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Hollywood Unions Reach Deal With Studios Over Coronavirus Safety Protocols By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST Hollywood unions and major studios have finally come to an agreement on the safety protocols for film and TV productions hoping to restart amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. After three and a half months of negotiations, the Hollywood coronavirus safety protocols were announced that would allow the industry to safely resume production....

J.J. Abrams Says ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Didn’t Have To Change Leia’s Story Due To Carrie Fisher’s Death By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2019 5:00 pm EST With just one month to go until Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters, the publicity blitz for the final chapter of the Skywalker saga is really heating up. Director J.J. Abrams and the key cast members have been featured in various interviews across the web, and little details of what fans can expect from the end of the primary Star Wars saga have been coming to the surface....

Marvel’s ‘She-Hulk’ And ‘Moon Knight’ Shows Hire Writers, Including One Who Wrote The ‘Rick And Morty’ Episode “Pickle Rick” By Ben Pearson/Nov. 8, 2019 2:01 pm EST Earlier this year at Disney’s D23 Expo, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige took the stage and revealed that several new MCU shows were heading to Disney+. Among them were She-Hulk and Moon Knight, which will bring some relatively obscure Marvel characters to the forefront....

Marvel Unlimited Spotlighting Black Creators And Artists With Free Digital Comics By Chris Evangelista/June 11, 2020 2:30 pm EST For the rest of the month, Marvel Unlimited has put together a free digital selection of comics from Black writers and artists, including work from Vita Ayala, Roxane Gay, Brian Stelfreeze, Method Man, Charlamagne tha God, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and many more, with characters including Black Panther, Deathlok, Ironheart, Shuri, and others....

Noomi Rapace Will Play ‘Hamlet’ In New Gender-Swapped Adaptation By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 20, 2020 10:00 am EST Hamlet has been adapted to the screen many times before, but there’s a new adaptation on the way that’s trying something different: the lead will be gender-swapped. Noomi Rapace is set to play the melancholy Dane in a new film from director Ali Abbasi (Border). This won’t be the first time a female lead has played Hamlet – Ruth Negga recently played the character in Gate Theatre Dublin’s production....

Pop Culture Imports: An Offbeat New Zealand Comedy, A Bombastic Chinese Blockbuster, The Mexican Take On A Baking Competition, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 21, 2019 7:00 am EST (Welcome to Pop Culture Imports, a column that compiles the best foreign movies and TV streaming right now.) Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but you still have time to impress your significant other with foreign-language shows and movies. But don’t worry, not all movies with subtitles are stuffy prestige dramas....

The Story Of Circle 7 Animation, The Studio That Threatened To Replace Pixar By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 19, 2019 9:00 am EST When you can help write your own history, you can tell a slightly different story than the truth. Such is the case with Pixar Animation Studios, arguably one of the most influential creative units in all of Hollywood in the 25 years since it released its first feature-length animated film, Toy Story....

‘21 Bridges’ Release Date Pushed To November, Giving Audiences Time To See The Previous 20 Bridge Movies First By Chris Evangelista/July 30, 2019 8:30 am EST 21 Bridges, the first post-Avengers: Endgame flick from producers The Russo Brothers, starring Black Panther’s Chadwick Boseman, was all set for a September release. Now, things have changed. The cop thriller will now bow in November. Why? Well, the reasons are murky, but we’ll cross those 21 Bridges when we get to them....

‘Children Of The Corn’ Remake Getting Ready To Walk Behind The Rows Again By Chris Evangelista/May 6, 2020 3:30 pm EST Children of the Corn, the Stephen King story that spawned approximately ten zillion movies, is heading to the screen yet again. Kurt Wimmer, director of the Christian Bale gun-fu flick Equilibrium, is helming a Children of the Corn remake in Australia, and has actually managed to keep filming even though most productions have been shut down due to coronavirus....

‘Haunting Of Bly Manor’ Featurette Takes You From Hill House To Bly Manor By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 28, 2020 5:30 pm EST As October rolls in and gives way to Halloween season, it’s time to get haunted by Mike Flanagan and Netflix all over again. Flanagan and his team return next month with The Haunting of Bly Manor, a follow-up to the fantastic Haunting of Hill House. While this is yet another ghost story, and it maintains several Hill House actors, this is also something completely new – they’re taking an anthology approach here, where each new season tells a different story about different characters....

‘Incident At Fort Bragg’ Will Let Osgood Perkins Perform An Exorcism On A Military Base By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 27, 2019 4:30 pm EST Osgood Perkins will bring his unique brand of slow-burn horror to the exorcism sub-genre with Incident at Fort Bragg. The Blackcoat’s Daughter director is set to helm the horror pic, which is based on a true story of a priest brought in to perform an exorcism on a young soldier at Fort Bragg, North Carolina....

‘Riverdale’ Season 4 Trailer: Jughead Goes Missing As The Kids Experience The Epic Highs And Lows Of Senior Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 12, 2019 2:00 pm EST Never was there a group of students that had a more drama and murder-filled high school experience. And yet here are Archie (KJ Apa) and co., celebrating their senior year “in all its glory.” And glory includes one of their close friends, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) going mysteriously missing, sending the town in a tizzy....

‘Scream 5’ Script Is Both Fresh And Nostalgic According To Franchise Creator Kevin Williamson By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 17, 2020 4:30 pm EST Scream revitalized the horror genre with its clever, self-aware script that was famous for featuring characters in a horror movie who understood the rules of being in a horror movie. It wasn’t exactly the first time a film had done this – Scream director Wes Craven had actually already covered this ground before in his film Wes Craven’s New Nightmare....

‘Spirited Away’ Special Collector’s Edition Will Be Available For A Limited Time This November By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 13, 2019 12:00 pm EST If, like me, you have watched your DVD copy of Spirited Away so much that the disc is scratched to the point of being unwatchable, you’re in luck. Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning animated classis is getting a long-deserved collector’s edition that will be available in limited supply this November. Studio Ghibli is teaming up with GKIDS and distributor Shout!...

‘The Daily Show’ Returns On Comedy Central This Week, ‘Late Night With Seth Meyers’ Also Back With Digital Editions By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2020 10:30 am EST Late night television shows were among the first productions to shut down once the spread of coronavirus became more threatening this month. That’s mostly because the shows are shot with a live television audience. Initially, some of the shows attempted to stick it out by shooting episodes without a crowd, but eventually entire productions had to be shut down out of an abundance of caution....

Into the Lion’s Den So here is Marguerite, perhaps still in her late teens, married off to a French war hero by her father. A sacrificial lamb on the altar of social maneuvering. If Marguerite did well, some of the treason would hopefully come off the de Thibouville name. If Marguerite saw her new husband as something of a savior, she would soon be disabused of that notion. Within months of their marriage, it would become clear de Carrouges had ulterior motives for choosing her as his bride....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Officially Set For Fall 2020 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 27, 2019 1:20 pm EST The power of Baby Yoda compels you and Disney+ to return to The Mandalorian for a second season. Executive producer Jon Favreau confirmed that The Mandalorian season 2 is set to arrive on Disney+ in fall 2020, with no specific release date yet. The news comes hours after the season 1 finale of The Mandalorian dropped on Disney+ to some of the highest praise yet for the Star Wars live-action show....

‘Vampires Vs. The Bronx’ Trailer: Teens Go To War With The Undead By Ben Pearson/Sept. 29, 2020 5:00 pm EST In 1995, Eddie Murphy played a vampire in Brooklyn in the not-so-classic film Vampire in Brooklyn. But twenty-five years later, the undead are moving into a different New York City borough in a new Netflix horror-comedy. Check out the Vampires vs. The Bronx trailer below, which seems closer to something like Attack the Block than Eddie Murphy’s ill-fated box office dud....

‘Watchmen’ Is Cable’s Most-Watched New TV Show Of 2019 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2019 3:30 pm EST Who watches the Watchmen? Well, it turns out a whole lot of people do. Damon Lindelof’s comic book series, based on the groundbreaking graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, has proven to be a super hit for HBO, with the best TV ratings for a new premium cable series this year. While it hasn’t reached the levels of Game of Thrones, Watchmen is HBO’s most-watched new series since Big Little Lies....

31 Days Of Streaming Horror: ‘Pyewacket’ Is A Family Drama Wrapped Up In A Horror Movie By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 15, 2019 11:00 am EST Welcome to 31 Days of Streaming Horror. Every day this October we’ll be highlighting a different streaming horror movie to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Today’s entry: Pyewacket (2017). Pyewacket Now Streaming on Hulu Sub-Genre: Mother-daughter drama – with demonsBest Setting to Watch It In: In your secluded house deep in the woodsHow Scary Is It?...