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We’re Giving Away Two Signed ‘Daniel Isn’t Real’ Posters; Here’s How To Win By Ben Pearson/Dec. 2, 2019 10:00 am EST Director Adam Egypt Mortimer (Some Kind of Hate) is back with a new horror film called Daniel Isn’t Real, which tells the story of what happens when a man’s imaginary friend from childhood comes back into his life and begins exerting control in dangerous ways. We’re giving away two posters from the film signed by Mortimer and star Patrick Schwarzenegger, and you can find out how to enter to win below....

Weekend Box Office: ‘Angel Has Fallen’? More Like Angel Has Risen! To The Top Of The Box Office, That Is! By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 26, 2019 4:00 pm EST I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who loves the Has Fallen movies. Yet they keep making money. Case in point: Angel Has Fallen, the latest film to focus on Gerard Butler’s ass-kicking secret service agent, just topped the weekend box office at $21....

Willem Dafoe On ‘My Hindu Friend’ And Working With Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson And Lars Von Trier [Interview] By Alex Arabian/Jan. 17, 2020 12:00 pm EST When the term character actor is used in film discourse, Willem Dafoe is one of the most common actors to come to the collective mind of cinephiles. However, he is, and always has been, a leading man who simply isn’t deterred by the size, or lack thereof, of a given role to which he connects....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 14, 2020 2:30 pm EST Bosch season 6 is premiering later in 2020, which is good news for Bosch fans. Not so good news: There’s only one more season left after that. “I’m proud of what we have accomplished with Bosch and look forward to completing the story in Season 7. It’s bittersweet, but all good things come to an end, and I am happy that we will be able to go out the way we want to,” said Michael Connelly, whose books inspired the show....

‘Earwig And The Witch’ Trailer: See Studio Ghibli’s First CG Animated Feature By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 2, 2020 2:00 pm EST It only took a bit of witchy, CGI magic to revive Studio Ghibli after the revered Japanese animation studio temporarily shuttered its doors in 2014 following the supposed retirement of anime titan Hayao Miyazaki. But it’s Miyazaki’s son, Goro Miyazaki, who will direct the studio’s first film in 7 years, and Studio Ghibli’s first-ever fully CG-animated feature, Earwig and the Witch....

‘Euphoria’ Returning With Two New Episodes Before Season 2, Including A Christmas Special By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 20, 2020 11:00 am EST HBO’s Euphoria will return with two new episodes ahead of its eventual second season. HBO had previously announced a “special COVID episode” of the series, and now they’re adding a Euphoria Christmas special, too. Both will continue the story from season 1, and – in case you were wondering – both were produced under COVID-19 guidelines....

‘Gremlins’ Is Getting A Theatrical Re-Release In 4DX, Just In Time For Christmas By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 25, 2019 5:30 am EST Every year, Gremlins is one of the more non-traditional Christmas movies that families like to enjoy. It’s not exactly filled with holiday joy and cheer, but it features a batch of nasty little monsters unleashed on a small town after a family is a little too careless with a unique creature called a Mogwai....

‘Happiest Season’ Trailer: Kristen Stewart And Mackenzie Davis Lead Hulu’s Christmas Rom-Com By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2020 5:30 pm EST Netflix may churn out a ton of Christmas movies every year, but Hulu is not content to completely cede that territory to its streaming rival. While it certainly won’t be able to match Netflix in terms of sheer quantity of Christmas films, Hulu is hoping that the quality of a film like Happiest Season, a new rom-com starring Kristen Stewart (Personal Shopper) and Mackenzie Davis (Blade Runner 2049), will elevate it into the zeitgeist....

‘His Dark Materials’ Delivers A Real Mother Of A Season Finale With “Æsahættr” By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 29, 2020 7:00 am EST One of my favorite things about His Dark Materials is how it starts off as a fun children’s fantasy with an occasional smattering of theological rage and despair, before it goes full-tilt “If God exists, why don’t we kill him?” “Æsahættr,” the finale of the extremely successful second season of His Dark Materials, is all about that turning point....

‘Star Wars: Resistance’ Has Revealed The Franchise’s First Gay Couple By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 1, 2019 11:30 am EST Despite taking place a long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, the Star Wars universe has been sorely lacking in LGBT representation on the screen. But amidst the dozens of Star Wars TV shows there has to at least one canonically gay couple. The Star Wars: Resistance executive producers confirmed that there is, and they’ve been hiding in plain sight....

‘The Kingkiller Chronicle’ TV Show Won’t Happen At Showtime, Is Searching For A New Home By Ben Pearson/Sept. 16, 2019 1:00 pm EST The Kingkiller Chronicle TV show is dead at Showtime, but it’s hoping to live long enough to sing another day elsewhere. The fantasy TV series, set a generation before the events of the first book in Patrick Rothfuss’s acclaimed novels, has been in development for years with the multi-talented Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Mary Poppins Returns) on board as both a creative producer and musical mastermind....

‘The Sandman’ Audible Trailer: Neil Gaiman’s Acclaimed Comic Book Series Becomes A Dreamy Audio Drama By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 6, 2020 11:30 am EST Neil Gaiman’s surreal comic book masterpiece The Sandman seemed like it would prove to be unadaptable — though attempts to bring it to live-action have been made over the years. But before The Sandman would ever hit our screens (with the latest project being made as a Netflix series), it will hit our eardrums....

‘Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made’ Trailer: Tom McCarthy Has A Disney+ Movie By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 7, 2020 11:00 am EST Dozens of directors are making the jump to streaming, with more options for auteurs to push the envelope or get an unlimited budget for a passion project. Tom McCarthy, the director of the powerful Oscar-winning film Spotlight, is joining that group to direct…a Disney+ movie. McCarthy directs the family film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, based on the book series of the same name by Stephan Pastis....

‘Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t’ Trailer: Documentary About The Iconoclastic Comics Creator Heads To SYFY By Ben Pearson/July 20, 2020 3:30 pm EST It takes a certain combination of determination, hard work, and talent to become a luminary in two separate fields, but Todd McFarlane has done it. The comic book creator and toy guru was one of the most lauded comic book artists of the 1990s, wowing readers with his work on Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man and launching his own title, Spawn, under Image Comics, which he helped found....

2020 WGA Awards Winners Give Hope To ‘Parasite’ And ‘Jojo Rabbit’ For The Oscars, HBO Dominates TV Categories By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 2, 2020 10:00 am EST With the Academy Awards coming next week, awards season is coming to a close. Even though it seems like there won’t be many surprises when the trophies are handed out, the 2020 Writers Guild Awards winners handed out this weekend would seem to indicate that there could still be some surprises when the major categories are handed out....

A New Quentin Tarantino Short Will Run In Front Of ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ At New Beverly Cinema In LA By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 29, 2019 2:00 pm EST Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has already crossed a few box office milestones for an original film this year, but it may be soon getting some repeat business. At the Los Angeles-based New Beverly Cinema, viewers of Quentin Tarantino’s latest film will get treated to a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood short directed by Tarantino himself....

Asajj Ventress Is The Most Underrated Villain In All Of ‘Star Wars’ By Rafael Motamayor/March 4, 2020 7:00 am EST They say a hero is only as good as their villain, and Star Wars has plenty of great villains. From the pure relentless force of horror that is Darth Vader, to Darth Sidious’ ability to manipulate even the most powerful beings in the galaxy, to Darth Maul’s flair and viciousness, the franchise has no shortage of impressive baddies....

Cannes 2020 Lineup Would’ve Included ‘The French Dispatch’, Pixar’s ‘Soul’, And More By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2020 1:30 pm EST Cannes is still canceled, but the prestigious festival still decided to announce the films they planned to screen this year. Now, many of the films that played will now be able to use their Cannes selection to their advantage even if they won’t get to screen at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès....

Lupita Nyong’o Reprised Her ‘Us’ Role For Halloween Horror Nights By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 30, 2019 3:00 pm EST Lupita Nyong’o, good sport that she is, decided to jump back into her red jumpsuit and surprise folks at the Halloween Horror Nights Us maze to reprise her character from the Jordan Peele film. Nyong’o first went through the maze herself, and had the bejesus scared out of her. Then she easily slipped back into character, much to the surprise of other people traveling through the maze....

More People Watched ‘Tiger King’ Than ‘Stranger Things 2’ By Chris Evangelista/April 8, 2020 2:30 pm EST Tiger King continues its strange reign. In the last month, the series has become the go-to watch for all of us poor chumps stuck inside. It’s the ultimate in quarantine viewing – a weird, shocking docuseries about truly terrible people, and we all apparently can’t get enough of it. And a new report states that Tiger King has become one of Netflix’s biggest hits – drawing an even bigger audience than Stranger Things 2....