Julia Davis & Elijah Wood Join Peter Dinklage In Legendary’s ‘Toxic Avenger’ Reboot

Setting the record straight. Armie Hammer and his estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, have not reconciled their romance despite rumors to the contrary.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorVisionary visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull, who died Monday, contributed his groundbreaking inventions and techniques to classics including “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner.”Among his many honors were three visual effects Oscar nominations (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” and “Blade Runner”); the Academy’s Scientific and Engineering Award for creating the Showscan Camera System; and the Visual Effects Society’s Georges Méliès Award, honoring those who have made significant, pioneering contributions to the effects business, in 2012.A generation of visual effects artists and filmmakers were influenced by his work, including Weta FX senior VFX supervisor Joe Letteri, who said, “Doug stands out as an iconic figure in visual effects, one of the early pioneers who blended a deep knowledge of cinematography and mechanics to develop techniques that we still use today. An early evangelist of high frame rate processes, Doug’s vision for where we can take cinema is just now coming to fruition.” Here’s a look at a five iconic moments Trumbull helped create.Trumbull was Oscar nominated for visual effects for Spielberg’s “Close Encounters,” and one of his significant contributions was the motion control photography used in the scenes featuring the alien’s massive mother ship.

Mark Sutherland If last year’s Brit Awards went out with something of a COVID-restricted whimper, this year’s ceremony came in with a bang.Several bangs in fact, as an unexpected mash-up between emo-metal hybrid Bring Me The Horizon and Ed Sheeran on the latter’s “Bad Habits” launched the show to, no doubt, the bewilderment of mums and dads tuning in at home and expecting the nice, ginger-next-door they usually see at events like this. The arena, however, was ablaze — quite literally, as the unlikely collaborators became the first of several performers to torch the stage.Held at The O2 Arena in south London, this year’s Brits — unlike last year’s event — took place in a country that is largely free of COVID restrictions.

Everyone needs a good cry every now and then. For Will Arnett, it happened on the side of the road. To be fair, the BoJack Horseman actor had recently split with Amy Poehler after nine years of marriage. This made his experience filming the Arrested Development revival “almost excruciating,” as he told The Guardian. “Just brutal, brutal, brutal,” he continued. “I was driving to the set one day and I pulled over to the side of the road and cried for an hour.”

MAYA Jama awkwardly shut down Mo Gilligan's questions about her love life during the Brit Awards 2022. As the presenters chatted in between awards Mo, 33, drew attention to the sparkler on 27-year-old Maya's ring finger.

ED Sheeran and his wife Cherry melted fans' hearts as they shared a sweet kiss on camera at the Brit Awards. The musician, 30, and Cherry enjoyed the rare PDA moments after learning he had won the gong for Songwriter Of The Year.

Garth Brooks is finally getting a tattoo after all these years.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorJoe Rogan weighed in again on the controversy over his repeated use of the N-word on his podcast — and Spotify’s removal of 70 past episodes because of “racially insensitive language” — and played the victim card.Last Friday, Spotify pulled 70 past episodes “The Joe Rogan Experience” from its platform, which the streamer said it did at the request of Rogan and his team. That came after singer India Arie last week said she was pulling her music and podcasts off Spotify, citing Rogan’s “language around race”; she reposted a video on Instagram compiling 24 times Rogan used the N-word on his podcast, and the clip soon went viral.Rogan addressed the situation in Tuesday’s episode of his podcast.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS has ordered a pilot for a reboot of the drama series “Early Edition,” Variety has learned.The original series starred Kyle Chandler as a man who magically received tomorrow’s edition of the Chicago Sun-Times today, delivered to his door each morning by a mysterious ginger tabby cat. His knowledge of the future then gave him the chance to change it for the better.In the rebooted version, an ambitious but uncompromising journalist starts receiving tomorrow’s newspaper today.

Wendy Williams won’t be returning to her eponymous talk show anytime soon.

Gwen Stefani has a busy 2022 planned based on her recent social media posts. The pop star took to Twitter recently to tease fans with an exciting new update, writing: "Can’t wait to show you what I have planned for this year."MORE: Gwen Stefani stuns in waist-cinching dress as she celebrates exciting news with fans"I hope its a new album," commented one fan as others called for more duets with husband Blake Shelton.

Will Arnett is opening up about his break up from Amy Poehler.

Joe Rogan is opening up about backlash for his commentary on his podcast, which is hosted on Spotify.

Nelly, 47, is speaking out about the shocking leaked video that showed him receiving oral sex. The rapper spoke to TMZ shortly after the clip made its way on his social media page before quickly getting deleted and issued an apology as well as an explanation.

Legendary Entertainment has tasked Macon Blair to write and direct a reboot of the Troma Entertainment satirical superhero character “The Toxic Avenger,” the Lylod Kaufman-led studio that helped launch the career of director James Gunn (“The Suicide Squad,” “The Guardians of The Galaxy“) and is known for cheaply-made shock genre filmmaking. READ MORE: Filmmaker Macon Blair To Write & Direct ‘The Toxic Avenger’ Reboot Originally released in 1984, the superhero parody film focused on a scrawny janitor named Melvin, who is thrown into a batch of radioactive toxic sludge by a group of bullies only to be transformed into the hulking disfigured tutu-wearing vigilante brute known as the Toxic Avenger.

Unlike recent Bundy projects (a’la 2019’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”), the movie couches his forbidden allure in Hagmaier’s perspective.

Unlike recent Bundy projects (a’la 2019’s “Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile”), the movie couches his forbidden allure in Hagmaier’s perspective.

Kevin Bacon has been signed to play the role of the antagonist in the reboot of the 1984 film ‘Toxic Avenger’. Legendary has taken over the task to reimagine the film for contemporary times.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt was an unusual pitch.Amber Sealey, the director of “No Man of God,” couldn’t shake the feeling that Luke Kirby, best known for playing Lenny Bruce on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” was the perfect person to embody a very different historical figure: None other than Ted Bundy, one of the most infamous serial killers and a man responsible for the murder of more than 20 people.“I’m sure you can imagine the delight that I took in being told that I should play this role,” says Kirby with a laugh.

The Toxic Avenger.The Footloose and Mystic River actor is set to portray a villain opposite Peter Dinklage, who is slated to star as the film’s title character, per The Hollywood Reporter.The 1984 low-budget superhero comedy, which saw Mitch Cohen star in the lead role, follows Melvin Ferd, a mop boy who gets pushed in a vat of toxic waste which transforms him into the Toxic Avenger.Created on a miniature budget, the splatter movie went on to become a cult classic; it spawned three film sequels – 1989’s The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation Of Toxie, and 2000’s Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV – a TV series, a video game and a 2008 rock musical.It’s not been made clear if Bacon will play criminal

Kevin Bacon is headed back to his villainous ways.