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According to Variety, Emily Watson is joining Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor in the Beatrix Potter biopic Miss Potter for David Kirschner Prods. and Phoenix Pictures. Chris Noonan will direct a script by Richard Maltby Jr. The $30 million pic, which begins shooting in London on March 7, is being financed by Grosvenor Park, with Summit Entertainment handling international sales and distribution. Miss Potter will explore the life of the author of beloved children’s book such as “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” and her struggle for independence in Victorian England....

Disney Animation delivers bold, multicultural storytelling that tackles thorny issues head on. Encanto is the vibrant tale of a young latina woman trying to find her place in a truly extraordinary family. Each of her relatives were granted a unique power by a magical candle. Which saved her pregnant abuela, grandmother, as a young refugee fleeing tyranny. The film is loaded with musical numbers that didn’t resonate with me all. Thankfully, the animation is absolutely stunning....

James Bond, much like the characters of Shakespeare and comic-book characters such as Batman, is a character that has been continuously reimagined, rebooted, and recast across film history. The fictional British Service Agent originated in Ian Fleming’s novel, Casino Royale, published in 1953. After Fleming’s death a decade later, new James Bond novels were written by new writers. The character created an entire franchise, having being adapted for film, television, animated series, radio, comic strips, and video games....

Director/writer Phil Blattenberger hunts villainous Nazis in South America after World War II. Condor’s Nest follows an American veteran on a quest for vengeance. Jacob Keohane stars as Will Spalding, a radioman shot down with his B-17 crew over France in 1944. They survive the crash but are found by the Nazi SS. Colonel Martin Bach (Arnold Vosloo) methodically kills Spalding’s compatriots while he hides in an attic. Years later, a hardened Spalding has tracked escaped Germans to Buenos Aires, Argentina....

For several years, filmmaker Steven C. Miller has been busy making action/thriller titles starring some of the biggest names in film. However, his newest film, Margaux, sees Miller return to another genre he is truly passionate about – horror. Written by Chris Beyrooty and Nick Waters, it stars Madison Pettis, Vanessa Morgan, Richard Harmon, Lochlyn Munro, Jedidiah Goodacre, Phoebe Miu, Jordan Buhat, Brittany Mitchell, and Louis Lay. The film follows “a group of seniors celebrating their final college days at a smart house....

There’s nothing like a good promenade, waltz, or even a barrage of bombastic dance moves when watched on TV or film. Movies like Dirty Dancing, Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, has long held a hallowed place in moviedom. Heck, there are several television shows airing now that center around dance and dance competition. The combination of music and dance moves does something special within the human experience, and it doesn’t matter if there’s direct participation or indirect; seeing, hearing, and feeling the music and watching whomever dance is always electrifying and brings an intense enjoyment....

“Family”, the famous quote exclaimed by Vin Diesel a hilarious amount of times, is the heart of this utterly bombastic franchise. The main reason audiences love these movies so much is for their cool cars, as well as the many over-the-top and simply unbelievable moments, with Universal even wanting a crossover with Jurassic World. Yet, what elevates this highly-successful franchise are its memorable and somewhat relatable characters that Fast and Furious fans have sat with for more than two decades....

In the age of reboots and remakes, it was only a matter of time before the horror genre brought back the Final Destination franchise. The next film in the series, which will be the sixth movie, was previously announced to be in the works at HBO Max. Not much else has been divulged about Final Destination 6, but it’s presumed that the film will involve death coming for those who’ve managed to somehow cheat it....

Just one week after the first poster debuted for Season 2 of Hemlock Grove, Netflix has released two new photos for the hit horror series. Stars Famke Janssen, Madeline Brewer, Bill Skarsgård, Kaniehtiio Horn and Landon Liboiron reunite for all-new episodes, which will all debut simultaneously on Friday, July 11. Check out the returning cast, and then read on for a new Season 2 synopsis. Hemlock Grove is a supernatural thriller which explores the strange happenings in a small Pennsylvania town....

Florence Pugh will star in an East of Eden adaptation penned by Zoe Kazan, Deadline reports. The limited series is based on author and Nobel Prize Winner John Steinbeck’s novel of the same name. Kazan and Pugh will also serve as producers on the upcoming series. Netflix has acquired the package after a competitive bidding war. The classic novel tells the tale of two families: The Trasks and The Hamiltons, and their relationships with each other, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of World War I....

Fly Girls is The CW Network’s new reality docu-series that takes a 360-degree look at the lives of the charismatic jet-setting flight attendants on America’s hippest new airline: Virgin America. The series will debut midseason on The CW. “This show is about real, down-to-earth young women who happen to have landed in an exceptionally glamorous, high-flying career filled with exotic locations and handsome strangers,” said Kristen Vadas, Senior Vice President, Alternative Programming, The CW....

One of Fox’s new midseason show’s will be sticking around a little longer, and with a new showrunner. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has handed out an early renewal to the freshman midseason series Lie to Me. The network has also named The Shield creator Shawn Ryan as the new showrunner for next season. While Ryan is also committed as showrunner to the CBS hit The Unit, Ryan has experience in running two shows simultaneously, as he did with both The Shield and The Unit, which hasn’t been announced for renewal but is in contention for a fifth season....

FX on Tuesday picked up Sons of Anarchy to series for a September launch. The cable network handed out a 13-episode order to the drama from The Shield writer/executive producer Kurt Sutter, FX Prods. and Fox 21, which is set in the world of motorcycle clubs. The news comes days after HBO began production on the pilot for its own biker-themed drama, 1%. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show, which Sutter is exec producing with father and son Art and John Linson, explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s efforts to protect their town of Charming, Calif....

Production is currently under way in Northern Ireland on Season 3 of Game of Thrones. The show’s official production blog has released the first official photo from the set, which teases that winter finally may be coming to Westeros when the Season 3 Premeire airs on March 31, 2013. Take a look at the photo, and read the message from crew member Cat Taylor, the assistant to series creators David Benioff and D....

It’s already been a good week for Game of Thrones fans, with the debut of new Game of Thrones Season 7 photos, which featured a new glimpse at one of Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) massive dragons, and a chilling new motion poster featuring the one enemy all of Westeros should fear, the Night’s King. At long last, today finally brings a new trailer with exciting footage that shows the Great War is finally upon us....

It’s no secret that The Expendables 3 is on the fast track, especially with the latest sequel The Expendables 2 opening number one at the box office this last weekend. While many speculate who’ll get dusted off and pulled out of retirement for this third installment, we now know of one Lone Wolf who won’t be back. That’s right, Chuck Norris, who garners some of the loudest applause in The Expendables 2 when he steps out of the smoke to single-handedly eviscerate a small army, is limiting himself to just this one appearance in the franchise....

AMC announced today a second season pick-up for its unscripted series Comic Book Men and Talking Dead. Comic Book Men is executive produced by Kevin Smith, Charlie Corwin’s Original Media and Elyse Seiden. The series continues to delve into fanboy culture by following the antics in and around Kevin Smith’s New Jersey comic shop, Jay and Silent Bob’s Secret Stash. Talking Dead, the network’s first live after show that serves as a platform for discussion for AMC’s series The Walking Dead, is executive produced by Michael Davies and co-executive produced by Jen Kelly from Embassy Row....

Cuba Gooding Jr., Michael Madsen and Keith David have joined the cast of Comedy Central’s new series Big Time in Hollywood, FL. The series centers on two delusional brothers and wannabe filmmakers (Alex Anfanger and Lenny Jacobson) who are kicked out of the house by their parents (Stephen Tobolowsky and Kathy Baker), forcing them to go on a quest to pursue their version of the American dream. Cuba Gooding Jr. will star in six of the 10 Season 1 episodes as a fictionalized version of himself, while Michael Madsen is playing a former cop turned alcoholic detective in four episodes, who is hired by the brothers’ parents to track their criminal activity....

Machete doesn’t open in theaters until this weekend, but two of its stars - Danny Trejo and Michelle Rodriguez - have already agreed to reunite for another project entitled Skinny Dip. This news comes from The Los Angeles Times. Skinny Dip will revolve around a young woman who kills a police officer. Danny Trejo’s twenty-two year old son, Gilbert Trejo, will produce the movie. He might co-direct the project as well, with another young filmmaker named Frankie Latina....

The Good David Lynch shows that there’s still a place for independent filmmakers in the world. The Bad I don’t know that one can really watch this movie more than once… “A Woman In Trouble” That is the title quote on the DVD box of this movie and I am assuming it is talking about Laura Dern’s character. She plays an actress who takes on a new role in a movie and then disappears into the set, and that point Inland Empire becomes one of the more subjective film experiences one might ever see....