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Image Source: Amazon RoboCop 2014 revisits a sci-fi icon, but does it deserve a second chance? Remember the original RoboCop? Man, that thing landed in 1987, and it wasn’t just, like, a movie. No, it was a total cultural lightning bolt. Paul Verhoeven directed it, and Peter Weller played this cop – gets murdered, right? – then comes back as a part-robot, crime-fighting officer. He’s taking on the bad guys in Detroit. This movie had everything: intense action, really sharp satirical humor, a whole crew of memorable villains. And don’t even get me started on Basil Poledouris’s score; that was pretty much its own character. Seriously, it’s sitting at a phenomenal 92% on Rotten Tomatoes even now. Still holds up. So, when the news dropped in 2005 that RoboCop was getting a reboot, a lot of us probably asked: Why? Why touch something so beloved? It’s a question we...

At around the same time as Gareth Edwards was hired to direct the Godzilla reboot on the back of the excellent job that he did on the micro-budget science-fiction film Monsters, Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha was selected to reboot the RoboCop franchise. Padilha made a name for himself in his home country with the critically acclaimed and commercially successful cop dramas Elite Squad and its sequel, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within. However, the RoboCop reboot didn't perform as well as it was expected to, failing to start a new franchise. Now, over a decade after its initial theatrical run, RoboCop is witnessing a surge in interest on streaming.

According to FlixPatrol, it was the fifth-most-watched movie on Prime Video in the United States on July 15, jumping one spot from July 14. RoboCop beat out hits such as Nosferatu, Fast Five, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Twisters. The Prime Video rankings were...

2014's RoboCopfinds new success on streaming more than a decade after failing to make an impact with critics.

Per Flix Patrol, the big budget remake of the original RoboCop has officially broken through to the top ten streaming films chart for Prime Video for July 12. The film currently sits just behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie in the number nine place, while the recently released action film Heads of State starring Idris Elba and John Cena continues to dominate the top spot on the list.

Directed by José Padilha from a screenplay by Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, and Michael Miner, 2014's RoboCop starred Joel Kinneman as Alex Murphy, a young Detroit police detective who, after being critically injured in a car bombing, is transformed into the cybernetically enhanced RoboCop. The film featured an ensemble cast including Gary Oldman as OmniCorp chief scientist and RoboCop creator Doctor Dennett Norton, Michael Keaton as OmniCorp CEO Raymond Sellars,...

July is here, and in between all the fireworks and swimming and running from the heat, there’s ample time to sit back, relax and watch a great movie. While it can be daunting to figure out what to watch on your favorite streaming service, we’ve created a curated selection of some of the best new movies streaming this month on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Disney+ and beyond. There’s plenty of new releases hitting streaming this month, like the Michael B. Jordan hit “Sinners” and Jenna Ortega’s “Death of a Unicorn,” alongside streaming originals starring Adam Sandler, John Cena and more.

Check out our picks for the top new movies streaming right now below.

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In 1987, director Paul Verhoeven created the perfect movie. An R-rated, hilarious and action-packed film with something to say about the world around it. Hell, it even sold toys. You’d never have guessed the inevitable franchise would spawn only two follow up films before being put to rest by 1993’s disastrous RoboCop 3. Fast forward to 2014 and a time when Hollywood’s prime directive is to remake and reboot nostalgic IP. Often to the considerable dismay of at least some of their respective fan groups. To their credit however, Sony Pictures hired a visionary and fearless director perfect for upsetting the status quo. Much like Verhoeven had done more than thirty years earlier. They hired an all-star cast and spared no expense recreating the world of RoboCop. But studios are going to studio. They followed up these great choices by failing to learn from any of the lessons Robocop 3 provided.

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If there is a modern day equivalent in Hollywood to Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, he or she must be hiding in the nearest underground space bunker, desperately praying that irony makes a comeback. Verhoeven arrived at a time when transgressive “video nasties” were just fading into irrelevance, a period in which filmgoers were just as likely to head to the cinemas for schlocky thrills as they were for biting sci-fi allegory. With films such as 1987’s RoboCop, 1990’s Total Recall and 1997’s Starship Troopers, Verhoeven managed to combine a high-energy, hyper-kinetic thrust that has rarely been achieved since. He remains one of the most subversive and controversial film-makers of his generation – which is why it’s so depressing that Hollywood keeps churning out substandard remakes of his best work.

Science fiction icon Peter Weller has offered an exciting response when asked about the upcoming RoboCop reboot, which is coming (whether we like it or not) courtesy of Amazon Prime Video. Weller first starred as the iconic character who, of course, is part man, part machine, all cop, way, way back in 1987, and has now stated that he would return for the reboot if the script (and the money) is right.

Following the acquisition of MGM Studios by Amazon back in March 2022, a RoboCop reboot is now in the works, with both a movie and television series now being discussed. Speaking with TMZ recently about his new book “Leon Battista Alberti in Exile: Tracing the Path to the First Modern Book on Painting,” Weller revealed that he would come back for more crime-fighting action and existential crises. He said:

“As far as the RoboCop reboot, I don’t know. I...

The 2014 remake of RoboCop is disappointing in many ways, but one behind-the-scenes detail makes its failure even more disheartening by showing how good it could have been. The RoboCop remake is, simply put, not a great film. It's often listed among the worst science fiction reboots of all time, and it only has 49% on Rotten Tomatoes. Given the popularity and cult-classic status of Paul Verhoeven and Peter Weller's original 1987 film, RoboCop 2014 was a major disappointment. Even Alex Murphy actor Joel Kinnaman tried to explain why RoboCop 2014 was a failure.

There are plenty of reasons why RoboCop was a bad remake, but one of them unfortunately proved that the movie could have been great. There's usually a wide range of factors that turn a good idea into an underwhelming final product. Everything from difficult developments to outside influences like poor marketing and a bad release date can help...

Exclusive: Aimee Garcia has joined Criminal Minds: Evolution for the Paramount+ series’ third season.

In a multiple-episode arc, Garcia will portray Dr. Julia Ochoa, one of the country’s leading neuropsychiatrists who is assigned to help a high-profile patient recover from his injury-induced brain trauma. She clashes with Alvez (Adam Rodriguez) who, by contrast, believes in a more aggressive approach than her gentle approach.

Criminal Minds: Evolution is an expansion of the original CBS series which ran from 2005-2020. In the current season, the FBI’s elite team of criminal profilers comes up against an UnSub who has used the pandemic to build a network of other serial killers. As the world opens back up and the network goes operational, the team must hunt them down, one murder at a time.

The series stars Joe Mantegna, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness, Aisha Tyler, Zach Gilford, Ryan-James Hatanaka with Adam Rodriguez and Paget Brewster.

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On the surface, George Lucas’ “Star Wars” has little to do with José Padilha’s “Elite Squad.” One is a fantastical space opera about princesses and droids, the other is a ‘90s-set thriller about police brutality and institutional corruption. And yet — in Brazil — the two films are bound together by an almost identical cultural footprint. “Elite Squad” is as close to a bonafide Brazilian blockbuster as it gets. Not only is Wagner Moura’s Capitão Nascimento perhaps the country’s most well-known fictional character, but his lines are still quoted to this day, often by people who don’t even know their origin.

The launch of “Elite Squad” in 2007 was an event unto itself. Before the movie could be released in theaters, it was leaked through bootleg DVDs that cost — at today’s exchange rate — approximately $1 Usd.

This week, Civil War, written and directed by Alex Garland, is polarizing audiences with its depiction of a dystopian future America, where escalating political tension has divided the country into warring splinter states. The movie uses this speculative future as the backdrop for a story about a band of war reporters risking their lives to cover the conflict, as a way of reaffirming the value of a free press. The journalists, Lee and Joel, are played by Kirsten Dunst, a war photographer numbed by what she's seen, and Wagner Moura, the writer she's paired with, who hides his own trauma by pretending to enjoy the thrill of living on the edge. Moura might be most familiar to American audiences from his role as drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the Netflix series Narcos. But his biggest breakthrough came years earlier, in the 2007 Brazilian police thriller Elite Squad, and its 2010 sequel, Elite Squad 2...

The pun-packed, Arnie-starring original that strayed wildly from Stephen King’s book is one trashy 80s sci-fi romp that could actually benefit from a remake

Why bother remaking much-loved 80s and 90s science fiction movies? Frankly it never ends well. Len Wiseman’s 2012 reworking of Total Recall, with a baffled-looking Colin Farrell taking over from Arnold Schwarzenegger as the amnesiac dreamer of futuristic secret agent dreams, struggled to capture the bombast of the superbly trashy Paul Verhoeven original, and never even made it to mutant-heavy Mars. The maverick Dutch director’s 1987 version of RoboCop is a gloriously effective corporate satire masquerading as an all-guns-blazing actioner, but its 2014 remake from José Padilha (despite a stellar cast) seemed to smooth off all those rough, wonderfully stop-motion fuelled sci-fi edges and somehow lose something in the process.

How, then, should we greet the news that another of Arnie’s nutty sci-fi romps, 1987’s The Running Man,...

I don’t think it’s a controversial opinion to state that, of all the RoboCop movies, only Paul Verhoeven’s original 1987 film deserves to be called a classic. However, a lot of us have always thought that the ultra-violent sequel, RoboCop 2, was better than its reputation suggests. I know from our Original Video on the movie that it has more than a few fans, so it’s exciting to reveal that RoboCop 2 is finally getting a 4K Blu-ray release via Scream Factory.

The news was broken by our friends at Blu-ray.com. The company has also licensed José Padilha’s 2014 remake for release. No RoboCop 3 yet. I suppose the company just decided to let that one go, and you can’t really blame them, as it just might be one of the worst sequels of all time.

No news yet on whether RoboCop 2 will contain any special features.

Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law, produce a crappy remake. When José Padilha’s RoboCop remake hit theaters in 2014, it was…something else all right. A PG-13 take on a movie that satirizes the Reagan administration and blasts corporate greed to smithereens – oh, and also features the hero shooting a guy in the dick – the RoboCop remake was about as lousy as you’d think, at least compared to Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 action classic. And that’s about where its star, Joel Kinnaman, stands on the matter, saying the RoboCop remake lost touch with what people loved about the original.

Speaking with ComicBook.com, Joel Kinnaman said that while he liked the experience of working on the RoboCop remake and helping Padilha bring his vision to the big screen, there was a serious disconnect between what they were doing and what fans of Verhoeven’s film wanted.

Joel Kinnaman reflects on the failure of the 2014 RoboCop remake, of which he was the star, admitting that the film should've "listened more to the fans". Kinnaman also cites the loss of the unique satirical tone of Paul Verhoeven's original as a shortcoming of the remake. 2014's RoboCop was met with mostly negative reviews and disappointed at the box office, but Amazon's recent acquisition of MGM means that another remake or reboot is likely on the way.

RoboCop star Joel Kinnaman candidly explains why his 2014 remake failed. Directed by José Padilha, the 2014 sci-fi action film serves as a remake of director Paul Verhoeven's 1987 RoboCop. While Peter Weller played the titular robotic police officer in the original, Kinnaman took the reins for the remake, but the film ended up disappointing both critically and commercially.

Now, almost ten years later, Kinnaman reflects on 2014's RoboCop in a recent interview with ComicBook.com.

The Greatest Brazilian Jiu-jitsu fighter in the world is looking to fight me.

“Put your hands up,” Rickson Gracie tells me as he advances. “Like you’re talking like an Italian.”

I raise my hands as he lunges toward my head.

“Don’t let me touch your face.”

Gracie — the 63-year-old legend with shorn hair and tanned skin — is wearing gray shorts and a black T-shirt. He’s muscular and compact. I’m taller, but that’s about it. He can choke me unconscious with little to no effort. His hands shoot out,...

The deleted scene in the 2014 Robocop reboot would have explained why Alex Murphy still has his human hand after becoming Robocop. The scene would have shown Omnicorp's CEO asking to keep Alex's hand intact to use it as a marketing tool and to appeal to the public's desire for a robotic officer who knows what it feels like to be human. The scene would also have highlighted the contrast between Omnicorp's agenda and Alex's perspective, emphasizing his struggle to retain his humanity in his new cybernetic body.

2014's Robocop reboot originally included a scene that would have explained why Alex Murphy still has one of his human hands. The modern update of Robocop follows a similar set-up as the 1987 original, with Detroit cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) being nearly killed only to be given a new life as the cybernetic law enforcement officer Robocop. While Paul Verhoeven's Robocop...

Like many independent filmmakers, Anthony Gomez has some quibbles with his own work. He wishes he’d had more time to shoot. His lead looks natural on camera but the voiceover delivery is stiff. A friend came through with some original music, but the post process was crazy. The usual stuff. What’s unusual is that Gomez, 26, made his most recent film, a short documentary about working out, while living inside San Quentin State Prison.

“It’s the first time I’ve had my parents say they’re proud of me since I graduated from high school,” Gomez says of the videos he has directed, starred in and contributed to while inside San Quentin. Among the highlights is a series of mockumentary shorts inspired by The Office. Staring deadpan into the camera after the guy next to you says something stupid, it turns out, is a cinematic language that translates to workplaces everywhere.

A gender-swapped cosplay of RoboCop meticulously recreates the design of Peter Weller's iconic original suit. Released in 1987, RoboCop is directed by Paul Verhoeven and stars Weller as a wounded cop who is rebuilt as a law-enforcing cyborg. The movie was a financial success and has since become a 1980s classic, with a 2014 remake later attempting to recapture this same magic.

Now, to celebrate the movie's 36th anniversary, Cecilosaurus has tweeted new images of herself in a gender-swapped RoboCop cosplay. Check out the cosplay below:

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Adria Arjona and Wagner Moura will star in the feature film adaptation of Francisco Goldman’s bestselling book “Say Her Name.” The film, which will be directed by Gerardo Naranjo, will feature a script by Goldman, while Arjona and Moura will executive produce. UTA Independent Film Group is representing worldwide rights and will be launching sales at EFM.

Naranjo is best known for directing “Miss Bala,” which premiered in Cannes in 2011, and was the Mexican entry for the Oscars and Goya awards that year. He has directed episodes of acclaimed series such as “The Walking Dead” and “Narcos,” and his latest film “Kokoloko” won Best Mexican Film at Guadalajara in 2020.

Goldman is the author of six books, including the 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist “Monkey Boy.” He wrote the screen adaptation for HBO’s 2020 crime documentary “The Art of Political Murder,” based on his 2007 nonfiction book by the same name. “Say Her...

Filmmaker Amat Escalante, who won best director at Cannes for 2013 film “Heli,” has signed with CAA.

“Heli,” where the protagonist tries to protect his family from a drug cartel and corrupt police, competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and won several more awards, including at Camerimage, Palm Springs, Stockholm and Munich and represented Mexico at the 86th Academy Awards in the then Best Foreign Language Film category.

Escalante’s follow-up feature “The Untamed,” where the lives of a couple in a troubled marriage are turned upside down by the discovery of a mysterious creature, competed for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 2016, and won the Silver Lion for his direction. Like with “Heli,” Escalante won best director at Mexico’s Ariel Awards for “The Untamed.”

The filmmaker is currently in post-production on his next feature, “Lost in the Night,” about a man in search...

It’s safe to say a lot of lives were forever changed in 1987 with the release of Robocop, led by Peter Weller in the titular role and directed by auteur Paul Verhoeven. The deliciously violent film was praised as a weirdly humorous work of outsider art rooted in deeper meaning. Seriously, can you imagine a major studio releasing this now? It’s nearly impossible to fit the movie into a box: it’s a sci-fi action picture, a horror movie, a satire, a philosophical drama about what it means to be human. It’s a hard R even by today’s standards, and yet it also targeted kids with video games and action figure tie-ins. This movie had a Toy Line from Kenner! The 80s were a helluva time.

It took a while before the inevitable happened: a remake saw the light of day in 2014 from Brazilian director Jose Padilha,...

Updated, 8:42 Am: Narcos executive producer/director José Padilha has settled his lawsuit against fellow EP Eric Newman over what he claimed was his share of millions of dollars in profits from the Netflix drama series. Terms were not disclosed in Monday’s filing.

Read details of the case below.

Previously, August 30: Narcos executive producer/director José Padilha is suing his fellow EP Eric Newman over what he claims is his share of millions of dollars in profits from the Netflix drama series.

The lawsuit, filed last week in Los Angeles Superior Court, says that “Padilha and Newman agreed to share equally 50/50 (excluding any payments Padilha might receive from directing services) in all revenue, income, and proceeds of any nature …that either might receive based on or connected with the Series.”

Padilha, whose directing credits also include Elite Squad and its sequel, also directed episodes of Narcos, about the...

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Narcos director José Padilha has settled a lawsuit against his production partner Eric Newman alleging the series showrunner cheated him out of millions in profits by concealing revenue.

The two sides reached an agreement to resolve the suit, according to a court document filed on Monday. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Newman, through his production company Spahn Ranch, and Padilha, through his production company Cold Mountain, report to each other all proceeds arising from exploitation of Narcos, including money from audits of and bonuses from Gaumont Television, according to the complaint. Under their profit sharing agreement, they have an equal split of all revenue.

But Padilha said he’s being shorted because the contract is structured in a way that the amount of money paid to Newman by Gaumont isn’t completely transparent. He claimed that the studio has paid Newman...

Exclusive: Campside Media, the company behind the popular Chameleon podcast series, which documented the story of the Hollywood Con Queen, has lined up its next project – the story of the wild kidnapping attempt of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The story, which is based on reporting from Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison, is being lined up as the sixth season of the Chameleon podcast.

However, in a new twist, the company is also simultaneously developing a television adaptation and has teamed up with Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, who have worked on shows such as Ally McBeal and Entourage, to pen the small-screen adaptation.

The Michigan Plot details exactly what happened beyond the initial headlines that told the world the FBI had narrowly thwarted a kidnapping attempt against the governor of Michigan. What the Justice Department called the first step towards ‘The Big Boogaloo’ – a long-awaited civil war that would overthrow...

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Narcos producer Gaumont Television and veteran TV exec Katie O’Connell Marsh have settled their dispute over profits from that series and several others a week before the fight was set for trial.

Marsh in February 2018 sued Gaumont claiming she was owed millions in profits on Narcos, Hannibal, Hemlock Grove and F Is for Family. Gaumont filed its own complaint a few months later, alleging it didn’t have to pay her because she breached her termination agreement by disclosing the company’s trade secrets.

As the parties proceeded toward an Oct. 17 trial, L.A. County Superior Court judge Holly Fujie had issued decisions trimming the case against Marsh to just one claim for breach of contract, while multiple claims against Gaumont were still pending, including breach of contract and fraud, which could have resulted in punitive damages.

On Monday and Tuesday, the parties filed requests for dismissal.

There might be a real-life crime behind Netflix’s “Narcos.”

Director and producer José Padilha (“Robocop”) has officially sued production partner Eric Newman over allegations that Newman is hiding millions of dollars worth of profits from the critically acclaimed series. Padilha listed in the suit that Newman is concealing revenue from Gaumont Television, which violates their profit-sharing agreement.

Newman’s production company Spahn Ranch was supposed to be sharing reports and proceeds from “Narcos” with Padilha’s production company Cold Mountain. The contract states “each party receives an equal amount of Gross Proceeds at all times.” However, Padilha alleges Newman is hiding money because the contract is structured so the amount paid to Newman by Gaumont isn’t transparent.

“Despite having voluntarily accepted the trust reposed in him by Plaintiffs, and in violation of this relationship of trust, Newman (both individually and on behalf of Spahn Ranch) caused Narcos Revenues...

“Narcos” executive producer José Padilha is suing the show’s director Eric Newman over an alleged 1 million in unpaid revenue and breach of contract, claiming that his producing partner did not report certain profits totaling in the “several millions of dollars,” which reneges on a previous agreement to split all incomes received 50-50.

“Despite Plaintiffs’ efforts to obtain information and documents from Defendants concerning their receipt of revenues, income, and proceeds arising from or connected with ‘Narcos,’ Defendants have steadfastly refused to meaningfully communicate with Plaintiffs or otherwise provide Plaintiffs with any information or documents concerning the revenues, income, and proceeds Defendants have received based on ‘Narcos’ and have concealed all information from Plaintiffs concerning payments Defendants have received from the exploitation and huge success of Narcos,” the suit, which was filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court and demands a jury trial, reads.

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A producer behind the hit Netflix series “Narcos” has filed a lawsuit claiming he is owed more than 1 million in unpaid profits on the show.

José Padilha sued fellow producer Eric Newman, claiming that Newman has breached an agreement to split all profits on the show 50-50.

The complaint alleges that Newman and his company have received “several millions of dollars in revenues arising from or connected with ‘Narcos’ that have not been reported to Plaintiffs.” The suit seeks to recoup 50 of all unreported revenues, as well as punitive damages.

Newman has a longstanding relationship with Netflix. He is currently producing “Rebel Moon,” the streamer’s mega-budget sci-fi epic from director Zack Snyder. In addition to “Narcos,” his other Netflix projects include “Bright,” with Will Smith, and “Hemlock Grove,” which was the second show the streamer ever produced.

Padilha is a Brazilian director who first gained notice for “Bus 174,...

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Narcos director José Padilha claims his production partner is cheating him out of millions in profits from the series.

Padilha is suing showrunner Eric Newman, alleging the veteran producer is concealing revenue — including money from audits of and bonuses from Gaumont Television. Under their profit sharing agreement, they agreed to an equal split of all revenue.

“Despite having voluntarily accepted the trust reposed in him by Plaintiffs, and in violation of this relationship of trust, Newman (both individually and on behalf of Spahn Ranch) caused Narcos Revenues to be paid solely and directly to Defendants, without making Plaintiffs aware that these Narcos Revenues had been received by Defendants,” states the complaint filed on Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Newman, through his production company Spahn Ranch, and Padilha, through his production company Cold Mountain, reports and accounts to each other all proceeds arising from exploitation of Narcos,...

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Rio de Janeiro is dangling a big sweetener to lure Hollywood to shoot its movies and TV series locally.

RioFilme, a local city agency, has launched a 35 percent tax break for audiovisual production. The goal is attracting Hollywood and other foreign productions and film investments from elsewhere in Brazil, including São Paulo, to Rio de Janeiro, to make the Brazilian city a major international destination for film and TV producers.

The launch of the Rio de Janeiro tax incentive follows Netflix opening an office in São Paulo to shoot originals. Narcos producer José Padilha produced The Mechanism series for Netflix Brazil, and City of God director Fernando Meirelles produced 7 Prisoners for the streaming giant as it looks to branch out beyond São Paulo to shoot local language projects.

International productions will each be eligible to receive 2 million Brazilian Real, or around 380,000. In return,...

The tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1973 film “Last Tango in Paris” will be the subject of a limited series to be co-directed by Lisa Brühlmann (“Killing Eve”) and José Padilha (“Narcos”).

The series, titled “Tango,” is part of the international first-look agreement between CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures, an independent entertainment media company founded by former Warner Bros. Pictures president Greg Silverman.

The series, set in Italy, France and the U.S., written by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, will span the 18 months before, during and after the production of “Last Tango in Paris,” and will be told through the lens of those at the center of the events — stars Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando and Bertolucci.

The film is known for its infamous rape scene, which Bertolucci admitted decades later was not consensual.

“Controversy plagued the film following its release in January of 1973, while Brando and...

CBS Studios is backing Tango, a limited event series based on the tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 erotic drama Last Tango in Paris.

Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve) and José Padilha (Narcos) will co-direct the series, with Greg Silverman and Jp Sarni of Stampede Ventures executive producing. CBS Studios will co-produce under its international first-look agreement with Stampede, with SVP of international co-productions and development Meghan Lyvers overseeing the project for the studio.

Based on a script by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, Tango traces the 18 months before, during and after the production of Last Tango in Paris, exploring the story through ...

CBS Studios is backing Tango, a limited event series based on the tumultuous events surrounding the making of Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1972 erotic drama Last Tango in Paris.

Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve) and José Padilha (Narcos) will co-direct the series, with Greg Silverman and Jp Sarni of Stampede Ventures executive producing. CBS Studios will co-produce under its international first-look agreement with Stampede, with SVP of international co-productions and development Meghan Lyvers overseeing the project for the studio.

Based on a script by Jeremy Miller and Daniel Cohn, Tango traces the 18 months before, during and after the production of Last Tango in Paris, exploring the story through ...

Amazon Prime Video announced that the comedy special “Yearly Departed” will return for its second special this December, this time hosted by Yvonne Orji.

The new special will feature an all-female lineup of guests to be announced at a later date. They will bid farewell to the trends we are leaving behind in 2021, including hot vaxx summer, hermit life, ignoring the climate crisis and Zoom.

“In my career, I’ve been fortunate to work on a show that was created by Blacks, for Black characters, and now, I get to host a special that was written by all women, featuring a lineup of incredibly funny female comedians, directed by a talented female director and produced by a group of amazing female producers. I guess lightning can strike twice,” said Orji.

“Yearly Departed” is from Amazon Studios, Done+Dusted and Scrap Paper Pictures. The special is executive produced by Rachel Brosnahan,...

For once, those sniffles you hear aren’t a coke thing: “Narcos: Mexico” will come to an end with its upcoming third season, Netflix said on Monday. The streaming service also released a teaser of the show’s final episodes.

Watch the video above, which also reveals that the final “blow” of “Narcos: Mexico” will debut on Nov. 5.

Here’s the description for “Narcos: Mexico’s” 10-episode third and final season: Set in the 90s, when the globalization of the drug business ignites, Season 3 examines the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest. As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and escalating violence, a new generation of Mexican kingpins emerge. But in this war, truth is the first casualty – and every arrest, murder and take-done only pushes real victory further away…

“Narcos: Mexico” stars Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino, Alfonso Dosal,...

Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico returns with season 3 on Nov. 5 — its final season in Mexico. It is as yet unknown if the franchise will continue with another installment after the original series, set in Colombia, and the Mexico offshoot, both of which ran for three seasons. Executive producers previously have said their intention was to follow the drug trade across various countries.

The new season is set in the ’90s, when the globalization of the drug business ignites. It examines the war that breaks out after Félix Gallardo’s (Diego Luna) arrest. As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and escalating violence, a new generation of Mexican kingpins emerge. But in this war, truth is the first casualty – and every arrest, murder, and take-done only pushes real victory further away.

Although Luna won’t return as Gallardo, there are many returning stars as well as some new ones. Most notably,...

Netflix announced that the third and final season of “Narcos: Mexico” will premiere on Nov. 5 and released some first looks at the episodes.

This third and final season follows the war that breaks out after Felix’s arrest and the new Mexican kingpins who emerge as newly independent cartels navigate political turmoil and escalating violence.

Returning series regulars include Scoot McNairy, José María Yázpik, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Hermosillo, Matt Letscher, Manuel Masalva, Alejandro Edda and Gorka Lasaosa. New cast members include Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra and Luisa Rubino, with guest star Bad Bunny aka Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.

Executive producers on the series are Sidonie Dumas; Christophe Riandee; Nicolas Atlan; José Padilha; Doug Miro; Andrés Baiz, who also directs; Eric Newman and showrunner Carlo Bernard. Other directors are Alejandra Márquez Abella, Luis Ortega, Amat Escalante and Wagner Moura direct. Gaumont serves as the production company.

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Exclusive: Aimee Garcia has joined the cast of Woke.

The Hulu series, co-created by Keith Knight and Marshall Todd, centers on Keef Knight (Lamorne Morris), an African-American cartoonist who finds himself on the verge of mainstream success when an unexpected incident changes his life. With a newfound consciousness, Keef must navigate the new voices and ideas challenging him, all without setting fire to everything he’s already built.

In the comedy’s second season, Garcia will play Laura Salgado, a likable but formidable self-made Silicon Valley venture capitalist who is interested in working with Knight.

Knight and Todd exec produce Woke, alongside Maurice “Mo” Marable, Richie Schwartz, John Will, Will Gluck and Eric Christian Olsen. Anthony King is also on board as an exec producer for Season 2.

Garcia is known for her turn as Ella Lopez on Netflix’s Lucifer and recently...

In today’s Global Bulletin, Cannes creche returns; Andrei Konchalovsky to deliver Russian Key Buyers Event keynote; European Film Promotion elects board; drama series “The Holiday” sets lead cast; Canada opens women talent development initiatives; and Chinese blockbuster “The Eight Hundred” to premiere at Udine.

The Cannes Marché du Film and Parenting at Film Festivals are back with their daycare creche initiative Le Ballon Rouge, which was a success when introduced in 2019.

The daycare center, housed in a Covid-safe public school in the area, is available for children aged six months to 12 years from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and for a maximum of six hours at a time for each child during the Cannes Film Festival from July 7-14. In addition, a baby lounge will be available at the Palais.

Badges for the children and their caregivers will be provided by the Marché du Film for free.

Adef, British Film Institute,...

Exclusive: Netflix has landed Sharp, an action script set in the world of expert knife fighting by José Padilha & Nicolette Noble that Padilha will direct. Stampede Ventures will produce. Deal is in the seven-figure range.

It brings Padilha back to the Netflix fold after a long collaboration on the Narcos and Narcos: Mexico series. The hope here is to launch an original action film franchise set in the world of knife fighting. Sharp follows a group of six knife-wielding assassins who, after a globally-synchronized hit goes wrong, are forced to work together to save themselves and discover who betrayed them.

Padilha directs and is a producer with Greg Silverman of Stampede Ventures. Taylor Zea will oversee the project for Netflix.

Padilha and Noble said they “read at least 20 books on blades, from different times and cultures, before writing Sharp. It boils down to this: gunfights are often anonymous; you can shoot someone from afar.

Joel Kinnaman thinks he knows why the 2014 RoboCop remake wasn't a massive success. Rebooting and remaking movies is commonplace in the entertainment industry today. However, the results are often put under extra scrutiny, as people more often than not prefer the originals. When remakes or reboots are made, they don't always have the same spark that made the originals so special, which was definitely the case with the RoboCop remake that Kinnaman starred in.

2014's RoboCop was Joel Kinnaman's first big role. He says, "I had to quell all my instincts for everything over the course of that film. I'm like, 'Why am I wearing a black suit? That doesn't make any sense at all.'" However, that was only part of the problem that fans of the franchise picked apart when the movie hit theaters. When reflecting, Kinnaman has some further reasons as to why the movie wasn't as...

Luis Gerardo Méndez, Alberto Guerra, Luisa Rubino and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny) are joining the Season 3 cast of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico.

Méndez will play Victor Tapia, a Juarez cop with a moral dilemma; despite his

misgivings over getting involved, he is drawn into the mystery of a series of brutal killings Guerra is Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, an independent drug trafficker, whose unassuming manner belies the fact that he is quietly one step ahead of everyone else Rubino will be Andrea Nuñez, a young idealistic and ambitious journalist, whose mission to expose corruption brings her an even bigger story than she anticipated Ocasio “Bad Bunny” will guest star as Arturo “Kitty” Paez, a member of Ramon Arellano Felix’s gang called the “Narco Juniors” – rich, well connected kids from upper society who fell in with the cartel life for the money, drugs and violence.

Additional new...

David Kopple is joining Management 360.

Kopple comes to the management company from CAA, where he worked with such creatives as Narcos exec producer José Padilha, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, The Hunt Craig Zobel, ZeroZeroZero show runner Pablo Trapero Peter Sollett , Adam Robitel, Joe Swanberg, Emily Jerome and John Curran. These clients are expected to continue to be managed by Kopple and are also expected to stay at CAA

“We have long admired David as a person with great integrity, a keen eye, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We’re thrilled to welcome him to 360 and look forward to collaborating with him and his clients in exciting new ways,” said the Management 360 partners in a joint statement.

Kopple had been with CAA since 2010.

David Kopple is joining Management 360 from CAA, where he has worked since 2010. He currently serves in the agency’s motion picture lit department.

Among the clients joining Kopple at Management 360 are José Padilha, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Craig Zobel, Pablo Trapero, Peter Sollett, Adam Robitel, Joe Swanberg, Emily Jerome, and John Curran. More are likely to follow. Clients represented by CAA are expected to stay at the agency.

“We have long admired David as a person with great integrity, a keen eye, and an entrepreneurial spirit,” the Management 360 partners said in a joint statement. “We’re thrilled to welcome him to 360 and look forward to collaborating with him and his clients in exciting new ways.”

Kopple is now the latest in a growing list of agents from top agencies who are making the move to management companies. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to mostly stymie production and live events,...

Longtime CAA agent David Kopple is becoming a manager.

Kopple has joined firm Management 360 and will bring with him a literary talent list that includes José Padilha (Narcos), Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People v. O.J. Simpson,), Craig Zobel (The Hunt), Pablo Trapero (ZeroZeroZero) Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist), Adam Robitel (Escape Room), Joe Swanberg (Easy), Emily Jerome (Panopticon), and John Curran (Chappaquiddick), with more to follow.

Clients represented by CAA are expected to stay at the agency. Kopple joined the agency in 2010 and was previously at Gersh.

“We have long admired David ...

Longtime CAA agent David Kopple is becoming a manager.

Kopple has joined firm Management 360 and will bring with him a literary talent list that includes José Padilha (Narcos), Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (The People v. O.J. Simpson,), Craig Zobel (The Hunt), Pablo Trapero (ZeroZeroZero) Peter Sollett (Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist), Adam Robitel (Escape Room), Joe Swanberg (Easy), Emily Jerome (Panopticon), and John Curran (Chappaquiddick), with more to follow.

Clients represented by CAA are expected to stay at the agency. Kopple joined the agency in 2010 and was previously at Gersh.

“We have long admired David ...

A RoboCop prequel focusing on the life of a young Dick Jones is in the works at MGM, according to MovieHole. In a recent interview, original screenwriter Ed Neumeier had a special message for all the kids watching at home, and it wasn’t “stay out of trouble.” RoboCop is coming to TV.

“I’m working at MGM on it,” Neumeier told MovieHole. “With any luck, if MGM is willing, if we can find the partners, if we can get this pilot made, if we can convince a bunch of people.” The spinoff TV show will feature the president of Omni Consumer Products, the Ed-209 law enforcement robot’s biggest cheerleader, but it will have one thing missing. “It has all the cool stuff about RoboCop except no RoboCop,” Neumeier said. “It’s going to be about the evolution of Richard Jones to Dick Jones, the story of Ocp and...

José Padilha's 2014 remake of Paul Verhoeven's widely-beloved sci-fi action classic RoboCop was not the hit that producers wanted it to be and suffered from middling reviews from critics. But does that mean that there's nothing in the movie worth remembering or praising?

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By examining and judging the movie on its best qualities, in relation to the biggest drawbacks of its reimagining of the story, perhaps you'll be able to decide for yourself whether the remake of RoboCop really is as bad as people say it is or whether it's another underrated movie waiting to be rediscovered by the right audience.

At a point when comic book cinema is at its greatest height, maybe it is time for more films to arrive based on other properties that fall outside of usual suspects Marvel and DC. The grounds are now so fertile that we could see virtually anything from a comic book root grow and thrive on the big screen. We live in an age where, in the last few years, two (soon to be three) Ant-Man films have been made, Aquaman became the Dceu’s largest grossing film, Joker swept the board in academy award nominations and Avengers: Endgame dethroned Avatar’s box office crown. Anything is possible and the world seems ready for any new comic book films, let alone one based on successful material and with future aspirations.

Based on the bestselling Valiant Comics character of the same name, and intended to kick start a new shared universe of...