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Shudder August 2020 movie highlights announced!
AMC’s horror-tinged streaming service Shudder has unveiled its movie and TV highlights for the month of August, including the upcoming slasher horror Random Acts of Violence from co-writer/director/star Jay Baruchel and a new Last Drive-In special episode! Check out the full calendar for what to watch on Shudder next month!
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"I don't think he wants to be a clown, I think he likes what they portray: which is a nice and simple mime of life." What a gorgeous little film. British animation filmmaker Alex Widdowson introduces Music & Clowns perfectly: "My brother, Jamie, has a profound learning disability. Despite being close to nonverbal, he demonstrates charisma, a sharp sense of humour, and emotional sensitivity. I team up with my parents to discuss what it is like caring for someone with Down syndrome. We piece

Starz renews P-Valley for second season!
Just two weeks after the drama premiered on Starz to a rare 100 percent approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and setting a record or the most-viewed series premiere on the streaming app, Katori Hall’s P-Valley will return to the cable network for a second season!
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“P-Valley has quickly become this summer’s newest must-see televi

Mob Showtime Series in Development From Brian Grazer, Terence Winter & Nicholas Pileggi
Showtime is developing an hour-long mob drama series from Oscar winner Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, Empire, 24), Oscar nominee Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Sopranos), and Oscar nominee Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas, Vegas, Casino), according to Deadline.
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It's official! And hopefully it won't get delayed again! Warner Bros has announced that Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated summer action spy thriller Tenet has been rescheduled for release at the end of August / beginning of September. It was initially scheduled to open on July 17th in the summer, and Hollywood was hoping it might be the big movie when cinemas re-open. But with America failing to contain and control the coronavirus, they had to push it back. It was then rescheduled for Augu

Adam McKay Developing COVID-19 Vaccine Hunt Book Adaptation
According to Deadline, Oscar winner Adam McKay (Vice, Succession, The Big Short) is developing a limited series for HBO based on The First Shot, a non-fiction book by The Atlantic and The New York Times writer Brendan Borrell about the hunt for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The book reportedly sold at auction to publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and tells the story

CS Interview: Tuppence Middleton on heartwarming Fisherman’s Friends
ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Tuppence Middleton (Sense8, Possessor) to discuss her role in the heartwarming British music biographical comedy Fisherman’s Friends, which is now available on digital platforms! Click here to rent or purchase the well-received film centered on the Cornish singing group!
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWNatalie Portman reveals Thor: Love and Thunder shooting start date
With productions starting to resume overseas for a number of major film and TV titles, it looks like Thor: Love and Thunder, the highly-anticipated fourth installment in the MCU franchise, will begin shooting soon as Natalie Portman has revealed an estimated start date for production. (Via Slash Film)
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HBO Fall 2020 Titles Includes His Dark Materials Season 2 & More
HBO and HBO Max have unveiled their fall 2020 titles, providing viewers an overview of what to expect in the months ahead, including His Dark Materials Season 2, Lovecraft Country, and more. You can check out the full list of fall programming below!
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Set in a single room of a typical American chain motel, this

Apple TV+ and Oprah Winfrey announce The Oprah Conversation
Apple TV+ and Oprah Winfrey have announced a new series that will continue to explore impactful and relevant topics with fascinating thought leaders from all over the world entitled The Oprah Conversation, which will debut on the streaming platform this week.
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Filmed remotely and incorporating audience engagement, Oprah will le

CS Interview: Director Catherine Hardwicke on Quibi’s Don’t Look Deeper
ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with director Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Lords of Dogtown) to discuss her work on the Quibi sci-fi thriller Don’t Look Deeper starring Helena Howard, Don Cheadle, and Emily Mortimer and streamings its first three episodes now!
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Mandatory Streamers: Same Weird Family, New Weird Problems in Umbrella Academy Season 2
Welcome to Mandatory Streamers, our column covering the best new streaming content coming your way every week! For the week of July 27, Gerard Way’s hit superhero series is back as the same weird family navigates new weird problems in The Umbrella Academy Season 2. Check out the best shows debuting and returning online this week as well as the latest renewal announcements below, and

CS Video: Don’t Look Deeper interview with star Helena Howard
Just in time for the sci-fi thriller’s debut on fresh streaming platform Quibi, ComingSoon.net got the chance to talk with Don’t Look Deeper star Helena Howard to discuss her role in the series, as well as working with co-stars Don Cheadle and Emily Mortimer and director Catherine Hardwicke! Our interview can be viewed in the player below!
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Eternals Director Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland gets fall release
Searchlight Pictures has announced that Eternals director Chloé Zhao’s upcoming feature Nomadland starring Frances McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) is set to hit the major film circuit this fall at Venice, Toronto, Telluride and New York followed by a domestic wide release.
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Inception 10th Anniversary Theatrical Event Set for This August
Along with the announcement that Christopher Nolan’s Tenet will be releasing domestically on Thursday, September 3, Warner Bros. revealed that the Inception 10th Anniversary Theatrical Event will be released on August 21, 2020. The re-release will open up against Lionsgate’s horror movie Antebellum starring Janelle Monáe.
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Christopher Nolan’s new film Tenet has now been given a firm release date, after a host of delays.Read more: Christopher Nolan’s new film ‘Tenet’: release date, plot details, cast and everything we know so farAfter a number of delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tenet was removed from the Warner Bros calendar entirely last week, and “postponed indefinitely”.
It was then reported that the film might be shown in Europe in August after all

BEGIN SLIDESHOWTenet opening overseas one week ahead of US release
Just over a week after the studio revealed Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated Tenet wouldn’t be getting a traditional theatrical release due to the pandemic, Warner Bros. has announced the blockbuster will open overseas in late August one week ahead of a United States release, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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"I just got here now." Sizzle Snap Productions has released an official trailer for a horror short film titled Hunter's Cabin, the latest from South African producer-turned-filmmaker N'Cee Van Heerden. This is his second short following I.O. a few years ago, and before that he worked as a field producer on almost all of Neill Blomkamp's South African films. Now he's based in Vancouver, BC (same as Neill Blomkamp) and has moved into directing his own films. Hunter's Cabin follows a young father

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSony Imageworks shares new Over the Moon photo
There’s still a few months left until the highly-anticipated animated musical adventure debuts on Netflix and Sony Imageworks has debuted a new photo from Over the Moon showing the family at the center of the story. The photo, along with other art from the film, can be viewed in the gallery below!
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Netflix greenlights The Kissing Booth 3 for 2021 release
A few days after the second film’s debut on the streaming service, Netflix has announced that the Joey King-led romantic comedy franchise The Kissing Booth will return for a third installment in 2021. The announcement, featuring King and her co-stars, can be viewed below!
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We Are Who We Are First Trailer: There’s A Revolution Going on Inside of You
HBO has released the first trailer for the upcoming coming-of-age series We Are Who We Are from Academy Award nominee Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, I Am Love, Suspiria) who is bringing his unique cinematic style to television for the first time. Set to debut on Monday, September 14, you can check out the official teaser for the eight-episode series now in the player below!
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Killroy Was Here trailer: Kevin Smith directs a schlocky slasher
Cult filmmaker/geek personality Kevin Smith (Dogma, Clerks, Chasing Amy) has revealed the trailer for his latest genre offering Killroy Was Here! Check out the Killroy Was Here trailer in the player below.
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The film is said to be a horror anthology centred around the phenomenon of the “Kilroy Was Here” graffiti. According to Wikipedia, &ldqu

Star Trek: Discovery season 3 premiere date revealed!
It’s been over a year since we last heard about CBS All Access’ hit sci-fi adventure series being set to return for a third season and now a video has been revealed announcing the premiere date for the next chapter of Star Trek: Discovery, which can be viewed in the player below!
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Star Trek Discovery is about the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to d

Thor: Love and Thunder star Natalie Portman has confirmed that filming on the Marvel film should be getting underway in 2021.
The fourth movie in the Thor series will see the Oscar-winner return as Jane Foster, this time taking on the mantle of ‘The Mighty Thor’.
Appearing on Instagram Live chat with Serena Williams, Portman gave an update on where things stand, revealing: “We haven’t started [filming yet]. More time to get jacked, which I have not. I’ve got the car

Rick and Morty vs. Genocider: Special Anime Short Released
Adult Swim has released “Rick and Morty vs. Genocider,” a special Rick and Morty anime short directed by Takashi Sano that follows Morty on an adventure to Tokyo, Japan to try and help stop “The Genocider.” Produced by Sola Entertainment and animated at Telecom Animation Film, you can check out the short now in the player below!
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"There's a revolution going on inside of you." Sometimes we break our own no-TV rules to feature trailers for outstanding series, and this one is a must watch. HBO has revealed an official trailer for We Are Who We Are, a new mini-series created by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, director of I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, Call Me By Your Name, and Suspiria. We Are Who We Are follows a group of teens growing up on an American Army base outside of Venice, Italy struggling to find their own identi

Postalgeist: Looney Tunes Cartoons Debuts New Comic-Con Short
During their Comic-Con@Home panel, the creators of HBO Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons debuted a ghostly new short titled “Postalgeist” which you can check out in the player below along with the full Looney Tunes Cartoons panel! The
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Starring the cherished Looney Tunes characters, Looney Tunes Cartoons echoes the high productio

Back to the Future Trilogy 4K Coming in October!
Great Scott! In 1985, Director Robert Zemeckis, Executive Producer Steven Spielberg and Producer/Screenwriter Bob Gale embarked on a three-part journey through time that broke box-office records worldwide and catapulted Back to the Future into one of the most beloved trilogies in motion picture history. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment celebrates the 35th Anniversary of the groundbreaking first film with Back to the Future: The Ultimate

"I don't want to hurt you." "So don't." Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK has debuted their own official trailer for Babyteeth, which is finally opening in the UK coming up in August. The film is already available on VOD in the US as of a few months ago. We've posted the original Australian trailer, then the US trailer, and now here's the UK trailer - and it might be the best of the bunch. This Australian bittersweet comedy, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, follows a married couple who

Zack Snyder’s Justice League won’t use any Joss Whedon footage
Comic-Con@Home may be happening this weekend, but director Zack Snyder ran his own Justice-Con virtual panel today to talk about his upcoming Snyder Cut of Justice League. Director Joss Whedon original came on board the film when Snyder stepped away to deal with a personal tragedy. However, Snyder and his fans lobbied for a chance to revisit the film. Now that HBO Max has committed to making that a reality, Snyder p

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNetflix Orders The Witcher Prequel Series on the Origins of the Guild
Well, it seems that we are just at the beginning of The Witcher‘s take-over of pop culture. This morning, Netflix announced its intention to produce a The Witcher prequel series called The Witcher: Blood Origin. The six-part series will tell the history of the very first Witcher, who lived way before the Elven civilization fell. The show will see Declan de Barra

Gladiator star Russell Crowe has opened up about the guilt he felt when he won an Oscar for his role in the hit 2000 movie.
The actor took home the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Maximus Decimus Meridius in the Ridley Scott movie, which also won the Best Picture.
However, he has admitted that he felt bad for getting all the attention when he believed that Scott deserved awards for the film.
“It’s funny because some days it feels so close, and other days it feels like anothe

Candyman actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has revealed he was asked to change his name when he began his career in Hollywood.
The US star, who is also due to appear in The Matrix 4 and Netflix‘s The Trial of the Chicago 7, spoke in a new interview about representing Muslim people and staying authentic.
Abdul-Mateen II recalled to GQ Middle East that he was asked early on in his career to change his name to Yahya Mateen, or just Yahya on its own, though was adamant he would never consider the op