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"Listen patiently… We, who are the last men, earnestly desire to communicate with you." Films Boutique has released the first promo teaser for the experimental feature Last and First Men, which is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival this month. This is the only feature film directed by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who made this before he died in 2018. Featuring narration by Tilda Swinton. This feature is a repackaged version of the video Jóhannsson

"I'm tired of hurting people… I don't know how to stop." Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled the trailer for an indie drama titled Endings, Beginnings, the latest feature made by filmmaker Drake Doremus (of Like Crazy, Breathe In, Equals, Newness). It follows a 30-something woman navigating through love and heartbreak over the course of one year. During that time, she will unlock the secrets to her life in a sudden turn of events and in the most surprising of places. This kind of intimate

Mahershala Ali to produce, star in Swan Song drama for Apple TV+
Variety is reporting that Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Moonlight, Green Book) will produce and star in Swan Song, a genre-bending drama film for Apple TV+ that will be produced by Apple and Anonymous Content.
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Swan Song is set in the near future and explores how far someone will go, and how much they’ll sacrifice, to make a happier life for the people they lo

Gravitas Ventures acquires Simon Pegg’s Lost Transmissions
Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Lost Transmissions, Katharine O’Brien’s directorial debut starring Simon Pegg (Star Trek, Mission Impossible), Juno Temple (Atonement, Maleficent), and Alexandra Daddario (Baywatch, True Detective).
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Based on a true story, Lost Transmissions follows Theo Ross (Pegg), a respected, Los Angeles music producer. His frie

"We're going to the races!" Bleecker Street Films has unveiled the first official trailer for the Dream Horse movie, based on the true story of an underdog race horse raced by a small town that challenged the racing elite. Toni Collette stars as Jan Vokes, a local cashier and bartender, who decides to breed a race horse in her Welsh village. As the horse rises up through the ranks, Jan and the townspeople are pitted against the racing elite in a race for the national championship. This is the s

Amazon Prime Video March 2020 movie and TV titles announced
The list for the new Amazon Prime Video March 2020 movies and TV titles have been released, which you can now view below! This includes the series debut of new Amazon originals shows like Stefano Sollima’s crime drama series ZeroZeroZero which will be led by Andrea Riseborough, Dane DeHaan, and Gabriel Byrne, and the mystery-thriller miniseries adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse starring Rufu

Hans Zimmer will release his score to the upcoming James Bond film, No Time To Die next month.Read More: Billie Eilish takes the stealth approach on Bond theme ‘No Time to Die’ Promising “high drama, glamour and…the famous Bond suspense motif,” Zimmer’s first ever Bond score will be released on March 27.
Speaking about his involvement in the project last month, Zimmer said: “Having the opportunity to work on a franchise as iconi

Sony Pictures Television developing Doc Savage series
Though the original plan for a Doc Savage adaptation originally was set to see Dwayne Johnson (Hobbs & Shaw) star in the titular role and Shane Black (The Nice Guys) helm the project, plans stalled for four years and now Sony Pictures Television has begun development on a small-screen iteration of the pulp magazine hero, according to Deadline.
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Endings, Beginnings trailer starring Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan & Jamie Dornan
Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the official trailer for director Drake Doremus’ upcoming romantic drama film titled Endings, Beginnings, featuring Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley as her character Daphne gets involved in a messy love triangle between two friends Frank and Jack, portrayed by MCU star Sebastian Stan and Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey). The film is scheduled to be re

The Portable Door: Christoph Waltz & Guy Pearce to star in fantasy comedy film
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Muppets creator The Jim Henson Company is in the process of developing a film adaptation of The Portable Door, based on author Tom Holt’s fantasy adventure comedy J.W. Wells & Co. novel series. Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz and Emmy winner Guy Pearce have signed on to star opposite Patrick Gibson (The OA, Tolkien) with Waltz, Pearce, and Gibson portraying th

Jennifer Lawrence joins Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up at Netflix
While the director signed a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures for the project in November, Netflix has acquired Adam McKay’s satirical comedy Don’t Look Up, with Jennifer Lawrence (Dark Phoenix) signing on in a lead role, according to Variety.
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The film, written and directed by McKay, will center on two low-level astronomer

BEGIN SLIDESHOWBrahms: The Boy 2 clip: play date goes terribly wrong
STXfilms has released a new clip from director William Brent Bell’s upcoming supernatural horror sequel Brahms: The Boy II, featuring the titular doll as he manipulates Christopher Convery’s Jude into letting his bully get terribly hurt. Also starring Katie Holmes (Batman Begins), the film will have its theatrical release this Friday. Check out the video in the player below! (via Bloody Disgusting)
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Dafoe, Haddish & Sheridan join Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter film
According to Deadline, four-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate, Platoon), Tiffany Haddish (Girls’ Trip, The Kitchen) and Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) have officially been cast to star opposite Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac in director Paul Schrader’s upcoming revenge thriller film The Card Counter. In addition, award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese has also signed on

BEGIN SLIDESHOWAbbi Jacobson joins Lord & Miller’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines
After nearly two years without news on the Sony Pictures Animation project, Chris Miller & Phil Lord’s The Mitchells vs. The Machines has begun making headway as Broad City star/co-creator Abbi Jacobson has signed on for the lead role, according to Deadline.
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The Mitchells are a dysfunctional but loving fam

Dream Horse trailer starring Toni Collette & Damian Lewis
Bleecker Street has released the official trailer for Welsh director Euros Lyn’s upcoming drama film adaptation of Dream Horse, based on Janet Vokes’ biographical novel of the same name which centers on the heart-warming and inspiring story of Dream Alliance. Starring Oscar nominee Toni Collette and Golden Globe winner Damian Lewis, the film had its world premiere last month at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and it will

Directing duo Josh and Benny Safdie have lined up their next project, following the recent diamond district caper Uncut Gems.
The brothers will be writing and directing a half-hour comedy pilot for Showtime, starring Nathan for You creator Nathan Fielder.Read more: ‘Uncut Gems’ review: Adam Sandler sparkles in anxiety-inducing thriller that may give you a heart-attackThe potential show, entitled The Curse, will be co-written by Benny Safdie and Fielder, and both w

Anchorman’s Will Ferrell & Paul Rudd reuniting for The Shrink Next Door
Long before one traveled to the world of Legos and one became a Marvel Hero, Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd were busting audiences guts in the 2004 hit comedy Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and its 2013 sequel. Now, the two are reuniting for the dark comedy series The Shrink Next Door, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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New to Hulu March 2020: All the movies & shows coming and going
The list for the new Hulu March 2020 movies and TV titles has been released, which you can now view below along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service next month. This includes the arrival of the newest episode in the Into the Dark series which is scheduled to return on March 6 with episode 2.06 titled “Crawlers.”
Next month will also see the series debut of Hulu’s new origi

BEGIN SLIDESHOWAre You Afraid of The Dark? season 2 a go at Nickelodeon
Despite the original plan for last year’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? revival being a limited series run, Nickelodeon has chosen to greenlight a second season of the children’s horror series, according to The Wrap.
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Over three one-hour episodes, the series introduces an entirely new Midnight Society group of kids who tell a ter

New to Netflix March 2020: All movies & shows coming and going
The list for the new Netflix March 2020 movies and TV titles has been released, which you can now view below along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service next month. This includes the arrival of the newest seasons of Jason Bateman’s critically-acclaimed crime drama Ozark, the fan-favorite comedy-drama On My Block, the Spanish-language teen series Elite, the South Korean horror-thril

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Mulan is first Disney remake to receive PG-13 rating
Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan has received a lot of positive, and negative, buzz for its trailers depicting a tonally different take from its 1998 animated source, and it appears that this has also carried over to its rating as it has become the first live-action remake to have received a PG-13 rating from the MPAA.
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In addition to mar

Ben Affleck opens up about The Batman exit
The past few years have been a rollercoaster for the DC Extended Universe’s reboot of The Batman, with 2019 seeing a major hit come in the form of star Ben Affleck stepping down from the role, with the actor’s trip to rehab seemingly being the cause of this. In an interview with the New York Times, the 47-year-old actor opened up about his decision to exit the long-delayed project.
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWCarl Lumbly Joins The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Disney+ Series
According to Deadline, Doctor Sleep actor Carl Lumbly has joined the highly anticipated Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The actor’s character was not revealed, though the trade speculates he could be playing Isaiah Bradley, aka the black Captain America, a character introduced in the comics in 2003 that became “a tragic but noble culture symbol for African-American heroes within the M

More Details Revealed About Taika Waititi’s The Auteur
Last week we learned about Showtime’s new series The Auteur, from Academy Award-winning Taika Waititi, but details were relatively scarce regarding the project outside of Jude Law’s involvement. There were rumblings that it was a Hollywood satire, possibly based on the Rick Spears graphic novel of the same name, and, wouldn’t you know it, those assumptions were correct.
Deadline confirmed as much and revealed th

Exclusive: Daniel Radcliffe debunks Moon Knight rumors
A few months back, rumors began swirling that Harry Potter alum Daniel Radcliffe was being eyed to star in Disney+’s upcoming series adaptation of Marvel’s Moon Knight in the titular role, with fan art hitting the internet of what the star would look like as the iconic character. However, whilst talking to the 30-year-old star for his upcoming biopic thriller Escape From Pretoria, Radcliffe officially de

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Walking Dead episode 10.09 opening minutes released
AMC has released the opening minutes from The Walking Dead‘s upcoming mid-tenth season premiere episode 10.09 titled “Squeeze,” featuring Carol and Daryl along with the other survivors as they get trapped by The Whisperers in a cave full of walkers. The series is set to return this Sunday on February 23. Check out the video in the player below!
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWJurassic World 3 adds Altered Carbon’s Dichen Lachman to cast
Deadline brings word that Australian actress Dichen Lachman (Animal Kingdom) has been tapped for an undisclosed role in Universal Pictures’ highly-anticipated third installment to the Jurassic World franchise. She will be joining previously announced new cast members Mamoudou Athie (Sorry for You Loss) and DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It).
Lachman has appeared as a recurring character in numerous TV

BEGIN SLIDESHOWOnward clip: Ian and Barley meets Octavia Spencer’s the Manticore
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar has released a new clip from director Dan Scanlon’s newest animated fantasy film Onward, featuring Tom Holland’s Ian and Chris Pratt’s Barley as they meet Octavia Spencer’s the Manticore for the first time. Check out the video in the player below along with the behind-the-scenes featurette that highlights main cast’s characters! (via IGN)
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWHarrison Ford Talks About His Rise of Skywalker Cameo
In a recent interview with USA Today to promote his upcoming adventure Call of the Wild, which hits theaters this week, Harrison Ford opened up about that surprise cameo appearance in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
“When JJ asked me to do it, I said, ‘Are you kidding? I’m dead!'” Ford explained. “He said, ‘Sorta dead. You can do this.’ He hadn’t written anything

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Blu-ray details arrive!
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Lucasfilm and director J.J. Abrams’ riveting, inspiring conclusion of the seminal Skywalker saga, electrified audiences around the globe, earning more than a billion dollars worldwide. Soon fans can complete their collections when Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker arrives digitally in HD and 4K Ultra HD and via Movies Anywhere on March 17, two weeks before it lands physically in 4K Ul

"You do this and you're dead!" "I'm already dead." Briarcliff Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for a historical epic film titled Emperor, yet another outlaw slave who fights back after escaping the chains. Dayo Okeniyi (from "Shades of Blue", Terminator Genisys, Run Sweetheart Run) stars in the true story of Shields "Emperor" Green, a descendant of African kings, who escapes to the north and fights back in hopes of freeing his family. The cast includes Naturi Naughton, Kat Graham,

Martin Scorsese has shared more details about his upcoming film Killers of the Flower Moon, which could be his first Western.
The director will adapt David Grann’s non-fiction book of the same name, which has been in the works since 2017.
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In an interview with French publication Premiere, Scorsese opened up about potential plot details. ”We think it’s a Western,&rdq

Keanu Reeves has been filmed jumping off a roof while shooting Matrix 4 in San Francisco.
Eagle-eyed fans have been keeping watch and one caught the footage of two high flyers preparing another hair-raising scene.
Read more: The Matrix at 20: the enduring impact of the sci-fi sensation
Whether the actors involved in the stunt are indeed Reeves and another lead actor – the film co-stars Carrie-Ann Moss, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Neil Patrick Harris – or a p

Rosario Dawson has opened up about her sexuality after years of showing allyship with the LGBTQ+ community.
In an interview with Bustle, Dawson spoke of her relationship with former presidential candidate Cory Booker, while clarifying the situation on an Instagram post from 2018, which fans took to be making a statement.
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“People kept saying that I [came out]… I didn’t do that,” Dawson says. &ldquo

Machine Gun Kelly and Pete Davidson both star in the new trailer for the coming-of-age film Big Time Adolescence — check it out below.
Written and directed by Jason Orley, the comedy depicts “a suburban teenager [who] comes of age under the destructive guidance of his best friend, an aimless college dropout” named Zeke, who is played by Davidson.
Ahead of the movie’s release in select cinemas in North America on March 13 and its wide streaming release on Hulu on March 20,

Ben Affleck has explained why he left the DC Extended Universe and chose to hand over his role as the Batman to Robert Pattinson.
The actor had played the Caped Crusader in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, and also had a cameo in Suicide Squad.
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In an interview with the New York Times, Affleck spoke of his decision to exit the project  following his

Justin Bieber has reiterated his desire to fight Tom Cruise, declaring himself to be “the Conor McGregor of entertainment”.
Back in June 2019, the ‘Changes’ singer challenged the Top Gun actor to a “fight in the octagon” before reaching out to UFC President Dana White in a bid to get the unlikely bout off the ground.
Appearing on James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke this week, Bieber was asked by the host about why he challenged Cruise to a fight. While Bieber