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The groundbreaking, iconic series, Noah’s Arc, has a new film coming out, Noah’s Arc: The Movie, and official details have been unveiled about its release on Paramount+ with Showtime.

Original series creator Patrik-Ian Polk is the executive producer, director and writer for the project.

Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and Pop Films, the series will see the return of original series stars Darryl Stephens, Rodney Chester, Doug Spearman, Christian Vincent, Jensen Atwood and WIlson Cruz.

Jasmine Guy, TC Carson, Eva Marcille, Gregory Kieth, Jonathan Julian White, K’Hood, Mariyea, Jasun Jabbar, TS Madison, Kennedy Davenport and Dynisty St. James will make special appearances in the film.

What will ‘Noah’s Arc: The Movie’ be about?

Per the official description:

Fans and new audiences will reunite with the beloved chosen family following the events of 2020’s Noah’s Arc: The ‘Rona Chronicles special. In this next installment, Noah and Wade are expecting twins and must shift gears when each is offered their dream job, forcing one of them to assume the traditional stay-at-home parental role… only which one? What gift can life give the man who has everything? The answer is drama, and tons of it … along with shocking plot-twists, laugh-out-loud comedy and thrilling displays of dizzying, intoxicating and heart-lifting romance.

Noah’s Arc aired first on Logo in 2005, running for two seasons until 2006. A theatrically released film, Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom, was also released in 2008.

When does ‘Noah’s Arc: The Movie’ premiere?

The film is executive produced by Patrik-Ian Polk, Alexander Motlagh, Rikki Beadle-Blair, John R. Gordon and Pop Films. Christina Northrup is producing producer, and Donny Herran is the executive in charge of production for MTV Entertainment Studios.

The film hits Paramount+ on June 20. Watch a brief teaser below:

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Sony Pictures has dropped the first trailer for Caught Stealing, starring Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, Regina King, Matt Smith, Bad Bunny and more.

The film, directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Charlie Huston, is also based on the book by Huston. The film also stars Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne and Carol Kane.

What is ‘Caught Stealing’ about?

Here’s the film’s description:

Hank Thompson (AButler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few days, Hank suddenly finds himself caught in the middle of a motley crew of threatening gangsters. They all want a piece of him; the problem is he has no idea why. As Hank attempts to evade their ever-tightening grip, he’s got to use all his hustle to stay alive long enough to find out…

“I am excited to be teaming up with my old friends at Sony Pictures to bring Charlie’s adrenaline-soaked roller-coaster ride to life,” Aronofsky said in a statement at the time of Butler’s casting. “I can’t wait to start working with Austin and my family of NYC filmmakers.”

His last film, The Whale, garnered several award nominations and earned Brendan Fraser the Oscar for Best Actor in 2023.

When does ‘Caught Stealing’ hit theaters?

Producers for the film are Jeremy Dawson, Dylan Golden, Ari Handel and Aronofsky. Executive producers are Huston and Ann Ruark.

Watch the trailer below. The film hits theaters on Aug. 29.

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The trailer for Disney’s Zootopia 2 has police rookie team Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) and Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) tag-teaming with a new animal friend, Gary De’Snake (Ke Huy Quan).

The film finds Judy and Nick on a new case involving Gary De’Snake, who brings chaos to Zootopia. The trailer gives a glimpse of what that chaos entails, as Judy, Nick and Gary get chased around the various biomes of Zootopia by police officer animals.

Co-director Byron Howard also described more of the trailer, saying, “The trailer features the original song ‘ZUTU’ by Zootopia’s finest lemming techno group, LEMEEENS. Fresh from touring with superstar Gazelle as her opening act, members Hans-Peter, Gūnther, Spielt and their DJ, Spaß, created the song to mark the occasion and welcome the world back to the City of Zootopia!”

What is ‘Zootopia 2’ about, and who else stars?

According to the official description:

Judy and Nick find themselves on the twisting trail of a great mystery when Gary De’Snake arrives in Zootopia and turns the animal metropolis upside down. To crack the case, they must go undercover to unexpected new parts of town, where their growing partnership is tested like never before.

The film also stars the voices of Quinta Brunson, Fortune Feimster and Shakira, who returns as Zootopia superstar Gazelle.

Screenwriter and co-director and Disney Animation chief creative officer Jared Bush said in a statement, “We are beyond excited to welcome everyone back to the outrageous, expansive animal metropolis of Zootopia, and take audiences on a hilarious, wild ride into parts of the city we’ve never visited before. Whether it’s the marshes of semi-aquatic mammals, the vast desert dunes or even greater mysteries beyond, our heroes, Judy and Nick, will meet a lot of new friends, and discover even more about the world, themselves and a brand-new snake in town.” Yvett Merino produces.

When does ‘Zootopia 2’ premiere?

Zootopia 2 comes to theaters Nov. 26. Watch the trailer below:

The Final Destination franchise is back with Final Destination Bloodlines, and—whew—it does not disappoint when it comes to chaos and creative kills. This latest installment from New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. digs into generational curses and family trauma, all while keeping the death count high and the tension even higher. If you’re wondering who made it out alive… spoiler alert: don’t get your hopes up.

The cast of Final Destination: Bloodlines includes Brec Bassinger as Iris, Kaitlyn Santa Juana as Stefani Reyes, Teo Briones as Charlie Reyes, Rya Kihlstedt as Darlene Campbell, Alex Zahara as Howard Campbell, Tony Todd as JB/William Bludworth, Owen Patrick Joyner as Bobby Campbell, Anna Lore as Julia Campbell, and Richard Harmon as Erik Campbell.

What is the plot of ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’?

In the film, Stefani Reyes has been stuck in a loop of the same terrifying dream, and now it’s messing with real life. Desperate for answers, she heads back home, hoping someone from her past holds the key to keeping her family safe — before her nightmares turn into something worse.

What happens in the opening sequence?

We start off in 1968 as Iris defies death after having a premonition. She and her boyfriend, Paul, are at the Skyview Restaurant, which has a huge tower. Iris has premonitions about the tower falling and everyone dying. She sees a boy steal a penny and throw it into the ventilation system, and everything goes wrong. Everyone dies, including Paul, and although Iris saves a little boy, everyone still ends up dead.

After this, she comes to and realizes she was seeing the future. She saves the day, but everyone thinks she’s crazy. She ends up being paranoid for the rest of her life, and this impacts her children. She thought she saved everyone, but she didn’t.

How Stefani tries to save her family

Nearly six decades later, Stefani, who is Iris’ granddaughter, begins having the same premonitions her grandmother had that day. It’s impacting her life—she can’t focus at school and is at risk of failing out. She wants to know more about Iris, but the family doesn’t want to talk about her.

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Stefani and her brother Charlie’s mother, Darlene, left their family because of the impact Iris’ paranoia had on her childhood, which affected her into adulthood. They were raised primarily by their father after Darlene left. Stefani goes to her uncle, Darlene’s brother, Howard. He has a wife and three kids of his own and advises Stefani not to search for Iris, but she does anyway.

After tracking down Iris, who lives away from society where she believes she can keep death at bay, Stefani learns that death is after everyone who survived the tower collapse—and all their descendants. This is why Stefani keeps having these premonitions. Death is after her, her brother, her uncle, and her cousins. She doesn’t believe Iris and rushes out of the house—until Iris shows her she’s right by walking outside and getting hit by something that falls from the cabin roof.

As the film goes on, Stefani struggles to convince the rest of her family, but they soon believe her after people start dying one by one. Darlene returns to her children’s lives and is the one who believes Stefani and convinces the rest of the family to do so.

They soon meet JB, the young boy from Iris’ vision, whom she saved. JB turns out to be William Bludworth (Tony Todd), who tells them that a family’s death chain can be stopped if someone dies—then gets revived.

How does ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’ end, and does anyone escape death?

Spoiler alert: Everyone dies in Final Destination: Bloodlines, and absolutely none of our main characters escape death. We’re faked out at the end and think our two leads survive, but they end up getting killed too.

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How does each character die in ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’?

Howard Campbell

Howard is the first of the family to die after Iris. This happens when the family is still not heeding Stefani’s warnings. He dies after a lawn machine runs over his face.

Julia Campbell

Stefani believes that after Howard, Erik would be next to die because he’s Howard’s oldest child. However, it turns out Howard is not Erik’s biological father. So instead, Julia dies next after she ends up inside a garbage truck in a freak accident and is crushed.

Bobby and Erik Campbell

This is when the family really starts to take the deaths seriously. Next is Bobby, as Erik isn’t in the line since he’s not a part of Iris’ biological lineage. Bobby and Erik come up with a plan to beat death by having Erik die and then come back to life while they’re already in the hospital to see Bludworth, who works there.

Bobby has a peanut allergy, and they decide to get something from the vending machine and then have him resuscitated. It goes wrong when the hospital room they’re in has an MRI machine. The machine malfunctions, pulling Erik in by his body piercings and killing him—despite him not being in Iris’ bloodline. The vending machine is then drawn into the MRI machine, crushing Bobby’s head.

Darlene Campbell

After Bobby and Erik’s deaths, Darlene, Charlie, and Stefani head to Iris’ cabin to be safe. However, things go wrong when the van they’re driving ends up underwater near the cabin. Stefani is stuck in the van when it submerges, and Charlie is also trapped under a boulder. Darlene saves Charlie’s life but ends up dying.

Charlie and Stefani Reyes

Charlie saves Stefani and pulls her from the water. She’s unconscious, and he performs CPR to bring her back. They think she escaped death and celebrate, returning to their lives as normal.

They learn this isn’t the case in the film’s final moments. Charlie is ready to go to his senior prom, and Stefani is there to see him off. She meets Charlie’s girlfriend’s father, who is a doctor. When Stefani tells him that Charlie saved her life and brought her back from the dead, he says that if she was unconscious, she wasn’t revived—her heart never stopped; she was just not breathing. So Stefani was never technically dead, meaning the curse is still active.

Death comes for them as a train derails nearby and crashes through the neighborhood, and Charlie and Stefani are killed by logs unleashed from the train.

An upcoming thriller film at Universal Pictures and Blumhouse, directed by Malcolm D. Lee, has set Chloe Bailey, Lynn Whitfield, Lucien Laviscount, Anna Diop, Romy Woods and Coco Jones to star.

The film is currently untitled, but the Girls Trip and The Best Man helmer will direct from a script written by Alan McElroy and Matthew Mixon.

Do we know any plot details about the film yet?

No plot details are known, as the details of the film are being kept under lock and key.

It appears that it could be the biggest film role for Laviscount, who is most known for his role in Netflix’s Emily in Paris. He’s also starring in the upcoming Netflix romance film, People We Meet on Vacation.

It seems like it also could be perhaps the highest-profile leading film role for Bailey, who is returning to Universal after starring in their Will Packer-produced Peacock film, Praise This. She also has another lead role coming up in the film Goons with Michael Rainey Jr.

Coco Jones is also in the Universal family, starring in Peacock’s Bel-Air, and Diop starred in Universal and Jordan Peele’s Us. Whitfield, an iconic veteran actor of Black Hollywood, is currently starring in Showtime’s The Chi on the television front.

Malcolm D. Lee has made film history

Lee’s Girls Trip made him the first filmmaker with an all-Black creative team to earn more than $100 million at the box office. He also has an extensive relationship with Universal, as his The Best Man franchise is set there. The franchise’s most recent work was the Peacock limited series, The Best Man: The Final Chapters.

Lois Lane is getting under Clark Kent’s skin in the new trailer for James Gunn’s Superman.

The trailer shows Clark Kent (David Corenswet) willing to be interviewed by Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) for an upcoming piece. But the interview quickly goes sour as Lois drills him on his actions as Superman. Superman tries to convince her that his actions are to protect people, but she seems to think he could be acting as a vigilante or unauthorized representative of the country.

The trailer seems to paint the picture that this film will focus a lot on Superman’s singular position as the world’s savior. While some see that as a positive, others, like Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) view it as a clear negative. Perhaps, since there are clips of the mean-spirited Green Lantern Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion) and Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), Superman’s actions might have also attracted them to Earth for their own mercurial reasons.

Superman is the film that will launch Gunn’s new DC universe of films with “a singular blend of epic action, humor and heart, delivering a Superman who’s driven by compassion and an inherent belief in the goodness of humankind,” according to the film’s description.

Who else stars in ‘Superman’?

The film also stars Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, Mariìa Gabriela de Fariìa, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Neva Howell.

Gunn and Peter Safran produce with Gunn also serving as screenwriter. Niklolas Korda, Chantal Nong Vo and Lars Winther executive produce.

When is ‘Superman’ in theaters?

Superman comes to theaters July 11. Watch the new trailer below:

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Netflix announced two new projects during its Upfronts presentation on Thursday, including the Denzel Washington film Here Comes the Flood and the Jamie Foxx film Fight for ’84.

Washington stars with Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones in Here Come the Flood, directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Simon Kinberg.

The description describes it as “an unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.”

Meirelles produces the film with Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Films. Samson Mucke is an executive producer.

Details of ‘Fight for ’84’ starring Jamie Foxx

As for Fight for ’84, no other cast member is known for the project outside of Foxx. It is based on the true story of the coach of the 1984 US Olympic Boxing team. This puts him in familiar territory with a sports film, as he starred in Any Given Sunday and Ali.

The description reads, “After the US Olympic Boxing Team is tragically killed in a plane crash in 1980, a new coach is brought in to rebuild the team from scratch. He leads them to victory at the ’84 Olympics, where they win the most medals in Olympic boxing history.”

Andrés Baiz is the director and the film was by Andrea Berloff, John Gatins and Andy Weiss.

What Andrés Baiz says about the film and working with Jamie Foxx

“What excites me about Fight for ’84 is how deeply human it is,” Baiz told Netflix’s Tudum. “It’s a story about second chances, about rebuilding after loss, and about finding strength through connection. This isn’t about fame or glory – it’s about heart, discipline, and purpose. In a time when so many of us are trying to find meaning again, this story feels more relevant than ever.”

On working with Jamie Foxx, he added, “Teaming up with Jamie Foxx is incredibly exciting. He’s an exceptional actor with unmatched range, and brings realness and depth you can’t fake. As star and producer, he brings passion and truth to the role. I’m eager to learn from him and, through honest direction, help him tap into something raw and deeply personal.”

The film is produced by Eric Newman for Grand Electric, Bryan Unkeless for Night Owl, Jamie Foxx and Michael W. Abbott for A Move Films Production. Executive producers are Andy Weiss for WeBros Entertainment, Henry Tillman and Datari Turner.