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I've stopped fanning myself long enough to let y'all know that Hollywood hotties Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling are starring in a new Netflix movie titled The Gray Man. The film, which is based on a book series by Mark Greaney, will follow ex-cia operative turned assassin Court Gentry (Gosling) as he's chased down by his old colleague and new nemesis, Lloyd Hansen (Evans). Joe and Anthony Russo - who worked with Evans on 2016's Captain America: Civil War and 2019's Avengers: Endgame - will direct the $200 million project, which marks Netflix's most expensive feature yet. Joe will also write the script before passing it to Endgame screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely for a final look.

"The idea is to create a franchise and build out a whole universe," Joe told Deadline. "We have all committed to the first movie and that's got to be great to get us to the second movie.

Avengers: Endgame directors Joe and Anthony Russo are getting back into the world of big-budget filmmaking. The duo will direct Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling in the Netflix action thriller The Gray Man.

Joe Russo penned the script, with Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely performing a polish.

The film is based on the 2009 novel by Mark Greaney that centers on Court Gentry, a former CIA operative known as the Gray Man. The film adaptation follows Gentry (Gosling), who is hunted across the globe by former CIA colleague Lloyd Hansen (Evans).

The Russo Bros. will produce via ...

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With production gearing up for a September start on the Brad Pitt-led Ad Astra, final talks with Tommy Lee Jones are heating up to get him to join the cast on the futuristic sci-fi epic.

Written and directed by We Own the Night and The Lost City of Z’s James Gray, information surrounding the plotline is being kept top secret, however, it has been reported that Pitt would play the slightly autistic space engineer Roy McBride. Twenty years after his father left on a one-way mission to Neptune in order to find signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence, McBride travels through the solar system to find him and understand why his mission failed.

Going on that premise, we can assume that Tommy Lee Jones could very well be playing his Father, in a story which will be set in Deep space. Ethan Gross has co-written the script...

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: Since production began, Milla Jovovich has been sharing photos from the franchise-concluding Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and now she's provided the first look at the movie itself. Admittedly, the screen capture of Jovovich as Alice looks pretty rough, but that's balanced by a photo of the evident joy of the actors on set. The film is heading for theaters on January 27, 2017. [Instagram via Coming Soon]   The Gray Man:...

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Monarch Video has a pair of very different genre films set for DVD release in the coming months. First up is the true-life serial-killer film The Gray Man, followed by the Sci Fi Channel monster mash War Wolves; see the art for both below.

Gray Man, directed by Scott L. Flynn and streeting April 28, tells the story of a detective (Jack Conley) attempting to track down Albert Fish (played by Phenomena’s Patrick Bauchau), a child killer/cannibal, in the early 20th century.

War Wolves, written and directed by and starring Michael Worth, deals with a special ops team tracking a lycanthropic soldier even as three of its female members have also been afflicted by the monstrous curse. The cast also includes genre faves John Saxon, Tim Thomerson and Adrienne Barbeau, and the street date is June 23. Both discs present the movies in widescreen, with no special features currently announced; retail price is $24.95 each.

I know I’m at Los Angeles’ American Film Market when, as soon as I get off the plane, I run into Lloyd Kaufman (in a men’s room, no less). The Troma chief serves as the Chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance, which runs the Afm. Who better to chair an organization and market dedicated to discovering and promoting movies created outside the studio system than Kaufman?

This November, the Afm unveils over 500 films in dozens of languages for prospective international buyers. They screen the majority of these new motion pictures at seven different screening venues in sunny Santa Monica. The Afm is the proud home for the smaller guys, foreign and art-house features and B- to Z-grade movies. Just about everything stars Michael Madsen, C. Thomas Howell and/or Billy Zane. Best of all, the number of genre films has increased substantially over the 11 years I’ve been coming here,...

**Please Note: This will be at the top for a while; be sure to scroll down for updated news stories!** Horror may currently be in a slump, but the 2008 American Film Market has shown a huge light at the end of the tunnel. This year showcased a record number of horror titles and Dread Central was on hand to catch a great deal of them. Some were good, some were bad but all showed that this genre still has plenty of lifeblood left. Many exhibitors were also kind enough to show us movie promos, while others coldly showed us the door (Lesbian Vampire Killers, I’m looking at you). The most promising show previews were easily Night of the Demons and Clive Barker’s Dread, with plenty of new projects being announced. Check out our full Afm '08 coverage here.

So without further ado, we present you with our yearly...