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Coming off directing the widely successful Godzilla vs. Kong, Adam Wingard has signed on to direct Hardcore for Universal Pictures. The pic is based on an original story outline written by Robert Kirkman (creator of The Walking Dead, co-creator of Invincible) and is based on the Skybound/Image comic book series created by Kirkman and Marc Silvestri (Cyber Force, Rise of the Magi).

Adam Wingard is in talks to direct another MonsterVerse pic for Legendary, following the outsized success of Godzilla vs. Kong, Deadline can confirm.

Angelique Jackson After the massively successful debut of “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the film’s director, Adam Wingard, is in talks for a new movie in Legendary’s MonsterVerse franchise.Since its launch in theaters on March 31, “Godzilla vs.

“Godzilla Vs. Kong” has marched to $406 million worldwide so far, which is pretty damn good if you consider, we’re still in a pandemic, and many North American viewers experienced the movie at home on HBO Max.

Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Legendary’s Godzilla Vs Kong continues to dominate the global and international box office, now with a $288.3M cume offshore for $357.8M worldwide. It will soon cross Tenet globally and overseas. Domestically, it has overtaken Tenet to become the No. 1 grossing movie of the pandemic era.

It’s been almost an entire week since “Godzilla vs. Kong” debuted in theaters and on HBO Max, so it’s about time we can talk about the elephant in the room, err, maybe the Mecha in the room.

It has been months since we’ve really been able to give good news regarding the box office, but thanks to Adam Wingard’s MonsterVerse extravaganza, “Godzilla vs. Kong,” North American theaters are finally starting to show some signs of life.

If you watched “Godzilla vs. Kong” over the weekend and noticed that Lance Reddick was listed in the opening credits but didn’t really appear in the film, you’re not the only one.

Godzilla vs Kong seems to have put theatres back in business and has become that film which is successfully boosting the confidence for theatre owners and studios who have been plagued with worries owing to the pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis put a hold on the theatre business and the Adam Wingard film seems to have come as a saviour.

Saturday AM Update: Godzilla vs. Kong is now up to $27.9M in three days after an $11.6M Friday at 3,064 locations, +73% over Thursday. The 5-day projection for the Adam Wingard-directed Warner Bros/Legendary title is $42M — far and away the best opening (3 and 5-day) we’ve seen at the domestic B.O. during the pandemic, meaning since mid-March of 2020.

Watching films like “You’re Next” and “The Guest,” it’s clear that Adam Wingard is a talented filmmaker that is more than capable of directing blockbusters. And Legendary clearly thought so too, giving him the reins of “Godzilla vs.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“Godzilla vs. Kong” debuted in the U.S.

Matthew Chernov SPOILER ALERT: Do not read until you’ve seen the film!Director Adam Wingard’s “Godzilla vs. Kong,” the latest entry in the long-running Godzilla franchise, takes the reptilian kaiju king in some bold new directions, and offers many spectacular sights that have never been seen before in a Godzilla movie.

There is a lot to talk about when it comes to “Godzilla vs. Kong.” You can call it a popcorn blockbuster.

Godzilla vs. Kong is out, and MonsterVerse fans will be disappointed to learn that there's no post-credits scene.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” a film darker than a Russian wake.Running time: 113 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of creature violence/destruction and brief language).I was a bit concerned at the start of the new one, though.

Warner Bros. has been sitting on the film rights to cult cartoon series “ThunderCats” for over a decade and it looks like there is finally movement on their long-in-development feature film.

Also Read: 'Snarf! Snarf!': How 'ThunderCats' Producers Rebooted the World's Most Irritating Cartoon CharacterOriginally produced by Rankin-Bass Productions and distributed in syndication, “ThunderCats” focused on a group of humanoid cat beings who, escaping from the doomed planet Thundera, establish a new home on “Third Earth” (essentially Earth thousands of years in the future, following an unknown cataclysm).

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterThundercats are on the move, again.“Godzilla vs.

EXCLUSIVE: As his new film Godzilla Vs. Kong opens Wednesday in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max after turning up a Hollywood film pandemic record $123 million gross in 38 overseas markets last weekend, director Adam Wingard is set to direct Thundercats. That is a big scale feature based on an animated TV series that ran from 1985-89 by Rankin Bass, and several other iterations, comic books and merchandse.

“Film isn’t about storytelling or empathy; it’s about cool shit happening,” is an amusing, facetious tweet that recently went viral. Sure, it’s a jokey, flippant sentiment, but there’s also a kernel of truth (and an ironic one at that) that also applies to Legendary Picture’s “Godzilla Vs.

Being able to make shameless creature thrills explode off of the screen takes a distinct eye and an unabashed imagination. Ever since Gareth Edwards roared into the monster genre with “Godzilla” back in 2014, every subsequent entry in Legendary’s MonsterVerse has felt like an effort to recapture that same magic.

While basically all trailers for the upcoming “Godzilla vs. Kong” have focused on the titular showdown between Godzilla and King Kong, Kong using one of Godzilla’s dorsal fins as an axe, and a ton of buildings being destroyed, the latest trailer also teased the appearance of a very special and robotic guest, reinforcing the idea that Mechagodzilla will make its debut in the new MonsterVerse film.

Face/Off.The Godzilla vs.

A little more than a month ago, it was reported that director Adam Wingard and his longtime collaborator, writer Simon Barrett, were teaming up for a direct sequel to the 1997 John Woo action film, “Face/Off.” At the time of the report, it seemed as if the film’s stars, Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, were not returning. And honestly, that would be a major tragedy, as 95% of what makes “Face/Off” so special are the performances by those two actors.

One of filmdom’s weirdest blockbuster action thrillers will be getting a sequel, nearly a quarter-century after it first hit theatres.

“Face/Off” is probably one of the best examples of a film that is undeniably bad, in the sense that the story is ridiculous, the acting is campy, and the script is full of cringe. But in that badness is some pretty great John Woo action and two performances that have gone down in history as a couple of masterclasses in chewing scenery.

Also Read: Paramount to Reboot John Woo '90s Action Hit 'Face/Off'But while Archer is in prison, Troy breaks out of his coma and forces the surgeons to give him Archer’s face, effectively leading the two men to switch places.

Jordan Moreau Adam Wingard, director of the upcoming monster showdown “Godzilla vs. Kong,” will helm the remake of the 1997 thriller “Face/Off” for Paramount.Wingard will write the script with longtime collaborator Simon Barrett.

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has chosen You’re Next and Godzilla Vs. Kong director Adam Wingard to helm its re-imagining of Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo-directed action thriller that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Wingard will write the script with his scripting partner Simon Barrett and the studio will reboot the film, with new cast. Neal Moritz will produce and David Permut will be executive producer.