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Eli Roth is handing off the final two weeks of reshoots on Borderland to make his Thanksgiving trailer into an actual movie. Back in the day, a grindhouse was “a theater playing back-to-back films exploiting sex, violence, and other extreme subject matter.” Grindhouse was a double feature throwback to such cinema, made up of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof. The news comes courtesy of Deadline. Between Planet Terror and Death Proof there was a series of fake ‘coming attraction’ trailers to complete the feel of going to a grindhouse....

Los Angeles, Italia: The Italian Film, Fashion and Art Fest has returned to Grauman’s Chinese 6 Theatres in the Hollywood & Highland Complex and runs through this Saturday, February 24th, 2007. The festival features special screenings of contemporary and cult works by Italy’s most popular filmmakers, encounters with many of the key players in the film and television industry, conferences with students at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and performances and exhibits featuring award-winning costumes....

Venk Potula is entering a new era with his latest film Four Samosas and making waves as he does so. The multi-hyphenate, Los Angeles-based creative — Potula is an actor, producer, writer, and director — has been around the block, making appearances in TV shows like the hit HBO series Veep, The Comedy Get Down, and Nick Cannon’s long-running TV series Wild ‘N Out. (He was, in fact, discovered by Cannon, dancing in the streets of Hollywood....

The new Prime Video science fiction series The Peripheral has been acclaimed by fans of hard, intellectual sci-fi for its deep themes, bleak yet visionary view of the future, and masterful imagery. However, most fans and critics only highlight one part of its artistic success — writer Scott B. Smith and Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan, creators of the equally bold sci-fi show Westworld. For instance, The Guardian writes in their review, “Westworld creators’ new sci-fi is brilliant,” but they don’t mention Vincenzo Natali, the director who actually optioned the rights to The Peripheral novel from William Gibson....

The new horror movie Take Back the Night will soon be streaming for Arrow subscribers, and ahead of its release on the platform on Oct. 10, we have an exclusive clip to premiere. Writer-director Gia Elliot takes no prisoners with her award-winning debut feature film, which uses a monster attack as an allegory for sexual assault and the horrors that victims often face even after the attack. You can get a sneak peek at Take Back the Night by watching our clip below with a survivor getting victim shamed on social media as she’s under attack from a malevolent monster....

Dominic Sena’s long awaited big screen adaptation of Greg Rucka’s graphic novel Whiteout is set to hit theaters on September 11th. In the film, Kate Beckinsale stars as U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko, a woman assigned to investigate Antarctica’s first homicide. We recently caught up with Kate, as well as her co-stars Gabriel Macht and Alex O’Laughlin, for an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview about the thriller. You can check them all out in the video clip below:...

We have a brand new exclusive clip from the new indie film The Wheeler Boys, which will make its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Friday, June 25. If you don’t live in L.A., Netflix is also streaming the film for free starting at 8 PM PT on June 25 through Sunday, June 27. You can CLICK HERE after 8 PM PT this Friday to watch this new film online for free....

We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming DVD, Bottle Shock, which hits the shelves on DVD on February 3. Click below to watch an exclusive deleted scene from the film that you can’t see anywhere else. Brought together by a curious twist of fate on a dusty California road, a wandering vintner and a struggling winemaker find both their lives, and their careers, forever transformed at a blind Parisian wine tasting that introduced the world to the extraordinary wines of Napa Valley....

We have a brand new exclusive special feature clip from The Norman Lear Collection, which is set to hit the DVD shelves in a 19-disc set on June 9. Click below for our exclusive special feature clip, which features Norman Lear and Bea Arthur talking about their controversial Maude character. Legendary broadcast pioneer Norman Lear is known for creating some of the most acclaimed and top-rated television series of all time!...

Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and actor Nicolas Cage have been making box office hits together for over a decade. It began with their collaborations on a string of extremely successful action films for The Walt Disney Company’s Touchstone Pictures in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, which included The Rock, Con Air and Gone in Sixty Seconds. In 2004, the producer and star teamed with director Jon Turteltaub (Phenomenon) to make the family-friendly, action-adventure/mystery film National Treasure for Walt Disney Pictures, which was so popular that it spawned a sequel, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, in 2007....

“Play with yourself! Or…Play with others.” The wonderfully whacked out world of creator Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy has just become interactive with Family Guy Online, a new free-to-play browser-based, 3D multiplayer game from Twentieth Century Fox. To check out this awesome time consumer: CLICK HERE Then watch our trailer, along with two featurettes on the concept of the game and how the interactive Quahog was created. How do you play?...

It’s a miracle! Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), Titus (Tituss Burgess), Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) and Lillian (Carol Kane) are back in an all new season of the Emmy-nominated hit comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Here’s your first look at the fab four in action for Season 3, which premieres Friday, May 19 only on Netflix. This season brings some incredible new guest stars to Kimmy’s world, including Laura Dern, Daveed Diggs, Rachel Dratch, Ray Liotta, Andrea Martin and Maya Rudolph, with returning guest stars Fred Armisen, Anna Camp, Mike Carlsen, Josh Charles, David Cross, Tina Fey, Jon Hamm and Amy Sedaris....

Star Trek: Discovery is getting a new character soon, and we just learned the details along with getting the first images from this mysterious new season of the hit sci-fi drama. This year, Star Trek made its Hall H debut in a 90 minute series of panels dubbed “Enter the Star Trek Universe.” New Star Trek Discovery details were released. Deadline moderator, Dominic Patten, welcomed star Sonequa Martin-Green and executive producers Alex Kurtzman (2009’s Star Trek, Michelle Paradise (The Originals) and Heather Kadin (Star Trek: Picard) on stage to discuss the upcoming season of CBS’s sci-fi show....

The 81st Academy Awards® nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-winning actor and Academy member Forest Whitaker. Ganis and Whitaker will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 award categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered....

Good movie franchises to binge-watch can be hard to come by. Some franchises have two to three films, and by the time you’ve finished watching them, you still have half of your day left. Or, on the other hand, some big franchises will have six or more films, and you couldn’t even dream of watching all of them in just one day. It’s hard to pinpoint what a good number of movies is for a franchise if you’re looking to binge-watch it in an entire day, but five movies seems like the sweet spot....

Apple has debuted the movie trailer for Magnolia Pictures’ documentary adaptation of the bestselling nonfiction book series Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April to mixed reviews and has a score of 60% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes. Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money) delivers a visually arresting look at the crumbling façade of Sumo wrestling and exposes searing and violent truths about this ancient and revered sport....

Netflix has unveiled a brand new trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. This is one of the most highly-anticipated projects the streaming service has coming down the pipeline in 2019. Through a collaboration with The Jim Henson Company, and director Louis Leterrier, Netflix has crafted a long-awaited return to one of Henson’s most cherished creations in the form of a big-budget prequel series. This latest trailer shows just how massive and stunning a result the fruits of their labor has produced....

Since 1997, South Park has been entertaining and offending both audiences and haters worldwide. The series follows their antics four boys (Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny) within the titular Colorado town. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the show has become infamous for its dark humor and disregard of censorship, sparking controversial episodes such as “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” and “Cartoon Wars.” This American animated sitcom steers far from the path of conformity and, evidently, it is this trait that has kept people hooked for so many years....

FX, basic cable’s leader for scripted programming in the fall season, has set its fall schedule with the return of six original series in September and October. FX launches the fifth season of its award-winning drama Sons of Anarchy on September 11 at 10 PM ET/PT with a special 90-minute episode and will continue to run on Tuesdays at 10 PM. The series is an adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming....

Despite being set to go into production any day now, there has been a last minute change in the G.I. Joe cast. According to IESB.net, David Murray, who was to star in the film as the Scottish Arms Dealer Destro has been replaced by Christopher Eccleston. It seems that Murray had problems getting into the U.S. and getting his work visa in time for the film to begin production. Although the studio was looking forward to working with Murray, they chose to re-cast the role to allow filming to begin as planned....