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‘Castle Rock’ Season 2 Trailer Welcomes You Back To Stephen King Country By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2019 9:30 am EST Castle Rock season 2 just dropped its first ominous trailer, setting up a whole new season of Stephen King-influenced thrills and chills. This year, the series will feature Annie Wilkes, the demented nurse from King’s novel Misery. The trailer below gives us our first look at Lizzy Caplan as the character, as well as some shots of some old familiar places – like Jerusalem’s Lot....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ First Look Takes The Ecto-1 For A Joy Ride, Reveals New Details Before First Trailer Next Week By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 6, 2019 10:06 am EST Next year brings the Ghostbusters sequel that many fans have been waiting for since Ghostbusters 2 in 1989. There have been rumblings for years of a Ghostbusters 3 getting off the ground, but they never came to fruition until now. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is coming to theaters in July 2020, and the sequel has Juno director Jason Reitman, son of the first film’s director Ivan Reitman, taking over the original franchise....

‘Hoops’ Trailer: It Takes Balls To Coach A High School Basketball Team By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 6, 2020 12:00 pm EST Netflix’s roster of adult-oriented animated programming is top notch, and they’re really starting to give Adult Swim and Comedy Central a run for their money. Their latest effort is Hoops, a new show created by comedian Ben Hoffman and starring Jake Johnson as a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach trying to turn his depressing life around....

‘Joker’ Clips Reveal A New Trailer Is Coming This Wednesday By Ben Pearson/Aug. 26, 2019 8:30 am EST Warner Bros. has shared several Joker clips through the film’s Instagram page, and all six clips contain brief flashes of imagery which, when pieced together, reveals that a full trailer for the film is coming later this week. Check out all of the clips below, including new footage of failed comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) trying to shut himself inside his own refrigerator....

‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Teaser: Reese Witherspoon And Kerry Washington Star In Scorching Hulu Drama By Ben Pearson/Dec. 15, 2019 12:00 pm EST Reese Witherspoon is on a hot streak of starring in TV adaptations of acclaimed books. She was one of the leads in the ensemble cast of HBO’s Big Little Lies, which wrapped its second season earlier this year, and she can currently be seen on the AppleTV+ flagship series The Morning Show....

‘Miami Vice’ Auteur Michael Mann Will Direct ‘Tokyo Vice’ For HBO Max By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 22, 2019 4:00 pm EST Micahel Mann is about to add another Vice to his name. The Miami Vice filmmaker will direct the pilot episode of Tokyo Vice, a new HBO Max series starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe. The show is based on the non-fiction book by Jake Adelstein, the only American journalist ever admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club....

‘Smokey And The Bandit’ TV Series Coming From David Gordon Green And Seth MacFarlane By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2020 11:00 am EST Star Wars was the highest grossing film in the United States in 1977, but do you know what movie sits in the #2 spot? It’s the high speed action comedy Smokey and the Bandit starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed and a slew of impressive car chases and crashes....

‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ Trailer: ‘The Turn Of The Screw’ Joins Netflix’s ‘Haunting’ Horror Anthology By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 23, 2020 8:00 am EST What is it about Henry James’ 1898 horror novella The Turn of the Screw? The Gothic ghost story has been the subject of not one, but two adaptations in the past year, first with Floria Sigismondi’s horror film The Turning and now with the upcoming Netflix series The Haunting of Bly Manor, the follow-up season to Mike Flanagan’s acclaimed horror anthology The Haunting of Hill House....

‘Underwater’ Clip: Kristen Stewart Dives Into Danger By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 7, 2020 5:00 pm EST In Underwater, a team of researchers gets into deep trouble when they run afoul of undersea terror. Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr., Mamoudou Athie, and T.J. Miller play the members of the team, and in this new clip, they all have to climb into some bulky suits to make their way into the ocean....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Renewed For Season 3 By Chris Evangelista/May 25, 2020 9:00 am EST What We do in the Shadows, the TV series spun-off from the vampire mockumentary of the same name, will sink its teeth into a third season at FX. The network just renewed the show for season 3, promising more undead hijinks on Staten Island. Three more episodes remain in season 2, which is currently running on the network....

A Dispatch From Canada’s Whistler Film Festival By Jason Gorber/Jan. 1, 2020 3:00 pm EST For nineteen years, the Whistler Film Festival has been a mountainside home for some of the best award-winning and independent cinema in the world. What started off as a small gathering has evolved in size, shifting from a place where the massive Vancouver film community would annually attend splashy parties and revel in sponsored swag rooms and habitually take over some of the village’s fanciest restaurants to something smaller in scale....

Atlanta’s Pinewood Studios, The Home Of Marvel Blockbusters And More, Spent $1 Million On COVID-19 Safety Measures By Chris Evangelista/June 25, 2020 11:30 am EST Pinewood Studios Atlanta, one of the country’s biggest film studios – 700 acres, all told – has unveiled new health and safety measures to be used in the age of the coronavirus (COVID-19). And while this is just one studio, it’s a major studio, which means other filming locations might be following in Pinewood Atlanta’s footsteps....

Comcast’s Sky Halts All International Drama Productions Until 2021 – Could Others Follow Suit? By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 27, 2020 1:30 pm EST Deadline reports that the European pay-TV broadcaster Sky, of which Comcast owns the majority stake, has decided to halt all productions on its dramas that shoot internationally until spring 2021. Sky’s director of drama Cameron Roach announced the pause in a live Q&A on YouTube organized by the Edinburgh TV Festival....

Cool Stuff: ‘Halloween’ Expanded Soundtrack Vinyl Comes With 28 Minutes Of New Music By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 5, 2019 6:00 am EST Last year, director/writer David Gordon Green and co-writers Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley delivered the best Halloween sequel yet with a movie that retconned every single sequel to the original movie in order to pick up the story 40 years later. Jamie Lee Curtis returned, as did Michael Myers actor (and now filmmaker) Nick Castle to bring back John Carpenter’s terrifying slasher in a thrilling new way....

James Cameron Likes The First ‘Resident Evil’ Movie, Shaking Our Entire World-View By Ethan Anderton/May 14, 2020 2:30 pm EST After decades of trying, Hollywood is still having a hard time producing good video game movies. Detective Pikachu is probably the best movie based on a video game, but beyond that, it’s pretty slim pickings out there. However, director James Cameron revealed that, during quarantine, he has taken solace in a surprising video game movie as one of his guilty pleasures: Resident Evil....

Luke Skywalker Died In George Lucas’ Original Treatment For ‘Star Wars: Episode 8’ By Ben Pearson/Oct. 16, 2020 7:30 am EST Details about George Lucas’s original unused treatments for the Star Wars sequel trilogy have been somewhat hard to come by over the years. But thanks to a new book written by Lucasfilm’s Pablo Hidalgo, we know Lucas’ plans for the new trilogy share at least two major things in common with the versions that ultimately hit screens: Luke Skywalker died in Lucas’s treatment for Episode 8, and the idea for the character of Rey was there from the start (although she had a different name when Lucas was envisioning her)....

Netflix’s ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ Reboot Casts Alicia Silverstone And Mark Feuerstein (As Parents) By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2019 2:30 pm EST Netflix’s ten-episode reboot of The Baby-Sitters Club has found its first two cast members. Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) and Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains) have joined the cast, not as babysitters – that would be supremely weird – but as parents. Read on to learn more about their characters and what we know about the show so far....

New ‘Bill & Ted’ Board Game Comes In A Phone Booth-Shaped Package By Ben Pearson/Aug. 26, 2020 1:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After nearly 30 years, lovable cinematic goofballs William “Bill” S. Preston, Esq. (Alex Winter) and Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves) are finally returning in a new movie. And just a few days after Bill and Ted Face the Music arrives on VOD, you’ll be able to play a new Bill and Ted board game designed in a phone booth-shaped package which tests your knowledge of history and trivia....

Superhero Bits: Tim Drake Gets A New Superhero Name, ‘Venom 2’ May Start Shooting Soon & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 12, 2019 6:00 pm EST Want to play as the Joe Fixit version of Hulk in the upcoming Marvel’s Avengers video game? What is Tim Drake’s new superhero name in DC Comics? What are the working titles for Loki, WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier? When could Venom 2 start shooting?...

The “Boss Bitch Fight Challenge” Lets Scarlett Johansson, Drew Barrymore, Margot Robbie, And More Kick Virtual Butt By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 4, 2020 2:00 pm EST Stuck inside with hours to spare, ordinary people resort to baking bread or taking up embroidery. But celebrities and stunt people are getting a little more creative with their extra time and isolation. A slew of female celebrities and stuntwomen have banded together for the “Boss Bitch Fight Challenge,” a video of virtual ass-kicking telephone which has gone viral for the amount of famous faces — including Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Drew Barrymore, Halle Berry, and more — willing to take fake beatings from professional stuntwomen....