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Parasite scores new streaming record on Hulu after one week
It has already been a week since Bong Joon-Ho’s Oscar-winning film Parasite had made its exclusive streaming debut on Hulu, and now IndieWire is bringing word that the critically-acclaimed South Korean film is continuing to break records after records as it has become the most streamed independent and foreign-language film among all movies available on the streaming service. On top of that, Parasite has also taken the honor of be

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Exclusive Mondo Catwoman Figure Reveal From Batman: The Animated Series!
Tomorrow Mondo falls back into Gotham City with a celebration of all things Batman: The Animated Series, and ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive Catwoman scale figure in addition to new posters by Phantom City Creative for the episodes “Dreams in Darkness” and “Harley’s Holiday.” You can check out the scale figure and the posters now in the gallery below!
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The first footage from the upcoming David Bowie biopic Stadust has been released – you can watch it below.Read More: David Bowie’s earliest years – as told by the people who knew him bestAnnounced early last year, the film will follow Bowie (played by Johnny Flynn) on his first trip to the US in 1971; the visit that is said to have inspired the creation of his Ziggy Stardust alter-ego.
Today (April 15), the first glimpse of the movie was shared by Variety. In the video, we see

Mandatory Streamers: What We Do in the Shadows Returns!
Welcome to Mandatory Streamers, our column covering the best new streaming content coming your way every week! For the week of April 13, FX’s brilliant comedy series What We Do in the Shadows returns for a second season! Check out the best shows debuting and returning online this week as well as the latest renewal announcements below and be sure to visit our mother site Mandatory by clicking here!
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"Not necessarily to be listened to, but to be experienced…" Dogwoof has unveiled an official trailer for the mesmerizing, entrancing documentary film called Max Richter's Sleep, which is a 100-min feature based on the 8-hour long music experiment that composer Max Richter put together a few years ago (in 2015). Sleep is Richter's glorious attempt to make a one-of-a-kind soundtrack for sleeping. "This film follows Max Richter as he consolidates the most ambitious performance of his critic

Secret Cinema are launching a new edition of their lauded immersive film experience this weekend – and you can watch along from home.
The London-based event, which hosts immersive viewing parties for some of the world’s most iconic films, has launched new ongoing event Secret Sofa, which kicks off this Friday (April 17).Read more: ‘Secret Cinema Presents Stranger Things’ review: track down the Demogorgon in an immersive Starcourt Mall experienceThe new series is set to &l

So what do mushrooms sound like? Does anyone know…? Are they squishy or buzzy or just silent? This fun experimental animated short film titled Sounds Good follows a curious boom mic operator "on a journey", trying to record the sound of mushrooms. Made by young Estonian animation filmmaker Sander Joon, the short film goes to some seriously strange and trippy places. Of course, there's some excellent sound work in this, too. Joon was inspired to "experiment with audio in his work" after r

Exclusive Amanda Jones Track ‘House Being Built’ for Apple’s Home Series Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records is set to release Home—Apple TV + Original Series Soundtrack featuring music by the team of hip hop producer and A Tribe Called Quest co-founder Adrian Younge & Al Shaheed Muhammad (Luke Cage, Jazz Is Dead 001), Emmy-nominated composer collective Bleeding Fingers Music (Planet Earth II) which includes composers Adam Schiff, Laurentia Editha, and Francis James Ralls;

Akashinga: The Brave Ones Trailer for James Cameron’s New Documentary
National Geographic has released the trailer for the documentary short Akashinga: The Brave Ones, directed by Maria Wilhelm — the executive director of the Avatar Alliance Foundation — and executive produced by James Cameron. The documentary tells the story of Akashinga, the all-female anti-poaching unit in Zimbabwe that is revolutionizing the way animals are protected and communities are empowered. You can

Criterion Collection unveils July releases, including Marriage Story!
The Criterion Collection has unveiled its list of upcoming July releases, which will include the exciting 4K restorations of the Henry Fonda-starring The Lady Eve, as well as the previously announced collector’s set of Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits and the six Oscar-nominated Marriage Story!
RELATED: Criterion Collection & Janus Films Establish Art House Relief Fund
The full list of titles hi

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Vertical Entertainment has reportedly acquired the North American distribution rights to director Josh Trank’s long-in development biographical crime drama film Capone (formerly titled “Fonzo“) with the MPAA granting it a R-rating for “strong/bloody violence, pervasive language and some sexuality.” The Tom Hardy-led Al Capone has been in development since 2016 and is expected to m

Solar Opposites Trailer: Aliens are Sort of Like Us
Hulu has debuted the first trailer for the highly-anticipated animated comedy Solar Opposites from Justin Roiland, co-creator and star of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty, showing that aliens are sort of like humans. The hilarious trailer can be viewed in the player below!
RELATED: Hulu’s Solar Opposites Teaser From the Co-Creator of Rick and Morty
Solar Opposites centers around a team of four aliens who have escaped

Comcast Launches Early Preview of NBCU Streaming Service Peacock
According to Vital Thrills, Comcast has launched an early preview of the NBCU streaming service Peacock for Xfinity X1 and Flex customers in North America for free. The national launch of the new streamer will follow on July 15.Say hello to #PeacockTV. Streaming everywhere in July. pic.twitter.com/ZMJOd3Lpq4
— Peacock (@peacockTV) April 15, 2020RELATED: Peacock ‘Optimistic’ About Debuting Saved by the Bell, Punky

BEGIN SLIDESHOWBlu-ray details for The Call of the Wild, Downhill & Wendy revealed!
20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures have unveiled the Blu-ray details for the Harrison Ford-led adventure film The Call of the Wild, the Will Ferrell and Julia Louis Dreyfus-starring dramedy Downhill, as well as the details for the digital release of Wendy, the new take on the classic J.M. Barrie tale Peter Pan.
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"Time and proximity can change adversaries into allies." Netflix has released an official trailer for a true crime documentary film titled Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, made by doc filmmaker Daniel H. Birman. The film examines in detail the story of Cyntoia Brown, a young woman from Kentucky who grew up in a foster home. She was convicted of murdering a man at age 16 during her time working as a forced prostitute, and sentenced to life in prison as an adult. Years later her case was

Stardust clip features Johnny Flynn as David Bowie
Film Constellation has released the first clip from director Gabriel Range’s forthcoming David Bowie biographical drama film Stardust, featuring Johnny Flynn as the legendary music icon. Last week, it was announced that the film will be having an online screening event today for the press and potential buyers. Stardust was supposed to make its world premiere this week at the cancelled 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Check out the vi

BEGIN SLIDESHOWUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverend teaser arrives!
Netflix took to Instagram to debut the first teaser for the highly-anticipated Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs The Reverend, an interactive special continuation of the streaming service’s acclaimed Ellie Kemper-led comedy, which is set to premiere on May 12! The teaser can be viewed below!
RELATED: Daniel Radcliffe Joins Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Interactive Special
 
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Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has shared his ranking of two key Marvel franchises with fans on Twitter.
Quoting a tweet from actor and comedian Ben Schwartz ranking the Back to the Future and Indiana Jones films, Gunn gave his own opinions on Iron Man and Thor, as well as American Pie and the Bourne films.Read more: Marvel Cinematic Universe phase four: everything we know so farWith no further explanation, Gunn shared his rankings, considerin

Prop Culture trailer: Discover timeless treasure from iconic Disney films
Disney+ has released the official trailer for their upcoming documentary series titled Prop Culture, giving us a preview of the cool artifacts from iconic Disney films such as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Tron, Mary Poppins, and more. The 8-episode series is scheduled to premiere on May 1. Check out the video in the player below!
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Netflix’s Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story Trailer & First Look Photos
Netflix has released the official trailer for Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story, directed and produced by Daniel H. Birman. You can check out the trailer for the documentary below, as well as the photos in the gallery!
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In 2004, 16-year-old Cyntoia Denise Brown was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, for murdering a 43-year-old ma

"No offense, but none of you lot look like the killing type." Vision Films has unveiled the official US trailer for an alternative history drama about crime writer Agatha Christie getting embroiled in a real-life murder case during her 11-day disappearance in 1926. The film is titled Agatha and the Truth of Murder, and originally premiered on TV in the UK in late 2018. It's not slated for release in the US in the fall of this year. With a script by Tom Dalton (The Pharmacist), set in 1926, the

An upcoming biopic of Al Capone starring Tom Hardy as the notorious gangster could see an entirely digital release.
The film, previously titled Fonzo, now retitled Capone, was confirmed in 2018 with Hardy sharing photos from the makeup chair getting into character.Read more: Oscars 2021: Who will win at the Academy Awards next year?Capone has now been rated “R” for “strong/bloody violence, pervasive language and some sexuality” by the Motion Picture Association

Paramount Virtual Screening Events Include 25th Anniversary of Tommy Boy
Paramount is planning to present a series of virtual screenings that will be streamed online via CYA.LIVE, allowing viewers to watch and interact via text and video with other fans, as well as special guest hosts.
RELATED: Paramount Adjusts SpongeBob Movie & Mark Wahlberg’s Infinite Release Dates
The first event will be a 25th-anniversary screening of the comedy classic Tommy Boy hosted by the film’s direct

Disney offering special flash sale collections
For fans still stuck at home and looking to expand their digital collections to stay entertained, Walt Disney Studios has announced special curated collections of theirs and recently-acquired Fox libraries are going on sale for as low as $4.99!
Films included in the collections include feel good films such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Napoleon Dynamite and The Greatest Showman, as well as an Earth Day collection with the Disneynature d

Leonardo: First Look at Aidan Turner as Leonardo da Vinci in New Series
A new clip from the upcoming series Leonardo has been released, featuring Aidan Turner (The Hobbit, Poldark) as Leonardo da Vinci in the drama co-created by Frank Spotnitz (The Man in the High Castle). You can check out the video below (via Deadline)!
RELATED: Sony Taps Bloodshot’s David S.F. Wilson for Influx Adaptation
The clip, released to celebrate the birthday of the great artist, engineer, and inventor, highligh

DiCaprio & De Niro offer fans special Flowers of the Killer Moon role
Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro took to Instagram to announce a special opportunity for fans to get a walk-on role of Killers of the Flower Moon through the charity All In Challenge. The announcement video can be viewed below!
RELATED: Killers of the Flower Moon: Netflix, Apple & More in Talks for New Martin Scorsese Film
 
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Feature: Sonic the Hedgehog’s Ben Schwartz favorite video game movies
With his lead role in this year’s hit video game adaptation Sonic the Hedgehog, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Ben Schwartz once again and talk about the Parks and Recreation vet’s favorite films set around the video game world. Click here to purchase Sonic the Hedgehog on Digital HD!
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Amazon developing Tessa Thompson-led The Left Right Game adaptation
After a heated bidding war amongst film and TV studios, Amazon has won the screen rights to the QCode mystery sci-fi podcast The Left Right Game with Westworld and Thor: Ragnarok star Tessa Thompson attached to produce the adaptation, according to Deadline.
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The audio series follows an idealistic journalis

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D final season to feature an Agent Carter crossover
After nearly 4 years since Marvel’s Agent Carter had aired its second and final season in 2016, EW brings word that the upcoming final season of Marvel’s Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D will be featuring an Agent Carter crossover with Enver Gjokaj making his return to the Marvel TV Universe as he reprises his role as Agent Daniel Sousa. Co-creator Jed Whedon has also teased Daniel Sousa’s fun interaction with Clark G

Girls & Boys: New Netflix rom-com movie in the works from Queer Eye’s Antoni Porowski
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is in the process of developing a brand new romantic comedy film titled Girls & Boys which will be inspired by Queer Eye cast member Antoni Porowski’s real-life dating experiences as a sexually fluid man.
RELATED: Netflix Acquires Kumail Nanjiani-Issa Rae Comedy The Lovebirds
Girls & Boys was developed by Porowski along with Black-i

Mark Ruffalo Talks Hulk’s Future, Says He Would Love to Lead a Stand-Alone Movie
During an interview with Variety, MCU star Mark Ruffalo expressed his wishes to reprise his role as Bruce Banner and his alter-ego the Hulk in future sequels or spinoffs but says there’s not “a done deal” regarding whether Hulk will ever return.
“There’s nothing completely at a place where it’s a done deal. There’s some talk of having Banner/Hulk show up in [the Disne

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSteven Spielberg May Have Saved Babu Frik’s Life in Rise of Skywalker
Fans were divided over Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and yet many of those same fans were unanimous in their love for Babu Frik, the tiny little alien guy who tweaks C-3P0 in a pivotal scene in the film. Well, according to some of Frik’s creators, namely creature effects creative supervisor Neal Scanlan, concept artist Ivan Manzella, and actor Shirley Henderson, that cute creature might have

Alicia Silverstone has shared her son Bear’s ideas for a potential Clueless sequel.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the actor explained how her eight-year-old developed his own storylines after seeing his mother’s film.Read more: What will the Clueless reboot look like in 2019?“One night we were laying in bed and he wrote Clueless Part 2 and what and where Cher would be,” Silverstone began.
“It was unbelievable what he thought. She was an alcoholic bu

Alicia Silverstone has shared her son Bear’s ideas for a potential Clueless sequel.
Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the actor explained how her eight-year-old developed his own storylines after seeing his mother’s film.Read more: What will the Clueless reboot look like in 2019?“One night we were laying in bed and he wrote Clueless Part 2 and what and where Cher would be,” Silverstone began.
“It was unbelievable what he thought. She was an alcoholic bu

An hour-long feature called Corona Zombies has been released exclusively on streaming platform Full Moon Features, focusing on the coronavirus crisis.
The film was released last Friday (April 10), and was shot over 28 days by the film studio owned by Charles Band.Read More: All the films and TV shows suspended due to coronavirusCorona Zombies sees Cody Renee Cameron play a character named Barbie who lives in a trailer park in Santa Monica and discovers “corona zombies”, infected

Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell would to like to join Doctor Strange 2
Following ComingSoon.net’s exclusive quote with Sam Raimi yesterday where he confirmed that he is set to make his MCU debut as director of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Raimi’s long-time collaborator Bruce Campbell took to Twitter to express his interest in also joining Marvel Studios’ highly-anticipated MCU film!Huh. Surely, there must be SOME character to challenge the good Doctor…

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNew Dune photo reveals new Look at Zendaya’s Chani
Following yesterday’s release of the first images from Denis Villenueve’s highly-anticipated remake of Dune, The Greatest Showman star Zendaya took to Instagram to share a brand new photo, providing us a with another look at her character Chani in full costume. In the books, Chani is the love interest to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, who he first met through his dreams. Check out the full photo

"Do the traumas of the past remain with us?" Our friends at The Film Stage have released an official trailer for an indie film from Mexico titled 499, which was supposed to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this month. The was a part of this year's "Documentary Competition" section as a world premiere, which is only to describe the clever style and format - though it's clearly a fictional story (since conquistadors can't really time travel). Upon the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish Conq

"Everything is at a standstill." 1091 Media has debuted an official US trailer for a contemporary drama titled Until the Birds Return, the feature directorial debut of Algerian filmmaker Karim Moussaoui. This premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in 2017, and is just now finally getting a VOD release in the US. "A property developer is witness to random street violence. A pair of secret lovers make their way across the desert. A doctor is accused of having a criminal past. In these three i

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Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian announced by Disney+!
This Star Wars Day (or May the Fourth), Disney+ will honor the global Star Wars fan community with brand-new original content joining the service’s comprehensive collection of Star Wars movies and shows. What started as a fan-generated grassroots holiday, Star Wars Day has become a full-fledged celebration of the Star Wars saga embraced by the entire galaxy. This year, fans can look forward to the highly anticipated con

Model and actor Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson, has signed on to play Jesus in upcoming independent drama Habit.
The film follows “a street-smart party girl with a Jesus fetish who gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a nun,” according to Screen Daily. Read more: Dua Lipa: “If somebody told me not to discuss issues I’m passionate about? I wouldn’t listen”Jackson joins Bella Thorne, Gavi

Tom Hardy will be returning to narrate five bedtime stories on CBeebies, it has been confirmed.
The Mad Max actor first took part in 2016, and his stories have since been requested over 1.07 million times on iPlayer.Read more: Coronavirus: wholesome movies to watch while self-isolating – and where to stream them“Hello. I’m Tom. Sometimes, on a day like this, I feel strong and happy,” Hardy’s first story confirming his return began, according to the BBC. &l

Sam Raimi has confirmed his involvement in the upcoming Doctor Strange sequel, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness.
The Spider-Man and Evil Dead director was said to be in talks to helm the film in February, and has now spoken about his involvement – without fully confirming he’s directing yet.Read more: Marvel Cinematic Universe phase four: everything we know so farDuring a roundtable interview for Raimi’s Quibi series 50 States of Fright, the

The Cannes Film Festival has confirmed the 2020 edition will not take place “in its original form”. The festival was due to take place from May 12 – 24, and was potentially going to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The festival had previously announced the original May dates would not be possible, but that there was a potential postponement looking at late June and early July.Read more: All the films and TV shows suspended due to coronavirusFollowing the news

ABC Sets a May Premiere Date For Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Final Season
Marvel’s big-screen slate recently shifted due to the coronavirus. But perhaps fans can take comfort in hearing that the MCU will still have a presence on the small-screen this summer. Via TVLine, Marvel has just announced when viewers can expect Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to return to the airwaves. The series will debut its seventh and final season on Wednesday, May 27 at 10pm on ABC.
Marvel also confirmed the seaso

BEGIN SLIDESHOWApril 14 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s April 14 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
UnderwaterA crew of underwater researchers must scramble to safety after an earthquake devastates their subterranean laboratory.
Just MercyA powerful true story that follows young