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Thai heist movie Bad Genius getting an English remake
Deadline reports that Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Entertainment have successfully acquired the rights to develop an English-language remake of director-writer Nattawut Poonpiriya’s 2017 Thai heist thriller film Bad Genius (Chalard Games Goeng) which became an international hit throughout Asia, making it the highest-grossing Thai film of 2017.
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AMC greenlights anthology drama from Black Mirror writer
AMC announced today that it has greenlit a new, untitled episodic anthology drama created by Emmy-Award winning writer Will Bridges (Black Mirror episodes “USS Callister” and “Shut Up and Dance”) and Brett Goldstein (Superbob, Adult Life Skills). Bridges and Goldstein will executive produce with Jolyon Symonds through Fearless Minds, a Banijay Group company. The Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project, produced by AMC S

Years & Years trailer: First look at Emma Thompson’s new HBO drama
HBO has released the official trailer for their upcoming British drama titled Years & Years, giving us a preview of how a family’s life can instantly be affected by the drastic changes in politics, economy and technological advances. Starring Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson (Howards End, Late Night) as the controversial politician Vivienne Rook, you can check out the video below.
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Amazon Prime has canceled The Tick after 2 seasons
Amazon has decided not to move forward with The Tick. The announcement came from series creator, Ben Edlund who took to Twitter to announce that there won’t be a third season — at least on Amazon. He did mention that “Destiny demands that my compatriots and I now seek a new home for this series,” so no one knows what the future holds.I'm sorry to say Amazon has chosen not to proceed with @TheTic

David Alan Grier joins Netflix comedy Coffee & Kareem
According to Deadline, David Alan Grier (In Living Color) has been tapped to join the cast of Coffee & Kareem, a new Netflix original film. He joins Academy Award-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Hidden Figures) and Ed Helms (The Hangover trilogy) for the comedy.
In the project, Helms will portray a Detroit cop with Henson playing his girlfriend. Helms’ character will reluc

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The Nancy Drew trailer gives an extended look at the supernatural drama
Fresh off the heels of announcing their upcoming fall schedule, The CW has dropped the first trailer for Nancy Drew, a supernatural crime drama based on the popular literary character. Starring Kennedy McMann as the titular teen detective, you can check it out in the player below along with the first clip from the series!
Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenaged detective whose sense of self

New Booksmart featurette highlights friendship between Molly and Amy
Annapurna Pictures has released a new featurette for the coming-of-age comedy Booksmart, featuring a joint interview between lead stars Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein as they talk about their characters’ friendship and the instant bond that they’ve developed during the production. Directed by actress Olivia Wilde (her directorial debut), the film will arrive in theaters on May 24. Check out the video below

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In the first-look teaser for The CW’s Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene, New York City is a place for dreamers, which is why the title character ended up there. The teaser comes just after The CW announced its upcoming fall schedule. You can check it out in the player below!
Katy Keene follows the lives and loves of four iconic Archie Comics characters – fashion legend-to-be Katy Keene (Lucy Hale), singer/so

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The swamp is awake in new Swamp Thing promo
Despite concerns over the shortened production and episodes cut, anticipation is building for DC Universe’s upcoming Swamp Thing and the streaming service took to Twitter to reveal a new promo teasing the horrors hidden throughout the swamp. Check it out in the player below!
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Miracle Workers renewed for a second season at TBS
TBS has officially renewed the Daniel Radcliffe starring comedy Miracle Workers for a second season.
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“I’m so grateful to have been given the opportunity to bring my novel What in God’s Name to life in season one,” Author and creator Simon Rich said. “And now that I’ve bled that sucker dry, I’m really excited to tell

The Goon movie in development at Fox!
Seven years ago there was a brief spark of hope for fans of the cult comic series The Goon as a Kickstarter campaign went underway to try and bring the series to the big screen. Successfully funded, the campaign created an animatic of the feature to take to investors and studios and after that….mostly radio silence.
Now, Blur Studios (the VFX company co-created by Deadpool‘s Tim Miller) has announced on the film’s Kickstarter page that th

I'm celebrating my 10th year attending the Cannes Film Festival, after first coming here in 2009. I love this festival, and I always love coming back, and I always say this every year. But this year, in honor of my 10th time here, I've decided to do something special. I'm giving away 10 copies of the classic Ebert book: "Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook". Ebert wrote this book while at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival and it was first published later that year. It became lost in time

Netflix orders series adaptation of Mark Millar’s The Magic Order
Netflix broke media ground last year by releasing the graphic novel series The Magic Order from veteran Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Kingsman: The Secret Service), becoming the first streaming service to do so. After seeing its first issue become the highest-selling new comic book in 20 years, Netflix is developing a series adaptation of the story, according to Deadline.
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"You don't want to wonder, 'what if?'" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a romantic comedy titled Always Be My Maybe, the feature directorial debut of "Fresh Off the Boat" executive producer / writer Nahnatchka Khan. The film is co-written by and also stars comedians Randall Park and Ali Wong, playing old childhood friends who reconnect and fall in love later in life. This will be hitting Netflix at the end of the month, so if you're excited to watch it there's not too long of a wait

Ali Wong and Randall Park reconnect in new Always Be My Maybe trailer
Netflix has released the official trailer for their upcoming romantic comedy movie Always Be My Maybe which is led by Ali Wong (Tuca & Bertie) and Randall Park (Ant-Man and the Wasp). Also featuring our first look at Keanu Reeves’ character, you can check out the video below.
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Written by and starring the American Housewife and Fresh Off

"The President's top guardian angel has fallen." Lionsgate has debuted the first official trailer for Angel Has Fallen, the latest action sequel following up Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen before it. Gerard Butler returns as Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, who is framed once the President comes under attack, and must figure out what's really going on. Isn't this the exact same plot as the other two? The cast includes Morgan Freeman as the President, with Piper Perabo, Lance Reddick

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First Batwoman trailer and clip released
Just a few hours after debuting first-look photos and a poster for the upcoming next installment in the Arrowverse, The CW has debuted both a first look clip and trailer for the highly-anticipated Batwoman starring Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2), which can both be viewed in the player below!
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Kate Kane (Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigila

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Annabelle Comes Home poster reveals the new horrors of The Conjuring universe
New Line Cinema has released a new poster for the upcoming Annabelle Comes Home, the latest and seventh addition to The Conjuring Universe. Teased in the new image are some of the new monsters and horrors that will make their debut in The Conjuring universe in the upcoming film including a sinister monkey toy, a new ghost called The Bride, a werewolf, and more. Check it out in the gallery below (v

Disenchantment returning to Netflix in September
it’s already been almost a year since the first half of Matt Groening’s latest animated project Disenchantment first premiered on Netflix and fans have been clamoring for the 10-episode second half, which the streaming service has now announced will debut in September, according to Variety.
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In the series, viewers are whisked away to the crumbling medieval kingdom

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Angel Has Fallen Trailer: Gerard Butler returns as Mike Banning
Lionsgate has revealed the trailer for the action film Angel Has Fallen, the third film starring Gerard Butler (300) as Secret Service Agent Mike Banning. Check out the Angel Has Fallen trailer below!
RELATED: CS Swag Bag With Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler & More!The third film in the series follows Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) as he becomes the target of a terrorist attack, this time while mid-flig

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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil triptych poster features all 3 leads
Disney just debuted a new triptych poster for their upcoming Maleficent sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which features all three of the film’s main characters. You can check it out in the gallery below!
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a fantasy adventure that picks up several years after Maleficent, in which audiences learned of the events that hardened the heart of Disney’s most notori

Unleash your inner hero in The Secret Life of Pets 2 final trailer
Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures have released the final trailer for their upcoming animated sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2, giving us a preview of Max’s out-of-town adventure as he learns how to conquer his fears. Check out the video in the player below!
Cast members returning from the first film include Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Hannibal Bur

RDJ, Jon Favreau, James Earl Jones & more to be honored as Disney Legends
The Walt Disney Company has announced the eleven new people set to be honored as Disney Legends at this year’s D23 Expo, including MCU stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau, The Lion King and Star Wars voice actor James Earl Jones, screenwriter and Hocus Pocus star Bette Midler, director and choreographer Kenny Ortega, former vice president/show director of Special Events Barnette Ricci, former execu

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Child’s Play brings Chucky to life in new behind-the-scenes featurette
The big reason why Child’s Play has been so successful over the years can be attributed to its adorable little murder doll, Chucky. In this new behind-the-scenes featurette, “Bringing Chucky to Life,” the cast and crew talk about the lengths they went to to make Chucky seem as real as possible. You can check it out in the player below!
Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West) and Bria

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Den of Thieves: Pantera being financed by new studio
The heist movie Den of Thieves is officially getting a sequel. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the followup to the 2018 film will see Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson reprising their roles, with director Christian Gudegast also returning to helm the project. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson will also return, but in some sort of production capacity.
The sequel was first announced in February of last year, th

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First photos and poster for The CW’s Batwoman released
The CW has revealed the first promo images from the upcoming superhero series Batwoman, the latest installment in the Arrowverse. Featuring Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane inside her cousin’s famous Batcave, you can check out the full photos in the gallery below along with the newly released poster.
Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. Three years after Batman mysteriously disappear

Lionsgate teaming with Chris Rock for new Saw movie
Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures have announced that they’re returning to the lair of Jigsaw and all his treacherous traps with a brand new Saw movie, this time featuring a story conceived by none other than comedian Chris Rock.
“When Chris Rock came to us and described in chilling detail his fantastic vision that reimagines and spins-off the world of the notorious Jigsaw Killer, we were all-in,” said Joe Drake, Chairman of Lio

The CW fall schedule for 2019-2020 season announced
The CW has announced its upcoming fall schedule, which filled with beloved series as well as a handful of new ones. The network, which skews toward younger viewers, is already boasting about its six full nights of original programming, as well as the fact it’s bringing more original programming to its lineup than ever before.
“As the original multiplatform network, combining our linear broadcast and our best in class ad-supported d

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Keanu Reeves – John WickHalle Berry – SofiaIan McShane – WinstonLaurence Fishburne – Bowery KingMark Dacascos – ZeroAsia Kate Dillon – The AdjudicatorLance Reddick – CharonTobias Segal – EarlAnjelica Huston – The DirectorSaïd Taghmaoui – The ElderJerome Flynn – BerradaRandall Duk Kim – DoctorMargaret Daly – OperatorRobin Lord Taylor – AdministratorSusan Blommaert &

BEGIN SLIDESHOWAstronaut trailer: Richard Dreyfuss shoots for the stars
Quiver Distribution has released the first trailer and poster to the uplifting film Astronaut, starring veteran actor Richard Dreyfuss. The film hails from director Shelagh McLeod (One Thing Left to Do). Check out the trailer and poster below!
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Angus, a lonely widower, has his long-extinguished dream to become an astronaut reignited when a national compet

"If Sutton were alive today, he wouldn't be robbing banks - he'd be robbing the wealthy." Vertical Ent. has debuted an official trailer for an indie con thriller titled Lying & Stealing directed by Matt Aselton. The film tells the story of two clever grifters who team up for one big heist. Ivan is a gifted and discerning art thief who wants out. Elyse is an aspiring actress whose own past transgressions in Hollywood haunt her, as well as a mountain of debt. These two outsiders are drawn to

There's a new film that just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year titled Les Misérables, but it has nothing to do with Victor Hugo's famous novel (of the same name) or the musical or any of that. It's a contemporary story set in a suburb outside of Paris, France, and it's a remarkably fresh, masterful feature directorial debut of a filmmaker named Ladj Ly. The festival is just getting going, but it's one of the best films I've seen here so far - impressive in every way, especi

CBS Confirms Star Trek: Picard Title, Screens New Footage
During the CBS upfront presentation, the network finally gave it Patrick Stewart’s upcoming Jean-Luc Picard series the name that everyone was expecting. Via StarTrek.com, the series has been given the simple, yet effective moniker of Star Trek: Picard.
You can check out the show’s logo, which notably features the Starfleet insignia standing in for the “a” in Picard’s name, via the official Star Trek Twi

"You know I have to do this…" "I know you do." Quiver Distribution has unveiled the official trailer for an odd little indie drama titled Astronaut, the feature directorial debut of Canadian-British actress Shelagh McLeod. The concept for this sounds like it could be a super goofy comedy, but it's really a straightforward drama - and it looks very, very cheesy. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a lonely widower who battles his family, ill health, and time, in order to win a competition for a gol