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David Oyelowo to lead Showtime’s The President is Missing
Showtime has announced that Emmy and Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo (Selma, Nightingale, A Wrinkle in Time) will play the title role in the drama series The President is Missing.
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In The President is Missing, a powerless and politically aimless Vice President (Oyelowo) unexpectedly becomes President halfway into his administration’s first term,

A Christmas Carol: Apple acquires Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds musical
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Apple has acquired Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds’ A Christmas Carol musical following a bidding war for the project.
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The film, a reimaging of the Charles Dickens classic, will reunite Ferrell with Daddy’s Home team Sean Anders and John Morris who will write and produce the film. No studio

"Something took hold of me last night." Netflix has finally unveiled the official US trailer for Atlantics, the award-winning film from up-and-coming French filmmaker Mati Diop that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival playing in-competition earlier this summer. The film also goes under the title Atlantique, which is just the French version of Atlantics - a direct reference to "people of the Atlantic". The film is set in Dakar, Senegal, which sits on the western coast of Africa in the middle o

"I have been lying for 20 years…" Netflix has unveiled an official trailer for a documentary titled Tell Me Who I Am, made by doc director Ed Perkins. This initially premiered at the Telluride Film Festival, and is next playing at the London Film Festival. What if every memory that haunts you could be erased, or even rewritten? This is the ethical dilemma that Marcus Lewis faced when his identical twin Alex awakened after a motorcycle accident and Marcus was the only person Alex recogniz

"I'm not going anywhere…" Utopia has debuted the first official trailer for a small town indie drama called Mickey and the Bear, marking the feature directorial debut of actress Annabelle Attanasio. This first premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this year, and has also stopped by IFFB, and the Seattle, Montclair, Deauville, and Hamptons Film Festivals. Faced with the responsibility to take care of her opioid addicted, veteran father, headstrong independent teen Mickey Peck keeps her hous

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSarah Connor meets Carl in new Terminator: Dark Fate TV spot
A brand new TV spot for Paramount Pictures‘ highly-anticipated Terminator: Dark Fate has arrived online, featuring some new footage including new scenes between Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800/Carl and Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor. Check out the video in the player below!
RELATED: Linda Hamilton Says Terminator: Dark Fate Took More Effort Than T2
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Netflix’s Green Eggs and Ham series sets premiere date
Netflix has officially revealed the premiere date for their upcoming animated series Green Eggs and Ham, based on Dr. Suess’ iconic children’s book of the same name. The series is scheduled to make its debut on November 8. The date announcement came in a form of a clever poem (via Vital Thrills) which you can read below and check out the series’ newly released promo video featuring the cast reading the

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Filming begins on the Russo Brothers’ Cherry
Filming on the Russo Brothers‘ Cherry is currently underway as the filmmakers have shared a new set photo of their latest film starring Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Far From Home). You can check out the full photo now in the gallery below and click here to see Tom Holland’s dramatic new look for the film!
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Titans episode 2.06 photos feature Joshua Orpin’s Superboy
DC Universe has released the first photos from Titans episode 2.06 titled “Connor,” teasing the arrival of Joshua Orpin’s Connor Kent/Superboy as he tries to search for his true identity. The new episode is scheduled to air on October 11. Check out the full photos in the gallery below!
The sixth episode’s official synopsis reads: “Conner Kent escapes from Cadmus Labs and emerge in

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Jamie Lee Curtis shares BTS photo from her first day on Halloween Kills
Jamie Lee Curtis has shared a new behind-the-scenes photo from the set of the already in-production Halloween Kills as reprises her iconic Laurie Strode character. You can check out the full photo and post now below!NEVER SAY DIE!First day back in the battle for my life!#HalloweenMovie #HalloweenKills pic.twitter.com/EicJ86Nq4m
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Marvel’s Helstrom live-action series has found its ensemble cast
Hulu and Marvel Entertainemtn have announced the ensemble cast fort Marvel’s Helstrom Hulu’s upcoming demonic live-action series.
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Tom Austen (Grantchester, The Royals) and Sydney Lemmon (Fear the Walking Dead) will lead the cast, which includes Elizabeth Marvel (Homeland, Unbelievable), Ariana Guerra (Raising Dion), Robert Wisdom (Ballers

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Len Wiseman to helm John Wick spinoff Ballerina for Lionsgate
Deadline is reporting that Len Wiseman (Underworld, Total Recall, Live Free or Die Hard) will be directing Ballerina, the John Wick spinoff from Lionsgate to expand the action franchise’s universe in a female-led project.
RELATED: John Wick Writer Joins Marvel’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier Series
Ballerina focuses on a young female assassin who seeks revenge against the people who killed her family. Shay

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A tale of two Lois Lane’s in new Arrowverse crossover BTS photo
Elizabeth Tulloch (Supergirl, Grimm) has shared a new behind-the-scenes photo with fellow Lois Lane star Erica Durance (Smallville, Supergirl) as the two film The CW’s epic Arrowverse crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths. You can check out the post now below!The New Adventures of Lois and Lois cc @ED_DURANCE pic.twitter.com/LxGOyN5ya5
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Vikings trailer sets premiere date for sixth and final season
History Channel has released the official trailer for the sixth and final season of their hit drama series Vikings, offering us a preview of the Vikings’ incoming epic battle against Russia. The series returns with a two-hour sixth season premiere on Wednesday, December 4. Check out the video below!
The 20-episode final season will be divided into two parts with the remaining ten episodes expected to premiere sometime next year

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Robert Downey Jr. declined an Oscar campaign for Avengers: Endgame
Last week, Disney officially kicked off their Oscars campaign for Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame, revealing their “For Your Consideration” lineup on the studio’s awards website. Many MCU fans were disappointed to find out that Robert Downey Jr. wasn’t included on the list for the Best Actor Category for his incredible and memorable performance as Tony Stark.
When asked about

Doom Eternal pushed back to March 2020
The anticipation for Doom Eternal, the follow-up to the 2016 reboot, has been through the roof since its first teaser announcement at 2018’s E3 convention. Fans will have to temper their excitement for the time being as the development group have taken to Twitter to reveal that the game is being pushed back from its original November release to a new March 20, 2020 date.
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The End of the F***ing World season 2 premiere date released
Netflix has revealed that The End of the F***ing World Season 2 will launch on the streamer on November 5! New key art for the second season crime comedy was also released, which you can check out now in the gallery below!
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Writer Charlie Covell returned to pen the second season, which is executive produced by Murray Ferguson, Ed Macdonald, Andy

Devs teaser offers first look at Alex Garland’s FX Series
FX debuted the first teaser for the upcoming sci-fi drama limited series Devs from Oscar-nominated writer/director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation) posing the question of where love will take a person and the lengths one will go to attain it. Check out the Devs teaser in the player below!
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In Devs, a young computer engineer, Lily Chan (Mizu

Teenagers take over the world in Netflix’s Daybreak trailer
Netflix has released the official trailer for their post-apocalyptic dramedy series Daybreak, featuring teenagers taking over the world while all the adults turn into zombies. Starring Colin Ford (We Bought a Zoo) and Golden Globe nominee Matthew Broderick, the series will make its debut on October 24. Check out the video below!
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"The only thing that separates us from the street - is that door, and our deadbolt. All I want is to shut out the world…" A heartbreaking story brought to life using an unconventional animation style. Girl In The Hallway is a short film directed by Canadian animator Valerie Barnhart, who taught herself animation after graduating from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design as a Visual Arts Major. She uses charcoal, pastel, and graphite drawn on black paper to tell the story of why one

October Horror Movie Recommendation: The Descent
Every day for the month of October, Coming Soon is making a new horror movie recommendation for those eager to find a new frightening flick for Halloween. From the creepy goodness of a classy ghost story to a blood-spattered gorefest and everything in between, we’ll have something for every taste of horror. And today’s pick is…
The Descent
What’s The Descent about: Written and directed by Neil Marshall (Doomsday, Gam

"Now that she's a monster, do you still like her?" GKids has debuted an official US trailer for the animated film White Snake, already a big hit in China after it opened over there in January earlier this year. The historical fantasy film tells of a love story between a snake spirit and a snake hunter. Conceived as a prequel to one of the most ancient and enduring stories in Chinese history, Wong & Zhao's White Snake presents a "sumptuous tale of trickster demons, deadly mythical beasts, as

"People think ghosts are scary… I think it would be wonderful if they were real." Sure, that would be nice. Grasshopper Film has debuted an official trailer for an indie drama title Light From Light, which initially premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. It also went on to play at the Sarasota, Montclair, Oak Cliff, and San Diego Film Festivals throughout the year. This is the film that is being described as the "unscary" ghost story film, about a man who recently los

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Exclusive Stuber clip features never-before-seen content
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has provided ComingSoon.net with an exclusive Stuber clip with stars Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista. The clip features a “Digital Roadmap” that chronicles Bautista and Nanjiani’s journey around Los Angeles in the film, with corresponding clips and behind-the-scenes, exclusive, never-before-seen content tied to each of the map locations. Check it out in the

Castle Rock Season 2 Banner with Lizzy Caplan as Annie Wilkes
Hulu has released a new banner for the second season of their Stephen King series Castle Rock which shows off Lizzy Caplan’s Annie Wilkes wielding a rather large axe. Click the image above to see the full version!
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The upcoming season will explore a feud between warring clans that comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes (pl

Cherry Jones joins Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield in Tammy Faye biopic
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Fox Searchlight biopic The Eyes of Tammy Faye has cast Cherry Jones to star opposite its two leads, Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield. Jones recently won an Emmy for her role in The Handmaid’s Tale.
Based on Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s documentary of the same name, the film tells the extraordinary and outlandish rise, fall and redemption of telev

Sony Confirms PlayStation 5 Release Date for Holiday 2020!
Surprising few, Sony has officially announced that the PlayStation 5 (the official name for the next console in their line) will officially arrive in stores during the holiday season of 2020. As with most console releases, the PlayStation 5 release date will likely fall in November.
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On the official PlayStation blog, President & CEO of Sony Interactiv

Exclusive: See a clip from the rediscovered lost ending of Phase IV!
Paramount Home Entertainment has provided ComingSoon.net with a very special exclusive clip of the previously lost, now rediscovered and restored ending from director Saul Bass’ 1974 cult classic Phase IV. Check it out in the player below! The 45th anniversary edition of the film, which includes the restored ending, is now available as a Digital download from Apple TV.
In Phase IV, desert ants suddenly form a collective

Alien returning to the big screen for 40-year anniversary
In space, no one can hear you scream. This warning continues to ring true even after all these years, because, well, Ridley Scott’s Alien remains one of the most iconic sci-fi horror films of all time. Fathom Events is giving moviegoers another chance to witness the still astonishing creature feature on the big screen once more to celebrate its 40th Anniversary.
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October 8 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s October 8 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
Toy Story 4Woody has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie a

Undone Episode 6 Recap
In the previous episode of Amazon’s Undone, Alma confessed the truth to Sam, and Jacob explained that Alma’s brain was like those of shamans and schizophrenics. In Undone Episode 6, Father Miguel offered to help Camila persuade Alma to take the medication, and Alma and Sam conducted an investigation.
Faith
The day before Easter, we followed Camila as she helped members of her church community. Father Miguel told Camila that she would be lighting the Easter Vig

The 11 Best Movie Manarchists
As Joker makes its way into theaters around the world, Comingsoon.net is taking a look at some other memorable movie anarchists (or “manarchists”—men who embrace anarchy). Check out some mayhem in the gallery below!
One of the most romanticized archetypes in cinema in that of the anarchist: the antihero or deplorable villain who sees society as the antagonist of their story. Todd Phillips‘ new movie, Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix as the tit

Each year we get to see a new selection of films criticizing modern society, governments, and everything else wrong with the way things work. But only a few of these films deserve to be crowned and called the crème de la crème of cinema. The Platform is the latest film worthy of the label, a conceptually innovative film like Saw and Cube before it that has already instantly cemented itself in halls of cinema history playing to rave reviews back-to-back at the Toronto Film Festival

"Home is a watering hole in paradise." AppleTV+ has debuted an official trailer for an indie documentary titled The Elephant Queen, a full 96 minute doc film that is one of the first to be available exclusively on Apple's new TV+ streaming service. The film is also getting a small theatrical release later this month, if you're going to be around NY or LA. "The Elephant Queen" is Athena, a majestic elephant matriarch, who leads her family across an unforgiving, yet cinematic natural landscape of