Aaron Taylor-Johnson took the action-heavy “Bullet Train” stunts a little too seriously.The actor revealed that due to a “crazy mad Keto diet,” he had low blood sugar levels and passed out on set after sustaining an injury.“We were in a fight sequence and I get drop-kicked across the room. And the one sharp bit of […]
Continue readingSony made a splash at the CineEurope conference in Barcelona with British star Aaron Taylor-Johnson on the ground to tease David Leitch’s “Bullet Train,” in which Taylor-Johnson stars opposite Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Karen Fukuhara. Taylor-Johnson, who just wrapped the shoot of “Kraven the Hunter,” introduced 15 minutes of footage of the action-packed comedy […]
Continue readingGet ready for more Venom.Sony Pictures has greenlit a third installment of the Tom Hardy-led “Venom” franchise, following the back-to-back box office successes of 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (502 million globally) and 2018’s “Venom” (856 million globally).The studio also announced plans for another “Ghostbusters” installment, which will serve as a follow-up to 2021’s […]
Continue readingThough we have yet to see anything outside of two “Venom” films, Sony is hellbent on making its own universe of Spider-Man-adjacent characters a thing. We have “Morbius” arriving soon, “Madame Web” just found its lead, and various other projects in development, including the upcoming “Kraven the Hunter.” And though this little superhero universe is […]
Continue readingSony’s Spider-Man Universe of movies continues to grow and perform well at the box office, with movies like “Venom” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” licking up impressive amounts of cash. That burgeoning universe will soon get its first big test with “Morbius,” a Jared Leto-starring vampire movie that not a single human on planet Earth is excited […]
Continue readingWhen director David Leitch and Brad Pitt told Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group President Sanford Panitch that they were keen to cast Aaron Taylor-Johnson for the ensemble thriller “Bullet Train,” Panitch wasn’t super-aware of the British actor.“It was a ‘I had to look him up’ kind of thing,” Panitch tells Variety. “I didn’t have a […]
Continue readingSony Pictures has been slowly assembling their own Marvel Comics cinematic universe with characters connected to the “Spider-Man” rights. First, they shocked skeptics, critics, and pundits with the Tom Hardy film “Venom” which grossed over $800 million at the international box office; impressive, given that the film removed Peter Parker’s connection to the anti-hero’s origin […]
Continue readingYou’ve heard of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Universal’s dormant Dark Universe, but what about the SUMC? For the record, that’s the formal name given to Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters, which is due to kick-off this fall thanks to Venom.Per Variety, we know Sony has already drawn up plans for Silk, Nightwatch, Morbius, Jackpot […]
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