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Idris Elba playing different character in The Suicide Squad, not Deadshot
It was revealed last month that Idris Elba would join the cast of Warner Bros. and DC Film’s The Suicide Squad, filling in for the role of Deadshot that was previously played by Will Smith. Now, Variety reports that Elba will still appear in the film, just not as the marksman character.
RELATED: Viola Davis Reprising Amanda Waller in The Suicide Squad
The outlet notes the team behind the film (i

Plot Twist! Westworld creators sign nine-figure deal at Amazon
The Hollywood Reporter has brought word that Westworld‘s creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan have exited their overall creative deal with Warner Bros. TV for a four-year deal with Amazon Studios that is estimated to be in the range of at least $30 million.
RELATED: Paul Feig Signs a First-Look Production Deal with Universal
Both business partners and a married couple, Joy and Nolan had made homes for themselves at W

Kumail Nanjiani in talks for Marvel’s The Eternals
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that comedian Kumail Nanjiani may go from The Twilight Zone to the MCU! The Academy Award nominated writer is in talks to join the cast of Marvel’s The Eternals where he would star alongside Angelina Jolie in the ensemble.
It’s unclear who Nanjiani is in talks to play, but Jolie will star as Sersi, a member of the seemingly immortal Eternals who (in the source material) made a life for hersel

Apple’s Defending Jacob rounds out cast
Right as production is set to begin in Boston, Apple’s upcoming limited series Defending Jacob has rounded out its all-star ensemble cast of series regular roles with the additions off The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Cherry Jones, American Gods‘ Pablo Schreiber, Timeless‘ Sakina Jaffrey and Get Out‘s Betty Gabriel, according to Deadline.
RELATED: Apple’s Defending Jacob Adds Michelle Dock

"This is madness! Total madness." Kino Lorber has debuted the trailer for the documentary Walking on Water, about legendary maverick artist Christo. With uncensored access to Christo and his team, the doc film is a "cinema vérité look at the celebrated artist and his process, from inception to completion of 2016’s most visited art event—The Floating Piers, a stretched 2-mile dahlia-yellow walkway that allowed over 1.2 million visitors to safely walk across stretches of

"You want to talk about rights?!" Yes, yes we do. Passion River has debuted an official trailer for the indie doc The Most Dangerous Year, which played at the Seattle Film Festival and Atlanta Documentary Film Festival last year. Made by Seattle-based filmmaker Vlada Knowlton, The Most Dangerous Year is about the fight for rights for trans people, profiling an event in 2016 when a small group of families with transgender kids joined together the fight against a wave of discriminatory anti-trans

Better Call Saul won’t return until 2020
Vulture has brought word that fans are going to have to hold on to the edges of their seats for longer than they may be ready for the return of the acclaimed AMC Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul, which the network announced won’t be returning until 2020.
RELATED: Bob Odenkirk teases the convergence of Better Call Saul & Breaking Bad
In an interview with president of the entertainment networks group at AMC Networ

"There's no arson, there's no crime!" Roadside Attractions has debuted an official trailer for a true story drama titled Trial by Fire, the latest film from acclaimed director Edward Zwick. This premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last year, but not at any other fests. Trial by Fire tells the tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony bolstering his claims of innocence we

Jack O’Connell fights for justice in Trial by Fire trailer
Roadside Attractions has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming biographical drama Trial by Fire starring Jack O’Connell (Unbroken) and Laura Dern (Big Little Lies) based on the true story of the controversial Texas arson trial of Cameron Todd Willingham, which can be viewed in the player below!
RELATED: Chloe Grace Moretz and Jack O’Connell to Star as Bonnie and Clyde
The film, written by Geoffrey S

Rise: Sterling K. Brown joins sports drama at Sony
According to Deadline, Emmy-award winning actor Sterling K. Brown, of This is Us and The Predator fame, has landed the role of Coach Willie Davis in Sony’s true-life sports drama Rise. Filming will commence next month in Louisiana on the project.
RELATED: Amy Adams Joins Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy
Davis was a janitor who became head coach of the lackluster basketball team at Arthur Smith Junior High School in Alexan

Hulu’s Looking for Alaska adds Timothy Simons & Ron Cephas Jones
Timothy Simons (Veep) and Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us) have been cast as series regulars in Hulu’s upcoming eight-episode limited series Looking for Alaska, the miniseries adaptation of the controversial John Green novel.
Simons will play The Eagle. Described as stern and humorless, The Eagle is devoted to the code of Culver Creek Academy. He runs the school and enjoys the power, watching everything as he warns Mi

I Still Believe: KJ Apa and Gary Sinise jump aboard the Lionsgate film
According to The Hollywood Reporter, KJ App and Gary Sinise have agreed to join the cast of I Still Believe, the sequel to the 2018 indie hit I Can Only Imagine, which grossed over $80 million at the worldwide box office.
RELATED: Killing Eve Season 2 Sneak Peek: Villanelle Meets a New Friend
Apa and Sinise will play true-life father and son Jeremy and Tom Camp. Jeremy is a Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter with mo

Eight for Silver: Horror feature casts Boyd Holbrook & more
Deadline is reporting that Boyd Holbrook (The Predator), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education) will star in LD Entertainment’s Eight for Silver. The movie is a horror period feature written and directed by Oscar nominee Sean Ellis (Cashback, Metro Manila).
RELATED: 10 Best Horror Movie Jump Scares
Set in the countryside of France, the 19th-century film follows John McBride (Holbrook), a pathologist a

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Doom Patrol episode 9 promo takes you to Jane’s The Underground
DC Universe has released the first promo for Doom Patrol episode 9 titled “Jane Patrol,” featuring Crazy Jane’s The Underground as Cliff personally meets her different personalities. The new episode will air on April 12, exclusively on DC Universe. Check out the video below!
RELATED: Doom Patrol episode 8 recap
Episode nine’s synopsis reads: “Jane retreats into

Doom Patrol Episode 8 Recap
Doom Patrol Episode 8 splits the team into two groups. A cake with a map to a street that doesn’t exist is delivered to the manor with a note reading “Help me, Niles!” While Larry and Vic go to investigate, Cliff intercepts a call for Rita from Karen, one of Jane’s personalities that he’s never encountered before. Meanwhile, the question of what Jane’s painting of Vic standing over the defeated team looms over them all.
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Bruce Springsteen’s unused Harry Potter song added to Blinded by the Light
In 2001, Springsteen wrote a song titled “I’ll Stand by You Always” for the original Harry Potter film and offered it to director Chris Columbus. Due to a clause in Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling’s contract that stipulated no commercial songs be used for the film adaptation of her books, the song was quickly turned down, slapped with a copyright and given to Columbia Records executives on

Killing Eve Season 2 sneak peek: Villanelle meets a new friend
Ahead of the series’ return this Sunday, BBC America has released a sneak peek video from the highly-anticipated second season of their hit drama series Killing Eve, featuring Villanelle meeting a new friend at the hospital. Starring Golden Globe winner Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, you can check out the video in the player below.
RELATED: Killing Eve Season 2 Trailer Reveals Villanelle’s ObsessionBased

BEGIN SLIDESHOWRob Zombie reveals new 3 From Hell image, says it’s ‘Almost Finished’
3 From Hell, Rob Zombie’s long-awaited third installment to the Firefly family trilogy is nearly done. The filmmaker took to Instagram to post an update on production, which he says he’s taking his time with to make sure he gets it right. The accompanying photo includes a shot of an editing room, with a fram of the film feature Bill Mosely on the wall.View this post o

BEGIN SLIDESHOWViola Davis reprising Amanda Waller in The Suicide Squad
Pre-production is ramping up fast for The Suicide Squad, the long-awaited sequel to 2016’s DC Extended Universe villain-centered spin-off. A week after revealing the return of Jai Courtney’s Captain Boomerang, it has now been revealed that Viola Davis will be returning as the governmental leader of the Squad, Amanda Waller. The Wrap first reported the news.
RELATED: Jai Courtney Reveals How He

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Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Episode 2.03 Promo: O’Reilly Meets Mayhem
Following last night’s second season premiere, Freeform has released the first promo for Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger‘s upcoming episode 2.03 titled “Shadow Selves,” featuring Tandy and Tyrone teaming with Detective Brigid O’Reilly to find O’Reilly’s evil doppelganger Mayhem. The new episode is scheduled to air on April 11. Check out the video below!
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Cloak & Dagger Season 2 Episode 2 Recap
Cloak & Dagger season 2 episode 2 is the second half of the season 2 premiere. In the club, a man attending the meeting–who is not one of the gang members–has used some of the drugs to draw a voodoo symbol on the floor. Listening to the recording of the attack, Tandy and Ty are unable to identify the killer. The two call Brigid, who tells Ty that this is his fault and sends the kids away while she deals with the mess.
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Cloak & Dagger Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
Cloak & Dagger season 2 episode 1 has Tandy and Ty living a version of the other’s lifestyle when we met them in the series pilot. Tandy is attempting to get her life back together. She and her mother are in therapy. She has taken up ballet again. Ty, on the other hand, is the one on the run, living in the abandoned church. The two lie to one another–and themselves–about how their lives are going and what they’re doing with

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New Long Shot clip highlights Charlotte’s dating life
Lionsgate has released a new clip from their upcoming romantic comedy Long Shot, highlighting Charlotte’s complicated dating life. Starring Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen, you can check out the video below.
RELATED: Long Shot Trailer: Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron Pull a Reverse Pretty Woman
He’s a hard-hitting political writer with a talent for trouble. She’s the country&rs

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Try to get home safe with the new poster for Blumhouse’s Ma
Blumhouse and Universal Pictures have released a brand new poster for their upcoming horror-thriller Ma, giving us a glimpse of the horrible things that the titular antagonist can do to your kids. Starring Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer, you can check out the full poster below. (via IMP Awards)
In the film, Spencer stars as Sue Ann, a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One

"Rave to your grave…!" Altitude Films has debuted a dance-able official UK trailer for an indie film titled Beats, which premiered at the Slamdance and Rotterdam Film Festivals earlier this year. Set in the summer of 1994, the film is about two best mates from a small Scottish town who head out for one last night together before life takes them in different directions. Going to an illegal rave, the boys journey into an underworld of anarchy, freedom and collision with the law, as they sh

Saturday Night Live lands Adam Sandler as first-time host
Even though he was one of the Saturday Night Live’s most popular cast members in the 1990s, and becoming a veritable box office draw afterward, Adam Sandler has never returned to host the late-night comedy series. That’s about to change, as Variety reports that Sandler will host the show on May 4 with musical guest Shawn Mendes.
“We are happy to welcome Adam back to SNL in what is sure to be a special night,” said

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Get scared with The Curse of La Llorona 360 experience
While the latest chapter in The Conjuring universe of films, The Curse of La Llorona, is still a couple weeks from opening in theaters, Warner Bros. UK has released a new 360 experience. Now, you can live through one of the film’s scariest scenes, with the freedom to look around the world you seem trapped in. You can check out the video in the post below!
La Llorona. The Weeping Woman. A horrifying apparition, caught b

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Jared Leto releases first official look at Sony’s Morbius
Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto took to Instagram to share a GIF from Sony Pictures’ Morbius, revealing our first official look at Leto as the titular vampire. Check it out below!
The film will also star Matt Smith (Doctor Who) as Loxias Crown Adria Arjona as Martine Bancroft, Jareb Harris (The Crown) as Morbius’ mentor, and Tyrese Gibson (Fast and the Furious) as a FBI Agent.
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Star Wars news for the week of April 5, 2019
The purpose of this roundup is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of April 5, 2019 in one location. If you read this each week, you should be able to converse fluently with any Star Wars fan on everything from the latest Star Wars developments to the latest toys. And maybe you’ll even share with them something that they might have missed.
Let’s get to it!
Episode IX News and RumorsI know this is a new promotion for STAR

World War Z gameplay trailer shows how to outlive the zombies
A new trailer for the World War Z game has arrived, based on the world of Marc Forster’s 2013 film, which was (very, very loosely) based on Max Brooks‘ 2006 novel. Now, it’s you who has to survive in a world overrun with the dead, as Saber’s Creative Director Oliver Hollis-Leick walks viewers through the challenges that away. You can check out the trailer in the player below!
World War Z’s co-o

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Joe Russo reveals official runtime for Avengers: Endgame
In an interview with Comic Book, co-directors Joe and Anthony Russo have revealed that the official running time for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame will be three hours and fifty eight seconds. The film beats out Infinity War‘s two hours and forty minutes, making it the lengthiest film in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Robert Pattinson praises script for Christopher Nolan’s new film
Though it’s not always readily apparent, Robert Pattinson has elevated himself from teen vampire heartthrob into one of the more talented and eclectic actors working today. One of his upcoming projects is the untitled mystery from director Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight). Pattinson will star as one of the leads, with Elizabeth Debicki (Widows) and John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) co-

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Details finally revealed about Rian Johnson’s Knives Out
Rian Johnson has finally let loose details of the plot for his follow-up to The Last Jedi (or interlude to his next Star Wars journey), the ultra-secretive Knives Out. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writer-director was on hand at CinemaCon to not only screen some footage but offer up a few key plot points about the mysterious project.
According to the report, actress Jamie Lee Curtis explained that “t

Kerry Bishé joins cast of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful spinoff City of Angels
Kerry Bishé has joined the cast of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful spinoff City of Angels, according to The Wrap. The actress will play a character named Sister Molly, described as a “gifted orator” and “charismatic evangelist” who struggles with the complexities of her personal life.
Bishé joins a cast that includes the previously announced Daniel Zovatto (Don’t B

Amy Adams Joins Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy
According to The Wrap, Academy-Award nominated actress Amy Adams has joined director Ron Howard’s (A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Solo: A Star Wars Story) feature adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy, based on the bestseller by J.D. Vance.RELATED: Netflix Nabs Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy After Bidding War
Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, centers on growing up in the Rust Belt and is a

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Supernatural 14.18 promo & photos: Absence
The CW released the promo for Supernatural episode 14.18, titled “Absence,” featuring the Winchester brothers and Castiel trying to find a missing Jack. Check out the promo below, as well as the new photos in the gallery, and catch the episode on April 11!
Written by Robert Berens and directed by Nina Lopez-Corrado, the official synopsis for episode 14.18 reads:
“Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jense

"Imagine that the MCU was created 20 years ago… What would Avengers have done with a 1999 cast?" That's the question they posed when making this new comedy trailer. The Avengers 90s Cast Trailer is a spoof trailer made by a French website + YouTube channel known as "What's the Mashup?". It's as good as it sounds, if not even better than you might be expecting, mashing up tons of old footage from 90s movies with various Avengers footage (from nowadays) adding in some of the most famous ac

"You guys ready to go to the 60s?" Greenwich Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for indie music documentary Echo In the Canyon, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film explores the beginnings of the Laurel Canyon music scene in L.A. "Dylan uncovers never-before-heard personal details behind the bands and their songs and how that music continues to inspire today. Echo In the Canyon contains candid conversations and performances with