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Back when the first season of Hawkeye was still in production, there were rumors that the Disney+ series would feature Clint Barton's villainous brother Barney, aka Trickshot. The character obviously never appeared, but we recently heard that he was expected to make his MCU debut in the planned - though still not officially announced - season 2.

Now, scooper Daniel Richtman is reporting that Marvel Studios has made an offer to an A-list actor to play Barney, who will most likely serve as the primary antagonist of the season. We don't have a name, but Richtman expects the character to factor into "multiple projects" going forward.

In the comics, Charles "Barney" Barton looked out for his younger brother, teaching him how to fight and improve his aim as they attempted to coexist with their abusive father. The pair eventually joined a carnival, becoming enamoured with Jacques DuQuesne/Swordsman, who took Clint on as his mentee.

Peter Molyneux, the legendary game designer behind classics like Populous, Dungeon Keeper, and Fable, made a surprise appearance at Gamescom 2024 to unveil his latest project, Masters of Albion. But instead of generating excitement, his announcement has been met with skepticism and mistrust from the gaming community.

Molyneux’s reputation for overpromising and underdelivering has left many gamers wary of his claims, especially when he suggests that this could be his last game due to his age and “lifestyle.”

Peter Molyneux’s Plea: Sympathy or Manipulation?

In a recent interview, Molyneux made some startling statements about his health and the potential finality of Masters of Albion:

“But I’ll be in my late 60s when this game is finished, and if I start another one, I’ll be in my mid-70s. My life expectancy is measured in days rather than years because of my lifestyle. I smoke and drink and don’t sleep enough.

Small Town Monsters Follows Leads for Extraterrestrial Life On The Trail Of Ufos: Dark Sky Lands August 3rd on VOD. This Latest Doc Investigates Connections Between Unidentified Objects and Energy Sources. Here’s the trailer:

Cryptid documentarian Seth Breedlove and paranormal researcher Shannon LeGro continue their search for the truth behind the enigma of unidentified flying objects in the latest Small Town Monsters release: On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky. Dark Sky explores the UFO topic from the point of view of LeGro; a podcast host and author, and focuses more heavily on eyewitness accounts than typical alien fare. “This project excited us because we were able to look into reports from real people in real places that still connect what they’re seeing to what is being talked about in the mainstream media today,” Breedlove said. “Particularly, this idea of why these objects or lights in the sky...

Horror/comedies are notoriously difficult to get right. Too often the focus is on one or the other to the inevitable detriment of the overall feature. A recent re-release on blu ray of “The Trail” provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten contribution to the genre with some interesting names behind the camera.

A pair of Taoist monks are leading a corpse train through early 20th century China. These monks (Kent Cheng and Ricky Hui) though, are fake as are the corpses who are pretending to be dead as they are part of an opium smuggling operation. When local magistrate Miu kills the husband of a singer he was attempting to rape, he tries to cover up his crime by getting them to take the corpse away. As they progress they realise that the corpse is now revived and killing the local farmlife. As they try to...

Scholastic Entertainment is developing three movies for cable’s Hallmark Channel, based on some of its popular books, the latest effort by the company known for its publications aimed at younger readers to broaden its purview.

Scholastic plans to adapt “The Angel Tree” by Daphne Benedis-Grab; “You’re Bacon Me Crazy!” by Suzanne Nelson; and “Playing Cupid” by Jenny Meyerhoff for TV.. The films will be co-developed with film production and distribution company Basset Hound Distribution and executive produced by company founders Alexandre Coscas and Michael R. Goldstein, along with Scholastic Entertainment President Iole Lucchese, Svp & General Manager Caitlin Friedman and VP of TV Development Jef Kaminsky.

“Hallmark’s commitment to presenting what its audience wants, year after year, is incredibly impressive and we’ve long had the company on our radar as an ideal partner for Scholastic Entertainment,” said Friedman, in a prepared statement. “We are thrilled to be...

Exclusive: ABC has given a script commitment with penalty to The Turners, a half-hour single-camera autobiographical family doctors comedy from writer Naomi Ekperigin (Mrs. Fletcher), Wilmer Valderrama and his Wv Entertainment, Damon Wayans Jr. and his Two Shakes Entertainment and CBS Television Studios where both Valderrama and Wayans are under deals.

Written by Ekperigin, in The Turners, a close-knit family of black doctors faces major changes when the recently retired parents decide to get back into the workforce. Now, three siblings at the height of their success are forced to work alongside their parents, and assert their independence everywhere from the emergency room to the living room.

The project is based on the real life of the Turner Family, a family in Houston, Texas whose family photo went viral in 2019. Dr. Rod J. Turner has his own Ob/Gyn practice, Health Solutions of Clear Lake, where his wife Roslyn works alongside...

Exclusive: CBS has put in development The Trail, a one-hour drama from writer David Harrington Miller (Rosewood); Wilmer Valderrama and his Wv Entertainment; and CBS Television Studios, where Wv is under a deal.

Written by Miller, The Trail revolves around an elite unit of investigators within the U.S. National Park Service who work to solve the highest-profile cases in Yosemite National Park, a location known for its rare beauty and extraordinary danger.

Valderrama executive produces via Wv Entertainment with David North (NCIS). Miller is Supervising Producer. Jonathan Tucker is Co-Executive Producer. Kaitlin Saltzman, Wv Entertainment’s VP, Head of Scripted, also is attached as Co-Executive Producer. CBS Television Studios produces in association with Wv Entertainment.

Miller was a writer on Fox’s Rosewood. Before that 2015-17 series, he was a writers’ assistant on Netflix’s House of Cards.

Valderrama plays Special Agent Nick Torres on NCIS, which is airing its 17th season on CBS.

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are set to produce a feature film adaptation of Meika Hashimoto’s adventure novel The Trail. Their Imagine Entertainment production company has teamed up with Scholastic Entertainment to develop the project.

The Trail is a hiking adventure story that follows “a 12-year-old reeling from the loss of his best friend who decides to finish their bucket list without his family’s knowledge. That includes hiking the last 400 miles of the Appalachian Trail through Maine, one of its most challenging legs, where he learns how to survive, dodging bears and outrunning hunger, while finding a community of like-minded hikers.”

The project is being developed through Imagine’s Kids+Family division and Quinn Emmett will write the script. Imagine Kids+Family president Stephanie Sperber had this to say in a statement:

“The Trail came up as a book that perfectly fit the kind of story-telling Imagine Kids+Family wanted to do and,...

Imagine Kids+Family is teaming with Scholastic Entertainment to adapt into a feature film The Trail, the 2017 Ya novel written by Meika Hashimoto. Quinn Emmett has been set to write the script for the story, which revolves around a 12-year old boy who, after a tragic loss, sets off on the adventure of a lifetime to finish the Appalachian Trail.

Imagine Kids+Family president Stephanie Sperber and Scholastic Entertainment president Iole Lucchese and Svp and Gm Caitlin Friedman are set as producers. Imagine’s Katie Donahoe and Will Davis will serve as creative executives on the project.

The Trail, published by Scholastic Press, follows 12-year-old Toby who, reeling from the loss of his best friend and without his family’s knowledge, sets out to finish the final item on their List of All The Totally Awesome Things they planned to tackle this summer: hike the last 400 miles of the trail.

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine is teaming with Scholastic Entertainment for a feature adaptation of Meika Hashimoto’s adventure novel “The Trail.”

The movie project is being developed through the eight-month-old Imagine Kids+Family division. Quinn Emmett will write the script.

Imagine Kids+Family president Stephanie Sperber, Scholastic Entertainment president Iole Lucchese and Caitlin Friedman will serve as producers. Katie Donahoe and Will Davis will serve as creative executives on the project for Imagine.

“The Trail” follows a 12-year-old reeling from the loss of his best friend who decides to finish their bucket list without his family’s knowledge. That includes hiking the last 400 miles of the Appalachian Trail through Maine, one of its most challenging legs, where he learns how to survive, dodging bears and outrunning hunger, while finding a community of like-minded hikers.

“The Trail came up as a book that perfectly fit the kind of...

Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) is showing May 6 - June 5, 2018 in many countries around the world; and The Trial (1962) is showing May 6 - June 5, 2018 in the United States.Whether he was operating as an assured-beyond-his-years novice or, later, directing a major Hollywood production—or, as was more often the case, working independently with a sporadic allotment of time and money—Orson Welles was nothing if not consistent when it came to formal ingenuity. While Citizen Kane (1941) is the frequently cited pillar of this expressive impulse, Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958) and The Trial (1962) are perhaps the most representative titles of his visual disposition in the service of psychological reflection. Mirroring character consciousness as much as it inspires viewer acuity, Welles’ elevation of set design, sound, editorial tempo, camera movement and placement all serve the purpose of enriching the respective film,...

John Lithgow and Sherri Shepherd are set for co-starring roles in The Trail, NBC’s docu-style single-camera comedy pilot from Jeff Astrof, Matt Miller and Warner Bros. TV. The serialized comedy, a spoof of such documentary series as The Jinx and Making a Murderer, follows Josh Simon, a young big-city lawyer, and his oddball defense team during a high profile murder trial in a small southern town.

Lithgow will play the suspect, Larry Henderson, a smart but slightly clueless poetry professor at a South Carolina community college who is accused of murdering his wife. Henderson finds the whole notion of being charged with murder absurd…but he’s got a couple of secrets that could really derail his defense.

Shepherd will play Anne Flatch, the well-meaning and enthusiastic assistant/receptionist at Josh Simon’s makeshift law office in East Peck, South Carolina, Anne suffers from facial blindness — the inability to...