"BIRDS OF PREY(AND THE EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN)" UPDATE!

I was perusing the internet the other day looking if there was any further updates on "Birds Of Prey (and the emancipation of Harley Quinn) and I saw that not only have there been pictures from the LA set of this film circulating on the internet but there is now a sneak peak teaser video to show what the other cast members of this film will look like.

According to this YouTube.com link below this will give you an idea of what Harley Quinn along with villain Black Mask who will be played by Ewan McGregor, Victor Zsasz who will be played by Chris Messina, Black Canary who will be played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Huntress who will be played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead will look like in this new film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnPuWBJyGSw

..so I'm thinking that as the costumes for "Suicide Squad" particularly Harley Quinn and The Joker were popular choices for Halloween costumes that same year the film was released I'm thinking this might just give people some ideas for Halloween costumes in the future,-but that could just be me-.

Also according to www.batman-news.com and some on set pictures from "Birds Of Prey (and the emancipation of Harley Quinn)" it looks like Harley Quinn might be getting some exotic pets which you can see on the link to this website:

https://batman-news.com/2019/01/30/harley-quinn-has-new-costumes-and-shops-for-exotic-pets-in-latest-birds-of-prey-set-photos/

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but according to IMDb.com this film will follow Harley Quinn after she has left The Joker so this might be from a flash back of when Harley Quinn is with The Joker, and this could seem to suggest that the director Cathy Yan could be going to tap into how in all comic books with Harley Quinn or featuring Harley Quinn, video games and animations of Harley Quinn she has two hyenas as pets.

No doubt more news about this film will be on it's way to the internet before it is released in the USA on 7th February 2020, if you live outside the USA and you want to know when this film will be released go to IMDb.com and go to Birds of Prey page and where it says the release date for the USA click on it and this will take you to a page that has a list of other release dates for other countries.

HOLD THE BUS! HOZIER NEW ALBUM "WASTELAND, BABY!"

I was just looking on Twitter this morning and I saw the amazing news that Hozier has just announced he will be releasing a NEW! album "Wasteland, Baby!" and if you haven't heard it yet there is three new tracks from this album that you can listen to now on YouTube:

Here is the link on YouTube.com for you to have a little listen to "Almost (Sweet Music)" and see what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irw04nbXwxk

I've only heard this a couple of times today on repeat and I have to say that I'm loving this song and thank god that Hozier is back because I absolutely loved his first album and I absolutely loved "Take Me To Church".

Here is the link to have a little listen to "Shrike" and see what you think of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLqdAJbu0A

I've just seen that you can pre-order this album now on Amazon music and this album will be released on March 1st 2019.

Also here is the YouTube link to "Movement" another song on the NEW! album to see what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSye8OO5TkM


Hearing these tracks this morning I can't wait to hear this NEW! album when this becomes officially released.

Also here is the YouTube link to Hozier ft Mavis Staples "Nina Cried Power" this to me sounds epic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2YgDua2gpk

UPDATE! "MORBIUS:THE LIVING VAMPIRE" MOVIE!

You may or may not already know this but I thought I would just put this up here I was just reading on Collider.com's website to see if I could see if there was any news on this film other than the Jared Leto film of him shaving off the beard and getting ready for the role but unfortunately all I found was an article that was published on their website on the 9th October 2018 that Sony producers Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach said in an interview with Collider.com that the next movie spinoff in the Spiderman Universe that would be brought to film would be "Morbius: The Living Vampire" and Matt Tolmach said in this same interview that he thinks that:

"...the plan is early part of next year. We're still working on it..."

That is to say that filming for this could start fingers crossed early next year, but according to DigitalSpy.com's website Sony have scheduled July 10th 2020 which according to this website looks more like a release date if all goes well.

And Avi Arad went on to say in this same interview what he thought about this film possibly being R-rated:

"...what I said to you before, it depends on the story. If the success of the story on being R-rated..."

Avi Arad went on to say that:

" Then of course, we can do it. But at least for me, I have grandkids, kids, all these things, and some of these movies, they're dying to see. You know? As I took my grandson, seven, to the recording session of "Venom". And he had the time of his life."

This sounds like to me that Avi Arad is suggesting that this "Morbius: The Living Vampire" movie might be an R rated film and Matt Tolmach even goes on to say in this same interview with Collider.com that:

" I don't think there's a rule written somewhere in stone that all of them have to be one thing, alright?..."

Also according to an article on DigitalSpy.com's website there is no word yet on whether this film will feature any of "Morbius: The Living Vampire" comic book foes like CIA agent Simon Stroud, Vic Slaughter, Doctor Paine or Bloodbath...and also according to this same article on DigitalSpy.com's website the most disappointing news of all,-well for me at least as I am a huge fan of  the"Blade" movies- it looks like "Blade" will not be featuring in this movie...although this same article does mention that Wesley Snipes has been teasing other Marvel projects with "Blade" in.

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW AND READ THIS: LUTHER SERIES 5 IS ON IT'S WAY!

I was perusing the internet the other day and I saw this on DigitalSpy.com's website and I have to say I was really excited as who doesn't want to see another series of Luther.

You may or you may not have heard that for some time now there has been talk about there being another series of Luther being shown on BBC One at some point but the only information I have been able to find out about this is just teaser trailers that don't tell you much other than Idris Elba will be back to reprise the role of Luther...and now thanks to DigitalSpy.com we now know when this will be coming back to TV and how long we will have to wait for this series.

Also thanks to Digital Spy.com's website there is finally a trailer for this series 5 "Luther", here is the YouTube.com link below for you to take a little peak at the official trailer for series 5 and see what you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zltvWcctE6g

According to DigitalSpy.com's website this new series will "bring something new to the table" and that this new series will force Luther to confront his past as well it coming to BBC One on January 1st 2019 at 9pm with the series finale being aired on Friday January 4th 2019.

I'm a massive fan of this show and cannot wait for this to come back for another series and I still can't believe it's taken this long to make another series as I would have thought after the last series and especially after it looked like Alice had died and Luther thinking that she wasn't really dead that there would have been another series filmed straight away so we the audience could find out if Alice was really dead or not.

Anyhew...according to this same article on DigitalSpy.com's website Ruth Wilson who plays the character Alice is set to reprise her role with the actress teasing that there have been talks of her character getting her own spin-off and Idris Elba according to this same website also teasing that this series is not the end for his character either...so could this mean that there is more series's to come if there is I can't wait!

And as well as this Hermione Norris who you may or may not recognise from "Cold Feet" will be joining the cast of this new series.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!....NEW! DVD RELEASES FOR THE NEW YEAR!

I was just perusing my e-mails this morning checking up on last minute Christmas shopping gifts and having a huge wave of anxiety of did I choose next day delivery or did I just choose the standard delivery which means all the items I've bought online aren't going to get to me until after Christmas...which is ridonculous when all these online sites have Christmas sales as well as delivery cut off times especially for Christmas so it would be nice if these websites could give you a little heads up if this is the case instead of just saying in the e-mail confirmation they send you after the fact that it won't get to you until after Christmas so you have to cancel the said item...and I saw a very interesting e-mail from Amazon which piqued my interest...the release dates for:

Venom on DVD and Robin Hood on DVD

Venom is fingers crossed is said to according to Amazon's website due to be released on DVD on 4th February 2019...so I'm thinking this is one date that is not to be missed and one for the diary!

Robin Hood fingers crossed is said to according to Amazon's website due to be released on DVD on 25th March 2019.

In case your wondering panic was averted all last Christmas gift items I've purchased online are going to be arriving on time and Christmas won't be cancelled this year...PHEW!

 

!WARNING THE BELOW MAY CONTAIN A BIT OF A RANT SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ON LOOK AWAY NOW!

 

 

Now I went to see this new Robin Hood film with all my family and we all really enjoyed watching it and we couldn't figure out why or how this film had got so many bad reviews because first of all this is a Robin Hood film and who doesn't love to watch a film about Robin Hood...there's "Disney's Robin Hood" that is a really good film, "Mel Brooks's Men In Tights" that's a hilarious spoof and a must see if you haven't seen it yet and not forgetting "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves" and well "Robin Hood" that starred Russell Crowe,- (which if you ask me is more of a guessing game as to what accent Russell Crowe is putting on throughout the entire film than being able to concentrate on what else is happening in the movie, but it's still good to watch when there is absolutely nothing on the TV to watch),- and there was a lot of action in this film which was fast paced so the whole story of the film feels like it's not being dragged out to be an epic Peter Jackson film with a running time of three hours, and well I did anyway feel like when the film finished like "oh is that it?" like you know when a good song has been playing on the radio and then it suddenly finishes.

 

Secondly...now this is where this may sound like a bit of a rant, I was reading on Collider.com's website a couple of days ago an interview they had done with the director of "Mission Impossible: Fallout" in which he was saying that he doesn't think that the academy give out awards to films like "Mission Impossible" because he feels that they forget why people make films in the first place for people's entertainment...and after I saw this film I have to say that I think that I agree with him here as critics have said this is a bad film but to be honest I didn't see anything in this that wasn't entertaining or that would make me think that this was as pants as the critics have made this film out to be and because of this I just had to jump onto Amazon's website and pre-order this on DVD as I really wanted to know when I could purchase this and see this film again...and now I think about it this would probably make a better movie to see over the Christmas period than the films the TV channels have advertised like "The Greatest Showman" being advertised as a film that everybody would love to see over Christmas or "Love Actually" or "Bridget Jones's Diary"...as I think that everybody from children to grandparents would find this really enjoyable with all the action scenes that had bows and arrows in stealing from the greedy sheriff of Nottingham and the Church to give to the people who really need the money to the big action sequence at the end where the people steal all of the money with Robin and how they manage to get it to the forest.

 

And now that I think about it critics absolutely panned "Suicide Squad" and this still received an Oscar for best hair and makeup...so this just shows you how little critics really know.

 

But on the other hand I do have to say that there are parts of this film that I think that bring this film down like how at first when I saw the trailer for this film I thought it looked like it was the follow up to Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur", and it looks like the film makers have tried to make the story for the film a bit like the one in "Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves" with how Robin is told he has to serve in the army to fight over in the Crusades and meets Jamie Foxx's Moor character after he is arrested along with his son for fighting against the armies of England and Robin then gets himself arrested for trying to stop Jamie Fox's son from being executed and then Jamie Foxx's character follows Robin back to England. Robin's leather coat looks like something from AllSaints, and there are many times when Robin just doesn't keep his scalf over his mouth to keep up his disguise and at the end of the film there seems to me like the film makers have tried to put in to this film an epic Batman sounding instrumental like the music that was in Christopher Nolan's Batman films.



LOOKS LIKE EWAN McGREGOR IS JOINING THE DC UNIVERSE IN "BIRDS OF PREY"

I was reading the other day on the internet that in the movie universe of DC Comics Ewan McGregor will be playing the villain The Black Mask in just one of the Harley Quinn movie projects as she is going to be starring in David Ayer's "Gotham City Sirens" and as yet according to IMDb.com an untitled "Harley Quin and Joker" movie along with a hopefully much anticipated "Suicide Squad 2"...looks like this character as well as Margot Robbie will be a busy bunny for quite a while yet!

I have to be honest when I first heard about the Black Mask being the villain in this first Harley Quinn movie project "Birds Of Prey" I had to Google this as I really didn't know much about this villain as I did other villains like the Joker, Raz al Ghul, Penguin, Two Face, Dr. Freeze, The Riddler, Poison Ivy, Bane, Catwomen etc etc, according to Wikipedia,-and here is where comic book fans may have to forgive me if I get this a bit wrong-, the Black Mask's real name is Roman Sionis a disguised obsessed crime lord who was forced by his wealthy parents to make friends with Bruce Wayne although his parents hated the Wayne's they still wanted to mingle in high society, he was dropped on his head as a baby and his parents paid people off to cover up this fact. He is also according to Wikipedia an expert in intimidation, torture and hand to hand combat and when he takes the mask off he is an expert in hypnosis.

This film will not only be introducing this new villain in a DC Comic Book spinoff movie but this film will also introduce Helena Bertinelli a.k.a Huntress who will be played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dinah Lance a.k.a Black Canary who will be played by June Smollett-Bell, Gotham City Detective Renee Montoya who will be played by Rosie Perez and Cassandra Cain who will be played by Ella Jay Basco as according to ScreenRant.com's website the plot for "Birds Of Prey" is that Margot Robbie's character Harley Quinn forms a gang of super heroin's which includes Black Canary and Huntress to protect Cassandra Cain from the Black Mask after she stumbles upon a diamond that belongs to the Black Mask.

But I'm thinking if these characters are as psychotic as Harley Quinn was in "Suicide Squad" then the term "stumbled upon" is going to be very loose...more probably like this diamond was stolen from the Black Mask.

Anyhew...also according to ScreenRant.com's website filming for "Birds Of Prey" hasn't started yet but is thought to begin filming in early 2019 with according to IMDb.com's website February 7th 2020 in the USA release date.

According to The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision's website Cathy Yan will be directing this for Warner Bros. with Sue Kroll producing via her Kroll & Co. banner along with Margot Robbie and her LuckyChap Entertainment and Bryan Unkeless' Clubhouse Pictures and the script for this is being written by Christina Hodson.

FINALLY! STEPHEN KING "DOCTOR SLEEP" IS GETTING ADAPTED

You may or may not have already heard this news that Stephan King "Doctor Sleep" is FINALLY getting adapted into it's own movie...I would have thought that as other books of Stephen King has already been adapted like "IT", "Mr. Mercedes", "Carrie",-this got remade with Zoe Grace Moretz starring as Carrie-, "Dark Tower", "The Shining" (of course) etc that this would also get remade as especially as it is a sequel to "The Shining" which is such a fantastic film I would have thought that this would have been the first of all the other books adapted into a film as this is a sequel to "The Shining"...and this film had such a buzz to it as it was directed by the legendary director Stanley Kubrick and starred Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrence.

If you haven't seen "The Shining" where the hell have you been? you really need to watch this film and if you haven't read this book you also really need to read this book...but if you haven't read "Doctor Sleep" then I will fill in the blanks:

"Doctor Sleep" follows Danny Torrence after the events that took place at the Overlook Hotel where he found out he had "the shining" ability to see things that had happened in the past like the ghosts of the dead twin girls that were killed by the father with an axe of the family who were hired before Danny's father to look after the hotel in the winter season when everyone leaves the hotel, things that were going to happen before they happen like the rivers of blood that come down the corridor and out of the elevators of the hotel and he can also use his gift to communicate with other people who can "shine" like he does like the chef Dick Halloran, he now is an alcoholic to stop his gift and he's still traumatized by everything that has happened at the hotel and his mother has died and he hasn't talked to Dick Halloran in ages but he has learnt to create lock boxes to stop seeing the ghosts especially that of Mrs. Massey, and he then moves to a new town to get away from everything and to try and stop drinking so he gets a job at the local hospital where people seem to know about his "shining" as it appears that everytime a white cat goes into the room of a elderly patient it tends to mean they're going to die and then Danny gets called to help the patient go, and on the weekends he has a job driving a train as part of the towns local attraction. Soon though he learns that they're is a little girl with "the shining" ability that seems stronger than his called Abra that is trying to communicate with him and he soon learns that she is in need of his help as not only does she not know what "the shining" is but this group The True Knot have been traveling round in caravans killing children for their "Shining" so they can remain young but this starts to go wrong as one of the kids they kill is ill with chickenpox and in turn they start dying, but the leader thinks that if they kill Abra then they will be young forever and this leads to a showdown between Danny using his ability as well as "the shining" of Abra's dying grandmother at the campsite that is next to The Overlook Hotel.

Anyhew...according to Variety.com's website Ewan McGregor has been cast as Danny Torrence in Warner Bros. adaption of this Stephen King book and also I have read on other websites about this that Stephen King has given his blessing for Ewan McGregor to be cast as Danny Torrence as I had heard that Stephen King had supposedly not liked Stanley Kubrick's adaption of his book "The Shining".

Also according to Variety.com's website Warner Bros. have got Mike Flanagan to direct and his producing partner Trevor Macy will produce along with Vertigo Entertainment's Jon Berg.

Also according to Deadline.com's website also starring alongside Ewan McGregor in this film will be Rebecca Ferguson who you may or may not have seen in "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation" who played Ilsa Faust and who you may or may not have seen in "Mission Impossible: Fallout" will play the role of "Rose The Hat" the leader of The True Knot, Bruce Greenwood will also star in this film along with Carl Lumbley, Alex Essoe and Zahn McClarnon.

Also according to IMDb.com's website this is pencilled in to be released in the USA on the 24th January 2020.