Tag: The Predator
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‘The Predator’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Twentieth Century Fox claims the top spot in spending with “The Predator.”Ads placed for the sci-fi thriller had an estimated media value of $6.55 million through Sunday for 1,523 national ad airings on 34 networks. (Spend…
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Olivia Munn Says Fox Was ‘Silent for Two Days’ After She Reported ‘The Predator’ Sex Offender
“The Predator” arrives in theaters largely as intended next week, with one exception: Steven Wilder Striegel’s scene with Olivia Munn was cut following the revelation that he’s on Connecticut’s sex-offender registry. In a new Variety interview, Munn says her initial effort to inform 20th Century Fox of this news was met with silence: “When I…
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‘The Predator’ Finds Humor in Alien Mayhem [Tiff]
Who knew Predators could be so funny? Shane Black‘s The Predator takes the Predator franchise and turns into a full-blown comedy. Sure, there’s action and sci-fi mayhem. But humor is the most constant factor here. And it doesn’t always work. While there have been a handful of amusing moments in the Predator franchise as a…
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Shane Black Cast Registered Sex Offender in ‘The Predator,’ Fox Edited Out Actor After Olivia Munn Discovered the News
“The Predator” went through a last minute change just days before locking the final picture after 20th Century Fox discovered that one of Olivia Munn’s scene partners was a registered sex offender (via the Los Angeles Times). Director Shane Black cast his friend Steven Wilder Striegel as a jogger who hits on Munn’s biologist character…
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Exclusive: Shane Black’s ‘Cold Warrior’ Heads to Netflix from Universal
After nearly a decade in development at Universal Pictures, Shane Black’s Cold Warrior has found a new home at Netflix, Collider has exclusively learned. While Netflix quietly acquired the project late last year, the news was never reported. It now comes less than two weeks before The Predator hits theaters, following its debut at the…
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Sequel Bits: ‘Star Trek 4’, ‘Maleficent 2’, ‘Sharknado’, ‘Wreck-It-Ralph 2’, ‘Bumblebee’, ‘The Predator’, ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’
In this edition of Sequel Bits: John Cho is still waiting on info about Star Trek 4 Maleficent 2 wraps production There’s now a Sharknado Vr game Hey, do you want to see a photo of the Wreck-It-Ralph 2 score being recorded? David Sobolov, who has contributed voice work to various Transformers games and cartoons,…
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‘Operation Finale’ Tops Studios’ TV Ad Spending
In this week’s edition of the Variety Movie Commercial Tracker, powered by the TV advertising attention analytics company iSpot.tv, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer claims the top spot in spending with “Operation Finale.”Ads placed for the drama had an estimated media value of $4.04 million through Sunday for 968 national ad airings on 29 networks. (Spend figures are based…
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Edward James Olmos Has Been Cut Out of ‘The Predator’, But He’s Okay With That
Edward James Olmos was cast in The Predator in March of 2017, however, as the September release date nears, the Battlestar Galactica star told /Film during the publicity rounds for his new FX show Mayans M.C. that he’s been cut out of the movie entirely. The good news is that Olmos doesn’t have any hard…
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Sterling K. Brown on Playing a ‘Dick’ in ‘The Predator,’ Why Trey Edward Shults’ ‘Waves’ Isn’t a Musical, and ‘Frozen 2’
Sterling K. Brown’s acting trophies come from portraying kind-hearted good guys: criminal prosecutor Christopher Darden on “The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” and Randall Pearson, who grew up as the lone black person in his household on “This Is Us.” But the actor told IndieWire he is grateful for chances to “show a…
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‘The Predator’ Reinvention Honors Original, Promises More Blood & Humor – Comic-Con
20th Century Fox kicked off Comic-Con’s Hall H festivities today with director/co-writer Shane Black and the cast of The Predator including Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Trevante Rhodes, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski, Thomas Jane and Augusto Aguilera. The panel started with a reel and cast discussion about which iconic characters from movie history…