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Exclusive: Darin Brooks (Blue Mountain State), Fivel Stewart (The Recruit), Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie), Justin Chatwin (Shameless) and Antwon Tanner (One Tree Hill) will lead The Roaring Game, a sports comedy from Producer Chad A. Verdi and his East Coast production company Verdi Productions (Bleed For This).

The screenplay by Tom DeNucci (Vault) follows Rickey, a high school custodian whose world is rocked when his girlfriend, Kelly, is selected to play hockey for Team USA and compete in the World Games, thus leaving him behind. Determined to win her back, he assembles a misfit curling team, leveraging his janitorial skills to compete for gold. Below is a first-look.

DeNucci is also directing. Chad A. Verdi (The Irishman) is producing, along with Michelle Verdi, Chad Verdi Jr., Paul Luba and Anthony Gudas. Sera Verdi is serving as an executive producer and Ed Brady is serving as an associate producer. Filming...

The man born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri but known to millions of pro wrestling fans as The Iron Sheik has died. He was 81.

His death was announced on his official Twitter page. “It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of The Iron Sheik,” the announcement reads, “but we also take solace unknowing that he departed this world peacefully, leaving behind a legacy that will endure for generations to come.”

A cause of death was not disclosed. Read the entire statement below.

According to his official bio at the WWE website, Vaziri was an amateur wrestler in his native Iran before becoming a leading star and top villain, or “heel,” of professional wrestling during the World Wrestling Federation’s heyday in the 1980s. He had relocated to the United States in the early 1970s to work for as a wrestling coach and trainer for the U.

Vault director Tom DeNucci’s new film Johnny & Clyde is usually referred to as a “crime thriller”, but we’ve also heard that the story shifts gears to become a “balls-to-the-wall slasher/horror” flick. Since I have been a dedicated slasher fan since the 1980s, I’m looking forward to checking it out when it receives a theatrical and VOD release this Friday, May 5th. With the release just a few days away, a trailer for Johnny & Clyde has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.

Scripted by DeNucci and Nick Principe, Johnny & Clyde follows the two eponymous serial killers who are madly in love and on an endless crime spree. They have their sights set on robbing a prosperous casino run by crime boss Alana and her head of security.

The film stars Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), Ajani Russell (Betty), Tyson Ritter...

James Gunn's ​​"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" will be the final adventure for the eponymous cosmic team — but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the end of the line for the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all the hype surrounding the trilogy's final entrant, there's also cause for concern among MCU fans. With Gunn currently serving as the co-head of DC Studios, it's safe to assume his time playing in the MCU sandbox is drawing to a close for now. But again, what of the Guardians themselves? Will they return to cross paths with other Marvel superheroes in the future? For that matter, will we even see them again in the MCU?

Amid speculation that "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" might mark the death of a beloved character (or characters), at least we're guaranteed one more adventure with Dave Bautista's Drax the Destroyer. The wrestler-turned-actor's light-hearted portrayal of...

Exclusive: Redbox Entertainment has signed North American rights to Verdi Productions’ action-crime film Johnny & Clyde, starring Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap), Ajani Russell (Betty), Tyson Ritter (Preacher) and Megan Fox (The Expendables 4).

Directed by Tom DeNucci (Vault), the movie is due to get a theatrical launch later this year and be available day-and-date in Redbox kiosks and on demand. Above is a first look at Fox in the feature.

The spin on the iconic Bonnie and Clyde story follows two serial killers who are madly in love and on a shocking crime spree. They ultimately set their sights on robbing a prosperous casino run by a crime boss, Alana (Fox), and her head of security, Guy (Ritter).

Rounding out the cast is Vanessa Angel (Kingpin), Bai Ling (The Crow), Robert Lasardo (The Mule), Armen Garo (The Departed), Sean Ringgold (American Gangster), Nick Principe (Vault), Brett Azar...

Exclusive: Rising actors Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap) and Ajani Russell (Betty) have been set for the title roles in crime feature Johnny & Clyde, also starring Megan Fox (Transformers) and Tyson Ritter (Preacher).

Currently in production, the movie is a spin on the iconic Bonnie and Clyde story and follows two serial killers who are madly in love and on a shocking crime spree. They ultimately set their sights on robbing a prosperous casino run by crime boss, Alana (Fox), and her head of security, Guy (Ritter).

As we previously revealed, also starring are Vanessa Angel (Kingpin), Bai Ling (The Crow), Robert Lasardo (The Mule), Armen Garo (The Departed), Sean Ringgold (American Gangster), Nick Principe (Vault), Brett Azar (Young Rock) and Sydney Jenkins (Don’t Look Up).

Written by Tom DeNucci and Nick Principe, DeNucci (Vault) will direct. Chad A. Verdi (Bleed For This) is producing along with Michelle Verdi, Chad A.

Exclusive: Vanessa Angel (Kingpin), Bai Ling (The Crow), Armen Garo (The Departed), Sean Ringgold (American Gangster), Nick Principe (Vault), Brett Azar (Young Rock) and Sydney Jenkins (Jest Originals) have joined Megan Fox (Transformers) and Tyson Ritter (Preacher) in thriller Johnny and Clyde, which we revealed on Friday.

The film, produced by Chad A. Verdi’s (Bleed For This) Verdi Productions, is a new take on the famous Bonnie and Clyde story.

The movie will follow the two eponymous serial killers who are madly in love and on an endless crime spree. They have their sights set on robbing a prosperous casino run by crime boss Alana (Fox) and her head of security (Ritter).

Currently in production in Rhode Island, the roles of Johnny and Clyde are being cast imminently. Those actors will join the production in October.

Tom DeNucci (Vault) will direct with The Irishman exec-producer Chad A. Verdi. Verdi...

In the sixth episode of new NBC sitcom “Young Rock,” based on the real life of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, his father, Rocky Johnson (Joseph Lee Anderson), prepares for and then wrestles in a Battle Royal. The way the match was written, there were 18 performers who would take each other out one, or a few, at a time, leaving Rocky to become the Polynesian Pacific champion. It’s a stunt-heavy sequence that includes performers hitting each other with chairs. Meanwhile Lia (Ana Tuisila) thinks Rocky is going to cross her and leave for a rival wrestling company. So, unbeknownst to Rocky, she changes the outcome at the last minute so that the Iron Sheik (Brett Azar) wins. This results in an emotional realization within the ring for Rocky, as well as an impromptu compromise from both men as to how exactly he will lose.

Jeff Chiang

Co-creator/executive producer

“As far as scripting the scene,...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s autobiographical NBC comedy “Young Rock” has found its Vince McMahon in comedian Adam Ray, TheWrap has learned. Additionally, the role of “Macho Man” Randy Savage is being played by Kevin Makely, we’re told.

Ray, who voiced Slimer in 2016’s “Ghostbusters,” will play the future WWE Chairman as he worked his way up the ladder in his father’s pro-wrestling promotional business. Makely, who starred in 2019 western “Badland,” is a spot-on casting as one of the WWF’s most colorful characters.

Below are character descriptions for McMahon, Savage and the rest of the main wrestlers this side of Dwayne’s own dad Rocky Johnson (played by Joseph Lee Anderson). Find our first-look photos of Ray as McMahon and Makely as Savage at the bottom of the post.

Vince McMahon (Ray)

Bold, ambitious and quickly rising through the ranks of his father’s company, the future...

Dwayne Johnson is gearing up for his upcoming TV series 'Young Rock'.

The NBC TV series explores The Rock's journey from wrestling superstar to Hollywood stardom and highlights the periods of his life the show will focus on.

On Thursday, the former wrestler treated fans with the first official look at actor Joseph Lee Anderson who will play the role of his late father Rocky Johnson.

Johnson took a trip back in time and shared how he never got a chance to say goodbye to his father, who passed away earlier this year.

The 48-year-old actor took to Instagram, where he shared a behind-the-scenes photo of Anderson on the NBC show set.

"Seeing this image of actor, @officialjosephleeanderson playing my dad, Rocky Johnson (Rip Soulman) really sat me down," Dwayne Johnson wrote.

"On set of our new @nbc TV series, Young Rock - a show that explores my...

Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Luna, Natalia Reyes, Tom Hopper, Brett Azar, Diego Boneta, Tábata Cerez, Steven Cree, Pete Ploszek | Written by David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray | Directed by Tim Miller

You’re terminated… The stakes seem higher than ever these days, whether a Aaa action film is a success or a failure. The amount of money that needs to be pumped into these films, plus the global marketing often means that new ideas are cast aside for the more likely bet of a sequel, prequel or remake. Very quickly then the talk now turns to a “franchise” rather than a film series as, of course now we are talking about funko pops and various other plastic tat that we nerds can’t seem to resist.

On the one hand, it has meant that kids from the 1980s, like me have got to wallow in our own crapulence for years.

Producer and writer Jon Adler took time to talk with Horrornews.net about the film based on true events from his life. Dead Sound is an exciting film that scares you to the core. It is directed by Tony Glazer and it stars, Jeff Kober, Matty Cardarople, Brett Azar, Eric Tabach, Caroline Day, John Behlmann, Matthew …

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Stars: Jeff Kober, Caroline Day, Matty Cardarople, Brett Azar, Eric Tabach, Ashley Austin Morris, Sophie Faulkenberry, John Behlmann, Matthew Gumley, Noah Gaynor, Max Miller | Written by Jon Adler, Ted Weihman | Directed by Tony Glazer

Dead Sound, directed by Tony Glazer (Junction) tells the story of four best friends who decide to attend a massive blow-out high school graduation party on Block Island. After missing the last ferry they decide to hire a fishing boat to take them on what should be a simple journey. What they get is the trip from hell, with a captain and his first mate that have no intention of taking the kids to Block Island, putting them into a fight to survive and to simply make it back to land… any land.

It would seem, given the recent release of Harpoon, Blood Vessel, the Gary Oldman-starrer Mary, and now Dead Sound, that horror set...

Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Luna, Natalia Reyes, Tom Hopper, Brett Azar, Diego Boneta, Tábata Cerez, Steven Cree, Pete Ploszek | Written by David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray | Directed by Tim Miller

Although the best in the franchise since Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this is clearly a dying franchise trying to take one last gasp before it fades away…. Even with the return of Linda Hamilton and James Cameron, Terminator: Dark Fate can’t seem to find its place in the Terminator franchise. It’s a movie we were told would be the third film in Cameron’s trilogy, telling us to ignore all the sequels that followed T2. It’s the promise of something better, the promise of a return to form and to capture the magic the first two films had. After the film is over, there is a horrible bitter taste, and much...

Genre icon Jeff Kober, Terminator: Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in the terrifying (and based on a true story) Dead Sound, premiering on DVD and Digital beginning March 3rd from Uncork’d Entertainment. Things get extremely tense […]

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Scream All You Want. Genre icon Jeff Kober, Terminator : Dark Fate’s Brett Azar and Stranger Things’ Matty Cardarople star in the terrifying Dead Sound, premiering on DVD and Digital this March from Uncork’d Entertainment. Four best friends from boarding school decide to attend a massive blow-out High School graduation party …

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Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Luna, Natalia Reyes, Tom Hopper, Brett Azar, Diego Boneta, Tábata Cerez, Steven Cree, Pete Ploszek | Written by David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, Billy Ray | Directed by Tim Miller

Although the best in the franchise since Terminator 2: Judgment Day, this is clearly a dying franchise trying to take one last gasp before it fades away.

Even with the return of Linda Hamilton and James Cameron, Terminator: Dark Fate can’t seem to find its place in the Terminator franchise. It’s a movie we were told would be the third film in Cameron’s trilogy, telling us to ignore all the sequels that followed T2. It’s the promise of something better, the promise of a return to form and to capture the magic the first two films had. After the film is over, there is a horrible bitter taste, and much...

"This doesn't look like anything I've ever seen." Witness Films has debuted the official trailer for an indie thriller titled Night Sweats, the latest feature from filmmaker Andrew Lyman-Clarke (of Have You Seen). This pharma thriller is about a skateboarder whose roommate mysteriously dies one night. Attempting to figure out what happened, he uncovers the inner-workings a self-help company, and the pharmaceutical lab behind it. Starring Kyle DeSpiegler, with Mary Elaine Ramsey, Brett Azar, Allison Mackie, John Wesley Shipp, Jason Abrams, and Trey Gibbons. This looks like one of those cautionary tales where they borrow real-world issues (like big pharma's obsession with opioids) and turn it into some horror-esque film as a way of expressing frustration. Unfortunately, I don't think this has much of anything else to offer. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Andrew Lyman-Clarke's Night Sweats, direct from YouTube: A skateboarder named Nick (John Wesley Shipp...

"I'm done running! I'm going to stand, and fight!" Paramount has debuted a new "Extended Preview" for Terminator: Dark Fate focusing on the Mission of Dani, played by Mexican actress Natalia Reyes in this sixth Terminator movie. This one acts as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, starting up the day after Judgement Day. It seems Dani is the character being saved from the Terminators this time, just like John Connor was saved by Arnie in T2. Badass actress Linda Hamilton returns as the first Sarah Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is also back again, along with Edward Furlong as the original John Connor. Cameron is producing and is credited on the story. The full cast includes Mackenzie Davis, Gabriel Luna as another Terminator, with Diego Boneta, Alicia Borrachero, Steven Cree, Tábata Cerezo, Brett Azar, & Claudia Trujillo. Let's hope this movie is good, since these trailers aren't the best.

"If you don't make it, everybody dies!" Paramount has revealed a new full-length trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate, the sixth Terminator movie that brings us all the way back to the first two James Cameron movies. This one throws away those other sequels and gives us an actual direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, starting up the day after Judgement Day. Badass actress Linda Hamilton returns as the first Sarah Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is also back again, along with Edward Furlong as the original John Connor. Cameron is producing and he is credited on the story. The cast includes Mackenzie Davis, Gabriel Luna as another Terminator, with Natalia Reyes, Diego Boneta, Alicia Borrachero, Steven Cree, Tábata Cerezo, Brett Azar, & Claudia Trujillo. This definitely looks like it has some awesome action, but I'm not sure if the rest of it will hold up. Almost too much going on in here.

"I hunt Terminators. You metal motherf*&ker!" Paramount has launched a badass new behind-the-scenes featurette for Terminator: Dark Fate, the big bad new Terminator movie taking us all the way back to James Cameron's original two movies. This promo is all about showing off how R-rated, intense, and action-packed this movie will be - it's relentless, they keep saying. It's a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, but with all kinds of different characters including more Terminators. Linda Hamilton returns as the first Sarah Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger is also back again, along with Edward Furlong as the original John Connor. James Cameron is producing and is credited on the story - speaking in this video. The cast includes Mackenzie Davis, Gabriel Luna as another Terminator, Natalia Reyes, Diego Boneta, Alicia Borrachero, Steven Cree, Tábata Cerezo, Brett Azar, & Claudia Trujillo. Lock & load folks. "It's R-rated, it's grim, it's gritty,...

"I've never seen one like you before - almost human." Paramount has released the first teaser trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate, the sixth Terminator movie that takes us all the way back to the first two James Cameron movies. This one throws away the other movies and gives us an actual direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, starting up the day after Judgement Day. As for the rest of the story, we don't know much about where it's headed but this trailer does give us a few hints. Badass actress Linda Hamilton returns as the first Sarah Connor, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as also back as the original Terminator. James Cameron is producing and is credited on the story, some good news. The cast includes Mackenzie Davis, Brett Azar as the new T-800, along with Natalia Reyes, Gabriel Luna, Diego Boneta, Alicia Borrachero, Steven Cree, Tábata Cerezo, and Björn Freiberg.

The Spanish capital of Madrid is currently playing host to Tim Miller’s Terminator movie, and just like Halloween before it, the Skydance-backed revival will ignore all sequels in the franchise’s admittedly convoluted timeline – save for James Cameron’s seminal T2: Judgment Day, of course.

Production has only just begun, but it wasn’t long before media outlets caught wind of Brett Azar’s involvement. Terminator fans may remember the stunt double from his work on Genisys, where he played a younger version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. That tells us Tim Miller’s 2019 sequel will harken back to the ’90s, where we’ll likely catch a glimpse of a T-800 model still fresh from the production line.

Ditto for Jude Collie, who would pass for a young Leonardo DiCaprio any day of the week. This time around? He’s purportedly signed on to play the young John Connor for The Terminator.

A little Hart and a big Johnson. What a tagline that is! Warner Bros has debuted the first trailer and poster for next summer's comedy Central Intelligence, starring Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson. The story is about a CIA agent who brings in his old high school friend to help on a mission, but obviously he doesn't fit in. Central Intelligence also stars Oscar nominee Amy Ryan, plus Aaron Paul, Brett Azar, Megan Park and Danielle Nicolet. There's nothing much to say before other than maybe a few people will laugh, maybe they won't. Though I think we can all agree that shot at the end pretty much ruins everything, no? Here's the first trailer for Rawson Marshall Thurber's Central Intelligence, direct from WB's YouTube: The story follows a one-time bullied geek who grew up to be a lethal CIA agent (Johnson), coming home for his high school reunion.

Staten Island Summer Movie Trailer. Rhys Thomas‘ Staten Island Summer (2015) movie trailer stars Ashley Greene, Brett Azar, Kate Walsh, and Gina Gershon. State Island Summer‘s plot synopsis: “Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.” I know all the “old” faces in this trailer, and recognize virtually none of the younger […]...

The short romantic comedy ‘Trust Me, I’m a Lifeguard’ is set to make a splash with its World Premiere at this year’s 13th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The film, which is being distributed by Trust Me LLC, was directed by Tony Glazer, and co-written by Tyler Hollinger and Christian Keiber. Hollinger and Keiber also star in ‘Trust Me, I’m a Lifeguard,’ alongside Bree Michael Warner, Katie Henney, Summer Crockett Moore, Brett Azar, Brooke Hoover, Robert John Keiber, Molly Gray, Ami Ankin and Michael Richey, with a cameo by Dogfish Head Beer founder Sam Calagione. Warner and Bryce C. Campbell produced the comedy. “We couldn’t be more [ Read More ]

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