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Daniel Espinosa to helm Jamal Khashoggi murder biopic
Good Films Collective has begun putting together a number of projects with big names attached to them, including a biopic focused on the murder of Saudi Arabian-born dissident Jamal Khashoggi with Daniel Espinosa (Morbius) attached to direct, according to Deadline.
RELATED: Almythea Film Series in Development With Bruce Logan Directing
The film, entitled The Execution, will be a “narrative drama” focused on the backgrou

Ryan Gosling Set to Play the Wolfman in Universal’s Reboot!
After this year’s smash hit of Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, Universal is looking to go full steam ahead on a reboot of its iconic Wolfman franchise with Ryan Gosling (The Nice Guys) currently being eyed to star and the search for a director narrowing down, according to Variety.
RELATED: Paul Feig Discusses Development of Universal’s Dark Army
Sources report that executives at the Holly

CS Recommends: My Neighbor Totoro, Plus Books, Podcasts & More!
Stuck inside? Don’t know what to watch/read/play/listen to? ComingSoon.net has got you covered. In this week’s CS Recommends our staff gives you solid tips on the best media to consume during your downtime, including My Neighbor Totoro & more. Check out our picks below!
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Zack Snyder has teased a first look at Justice League character Darkseid, who is set to feature in a new cut of the film.
Read more: Justice League – film review
The director was originally attached to the DC film but left the project while it was in post-production in 2016 after a family tragedy, with Joss Whedon taking over.
Since the movie’s release in 2017, fans and cast members alike have called for the release of Snyder’s version – dubbed the ‘Snyder cut&rsquo

HBO Max speeding up Love Life episode release schedule
After a strong audience reception of its first three episodes, HBO Max has announced it will be speeding up its release schedule of the Anna Kendrick-led Love Life from weekly episodes to releasing the episodes in chunks over the next two weeks.
RELATED: New Love Life Teaser: Every Love Has Its Own Story
Originally planned as a traditional weekly series, WarnerMedia’s new streaming service is looking to capitalize on th

Almythea Film Series in Development With Bruce Logan Directing
Deadline is reporting that a sci-fi film franchise based on the Almythea book series is in development from Rio Vista Universal, Porchlight Entertainment Worldwide, and Priscilla Presley. Cinematographer Bruce Logan (Tron, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Batman Forever) will direct the first film from an adapted screenplay by Steven A. Finly.
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Written by Aaron Coote

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8.25/10
Cast:
John Hawkes as Frank Fogle
Logan Lerman as Sean Fogle
Sarah Bolger as Jewel
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Stone
Directed by Elfar Adalsteins
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End of Sentence Review:
Death can bring out some of the best and worst in people connected to the deceased, but no matter the bumps along the road, it ultimately brings even the most unlikely of family together. Dysfunctional families

"He caught the beauty in what we were doing." An official trailer has debuted for a documentary film titled Ricky Powell: The Individualist, a profile of the iconic NYC photographer Ricky Powell. Powell rose to unexpected fame as an unfiltered street photographer capturing the downtown New York City scene of the 80s and 90s. Eventually befriending and becoming an honorary member of the Beastie Boys entourage and joining them on tour, Powell captured some of the wildest moments in New York fashi

Diary of a Future President Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+
Disney+’s Diary of a Future President has been renewed for a second season. The 10-episode second season will stream exclusively on the platform, and the first season of the comedy is streaming now.
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Diary of a Future President follows the adventures of Elena Cañero-Reed as she navigates the ups and downs of middle school on her journey to become the future presi

Mike Mitchell to helm We’re Not From Here for Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to Geoff Rodkey’s sci-fi middle-grade novel We’re Not From Here from Will Gluck’s Olive Bridge Entertainment and has landed Mike Mitchell (The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part) to helm a film adaptation of the project, according to Deadline.
RELATED: The School for Good and Evil: Paul Feig to Direct Netflix Movie Adaptation
First published in 2019 by Crow

"How the people we love we can know so intimately, yet at the same time, know so little about them." A film about "connection". Vessel is an outstanding "Black Mirror"-esque sci-fi short film made by filmmaker Canadian filmmaker Ethan Godel. Godel's short wonders: "What would happen if everything we said on a date was a being fed to us via an earpiece by a person in a van just around the corner?" What kind of world would that be? That's already an intriguing premise, but this film brings it to

Script Changes Led Paramount to Bail on Killers of the Flower Moon
Following the recent news that Apple has partnered with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to finance their upcoming Killers of the Flower Moon adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter brings word that it was script changes that ultimately led Paramount Pictures to pull back their investment in the film.
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While Apple covers the large budget,&nb

Perry Mason teaser: Everybody’s guilty of something
Robert Downey Jr. (Avengers: Endgame) took to Twitter to share a new teaser at the upcoming series reboot of Perry Mason starring Matthew Rhys (The Americans), giving viewers a deeper look at the twisted case the iconic private-detective-turned-lawyer is tasked with solving. The teaser, which confirms a June 21 premiere date, can be viewed below!
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Murder Manual Trailer Starring Game of Thrones Star Emilia Clarke
The official trailer for Hewes Pictures’ horror anthology feature Murder Manual has been released, starring Emmy nominee Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Terminator Genisys). You can check out the trailer below and order your copy of the movie here!
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In Murder Manual, eight “creepy, terrifying chapters from our book of

"They took their shot, and it wasn't a kill." Vertical Ent. has unveiled an official trailer for an indie drama titled Run with the Hunted, made by writer / director John Swab. This premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival last year, and also played at the Rome Film Festival. The film is about a small town and how things change over the years. Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to run away from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best friend, Loux. Fifteen years later,

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCush Jumbo not returning for The Good Fight
After four seasons leading the acclaimed CBS All Access spin-off of The Good Wife, Cush Jumbo has confirmed she will not be returning to her role of Lucca Quinn on The Good Fight past its fifth season, with hopes to return for a brief stint of episodes to conclude her story after the shortened fourth season, according to Variety.
RELATED: CBS All Access Renews The Good Fight, Cuts Fourth Season Short
In Season 3, Dia

El-P has shared his score for the recent Tom Hardy-starring movie Capone – scroll down the page to listen to it now.
Read more: Capone review: Tom Hardy shits his pants in a messy, bizarre biopic about America’s most famous gangster
The soundtrack is the producer’s first full-length movie score since the 2004 film Bomb The System.
The Capone soundtrack features 13 songs, spans the course of an hour, and was released via Milan Records today (May 29). In a press release, El-P sai

Cobra Kai searching for new streaming home ahead of season 3 premiere
After two acclaimed and successful seasons at the video-sharing platform, the Karate Kid sequel series Cobra Kai is looking for a new streaming home ahead of its third season premiere as YouTube is looking to move away from scripted programming, according to Deadline.
RELATED: Exclusive Cobra Kai Clip Takes You Behind-the-Scenes of the Mall Fight
YouTube has co-produced the series with Sony Pictures TV for

Apple TV acquires Gal Gadot-led Hedy Lamarr series
After initially being set up at Showtime, the upcoming limited series centered on actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr starring Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman 1984) has moved to Apple TV+ with a straight-to-series order of eight episodes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: Gal Gadot Teases More Mature Diana in Wonder Woman 1984
The limited series was originally set to run on Showtime and has been in the works for nearly two years now, but

POLL: What is the Best Director’s Cut?
This month saw some exciting news for fans as the long-rumored Zack Snyder cut of Justice League was announced to be in development and set for a 2021 release on HBO Max! Though Snyder getting a second shot to cut the superhero blockbuster is a rare circumstance in Hollywood, he is certainly not the first filmmaker to have a separate cut of his film that differs drastically from the theatrical release. ComingSoon.net has compiled a list of

HBO Max Acquires Exclusive Streaming Rights to Young Sheldon
HBO Max has acquired the exclusive U.S. subscription-video-on-demand rights to the hit comedy series Young Sheldon in a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. HBO Max is also the streaming home of the entire library of The Big Bang Theory, the longest-running multicamera comedy in television history.
“We now feel like our Big Bang offering is complete,” said Kevin Reilly, chief content officer, HBO Max, p

"We're designed to operate alongside you. We couldn't do what we do without you." HaZ is back! Sci-fi and VFX maestro Hasraf "HaZ" Dulull (the director of The Beyond and 2036 Origin Unknown) has returned with an exciting new project called Battlesuit - the initial proof-of-concept pilot is now available to watch online. This project is a bit unique because it was created entirely with the Unreal Engine using a real-time animation approach. Razer sponsored the project and is promoting its releas

Watch The Last of Us Part II State of Play With Director Neil Druckmann
Over the court of this nearly 25 minute episode of State of Play, Neil Druckmann, the director of The Last of Us Part II, provides an extensive look at the gameplay, threats, and the world of the game ahead of its release on June 19 on PlayStation 4, as well as introducing a never-before-seen extended gameplay sequence. You can check out the video below and pre-order your copy of the game here!
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House by the Cemetery & New York Ripper getting 4K releases
Blue Underground, the niche home media company behind special restorations of cult and exploitation classics, has unveiled its next two releases as Lucio Fulci’s 1981 slasher The House by the Cemetery and 1982 giallo The New York Ripper!
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In The House by the Cemetery, a young family moves from their cramped New York City apa

Tom Ellis Closes Deal to Return as Lucifer for a Potential Season 6
Netflix has yet to renew Lucifer for a sixth season, but according to Deadline, star Tom Ellis has made a renewal announcement even more likely by closing a deal to return as the title character.
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The streamer has been in talks with Warner Bros. TV about a Season 6 and executive producers Ildy Modrovich and Joe Henderson already closed new d

Spike Lee has said he won’t go to the cinema until a coronavirus vaccine has been made available.
The filmmaker previously spoke out against the decision to reopen cinemas in the US state of Georgia, despite the ongoing spread of coronavirus globally.
Now, the director – who is releasing his new film, the Vietnam War drama Da 5 Bloods, straight to Netflix on June 12 – told Vanity Fair that he won’t be attending any public events until a vaccine has been developed.
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Tenet TV Spot Teases Time Inversion in Christopher Nolan’s Sci-Fi Thriller
A new Tenet TV spot for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming action sci-fi-thriller has been released, teasing the mysterious use of time inversion in the film. You can check out the TV spot now below!
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Tenet will be an international espionage thriller filmed across seven countries. John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman)

CS Interview: Randall Wallace talks Braveheart 25th anniversary
Braveheart turned 25-years old this week, and to honor the occasion ComingSoon.net reached out to the film’s screenwriter, Randall Wallace, who was kind enough to talk about the Oscar-winning epic and share a few behind-the-scenes details you may not have known about. You can pre-order the new Braveheart 4K steelbook out on June 16 by clicking here!
Directed by Mel Gibson, who won an Academy Award for

Leonardo DiCaprio Eyeing Possible Role in Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up
During the recent announcement that Apple has partnered with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio to finance their Killers of the Flower Moon adaptation, Variety revealed that a production start date on the movie has not yet been set, leaving DiCaprio potentially interested in a number of other projects to do before Killers of the Flower Moon gets started. One of the films the Oscar winner is reportedly eyeing is

CS Plays: Predator Hunting Grounds Dutch DLC!
Are you ready for more Predator: Hunting Grounds? Well, get ready anyway, because we’ve got another awesome walkthrough for you. This time, we snatched up the new Dutch DLC for $6.99 that provided a new machine gun/grenade launcher, and knife for players to mess around with. Click here to purchase Predator: Hunting Grounds!
Oh, and you also get to play as Dutch, aka Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in the original Predator film! An

Run with the Hunted Trailer & Poster From Filmmaker John Swab
Vertical Entertainment has released the official trailer and poster for the crime drama thriller Run with the Hunted, written and directed by John Swab (Body Brokers, Let Me Make You a Martyr). You can check out the trailer and the poster below!
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Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to run away from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best frie

"The world is marvelous and beautiful." Well Go USA has released an official US trailer for an indie Korean drama titled House of Hummingbird, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Bora Kim. This first premiered at the Busan Film Festival in Korea last year, then it went on to play at the Berlin, Tribeca, Seattle, Fantasia, and London Film Festivals as well. Positioned against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Seoul in 1994, a lonely 14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a

The makers of Sonic the Hedgehog have confirmed a sequel is on the way.
According to Variety, Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy are working on a follow-up film with Jeff Fowler – who was behind the original film – coming back to direct the second movie.READ MORE: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ review: revamped video game flick is a messy but enjoyable tribute to the ’90sIt’s also been reported Josh Miller and Pat Casey are to co-write the script once again.
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Cast:
Sierra McCormick as Fay Crocker
Jake Horowitz as Everett
Gail Cronauer as Mabel Blanche
Bruce Davis as Billy
Directed by Andrew Patterson
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Exploring the vast cosmos and the possibility of life in outer space has been a fascination of both up-and-coming filmmakers and longtime vets of the cinematic world but few have done so in their directorial debuts with such gusto and innovative

"Be formless. Shapeless." ESPN has unveiled an official trailer for the documentary Be Water, an extensive look at the life of Bruce Lee, which will air on ESPN first in early June then moves onto streaming. Made by Vietnamese-American filmmaker Bao Nguyen, the film initially premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong in 1971 to make four iconic films. Charting his struggles in two worlds, Nguyen's Be Water explores question

"When you're alone, you learn how to live." Brokenhorse Films has unveiled an official trailer for an indie documentary titled Queen of Lapa, which originally screened at a few small film festivals last year. It will be released on VOD in June this summer for those curious to give it a look. A proud transgender sex worker since the age of eleven, Luana Muniz, now 59 years old, has helped shape a new reality in her "hostel" by housing a new generation of transgender sex workers in Rio de Janeiro

Watched at Home: Top 20 Streaming Films for Week of May 22
Hey there, fellow couch potatoes! We’re back with another wacky week that sees a long running mainstay finally crawl its way to the top, along with a couple of high-profile returns. Let’s dive right into this week’s Top 20 Streaming Films!
Well, Birds of Prey, which made a surprise jump to No. 1 last week, enjoyed a brief spell at the top — dethroned by … Sonic the Hedgehog? Yup. Paramount’s successf

Surprise! This isn't an official trailer, but it is certainly worth watching. And you better hurry…! Filmmaker Shane Carruth posted a trailer online for his long, lost project called A Topiary, an original sci-fi film he was working on for years. But he doesn't know if it will be removed by Vimeo. "This will probably get taken down because I lifted a bunch of shots from films." We first heard about the film around 2013, when Carruth was finishing his other film Upstream Color. It's an in

Actor Anthony James has died at the age of 77.
The American actor, who was best known for playing menacing villains in Westerns, passed away from cancer on Tuesday (May 26) according to an obituary shared by the Tribute Archive, a funeral home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He made his big-screen debut as Ralph Henshaw, a racist manning a diner counter, in Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night (1967). He was also known for his role as Skinny Dubois, a hostile owner of a bordello, in Unfo

Members of the music and film community around the world are supporting a new fund to assist protestors following the death of George Floyd.
Floyd, 46, died in Minneapolis late on Monday (May 25) following an altercation with police officers. Floyd, who was African American, was killed when a white police officer appeared to kneel on his neck as he lay on the ground during an arrest.
Since the incident, the four officers involved have lost their jobs but, at present, none are facing crimina

Cate Blanchett is set to star in Borderlands – a horror movie based on the popular video game.
After bringing on Eli Roth to direct, the Borderlands movie has now cast Blanchett as the main star cast Lilith, according to The Hollywood Reporter.READ MORE: ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ review: revamped video game flick is a messy but enjoyable tribute to the ’90sThis won’t be the first time the pair have worked together, as both Roth and Blanchett also paired up for The H

Spider-Man actor Shameik Moore has been condemned for suggesting Rosa Parks should have travelled in a black-owned taxi company rather than protest during the Civil Rights Movement in 1955.
The actor also argued that black people should no longer blame racism for the cause of police brutality, following the high-profile death of George Floyd in the US this week.
The Get Down actor, who voiced the Marvel superhero in 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse, posted a lengthy Twitter thread telling his

Spider-Man actor Shameik Moore has been condemned for suggesting Rosa Parks should have travelled in a black-owned taxi company rather than protest during the Civil Rights Movement in 1955.
The actor also argued that black people should no longer blame racism for the cause of police brutality, following the high-profile death of George Floyd in the US this week.
The Get Down actor, who voiced the Marvel superhero in 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse, posted a lengthy Twitter thread telling his

Woody Allen has branded members of Hollywood who cancelled him as “self-serving” actors who tried to be “fashionable” with their protest.
The comedian and filmmaker, who has faced allegations of sexual abuse made against him by his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow, was alienated by a number of actors who refused to work with him since the accusations were first made 28 years ago.Read more: ‘A Rainy Day In New York’ review: a damp end to Woody Allen’s H

Quentin Tarantino has named The Social Network as the best film of the 2010s, saying that it “crushes all the competition”.
Speaking to the French publication Premiere in a new interview, Tarantino was asked what his favourite film of the last decade was after recently naming Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk as his second favourite movie of the 2010s.
“It’s The Social Network, hands down,” the filmmaker said in response. “It is number one becaus

A new lawsuit has emerged today (May 29) claiming that disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein, who is currently serving a 23-year prison sentence for rape, sexually assaulted an additional four women between 1984 and 2013.
Court documents filed in New York state that among the plaintiffs is a teen who was just 17 years old at the time of her alleged attack in 1994.
The anonymous accuser, known as Jane Doe II in the suit, claimed Weinstein “falsely imprisoned, sexually assaulted, sexually

"We have to behave like a band!" Universal has released an official trailer for an indie music drama titled Viena and the Fantomes, another film from Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Naranjo (he also has Kokoloko this year). Dakota Fanning stars as the titular Viena, a young roadie who's on a journey of self-discovery and shocking survival, as she travels across America with a post-punk band called The Fantomes during the 1980s. She ends up trapped in a dangerous love triangle between a good natured r

BEGIN SLIDESHOWParamount Pictures developing Sonic the Hedgehog sequel!
This year saw the long-awaited film adaptation of the iconic Sega video game character Sonic the Hedgehog race to critical and commercial success for Paramount Pictures and after months of waiting on word about the future, Variety has confirmed the studio is developing a sequel!
RELATED: CS Soapbox: How Sonic’s Mid-Credits Scene Sets Up Sonic 2
Though the film is still in early development and no castin