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POLL RESULTS: The Most Shocking Game of Thrones Season 8 Moment?
Now that this bloody (and bloody controversial!) final season of Game of Thrones is complete, ComingSoon.net asked our readers to tell us what the Most Shocking Moment of Game of Thrones Season 8 was. Over 2200 of you responded, and you can check out the official results of the poll below, and of course SPOILERS BEWARE!!!!
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Exclusive The Poison Rose Clip Has John Travolta Under Fire
Lionsgate has provided ComingSoon.net with an exclusive The Poison Rose clip featuring John Travolta under fire. Check out the clip below!
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John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Famke Janssen, Ella Bleu Travolta, Robert Patrick, and Brendan Fraser lend their talents to this searing detective thriller. Travolta plays Carson Philips, a hard-drinking L.A. private eye who takes a case in his o

"We have to do something." RYOT has debuted an official trailer for an indie documentary titled 5B, made by filmmakers Paul Haggis & Dan Krauss. This premiered last year at Doc Stories and just stopped by the Cannes Film Festival as a Special Screening. 5B is a reference to the first AIDS ward at a San Francisco hospital that opened in 1983.During the terrifying early days of the AIDS outbreak, a war rages among the nurses, doctors, and staff charged with caring for the infected. The doc fe

Based on the Arabic folktale Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from the book One Thousand and One Nights (aka "Arabian Nights"), plus the 1940 film The Thief of Bagdad, Disney's animated Aladdin from 1992 was the most successful movie of that year, grossing $217 million in the US and over $504 million worldwide. The hand-drawn animated film's massive success led to two direct-to-video sequels, The Return of Jafar (1994) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996), an animated series for TV, and a Broad

Doom Patrol Episode 15 Recap
Doom Patrol Episode 15 deals with the fallout from Niles revealing that he was behind the tragedies that befell each of the members of the team. Niles explains that he experimented on each of them, trying to find the secret of immortality. Niles begs Nobody to let them go, which he does. Nobody says that this was never about them and sends them back to their lives outside the White Space. Nobody tells Niles that the world is his oyster and that it’s Niles

5 TV episodes that never aired
ComingSoon.net is taking a look at five episodes of popular television series that proved to be too controversial. Check out our choices in the gallery below!
While many television shows have gone in the direction of shorter seasons and shorter runs, there are plenty of past and present ones who embrace the traditional 20+ episode season structure with hopes of remaining on-air for as long as possible. Naturally, with such a high demand for plots and stories, ther

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Cast:
Mena Massoud as Aladdin
Will Smith as Genie
Naomi Scott as Princess JasmineMarwan Kenzari as JafarNavid Negahban as The SultanNasim Pedrad as DaliaBilly Magnussen as Prince AndersNuman Acar as HakimAlan Tudyk as IagoFrank Welker as Abu
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Aladdin Review:
Loud, garish and extremely well-intentioned, Aladdin is a shining example of the limits of Disney’s attempts to render its greatest animated classics into live action.  Ligh

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Luke Evans issues one warning to Octavia Spencer’s Ma in new clip
Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions have debuted a new clip for the upcoming horror-thriller Ma in which concerned father Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6) issues Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water)’s titular antagonist one and only warning to stay away from his son, which can be viewed in the player below!
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The Twilight Zone season finale trailer stars Seth Rogen & Zazie Beetz
CBS All Access has released The Twilight Zone season finale trailer starring Emmy nominees Seth Rogen (Long Shot) and Zazie Beetz (Atlanta). The 10th episode of the season, titled “Blurryman,” will be available to stream on May 30. Check out the promo in the player below, as well as a behind-the-scenes featurette exploring the redesigning of the most iconic series of all time!
In the Season 1 finale of T

Sylvester Stallone discusses potential Cobra streaming series
The year was 1986. Violence was on the rise in Los Angeles and crime was becoming a disease quickly spreading through the town. Sylvester Stallone’s Cobra was the cure. The action cult classic may not have seen the rave reviews of his earlier work, but it went on to gross over $160 million worldwide at the box office, proving to be huge potential for a franchise that went nowhere, but that might change.
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North American Lake Monsters: Hulu orders horror anthology series adaptation
Hulu has picked up a new horror anthology series based on Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters in a new untitled project from Mary Laws (Preacher, Blueberry Toast, The Neon Demon).
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Through encounters with Gothic beasts, including fallen angels and werewolves, broken people are driven to desperate acts in an attempt to repa

Akira release date confirmed for May 2021, Taika Waititi to direct
Warner Bros. has revealed that their upcoming live-action feature Akira will arrive in theaters on May 21, 2021, instead of its original release date on May 14, 2021. The film will be directed by Oscar nominee Taika Waititi (Two Cars, One Night, Thor: Ragnarok, Jojo Rabbit).
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The movie is an adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime. Akir

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The world needs Spider-Man in new Far From Home TV spots
Three brand new international TV spots for Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ highly-anticipated sequel Spider-Man: Far From Home have been released online, featuring extended scenes of our titular friendly neighborhood hero in his new stealth suit. Check out the videos in the player below (via Comic Book Movie).
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Following the events of Aveng

Memorial Day deals: Save on Indiana Jones, Batman, and Game of Thrones blu-rays!
Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, Amazon is having a solid set of deals on several must-own blu-rays and box sets. Check them out below!
Alita: Battle Angel – blu-ray $34.99
Mission: Impossible – 6 Movie Collection – blu-ray –  $33.35 – 44% off
Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures – Blu-ray – $33.35Batman: The Complete Television Series – blu-ray – 

Taika Waititi and Netflix exit stop-motion animated film Bubbles
According to Cartoon Brew, Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi has officially withdrawn from the long in development stop-motion animated film Bubbles which centers on Michael Jackson’s famous pet chimpanzee. Because of his departure as the film’s director, Netflix has also decided leave the project as well.
Waititi’s sudden exit from the movie was reportedly due to the director’s busy schedule with

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Sonic the Hedgehog delayed until 2020
After an avalanche of negative fan feedback for the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer, director Jeff Fowler announced that the design for Sonic would be altered for the final movie. Now it turns out that revamp is going to involve three extra months of work, with Fowler taking to Twitter to announce that the film has moved from November 8, 2019 to a February 14, 2020 release date. “Taking a little more time to make Sonic

Mario Lopez and Seth Kurland Latinx comedy ordered by Netflix
Netflix has ordered 16 episodes of a new Latinx comedy series from creators Mario Lopez and Seth Kurland. According to Deadline, the series, titled The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, will be formatted like a conventional, multi-camera sitcom.
The series will center on Ashley Garcia (newcomer Paulina Chavez), the world’s only 15-and-a-half-year-old robotics engineer and rocket scientist, who’s offered a pos

Star Wars news for the week of May 24, 2019
The purpose of this roundup is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of May 24, 2019 in one location. If you read this each week, you should be able to converse fluently with any Star Wars 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!
The Rise of Skywalker News and Rumors#StarWars: The Rise of Skywalker featur

Production begins on Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho
Director Edgar Wright took to Instagram to reveal the first behind-the-scenes photo from the set of Focus Features and Working Title Films’ Last Night in Soho, revealing that production has officially begun on his brand new film.
Last Night in Soho will star Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, Glass), Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace) and Emmy Award-nominated actor Matt Smith (The Crown, Doctor Who).
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"Poets - they're just elusive creatures… Who are married to their muse." Roadside Attractions has debuted an official trailer for a documentary titled Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and stopped by a number of other fests including Thessaloniki, Sun Valley, and CPH:DOX. Made by veteran documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, this film takes an in-depth look at the relationship between the late folk musician Leonard Coh

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Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic movie rumored to be in the works
Since last summers Solo: A Star Wars story was released to a tepid response from both moviegoers and critics, Disney and Lucasfilm have been quietly rethinking their approach to their space opera. Although there currently are two trilogies in various stages of development, one from Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, and another from The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson.
Now, Buzzfeed Ne

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Cast:
Taron Egerton – Elton JohnJamie Bell – Bernie TaupinRichard Madden – John ReidBryce Dallas Howard – SheilaGemma Jones – IvySteven Mackintosh – StanleyTom Bennett – FredMatthew Illesley – Young ReggieKit Connor – Older ReggieCharlie Rowe – Ray WilliamsTate Donovan – Doug Weston
Directed by Dexter Fletcher
Rocketman review
Dexter Fletcher did some pick-up work on last year’s Bohemian Rhapso

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CS Swag Bag With Keanu Reeves & the John Wick 3 Cast!
Welcome to a special John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum edition of ComingSoon.net’s video feature CS Swag Bag, where we chat on camera with our favorite actors and directors about the strangest or most interesting piece of swag they’ve ever been given. This installment features Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick and Ian McShane, and you c

Carmen Ejogo’s Five Best Roles
ComingSoon.net is counting down our five favorite movies and TV shows starring Carmen Ejogo, who has just begun to receive recognition as an actress but has actually been around for a while now. Check out our choices in the gallery below!
Born in London but known for playing mostly American characters, Carmen Ejogo has found success on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. From prestige TV to big-budget franchises to gripping dramas and indie horror films, Ejogo

The Twilight Zone 1.09 recap: The Blue Scorpion
Following last week’s episode of the series starring Ginnifer Goodwin, CBS All Access‘ penultimate episode of the first season of The Twilight Zone stars Chris O’Dowd (Get Shorty), Amy Landecker (Sneaky Pete), and Adam Korson (Imposters). In the latest episode, the emergence of the elusive Blue Scorpion leads anthropology professor Jeff Storck (O’Dowd) to his most personal research project yet.
Otis

Cloak & Dagger Season 2 Episode 8 Recap
Cloak and Dagger Season 2 Episode 9 revels the past eight years of Andre’s life. A jazz trumpeter striving for immortality  through fame, his love of music was taken away from him by his migraines. Andre was considering suicide the night the Roxxon rig exploded, causing him to fall from the bridge. Waking in the hospital with Lia as his nurse, Andre discovered the then-empty record shop and its ability to heal his pain. Andre filled the rec

Todd McFarlane offers update on Spawn reboot
Speaking with Comic Book, Todd McFarland has revealed the Spawn reboot is still very much on the table, but that everyone involved has yet to agree on the same script.
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“The money’s sitting on the sidelines ready to go,” McFarland said. “I just need to get everyone that wants to put in money to shake their heads to the same script. As you can imagine, everyone has a slightly different version of

Between Two Ferns: The Movie lands September release date!
After first being revealed in the press six months ago, the big screen version of the Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is set to debut on Netflix on September 20.
The official description of the movie reads: “Zach Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show “Between Two Ferns” and uploaded it to Funny Or Die, Zach became a viral laughin

Anna Kendrick and Paul Feig reunite for anthology series Love Life
According to The Wrap, Anna Kendrick is reuniting with her A Simple Favor director Paul Feig for the romantic comedy anthology Love Life, which will debut on the upcoming WarnerMedia streaming platform.
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The 10-episode series will, per the report, follows “the journey from first love to last love, and how the people we’re with along the

Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu has quickly established himself as one of the most unique and clever Eastern European directors making original films these days. Between Infinite Football last year, and his new feature at Cannes this year, Porumboiu has proven that his mind is unlike any other and is giving us some of the quirkiest, weirdest, smartest, and most interesting cinema that you'll discover in tiny art house cinema all over the world. His latest film is an adventurous dark comed

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6 / 10
Cast:
Elizabeth Banks … Tori BreyerDavid Denman … Kyle BreyerJackson A. Dunn … Brandon BreyerEmmie Hunter … CaitlynMatt Jones … Noah McNicholMeredith Hagner … Merilee McNichol
Brightburn review:
Brightburn is the story of Superman, if Kal-El had been sent to exterminate Earth instead of thrive on it. It’s a great premise for a movie, “Superman but evil” and even better fodder for a horror spin on the mater

"I'll set you up so you can do your thang, you know!" RLJE Films has debuted an official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled Plus One, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival just last month. This fresh take on the still-single-at-friends-wedding comedy is about two longtime single friends who agree to be each other's plus one at every wedding they've been invited to. Set over a summer of weddings – Maya Erskine and Jack Quaid star as Alice and Ben, respectively. And the cast