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The Morning Watch: ‘The Mandalorian Season 2’ Easter Eggs, The Tricks And Movie Magic Of ‘Elf’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 23, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

TV Bits: ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Season 2, ‘Dirty John’ Takes On Betty Broderick, Milo Ventimiglia Is Evel Knievel, And More By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 13, 2019 5:30 pm EST In today’s edition of TV Bits: HBO renews The Righteous Gemstones for season 2 Christian Slater and Amanda Peet lead Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story Milo Ventimiglia will star in USA’s Evel Knievel limited series Awkwafina’s Comedy Central show taps Natasha Lyonne as one of its many female directors And more!...

‘‘The Addams Family’ International Trailer Shows More Of The Kooky Family Shaking Up New Jersey By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2019 9:00 am EST A new trailer for the upcoming computer animated adaptation of The Addams Family arrived just this past week, but audiences outside of the United States are getting a different peek at the creepy, kooky family and their macabre antics. A new international Addams Family trailer shows us much more of how Gomez (Oscar Isaac), Morticia (Charlize Theron), Wednesday (Chloë Grace Moretz), Pugsley (Finn Wolfhard), and Uncle Fester (Nick Kroll) shake up their new home in New Jersey....

‘Artemis Fowl’ Gets A June Release Date On Disney+ With New Teaser By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 17, 2020 7:30 am EST Earlier this month, Disney made the surprise move of pulling its next big-budget children’s fantasy movie from theatrical release. Artemis Fowl might have been the next family franchise for the House of Mouse, but instead, it’s going straight to Disney+. And now, Disney has revealed a June 12 Disney+ release date for Artemis Fowl with a new teaser....

‘Creepshow’ Is Coming To Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 5, 2019 8:30 am EST Navigating Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights just got a whole lot creepier. Creepshow is the theme of a new maze this year, and it will take inspiration from both the 1982 cult classic movie directed by George Romero and Shudder’s new anthology series. So get your knees flexing and your arms T-rexing and do the creep…show....

/Filmcast Ep. 567 - The Lost Boys (GUEST: Dan Trachtenberg) By Slashfilmcast/May 13, 2020 8:00 pm EST With no new release in sight, Dave, Devindra, and Jeff explore their “blindspots” – classic movies they somehow missed. Dan Trachtenberg, director of the movie 10 Cloverfield Lane and friend of the show, returns to do an epic review of Lost Boys, the 1987 comedy horror. Read about the true story of The Lost Boys’ sax man here....

‘Goosebumps’ Is Getting A Live-Action TV Series Reboot From The Producer Of The Film Franchise By Ethan Anderton/April 28, 2020 10:30 am EST R.L. Stine’s best-selling children’s horror book series Goosebumps was turned into a network TV swho at the height of its popularity in the 1990s. More recently, the books became a feature film franchise, using a variety of monsters and elements from the extensive roster of horror stories. Now the book series is heading back to the small screen with Sony Pictures Television and film franchise producer Neal H....

‘Gotham Knights’ Is A New Video Game Where You Play As The Bat-Family After Batman’s Death [DC FanDome] By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2020 11:10 am EST Batman is dead. So it’s up to you now. Thankfully, “you” are Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, and the Red Hood, Batman’s extended family of allies who have fought on the streets of Gotham alongside him for years. And in the new Gotham Knights video game, you get to get to take control of these supporting characters as they step into the spotlight to save the day following their mentor’s sudden demise....

‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Was A Disappointment For Director Roland Emmerich Too By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 5, 2019 8:30 am EST Speaking with Yahoo while promoting the release of the World War II epic Midway this weekend, Emmerich lamented what Independence Day: Resurgence turned out to be, and it’s a direct result of Will Smith deciding not to make the movie. The director explained: It was common knowledge that there were two possible paths for Independence Day: Resurgence to take....

‘Ratched’ Trailer: Sarah Paulson Takes On The Iconic ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ Villain On Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 4, 2020 10:01 am EST Ryan Murphy’s latest collaboration with Sarah Paulson may yield another hit for the American Horror Story creator. Murphy’s upcoming Netflix series Ratched looks to be a glorious showcase for the Emmy-winning actress, who plays the young Nurse Ratched before she became one of cinema’s most notorious villains in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest....

‘Schitt’s Creek’ Reruns Heading To Comedy Central, Final Season Hits Netflix In October By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 23, 2020 4:30 pm EST Schitt’s Creek made a historic run at the 72nd Primetime Emmys last weekend by sweeping the entire comedy category. With so much hype, why haven’t so many viewers heard much about this series? Well, that’s because it first aired on PopTV, the channel that used to have the cable guide....

‘The Conners’ To Air A Live Episode That Incorporates Real-Time Results From New Hampshire Primary By Ben Pearson/Feb. 5, 2020 12:30 pm EST Long after this year’s Iowa caucus should have been over and done with, the full results have still not yet been officially tallied. But ABC is hoping the same debacle won’t happen during next week’s New Hampshire primary, because today, the network announced that it will be airing a live broadcast of The Conners which will incorporate the real-time primary results into the episode itself....

‘The Good Place’ Series Finale Is Ascending To Alamo Drafthouse Theaters Across The Country By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 19, 2020 2:00 pm EST Holy forking shirtballs! The Good Place is ascending from our TV sets to the big screen. The series finale of the Mike Schur NBC comedy is coming to theaters at Alamo Drafthouse Theaters across the nation for one night this month. Grab your forks and philosophy books, one of the best TV comedies of the past decade is coming to theaters....

‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Trailer: Can I Get An Amen? By Chris Evangelista/July 25, 2019 4:00 pm EST If there’s one thing Danny McBride does well, it’s making very funny shows about loud, crude jerks. And he’s at it again with The Righteous Gemstones, a new HBO series that looks like it has its fair share of rude loudmouths while also being pretty damn funny. The series focuses on a world-famous televangelist family that is clearly anything but holy....

Animatronic Baby Yoda Toy Coming To Life This Fall, Along With A Slew Of Other Toys And Games By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 20, 2020 10:00 am EST America demands more Baby Yoda merch, and that’s what they’re getting. Hasbro just unleashed details on a whole slew of Star Wars-related merch, including an robotic Baby Yoda toy which moves around, makes noise, and may or may not gain sentience one day and come after you, Chucky-style....

Bruce Willis Returns As John McClane For A ‘Die Hard’ Car Battery Commercial By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2020 7:30 am EST The last time Bruce Willis reprised his role as John McClane in the Die Hard franchise, the results were disappointing to say the least. But over the weekend, fans were intrigued when the actor’s daughter, Rumer Willis, posted a teaser for the return of the increasingly invincible detective. For some reason, many thought this was a tease for a new Die Hard movie that no one had heard about....

Disney No Longer Considers A Certain ‘The Mandalorian’ Character A Spoiler - Here’s How We’ll Cover The Show Going Forward By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 18, 2019 11:00 am EST There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the arrival of the first live-action Star Wars series The Mandalorian since Disney+ became available in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands. However, discussing the show itself has proven to be somewhat tricky since the end of the first episode features a big character spoiler that is an important part of the show’s foundation, and that’s challenging for audiences around the rest of the world trying to avoid spoilers until they can watch the series themselves....

Doug Liman Will Direct The Tom Cruise Space Movie Really Being Shot In Outer Space By Chris Evangelista/May 26, 2020 2:43 pm EST Tom Cruise has found a filmmaker to accompany him to outer space: Doug Liman. Liman, who directed Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow and American Made, is now on board the still-untitled Tom Cruise space movie that plans to really shoot in space, with the help of Elon Musk’s Space X and NASA....

J.J. Abrams Defends Bringing Palpatine Back For ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 1, 2019 8:00 am EST The one major element giving me pause about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the unexpected return of Emperor Palpatine. The character has had zero presence in these new movies, and he was clearly very dead at the end of the original Star Wars trilogy. Yet sure enough, he’s back in some form, his voice popping-up in the trailers, and his big goofy face up on the poster....

Marvel’s ‘WandaVision’ Soundtracks Released For The First Two Episodes By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 24, 2021 11:00 am EST Marvel’s WandaVision is slowly unfurling over on Disney+, and following the debut of each new episode, we’ll also be getting the soundtracks every single week. Walt Disney Records has made the soundtracks for the first two episodes of the series available, featuring not only the score by Ant-Man and the Wasp and Frozen 2 composer Christophe Beck, but also the original theme songs by Frozen franchise songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez....