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Now Scream This: The Best Horror Movies To Stream For Halloween 2019 By /Film Staff/Oct. 29, 2019 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to Now Scream This, a column where horror experts Chris Evangelista and Matt Donato tell you what scary, spooky, and spine-tingling movies are streaming and where you can watch them.)Matt: Halloween is so close I can taste and wow, it tastes rank. How else would rotten zombie flesh, newt eyes, and intestinal slasher trophies tickle your taste buds?...

Rian Johnson Shares His Hopes For ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’, A Film He Knows Nothing About By Ben Pearson/Dec. 2, 2019 4:30 pm EST Knives Out director Rian Johnson delivered the most subversive Star Wars movie yet with The Last Jedi. Even though he’s hard at work developing a new separate trilogy of films set elsewhere in the galaxy far, far away, Johnson says he knows nothing about this month’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

Scrapped ‘New Mutants’ Sequel Would’ve Had Antonio Banderas Playing The Villain By Chris Evangelista/March 12, 2020 2:00 pm EST Who is Emmanuel da Costa? In the comics, he’s the father of the New Mutant character Sunspot, and a ruthless businessman who joined the Hellfire Club. In the upcoming The New Mutants movie, Sunspot appears as a character played by Henry Zaga. And according to director Josh Boone, the original plan was to set up Sunspot’s evil father for the sequel....

Small-Screen Stream: The Best Spooky Shows To Stream This Halloween Season By Amelia Emberwing/Oct. 4, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Small-Screen Stream, a feature where we share the best television shows streaming and where you can watch them.)Hello, guys and ghouls. All time is spooky time, but since it’s currently socially acceptable spooky time, we’re going to talk about some of the fun, weird, and scare-filled horror shows you can stream this month....

The Morning Watch: VFX Artists React To Evolution Of The Hulk, Borat Online Q&A Session, And More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 26, 2020 5:00 am EST In this edition, listen as VFX artists take a look at the evolution of the different big screen versions of The Incredible Hulk, from Eric Bana in Hulk in 2003 to Mark Ruffalo in Avengers: Endgame. Plus, watch a virtual Q&A session that Borat had with fans over the weekend, and get some laughs from the Hubie Halloween bloopers reel....

The Quarantine Stream: “The Case Of The Missing Hit” Is A Riveting Episode Of ‘Reply All’ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 16, 2020 7:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Podcast: Reply All (specifically, Episode 158: The Case of the Missing Hit)Where You Can Stream It: Wherever you get your podcasts (or right here)The Pitch: We all know how frustrating it can be to have a lyric or a melody from a song stuck in our heads when we don’t know what the full song is....

Watergate Drama From Producer Sam Esmail Will Star Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, And More By Ben Pearson/Feb. 21, 2020 11:30 am EST Homecoming’s Sam Esmail is bringing another podcast to television. He’ll executive produce Gaslit, a drama that focuses on the “untold stories and forgotten characters” of Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The series is based on the popular podcast Slow Burn, which debuted in 2017, and the TV adaptation has lined up an impressive cast: Julia Roberts, Sean Penn, Armie Hammer, and Joel Edgerton are all set to star....

We Visited The Creepy And Kooky Birthplace Of The Addams Family By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 14, 2019 8:00 am EST Nestled at the intersection of Elm Street and Dudley Ave., in an quiet suburban street in Westfield, New Jersey, is the house that inspired Charles Addams to create the looming, gothic Addams Family Mansion. There’s nothing very remarkable about this house, with its white wood paneling and quaint turn-of-the-century shutters. In fact, it’s as painfully normal....

‘Dial M For Murder’ TV Show Being Developed As Anthology Series, May Star Alicia Vikander By Ben Pearson/Nov. 16, 2020 5:00 pm EST I once suggested that Hollywood should remake Dial M For Murder, playwright Frederick Knott’s dynamite stage play which was famously adapted into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. Three years later, my suggestion is finally being heeded: a remake is being developed for television, with Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander executive producing and potentially starring in the project....

‘Fractured’ Trailer: Sam Worthington Can’t Find His Family By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 20, 2019 4:30 pm EST Sam Worthington is living every man’s nightmare: his wife and child go missing during a routine hospital exam. Okay, maybe not every man’s nightmare but it is a very specific nightmare that will play out in the new Netflix thriller, Fractured. Watch the Fractured trailer below. Fractured Trailer Sam Worthington may be busy exploring the hidden depths of Pandora in the many Avatar sequels that are currently in production, but he’s not too busy to star in a little Netflix thriller about a vanished family....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Release Date Pushed Back Even Further To June 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2020 2:00 pm EST Sony Pictures ain’t afraid of no ghost, but they’re certainly afraid of the coronavirus pandemic, and it appears they’re worried that the first quarter of 2021 won’t be a prime time to bring audiences back to theaters. The studio has pushed back the release of Ghostbusters: Afterlife yet again, this time all the way back to the summer of 2021, closer to the window it was meant to be released in earlier this year....

‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ First Look: Karen Gillan Teams Up With Michelle Yeoh, Lena Headey, Angela Bassett In Female Assassin Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 9, 2020 11:30 am EST You only need to say the words “female assassin thriller starring Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, and Carla Gugino” for us to want to inject the movie into our veins immediately. Or, in the case of Gunpowder Milkshake, drink it all up....

‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ Trailer: Céline Sciamma’s Lavish Lesbian Romance Is A Must-See Cannes Darling By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 9, 2019 5:00 pm EST One of the buzziest films to come out of this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma’s lush, slow-burning lesbian romance. The winner of the Queer Palm Prize and Best Screenplay at the prestigious film festival, Portrait of a Lady on Fire was picked up for U....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Documentary Clip Focuses On The Chase Across Pasaana By Ethan Anderton/March 16, 2020 10:30 am EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was made available for purchase on digital a little bit early over the weekend. However, if you’re one of the fans waiting until the movie comes home on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD at the end of March, we’ve got another sneak peek at one of the bonus features coming with it....

‘The Fugitive’ Remake Coming To Quibi, Kiefer Sutherland To Chase Boyd Holbrook By Ben Pearson/Sept. 18, 2019 8:30 am EST The Fugitive, the popular 1960s TV series about a wrongfully accused man who goes on the run to prove his innocence as a dogged government agent tracks him down, has already been adapted into an acclaimed 1993 movie and a largely-forgotten TV series that aired in the year 2000. But the central premise is so exciting that another remake was bound to come around sooner or later....

‘The Good Place’ One-Hour Special, Marking The Final Season, Will Air Next Month By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 22, 2019 5:30 pm EST The Good Place is ending, because we all live in the Bad Place. But as the saying goes: don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. We were lucky to have this show, and to honor the series’ impending send-off, The Paley Center for Media and NBC have teamed for The Good Place one-hour special, which will air on the network next month....

‘The Great North’ Clip: Meet Fox’s Newest Dysfunctional Family From The Creators Of ‘Bob’s Burgers’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 30, 2020 9:00 am EST Nick Offerman teaming up with the creators of Bob’s Burgers for a new animated comedy about a dysfunctional family? 2021 is already looking up thanks to Fox’s stacked slate of animated shows, which will be led in by newcomer The Great North, an adult animated comedy starring Offerman as a single father living in Alaska as he tries to keep a rein on his oddball kids....

‘The Kominsky Method’ Loses Alan Arkin For The Third And Final Season By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 24, 2020 4:00 pm EST The Kominsky Method, a Netflix comedy series that has been nominated for several Emmys, is coming to an end with the third and final season. However, when the show returns to the streaming service, it will be missing one of its two Emmy-nominated stars.Alan Arkin will not be coming back to The Kominsky Method, which also stars Michael Douglas, for the show’s third season....

‘The Mandalorian’ Becomes Proper Must-See TV With Its Astonishing Second Episode By Bryan Young/Nov. 15, 2019 7:30 am EST Naturally, there are spoilers here.Directed by Rick Famuyiwa, “The Child” is the second episode of The Mandalorian, the exclusive Disney+ Star Wars television show. It picks up shortly after the first episode left off and sees the title character (played by Pedro Pascal) on the run with a mysterious baby. It very quickly becomes apparent to the Mandalorian that something isn’t right with the job he’s taken, as he’s quickly attacked by a group of Trandoshan bounty hunters looking to take the child from him....

‘The Matrix 4’: Here’s What Convinced Keanu Reeves To Return For The New Sequel By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 8, 2020 10:30 am EST Keanu Reeves is everywhere these days. With the actor enjoying a career resurgence thanks to the John Wick films and a string of charming cameos, you would think that Reeves would be too busy to take a trip down memory lane. But lo and behold, Reeves is returning to not one, but two, major properties that helped launch him to fame....