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"Very clear that there's a contagion effect…" Global Digital Releasing has debuted an official trailer for an indie documentary titled Bullied, the latest doc film made by philosophy professor Dr. Thomas Keith. A really powerful film, Bullied traces bullying and the effects of bullying, but also the methods and programs that have proven efficacious in reducing bullying. This award-winning documentary discusses the reasons for, consequences of, and solutions to bullying taking place in sc

January 26 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s January 26 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
Batman: Soul of the DragonFaced with a deadly menace from his past, Bruce Wayne must enlist the help of three former classmates to battle the otherworldy challenges ahead.
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Disney+’s Pinocchio film adds Luke Evans as The Coachman
After already helping bring the iconic Disney villain Gaston to life in the House of Mouse’s live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, Luke Evans is ready for another chilling antagonist as he’s joining Tom Hanks in the Robert Zemeckis-helmed Pinocchio as Pleasure Island owner and operator The Coachman, according to Deadline.
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Vikings creator Michael Hirst adapting The Great Gatsby at A+E
After receiving multiple big-screen adaptations since its 1925 publishing, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is finally making its way to the small screen as Vikings creator Michael Hirst has signed on to develop a series iteration at A+E Studios and ITV Studios America, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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"The slightest bloody thing makes you hit the roof." Juno Films has released a promo trailer for a doc called The Most Beautiful Boy in the World, which is premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival soon. In 1971, at the world premiere of Death in Venice in London, Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti proclaimed Björn Andrésen, the teen star of his latest film, "The most beautiful boy in the world." This is the story of a boy who was thrust to international stardom for his iconic l

John Boyega and Robert De Niro are to star together in a new Netflix drama.
The Formula, directed by Burning Sands‘ Gerard McMurray, will follow a story about a prodigious racing driver who becomes a getaway driver to help save his family.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, McMurray will write, direct and produce the film while Jane Rosenthal, De Niro and Berry Welsh will produce the project.Earlier this week (January 25), Boyega said making films for huge franchises is an

Amy Adams & A24 teaming for TV adaptation of Outlawed
After properly exploring the world of television with the Emmy-nominated HBO adaptation of Sharp Objects, Amy Adams is ready to return to the small screen behind the camera as she is teaming up with A24 to produce a series adaptation of Outlawed, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Written by Anna North and published earlier this month, the no

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Godzilla vs. Kong Delayed a Week, Plus James Wan’s Malignant Set for September
Warner Bros.’ Godzilla vs. Kong domestic release has been delayed from March 26, 2021, to the following week, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Additionally, James Wan’s upcoming horror movie Malignant has been dated for a September 10, 2021 release in theaters and IMAX from New Line Cinema, as well as on HBO Max. The movie will be available on the streamer for 31 days from its theatrical r

Human Traffic director Justin Kerrigan has confirmed that the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic is “ready to go.”READ MORE: NME Investigates — the rise of illegal ravesThe original Human Traffic film was released in 1999 and was set over the course of a drug-fuelled weekend in Cardiff. The film starred Danny Dyer, John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes and Nicola Reynolds.
A sequel has been hinted at for years and in 2019, Human Traffic: The Revolutio

"This guy's the first Millennial gangster." Lionsgate has unveiled an official trailer for a movie called Silk Road, telling the rise & fall story of the founder of the infamous darkweb drug website called "Silk Road". This hasn't premiered at any film festivals and is heading straight to VOD in February for any curious to watch. Philosophical 20-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells narcotics, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him in. N

Robert Rodriguez teaming with Skydance for Spy Kids reimagining
It’s been a decade since Robert Rodriguez’s hit family adventure comedy franchise Spy Kids made it to the big screen with its fourth installment and now the writer/director is teaming up with Skydance Media and Spyglass Media Group to develop a reimagining of the series, according to Deadline.
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The new film, which will see Rod

Silk Road Trailer Features Nick Robinson as an Internet Drug Lord
Lionsgate Movies has released the official Silk Road trailer for their upcoming crime thriller film, featuring Nick Robinson as his character runs an Amazon-like drug-selling website while Jason Clarke’s character tries to hunt him down. The film will arrive in select theaters, on digital and on VOD on February 19, 2021. Check out the video in the player below!
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"You're on my property!" Dark Star Pictures + Bloody Disgusting have unveiled the first official trailer for an indie mystery horror titled Honeydew, marking the feature directorial debut of Devereux Milburn. This looks super fucked up, so watch out - only for real die-hard horror fans. The film originally premiered at the Tribeca and Nightstream Film Festivals last year. Strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her pecul

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With this weekend bringing the arrival of the long-awaited first trailer for the crossover installment of Legendary’s MonsterVerse, Godzilla vs. Kong, we are asking our readers which titular creature they’d like to see come out victorious in the action blockbuster. Let us know your thoughts in the poll and comments below!
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Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland Featurette Highlights Life on the Road
Searchlight Pictures has released a new featurette for director Chloé Zhao’s forthcoming drama film Nomadland, featuring Zhao and Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand as they talk about the process of creating the film’s main character. The acclaimed film will be arriving on Friday, February 19 on Hulu as well as in select theaters and drive-ins. Check out the video in

10 Hawkeye Comics to Read Before the Disney+ Series
ComingSoon.net has picked a handful of comics to read before Clint Barton and Kate Bishop’s Disney+ Hawkeye series premieres later this year. Check out our selections below!
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Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe began its inevitable dominance of the small screen with the premiere of WandaVision. Following in its footsteps is The Falcon and the Winter Sol

Glenn Close has opened up about the fact she has never won an Oscar in a new interview.READ MORE: Oscars 2021: Who will win at the Academy Awards next year? Speaking to Variety, Close spoke about nominations and lack of a win to date, asking: “Is it better to be wheeled out in a wheelchair and get the Lifetime Achievement Award? You don’t have to make a speech.”
She continued: “It’s beyond me. I don’t know what to say about that. I just have to

Borderlands: Kevin Hart Joins Eli Roth’s Video Game Adaptation
TheWrap brings word that Emmy nominee Kevin Hart (Ride Along, Central Intelligence, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) has joined Cate Blanchett in filmmaker Eli Roth’s upcoming Borderlands video game adaptation feature for Lionsgate after months of negotiations.
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Hart will reportedly play Roland in the film that will be directed by Roth. The

"The Matrix was real." Bring on this cinematic mindfuck! Magnolia has debuted the full-length trailer for A Glitch in the Matrix, the latest film by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher - of Room 237, The Nightmare, and The El Duce Tapes. This is premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival this week, and will be released on VOD right away only a week later. A Glitch in the Matrix tackles this question "are we living in a simulation?" with testimony, philosophical evidence and scienti

CS Interview: Richard Kelly talks Southland Tales’ Cannes 15th anniversary
As the film nears its 15th anniversary of debuting at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and in time for the new Blu-ray release featuring that infamous cut, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with Southland Tales writer/director Richard Kelly to discuss the latter and revisiting the polarizing cult classic sci-fi crime thriller.
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"Did you lose him?" Clubb Guitos has revealed the first official trailer for Mother Schmuckers, a wacky new Belgian comedy premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival this month. The film screens in the Midnight category, and marks the feature directorial debut of two Belgian brothers - Harpo Guit & Lenny Guit. In the film, Issachar and Zabulon, two brothers in their 20s, are supremely stupid and never bored, as madness is part of their daily lives. When they lose their mother's beloved d

RLJE Films acquires Nicolas Cage-led Prisoners of the Ghostland
Ahead of its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this week, AMC Networks’ RLJE Films has acquired the domestic rights to the Nicolas Cage (Wally’s Wonderland)-starring action/adventure Prisoners of the Ghostland.
RELATED: Willy’s Wonderland Trailer Released for Nicolas Cage-Led Horror Thriller
Prisoners of the Ghostland is set in the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town where a ru

Edgar Wright’s new film Last Night in Soho has been delayed again, now to October, Variety reports.
The psychological thriller was originally due for release in September 2020, and was then rescheduled for April 2021. The release is now provisionally set for October of this year.READ MORE: ‘Soundtrack Of My Life: Edgar WrightAnya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit) stars in the film as the lead character, a young girl in 1960s London who meets her idol, a singer, before t

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To celebrate the film’s digital debut and forthcoming Blu-ray and DVD release, Universal Pictures has unveiled two new clips from the hit horror-comedy Freaky giving viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the bloody twist on the body-swapping genre. The clips can be viewed in the player below!
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has confirmed the film contains a nod to Han Solo.Read more: Star Wars movie order: a definitive viewing chronology for the galaxy far, far awayIn the film’s opening scene, the Resistance takes the fight to the First Order, and shows a number of bombs as part of one of the attacks.
Translating the alien language written on one of the bombs, one fan pointed out the message reads “Han says hi,” which would act as a tribute to Solo wh

Greenland Blu-ray Details & Release Date Revealed!
After debuting via PVOD last month and ahead of its arrival on HBO Max, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has unveiled the details and release date for the Blu-ray of the Gerard Butler-led disaster pic Greenland, which is hitting shelves this February!
RELATED: CS Video: Greenland Interview With Gerard Butler & Morena Baccarin@GerardButler and @missmorenab star in the thrilling #GreenlandMovie. Own it TODAY on Digital HD a

Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel Trailer Released
Netflix has released the official trailer for the upcoming documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, premiering on the streamer on February 10, 2021. You can check out the trailer now in the player below!
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Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is the first season in a new documentar

Invincible: Robert Kirkman Says Live-Action Film Won’t Connect With Amazon’s Animated Series
In a recent interview with EW, producer Robert Kirkman has finally given an update about his long-in-development live-action film adaptation of his popular comic book series Invincible, confirming that the project is still moving forward and is in the early stages at Universal Pictures with The Boys co-creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg also attached as writers and producers.
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"The fish is running out of time." Scream Factory has released an official trailer for a very strange, trippy, visually distinct thriller titled The Pond, made by a Serbian filmmaker named Petar Pasic. This hasn't hit any film festivals but is dropping straight to VOD next month for anyone curious about it. Marco Canadea stars as an anthropology professor kicked out from his university for claiming to be on the threshold of an apocalyptic discovery. But someone or something is still interested

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Ahead of the film’s arrival in theaters and on Disney+ Premier Access, ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to take a virtual trip behind the scenes of Walt Disney Animation’s latest fantasy adventure Raya and the Last Dragon, including seeing some new concept art and images that can be viewed in the gallery below!
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Exclusive Rage Trailer: Love Can Make You Do Horrible Things
ComingSoon.net is debuting the exclusive trailer for the upcoming Australian indie thriller film Rage, starring Matt Theo (Night Shift), Hayley Beveridge (Dead Moon Circus), and Richard Norton (Mad Max: Fury Road). Releasing in North America on February 23 by Gravitas Ventures, you can check out the trailer for the suspenseful revenge thriller now in the player below!
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The Mandalorian Season 3 Sets Production Start in April
According to the Film & Television Industry Alliance, Lucasfilm is currently expecting to start production on the highly-anticipated third season of The Mandalorian on April 5, 2021, in Los Angeles. This news comes after more than two months since the popular Star Wars series concluded its 8-episode second season.JUST NOW: “The Mandalorian” season 3 will begin shooting on April 5, 2021 –> https://t.co/QKFta5N5vf pi

BEGIN SLIDESHOWWandaVision Will Provide Closer Look at Wanda’s Past with Quicksilver
In a recent interview with The Wrap, WandaVision head writer Jac Schaeffer had the chance to address the MCU series’ slow-burn start, promising fans that their lingering questions will finally be answered in the upcoming episodes. She also teased that WandaVision will get to explore and provide a closer look at the titular leads’ past experiences including Wanda and Pietro/Quicksilver’s m

Joel Kinnaman Explains Where RoboCop Remake Went Wrong
Once upon a time, we got a remake of RoboCop starring Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Keaton… and the results were, let’s just say, mixed at best. The film looked great but lacked the edge of the original 1987 classic. In a recent interview with The Playlist Podcast, Kinnaman revealed where he felt the reboot went wrong.
“I had to quell all my instincts for everything over the course of that film

Apple TV+’s Fraggle Rock Reboot Begins Filming in Canada
According to Global News Canada, production on Apple TV+’s upcoming Fraggle Rock reboot from The Jim Henson Company has officially started in Calgary. The classic series was originally filmed in Toronto. This news comes nearly a year since Apple debuted a special set of quarantine-shot episodes titled Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
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Monsters at Work: Billy Crystal Talks Disney+’s Monsters, Inc. Series
It has been more than a year since Disney + made the first announcement about the development of a Monsters, Inc. sequel series, and now franchise star Billy Crystal has finally opened up about Monsters at Work, confirming that the project is still moving forward at the streamer. Speaking with Collider, Crystal revealed that he and the voice cast along with fellow franchise star John Goodman are really having fun with t

BEGIN SLIDESHOWRaya and the Last Dragon trailer teases journey to unite the world
Walt Disney Animation Studios has released the first full trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon, their highly-anticipated animated fantasy film, featuring the voices of Kelly Marie Tran and Awkwafina. The video also give us a preview of the characters that will help Raya in journey of uniting the world as well as a first-look at the enemy. Check out the new trailer in the player below!
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWThor: Love and Thunder Finally Begins Production in Australia
MCU star Chris Hemsworth took to Instagram to announce that production has officially begun on Marvel Studios’ highly-anticipated Thor: Love and Thunder in Australia. Filming was originally supposed to commence last August, but due to the ongoing pandemic Marvel Studios and Disney had to delay and shift the release date for the upcoming MCU film. Check out Hemsworth’s full post below which also features dire

"The world's broken… you can trust anyone." "Maybe it's broken because you don't trust anyone." Disney has debuted a full-length official 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). The first teaser arrived last fall and this new trailer packs a punch. In a realm known as Lumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited b

FKA twigs has said she was targeted with vile racist abuse during her relationship with Robert Pattinson.
The singer, who was engaged to the actor before their split in 2017, said she was subjected to “hurtful and ignorant” comments from some of his fans during their three-year relationship.
Speaking to Louis Theroux on the Grounded podcast, Twigs said: “People just called me the most hurtful and ignorant and horrible names on the planet.”
“He was their white Prince

A new clip from Sia‘s forthcoming directorial debut Music has just been released – check it out below.
The new extract sees Leslie Odom Jr.’s character Ebo explain to Kate Hudson’s character Zu how Maddie Ziegler, who plays the titular character, a young girl on the autism spectrum, sees the world differently.
Check out the new clip here:Sia was criticised last year by the autistic community for casting Ziegler in the role instead of working with an actor with experi

Over 50 women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct will share a $17million (£12.4million) payout, a US bankruptcy judge has confirmed.
The sum will be taken from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co., Weinstein’s production company which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.READ MORE: Billie Eilish made a powerful statement about body shaming, and the response proved just how necessary it wasPer the BBC, judge Mary Walrath explained that 83 per c

Cineworld staff members have responded to the company’s bosses’ bonus scheme, calling it “utterly despicable.”
Responding to the news that Cineworld bosses would be set to receive more than £200 million in shares in a recently greenlit incentive scheme (per the Guardian), Cineworld Action Group took to Twitter to condemn the new decision.Read more: UK cinema staff react to closures: “The government and studios have left us to rot”“This is utte

Egerton & Walter Hauser eyed for Apple TV+’s In With the Devil series
While already set to star in the streaming platform’s Tetris biopic feature, Taron Egerton is expanding his relationship with Apple TV+ as he has signed on to star in its series adaptation of James Keene’s In With the Devil with Paul Walter Hauser in talks to join, according to Deadline.
RELATED: Taron Egerton to Star in Apple’s Tetris Biopic From Matthew Vaughn
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Sony sets Escape Room 2 for January 2022 release
After pulling the film from its schedule and setting it for an unspecified 2021 debut, Sony has announced its horror sequel Escape Room 2 has found a new release on January 7, 2022, just three years after the original’s release.
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In addition to the returns of Taylor Russell (Words on Bathroom Walls) and Logan Miller (Love, Simon), the

Samara Weaving set for Elizabeth Bonaparte biopic
After exploring more niche genre fare for the past few years, acclaimed actress Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) is returning to the world of dramas as she has signed on to star in the Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte biopic Liz, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: Nine Perfect Strangers: Samara Weaving Joins Nicole Kidman in Hulu’s New Miniseries
Directed by Adam Leon (Tramps) on a script from Gabriel Neustadt (O.E.D.), the

Dexter Revival adds High Maintenance alum Michael Cyril Creighton
Just two weeks after expanding its roster with the additions of Julia Jones and others, Showtime’s Dexter revival is continuing to build its cast with the addition of High Maintenance and Spotlight alum Michael Cyril Creighton, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Creighton is set to star in seven of the revival&

Lovecraft Country’s Misha Green tapped to write/direct Tomb Raider sequel
After initially setting Rebecca‘s Ben Wheatley for the position, MGM’s Alicia Vikander-fronted Tomb Raider sequel is shifting gears as Lovecraft Country developer/showrunner Misha Green has been tapped to both write and direct the follow-up to the 2018 video game adaptation, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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"Be very careful of what you allow in your spirit, Dayo, especially in America…" 1091 Pictures has released an official trailer for Tazmanian Devil, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Solomon Onita Jr. This originally premiered at the American Black Film Festival last year, and arrives on VOD early next month for anyone interested. After moving to the United States, Nigerian immigrant Dayo struggles to find a balance between his desire to join a college fraternity and bon