How ‘Young Rock’ Writers Hiram Garcia and Brian Gewirtz Brought Dwayne Johnson’s First WWF Match to Life

A follow-up to the $130M-plus grossing movie Law Abiding Citizen is happening with producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer returning, as well as Gerard Butler and his G-Base partner Alan Siegel reprising their roles as producers.

revealed that Brie Larson was set to join the “Fast” family for the new film, and in a recent interview with TheWrap, Helen Mirren hinted that she was hoping that she could return to the franchise as well.Portuguese actress Daniela Melchior, who broke out playing Ratcatcher 2 in James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad,” is in talks to join the cast of “Fast 10,” as TheWrap exclusively reported.One actor who won’t be in “Fast X” is Dwayne Johnson, who made his lack of presence official last summer. “I wish them well on ‘Fast 9,’” the actor said.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe planned “Wonder Twins” live-action movie at HBO Max is no longer going forward, Variety has learned.The news comes just over a month after it was announced that KJ Apa and Isabel May had been cast in the lead roles in the DC film as the titular twins. It also arrives in the wake of the Warner Bros.-Discovery merger and Discovery boss David Zaslav’s pledge to cut approximately $3 billion in costs at the newly merged company.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDisney is throwing a pass at spring football.The entertainment giant said it struk a multi- year rights deal with the XFL, tte start-up football league led by actor Dwayne Johnson. The pact will put XFL games on ESPN, FX and ABC and gives Disney more footfall just as rivals Fox and NBC play up games from the USF, in which Fox is an investor.“We have entered into an exclusive multi year deal with our partners with Walt Disney to produce and distribute all of our games,’ Johnson told attendees at Disney’s upfront presentation Tuesday.

The list of the highest paid celebrities based on what they apparently are able to charge per sponsored Instagram post has been revealed…and The Rock is no longer number one!.

Comedy is back on NBC’s fall schedule with an hourlong Friday block — comprised by Dwayne Johnson’s Young Rock and new George Lopez series Lopez vs. Lopez — but The Blacklist is not, put on the bench until midseason only for the second time in its 10-season run. As expected, the Quantum Leap reboot, starring Raymond Lee, landed the post-Voice Monday slot while La Brea is back in the Tuesday 9 PM slot where it launched with a bang last fall.

Young Rock will be back for a third season.

More than eight months after wrapping “Black Adam”, Dwayne Johnson is back at work on the upcoming superhero flick.

Studios attempting to shoot massive blockbuster movies during the pandemic are facing risks of production pausing for days, weeks, or even months at a time due to safety protocols in the age of COVID. Many might assume that once a film wraps, delays and studio headaches are over, but when it comes to Dwayne Johnson‘s “Black Adam,” featuring the mega-star as the DC Comics anti-hero, the post-production process has another string of hiccups to navigate.

wait even longer to see Dwayne Johnson’s superhero debut in “Black Adam,” but there’s a good reason why the film’s release date was pushed back from July to October.“I think we’re just in a world right now where there was a huge and understandable freeze-up when the pandemic hit and a lot of productions were put on hold,” producer and president of production at Seven Bucks Productions Hiram Garcia told TheWrap during a recent interview about NBC’s “Young Rock” series. “Now that the industry has really roared back, the pipeline for VFX is so jammed.

The Rock has hit the big 5-0.

You know who’s a good boy? The faithful and loyal pet that saves its master. That’s basically the premise of Warner Bros’/DC Films’ “DC League of Super-Pets” which stars Dwayne Johnson as the voice of Krypto the Super-Dog.

Gold House rings in Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month launching its 2022 A100 List featuring a number of impactful names including Michelle Yeoh, Dwayne Johnson  and Mindy Kaling.

Dwayne Johnson's at it again doing what he does best — making fans tremble with surprise appearances!The star shared video of an awesome encounter he had with a couple of fans who showed up to the Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas to visit the actor's latest wax figure, which celebrates his Teremana tequila. In video Johnson posted on Instagram, you can see a couple of fans posing with the wax figure as the actor hides in the background.As the picture's about to be snapped, Johnson races behind the fans, gets in the frame and raises a glass. Moments later, the fans turn around for the shock of their lives.

After spending the entire week trapped in the bowels of a smoke-filled, maskless, jam-packed Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, and after sitting through the various studio presentations in search of possible clues to what might be in play for the 95th annual Academy Awards, I can say two of the names we are very likely to hear about might be two of the most unexpected: Tom Cruise and Harvey Weinstein. I am not hallucinating. I will get to both in a second, but first I have to say Oscar pundits don’t really travel to this annual exhibitors convention with any realistic expectations of seeing major awards contenders.

Some friendly competition. Khloé Kardashian joined in on the fun after Dwayne Johnson jokingly compared the butt on his wax figure at Madame Tussauds to her own.

Dwayne Johnson has one request for Madame Tussauds: give his wax figure some glutes like Khloé Kardashian‘s!

Khloe Kardashian is reacting to her new neighbor at the wax museum. On Wednesday, Dwayne Johnson made a surprise appearance at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Las Vegas to meet his latest wax figure, which celebrates his Teremana tequila.  In a TikTok video created by the star, he stands next to his statue — which wears a tan vest-and-pants set -- mimicking the pose of him holding up a glass of his famous tequila.

After two years of on-and-off theater closures, the studios and the stars came out to present their wares at CinemaCon 2022. Movies from ‘Black Adam’ to ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ to Olivia Wilde’s ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ — all Covid affected in one way or another — finally got to make their pitch to theater-goers, journalists and exhibitors.