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‘Doctor Sleep’ Featurette Goes Back To The Overlook With Tons Of New Footage From ‘The Shining’ Sequel By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 3, 2019 2:30 pm EST A new Doctor Sleep featurette gives us our best look yet at Mike Flanagan’s sequel to The Shining. In the video below, go behind-the-scenes of the upcoming film with Flanagan, author Stephen King, and star Ewan McGregor, while also getting new looks at the recreation of the Overlook Hotel, the younger Danny Torrence, Dick Hallorann, and more....

‘Flashdance’ TV Reboot Is Dancing For Its Life At Paramount+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 22, 2020 7:30 am EST Paramount+ is getting ready to dance for its life, with a TV reboot of Flashdance, the ’80s classic which starred Beals as a steel mill worker and erotic dancer who dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the reboot will be penned by McMillan and executive produced by Angela Robinson (Professor Marston and the Wonder Women), who will direct the pilot....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Is A “Faithful Approach” To The Series And “Really Funny,” Says Finn Wolfhard By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2020 7:30 am EST So far, we’ve only seen one trailer for the upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Though the trailer offered an intriguing premise that mixed the vibe of Super 8 with the paranormal activity and legacy of the original Ghostbusters, the major criticism being lobbied at the movie was that it didn’t look like it had the same comedic influence that made the original so memorable....

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Cast Members Reminisce About All-Things MST3K [Comic-Con 2020] By Chris Evangelista/July 24, 2020 7:00 am EST For a laid-back, ultra-chill, good-natured Comic-Con panel, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator and original host Joel Hodgson and former cast members Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot #2) and J. Elvis Weinstein (Tom Servo #1) got together to reminisce about the past. There were no shocking revelations to be had. No surprise announcements....

‘Servant’ Season 2 Teaser: M. Night Shyamalan’s Creepy Apple TV+ Series Comes Back In January By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2020 10:30 am EST The first season of M. Night Shyamalan’s horror series Servant was full of the kinds of twists and turns that you’d expect from the filmmaker behind Split and The Sixth Sense, and it seems like season 2 is not for want of mysteries either. Apple TV+ has released a creepy new teaser for Servant season 2, which will premiere on the streaming service in January....

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Report From The Daily Bugle Officially Released Online In Full By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 31, 2019 2:30 pm EST The mid-credits scene for Spider-Man: Far From Home drops a pretty big bombshell on your friendly neighborhood wallcrawler. Spidey (Tom Holland) saved the day and was forced to kill Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) in order to destroy all the drones he was using to make himself look like a superhero from another dimension....

‘Today’s Special’ Comedy Series From David Wain And A.D. Miles Will Be Shot And Aired Daily By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 6, 2019 4:00 pm EST David Wain (pictured right) is one of the oddball comedy minds behind Wet Hot American Summer and the romantic comedy parody They Came Together. Along with his frequent collaborators, Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, he’s been responsible for some genius and weird comedy that often plays with the format of stand-up comedy, film and television in a very meta way....

The Lie Trailer Next, here’s The Lie. This comes The Killing creator Veena Sud, who writes and directs. In The Lie, “When their teenaged daughter confesses to impulsively killing her best friend, two desperate parents attempt to cover up the horrific crime, leading them into a complicated web of lies and deception.” The cast includes Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard, and Joey King. This, too, hits on October 6. Evil Eye Trailer...

Cool Stuff: New Funko POPs For ‘Empire Strikes Back’, ‘American Psycho’, ‘Dinosaurs’, Marilyn Monroe & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 24, 2020 6:00 am EST The London Toy Fair hosted a variety of reveals for upcoming merchandise from your favorite movies and TV shows, but no one had more reveals than Funko and the never-ending line of Funko POPs vinyl figures. The toy company had dozens of new figures to reveal from a wide variety of programming ranging from The Empire Strikes Back and the Harry Potter franchise to Murder, She Wrote, Dinosaurs, American Psycho and even a classic Marilyn Monroe....

Craig Robinson To Star In Peacock Comedy Series ‘Killing It’ From ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Executive Producers By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST NBC saved Brooklyn Nine-Nine from cancellation after FOX nixed the cop comedy series, and it’s been going strong over there ever since (though the next season is undergoing some retooling in the wake of recent events). It seems NBCUniversal likes being in business with the show’s executive producers Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici, because Peacock has picked up a new comedy series Killing It, and Brooknlyn Nine-Nine guest star Craig Robinson will be the lead....

Cherry Soundtrack In Cherry, Tom Holland plays “a disenfranchised young man from Ohio who meets the love of his life, only to risk losing her through a series of bad decisions and challenging life circumstances. Inspired by the best-selling novel of the same name, “Cherry” features Tom Holland in the title role as an unhinged character who drifts from dropping out of college to serving in Iraq as an Army medic and is only anchored by his one true love, Emily (Ciara Bravo)....

Fantasia Fest 2020 Second Wave Includes Killer Jeans, A New Film From The Director Of ‘The Strangers’, Mermaids, And More By Chris Evangelista/July 9, 2020 7:00 am EST The virtual Fantasia Fest 2020 just unleashed its second wave of programming, and, as is par for the course for the fest, it’s wild. Full of genre titles, foreign language films, and a movie about a pair of murderous jeans. Because of the coronavirus, Fantasia is going fully virtual this year, with scheduled live screenings, program libraries, panels, and workshops....

Horror-Tinged ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Reboot From ‘Riverdale’ Creator Ordered To HBO Max By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2020 5:30 pm EST As anyone who watches Pretty Little Liars knows, nothing stays buried forever. That includes secrets, bodies, and of course, the show itself. Just three years after the ABC Family/Freeform teen mystery series went off the air, a Pretty Little Liars reboot is in the works from Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who is developing a “horror-tinged” take on the series with co-executive producer/writer Lindsay Calhoon Bring for HBO Max....

John Carpenter’s Unreleased ‘The Thing’ Musical Cues Coming To Vinyl By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 2020 3:30 pm EST When it came time to make The Thing, John Carpenter turned to Ennio Morricone, one of the best composers to ever lend his music to the silver screen, to create the score. But Morricone was forced to create the music without ever seeing the finished film. As a result, when Carpenter finally had the edit he wanted, he noticed there were some stretches of silence – and that needed a fix....

Marvel Unlimited Making Digital Comics Available Much Sooner After Being Released On Shelves By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2020 4:00 pm EST While there are plenty of apps available out there that make it easy to download and read comic books on our computers, tablets and phones, the one downside to comic subscription services is that the digital versions of new comics aren’t available as soon as they’re released in comic shops and bookstores....

Movie Mixtape: 6 Zombie Movies To Watch After You See ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ By Scott Beggs/Oct. 17, 2019 7:00 am EST There are more zombie movies than there were zombies in the original Night of the Living Dead. Is that true? Feels like it. It’s a genre so over-saturated that its longevity resembles its slobbering, brain-hungry baddies. There’s a palpable relentlessness to it, as though the genre itself pushes back whenever anyone announces its demise....

Paramount Feels The Need For Speed And Moves Up ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Release Date; ‘Escape Room 2’ Delayed Until December By Ben Pearson/March 2, 2020 5:30 pm EST Goodness gracious, great balls of fire: Paramount has decided to let Top Gun: Maverick take flight two days earlier than previously announced. The long-awaited sequel to Tony Scott’s 1986 classic will now cruise into theaters on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 instead of on Friday, June 26....

Read The Alternate ‘Zombieland’ Cameo Scene That Would Have Featured Joe Pesci By Ethan Anderton/March 24, 2020 12:30 pm EST So far we’ve gotten to read several of the alternate cameos that were pitched for Zombieland before Bill Murray came aboard the project and gave us one of the best cameos in movie history. There was Patrick Swayze in the very first draft of the movie, which unfortunately never got offered to the actor before he was diagnosed with cancer....

Say Goodbye To 2020 With ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’, The Bleak But Ultimately Hopeful Anime Masterpiece By Rafael Motamayor/Dec. 31, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)For the past couple of months, this column has explored various mecha anime to showcase the variety within the genre. But when it came time to say goodbye to 2020 and embrace the possibilities of the new year, there was only one show that could take the gargantuan task of encapsulating the bleakness and loneliness, but also the moments of unity, we’ve had this year, all while ending on a rather optimistic note about the future....

Terry Gilliam Was Ready To Make A Movie Based On A Lost Stanley Kubrick Idea, But The Pandemic Ruined It By Ben Pearson/July 28, 2020 4:30 pm EST Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python alum and director of films like Brazil, Time Bandits, and 12 Monkeys, was all set to direct a film that was based on a lost Stanley Kubrick film treatment. But Gilliam just can’t seem to catch a break....