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Umbrella Academy Season 3 Adds Euphoria Star Javon Walton HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 1, 2022 4:27 pm EST This post contains spoilers from Sunday’s “Euphoria” finale. Here’s some great news for “Euphoria” fans who are still nursing their emotional wounds from this Sunday’s finale: Javon Walton, who plays pint-sized drug dealer Ashtray in the HBO series, has just been added to the cast of “Umbrella Academy.” The news comes courtesy of a tweet straight from the streamer itself....

Why Shane Black And Drew Pearce Were Hesitant To Work With Each Other On Iron Man 3 Marvel Studios By Joshua Meyer/May 9, 2022 9:23 am EST Most movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe have had more than one credited screenwriter. There are exceptions to this, such as “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” which has a script written by “Loki” showrunner Michael Waldron. However, of the 27 MCU films before that, only five were credited to a single screenwriter....

Captain Howdy hates moms Warner Bros. Friedkin had achieved fame before “The Exorcist” came along in 1973; “The French Connection” cemented the filmmaker as one of the New Hollywood pack alongside the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese (and won him an Oscar for Best Director). An instant hit with sequels, prequels, and clouds of controversy surrounding it, the success of “The Exorcist” is such that Blumhouse has plans for a new entry in the rocky supernatural franchise, with the aim of gathering new and renewed fans the way that the studio has done with David Gordon Green’s “Halloween” requels....

X: Release Date, Cast, And More A24 By Ryan Scott/Jan. 19, 2022 1:57 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) A24 has been one of the most consistent producers of indie cinema over the last decade, running the gamut from “Lady Bird” to “Midsommar.” They are truly one of the most friendly places in town to visionary filmmakers, and that seems to be continuing in 2022....

It’s Squid Game, Obviously Netflix We asked 588 different people what their favorite Netflix show of 2021 has been so far, and “Squid Game” snatched all the marbles from its contemporaries. The relentless survival thriller about cash-strapped individuals invited to play popular children’s games to the death is Netflix’s biggest series release in the history of the streaming service, so to think any other show could take the top spot is optimistic at best and ignorant at worst....

Atlanta To End With Season 4, Set To Premiere This Fall FX By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 17, 2022 1:21 pm EST The buck apparently stops at 4. “Atlanta,” one of the most genuinely groundbreaking, well-written, and formula-shattering series on television, will officially come to an end with its fourth and final season. The announcement came down during FX’s Television Critics Association panel earlier today (via Variety), as Chairman John Landgraf revealed that not only will the popular series end, but both seasons 3 and 4 will air later this year....

Dexter Fletcher Talks Auditioning For David Lynch’s Dune [Exclusive] Universal Pictures By Max Evry/April 29, 2022 1:16 pm EST Before he became a world-class director of such projects as the Elton John biopic “Rocketman,” Dexter Fletcher was a noted child actor in such high-profile films as “Bugsy Malone” and “The Long Good Friday.” One of his most notable roles was as the young assistant to Freddie Jones’ amoral Mr. Bytes in David Lynch’s lauded 1980 biopic “The Elephant Man....

Disney Reveals New Logo And Synopsis For The Haunted Mansion Disney By Jeremy Mathai/April 28, 2022 11:47 am EST Not even the early stages of Spring can stop the Halloween vibes from flowing … or the fact that we still remain a little less than a year away from the release of Disney’s new live-action “The Haunted Mansion” film. But the property based on the famous Disneyland attraction doesn’t wait for petty little things like “seasonally appropriate news....

‘There’s always a future for Solo’ “Lando” was announced to Disney investors as an “event series” back in December 2020, with writer-director Justin Simien (“Dear White People,” “Bad Hair”) attached. In an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in late March of this year (see above), Glover himself seemed to confirm that he still had a “Lando” project in development at Disney+, joking that Kimmel was “telling all [his] business,” but then saying, “No, yeah....

Superhero Bits: New Green Lantern: Beware My Power Trailer, Chris Hemsworth’s New MCU Role & More Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/May 25, 2022 5:04 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The Exorcist Warner Bros. In “The Exorcist,” a little girl named Regan (Linda Blair) is possessed by a demon and her mother enlists the help of Catholic priests to exorcise her child. Signs of Regan’s possession start early in the theatrical cut of the film with the help of makeup, some impolite bodily functions, and a bit of nasty dialogue, but other versions show something much, much scarier. In a scene taken directly from William Peter Blatty’s novel, young Regan walks backward down the stairs on her hands and feet, flicking her tongue like a lizard, before chasing after her mother’s friend....

The Afterparty Release Date and Where You Can Watch It AppleTV+ While “The Afterparty” does not have an official release date yet, we know it will be premiering in January of 2022. The series will be available to watch exclusively on AppleTV+, although it’s unclear exactly what the rollout plan will be. The streamer has often released the first two or three episodes of a show at the same time to get audiences hooked, and then doled out a single episode weekly after that; no word yet on how it will handle “The Afterparty,” but the show’s structure (we’ll get to that in a second) seems like it might lend itself best to a week to week release strategy....

The Boys In-World Movie Dawn Of The Seven Gets A Zack Snyder-Style Movie Trailer Prime Video By Danielle Ryan/May 20, 2022 2:08 pm EST Whoever is in charge of marketing for “The Boys” deserves a raise. The satirical superhero streaming series is coming back on June 3 for its third season, and the marketing team has kept fans interested in a variety of great ways while we wait. The marketing for “The Boys” has always played with meta, commenting on our own reality while clearly still firmly within the fictional one of the series....

A recognizable frustration KimStim Why It’s Essential Viewing: “An Elephant Sitting Still” does not fetishize suffering. This is not a film like 2019’s “The Painted Bird” or Elem Klimov’s “Come and See” that uses its onscreen suffering as a twisted endurance test, daring the audience to bear the hostility and violence of war in what feels like real time. Nor is “An Elephant Sitting Still” an aggressively provocative work by a self-styled “enfent terrible” like Lars Von Trier or Gaspar Noé....

The Daily Stream: Versailles Was The Sexy French Historical Drama That Was Ahead Of Its Time Studio Canal By Jenna Busch/Jan. 10, 2022 4:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Versailles” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix, StarzPlay The Pitch: The year is 1667....

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Showrunners Explain What They Can And Can’t Adapt By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 15, 2022 2:59 pm EST In an interview with Vanity Fair, the two spilled the details on exactly what limits they had to work around in creating this new series, set thousands of years before the events of “The Lord of the Rings.” As Payne tells it: “We have the rights solely to ‘The Fellowship of the Ring,’ ‘The Two Towers,’ ‘The Return of the King,’ the appendices, and ‘The Hobbit....

The Missing Children Trailer For Topic’s Shocking Baby Trafficking Series [Exclusive] Topic By Max Evry/Feb. 28, 2022 10:54 am EST Topic has provided /Film with the exclusive trailer for their upcoming true crime docuseries “The Missing Children.” It follows the Irish mother and baby home scandal, focusing on the Tuam home where the remains of 796 babies were found buried in a septic tank. The streamer will be premiering the three-part series on their platform on March 3, 2022....

Tim Burton Could’ve Directed 2002’s Spider-Man, Although It Doesn’t Sound Like He Wanted To Sony Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/April 28, 2022 11:13 am EST It’s interesting how much Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” and Tim Burton’s “Batman” parallel one another. Both were among the top three highest-grossing movies in their year of release, with 1989’s “Batman” coming in second after “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” and “Spider-Man” ranking just behind the second “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter” films in 2002....

TV, Interrupted: Kings Was A Contemporary Biblical Retelling That Never Got Its Day Of Judgment NBC By Devin Meenan/April 10, 2022 5:02 pm EST (Welcome to TV, Interrupted, a series where the /Film team remembers, eulogizes, and makes a case for the revival of TV shows we loved that were canceled far too soon.) I usually avoid watching TV shows that were prematurely canceled. I like stories to have resolution and don’t want to invest when I know I won’t be getting that....

ViacomCBS Officially Changes Its Name To Paramount Paramount By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 15, 2022 5:37 pm EST The last five years have seen a swarm of mergers, acquisitions, and buyouts, making it difficult to keep up with who owns what property and which streaming service provides what content. Well, the folks at ViacomCBS are attempting to make things a little easier, and rebranding the corporation’s name to “Paramount.” A memo from Bob Bakish and Shari Redstone went out today to announce the change to staff before the company’s investor event presentations:...