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Justified Revival Will Bring Back Timothy Olyphant As Raylan Givens Sony Pictures Television By Jeremy Mathai/Jan. 14, 2022 11:57 am EST It’s an IP-driven world and we’re just living in it, folks. If there’s any established franchise that holds even the slightest potential of bringing eyeballs with news of a buzzy revival, you can bet that studios these days will find a way to do it. We just received a new “Matrix” sequel over a decade after the trilogy wrapped up conclusively, the fifth installment of the beloved “Scream” series is slashing its way into theaters today with positive reviews, and even “Dexter” found new life after a catastrophic series finale with “Dexter: New Blood....

A respectable, but uneven adaptation Netflix According to Netflix, this was not a premature cancellation, but part of the plan from the very beginning. Executive producers and co-showrunners Carlton Cuse and Meredith Averill said in a joint statement that they “three seasons was the ideal length to bring the story of the Locke family and their Keyhouse adventures to a satisfying conclusion.” This is rather interesting, because the third season of the show moves away from the original source material into brand new territory....

Nicolas Cage Couldn’t Land A David Lynch Cameo For The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent Lionsgate By Jeremy Mathai/April 15, 2022 9:06 am EST Welcome to the Nicolas Cage-aissance, folks. After years of getting the outrageous meme treatment, even to the point of causing beloved “Community” character Abed Nadir (Danny Pudi) to suffer a complete mental breakdown over classifying whether he’s a good or bad actor, the man, myth, and legend himself has been enjoying a well-deserved victory lap with a string of strong performances that best show everything the actor is capable of....

Strong writing — and an even stronger cast I was consistently delighted by the writing of “Night Sky.” As a critic, I’m always looking for character inconsistencies, events that aren’t adequately set up, unbelievable contrivances — basically, the kind of story issues that television shows, in particular, are vulnerable to since they often have various writers working at the same time. Overarching plot threads can dictate events that need to happen, even when that doesn’t fit organically with how the episodic stories are forming (just think of the infamous final season of “Game of Thrones”)....

Peacemaker Season 1 Finale Features Some Surprisingly Huge Cameos, And Marvel Helped Pull Them Off HBO Max By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2022 12:23 pm EST Today brought the finale for the first season of “Peacemaker” to HBO Max, wrapping up the warped DC Comics series about the misguided superhero played by John Cena. If you haven’t been keeping up with “The Suicide Squad” spin-off series, then you’re missing out on one of the best stories to come out of the DC Extended Universe, turning the character into more than a one-note joke, giving him a tragic origin story, and slowly bringing about some much-needed redemption and evolution for the chrome clad meathead....

Reacher Season 2 Will Adapt The Book Bad Luck And Trouble Prime Video By BJ Colangelo/May 18, 2022 5:49 pm EST Fans of the Prime Video series “Reacher” can add the 11th book in the Jack Reacher series to their summer reading list, because the book basis for the second season of “Reacher” has finally been announced. Star Alan Ritchson took to Twitter today first with an image showing a pair of brass knuckles and an open blade, only to follow with another image featuring himself and his meaty grip wrapped around a copy of Lee Child’s novel “Bad Luck and Trouble....

Scream 6: Everything We Know About So Far Paramount Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/June 16, 2022 8:34 pm EST Like Ghostface himself, the “Scream” franchise just won’t quit. It’s your needy ex or a Scam Likely caller, still ringing you up to make meta horror jokes and pack in some gore-ridden mysteries year after year. There’s a lot to be said about the franchise that Wes Craven built with “Scream,” but one things for sure, it comes back slashing time and time again....

Enterprise Paramount How can “Enterprise” be the least sexy, you say, when it was the show that tried the most desperately to be sexy? Well, just that. “Enterprise” is chock-full of naked flesh and see-through shirts, but it all feels so weirdly exploitative that it’s never actually very hot. The hotties of “Enterprise” are all lovely to look at, but their sexual exploits never really seem like much fun. T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) is the focus of most of the series’ sexual escapades, including an episode where she goes into an uncontrollable sex-craze due to Pon-Farr, the Vulcan mating cycle....

Set Speakers To 11: Spinal Tap II Is In The Works, And Here Are The First Plot Details Embassy Pictures By Danielle Ryan/May 12, 2022 3:32 pm EST It’s time for “Big Bottom,” baby, because the world’s greatest fictional live-action heavy metal band are back! Castle Rock Entertainment announced in a press release that they have chosen the first project for their relaunch, and it’s a sequel to the beloved 1984 mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap....

Spike Lee To Direct Colin Kaepernick Documentary For ESPN Films Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 7, 2022 11:21 am EST A press release (via Variety) described Lee’s documentary on Kaepernick as follows: “Kaepernick, who has never given a full, first-person account of his journey, is collaborating closely with Lee who plans to use extensive new interviews and a vast never-before-seen archive to help Kaepernick tell his story from his perspective.” Kaepernick played for the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2016, leading his team to their first Super Bowl since 1994....

Karre and Am Poised for Battle Disney On the Bandai side of things, we’ve got Karre and Am from “The Twins,” and they look fantastic. Here is the info for you: From Bandai, new highly-posable sculpts of Karre and Am are poised for battle, becoming the newest S.H. Figuarts collectible action figures to join a sprawling collection of highly-detailed characters from across the Star Wars galaxy. All three are among the first pieces available for purchase from the Star Wars: Visions animated anthology, with the Bandai and Funko collectibles available in the US only at Target....

Andy Muschietti didn’t seek Stephen King’s approval Warner Bros. Stephen King’s “It” has been previously adapted into a 1990 miniseries starring Tim Curry as the ancient, trans-dimensional evil entity that preys upon the children of Derry, Maine. Muschietti’s movie is the first film adaptation of the novel, and he was the second director to work on the project, following the departure of screenwriter David Kajganich and Cary Fukunaga, who were both associated with the film during its production stage....

The Best On-Screen Version Of The Joker, According To 36% Of Fans We Polled Warner Bros. By Mike Shutt/March 31, 2022 2:14 pm EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) I don’t know about you, but I am pretty Joker’d out. In the last 14 years, we have seen five different actors play the Clown Prince of Crime on-screen (two of which won Academy Awards for their performances)....

The Daily Stream: Cloverfield Captures The Spirit Of A Bygone World In Chaos Paramount Pictures By Sandy Schaefer/May 9, 2022 6:00 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 Movie: “Cloverfield” Where You Can Stream It: HBO Max The Pitch: As a director, Matt Reeves thrives at making genre films that serve as allegories for real-world anxieties and chaos....

The Daily Stream: RRR Is A Maximalist Epic That Puts Hollywood Blockbusters To Shame Variance Films By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2022 4:06 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 Movie: “RRR” Where You Can Stream It: Netflix (in Hindi), ZEE5 (in original Telugu) The Pitch: Alluri Sitarama Raju (Ram Charan) and Komaram Bheem (N....

Why It’s Essential Viewing HBO The last half-decade has made three things undeniable: American politics are dire, ego-driven, and very, very stupid. “Veep,” which debuted in early 2012, before President Obama’s re-election, was ahead of the curve. Part of its lampooning is how the series explores a part of the American executive branch under-scrutinized by the media and public. Most movies or TV shows about American politics focus on the president over the VP....

The Morning Watch: The Matrix Resurrections VFX Breakdown, The Costumes Of West Side Story & More Warner Bros. Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 11, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....

Silenzio Bruno! Disney+/Pixar Nielsen’s ranking of the most streamed movies in 2021 paints a similarly complicated picture of the streaming landscape. The top spot went to Pixar’s animated movie “Luca,” which amassed about 10.6 billion minutes of viewing on Disney+. What’s more, Disney+ had all but two of the top 10 most-streamed films last year, including new releases like “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Cruella,” and “Jungle Cruise.” (For those who are curious: “Encanto” only streamed on the service for a week in 2021, so Nielsen has yet to report on how the movie has performed compared to these other titles....

Elvira was hotter than ever, seriously Universal Pictures In 2013, Cassandra Peterson, the actress who has played the ultimate spooky babe since the 1980s, revealed on her Twitter profile that the explosion in the gas station scene was much hotter than she anticipated. She tweeted: “Fun fact about the gas station scene — they didn’t tell me how BIG the explosion was going to be. SO hot it melted the back of my wig!...

What Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Borrows From James Cameron’s Aliens Paramount By Jacob Hall/March 1, 2022 1:30 pm EST “Star Trek: Picard” season 1 ended with the promise of more adventures to come. Jean-Luc Picard had a new crew, each of them a lost cause given meaning. They had a ship, and a galaxy to explore. Was this going to be the new status quo going forward? Nope. Without going into spoilers, season 2 of the Paramount+ series sees a time jump — an unspecified amount of time has passed between seasons, and each member of the ensemble is now in a very different place....