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CBS And Viacom Merge, Reuniting After More Than A Decade Apart By Ben Pearson/Aug. 13, 2019 2:30 pm EST Deadline brings word about the long-discussed merger, which results in what board chair Shari Redstone called “a world-class, multiplatform media organization that is well-positioned for growth in a rapidly transforming industry.” The transforming industry seems to be a primary reason behind this merger, because it puts brands like Paramount Pictures, CBS, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, VH1, Comedy Central, Pluto TV, and The Paramount Network under the same corporate roof....

Exclusive: ‘Murder Bury Win’ Clip Hands You A Bear Trap By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 20, 2020 9:00 am EST We’re debuting an exclusive clip from Murder Bury Win, a new dark comedy that’s having its Texas Premiere at Austin Film Festival on October 22. In the movie, three friends create a board game that they hope will lead them to success. It doesn’t work out – which leads the trio to turn to a mysterious make who is willing to publish the game as long as he can take credit for it....

Running Out of Ice, But Doing Fine on Eggs The first episode of Watchmen introduced viewers to a lost episode from American history: namely, the real-life Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, otherwise known as the Black Wall Street Massacre. Two black parents emerge with their son from a movie theater into a disorienting scene where planes are flying in low overhead, smoke is rising up from storefronts, and people are being shot in the street....

J.J. Abrams Wants The Original ‘Star Wars’ Theatrical Cuts Released, Just Like The Rest Of Us By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 12, 2019 12:30 pm EST A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, the original Star Wars trilogy wasn’t overloaded with CGI added after the fact. Greedo didn’t shoot first, nor did he yell out “Maclunkey!” Han Solo didn’t have a conversation with a cartoonish Jabba the Hutt and step on his tail....

Leslye Headland’s Female-Led ‘Star Wars’ Series Will Be A Martial Arts Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 6, 2020 10:00 am EST Back in April, it was reported that Leslye Headland, the filmmaker behind movies like Bachelorette and Sleeping With Other People and one of the brains behind Netflix’s mind-bending series Russian Doll, was set to write and act as showrunner on a female-centric Star Wars series for Disney+. What could that show look like?...

Spider-Man No More: Kevin Feige No Longer Producing Webslinger’s Movies For Sony Pictures [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 21, 2019 10:15 am EST Update: io9 spoke with Sony about this situation, and a representative told them “it’s their belief this dispute is simply over a producer credit and negotiations are ongoing,” and confirmed that “Feige has contributed to other Spider-centric movies that he did not receive a producer credit on.” Our original story follows....

SXSW Film Awards Will Still Happen Despite Festival Cancelation By Chris Evangelista/March 13, 2020 3:30 pm EST SXSW may be canceled due to coronavirus fears, but some vestige of the fest will live on this year in the form of the film awards. The SXSW Film Festival will be handing out awards to films set to premiere at the fest. While this might seem a little odd, it’s also bound to be helpful to filmmakers who have been broadsided by the cancelation....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To Netflix In September 2020 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 20, 2020 3:00 pm EST Wow, the summer is almost over! Hard to believe since we’ve all been having so much fun, doing all these summer activities like staying indoors and fearing for our lives. Anyway, as August ends and September rolls in, a whole new slew of new stuff arrives on Netflix. So here are the best TV shows and movies coming to Netflix in September 2020....

By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 23, 2020 12:30 pm EST It’s early days on the Alex Cross TV series, so it’s not clear if the series will be adapting a single book featuring the character for an entire season or if it will use multiple stories from several books to flesh out the show. There are 29 books starring the character, so there’s a lot to choose from. But the series could also easily go in entirely different direction and use the character to lead a crime procedural kind of show....

By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 16, 2020 1:30 pm EST Aquaman director James Wan is returning to Atlantis sooner than expected. Not only will Wan helm the eventual Aquaman sequel, he’s also executive producing an Aquaman animated mini-series set to make a splash on HBO Max. The series, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, will have standalone episodes that sound as if they take place after the events of the live-action Aquaman movie. Yeah-uh! Ready to dive back into the world of Aquaman?...

By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2020 9:30 am EST In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, Hollywood creators are listening even more to the demand for more Black voices to be heard in film and television. And in the case of two animated series featuring mixed race characters, we will literally be hearing more Black voices. Netflix’s Big Mouth and Apple TV+’s Central Park, a pair of animated comedies for adults, have featured female mixed race characters voiced by actresses Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell respectively....

‘Boss Level’ Trailer: Frank Grillo Is Sick Of Dying Over And Over Again By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 2021 11:00 am EST Last year, Hulu gave us a charming romance with a time loop twist in the form of Palm Springs, one of our favorite movies of 2020. This year, director Joe Carnahan (The Grey, The A-Team) is mixing up the time loop formula at Hulu in another way by giving us big, brutal action sequences in Boss Level....

‘Living With Yourself’ Trailer: Two Paul Rudds Equals Twice The Absurd Fun By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 16, 2019 4:00 pm EST Paul Rudd has already defied aging, so obviously the next thing for him to defy is the natural order of the world. It’s Paul Rudd versus Paul Rudd in the new Netflix black comedy series Living With Yourself, which follows a man who undergoes a strange spa treatment only to discover that he’s been replaced by a better version of himself....

‘No Time To Die’ Clip: Daniel Craig’s James Bond Is Looking Worse For Wear By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 7, 2020 11:30 am EST No Time to Die has felt the brunt of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic not once, but twice, with the James Bond action flick in the full swing of its promo tour back when the pandemic hit the U.S. in March. MGM would end up delaying the Cary Joji Fukunaga-directed Bond movie by seven months — what seemed like a drastic step that ended up still falling short amid the still-ongoing pandemic....

‘The Fanatic’ Trailer: John Travolta Becomes Jason Voorhees For Director Fred Durst By Chris Evangelista/July 25, 2019 3:30 pm EST We may never get a new Friday the 13th movie, but here’s the next best thing: The Fanatic! This thriller from director Fred Durst (yes, that Fred Durst) features John Travolta as a crazy fan stalking his favorite celebrity. And part of that stalking apparently involves a scene where Travolta dresses up exactly like Jason Voorhees and brandishes a knife....

‘The Goldbergs’ Season 8 Will Pay Tribute To The Spoof Classic ‘Airplane!’ [Comic-Con 2020] By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2020 8:00 am EST ABC’s family sitcom The Goldbergs was one of many shows that had to cut their season a bit short when the coronavirus pandemic shut down production on movies and TV shows across the world. The cast and crew were unable to complete what would have been the final episode of the seventh season, and apparently that finale included a major event that has now been pushed back to the upcoming eighth season....

‘The Stand’ TV Series Cast Finds Yet Another Plague Survivor In Nat Wolff By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 2, 2019 12:30 pm EST The Stand, the CBS All Access adaptation of Stephen King’s epic post-apocalyptic saga, has found itself yet another cast member. Since King’s book is loaded with characters, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are still plenty of announcements to come. The latest The Stand TV series cast member is Nat Wolff, who will play Lloyd Henreid, one of the characters who aligns himself with the evil Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård)....

‘The Twentieth Century’ Review: Possibly The Craziest And Most Unique Biopic Ever Made [TIFF 2019] By Andrew Todd/Sept. 18, 2019 9:00 am EST The biopic genre is one of the more predictable out there. Even outside the musical-biopic subgenre, now so heavily coded that films functionally identical to parodies still get nominated for Academy Awards, there are expectations, and most of them are filled most of the time. Chief among them is fanatical reverence for their subjects, painting them as the most important figures in their respective fields through slick, gauzy, prestige-project filmmaking....

‘Tiger King’ Trailer: Murder, Mayhem, And Madness Await In Netflix Documentary Series By Ben Pearson/March 10, 2020 12:00 pm EST We’ve often decried Netflix’s “quantity over quality” strategy as being bad for creators, as too many projects have quietly debuted and quickly slid into the shapeless morass of content on the streaming service, rarely to be thought about again. But one of the benefits to their content onslaught is that every so often, a project comes along and captures our attention when we had no idea it was even in the works in the first place....

‘Titanic’ And ‘The Princess Bride’ Are Getting Board Game Adaptations By Ben Pearson/Aug. 13, 2020 10:00 am EST Rob Reiner’s film adaptation of The Princess Bride came out in 1987. James Cameron’s Titanic was released a decade later in 1997. But since time is a meaningless morass of nothingness in the throes of a global pandemic, now is as good a time as ever for those movies to receive new tabletop game adaptations....