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Five Unfilmable books
Comingsoon.net is taking a look at some of the most troublesome and difficult-to-adapt books in movie history. Take a look at our selections in the gallery below!
The idea of a literary adaptation has existed since the beginning of the film industry itself—turning a book into a movie isn’t a new thing and it isn’t going away anytime soon, especially considering the continued success of a certain comic book franchise-turned-cinematic universe. Not to menti

Mandatory Streamers: Deadwood returns in HBO’s new feature film
Welcome to Mandatory Streamers, our latest column covering the best new streaming content coming your way every week! For the week of May 27, Timothy Olyphant and Ian McShane return as Sheriff Seth Bullock and foul-mouth pimp Al Swearengen in HBO’s original movie based on the award-winning hit series Deadwood, leading a jam-packed week of must-watch series to stream this week! Check out the best show

The Wilds: Amazon gives series order to YA drama from Sarah Streicher
Variety is reporting that Amazon has given a series order to The Wilds, a YA drama from writer and executive producer Sarah Streicher (Daredevil).
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The Wilds follows a group of teenage girls from radically different backgrounds after an airplane crash strands them on a deserted island.
“We are thrilled to share this exciting original vision with our globa

"How many hours of the day do I try to make the body happy." Yet another beautifully painted animated short to enjoy. Agua Viva is the latest hand-painted short film made by animator / filmmaker Alexa Lim Haas. You may recognize her style, as we also posted her short film Glove about an astronaut's glove. Agua Viva premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and also played at the Rotterdam Film Festival. It's now available online to watch. The film is about a Chinese manicurist in Miami who

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead adds Ella Purnell
TheWrap is reporting that Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead feature has added Ella Purnell (Sweetbitter) to star as Dave Bautista’s daughter in the project. Ana De La Reguera (Goliath), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy), and Huma Qureshi (Kaala) have also joined the cast.
Purnell’s previous television and movie credits include Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Sweetbitter, Maleficent, and Kick-Ass 2.
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Learn About Bo Peep’s Return in Toy Story 4!
Toy Story 4 tickets for Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar’s upcoming sequel are now on sale! To celebrate, ComingSoon.net is sharing new details about the character of Bo Peep which we learned when we visited Pixar earlier this year. While Bo Peep (voiced by Annie Potts) was only a minor character in the first two films and did not appear at all in Toy Story 3, she is a main and arguably the pivotal character in Toy Story 4.

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The Goldfinch movie poster tells the story of a stolen life
Fandango has released a new The Goldfinch movie poster, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Donna Tartt. Promising to tell the story of a stolen life, you can check out the full poster now in the gallery below.
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The Goldfinch is a drama being directed by BAFTA Award winner John Crowley (Brooklyn) and features a multigenerational cast led by

Clifford the Big Red Dog adds Jack Whitehall, Darby Camp as leads
Darby Camp (Big Little Lies) and Jack Whitehall (Jungle Cruise) have joined Paramount’s Clifford the Big Red Dog adaptation in lead roles, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
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Camp, known for playing Reese Witherspoon’s daughter on HBO’s Big Little Lies and starring on AMC’s NOS4A2 horror series, will play Clifford’

What are the best films out of this year's Cannes Film Festival? Which ones should you be taking an interest in? What films should be a priority for you to see? After 12 days at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, after 30 screenings, it's time to present my 2019 list of my Top 9 Favorite Films. This was my 10th time back to this festival, and I love being there in the middle of all, committing fully to seeing as many films as I can. These nine listed below are the ones that I adore, that connected

"The Malaysian people were defrauded on an enormous scale." Dogwoof has released an official trailer for an indie documentary titled The Kleptocrats, which is already available on VOD for anyone interested in watching. The film profiles and examines "one of the world's biggest financial crimes", in which $3.5 billion was stolen from a Malaysian government fund. Where did it go? The "money from the audacious scam flows into New York and Hollywood, where the thieves court A-list celebrities and e

Hideo Kojima debuts two Death Stranding teasers ahead of reveal
Anticipation is growing to an all-time high for the next mystery project from legendary video game director Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding. The Metal Gear Solid creator has taken to Twitter to debut two bizarre new teasers ahead of the promise of a new reveal on May 29.
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Anthony Michael Hall, Sherri Saum to Guest on Agents of SHIELD
Marvel brings word that Anthony Michael Hall (War Machine, Awkward., Warehouse 13) and Sherri Saum (Locke & Key, The Fosters, Limetown) will guest star on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD Season 6. Hall will play Mr. Kitson, the fiendish ruler of an alien empire, while Saum will guest as Atarah, an aggressive Chronicom who wants something from the team.
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Weird occurrences on the sets of Bible movies
Comingsoon.net is taking a look at some of the strangest problems that’ve happened on the sets of movies based on the Bible. Check out our picks in the gallery below!
Spanning centuries and coming in at somewhere well above two thousand pages, it seems obvious to say that the Bible (and countless other religious texts) seem rife for capitalization in the eyes of a movie or television executive, no matter how sacrilegious that might actually be

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Godzilla Origins & Evolutions
In 1954, the world was given one of its biggest cinematic icons in the form of Godzilla. The brainchild of producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishiro Honda, and special effects designer Eiji Tsuburaya, Godzilla was conceived as an anti-nuclear war film, a dark movie about destruction and human responsibility that would later go on to be the basis for a Saturday morning cartoon series. While the symbolism of the character might be lost on some of

CS Interview: Batman: Last Knight on Earth’s Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
ComingSoon.net had the chance to speak with the writer/artist team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (Dark Nights: Metal, Batman: The Court of Owls, Batman: Death of the Family) about their latest work Batman: Last Knight on Earth, which is available in comic book stores and digitally on May 29. Check out the interview below!
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Possess all the artifacts in new Annabelle Comes Home trailer
Ed and Lorraine Warren’s Occult Museum is home to a plethora of haunted artifacts from their cases over the years but when their daughter’s babysitters decide to explore the room, terror is unleashed, with the new trailer for Annabelle Comes Home introducing audiences to a few new spirits, which can be viewed in the player below!
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"Annabelle is the beacon for other spirits." Warner Bros has unveiled the second trailer for horror sequel Annabelle Comes Home, the third movie in the Annabelle spin-off series which first began as part of The Conjuring horror universe. This arrives in theaters in exactly one month. Gary Dauberman, the screenwriter of the Annabelle movies, It, and The Nun, makes his directorial debut on the sequel, which is produced by Peter Safran (Aquaman), who has produced all the films in the Conjuring, an

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DC Universe drops the first full-length Swamp Thing trailer
DC Universe has dropped the first full-length trailer for their latest original series, Swamp Thing. You can check it out in the player below!
The live-action series, based on the character originally created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, will be executive produced by Len Wiseman (Sleepy Hollow) who will also direct the pilot. Mark Verheiden (Battlestar Galactica, Netflix’s Daredevil) and Gary Dauber

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Black Mirror season 5 key art offers new hints at upcoming episodes
Netflix has released three new Black Mirror Season 5 key art posters offering more hints as to what fans can expect to see when the three new episodes launch on June 5. Check out the key art now in the gallery below!
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The first episode “Rachel, Jack And Ashley, Too” follows a lonely teenager yearns to connect with her favorite pop sta

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Marvel’s Jessica Jones season 3 premiere date revealed in new teaser
Just days after Netflix teased the premiere of the third and final season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones, the streaming service has officially locked in a June 14 premiere date along with a new teaser trailer. You can check that out in the player below!
The Netflix original series was the second of four live-action (now canceled) series, including Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s L

Paranormal: Netflix announces first Egyptian original series
A third Middle Eastern series is coming from Netflix. Paranormal, which is based on the best selling books by late author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, will mark the streaming service’s first foray into Egyptian drama.
Set in the 1960s, Paranormal depicts the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a single hematologist who finds himself faced with a series of supernatural events. The series will be produced by both Mohamed Hefzy and Amr S

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Matthew Vaughn says Kingsman 3 will conclude Eggsy and Harry’s story
The upcoming third installment of the Kingsman series will be the last one to focus on the student/teacher relationship of Taron Egerton’s Eggsy and Colin Firth’s Harry. Speaking with Digital Spy, director Matthew Vaughn said that the upcoming Kingsman 3 will be the last film to focus on the rapport between these two characters.
“We’ve got to finish off the Eggsy and

"You understand, when you are trying to cross borders, the only people that will help you… are dangerous people." Curzon Cinemas in the UK has debuted an official trailer for a fascinating indie drama titled The Flood, from director Anthony Woodley. The film presents an intriguing, dramatic look at the challenges of immigration and the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. The story follows a "hardened immigration officer" named Wendy, and an asylum seeker named Haile who has traveled great