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We can't believe the year is almost over. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating a new year and soon we'll be doing it all over again. 2024 has been a great year for Netflix so far, and there's still so much more content the streamer has yet to release.

An example is comedy specials. We've already seen so many new specials come out over the year, but there is still a good amount left to be released. At the beginning of September, Netflix dropped two specials that were very entertaining to watch. They were Phil Wang: Wang in There, Baby! and Ahir Shah: Ends.

Luckily, there's still one more Netflix comedy special coming out at the end of the month, and it's one that many people are looking forward to. If you're wondering what special we're talking about, all you have to do is keep on reading.

Ali Wong is returning to Netflix with her fourth comedy special. On Monday, the streaming service announced that Ali Wong will premiere Ali Wong: Single Lady, a special about her “divorced mom era,” on Oct. 8.

The new special was filmed during one of her Netflix Is a Joke Fest performances earlier this year. (She sold out 12 shows at the Wiltern in Los Angeles during the comedy festival.) The special will see her open up about life post-divorce from John Hakuta, her husband of 10 years, and her new “quest for love.

Ali Wong’s post-divorce life is getting the Netflix treatment.

The comic is set to release Single Lady on the global platform Oct. 8. The stand-up special, where she will also open up about her quest for love following the demise of her marriage, marks her fourth hour for Netflix. Her previous specials, including Ali Wong: Don Wong, Ali Wong: Baby Cobra and Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife, featured similarly personal material, be it marriage, pregnancy or motherhood.

Wong filmed the latest hour at The Wiltern in Los Angeles as part of the Netflix Is a Joke Fest this past spring. She also directed it herself and serves as an executive producer alongside veteran John Irwin. It arrives as the market for specials is a bright spot in an otherwise bleak industry, with platforms from Netflix to Amazon to Hulu willing to write as much as eight-figure checks to land top comics.

The 1970's was an era of extravagant hair dos and fashion senses that will test the contrast option on your television settings! It was also the time of the Kung Fu Boom and therefore the inevitable attempt of Hong Kong studios to attempt to cash in. Long before Jackie Chan made his first crack at international stardom, we got “Slaughter in San Francisco” aka “Yellow Faced Tiger” with Wong Tao in the lead and Lo Wei at the helm. Throw in Chuck Norris as the bad guy with the incredible chest hair and you have a movie that is pure 1974, released by Eureka Entertainment in their latest addition to their collection.

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Cops Wong (Wong Tao) and John (Robert Jones) are best friends and partners on the force. An altercation with some bad guys leaves Wong removed from the police and working as a waiter.

Ali Wong and Steven Yeun's chemistry contributed to the success of Netflix's Beef. They had previously worked together in Tuca & Bertie, an overlooked animated series. Despite its cancellation, Tuca & Bertie offers quality entertainment with witty dialogue and thought-provoking themes.

Ali Wong and Steven Yeun's chemistry in Netflix's Beef is one of the best things about the comedy-drama TV miniseries, and a previous collaboration between the two actors perfectly explains why Beef was bound to be successful. Wong and Yeun star in the miniseries about Amy and Danny, two strangers, who engage in a longstanding feud with growing stakes after allowing a road rage incident to consume every aspect of their personal lives. Created by Lee Sung Jin, Beef has plenty of shocking moments and is known for its dark humor, unexpected violence, and a cautionary tale about controlling one's emotions in the heat of tense situations.

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You know it’s October when more than fifteen horror movies release in a single week. In the wake of this past Tuesday’s seven new movies, ten more have been unleashed today alone.

Here’s all the new horror that released on October 6, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

The franchise’s first movie in 20 years, The Exorcist: Believer is now playing in theaters nationwide, the first film in a planned trilogy of legacy sequels from Universal, Blumhouse, and Morgan Creek, and director David Gordon Green (Halloween).

Here’s the full plot synopsis for The Exorcist: Believer…

“Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding has raised their daughter Angela (Lidya Jewett) on his own.

“But when Angela and her friend Katherine (Olivia Marcum) disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened,...

Halloween slasher-comedy Totally Killer is on the way from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, promising an outrageously killer time. To prove it, Bloody Disgusting has been provided with an exclusive clip introducing retro mayhem over a waterbed and a special ticket giveaway to the slasher’s Beyond Fest screening taking place on October 4 at 7:30pm Pt at Aero Theatre.

Totally Killer hits Prime Video on October 6, 2023! The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.”

The exclusive clip below gives a closer look at the masked killer in action as he stalks his prey.

As if that’s not enough, we have 25 tickets to giveaway to the special Beyond Fest screening on October 4, which will include a Q&a with director Nahnatchka Khan, moderated by Christopher Landon! To enter, fill out the form below. Winners will be selected October 3.

“Thirty-five years after the shocking murder of three teens,...

Halloween slasher-comedy Totally Killer is on the way from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, promising an outrageously killer time based on the new trailer that debuted today.

Totally Killer hits Prime Video on October 6, 2023! The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.”

The brand new trailer below leans into the Back to the Future meets The Final Girls concept, fully embracing the comedy.

“Thirty-five years after the shocking murder of three teens, the infamous ‘Sweet Sixteen Killer’ returns on Halloween night to claim a fourth victim. Seventeen-year-old Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) ignores her overprotective mom’s (Julie Bowen) warning and comes face-to-face with the masked maniac and, on the run for her life, accidentally time travels back to 1987, the year of the original killings. Forced to navigate the unfamiliar and outrageous culture of the 1980s, Jamie teams up with her teen mom (Olivia Holt...

The slasher-comedy Totally Killer is on the way from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, and today we’ve been provided with a first look at the film’s new slasher villain.

Their name is “The Sweet Sixteen Killer,” described in a press release as “the frightening, fresh new face joining iconic villains from Blumhouse’s horror canon.”

That lineup to date includes…

The Grabber / The Black Phone The Butcher / Freaky Babyface / Happy Death Day Lady Liberty / The Purge: Election Year Pooka / Into the Dark: Pooka! Sweet Sixteen Killer / Totally Killer

Meet “The Sweet Sixteen Killer” in the new teaser video below.

Totally Killer hits Prime Video on October 6, 2023. The film has been rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.”

Totally Killer sounds quite a bit like the brilliant slasher-comedy The Final Girls, similarly transporting characters back in time and putting them inside of a classic 80s slasher setup.

The slasher-comedy Totally Killer is on the way from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, and we’ve learned this morning that the film will be released in time for Halloween.

Totally Killer hits Prime Video on October 6, 2023! The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.”

While you wait for a trailer, check out a gallery of first-look images below.

Totally Killer sounds quite a bit like the brilliant slasher-comedy The Final Girls, similarly transporting characters back in time and putting them inside of a classic 80s slasher setup.

The film is a continuation of the deal forged by Blumhouse and Amazon Studios in 2019 and will star Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Mad Men), Olivia Holt (Cruel Summer), Julie Bowen (Modern Family, Life of the Party), and Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh off the Boat). Nahnatchka Khan (Always Be My Maybe,...

Coming soon from Blumhouse and Amazon Studios, the slasher-comedy Totally Killer has officially been rated “R” by the MPA this month. Totally Killer is rated “R” for…

“Bloody violence, language, sexual material, and teen drug/alcohol use.”

Totally Killer sounds quite a bit like the brilliant slasher-comedy The Final Girls, similarly transporting characters back in time and putting them inside of a classic 80s slasher setup.

The film is a continuation of the deal forged by Blumhouse and Amazon Studios in 2019 and will star Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Mad Men), Olivia Holt (Cruel Summer), Julie Bowen (Modern Family, Life of the Party), and Randall Park (Always Be My Maybe, Fresh off the Boat). Nahnatchka Khan (Always Be My Maybe, Young Rock, Don Wong) is directing, and Jen D’Angelo penned the screenplay based on an original script by David Matalon and Sasha Perl-Raver.

The film follows Jamie (Shipka) whose mom,...

Ali Wong fearlessly embodied a powerhouse of pent-up rage in the recently acclaimed Netflix series Beef which saw her in outrageous stand-offs against the equally angry Steven Yeun. If you enjoyed this darkly funny series (and if you've watched it that's a guaranteed yes) it's imperative that you should give Ali Wong's Netflix comedy specials Baby Cobra, Hard Knock Wife, and Don Wong, a watch. Similarly to Beef, they offer an original take on motherhood and monogamous relationships, subverting any worn-out or traditional views with a fierce relish. Wong also does not shy away from visceral bodily humor, describing her physicality in vivid detail in regard to sex and childbirth. Nothing is off the table in this consistently high-quality trilogy, which makes a perfect follow-up to the gripping show Beef if you're missing Wong's signature frankness and merciless sense of humor.

The same year which would see the release of Tsui Hark's much celebrated wuxia outing “Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain” coincided with Chang Pang-yee's “The Night Orchid” arriving in cinemas. Even though the former is more known among cinephiles, both movies share a similar approach to their stories, a blend of martial arts and sword fighting, spiced with humour and fantasy. Also known as “Demon Fighter” or “Faster Blade Poisonous Darts”, the latter is an adaptation of Gu Long's novel of the same title, and typical for the kind of genre features the Taiwanese movie industry had been known for at the time. While Chang Peng-yi does not divert from the formula too much, perhaps “The Night Orchid” is worthwhile due to its visuals, which often border on being surreal or even going into horror territory.

The Night Orchid is screening at Old School Kung Fu Fest...

The electric comedy series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" is set to deliver a gloriously satisfying conclusion in its fifth and final season on Prime Video. Known for its blustering pace and whip-smart dialogue, the show offered a glimpse into the life and career of a housewife turned comedienne during one of the most exciting time periods in New York City's history. The swinging sixties opened up new avenues and opportunities for entertainers of every ilk, who flocked to Greenwich Village to appear on stage in hip, smoke-filled clubs like the infamous Gaslight Café on MacDougal Street. Winning numerous awards over multiple seasons, series star Rachel Brosnahan took inspiration from a number of performers to bring Midge Maisel to life when it was her time to shine in the spotlight. 

The persona of Mrs. Maisel is said to have been based on comedy legend Joan Rivers, who broke down doors to...

“Do you have a breast pump?”

This is how Ali Wong greets my visibly third-trimester self when we meet up at Etta in Culver City for lunch in February. By the time we make it to our table, she is already whipping out her phone to text her assistant to deliver a pump to my apartment, and she spends the first 15 minutes of her interview focused on my pregnancy: how many weeks I’m along, how I felt during my glucose test (she’s the only person who’s ever asked me about that often-nauseating experience) and her three must-brings to the hospital for delivery (a breastfeeding pillow, a nice blanket from home and a pack of Depends).

“I really miss being pregnant,” sighs Wong, 40, who famously was with child for each of her first two stand-up specials, 2016’s Baby Cobra and 2018’s Hard Knock Wife. “Sometimes it feels a...

In the early 1990s, the performance of the Chinese men’s table tennis team was at a historic all-time low. As the head coach during that time of crisis, Cai Zhenhua was entrusted with the challenging task of forming a new team. Led by the so-called “Five Great Generals”, players Ma Wenge, Wang Tao, Ding Song, Liu Guoliang as well as Kong Linghui, and after a period of arduous training, the team finally prevailed at the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships in Tianjin to return to the pinnacle of the sport.

This movie is based on real-life historical events, and pays tribute to the spirit of unity, perseverance and hard work in Chinese table tennis.

(Source: Translated from Douban)

This sports movie is another collaboration between actor-director Deng Chao (Shadow) and screenwriter Yu Baimei – both were also co-directors for the 2019 movie Looking Up. Cast members include Deng’s wife Sun Li...

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 is kicking things into high gear with its list of guest judges. Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion), Harvey Guillén (What We Do In the Shadows), Julia Garner, Megan Stalter (Hacks), country singer Maren Morris, and more will serve guest judge realness on Season 15, MTV announced Monday, December 19. As previously announced, Ariana Grande will guest judge the two-part season premiere — her second appearance on the Emmy-winning reality competition. RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 premieres with two episodes on Friday, January 6 at 8/7c on its new network, MTV. Hosting is the ever glamorous RuPaul, who is also serving as head judge as usual with judges’ panel mainstays Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, Ross Mathews, and Ts Madison. Madison has been upped to a rotating member of the judges’ panel. Joining Monáe, Guillén, Garner, Morris, and Stalter as RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 15 guest judges are comedian Ali Wong (Ali Wong:...

Jerrod Carmichael nabbed his first Emmy award for his HBO comedy special Rothaniel.

The comedian beat Ali Wong: Don Wong, The Daily Show With Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Globe – Hungary For Democracy, Nicole Byer: Bbw (Big Beautiful Weirdo) and Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special win the Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special.

“I wanted to win, I’m happy I won. Thank you very much,” he said on stage, wearing Puff Daddy’s fur jacket.

“I made something that was of great personal consequence to me and this definitely contributes to the meaning of it. I’m not a sore winner, but I’m going to go home because I can’t top this right now.”

Carmichael wrote, executive produced and starred in the acclaimed and deeply personal Rothaniel, in which he came out as gay. The comedian has been branching out as...

Watch the Trailer for the New Resident Evil Netflix Series: "Year 2036 – 14 years after a deadly virus caused a global apocalypse, Jade Wesker fights for survival in a world overrun by the blood-thirsty infected and insane creatures. In this absolute carnage, Jade is haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, by her father’s chilling connections to the Umbrella Corporation but mostly by what happened to her sister, Billie."

Series Launch Date: July 14

Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer: Andrew Dabb (Supernatural)

Executive Producer / Writer: Mary Leah Sutton

Executive Producers: Robert Kulzer and Oliver Berben of Constantin Film

Producer: Constantin Film CEO Martin Moszkowicz

Studio: Constantin Film

Format: 8 x 1 Hour episodes

Cast:

Lance Reddick, Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph, Paola Nuñez, Ahad Raza Mir, Connor Gossatti, Turlough Convery

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Tubi Boards Classic Horror Film Terror Train Remake To Premiere October 2022: "Tubi (www.tubi.tv), a division of Fox Entertainment,...

Don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on Valentine’s Day this year? Netflix has you covered for a fun night at home with the premiere of comedian Ali Wong’s latest stand-up special Ali Wong: Don Wong, which premieres on Monday, February 14. “Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Ali reveals her wildest fantasies, the challenges of monogamy, and how she really feels about single people,” states the special’s description. Filmed in November 2021 at The Count Basie Theater in New Jersey, Don Wong marks the comic’s third special to debut on the streamer after the successes of Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife and Ali Wong: Baby Cobra. Poking fun at her memorable cheetah print look from Baby Cobra, Wong stresses over picking an outfit for this special in the new behind-the-scenes trailer. “It was so difficult to figure out what to wear for this special because I’m not pregnant,...

Editor’s Note: Debuting today & distinct from TV reviews & breaking news, The Deadline Watchlist is a feature spotlighting small screen specials, events and can’t-miss episodes of ongoing series each week.

1. Super Bowl Lvi Halftime Show: Yes, there is a little NFL game on this weekend, but real history will be made in the Pepsi-sponsored Halftime show as hip hop royalty Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and queen Mary J Blige team up to show everyone how it is done. With the L.A. Rams battling it out for glory with the Cincinnati Bengals at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, expect some literal and figurative California Love in the 12-minute show, a boatload of hits, some poignant shout outs and that Tupac hologram (maybe). – Dominic Patten

Feb, 13, NBC, approximately 5 Pm Pt

2. The Book Of Boba Fett Season 1 Finale: It’s all been leading up to this — Boba Fett...

Netflix seems to be very happy to be in the Ali Wong business. The actress, writer, and comedian first made a splash on the streamer with her two insanely funny stand-up specials, "Baby Cobra" and "Hard Knock Wife." She then went on to voice characters in their hit animated shows "Tuca & Bertie" and "Big Mouth." And during the same year that they premiered, Wong also starred alongside "Fresh Off The Boat" and "WandaVision" star Randall Park in "Always Be My Maybe," arguably one of the best romantic comedies of the past decade. Now, after branching out to appear in "Birds...

The post Ali Wong's New Comedy Special, Don Wong, is Coming to Netflix on Valentine's Day appeared first on /Film.

Disney’s “The Lion King” was the big VFX winner Wednesday at the 18th annual Ves Awards at the Beverly Hilton, grabbing three prizes. Meanwhile. Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” won for supporting VFX and feature compositing.

This now gives the edge to “The Lion King” (supervised by three-time Oscar winner Rob Legato) in the VFX Oscar race. Jon Favreau’s breakthrough virtual production and faux live-action aesthetic was due to Mpc Film’s accomplished photoreal animation. Of course, “The Irishman” has been given a boost, too. And we shouldn’t count out “Avengers: Endgame,” seeking to become the first Marvel movie to win the VFX Oscar, even though it came away empty-handed for its extraordinary end battle and outstanding character work on Thanos and Smart Hulk.

Laika’s stop-motion “Missing Link,” the Golden Globe animation winner, took two awards (VFX for animated feature and the Susan Sasquatch animated character...

“The Lion King,” the Disney “live-action” remake that is made up almost entirely of computer-generated characters and backgrounds, has won three awards at the Visual Effects Society’s 18th annual Ves Awards, which were handed out Wednesday night in Los Angeles.

The film won for its virtual cinematography and created environment, and also took the award for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature, the Ves category that corresponds most closely to the Academy Awards’ Best Visual Effects category.

“The Irishman,” with its extensive use of de-aging technology, won two awards, including Outstanding Supporting Effects in a Photoreal Feature. “Missing Link” was the top animated feature with two awards.

Also Read: 'The Lion King' Crosses $500 Million Domestic, Will Soon Pass 'Beauty and the Beast'

In the television categories, “Stranger Things” and “Game of Thrones” each received a pair of awards. So did “The Mandalorian” — including one for “The Child,...

The Visual Effects Society is handing out its 18th annual Ves Awards tonight at the Beverly Hilton, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. Check out the list below.

Patton Oswalt is hosting the ceremony, which recognizes and honors the most outstanding visual effects work of the year and honors the artists who created them. Check out the latest winners and the nominees in all remaining categories below.

Since the Ves Awards launched in 2002, the winner of its top film category — Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Motion Picture — has gone on to score the Best Visual Effects Oscar in 10 of the 17 years. (Hugo won the Ves in the Feature Motion Picture category in 2011 and later won the Oscar.) But Ves and the Film Academy have differed in each of the past two years, with War for the Planet of the Apes losing the...

Stars: Christian Oliver, Les Brandt, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ernie Reyes Jr., Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Kaiwi Lyman, West Liang, Tara Macken, Antoinette Kalaj, Alvin Hsing, Bryan Cartago, Mark Heidelberger | Written by Ashley Scott Meyers | Directed by Lloyd Lee Barnett

Not to be confused with the Don Wong starring, badly dubbed, poorly edited film of the same name – which I distinctly remember hiring from my local video shop – Ninja Apocalypse is set years after the great war, and the titular apocalypse, where humanity has become divided into separate clans of ninjas. Clans, which besides having your usual ninja-like martial arts skills, are also blessed with strange supernatural powers: some of which look like they stepped straight out of a video game – you know the type, the typical fireballs, lightning strikes and telekinesis.

Discovering a plot to attack their land, Grandmaster Fumitaka calls on the clans under his control to a meeting deep...

This is a run down of my Top 40 kung fu movies of the 1970′s. There were so many great films in this era, that i just hope i do this list some justice. The movies chosen are just my personal choice, i understand others might have different views.

Any of the movies that make the Top 40 list must have something special to make it in the first place. So i hope you enjoy my Top 40 Kung Fu movies.

20.Invincible Armour (1977)

Starring: Hwang Jang Lee, John Liu, Philip Ko, Lee Hoi San, Yuen Biao

The Emperor’s Minister of State Cheng, an authoritarian ruler, arranges for Hu Lung, one of his old students to distract General Chow while he assassinates the leader of the Ming rebels. Chow hunts for Hu Lung, but must avoid the authorities since he is a suspect in the murder. He eventually finds Chow, but is thwarted by Hu Lung’s master,...

This is a run down of my Top 40 kung fu movies of the 1970′s. There were so many great films in this era, that i just hope i do this list some justice. The movies chosen are just my personal choice, i understand others might have different views.

Any of the movies that make the Top 40 list must have something special to make it in the first place. So i hope you enjoy my Top 40 Kung Fu movies.

30:Iron Fisted Monk

Starring: Sammo Hung, Fung Hak On, Chan Sing, James Tien

The Husker has a heart of gold although he is full of tricks. When he is a trainee at Shaolin Temple, he cuts so many corners and devises so many labor-saving ploys that he earns the open wrath and secret admiration of his holy elders. Monk Shan, the famous kung fu master, never lets his buddhist association stand in the way of wining,...