action flicks that can be described as “Die Hard on a…” In Neeson, the project has (and we still...
The Catalan director looks set to sign on to Joel Silver’s Neeson-starring thriller “Non-Stop,” which takes place on an international flight on which Neeson is forced into shutting down a grave threat (probably swarthy foreigners). Of course, that sounds terribly derivative, but we always think there’s some potential in any of these stripped-back action flicks that can be described as “Die Hard on a…” In Neeson, the project has (and we still...
- 5/10/2012
- by Joe Cunningham
- The Playlist
“Akira” may finally be moving forward with a director again. Variety is reporting has signed Spanish-director Jaume Collet-Serra to the helm of the live-action adaptation of “Akira.” Collet-Serra has directed several films including “Orphan,” “Goal II: Living the Dream,” “House of Wax” and this year’s “Unknown.” According to Variety, the director has “a reputation for delivering successful films on time and on budget." The adapted film version will be an action film in New Manhattan rather than post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo. The storyline revolves around Kaneda saving his best friend from a medical experiment that threatens to unleash destructive powers. Directors Ruairi Robinson (“BlinkyTM,” “The Silent City”) and Albert Hughes (“The Book of Eli,” “From Hell”) were previously attached to the project. In addition, Variety is reporting scriptwriter Steve Kloves (“Harry Potter” film franchise) is handling the latest draft for the film. Gary Whitta (“The Book of Eli”), Albert Torres (“Henry Poole Is Here...
- 7/14/2011
- LRMonline.com
It just keeps coming back! I keep hearing about countless directors being offered—and passing on—directing Warner Bros' live-action adaptation of Akira, which Alan Hughes dropped off of a couple of months ago. The project is just dragging along, losing actors, directors, but now there's a little hope - if you can call it that. Variety is reporting that Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra (of House of Wax, Goal II: Living the Dream, Orphan and Unknown for Warner Bros) is now set to direct the live-action Akira, also being turned into a $90 million tentpole, even though that budget seems a little low to me. We'll see if this one survives. Variety's report makes it sounds like this is finally the director they're going with to actually get this made, but it still doesn't have a cast yet. Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way is still producing with Jennifer Davisson Killoran and...
- 7/14/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The mighty armies of the Persian Empire are ready to descend upon the big screen. Deadline has reported the producers of the “300” spinoff film re-titled the film as “300: Battle of Artemisia.” The film was previously known as “Xerxes.” Similar to “300,” the film will be based on a upcoming Frank Miller graphic novel and to be shot in a similar style as the 2006’s “300.” The graphic novel is about on how Xerxes became a god-king of the Persian Empire. The story takes place ten years before the events of “300” and it started with the Battle of Marathon. Here is the production description of the graphic novel: Xerxes rose to power in fifth-century-bc Persia and became known as 'The King of Kings,' eventually raising and leading a massive army intent on ruthlessly destroying the hated Greeks who killed his father. Xerxes seeks nothing less than to become a god...
- 6/28/2011
- LRMonline.com
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Liam Neeson cuts an unlikely figure as an action hero. The Irishman is not exactly what you might call a towering monument of machismo like Sly Stallone. Nor is he a male wish fulfilment figure and sex object like Tom Cruise. He isn’t even a trash-talking everyman a la Bruce Willis. Yet what he has that those talents arguably lack is gravitas and the air of nobility. He has come to convey a certain purity of intention that has seen him cast as the Greek God Zeus, the mighty Jesus-lion Aslan and a fatherly old Jedi – all roles that require an actor who can embody great power coupled with great wisdom.
Lately this de facto respect for Neeson as a screen presence has seen him take on a greater number of tough-guy roles. After starring in the violent 2008 thriller Taken, he went on to lead...
Liam Neeson cuts an unlikely figure as an action hero. The Irishman is not exactly what you might call a towering monument of machismo like Sly Stallone. Nor is he a male wish fulfilment figure and sex object like Tom Cruise. He isn’t even a trash-talking everyman a la Bruce Willis. Yet what he has that those talents arguably lack is gravitas and the air of nobility. He has come to convey a certain purity of intention that has seen him cast as the Greek God Zeus, the mighty Jesus-lion Aslan and a fatherly old Jedi – all roles that require an actor who can embody great power coupled with great wisdom.
Lately this de facto respect for Neeson as a screen presence has seen him take on a greater number of tough-guy roles. After starring in the violent 2008 thriller Taken, he went on to lead...
- 2/18/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Liam Neeson continues to ride the success of Taken into more action-thriller territory with Unknown, a movie where he wakes up from a coma only to find that his identity has been stolen. He's not a former secret agent this time around though, just your average doctor who has to learn to fight back against the powers that be with the help of Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds). His wife is played by January Jones (Mad Men) and Frank Langella also has a significant role. Up until this week, the movie was going under the name Unknown White Male, but they decided to change it at the last minute. Maybe it was to avoid confusion with the documentary of the same name, although there are also a bunch of previous movies called Unknown as well. The movie is directed by Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra, who previously did the House of Wax remake,...
- 10/22/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The last time we saw Anna Friel ("Goal II: Living the Dream") on the big screen, it was in that awfully lame "Land of the Lost" remake with Will Ferrell. One movie we will see her in soon is Neil Burger's thriller "Dark Fields," which also stars Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish.
Cooper will play a writer whose life drastically changes when he comes across a pill that enables him to access the full capacity of his brain. Just as he starts to enjoy sudden success, he realizes the drug also carries negative effects, and before he knows it, he's being pursued by a bunch of bad guys.
The Hollywood Reporter says Friel will play his ex-wife. The film is based on a novel by Alan Glynn, and Leslie Dixon wrote the script. Burger also directed "The Illusionist."...
Cooper will play a writer whose life drastically changes when he comes across a pill that enables him to access the full capacity of his brain. Just as he starts to enjoy sudden success, he realizes the drug also carries negative effects, and before he knows it, he's being pursued by a bunch of bad guys.
The Hollywood Reporter says Friel will play his ex-wife. The film is based on a novel by Alan Glynn, and Leslie Dixon wrote the script. Burger also directed "The Illusionist."...
- 4/6/2010
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Jaume Collet-Serra has directed three films thus far - the slasher film House of Wax, a slasher film that was marketed largely on the prospect of seeing Paris Hilton die; Goal II: Living The Dream, which answered many of the burning questions left over from the original Goal; and Orphan, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga as adoptive parents who invite an unholy terror into their homes. During the press day for Orphan, which opens Friday nationwide, Collet-Serra indicated he already has his fourth film lined up and ready to go.
"It's coming," Collet-Serra said of Unknown White Male, a thriller that reunites him with his House of Wax and Orphan producer Joel Silver. "It's shooting in the winter in Berlin, and that's a great script. It's a search for identity, which is something that everybody is looking for in their lives, like who they are, so that's a great thing.
"It's coming," Collet-Serra said of Unknown White Male, a thriller that reunites him with his House of Wax and Orphan producer Joel Silver. "It's shooting in the winter in Berlin, and that's a great script. It's a search for identity, which is something that everybody is looking for in their lives, like who they are, so that's a great thing.
- 7/20/2009
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Cinematical
By Neil Pedley
This week's new films include the Western going Eastern, a couple of exotic music docs, Cinderella stories for girls and for boys and Vin Diesel attempting to walk, chew gum and shoot people -- all at the same time.
"Babylon A.D."
Second chances all around in this stylish cyberpunk romp that sees "La Haine" director Mathieu Kassovitz take another bite at the mainstream cherry after stumbling with his last detour into Hollywood, the Halle Berry clunker "Gothika." Vin Diesel, who passed on "Hitman" for this, also gets another shot at a potential franchise after eliciting a collective yawn with his Neo-lite performance in "The Chronicles of Riddick." After a troubled shoot fraught with budget overruns and uncooperative weather, Diesel has the bigger challenge on his hands as Toorop, a mercenary charged with trying to save the world with a snowboard while escorting a genetically altered young woman...
This week's new films include the Western going Eastern, a couple of exotic music docs, Cinderella stories for girls and for boys and Vin Diesel attempting to walk, chew gum and shoot people -- all at the same time.
"Babylon A.D."
Second chances all around in this stylish cyberpunk romp that sees "La Haine" director Mathieu Kassovitz take another bite at the mainstream cherry after stumbling with his last detour into Hollywood, the Halle Berry clunker "Gothika." Vin Diesel, who passed on "Hitman" for this, also gets another shot at a potential franchise after eliciting a collective yawn with his Neo-lite performance in "The Chronicles of Riddick." After a troubled shoot fraught with budget overruns and uncooperative weather, Diesel has the bigger challenge on his hands as Toorop, a mercenary charged with trying to save the world with a snowboard while escorting a genetically altered young woman...
- 8/25/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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