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Hi, fly. Memento Films in France has unveiled a short 15-second teaser trailer for the film Mandibules, the latest from wacky French musician / filmmaker Quentin Dupieux. The pandemic hasn't stopped him from working! Mandibules was also announced as part of the line-up for the 2020 Venice Film Festival, kicking off in September. So what the heck is this film about? Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and decide to domesticate it to earn money with it. Of course.

Netflix acquires streaming rights to seven classic black sitcoms!
In an effort to better promote shows and films on the streaming platform featuring Black characters, stories and creative talents, Netflix has taken to its Strong Black Lead Twitter account to announce it has acquired seven classic sitcoms including Sister Sister, Moesha and The Parkers! Check out the announcement below!
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"I used to be good at socializing…" Amazon Studios has unveiled acial trailer for a teen romance coming-of-age drama titled Chemical Hearts, adapted from Krystal Sutherland's novel "Our Chemical Hearts". The emotionally honest film is "an unapologetic, coming of age story involving a hopeless romantic and a young woman with a mysterious past." A high school transfer student finds a new passion when she begins to work on the school's newspaper, where she meets seventeen-year-old Henry Pag

BEGIN SLIDESHOWJuly 28 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s July 28 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
You Should Have Left (DVD)In this psychological thriller from Blumhouse Productions and legendary screenwriter David Koepp, Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried star as a couple seeking a

Hawkeye is Coming To Marvel’s Avengers Video Game Post Launch
The Marvel’s Avengers video game features the starting lineup of the MCU Avengers except one. Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, and Black Widow are all playable characters in the game, while Hawkeye was nowhere to be seen. But that changed today when Square Enix announced that Clint Barton AKA Hawkeye is heading to Marvel’s Avengers as a free character after it launches (via SuperHeroHype).
Within the

Our Cartoon President Season 3 Sneak Peek: It’s Not Over Until Democracy Sings
Showtime has released a sneak peek at the back-half of Our Cartoon President Season 3, featuring Cartoon Trump and Cartoon Biden facing off when the animated comedy series returns on Sunday, September 13 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. You can check out the sneak peek in the player below!
RELATED: Mob Showtime Series in Development From Brian Grazer, Terence Winter & Nicholas Pileggi
Executive produced by multiple

Russell Crowe-led Unhinged moves theatrical release
After initially being primed to be the first major theatrical release of the summer, the Russell Crowe-starring thriller Unhinged has pushed its release date back once again as the pandemic has seen another spike in the United States.
RELATED: Exclusive Unhinged Clip Starring Russell Crowe & Caren Pistorius
The film, which was originally slated to hit theaters in July, will now be hitting theaters on August 21, with the offi

HBO’s Lovecraft Country Episode Details Released!
HBO has revealed new Lovecraft Country episode details for the upcoming horror drama series that is set to debut on Sunday, August 16. You can check out the synopsis for the first five episodes below!
RELATED: Lovecraft Country Official Trailer: This is Family Business
Season 1, Episode 1: “Sundown”Debut Date: SUNDAY, AUGUST 16 (9:00-10:08 p.m. ET/PT)
Veteran and pulp-fiction aficionado Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) travels

Cineworld CEO criticizes AMC-Universal Pictures deal
This morning marked a major day in Hollywood as after a heated battle between the two, AMC Theatres and Universal Pictures entered an exclusive exhibition agreement and in its wake, Cineworld’s CEO Mooky Greidinger has responded with criticism, saying they “do not see any business sense in this model” to Deadline.
RELATED: Universal & AMC Announce Agreement for Exhibition of Universal Films
“While we don&rsquo

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood: Guadagnino to Helm Script by Rogen & Goldberg
Searchlight Pictures has set Seth Rogen (Preacher, Console Wars, The Boys) and Evan Goldberg (Sausage Party, The Night Before, This Is the End) to write the script for Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood with Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) to direct the narrative feature based on director Matt Tyrnauer’s biographical documentary, according to Deadline.
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Chemical Hearts Trailer Starring Lili Reinhart & Austin Abrams
Amazon Prime Video has released the official Chemical Hearts trailer starring Lili Reinhart (Riverdale, Hustlers) and Austin Abrams (Euphoria, The Walking Dead). Based on the novel Our Chemical Hearts by Krystal Sutherland, you can watch the trailer now in the player below!
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Chemical Hearts is an unapologetic coming of age story involving a hopeless romantic and

The Women: ABC Picks Up Thriller Drama From Jennifer Johnson & Glenn Porter
Deadline brings word that ABC has acquired The Women, a new thriller drama from writers Jennifer Johnson and Glenn Porter, alongside producer Mark Pellington and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project has received a script commitment plus a penalty from ABC. The network has also ordered a backup script.
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The Women, written on spe

Jordan Peele & Issa Rae to produce Universal’s Sinkhole
Emmy Award winner Jordan Peele (Us) and Emmy Award nominee Issa Rae (Insecure) are putting their creative heads together to produce a feature adaptation of the horror short story Sinkhole at Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: Coastal Elites: Bette Midler, Dan Levy, Issa Rae & More to Star in Comic Satire
Written by Leyna Krow and published in 2016, the story centers on a young fam

Jonathan Levine Set to Direct Hulu’s Limited Series Nine Perfect Strangers
Jonathan Levine (Long Shot, Warm Bodies, 50/50) is set to direct all eight episodes of the highly anticipated Hulu limited series Nine Perfect Strangers. Levine will also executive produce the series with Levine’s producing partner Gillian Bohrer serving as producer.
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Based on author Liane Moriarty’s latest novel, Nine P

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNetflix debuts first-look photos & premiere date of Ratched
Netflix has debuted chilling first-look photos at Ryan Murphy’s upcoming series Ratched, starring Sarah Paulson as the iconic Cuckoo’s Nest character in her origin story, as well as announcing a September 18 premiere date! The images can be viewed in the gallery below!
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The series is a prequel to 1975’s 

La Fortuna: Stanley Tucci Joins Alejandro Amenábar’s Limited Series
AMC Studios and Movistar+, the pay TV division of Spain’s Telefonica, in collaboration with MOD Pictures, have announced that Academy Award-nominee Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones, Big Night, The Devil Wears Prada) has been cast in Alejandro Amenábar’s newly titled original limited series La Fortuna. The six-part adventure thriller also stars Spanish actors Álvaro Mel and Ana Polvorosa.
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"Anonymity is very important to me." Oscilloscope has debuted an official trailer for a fashion documentary titled Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, which first premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival last year. It seems one of the big doc trends right now is films about fashion designers and the crazy lives they lead - there are so many of them recently. After more than a decade since leaving Maison Martin Margiela, Martin Margiela takes a look back at his 20 years of work as fashion designer.

IMAX has reported that it has had a $26 million second-quarter loss due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more: All the films and TV shows suspended due to coronavirus
The giant screen producer/exhibitor says it has lost 44 cents a share, on revenues of $8.9 million. In the same quarter in 2019, IMAX reported earnings of $11.4 million, or 19 cents a share, on revenues of $104.8 million.
The company puts the loss down to the closure of the majority of cinemas in its global network, whic

Black Beauty: Disney+ Acquires Adaptation From Constantin Film
Disney+ has acquired Black Beauty from Constantin Film and JB Pictures’ contemporary adaptation of the children’s book written by Anna Sewell. The movie is set to premiere on the streaming service later this year.
RELATED: First Look at Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe
The already-completed feature is a modern retelling of Sewell’s 19th-century novel and tells of the titular horse who is bor

"It had to come out eventually." Film Movement has debuted an official trailer for a Japanese indie drama titled A Girl Missing, the latest from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Koji Fukada (Sayônara, Harmonium, The Man from the Sea). This film first premiered at the Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals last year, and stopped by a number of international festivals throughout the fall. Koji Fukada's followup to the critically-acclaimed Harmonium, A Girl Missing "is a satisfying slow-burn drama e

Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge BTS Video Explores Oculus VR Experience
A new Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge video has revealed a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Oculus VR experience developed by ILMxLAB and inspired by Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the Star Wars-themed land at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World (via StarWars.com). The title is set to launch later this year on Oculus Quest. You can check out the video

Universal and AMC have struck up a new deal that will see the US cinema chain benefit from the release of movies released on Premium Video On Demand.
Read more: Coronavirus: all the major movies arriving online early
Back in April, a rift between the two companies following the release of Trolls World Tour led to AMC saying they would not screen films distributed by Universal once cinemas reopened after the coronavirus lockdown.
The dispute came after Universal announced that it would

"I thought I was having an acid flashback." Gravitas has released an official trailer for a documentary titled Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The film is, as the title states, a story about the iconic cartoon series Ren & Stimpy. A documentary that explores the rise and fall of The Ren & Stimpy Show. But it's also a film about the rise and fall of the show's controversial creator, John Kricfalusi. He was

Batman: Death in the Family Interactive Film Puts Robin’s Fate In Your Hands
In 1988, DC Comics told fans that “Robin will die because the Joker wants revenge. But you can choose to save him.” For the classic A Death in the Family storyline by Jim Starlin and artist Jim Aparo, readers called a 1-900 number and sentenced Jason Todd to death. But now, fans will get a chance to make different choices. Via IGN, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has released the Batman: Death in

The Soviets Invade US in The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Opening Scene
In just a few days, Netflix will debut the Umbrella Academy Season 2. To pump up the fans, the streaming service has also released the Season 2 opening scene, featuring the Hargreeves — all of them — back in action to stop a Soviet invasion. It seems that the events of the first season have generated an alternative timeline in which the Soviet Union is giving a hard time to the US. It will be up to N

BEGIN SLIDESHOWJosh Boone Explains How X-Men: Apocalypse Failure Changed New Mutants
20th Century Studios’ The New Mutants has undergone so many different changes, from its numerous release date shuffles to the various versions ordered by the studio. Now, in a recent interview with Slash Film, director Josh Boone revealed how the failure of X-Men: Apocalypse completely shifted his original vision of the film.
“They really did want it to be different than other stuff,” Boone sai

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IMAX Employees Call Christopher Nolan’s Tenet ‘A Wonderful Movie’
We’re all eagerly awaiting the arrival of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, which would have released on July 17 but has since shifted to a September 3 release date in the US (albeit in limited theaters). Yet, according to Deadline, some lucky people have already seen the flick and — surprise, surprise! — give the thriller high marks. Those in question are IMAX employees who were

Millie Bobby Brown has been tapped up to star in the upcoming new Netflix film, The Girls I’ve Been.
Read more: Is this the new Harry Potter? Inside Millie Bobby Brown’s massive new franchise Enola Holmes
The drama, which will see the Stranger Things star return to the streaming giant, is an adaptation of Tess Sharpe’s novel of the same name, which is scheduled to hit shelves next year.
According to Deadline, it’s been described as a thriller centring on a

Hugh Jackman has continued his fictitious beef with Ryan Reynolds by joking that the Deadpool actor has been left “devastated” over his recent Emmy nomination.
Read more: Coronavirus: recent critically acclaimed movies to catch up on while self-isolating
The pair have famously been locked in a faux feud, which is said to have originated from their time working together on 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
They often take digs at each other on social media, and Jackman kept thing

Spike Lee has said that controversial movies Gone With The Wind and The Birth Of A Nation should be screened provided they come with “historical social context.”
Read more: Spike Lee: “My path in life is to speak the truth – I’m not gonna run from it”
Speaking in a new interview, the legendary filmmaker reflected upon his career while discussing his new film Da 5 Bloods. At one point the conversation turned its focus to two of the most famous movies in hi

A £500 million insurance fund has been set up to help the UK film and TV industry get back on its feet following the coronavirus pandemic.
Culture secretary Oliver Dowden announced yesterday (July 28) that through a new scheme the UK government will take on the role of a commercial insurer, offering support to productions that have incurred losses due to COVID-19.
Read more: All the films and TV shows suspended due to coronavirus
Film and TV production took a hit earlier this year because

CS Collectibles: Sideshow-Con, McFarlane Batman & More!
Hello and welcome to the debut edition of CS Collectibles, ComingSoon.net’s newest weekly column that brings you all the latest in premium collectibles! Find out all the latest on statues, figures, posters, cards, eBay deals, Amazon deals & much more below!
Sideshow Collectibles
Sideshow-Con took center stage in the collectibles world during this weekend’s Comic-Con@Home! The virtual event included all kinds of new reve

Netflix, Brown & Bateman team for The Girls I’ve Been adaptation
After both of their series garnered Emmy nominations for the streaming platform, Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) and Jason Bateman (Ozark) are partnering up with Netflix for a film adaptation of Tess Sharpe’s forthcoming novel The Girls I’ve Been, according to Deadline.
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Set to be published on January 26, 2021 by Penguin

"He was forgotten… He was erased…" Shout Factory has debuted a trailer for an indie documentary titled Jay Sebring….Cutting to the Truth, which premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival earlier this year and at the Phoenix Film Festival as well. This fascinating, in-depth look at the legacy of revolutionary sixties Hollywood trendsetter Jay Sebring follows his meteoric rise as a cultural icon and his untimely murder at the hands of the Manson family. The biopic doc "is an il