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Who doesn't love the beach? Or more aptly, who misses the beach already? Have a gander at this fun short film titled Heatwave, made by a Greek animation filmmaker named Fokion Xenos. This premiered last year and picked up tons of awards playing on the festival circuit, finally online to watch for free thanks to Short of the Week. In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little children find a way to cool everyone down! A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid technique between cut o

Who doesn't love the beach? Or more aptly, who misses the beach already? Have a gander at this fun short film titled Heatwave, made by a Greek animation filmmaker named Fokion Xenos. This premiered last year and picked up tons of awards playing on the festival circuit, finally online to watch for free thanks to Short of the Week. In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little children find a way to cool everyone down! A playful stop motion short film animated in a hybrid technique between cut o

"You can't.Do that. on TV." Gravitas has released an official trailer for the documentary titled The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story, which has been in the works for years. We first featured a teaser trailer for this back in 2017, after it was successfully funded on Indiegogo in 2016, but it has taken another three years for it to finally get a release. The Orange Years chronicles the rise of Nickelodeon, with the actors, writers, and creators from all the golden age Nickelodeon shows that

Kevin Steverson’s Salvage Title Acquired by Hideout Pictures
Just two years after hitting shelves, Kevin Steverson’s sci-fi epic novel Salvage Title has been acquired by Average Joes Entertainment’s Hideout Pictures to be developed into a feature film, according to Deadline.
RELATED: The Kane Chronicles: Netflix Adapting Rick Riordan’s Trilogy Novel Into Films
Published in 2018 and the first in the novel trilogy of the same name, the story follows Harmon T

"One night with you guys, and I already have vampires and thugs trying to kill me?!" Since when did Netflix start making found-in-the-back-of-the-video-store B-movie horror flicks? But you know, I'll allow it. Vampires vs The Bronx is exactly what it sounds like - a group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from a band of vampires. Made by a Funny or Die and SNL director, and produced by Lorne Michaels. The ensemble cast includes Jaden Michael, Gerald W. Jones III,

Arrow Video Launches New Streaming Service Plus October 2020 Lineup
Arrow Video, the acclaimed British indie film distributor, is launching a new subscription-based ARROW platform, available in the US and Canada beginning October 1. Building on the success of the Arrow Video Channel and expanding its availability across multiple devices and countries, ARROW boasts a selection of cult classics, hidden gems, and iconic horror films, all curated by the Arrow Video team.
ARROW begins streaming with

Basil Eidenbenz Replaces Thue Ersted Rasmussen as Eskel in The Witcher Season 2
Basil Eidenbenz (The Athena) is set to play Eskel in the second season of Netflix’s The Witcher adaptation, replacing Thue Ersted Rasmussen who was originally cast in the role but had to step away from the show due to “rescheduling because of COVID-19” (via Deadline).#witchernetflix #eskel #covid_19 pic.twitter.com/bcLTg2OgzM
— Thue Rasmussen (@ThueRasmussen) September 23, 2020RELATED: Making

Shudder announces return of Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut
With a second season of the TV series on the way, Shudder has announced the return date for the second season of its companion podcast Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut, whose first two episodes are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other podcast platforms now!
RELATED: Eli Roth’s History of Horror Season 2 Teaser Previews October Return
An extended audio companion to the television series 

Quibi unveils trailer for new episodes of 50 States of Fright
Quibi has unveiled the first trailer for the upcoming new chapters in the Sam Raimi-produced horror anthology series 50 States of Fright which explores terrifying stories from every state in the country. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!
RELATED: CS Interview: Sam Raimi on Quibi’s 50 States of Fright
After launching with episodes of tales from Michigan, Kansan, Oregon, Minnesota and Florida, the seas

Steven Soderbergh assembles ensemble cast for HBO Max thriller
As production gets underway on the crime thriller, Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move, formerly titled Kill Switch, has assembled an ensemble cast including Don Cheadle (Ocean’s Trilogy), Benicio del Toro (Sicario), David Harbour (Black Widow), Jon Hamm (Tag), Ray Liotta (Marriage Story) and many more!
RELATED: Steven Soderbergh Reveals He’s Written Sex, Lies, and Videotape Sequel
Alongside the five,

Enter ComingSoon’s The Pale Door giveaway from RLJE Films & Shudder!
RLJE Films and Shudder have provided ComingSoon.net with two Blu-ray copies of the thrilling Weird Western horror pic The Pale Door ahead of its October 6 release! The winners (must be within the U.S.) will be picked at random by Wednesday, September 30 and all you have to do to win is email your name with the subject line “THE PALE DOOR” to [email protected]!
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Apple have confirmed full details of their new documentary feature film about Billie Eilish.
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry will come to cinemas and the Apple TV+ streaming service next February.
The forthcoming documentary, which has been teased by Eilish for nearly a year, is directed by R.J. Cutler and produced in collaboration with Eilish’s label, Interscope Records.
A short trailer for the film was released today (September 28), which announces its title and release

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The Walking Dead Season 10 Finale Sneak Peek Released
AMC has released a new sneak peek for The Walking Dead Season 10 finale from the 16th episode of the season titled “A Certain Doom,” premiering on Sunday, October 4. You can check out the sneak peek now in the video below!
RELATED: First Look: The Walking Dead Coming to Magic the Gathering
The Walking Dead Season 11 will air in 2021 and it was also announced that Season 10 will be getting six additional episo

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The Haunting of Bly Manor Featurette: Go Behind-the-Scenes with Creator Mike Flanagan
Netflix has released a new behind-the-scenes video for The Haunting of Bly Manor, featuring Mike Flanagan, the creator of the acclaimed The Haunting horror anthology series, and executive producer Trevor Macy talking about the road from 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House to the new installment. Set to premiere on October 9, you can check out the video now in the player below!Home sweet Hau

The upcoming Blumhouse reboot of supernatural horror The Craft is set to be released on streaming from next month.
The original 1996 movie starred Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Rachel True, and Fairuza Balk as a group of young high school outcasts who discover the secrets of witchcraft and use their powers unwisely.READ MORE: 13 new bands who totally look like they’re in The CraftHowever, it has been confirmed that the reboot will now avoid a cinema release and instead head straig

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First Look: The Walking Dead Coming to Magic the Gathering
Wizards of the Coast has today announced their latest Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drop, a one-of-a-kind crossover with the universe of AMC’s The Walking Dead, which will be launching October 4. This super-limited drop will include an all-premium-foil set of cards, with all but one of them being revealed in the coming weeks and the last one being kept a secret for players to discover. Check out a preview of the

One of the very best independent animators / filmmakers making movies right now is Tomm Moore. This isn't even a subjective opinion, it's pretty much just a fact at this point. Moore's third feature film is titled Wolfwalkers, and it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this year. Ohh my it's magnificent. This movie follows his other two underrated, outstanding animated features The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014). Wolfwalkers is actually co-directed by Tomm Moore and his lo

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Video: Kajillionaire interviews with Evan Rachel Wood & Miranda July
Ahead of the film’s highly-anticipated limited theatrical release, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld) and writer/director Miranda July (The Future) to discuss the acclaimed indie crime dramedy Kajillionaire. Our interviews can be viewed in the player below!
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Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings Series Resumes Production in New Zealand
Deadline is reporting that production has resumed on Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series in New Zealand with Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop expected to resume filming there as well on Wednesday, September 30. The series adaptation of The Lord of the Rings received an early Season 2 renewal last year, and the outlet notes the show’s writing team used the hiatus to map out and write scripts

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness Teaser Released for Netflix’s Original Horror Series
Netflix has released a new teaser for Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, an original horror anime series based on the Capcom video game franchise coming to the streamer in 2021. You can check out the teaser now in the player below along with the teaser art for the upcoming series!
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Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness w

"Any artist that… creates something that changes anyone's life, has made it." Have you heard of the band The Matches? Bleeding Audio is an excellent documentary film about this "local" band and their story of success and failure. Told through the eyes of quirky, charming, and humble bandmates: Shawn, Jon, Matt, and Justin, Bleeding Audio is an intimate portrait detailing The Matches' promising career, defeating break up, and inspiring reunion, as they reflect on what success means for mu

Spiderhead: Chris Hemsworth, Jurnee Smollett & Miles Teller Join Netflix Drama
According to Entertainment Weekly, Netflix’s drama feature Spiderhead has added MCU alum Chris Hemsworth (Thor: Ragnarok, Extraction, Bad Times at the El Royale), Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country, Birds of Prey, The Great Debaters), and Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick, Whiplash, Only the Brave) to its cast. The story is based on the short story Escape from Spiderhead by George Saunders that first ran in T

CS Interviews: Tye Sheridan Talks Wireless
The fantastic new mini-series Wireless is currently streaming on Quibi and to celebrate we sat down and discussed the show with star Tye Sheridan and the actor discussed everything from the technical challenges presented by the show’s unique new format and also shared his thoughts on cell phones and their place in society.
In Wireless, on a sparsely traveled road deep in the Colorado mountains, college student Andy Braddock (Sheridan) drives to a

Henry Golding has responded to accusations of casual racism in his film The Gentlemen.
The actor appeared in the Guy Ritchie gangster movie alongside the likes of Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant, taking on the role of Dry Eye.
READ MORE: Henry Golding: “People don’t see me as fully British”
However, the film was accused of racism, particularly in one line voiced by Grant’s character Fletcher in which he puts on a faux-Chinese accent.
However, Golding has defended

"Bresson must have really wanted to keep this a secret." Not a secret anymore! GKids has released the full-length official US trailer (with subtitles) for Lupin III: The First, the very first CGI animated Lupin the 3rd movie to be made. It already opened in Japan last year (we featured two trailers) and played at this year's Annecy Film Festival. GKids will finally be giving this animated adventure a theatrical release in the US starting October. The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns i

Star Wars HasLab Razor Crest Is Fully Funded, Stretch Goal Announced
That was fast. A mere day after Hasbro announced a Razor Crest vehicle from The Mandalorian for crowd-funded preorder, it hit the goal. And now, Hasbro just announced first of two stretch goals. Should the HasLab Razor Crest hit 8,000 backers (spoiler: it will), the sculpt will add in a detachable escape pod. As seen in the diagram above, the pod will fit into the roof, and offer space for Mando to lie down. (And not much

First Look At Javicia Leslie As the New Batwoman
Batwoman is back in production, and there’s a new hero in Gotham City. Ruby Rose’s Kate Kane is gone, and in her place. Javicia Leslie’s Ryan Wilder will take up the mantle.  While it’s unclear how much of the new season has been filmed, Leslie has shared the first official image of Ryan as Batwoman.
So far, it’s appears to be the same mask and wig that Kate wore into battle. However, Leslie promises that R

Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 7 Recap
In the previous episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country, we saw what happened with Tic and Ji-Ah during his time in the Korean War. In Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 7, Hippolyta followed a clue from Hiram’s orrery, and Ruby and Leti reconciled.
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When Hippolyta and Dee went to Ardham, they found the wreckage and George’s burned travel comic. When she got back, she obsessed over getting the orrery to work. Hippolyta figured out that

"We don't see the war, but war is taking place." HBO has unveiled a trailer for a documentary titled The Perfect Weapon, from doc filmmaker John Maggio, based on a best-selling book ("The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age") by NY Times national security correspondent David E. Sanger. The doc film explores the rise of cyber conflict as the primary way nations now compete with and sabotage one another. A worthy follow-up to Alex Gibney's Zero Days doc, also about cyber warf

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In a recent chat with Arnold Schwarzenegger ahead of the 2020 Austrian World Summit (via EW.com), director James Cameron revealed the state of his long awaited Avatar sequels. Good news is, the first sequel is already done shooting. Bad news is, we have to wait until December of 2022 to see it. You can check out the full discussion below!“COVID hit us like it hit everybody… We lost about four and a half months of

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Tenet Remains Atop Quiet Box Office
The domestic box office continued its sluggish march through the month of September with another mediocre showing. Per Deadline, Tenet remained atop the charts with $3.4M, down some 26% from last week, which brings its total to $41.2M at 2,850 locations in the U.S. Globally, Christopher Nolan’s epic has risen to $283.2M thanks to strong showings in China ($64.3M), UK ($19.6M), France ($18M), Germany ($14.6M) and Korea ($13.1M). Pic also

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Boys Season 2 Episode 6 Recap
In the previous episode of Amazon’s The Boys, Annie broke into Stormfront’s trailer, and Homelander and Stormfront started an affair. In The Boys Season 2 Episode 6, Annie’s lead brought The Boys to Sage Grove Center, and Homelander confronted Stormfront when she left the set during shooting.
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Annie got Frenchie to remove her tracking chip. She gave them a lead from Stormfront’s emails: Sage Grove Center. F

Sienna Miller has revealed that Chadwick Boseman took money out of his own salary from 21 Bridges to boost her pay on the film.
The actress opened up about the late Black Panther star’s generosity in a new interview following his death last month after a four-year battle with colon cancer.
READ MORE: Chadwick Boseman – 1976-2020: a real-life superhero who gave hope to many
Miller starred alongside Boseman in thriller 21 Bridges last year, and as a producer on the film, he played

Aldis Hodge looks set to take on the role of Hawkman in Dwayne Johnson’s upcoming DC project Black Adam.
The actor, who recently starred in The Invisible Man, is in final talks to join the movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.READ MORE: In praise of The Rock: why Dwayne Johnson is the hero we all needAlthough he has been reimagined as different incarnations throughout DC Comics’ history, reports suggest the Black Adam version of Hawkman will be Carter Hall, an archaeologis

A YouTuber has created a new parody version of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s ‘WAP’ video using clips from classic Disney films — check out the clip below.
The much-discussed accompanying music video for the rappers’ August-released collaborative single has already produced a graphic sign language video, a TikTok mash-up with Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ and themed merchandise.
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Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara have reportedly welcomed a baby son named River.
The news was revealed at the Zurich Film Festival by director Victor Kossakovsky while promoting his movie Gunda – on which the Oscar-winning star is an executive producer.
Explaining the actor’s absence, he said: “He just got a baby, by the way, his name was… a beautiful son named River, so he cannot promote it [the film] now.”
The name is a touching tribute to Joaquin’s brother