NEWS: GENE HACKMAN, JOHN WICK, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE

Is Top Cruise going to follow up capeshit-killer Top Gun 2 with another big hit?  It looks like Mission: Impossible 7 is sending people ‘out of their minds’, according to test screenings.  Bob Bakish, president of Paramount Global, has said at the  2023 Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, & Telecom Conference:

“I haven’t seen all of ‘M-I:7,’ but I’ve seen a bunch of it. We actually just did the first test screening for an audience last week, and the audience lost their mind. And it’s still too long, they’ve got to cut it. But the movie is insane. It’s like a complete thrill ride. And Tom, he’s very good.”

Interesting question:  Will this one be the first to break the billion mark?

JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4

Early reactions are in for John Wick: Chapter 4.  No surprise, it’s all good:

Scott Mendelson, not one to gush over any type of movie, calls it one of the greatest action movies ever made:

GENE HACKMAN

Here are some images of manly man Gene Hackman.  He is 93 and is rarely seen out these days.  Hackman was said to be also seen out working in his yard with heavy tools.  What a fucking beast.