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‘Coming 2 America’ First Look: Eddie Murphy And Arsenio Hall Are Back In Queens By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 17, 2020 9:30 am EST It’s hard to believe, but Coming 2 America is coming our way next year. Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall are back as Akeem and his trusted confidante Semmi, this time with Dolemite Is My Name director Craig Brewer behind the camera. Now, the first batch of photos have arrived to give us a glimpse of the comedy sequel....

‘Doctor Who’ Season 12 Premiere Clip: The Companions Do Some Investigating On Their Own By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 11, 2019 12:30 pm EST Doctor Who began a shiny, new progressive era last year with its introduction of the first female Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker, and a “family” of human companions who were more diverse than the 60-plus year series had ever seen before. Now Whittaker and showrunner Chris Chibnall have to prove that they can keep the hype going with their upcoming sophomore season, debuting on New Year’s Day....

‘Eloise’ And The U.K. Version Of ‘Dennis The Menace’ Getting Live-Action Adaptations By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 12, 2020 5:30 pm EST Variety reports that Eloise, Kay Thompson’s beloved children’s book about a misbehaving young girl who lives on the “tippy-top floor” of New York City’s Plaza Hotel, is getting adapted into a live-action movie. Linda Woolverton is writing the movie for MRC Films, the independent studio behind Knives Out and Mortal Engines, which recently acquired the film, TV, and stage rights to the series....

‘Gemini Man’ Clip: Will Smith Uses A Motorcycle As A Weapon Against Himself By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2019 1:00 pm EST In just under a few weeks, director Ang Lee and two Will Smiths will attempt to liven up the fall box office with Gemini Man. The sci-fi action flick finds Smith as aged expert assassin Henry Brogan, who suddenly finds himself targeted by another younger, gifted killer who always seems to be one step ahead of him....

By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 21, 2019 9:00 am EST Yesterday brought news that Joker director Todd Phillips was cooking up a sequel to the R-rated DC Comics movie that recently crossed $1 billion at the worldwide box office. On top of that, Phillips was said to be working on another villain origin story in the vein of Joker. But throughout the day, there were conflicting reports about whether or not any meeting between Todd Phillips and Warner Bros....

‘Lethal Weapon 5’ Still In The Works, According To Mel Gibson By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 18, 2020 12:30 pm EST Anytime I write a story about Mel Gibson I have to do a little song and dance at the beginning because it’s important. As an artist, I appreciate Gibson. I think he can deliver genuinely great performances, and I think he’s a damn good filmmaker – despite the backlash over the years, I still like Braveheart, and I think Apocalypto is fantastic....

‘Omniboat’ Review: This Boat-Centric Miami Anthology Comedy Defies Nearly All Description [Sundance 2020] By Ben Pearson/Jan. 28, 2020 4:00 pm EST Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia is the wildest movie of Sundance 2020, and maybe the most outlandish film at the festival since Daniel Radcliffe played a farting corpse in 2016’s Swiss Army Man. Unsurprisingly, Daniels (the directing duo responsible for that endearingly odd gem) are also partially responsible for Omniboat, an anthology-style love letter to the city of Miami as seen through the eyes – or rather, the windshield – of a rip-roarin’ speedboat....

Over the Moon Trailer Netflix has released the final trailer for Over the Moon, a striking new animated musical directed by Disney Legend and Oscar winner Glen Keane, which could turn the streamer into a real competitor against Disney. The streaming giant is already on its way, with last year’s Klaus becoming an unexpected darling at the awards circuit last year (and a real contender to steal the Oscar from Pixar)....

‘Star Wars: Tales From The Galaxy Edge’ VR Experience Will Expand The Mythology Of The Black Spire Outpost By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2020 8:30 am EST Following the release of Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series (which is coming to PlayStation VR sometime this summer), the creative minds at Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment studio ILMxLAB are working on another Star Wars VR project, this time centered around the Black Spire Outpost locale at the center of the Disney theme park land Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “On The Wings Of Keeradaks” By Bryan Young/March 6, 2020 9:00 am EST “On the Wings of Keeradaks” is the third episode of the “Bad Batch” arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ final season. Streaming now on Disney+, it shows the troops of the Bad Batch, alongside Rex, Anakin Skywalker, and the newly rescued Echo, working to escape Skako Minor in one piece....

‘Star Wars: The High Republic’ Reveals New Jedi Knights And Masters, Each With Distinct Personalities By Ethan Anderton/April 3, 2020 9:30 am EST It’s been roughly 37 years since 2020 started, so you might have forgotten about Lucasfilm’s announcement of a forthcoming publishing initiative called Star Wars: The High Republic, previously known by the codename Project Luminous. The new endeavor will tell a series of interconnected stories told across multiple publishers in the form of novels, comics, young adult books, and more, all set 200 years before the Skywalker saga began....

‘Tear Down This Wall’: ‘Veep’ Writer Ian Martin To Pen Cold War Satire By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 8, 2020 3:00 pm EST Contemporary Washington has surpassed the point of satire, so Hollywood has to go back in time to effectively mine new comedy from politics. Emmy-winning Veep writer Ian Martin will be going all the way back to 1986, with a new political satire on the historic meeting between U.S. president Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev in a Cold War movie titled Tear Down This Wall....

‘Tenet’ Soundtrack Now Online, Giving You All The Christopher Nolan BWAAAMMM Sounds You Can Handle By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 3, 2020 11:30 am EST If it’s a Christopher Nolan movie, there’s bound to be a few BWAAAMMMs. Even though Hans Zimmer, the inventor of the BWAAAMMM, isn’t handling the score for Nolan’s latest, Tenet, the soundtrack still comes loaded with that kind of loud, booming, anxiety-inducing sound. The Tenet soundtrack hails from Ludwig Göransson, and it’s pulse-pounding and propulsive – and it’s also now online....

‘The Great’ Trailer: Nicholas Hoult And Elle Fanning Are Russian Royals In Your ‘Favourite’ New Historical Satire By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 24, 2020 5:00 pm EST Helen Mirren played a sexy Catherine the Great in her later years in HBO’s steamy miniseries last year, but Elle Fanning will be lending the Russian ruler a satirical edge in the upcoming Hulu comedy series The Great. Watch The Great trailer below. The Great Trailer...

‘The Invisible Man’ Director Leigh Whannell On Gaslighting, Being Haunted, And Taking Monsters Seriously [Interview] By Kalyn Corrigan/March 2, 2020 7:00 am EST We, as a culture, are trained to poke holes in a woman’s story, to sympathize with the monster in the scenario, rather than the victim. Knowing this, director Leigh Whannell uses the vehicle of horror cinema to Trojan horse a moral lesson into a fun Blumhouse thriller. His latest film, The Invisible Man, an Elisabeth Moss-led Universal Monster reboot in which an ex-lover stalks his old beau by hiding in plain sight, is another way of relaying the fear traumatized women feel when formerly safe spaces become violated....

‘The Magicians’ Looks Forward, And Tries To Move On, With “Magicians Anonymous” By Vanessa Armstrong/Feb. 6, 2020 7:00 am EST After three episodes of dealing with (and for the most part, dealing with it well) the impact and ramifications of the Season 4 finale, this week’s episode of The Magicians, “Magicians Anonymous,” focused more on looking forward than dealing with the pain of the past. This shift in focus also caused the episode to be more plot-driven than character-based, but the change in pace is a good one, and the episode moves each storyline forward while setting up the Armageddon-level stakes for the rest of the season....

‘The Matrix 4’ Won’t Bring Back Hugo Weaving As Agent Smith, But It Sounds Like That Was The Original Plan By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2020 10:30 am EST The Matrix 4 is bringing back several familiar faces: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Jada Pinkett Smith. But don’t expect to see Hugo Weaving’s Agent Smith pop up in the film. According to Weaving himself, he’s not returning for the sequel, even though director Lana Wachowski wanted Weaving to reprise his role....

‘The Witcher’ Bloopers Finally Lets Us See Geralt Smile By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 25, 2020 11:00 am EST It turns out one of the most precious treasures on the Continent is Geralt of Rivia’s smile. So it’s a little unnerving to see Henry Cavill flashing those pearly whites so often in the blooper reel for The Witcher, which Netflix released this week. But, having been deprived of Geralt’s smile for so long (do we actually ever see him smile, or do anything more than smirk?...

2020 Golden Globes Video Highlights: Ricky Gervais’ Scathing Monologue And The Best Speeches Of The Night By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 6, 2020 8:30 am EST The 77th Golden Globes were held yesterday and there were certainly some surprises among the winners during one of Hollywood’s big awards nights. There were some phenomenal speeches from special honorees like Ellen DeGeneres and Tom Hanks, as well as winners like actress Michelle Williams and Parasite director Bong Joon-ho....

Cary Fukunaga’s ‘The Last Of The Mohicans’ TV Show Is Coming To HBO Max By Ben Pearson/Jan. 8, 2020 5:00 pm EST The Last of the Mohicans TV series has finally found a home at HBO Max. Last April, word came out that filmmaker Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective, the upcoming James Bond film No Time to Die) was developing a new adaptation of author James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel for Paramount Television, and that the project was searching for an outlet....