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Fatal Attraction TV Show Coming To Paramount+, Will Star Lizzy Caplan Showtime By Ryan Scott/Nov. 11, 2021 2:56 pm EST “Fatal Attraction” is officially getting the small screen treatment, as the show has been ordered to series at Paramount+. What’s more, Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock,” “Masters of Sex”) is set to star in the lead role as Alex. The character is described as someone “who becomes obsessed with her lover after a brief affair....

Genre-Bending Series Sugar Heads To Apple TV+, Has The Good Taste To Cast Colin Farrell Sony Pictures Releasing By Joshua Meyer/Dec. 14, 2021 1:20 pm EST Apple TV+ has won a bidding war for “Sugar,” a new series starring Colin Farrell. Netflix was also vying for the series, which Deadline bills as a genre-bender and describes as “an LA-set contemporary take on the private detective story.” Beyond that, not much is known of the plot at this point, but “Sugar” hails from creator Mark Protosevich, who wrote “The Cell,” “Poseidon,” and Spike Lee’s “Oldboy” remake, and who co-wrote “I Am Legend....

Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley Loses Composer Alexandre Desplat Searchlight Pictures By Anya Stanley/Oct. 8, 2021 11:10 am EST As Guillermo del Toro pushes to cut together his latest feature film in time for its December release, a new setback comes in the form of an exit. Two-time Oscar-winner Alexandre Desplat was all set to write the music for del Toro’s noir thriller “Nightmare Alley,” but the French composer had to back out of production due to scheduling conflicts....

Hank Azaria Wants To Apologize To “Every Single Indian Person In This Country” For Voicing Apu On ‘The Simpsons’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 14, 2021 12:00 pm EST Over a year ago, Hank Azaria stepped down from voicing Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the heavily accented Kwik-E-Mart owner on The Simpsons whom he had voiced for 30 years, winning several Emmys for his performance in the process. The decision came after the outcry over his voicing Apu had reached a boiling point in the wake of a documentary called The Problem with Apu, which criticized the character’s outdated stereotypes....

How Should Critics Handle TV Spoilers? By David Chen/July 4, 2011 9:09 pm EST A few days ago, Brian Moylan over at Gawker wrote up a manifesto for spoiler alerts. I’d tell you to go read it, except Moylan straight up spoils plot elements from Treme, Game of Thrones, and Lost with no warning whatsoever. To quote my colleague Matt Singer, if you spoil things in your article about the rules of spoilers, maybe you’re not really an authority on spoilers....

Movies Like Howl’s Moving Castle That Are Definitely Worth Watching Studio Ghibli By Billie Gagné-LeBel/Dec. 6, 2021 5:32 pm EST Studio Ghibli and its founder and main director, Hayao Miyazaki, are known for producing whimsical animated films, and 2004’s “Howl’s Moving Castle” is one of their best. The film follows Sophie, a young hat maker who has a chance encounter with the wizard Howl, a mysterious and enchanting figure. This draws the attention of the Witch of the Waste, who fancies Howl....

On-Set Interview: Michael Bay Talks ‘Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction’ By Peter Sciretta/June 17, 2014 10:00 am EST In August 2013, I flew to Detroit Michigan to visit the set of Michael Bay’s Transformers 4: Age of Extinction. You can read about what I learned on the visit here. While on set, we also got a chance to talk to the cast and crew. We’ll be posting those interviews throughout the week....

Sasha Calle Joins ‘The Flash’ As The DC Film Universe’s Supergirl By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 19, 2021 11:35 am EST It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s the new Supergirl! Latina actress Sasha Calle has landed the coveted part of the DC Film Universe’s Supergirl, who is set to make her debut in Andy Muschietti’s The Flash movie opposite Ezra Miller. Deadline reports that Calle beat out 425 other actresses who auditioned to play the part of the Girl of Steel....

Spotify And HBO Max Are Adapting The Hit LGBTQ Podcast ‘The Two Princes’ Into An Animated Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 13, 2020 3:30 pm EST Deadline reports that Spotify is in final negotiations with HBO Max to adapt the hit LGBT family podcast The Two Princes into an animated special. The project is still in early development and is going into the treatment phase, which makes it unclear whether the 60-minute animated special will debut upon the streamer’s highly anticipated launch in March....

Studio Ghibli’s Earwig And The Witch Is Now Coming To Netflix – In Select Territories Studio Ghibli By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 18, 2021 5:43 pm EST Netflix is soon to be the international home of the newest film from Studio Ghibli, “Earwig and the Witch.” As part of a new deal that excludes the United States and Japan, Netflix will distribute “Earwig and the Witch” to countries all over the world. This is a massive get for Netflix, considering Ghibli’s deal with HBO Max marked the Japanese animated juggernaut’s first ever deal allowing the films to reach larger audiences easier than ever before....

Superhero Bits: Shang-Chi Reigns Supreme, A New Venom Clip, The Flash Update & More Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2021 4:51 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The ‘What If…?’ Version Of ‘Black Panther’ Villain Killmonger Revealed, Seems To Have Had A Bone To Pick With Ultron By Shania Russell/July 8, 2021 10:31 am EST Funko Pops have become incredibly useful: not only are they the perfect shelf decor to let everyone know your favorite characters, they also come in handy when you need a quick hint for upcoming movies and shows. The latest Funko Pop sneak peek comes in the form of a Marvel’s What If…?...

The Case Against Jon Snow, The Stupidest And Most Volatile Man In Westeros By Jacob Hall/May 6, 2019 10:00 am EST (Welcome to Debate of Thrones, where a panel of Citadel-trained experts explain why someone deserves, or doesn’t deserve, to sit on the Iron Throne. In this edition: Jon Snow knows nothing and would be a terrible king.) You’ve heard the stories, I know. The bastard son of Eddard Stark has carved out quite the reputation over these past eight years....

The Life Of Brian Controversy Explained: Blasphemy, Bans, And Looking On The Bright Side Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images By Lee Adams/Dec. 14, 2021 2:04 pm EST In 1979, “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” reached the shores of the United Kingdom and local authorities up and down the land got themselves tied in knots about what to do with it. In the Welsh city of Swansea, a “public protection sub-committee” convened to discuss whether to ban the film, even before it was clear whether local cinemas planned to screen it or not (via Wales Online)....

Walt Disney World’s Christmas Plans Are Here, And They’re Mostly Spectacular By Josh Spiegel/July 13, 2021 5:49 am EST It’s Christmas in July, as the saying goes, and that means it’s a perfect time of year to wish it was the actual holiday season. Luckily enough, even though they just recently announced details of how they’ll celebrate Halloween, the Walt Disney World Resort is revealing some important details about the first post-pandemic holiday season....

The Princess Bride Remake Scene I’m a big fan of both William Goldman’s novel, which has some fascinating backstory elements for Fezzik and Inigo Montoya, and Reiner’s film adaptation, and I’m one of those people who was slightly disturbed by the idea that this movie might be remade. (Compared to everything else going on in the world right now, it’s hard to get truly riled up about anything so insignificant. But still, the idea was a little bothersome....

‘Black Widow’ Screenwriter Reveals He Doesn’t Know What That Post-Credit Scene Will Mean For MCU By Vanessa Armstrong/July 16, 2021 11:31 am EST Like most Marvel post-credit scenes, the one at the end of Black Widow tees up some drama and likely a whole lot of assassination attempts for one particular Avenger. When writing the scene, however, Eric Pearson admitted he has no idea what that moment will mean for the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4....

‘Don’t Breathe 2’ Red Band Trailer: Darkness Is Stephen Lang’s Ally By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 4, 2021 9:58 am EST They probably should’ve just left him alone. Five years after the first movie stalked its way into theaters and resulted in a pretty big box office hit, Don’t Breathe 2 is now just days away and Norman Nordstrom (Stephen Lang), the blind man at the center of all the violence and gore the last time around, is back to face a much tougher challenge....

‘Love, Death And Robots’ Behind-The-Scenes Video Takes You Inside The Animation By Chris Evangelista/June 3, 2021 5:30 pm EST Love, Death + Robots bills itself as adult animation, but that doesn’t mean it’s just non-stop scenes of naked cartoon characters (although it doesn’t not mean that, either). It means these are animated titles that are designed to resonate with you as an adult. A new Love, Death + Robots behind-the-scenes video dives into the Netflix show’s inventive, often hyper-realistic animation styles....

‘Sulwe’: A New Netflix Animated Musical Based On Lupita Nyong’o’s Best-Selling Book By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 18, 2021 10:30 am EST Netflix is turning Lupita Nyong’o’s best-selling book Sulwe into an animated musical film. Published in 2019, the children’s book follows a young girl with “skin the color of midnight” who is visited by a shooting star and embarks on a magical journey to learn about the nature of true beauty....