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‘The Outsider’ Season 2 Not Happening At HBO; Stephen King Series Now Being Shopped To Other Networks By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 10, 2020 9:30 am EST Last month, Stephen King confirmed that scripts existed for The Outsider season 2, heavily implying that HBO was going to be giving the series a greenlight. But now…that’s not happening. HBO has passed on the second season of the horror-mystery series. Now, MRC, the studio behind the show, will start shopping the potential season to other networks....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Plot Details Revealed, Film Has More Special Effects Shots Than Many Other Marvel Movies Combined By Ben Pearson/Oct. 29, 2020 1:00 pm EST Writer/director James Gunn has wrangled an eccentric cast of characters for The Suicide Squad, a team-on-a-mission movie inspired by films like The Dirty Dozen. While he has teased some of the story so far, a new interview sees him finally pulling back the curtain a bit more to give us a better idea of what this film is about....

‘Unmatched: Little Red Riding Hood Vs Beowulf’ Is The Latest Entry In The Genre-Blending Tabletop Series – And It’s Great By Jacob Hall/Nov. 30, 2020 7:00 am EST The Unmatched board game series has been the geeky gift that keeps on giving. Each new set and expansion – whether it’s a licensed box featuring Jurassic Park or Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters or built around public domain icons like Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur, and Bigfoot – has deepened the game, adding new gameplay options and mechanics....

‘Who Is America’ Editor Vera Drew On Her First Emmy Nomination And Coming Out As Trans In Hollywood [Interview] By Jamie Jirak/Aug. 27, 2019 9:00 am EST Writer/director/editor Vera Drew was recently given the opportunity to lend her “dark, weird, and kitschy” editing style to Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America. The satirical comedy series from Showtime follows various Cohen characters as he speaks with individuals about culture and the current political climate....

20 Things We Learned From The New ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Commentary: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ References, Alternate Titles, Cassian’s Backstory, And More By Ben Pearson/April 17, 2020 8:00 am EST A long time ago, in this very galaxy, the first live-action Star Wars spin-off movie was released in theaters. Much has been said about the production of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but two of the credited writers, Gary Whitta and Chris Weitz, recently participated in a watch party of the film and shared several stories about the making of the movie, including which scenes were reshot late in the game by Tony Gilroy....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Godfather’ Life-Size Bust Will Make A Great Gift On The Day Of Your Daughter’s Wedding By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 18, 2020 6:00 am EST As pop culture fanatics, we’ve seen a lot of weird, expensive merchandise inspired by movies and TV shows. But some of the most perplexing collectibles, at least to me, are life-size busts featuring life-like sculpts of famous faces, and this new piece from DAMTOYS inspired by The Godfather is easily one of the most unnerving....

Emma Caulfield Loves All Your ‘WandaVision’ Theories About Dottie [Interview] By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 27, 2021 12:00 pm EST There was a near-universal flash of recognition from fans watching the second episode of Marvel’s first Disney+ series, WandaVision: “Hey, that’s Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Emma Caulfield played the vengeance demon turned high school student in the beloved ’90s supernatural drama series, but in WandaVision, she plays your regular old neighbor from hell, Dottie Jones....

Los Angeles Health Dept. Wants Film & TV Production To Stop Amid COVID-19 Surge, ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Shooting Resumes In UK By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 29, 2020 4:00 pm EST Thanks to the holidays and a disregard for proper quarantining, COVID-19 cases are still surging across the United States. One of the hardest-hit states during the coronavirus pandemic continues to be California, which officially became the first state to surpass 2 million COVID-19 cases on December 23....

Marvel Goes Big In 2021 With 4 MCU Movies In One Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 30, 2019 12:30 pm EST After the events of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel’s future seemed a bit uncertain. But with the announcement of the jam-packed Phase 4, which is loaded with titles for both the big and small screen, it’s clear the MCU is thriving more than ever. Could that translate to an even more stacked theatrical release slate?...

Marvel’s ‘The Eternals’ Slated For November 2020, Will Protect Earth From The Deviants [Comic-Con 2019] By Ethan Anderton/July 20, 2019 6:01 pm EST Although Marvel Studios has kept its mouth shut about what movies would follow their “Phase Three” and the release of Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home, Hollywood can’t keep every secret. We knew that The Eternals was coming and that The Rider director Chloe Zhao was behind the camera....

Superhero Bits: New Jessica Jones Serial Box Project, Superman WonderCon At Home Panel & More By Ethan Anderton/May 13, 2020 6:00 pm EST Want to see the Superman panel for WonderCon at Home? What was almost the title for the new Justice League Dark animated movie? Will you check out the new Jessica Jones project from Marvel and Serial Box? When does Doom Patrol come to HBO Max for season two?...

Superhero Bits: See Baby Thanos Concept Art , Ray Fisher Posts New ‘Justice League’ Snyder Cut Photo & More By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2019 6:00 pm EST Does Ryan Reynolds really support the release of The Snyder Cut of Justice League? Who is petitioning to have Amber Heard fired from Aquaman 2? Which comic art is being sent to space? What does James Mangold have to say about Martin Scorsese’s Marvel comments?...

This Week In Trailers: I, Pastafari: A Flying Spaghetti Monster Story, Cleanin’ Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, Inmate #1: The Rise Of Danny Trejo & More By Christopher Stipp/June 13, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

This Week In Trailers: Jasper Mall, Wake Up, DAVE, Run This Town, The Pharmacist By Christopher Stipp/Jan. 25, 2020 9:00 am EST Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising?...

TV Bits: Snoopy In Space, LEGO Masters, The Witcher, And More By Ben Pearson/July 19, 2019 1:30 pm EST Here’s the first teaser for Snoopy in Space, which presumably will be one of many pieces of Peanuts-related content produced by Apple in the coming years. Battlestar Galactica veteran Katee Sackhoff suits up for Another Life, playing a commander who has to lead a mission to an alien planet while her husband stays behind on Earth and studies an artifact from that planet....

You Can Now Watch The Full Babu Frik Scene From ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 15, 2020 4:15 pm EST While Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has been divisive, the one thing about the movie that everyone can agree on is that Babu Frik rules. The tiny alien droidsmith is pretty darn adorable, and even though he only pops up in two scenes he still leaves his mark....

‘Ammonite’ Review: Kate Winslet And Saoirse Ronan Lead A Chilly LGBTQ Drama [TIFF 2020] By Jason Gorber/Sept. 22, 2020 8:00 am EST In the windswept, dreary coastal English town of Lyme Regis lives Mary Anning (Kate Winslet), a paleontologist who searches on the muddy beaches for fossils such from prehistoric creatures that gives Ammonite its name. Living with her mother (Gemma Jones), the two run a tourist friendly shop peddling tiny rocks to those wanting to have a tiny sense of wonder....

‘Archenemy’ Review: Joe Manganiello Leads An Incendiary Superhero Movie Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before By Kalyn Corrigan/Dec. 15, 2020 8:00 am EST “The world is a really complicated place right now. America is a really complicated place right now. And I’m not a politician or an activist, but I do feel a responsibility to put positive, powerful, meaningful messages out into the world…you don’t have to be a superhero to do that....

‘Class Action Park’ Trailer: The World’s Most Dangerous Amusement Park Is Immortalized In A Feature-Length Documentary By Ben Pearson/Sept. 25, 2019 1:30 pm EST Last summer, Jackass star Johnny Knoxville headlined a mid-budget Paramount film called Action Point, which was loosely inspired by a real-life New Jersey amusement park called Action Park where so much insane stuff happened, you’d think most of the stories were made up. The Knoxville movie tanked hard at the box office, but now the real Action Park is being immortalized in a feature-length documentary called Class Action Park, which hails from the same filmmakers who have already made a short film spreading the word about this almost-mythical place....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 15, 2019 4:00 pm EST You know what kids love? Musicals from 1971 turned into a movie in 1978 set in the 1950s and updated for the 21st century. At least that’s what HBO Max is hoping with their order of a new series called Grease: Rydell High, a spin-off series of the film adaptation of the musical Grease. Are we looking at Glee set in the 1950s?...