With many starring roles, including the “Star Trek” and “Wonder Woman” franchises, Chris Pine is obviously leading man material. But the actor recently went behind the camera for his directorial debut, “Poolman,” a comedy-mystery that he co-wrote and stars in alongside Annette Bening, DeWanda Wise, Ariana DeBose, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Danny DeVito, and more.

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival last year, it’s a film that Pine is exceptionally proud of, but it was savaged with negative reviews at the time (it currently sits at 19% on Rotten Tomatoes).

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When James Gunn announced the ambitious DC Studios film slate that he and co-CEO Peter Safran were working on, people were largely not shocked to find out it was more of a full reboot. A new Superman, a new Batman, etc… For fans and people who keep up with superhero film universes, this made sense. But for Chris Pine, who starred in the “Wonder Woman” franchise under the previous regime at Warner Bros.

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Take three parts “Chinatown,” two parts “The Big Lebowski,” one part “Under The Silver Lake,” and an extra dash of zaniness, and what do you get? Something like “Poolman,” Chris Pine‘s directorial debut that makes its theatrical debut in May, fresh off its world premiere at TIFF last Fall.

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And how did “Poolman” fare with critics at Toronto?

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The status of a new “Star Trek” film has been in a somewhat nebulous state for years now. Sometimes, Paramount will announce the development of a new film. But then the cast with say they haven’t talked to anyone about that, and it’s not happening. Then a director will get hired, only to leave after several months. Then an actor will say that they don’t think it’ll ever be made, while there are reports of scripts being written.

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The opioid crisis is a real global tale of capitalism run amuck, and it’s been the basis for stories like Netflix’s recent “Painkiller” and Hulu’s Sackler-based series, “Dopesick.” The latest from this unending tale of greed, corruption, and rampant capitalism is “Pain Hustlers,” which comes from Netflix and stars an A-list cast of Emily Blunt and Chris Evans.

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Timothy Olyphant is currently enjoying the revival of one of the actor’s career-defining roles with “Justified: City Primeval,” airing on FX now. But EW reports that in a recent sit-down with the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Olyphant talked about a big role he missed out on a decade and a half ago: Captain Kirk in J.J. Abram‘s “Star Trek” films.

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Paramount must be very high on “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” because here’s yet another trailer before its theatrical release next week. But the studio has good reason to be excited about the upcoming film. It did very, very well at SXSW earlier this month at its world premiere (The Playlist’s review of it is a rave), and seemingly surpassed everyone’s expectations.

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Chris Pine headlines the ensemble cast of “Honor Among Thieves” as a charismatic thief who leads a troupe of adventurers on a quest to end all quests.

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With Hollywood now turning to franchises like “The Last of Us” and “Borderlands” in the search for new audiences, it might be safe to say that video games are no longer the untapped frontier of adaptations. And that might mean it is the tabletop industry’s time to shine. “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” is the latest attempt to bring the tabletop roleplaying game to the big screen, but while other film and television adaptations seemed uncertain of what they had, ‘Honor Among Thieves’ is safely in the hands of creators who seem to genuinely love their world of magic and mayhem.

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Throughout the last decade-plus, movie audiences have tasted all sorts of different adaptations: video games, book-to-film, comic books, and the like. But a more uncommon adaption formula is the board game movie. Sure, there’s Peter Berg’s 2012 “Battleship” film and the 1985 comedy “Clue,” but few click with audiences. However, that may change when the duo behind the critically acclaimed “Game Night” brings “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” to Austin for its world premiere at SXSW next month.

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So, what’s the latest on “Star Trek 4“?  J.J. Abrams certainly sounds bullish on the film’s future. He told Esquire in their Chris Pine cover story that its script is in a good place, adding “I will say it’s the first time [since the 2009 film] that we have a story that feels as compelling as the first one.” But Variety reports that Pine doesn’t have a clue what’s going on with the potential sequel, and finds the whole situation “frustrating.”

READ MORE: ‘Star Trek 4’ Writers Detail How Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk Would Return In Abandoned Sequel

“I don’t know anything,” Pine told Esquire about “Star Trek 4.” “In “Star Trek” land, the actors are usually the last people to find out anything.

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Can’t wait until “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” has its world premiere at South By Southwest in Austin on March 10? Well, here’s a new TV spot for the film to tide things over, exclusively for Super Bowl LVII.

Chris Pines leads the film’s ensemble cast as a charming bard who risks it all to steal a relic that could help save the world from being enslaved by evil.

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Amazon’s massively expensive fantasy streaming series, “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” has wrapped up its first season, headed by showrunners J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay. Before the two landed the high-profile prequel show they were asked to help pen a fourth “Star Trek” film after uncredited contributions to “Star Trek Beyond.” Sadly, the project that had S.J.

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Now that “Don’t Worry Darling” is in theaters, will the drama surrounding this movie finally end? Unfortunately, the answer is no.  Olivia Wilde and Shia LaBeouf may have settled their beef, and, no, Harry Styles didn’t spit on Chris Pine at the movie’s Venice premiere, but it looks like the longest-standing rumor about “Don’t Worry Darling” still has legs.  

Thanks to an anonymous source, Vulture reports that Florence Pugh and Wilde did have a falling out on the “Don’t Worry Darling” set in January 2021.

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Another day, another news story about the drama surrounding “Don’t Worry Darling.” Is anyone else sick of hearing about the rumors swirling around this movie? Well, director Olivia Wilde is now sick of it too, and she said as much during her recent interview with Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show.”

READ MORE: ‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review: Olivia Wilde Goes The Mystery Box Route With ‘The Stepford Wives’ Meets ‘The Matrix’ [Venice]

Variety reports that Wilde touched upon almost everything in her interview with Colbert.

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Following her outstanding and irreverent directorial debut, “Booksmart,” actor-turned-filmmaker Olivia Wilde returns with a much more ambitious effort in “Don’t Worry Darling.” Taking the mystery box route, “Twilight Zone” meets “The Stepford Wives,” with a little dash of “The Matrix,” the audacious film is ultimately a misfire because of its overextending mystery conceit. But regardless, it’s a well-crafted film that shows Wilde’s debut was no fluke.

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There’s been a lot of drama in the lead-up to the premiere of Olivia Wilde‘s “Don’t Worry Darling” at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Like Wilde’s drama with Shia LaBeouf, who exited the film before production. Or Wilde’s drama with lead actress Florence Pugh, who has distanced herself from the movie before its release. All of this drama, drama, drama is too much; or, at least, it’s getting in the way of the movie itself, which, until recently, had a lot of positive buzz about it.

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The fantasy genre fans couldn’t be in a better place. There’s an upcoming return to Middle-Earth coming thanks to Amazon’s expensive “Lord of The Rings” series, and HBO’s mature “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of The Dragon” finally arrives this summer. And even “Stranger Things” also has a role in this as they helped reintroduce and popularize the pen-and-paper game “Dungeons & Dragons” to a brand new generation of kids and has led to an interest in a brand new feature film.

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This may come as a surprise to some people, but the pearly gates and well-kept lawns of ideal suburban America? Nothing is ever as pleasant as it seems. Truly a shocker, we know. Of course, the disruption of romanticized American lives has spawned countless notable films, such as “Blue Velvet” by David Lynch or “The ‘Burbs” by Joe Dante. Often equally colorful in their visuals and horror-tinged in their actual material, dark tales of suburbia continue to enchant, as we never know what’s going on beyond the white picket fence.

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The unmitigated boredom and lackluster unoriginality “All the Old Knives” prides itself on shouldn’t shock anyone. After a long line of dreary espionage flicks — “The 355,” “Red Sparrow,” “Wasp Network,” “Beirut” and so forth — Hollywood, outside of the dependable action franchises like “James Bond” and “Mission Impossible,” has been inconsistent at best, producing spy thrillers that possess an enthralling mix of explosions and romance.

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Chris Pine was arguably once known as the “forgotten Chris” (next to Evans, Hemsworth), but boy is that wrong, and boy do we love him. We couldn’t be more excited that he will be gracing the big screen again alongside his “Hell Or High Water” co-star Ben Foster in Paramount Pictures’ new film, “The Contractor.”

READ MORE: ‘Hell Or High Water’ Is A Coens-Esque Caper With Personality & Zest [Review]

The film, being released on April 1, 2022, is categorized as an action-packed thriller.

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When Paramount announced the return of the original cast return for “Star Trek 4” with director Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) at the helm a few months back, it was news to the entire cast, who were reportedly “shocked.” And in case you’re wondering if that’s changed, and they’ve been updated those cast members, the answer is no. In a conversation with IndieWire while promoting “All The Old Knives,” actor Chris Pine said he still doesn’t know what is actually happening with “Star Trek 4” and hasn’t read a script, although the studio announced everyone was back and production was to begin before the end of 2022.

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In desperate times, the price to overlook your scruples and ignore that voice of doubt in your head moves from the impossibly high to the compromisingly real. For Jack Harper (Chris Pine), a check for $50,000 to participate in a seemingly easy, private military operation — with more cash to follow once the mission is complete — is enough for him to sign on with no questions asked, if only to keep collection agencies off his front porch.

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It remains to be seen if Chris Pine & Co. will indeed return for another “Star Trek” film. However, fear not, Chris Pine fans. The actor still has a slate of other upcoming movies, including 2023’s “Dungeons & Dragons” and a reunion with “Hell Or High Water” co-star Ben Foster in “The Contractor” on April 1.

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Following a successful reboot of the franchise, Paramount has been trying for years to get a fourth “Star Trek” movie together. Previous incarnations attempted to bring back the cast led by Chris Pine as James T. Kirk and hoped to employ time travel conceits to include Chris Hemsworth, who plays Kirk’s father, seen in the initial 2009 “Star Trek” reboot by J.J. Abrams.

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David Mackenzie’s “Hell Or High Water” was, pun intended, a high watermark for genre filmmaking in 2016. The low-budget neo-Western became a critical darling straight out of the gate after it premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival that year. It went on to receive four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Taylor Sheridan, who has since expanded his genre credentials with “Wind River,” “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” and his “Yellowstone” TV empire.

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