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By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 18, 2018 7:00 am EST On the heels of the renewal of superhero comedy The Tick, the streaming service has cancelled three other shows, One Mississippi, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson. The last series to get the axe was Jean-Claude Van Damme’s promising self-satire Jean-Claude Van Johnson, which starred the big-screen actor as a version of himself: a famous actor and martial-arts pro who comes out of retirement to resume his alter-ego as an undercover private contractor....

Annapurna And MGM Nearing Deal To Distribute James Bond 25 In 2019 By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 13, 2017 7:30 am EST Deadline reports MGM and Annapurna Pictures are very close to finalizing a deal to team on the domestic release of 007’s next adventure, and if all goes well everything should be finalized this week. The potential James Bond rights deal comes after MGM and Annapurna Pictures formed a new joint venture for theatrical distribution of other movies in the United States, making a pact for 007 that much easier to negotiate....

Clint Eastwood Will Make A Film About Kidnapped Aid Worker Jessica Buchanan By Jack Giroux/Oct. 11, 2016 1:30 pm EST Clint Eastwood recently added another hit to his resume with Sully. The well-received drama marks another successful collaboration between the director and the studio he calls home, Warner Bros. Pictures. Eastwood has made most of his movies at the studio, and that’s probably not changing anytime soon. Warner Bros. and the filmmaker are currently working on a film about Jessica Buchanan, an American aid worker who was kidnapped....

Daily Podcast: Should Filmmakers Criticize Critics? Diablo, Child’s Play, Robert Redford, Life Itself, Joker, And The Eternals By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 21, 2018 5:30 pm EST Opening Banter: Peter is waiting on his new iPhone to arrive, hopefully, it doesn’t interrupt the podcast.In The News: All the other stuff you need to know:

How Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Solo’ Droid Is Unlike Any Robot In ‘Star Wars’ History By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 9, 2018 3:00 pm EST Time for more Solo news! As this week chock-full of Solo details comes to a close, it’s time to learn a little about Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s droid character, L3-37. This week was a cornucopia of Solo: A Star Wars Story riches. Let’s recap! The Solo trailer dropped. We learned Solo plot details....

M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Glass’ Synopsis Reveals Elijah Price Holds The Secrets By Jack Giroux/Aug. 21, 2017 7:00 am EST In a month’s time, M. Night Shyamalan will begin shooting a sequel we’ve been wanted for years. Shyamalan will complete a trilogy that started with Unbreakable and continued with Split. The final chapter, Glass, brings the heroic David Dunn (Bruce Willis), the villainous Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), and Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) and his multiple personalities together for what Shyamalan calls a “crazy comic book thriller....

Nickelodeon Renews ‘Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Ahead Of Its Premiere – Here’s What To Expect [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/July 27, 2018 10:15 am EST “There are certain inherent qualities of the Turtle franchise that have been so resilient and popular,” Suriano said. “We played with it like a chemistry set and distilled the elements we thought would make an exciting cartoon for today’s generation.” Nickelodeon produced the last animated Turtles series in 2012....

Rogue One Character Posters Are Focused To Bring Down The Death Star By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 17, 2016 12:55 pm EST Walt Disney Pictures have released a set of character posters for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The posters take a close-up look at the 8 main characters in this first Star Wars standalone movie. Hit the jump to see the Rogue One character posters. Rogue One Character Posters The eight Rogue One character posters feature the following: Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones): A checkered past, a greater cause....

The Morning Watch: What Went Wrong With ‘The Last Jedi’, James Cameron Answers Sci-Fi Questions & More By Ethan Anderton/May 1, 2018 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, a video essay explores what “went wrong” with Rian Johnson trying to revolutionize the Star Wars saga with The Last Jedi....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 10, 2017 4:00 pm EST We’re going to be getting tons of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur in our theaters soon, with the upcoming biopic All Eyez on Me, and now a fully authorized feature length documentary helmed by Steve McQueen, the director of 12 Years a Slave. This will be the first documentary from the director of Hunger and Shame, though he will be joined by producer and musical documentary veteran Nigel Sinclair, who was behind such films as The Beatles: Eight Days A Week–The Touring Years....

Watch Tom Hanks And A Bunch Of Wax Presidents Save The World By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 13, 2017 5:00 pm EST Remember that time that John Oliver spent $13,700 in a bidding war for wax figures of U.S. presidents against Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Rachel Maddow? That super wonky and pricy move begat Oliver’s movie trailer for his ideal Warren G. Harding biopic, featuring Anna Kendrick and Laura Linney acting the hell out of their wax co-star....

Why Charlie Hunnam Chose Not To Star In ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ By Jack Giroux/April 17, 2017 6:30 am EST Raleigh Becket, the hotshot Jaeger pilot who tends not to play well with others, isn’t returning for next year’s Pacific Rim: Uprising. Long before director Steven S. DeKnight (Daredevil) started shooting the sequel, Charlie Hunnam was expected to get back in a Jaeger – but the actor eventually parted ways with the project....

‘Arrow’ Producers Already Have Plans For Season 7 [TCA 2017] By Fred Topel/Aug. 3, 2017 6:45 am EST Arrow is beginning its sixth season on The CW. The flagship show of the network’s DC Comics universe provides its own namesake, as Supergirl, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow fall under the “Arrowverse.” While previewing season six with the Television Critics Association after a panel for Legends, producer Marc Guggenheim, who also co-created and produces Arrow, said the Arrow writers already have ideas for season seven....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Clips: The Death Button And A Sovereign Fleet Create Problems By Ethan Anderton/April 19, 2017 1:30 pm EST Now that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is only just over a couple weeks away, Marvel Studios is making a huge push of new footage in the form of TV spots and clips, especially with the cast making the publicity rounds on late night TV shows and whatnot....

‘Inhumans’ TV Series Details: IMAX Release Date & More By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2016 1:00 pm EST Marvel’s next big TV series will be their biggest yet. Literally. As we learned last week, the Inhumans show will debut on IMAX before hitting the small screen as part of ABC’s fall 2017 lineup. Today, we’ve got some more details on the planned series and its IMAX run. Click through to get the latest details on the Inhumans IMAX release....

‘Legacy Of A Whitetail Deer Hunter’ Clip: Buck Ferguson Is Not Ready For Relationship Advice By Chris Evangelista/March 13, 2018 6:30 am EST Josh Brolin and Danny McBride have teamed up for Netflix’s The Legacy of Whitetail Deer Hunter, a new comedy from Jody Hill. In a new Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter clip, Brolin’s character Buck Ferguson gets some unwanted relationship advice from his young son. Jody Hill, director of The Foot Fist Way, Observe and Report, and co-creator of Eastbound and Down and Vice Principals, re-teams with frequent collaborator Danny McBride for The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter....

‘Newtown’ Trailer: How Does A Small Community Recover From A Despicable Act Of Violence? By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 22, 2016 9:00 am EST On December 14, 2012, a gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and shot 20 children aged between 6 and 7 years old, as well as six adult staff members. It’s the kind of horror that you hope one can’t even imagine, but it became a real life nightmare for the parents and families of the murdered children and school employees....

‘Outlaw King’ Trailer: Chris Pine Dons A Beard And A Scottish Accent In Netflix Epic By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 20, 2018 6:40 am EST In 2016, the thrilling neo-Western Hell or High Water put Chris Pine on the map as more than just a pretty face. Now the Star Trek and Wonder Woman actor reunites with his Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie in Outlaw King for a role that will require him to once again don facial hair and a distinct accent....

‘Searching’ Is The First “Computer Screen Movie” Where The Internet Isn’t The Villain By Sarah Foulkes/Aug. 31, 2018 11:00 am EST Most teenagers would rather die than submit to their dad going through their entire laptop, contacting all of their friends and watching their private videos. But Margot Kim isn’t most teenagers. In Searching, David (John Cho) plays a recent widower whose daughter goes missing overnight. Detective Rosemary Vick (Debra Messing) volunteers to take on the case, but David can’t remove himself for the investigation, so he starts his own inquiry on his laptop and eventually logs into his daughter’s computer....

‘SWAT’ Getting A TV Series Reboot At CBS From Justin Lin & Shawn Ryan By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2016 1:30 pm EST This fall, CBS revived MacGyver with a TV series reboot starring Lucas Till, and before that they successfully brought back Hawaii Five-O and The Odd Couple. Now they’re reaching back into the 1970s for another series reboot. SWAT ran on CBS for just two seasons totaling 37 episodes from February 1975 to April 1976 and was turned into a feature film of the same name....