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"Do you have any clue what your son did to my daughter?" Wow. This short film will stir something up inside of you, and stick with you for days and weeks after. Light My Fire is a short film written & directed by filmmaker Bobb Barito, which first premiered at the Austin Film Festival last year. The indie film is about a father who goes to over to confront his daughter's violent boyfriend on the Fourth of July. But as we know, expectations are different from reality. The short stars Ed Mora

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Universal Pictures invited ComingSoon.net to speak 1:1 with Fast & Furious franchise mastermind Chris Morgan about the big budget spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, which is now playing in theaters everywhere. He also spoke frankly about the demise of Universal’s Dark Universe monster movies. Check out the full interview below!
RELATED: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs

"It has been a long time…" Metropolitan Films in France has debuted the first official trailer for Lucky Day, a new film by the infamous writer / director Roger Avary (best known as the co-writer of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction). While IMDb says he has another film in the can, technically this is the first one he has made since 2004 that will actually be released. At least in France, since this is a French production, but not sure about anywhere else. Lucky Day stars Luke Bracey as Red, a sa

"Death to the weak, wealth to the strong!" RLJE Films has unveiled an official trailer for the indie horror comedy Satanic Panic, which premiered at the Overlook Film Festival this year. This also stopped by the Oak Cliff Film Festival, and just played at the Fantasia Film Festival this summer. The film is about a pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope who has to fight for her life - and her tips - when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of

Gal Gadot confirmed to star in Showtime’s Hedy Lamarr miniseries
Showtime has confirmed that Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has officially signed on for the leading role in the network’s upcoming biopic limited series which centers on the life of veteran actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr. The untitled series will be Gadot’s first starring role in a US television series.
“The life of Hedy Lamarr was a truly fascinating one. She stood at the forefront of many issues that chall

Michael Stuhlbarg & Sofia Black-D’Elia join Bryan Cranston’s Your Honor
The upcoming Showtime limited series Your Honor has landed two new stars to join Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) in the form of The Shape of Water‘s Michael Stuhlbarg and The Mick‘s Sofia Black-D’Elia, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: Edward Berger to Direct Bryan Cranston in Showtime’s Your Honor
A legal thriller that rips through all strata of New

Showtime’s Halo series adds Natascha McElhone, Bokeem Woodbine & more!
A few months after finding its Master Chief in American Gods‘ Pablo Schreiber, the Showtime adaptation of Microsoft’s hit game series Halo has began fleshing its cast out with the additions of Natascha McElhone (Californication), Bokeem Woodbine (Overlord), Shabana Azmi (Fire), Bentley Kalu (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Natasha Culzac (The Witcher) and Kate Kennedy (Catastrophe), according t

Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins and more in talks to join in Nightmare Alley
Collider brings word that multi-award winning-actresses Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), Toni Collette (Hereditary), and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Carol) are in talks to star opposite Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born) in Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming horror film adaptation Nightmare Alley. According to the outlet, if ever the deals would push through, Collette w

Sylvester Stallone & Dolph Lundgren collaborating on action drama series
Deadline is reporting that Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, Universal Soldier, The Expendables franchise) and Oscar nominee Sylvester Stallone (Creed, Rocky, The Expendables franchise) are currently collaborating on an untitled hour-long action drama series.
RELATED: Rambo: Last Blood Earns ‘Hard’ R-Rating
The series, from Tony Krantz’s Flame Ventures, will star Lundgren while Stallone serves as executive pr

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Satanic Panic trailer: Rebecca Romijn gives herself to Satan
RLJE Films and Fangoria have unleashed the first trailer and poster for Satanic Panic, the horror comedy starring Rebecca Romijn. Check out the Satanic Panic trailer in the player below!
RELATED: Full Moon and Fangoria’s Castle Freak Remake Cast Announced
Sam’s first day as a pizza delivery driver is not going according to plan. At the end of a long day and not enough tips, her last delivery turns

Kevin Kline & Timothy Olyphant join The Starling
Deadline has brought word that the upcoming Ted Melfi-helmed drama The Starling has expanded its already star-studded cast led by Melissa McCarthy (The Kitchen) and Chris O’Dowd (Get Shorty) with the additions of Kevin Kline (Beauty and the Beast) and Timothy Olyphant (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood).
RELATED: Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd Reunite with Director Ted Melfi in The Starling
The comedy, which landed on t

Guess who’s coming home in the new BH90210 promo
A brand new promo for FOX’s upcoming revival series of the classic teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210 titled BH902010 has been released, featuring the return of the seven original cast members. The six-part series is set to premiere on August 7. Check out the video in the player below!
RELATED: Shannen Doherty Returning for Beverly Hills 90210 Revival Event
Having gone their separate ways since the original series ended 19 year

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days TV Series in the Works at Quibi
According to TVLine, Quibi is in the process of developing a brand new series adaptation of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, a modern take on the 2003 romantic comedy of the same name. The reboot series will be penned by The Mindy Project‘s Gary Branum.
RELATED: Darren Criss To Star In Quibi’s Musical Comedy Series Royalties
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days series will follow the story of a glib young online column

BEGIN SLIDESHOWExclusive: David Leitch & Chris Morgan on THAT Hobbs & Shaw cameo!
Universal Pictures’ big budget spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is now playing in theaters everywhere, which means the cat’s out of the bag about one big new addition to the franchise. We chatted with director David Leitch and writer/producer Chris Morgan about the huge Hobbs & Shaw cameo that everyone will be buzzing about. Check out what they said below, and

Showtime announces fall premieres for Shameless, Kidding & Ray Donovan
Fans will only have to wait a few more months for the return of their favorite Showtime dramas Ray Donovan and Shameless as well as the sophomore outing of the Jim Carrey-starring hit Kidding as the network has announced November premiere dates for the next installments of the three series, according to Variety.
RELATED: Rust: Jeff Daniels to Star in Showtime Drama Series Adaptation
As

IFC Films acquires rights to feminist horror film Swallow
According to Variety, IFC Films has successfully acquired the North American theatrical distribution rights to Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow. Starring Haley Bennett (The Equalizer, The Girl on the Train) and Austin Stowell (Bridge of Spies), the film had its world premiere back in April at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival where Bennett won the Best Actress Award at the festival.
“‘Swallow’ is one of the most provoc

The 10 Best Phone Call Sequences In Film
Comingsoon.net is placing some calls to find out which movie hone call sequences are the best. Check out what we decided in the gallery below!
As texting has become more and more normalized on-screen, it’s important to make a distinction: phone calls are an incredibly cinematic thing, while texting very rarely is. You’d think it would be the other way around—phone calls require a lot of dialogue and could very easily devolve into exposi

Swamp Thing Episode 10 Recap
Things come to a head in the Swamp Thing Series Finale. Abby and Swamp Thing are still holding Alec’s body in the swamp when the Swamp Thing tells her that men are approaching again, but this time it’s different. This time they’re angry and want revenge. Abby tells him she’s so sorry about what happened to Alec, but the Swamp Thing counters that he never was Alec. Abby says he’s wrong; the best part of Alec — his mind an

"Who painting do you want me to replicate?" Signature Entertainment in the UK has unveiled an official trailer for a Hong Kong crime thriller titled The Counterfeiter. This has gone under a few other names, including Project Gutenberg, and the original titles Mou seung (Cantonese) and Wu shuang (Mandarin). The Counterfeiter is described "action-packed, twisty and tension filled crime thriller" akin to The Usual Suspects meets Fight Club, starring Chow Yun-Fat as a criminal mastermind known as t

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Kitchen featurette takes over the neighborhood
Warner Bros. Pictures has released a brand new featurette for director Andrea Berloff’s upcoming crime drama The Kitchen, highlighting the importance of the film’s location to the storytelling. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, you can check out video below. (via Fandango)
The Kitchen is an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo female-fronted comic book series of the same name. The or

The Man Who Fell to Earth reboot gets series order at CBS All Access
CBS All Access has officially given a series order for Star Trek: Discovery creator Alex Kurtzman’s upcoming reboot series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, which will be based on legendary music icon David Bowie’s 1976 cult classic film of the same name. Kurtzman will also serve a the series’ showrunner and executive producer along with Jenny Lumet and John Hlavin.
“We are thrilled to add a

"Since we hit the road together, I've done things I've only seen on television." Netflix has just launched an official trailer for a new comedy from Marlon Wayans titled Sextuplets, and it looks as awful as it sounds and seems just from that title alone. From the director of the spoofs A Haunted House and Fifty Shades of Black comes a new comedy about an expecting father-to-be who discovers that he has many other siblings and tries to track them down before his baby is born. This is a spoof on,

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Pennywise waits for the Losers Club in new Dolby and IMAX posters
New Line Cinema has released the Dolby Cinema and IMAX posters for their upcoming and highly-anticipated IT: Chapter Two, featuring Bill Skarsgard’s Pennywise. Check out the full posters in the gallery below, and pre-order your tickets by clicking here!RELATED: IT: Chapter One Returning to Theaters for Special Screenings!
Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated Pennywise, he has returned to te

BEGIN SLIDESHOWDora prepares to leave the jungle in new Lost City of Gold clip
Paramount Pictures has released a new clip from Dora and the Lost City of Gold, featuring Eva Longoria as she tries to encourage our titular explorer to make new friends in the city. Based on Nickelodeon’s iconic animated series Dora the Explorer, you can check out the video on the player below. (via Fandango)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold stars Isabela Moner (Transformers: The Last Knight, Sicar

Marlon Wayans goes looking for his family in the Sextuplets trailer
The first trailer for Marlon Wayans‘ Netlfix flick, Sextuplets, is here, and it looks to be a slapstick sendup of the classic road-trip comedy. They also released the film’s official poster, and you can check out both in the post below!
Sextuplets tells the story of Alan (Wayans, Marlon), a man embarking on a personal journey to meet his birth mother before the arrival of his first child. When Alan meets h

"I was just looking for any way to make a mark." The Paramount Network has unveiled an official trailer for an indie documentary titled I Am Patrick Swayze, the latest in the "I Am" series of docs about iconic actors. The original documentary series "I Am", mostly from director Adrian Buitenhuis, is an inside look at the lives of extraordinary individuals as told by the people who knew them best. They have covered Heath Ledger, Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, and Paul Walker before, now it's time f

Tenet Trailer Description: Teaser for Chris Nolan Film Playing Before Hobbs & Shaw
Some audiences who went to check out Hobbs & Shaw last night got an unexpected surprise — and it wasn’t a bunch of scenes with The Rock going shirtless. According to The Hollywood Reporter, a 40-second teaser for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming espionage flick Tenet screened ahead of the Fast & Furious spinoff, intriguing fans and causing all kinds of speculation as to what Nolan’

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7 / 10
Cast:
Dwayne Johnson as HobbsJason Statham as ShawIdris Elba as BrixtonVanessa Kirby as HattieHelen Mirren as QueenieEiza González as Madame MEddie Marsan as Professor AndreikoEliana Sua as SamCliff Curtis as JonahLori Pelenise Tuisano as SefinaJohn Tui as KalJoshua Mauga as TimoJoe Anoa’i as MateoRob Delaney as Agent Loeb
Directed by David Leitch
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Review
Summary:
When an MI-6 operation goes bad, Hattie find

The Stand: Stephen King writing new ending to limited series adaptation
Stephen King’s 1978 post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel The Stand is being adapted into a new limited series for CBS All Access. But will set this series apart from its 1994 counterpart, and the novel itself, is a new ending, which will be penned by King himself.
As reported by Deadline, King is writing the script for the ninth episode of the series, which CBS All Access EVP Julie McNamara said will includ

Star Wars news for the week of August 2, 2019
The purpose of this roundup is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of August 2, 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!
The Rise of Skywalker News and Rumors‘Star Wars: The Rise of S

Adrian Lyne to direct Deep Water, Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas eyed to star
Director Adrian Lyne is stepping back behind the camera to direct a big-screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water. And according to Deadline, Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas are in talks to star in the film.
The film centers on Vic and Melinda Van Allen (Affleck and de Armas) described as “an attractive young married couple whose mind games with each other take a twisted turn when people aroun

Chris Pine to play Walter Cronkite in Newsflash
Star Trek actor Chris Pine is stepping into the legendary shoes of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite in the drama Newsflash. According to Deadline, the film will follow Cronkite during the tumultuous day of November 22, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated — during which he became a trusted voice for the American people.
RELATED: Star Trek: Picard Prequel Novel and Comic Book Series in the Works
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