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New Details About The Coen Brothers’ Western TV Series ‘The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs’ By Ben Pearson/July 1, 2017 10:00 am EST Earlier this year, we learned that filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen had become the latest Hollywood directors who were making the jump to the small screen when they announced they’d be writing and directing a new TV series. We knew the title (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), the genre (a Western, which is something they’re familiar with through films like True Grit and No Country for Old Men), and that they’d be collaborating with Annapurna Television for the limited series, which was described as an integrated TV and theatrical experience....

New X-Men Movie Slated To Shoot Spring 2017, But Which One Is It? By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 8, 2016 9:30 am EST A new X-Men movie has been reported to begin production next spring in Montreal, returning to MELS Studios, the same location where X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse were shot. The question is, what is X-Men movie shooting in 2017? While it’s confirmed that an X-Men title is the movie in question, a specific title isn’t mentioned, based on previous reports, it’s difficult to ascertain which one it will be....

Sacha Baron Cohen’s New Trump-Themed Showtime Series Is Titled ‘Who Is America’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 9, 2018 7:30 am EST The veil has finally lifted on Sacha Baron Cohen’s mysterious new Showtime series. The provocative comedian/actor has been teasing a Donald Trump-themed project for the past week, and reports emerged that Showtime had picked up the project, which has been a year in the making. Now, new posters and trailers give us a peek at Baron Cohen’s new character, who is ready to mock America in the aptly titled series Who is America?...

Stephen Colbert Is Staging A Big ‘Daily Show’ Reunion On ‘The Late Show’ Next Week By Ethan Anderton/May 4, 2017 1:30 pm EST There was a time when the most biting political satire came from the one-two punch of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and its spin-off, The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert. But all good things must come to an end. Stephen Colbert ended The Colbert Report to pursue his dream of hosting The Late Show after David Letterman retired from the program, and shortly thereafter, Jon Stewart decided it was time for him to move on to other things as well....

The ‘Van Helsing’ Reboot Tracks Down ‘Wrath Of The Titans’ Writer By Jacob Hall/Feb. 22, 2017 10:30 am EST I’ve become something of a broken record when it comes to Universal’s upcoming “shared monsters universe,” where the likes of Frankenstein and Dracula and the Wolf Man will brush shoulders across a series of movies. I love the original Universal monster movies too much to not spend at least 30 seconds of every day worrying about what these movies will look and feel like....

The Morning Watch: Visiting The Last Blockbuster, Captain Marvel Animated Series Pitch & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 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, take a visit to the last Blockbuster Video store in the country and see how they operate....

VOTD: HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ Segment About An Autistic Savant Pinball Wizard Might Make You Cry By Ethan Anderton/June 1, 2017 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. That’s why I find myself occasionally sucked into a segment from HBO’s long-running program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Since the series takes an in-depth look at athletes, teams, training and all the good stuff that is blasted all over ESPN 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a format akin to something like NBC’s Dateline, I’m not usually interested in what’s being covered....

Watch: ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Robots Pitch New Shows To Netflix, Read YouTube Comments & More By Ethan Anderton/May 15, 2017 5:00 am EST The entire new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is available on Netflix, and if you haven’t watched it yet, you’re missing out on a fantastic return for the movie mocking series. In order to keep raising awareness for the show for those who aren’t familiar with the series that ran from the late 1980s through the later 1990s, Netflix has put together some great promo videos featuring the show’s puppeted robots Tom Servo (voiced by Baron Vaughn) and Crow T....

Watch: Hilarious ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ Mockumentary Shows What Thor Did During Civil War By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 2016 9:35 am EST If you weren’t at San Diego Comic Con 2016 this summer, today is your lucky day. Marvel Studios really brought the house down with their panel in Hall H at the pop culture convention back in July, but many fans were disappointed that they didn’t release any of the footage shown that day online with the exception of a new Doctor Strange trailer which debuted simultaneously online....

‘Cars 3’ Reveals First Look At New Heroes And Villains By Jacob Hall/Jan. 5, 2017 9:00 am EST The first Cars 3 trailer that arrived a little while back was almost hilariously cryptic, showcasing a dark and dreary scene where series star Lightning McQueen wrecks on the racetrack. Children cried. Grown adults made wisecracks about whether or not this will be the anthropomorphized car version of Million Dollar Baby. I’ll say this much: it was jarring enough that even I, someone who would place the Cars movies last on a personal ranking of Pixar movies, was interested in what was going on with this one....

‘Churchill’ Trailer: Brian Cox Struggles With War As Winston Churchill By Ethan Anderton/April 24, 2017 3:00 pm EST Hollywood loves history, but it can be a real challenge to bring a real life event to the big screen, especially when it involves people that some of the public lived through and experienced through the radio and television. Churchill will attempt to chronicle the struggle of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) as he deals with the impending start of D-Day during World War II in 1944....

‘Doctor Who’ Season 11 Teaser Brings Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor, Her New Companions, And A Lot Of Easter Eggs By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 16, 2018 11:30 am EST The Doctor will see you now. And she couldn’t be happier. Jodie Whittaker made her highly anticipated debut as the first female Doctor in the BBC sci-fi show’s 55-year history in the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas special “Twice Upon a Time,” but the new season 11 teaser introduces us properly to the Thirteenth Doctor for the first time, sporting a beaming smile and some fresh new threads....

‘Fifty Shades Freed’ Teaser Trailer: One Wedding And A Kidnapping By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 11, 2017 7:00 am EST If there’s any proof that fan fiction has power, it’s the mystifying success of the Fifty Shades of Grey series. Its two leads have been launched into stardom (at least, Dakota Johnson kind of has), the movie soundtracks have jumped to the top of music charts, and there’s now a third and final film to close out this BDSM-tinged tale....

‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Sequel Replaces Daniel Craig With Norwegian Actor Sverrir Gudnason By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 6, 2017 9:00 am EST Meet your new Mikael Blomkvist. Norwegian actor Sverrir Gudnason has been cast as the male lead in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Sony’s sequel to David Fincher’s English-language adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Gudnason is taking on the role of Mikael Blomkvist, the intrepid journalist who becomes a wary ally of Lisbeth Salander (now played by The Crown star Claire Foy)....

‘Hanna’ TV Show In The Works From ‘The Night Manager’ Writer/Producer By Jack Giroux/March 10, 2017 6:30 am EST David Farr likely isn’t returning to write the second season of The Night Manager. He’s said before that John le Carré’s spy story is over for him, but one story he might return to is one he co-wrote years ago. The wrier-director is hoping to make a Hanna television series with NBCUniversal International Studios....

‘Hidden Figures’ Trailer: A True Story About Breaking Barriers In More Ways Than One By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 16, 2016 6:25 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. After delivering the charming St. Vincent starring Bill Murray last year, director Theodore Melfi is setting out to inspire with his latest true story Hidden Figures. Hidden Figures comes from 20th Century Fox, but it has all the makings of the kind of uplifting story you’d see from Disney as it follows three African-American women working at NASA who not only helped break barriers in space, but also back home in their own offices....

‘Hocus Pocus’ Is Getting A TV Movie Remake – Without The Original Cast By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 28, 2017 9:00 am EST The cult classic Disney movie that became a staple of Halloween night marathons for millennials across the country is getting its highly demanded resurrection — but probably not as Hocus Pocus fans would have liked. Hocus Pocus is returning from the grave as a TV movie remake without any of the original cast....

‘Infinity War’ Directors Wish They Could Have Included Wolverine By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 20, 2018 12:30 pm EST Alas, that is no more than a pipe dream. Or is it? Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo entertained our superhero crossover dreams by revealing what character would be on their wishlist for an Avengers appearance: Wolverine. An Avengers Wolverine cameo? It’s not entirely impossible, especially with Disney’s impending acquisition of 21st Century Fox, the studio that owns the rights to the X-Men characters....

‘Insatiable’ Trailer: Debby Ryan Craves Revenge While Wearing A Problematic Fat Suit In New Netflix Series By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 20, 2018 12:30 pm EST Disney Channel alum Debby Ryan is working hard to shed her child star image by…donning a fat suit? Ryan stars in Insatiable, a new Netflix dark comedy series about an overweight teen who suddenly loses weight and becomes the hottest girl in school. But what does she do with her newfound popularity?...

‘La La Land’ Trailer: Ryan Gosling And Emma Stone Get Romantic (And Musical) By Angie Han/Nov. 3, 2016 8:30 am EST We’re guessing a large number of you have been in the bag for La La Land since the moment it was announced, based solely on the talent and premise. It’s an old-fashioned musical romance (albeit one set in the modern day) from Whiplash wunderkind Damien Chazelle, starring two of the most appealing actors working today, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling....