Sasha Urban editorActor and comedian Jack Black will be honored with the Comedic Genius award at the 2022 MTV Movie and TV Awards, the network announced Thursday. The ceremony, hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, will air live on June 5 at 8 p.m.
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More than eight months after wrapping “Black Adam”, Dwayne Johnson is back at work on the upcoming superhero flick.
On Friday, May 6, the former WWE champ took to Instagram to reveal he’s back on set to shoot additional scenes for the DC Films movie, slated to be released in October.
“Back in BLACK. Great to be back on set of BLACK ADAM with our 750+ talented crew of filmmakers as we gear up to put some final details and last touches on our movie before we lock and deliver. I’m here with my Black Adam director, Jaume Collet-Serra (black shirt) and one of lead VFX editors, Krisztian Majdik as Jaume takes me thru some complex and intense shots we need to accomplish today,” he wrote.
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According to Johnson, he’s been training hard for the past number of weeks in preparation for filming the additional scenes.
“I’ve dialed in my diet and training intensity for weeks now to prepare, so I’m feeling good and in the zone,” he wrote.
“What a talented CREW!” Johnson wrote, adding, “One dream. One Team.”
Adams shared an inside look at the upcoming film back in October during DC FanDome.
“Black Adam” was initially announced to release on July 29, but that release date has been pushed back to Oct. 21.
Sasha Urban editorActor and comedian Jack Black will be honored with the Comedic Genius award at the 2022 MTV Movie and TV Awards, the network announced Thursday. The ceremony, hosted by Vanessa Hudgens, will air live on June 5 at 8 p.m.
Instagram Tuesday, showing that Moreno is on set now for the film currently in production. “It’s been my dream forever to work with Rita Moreno, and the fact that she’s here playing my grandmother makes my soul smile,” Diesel said in the video.“I think my old age was waiting for you to ask me, isn’t that nice, and I’m here, the answer is yes, I’ll do it, and not only I’ll do it, I am tickled,” she responded. “Fast X” will open in theaters May 19, 2023.
A follow-up to the $130M-plus grossing movie Law Abiding Citizen is happening with producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer returning, as well as Gerard Butler and his G-Base partner Alan Siegel reprising their roles as producers.
revealed that Brie Larson was set to join the “Fast” family for the new film, and in a recent interview with TheWrap, Helen Mirren hinted that she was hoping that she could return to the franchise as well.Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior, who broke out playing Ratcatcher 2 in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad,” is in talks to join the cast of “Fast 10,” as TheWrap exclusively reported.One actor who won’t be in “Fast X” is Dwayne Johnson, who made his lack of presence official last summer. “I wish them well on ‘Fast 9,’” the actor said.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe planned “Wonder Twins” live-action movie at HBO Max is no longer going forward, Variety has learned.The news comes just over a month after it was announced that KJ Apa and Isabel May had been cast in the lead roles in the DC film as the titular twins. It also arrives in the wake of the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger and Discovery boss David Zaslav’s pledge to cut approximately $3 billion in costs at the newly merged company.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDisney is throwing a pass at spring football.The entertainment giant said it struk a multi- year rights deal with the XFL, tte start-up football league led by actor Dwayne Johnson. The pact will put XFL games on ESPN, FX and ABC and gives Disney more footfall just as rivals Fox and NBC play up games from the USF, in which Fox is an investor.“We have entered into an exclusive multi year deal with our partners with Walt Disney to produce and distribute all of our games,’ Johnson told attendees at Disney’s upfront presentation Tuesday.
The list of the highest paid celebrities based on what they apparently are able to charge per sponsored Instagram post has been revealed…and The Rock is no longer number one!.
Comedy is back on NBC’s fall schedule with an hourlong Friday block — comprised by Dwayne Johnson’s Young Rock and new George Lopez series Lopez vs. Lopez — but The Blacklist is not, put on the bench until midseason only for the second time in its 10-season run. As expected, the Quantum Leap reboot, starring Raymond Lee, landed the post-Voice Monday slot while La Brea is back in the Tuesday 9 PM slot where it launched with a bang last fall.
Young Rock will be back for a third season.
Studios attempting to shoot massive blockbuster movies during the pandemic are facing risks of production pausing for days, weeks, or even months at a time due to safety protocols in the age of COVID. Many might assume that once a film wraps, delays and studio headaches are over, but when it comes to Dwayne Johnson‘s “Black Adam,” featuring the mega-star as the DC Comics anti-hero, the post-production process has another string of hiccups to navigate.
Tuesday’s episode of “Young Rock” is a special one. Not only does the installment chronicle Dwayne Johnson’s first-ever WWF match, but the episode was written by those who are incredibly familiar with the events chronicled within: Johnson, Hiram Garcia and Brian Gewirtz.The episode, titled “Corpus Christi,” marks Johnson and Garcia’s screenwriting debut, while Gewirtz was a longtime head writer for WWE.
wait even longer to see Dwayne Johnson’s superhero debut in “Black Adam,” but there’s a good reason why the film’s release date was pushed back from July to October.“I think we’re just in a world right now where there was a huge and understandable freeze-up when the pandemic hit and a lot of productions were put on hold,” producer and president of production at Seven Bucks Productions Hiram Garcia told TheWrap during a recent interview about NBC’s “Young Rock” series. “Now that the industry has really roared back, the pipeline for VFX is so jammed.
The Rock has hit the big 5-0.
You know who’s a good boy? The faithful and loyal pet that saves its master. That’s basically the premise of Warner Bros’/DC Films’ “DC League of Super-Pets” which stars Dwayne Johnson as the voice of Krypto the Super-Dog.
is bringing in a new member of its creative family. Following Justin Lin's departure from the upcoming 10th installment of the franchise, ET can confirm that French filmmaker Louis Leterrier has been chosen to step in and direct the action-packed film.Leterrier is best known for directing the first two films, as well as 2008's 2010's 2013's and the Netflix streaming series Lin announced his directorial departure last Tuesday, but shared with fans that he would be remaining on the project as a producer.
Gold House rings in Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month launching its 2022 A100 List featuring a number of impactful names including Michelle Yeoh, Dwayne Johnson and Mindy Kaling.
Dwayne Johnson's at it again doing what he does best — making fans tremble with surprise appearances!The star shared video of an awesome encounter he had with a couple of fans who showed up to the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas to visit the actor's latest wax figure, which celebrates his Teremana tequila. In video Johnson posted on Instagram, you can see a couple of fans posing with the wax figure as the actor hides in the background.As the picture's about to be snapped, Johnson races behind the fans, gets in the frame and raises a glass. Moments later, the fans turn around for the shock of their lives.
After spending the entire week trapped in the bowels of a smoke-filled, maskless, jam-packed Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, and after sitting through the various studio presentations in search of possible clues to what might be in play for the 95th annual Academy Awards, I can say two of the names we are very likely to hear about might be two of the most unexpected: Tom Cruise and Harvey Weinstein. I am not hallucinating. I will get to both in a second, but first I have to say Oscar pundits don’t really travel to this annual exhibitors convention with any realistic expectations of seeing major awards contenders.
Some friendly competition. Khloé Kardashian joined in on the fun after Dwayne Johnson jokingly compared the butt on his wax figure at Madame Tussauds to her own.