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Syfy Channel Filming ‘Police Academy’ Reunion (& Giant Lava Shooting Spiders)

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Riding the marginal success of their Sharknado series, the Syfy Channel has another silly B-movie in production: Lavalantula. It’s exactly what it sounds like, a tarantula that shoots lava. But this time they have an ace up their sleeve in the form of a mini-Police Academy reunion!

Lavalantula stars Steve Guttenberg (Mahoney), Leslie Eastebrook (Callahan), and Michael Winslow (Larvell Jones)! To be sure this band of cop comedy legends are in the right hands, Syfy has brought in Big Ass Spider (our review) director Mike Mendez.

According to EW, Lavalantula is currently in production and will air sometime next summer. For now, check out the poster below and PRAY Michael Winslow busts out some crazy sound effects with his mouth.

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Alden Ehrenreich Joins Horror Movie ‘Weapons’ from the Director of ‘Barbarian’

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Pictured: Alden Ehrenreich in 'Cocaine Bear'

The new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), the upcoming Weapons is assembling an impressive cast, with Josh Brolin (Dune 2) and Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) recently signing on. Deadline reports today that Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear) is the latest actor to join the cast of Cregger’s new movie.

The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.

The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”

Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”

Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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