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Most Americans are likely not terribly familiar with the exploits of Queen Victoria, who ascended to the crown at the young age of 18 and who reigned for 63 years, the longest reign on record. Then again, most on the other side of the pond might not necessarily be that familiar with the trials and tribulations of Queen Victoria as portrayed in The Young Victoria, which opens in American theaters on December 18 after a successful run in Great Britain....

While the upcoming Judd Apatow produced comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall has a large cast of incredibly talented and funny individuals, it is U.K. comedian and radio personality Russell Brand that comes in and steals the entire show. Brand plays rising rock star Aldous Snow. He has stolen hot young actress Sarah Marshall away from her longtime boyfriend Peter Bretter, but gets more than he bargained for when he must spend his entire Hawaiian vacation with both his sexy new fling and her seething ex....

“Twin Peaks, the series that may change it all,” read the cover of Connoisseur magazine in 1989, months before the show aired on ABC to an audience of 35 million. Viewers had never seen anything like David Lynch and Mark Frost’s show: a surreal serial drama inflected with horror, violence, and comedy all at once. It was true, television would never be the same. Its 2017 revival, Twin Peaks: The Return, reinvented the wheel yet again, and TV continues to get stranger, and better, after its vision....

The popular anthology series Fargo will lean more comedic in its upcoming fifth season. The FX series, created by Emmy Award winner Noah Howley, will begin production this fall. In anticipation of the upcoming season of the series, FX Chairman John Landgraf told The Hollywood Reporter what viewers can expect from the upcoming season. Season five will take place in 2019, becoming the most contemporary of all Fargo seasons. The series has jumped back and forth in time, with season four, which starred Chris Rock, taking place in 1950....

Last week we reported that another adventure in David Twohy and Vin Diesel’s Richard Riddick saga was moving forward and now we have a few new tidbits on the story. According to The Hollywood Reporter, in a story on the film’s sales run at the European Film Market, the first plot details for the Untitled Chronicles of Riddick Sequel have been revealed. Vin Diesel will reprise his role as Riddick, which he played in both Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, and David Twohy, directed both films, will write and direct this third film....

Season 4 of AMC’s The Walking Dead debuts tonight with “30 Days Without an Accident” at 9 PM ET, and today we have news about two more cast members. Michael Cudlitz (Southland) has joined the cast as Army Sergeant Abraham Ford, with Josh McDermitt (Retired at 35) signing on to play Eugene. Take a look at the first photo of Michael Cudlitz as Abraham Ford, then read on for more information about these characters....

Disney has released the first poster for The Mandalorian. It’s a striking poster that finds Pedro Pascal’s mysterious lone gunfighter against an iconic binary sunset on Tatooine. The live-action Star Wars series will be launching with the Disney+ streaming service later this year and fans are really hoping we’ll get to see the trailer that dropped earlier at Star Wars Celebration while at this weekend’s D23 Expo, which seems highly likely at the moment....

Flowers is a British black comedy-drama sitcom written by Will Sharpe, starring Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt. First hitting our screens in 2016, the series follows the Flowers family: depressed father and author Maurice, his wife and music teacher, Deborah, and their 25-year-old twin children, Donald the obnoxious inventor and Amy, a tortured musician. We follow their dark yet humorous journey through life, as they struggle to hold themselves and their family together....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like Twentieth Century Fox has some big plans for their fun loving Chipmunks. The studio plans to bring out Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel on Christmas Day 2009. Fox also “announced a number of changes to its calendar, including pushing back The A-Team, which doesn’t have a cast or director, by a year, from June 12, 2009 to June 11, 2010....

Peaky Blinders wrapped its decade-long television run earlier this year with the much-anticipated sixth and final season. Cillian Murphy, as always, delivers another brilliant performance as gangster turned politician Tommy Shelby in a season that sees him fight his most challenging adversary yet – himself. In a recent interview with Deadline, Cillian Murphy discussed his nearly 10-year commitment to playing Tommy Shelby and what it’s like to finally take a break now that Peaky Blinders has concluded....

Clark Gregg is probably best known for playing the fan-favorite role of Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Gregg originated back in 2008 in the franchise’s first film Iron Man, and then went on to reprise the role in Iron Man 2 (2010) and Thor (2011) before being killed off by the Ultimate Bad-Egg Directorial Challenger in The Avengers (2012). However, the character was brought back in ABC’s Agents of S....

Starz has unleashed the first trailer for the upcoming series Da Vinci’s Demons, premiering in 2013. This eight-episode series stars Tom Riley as Leonardo Da Vinci, who invents the future as he sees fit. CLICK HERE to visit TVWeb and check out the first footage from the new show, created by David S. Goyer, debuting in 2013. Da Vinci’s Demons is David S. Goyer’s historical fantasy, following the “untold” story of the world’s greatest genius during his raucous youth in Renaissance Florence....

The star of the recently released Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Daniel Radcliffe has had quite the acting career from a very young age. At 12 years old, he was already rising to fame as the famous titular character in the Harry Potter movie franchise. Having played the internationally loved character for over a decade, it took the British actor quite some time to shed Harry Potter’s weight on his shoulders and resist being seen only as the Boy Wizard....

Popular comedian Dave Chappelle was recently attacked by an audience member during his performance at the Netflix is a Joke comedy festival at the Hollywood Bowl. The assailant, armed with a replica gun containing a concealed knife, rushed to the stage and attempted to tackle Chappelle. Luckily, the comedian came out unscathed in the altercation, although the same can’t be said for his attacker, who was roughed up by the security personnel....

For fans of The Walking Dead protagonist Rick Grimes, the latest episode of the series was bittersweet. Star Andrew Lincoln had been written out of the long-running AMC show after lasting nine seasons, just as the network had been advertising. While most fans were expecting the character to die, however, Rick wound up flying away in a helicopter by the episode’s end, with his fate left undetermined. It was certainly a surprising turn of events, but eagle-eyed viewers might have predicted what would happen if they’d noticed an Easter egg cleverly hidden at the start of the episode....

Amid the massive amount of upheaval going on at Warner Bros. Discovery, it is not surprising that the studio has officially announced that there will not be a DC Fandome this year. The annual event has been in place since 2020, when it arrived as a huge online “immersive virtual fan experience” at a time when the Covid pandemic was shutting down many such physical events, and having also taken place last year, it seemed that there was every likelihood it would be back again in 2022, but that is just not to be....

Dead to Me, a fan-favorite series on Netflix, is bringing back its flair for dark comedy for a third season. Fans of the series have been waiting since March 2020, when season 2 was released on the streaming platform for new episodes. Within its first month of season 1 released on Netflix, over thirty million viewers tuned in to binge-watch the show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Since then, Dead to Me has gotten nods from awards circuits and critics alike....

Although there is always an expectation that every Disney movie will be a hit, it seemed for a while that Encanto could be the one that got away. On release, the film was a moderate hit for the times, but it quickly sank down the chart and slipped unceremoniously onto Disney+ where, appropriately, something magical began to happen. Arriving just before Christmas, the film became an instant hit over the holidays and through word of mouth, both it and its songs took over social media apps like TikTok....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is so close we can almost touch it. Marvel Studios is heading into a final week of hype and teases before the film arrives in cinemas. A new TV spot for the mind-bending film has seemingly confirmed a long-standing belief about one character and teased the appearances of two others, as well as giving a new extended look at some previously seen footage....

‘Here’s the thing, we’re a team of thieves.’ Watch Chris Pine lead his crew through an epic adventure in the first trailer for the upcoming Paramount film, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. The trailer shows off everything you would expect from a movie based on the role-playing game, including magic, mimics, and plenty of dragon sightings. Honor Among Thieves is scheduled to arrive in theaters in March next year. Check out the official trailer below....