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Kermit the Frog takes on the role of Paul Atreides in a hilarious crossover art, imagining The Muppets in Dune's universe. The art features Kermit wearing Paul Atreides' distinctive costume, complete with Filt-plugs, and a giant sandworm with Animal's face. A Muppet adaptation of Dune could provide a lighter and potentially profitable take on the complex and heavy themes of the franchise. However, it is unlikely to happen due to Legendary Pictures' ownership of the film rights.

A hilarious crossover art imagines The Muppets' Kermit the Frog as the Lisan al-Gaib, the messianic figure from Dune. Played by Timothée Chalamet in the latest movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel, Paul Atreides survived an assassination attempt orchestrated by Baron Harkonnen only to later seek refuge in the deserts of Arrakis with the native Fremen. With Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 adaptation only covering half of the original book, Paul...

Israel Hands was Blackbeard's first mate, according to historical accounts. Despite his brutality in Black Sails, Hands maintains unwavering loyalty to Blackbeard, which eventually pays off when he is made captain of Adventure.

When Jonathan E. Steinberg's historical adventure series, Black Sails, premiered on Starz, it introduced a number of famous pirates who actually existed during the Golden Age of Piracy, one of them being Israel Hands. A prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Treasure Island, Black Sails follows a young Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his crew members, who fight for the survival of New Providence Island. During their quest, Flint and his crew encounter various favorite pirates like Anne Bonny (Clara Paget), Blackbeard (Ray Stevenson), and of course Israel Hands (David Wilmot).

First introduced in season 4 of Black Sails, Israel Hands made a great impression of being a brutal pirate who was willing to do...

Thanks to studios like Disney and DreamWorks, everyone has a favorite animated movie. Whether it is from nostalgia or simply great storytelling, animation holds a special place in the hearts of many fans. Everyone knows the famous and critically-acclaimed animated features like Beauty and the Beast or The Lion King. However, there are animated movies that did not receive immediate praise or did not perform all that well at the box office that also touched the lives of many fans.

Simply due to their lack of making money or because a few critics did not enjoy them, many incredible stories have been forgotten. Those films deserve to be remembered, watched and enjoyed. Not only did passion and hard work go into making these films, but the final products are as good as any critically-acclaimed animation, despite being unappreciated at the time of their release.

Updated by Alexandra Locke on August 30th,...

This The Blacklist review contains spoilers.

The Blacklist Season 10 Episode 3

In typical The Blacklist fashion, “The Four Guns” doesn’t refer to firearms. Rather, the four individuals who are on Raymond Reddington’s (James Spader) blacklist this week are goniffs, Yiddish for “thieves.” These are not your run of the mill pickpockets. After all, they move through Senator Cynthia Panabaker’s (Deirdre Lovejoy) re-election speech at the park as an “apex predator,” a single organism of coordinated effort that manages to deftly swipe two guns, a radio, and a cell phone off of the two Secret Service men tasked with protecting Panabaker from malcontents. One of those secret service weapons is the one that fires at Panabaker but hits one of her agents in the shoulder instead.

A goniff is not a murderer, but a sly trickster who takes what belongs to another while fearing flesh and blood and eluding discovery at all cost.

Darby O’Gill and the Little People

Blu ray

Disney Movie Club

1959 / 1.66 : 1 / 93 Min.

Starring Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery

Written by Lawrence Edward Watkin

Directed by Robert Stevenson

A late ‘50s showcase for classic horror films, Shock Theater managed to captivate children and worry their over-protective parents. But the kids knew the score, if you were looking for a real shock, forget Frankenstein and Dracula and put on a Disney movie.

Walt Disney’s assault on our nervous systems began in 1937 with the story of a bloodthirsty crone bent on removing the heart of her trusting rival—that feel-good fable was followed by the huntsman who murdered Bambi’s mom, and the demon-fueled bacchanal in 1940’s Fantasia. Uncle Walt’s reign of terror reached its apex with another kind of mad monster party in 1959’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People—a full moon parade of green-eyed goblins...

Rio Hackford, an actor whose credits include The Mandalorian, Swingers and Treme who also owned a popular club in New Orleans and was Taylor Hackford’s son, has died. He was 51.

He died Thursday in Huntington Beach, CA, after an undisclosed illness. His stepmother Helen Mirren and friend D.V. DeVincentis posted remembrances on social media (see them below).

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Along with his 30-year screen career, Hackford owned the Nola club One Eyed Jacks, which was featured in the David Simon-created HBO series Treme. Hackford recurred on the show as Toby, an old friend of Steve Zahn’s David McAlary who worked at a local record store.

Born on June 28, 1970, in Los Angeles, Hackford got his big-screen start in the early 1990s with small roles in such films as Exit to Eden, Double Dragon and Strange Days before landing the role of Skully in Swingers,...

Exclusive: Lauren Abrahams has joined Amblin Partners as EVP of Production in the studio’s film group.

The Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Studios vet will report to Amblin’s Presidents of Production for Film, Holly Bario and Jeb Brody.

Canada-born and California-raised, Abrahams spent the first 15 years of her career at Columbia Pictures, rising from assistant to SVP, and serving as a production executive on over 40 projects. She worked on multiple franchises at Columbia, including the live-action hybrid Peter Rabbit movies which combined grossed over a half billion at the global box office, the Zombieland series ($225M WW combined) and 2019’s surprise hit Escape Room which made over $155M WW.

Abrahams joined Walt Disney Studios in 2019 as EVP of Production, a role in which she originated and packaged many IP-driven titles, including Evil Step Sisters – with Oscar-nominated writing duo Annie Mumolo and Kristin Wiig attached; a...

Since being acquired by Disney, The Muppets have had many fits and starts in their journey. Multiple attempts at series have been unsuccessful, including 2015's The Muppets and 2020's Muppets Now, and recent films have been polarizing at best. But with Muppets Haunted Mansion, it's possible that the beloved characters might have finally found their footing again.

Related: Every Musical Number In Muppet Treasure Island, Ranked

By combining the canon of the Muppets with the revered history of the Haunted Mansion, the Disney+ special finds the perfect blend of spookiness and heart, and plenty of humor, too. With great cameos by many beloved Muppets, and a stellar guest cast, Muppets Haunted Mansion is the funniest Muppet production in recent history.

Few brands are better suited to mine preexisting intellectual property than the Muppets. From A Christmas Carol to Treasure Island to countless parodic sketches and interludes, the synthetic ensemble has demonstrated a unique ability to smartly insert its myriad felt archetypes into almost any story.

Of course, because everybody knows the resilience of the Muppet brand, too often there’s an attempt to shoehorn the beloved characters into properties with a high concept but no actual story. That’s probably why Disney+’s new holiday special Muppets Haunted Mansion doesn’t quite feel like a cash-in violation, but definitely feels like a disappointment.

The ...

Guillaume Brac's film All Hands on Deck is exclusively showing on Mubi in most countries in the series The New Auteurs, as well as the retrospective Summer Light: Films by Guillaume Brac.Just over a year ago, the director of the Cnsad (Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique—the Higher National Conservatoire for Dramatic Art), Claire Lasne-Darcueil, asked me to write a feature-length fiction film for a dozen young actors from the class of 2020. With one proviso: I had to shoot between summer and autumn 2019, so that the film would be finished by the time they graduated.I immediately saw this as an opportunity to paint the fictional portrait of a generation, just like Pascale Ferran did twenty-five years ago with L’âge des possibles, written for a class at the Théâtre National de Strasbourg. Or the filmmakers of two collections, Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge and Les années lycée,...

Sorry folks, if you were hoping you could get with The Umbrella Academy's Luther, you're out of luck. The actor, Tom Hopper, is happily married. Tom and wife Laura Hopper started dating in 2009, seemingly due to a chance meeting at a party. After five years of dating, the pair tied the knot in June 2014. The couple then welcomed a son named Freddie Douglas Hopper in 2015 and a

daughter named Truly Rose Hopper

in 2018.

While they didn't play love interests, Tom and Laura have shared the screen before as Billy Bones and Esther in the Treasure Island prequel, Black Sails. You may also recognize Laura from her soap opera roles as Jenna Gibbs on Hollyoaks and Kayleigh Jackson on Doctors. Although Laura's known for soaps and Tom's known for being the broody heartthrob, the pair aren't afraid to be silly on social media, proudly showing off their spa days, competitive sides,...

What's the story? Wishbone is getting a movie, that's the story. Mattel has partnered with Universal Pictures to bring the beloved Jack Russell Terrier to the big screen for the first time. What's more, Green Book director Peter Farrelly has been tapped to produce the project.

According to several reports, Wishbone will be a live-action movie described as a modern, family-friendly comedy. The movie will be based on the popular series of the same name, which originally aired on PBS from 1996 to 2001. There is no word currently on who will be tapped to direct. Roy Parker has been set to pen the screenplay. Lexi Barta, director of development, is set to oversee the movie for Universal. Robbie Brenner is executive producing. Brenner will be heading up the project for Mattel Films alongside supervising producer Kevin McKeon. Brenner had this to say in a statement.

"Our deep library of iconic franchises...

Ed Harris has popped up a few times in my Catalog From the Beyond’s coverage, which isn’t surprising considering he’s one of my favorite character actors of all time. He brings an intensity that always seems like he’s on the brink of a meltdown in any movie he’s in, from a vengeful gangster in A History of Violence to an obsessed LARPer in George Romero’s Knightriders. The dude even dances like a nut in Creepshow. As it turns out, this simmering rage is the perfect fit for the lead in another Stephen King property, 1993’s Needful Things.

Based on King’s 1991 novel, Needful Things features Harris as Castle Rock sheriff Alan Pangborn, who’s settled into what he thinks will be a quiet life after leaving the Pittsburgh police force. As the movie opens, things are looking up, as he proposed to local diner owner Polly Chalmers.

Disney is rightly adored for its animated features, but less lauded are its live-action films. Though in recent years, the company has made the polarizing decision to give some of their most classic hand-drawn efforts the live-action treatment, dating back to the 1950s with Treasure Island, they've produced dozens of live-action movies not based on their own intellectual property.

Related: 10 Disney Movies That Aren't Based On A Existing Story

Though this filmography is peppered with a few bonafide classics (Bedknobs and Broomsticks and both versions of The Parent Trap) it's easy to forget just how diverse and often strange the history of Disney's live-action output is. Below, we list ten live-action Disney films that you've probably forgotten existed if you had even heard of them in the first place!

The 'X' marks the spot of the buried treasure. This is a concept that has inspired and thrilled the minds of audiences for generations. From the old stories like Treasure Island to more modern takes on similar adventures, treasure hunting has always been an entertaining concept for a story.

Related: The 10 Best Adventure Films Of All Time (According To IMDb)

There are countless movies that have told these kinds of stories in a variety of ways. Some go for pure adventure while others tell darker tales. When done well, these kinds of movies can be a blast for audiences of all ages. Here are the best treasure hunt movies that everyone should see.

James Corden’s performance in ‘One Man Two Guvnors’ launches free series during pandemic.

The UK’s National Theatre has delivered more than 960,000 views worldwide for the first in its series of productions streamed online.

’National Theatre At Home’ launched last night (April 2) with a 2011 performance of One Man Two Guvnors, featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from James Corden.

Originally screened in cinemas globally as part of National Theatre Live, it was streamed for free via the National Theatre’s YouTube channel from 7pm (BST), during which time it drew more than 200,000 views. It will remain free to watch on...

Indicator delivers another in their long line of fan-friendly box sets with Hammer Volume Five – Death and Deceit (a subhead that could be applied to the majority of the studio’s output). This latest release would be for Hammer completists only were it not for the extras that shine a bright light on a few overlooked artists and their work.

Hammer Volume Five – Death and Deceit

Blu ray – Region B Only

Powerhouse Films/Indicator

1961, 1962, 1963, 1965 / 1.85:1, 2.35:1 / 75, 87, 83 and 81 min.

Starring Richard Basehart, Christopher Lee, Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed

Cinematography by Arthur Grant, Jack Asher, Reg Wyer

Directed by Michael Carreras, John Gilling

Michael Carreras’s Visa to Canton was a Cold War thriller photographed in Technicolor but released to U.S. theaters in black and white. To add insult to injury it was given a new and even more prosaic title: Passport to China – a fate this unassuming little Cold War thriller didn’t deserve.

Pirate epic Black Sails may be over, but our love for the small screen pirate epic isn't going anywhere. This prequel to the famed Treasure Island took some of the most famous faces of piracy and brought them to life, with more than enough sex and swashbuckling for any fan of the high seas.

Related: 10 Shows To Watch If You Like Black Sails

However, it's worth pointing out that while these characters were sympathetic, stunningly attractive, and had fans rooting for them (or rooting for them to meet their end), they were also pretty terrible people. They are pirates, after all! And that means plenty of looting, thieving, betraying, and out and out murder at every turn. But what was the worst thing that each of the major players did over the course of the show? Interestingly, actual killing may not be as big a part of this list as some might expect,...

As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out. The great movie factories were so prolific, none of them have succeeded in making anything like all their major works available on the repertory circuit, home video, television, or streaming, but Fox now seems particularly indifferent to providing any access to their catalog, so focusing on them seems fair. I hope to illuminate the movies Fox ought to be proud of, and a few you couldn't blame them for wanting to hide under a rock.Oh, and we're doing it chronologically, so first up is a crummy kids' film from 1917.Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp is directed by workhorses Sidney and Chester M. Franklin, perhaps best remembered for the Dorothy Gish...

A version of this story about “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” first appeared in the Oscar Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.

There are some film sagas that grow up with their audience, beginning when a certain generation is still having their hands held by their parents and ending when they are preparing to go to college.

For millennials, the film that marked their passage into adulthood was “Toy Story 3.” For Generation Z, it is “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.” For trilogy creator Dean DeBlois, creating a story that could deliver a final message to those who grew up with Hiccup and Toothless was essential when it came time to writing the script.

“When we did the first sequel we decided back then that we were going to visit these characters at different points in their lives, and in doing so...

Exclusive: I hear that Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe winning filmmaker Dean DeBlois and his Anvil Pictures banner has signed a first look production deal with Universal for his live-action and hybrid projects and an exclusive overall animation deal with Dreamworks Animation. In addition, DeBlois is putting into development with Uni the live-action-hybrid project Storybook Ending which he will write, direct as well as produce alongside Bill Teitler who co-penned the story with the How to Train Your Dragon filmmaker.

“Dean is an amazing storyteller, who created visually stunning worlds and heart-warming adventures with his brilliant How to Train Your Dragon series, and we are confident that our partnership will continue to yield memorable results in the live action space as well,” said Universal Pictures President Peter Cramer.

“For over ten years, Dean has been an integral part of the fabric of Dreamworks,” said Dwa President Margie Cohn about the filmmaker...

Black Sails, originally aired on Starz and now available on Hulu, was a historical fiction series based somewhat on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. The events of the series serve as a prequel to the book, and features some of the same characters. It ran for four seasons from 2014 to 2017. The show is set during the Golden Age of Piracy and follows the exploits of several pirate crews in and around New Providence Island and the port city of Nassau.

Related: Game of Thrones: 10 Myths & Histories That Inspired The Series

The characters, some based on real-life pirates and some entirely fictionalized, are all locked in constant personal and idealistic struggle against each other and the slowly closing fist of the British Empire. When sorting them into Hogwarts Houses, there are some Houses you'd expect to see among a gaggle of pirates, but there are a few that might surprise you.

As you may have been able to figure out by this point in time, I'm kind of into screenplays. Recently I had the joy of reading Todd Phillips and Scott Silver's script for the much-ballyhooed Joker movie starring Joaquin Phoenix and Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele's newest nightmare Us. And today I will be reading the script for The Witch director Robert Eggers' nautical nightmare The Lighthouse starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson.

Truth be told, I haven't yet had the chance to sit down and read this script for myself just yet, but you can bet that I will be getting to it as soon as I get off shift today! However, you can go ahead and read Robert and Max Eggers' screenplay for The Lighthouse right now if you please, right here.

To give you guys a bit of backstory on the script, the story goes...

For centuries, pirates have been a fascinating subject in history and media. Though they technically have existed since ancient times, the modern image of a pirate comes from the Victorian era which was popularized by works such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and several movies including the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

In this same vein, Black Sails was a pirate-themed television show that ran on Starz for four seasons with Michael Bay credited as one of its executive producers.

Related: Mbti® Of Pirates Of The Caribbean Characters

A prequel to Treasure Island, it featured characters of literary and historical origins with interesting hidden details.

Solo: A Star Wars Story screenwriters Lawrence and Jon Kasdan recently talked about some of their influences while writing the movie, and the Coen Brothers' cult classic The Big Lebowski came up along with Michael Mann's Heat. In addition, the father and son screenwriting duo reveal that Solo will be the most "off-kilter" Star Wars movie released thus far, which has typically divided the fan base that was already divided about the movie in the first place. Humor was always going to be a factor in a movie about a young Han Solo and hints of The Big Lebowski are pretty intriguing, at least light years more intriguing than Ace Ventura.

In a new interview, Lawrence and Jon Kasdan talked about the influences that they had in mind for Solo when they were writing it and they came from some unlikely sources. In addition to The Big Lebowski, the...

We've got some new details to share with you regarding three new outlaw characters that Han Solo will be teaming up with in Solo: A Star Wars Story. Last week, we learned a bit more about Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover) and the femme fatale Star Wars character Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke). Now today we have additional info on Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson), Val (Thandie Newton), and Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany).

When talking about Tobias Beckett, Ron Howard explains that he is the guy who shapes Han Solo into who he will become more than anyone else:

"Well, he really shapes Han really more than anybody, as Han comes to realize that in a lawless time he needs to try to come to terms with some kind of moral code."

According to EW, screenwriters Lawrence and Jon Kasdan revealed that Han's relationship with Beckett was inspired by the mentor and apprentice...

The Art Directors Guild said today that Oscar-nominated writer-directors Ron Clements and John Musker will receive its 2018 William Cameron Menzies Award. The award recognizes the filmmaking partners’ innovative artistic work on numerous Disney animated movies of the past 30 years including Moana, The Princess and the Frog, Treasure Island, Hercules, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid and The Great Mouse Detective. They will accept their hardware January 27 during the 22nd…...

Another summer movie season and another Pirates of the Caribbean movie. What? You didn’t know there was yet another in the franchise that wore out its welcome a long time ago? Yes, Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales came and went awfully fast this summer, never a good sign. It played in St. Petersburg for about a week and then vanished. Did anybody see it? I didn’t and I’ve seen a lot of movies this summer. In a summer of Wonder Woman and Dunkirk, as well as Baby Driver, Logan Lucky and Detroit it would be very easy for another Pirates of the Caribbean movie to get lost in the shuffle.

So let’s talk about a real pirate movie, from 1952 Blackbeard the Pirate, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, and Keith Andes. Newton is to pirate movies...

Hello and welcome to one of our shoutouts for projects casting around the U.K. As always there’s a mix of opportunities for all ages, abilities, and locations but do remember to check if you fit the bill before applying. Although we make every attempt to verify castings before we hit publish, please ensure that you do your own research before firing off those headshots and Backstage links. ‘’ “Treasure Island”The New Vic Theatre is seeking a male actor for their in-house Christmas production of “Treasure Island”. Directed by Theresa Heskins, castings will be held in London and Newcastle-under-Lyme. If you are fit, imaginative and an ensemble player with good stage combat or sword skills and musicality then get your application in! They already have a 12 strong cast but are looking for a male actor of any ethnicity to fit the role of Anderson. With a playing age between...

To celebrate the home entertainment release of Black Sails: Season 4, available on DVD and Blu-ray 28th August, we have a copy of Black Sails: The Complete Collection: Series 1 – 4 on Blu-ray up for grabs. The Complete Collection: Series 1- 4 Includes Over 100 Mins Of New Bonus Material – Available Exclusively On Blu-ray And Steelbook.

Watch the multiple Emmy Award-winning hit pirate series, from legendary Hollywood producer and director Michael Bay, from start to finish. A thrillingly addictive prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic book Treasure Island, Black Sails follows Captain Flint (the brilliant Toby Stephens) and his notorious crew of pirates, in this treasure trove of a boxset containing all Xxxviii (that’ll be 38 me hearties!) episodes, guaranteed to provide hours of swashbuckling entertainment. For those with an eye on the really prized booty, there is a stunningly-designed limited edition SteelBook of seasons 1 – 4.

The thrilling, big-budget series from legendary producer...

The final season of executive producer Michael Bay’s thrilling prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” the Starz hit series “Black Sails: The Complete Fourth Season” arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital HD) and DVD August 29 from Lionsgate. “Black Sails” has been nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards, and won in 2014 for Outstanding Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role, and Outstanding Sound Editing. The show was also nominated for the 2016 GLAAD Awards for “Outstanding Drama Series.” The critically acclaimed series boasts a dynamic cast, including Toby Stephens (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), Luke Arnold (”Inxs: The Michael Hutchence Story”), Toby Schmitz (“Newton’s Law”), Hannah New (Maleficent), and Jessica Parker Kennedy (“The Secret Circle”), Tom Hopper (“Merlin”) and Ray Stevenson (“Rome) as the iconic pirate “BlackBeard”.

Now you can own Black Sails The Complete Fourth Season on Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has four copies to give away.

The final season of executive producer Michael Bay’s thrilling prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island,” the Starz hit series “Black Sails: The Complete Fourth Season” arrives on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital HD) and DVD August 29 from Lionsgate. “Black Sails” has been nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards, and won in 2014 for Outstanding Special and Visual Effects in a Supporting Role, and Outstanding Sound Editing. The show was also nominated for the 2016 GLAAD Awards for “Outstanding Drama Series.” The critically acclaimed series boasts a dynamic cast, including Toby Stephens (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi), Luke Arnold (”Inxs: The Michael Hutchence Story”), Toby Schmitz (“Newton’s Law”), Hannah New (Maleficent), and Jessica Parker Kennedy (“The Secret Circle”), Tom Hopper (“Merlin”) and Ray Stevenson (“Rome) as the iconic pirate “BlackBeard”.

It’s war in the West Indies, and the shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier. While Eleanor...

It is rare that we Game of Thrones fans are introduced to new characters seven seasons in, especially given the already sizable ensemble cast. However, viewers were treated to a surprise new addition in the latest episode, “The Spoils of War.”

The surprise in question is actor Tom Hopper, taking over the role of the uniquely-named Dickon Tarly, and here are five things you should know about the handsome Thrones newcomer.

He’s not technically a new characterThe curious thing about Hopper’s appearance is that while his face might be new to viewers, his character is not. We were first introduced to Tarly,...

A Peter Frampton show took a turn for the worse on Sunday night, leaving fans confused and angry with the British rocker.

Concertgoers took to social media to recount a “meltdown” Frampton had while opening for The Steve Miller Band at the Treasure Island Resort and Casino in Red Wing, Minnesota.

According to the accounts, the performer halted the show when a cameraman focused on a fan holding up a Frampton Comes Alive album instead of Frampton himself as he played a solo.

“He went over to the cameraman and tried to yank the camera out of his hands,” Jeffrey Borg,...

The Three Musketeers, Ivanhoe and Treasure Island, which gave me hope that — unlike the mind-numbingly boring daily routine of childhood — adulthood could be an exciting adventure in which the battle to defeat evil and corruption paid off in massive public adoration and endless attractive women. Comic books were a modern shorthand version of those thick old books, made more exciting by the addition...

L-r: Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) threatens and Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Photo: Peter Mountain. © Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

“Pirates of the Caribbean” sets sail for one more adventure at sea, in what is being hinted to be the final chapter in the franchise, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The result is mixed, with the good being Javier Bardem and Geoffrey Rush as villains, great visual effects, and a nice, satisfying ending. The bad being having to endure an over-long, nonsensical plot with sporadic moments of entertainment to get there.

Ok, everyone has a guilty pleasure, and mine might be pirates. As a fan of all things pirate, including silly pirate movies, it was a delight when the first Pirates Of The Caribbean, Disney’s attempt to turn an amusement park ride into a movie,...

Warning: Spoilers Ahead!Black Sails pillaged and plundered for the last time this past weekend. Recently, creators Robert Levine and Jonathan E. Steinberg spoke with Deadline about the Starz series' finale.The adventure drama is set roughly 20 years prior to the events depicted in the Treasure Island novel and follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens). The cast also includes Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, Toby Schmitz, Clara Paget, Ray Stevenson, Luke Roberts, and Zethu Diomo.Read More…...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details about tonight's Black Sails series finale. After four seasons on the high seas, Black Sails tonight washed up on shore literally and figuratively on the edge of Treasure Island, the Robert Louis Stevenson classic that the Starz series served as a prequel to. However, there are distant winds brewing of more skull and crossbones tales to tell, says the Black Sails co-creator and co-showrunners. "You know, endings are bittersweet…...

The Starz Original series becomes available to stream from Wednesday.

In a deal with Lionsgate, Hulu has acquired the subscription streaming rights to the Starz Original series.

All episodes from previous seasons of Black Sails will be available to stream on Hulu starting on Wednesday. Hulu has also secured rights to the fourth and final season when it becomes available.

Toby Stephens, Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, Ray Stevenson and Luke Roberts star in the series, which takes place 20 years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic, Treasure Island, and follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint.

Black Sails has garnered a strong fan following, averaging 3.6m multiplatform viewers per episode.

The series has also been nominated for multiple Emmys and won in 2014 and 2016 for outstanding sound editing and in 2014 for outstanding special and visual effects in a supporting role.

It was also nominated for the 2016 GLAAD Awards for outstanding...

Starz’s hit pirate drama series Black Sails is heading to Hulu. As part of its deal with Lionsgate, Hulu has acquired subscription streaming rights to Seasons 1-3 of the original series starting today, as well as the fourth and final season following the finale. Black Sails takes place 20 years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island, and follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens). The 10-episode fourth season, which focuses…...

Black Sails may be the testosterone-fueled prequel to an equally male-centric tale of Treasure Island, but make no mistake — a couple of beautiful Nassau women in the cast are bosses in the series, which ends its swashbuckling tale this season. Hannah New as Eleanor Guthrie and Jessica Parker Kennedy as Max have commanded fantastic action-filled scenes in this series, which sees the rise of Long John Silver, the continued counsel of Captain Flint and the demise of pirate legends Blackbeard (Edward Teach) and Charles Vane. Despite the preponderance of these meaty male roles, their characters have stayed integral to...read more...

Fans of the Black Sails TV show don't have to worry that the Starz series will be cancelled this time around. It's already been announced that season four is the end and there won't be a fifth season. Will the ratings improve in the final season, now that the show's moved to Sunday nights? Stay tuned.The Black Sails TV show is set roughly 20 years prior to the events depicted in the Treasure Island novel and follows the most feared pirate of the day, Captain Flint (Toby Stephens). The final season finds the pirates at war in the West Indies. The shores of New Providence Island have never been bloodier, but the closer civilization comes to defeat, the more desperately, and destructively, it will fight back. The cast also includes Hannah New, Luke Arnold, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Tom Hopper, Toby Schmitz, Clara Paget, Ray Stevenson, Luke...

Having debuted in January 2014, the voyage of Starz's Black Sails is coming to an end, with the premiere of the fourth and final season of the pirate drama set for Sunday. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of wind at the back of the Emmy-winning Treasure Island prequel's final 10 episodes, and not many waves to be made by its exit. As I say in my video review above, with Power and Outlander now generating much of the heat for the now Lionsgate-owned Starz, it makes…...

Two episodes were provided prior to broadcast.

On the surface, Black Sails is about pirates and plunder, but really it’s about politics. In a global society obsessed with the silver-tongued manipulators of public office, it’s fitting that today’s pirate show takes our favorite swashbuckling rum-swiggers and turns them into dour bureaucrats immersed in a game of political chess. The final season aims for a dramatic tale of collusion and infighting (cut from the same cloth as shows like Game of Thrones and Vikings, only with less precision), but the first two episodes lay the groundwork in tedious strokes.

Captain Flint and Long John Silver are the prized assets on display and the famous names connecting Black Sails to Robert Stephenson’s Treasure Island (we are in prequel territory, here). But a story of collusion and treachery needs an ensemble cast to keep the game afloat, and Flint...

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Whether he’s reading to kids at the White House, hitting up local bookstores on Black Friday, or giving recommendations to his daughters, President Barack Obama may as well be known as the Commander in Books.

Potus is an avid reader and recently spoke to the New York Times about the significant, informative and inspirational role literature has played in his presidency, crediting books for allowing him to “slow down and get perspective.” With his presidency coming to an end this Friday, EW looked back at Obama’s lit picks over the years...

By Tim Greaves

Not the most beloved entry in Alfred Hitchcock's cinematic oeuvre – by either audiences in general or the director himself – 1939's Jamaica Inn (based on a Daphne du Maurier novel first published three years earlier) is nevertheless a serviceable enough piece of drama, which perhaps finds its most ideal place nowadays as an undemanding rainy Sunday afternoon programmer.

Following the death of her mother, Mary Yellen (Maureen O'Hara) travels from Ireland to England intending to take up residence with her relatives at their Cornish hostelry the Jamaica Inn. After an unexpected detour, which on face value proves beneficial when she makes the acquaintance of local squire and magistrate Sir Humphrey Pengallan (Charles Laughton), Mary arrives at her destination to find her browbeaten Aunt Patience (Maria Ney) living in fear of a tyrannical husband, the brutish Joss Merlyn (Leslie Banks). It also transpires that the Inn is the...

For a while, George Lucas, the mastermind behind “Star Wars,” has been keeping us guessing as to which city he would choose to build his $1 billion Museum of Narrative Art — would it be Los Angeles or San Francisco?

Well, finally, we now know the answer: L.A. is the winning city.

The museum will exhibit the filmmaker’s personal collection of fine and popular art, including collectible memorabilia related to his very popular science-fiction franchise. The museum will be housed in a futuristic-looking building to be built in L.A.’s Exposition Park. This design beat out a competing design for Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

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“It feels like this incredible gift has come home. I always thought Los Angeles was the natural place to spread the vision of George Lucas and Mellody Hobson,...

Source: Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

George Lucas has chosen a personal home for his billion dollar Museum of Narrative Art. The winner is Los Angeles over San Francisco.

According to Los Angeles Times, the futuristic sci-fi looking museum is planned at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park—beating the proposed design for Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

Lucas, himself, will fund the project of about $1 billion, which includes the building costs, his personal art and an endowment of at least $40 million.

It’s a boon for the Los Angeles entertainment industry to house the 275,000-square-foot facility. It’s estimated that it will lead “tens of thousands in construction jobs” and a thousand permanent museum jobs as a “lowball estimate.”

Some of the artwork on display will be from Lucas’ personal collection of 10,000 paintings and illustration. They will include artwork from Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth and R. Crumb. Of course,...

Et has details on what some of your favorite celebs were up to recently that might have flown under your radar.

On Dec. 12, Heidi Klum visited the must-see Mystère by Cirque du Soleil at Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. With help from a few artists, the blonde beauty tried her hand at climbing the iconic Chinese Poles featured in the spectacular production. She also enjoyed the performance and a special meet-and-greet with cast members from the show.

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In Pasadena, California, Cameron Diaz and husband Benji Madden enjoyed a date night together at Seco on Dec. 18. Diaz was dressed casually and ordered salmon while Madden went with the ribeye steak.

Moviegoers at the ArcLight in Santa Monica, California, got a celebrity sighting on Dec. 16 when new Bachelor couple Becca Tilley and Robert Graham went to an 8:...

Walt Disney Animation is about to release its 56th film on November 23rd with Moana, which is directed by studio veterans Ron Clements and Jon Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules). But before everyone has the opportunity to see that, I wanted to take a look back and rank the top eight films the Walt Disney Animation Studio has made since the year 2000. Why limit the list to just eight? Simply because that’s what I felt like doing today. The studio has had some big hits and some big misses over the last sixteen years, but the way I see it, these are the eight best movies they’ve put out in that time frame.

8. Treasure Planet

An underrated reimagining of Treasure Island, but with a steampunk vibe. With cool production design and solid voice work all around (including from Joseph Gordon-Levitt voicing the lead character), this movie deserves...