“Red Alert!” You’re on notice that the action-thriller Red Notice starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds will be premiering worldwide on Netflix on November 12th. The Rock made the announcement over his social media communicating his enthusiasm at sharing his first-ever streaming movie with the already built-in global Netflix audience of 205 million + Netflix subscribers. According to Deadline, the story of Red Notice will find The Rock playing the FBI’s top profiler as he hunts down two rival criminals. Gal Gadot will play the world’s most wanted art thief and her opponent, the greatest conman the world has never seen will be played by Ryan Reynolds. Universal and Legendary Pictures originally acquired the rights to the picture in an intense bidding war, The Rock raking in a cool 20 million dollar paycheck in a deal worth $130 million overall. However, after crunching the numbers, Universal realized the project was to...
NCIS may be one of the most epic and legendary storytelling sagas ever told, the story now spanning nearly two decades as NCIS heads into its 19th season premiering September 20th. To many, the series may seem to be another in a long line of forgettable TV procedurals but it is so much more than that as it is instead a richly-written character-driven show that emphasizes humor to a high degree without sacrificing anything in the way of dramatic stakes in its storytelling. Very much set in the real-world NCIS follows a quirky group of investigators that track down terrorists and other high-profile criminals in the world of the Navy and Marine Corps. The team is led by the unflappable and seasoned dogged investigator Leroy Jethro Gibbs played by none other than Mark Harmon who very well may be the TV star equivalent of Harrison Ford. Originating the role in the NCIS backdoor pilot on JAG, Harmon has led the NCIS franchise for the last 18 years, and going into the 19th season follow...
“I’m Batman”, is the iconic opening line of Michael Keaton’s Batman in the original big-screen debut of the character in the 1989 film simply titled Batman directed by Tim Burton. This of course discounts Adam West’s campy version of the character in the 60s, with Michael Keaton bringing to life for the first time the dark and grizzled take of the dark knight detective as portrayed in the comics originally by Bob Kane in 1939 before the character veered into more campy territory in the 1940s before progressing back to a more serious nuanced take on the character in the late 60s that was spearheaded by Neal Adams and Denny O’ Neil. Batman (1989) saw Michael Keaton’s Batman taking on the forces of Joker (Jack Nicholson) who had taken over the Gotham mob while also in the midst of a brewing romance with the tenacious and beautiful Vicky Vale (Kim Basinger). The film was a blockbuster hit and was followed by Batman Returns in 1992 with Michael Keaton reprising the role of Bruce Way...
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