Baz Luhrmann turning his 2008 ‘Australia’ film into limited series

Back in 2014, while director James Gunn was on the promotional tour for “Guardians of The Galaxy,” he said that he was interested in making a “Thunderbolts” movie and got the nod from studio head Kevin Feige that it could be on the table if “Guardians” was successful. It’s now 2022, and Marvel is moving forward with that project without Gunn, who might have scratched that itch after making “The Suicide Squad” and the HBO Max series “Peacemaker.” It was revealed back in June that “Frank & Robot” director Jake Schreier would be helming the film, and while not a lot of details were revealed in the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, the film was given a summer 2024 release date, July 26, 2024, to be exact.

Marvel Studios hasn’t had a big Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con since 2019 but is back this year. Flashing back to 2019, the shocking thing the studio announced was that they would be pursuing a “Blade” reboot with two-time Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali (“Moonlight”) in the role of the vampire hunter, Eric Brooks.

Emmy award-winning comedy writer Kevin Rooney passed away in his home on July 19th after a long battle with diabetes and end-stage renal failure. He was 71.

Those Marvel fans who’d been missing an in-person Comic-Con for the last three years got spoiled today.

Charlie Cox’s iteration of Daredevil is getting a second life via Daredevil: Born Again—a new series coming to Disney+ with an 18-episode first season in 2024. Joining Cox on the show is Vincent D’Onofrio, who reprises his role from recent Marvel series as mob boss Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin.

Michaela Zee editorSam Wilson is officially coming back as Captain America in a fourth installment, titled “Captain America: New World Order,” coming on May 3, 2024.Anthony Mackie’s return as Sam Wilson (aka the Falcon) was announced back in August, followed by recent news that Julius Onah (“The Cloverfield Paradox,” “Luce”) is set to direct the MCU feature. Mackie made his debut as Sam in 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” and later appeared in subsequent MCU films such as “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War.” Mackie then starred alongside Sebastian Stan (Bucky Barnes, aka the Winter Soldier) in the Disney Plus series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” In “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” the Disney+ series focuses on Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes following the events that unfolded in “Avengers: Endgame,” including Captain America (Chris Evans) passing his shield — and legacy — down to Sam.Back in April, Variety reported that “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” head writer Malcolm Spellman will write the screenplay for the fourth “Captain America” film, along with “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” staff writer Dalan Musson.This year, Marvel has “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” premiering Nov.

Marvel is bringing fans back to Wakanda!

Comic-Con 2022, fans were treated with the first official look at the. The long-awaited sequel is slated to hit theaters on Nov.

, is set to premiere on Disney+ in Spring 2024. Marvel president Kevin Feige shared the exciting news as he announced the studio's Phase 5 slate during their Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday night. will be an 18-episode series, with Charlie Cox reprising his role as the titular hero, Matt Murdoch, and Vincent D'Onofrio returning as Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin.

“Black Widow” in July. Then came “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” starring MCU newcomers Simu Liu and Awkwafina, as well as special guest Michelle Yeoh.“Eternals” introduced a whole different branch of Marvel characters as well as their dimensional mission of raising Celestials from the cores of planets to advance outer space.

their entire Phase 5 slate, Kevin Feige teed up Phase 6 and announced the titles of “Avengers 4” and “Avengers 5”: “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” followed by “Avengers: Secret Wars.”“The Kang Dynasty” will hit theaters on May 2, 2025. “Secret Wars” will follow on Nov.

Marvel Studios unveiled the “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” trailer during their big Hall H panel for Comic-Con on Saturday, offering fans inside the convention a first look at footage from the third “Ant-Man” movie.Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly return as Ant-Man and the Wasp, respectively, while Kathryn Newton makes her debut as the older version of Scott Lang’s daughter Cassie, who gets in on the fighting this time around. Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer are also back.Peyton Reed, who directed the first two “Ant-Man” movies, returns to direct.The “Ant-Man 3” trailer begins with Scott having parlayed his role in the Thanos war into international fame.

massive Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, audiences got their first look at “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” — including Will Poulter as Adam Warlock.As is typical with new MCU characters, he makes a dramatic entrance in the footage, showing up in just the final seconds. Unfortunately, as is also typical, he’s not there for very long.

Comic-Con, announcing that the next “Avengers” sequels — technically “Avengers 5” and “Avengers 6” — will be called “Avengers: The Kang Dynasty” and “Avengers: Secret Wars.” This is the next Thanos-level event facing the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it can’t come soon enough.Ever since “Avengers: Endgame” put a definitive button on the first three phases of the MCU, the output has been uncharacteristically disconnected, with disparate stories being told in both film and TV (on Disney+) that take place in the same universe, but lack the looming threat of Thanos that hung over the characters after 2012’s “The Avengers.”That changes with “Secret Wars,” which will be preceded by “The Kang Dynasty.” But what is “Secret Wars” and what makes it worthy of a being an Avengers movie? All your questions answered below.Before we get to “Secret Wars,” there will be “Kang Dynasty,” the “Infinity War” to its “Endgame”It gets its name from 16-part “Avengers” storyline written by the great Kurt Busiek that ran from 2001-2002. In it, Kang, in a nutshell, comes back from the 30th century and actually manages to take over the entire planet earth — destroying the United Nations headquarters in the process.

Marvel Studios' Fantastic Four, in theaters November 8, 2024. #SDCC2022 pic.twitter.com/K0MyKwdmXjEarlier in Marvel’s SDCC panel, they unveiled the full Phase 5 lineup, which was missing two key titles folks were expecting to see in the lineup — “Fantastic Four” and “Avengers.” But both were ultimately unveiled as the panel came to a close and turned its attention to Phase 6.“Fantastic Four” will arrive in November 2024 after Phase 5 closes with “Thunderbolts” on July 26, 2024.

Comedian Bill Maher, apparently, likes forever cool dude James Bond to have as much indiscriminate sex with as many exotic beauties as the dashing womanizer can get, a lifestyle which Maher thinks has been put in jeopardy because of the new “woke world.”On Maher’s latest edition of “Club Random Podcast,” the “Real Time” host spoke with YouTube star Hannah Stocking, who slipped into the conversation that she had a background in science.“You’re the hot scientist. You’re like Dr. Christmas in the embassy, the James Bond movie,” Maher said of the fictional nuclear physicist played by Denise Richards in “The World Is Not Enough.”“This was back in the day when James Bond was allowed to like, like, f— hot chicks.

Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” marked the big finale of Marvel’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday night, giving fans in attendance their first look at the sequel — and their first look at Tenoch Huerta as Namor.Of course, Marvel president Kevin Feige was on hand for everything, and introduced the panel with the love and fanfare it deserved, saying “we’ve talked about the past, we’ve talked about the future, now it’s time to talk about… Forever.” At that, a group of African musicians came out to hype up the crowd.You can watch the first teaser for the film in the video above.Then, Coogler himself came out to address everyone and introduce the trailer. But, before the footage itself started, the Marvel team paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.

Thania Garcia Amazon Studios has brought on board veteran music supervisor and music executive Anton Monsted as the team’s new head of music for Amazon Original Movies. Monsted is a longtime collaborator with director Baz Luhrmann, working most recently as music supervisor the hit “Elvis” biopic.At Amazon Studios, Monsted will supervise the U.S.

Gallery: ‘It’s the most important relationship I’ve ever had. . . ’ How come you didn't notice these celebs dated? (BANG Showbiz)They have been to Disneyland together and on another night out Atwell posed with a suit-clad Kelly while wearing a purple evening gown.

Baz Luhrmann‘s latest movie, the dazzling and operatic rock ‘n roll biopic “Elvis,” is in theaters now. And it’s wow-ing critics and audiences alike.

Baz Luhrmann is reimagining his Oscar-winning 2008 movie, “Australia”. 

Zack Sharf Not every performance or project is going to be a home run, and that has certainly been the case for the likes of Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Jake Gyllenhaal and more. All of these actors have gone on record criticizing their own work, whether for giving a bad performance (Radcliffe hates his “one note” acting in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”) or for taking on a role they shouldn’t have (see Eddie Redmayne in “The Danish Girl” as one example).Chris Hemsworth is the latest actor to speak out against one of his performances.

While out there promoting the hell out of his new film, “Elvis,” filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has made it no secret that he plans on re-editing his 2008 film, “Australia,” and turning it into a limited series. Well, now we finally have more details and it’s starting to sound like “Australia” is getting the full Snyder Cut treatment.

Broadway box office held steady last week, with total grosses of $30,789,627 showing a 4% increase over the previous week even with two fewer shows on the boards. Of particular note, A Strange Loop and MJ have held on to their post-Tony Award strength: Both productions were among the roster’s full houses.

Fresh off the success of “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann announced today that he will reimagine his 2008 film “Australia” into a six-part Hulu series called “Faraway Downs.” The extended cut, which will debut in winter of this year, will feature new footage from the movie, which stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. It will also include a new ending and updated soundtrack.“I originally set out to take the notion of the sweeping ‘Gone With the Wind’–style epic and turn it on its head.

Fans who go see the new movie Elvis in theaters will probably be wondering if actor Austin Butler is doing his own singing in the film.

little too much sway over the King of Rock ‘n Roll. Sure, he helped elevate Presley in the public consciousness but also trapped him in a gilded cage.True to form Luhrmann gives the story an extreme stylistic overlay; songs bleed and warm into each other, remixed frenetically with modern artists and current sensibilities.

in the works, to be produced by Scott and directed by “Don’t Breathe” filmmaker Fede Alvarez.Off-beat and wholly absurd, this delightfully refreshing cult comedy is for the wacky at heart. The premise follows the title character, an awkward teen (Jon Heder) who has a hard time finding an in-group at his small-town Idaho high school.

In the 2000s, the critical, financial, and Oscar success of Ridley Scott’s ancient Rome actioner “Gladiator” led to studios chasing the same highs. A string of high-budget period action films were greenlit in its wake such as Wolfgang Petersen’s Greek epic “Troy” (loosely based on the Iliad), Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven,” and Oliver Stone’s ambitious but ultimately messy “Alexander.” Stone wasn’t the only established filmmaker that attempted to tell the story of the ancient Macedonian general and king, Alexander The Great.

Austin Butler is opening up about his role in Elvis.

J. Kim Murphy It’s a 20th century showdown at the domestic box office this weekend, with the baby boomer epic “Elvis” contending against Gen X revamp “Top Gun: Maverick” for the top spot on domestic charts.Director Baz Luhrmann’s biopic about the King of Rock and Roll is projected to draw $30 million from 3,906 theaters in its opening.

Paul McCartney on Thursday while promoting his Elvis movie on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS. The 30-year-old actor, who plays Elvis Presley in the new biographical musical Elvis directed by Baz Luhrmann, said he was in awe when he sat across from Paul, 80, for a more than two-hour train ride. 'Suddenly, I'm sitting on a trail across from Paul McCartney, the French countryside is going by and [Stella McCartney] plays the song that he listened to with Elvis,' Austin said.