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‘A Teacher’ Trailer: Kate Mara Has An Inappropriate Relationship With One Of Her Students By Ben Pearson/Sept. 10, 2020 10:00 am EST Nick Robinson (Jurassic World; Love, Simon) is hot for teacher in A Teacher, the upcoming television adaptation of the 2013 movie of the same name. Kate Mara (House of Cards, Fantastic Four) plays a high school teacher who gets into an inappropriate relationship with one of her students, and as their affair becomes public, her world begins to crash down around her....

‘Disenchantment’ Part 2 Trailer: Dreamland Goes To Hell By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2019 4:30 pm EST In part 2 of Disenchantment, Dreamland is going to hell. Literally. The second part of Disenchantment season 1 is coming soon to Netflix, which has released an official trailer for Matt Groening’s animated fantasy-comedy series. Part 2 picks up immediately after the events of part 1, where things have turned a little…rocky for the residents of Dreamland....

‘Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.’ Unveils Funny First Footage And Sets The Table For What’s To Come [NYCC] By Ben Pearson/Oct. 9, 2020 6:03 pm EST After getting our first look at Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. this morning, we’re back to break down some highlights from the stop-motion animated comedy’s New York Comic Con panel that just aired. Co-creator and star Patton Oswalt was joined by fellow creator Jordan Blum and cast members Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation), Aimee Garcia (Lucifer), and Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) to show off a couple of clips from the series and talk about what fans can expect from this oddball show about the Marvel supervillain who has a comically oversized head....

‘Run’ Teaser: Sarah Paulson Thriller From ‘Searching’ Director Aneesh Chaganty Heads To Hulu In November By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 23, 2020 12:45 pm EST Just crown Sarah Paulson the queen of spooky season. The Emmy winning actress is front and center of several horror titles this fall, with Ryan Murphy’s flashy One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prequel Ratched and now with a thriller from Searching director Aneesh Chaganty, coming to Hulu this November....

‘She Will Rise’ Casts Elisabeth Moss As Controversial Congresswoman Katie Hill For Blumhouse TV By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 7, 2020 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plenty of political scandals have been turned into features films and TV shows, but the complicated rise and fall of former Congresswoman Katie Hill is one of the more unique stories to come out of Washington DC in recent memory, and soon it will become a streaming movie from Blumhouse TV....

‘Spring Blossom’ Review: A Controversial Subject Is Tackled With Grace, Humor, And Wisdom [TIFF 2020] By Siddhant Adlakha/Sept. 29, 2020 8:00 am EST The most striking thing about Spring Blossom, in which a 16-year-old girl falls in love with a man in his mid-thirties, is that it stars 20-year-old director Suzanne Lindon in the leading role.The 2020 Cannes and TIFF selection is a tender and amusing portrait of teen-hood, in which the character of Suzanne experiences a generational disconnect....

‘Superworld’, About A World Where Everyone Has Superpowers, Will Reunite Jason Bateman With ‘Game Night’ Writer Mark Perez By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 7, 2020 2:44 pm EST Game Night alumni Jason Bateman and Mark Perez are reuniting for Superworld, based on the Gus Krieger Audible original set in a world where everyone has superpowers except for one man. Bateman will direct the project while Game Night writer Perez will handle the script....

‘The Mandalorian’, ‘Lady And The Tramp’, ‘High School Musical: The Musical’ & More Teases On D23 Posters By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 23, 2019 7:30 am EST The D23 Expo is officially underway, and while the first burst of news was chock-full of theme park updates, that’s not all that’s coming out of Disney’s big convention. Don’t forget that Disney+ is coming this fall, and the House of Mouse is making a big push for some of the original shows and (not so original) movies coming to the streaming service....

‘The Mandalorian’ Early Buzz: This Is The ‘Star Wars’ Series You’ve Been Waiting For By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2019 12:45 pm EST Over in Los Angeles, Lucasfilm held a press junket for the upcoming series premiere of the first live-action Star Wars series, The Mandalorian. The show will debut on the new Disney+ streaming service when it launches on November 12, but some lucky members of the press at the junket were treated to 27-minutes of footage from the series....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 17, 2020 3:00 pm EST On Monday, Amy Adams blessed the internet with her presence by joining Instagram for the first time. But it turns out the Sharp Objects actress did it more than just out of self quarantine-induced boredom. In her first Instagram post, Adams announced that she and Jennifer Garner were teaming up to launch a joint charitable organization to help children affected by the coronavirus — by reading them bedtime stories....

Best Picture Winner ‘Parasite’ Heading To IMAX Theaters For A Week By Ben Pearson/Feb. 20, 2020 3:00 pm EST Hot off its Best Picture win at the Academy Awards, Bong Joon-ho’s incredible genre-bending social thriller Parasite was given a wide release into 2,000 theaters in the United States, essentially doubling its theatrical reach even though the film has been available on home video since the end of January. But now, the film can be seen in an even bigger and better way: in IMAX....

Cool Stuff: S.H. Figuarts Unveils One Of The Best 1989 ‘Batman’ Action Figures Ever By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 2020 6:00 am EST Even though there have been countless Batman action figures released over the years, there haven’t been a lot of film-accurate action figures inspired by Tim Burton’s big screen adaptation from 1989. In fact, with the exception of figures from NECA and Hot Toys, the Michael Keaton version of The Dark Knight has largely been ignored, especially when it comes to smaller scale figures....

Disney Made More Than $7 Billion From Remakes In The Last 9 Years By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 29, 2019 5:00 pm EST Rage all you want against Disney’s endless slew of live-action remakes of its animated classics, but you can’t deny the sheer box office power of those “re-imaginings.” Ever since Beauty and the Beast shattered box office records in 2017, the Disney remake box office numbers have almost always crossed the $1 billion threshold....

Harrison Ford Has No Idea What A Force Ghost Is And He Could Not Care Less By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2020 1:30 pm EST Harrison Ford is famous for not getting caught up in the minutiae of the Star Wars universe. When it comes to playing Han Solo, he’s there to deliver his lines to the best of his ability, but don’t expect him to know what a moof milker is or anything like that....

New ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’ Poster From Matt Ferguson Celebrates The Film’s 40th Anniversary By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 12, 2020 10:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Artist Matt Ferguson has been paying tribute to several beloved franchises this year, following up his Batman Begins poster with a gorgeous new poster for Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in honor of the landmark sci-fi sequel’s 40th anniversary....

New ‘The Mandalorian’ Merch Includes Baby Yoda Hungry For Eggs, Mando’s Helmet Replica, And More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2020 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It’s just another Mando Monday, and that means new merchandise inspired by the live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian has been revealed. This time we’ve got a new Funko POP featuring The Child with a hungry look in his eye, a prop replica of Mando’s shiny helmet, a new Black Series figure, a collection of stylish new artwork, and even a shirt featuring the helmets of some other recognizable Mandalorians....

Quibi Lost Over 90% Of Launch Users After Their Three-Month Trial Expired By Ethan Anderton/July 10, 2020 10:30 am EST The Verge obtained mobile analytics from Sensor Tower, which reveals that, of the roughly 910,000 users who signed up for Quibi at launch in April, only 72,000 of them remain after the three-month trial recently ended. That means they were only able to convince around 8% of their subscribers to convert to paying customers....

Revisiting ‘Flight Of The Navigator’, Disney’s Darkly Whimsical “Boy And His Alien” Movie By Rafael Motamayor/Jan. 19, 2021 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Out of the Disney Vault, where we explore the unsung gems and forgotten disasters currently streaming on Disney+.)Before Disney was known for its corporate synergy and obsession with remaking old animated classics, they actually took a lot of bold chances, especially in the ’70s and ’80s. And especially when it came to sci-fi, fantasy and horror films....

Superhero Bits: ‘Doom Patrol’ Soundtracks Available Now, Peter Shinkoda Was Poorly Paid On ‘Daredevil’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to take a look back at Spider-Man: The New Animated Series? Did you hear the Doom Patrol soundtracks are available online now? How dismal were Peter Shinkoda’s paychecks for Daredevil? What did Chris Evans recently have to say about the late Chadwick Boseman? Which other actor had their Suicide Squad role written specifically for them by James Gunn?...

The Morning Watch: Christopher Nolan’s Exposition Problem, ‘The Mandalorian’ Christmas Light Show & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 21, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, a video essay explores how Christopher Nolan might have a problem with the execution of exposition in movies like Tenet, Insterstellar, and Inception....