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‘Kate’ First Look: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Is An Assassin Battling Through Tokyo In Netflix Action-Thriller By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 14, 2021 1:30 pm EST After Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s scene-stealing performance in Birds of Prey proved that the actress has some bonafide action chops, it feels like there haven’t been enough people calling for Winstead to become the next big action star. But Netflix is already ahead of the game with Kate, an action-thriller starring Winstead as an assassin on a job in Tokyo, who only has 24 hours to live before a poison kills her....

Most Dangerous Game Trailer Maybe it’s an indictment on the United States’ broken healthcare system that many a thriller starts with an average person who is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and will do anything to provide for his or her family. But Most Dangerous Game doesn’t have time to delve deeper into the sociopolitical situation of it all – this is about a man being hunted for sport, baby....

‘Nomadland’ Trailer: Chloé Zhao’s Acclaimed Drama Finally Debuts This Month By Ben Pearson/Feb. 10, 2021 9:30 am EST After spending months at the forefront of awards discussions and appearing on dozens of “best of 2020” lists, Nomadland is finally poised to actually come out in the United States in a major way. Writer/director Chloé Zhao’s excellent, contemplative drama starring Frances McDormand is coming to Hulu and theaters in just a few days, and Searchlight Pictures has released a new trailer to remind people A) that this is a great movie that everyone will finally have access to, and B) that this is one of the most acclaimed films of the entire year....

‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’ Red-Band Trailer: Lonely Island Hits The Big Screen By Angie Han/March 10, 2016 8:30 am EST The Lonely Island is hitting the big screen this summer. Universal Pictures has released the first look at the awkwardly (and hilariously) titled Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, starring Andy Samberg as a singer-rapper named Conner4Real. Though he seems to be at the top of his game — thanks to the efforts of a 32-person entourage — his career takes a nosedive when his latest album flops....

‘Possessor’ Director Brandon Cronenberg Turning J.G. Ballard Novel ‘Super-Cannes’ Into Limited Series By Chris Evangelista/May 23, 2021 9:00 am EST Brandon Cronenberg is following in his father’s footsteps and adapting a J.G. Ballard novel. Cronenberg’s dad David helmed the brilliant, disturbing car crash sex movie Crash, based on a Ballard novel of the same name, and now Brandon is going to turn Ballard’s book Super-Cannes into a limited series. The story is set in a multinational business park that “is a virtual city-state in itself, built for the most elite high-tech industries....

‘Smallville’ Actors Are Working On An Animated Sequel Series By Ben Pearson/June 24, 2021 11:22 am EST This year marks the 20th anniversary of Smallville, The CW’s superhero series that focused on a young Clark Kent before he fully took on the Superman mantle. The successful show ran for 10 seasons and inspired a comic book continuation of its story, but now actor Tom Welling, who played Clark, has revealed that he and former co-star Michael Rosenbaum, who played Lex Luthor, have teamed up to develop a Smallville animated sequel series....

‘Spencer’ First Look: Kristen Stewart Is A Sad-Looking Princess Diana By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 27, 2021 9:30 am EST Meet your next Princess Diana. Kristen Stewart dons the iconic blonde locks and sad, doe-eyed expression of the beloved Princess of Wales, whose untimely death left a huge mark on history. And as we near the 25th anniversary of her death, we’ll receive a new biopic about the Lady Di, helmed by Jackie director Pablo Larraín....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Producers On New Characters, Familiar Planets, And Setting A Show During The Rise Of The Empire [Interview] By Bryan Young/May 3, 2021 9:00 am EST With the end of Star Wars: The Clone Wars last year, many fans thought we’d reached the end of storytelling for the clone characters and everyone else we met in that series. With the announcement of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, that idea got turned on its head....

‘The Hunchback Of Notre Dame’ Almost Featured Michael Jackson, But Disney Balked By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 21, 2021 6:34 am EST Hollywood “almosts” are some of the most popular stories to circulate the internet. Did you know Eric Stoltz almost played Marty McFly? Etcetera, etcetera. At this point, these pieces of trivia are so readily available on the web that they’re no longer a surprise. But every now and then, a new one gets unearthed....

‘The Premise’ First Look: B.J. Novak’s Comedy Anthology Series Arrives Soon By Danielle Ryan/July 27, 2021 3:24 pm EST It’s been more than a year since FX approved a series order on B.J. Novak’s comedy anthology series, but they finally have something to show us. Novak released the first-look images of the upcoming FX on Hulu original series, The Premise, via his Twitter. FX also shared the cast, episode synopses, and the release date, with the first two episodes slated to make their debut on September 16....

‘The Shawshank Redemption’ 4K Will Tunnel Its Way To Freedom This September By Chris Evangelista/July 26, 2021 1:28 pm EST The Shawshank Redemption, a great movie that got a bad wrap after playing on cable 24 hours a day for five straight years in a row, is coming to 4K. The Stephen King adaptation from director Frank Darabont opened in 1994. While the movie would go on to score some Oscar nominations, it was actually a box office disappointment....

‘Wild Indian’ Trailer: One Of The Year’s Best Movies Arrives In September By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 12, 2021 12:04 pm EST Wild Indian is one of the best films of the year, and you’re going to get to see it soon. Next month, in fact. This drama stars Michael Greyeyes as a self-loathing Anishinaabe man with a dark secret from his past. And, like most past dark secrets, it’s about to catch up to him....

A ‘Funko’ Movie Is In Development At Warner Bros. (Yes, Really) By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 28, 2019 1:00 pm EST The low-tech toy line created to tap into movie nostalgia before going on to become of the most popular blockbuster movie tie-ins is becoming a movie. Warner Bros. has reportedly begun development on a Funko movie, based on the Funko Pop vinyl figurines and bobbleheads that depict everything from popular superheroes, to directors, to obscure TV procedural characters....

A Boy Called Christmas Trailer: Maggie Smith Stars In Netflix’s Latest Holiday Adventure Netflix By Marisa Mirabal/Oct. 7, 2021 1:45 pm EST As I sit typing this article, it’s a beautiful autumn afternoon and I have a cheesy horror movie from the ’80s playing in the background to get into the season. So, it does pain me a little bit to deliver Christmas news when we aren’t even a full week into October....

Bosch Season 7 Synopsis Want to know what Bosch season 7 is about? Good, because I’m about to tell you: Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novel The Burning Room (2014) and the real arson case that inspired it, the seventh and final season of Prime Video’s Bosch puts Detective Harry Bosch’s famous motto center stage: “Everybody counts or nobody counts.” When a ten-year-old girl dies in an arson fire, Detective Harry Bosch risks everything to bring her killer to justice despite opposition from powerful forces....

Don’t Call It a Reboot We’re seeing double with John @Mulaney ‘n @AndySamberg! 🐿🐿 #DisneyPlusDay #RescueRangers pic.twitter.com/Dh10SUQuTS— Disney+ (@disneyplus) November 12, 2021 John Mulaney and Andy Samberg appeared in a quick video teasing “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” though there wasn’t any footage of the movie to be found. Instead, they merely revealed that this movie isn’t a reboot. Instead, they’re calling it a comeback, and one that’s been 30 years in the making....

Episode 8 Bits: Oscar Isaac On The “Dark Second Chapter,’ A Major Action Scene, And The Return Of A Jedi Master By Jacob Hall/May 20, 2016 12:00 pm EST In today’s edition of Episode 8 Bits: Oscar Isaac talks about the future of Poe Dameron. The Star Wars: Episode 8 production continues to leap all around Ireland. Drone footage reveals a new look at the Millennium Falcon. Yoda may return for Episode 8....

Get An Up Close Look At Leia’s Lightsaber From ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2020 11:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For many, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker wasn’t exactly the thrilling conclusion to the Skywalker saga that fans had been waiting for. But if there’s one element of the finale that was satisfying even to those who disliked the movie overall, it was the flashback to Leia’s Jedi training with Luke Skywalker, where it was revealed that the Princess turned General had built her own lightsaber, making her a full-fledged Jedi....

How An Iconic Scene In ‘Cat People’ Created The Cinematic Jump Scare As We Know It Today By Meagan Navarro/Nov. 18, 2020 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror. In this edition: Cat People delivered the first significant jump scare of the sound era and created one of cinema’s most enduring scare techniques; the Lewton Bus.)The jump scare gets a bad rap....

How One Iconic Scene In ‘Child’s Play’ Rewrote The Movie’s Rules With Chilling Effect By Meagan Navarro/Feb. 5, 2020 12:00 pm EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror. In this edition: a terrifying and memorable scene in Child’s Play marked the transition from atmospheric chiller to full-blown practical effect driven extravaganza.)Of all the horror icons to emerge from the ’80s, killer doll Chucky and his Child’s Play franchise seems to have left slasher titans like Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger in the dust....