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The first trailer for John Wick director David Leitch’s upcoming action thriller, Bullet Train, has, at last, come speeding into view, and introduces us to Brad Pitt and the rest for the cavalcade of master assassins. Despite the title, this first footage from the Sony Pictures project has taken a while to get here, but it was certainly worth the wait, as five assassins come face-to-face aboard the titular bullet train....

FLCL (or Fooly Cooly) is one of the great hidden gems of anime. And it stays hidden, sometimes for 15 years! When FLCL first premiered in the United States in 2003, the fan following was much more explosive than when released in Japan three years earlier. Though it was respected in Japan, in the US, it became a sort of Firefly-esque cult phenomenon: one season, limited run, dearly loved but overlooked....

After a vigorous bidding war which resulted in what is believed to be the biggest off-network deal ever, FXX has secured the exclusive cable, VOD and non-linear rights to The Simpsons, the longest-running, most successful comedy series in television history, it was announced today by John Landgraf, CEO, FX Networks and FX Productions and Chuck Saftler, President, Program Strategy, and COO, FX Networks. The longest-running scripted show in television history, The Simpsons has remained one of the most groundbreaking and innovative entertainment franchises, recognizable throughout the world....

Around the time Game of Thrones came to an end on HBO Max there were several prequel ideas in the works, but over time most of these faded away or are currently sitting dormant. One prequel that was mentioned was Dunk & Egg, a potential prequel based on George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novellas, which now appears to have Steve Conrad tapped to write the series and executive produce it according to sources....

A few weeks ago, HBO programming president Casey Bloys revealed during an interview that the Game of Thrones producers plan on shooting multiple endings for the Game of Thrones finale}, so even the cast and crew won’t know the true ending, cutting down on the risk of key spoilers leaking before the final season airs in either late 2018 or possibly 2019. We haven’t heard much else about the possibility of multiple endings, but despite the news coming from a rather reliable source, an important executive at HBO, it seems Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister on the hit fantasy series, doesn’t think that’s true at all....

What happens when a bunch of chickens decides quite literally to fly the coop and break out of their prison-like farm? The result is a high-flying adventure full of heart, warmth, jokes, laughter, and a conclusion that may or may not leave your feathers ruffled. To date, Chicken Run remains the most successful stop-frame films of all time, having made $224 million. This widely surpasses its closest comparison, The Nightmare Before Christmas, which only made around $88 million....

The Australian actor Christian Clark accidentally confirmed his involvement in Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman. We reported here that he was in talks for the film, and while speaking to the Adelaide Advertiser, Clark confirmed it. The paper says that Clark was “momentarily caught off-guard when asked about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and inadvertently confirms his involvement, before realising the gag order in his contract prevents him from doing so or talking about it any further....

Fox Digital Entertainment (FDE) and QMx Interactive Inc. (QMXi), a developer of mobile games and apps, are heading back to the Verse of the much beloved cult hit TV series Firefly, announcing today the first officially licensed video game, titled Firefly Online. Firefly Online (FFO) is a multi-user, social online role-playing game that will initially be available for smartphones and tablets, including those based on iOS and Android operating systems....

Dark City is a sci-fi noir movie directed by Alex Proyas (I Robot, The Crow) and released in 1998. Though it received many positive reviews at the time, it was a complete failure financially, with Proyas himself calling it a “box office disaster.” But in the 24 years since its release, Dark City has become an underground ’90s cult classic, and is the perfect movie for a modern remake. Dark City escaped the lasting attention of most people when it was released, sandwiched as it was between the juggernaut of Titanic and The Matrix a year later....

David Tennant’s run as The Doctor might have come and gone, but the Doctor Who franchise may not have seen the last of the Tennant family. Ty Tennant, the adoptive son of the man who played the Tenth Doctor on the long-running sci-fi series, has been following in his father’s footsteps with a budding acting career of his own. After appearing as himself in the Doctor Who parody The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, Ty snagged a couple of roles last year, acting in the J....

Dimension Films has reached an agreement with Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman, the team behind the hit movie The Exorcism of Emily Rose, to write the screenplay for Devil’s Knot, a film that will be based on the book of the same name written by Mara Leveritt and the actual events surrounding the 1993 murders in Arkansas of three 8-year-old boys and the subsequent convictions. Derrickson will also direct the project, which will be produced by Elizabeth Fowler, Paul Harris Boardman and Clark Peterson (Monster)....

Bob Iger has only been on the job for a few days and is already making big moves to save Disney+. In his first week as CEO, Iger has already told his employees that he intends to change the corporate structure. Iger announced that Kareem Daniel, one of the former CEO’s top lieutenants, will exit his position. These initial changes signal Iger’s intent to restructure the decision-making management. The current corporate structure was put in place by his predecessor, Bob Chapek....

It’s official DisneyToon’s is out of the direct-to-DVD sequel business. In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, DisneyToon Studios is going to stop making straight-to-DVD sequels as was originally speculated in this earlier article. The company will now “focus on original stories.” The decision to end the string of sequels Disney Toon Studios put out “coincided with the announcement that DisneyToon now will operate as a separate unit of Walt Disney Animation Studios under the supervision of Pixar impresarios Ed Catmull and John Lasseter....

Ever since Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog first appeared on the web, the web-based series about a low-rent supervillain has been a smash hit. And with fans clamoring for more, Zack Whedon told MTV about what fans can expect to see from Dr. Horrible, his arch-foe Captain Hammer and the rest of the memorable cast. First up, the soundtrack for the web-series will be downloadble on iTunes beginning September 2, 2008. And the second web-comic is already being written by Zack Whedon....

While three films will make their basic-cable premieres on other networks, E! has secured this trio of New Line films for the second run. According to Variety, E! has paid $7 million for the second-position rights to three films from New Line Cinema: Sex and the City: The Movie and the yet-to-be-released films The Women and He’s Just Not That Into You. The films will be slotted into the “Movies We Love” banner on the network, which airs films at 8 PM ET on Saturday nights....

Maude Apatow has officially declared 2022 as the year of Sydney Sweeney, and we can’t help but agree. This year alone, the 24-year-old actress has been nominated for two Primetime Emmys for her roles in Euphoria and The White Lotus, and scored a (still-unknown) role in Sony’s upcoming Madame Web. Now, Sweeney has been identified as a member of the TIME100 Next 2022, a list of “emerging leaders from around the world” who shape the future and define the next generation of leadership....

A teenage boy must become the man his absent father never was in Icon, the new feature film from Icon Film LLC and Pretty Sweet Films. Having just made its VOD premiere, the film is available across all TVOD/Digital and Blu-Ray/DVD platforms throughout North America as of Aug. 1, 2022. You can watch our exclusive clip below. Icon is written, directed, and produced by Tony Ahedo. Starring Parker Padgett and Devon Hales, the film also features Julia Denton, Tony Demil, Brice Anthony Heller, and Ronald Sansone....

Director Jason Eisener (V/H/S/2, The ABCs of Death, Hobo with a Shotgun) and young actor Dominic Mariche (Are You Afraid of the Dark?) battle aliens with equal doses of horror, sci-fi, and humor in Kids vs. Aliens. The result may leave audiences craving more. Leaping off his popular V/H/S franchise, Kids vs. Aliens comes from Eisener’s segment from the 2013 anthology horror film V/H/S/2, a 2013 found footage horror anthology film that grabbed audiences’ attention....

The new David E. Kelley Peacock series, The Calling, offers a unique twist on the common police procedural. In the current cultural landscape, where discussions about law and order have turned to heated arguments, The Calling goes in a surprising direction toward human compassion and empathy. The series follows the deeply spiritual, Jewish detective Avraham Avraham (known by most as Avi, and played be Jeff Wilbusch) as he works with his new partner Janine Harris (Juliana Canfield) to search for a missing teenager....

Lars Eidinger is a different breed of actor. Incredibly thoughtful and philosophical, bracingly confrontational, and physically intimidating, Eidinger is a difficult person to pin down, largely because his performative presence changes with such fluidity (from legendary Shakespeare performances to perfect and odd indie movies like Everyone Else, and mainstream dramas like the upcoming All the Light We Cannot See). The media often likes to present Eidinger as a kind of enfant terrible, a mischievous actor probing the very limits of acceptability and dissecting static definitions of acting....