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After seeing one story development in Silo season 2, it is hard not to notice how the show could qualify as the perfect follow-up to one of 2023's best sci-fi shows. Based on Hugh Howey's Silo books, the Apple TV+ sci-fi show adopts many genre tropes but stands out because of its unique post-apocalyptic setting and concepts. In its two-season runtime, so far, Silo has been able to deliver a sense of novelty and instill curiosity in viewers in ways most sci-fi shows cannot.

In more ways than one, it is a distinctive addition to the sci-fi genre, and its future installments will likely further cement its place as one of the standout shows of modern television. However, despite this, Silo seems to share many intriguing similarities with one of 2023's best science fiction shows. Although Silo and the show cannot officially be connected, the narrative intersections between them suggest...

The Preacher ending sees Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy taking on God and his apocalypse and coming out on top after four seasons of searching. Based on the comic series of the same name, Preacher started in the small town of Annville with a priest who drinks, smokes, and gets into bar fights. The show has wandered through vampire hunters, massive religious organizations, cloned messiahs, Heaven, Hell, and so much more and the finale, "End of the World," brings it all together with epic fight scenes and a bit of a happily ever after.

The Preacher series finale begins with the apocalypse only minutes away. Tulip is trying to get to Humperdoo to kill him, Cass is trying to protect him, and Jesse is about to go head to head with the Saint of Killers, all while God watches. While a lot is happening, stopping the apocalypse doesn't take much time in the Preacher ending.

Acclaimed author Neil Gaiman shared a brand-new update regarding the current status of Good Omens Season 3. This comes after over four months since the fantasy comedy series had successfully secured a third and final season renewal from Amazon MGM Studios.

While discussing the after-effects of last year’s Hollywood strikes, Gaiman opened up about the three upcoming shows based on his popular literary works, including Prime Video’s Good Omens Season 3. Speaking with Deadline, Gaiman confirmed that Good Omens fans will have to wait longer for the final season since they’re currently targeting an early 2025 production start for Michael Sheen and David Tennant-led fantasy comedy. "You know, Dead Boy Detectives comes out in 10 days. I’ve seen half of Sandman Season 2, and it’s astonishing. I’m writing Good Omens Season 3, and we start shooting that in January," he revealed.

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Ariana Grande has a whole new era—or should we say, it has her? Her excellent new Eternal Sunshine is a bold personal statement, with her most inventive, pained, reflective songs. “It’s kind of a concept album,” the pop queen said in February. “‘Cause it’s all different heightened pieces of the same story, of the same experience.” So no wonder she’s taking inspiration from the crazy boys who invented the concept album: The Beatles. In a NYC playback session for Eternal Sunshine, the pop queen revealed that...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

In all honesty, the films of 2023 should take a backseat to the images we are seeing every day in Gaza, where journalists and average citizens have been recording and documenting a daily assault on their homes and livelihoods by the Idf. Whatever fakery we watched and enjoyed in the cinema this year should always be kept in perspective in importance with images that are real and actually happening right now. The Palestinians who have documented these important images have been targeted and killed with intent and purpose to silence what their photos and videos are showing and saying.

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Spoilers are ahead for A Murder at the End of the World's ending.

The series boasts a surprising meta twist, even if the killer reveal felt predictable to many viewers. The focus on artificial intelligence as the killer explores societal fears and the consequences of innovation, which is A Murder at the End of the World's main intent. The show emphasizes the audience's fixation on solving the murder, paralleling Darby's obsession with the Silver Doe Killer.

For many viewers, A Murder at the End of the World's ending had a disappointing killer reveal in its finale, but that was part of the show's point. The twist isn't a traditional one — it's more meta than anything else. In A Murder at the End of the World's series finale, Bill's (Harris Dickinson) killer is finally revealed: Ray (Edoardo Ballerini), Andy Ronson's (Clive Owen) remarkable A.I. assistant, saw...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for A Murder At The End Of The World.

The main characters of A Murder at the End of the World and The Oa are both misfits who defy societal expectations and prove their worth in dire situations. A Murder at the End of the World draws visual and narrative parallels to The Oa, including similarities in character appearances and key dialogue. Both shows reference various cultural works, such as the writings of Borges and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, adding depth and intertextuality to their storytelling.

A Murder at the End of the World may not be The Oa's season 3, but it does draw some subtle references to Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's Netflix series. Netflix's The Oa was initially planned for a five-season run by creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. Unfortunately, the streaming giant canceled The Oa before its storyline could reach its natural closure.

After working on popular and acclaimed shows like Rick and Morty and Community, writer and producer Dan Guterman delves into a very different kind of story with the Netflix original animated series Carol & the End of the World. After humanity learns of an exoplanet hurtling towards Earth that is slated to end all life, unassuming protagonist Carol Kohl struggles to find her place and purpose as society around her takes advantage of their final months. Carol navigates this world in the midst of a mass existential crisis, looking to find the meaning of life in the face of impending doom.

In an exclusive interview with Cbr, Carol & the End of the World creator Dan Guterman talked about the process behind bringing the animated series to life, including writing its deeper themes and finding the perfect cast and crew.

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Spoilers are ahead for the first 6 episodes of A Murder at the End of the World.

A fan theory connects A Murder at the End of the World to the film Identity and an Agatha Christie novel, suggesting a potential twist ending. Both Identity and the show feature parallel stories involving apprehending a murderer and strangers brought together in a whodunit. The theory proposes that the show's protagonist, Darby, may be living with dissociative identity disorder as a result of her past trauma, and the show may explore the impact of murderous crimes on her psyche.

One startling A Murder at the End of the World fan theory links the murder-mystery series to a classic 2003 thriller — and a best-selling Agatha Christie novel. While it remains to be seen how Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's psychological thriller will pan out in its final episode, "Chapter 7: Retreat," viewers can't help...

A key member of Loki‘s creative team is hitting the exit ahead of the Disney+ drama’s just-announced second season.

Executive producer and director Kate Herron, who helmed all six Season 1 episodes of Marvel’s latest standalone smash, tells Deadline that she is “not returning” for Season 2, adding, “I always planned to be just on for [Season 1]. And to be honest, Season 2 wasn’t in the… that’s something that just came out. And I’m so excited. I’m really happy to watch it as a fan next season, but I just think I’m proud of what we...

The following story contains major spoilers about For All Mankind‘s Season 2 finale — proceed at your own peril

For All Mankind‘s Season 2 finale doubled as Michael Dorman‘s final mission aboard the acclaimed Apple TV+ drama, as his character Gordo sacrificed his life to save dozens of his colleagues. (Gordo perished alongside his soul mate/fellow American hero Tracy, played by Sarah Jones.) The tragedy capped quite the redemptive, two-season journey for Dorman’s space cadet. Below, the Patriot vet shares how he found out he was getting killed off, and reveals the “loaded discussion” that preceded his surreal final scene.

Arthur Kopit, whose 1969 Broadway play Indians was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and later adapted as the film Buffalo Bill and the Indians starring Paul Newman, died Friday in New York. He was 83.

His death was announced by spokesman Rick Miramontez. No cause of death was disclosed.

Kopit’s seven-decade stage career began when he was still a Harvard undergraduate, with his 1963 play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad getting an Off Broadway production that later moved to Broadway with Jerome Robbins directing.

Indians, about the life of Buffalo Bill Cody and an early example of the era’s anti-Western genre, opened on Broadway in 1969 and starred Stacy Keach, Manu Tupou, Raul Julia and Sam Waterston, among others. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Indians was adapted by director Robert Altman in 1976 as (full title) Buffalo Bill and the Indians,...

Exclusive: Olive Bridge Entertainment’s Will Gluck and Jodi Hildebrand are developing Constance, a magical family hybrid feature for Sony.

Based on his original idea, Onward scribe Keith Bunin is set to write the screenplay, the storyline of which is under wraps.

Gluck counts over $782M WW at the global box office, his most recent hit being Peter Rabbit which grossed over $351M WW. The sequel he directed, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, which was delayed due to Covid, is scheduled to hit theaters on June 11.

Onward, which Bunin co-wrote, was the last notable family film to debut before theaters closed down because of the pandemic last year, opening to $39.1M stateside and grossing $142M before segueing to Disney+. Additionally, Bunin just delivered a feature adaptation of Delorean, which George Clooney will direct for MGM, and an adaptation of the Edith Macefield Story, which will be directed by George C. Wolfe.

Queen Latifah will star in and executive produce a movie for Netflix called “End of the Road” that will see her on the run from a mysterious killer while on a road trip with her family.

Millicent Shelton, a director on “Black-ish” as well as episodes of “Insecure,” “P-Valley,” “Hunters” and “The Walking Dead,” will direct the feature “End of the Road.” David Loughery, who wrote “The Intruder” and “Obsessed,” is writing the script based on an original screenplay by Christopher Moore.

In the action-thriller “End of the Road,” Latifah stars as a recently widowed woman who, after losing her job, drives her family cross-country to start a new life. In the New Mexico desert, cut off from help, they must learn to fight back when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.

Tracey Edmonds is producing for Edmonds Entertainment, as are Mark Burg for Twisted Pictures and Brad Kaplan.

From the visionary mind behind 2020 Oscar-winner “Parasite“, Bong Joon-Ho’s star-studded dystopian sci-fi thriller “Snowpiercer” is making its way to Blu-ray and DVD for the very first time in the UK.

Set in 2031, the entire planet is frozen and the world’s only survivors live aboard the Snowpiercer: a train that’s been hurtling around the globe for the past seventeen years. Within the carriages the remnants of the human race have formed their own divisive economic and class system.

This is all set to change when Curtis (Chris Evans) leads a group of lower-class citizens, who live in squalor at the back of the train, on a fight to the front of the Snowpiercer to share the food and wealth equally among the inhabitants. Each section of the train holds new surprises for the rebel group as they battle their way from carriage to carriage. A revolution has begun…...

The 15th annual Black List survey was revealed Monday December 16, and it includes 66 un-produced screenplays from up-and-coming literary talent. Results were pooled from a survey of more than 250 film executives, each of whom contributed the names of up to 10 favorite scripts that were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2019 and will not have begun principal photography during this calendar year. This year, scripts had to receive at least six mentions to be included on the Black List.

Since 2005, more than a third of the screenplays included in the annual Black List surveys have become produced films, and often to notoriety — such as “Argo,” “American Hustle,” “Juno,” “The King’s Speech,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “Spotlight,” “The Revenants,” “The Descendants,” and “Hell or High Water.” Melina Matsoukas’s 2019 film “Queen & Slim,” written by Lena Waithe with a story co-authored by James Frey, was featured on the 2018 Black List.

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Takahisa Zeze's The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 19 – December 18, 2019 in Mubi's Luminaries series.Above: Heaven's StoryOne of the carefully hidden programming delights of Venice '19 was a showcase of current Japanese films—industry-only thus not in the general schedule. Among the new releases screened there was (The Promised Land), by Takahisa Zeze—a name a friend remembered fondly from decades ago when Zeze's early pink eiga-masterpieces like when Zeze's early pink eiga-masterpieces like Waisetsu bōsō shūdan: Kemono, Kōkyū Soap Technique 4: Monzetsu higi, Honban Les: Hazukashii taii, or Sukebe tenkomori toured the Western festival circuit as the latest in avant-garde entertainment. As she had the necessary kind of festival badge, this friend was able to enter the screening. A little over two hours later, she exited with glowing eyes wondering: “Why on earth...

The rigors of the road took a toll on Drew Holcomb. Around the release of 2017’s Souvenir, the sturdy-voiced Tennessee troubadour — originally from Memphis, but now based in Nashville — was exhausted by the nonstop cycle of churning out albums, then touring relentlessly in support, and wound up hospitalized for eight days with meningitis. After a much-needed breather, he decided to ask friends for help. The result is the collaborative and restorative album Dragons.

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It was blood sport all round on Sunday and not just that Pittsburgh Steelers win over the L.A. Chargers and the cable topping New York Yankees and Houston Astros game on Fox Sports 1. No, The Walking Dead and Succession both had sacrifices, new messy alliances and some telling ratings.

For the AMC zombie apocalypse series, the second episode of the 10th season pulled back the mask on the bloodless origins of the Whisperers.

The Greg Nicotero-directed “We Are the End of the World” was also a new series low for Twd. Slipping 7% from the previous low of last week’s Season 10 opener to a 1.3 rating among adults 18-49, Twd was in a rare second place on cable with its viewership of 3.47 million. That total set of linear eyeballs was down 13% from the October 6 “Lines We Cross” episode.

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In the ten weeks leading up to the Season 10 premiere of The Walking Dead on Sunday, October 6 at 9pm Et/8pm Ct, AMC will reveal information on the new season across Twd social platforms – photos, videos and never-before-seen content. Today, AMC has released the latest video spot, “End of the World.” The video features new footage from season 10, with Alpha and Beta chanting their apocalyptic motto. About Season 10: The Walking Dead is a story that started 10 years ago with one man trying to find his family. That family grew and gradually communities took shape. They fought and survived, thrived and gave birth to a new generation. It is a tale of humankind and there are more stories to tell. It is now Spring, a few months after the end of Season 9, when our group of survivors dared to cross into Whisperer territory during the harsh winter. The collected communities...

Long Awol from Home Video — the last time I peeked it was an unwatchable pan-and-scanned laserdisc — this early Charles Band opus came at a time when the purveyor of third-class horror thrills could command a budget. A rather phenomenal list of ’70s special effects hopefuls collaborated to give the show lasting appeal, mainly by including some stop motion monsters from a parallel dimension. An average American family spends a chaotic night battling bizarre phemoneema… phelomea… stuff that’s leaked into our reality through that nuisance Sci-fi catch-all, a Time-Space Warp. A pair of big name stars twenty years past their sell-by date endure all manner of rubber critters, zipping flying saucers and green-glowing supernatural artifacts!

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The 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival hasn’t included too many movie stars — yet. But festivalgoers were able to come face-to-face with zombies, Elton John singing on the beach and Robert Pattinson going full Method actor. Here are the six biggest highs and lows from the French Riviera so far.

1. Elton John Feels the Love

“Rocketman,” a musical biopic about Elton John starring Taron Egerton, received a five-minute standing ovation after its debut on May 16. The star of the film was instantly crowned an awards-season favorite for 2019; Egerton started to tear up as the crowd at the Palais showered him with applause. And there was plenty more cheering directed at John, who donned a tuxedo with a glittering brooch shaped like a rocket and the title to his famous song stitched in sparkles on the back of his jacket.

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Nick Hornby has never owned a setlist, but his latest charity endeavor, Setlists For Young Voices, may change that. The project, conceived by Hornby alongside authors Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon, has collected over 100 setlists from artists like R.E.M., Patti Smith, Nine Inch Nails, Death Cab for Cutie and the Who and is auctioning them to benefit Hornby’s London-based literacy non-profit Ministry of Stories.

“I just suddenly thought of it because it’s something that fans value that actually costs nothing,” Hornby tells Rolling Stone. “Having done...