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The Daryl Dixon Walking Dead Spinoff Adds David Zabel As New Showrunner Disney–ABC Domestic Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 1, 2022 11:15 am EST AMC’s “The Walking Dead” spinoff series, which is poised to fill the void left by the series when it concludes its final season, seems to be going through some major changes behind the scenes. Earlier this week, news broke that Melissa McBride, who was set to star as Carol alongside Norman Reedus’ Daryl, would not be working on the show after all....

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter Footage Reaction: Vampires On The Open Sea [CinemaCon 2022] Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/April 27, 2022 9:07 pm EST CinemaCon is currently taking place in Las Vegas and Universal Pictures decided to bring a great deal of footage from its upcoming slate. This includes “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” a movie that we first covered the development of more than a decade ago. This to say, this one has been a very long time coming and, at long last, some footage has been showcased to prove that it does indeed exist and will be with us next year....

The Lost City Proves People Still Want Original Movies With $31 Million Opening Weekend Paramount Pictures By Joshua Meyer/March 28, 2022 8:45 am EST Movies: people still want to see ’em! And in theaters, no less! Just when you thought the weekend box office was the sole province of recent superhero blockbusters like “The Batman” and “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” along comes a Sandra Bullock movie to remind us that there’s still a market for other kinds of entertainment at the multiplex....

The Mummy Reboot Director Admits That Yes, He Made A Very Bad Movie Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/April 22, 2022 2:57 pm EST It feels like only yesterday that Universal Pictures announced their plans for a new “Dark Universe” franchise of horror reboots, breathing new life into the classic monster movies that helped solidify the studio as a megapower in the 1930s. Universal was so sure that this was going to be their next big thing, they even released a promotional composite photo compiling the massive stars they had tapped for future films, including Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Sofia Boutella, Johnny Depp, and Javier Bardem....

The Outfit Review: Mark Rylance Is The Special Thread Holding This Tightly Wound Mobster Movie Together Focus Features By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 17, 2022 8:45 am EST How lucky we are to have Mark Rylance, movie star? The Oscar winner has long been a respected mainstay of the stage and the arthouse circuit, but the one-two Spielberg punch of “Bridge of Spies” and “The BFG” launched him to a new stratosphere, which brings us to where we are now: with Rylance leading the tightly wound but somewhat airless mobster movie “The Outfit....

The Overstuffed Stranger Things 4 Shows Why Every Series Doesn’t Need To Be Game Of Thrones Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/June 4, 2022 10:00 am EST It’s been three years since the last time we visited the town of Hawkins, but “Stranger Things” is finally back with new episodes. Season 4 does many things right, from embracing anime and D&D, to actually being quite scary, to its satanic panic storyline, and everything Maya Hawke and Joe Keery do....

Why Heather Donahue Brought A Big Knife To The Blair Witch Project Set Artisan Entertainment By Lex Briscuso/Jan. 3, 2022 12:15 pm EST Thinking back to the incredible feat that was the filming of “The Blair Witch Project,” it’s kind of a miracle directors Eduardo Sánchez and Daniel Myrick got away with as much as they did in order to create their masterpiece. Considering their guerilla-style filmmaking tactics and barebones starting point, it’s hard not to marvel at the finished product — or, frankly, understand why the film’s female lead, Heather Donahue, was uneasy about joining the cast at first....

Yellowstone Creator Lands Two More Paramount+ Series Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/Feb. 15, 2022 10:57 pm EST I’m very concerned about the amount of sleep that Taylor Sheridan is going to be missing over the next few months. As part of the barrage of news from Paramount today (“Halo” renewal before the first season premieres, “South Park” and “Beavis and Butt-Head” set to stream exclusively on Paramount+, a new “Star Trek” film, and so very much more), we learned from TV Line that Sheridan has two more series on the way....

Another Classic South Park Song Got The Full Orchestra Treatment Comedy Central By Ben F. Silverio/Feb. 26, 2022 2:27 pm EST Everyone’s favorite quiet little mountain town in Colorado is celebrating this year. After the highs and lows of an unprecedented $900 million deal that renews the series up to a 30th season (and an abbreviated 24th season, due to the ongoing pandemic), “South Park” returned to Comedy Central earlier this month for its landmark 25th season....

Director Tomas Alfredson Broke His Own Rules To Make Let The Right One In EFTI By Joshua Meyer/March 15, 2022 11:51 am EST Bibliophiles and even sometimes cinephiles will espouse the sentiment that “the book is better than the movie.” But like the undead creatures at the heart of it, the vampire film genre has shown a remarkable ability to adapt and re-adapt certain seminal texts such as Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” Anne Rice’s “Interview with the Vampire,” and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s “Let the Right One In....

Mosasaurus Universal Pictures In “Jurassic World Dominion,” the Mosasaurus is just trying to live. It has no moral justifications for snatching fish from an Arctic fishing expedition in the first scene of the film. It’s an issue of survival. Hey, if a few humans die in the process, the Mosasaurus still gets to eat. This is, inexplicably, a less harsh incarnation of the Mosasaurus, who was last seen executing one of the most unnecessary and cruel deaths in modern blockbuster history....

Every Part Of Geek Culture Referenced In Stranger Things Season 4 Netflix By Christian Gainey/May 29, 2022 9:00 am EST “Stranger Things” is always overflowing with two things: Upside Down weirdness and geek culture goodness. And season 4 doesn’t disappoint. We first met Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), and Will (Noah Schnapp) during a 10-hour Dungeons and Dragons campaign, and it was our first clue these boys aren’t sitting at the cool table in the school cafeteria....

For One Scene, The Northman Becomes The Best Video Game Movie Ever Focus Features By Rafael Motamayor/April 22, 2022 2:00 pm EST This article contains spoilers for “The Northman.” Director Robert Eggers is known for his attention to historical detail. From “The Witch” relying on natural light and authentic dialects to “The Lighthouse” traumatizing its cast, his movies are a treasure trove of small touches that feel like they were warped onto the screen straight from the past....

Freddie Highmore And Maisie Williams To Lead True Crime Comedy Sinner V. Saints HBO By Debopriyaa Dutta/May 9, 2022 10:55 am EST A new true-crime comedy, “Sinner v. Saints,” is currently in the works, with Maisie Williams (“Game of Thrones,” The New Mutants") and Freddie Highmore (“The Good Doctor,” “Bates Motel”) attached to play its leads. Per The Hollywood Reporter, although the tone of the film is expected to be comedic in nature, the narrative is based on the real-life case of Joyce McKinney, who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson....

Horror Movie Spin-Offs You Didn’t Know Were In The Works Warner Bros. Pictures By Joe Garza/June 9, 2022 12:25 pm EST In a world that’s hungry for entertainment, studios are constantly looking for ways to satisfy this demand. While there’s been plenty of terrific original content to enjoy across various streaming platforms, sometimes it’s easier for studios to update and expand existing properties. This means that much of the content we consume is a sequel, prequel, reboot, remake, reimagining, or spin-off....

How An Entire Island Conspired To Murder A Policeman In The Wicker Man British Lion Films By Lee Adams/May 1, 2022 6:44 pm EST This weekend is a big one for burning effigies around my household. Here in the Czech Republic, April 30th is when people all around the country gather to burn witches (dummy ones, of course) and banish the last traces of winter. The celebrations usually include lots of fun and games for the kids, music, dancing, plus klobasa sausages and plenty of beer for the adults....

How Quentin Tarantino Helped Josh Brolin Land His No Country For Old Men Role Miramax By Mike Shutt/Feb. 1, 2022 11:59 am EST An actor putting themselves on tape for an audition is always a tricky proposition. Sure, it gives the casting agents and filmmakers a decent idea of how you read on camera, but it also places the actor in the strange posidtion of performing the scene in some place at their home, perhaps without even a scene partner....

I Saw Doctor Strange 2, But Nothing In It Was As Exciting As The Avatar 2 Trailer 20th Century Studios By Rafael Motamayor/May 10, 2022 12:00 pm EST There was a lot of hype building up to the release of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” from it being Sam Raimi’s triumphant return to both superhero movies and the director’s chair in general, to this being the first horror (or at least horror-adjacent) MCU movie, to it following “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and its many Spider-Men....

Kevin Feige Says Ms. Marvel’s AvengersCon Could Actually Become A Reality Marvel By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 3, 2022 4:45 pm EST As the Marvel Cinematic Universe heads deeper into the uncharted territory of Phase IV, it’s getting more meta than ever. First, there was the corny “Avengers” musical in “Hawkeye.” Then, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” nodded to the popular multi-Spidey meme. Now, “Ms. Marvel” is about to take the meta references to a whole new level by introducing a superhero who loves, well, Marvel....

Nightmare Alley Composer Nathan Johnson On The Music Of ‘Con Men And Hucksters’ [Interview] 20th Century Studios By Jack Giroux/Dec. 20, 2021 1:30 pm EST Nathan Johnson is known for one of the great film noir scores of this century, Rian Johnson’s “Brick.” Now, the composer behind that cult classic and “Knives Out” has scored another film noir, “Nightmare Alley,” that’s destined to last. However, Johnson didn’t approach the music for Guillermo del Toro’s lavish film thinking about genre, but only about the characters on screen....