Will you watch Joss Whedon‘s panel that will be released for Comic-Con at Home? Want to see photos from rehearsals for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2? Did you see Roblox is getting a special Wonder Woman tie-in event? Will we see Giancarlo Esposito appearing in a Marvel Studios movie? Did you know comedian Tig Notaro was almost in Spider-Man? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits. Read More »
To put it mildly, New York City went through a rough stretch in the 1970s. Without getting too far into the complex whirlwind of factors that contributed to the city’s decline – police corruption, a financial crisis, etc. – New York was becoming a playground for organized crime, and five mafia families ruled the boroughs. This era has been dramatized extensively in movies and TV shows in the ensuing decades, and now Netflix is jumping on the bandwagon with its own three-episode docuseries called Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia. Check out the trailer below.
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Scream Factory is releasing the Friday the 13th box set to end all Friday the 13th box sets. The 16-set disc is as definitive as you can get, bringing every single Friday the 13th film together in one package complete with new extras, new 4K scans, and more. And yes, before you ask, Jason X, the masterpiece where Jason goes to space and becomes a cyborg, is also included.
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After a long and storied career in Hollywood, Roger Deakins would finally earn his much deserved first Oscar for cinematography with Denis Villeneuve‘s Blade Runner 2049. And though the dynamic director and cinematographer duo won’t be working together on Villeneuve’s upcoming sci-fi film Dune, the filmmaker revealed that Deakins is still leaving his mark on the highly anticipated adaptation of the seminal Frank Herbert novel.
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Sooner or later, someone might want to consider launching a Stephen King streaming service. Because there are already a plethora of King adaptations out there, and it seems that every day, something new gets announced. Just last week, a new adaptation based on a short story from King’s recent collection If It Bleeds was announced. Now, two other adaptations pulled from that book are in the works: Rat, which is being developed by Ben Stiller, and The Life of Chuck, which hails from Darren Aronofsky. And there’s a third adaption that’s a possibility as well.
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Dakota Fanning, Daniel Brühl, and Luke Evans are back to hunt a new killer – or is that killers? – in The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, TNT’s follow-up to its stylish limited series from 2018. A new trailer has arrived, showing how this trio reunites in an attempt to track a serial killer of children. You know, just your run-of-the-mill light and breezy TNT viewing. Read More »
The force of the pandemic box office is with Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which found itself at the top of the box office charts again, 23 years after the release of the Star Wars special editions also took the number one spot. It’s a fitting achievement for the 40th anniversary re-release of the acclaimed Star Wars sequel, even if it’s just the latest reissue of a beloved feature film to lead the box office charts amid the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Actress and musician Naya Rivera, who played Santana Lopez on the Fox teen musical hit Glee, has been confirmed dead today after authorities found her body in Lake Piru near Santa Clarita, California. She had been missing and presumed dead for several days, and now Rivera, who was 33 years old, becomes the third major Glee cast member to die at a (relatively) young age. Read More »
Update 7/13/2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially confirmed that The Goonies, Beetlejuice, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, and the follow-up Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows will all be released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray on September 1, 2020. Our original article from June 18, 2020 continues.
Warner Bros. may have drastically reshuffled its upcoming theatrical release slate, but the studio is forging ahead with what seems to be a series of major announcements set for this September. The studio’s social media accounts have been cryptically teasing announcements for classic ’80s films The Goonies and Beetlejuice, as well as the Guy Ritchie romp Sherlock Holmes, with intriguing Instagram posts that hint that all will be revealed come September. But what exactly? If your thoughts immediately jumped to “sequel,” it’s probably not that.
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The pint-sized assassin will kill again. Amazon Studios announced that it has ordered Hanna season 3, renewing the action thriller series less than two weeks after its second season debuted on Prime Video.
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