Back in early September, Gia Coppola‘s “The Last Showgirl” hit the festival circuit like a lightning bolt.  Here’s Coppola, with her first film since 2020’s “Mainstream,” with a short, probing look at Las Vegas with a devastating lead turn from Pamela Anderson no one knew the “Baywatch” star was capable of.  This is the stuff of awards season magic, right?

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Almost six months ago, we learned that Cate Blanchett was going to star in the Zellner Brothers’ next film, “Alpha Gang.” At the time, it was big news because it seemed as if the filmmakers nabbed a huge star for their film. Well, the rest of the principal cast has been announced, and wow, it’s filled with massive stars.

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According to Deadline, Dave Bautista, Steven Yeun, Zoë Kravitz, Léa Seydoux, Riley Keough, and Channing Tatum have all been added to the cast for the upcoming film, “Alpha Gang.” The film tells the story of a group of alien invaders who come to Earth disguised as a 1950s biker gang.

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If you’ve paid attention at all to “Guardians Of The Galaxy” star Dave Bautista at all in the last few months, you know he is not a fan of former President Donald Trump who definitely lost the 2020 election and certainly did not have a peaceful transition of power on January 6 as he’s gaslighting-ly said many times recently.

READ MORE: Dave Bautista Says His ‘Guardians’ “Journey With Drax Is Over,” But Remains Open To Marvel Or DC

And last night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” the Marvel and ‘Avengers’ actor railed into Trump again ahead of the election (which is not on January 5), delivering one of his most scathing, savage and hilarious screeds against the Republican Presidential candidate.

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Peter Segal has finally returned with his long-awaited sequel to “My Spy,” which was released over four years ago. “My Spy: The Eternal City” has gotten both heavy hitters back: Dave Bautista and Chole Coleman. Dave Bautista, for quite some time, has discussed his interest in rom-coms and his desire to star in the comedy, and here, his wish seems granted with him returning as the endearing spy he played before JJ.

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Sure, there are a ton of bad guys in “The Killer’s Game.” The trailer shows a number of them. But the real villain has to be the medical system.

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As seen in the trailer for “The Killer’s Game,” the film follows the story of a hitman who gets the terrible news that he has a terminal illness that will only give him three months to live.

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“Dune: Part Two” is about to open in theaters worldwide on March 1, so most of the cast is out there pounding the pavement of press and getting the word out. One of them is Dave Bautista, who plays Glossu Rabban Harkonnen, nephew of Baron Harkonnen, and one of the baddies in the film who is seemingly usurped by his even more vicious family member Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (Austin Butler).

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While he probably hoped “Blue Beetle” would have had a bigger opening weekend, it doesn’t appear director Angel Manuel Soto is struggling to find a new project. In fact, he’s already lined up “The Wrecking Crew” as his next film, with two massive stars in the lead roles.

According to THR, Angel Manuel Soto is set to direct “The Wrecking Crew, a new film that is expected to star Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa.

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With the start of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival now only two weeks away, sales at the Cannes Market this year begin to trickle out. And there’s already been some intriguing movies announced for the market already, like “Andorra,” “One For The Money,” and “The Invite.” Add another to the list: Deadline reports that FilmNation has an action thriller starring Dave Bautista for sale on the Croisette this year titled “Cooler.” “Hotel Artemis” director Drew Pearce is on board to direct.

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It’s easy to forget now, given the wild success of the franchise since, but remember the context of the time: filmmaker James Gunn did the unthinkable and overcame incredible odds with 2014’s “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 1.” Moreso than almost any other Marvel characters that led their own movies in the last 20+ years, the Guardians were mostly unknown C-list characters, and many skeptical pundits were expecting a bomb because audiences would be unfamiliar.

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At this point, is it really up for debate that Dave Bautista is the world’s best professional wrestler turned actor? Sorry, Dwayne Johnson fans, but it’s true: Bautista has better dramatic and comedic chops than him, and it’s not even close. Don’t believe it? Well, on the comedic end of things, audiences will have a new chance to watch Bautista flex his funniness soon. THR reports that Amazon has a sequel to 2020’s “My Spy” in the works, with Bautista reprising his role as CIA operative and surrogate dad JJ.

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Phase 5 of the MCU is about to kick off with “Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania,” but not long after that comes “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.” While the Guardians had supporting roles in Taika Waititi‘s “Thor: Love And Thunder,” and turned up recently in “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,” this final edition of the franchise—at least the final installment for writer/director James Gunn—promises to be a big epic finale which will reunite the Guardians with Zoe Saldaña as Gamora, who’s been missing in action since “Avengers: Endgame.”

James Gunn’s tweets about it promise a story he “has been cooking up for years,” and in the past, he’s described it as “so big and dark.”

READ MORE: James Gunn Calls ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.

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Dave Bautista has a very busy 2023 ahead of him, with four movies starring him set to premiere. First up, M. Night Shyamalan‘s latest “Knock At The Cabin,” which hits theaters today. And a little further on the horizon, “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3” on May 5, and “Parachute,” set for its world premiere at SXSW 2023 in March.

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Over the last several years (well, nearly a decade now since “Guardians of the Galaxy”), Dave Bautista has primarily been known for his action roles. This is, in no small part, related to his previous career as a professional wrestler and the fact that he’s a huge, muscly man. But if anything is known about Bautista in 2023, it’s that the man is desperately trying to branch out and be something more than just big, strong action dude.

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Far from infallible as a filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan’s catalog of work is never anything less than bold. Sometimes the result is a classic, and sometimes the result is, at the very least, a curious misfire. “Knock at the Cabin” is very much an example of the former. This apocalyptic, psychological horror, his best work since “Split,” is a relentlessly gripping winner.

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Shyamalan directed, wrote, and co-produced this adaptation of Paul G.

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What will James Gunn and Peter Safran, newly installed co-CEOs of DC Studios, do with their upcoming slate of superhero features? Rumors are swirling that we will find out the first step in the DC Universe process on Tuesday when WB is supposedly going to reveal the beginning stages of the new DC Studios slate. However, until then, why not listen to Dave Bautista, a frequent collaborator and close friend of Gunn, as he explains what to expect?

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Often, people (myself included) like to lump in all of the former wrestlers who have become actors into one category. It’s easy to write them off as muscly meatheads who star in terrible action films and give cringey performances. While that sort of sweeping generalization might be accurate for most of them, it’s not the case for all of them. You would probably agree with me when I put Dave Bautista in a separate category from the large majority of wrestlers-turned-actors.

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After breaking out in a big way thanks to his role as Drax the Destroyer in “Guardians of the Galaxy,” Dave Bautista has been in demand in Hollywood. He’s earned quite a few roles in huge productions, most recently starring in “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story.” And though he clearly owes it all to the Marvel Studios films, Bautista is ready to move on and see what else is out there. 

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High-concept filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan cranks out a new picture every two years or so. Still, in the last few years, he’s been extra prodigious. “Glass” hit in 2019, his series “Servant” also arrived in the same year and has been arriving once a year— coming to a close next year— and “Old” hit in 2021. And with all that, Shyamalan directed episodes of “Servant” too, and he has another film in the can.

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The murder mystery is a subgenre that has experienced a significant renaissance in the last few years. And much of that is due to writer/director Rian Johnson who seemingly singlehandedly revitalized the genre with his commercial and critical smash hit “Knives Out” in 2019. The whodunnit allows filmmakers to gather a large cast with exuberant sets and a mystery to be solved at its core. This year alone, studios released “See How They Run” and “Death on the Nile” and proved to audiences how popular the genre had become again after seemingly losing steam in the 1980s.

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Filmmaker James Gunn’s tenure as the director and creative force behind the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise is coming to an end, but the filmmaker plans to go out with a bang. In addition to his third and final film in the series arriving in the summer of 2023, Gunn has also directed “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,” set to premiere during this upcoming holiday season on Disney+.

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Save your family or save humanity. Could you make the choice? That’s the latest freaky proposition from filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan (“Signs,” “Unbreakable,” “Split”) in his latest film, “Knock At The Cabin.” A mystery horror, as Shyamalan is wont to do, the film centers on a girl and her parents who are taken hostage while vacationing by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.

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Rian Johnson’s “Glass Onion” kicks off with a giddily entertaining opening: It’s May 2020, the early days of covid, and several old friends receive, one after the other, a box. It comes from their friend Miles Braun, the eccentric tech billionaire, and it’s an elaborate puzzle box; they get each other on the phone (in a series of playful introductions and dizzily frame-slicing split-screens) and figure out how to solve the puzzle of each level, before landing on the box’s ultimate contents: an invitation to a long weekend on his private island off Greece.

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Dave Bautista is a very busy man. Not only did he recently wrap production on “Knives Out 2,” which is one of the most anticipated films of 2022, but he’s also expected to begin work on “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” as well as “Dune 2,” in the next year. And then on top of all of that, it appears he’s finding time to work on a new M.

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In a mega-franchise that has skyrocketed a number of A-lister careers (Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Anthony Mackie, etc…), you could argue that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been the biggest help in the career of Dave Bautista. Though he was already a well-known WWE wrestler before his time as Drax in the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, after appearing in those films and a couple of ‘Avengers’ features, suddenly Bautista is one of the biggest names in Hollywood.

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“A great man doesn’t seek to lead; he is called to it,” Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) says somberly to his son Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), in Denis Villeneuve’s dynastic epic space odyssey “Dune.” The Duke speaks to duty, purpose, and destiny, but the words are laced with burden and uncertainty for Paul, seemingly undecided about his future. When Villeneuve (“Sicario,” “Prisoners”) once spoke about making “Dune” as a “’Star Wars’ for adults,” he wasn’t kidding.

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