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‘The First Lady’ Casts Former TV President Kiefer Sutherland As Franklin D. Roosevelt By Vanessa Armstrong/July 9, 2021 12:01 pm EST Showtime’s upcoming series The First Lady focuses, unsurprisingly, on the First Ladies who’ve lived in the White House over the years. One of those First Ladies is Eleanor Roosevelt, who will be played by Gillian Anderson (X-Files, The Crown) on the show. We now also know who will be playing Anderson’s TV husband, President Franklin D....

‘The Orville’ Season 3 May Be On Its Way By Ariel Fisher/Aug. 6, 2021 4:40 pm EST Good news, fellow Orvillians! Not sure if that’s what fans of The Orville are actually called, but, let’s roll with it. According to Hulu’s head of scripted originals, Jordan Helman, the best Star Trek series that isn’t technically Star Trek could be coming back for its third season sooner rather than later. Welcome Aboard The Orville...

Gone Fishin' Come to think of it, there aren’t a lot of ocean-related shows these days outside of documentary-style films or series like Blue Planet. There are a couple of animated kid shows but nothing particularly made for adults with mature content. So, I think the combination of location, sea creatures interacting with humans, and workplace culture is actually pretty great in terms of timing. Even finding messages in bottles is still relevant, because that somehow keeps happening, which is both cool and disturbing in its own right....

By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2021 10:30 am EST The Underground Railroad Trailer Based on the award-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad “chronicles Cora Randall’s (Thuso Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil....

‘It came from the pandemic’ Lionsgate “Zeros and Ones” is so interesting in that it begins with Ethan talking directly to the audience and framing the story that way. In the conclusion he notes that the film’s kind of connected to what we’ve been going through over the pandemic. I know the film itself was shot during the pandemic. Can you talk a little bit about that connection and what the film means to you?...

Cool Stuff: Grab Patrick Connan’s Cornetto Trilogy Print Set And Wait For All Of This To Blow Over By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2021 6:00 am EST This year doesn’t mark a special anniversary for Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz or The World’s End, but that’s not stopping Vice Press and artist Patrick Connan from celebrating Edgar Wright’s series of films known as The Cornetto Trilogy. The producer of officially licensed art, posters and merchandise for various cult and mainstream movies, television shows, comics, books and games is releasing a set of three prints inspired by each film in the trilogy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost....

Could Another Haunting Season Be Coming To Netflix? Mike Flanagan Says … Maybe Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/Sept. 14, 2021 9:09 pm EST Mike Flanagan is leaving his “Haunting” fans hanging. Netflix’s favorite genre director/grief counselor took the horror community by storm with “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” which explored grief and trauma through the lens of classic ghost stories. Unlike some other popular horror anthology creators (cough Ryan Murphy cough), Flanagan isn’t making any promises or plans when it comes to breaking ground on a new season....

Midnight Audiences Might Like This Blumhouse When Annie arrives at the restaurant she was sent to (or rather, the restaurant that Stretch was sent to), she finds it closed, and seemingly empty. But then someone appears; a nervous woman who offers Annie extra money if she’ll transport her friend Angela (Angela Enahoro) to a second location. Angela is elderly, the lower half of her face covered in a mask. She seems dazed and uncommunicative, and possibly ill....

Dwayne Johnson’s John Henry Movie, Which Released A Trailer Three Years Ago, Is ‘Still Totally Happening’ [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 5, 2021 7:35 pm EST Remember those dueling John Henry movies? You could be forgiven for forgetting them since it’s been some time since they last crossed our path. The one starring Terry Crews already came and went last year, but the one starring Dwayne Johnson is still coming together....

Good Omens Season 2 First Look: Filming Has Begun In Scotland By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 2, 2021 6:25 pm EST An Angel and a Demon Walk Into a Bar… The new season will dig deeper into the relationship between the fussy rare book dealer angel, Aziraphale, and his demonic, hedonistic best friend, Crowley. They’ve been close since the beginning of time, and now that they’ve fended off the apocalypse together, they have time to figure out their friendship....

Halle Berry Signs Major Deal With Netflix Netflix Press Site By Jenna Busch/Nov. 30, 2021 4:34 pm EST Halle Berry’s Netflix film “Bruised” premiered on November 17, 2021, and it looks like Berry is officially part of the Netflix family. She’s just entered a multi-picture deal with the streaming service, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Bruised” was the top flick on Netflix domestically the week it premiered and hit the second spot worldwide....

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts Trailer As we noted when the teaser for “Return to Hogwarts” posted, this special has rounded up a long list of franchise veterans, including Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Tom Felton, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Mark Williams, Bonnie Wright, Alfred Enoch, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, and many more. One name not being advertised was that of author and “Harry Potter” creator, J....

How The Best Scene In ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Introduced A Horror Icon By Meagan Navarro/Nov. 15, 2019 9:00 am EST (Welcome to Scariest Scene Ever, a column dedicated to the most pulse-pounding moments in horror. In this edition: Horror icon Freddy Krueger clawed his way out of a nightmare and into the pop culture pantheon in A Nightmare on Elm Street.)Thirty-five years ago, the theatrical release of A Nightmare on Elm Street solidified director Wes Craven as a definitive voice in horror, launched a major horror franchise, and introduced an iconic movie monster in Freddy Krueger....

Insecure Season 5 Trailer: Issa Rae’s Comedy Series Is Coming To An End HBO By Kaylee Dugan/Sept. 30, 2021 10:42 am EST After five full years of being one of the best shows on television, “Insecure,” Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore’s show about being young and Black in L.A., is calling it quits. The season 5 trailer has officially dropped, and it strikes a celebratory tone, serving as the first float in a parade that is the final season, which makes it feel pretty different from the teaser trailer that dropped earlier this month....

Is Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda Coming Out In And Just Like That…? HBO Max By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 12, 2021 10:03 pm EST As a queer woman who has spent nearly three decades on this planet desperate for representation, I’ve gotten very, very good at finding hidden messages, subtext, and queer coding just to feel seen by the media I love so much. Hell, I’m mentioned in the IMDb trivia for “It: Chapter 2” when I pointed out that the queer coded Richie Tozier is wearing the same shirt as Jesse in the wildly queer “A Nightmare on Elm Street 2....

Halloween Kills Featurette - Warriors In “Halloween Kills,” Laurie Strode and her family learn that Michael Myers didn’t burn alive after being trapped in the basement and left for dead. Instead, firefighters inadvertently gave him a way to escape, and the masked killer is stalking the streets of Haddonfield again. Rather than live in fear, the three Strode women take it upon themselves to seek out Michael Myers themselves and finish him once and for all....

The Return of the Rocketeer Walt Disney Pictures We revisited “The Rocketeer” just last year, with /Film’s Josh Spiegel unearthing it from the Disney Vault and calling it an “early superhero masterpiece.” This summer, Billy Campbell sat down for an interview with us as the movie turned 30. “The Rocketeer” also stars Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, and Terry O’Quinn as Howard Hughes. Dalton plays the villain and was only two years from his final outing as James Bond in “License to Kill....

Power Book II: Ghost Season 2: Release Date, Cast, And More Starz By Ryan Scott/Oct. 7, 2021 3:31 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Starz and 50 Cent scored quite the unexpected hit with “Power.” So much so that the network doubled down in a big way, announcing several spin-offs that have begun coming to fruition....

Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: ‘Ms. Marvel’ Completes Shooting, ‘Loki’ Watch Parties, ‘Thor’ Flashback Photo & More By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2021 6:00 pm EST DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’s sixth season will be screwing up summer for the better in the coming weeks. Disney+ announced #LokiWednesdays, weekly watch parties of Marvel Studios’ films leading up to Loki. Here’s a look at “Unfinished Business,” two episodes coming for the fourth/final season of Black Lightning....

The Morning Watch: Analyzing The ‘Stranger Things 4’ Teaser Clues, Making Of ‘FallonVision’ Parody & More By Ethan Anderton/May 7, 2021 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. In this edition, take a closer look at the Stranger Things 4 teaser trailer with an analysis of some possible clues about the upcoming new episodes....