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Mandatory Streamers: Star Trek Lower Decks Is Ready for Action
Welcome to Mandatory Streamers, our column covering the best new streaming content coming your way every week! For the week of August 3, the support crew of CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Lower Decks is ready for action in the brand-new animated comedy series from Emmy winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites). Check out the best shows debuting and returning online this week as well as the late

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNetflix in final talks to acquire The Woman in the Window
The Amy Adams-starring adaptation of The Woman in the Window has had a rough road to its release, being delayed multiple times due to both negative test screenings and the global pandemic, and now it appears it has found its salvation as Netflix has entered final talks to acquire the psychological thriller, according to Deadline.
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Video: The Fugitive interview with Kiefer Sutherland & Boyd Holbrook
ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Golden Globe and Emmy winner Kiefer Sutherland (24, Designated Survivor) and Boyd Holbrook (The Predator) to discuss their work in Quibi’s update of The Fugitive! Our interview can be viewed in the player below!
RELATED: Quibi’s The Fugitive Trailer & Photos Starring Kiefer Sutherland & Boyd Holbrook
In The Fugitive reb

Joey King in talks for Brad Pitt-starring Bullet Train
On the heels of Netflix announcing a third installment of the rom-com film series she leads, The Kissing Booth star Joey King has entered negotiations to join Brad Pitt (Ad Astra) in the upcoming action thriller Bullet Train at Sony Pictures for an unknown role, according to Deadline.
RELATED: David Leitch’s Bullet Train Lands Brad Pitt to Star
Bullet Train will mark the eighth collaboration between the 5

HBO Max unveils summer stand-up comedy specials
HBO Max has unveiled that the first batch of its summer stand-up comedy, The Summer Comedy Festival, set to debut on the platform later this month including solo specials from Rose Matafeo, Beth Stelling, and James Veitch, as well as a multi-act special from the HA Comedy Festival, hosted by Anjelah Johnson, and featuring a lineup of America’s funniest Latinx comics! The sizzle reel can be viewed in th

Learn about the Alethiometer in exclusive His Dark Materials clip
HBO has provided ComingSoon.net with an exclusive clip from the bonus materials on this week’s Blu-ray of His Dark Materials Season 1, in which we learn about the Alethiometer! Check out
Lauded by critics as HBO’s new hit original fantasy drama series, His Dark Materials: The Complete First Season will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on August 4. Adapted from Philip Pullman’s epic trilogy of the same name, which

BEGIN SLIDESHOWPaul W.S. Anderson says Monster Hunter is 100 Percent Finished
Last month, it was announced that Paul W.S. Anderson’s forthcoming film adaptation of Monster Hunter had been officially pushed back from September 2020 to April 23, 2021. Because of this, some people have speculated that the delay might be caused by potential post-production problems due to the film’s expected high visual effects, however, in a new interview with Syfy Wire, Anderson has

Spider-Man coming to Marvel’s Avengers in 2021!
We may only be a month away from the highly-anticipated debut of Crystal Dynamics’ Marvel’s Avengers and after revealing last week that Hawkeye would be joining the roster in a post-launch release, it’s now been announced that Spider-Man will also be swinging into the game in 2021 exclusively on PlayStation consoles for free! Check out the announcement below!
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Paul Thomas Anderson in talks with Bradley Cooper for 1970s drama
Oscar nominee Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) is well-known for building ensemble casts in his projects and now the writer/director is already looking to start big with his next project by entering talks with fellow Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born) to star, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s Coming-of-Age Drama Moves From Focus to MGM
The untitled film, which A

"You won't get away with this!" Amazon Prime Video has released an official trailer for an indie highlands comedy titled Get Duked!, which won the Midnighters Audience Award at last year's SXSW Film Festival. Formerly known as Boyz in the Wood, it has been given a new title for its US release this month. Set deep in the Scottish Highlands, the film follows wild teenage friends out on a character-building camping trip. With plans to do nothing but get high in the woods, the boys must face a shad

Amazon Prime’s Hunters renewed for second season!
Just six months after the dark comedy conspiracy thriller debuted to solid reviews from critics and audiences alike, Amazon Prime has taken to Twitter to announce that the Al Pacino-starring Hunters will return for a second season on the streaming platform! Check out the announcement below!
RELATED: CS Video: The Hunters Cast Discuss the New Amazon SeriesJustice is calling and they’re coming back to answer. Hunters ret

BEGIN SLIDESHOWDenis Villeneuve says he’s sprinting to finish Dune on time
Last month, it was confirmed that Denis Villeneuve’s highly-anticipated remake of Dune is scheduled to go back into production this month for its reshoots and additional footage. Now, in a recent interview with the Shanghai International Film Festival (via IndieWire), the Oscar-nominated director has finally addressed the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the film’s production and post-production. C

"Bumping into each other again, it's odd, right?" Outsider Pictures has released an official US trailer for an indie summer drama titled The August Virgin, from acclaimed Spanish indie filmmaker Jonás Trueba. He partnered with actress / writer Itsaso Arana to make a very personal film about figuring yourself out in your 30s. Arana stars as Eva, a young actress who is not quite satisfied with her life. In an act of faith, she decides to stay in Madrid during August, when all the other loc

Amazon debuts red-band trailer for Get Duked!
Amazon Prime Studios has debuted the first red-band trailer for the coming-of-age British comedy Get Duked! (originally titled Boyz in the Wood) teasing a hilarious and profanity-filled camping trip gone wrong for four city boys. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!
RELATED: Amazon Studios Acquires Comedy Boyz In The Wood
Written and directed by Ninian Doff in his feature directorial debut, the film follows teenage pals Dean

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNetflix Debuts First Photos for Ensemble The Devil All The Time
Just over two weeks after announcing the premiere date for the ensemble thriller, Netflix has debuted the first photos for The Devil All The Time starring Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Far From Home), Robert Pattinson (The Lighthouse) and more! The photos can be viewed below!
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"They fought so hard for us to get here… now we don't have that luxury of not being able to do something." Shout Factory has revealed the official trailer for a kick ass filmmaking documentary called Stuntwomen, made by producer / director April Wright. The film's full title is Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story and it will be available to watch this September. An action-documentary about the evolution of stunt women from The Perils of Pauline (1914) and beyond. Featuring narration (

STX acquires Kevin Macdonald legal thriller with Foster, Rahim & more
STXfilms has won the US rights to Academy Award-winning director Kevin Macdonald’s untitled legal thriller formerly known as Prisoner 760, starring Oscar winner Jodie Foster, Tahar Rahim (The Eddy), Golden  Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies) and Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (Avengers: Endgame).
RELATED: Ridley Scott & Kevin Macdonald Planning Life in a Day Sequel
The highly anticipated

Dwayne Johnson-led Red Notice to resume production next month
Nearly four months after production had been temporarily suspended on Netflix’s star-studded heist thriller Red Notice last March, Dwayne Johnson took to Instagram to announce that production is officially scheduled to resume its filming in mid-September.
In his 5-minute video post which you can check out below, Johnson has also shared Netflix and the producers’ careful decision on how to strictly implement safety pr

Producers on the film X-Men have recalled the time Michael Jackson auditioned for the role of Charles Xavier.
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Taking part in a deep-dive into the 2000 movie and its director Bryan Singer, producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Ralph Winter recalled their encounter with the King of Pop to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jackson, who tried out for the role of Professor X in the Marvel film, which eventu

Blossoms Shanghai: Wong Kar Wai sets his first drama series
Award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai (Happy Together) is officially working on a brand new project in the form of his debut drama series titled Blossoms Shanghai which is an adaptation of author Jin Yucheng’s novel called Blossoms. In addition, The Wild Goose Lake star Hu Ge has also been tapped to lead the series.
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Set as a homage to Wong’

Exclusive Paydirt clip starring Luke Goss & Val Kilmer
Dark Star Pictures and Uncork’d Entertainment has shared an exclusive clip with ComingSoon.net for the upcoming action crime thriller Paydirt starring Luke Goss (Traffik) and Val Kilmer (Top Gun: Maverick). The exclusive clip can be viewed in the player below!
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The film is written and directed by Christian Sesma (Vigilante Diaries, The Night Crew) and

"We need you as our first female field agent." IFC Films has released an official trailer for A Call to Spy, an indie spy drama from producer-turned-filmmaker Lydia Dean Pilcher. This is her second feature after directing Radium Girls, which is also about badass women from the past. In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency – the Special Operations Executive (aka SOE) – to recruit and train women as spies. Their mission: conduct s

Nine Perfect Strangers: Michael Shannon joins Nicole Kidman in new Hulu miniseries
According to Deadline, Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) has signed on for one of the leading roles in Hulu’s forthcoming limited series adaptation of Nine Perfect Strangers. The 45-year-old actor is set to portray the role of Napoleon, a character in the novel who had lost a twin son. He will be joining the miniseries’ growing ensemble led by Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarth

BEGIN SLIDESHOWSteve McQueen’s Small Axe first-look photo features John Boyega
The first official photo from Steve McQueen’s forthcoming anthology drama series titled Small Axe has been released through Deadline, featuring Star Wars alum John Boyega portraying real-life Metropolitan Police officer Leroy Logan, who wanted to make a change within the force after his father got assaulted by two policemen. Set to make its debut sometime this year, you can check out the full photo in the

"How do you do it?!" HBO Max / CNN Films have released an official trailer for a journalism documentary called On the Trail, titled in full: On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries. Developed internally by CNN, the doc film takes viewers behind-the-scenes to provide a "front-row seat to history for a glimpse into what it takes to cover a presidential campaign." The focus is on the powerhouse female journalists at CNN, set against the backdrop of one of the wildest elections in American history.

"How do you do it?!" HBO Max / CNN Films have released an official trailer for a journalism documentary called On the Trail, titled in full: On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries. Developed internally by CNN, the doc film takes viewers behind-the-scenes to provide a "front-row seat to history for a glimpse into what it takes to cover a presidential campaign." The focus is on the powerhouse female journalists at CNN, set against the backdrop of one of the wildest elections in American history.

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Cast:
Bobby Soto as David
Shia LaBeouf as Creeper
Written and Directed by David Ayer
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Ever since his 2001 breakout hit Training Day, David Ayer has frequently shown a love and devotion of Los Angeles-based storytelling harking back to his teenage days growing up in South Central and after exploring more fantastical tales in Suicide Squad and Bright, the latter of which is sti

BEGIN SLIDESHOWAndrew Lloyd Webber speaks out on Tom Hooper’s Cats movie
Since the theatrical release of Tom Hooper’s Cats in December, the film adaptation has garnered harsh reviews from critics and audiences, mainly attributed to its weird CGI effects. Because of this, it instantly became a popular subject of memes and jokes. Now, in a recent interview with The Sunday Times (via Deadline), Oscar and Tony-winning composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who is the original composer of the

"You never really remember the beginning of a dream… do you?" Warner Bros has unveiled a new official trailer to celebrate the 10th anniversary re-release of Christopher Nolan's Inception, which originally hit theaters in the summer of 2010. This re-release is connected with the delayed release of Nolan's latest movie Tenet, which has been rescheduled to open in the US starting in September. Inception is Nolan's complex sci-fi thriller about a team of thieves who are given the task of pl

BEGIN SLIDESHOWPatty Jenkins says Wonder Woman 3 might be her last one
In a recent interview with German Magazine Geek (via @DCMovieNews2), Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins had addressed the possibility of a third installment to her Gal Gadot-led DC movie. She revealed that if Warner Bros. Pictures would again give her the opportunity, Wonder Woman 3 might potentially be her last Diana Prince movie that she’ll get to direct.
“[Wonder Woman 1984] gave me a chance to do a lot o

Shang-Chi production gets ready to resume in new set video
As production continues to get back on track for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, a brand new video from the Australia set of Destin Daniel Cretton’s upcoming MCU movie has arrived online through an Australian news station 7News. The video, which you can check out below, gives us a glimpse of one of the film’s big sets which seems like a replication of a China setting.
It’s not Asia and it’s not Hollywo

Wonder Woman filmmaker Patty Jenkins has said that the third movie in the DC series will probably be her last.
Read more: Wonder Woman 1984: cast, release date and everything we know so far
Speaking in a new interview with German publication Geek (translated and tweeted out by @DCMovieNews2), Jenkins talked Wonder Woman 1984, the upcoming sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman.
“WW84 gave me a chance to do a lot of things that I couldn’t accommodate in the first movie,” she said o

Andrew Lloyd Webber has shared his thoughts on the film adaptation of his hit musical Cats.
Read more: Cats review: weird and occasionally wonderful, this feline flick is no cat-astrophe
The 2019 film, which featured an all-star cast made up of Idris Elba, Dame Judi Dench, Taylor Swift, James Corden and Rebel Wilson, was panned by fans and critics alike upon its release.
In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Lloyd Webber said: “The problem with the film was that [director] Tom Hoo

Seth Rogen has discussed why the sequel to his hit comedy Pineapple Express didn’t come to fruition.
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The 2008 action-comedy, which stars Rogen, James Franco, and Danny McBride, follows a process server and his marijuana dealer who wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after witnessing a murder.
Back in 2011, screenwriter Evan Goldberg hinted that a follow-up featuring a Superbad crossover could be o

Netflix has revealed that it is currently working on a film adaptation of Ubisoft’s 2003 sci-fi cult classic video game, Beyond Good & Evil.Read More: ‘Pokémon Detective Pikachu’ film review: classic pop culture franchise serves up witty, catch ’em all blockbusterThe upcoming movie was revealed exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter, which notes that the project is currently in “early development”. However, the Beyond Good & Evil film already has