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Primo: New Series From Parks And Rec And The Good Place Creator Coming To IMDB TV NBC By Kaylee Dugan/Oct. 27, 2021 10:50 am EST The man behind some of your favorite TV shows is teaming up with the man behind some of your favorite hip-hop/sports thoughts to craft a new TV show for IMDb TV. Yes, you read that correctly, Michael Schur (the creator behind “Parks and Rec,” “The Good Place”) and Shea Serrano (writer for The Ringer, Grantland, and author of “The Rap Yearbook”) are working on a TV show together....

The Pitch Starring Jenny Agutter and Barry Newman, Amy is a film focused on a young woman who runs away from her domineering husband, leaving behind a single note as she heads off to teach at a school for the deaf and blind in the Appalachian Mountains, hoping to start a new life for herself as she encourages the school to allow her to teach deaf children to speak as well as sign....

Rob Zombie Reveals More Wardrobe And Makeup Details For ‘The Munsters’ By Marisa Mirabal/Aug. 2, 2021 6:57 pm EST Rob Zombie has been regularly updating fans on Instagram with behind-the-scenes photos from Budapest while on set for The Munsters. To beat the Monday blues, Zombie posted an update on Herman and Lily Munster’s flashy wardrobe as well as the completed mold for Herman’s signature headpiece. If you’re out of the loop, Rob Zombie is in the process of adapting the beloved 1964 television show The Munsters for the silver screen....

Sam Raimi-Produced ‘65’ Starring Adam Driver Gets A 2022 Release Date By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 26, 2021 4:00 pm EST Adam Driver is going to be all over our screens next year. The Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker actor remains supremely busy, with projects lined up with Noah Baumbach, Ridley Scott, and more. And one of his many films, a sci-fi thriller titled 65 from the writers of A Quiet Place, is set to come out next summer....

Dolph Lundgren MGM Film fans who characterize Dolph Lundgren as a dull, silly, hulking mass simply don’t know his amazing real-life story and the challenges that he overcame. Lundgren was born in Sweden and suffered from significant physical abuse at a young age, but worked through his hardships to become an athlete and receive a degree in chemical engineering at the highly selective KTH Royal Institute of Technology. It was after achieving his life-long dream of moving to the United States that Lundgren met Sylvester Stallone, who cast him in “Rocky IV,” and realized that his physical abilities could translate to the big screen....

The Best Movies And Shows Leaving Netflix In September 2021 ViacomCBS By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 25, 2021 7:19 pm EST Summer is ending and so are Netflix’s licenses for a few major franchises! If you don’t want to get a subscription to Paramount+, now is the time to burrow into your couch and fire up your Netflix account. Paramount+ properties aren’t the only great shows and movies leaving Netflix next month. If you’re a fan of James Bond parodies, dark series’ set in Victorian England, or Harrison Ford on a plane might want to rush to the streaming platform before it’s too late....

The Daily Stream: ‘Malcolm X’ Still Transcends The Rote Reenactments Of Most Biopics By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 14, 2021 7:49 am EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: Malcolm XWhere You Can Stream It: HBO MaxThe Pitch: Frequent collaborators Spike Lee and Denzel Washington immortalize the civil rights activist, Malcolm X, in an electric biopic that is no less relevant today than it was three decades ago....

The Daily Stream: ‘The Paper Tigers’ Is A Cornball Martial Arts Dad Comedy By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 10, 2021 1:10 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: The Paper TigersWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: Three former martial arts geniuses known as the “Three Tigers” have grown into disillusioned middle-aged men who have long given up the art of Gung Fu....

The Morning Watch: The Evolution Of Pixar’s Character Movement, How Board Games Adapt Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/March 31, 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, see how the movement and expressions of the film of Pixar Animation have evolved over the years to allow for lifelike characters....

The Morning Watch: Updated 2021 ‘Star Wars’ Canon Timeline, Boba Fett Returns In Animated LEGO Fight & More By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 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....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal’ Will Make You Angry By Chris Evangelista/March 24, 2021 8:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Movie: Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions ScandalWhere You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: A documentary about the 2019 college admissions scandal, where the rich and famous spent lots of money to bribe their kids into Ivy League schools....

Universal Building Real-Life Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, Broadway Musical Planned By Peter Sciretta/March 17, 2016 10:00 am EST I’m sure I was like many other children, watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and imagining what it would be like to visit this fictional candy wonderland. Well now news comes that Universal Studios will be building a real-life Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory as part of their Universal Orlando resort. And coincidentally, Warner Bros has announced that they will be launching a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory musical on Broadway in spring 2017....

Valve’s ‘Portal’ Movie Is “Finally On The Rails,” J.J. Abrams Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 25, 2021 10:30 am EST It’s been eight long years since J.J. Abrams and video game producer Gabe Newell brought together their Bad Robot and Valve companies to collaborate on feature film adaptations of Valve’s wildly popular video game franchises Portal and Half-Life. And it’s been five years since we’ve heard an update on either film. But Abrams finally has an update on the long-awaited Portal movie, which the producer and filmmaker says is back on track....

VOTD: Bill Murray Reacts To The Mini-Stay Puft Marshmallow Men In ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ By Ethan Anderton/April 22, 2021 2:00 pm EST A few weeks ago, Ghostbusters: Afterlife was forced to reveal one of its secrets because of some impending merchandise being released by Hasbro. A clip from the movie showed Paul Rudd’s character encountering some maniacal and mischievous mini-Stay Puft marshmallow men inside a Walmart after picking up a pint of Baskin-Robbins ice cream (how about that product placement, folks?...

‘Belle’ Trailer: Mamoru Hosoda Follows Up ‘Mirai’ With Another Anime Film About A Furry Husband By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 17, 2021 6:52 am EST There are a few things that appear in almost every Mamoru Hosoda movie: a stirring examination of parenthood, a bittersweet romance, and a furry husband. Hosoda, the filmmaker behind 2018’s Oscar-nominated Mirai and anime masterpieces like The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Wolf Children, is back to his old tricks with Belle, a digital spin on Beauty and the Beast that returns to Hosoda’s urban vision of the internet that he first explored in Digimon and Summer Wars — but with a new furry husband, of course....

‘Blindspotting’ TV Series Trailer Expands The Movie’s Narrative, Keeps The Same Style And Energy By Ethan Anderton/May 12, 2021 3:30 pm EST Blindspotting was one of the acclaimed premieres to come out of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Featuring Hamilton star Daveed Diggs in the lead role, the film dealt with some heavy themes, including systemic racism and police brutality, but it did it with some sharp satirical humor and hip-hop musical sequences....

‘Bloodline’ Season 3 Review: The Final Season Gets Appropriately Messy By Jack Giroux/May 31, 2017 10:00 am EST The Rayburn family is a complicated bunch. John Rayburn (Kyle Chandler) once believed they were good people who just did a bad thing, but in season three, the waters get even murkier. In the emotional, sometimes frustrating third and final season, the family takes some long, contemplative looks in the mirror. Below, check out our spoiler-filled Bloodline season three review....

‘Spencer’ Image Gives Us A New Look At Kristen Stewart As Princess Diana By Chris Evangelista/March 25, 2021 1:30 pm EST Time for another look at Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Spencer, the upcoming film from Jackie director Pablo Larrain. There was a lot of talk about how Stewart was “unrecognizable” when the first image, which you can see above, was released for the film. I didn’t quite agree with that assessment....

‘The Santa Clause’ Almost Had A Much Darker Path To Tim Allen Becoming Santa Claus By Ethan Anderton/March 4, 2021 8:30 am EST Tim Allen’s most famous role at The Walt Disney Company is likely that of Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s Toy Story franchise. But the Home Improvement star also stepped into another famous character for The House of Mouse in The Santa Clause. Aside from causing people to endlessly misspell Santa Claus, the movie turned Tim Allen into a Christmas icon and launched an entire franchise for the studio that gets played over and over again around the holidays....

‘The Twinkle Brothers’: ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ Director Tackling Whimsical Movie About Two Rival Restaurant Owners By Ben Pearson/Feb. 18, 2021 11:00 am EST John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, is best known for writing the scripts for the Cher/Nicolas Cage romance Moonstruck and for writing and directing two very different movies: 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano and 2008’s Doubt. But Shanley re-entered the zeitgeist last year with his absolutely bonkers romantic drama Wild Mountain Thyme, which featured an ending so unexpected and ridiculous that it set a small corner of the Internet completely abuzz....