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"Believe it or not I was young once, too." A girl’s walk home alone at night turns into a surreal nightmare. The Three Men You Meet at Night is a horror short film from writer / director Beck Kitsis and it's now available to watch online after a successful festival run throughout the year. The film is about a young woman walking home alone at night after a party. She encounters three different types of men. Whom can she trust? You probably already know the answer to that question, of cour

Exclusive: Michael Rooker Reflects on Mallrats & Super Anniversaries!
While chatting with the 65-year-old star for his role in the post-apocalyptic rom-com Love and Monsters, ComingSoon.net took a step back in time with Michael Rooker to reflect on the tenth anniversary of James Gunn’s Super and the 25th anniversary of Kevin Smith’s Mallrats. Our interview can be viewed in the player below!
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"I'm not gonna be around for much longer…" "Don't say that." Bulldog Film Distribution from the UK has released an official trailer for an indie British crime thriller titled Looted, which originally premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival late last year. Looted is directed by up-and-coming filmmaker Rene van Pannevis, whose short film Jacked won the BIFA in 2016. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Rene's own experiences with his father - and living on the fringes

Streaming platform Quibi reportedly shutting down
After six months of struggling to amass strong subscription numbers since its launch and failing to find a buyer to keep them afloat, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile streaming platform Quibi is reportedly shutting down, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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According to the report, Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman called an investor on Wednesday to confirm that

Jared Leto will portray The Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it’s been revealed.
Leto, who played the classic DC villain in 2016’s Suicide Squad, will reprise the role in a new context. The Joker did not appear in Justice League (2017), which raises questions as to how much new content could be included in Snyder’s re-versioning of the 2017 movie.Read more: Zack Snyder’s Justice League is finally on the way – but does it have to take itself so seriously?

Sony’s Don’t Breathe Sequel & Ghostbusters: Afterlife Get New Release Dates
Sony Pictures has scheduled Screen Gems’ Don’t Breathe sequel for an August 13, 2021 release date. Additionally, Sony has moved Columbia Pictures’ Ghostbusters: Afterlife to June 11, 2021, from its March 5, 2021 release date. The film will now debut the same weekend as the first Ghostbusters film, which premiered on June 8, 1984.
The Don’t Breathe sequel will now open against 20th

Jared Leto Returning to Play Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Jared Leto is reprising his Suicide Squad Joker in Zack Snyder’s Justice League as the actor has reportedly joined the reshoots for the highly-anticipated Snyder Cut. Shooting is currently underway with Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, and Amber Heard among those involved with the reshoots.
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"It is precisely when you give up hope that good things happen." Netflix has released an official trailer for The Life Ahead, an emotional Italian drama made by filmmaker Edoardo Ponti starring the one-and-only glorious Sophia Loren. A contemporary adaptation of the international bestseller "The Life Before Us" by Romain Gary. In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her. the two lonely individuals find an unlikely fami

Lionsgate has revealed an official trailer for an amusing comedy titled The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, bringing back everyone's favorite Australian animal lover Paul Hogan - better known as Crocodile Dundee! Paul Hogan plays himself in this raucous comedy. Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted in the comedy that also stars John Cleese, Chevy Chase, Olivia Newton-John, and also Jacob Elordi as

New to Stream: OVID’s November 2020 Movie Lineup
OVID.tv, the curated streaming destination for documentaries and art-house films, has announced its November streaming lineup. On November 6, OVID brings out its first post-election release, the restored version of legendary situationist Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, based on his 1967 book.
Premiering on November 18, From What is Before, winner of five prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, is Lav Diaz’s extraordinary

Exclusive Most Guys Are Losers Trailer Starring Mira Sorvino & Andy Buckley
ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for the upcoming romantic comedy Most Guys Are Losers, starring Oscar winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Andy Buckley (The Office). You can check out the trailer now in the player below!
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Sandy’s new boyfriend, Bo, meets all the criteria for a good partner (and she knows it)! However, wh

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNia DaCosta’s Candyman Set for August 2021 Release!
After initially being pulled from the schedule for an unset 2021 release, Universal Pictures has officially set Nia DaCosta’s upcoming Candyman revival starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (The Trial of the Chicago 7) for an August 27, 2021 release date.
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Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Us) unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban leg

Gordon Green, McBride & MacFarlane team for Smokey and the Bandit series
While already busy at work developing Clive Barker’s Hellraiser for the small screen, David Gordon Green has found another iconic film franchise to bring to television in the form of the road action comedy Smokey and the Bandit, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Green is partnering with frequent collaborator Brian Sid

Mercy Sparx: MGM Nabs Rights to Supernatural Comic Book Series
According to Deadline, MGM has successfully acquired the screen rights to Devil’s Due Publishing’s supernatural comic book series titled Mercy Sparx which centers around a female demon who’s hunting down rogue angels on Earth. The studio is also eyeing this project as a potential franchise-starter that is being described as a female version of Keanu Reeves’ Constantine.
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Netflix’s The Life Ahead Trailer Starring Sophia Loren
Netflix has released the official trailer for the upcoming drama The Life Ahead, starring Academy Award winner Sophia Loren (Two Women). Arriving in select theaters next month and on Netflix on November 13, you can check out the trailer for the movie now in the player below!
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In the colorful Italian port city of Bari, the streetwise 12-year-old Senegalese or

FXX greenlights Archer for 12th season!
Following a big boost in ratings from previous seasons and just ahead of its 11th season finale, FXX has elected to greenlight a 12th season of its acclaimed animated spy comedy Archer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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“Archer is back in a big way this season, with viewership up as the Emmy Award-winning spy series returns to its roots and begin

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee Trailer: His legacy is more than a croc
Lionsgate has unveiled the official trailer for the meta-fueled Australian comedy The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee which sees outback legend Paul Hogan return to films as himself as he seeks to prove his legacy is more than a croc. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!
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Co-written and directed by Dean Murphy, the film centers

"We're going to get you." Warner Bros has released the official trailer for a Christmas horror movie titled Toys of Terror, being released direct-to-VOD at the end of this month (just in time for Halloween). A big family moves into a dusty old house in the snowy woods of Washington with hopes of it being a nice holiday escape. But the kids soon discover a stash of old toys that just so happen to belong to a creepy ghost boy. As stranger and stranger things start to happen, some of the kids begi

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Exclusive Spreads for Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History – Revised And Expanded Edition
In celebration of Back to the Future Day and the 35th Anniversary of the original movie, ComingSoon.net has two exclusive spreads from Insight Editions’ Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History – Revised and Expanded Edition, arriving on November 3. You can pre-order your copy here and check out the exclusive spreads in the gallery below!
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"Imagine a man, with nothing, penniless, come to the most powerful country in the world. And he built something." Greenwich Ent. has released an official trailer for the documentary The Donut King, which premiered at a few small film festivals (online) earlier this summer. From director Alice Gu, The Donut King tells the story of "donut king" Ted Ngoy's rise and fall (of the B & B Donuts empire). Ngoy's story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, redemption. It’s the rags to ri

Nicolas Cage has told Marilyn Manson in a new interview about the time he made $20,000 gambling before giving it to charity.
The actor opened up to the musician, who he has been friends with for years, in a new feature for Interview magazine in which the pair reflected on Cage’s life and career.
Read more: Nicolas Cage: “I’m not nostalgic about my early work”
Manson asked Cage about his gambling habits, considering the actor currently lives in Las Vegas.
“The l

New to Netflix November 2020: All Movies & Shows Coming and Going
The list for the new Netflix November 2020 movies and TV titles has been released, which you can now view below along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service next month. The November slate includes the premieres of The Crown Season 4, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, and more! You can check out the full list below! (via Vital Thrills)
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Animaniacs Reboot Trailer Takes On the 21st Century
Hulu has released the new Animaniacs trailer for executive producer Steven Spielberg’s upcoming revival of the iconic animated series, featuring the return of the series’ characters as they catch up on everything they’ve missed these past 22 years. Also featuring our first look at Pinky and Brain, you can check out the meta trailer below!NARF! Hope we didn’t miss too much while we were gone! All-new episodes of #An

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Derek Kolstad Teases Appearances From Early MCU Characters
During a recent interview at Script Apart podcast, John Wick creator Derek Kolstad has finally opened up about his involvement with Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier by revealing a new detail about the highly-anticipated MCU series. Kolstad teased that the upcoming series features the appearances of some characters from early MCU movies while also aiming to put the sp

"I can taste the salt of my tears as I swallow the truth." The BIG We has released a brand new 2020 trailer for an indie film titled Follow Me Home, which originally premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and opened in theaters in 1997. Written & directed by Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Peter Bratt, the film stars Alfre Woodard, Benjamin Bratt, Jesse Borrego, Calvin Levels, Steve Reevis, featuring a then-unknown Salma Hayek. Drawing upon Native, African and Latino culture, Follow M

Legally Blonde 3 Sets New Release Date for 2022
Following yesterday’s Legally Blonde virtual reunion, MGM has officially set the release date for their long-in development Reese Witherspoon-led third installment which will be co-written by Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor. Originally scheduled for an early 2020 release, Legally Blonde 3 will now hit the theaters on May 2022, which would be four years after the project was first introduced in 2018. Elle Woods is back! Legally Blonde 3 coming

Frank Oz to Reprise Yoda in Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge
Ahead of its launch this coming November, ILMxLAB and Lucasfilm has officially announced that Star Wars alum Frank Oz is set to reprise his iconic role as Jedi Master Yoda in their highly-anticipated virtual reality adventure Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge. This announcement also came with the release of a new gameplay trailer which you can check out below, featuring our first look at the ret

BEGIN SLIDESHOWDavid Fincher’s Mank trailer takes Gary Oldman to 1930s Hollywood
Netflix has released the full Mank trailer for acclaimed filmmaker David Fincher’s upcoming black-and-white biopic drama, featuring Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Herman Mankiewicz as he tries to finish writing Citizen Kane while facing personal problems involving his family and career. Also starring Amanda Seyfried, the film will make its debut in select theaters this November,

BEGIN SLIDESHOWRaya and the Last Dragon Teaser Introduces Disney’s New Badass Hero
Walt Disney Animation Studios has finally released the official Raya and the Last Dragon teaser trailer for their highly-anticipated animated fantasy film, providing us with our first look at Kelly Marie Tran as her character tries to restore peace within her world by trying to find the last dragon. Check out the Raya and the Last Dragon teaser in the player below!
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"At this rate you will never finish." Netflix has revealed the full-length trailer + poster for David Fincher's new film Mank, arriving in theaters this fall. Fincher is back!! He's directing a script originally written by his late father, Jack Fincher, about the writer of Citizen Kane, named Herman J. Mankiewicz. The black & white film follows "Mank's" tumultuous development of Orson Welles' iconic masterpiece Citizen Kane as he races to finish it. Starring Gary Oldman as Herman J. Mankiew

"Did you ever doubt Rocky?!" Wavelength Productions has unveiled an official trailer for a fascinating new sports documentary titled Maybe Next Year, made by Philadelphia native filmmaker Kyle Thrash. This originally premiered at the Philadelphia Film Festival last year, because of course it just had to play there. Maybe Next Year is the story of four superfans' fanatical obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team during their incredible 2017 Super Bowl winning season. The documen

"Now to restore peace, I must find the last dragon. My name is Raya." Disney has unveiled the first teaser trailer for Disney Animation's exciting new action adventure movie Raya and the Last Dragon, being directed by the filmmakers Don Hall (of Big Hero 6, Moana) and Carlos López Estrada (of Blindspotting, Summertime). In a realm known as Lumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon. However, along her jou

The full trailer for David Fincher’s new Netflix film Mank has just been released – watch it now below.
The film, due for release at the end of the year, will retell the story of Citizen Kane writer Herman J. Mankiewicz as he struggles to finish the screenplay of Orson Welles’ iconic film.
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Mankiewicz will be played by Gary Oldman, who most recently won an Oscar for his portrayal of Winston Churchil

Sigourney Weaver has revealed she filmed parts of Avatar 2 underwater.
The actress, who is set to return in the sequel films of James Cameron’s franchise, told the New York Times how she spent time learning how to hold her breath for more than six minutes.
Read more: Avatar – it’s not the future of cinema, but it is damn good
Weaver said she prepared for the film by deep sea diving in Key West, Florida and Hawaii, where she would “recline on the ocean floor while man

Jonny Greenwood has said which Paul Thomas Anderson score is his favourite.
The Radiohead guitarist composed the original scores for four of the filmmaker’s features – There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice and Phantom Thread.Read more: Jonny Greenwood on the chances of there being a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ style Radiohead movieInterviewed by Adam Nayman for Masterworks, a new book about Paul Thomas Anderson’s career, Greenwood named his prou

IDLES and The Streets are among the subjects who feature in the music films that will be screened as part of this year’s Doc’n Roll Film Festival.
The music documentary festival is returning for its seventh edition from November 4-15, with films set to be screened in a select number of cinemas and venues as well as online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Among the films set to be screened are the Idles documentary Don’t Go Gentle and the world premiere of The Streets: None Of U

The Fast and Furious film franchise is set to conclude after two final movies, Universal has confirmed.
The saga, which began in 2001 with The Fast and Furious, currently comprises of nine films including F9, which is set for release next year.
Justin Lin, who is currently in post-production on the ninth film, is in talks to direct the final two films, according to Deadline.
There is no word yet on when production might begin or which cast members might return – includi

Chris Pratt has been defended by his Avengers co-stars Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana and Robert Downey Jr, after he was dubbed “the worst Hollywood Chris”.
The Guardians of the Galaxy star was the subject of a Twitter poll, asking which Chris out of Pratt, Pine, Evans and Hemsworth should be removed from Hollywood.
Pratt quickly attracted criticism from a widespread array on Twitter users – who criticised his perceived support for the Republican Party and his attendance at a church

BEGIN SLIDESHOWUniversal wrapping Fast & Furious franchise, Lin to helm final two films
It was an idea hinted at by cast and crew a few years ago and now it’s been confirmed that Universal Pictures will be wrapping up its nearly $6 billion Fast & Furious franchise with two final films and have tapped five-time franchise director Justin Lin to helm both, according to Deadline.
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"Head straight there, don't slow down, I'll handle the MTF." Time to ride into the future. Talented visual storyteller Joe Sill has dropped a new short film online. His latest project is called Autonomous, a proof-of-concept short for a bigger project created using CG animation. The film is an animated cyberpunk thriller centered around a motorcycle gang of traffickers in a world of autonomous vehicles. Yuri and her brother Nyx face off against the Metro Task Force as they transport an importan