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The enemies-to-lovers trope is extremely popular with rom-com fans, but some movies do it better than others. Rom-coms have existed in Hollywood for almost as long as movies, with the first two – Sherlock Jr. and Girl Shy – coming out as silent films in 1924. The movies are popular with audiences due to their balanced combination of romance, drama, and comedy. However, the large amount of variation in tropes makes the movies appealing as well.

One of the most popular tropes in rom-com movies is enemies-to-lovers. Enemies-to-lovers rom-coms are the perfect pick to watch after a long week. Movies with this trope include zippier dialogue, sexual tension, and relatable conflicts. These stories function on the premise that there's a thin line between love and hate. Moreover, the scripts typically have compelling character development before the couple gets together, making it easier to emotionally invest in them. Ultimately, some of the best rom-coms...

Don’t expect brave faces or a breezy goodbye, says the official Neighbours finale trailer, we’re about to wring every last drop of wet nostalgia from our last outing as Australia’s longest-running soap opera. And good on them. Now’s not the time for understatement, now’s the time for garment-rending grief and aching nostalgia, which is exactly what this three and a half minute compilation provides.

To a haunting, reverb-y song about a reluctant break-up, the trailer takes us through Neighbours past and present. It starts sweet in the early days, with Lou Carpenter larking about with a clapperboard, Harold and Madge’s post-amnesia reunion, Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, and more weddings than a Moonie ceremony. And then it gets sexy, and then it gets dangerous. Explosions! Murder! Violence! Fires! Plane Crashes! Horse-riding accidents! Natural Disasters! Stefan Dennis!

Next – accompanied by the sad piano version of the theme song – come the deaths.

Breaking: Spyglass Media Group has entered into a first look deal with Warner Bros. The studio will also become a strategic investor.

Spyglass is run by chairman/CEO Gary Barber, the former MGM chairman who relaunched the company he formed with Roger Birnbaum in 1998 when he made a deal with Lantern Entertainment Co-Presidents Andy Mitchell and Milos Brajovic that brought the assets from The Weinstein Company acquired by Lantern through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Those assets will give Barber a leg up in launching the company.

Barber has a 30 year history with Warner Bros, going back to when he ran Morgan Creek for Jim Robinson and the studio distributed Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Ace Ventura and the Spyglass titles Four Christmases and Invictus. When he ran MGM, the studios teamed on The Hobbit and Creed franchises and Me Before You.

“For many years, Warner Bros. has been a dedicated studio...

TheSkimm, a digital-media company built on a daily newsletter aimed at millennial women, has closed out a $12 million Series C funding round with a group of mostly female investors, including Shonda Rhimes and Tyra Banks.

Other backers who participated in the round include Willow Bay, a former TV journalist who’s now dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; Jesse Draper, founding partner of Halogen Ventures; Linnea Roberts, founder and CEO of GingerBread Capital; and Hope Taitz, CEO of Ely Capital.

Also joining the round as new investors are Goldman Sachs and Michael Karsch, chairman of juice-bar chain Juice Press. Other prior Series C investors are Gv (formerly Google Ventures), Spanx founder Sara Blakely and former lead investors 21st Century Fox, Rre Ventures and Homebrew Ventures.

“We wanted to use this moment in time to curate a really impressive group of female investors, to make sure we...

Jenny Morrill Sep 6, 2016

Den Of Geek raises a glass to some lesser-known soap star pop singles, from Coronation Street to Neighbours and more...

“Do you remember the guy who played that guy in that thing? His song was good wasn't it?”

The above is an example of a conversation regularly heard in our house. The only variants are that sometimes it was 'that girl from that thing', and a lot of the time the song was far from good.

Well sod it – I think we as a nation need to have more discussions about Craig McLachlan and Stefan Dennis. It's the only way our society will grow. So here are 12 songs from Soapland that weren't done by Kylie, Jason, or Kylie and Jason.

1. Kevin Kennedy (Curly Watts) – Bulldog Nation

Here we see Coronation Street's finest and supermarket manager extraordinaire with an indie effort from 2000. Did You Know - Kennedy...

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Fringe, Supernatural, Bob's Burgers... zombies pop up in all kinds of surprising places. Remember that time Ramsay Street was invaded?

Back in the 80s and 90s, the only groups regularly enjoying zombie movies were habitually stoned students, young lads looking to prove their mettle by lobbing VHS grenades of gore at each other's minds, and great sweating giants with mutton-chops corseted into two-sizes-too-small Iron Maiden T-shirts. Very few couples partook of the genre; liver-ripping and eye-gouging was rarely seen as the essential romantic complement to an evening entwined on the couch.

Aside from George A Romero’s satirical side-swipes at society, the majority of zombie movies were gloriously nasty, schlocky yuck-fests, with names like ‘Return Of The Great Zombie Intenstine Carnival III’, 'Zombies! Zombies, Oh, Christ Zombies, They're Eating My Eyes!' and ‘I Claw-hammered My Zombie Grandma’S Head Off’. Anyone with access to a video camera,...

In a conversation last week, Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson revealed that several popular titles from the studio’s back catalogue had resurfaced on its radar as potential remake candidates. That shortlist includes Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Major League, Last Of The Mohicans and one beloved classic in particular, which struck fear into the hearts of cinephiles everywhere: The Exorcist.

If there’s one guarantee in this life, it’s that even preliminary remake rumors can stir up a great deal of wrath from diehard fans. And now you can add directors to that list, as helmer of the 1974 original William Friedkin caught wind of the news and took to Twitter to publicly attack the studio’s intentions. “I mention it only in passing,” he Tweeted, “but I don’t believe Morgan Creek has rights to The Original only the so-called sequels.”

Immediately thereafter, he followed that statement with a...

Last week, news surfaced that was mostly indicative of how Hollywood works these days, with Morgan Creek announcing remakes of a handful of movies in their catalog including "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "Major League," "Young Guns," "Flying Tigers" and "The Exorcist." Touching the horror classic in particular drew consternation from various corners of the web, including the director himself, who weighed in on the topic. "I completely denounce [the remake]" the filmmaker tweeted, adding that he doesn't believe Morgan Creek even has the rights to the original movie, just the lesser sequels. For their part, Morgan Creek were quick to tweet "despite what was printed" they won't be redoing "The Exorcist." Except that, "what was printed" was based on what the company's CEO Jim Robinson told Deadline. That's just a detail I guess... At any rate, it seems we can all breathe easy about "The...

Just when you thought Hollywood had run out of things to remake, here comes production company Morgan Creek with reboots of Ace Ventura and The Exorcist. Now there's a double bill.

As part of a planned sell-off of its back catalogue, there are confirmed plans to do-over the two properties as well as baseball franchise Major League.

Elsewhere in its library of films, you'll find True Romance, The Last of the Mohicans and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, though all of these are currently not earmarked for remakes.

But why, you ask? Why, God, why? Well, it's the money, dummy, as Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson told Deadline: "I'm selling the library strictly for economic reasons.

"It will go back into the company to fund more production. We have a number of properties that we are looking to move forward on."

Those properties? Ace and company. Good luck to whoever...

We live in a world of reboots and remakes these days, so the fact that there are now rumblings of even more of them really shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. According to a new report, Morgan Creek Films is looking to bring Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Exorcist back to the big screen as they start selling off their library of films.

The studio is also responsible for the likes of The Last of the Mohicans and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but any deal made would see them keep the rights to remake five of their past releases. Along with the two mentioned above, we may also end up seeing new versions of Major League, Young Guns, and Flying Tigers. All of these have potential to connect with moviegoers, but when and if they’re going to actually happen really remains to be seen at this point.

Morgan Creek Productions has hired the investment banking group Houlihan Lokey to sell off the domestic rights to its library of seventy-eight films.

The most interesting wrinkle in this story is that as part of any sale, Morgan Creek would not only retain TV rights to all the films but also retain remake rights for five of its key titles - "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "Major League," "Young Guns," "Flying Tigers" and "The Exorcist". They would pay a percentage of the gross profit on any remake to the new owner of the library.

With no debts on the books, Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson says the profit from any sale would go back into its film production fund which has obviously stirred rumors that at least some of those aforementioned potential remakes are in the works.

Asked directly if that's the case, Robinson says remake ideas are being thrown about...

Business and art often mix as well as oil and water in the world of making movies, and perhaps no statement makes that clearer than this statement by Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson to Deadline about the sale of the production company's library of films: "I’m selling the library strictly for economic reasons. It will go back into the company to fund more production. We have a number of properties that we are looking to move forward on." Some of those properties he's talking about? Well, they're remakes. Read More: 10 Movie Remakes Involving Auteur Directors Morgan Creek will hang on to the rights of five of their library titles —"Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "Major League," "Young Guns," "Flying Tigers" and "The Exorcist"— and three are already in the works for redos: the Jim Carrey comedy, the Charlie Sheen baseball flick and William Friedkin's horror classic. That's right, the...

From Star Trek: Generations through to Star Trek: Nemesis - here are 47 nerdy spots in the Next Generation films...

Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979, the Star Trek cinematic outings have proved to be a smorgasbord of references and famous actors (or those who would go on to be), and often had complex behind the scenes events that stopped some rather, ahem, fascinating moments making it to the final version. We found lots of nerdy spots in the first six films here.

This time out we look at the films featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation and choose 47 factoids. Granted, there's a lot more than that of interest, but we've tried for ones that you might not be aware of.

Oh, and there are some major spoilers...

Star Trek: Generations (1994)

1. The first of the Next Generation films was something of a rush job as principal photography...

Heart-attacks, serial killers, gunshot wounds and Thalaron radiation. You name it, Alan Dale’s characters have been killed by it…

Warning: contains spoilers for Alan Dale's roles between 1985 and 2014. Listing them here would more or less defeat the object.

He didn’t die in The X-Files, nor in The West Wing. He got a little bit blown up in 24 and NCIS, and River Song sort of paralysed him in ER. Those were his good days.

Whenever the credits roll on a TV episode or film in which his character doesn’t end up kicking the bucket, it’s a good day for Alan Dale. If he can keep up his current trend of not dying on Once Upon A Time and Dominion then his ratio of role demises to survivals may just start to even out.

Before that happens, join us in a celebration of New Zealand’s answer...

Stage and screen actor who excelled in playing authority figures and appeared in TV shows such as Brookside and Lovejoy

Malcolm Tierney, who has died aged 75 of pulmonary fibrosis, was a reliable and versatile supporting actor for 50 years, familiar to television audiences as the cigar-smoking, bullying villain Tommy McArdle in Brookside, nasty Charlie Gimbert in Lovejoy and smoothie Geoffrey Ellsworth-Smythe in David Nobbs's A Bit of a Do, a Yorkshire small-town comedy chronicle starring David Jason and Gwen Taylor.

Always serious and quietly spoken offstage, with glinting blue eyes and a steady, cruel gaze that served him well as authority figures on screen, Tierney was a working-class Mancunian who became a core member of the Workers' Revolutionary party in the 1970s. He never wavered in his socialist beliefs, even when the Wrp imploded ("That's all in my past now," he said), and always opposed restricted entry to the actors' union,...

Margot Robbie is the latest Aussie soap star to make the tricky transition to the silver screen following her breakthrough role in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated Wolf of Wall Street.

The rising star played Donna Freedman in Neighbours from 2008 to 2011 before landing a role in ABC series Pan Am alongside Christina Ricci.

We reminisce below over the humble Aussie acting beginnings of other Hollywood actors and actresses - and see which soaps spawned the most successful stars:

Chris Hemsworth

Chris Hemsworth played Jamie Kane in Neighbours back in 2002 and was in Home and Away as Kim Hyde from 2004 to 2007. The Aussie actor has since appeared in Hollywood blockbusters like Thor and The Avengers, and most recently played the late James Hunt in Ron Howard's Rush.

Isabel Lucas

Also pictured above, Isabel Lucas appeared in Home and Away as Tasha Andrews from 2003 to 2007. She has since gone on to star...

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Three and a half years after it aired, can a Lost fan finally make his peace with the finale? Er, read on...

Warning: contains spoilers for - you guessed it - the Lost finale.

Like millions of others, I watched Lost with a sharply escalating sense of fascination and frustration, and I can’t imagine I’m alone in having felt more of the latter than the former. Over the course of six sensationally strange seasons we were treated to polar bears in paradise, malevolent smoke beasts, dead men walking, nuclear bombs, weird samurais, exploding freighters, a generous dollop of time travel and a wee visit to a parallel universe, to name-check but a few of Lost’s more outlandish narrative flourishes. Nothing wrong with all that. I didn’t tune in expecting gritty realism; I knew that Lost wasn’t The Wire Does Hawaii.

Exclusive: Emmett/Furla Films is teaming with Morgan Creek Productions to co-finance and co-produce Tupac, creating a new urgency for the long-gestating biopic on the hip hop icon Tupac Shakur. They are working with a script by Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft and a new draft is expected in two weeks. Several companies battled for the rights to partner on the film with Jim Robinson’s Morgan Creek before McP president David Robinson sealed the deal with Eff. They are eyeing a February start date and a $45 million budget. They have the rights to exploit Tupac’s musical catalog, and his mother, Afeni Shakur, will be a producer on the film. Born in East Harlem-born to parents who were members of the Black Panthers, Shakur shot to fame as a hip hop artist and an actor. That rise started with the release of 2Pacalypse Now. His gruff delivery of in-your-face...

Even if you don't know his name, Alan Dale's face (and voice) are unmistakable to American TV fans. He was President Palmer's second in command on 24, Caleb Nichols on The O.C., Bradford Meade on Ugly Betty, Charles Widmore on Lost, Senator Eaton on The Killing, King George on Once Upon A Time and currently plays Emmet on Hot in Cleveland.

That's not to mention the eight years he spent playing Jim Robinson on Australia's Neighbours, where his character became one of the iconic show's most beloved ever. But it turns out, had it not been for that long-lasting, highly-adored role, none of the amazingly mean men Dale's since played would exist.

ETonline: What appealed to you about playing Emmet on Hot in Cleveland?

Alan Dale: I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because...

Morgan Creek co-chairman and COO Rick Nicita is exiting the company, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. The departure comes weeks after THR reported that Nicita's contract was up in December and he and Morgan Creek's chairman Jim Robinson had not dicussed an extension. Nicita joined Morgan Creek in August 2008 after a long career at CAA. During his tenure, the company released only two films -- The Thing and the disappointing supernatural thriller Dream House, which opened Sept. 30 -- and has had other projects delayed while the company deals with the ongoing bankruptcy of its international distribution arm. A source

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HollywoodNews.com: A few days ago I was told that there had been a lot of trouble with Jim Sheridan‘s “Dream House,” a psychological thriller set for September with Daniel Craig and his new wife, Rachel Weisz, with Naomi Watts.

The word was that director Sheridan, one of the greats, was significantly at odds with Morgan Creek’s Jim Robinson. Univeral is releasing the movie, and would have high hopes considering the stars’ high profiles. My source said, emphatically, “The movie is unrelease-able.” Now the trailer is out, and you can see it in our video player below. It’s a weird one in that it seems to give away the entire movie, and is at the same time utterly confusing. Sheridan is a four star director, so I’m sure he’s done everything he can to make the film work.

The release date is still two months away,...

                                                                     Hey peeps! We have an opportunity for you to win "Kneebouncers" -Video Games for the Little Ones. All you have to do is just sign in to Intense Debate below and leave us a comment on why you would like to win this for your kid. The contest ends on Tuesday, February 15th.  We'll pick a winner and get you all set up with 'Kneebouncers'.

                    Kneebouncers Lets Babies And Toddlers Play On The Internet!

               Innovative New Website Gives Little Kids A Fun, Educational Online Experience

Sykesville, Maryland -- -- Toddlers, get ready to bang away! KneeBouncers introduces a new website that gives babies and toddlers the opportunity to play on the internet, without the use of a mouse. Loaded with games, little kids can make magic happen on the screen... with any tap on the keyboard.

Invented out of necessity by two Maryland dads, KneeBouncers is the first and only site designed for babies.

"We have a feeling there's an army of toddlers out there who would probably string us up."

When startups go from a free model to a fee model, they hurt feelings. But it's tougher for some businesses than it is for others. For one particular business that went to a premium model last week, the move resulted in outright temper tantrums.

It's tough to break a toddler's little heart. But this is the position that Jim Robinson and Kurt Dommermuth, co-founders of the kiddie gaming site Kneebouncers.com, have found themselves in. Last week, after eight years of running Kneebouncers as a free site, Robinson and Dommermuth went to a paid model--$19.95 per year. Now, says Dommermuth, "We have a feeling there's an army of toddlers out there who would probably string us up."

"Information wants to be free," goes the mantra. The way the Internet has grown, people have...

The million-dollar question among Dancing with the Stars fans these days? How did Bristol Palin make it into the season 11 finals? "She deserves it," Dwts executive producer Conrad Green tells People. "And a significant portion of our viewing audience believes that, too." Palin, 20, has consistently received the lowest scores from the judges this season. Yet she's survived nine weeks of eliminations, beating out this season's more accomplished contestants like Audrina Patridge, Rick Fox, and Brandy. Some are questioning her staying power, saying that the show's voting system needs to be examined, but Green insists, "There's nothing in the voting system that looks at all strange.

Ronald Tutor and Colony Capital want to make it clear that their $660 million acquisition of Miramax Films from Disney is moving forward.

In the wake of media reports this week that two minority investors had dropped out and that the deal might never close, the group behind the new Filmyard Holdings went public Thursday with more details of the financing.

"All of the equity required to complete the purchase of Miramax from Disney has been fully committed by Ron Tutor, Colony Capital and Tom Barrack," Filmyard said. "Recent published reports suggesting otherwise are incorrect. All aspects of the transaction are on track, and we anticipate a closing as planned prior to year's end."

Meanwhile, sources said that while it is true Jim Robinson of Morgan Creek is out of the deal, mulitmillionaire retired engineer Jerome Swartz is still among the minority investors.

The source also said the bank debt portion...

It's a sad day. Miramax is no more. I am sickened and dismayed that Disney CEO Robert Iger was willing to sell Miramax Films to an investor group led by 69-year-old L.A. construction magnate Ron Tutor and Tom Barrack and Colony Capital LLC. (Disney's news release omits Morgan Creek CEO Jim Robinson, who was interested in joining the combine). "The Walt Disney Company announced today the sale of Miramax Films to Filmyard Holdings LLC for over $660 million subject to certain adjustments. Partners in Filmyard include Los Angeles businessmen Ron Tutor, Tom Barrack, Colony Capital LLC and other individuals. The transaction is subject to certain regulatory approvals and is expected to close between September 10, 2010 and the end of the calendar year." Disney CEO Robert ...

There is a tiny spark of life left in Harvey and Bob Weinstein's dream of reclaiming Miramax Films, the movie brand they named after their mother and father, but the light is flickering.

For the Weinsteins to succeed requires two things that appear unlikely at this moment: The current leading bidders, Colony Capital and Ronald Tutor, must falter; and Disney must take a lower price, which it hasn't been willing to do in months of talks so far.

Disney has made it clear it values Miramax at $700 million. The winning Tutor/Colony offer was $675 million, according to sources. The Weinsteins' last offer with investor Ron Burkle, which Disney declined, was $565 million. Other investors were spurned who offered about $550 million.

It seemed the brothers' final spark might have been extinguished Friday when the New York Post reported that Fortress Investments, another financial backer, was "out of the picture."

The lead on the Post story said,...

Director Antoine Fuqua is planning to direct a biopic about former legendary rapper Tupac Shakur.

We could call that a pretty awesome idea, because it’s well known thing that Tupac’s life definitely deserves a big screen adaptation. After all, we all had a chance to see that even a documentary of Shakur’s life, 2003’s Tupac: Resurrection, was nominated for an Oscar.

So, at this moment we have an info that the upcoming Fuqua’s project will be produced by Morgan Creek Productions and is expected to start shooting in September.

It all started when director said: “We’re doing Tupac Shakur’s movie next in September, that’s what I’ve been starting up and working on now with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson. I just got the green light from him and we’re going in September. I’ve just started to prep that.”

When it...

Digital Spy has confirmed that director Antoine Fuqua will make his latest film a biopic on the slain famed/iconic rapper Tupac Shakur.

“It looks like we’re doing Tupac Shakur’s movie next in September, that’s what I’ve been starting up and working on now,” he said. “I’ve been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson. I just got the greenlight from him and we’re going in September. I’ve just started to prep that.”

The director told the site that he is looking for an unknown actor to play the rapper, who was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1996.

“That’s the goal, I want to discover someone new,” he explained. “I want to discover a lot of new people if I can. Obviously I’m going to have to put some people in it that you know, just because actors have different skills.

We reported this weekend that Bruce Willis appeared likely to sign up for The Tomb, reuniting with director Antoine Fuqua who directed Willis in Tears of the Sun. Our initial reaction was whether Willis had time to do it, but actually, Fuqua has some business to take care of, as well.

Speaking to Digital Spy, Fuqua says his next project is a bio-pic about Tupac Shakur that he hopes will go into production later this year. "I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson," Fuqua confirms. "I just got the greenlight from him and we're going in September. I've just started to prep that."

So who will play Tupac? Well, not going with a recognizable name was a bonus for Notorious, which is actually a pretty good flick, and Fuqua says he'll try to find an unknown for the west coast side of that rivalry.

Ready for 2Pac to be resurrected for the big screen, in spirit at least? Apparently the lawsuit between Afeni Shakur's Amaru Entertainment and Morgan Creek has been settled -- whether in or out of court is unclear -- and the latter's long-planned Tupac Shakur biopic can now finally move ahead. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua will begin shooting the film about the rapper this September, according to his statements to Digital Spy (via The Playlist): "I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson," he told the site. "I just got the greenlight from him and we're going in September. I've just started to prep that."

Don't expect Anthony Mackie to reprise the role, which he played last year in the Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious (a film Fuqua was once attached to, by the way). Nor should you think up other established actors who'd fit the part.

Although last year's Notorious B.I.G. biopic did just moderate business at the box office, we all knew it was only a matter of time before his buddy Tupac would get his own film as well. The legendary rapper was shot and killed back in 1996, and since then he has been the subject of numerous documentaries (including the Academy Award-nominated Tupac: Resurrection), but he has never been featured in his own biopic. This week Digital Spy [1] has learned that a Tupac movie has officially been greenlit by Morgan Creek, with Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter) attached to direct. Fuqua had this to say: "It looks like we're doing Tupac Shakur's movie next in September, that's what I've been starting up and working on now... I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and Jim Robinson. I just got the greenlight from him and we're going in September.

'I want to go to the streets and find him anywhere he might be,' Antoine Fuqua says of casting Shakur film.

By Jayson Rodriguez

Tupac

Photo: Chi Modu

Following the success of the Biggie Small's biopic "Notorious," and the announcement late last year that a Run-Dmc flick is in the works, director Antoine Fuqua recently revealed his next project would be a feature about the life of Tupac Shakur.

"It looks like we're doing Tupac Shakur's movie next in September, that's what I've been starting up and working on now," Fuqua told the British entertainment website Digital Spy on Friday.

"I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and [the production company's CEO] Jim Robinson. I just got the green light from him and we're going in September. I've just started to prep that."

Fuqua ("Training Day," "Brooklyn's Finest") told Digital Spy that he would like to see...

'I want to go to the streets and find him anywhere he might be,' Antoine Fuqua says of casting Shakur film.

By Jayson Rodriguez

Tupac

Photo: Chi Modu

Following the success of the Biggie Small's biopic "Notorious," and the announcement late last year that a Run-Dmc flick is in the works, director Antoine Fuqua recently revealed his next project would be a feature about the life of Tupac Shakur.

"It looks like we're doing Tupac Shakur's movie next in September, that's what I've been starting up and working on now," Fuqua told the British entertainment website Digital Spy on Friday.

"I've been working on that for a while with Morgan Creek and [the production company's CEO] Jim Robinson. I just got the green light from him and we're going in September. I've just started to prep that."

Fuqua ("Training Day," "Brooklyn's Finest") told Digital Spy that he would like to see...

You don't need a pair of balls to be the new Alan Dale. Despite there being a horde of male actors seeking to out-cult the former Jim Robinson, one American actress is creeping up on him very quickly indeed. Famed for playing stern characters with a somewhat vulnerable core, Michelle Forbes has dazzled viewers with her quickly expanding conquest of cult television. Many thanks to Cult Spy reader Richard Hancock for turning us on to the wonders of Miss Forbes... Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ro Laren Forbes had an occasional part as a disgraced Bajoran Starfleet officer, appearing in eight episodes. Such was her popularity, Ensign Ro returned for the show's penultimate episode in 1994 to round off her compelling storyline. Also, despite all the rubbery prosthetics attached to her face, she attracted plenty of lustful male admirers during her stint. The Outer Limits (more)...

Antipodean actor Alan Dale was known only as 'Jim Robinson from Neighbours' for many years, but transformed his career through a string of appearances in an array of cult shows. However, there now seems to be a rival figure invading the franchises and becoming the 'go to man' when casting agents are looking for a shady villain. Step forward .eljko Ivanek. His distinctly pale features have never been near Ramsay Street but they're threatening to overshadow Jim Robinson himself... The X-Files Ivanek's first foray into the realms of cult television was back in 1994 alongside dour FBI Agents Mulder and Scully. In the first season episode 'Roland', the Slovenia-born actor played the eponymous character - an autistic janitor working in a laboratory where scientists are being brutally murdered one-by-one as they work on some hi-tech (more)...