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It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard anything about the Battlestar Galactica reboot, but recently producer Simon Kinberg gave an update on what fans can expect from the film.
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In a recent interview with Collider, Kinberg — who will be writing and producing the upcoming revival film — was asked about the status of the project, and Kinberg spoke positively, saying that it’s moving along onto t

Paramount+’s drama series Star Trek: Picard has paused filming after more than 50 members of the production tested positive for COVID on Monday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Monday was the first day of work following the holiday break, according to the outlet, which adds that Picard consists of one of television’s biggest crews with more than 450 on staff. The infections apparently impacted “mu

Sundance film festival has ditched the in-person element of its 2022 programme as Omricron cases continue to rise.
A hybrid version of the festival was due to kick off from January 20, with guests due to travel into Park City, Utah, to attend film screenings and in-person events.READ MORE: ‘Licorice Pizza’ review: a sunny slice of California life topped with Alana HaimHowever, with recent reports revealing that there were 14,700 newly reported COVID-19 cases in Utah, the festival&rsq

Once again, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will be an online-only event due to the ongoing concerns around the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In a statement made to GamesBeat, the Entertainment Software Association confirmed the news for E3 2022, telling the outlet that the “ongoing health risks” surrounding the pandemic were once again forcing the convention to be held in a strictly virtual setting.
“Due to the ongo

The late Playboy model and reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary that is currently in production, according to Variety. A release date for the project has not yet been set.
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The currently untitled film will is said to include “never-before-seen footage from an unreleased documentary about a young Smith balancing motherhood while on the verge of global stardom.”
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"Our fate rests on this." Shudder has unveiled an official trailer for an indie horror film titled The Last Thing Mary Saw, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Edoardo Vitaletti. This premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Set in winter, 1843, in rural New York. A young woman is under investigation after the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless

Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew have named a new tree after Leonardo DiCaprio.
The tree has been named Uvariopsis dicaprio, and lives in the Cameroon forest. Scientists decided to name it after DiCaprio on account of his ongoing work to help prevent deforestation.READ MORE: ‘Don’t Look Up’ review: searing satire with a worthy message“We think he was crucial in helping to stop the logging of the Ebo Forest,” Dr Martin Cheek of Kew told the BBC.
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"Does thou not hear noise?" Finally! After four other teaser trailers over the last few months, Apple TV has revealed the final full-length official trailer for The Tragedy of Macbeth, Joel Coen's stylish new black & white Shakespeare adaptation. Watch the initial three teasers for even more footage, as well as the fourth one here. This already premiered at the New York and London Film Festivals, and it lands on Apple TV+ in just a few more weeks. Bruno Delbonnel's cinematography is utterly

The Weeknd’s highly anticipated album Dawn FM is set to release on Friday, and ahead of its release, the artist has shared yet another teaser for it, with actor Jim Carrey appearing in it in voice-only form.
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The new teaser opens with Carrey’s voice being heard as he introduces us to “103.5 Dawn FM,” a radio station that will likely serve a large role in the upcoming album’s concept. Carrey’s

Way back in 1996, Wes Craven directed a $15 million slasher flick featuring a handful of rising TV stars, The Fonz, and at least one Drew Barrymore. The film was called Scream, and while reviews were decent enough, no one could have predicted the extraordinary success this little-horror-movie-that-could would achieve during its theatrical run.Scream went on to gross an astonishing $173 million worldwide, spawning four sequels (including one that releases next week), a TV show, a legion of stars

Jessica Chastain has opened up about how a stunt gone wrong led to her being taken to hospital while shooting her latest film The 355.
The actor, who stars in and produced the film, was performing some of her own stunts for the shoot on account of its limited budget.READ MORE: ‘Take Shelter’ at 10: Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain dissect their apocalyptic “masterpiece”“I was doing a fight scene and it was on a marble floor. I misjudged,” Chastain recalled

Apple TV+ has finally revealed the full trailer for Joel Coen’s upcoming film adaptation of the classic Shakespearean tale The Tragedy of Macbeth, featuring an all-star cast led by Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. It will be available for streaming next week beginning January 14.
The Tragedy of Macbeth trailer, which you can check out in the player below, highlights the three witches’ prophecies involving the titular Lord’s ascension to the throne. It also

The final half of Attack on Titan’s final season is almost here, and to celebrate, another new trailer for the highly anticipated return has been released.
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The newest trailer is set to a classical score, highlighting three of the main characters — Mikasa Ackerman, Eren Yeager, and Armin Arlert — and their growth throughout each season of the show. The popular anime returns on January 9, 2022.
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NBC has dropped a brand new This Is Us featurette for the sixth and final season of the acclaimed drama, which just premiered its first episode titled “The Challenger.” The series is scheduled to return next Tuesday on January 11, with the second episode of the season titled “One Giant Leap.”
The video, which you can check out below, brings fans to the cast’s emotional last first day on set. It features commentaries from Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Br

With the role of James Bond currently empty following Daniel Craig’s final role in No Time to Die, Tom Holland revealed that he was one of the actors to throw his name into the ring to be the next actor to portray the iconic spy.
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“I had a meeting, after or during [Spider Man: Far From Home], with Sony to pitch this idea of a young Bond film that I’d come

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor and Oscar-nominated director behind Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show, has died.
The 82-year-old passed away in his home, it has been confirmed to Deadline. Bogdanovich had an acting career that spanned over 60 years. He had an ongoing role in The Sopranos as Dr. Melfi’s therapist, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, and worked with reputable filmmakers such as Noah Baumbach and Agnès Varda.READ MORE: Peter Sarsgaard: “Leonard Cohen got away with being a pla

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor and Oscar-nominated director behind Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show, has died.
The 82-year-old passed away in his home, it has been confirmed to Deadline. Bogdanovich had an acting career that spanned over 60 years. He had an ongoing role in The Sopranos as Dr. Melfi’s therapist, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, and worked with reputable filmmakers such as Noah Baumbach and Agnès Varda.READ MORE: Peter Sarsgaard: “Leonard Cohen got away with being a pla

Peter Bogdanovich, the actor and Oscar-nominated director behind Paper Moon and The Last Picture Show, has died.
The 82-year-old passed away in his home, it has been confirmed to Deadline. Bogdanovich had an acting career that spanned over 60 years. He had an ongoing role in The Sopranos as Dr. Melfi’s therapist, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, and worked with reputable filmmakers such as Noah Baumbach and Agnès Varda.READ MORE: Peter Sarsgaard: “Leonard Cohen got away with being a pla

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from the political documentary American Gadfly, which follows a group of teenagers as they run an unconventional presidential campaign for the 89-year-old former U.S. senator Mike Gravel. The documentary is available now on VOD via Gravitas Ventures.
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“After decades of quiet living, Mike Gravel, known for courageously reading the Pentagon Papers into Congressional Reco

I played an awful lot of games in 2021. A lot of them were games I had been meaning to get to for literal decades (like, say, Devil May Cry 2) and some of those games were downright awful or disappointing (like, say, Devil May Cry 2). But the year, which was fairly terrible by most measurable standards, was also full of fantastic titles that served as excellent distractions on an otherwise cursed year.
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FX announced in December 2020 that Noah Hawley (FX’s Fargo) would be directing the first television series based on the classic horror film series Alien. In a recent interview with Esquire, Hawley gave an update on the status of the show, and just how big he plans it to be.
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“It’s going great,” Hawley said when asked about how the development of the series is going. “It’s goi

According to Variety, Adam McKay’s latest star-studded film Don’t Look Up has officially set a new Netflix record following its streaming debut last December 24. The mega streamer has confirmed that the dark comedy film has already been streamed more than 152 millions hours during its first week. Because of this, it has earned a spot on the streamer’s current top ten movie list in many countries.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker has also shared his reaction to the news, which you ca

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a hit for Electronic Arts when it launched in 2019, and while a sequel was assumed to be happening, it seems as one might be announced sooner than later.
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According to a recent report from Jeff Grubb during his weekly Giant Bomb show, Grubbsnax, a sequel to Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be announced before E3 2022, possibly sometime around May 2022.
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According to Deadline, The Sopranos vet Michael Imperioli has signed on for the leading role in the upcoming second season of Mike White’s dark comedy series The White Lotus. This marks Imperioli’s latest collaboration with HBO, following the iconic crime drama, and an appearance in the hit dramedy Girls.
The Emmy winner is set to portray the role of Dominic Di Grasso, a man traveling with his elderly father and recent college-graduate son. He’s the first confirmed cast me

Tom Holland has said he pitched a James Bond origin movie to Sony, which sparked ideas for the movie adaptation of Uncharted.READ MORE: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ review: Marvel’s mad mash-up in the multiverse The actor plays a young version of Nathan Drake opposite Mark Wahlberg as Sully in the upcoming film, based on the series of video games from developer Naughty Dog.
Speaking to Total Film, Holland explained that the decision to explore the origins of Nathan Drake came

Thom Best is an acclaimed cinematographer best known for Showtime’s groundbreaking series Queer as Folk, the Emmy winning TV movie Run The Wild Fields, Lifetime’s Emmy nominated and GLADD Award-winning Prayers for Bobby starring Sigourney Weaver, and the cult horror film Ginger Snaps for which he received a Genie nomination. Best’s career spans the gamut of genres from horror to comedy, westerns to science fiction, working in feature films, television series, and TV m

Rumors that Sony had begun looking into remaking the hit 2013 game The Last of Us have been popping up for some time. Now, however, it seems as if the game could be making its way out by the end of the year.
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According to a recent tweet from industry insider Tom Henderson (via VGC), The Last of Us remake is “nearly finished,” and could be released “during the latter half of 2022.” The tweet come

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from the horror-thriller The Legend of La Llorona starring Autumn Reeser. Saban Films will release the movie in theaters on January 7, 2022, and On Demand and on Digital on January 11, 2022.
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“A malevolent spirit bent on vengeance, stalks a young family visiting Mexico,” reads the official synopsis. “Andrew, Carly and their son Danny travel to an isolat

ComingSoon is debuting the exclusive trailer and poster for the anti-rom-com I’m Not in Love, starring Al Weaver (Grantchester, Me and Orsen Welles, Marie Antoinette) and Cristina Catalina (Eastern Promises, Holby City). Gravitas Ventures will release the film on Digital platforms on January 25, 2022.
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“After receiving a marriage ultimatum from a woman he’s not sure he truly loves, Rob is up against the c

Netflix has revealed the full Ozark Season 4 trailer for the upcoming first half of the final season, which will be available for streaming on January 21. The video highlights Marty and Wendy’s new status within Navarro’s empire which will lead them to a new opportunity of finally being able to start fresh away from Ozark. It also teases that their main problem this season will come from a potential betrayal within their family.
Check out the Ozark Season 4 Part 1 trailer below:

"Our goal was to get our artists to America." Universal Group has unveiled an official US trailer for a music documentary film called Dawn Raid, made by Samoan-born New Zealand filmmaker Oscar Kightley. From the producers of McLaren and The Dead Lands, Dawn Raid charts the rise of Dawn Raid Entertainment and its two founders Andy Murnane and Brotha D - the unlikely duo behind some of New Zealand's biggest hip-hop and RnB artists including Savage, Mareko, Adeaze and Aaradhna. From humble beginni

HBO Max has dropped a brand new character featurette for James Gunn’s newest superhero project Peacemaker, which serves as a spin-off to last year’s The Suicide Squad. The series is slated to make its debut next week on January 13.
The featurette, which you can check out below, turns the spotlight to Chukwudi Iwuji’s Clemson Murn, the leader of Project Butterfly who recruits John Cena’s Peacemaker to kill bad people for the government. The video highlights Murn’s le

Emma Watson has been accused by Israeli politicians of being anti-Semitic after she shared a post in support of Palestine.
The actor posted on Instagram (January 2) a photo of a pro-Palestine protest with the phrase “Solidarity is a verb” written across. In the caption, Watson quoted academic Sara Ahmed on the meaning of solidarity.READ MORE: Harry Potter & The Cursed Movie: how Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald became JK Rowling’s most controversia

"Everybody hang on!" Bring on the epic CGI destruction! Lionsgate has revealed another new official trailer for Roland Emmerich sci-fi disaster movie called Moonfall, smashing into theaters in February. We've already posted a few teaser trailers, and this is the full-on official trailer. When a mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it on this planet. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink o

A brand new Moonfall trailer for Lionsgate’s forthcoming film has been released, revealing new action-packed footage of Roland Emmerich’s latest action sci-fi epic. The film is scheduled to make its debut this February 4.
The Moonfall trailer, which you can check out below, begins with a conspiracy theorist as he learns a shocking discovery that the moon is out of its orbit leading to catastrophic consequences to Earth. This event will connect to the long-held secret that NASA h

Marvel’s Midnight Suns is looking like one of 2022’s most exciting video game releases and it looks like it will have a star-studded cast. The first member of its voice crew to be revealed is Michael Jai White (Spawn, Black Dynamite), who will be voicing Blade in the game.
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In a conversation with ComingSoon, White revealed that he’ll be voicing Blade in Marvel’

The first two Scream clips from Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s forthcoming fifth installment have debuted online, teasing David Arquette’s return as Dewey Riley. The film is slated to hit theaters next week on January 14, 2022.
The first clip features Dewey as he reconnects with Sidney by informing her about the reemergence of another Ghostface killer, who has already killed three victims so far. As for the second one, it gives us a glimpse of Dewey’s i

The third part of the new Shaman King anime will be arriving on Netflix soon.
Netflix unveiled the trailer for Shaman King Season 1 Part 3, which will launch next week on January 13, 2022. This will feature the third batch of 13 episodes of the season, so episodes 27 through 39 will be out on the streamer. There are still 13 episodes left in the series, which received a 52-episode order.
Check out the Shaman King Season 1 Part 3 trailer below:

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The Netflix UK line-up for January 2022 has been released – scroll down to see the full list.
The third and final season of After Life, created by and starring Ricky Gervais as Tony Johnson, will hit the streaming service on January 14.READ MORE: ‘After Life’ season three: trailers, cast, release date and everything we know so farOther major returns include the first half of Ozark’s fourth and final season, with the first seven episodes scheduled to be released on January

A new South Park video game was quietly announced last year via a report that described it as “a 3D video game that is set in the world of South Park.” While that description was as vague as can be and offered up little in terms of details, we now know the developer that South Park Studios will be collaborating on for its latest video game adaptation.
RELATED: Report: New South Park Game Being Developed
As a job listing for a lead level designer on its website rev

Need to escape into something mesmerizing and psychedelic? This 105 second long journey from below to above and back again will take you on a trip like you just dropped some acid, but without the acid (but hey if you want to try that kind of trip for real, why not?). Leviathan is an animated (very) short film made by a Canadian animator / filmmaker / artist named Nick Cross. It's not even two minutes long, but will leave a strong impression on you with all the strange animals and creatures and

"I can feel something inside of me…" IFC Midnight has revealed the official trailer for an indie horror film from the UK titled A Banquet, made by a Scottish filmmaker named Ruth Paxton. This premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, and hit a bunch of others including Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, Montclair, and London. Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists her body is no longer her own, but in s

"Keep me alive and I will give you names." Lionsgate has revealed an official trailer for an action film titled Pursuit, a new film from genre filmmaker Brian Skiba. Another of these forgettable direct-to-video looking action movies? Unfortunately. John Cusack and Emile Hirsch star in this action thriller about a troubled cop's hunt for a ruthless hacker, who’s committing savage violence as he searches for his kidnapped wife. But is Calloway's crime-boss father somehow involved in this ex

A cinema that was ordered to close after breaking COVID rules disobeyed the ban in order to screen a film by the son of conspiracy theorist David Icke.READ MORE: Pandemic at the pictures: can social distancing work in cinemas?Swansea’s Cinema & Co. was ordered to shut by a judge after its owner Anna Redfern breached several COVID regulations late last year, including refusing to implement Wales’ COVID pass law.
In addition to the closure of her cafe and cinema, Redfern was a

AMC Networks Inc. has announced its acquisition of Houston-based Sentai Holdings, LLC (“Sentai”), a leading global supplier of anime content and official anime merchandise, with brands including the anime-focused HiDive direct-to-consumer subscription streaming service. The acquisition includes all of the member interests from Cool Japan Fund, Inc., a public-private Japanese investment fund.
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Sentai distributes an