COMEDY CENTRAL Mobile, a division of Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA - News and VIA.B - News) MTV Networks, announced the launch of “South Park 10: The Game,” a 40-level action/adventure mobile game based on the first 10 seasons of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series South Park. “South Park 10: The Game” will be available globally – in the U.S. and European markets – and will be distributed on major wireless carriers....
Daniel Tosh will continue to skewer and put his indelible stamp on everything crazy the Web has to offer as Comedy Central orders a second season of the weekly series Tosh.0, it was announced today by Michele Ganeless, president, Comedy Central. The second season of Tosh.0 consists of 25 episodes and it’s the largest single season episode pick-up of a weekly series ever by the network which will premiere on Wednesday, January 13 at 10:30 p....
Community fans rejoice, as the beloved comedy series is coming to Netflix very soon. The streaming service announced that the show will be arriving on April 1 which is, rather appropriately, April Fools’ Day. Netflix made the reveal in a tweet, sharing a clip from the show with the following caption. “Community is coming to Netflix April 1st! No foolin'” MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY While the precise figure isn’t known at this time, it’s said that Netflix paid somewhere in the high eight-figure range for the streaming rights....
Eight-time Academy Award®-winning composer Alan Menken (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame) has signed a non-exclusive, multi-picture deal with Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures to score non-animated films and compose for live-action projects, it was announced today by Mitchell Leib, President of music and soundtracks for Walt Disney Pictures & Television/Buena Vista Music Group. For his first assignment under this new deal, Menken will score as well as write five original songs for Walt Disney Pictures’ upcoming romantic musical-fantasy, “Enchanted,” which is being directed by Kevin Lima (Tarzan, 102 Dalmatians)....
Spoiler Warning: Cruel Summer Season One Cruel Summer has lived up to its name by being cruel to all of its characters, and that’s something we loved watching. Now, get ready to return to a world filled with nostalgia, brooding, and mystery because Cruel Summer has officially renewed for its second season and is returning to Freeform. After the show debuted in the summer of 2021, it became an instant hit for the network....
Daniel Craig is once again solving a mystery as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, the sequel to Rian Johnson’s hit Knives Out. However, since his last outing it has been confirmed by Johnson that the character is gay and living with another man. While this has become a focal point for some reviews of the movie, Daniel Craig has warned people about getting “hung up” on the character’s sexuality. Recently, there has been a lot of backlash against straight actors playing LGBTQ+ roles....
Few filmmakers have become as well-known or distinct an entity as David Lynch. Throughout the 80s, 90s and beyond, Lynch has been responsible for some of the most acclaimed and groundbreaking films of all time, among them Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and The Elephant Man. In addition to his achievements in film, Lynch also revolutionized and changed television with Twin Peaks, his landmark series which ran from 1990-1991 and later returned in 2017 with the acclaimed epic The Return....
Marvel is bringing major holiday special events back into the mainstream. One has to believe it is only a matter of time before DC follows in their footsteps, whether in their live-action space or in one of their many animated projects. While we’ve seen “The Long Halloween” story arc split into two films, that was really just a year-long mystery and not a true Halloween special. Here we will look at different characters from the pages of DC Comics that may or may not have already seen exposure on screens big and small....
You can bring the latest exploits of your favorite blood-splatter analyst/serial killer home on DVD and Blu-ray this August. Dexter: The Complete Third Season will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 18. It was also announced that a three-season pack will be available on both formats, although we have no cover art or pricing details for those sets as well. We’ll be sure to keep you posted on any and all news about these new titles....
From summer blockbusters and commercial cinema to auteur-driven films and art house movies, filmmaking allows thousands of possibilities of expression. The combination of sound and visuals has allowed artists to convey messages in a more compelling and massive way than almost any other medium, sparking a variety of reactions that in various occasions have clashed with the powers that be, angered individuals and collectives, and generated terrible consequences for the directors behind such works....
ABC has given us our first look at The Little Mermaid Live, and it has some fans more excited than Disney’s upcoming live-action remake. To be clear here, these images are for an upcoming live show to be aired live on television and shouldn’t be confused with the big screen live-action remake Disney plans to start shooting in 2020. In a new “Meet the Cast” video released by ABC, we are given a good look at some of the project’s leading cast members, which includes Auli’i Cravalho (Moana) as Ariel, Queen Latifah (Hairspray) as Ursula the Sea-Witch, Graham Phillips (Riverdale) as Prince Eric, John Stamos (Fuller House) as Chef Louie, and the reggae artist Shaggy (“It Wasn’t Me”) as Sebastian....
You can relive one of Spike Lee’s seminal films all over again in DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray this June. Do the Right Thing will be released in a 20th Anniversary Edition on DVD and Blu-ray on June 30. We have no pricing details or cover art as of yet, but we’ll update this story as soon as we have more information. In the meantime, take a look at the special features below....
Marvel Entertainment and Disney have unveiled our first look at the Disney+ series Echo. After first debuting in the role in Hawkeye, Alaqua Cox will take the starring role in the spinoff which will start streaming in 2023. The first photo, posted to Twitter by Disney+, gives fans a small tease of what’s to come in the character’s solo series. Marion Dayre (Better Call Saul) created Echo, which is based on the Marvel Comics character created by David Mack and Joe Quesada....
El Rey Network is kicking off a new multi-platform promotional initiative titled Red Card Riot (RedCardRiot.com), designed to drive fan engagement in advance of the network’s soccer spy thriller Matador premiering Tuesday, July 15th at 9 pm ET/PT. The innovative marketing program, conceived by Campfire/SapientNitro with production by RED Interactive and SunnyBoy and media planning by Media Storm, looks to tap into World Cup fever, enabling fans to ‘call a foul’ on friends/colleagues/cultural incidents by sending them a personalized Red Card from RedCardRiot....
That’s a wrap on Game of Thrones, and star Emilia Clarke is saying goodbye to the series - and the fans - in an emotional post on Instagram. In the bittersweet caption of a photo taken with all of her co-stars from the final season, Clarke touches on how much playing the role means to her. As noted in the post, Clarke has basically been Daenerys Targaryen for most of her adult life, having starred on the show since its premiere in 2011....
Encanto marks the 60th animated feature from Walt Disney Animation Studios and will soon be available to audiences to enjoy at home. Fans can enjoy a sing-along movie version, never-before-seen bonus features and deleted scenes when Encanto arrives on all major digital platforms this holiday season. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Encanto, with all-new songs by award-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, tells the tale of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family living in a magical house in the mountains of Colombia....
Billy Eichner and Luke Macfarlane are sitting next to each other on a loveseat in a posh Chicago hotel suite discussing their new film, Bros, when Macfarlane pats Eichner’s shoulder several times. The star is expressing his gratitude for Eichner, the fiery talent behind Billy on the Street and the man responsible for giving birth to the comedy in which the two men star — the first LGBTQ+ rom-com, in fact, to be backed by a major studio and make it to the big screen....
It’s not every day that one is asked for permission to turn their life story into a movie, but that is the case with Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini and her sister Sara in Netflix’s latest film The Swimmers. It, of course, helps that theirs is a story of extraordinary strength, perseverance, and hope, one that begins in war-torn Syria, involves the harrowing experience of crossing the Aegean Sea in a boat that breaks down part-way through, continues in a cross-continent journey on-foot from Greece to Germany, and ends at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro....
Eric Black tries to escape his past by working as a shepherd and moving to a desolate island in Scotland. He stays in an old rundown cabin with his dog, Baxter, while being haunted by memories of his dead wife. What begins as an internal struggle spirals into his external world. “It’s just us here.” He tries to reassure Baxter, although truthfully he’s trying to convince himself. The next morning Baxter goes missing; Black is not alone....
From stories of Jared Leto allegedly sending dead rats as presents to his cast mates during Suicide Squad’s production to actors locking themselves away in hopes of manufacturing a disconnect between characters, the concept and exercise of Method Acting has been under much scrutiny as the public learns more and more seemingly outrageous stories of their favorite actors going to extreme lengths to get into character. Some actors have even gone to harmful places to try and obtain the best performance, and have regretted the route they went on to become their characters....
