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Warner Bros Animation is setting up the next chapter in The Flintstones in a new sequel called Bedrock with Elizabeth Banks attached to star lending her voice to Pebbles, according to Variety The daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, most incarnations of the series had her as a toddler, but Bedrock is set 20 years[...]

Elizabeth Banks will star in the new live action The Magic School Bus film She will also produce, along with with Max Handelman for Brownstone Productions, as well as Scholastic Entertainment's president and chief strategy officer Iole Lucchese and senior VP and general manager Caitlin Friedman, and Marc Platt and Adam Siegel for Marc Platt[...]

Through the eyes of the women of that era — both Schlafly and second-wave feminists Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), Betty Friedan (Ari Graynor), Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), Bella Abzug (Margo Martindale), and Jill Ruckelshaus (Elizabeth Banks) — the series explores how one of the toughest battlegrounds in the culture wars of the '70s helped give rise to[...]

Elizabeth Banks will direct and star in Invisible Woman for Universal Studios She pitched the film, with a script being written by Erin Cressida Wilson (Girl on the Train) This will not however cross over with the new Invisible Man film coming in February starring Elisabeth Moss and Oliver Jackson-Cohen That film was a co-production[...]

Charlie's Angels may not have been the box office surprise that Sony Pictures hoped for, but the 2019 adaptation has more to offer than meets the eye. The

Elizabeth Banks has become the first female director to be honored by the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. Busy Phillips hosted the evening while the new Charlie's Angels trio were also on hand Deadline has some highlights of the speech as well as the evening in general. The first honor was awarded back in 1947[...]

Elizabeth Banks' mission to take over the entire entertainment industry one cool projetcafter another continues After impressing us with our first look at her take on the Charlie's Angels franchise (we're still impressed with the "Bosley" concept), Banks is parterning with Warner Bros Animation through her Brownstone Productions company to develop a new prime time[...]

What do I happen upon but Elizabeth Banks and my beloved Whammy board from my childhood? Immediately cynical and decrying the creatively bankrupt nature of our media landscape (is there nothing that won't get a reboot or remake?), I somehow found myself hooked Three hours later, I had somehow watched all of these game shows–[...]

Adding to its already impressive cast, Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect franchise, upcoming Charlie's Angels reboot) is set to join Cate Blanchett in FX's Mrs America, from Emmy-winning writer Davhi Waller, Oscar-nominated producer Stacey Sher and FX Productions Banks' Ruckelshaus is a pro-choice, socially progressive Republican appointed by President Gerald Ford to advance women's rights – and[...]

The Screen Gems feature film stars acclaimed actress and filmmaker Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect 2), David Denman (The Office), Jackson A Dunn (Shameless), Matt Jones (Mom, NCIS), and Meredith Hagner (Younger). Here's a look at the final trailer, with Brightburn set to open Friday, May 24, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0391pRUFIYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is[...]

ABC continues to do its part to ensure that every single game show in existence gets its very own reboot, so Press Your Luck is the latest summer game show revival heading our way – but this one already has a major bonus going for it: actor/director Elizabeth Banks is taking on the hosting role[...]

Welcome to Shrill, the new series from Hulu which premiered its first two episodes at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival Monday night, March 11th in Austin, TX. https://youtu.be/JyUr_-jxWZA From Executive Producers Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks comes Shrill, a comedy series starring Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) as Annie, a fat young woman who wants[...]

In Brightburn, we get to ask the question- "What if Superman was evil?" The second trailer for the film, which reunites Elizabeth Banks and Gunn for the first time since 2006's Slither, just released this morning: Gunn isn't directing this flick, that honor lays with David Yarovesky, but is written by Mark Gunn and Brian Gunn[...]

We're getting a new  Charlie's Angels reboot from Sony's Columbia Pictures, and Sir Patrick Stewart will be joining the cast. Actor Patrick Stewart, photo by BAKOUNINE / Shutterstock.com The film is being developed (and directed) by Elizabeth Banks, and will feature Stewart as Bosley, long-time associate at the Townsend Agency. Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, and Ella Balinska will star as the Angels, Originally, Banks was[...]

Elizabeth Banks (The Hunger Games) is attached as an executive producer on the series, along with Max Handelman through their Brownstone Productions company.  Daegan Fryklind (Bitten, Motive) will serve as the writer and executive producer on the project. The series will focus on Traci, a twenty-something forensic scientist and believer in the paranormal who discovers her own[...]