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FX developing Carrie limited series of Stephen King’s debut novel
According to Variety, FX is in the very early stage of developing a limited series of Stephen King’s classic Carrie.
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The novel, King’s legendary debut, centers on Carrie White, a high school teenager picked on by her classmates but with an extraordinary gift: she can move things with her mind. An act of kindness, as spon

The Wave trailer: Justin Long is in for the ride of his life
Epic Pictures Group has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming surreal sci-fi comedy The Wave starring Justin Long (Live Free or Die Hard) as a lawyer on the drug time of a lifetime. The hilarious and mind-bending trailer can be viewed in the player below!
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Frank (Long), an opportunistic insurance lawyer, thinks he’s in for the time of his life w

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New Fast & Furious: Spy Racers clips feature Tyler Posey as Tony Toretto
Ahead of the animated series’ debut this Thursday, Netflix and DreamWorks TV have released four new clips from Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, giving us a preview of what to expect in the action-packed series. Based on Universal Pictures’ blockbuster film franchise, the series features a voice cast led by Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey as Tony Toretto. Check out the v

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Mandatory Streamers: Joe heads to L.A. in You Season 2
Welcome to Mandatory Streamers, our column covering the best new streaming content coming your way every week! For the week of December 23, Netflix is bringing plenty of content for the holiday week starting with the second season of the psychological thriller You as we follow Joe (Penn Badgley) to Los Angeles where he meets aspiring chef Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti), who is uninterested in social media

"If you really want to honor Lydia's life, maybe the best course of action is for you to… finally live your own." Freestyle Digital Media has unveiled an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Elsewhere, the latest from filmmaker Hernan Jimenez. This just premiered at the Napa Valley Film Festival, and arrives in theaters & on VOD in January coming up soon. The film is about a recently widowed husband named Bruno who won't leave the seaside cottage they built together. When he's

CS Interview: Director Jon Avnet on the importance of telling Three Christs’ story
The time is finally almost here for the biographical dramedy Three Christs to make its way to the big and small screens and ComingSoon.net got the chance to talk with co-writer/director Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) about bringing the controversial case study to life and the importance of properly depicting paranoid schizophrenia in film and TV.
Based on the case study Three Christs of Yps

Suicide Squad Director David Ayer Says James Gunn is “Reinventing the Universe”
David Ayer may not be returning to the director’s chair for The Suicide Squad, but he has only good things to say about his successor, James Gunn. Back in 2016, Ayer helmed the first Suicide Squad movie, which introduced Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, among others. Ayer recently took to Twitter to clarify the relationship between the two movies. He also went out of his way to praise Gunn and s

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CS Video: Julianne Nicholson & Willem Dafoe on Disney’s Togo
ComingSoon.net had the opportunity to sit down with stars Julianne Nicholson and Willem Dafoe to chat about Disney’s new film Togo. You can check out the interviews now in the player below and stream the original feature on Disney+!
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Togo is the untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that treks across the treacherous ter

"People keep telling me they know me. No one does." Tune in to our latest podcast episode for a discussion about the long-awaited, highly anticipated sci-fi finale Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, directed by J.J. Abrams. The conclusion to Rey and Kylo Ren's stories. For this episode of The First Word podcast, Mike & Alex dive into a chat about what we love, like, and dislike about the movie, as well as the discourse surrounding it. Not just a review, and not any typical discussion. We als

BEGIN SLIDESHOWJosh Boone reveals New Mutants trailer coming in January
While showing off a limited edition of Stephen King’s 2014 novel Revival on his Instagram, Josh Boone revealed in the comments that a new trailer for the long-delayed horror comic adaptation The New Mutants is coming to audiences next month, which could mean the film is still on track for its April theatrical release!
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Amazon’s The Wheel of Time series adds recurring stars
Deadline has brought word that the cast for Amazon’s series adaptation of the fantasy novel franchise The Wheel of Time is expanding with the additions of Priyanka Bose (Lion), Taylor Napier (All About April) and Emmanuel Imani (Black Earth Rising) in recurring roles.
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The trio will be joining previously announced cast members Daniel Henney

"There once was a young and foolish dragon, who came to ask a wise and cunning lion about acquiring his territory." STX Films has debuted a second official trailer for The Gentlemen, the new crime comedy from British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, a return to his London roots following up Disney's Aladdin last year. This is opening in theaters in just a few more weeks, hence the new trailer drop following the first one from a few months ago. Ritchie's The Gentlemen stars Matthew McConaughey as a "very

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6 Ways The Rise of Skywalker Undoes The Last Jedi
Director J.J. Abrams may be singing The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson’s praises in the press, but Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, does a lot of dirt to the many narrative threads, ideas and characters that were set up in the last movie. Check out the gallery below to see all the middle fingers to The Last Jedi that are in Rise of Skywalker!
RELATED: 6 Ways The Rise of Skywalker Honors The Last Jedi
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6 Ways The Rise of Skywalker Honors The Last Jedi
There have been a lot of complaints about all the “course corrections” director J.J. Abrams made in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker to please all The Last Jedi haters out there, but there are just as many ways he honored the choices director Rian Johnson made in the last movie. Check out the gallery below to see all the ways the threads of The Last Jedi are continued and built upon in Rise of

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Exclusive Gemini Man deleted scene starring Will Smith
ComingSoon.net has an exclusive Gemini Man deleted scene featuring stars Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and Benedict Wong. Out now on Digital and releasing on Blu-ray and DVD on January 14, 2020, you can check out Paramount Pictures‘ Gemini Man deleted scene in the player below!
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Gemini Man follows the story of an older, elite assassin

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Matthew McConaughey warns Henry Golding in new The Gentlemen trailer
STXfilms has released a brand new trailer for writer-director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming crime movie The Gentlemen, featuring Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey’s Mickey Pearson as he tells the tale of a young foolish dragon and a wise cunning lion while threatening Henry Golding’s character. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on January 24, 2020. Check out the video in the player below

The 12 Best Movies About Gearheads Ranked
Comingsoon.net is looking at movies that highlight what it means to be a gearhead—the need for speed. Check out our picks in the gallery below!
On numerous occasions in the Will Ferrell movie Talladega Nights: The Ballard of Ricky Bobby, the titular character expresses a desire to go fast. While that comedy does not make our list of dramas, the sentiment still stands. It epitomizes the type of meticulous mechanic who studies their craft in or

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Witcher Season 1 Episode 1 Recap
The time has finally come for the premiere of the Henry Cavill (Mission: Impossible – Fallout)-starring adaptation of the acclaimed fantasy novel series The Witcher, and what an exhilarating game of morality-balancing and deceptions did Geralt of Rivia have to play.
RELATED: Mandatory Streamers: Cavill Makes His Geralt Debut in The Witcher
Hunt for the Kikimora
The pilot opens with Geralt in a swamp area fighting against a spid

Vin Diesel’s Bloodshot pushed back for a March 2020 release
Sony Pictures has changed the release date for their forthcoming action film adaptation of Bloodshot, based on Valiant Comics’ graphic novel of the same name. Originally set to debut on February 21, 2020, the Vin Diesel-led film will now hit the theaters on March 13, 2020, almost a month later than the previous release date. It will have minimal competition on the new date with Lionsgate’s Christian music ro

Cats star James Corden has revealed that he hasn’t seen the new film yet, but says he has “heard it’s terrible”.
The new live-action version of the popular musical came out last week, and has made headlines for its controversial use of CGI.Read more: ‘Cats’ review: weird and occasionally wonderful, this feline flick is no cat-astropheCorden, who plays Bustopher Jones in Tom Hooper’s adaptation of the classic Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, spoke out while w

JJ Abrams has responded to criticism of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker in the wake of the film’s release.
The last film in the franchise’s current trilogy came out last week (December 19), and became the lowest-ranked Star Wars film since The Phantom Menace on Rotten Tomatoes.Read more: ‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ review: a sufficiently satisfying finale that gives fans exactly what they wantAbrams has now been discussing the mixed reaction to the film and claims

Robert Pattinson, star of The Lighthouse and the upcoming Batman film, has said that he “doesn’t really know how to act”.Read more: ‘The Lighthouse’ review: ‘The Shining’ meets ‘Moby Dick’ in the most gripping horror of the yearSpeaking to The Guardian, Pattinson says he “only know[s] how to play scenes, like, three ways, before revealing that he’s “nervous on, like, every single movie.”
The actor goes on to speak abou

Baby Yoda, star of new Star Wars spin-off TV show The Mandalorian, has become a meme sensation, and is now also the inspiration for a cocktail.Read more: Very funny, they are: the best Baby Yoda memesAs Fox reports, a number of bars across the United States have started making Baby Yoda-inspired cocktails.
Sammy Black, a barman at the Lux Central bar in Phoenix, Arizona, created the Lux Baby Yoda, which you can see below. They went crazy for it,” Black told Fox. “I think I served abo

Bill Cosby’s publicist has labelled Eddie Murphy a “Hollywood slave” after he took aim at the disgraced comedian on his return to Saturday Night Live.
On Saturday evening, Murphy quipped: “If you would have told me 30 years ago that I would be this boring, stay-at-home… dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I wouldn’t have took that bet.”
He then did an impression of Cosby, quipping: “Who is America’s Dad now?”
Despite receiving a

Terry Gilliam has hit out at Black Panther, saying the Marvel movie “makes [his] blood boil” and claiming the crew behind it “have never been to Africa”.Read more: Black Panther – Film ReviewThe Monty Python writer was asked in a recent interview if he thought the film, which won three Oscars, only received the attention it did because of how it broached “identity politics”.“It makes my blood boil,” Gilliam told IndieWire. “I hated Blac