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"This house has a history of bringing out the worst in people." Dark Sky Films has released an official trailer for an indie horror thriller titled Girl on the Third Floor, the feature directorial debut of veteran indie producer Travis Stevens (of Snowfort Pictures). This received some rave reviews from SXSW where it premiered earlier this year, and will likely be a sleeper hit once it opens in theaters this fall. Professional wrestler / superstar grammar slammer "CM Punk" stars as Don Koch, a

"Keep on shooting! Keep it rolling!" Shudder has unveiled a brand new US trailer for the Japanese zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead. This film has already earned legendary status (seriously) as one of the best zombie comedies ever made, after playing at numerous film festivals all througohut the world throughout 2018. From director Shinichirô Ueda, this Japanese horror comedy is about a father who tries to make a low-budget zombie film in an abandoned warehouse. At first you see the versi

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Mr. Robot Season 4 premiere date revealed in new trailer
USA Network has released a new Mr. Robot Season 4 trailer, revealing that the final season will premiere on Sunday, October 6 at 10/9c. You can check out the trailer now in the player below as well as the new poster in the gallery (via THR)!
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Mr. Robot follows Elliot Alderson (Oscar winner Rami Malek), a former cyber-security engineer wh

Chin Han, Hiroyuki Sanada join Mortal Kombat as Shang Tsung & Scorpion
Variety is reporting that Chin Han (The Dark Knight, Skyscraper, Marco Polo) has joined the Mortal Kombat reboot as Shang Tsung alongside Hiroyuki Sanada (Avengers: Endgame, The Wolverine, The Last Ship) who is set to play Scorpion.
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They join a cast that also includes Joe Taslim as Sub-Zero, Ludi Lin (Power Rangers) as Liu Kang, Mehcad Brooks (Supergirl) as

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Showtime’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels begins production
Showtime has announced that their Penny Dreadful spinoff Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has begun production. They also shared a first look photo of the new series featuring stars Daniel Zovatto and Nathan Lane, which you can check out in the gallery below!
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City of Angels is set in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexi

Black 5: Michael Bay set to direct upcoming film for Sony
Michael Bay (Bad Boys, Transformers franchise, 13 Hours) will be directing Sony’s upcoming movie Black 5, Variety has confirmed. While plot details are unknown, it is said the movie will be “high on action,” which sounds perfect for Bay’s wheelhouse.
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The screenplay for the movie was written by Ehren Kruger (The Talisman). Bay and Erwin Stoff (13 Hours) will serve as

Taika Waititi in talks for role in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad
Deadline brings word that actor and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, What We Do in the Shadows, Avengers: Endgame) is currently in talks to appear in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. No details have yet been revealed about the potential role. This marks Waititi’s second time playing a character in a DC film, having previously appeared in 2011’s Green Lantern.
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Himesh Patel to star in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
Variety is reporting that Himesh Patel (Yesterday, Damned, The Luminaries) has joined Christopher Nolan’s action-thriller Tenet.
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Tenet is described as an action epic evolving from the world of international espionage. Production on the movie is currently underway and is being filmed on location in seven countries.
Patel, who recently starr

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The CW’s Nancy Drew key art revealed: Everyone loves a mystery
The CW has revealed the official Nancy Drew key art featuring Kennedy McMann as the brilliant teenaged detective. You can check out the full key art now in the gallery below (via Deadline)!
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Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenaged detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until h

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August 27 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s August 27 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon!
New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD
Godzilla: King of the MonstersWhen ancient god-sized monsters rise again, the crypto-zoological agency Monarch faces off against Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah as t

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The CW’s Batwoman poster unveiled: Her time is now
The CW has released the official Batwoman key art, featuring Ruby Rose as Batwoman in the upcoming superhero series ready to take on the role of the Dark Knight. You can check out the full Batwoman poster in the gallery below!
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Kate Kane (Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. Three years after Batman mysteriously disappeared, G

"Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?" I'm back! Back again in the groove, the film festival groove. This week kicks off the fall season with two major film festivals: the Venice Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, both running over the weekend. I'm back in Venice for my third time in a row to celebrate the 76th edition of this iconic festival, happy to be here, ready to start watching, excited to see all the films they're showing. I can't wait to see James Gray's Ad Astra,

"They were all thinking about this as more than a science fiction adventure in the future." Screen Media Films has debuted an official trailer for the movemaking documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien, a clever, fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary looking back at this seminal sci-fi horror classic (first released in 1979). This doc premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and it's finally opening (in theaters + VOD) in October. From Swiss doc director Alexandre O. Phil

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Titans Season 2 trailer: Sooner or later the past will come knocking
DC has released the full Titans Season 2 trailer for the upcoming new season of DC Universe’s superhero series. You can check out the trailer now in the player below and catch the Season 2 premiere on September 6!
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The official synopsis for the season two premiere episode reads: “Following directly after the apocalyptic events of

"This weekend - the sommar never ends." A24 has revealed a short trailer to promote the Director's Cut release of the cult horror film Midsommar, Ari Aster's freakish Swedish delight that first opened in June. This Director's Cut is an unrated release, with new footage + extended scenes that put it at a total running time of 171 minutes. This was initially only supposed to show at special events, but A24 decided to put it back in theaters. Midsommar is about a woman who reluctantly joins her bo

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Sommar never ends in Midsommar Director’s Cut promo
A24 has released a new promo for the Midsommar Director’s Cut, which will be opening in select theaters nationwide this Friday. The festivities continue as the new cut will feature new scenes as well as extended footage. You can check out the promo now in the player below and get your tickets here!
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Midsommar follows a couple,

The 10 Best Movies Within a Movie
Comingsoon.net is getting meta and compiling the very best movies about moviemaking that feature movies within a movie. Check out our selections in the gallery below!
Movies about movies are never not a hit with critics and audiences alike. This umbrella includes movies that feature films-within-films, which often lampoon or parody famous films or serve to be allusions to the way the film industry is headed at whatever point in time the actual movie was made. N

"Do you know why you came to be?" "I died. And I came back." Arrow Video has unveiled an official trailer for the horror indie film The Dead Center, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival last year. It also played at the Glasgow and Chattanooga Film Festivals earlier this year, and is dropping in theaters + on VOD + on DVD this fall for horror fans who are interested. This horror stars Shane Carruth, the indie filmmaker (Primer, Upstream Color), this time working only as an actor (and

USA Network’s Briarpatch trailer starring Rosario Dawson
USA Network has released the official trailer for their upcoming crime thriller series Briarpatch, featuring our first look at Rosario Dawson’s character Allegra Dill as she searches for her sister’s killer. Based on Ross Thomas’ novel of the same name, the series is set to debut in 2020. Check out the video below!
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Briarpatch follows Allegra

The Ruin: Colin Farrell first project under new production company
Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell (The Lobster, In Bruges, Dumbo) is developing an Irish crime drama The Ruin, based on the novel by Dervla McTiernan, as the first project under Chapel Place Productions, his new production company, Variety has confirmed.
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The Ruin tells the story of police officer Cormac Reilly who discovers two neglected children in

Mark Wahlberg reteaming with Baltasar Kormaku for Arthur the King
Variety has brought word that Mark Wahlberg (Mile 22) is teaming up again with Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur for the upcoming adaptation of the true story “Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home.”
RELATED: Kingsman’s Sophie Cookson Joins Mark Wahlberg In Infinite
The film will be based on the book written by Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, and follows him a

"There are mysteries unsolved." FS has an exclusive trailer to share with everyone. Blue Fox Entertainment has unveiled the official US trailer for a British indie dramedy called Sometimes Always Never, which premiered at the London Film Festival last year. This detective fantasy / family drama is about how a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son. Bill Nighy stars with Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Jenny Agutter, Tim McInnerny, John Westley, Oliver Sindcup, Louis Healy, and Ella-Gr

Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg Producing United Nations Comedy at CBS
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Longtime collaborators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are developing a brand new comedy series for CBS titled UNprofessionals which centers on the lives of low-ranking United Nations employees. Rogen and Goldberg will also serve as executive producers for the project through their Point Grey Pictures banner.
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Top Boy returns to Netflix with new episodes six years after its last season
After concluding its two-season run back in 2013, Top Boy is back with an all-new season on Netflix. The move was originally announced back in 2017, and now you can check out the trailer for the new season below!
Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson reprise their roles as Dushane and Sully, respectively, and joined by newcomer Micheal Ward (The A List) as Jamie. Shone Romulus (Out) returns as Dris and Ashley Thomas (Black

Watch the deleted duet ‘Desert Moon’ from Aladdin!
To celebrate the film’s digital release, Disney has debuted a deleted song from this year’s live-action adaptation of Aladdin entitled “Desert Moon,” a moving duet between Jasmine and the titular thief. Check out the video in the player below!
RELATED: Aladdin Blu-ray Release Set for September!
Two-time Oscar nominee Will Smith (Ali, Men in Black) stars as the Genie in the new film alongsi

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Netflix mob movie The Irishman finally sets theatrical release
After weeks of back-and-forth with theater chains, the Netflix mob movie The Irishman has finally set its big-screen release schedule.
According to Variety, director Martin Scorsese wanted a more traditional rollout in theaters, but will instead have to settle for what’s becoming known as the Netflix release. It will open in select theaters on November 1, and gradually increase the number of screens until it dr

Viola Davis to star as Michelle Obama in Showtime’s First Ladies series
According to Deadline, Showtime is in the process of developing a brand new drama series titled First Ladies, which centers on the past First Ladies of the White House. Created by writer Aaron Cooley, the network has already given the series a three-script commitment with Academy Award winner Viola Davis signing on to portray the role of Michelle Obama.
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Netflix’s Marianne trailer finds a novelist battling her own creation
Netflix has just released the first trailer for Marianne, a new French-language series that looks outright terrifying. You can check out the trailer in the player below!
When a novelist realizes her terrifying stories are coming true, she returns to her hometown to face the demons from her past that inspire her writing. To make matters worse, the demon appears to take the form of an elderly woman, a quintessential stapl

Teen drama Pretty Little Liars getting Asian remake set in Bali
Pretty Little Liars is getting another life as an international remake. The teen drama will be the basis for a Bali-set Asian remake after Warner Bros. struck a deal with the digital streaming service Viu.
According to Deadline, the remake will follow the footsteps of the original, centering on a group of four estranged undergrads whose little clique had fallen apart when their former leader went missing. After rejoining, the

Boogie: Chef Eddie Huang to write and direct coming-of-age drama
Celebrity chef Eddie Huang is stepping out of the kitchen and onto the film set with his coming-of-age drama Boogie.
Huang not only wrote the script for the film, but he will also make his debut as a director for the Focus Features production. The story follows a young Chinese-American basketball player in New York City who has to balance his parents’ expectations against his own goals of becoming an NBA star.
“A

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Timothée Chalamet must bear the crown in The King teaser trailer
Netflix has released the official teaser trailer for The King, featuring our first look at the star-studded cast led by Academy Award-nominated actor Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) as King Henry V. Directed. Co-written by David Michod, the film will have its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival on August. Check out the video in the player below!
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"I need men around me I can trust." Netflix has unveiled the first teaser trailer for The King, the latest movie from Australian director David Michod (of Animal Kingdom, The Rover). This drama will have its major premiere at the Venice Film Festival starting next week and will be showing out-of-competition. Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behin

Peter Fonda’s Most Memorable Movie Quotes
Comingsoon.net is taking a look at some of the most memorable lines ever spoken by an actor who changed the game. Check out the picks in the gallery below!
Along with Dennis Hopper and Terry Southern, Peter Fonda co-wrote Easy Rider, a film that will forever be the catapult that helped spring cinema into the counter-culture genre. Last week, Peter Fonda passed away leaving behind a prolific career in film—spanning approximately 116 credited

BEGIN SLIDESHOWVenom 2 Cinematographer Confirms Woody Harrelson’s Return in Sequel
Venom 2’s cinematographer Robert Richardson has seemingly confirmed Woody Harrelson’s return in the anticipated sequel — which means we will finally get a live-action Carnage.
Richardson was busy discussing what drew him to the superhero genre in an interview with Collider when he made the unofficial announcement. He was discussing how director Andy Serkis approached him about the film, whi

Eva Longoria to direct true story about Flamin’ Hot Cheetos creator
According to Deadline, Eva Longoria has signed on to direct Flamin’ Hot, the true story about “Flamin’ Hot Cheetos” creator Richard Montanez. DeVon Franklin will produce the Fox Searchlight film.
RELATED: Anthony Michael Hall is Tommy Doyle in Halloween Kills!
Richard Montanez was the son of a Mexican immigrant who landed a job as a janitor at Frito-Lay where he came up with the idea for Flami

Helena Zengel joins Tom Hanks in News of the World
According to Deadline, Helena Zengel has joined the cast of Tom Hanks’ next film, News of the World, from director Paul Greengrass.
The film, based on the 2016 novel of the same name by Paulette Jiles and penned by Lion‘s Luke Davies, follows a widowed news reader in the aftermath of the Cold War who travels throughout Texas announcing the news of the world to the local population. He is hired to help transport an orphan girl (

Mindhunter Season 2 Episode 4 Recap
In the previous episode of Netflix’s Mindhunter, a child’s body was found on a property that Nancy was showing, and Holden learned of the murders of several African-American boys in Atlanta. In Mindhunter Season 2 Episode 4, Holden went back to Atlanta with Bill to help with a kidnapping, while Dr. Carr and Gregg went to interview a dead killer’s accomplice.
Experiments
Holden orchestrated experiments to start developing a profile for a pred

The 10 best movies set in Los Angeles
Comingsoon.net is headed to the west coast to determine which LA-set films are the very best. Check out our picks in the gallery below!
Los Angeles. LA. The City of Angels. The county with as many people in it as 43 states. And, of course, Hollywood’s home. The place where countless movies, TV shows, actors, artists, and musicians achieve world-renowned status or fade away into nothingness. Naturally, this makes the county the prime location for all k