‘The Crown’ Will Run For 6 Seasons After All By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2020 11:00 am EST The Crown will keep its Netflix throne for one more season than anticipated. The royal drama series, which was originally slated to run for six seasons before creator Peter Morgan decided to finish with five seasons, is reversing course. Now, The Crown season 6 will be the final season of the Netflix series....
‘The Evil Dead’ Returns To Drive-In Theaters Across The Country Beginning This Weekend By Ben Pearson/June 10, 2020 4:00 pm EST Sam Raimi’s 1981 independent horror classic The Evil Dead was billed as “the ultimate experience in grueling terror,” and now you can get scared all over again in the comfort of your own vehicle.The Evil Dead is returning to drive-in theaters across the United States, beginning this Saturday in Westbrook, Maine....
‘The Good Liar’ Trailer: Helen Mirren And Ian McKellen Play A Dangerous Game By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 3, 2019 3:30 pm EST Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen are paired together on the big screen for the first time in The Good Liar, a dark con man thriller based on the best-selling novel of the same name. And as if that prospect couldn’t get us excited enough, Good Liar will pit the two of them against each other in a thrilling cat-and-mouse game....
‘The Matrix’ 20th Anniversary Screenings Are Coming To AMC Theatres For One Week Only By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 5, 2019 5:30 am EST Warner Bros. Pictures, AMC Theatres, and Dolby Laboratories, Inc. announced The Matrix 20th anniversary screenings coming to over 135 AMC Theatres locations round the United States in the patented Dolby Cinema format, which includes Dolby Vision picture and Dolby Atmos sound. But the movie will only be in theaters for one week from August 30 through September 5....
Final ‘Mulan’ Trailer: Disney Goes For Huge Battle Sequences Instead Of Musical Numbers By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2020 3:45 pm EST Disney is bringing their epic animated movie Mulan to theaters again, this time in live-action and without that musical touch. But it doesn’t look like we’ll be missing those song and dance numbers, because this movie will be filled with warriors facing off in massive battles. The final Mulan trailer shows off the huge action sequences....
Halle Berry Will Save Us All From The Moon In Roland Emmerich’s ‘Moonfall’ By Chris Evangelista/May 19, 2020 2:30 pm EST Who will save us from the horrors of the moon in Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall? Halle Berry, that’s who. Berry is the latest cast member to join the Emmerich disaster pic, joining the previously-announced Josh Gad. In the movie, which has been knocking around for a few years, the moon is knocked out of orbit and hurtles towards Earth....
HBO Max Unveils Hundreds Of Movies Available From Warner Bros., The Criterion Collection, Studio Ghibli & More By Ethan Anderton/May 19, 2020 11:00 am EST HBO Max is coming on May 27, and while a lot of eyes will be on the original content coming from the new streaming service, plenty of people will be happy to see the huge library of movies coming with it. Since HBO Max falls under the WarnerMedia banner, there’s a huge roster of classic movies that will be available to stream, including some that aren’t available anywhere else....
Peacock’s Biggest Movies Like ‘Fast & Furious,’ ‘Jurassic Park,’ And ‘Shrek’ Are Already Leaving The Service By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2020 2:00 pm EST NBCUniversal’s new streaming service Peacock officially launched this week to little fanfare. And with equally little fanfare, Peacock’s biggest movies — including the Jurassic Park and Matrix franchises — are quickly leaving the service. Peacock soft-launched on April 15, and already it’s set to lose some of its biggest movies....
Pixar Announces ‘Luca’, A Coming-Of-Age Adventure Set In The Italian Riviera By Ethan Anderton/July 30, 2020 7:00 am EST Luca was announced today in an official press release from Pixar Animation Studios. The movie will be directed by Oscar nominee Enrico Casarosa, who was at the helm of the short La Luna, and produced by Andrea Warren (Lava, Cars 3). As has become customary with new Pixar movies, our first glimpse comes from a piece of concept art, and this peek at the movie is a stunning one....
Best Foreign Movies and TV Streaming Now Our Boys – HBO Country: IsraelGenre: Limited drama seriesCreator: Hagai Levi, Joseph Cedar, Tawfik Abu-WaelCast: Shlomi Elkabetz, Jony Arbid, Adam Gabay, Ruba Blal Asfour, Jacob Cohen. HBO delivers an unflinching but undeniably compassionate portrait of the true events that led to the outbreak of the war in Gaza in Our Boys. Created by a team of Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers and writers, Our Boys is a difficult but essential 10-hour journey that manages to be even-handed in its portrayal of one of the most divisive modern-day conflicts....
Ranking The New Quibi Shows From Worst To Best By Chris Evangelista/April 6, 2020 9:00 am EST Quibi! It’s here, folks, and it’s ready to change the streaming service game – or so it hopes. Quibi, which stands for “quick bites”, wants to be your go-to streaming service when you only have about 5 to 10 minutes to kill. Rather than offering traditional half-hour or hour-long content, Quibi gives viewers content either in quick five-minute bursts, or split up over a series of 5 to 10-minute parts that add up to a whole....
Tessa Thompson Launches New Production Company That Has A First-Look Deal With HBO/HBO Max By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 15, 2021 5:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Deadline reports that Tessa Thompson is set to executive produce two big book adaptations — Who Fears Death and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies — under an HBO and HBO Max first-look deal with her new production company, Viva Maude....
The Best Of Peteypedia: Everything About The ‘Watchmen’ Universe Revealed On HBO’s Companion Website By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 13, 2019 11:00 am EST It is fair to say that Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen has managed to surpass every expectation. The odds were truly against this show, but not only is it a poignant and relevant superhero story for 2019 that carries on the themes and plot threads of the original comic, it even adds to the established characters and canon....
The Morning Watch: ‘Contagion’ Cast Offers Coronavirus PSAs, ‘Parasite’ Symbolism Video Essay & More By Ethan Anderton/March 30, 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, the cast of Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic drama Contagion has delivered a set of PSAs about how to stop the spread of coronavirus....
Todd Phillips Is Now Open To A ‘Joker’ Sequel, But Only If It Has “Thematic Resonance” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 15, 2019 9:30 am EST From the outset, Todd Phillips was determined to not direct a Joker sequel. Phillips made it clear that he only directed the wildly successful film as a standalone feature, with no plans to continue the story of the Batman rogue. But following the massive box office success of Joker, which is expected to clear $1 billion worldwide by the end of the week, Phillips may be starting to change his thinking on coming back for a Joker sequel....
UPDATE: Todd McFarlane’s ‘Spawn’ Reboot Hasn’t Lost Jamie Foxx After All By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2020 2:45 pm EST Todd McFarlane has been talking about rebooting Spawn for the big screen for a long time now. In fact, we have stories going all the way back to 2009 about the comic creator trying to get the movie off the ground, even going so far as to wishing Leonardo DiCaprio would take the role....
What Is Quibi? A Super Bowl Spot Attempts To Explain The New Bite-Sized Streaming Service By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 31, 2020 9:30 am EST What the hell is Quibi? You’ve probably heard a lot about this upcoming mobile streaming service because everyone and their mother seems to be getting a show on it. But with all the streaming services out there, what makes Quibi special? Well, it’s intended to be a mobile-only content provider that delivers high-quality bite-sized programming with episodes of shows running roughly 10 minutes or less....
Ad Astra Special Look This Ad Astra video reveals more than any of the past frustratingly cryptic trailers, while still telling us nothing much at all. The film follows Roy on a mission to stop an uncontrolled anti-matter reaction which threatens not just the world but the entire solar system. But nothing about his mission is straightforward, as his long-missing father (Jones) is somehow involved, as is Ruth Negga’s mystery character, who can be seen walking down lots of corridors and looking very enigmatic (a true talent of her’s that she’s shown since Agents of S....
‘Avatar 2’ Set Photos: James Cameron Orchestrates Science Fiction Adventure In A Swimming Pool By Ben Pearson/May 6, 2020 1:00 pm EST Avatar 2, which has received approximately 4,000 release date changes over the past decade, is currently scheduled to hit theaters on December 27, 2021, which means we have a long road ahead filled with tiny reveals of photos and videos from the set. The process has already begun (Sigourney Weaver appeared in a set photo a week ago), and now producer Jon Landau has shared two new behind the scenes photos from the set featuring James Cameron directing the cast from on high....
‘Becky’ Red Band Trailer: Kevin James Tries To Murder A Little Girl By Ben Pearson/June 3, 2020 5:30 pm EST If you only know Kevin James from shows like The King of Queens or movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop or Pixels, you’re about to see him like you’ve never seen him before: as a ruthless killer. And Becky, the upcoming film in which he plays the villain, isn’t a spoof or played for laughs – it’s all done with a straight face....
