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"He was the most important guitarist in rock history." MVD Entertainment has revealed the first official trailer for an authorized, official documentary on the legendary rock 'n roll musician Chuck Berry, titled simply Chuck Berry. Berry's 60th birthday concert and the drama surrounding it were captured in Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, but until now, Berry's life has never before been covered on screen. With Chuck Berry, award-winning music doc filmmaker Jon Brewer (B.B. King: On the Road), lends

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Universal Brand Showcase Gallery With Fast & Furious and More!
Universal Brand Development invited ComingSoon.net to an exclusive preview of their latest toys, collectibles and more for 2020, inspired by some of the studio’s hottest properties and franchises: Illumination’s Minions: The Rise of Gru; Universal Pictures’ Jurassic World, Back to the Future, and Fast & Furious; as well as DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour, Spirit Riding Free an

"I have been doing some digging. I'm… concerned… with what I found." HBO has unveiled a teaser trailer for the film Bad Education, which received rave reviews out of the Toronto Film Festival last fall. The film is a fictionalized version of the true story of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in history - about schools on Long Island. You can read more about it in this NY Magazine article. Hugh Jackman stars as Frank Tassone, the superintendent caught up in an

Sony nabs U.S. rights to Winston Duke’s fantasy drama Nine Days
Sony Pictures Classic has successfully landed the North American theatrical distribution rights to commercial director Edson Oda’s upcoming feature directorial debut Nine Days, a fantasy drama which follows five human souls, who will have a chance to be born in the real world. Starring Winston Duke and Zazie Beetz, the film had its world premiere last month at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where Oda won the Waldo Sal

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSuperman: Red Son clip: Lex & Lois are a couple
Warner Bros. has debuted a new clip from the upcoming animated adaptation of the acclaimed comic book mini-series Superman: Red Son, showing one of the biggest twists from the Elseworlds storyline that Lex Luthor has hair and is dating Lois Lane. The clip can be viewed in the player below!
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Based on DC’s famed Elseworlds tale from 2003, Superman: Re

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Nicolas Cage explores terrifying amusement park in Wally’s Wonderland photo
Nicolas Cage (Color Out of Space) has been enjoying something of a career resurgence in the indie horror genre over the past few years and the first look at his next project Wally’s Wonderland teases a terrifying amusement park. The full photo can be viewed below!
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"Don't need you, don't need anybody… but me!" Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the exciting full-length official trailer fro Charm City Kings, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month. The film is a feature adaptation of the acclaimed documentary 12 O'Clock Boys, which originally premiered in 2013, and opened in theaters in 2014. The film is about a 14-year-old boy named Mouse who joins a notorious dirt bike gang in Baltimore. Sundance describes this as an "electric fea

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic lands Yola for Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Variety has brought word that Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis Presley biopic has expanded its cast with the addition of British singer Yola to portray Sister Rosetta Tharpe, best known as the Godmother of rock ‘n roll. The 37-year-old singer also joins the recently cast Rufus Sewell (The Man in the High Castle).
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Sewell is set to portray the

BEGIN SLIDESHOW1917 Blu-ray release date revealed!
After bringing home three Oscars a couple of weeks ago, Universal Pictures has revealed the release dates for the Blu-ray and Digital copies of war drama 1917, which is set to hit online platforms on March 10 and physical shelves on March 24! (Via VitalThrills)
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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic&rsquo

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The Postcard Killings trailer starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Famke Janssen
RLJE Films has released the official trailer for The Postcard Killings, the upcoming feature adaptation based on James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s bestselling novel starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead, Supernatural, Watchmen) and Famke Janssen (How to Get Away with Murder, X-Men franchise, When They See Us). You can check out the trailer now in the player below, as well as the offic

Micro Mayhem: Jon Favreau & Seth Green to produce Quibi’s stop-motion animated series
According to Deadline, Quibi has officially given a series order to Eric Towner’s upcoming stop-motion animated series titled Micro Mayhem with The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau and Family Guy star Seth Green attached as executive producers. This project will be Green and Towner’s latest stop-motion series as they are both working together on Adult Swim’s Emmy-winning sketch comed

Severin Films unveils Al Adamson Blu-ray collection!
Severin Films has announced its next Blu-ray set will be its most comprehensive yet dedicated to the works of iconic genre filmmaker Al Adamson with the Al Adamson: The Masterpiece Collection, which is set to hit shelves in April!
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The 14-disc set will feature 31 remastered films along with trailers, audio commentaries, a 126-page book, the 2019 documentary&nb

Danai Gurira inks overall deal with ABC Studios
With the end approaching for her seven-season run on AMC’s long-running The Walking Dead, Danai Gurira has signed a two-year overall creative deal with ABC Studios to create, develop, write and produce new projects for the Disney-owned branch, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: Lupita Nyong’o & Danai Gurira’s Americanah Gets Series Order at HBO Max
Gurira, who was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play

Bad Education Teaser: Hugh Jackman stars in new HBO film
HBO has released the first teaser for director Cory Finley’s upcoming comedy-drama film Bad Education, starring Golden Globe winner Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables) and Academy Award winner Allison Janney (I, Tonya). The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival where HBO Films has won the distribution rights for $17.5 million. Check out the video in the player below!
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Song Kang-ho to lead airborne action ensemble Emergency Declaration
After his last starring project Parasite brought home four Oscars a couple of weeks ago, Song Kang-ho has found his next film in the form of the airborne actioner Emergency Declaration, in which he will lead an ensemble cast that also features Jeon Do-yeon (The Housemaid) and Lee Byung-hun (Terminator: Genisys), according to Variety.
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Mike Flanagan announces Haunting of Bly Manor has wrapped production
The Haunting horror anthology creator Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep, Midnight Mass) announced on Twitter that production on the highly-anticipated second installment of the series, The Haunting of Bly Manor, has officially wrapped production. You can check out his message below!That’s a wrap on THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR. Congratulations to the cast and crew, the familiar faces and the new,

BEGIN SLIDESHOWBond is racing to safety in No Time to Die IMAX poster
There may still be a month and a half left until the final installment in Daniel Craig’s James Bond tenure, but MGM is keeping the hype train rolling with the debut of two new posters, one focusing on the MI6 agent and his love Madeleine Swan and the other being the IMAX poster teasing the exciting sequences shot in the expansive format. Both posters can be viewed in the gallery below!
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The Batman set photos reveal better look at Robert Pattinson’s Batsuit
As production continues for The Batman, new behind-the-scenes photos from the set of director Matt Reeves’ highly-anticipated DC film have arrived online through Twitter (via Comic Book), featuring Robert Pattinson’s stunt double as he rides on the new version of the Batcycle, which first made its live-action film appearance in 1997’s Batman & Robin. The photos also give us a much better look

Paramount Network renews Yellowstone for fourth season
Ahead of its third season premiere later this summer, Paramount Network is saddling up with Taylor Sheridan once again as Yellowstone has been renewed for a fourth chapter, part of a big production and development deal the creator has just inked with ViacomCBS, according to Deadline.
RELATED: Paramount Network Renews Yellowstone For Season 3, Adds Josh Holloway
The first season of the drama averaged 5.1 million total viewers

Billie Eilish’s official James Bond theme ‘No Time To Die’ has gone straight in at Number One on this week’s Official Singles Chart and has landed the Bond franchise’s biggest ever opening week for one of its themes.
The news also means that the singer has scored her first UK Number One single.
Read more: Billie Eilish takes the stealth approach on Bond theme ‘No Time To Die’
The song, which was co-written and produced by Eilish and her brother Finneas,

BEGIN SLIDESHOWWestworld Season 3: A hidden trailer discovered within the Incite website
After HBO  revealed the new trailer for the upcoming third season of Westworld yesterday, it looks like the network will continue to take up the show’s level of mystery as fans had learned that a different version of the trailer had also been secretly released. Thanks to a dedicated fan in Reddit, a hidden trailer for the newest season of HBO‘s critically-acclaimed sci-fi series has been su

Gaslit: Roberts, Penn, Hammer, Edgerton to star in Watergate series
Oscar winners Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich, August: Osage County) and Sean Penn (Milk, Mystic River), along with Golden Globe nominees Armie Hammer (Call Me by Your Name), and Joel Edgerton (Loving), have been cast in the series Gaslit, described as a modern take on the Watergate scandal from UCP, according to Variety. Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail will executive produce the project, which is based on the Slate podcast “

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSony’s Connected: First look at Phil Lord & Chris Miller’s newest animated film
Sony Pictures Animation has revealed the first official photos for Academy Award-winning producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s upcoming sci-fi comedy animated film Connected, offering us our first look at The Mitchell family which will be voiced by Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, and Maya Rudolph. The film will be the feature directorial debut of Mike Rianda, who will also lend hi

BEGIN SLIDESHOWChris Pratt Likens Jurassic World 3 to Avengers: Endgame
Chris Pratt dropped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss his upcoming Pixar film Onward, but also dropped a few snippets about the anticipated Jurassic World 3. In fact, the actor likened the enormous project to another certain blockbuster you might have heard of — Avengers: Endgame. You can check out the interview in the player below.
“I’m not allowed to say anything… It’s got everybody,&rd

A YouTube gamer has built a virtual replica of the Parasite house in The Sims 4.
Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed film recently picked up four Oscars at the Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bong.
Read more: Join the Bong Hive — a guide to Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s films
YouTuber, gamer and architect Simkoongarchitect has created a scale recreation of the Park mansion depicted in Parasite inside the virtual world of The Sims 4.
The YouTuber has posted

Jack Cutmore-Scott Reports for Jury Duty TV Series
According to Deadline, Jack Cutmore-Scott (Deception) is reporting for Jury Duty, a hybrid half-hour comedy pilot from 9JKL co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producers Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios.
RELATED: Apple TV’s ReRUN Trailer Starring Christopher Lloyd
The series, written by Klein and Darrow and based on the British format We the Jury, follows a group of jurors who are lumped together until t

Willkommen in Berlin! The 70th Berlin Film Festival, also known as Berlinale, has kicked off this week in Berlin, Germany in the center of the city at Potsdamer Platz. This year's festival takes place a few weeks later than usual (instead of back-to-back with Sundance), so they can put some distance between the festival and the Academy Awards yet still sneak in before February ends. This is my seventh year in a row covering this festival, and now that I live in Berlin, it's my "hometown" festiv

NBC Orders Eighth Season of The Blacklist
According to Deadline, NBC has just ordered an eighth season of The Blacklist marking the second time in as many years the drama has received an early renewal. The announcement was made by NBC executives during a celebration of the series’ 150th episode with cast and crew in New York. The trade notes that, at this time, there are no plans for the show to end after Season 8.
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Game of Thrones’ Kristofer Hivju joins The Witcher Season 2
As production officially begins for the upcoming second season of The Witcher, Netflix has announced that Games of Thrones alum Kristofer Hivju has been tapped for the role of Nivellen in the next installment of the Henry Cavill-led fantasy series adaptation. In the books, Nivellen was a cursed man, who was turned into a human beast by a young priestess. This will mark the latest TV project for Hivju since po

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Check Out Our Mandalorian Toy Reveal Gallery!
While fans await the second season of Disney+’s hit Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, ComingSoon.net was invited to a special Star Wars brand preview event showcasing new products from the show as well as the final season of The Clone Wars which drops on the streamer today. Check out all the toys in the gallery below!
RELATED: The Mandalorian Season 2 Release Date Revealed!
After the stories of Jang

Peninsula: Well Go USA acquires U.S. rights to Train to Busan sequel
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Well Go USA has successfully acquired the North American theatrical distribution rights to director Yeon Sang-Ho’s highly-anticipated South Korean zombie thriller sequel Peninsula, a follow-up to 2016’s hit Train to Busan. Set to debut in South Korea this coming summer, the film’s distribution rights was also sold by Contents Panda to other 14 countries including the U.K.

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSamara Weaving chases Daniel Radcliffe with a bazooka in Guns Akimbo clip
Saban Films has released the first official clip from their upcoming action-comedy film Guns Akimbo, featuring Daniel Radcliffe’s Miles as he barely escapes from Nix’s bazooka with the help of his ex-girlfriend Nova.  Also starring Samara Weaving, the film will have its theatrical release in selected theaters on March 5. Check out the video in the player below!
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"You've got exactly four days to prevent a murder." RLJE Films has unveiled an official trailer for a serial killer thriller titled The Postcard Killings, adapted from the bestselling book of the same name. A New York City detective investigates the death of his daughter, who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate. His investigation leads him to discover a serial killer imitating

Joaquin Phoenix helped rescue a mother cow and her calf from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse two days after delivering a powerful speech at the Oscars which warned against “plundering” the planet’s natural resources.
Phoenix called for “the best of humanity” during his acceptance speech for Best Actor, which he won for his performance in the titular role in Joker, and also spoke about the plight of cows and their offspring.
Partnering with the animal rights group Farm

Al Pacino has praised Eminem‘s live performance at the Oscars 2020.
The rapper performed ‘Lose Yourself’ during this year’s prize-giving event — although some viewers were left confused by the timing of the performance, given that there was no tangible link between this year’s Oscars and the rapper, nor the movie that the song featured in, 8 Mile.
Eminem later explained that he took up the invitation to perform ‘Lose Yourself’ at this year’s

Kevin Hart has announced that he and Jason Statham are set to team up for a new movie, claiming that the film is “going to deliver on so many levels”.
The two actors have never before appeared together on the big screen.
Late last month, it was widely reported that Hart and Statham were in negotiations to co-star in the Sony action-comedy The Man From Toronto. Patrick Hughes, who directed The Hitman’s Bodyguard, is in the director’s chair, with production set to begin in

The distributors of Parasite have responded to Donald Trump after the US President hit out at the Oscars for awarding the film Best Picture.
The acclaimed movie, directed by Bong Joon-ho, made history earlier this month by becoming the first film not in English to win Best Picture. The darkly funny social satire also won awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film.
Read more: Join the Bong Hive — a guide to Parasite director Bong Jo

Donald Trump has hit out at the Oscars for awarding the best picture honour to Parasite, because the history-making film is South Korean.
The US President asked a rally in Colorado: “How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” The response was a sea of boos from the crowd.
“The winner is a movie from South Korea, what the hell was that all about?” Trump asked. “We got enough problems with South Korea with trade and on top of it, they give them the best movie of the

"We're not stealing any treatment, we're gunna steal the cure." RLJE Films has unveiled an official trailer for an indie, low budget sci-fi action film titled Kill Mode, the latest from Dutch director Thijs Meuwese (also of Molly previously). Set in a gritty near future in 2031, an ex-freedom fighter reluctantly returns to the fold after discovering a disturbing secret that could bring down the evil pharmaceutical corporation, called The Company, that owns the world. There's a big reveal where