Does cinema need another “Speed” movie?  20th Century Studios head Steve Asbell thinks so, but it needs to be “a great idea and an idea that excites” franchise stars Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.

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Asbell teased a potential threequel to the hit ’90s franchise in a new sitdown with THR yesterday, which was flush with all sorts of news about the “Predator” franchise, an “Alien: Romulus” sequel, and more.

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There are not many franchises that have a steeper drop off in quality than “Speed.” The first film is a fun, somewhat silly romp that boosted the star power of both Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. The second film, “Speed 2: Cruise Control,” is, well, not good. Worse than that, it’s often used as a cautionary tale about what not to do with a sequel.

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Though he only has a few directing credits under his belt, the name David Leitch is really synonymous with loud, explosive action with a side of quips. And if the new trailer for “Bullet Train” is any indication, that’s exactly what you’re getting in the director’s latest venture.

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“Bullet Train” stars Brad Pitt as an assassin with the codename Ladybug.

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Director David Leitch recently confirmed that Lady Gaga was intended to star in his upcoming movie, “Bullet Train.” Leitch, known for movies such as “Deadpool 2” (2018) and “John Wick” (2014), told Entertainment Weekly that the talks fell apart after Gaga was given the role of Patrizia Reggiani in the Oscar-nominated movie “House of Gucci” (2021) from director Ridley Scott.

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“There were short discussions and then, this isn’t going to work because she was preparing for the Ridley movie ‘[House of] Gucci.

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“Speed” is hardly a masterpiece or even the best action film of the 1990s, but it did help cement Keanu Reeves as an action star (alongside Kathryn Bigelow‘s “Point Break“) and was one of the movies that introduced audiences to future Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock. However, its sequel “Speed 2: Cruise Control” is not only a cautionary tale of what not to do with a follow-up to a hit studio blockbuster – replacing their main lead with some other guy (Jason Patric) – but is also considered one of the worst films of the 1990s.

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The Shinkansen, or as it’s known in English, the Japanese bullet train, is a high-speed railway that connects every region of Japan to its capital, Tokyo. It’s one of the busiest railway lines in the world, and there’s never been a single derailment or collision in its history. But what would happen if a bunch of assassins got on board, each with an assignment to carry out?

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That’s the premise of “Bullet Train,” set to hit theaters next April.

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It’s a bit overwhelming when you sit back and really try to take inventory of everything Netflix will likely release in 2022. Dozens of films. Dozens of TV shows. Billions of dollars worth of content will be beamed worldwide overnight into more than 200 million homes. Now, with two massive Netflix successes under her belt, Sandra Bullock believes the streaming platform is a godsend for people like her. 

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Speaking to THR, Bullock was talking about her recent Netflix film, “The Unforgiveable” (our review), which has already become one of the biggest hits ever for the streaming platform (if its stats are to be believed).

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Who are these characters? Why should we care about them, or at least care enough to spend two hours with them? These are fundamental questions any filmmaker should start with before endeavoring to make a film. And, yet it’s these very questions that director Nora Fingscheidt and her three screenwriters Peter Craig, Hillary Seitz and Courtenay Miles never seemed to have answered before they began work on the new Sandra Bullock starring Netflix film “The Unforgivable.”

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Based on the 2009 British miniseries of the same name by Sally Wainwright (“Gentleman Jack”), we’re introduced to Ruth Slater (Bullock) as she prepares to leave prison in an opening sequence montage filled with an excessive amount of quick cuts.

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Despite being megastars, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum haven’t been on the big screen much of late. Outside of voice work in “The Lego Movie 2” and others, as well as a brief cameo in “Free Guy,” Tatum’s last significant roles were in 2017’s “Logan Lucky” and “Kingsmen: The Golden Circle.” As for Bullock, she has “The Unforgivable” out soon, but she hasn’t had a feature appearance since 2018’s “Ocean’s Eight” and “Bird Box.”

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All that’s about to change: the pair returns next year with “The Lost City,” set to hit theaters in March.

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Marvel Studios seems to have a knack for landing every major A-lister who is remotely interested in putting on a cape and tights for its films. At this point, it’s almost weird to find an actor who hasn’t at least been in talks with Marvel at some point. Well, except for Sandra Bullock.

In an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Sandra Bullock was asked about the rumors that she could be in talks to play Madame Web in a new ‘Spider-Man’ spinoff film.

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Sandra Bullock has starred in over fifty films in her career, but, if one can believe it, there hasn’t been a movie with her released since the 2018 Netflix thriller “Birdbox.” But, fear not, Bullock fans. The actress has three films set for releases over the next year, like the assassin thriller “Bullet Train” alongside Brad Pitt and the romantic adventure film “The Lost City Of D” with Channing Tatum.  

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Give big stars what they want, and big stars will come to your streaming service (oh, and a nice paycheck doesn’t hurt either). The last time Netflix lured Sandra Bullock to its service, the result was the smash hit, “Bird Box,” directed by Susanne Bier. It was one of Netflix’s biggest hits ever at the time, according to the streamer. Well, Bullock is back, executive producing again on a new film, a prison drama about forgiveness and redemption called “The Unforgivable.” Bullock stars as a woman released from a prison into a society that won’t forgive her past and she seeks redemption by searching for the sister she left behind.

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As we’ve seen with the recent lawsuit between Scarlett Johansson and Disney, there’s a lot of complicated math that goes into an actor’s contract with a studio for a project. In previous years, the biggest names in Hollywood would earn an upfront fee, but they would then have the chance to earn a lot more with “back-end” deals that include profit-sharing with the studio. Alas, with the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Apple TV+, and Amazon, the “back-end” doesn’t mean anything anymore.

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Many are excited to see Lady Gaga‘s return to acting with the Ridley Scott crime drama “House of Gucci,” seeing her star alongside Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jared Leto, and others. However, it looks like she had to drop out of another film to make it as Collider reports that she had a scheduling conflict and couldn’t make Brad Pitt‘s upcoming action film “Bullet Train” helmed by director David Leitch (“John Wick,” “Atomic Blonde,” “Hobbs & Shaw,” “Deadpool 2“).

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Is Brad Pitt repaying a favor to Sandra Bullock, and are the two really hitting it off currently in filmmaker David Leitch‘s action thriller “Bullet Train“? Well, that’s how it reads because THR is reporting that Pitt is about to appear in Bullock’s starring vehicle “The Lost City Of D” for Paramount.

READ MORE: Channing Tatum Replaces Ryan Reynolds Opposite Sandra Bullock In ‘The Lost City Of D’

A romantic action comedy that already stars Channing Tatum opposite Bullock in the lead Paramount‘s “Lost City Of D” is adding Pitt in what is being described as a cameo role.

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Discuss: does director David Leitch have the best cast of 2022 with “Bullet Train”? Because on top of starring Brad Pitt and a slew of interesting, top-shelf actors, the action thriller just added Sandra Bullock to the cast. The movie—which centers on five assassins who find themselves on a Japanese bullet train, realizing that their individual assignments are not unrelated to the others—also stars Joey King, Andrew Koji, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Masi Oka, Michael Shannon, Lady Gaga, Logan Lerman, Hiroyuki Sanada, Karen Fukuhara, and rapper Bad Bunny.

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Sorry, “The Proposal” stans, it appears that the reunion between Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock isn’t meant to be. At least, it’s not going to happen in the upcoming adventure rom-com, “The Lost City of D.”

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According to THR, Paramount is in final talks with actor Channing Tatum to star opposite Bullock in the upcoming rom-com, “The Lost City of D.” The film is directed by Adam and Aaron Nee and said to be in the same vein as comedies such as “Romancing the Stone.” ‘Lost City of D’ is said to follow the story of a romance author (Bullock) that discovers a fictional city that she wrote about is actually real.

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You don’t have to be a fan of rom-coms (and this writer is definitely not a fan) to enjoy “The Proposal.” The film, which stars Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, has the two performers at the top of their charismatic games in a silly, but genuinely funny rom-com. Plus, there’s Betty White! But that film is more than a decade ago and if anything, Reynolds and Bullock’s stars have only risen higher, which is what makes the forthcoming Paramount film, “The Lost City of D,” all the more enticing.

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Back in the before times of 2018, before the lockdown, Netflix had one of its biggest hit ever with the movie “Bird Box,” starring Sandra Bullock. Now, the author of the novel “Bird Box” is based on said that Netflix is now working on a sequel to its hit horror film.

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Inverse.com has the scoop, as author Josh Malerman, who wrote the original “Bird Box” novel, talked with them about publishing the sequel novel “Malorie” later this month.

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Netflix has already hit it big with a project about women in prison and dealing with life on the outside. So, if “Orange is the New Black” can do it and become a massive, fan-favorite, why not do it with Sandra Bullock in the lead? Well, that’s what the streaming service is doing with a new film that finds Bullock trying to deal with life as she leaves prison.

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Amazon is currently developing a new TV series about the life of a young woman in the South that overcomes adversity as she goes on a search to find herself. Sounds like a fairly decent, if not overused, premise, right? Well, there’s an added wrinkle to this new Amazon project, as it apparently is loosely based on the college years of none other than Sandra Bullock.

According to Variety, Amazon has picked up a series from producers Bullock, Akiva Goldsman, and John Legend that will loosely adapt the life of the Oscar-winning actress into a drama.

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If you’re a fan of films and roughly my age, then you probably remember the first time you saw “The Matrix.” For me, I remember sitting in the theater, loving every second of the film. And when Neo flies at the very end, leading into the Rage Against the Machine song, my mind was completely blown. Of course, I came back to the theater a couple more times to fully try to wrap my head around what the Wachowskis did with that film.

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Sandra Bullock experienced unprecedented levels of meme with her latest film, “Bird Box.” Apparently, she enjoyed the experience of working with Netflix so much, that she’s coming back for another round. This time, she’s doing a comic book adaptation with the director of “The LEGO Batman Movie.”

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Deadline reports that Bullock has signed on to produce and possibly star in the new film “Reborn.” The sci-fi/fantasy film follows the story of an 80-year-old woman that dies in a Manhattan hospital, only to be reborn in the afterlife in the prime of her life.

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Netflix isn’t very transparent when it comes to the numbers and viewership side of their business, and it’s hard to blame them. Once movie studios let the cat out of the bag in the 1980s and started reporting box office numbers to tout their massive successes, they also left themselves open and vulnerable to journalists discussing their flops, their financial losses, and failures. Which is why movie studios aren’t always fully transparent when it comes to budgets, promotion and advertising costs and more, the media already knows enough and turning a profit for a big studio movie tends to be actually extremely difficult when you factor in the cut theaters take and international studios that release the films abroad.

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Parenthood should scare any logical human being. Think about it. For women, you’re stuck with a little human growing inside of you that survives based off your nutrient intake for nine months. Then, as a dude, you’re forced to work day-and-night in order to pay for this munchkin that, 16 to 18 years from now, will be making the same horrible mistakes that you were making at that age. Being a parent is never easy, but similar to a quality horror movie, when they’re good, they are great.

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