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‘Batwoman’ Creating New Lead Character To Replace Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 3, 2020 7:30 am EST A brand new character will be donning the cape and cowl for season 2 of Batwoman. Following the surprise departure of Ruby Rose from the CW superhero show, the network announced that it will be recasting the lead role. But Batwoman has opted to not recast a new actor in the role of Rose’s Kate Kane, instead creating a new character altogether....

‘Breeders’ Trailer: Martin Freeman Discovers Parenting Is Hard In New FX Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 10, 2020 5:30 pm EST Parenting is hard. Who knew? Apparently not Martin Freeman in his new FX comedy series Breeders, which brings the Fargo star back to the network that earned him an Emmy nomination. But despite the common knowledge of the difficulty of parenthood, a whole FX comedy series about Freeman struggling to raise two kids with his equally tired wife (Daisy Haggard) does sound like the kind of show I want to see....

‘Charlie’s Angel’ Music Video: Don’t Call Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, And Lana Del Rey Angels By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2019 4:30 pm EST Don’t call them angels. You wouldn’t like it when you call them angels. Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and Lana Del Rey team up to make one of the oddest musical trios ever for “Don’t Call Me Angel,” a new song created for Elizabeth Banks’ upcoming Charlie’s Angels reboot....

‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 Will Leave YouTube To Premiere On A Different Streaming Service By Ben Pearson/May 28, 2020 3:00 pm EST YouTube swept the leg, but Cobra Kai isn’t down for the count just yet. The streaming video site’s most acclaimed original scripted series won’t premiere its new season on that platform. Instead, Cobra Kai, the streamer’s TV continuation of the Karate Kid film franchise, is on the hunt for another home at a different streaming service, with Netflix and Hulu reportedly “leading the short list of contenders” who showed interest in picking up the show....

‘Cursed Films’ Season 2 Set To Haunt Shudder By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 6, 2020 1:00 pm EST Cursed Films, the excellent Shudder original series devoted to exploring tragic and mysterious events surrounding various film productions, is coming back for a second season. Season one covered The Omen, Poltergeist, The Exorcist, The Crow, and Twilight Zone: The Movie, and while the films that will be covered in season two have yet to be announced, season one director Jay Cheel is returning to shoot the new season, with plans to focus on some films outside of North America....

‘Deerskin’ Review: The Director Of ‘Rubber’ Made A Film About Being Obsessed With A Jacket [TIFF 2019] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 21, 2019 1:00 pm EST Have you ever loved a jacket? I mean really loved a jacket? Ruined your life for a coat? Destroyed your marriage and your finances for cool-looking cool-weather clothing? Have the fringes on your outfit caused you to live a fringe existence, evaporating your sanity, and driving you to a rampage?...

‘Dispatches From Elsewhere’ Trailer Discovers Something Hiding Behind The Veil Of Everyday Life By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 21, 2020 5:30 pm EST The new AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere looks mighty mysterious. Just what is this show really about? I’m not entirely sure, but it involves some sort of world hidden beneath our world, an international conspiracy, and Richard E. Grant. The Dispatches From Elsewhere trailer offers a tantalizing peek at the world of the show, and is accompanied by four character videos to take you even deeper into the story....

‘Mank’ Reveals David Fincher’s Soft And Hopeful Side Without Sacrificing His Cinematic Voice By Jack Giroux/Dec. 16, 2020 9:00 am EST I’m tipsy, and I’m thinking about Mank, both the movie and the man. I like to think he’d enjoy the thought of somebody drinking and writing about a portrayal of himself almost 70 years after his death. Maybe I’m wrong. What I do know is that Mank is a great movie....

‘Muppets Now’ Arrives On Disney+ This Summer By Ben Pearson/May 7, 2020 12:30 pm EST Last summer, word began to spread that Disney was developing a short-form series featuring The Muppets for the Disney+ streaming service. An official announcement soon followed, revealing that the series would be called Muppets Now and it would land sometime in 2020. And thanks to a recent press release, that wide release window has been officially narrowed down to Summer 2020....

‘The Call Of The Wild’ Featurette, TV Spot, And Clip: Harrison Ford’s Canine Companion Outruns An Avalanche By Ben Pearson/Feb. 8, 2020 2:00 pm EST Jack London’s 1903 book The Call of the Wild has been adapted for the screen several times already, but there’s only one that features Harrison Ford opposite a CG dog. 20th Century Studios is releasing this new iteration later this month, and they’ve unleashed a slew of marketing materials recently that we’ve gathered up below in one place....

‘The Eddy’ Trailer: Damien Chazelle Once Again Asks, “Ya Like Jazz?” By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 27, 2020 11:00 am EST You may already know this, but Damien Chazelle is a big fan of jazz. His movies Whiplash and La La Land are chock-full of jazz, baby, and he’s not ashamed to keep those sweet, sweet jazz tunes swinging into his next project – The Eddy. The Netflix series was created by Chazelle, who also directs some episodes, and follows a once-celebrated jazz pianist played by André Holland who owns a struggling jazz club in Paris....

‘The Gentlemen’ Trailer: Guy Ritchie Returns To His Crime Thriller Roots By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 2, 2019 8:00 am EST Despite what its title implies, The Gentlemen is not afraid to get a little dirty. The poster for the Guy Ritchie crime comedy seems to suggest some sort of riff on Kingsman or even the director’s sleek 2015 spy thriller The Man from U.N.C.L.E. But with the release of its first trailer, The Gentlemen may in fact be a bit of an ironic title....

‘The Green Knight’ Will Now Open In Theaters Summer 2021 By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 17, 2020 1:00 pm EST If you were holding out hope that A24 would just finally give in and release The Green Knight on VOD soon, I’m sorry to tell you that’s not happening. But here’s the good news: the film has a new release date – next summer. And for now, the plan is to release the Dev Patel pic in theaters, not on VOD....

‘The Terror: Infamy:’ A Supernatural Folklore And History Primer For The New Season Of AMC’s Horror Anthology By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 9, 2019 7:00 am EST One of the best shows on television last year, bar none, was AMC’s The Terror. The first season adapted the Dan Simmons novel of the same name, telling the complete story of a doomed Arctic expedition aboard the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. It was based on Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition, a real historical incident....

Cool Stuff: It’s Captain America Vs Captain America In The Iron Studios ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Statue Set By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2020 6:00 am EST Avengers: Endgame surprised fans by giving them a face-off that many thought could only ever exist in the comic books. During the time heist in the Battle of New York in 2012, Steve Rogers from 2023 is forced to square-off with a more headstrong version of himself from 2012....

Cool Stuff: NECA Gives ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ The Action Figure We’ve Been Waiting For By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2020 6:00 am EST NECA is responsible for bringing us some of the coolest action figures from blockbuster genre films like Predator, Halloween, Alien, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Child’s Play, Godzilla, Gremlins, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and countless more. But they’ve also given us action figures for movies that don’t usually get any collectible action figures, such as A Christmas Story, Pan’s Labyrinth, Home Alone, The Hateful Eight, and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation....

By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 17, 2020 2:30 pm EST Ben Stiller is ready to take on some crooked cops with The Seven Five, a film based on the documentary of the same name. The doc, which is pretty damn great, tells the story of some very, very dirty NYPD cops who reigned in the 1980s. At one point, White Boy Rick director Yann Demange was going to direct a feature adaptation for Sony, with The Queen’s Gambit scribe Scott Frank tackling the script....

HBO Max Originals Trailers: Anna Kendrick’s ‘Love Life,’ Sundance Documentary ‘On The Record,’ New ‘Looney Tunes Cartoons,’ And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 21, 2020 9:30 am EST HBO Max finally set its official launch date this morning, and with that announcement, the forthcoming WarnerMedia streaming platform released the first trailers for the HBO Max Originals that will debut on day one. Half a dozen HBO Max Originals will be available to watch on the day of the platform’s launch on May 27, including the new comedy series Love Life starring Anna Kendrick, a powerful Sundance documentary On the Record, and several new children’s shows for the quarantined kids who are craving new content....

Heart Biopic: ‘Portlandia’ Star Carrie Brownstein Directing Film About The Female-Led Rock Band By Ben Pearson/Dec. 1, 2020 1:00 pm EST In a recent interview with SiriusXM’s Lyndsey Parker (via THR), Heart co-founder, lead singer, and guitarist Ann Wilson spilled the beans about the biopic of the band. Some of Obst’s other producing credits include Interstellar, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Contact, The Fisher King, and Adventures in Babysitting....

Jason Statham Leaves ‘The Man From Toronto’ Weeks Before Production Begins By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2020 10:30 am EST Statham must have felt pretty passionately about these creative differences, because Deadline says it looks like he didn’t reach the point where his pay or play deal would have been activated, which would have given him a paycheck even if he didn’t star in the movie. Furthermore, shortly after Statham left the project, the actor also parted ways with WME agency....