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‘Picard’ Season 2: Watch Patrick Stewart Invite Whoopi Goldberg To Return As Guina By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 22, 2020 2:30 pm EST Star Trek: Picard brings back not just Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, but several other familiar Trek characters as well. One character who isn’t back, though: Guinan, the bartender played by Whoopi Goldberg. But that’ll change for Picard season 2. Stewart was recently a guest on Goldberg’s show The View, and he used the opportunity to officially invite Goldberg to join Picard season 2....

‘Safety’ Trailer: Disney+ Debuts An Inspirational True-Life Football Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2020 4:30 pm EST Disney is never lacking in inspirational true-life stories, and now, neither will Disney+. The Disney streaming platform released the trailer for its latest original film, Safety, an inspirational sports drama based on the true story of former Clemson University football safety Ray McElrathbey and how he raised his 11-year-old brother while becoming a football star....

‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Old Friends Not Forgotten” By Bryan Young/April 17, 2020 10:00 am EST This is it. The Siege of Mandalore. The thing we’ve all been waiting for as the seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars draws to a close. At the end of the last episode, we watched as Ahsoka Tano left with the Mandalorian Bo Katan in order to work out a plan to capture or kill the renegade former Sith lord Maul once and for all....

‘The Crown’ Season 3 Teaser Gives A New Look At Olivia Colman As Queen Elizabeth II By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 12, 2019 7:00 am EST Long live the Queen, in her many forms. Olivia Colman takes the throne as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown season 3, which recasts the entire ensemble to reflect the passage of time. Colman takes over from Claire Foy, who won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for playing the young queen in Netflix’s lavish melodrama series, and dons a familiar dress and sash that longtime viewers will recognize....

‘The Lost King’: Richard III’s Remains Were Discovered Under A Parking Garage, And There Will Be A Film About It By Ben Pearson/Nov. 6, 2020 4:30 pm EST Are you ready for a Philomena reunion? Good, because English actor, writer, and comedian Steve Coogan (Philomena) is reuniting with his old Philomena co-writer Jeff Pope to tackle the screenplay for The Lost King, a new drama/comedy from Philomena director Stephen Frears. Will Dame Judi Dench, who actually played the titular Philomena, eventually get involved and make this reunion even more robust?...

‘The Mandalorian’ Behind-The-Scenes Video Reveals The Groundbreaking Tech Used To Create The Series By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 20, 2020 9:24 am EST It’s hard to believe, but much of The Mandalorian was, well, not real. Not physically, anyway. The series employed a relatively new technology called StageCraft, which uses a rear-projected LED screen to create a reactive environment that moves with the camera. It’s kind of like green screen, but better – and far more advanced....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2019 5:00 pm EST Since leaving Saturday Night Live in 2013, Jason Sudeikis has kept pretty busy on the big screen. But now he’s headed back to television with a series regular role in a new comedy set up at Apple TV+. Ted Lasso will star Jason Sudeikis as the title character, an idealistic all-American football coach hired to manage an English football club even though he has no previous experience with the sport at all....

Blumhouse’s ‘Fantasy Island’ Movie Is All About Creating Modern Fantasies [Exclusive] By Fred Topel/July 30, 2019 3:30 pm EST Fantasy Island was a popular TV series with new guest stars every week, as new visitors came to live out their fantasies on that island. Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize were the regulars as the proprietors of the island. For the film adaptation, Blumhouse cast a full slate of Fantasy Island guests, including Michael Rooker, Portia Doubleday and Ryan Hansen....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II’ Super Shredder Action Figure Goes Up For Pre-Order August 10 By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 9, 2020 9:00 am EST Hot on the heels after offering pre-orders for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze action figure two-pack with the mutant villains Tokka and Rahzar, the toy wizards at NECA have another hulking figure from the comic book movie sequel on the way, and you can get it very soon....

Get An Apple TV 4K For 50% Off At AT&T, Which Is Useful For Much More Than Just Apple TV+ By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2019 8:30 am EST If you head to the AT&T online store, you can snag an Apple TV 4K for $90, which is half off the usual $180 price tag. The good news is that you don’t need to be an AT&T customer in any capacity to take advantage of the deal....

Hollywood Can Resume Film & TV Production On June 12, But It Won’t Be Easy By Ethan Anderton/June 8, 2020 9:30 am EST At the start of this past weekend, the California Department of Public Health said this in a statement from the Governor’s Office (via The Hollywood Reporter): That means each production will need to seek approval for production based on where and when they want to start shooting. If the COVID-19 numbers seem too risky, some productions might have to hold off....

How A Tiny Moment Between Harley Quinn And Black Canary Became A Defining Moment In ‘Birds Of Prey’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 4, 2020 10:00 am EST It didn’t take long after the Birds of Prey had its world premiere for one of its scenes to already become the subject of conversation. But it wasn’t some tie-in to Batman or the Joker, or Harley Quinn wreaking some fantastic havoc. It was a blink-and-you’ll-miss it moment during the film’s climactic fight scene when Harley Quinn tosses a hair tie to Black Canary, whose long tresses had gotten in her face....

Jon Favreau Talks About His Son Baby Yoda, Why Baby Yoda Merch Wasn’t Ready Right Away, And What The Future Holds By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 5, 2019 12:30 pm EST Speaking with THR, Jon Favreau, creator of The Mandalorian, had some things to say about America’s favorite green child. “We’ll learn more about him over the course of the season,” Favreau promised: I mean, yeah, sure. But I think the real reason people love Baby Yoda so much is because he’s so darn cute, and because he’s basically a walking meme factory....

Marvel’s ‘Cloak And Dagger’ Canceled At Freeform After Two Seasons By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 25, 2019 12:30 pm EST Now that Kevin Feige has ultimate power in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the new Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment, it seems like he’s cleaning house and getting all the comic book company’s media ducks in a row. Or in this case, he’s putting one of them out of their misery....

Michael B. Jordan Calls On Hollywood Agencies And Studios To Hire Black Staff By Ben Pearson/June 8, 2020 2:30 pm EST After Frances McDormand’s Oscar-winning speech advocating for inclusion riders in Hollywood to help usher in more diversity in front of and behind the camera, actor/producer Michael B. Jordan was one of the first people to publicly announce that he and his Outlier Society production company would be implementing an inclusion rider going forward....

New On Blu-Ray: ‘Ready Or Not’, ‘Hustlers’, ‘It Chapter Two’ ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 4, 2019 7:00 am EST Since this column is bi-weekly, I tend to piece together releases for both the week the column runs and the week following. This latest entry has the distinction of having two films that are out this week, and two that are out next week. In other words, I’m helping you plan ahead....

Nickelodeon’s ‘Are You Afraid Of The Dark’ Revival Is A Reminder That Kids Need Horror Stories, Too By Rafael Motamayor/Nov. 7, 2019 10:00 am EST Following the commercial boom of horror movies during the 1980s, the ’90s are widely regarded as a bad decade for horror, being stuck between the golden age of the ’80s and the reinvention during the 2000s that reflected the dark times the world was experiencing. But the 1990s was a great decade when it came to horror aimed at a younger audience....

Quibi Exploring “Strategic Options” For Its Future, Including A Possible Sale By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 21, 2020 2:30 pm EST Quibi, the short-form streaming service that was met with extreme skepticism from its inception, is facing an uncertain future. A new report indicates that the service is exploring “strategic options” including a potential sale. Who would buy Quibi at this point? I don’t know – maybe if we all start a GoFundMe page we could all go in on it together....

Rachel Bloom Is Making An NSYNC Superfan Movie With Boy Band Member Lance Bass By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 1, 2020 11:00 am EST From the late 1990s through the early 2000s, boy bands were all the rage, and one of the best and most popular was undoubtedly NSYNC. Comprised of Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Joey Fatone, the pop musical group had tons of hit singles and millions of adoring fans around the world....

The Morning Watch: Coronavirus Tips From ‘Conan’, Recap The First Two Seasons Of ‘Westworld’ & More By Ethan Anderton/March 13, 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, as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the United States, comedian Conan O’Brien brings some levity to the situation with some tips on how to avoid it on Conan....