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Demián Bichir to lead Showtime’s Let The Right One In pilot
After already being adapted for American audiences with Matt Reeves’ 2010 pic Let Me In, Swedish romantic horror drama Let The Right One In is finding new life once again as Showtime has ordered a pilot for a potential series with Oscar nominee Demián Bichir (Land) set to star.
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As the time nears for the highly-anticipated arrival of Zack Snyder’s Justice League on HBO Max, ComingSoon.net is asking our readers whether they subscribed to WarnerMedia’s HBO Max strictly for the infamous director’s cut or if they joined the streaming platform for another reason. Be sure to place your vote in the poll below and let us know in the comments!
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Paramount unveils Indiana Jones 4-Movie 4K Ultra HD collection
In honor of the original film celebrating its 40th anniversary, Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd. has revealed a new 4K Ultra HD collection for the four-movie Indiana Jones franchise starring Harrison Ford in the titular role, which will hit shelves on June 8!
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"Cutting and shaving." Y Not Studios has released a first look teaser trailer for an upcoming Indian comedy titled Mandela, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Madonne Ashwin. This Tamil-language localized comedy is a commentary on politics in India, and very timely as satire about elections in the country. The film tells the story of a man who lands from overseas to vote in his tiny town, but is pulled up for suspicious identity. The name he gives to the authorities? Nelson Mandela. Ha.

CS Interview: Stevens & Crampton talk gothic chiller Jakob’s Wife [SXSW]
Ahead of the film’s debut at South by Southwest (SXSW), ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with horror icon Barbara Crampton and indie genre producer/writer/director Travis Stevens to discuss their modern gothic chiller Jakob’s Wife!
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In looking back at first getting the script for the film, Crampton fou

Tom Budge departs Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series
Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings series has lost a cast member as Tom Budge (Judy & Punch, Bloom) announced his departure from the drama series on his Instagram. Over the weekend, Budge said: “It is with great sadness that I am writing to tell you I have departed Amazon’s Lord of the Rings television series. After recently seeing the first episodes shot over the last year Amazon has decided to go in another

"It's that perfect mixture of nurturing and pestering that I remember so well…" Never, ever look under the bed. You never know what might still be lurking under there… The Nurturing is a nice 7-minute horror short made by filmmaker Alex DiVincenzo, also known as the creator of Broke Horror Fan. "After an injury lands Daniel back in his childhood bedroom under the care of his loving mother, his adolescent fear returns to haunt him." The Nurturing features Anthony Gaudette, Marty Sm

A new trailer for In The Heights has just been released – check it out below.
The film, a musical based on Lin Manuel-Miranda’s 2007 stage musical of the same name, tells the story of a Latino community based in Washington Heights, New York.READ MORE: ‘Hamilton’ review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s bold, brilliant and daring musical arrives onlineThe film stars Anthony Ramos as Usnavi and Leslie Grace as Nina Rosario, and is currently due for release this summer.

Disney+ is expected to overtake Netflix and become the world’s biggest streaming platform within three years.
According to new data released by The Walt Disney Company earlier this month, the platform is on track to trump Netflix as Disney+ just passed 100million global subscribers 16 months after launching, while it took Netflix a decade to reach the same number.Read more: Here’s every key release date in Disney’s mammoth movie schedule from 2019 to 2027Expectations had previo

Exclusive Broadcast Signal Intrusion poster for Jacob Gentry’s SXSW pic
With only a day left until the sci-fi thriller’s arrival at South by Southwest (SXSW), Queensbury Pictures Production has exclusively provided ComingSoon.net with the mind-bending festival poster for Jacob Gentry’s Broadcast Signal Intrusion, which can be viewed below!
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Woody Allen has been offered an interview for an additional bonus episode of the forthcoming HBO docu-series Allen v. Farrow.
It comes after Allen along with his wife Soon-Yi Previn recently issued a statement in which they called filmmakers Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick’s documentary “a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods”.
“These documentarians had no interest in the truth. Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put t

Hasbro announces Hasbro Pulse virtual fan festival
Hasbro has officially announced the launch of a brand-new collector-focused virtual event, Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest, set to take place on April 9 at 11 a.m. EST that will be hosted by SYFY Wire on-air correspondent, writer, and producer Jackie Jennings, and available to watch exclusively on the Fan Fest page! The announcement video can be viewed below!
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Rotten Tomatoes has revealed the 10 best-reviewed films of 2020.
Announced in the aggregator’s annual Golden Tomato Awards, the films include titles that received limited and wide theatrical releases, as well as streaming-only releases.Read more: The 20 best films of 2020“In order to qualify for a Golden Tomato Award, a movie must have been released in the United States between January 1, 2020 and February 28 2021, and it must have at least 40 reviews,” the criteria for the awa

Enter ComingSoon’s The Legend of Korra Steelbook giveaway!
ComingSoon.net has been provided with five copies of The Legend of Korra – The Complete Series Limited Edition Steelbook Collection to giveaway to five of our lucky readers! To enter, email your name to [email protected] with the subject line “KORRA” and five winners (must be within the U.S.) will be chosen by Wednesday, March 17!
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"Trying to make something from nothing…" An early festival promo trailer has debuted for a documentary film titled Disintegration Loops, which is premiering at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival this week. The film is a 45-minute doc, directed by David Wexler, about the "avant-garde composer" William Basinski. It was made while they were quarantined in the midst of COVID-19. All of the interviews are shot on Zoom, interspersed with dramatically eerie shots of an almost empty NYC at the outset o

Raya and the Last Dragon Blu-ray, DVD & Digital details released!
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ epic adventure Raya and the Last Dragon will be arriving on all major digital platforms beginning April 2, and on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD beginning May 18! The home release includes Disney’s new animated short “Us Again.” The animated feature is currently playing in select theaters. The film is also available on Disney+ Premier Access and will become available to all Dis

"You're not feeling what I'm feeling." Lionsgate has debuted a full-length official trailer for Voyagers, the latest from director Neil Burger (Limitless, The Illusionist). This is such a kinky and wild premise - a bunch of perfect teens born on a spaceship go crazy with sensation once they realize they're being drugged to not have any feelings. A crew of astronauts on a multi-generational mission descend into paranoia and madness, not knowing what is real or not. The cast features Tye Sheridan

Taika Waititi won the Best Compilation Soundtrack award at the Grammys 2021 last night (March 14) for JoJo Rabbit.Read more: Here are all the winners from the Grammys 2021It comes a year after the director won an Oscar for adapting the screenplay for the World War II satire in which he played a caricature of Adolf Hitler.
“I guess they’re just giving Grammys to anyone now! I’ll take it, thank you,” said Waititi from the Sydney set of his latest film, Thor: Love and Thunde

SYFY’s Van Helsing fifth & final season teaser released
SYFY has released a new teaser for Van Helsing’s fifth and final season. The promo teases death, altered pasts, and a final battle between good and evil as the show prepares for “the mother of all endings.” The series will be making its return on Friday, April 16, 2021, with 13 episodes. You can check out the teaser now in the player below!
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Marc Webb to helm Disney+’s series adaptation of R.L. Stine’s Just Beyond
Nearly a year after the streaming platform gave the project the official greenlight, Disney+’s series adaptation of R.L. Stine’s graphic novel series Just Beyond has attached The Amazing Spider-Man helmer Marc Webb to direct the first two episodes of the horror-comedy anthology, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Viola Davis has has become the most nominated Black actress in Oscars history after she picked up a nod for Best Actress today (March 15).READ MORE: Oscars 2021 nominations – see the full listThe actress received her fourth nomination for playing the lead role in Netflix‘s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at a ceremony earlier alongside Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan.
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for Fences, aft

"This is not a work of fiction." Discovery+ has debuted a trailer for a chilling, thrilling documentary called Miracle Fishing: Kidnapped Abroad, which will be streaming in a few weeks. Made by Miles Hargrove, the doc film follows the harrowing true story of his father's kidnapping by the Colombian FARC in 1994 (you may even recognize the story, as it was the inspiration for the 2000 film Proof of Life). Encouraged by his mother to film everything, Hargrove intimately captured the haunting and

BEGIN SLIDESHOWExclusive Snowpiercer 2.08 Clip sees Boki unable to split from Wilford
Just in time for its arrival, ComingSoon.net has received an exclusive clip from tonight’s eighth episode of TNT’s hit adaptation of the dystopian post-apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer seeing Aleks Paunovic’s Boki unable to break his commitment to Wilford, despite evidence proving Sean Bean’s antagonist has killed another of the titular train’s Breachers. In addition to

Secret Invasion: Kingsley Ben-Adir joins Jackson & Mendelsohn in new MCU series
Coming off from the critical success of Regina King’s One Night In Miami, it looks like British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir has finally found his next big project with Marvel Studios’ upcoming Disney+ series Secret Invasion. According to Deadline, Ben-Adir has signed on for one of the leading roles opposite MCU alums Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn. Further details about his character are still bein

Riz Ahmed has become the first Muslim to be nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Oscars.READ MORE: Oscars 2021 nominations – see the full listHe was nominated for his role as Ruben, a heavy metal drummer who grapples with his immediate and intermittent hearing loss in the movie Sound Of Metal.
His girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) takes him to a rural community led by Joe (Paul Raci), a deaf Vietnam War vet who teaches Ruben a new way of life.
The film, which is out in on  Am

Fishburne & Yeoh join Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil film
Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne (Ant-Man and The Wasp) and Crazy Rich Asians star Michelle Yeoh have officially signed on to join the cast of Netflix’s film adaptation of The School for Good and Evil, based on Soman Chainani’s fantasy YA novel series of the same name, according to Deadline. Fishburne and Yeoh are joining previously cast Kerry Washington (Little Fires Everywhere) and Charlize Thero

"When the hands cross… all will be revealed." Well Go USA has released an official trailer for a martial arts action comedy titled The Paper Tigers, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Quoc Bao Tran. This premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, then stopped by numerous other festivals in the fall including the Busan, Hawaii, and Asian American Film Festival. Three Kung Fu prodigies have grown into washed-up, middle-aged men, now one kick away from pulling their

Netflix’s live-action Cowboy Bebop series wraps production!
Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of the iconic anime Cowboy Bebop has certainly seen its fair share of speed bumps in making its way from development through production but fans can look forward to seeing their favorite space cowboy soon as star Danielle Pineda has taken to Instagram to reveal that filming has officially concluded on the series!
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"Do you have any idea what I'm going through!?" Entertainment Squad has released an official trailer for Paper Spiders, an indie drama from filmmaker Inon Shampanier (The Millionaire Tour). This originally premiered at the Boston and Warsaw Film Festivals last year, and opens in theaters starting this May. This award-winning coming-of-age drama is about a high-schooler trying any way she can to help her mother's deteriorating mental health after she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. T

Outlander scores early seventh season renewal at Starz
Starz has officially granted their hit historical sci-fi drama series adaptation of Outlander an early seventh season renewal with executive producer Matthew B. Robert continuing to serve as the showrunner, with the new 12-episode season expected to be based on seventh book of author Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling novel franchise, An Echo in the Bone. The renewal comes after over a month since production on the upcoming sixth

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNew In the Heights trailers tease the musical event of the summer
Warner Bros. Pictures has released two new In the Heights trailers for Jon M. Chu’s upcoming film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway musical, featuring new footage of the film’s powerful musical numbers. Both new videos give highlight to Anthony Ramos’ character as he retells the story of Washington Heights which is a place where people stand up for their dreams. Also starring M

BEGIN SLIDESHOWEmma Stone is the queen of mean in Disney’s Cruella sneak peek
Walt Disney Studios has released a new Cruella sneak peek video for their upcoming live-action film, featuring new footage of the fan-favorite 101 Dalmatians villain. The video highlights the extravagant exhibitions that Emma Stone’s Estella will stylishly pull off against Emma Thompson’s character. With the help of two henchmen, Cruella will do everything she can to prove to the world that she&rsquo

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Matt Reeves announces The Batman has wrapped filming
After more than a full year of producing in the United Kingdom, The Batman has wrapped filming. The long-gestating production was mainly to the COVID-19 situation, which had a profound impact upon the movie’s set. The last hindrance occurred back on Sept. 3, 2020, when someone involved with the filming tested positive. Although the producers kept the name of that person quiet, several reports indicate

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier final trailer teases Friday premiere
Marvel Studios has released the final trailer for Disney+’s highly-anticipated second MCU series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, providing us with more action-packed footage. The series is scheduled to debut this Friday, March 19. Check out the video in the player below along with two newly released TV Spots!
The video begins with Anthony Mackie’s Sam as he trains using the iconic Captain Americ

First Zack Snyder’s Justice League reactions praise it as epic
HBO Max has released The Snyder Cut… to certain members of the press and other advance viewers. The rest of the world must wait unil Thursday, but the first social media reactions are flooding in. By most accounts so far, the four-hour DC superhero movie epic is worth the long sit. Let’s take a look at some of the Zack Snyder’s Justice League reactions.
ComingSoon.net’s own Max Evry and Jeff Ames got i

Raya and the Last Dragon tops box office with $5.5 million in second weekend
Another slow box office weekend saw Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon take in $5.5M from 2,163 theaters in Week 2, down 35% from its opening weekend. As it stands, the animated adventure has pulled in $15.8M domestically, according to Deadline. Internationally, the film collected $11.5M to bring its overseas total to $36M and its worldwide total to $52,637,165. Again, the meager box office is mostly the result of

The 2021 Academy Awards Nominations Revealed!
The full list of nominees for the upcoming 93rd annual Academy Awards has been announced this morning, with Mank, Nomadland, Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Promising Young Woman leading the major categories. The 23 motion picture categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress were announced by Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. The 2021 Oscars is scheduled to commence this April 25 on ABC. Check

BEGIN SLIDESHOWZack Snyder’s Justice League gets a final trailer
We’re three days away from the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League but that hasn’t stopped the marketing train from rolling out a final trailer for the epic — just in case you weren’t sold on the film yet. Be forewarned, this trailer, titled “Promise,” shows off a lot of big shots, including more Darkseid, more of black suite Superman and even a tease of Martian Manhunter. Essent

Avatar retakes box office crown from Avengers: Endgame After re-release
Whether just out of spite, or just because he can, James Cameron decided to re-release Avatar in China in an effort to retake the box office crown from Avengers: Endgame. As it turns out, the gamble paid off. Per Deadline, Avatar took in a surprisingly lucrative $21.1 million over the weekend, enough to propel it over Avengers and regain the title, “Highest Grossing Film of All Time” with a massive worldwid

The complete list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards, the most prestigious award in Hollywood, have been announced today (from Oscars.org). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees via live broadcast. With 2020 being a pandemic year, cinemas shut down worldwide, and all kinds of different release strategies (streaming, PVOD, drive-ins) The Academy made some big changes to accept a complete selection of eligible movies no matter how they debuted. And they accept

The 2021 Oscars nominations have been announced with Nomadland, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mank among the contenders.Read more: Oscars 2021: Who will win at the Academy Awards? This year’s ceremony has been delayed until April 26 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas announced this year’s contenders.
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The Best Original Song and Original Score categories were announced last month

The 2021 Oscars nominations are set to be announced later today (March 15) with Nomadland, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mank expected to be among the contenders.Read more: Oscars 2021: Who will win at the Academy Awards? This year’s ceremony has been delayed until April 26 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Actress Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas will announce the contenders at 12:19 GMT. Check back here later to catch up on all the nominations as they come in.
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The first reactions to Zack Snyder’s Justice League are in with many critics praising his long awaited cut of the movie.READ MORE: Zack Snyder’s Justice League is finally on the way – but does it have to take itself so seriously?The director was originally working on the 2017 DC film but stepped down during the post-production stages after the death of his daughter. Joss Whedon took over from Snyder afterwards.
After fans, cast members and crew petitioned for Snyder&r

"Whether you have the killer instinct – is the big question…" "I hope I do." Disney has revealed a fancy new "Sneak Preview" trailer originally aired during the Grammys for Cruella, the new "live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinemas most notorious – and notoriously fashionable – villains, the legendary Cruella de Vil." The first trailer arrived just a few weeks ago, and it's nice to see more footage already. This reinvention of the class

"This is the story of a block that was disappearing." A fresh look at the "event of the summer!" Warner Bros has debuted a second trailer for the In the Heights movie, based on the Broadway musical of the same name. The first trailer dropped more than a year ago. In the Heights fuses Lin-Manuel Miranda's kinetic music & lyrics with Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu's lively & authentic eye for storytelling to capture a world very much of its place, universal in its experience. The s