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‘Thomas And Friends’ Movie Being Developed For ‘World War Z’ Director Marc Forster By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 6, 2020 12:30 pm EST That sentient locomotive Thomas the Tank Engine is back and he’s bringing all his friends. Marc Forster, director of World War Z and Quantum of Solace, is set to direct a new Thomas and Friends movie based on the beloved British children’s television series and children’s books. The new movie will be a blend of live-action and animation....

An ‘Arrested Development’ Character Appears In ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ By Ben Pearson/April 27, 2018 12:30 pm EST Before they became known as the directors of some of the biggest blockbusters in history, Anthony and Joe Russo were two of the creative forces behind Arrested Development, one of the funniest and most layered comedies in television history. The filmmaker hermanos snuck a reference to the show in Captain America: Civil War by dropping the famous stair car into that movie’s airport fight scene, so it’s no surprise that they included another shout-out to the series in Avengers: Infinity War....

And Just Like That, Michael Patrick King Explained The Necessity Of That Big Twist HBO Max By Marisa Mirabal/Dec. 14, 2021 11:59 am EST If you’re not caught up on “And Just Like That”, consider this your warning because this post contains spoilers. If you are caught up, let’s discuss that big twist (pun intended), shall we? In a recent interview with Variety, creator and executive producer Michael Patrick King discussed the death of lead character John “Big” James Preston (played by Chris Noth)....

Betty Gilpin Is No Longer In ‘Impeachment: American Crime Story,’ But She Did Master Her Ann Coulter Impression By Chris Evangelista/June 14, 2021 12:00 pm EST Betty Gilpin, who has quickly become one of those performers who is great in pretty much anything, was supposed to play infamous right-wing ghoul Ann Coulter in the upcoming season of American Crime Story that focuses on the Bill Clinton impeachment. But even though most info for the upcoming show still lists Gilpin as part of the cast, the GLOW star has revealed she’s no longer involved with the project....

Chris Columbus Wants To Release His Three-Hour #PeevesCut Of Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone Warner Bros. Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 17, 2021 10:27 am EST Have director’s cuts gone too far? Do we really need multiple version of every movie? Does anyone actually want to see the pound sign Peeves cut of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone?” I mean, clearly yes because TheWrap wrote an entire article about it and #ReleaseThePeevesCut is a thing on Twitter, but someone has to ask the tough questions....

Direct ‘Game Of Thrones’ Spin-Offs May Still Happen, HBO Boss Says By Ben Pearson/Feb. 11, 2021 8:30 am EST Despite the ending of Game of Thrones landing with somewhat of a cultural thud, HBO knows there is loads of untapped potential in the fictional land of Westeros. There are multiple prequel shows in various stages of development, and in a new interview, HBO and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys does not rule out the chance of direct Game of Thrones spin-offs hitting the small screen one day....

Everything We Know About Star Trek: Strange New Worlds So Far CBS Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Nov. 2, 2021 11:14 am EST Set phasers to hype and increase speed to maximum warp, because “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is getting closer and closer to premiering with each passing day and we couldn’t be more excited to see it. Through its ups and downs, “Star Trek: Discovery” has successfully accomplished its mission of introducing fans to a whole new crew to fall in love with as we follow along on their journeys through space (and, in its most recent seasons, time)....

Christmas in New York City Marvel Studios When Hawkeye debuts on Disney+ in November, it will be just before Thanksgiving on November 24. So there’s no time better to give us a Marvel Studios show that takes place around the holidays. Clearly it will be Christmastime with the Empire State Building lit up in green and red with the candy cane-striped tower. Then there’s all the snow falling, and it will just be a magical time....

Holding On To My Butt, 25 Years Later: ‘Jurassic Park’ Revisited By Dana Moran/March 28, 2018 8:00 am EST (Welcome to Nostalgia Bomb, a series where we take a look back on beloved childhood favorites and discern whether or not they’re actually any good. In this edition: Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is 25 this year, so let’s make sure we’re not crazy about still loving this one.)The great film truant Ferris Bueller once said, “Life comes at you pretty fast....

House Of The Dragon Trailer Breakdown: Who Are These New Characters? HBO By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 5, 2021 12:49 pm EST This morning, HBO released the first official look at “House of the Dragon.” The arrival of another HBO fantasy series set in the same world as “Game of Thrones” can only mean one thing: a whole slew of new characters with complicated backstories that viewers may have trouble keeping track of in the early going....

Interview: Damon Lindelof On The Backbone Of ‘The Leftovers’ Season Two By Jack Giroux/Jan. 19, 2016 9:00 am EST Midway through season one of HBO’s The Leftovers, the show found its footing, going on to deliver heartbreaking, romantic, strangely comedic, and honest stories about family. The show continued to improve, and by the time season two premiered, the show was on its way to delivering an ambitious, dense, and more surreal chapter in its three-part story....

Latest ‘In The Heights’ Trailer Showcases The Song “96,000” By Chris Evangelista/May 4, 2021 12:00 pm EST Hey, how about yet another look at In the Heights? The other big Lin-Manuel Miranda musical is headed to theaters soon, and Warner Bros. really wants to sell it as the movie of the summer. And who can blame them? It looks like a big, fun, energetic movie with a diverse cast and great songs from the guy who created Hamilton....

MacGruber First Look: The Disgraced National Hero Comes To Peacock In December NBCUniversal By Eric Vespe/Nov. 23, 2021 11:30 am EST Well, shut yer butt. It looks like we get one more treat in the year of our Lord 2021 and that’s the return of “MacGruber.” The series will be launching on Universal’s streaming service, Peacock, on December 16, and today we got a slew of images and even a trailer in the form of a jailhouse interview with Mac himself....

Matt Reeves Is Producing An English-Language Remake Of Russian Creature Feature ‘Sputnik’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 30, 2021 7:30 am EST With a title like Sputnik and within a genre like horror, you can only expect one thing from the 2020 Russian creature feature: bloody, gory cosmonaut terror. And it seems like Sputnik, an acclaimed Russian sci-fi horror film that was released last year, delivered on those expectations, earning raves from the genre community who praised it as one of the best horror movies of 2020....

Netflix To Become The Streaming Home For All New Sony Releases Starting Next Year By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 8, 2021 1:00 pm EST Warner Bros. has HBO Max. Disney and Pixar have Disney+. Paramount has Paramount + and Universal has Peacock. But unlike its competitors, Sony is one of the few major studios that has not yet launched its own streaming platform to compete with Netflix. But Sony’s sticking by the old adage, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em....

Six Seasons and a Movie! Caryn Mandabach Productions In the latest update, according to Variety, those plans are now set in stone. After revealing that Season 6 has fully wrapped filming and is in the final stretch of editing, Knight stated: “…I am going to write the feature which will be set in and shot in Birmingham. And that will probably be the sort of the end of the road for ‘Peaky Blinders’ as we know it....

Steve Jobs’ Widow Tried To Stop The Movie; Apple Design Chief Jony Ive Speaks Out By Angie Han/Oct. 8, 2015 1:30 pm EST Critics love Steve Jobs, but among those who knew the man personally, reactions to the project have been more mixed, to say the least. A new report claims Jobs’ widow Laurene Powell Jobs actively lobbied actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale to turn down the project, while Apple design chief Jony Ive has spoken out against the film....

The French Dispatch Editor Andrew Weisblum On Crafting Wes Anderson’s Films [Interview] Searchlight Pictures By Jack Giroux/Oct. 28, 2021 2:16 pm EST Andrew Weisblum has been editing Wes Anderson’s films for over a decade. The two first collaborated on “The Darjeeling Limited,” and since then they’ve worked together on “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Isle of Dogs,” and now “The French Dispatch.” Anderson’s latest is structured into three chapters and based around three stories appearing in the final issue of The French Dispatch, the fictional foreign bureau of a Kansas newspaper....

Tensions Flare A24 As the night progresses, tensions flare. Brigid complains about her parents not helping her out financially. Aimee is distraught over a break-up. And Deirdre finds herself mocked and chided by her children for her religious beliefs, and for her struggles with her weight. But Deirdre can dish it out as much as she can take it, and she’s not above cutting her children down to size with a cruel word or two....

Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story Trailer: Because The World Needed A Tiger King Spin-Off, Apparently Netflix Press Site By Jenna Busch/Dec. 3, 2021 4:43 pm EST Remember the beginning of the pandemic when we were all mesmerized/entertained/horrified by the Netflix series “Tiger King?” Remember when everyone was saying “Cool cats and kittens,” and you had to watch the show just to figure out all the memes? Even a second season of “Tiger King” wasn’t enough to get all the info out there on this insane story....