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Semper Fi trailer starring Jai Courtney released
Lionsgate has released a new Semper Fi trailer for their upcoming thriller drama starring Jai Courtney (Divergent, Terminator Genisys, The Suicide Squad) and Nat Wolff (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, Death Note). You can check out the trailer now in the player below as well as the official key art and new stills in the gallery!
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Cal (Jai Courtney) is a

"We don't have anesthesia, but we have music!" National Geographic has debuted an official trailer for the documentary titled The Cave, the latest film from Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad who last made the Oscar-nominated doc Last Men in Aleppo. This is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival coming up soon, and will be released in theaters sometime later in the fall. Not to be confused with the horror film The Cave, or the Thai rescue film also called The Cave. Fayyad's new documentary titled T

Movies you didn’t know were based on the same stories
Believe it or not, Comingsoon.net has compiled a collection of films that are based on the same source material. Check out our findings in the gallery below!
Short stories, novels, plays, true stories, even popular toys—they all serve as the source material for countless feature films. Dating back to the very start of the industry, with the works of William Shakespeare and the parables from the Bible being the most-mined works, t

"I didn't need you to be my dad, I just needed you to be my brother." Lionsgate has released a trailer for a film titled Semper Fi, originally called Edge of Dawn while in development. The title is a reference to the Marine Corps slogan "semper fi" (in full: semper fidelis), which means "always loyal". The plot is about a police officer who serves in the Marine Corps Reserves who is faced with an ethical dilemma when it comes to helping his brother in prison. Jai Courtney stars as the "by-the-b

Kurt Sutter to exit FX’s Mayans M.C. after season 2
Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy, Southpaw) is planning to exit his co-showrunner duties on Mayans M.C. if the FX show is renewed for a third season, saying, “It’s time for the white man to leave the building,” Variety has confirmed.
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Sutter currently serves as co-creator and co-showrunner on the Sons of Anarchy spinoff alongside Elgin James, who wo

Visceral new Primal trailer reveals October premiere date
Adult Swim has premiered the first full trailer for the highly-anticipated prehistoric animated series Primal from Emmy-winning creator Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack) that promises a visceral and bloody tale of survival in the dawn of time while also announcing an October premiere date, which can be viewed in the player below!
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The series is

The Girls on the Bus: Greg Berlanti, Julie Plec adapting Chasing Hillary as Netflix series
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Greg Berlanti (Titans, Doom Patrol, Prodigal Son) and Julie Plec (Legacies, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries) have won the rights to The Girls on the Bus, a series adaptation based on a chapter from Amy Chozick’s novel Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling.
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Helen Mirren’s Catherine the Great gets October premiere date
HBO has announced that its upcoming Helen Mirren-led four-part historical limited series Catherine the Great has received a premiere date of Monday, October 21!
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Catherine the Great is a four-part drama that delves into the politically-tumultuous and sexually-charged court of the most powerful female monarch in history. Catherine wielded supreme

10 recent remakes that can’t compete with the original
Comignsoon.net is looking back on some of the biggest remakes from the past decade and comparing them to the films they’re based on. Check out our selections in the gallery below to see which ones pale in comparison to their predecessors.
Remakes are nothing new. They’ve existed long before the recent string of live-action Disney remakes, long before the multiple iterations of Spider-Man, even before the trend of American

Power’s Lela Loren joins Altered Carbon season 2
The Hollywood Reporter has brought word that the long-awaited second season of Netflix’s sci-fi action thriller Altered Carbon has found another big star in the form of Power alum Lela Loren, who has joined the season shortly after meeting her end in the final season premiere of the Starz series.
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It was previously announced that Anthony Mackie (Avengers:

Hill House’s Henry Thomas joins Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor
Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E.T.) is returning for the second season of Mike Flanagan’s Haunting horror anthology series in The Haunting of Bly Manor for Netflix, TheWrap has confirmed. Thomas previously played Hugh Crain in the first season, The Haunting of Hill House.
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Thomas will join fellow Hill

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HBO’s The New Pope teaser features Jude Law & John Malkovich
HBO has released the official The New Pope teaser starring Academy Award nominees Jude Law (Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Captain Marvel) and John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire, Heart of Darkness, Bird Box). You can check out the teaser now in the player below!
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Additional stars include returning cast members from

"People are starting to notice." Warner Bros has revealed the first official full-length trailer for Joker, the new solo movie about The Joker, being played by the magnificent Joaquin Phoenix. This trailer is timed with the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival coming up this weekend, and compliments the excellent teaser trailer from the summer. This new take on the legendary Batman villain is an original standalone, slow burn origin story of the iconic villain not seen before on the big

"People are starting to notice." Warner Bros has revealed the first official full-length trailer for Joker, the new solo movie about The Joker, being played by the magnificent Joaquin Phoenix. This trailer is timed with the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival coming up this weekend, and compliments the excellent teaser trailer from the summer. This new take on the legendary Batman villain is an original standalone, slow burn origin story of the iconic villain not seen before on the big

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New Joker trailer gives the story behind the Clown Prince of Crime
Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the new trailer for Joker, the origin story that takes place out of the DCEU continuity. Check out the new Joker trailer below!
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The film is currently set to have its North American premiere at Toronto International Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival later this month, with TIFF artistic director Cameron Baile

Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat trailer reveals a global conspiracy
Netflix has released the first trailer for director Steven Soderbergh’s scathing new film, The Laundromat, which takes a critical look at the global elite, and exposes how they manage to keep their power. You can check out the trailer and the new poster below!
The film is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Bernstein‘s nonfiction book, Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Pa

"They're gettin' away with murder!" "Which is bad…" Netflix has launched the first full trailer for Steven Soderbergh's latest film titled The Laundromat, just a few days ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this weekend. The film is essentially about the Panama Papers, but from the perspective of a widow on vacation. While investigating insurance fraud, she ends up stumbling upon a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system. "Zipping thro

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSacha Baron Cohen Gets Serious In The Spy Trailer
Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for their 60s-set espionage limited series The Spy, which stars Sacha Baron Cohen (This Is America, Borat) flexing his acting chops and digging into a serious role. They also released two new posters for the series, one in English and one in Hebrew. You can see all this for yourself in the post below!
Written and directed by Emmy winner Gideon Raff (Tyrant), The Spy will fo

"We can't go on like this." Memento Films has released an official trailer for the latest film made by talented Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen (of Ilo Ilo) titled Wet Season, which will be premiering at the Toronto Film Festival starting next week. The film is looking for distributors worldwide which is why they're promoting it with this superb festival trailer. Wet Season, also known as Re Dai Yu in Mandarin, is about the friendship / relationship that builds between a Malaysian-born high

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The Irishman runtime is 3.5, making it a true epic
Director Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman promises to be a true mob movie epic, and it has the runtime to prove it.
According to the official New York Film Festival website, where the film will have its official premiere, The Irishman clocks in at a whopping three-and-a-half hours. By comparison, some of Scorsese’s other opuses on organized crime, Goodfellas and The Departed, clock in at roughly two-and-a-half hours ea

"There are way too many weddings, and I'm freaking out!" Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has debuted an official trailer for the romantic comedy titled The Wedding Year, the latest from director Rob Luketic (Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law, 21, The Ugly Truth). This romcom stars Sarah Hyland (from "Modern Family" and Vampire Academy) as a commitment-phobic 27 year old whose new relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year. Isn't this pretty

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Director Darren Bousman reveals Saw 9 has wrapped production
Back in July, Darren Bousman posted to Instagram that production for Saw 9 movie was officially underway. Now, just a few weeks later, Bousman returned to social media, (this time Twitter), to confirm that the ninth Saw film has wrapped production. Posing for a selfie in front of a blood-splattered wall, Bousman posted simply “That’s a wrap!!!”That’s a wrap!!! pic.twitter.com

BEGIN SLIDESHOWLooking for Alaska Poster Released by Hulu
Hulu has released a new poster for Looking for Alaska, a new limited series based on the best-selling John Green novel. You can check out the art below!
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Looking for Alaska stars Charlie Plummer (All the Money in the World) and Kristine Froseth (Apostle), who will lead the series in the roles of Miles and Alaska, as well as Empire‘s Denny Love, American

Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel & Robert Maillet join Kevin James in Becky
According to Deadline, Joel McHale (Community), Amanda Brugel (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Robert Maillet (Sherlock Holmes) have joined Emmy Award-nominated comedic actor Kevin James (The King of Queens, Paul Blart: Mall Cop) in the home invasion thriller Becky. 
Becky follows the story of a rebellious 14-year-old Becky as she’s brought to a weekend getaway at a lake house by her father in an effort to

William Sadler and Mike C. Manning team up for horror film Slapface
According to Deadline, veteran actor William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption) is teaming up with Mike C. Manning (Teen Wolf) for the horror film Slapface, which is set to begin production this fall. The duo join a cast that includes August Maturo (The Nun), Bianca D’Ambrosio (TV’s Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) and Chiara D’Ambrosio (The Young and the Restless).
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The 10 best Showtime shows
Comingsoon.net is switching over to premium cable to try and determine the best series in Showtime history. Check out our selections in the gallery below!
Established back in the mid-70s as a subsidiary of CBS, Showtime has just recently started to churn out some really impressive television. Able to go to bat against the best shows HBO and other premium cable networks have to offer, Showtime has had a substantial and noteworthy lineup for at least the past 15 years o