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Badass Ravi Kumar’s ending largely focused on [Spoiler Alert] Ravi Kumar delivering a precious diamond necklace to Carlos Pedro Panther, who wanted to give it to Laila. Now, Laila had an important reel full of pictures of confidential documents and whatnot that had been secretly procured by Carlos’ spies from the Indian government in order to deliver it to a rogue Pakistani extremist named Syed Bashir. Carlos would’ve gotten it directly and then handed it over to Bashir for a price, but Laila intervened and used the reel as her bargaining chip to get the necklace. Since Interpol’s Mahavir Ahuja and the Indian police’s Commissioner Awasthi want to stop Pakistan from gaining any kind of upper hand against India using that reel and disrupting the relatively peaceful atmosphere between the neighboring nations, they sent in Ravi Kumar. Given how Ravi Kumar didn’t know the location of the reel,...

Catherine Zeta-Jones talked about the welcome impact of winning an Oscar for best supporting actress in 2003 for Chicago on Friday while during an informal conversation at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

“It’s actually the beginning, because there’s the precedent, with your name being preceded with the Academy Award winning Catherine Zeta-Jones,” she told the festival. Zeta Jones was also pulled in two directions in having to choose between winning an Oscar and a best actress Tony, and which was more satisfying.

“To be acknowledged by the Broadway lights, that was wonderful. But the Academy Award was something that was totally unexpected. It blew my mind,” she insisted. But now aged 55, Zeta-Jones talked about stepping back and into an indie film world, well away from the commercial demands of a Hollywood she mastered as a film and TV star.

“I can’t talk about it right now,...

Catherine Zeta-Jones may have dazzled audiences in Entrapment, but one offhand remark from Sean Connery left her with a lingering regret. During filming, Connery’s casual comment about her fitting the mold of a Bond girl didn’t sit well with Zeta-Jones, who was determined to break free from stereotypical roles.

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Despite her performance, the idea of being typecast as just a sidekick in the spy world rubbed her the wrong way. It was a moment that left her reflecting on the roles women play in action films. For Zeta-Jones, this remains a missed opportunity for something more empowering, and it’s a regret that sticks with her to this day.

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When Sean Connery opened the envelope in 2003 for Best Supporting Actress, he simply pronounced the winner as “Catherine.” Such was the expectation of her win and the sensation she had caused in the film “Chicago” that his former co-star didn’t even feel the need to pronounce her full three names: Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Zeta-Jones initially was known to American audiences for her statuesque and striking beauty. She first gained notice on these shores in a television mini-series about the Titanic. The series aired a year before James Cameron‘s film of the Titanic story swept into movie theaters. She then began appearing on the big screen in a number of ingenue roles.

What American audiences didn’t know was that Zeta-Jones was hiding a couple of secret talents, namely that she was a superb singer and dancer. She had started out on the London stage when she was just a...

If shows like Oceans 11 or Leverage got you hooked on the perfect plan coming together through unconventional teamwork and heart, this series is for you. While paying homage to genre standouts, The Green Glove Gang puts its own spin on the “person with a past turns skills into a new purpose” trope.

Where many heist stories center on cocky criminals focusing solely on the take, this series humanizes its thieves. We learn their motivations through flashbacks revealing life experiences, not brags. Like Andy in The Shawshank Redemption gaining perspective through ordeals, time has given these women wisdom surpassing skill.

Season 2 sees their reluctant return sparked by loved ones in trouble, a callback to Sneakers exploring how family pulls outsiders back to dangerous lives. Yet intimacy, not payday, drives their planning. Scene choreography highlights discussion, not dangerous bravado, harkening to Leverage’s family dynamic over adrenaline.

Details will make aficionados smile.

Exclusive: Ron Bass, the scribe best known for his Academy Award-winning work on Rain Man, has been set to write and produce Music on the Bones, a new film inspired by real events.

Set in 1968. a moment in time when rock n’ roll was banned in the Ussr, the story follows young Russian doctor Max as he and his friends covertly duplicate and distribute music by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin and more on repurposed X-Ray film. Against a backdrop of constant surveillance, persecution, and risk of imprisonment, they listen to the forbidden music of the free world, which holds the promise of another life.

Enter Valerie, an American film student disillusioned with her country, who is invited to Moscow by the Ministry of Culture under the watchful eye of the Kbg, to make a propaganda film promoting the virtues of Communism. After a meeting with Max and his companions,...

A vitally important and visually stunning new graphic novel, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, adapts MacArthur Genius Grant winner Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's 2016 book of the same name. This new medium makes Kendi's acclaimed history book more accessible and digestible to a variety of readers.

Kendi is a National Book Award-winning historian and the founder and director of Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research. He worked closely with award-winning cartoonist and historian Joel Christian Gill to adapt Stamped from the Beginning into the graphic novel format. Their collaboration gives the critically necessary text new life in 2023 amidst continued violence against Black and Brown bodies across the United States.

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America is an impressive and disturbing weaving of the United States' horrifically racist roots, the institutional and interpersonal racism still pervasive in American society today,...

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for the second episode of "The Mandalorian" season 3.

What happens when we mythologize people and, more generally, the past? It's a question "Star Wars" has explored since its very genesis. In "A New Hope," Luke is partly spurred to join the Rebellion after hearing Obi-Wan's stories of his father, Anakin, and the Jedi. Yet, in "The Empire Strikes Back," the dark truth is revealed, and suddenly Anakin's legacy is no longer a source of inspiration for his son. The prequel trilogy only takes things further, exposing the failure of the Jedi Order to prevent Palpatine's rise to power and their greater complicity in Anakin's downfall.

"The Last Jedi" may have irked some (many? Who can really say) with its approach to this theme, but the motif itself is as quintessentially "Star Wars" as blaster fights and a precarious lack of handrails around chasms in the Empire's super-weapons.

Nicholas Philibert, whose film On the Adamant won the Golden Bear at the 73rd Berlinale on Saturday, has made a lifetime commitment to observational documentary, moving between interviews and long, patient takes of his subjects pursuing what it is that they do. The best known of these is Etre et Avoir (2002), which followed a year in the life of a tiny rural school where the single teacher – kindly but exacting, in the French manner – taught several grades at once. Thanks to the magnetism of this committed teacher – and of his delightful enfants, of course – Etre et Avoir became an unlikely but enduring arthouse hit.

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After the misery of the 2022 Berlin Film Festival, held toward the tail-end of the pandemic and with strict social distancing and Covid testing regulations still in place, it was back to normal at this year’s 73rd edition.

Festivalgoers were so pleased to return to a proper, physical event that they were remarkably tolerant toward a competition programme that was very patchy, at least by comparison with those found in rival events like Cannes and Venice.

The Berlinale launched with Rebecca Miller’s quirky new romantic comedy, She Came to Me, starring Peter Dinklage as an opera composer with writer’s block, Anne Hathaway as his neurotic therapist wife, and the scene-stealing Marisa Tomei as a salty, seafaring but very amorous tugboat captain. This was a film with such oddball charm that it was easy to overlook its self-indulgence. Festivals can take themselves far too seriously. She Came to Me...

Brendan Fraser's lengthy makeup and prosthetics process for The Whale is shown off in detail thanks to a new time-lapse video. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, The Whale features Fraser as Charlie, a morbidly obese man who struggles to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Ellie, played by Sadie Sink. The film proved somewhat divisive among critics upon its release last year, but Fraser's highly affecting performance, in particular, has been showered with praise.

Now, EW has shared a new behind-the-scenes look at The Whale and how Fraser's transformation into a 600-pound man was pulled off.

In EW's exclusive clip, Oscar-nominated makeup designer Adrien Morot applies prosthetics to Brendan Fraser as part of a long process of bringing Charlie to the flesh in 'The Whale.' https://t.co/nLAWXsqRz7 — Entertainment Weekly (@EW) February 22, 2023

The total weight of all the prosthetics applied to Fraser amounted to hundreds of pounds, but...

The A24-produced Sundance hit "Past Lives" is a must-see film of 2023 that took the beloved American festival quietly by storm — and luckily for us, the movie finally has a trailer and release date.

In the sneak peek, we meet Na Young and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two childhood friends who reconnect later in life after forming a bond as children. They find each other again and start to explore their connection, but when Nora's career ambitions take precedence, they lose that connection again for several more years. But the film seems to assert that these two people will always be in each other's lives, and are destined to meet again.

Yesterday, A24 shared the first poster for the film via their social media channels. The poster simply shows an image of Lee smiling at someone she's looking at on her left-hand side. We only see someone's shoulder with a...

Things are getting more complicated (and hotter) in the Grishaverse with the Sun Summoner getting involved in a love quadrangle in season 2 of Netflix's "Shadow and Bone." The last time we saw Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) in the season finale, she managed to free herself from the influence of the brooding, manipulative General Kirigan (Ben Barnes), who tried harnessing her powers using Morozova's collar. This is the moment Alina chooses to truly step into her power and do what's necessary to snatch back her autonomy. Deciding that it is best to go into hiding, she and Mal (Archie Renaux) are seen walking into the unknown, with the knowledge that the Darkling's reign has finally come to an end. Little do they know that Kirigan is very much alive, and more intent than ever to track Alina down, no matter what the cost.

Season 2 of the show will be...

This year, the Sundance Film Festival returned in-person events with a vengeance. After two straight mostly virtual editions, the festival got back to almost-normal with packed crowds squeezing into the shuttles and trudging up and down Main Street. The festival also allowed its films, at distributors’ discretion, to screen virtually on its platform for accredited press who were still covering Sundance remotely.

That meant, in conducting our annual critics survey this year, some films may simply have been seen by more journalists than others. But it is striking that in the final tally, some buzzy films that were available virtually the entire time did not make the cut, while some titles that played exclusively in-person in Park City ranked high.

This time, a record 367 critics voted in the IndieWire Critics Survey for Sundance 2023. The films with the most support were Chloe Domont’s “Fair Play,” which was on the online...

The three-piece band Meet Me @ the Altar are running full speed towards their future as pop punk disruptors while also taking stock of the influences and moments that landed them here. Here, in this instance, is on stage at the Late Show with Stephen Colbert where Edith Victoria, Téa Campbell, and Ada Juarez announced the fitting title for their long-awaited debut album: Past // Present // Future.

“The things we hold from our past inform who we are now and where we might go,” the band shared in a statement. “This album...

It won't surprise you to learn that the director behind darkly comedic action films like "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" and "The Nice Guys" is a big fan of John Maxim's bestselling thriller series about "retired" assassin Paul Bannerman. In fact, the filmmaker in question, Shane Black, even tweeted about his love for the series back in 2021, snapping a photo of all five novels spread out on a table and writing, "The year is 1990 and thriller writer John R. Maxim is at the top of his game. Before Lee Child ... before Vince Flynn ... there was Maxim. The guy simply brings it. Everything I crave. A masterful writer." Perhaps this was our first hint at a series to come ... or just Shane Black manifesting a potential project in the hopes of sparking some interest. Either way, it all worked out in the end: AMC has acquired the rights to the spy...

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones reveals never getting to play a female James Bond is her biggest acting regret.

The Oscar-winner, 53, claimed former 007 star Sean Connery backed her as a replacement for him as the spy after they became close filming the 1999 crime caper “Entrapment” together, reports aceshowbiz.com.

“I would have loved to have played Bond. I had such a wonderful relationship with Sean Connery – we did a movie called ‘Entrapment’ years ago – and he was like my elder brother, my dad, my support,” she told The Sun on Sunday, December 18.

“I really loved him. I am a Bond fanatic and he said to me once, ‘You would have made a great Bond, girl’. I asked, ‘A Bond girl or Bond?’ He went, ‘Bond – girl.’ I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I would have loved to have played Bond!’ But I think that time has passed.”

Despite recent calls for the first female Bond,...

Warning: Mild Spoilers for National Treasure: Edge of History

Disney+'s National Treasure: Edge of History introduces an all-new cast of treasure hunters as well as some familiar faces from the National Treasure movies. Executive produced by Cormac and Marianne Wibberley, who wrote the films directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Nicolas Cage, Edge of History is a continuation series set in the same universe 15 years after the events of 2007's National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Unfortunately, Nicolas Cage doesn't reprise his hero, Benjamin Gates, in season 1 of Disney+'s new show.

National Treasure: Edge of History is about a new, fantastic prize buried somewhere in the world: Montezuma's gold. Edge of History centers on Jess Valenzuela (Listette Olivera), a New Orleans-based Dreamer whose family history ties into the protection of the treasure. When she uncovers her connection to the lost booty, Jess and her friends become a new breed of treasure hunters.

Despite the heroism and quick thinking shown by disgraced MI5 agent River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) in Season 1 of “Slow Horses,” he’s back at Slough House under the disapproving eye of boss Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman). And, Lowden told TheWrap, Lamb still doesn’t have that much faith in River as “Slow Horses” returns for Season 2 to Apple TV+.

“It doesn’t matter what they do. They’ve got to do something really special to get back to where they want to be, I think,” said Lowden of his fellow “horses,” who include Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar), Min Harper (Dustin Demri-Burns), and tech whiz Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung).

As it turns out, saving a high-profile kidnap victim from decapitation wasn’t quite enough to get them reinstated with MI5.

“And also, do we [the audience] want them to [leave Slough House]? I mean, I do, I want River to be back exactly where he should be,...

Back in the 60s, Sean Connery got a bit tired of being James Bond. The famously dedicated Scot had ambitions to become an actor celebrated for his versatility but struggled to escape the significant shadow of 007. Thankfully, over the course of the next few decades, Connery would go on to do just that. The former Bond star worked diligently to establish himself as an undeniable talent, capable of playing everything from a Soviet submarine captain in "The Hunt For Red October" to an Irish-American cop in "The Untouchables."

With his acting chops firmly established, Connery could end the 20th Century safe in the knowledge he'd escaped the trappings of Bond. And what better way to celebrate that than with a heist thriller containing many of the hallmarks of a Bond movie. Yes, 1999 would see the release of Jon Amiel's "Entrapment" — a crime caper that served more as a way...

Andrew Shue has wiped Amy Robach from his Instagram. After news of Robach’s romance with T.J. Holmes broke on Wednesday, the “Good Morning America” anchor’s husband took down photos of her from his Instagram page.

Prior to the scandal, Shue’s page was home to 22 posts, including a pic of him and Robach with Michael Strahan, and a post promoting his and Robach’s 2021 book, Better Together!

Afterward, though, Shue removed posts featuring or having to do with his wife, leaving him with only eight contributions to his Instagram page.

Shue and Robach tied the knot in 2010. In October, the “GMA” anchor stopped wearing her wedding ring in Instagram pics. The next month, Shue and Robach sold the New York City pad they purchased in 2018, Et previously confirmed.

While news of Robach and Holmes’ relationship broke when The Daily Mail published Pda pics of the pair earlier this week,...

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Christmas films can be divisive things. For every person who needs to choke back a sob over Zuzu’s petals in order to feel truly festive, there is another for whom only an 8 week binge of Channel 5’s kindly cupcake cafe owners and selfish businesswomen meeting the interchangeable men of their dreams will suffice.

Yet once in a while a filmmaker crafts a beautiful sparkly bridge that unites the factions and has the chutzpah and baubles to fill even the hardest heart with holiday cheer. One to break out after boardgame controversies and tearful post-sherry fallouts. This Christmas season that audacious movie is Spirited.

Ebenezer (Will Ferrell) has it good. Once the scourge of the poor and vulnerable, Scrooge lived his final days with kindness and generosity and he knew how to keep Christmas well… Which is handy because in his afterlife Scrooge has reunited with Marley and become the Ghost of Christmas Present!

One of the main highly anticipated features of Patch 6.25 in Final Fantasy Xiv was the introduction of The Sil'dihn Subterrane, the first Variant Dungeon. For those unfamiliar with Variant Dungeons, these are Duties containing branching paths that reveal new elements of the Dungeon's overarching narrative. Typically, Dungeons in Final Fantasy Xiv are linear, one-way instances filled with corridors and arenas of enemies. However, The Sil'dihn Subterrane Variant Dungeon in Ffxiv offers new experiences and story content every time players replay the instance. It might sound similar to a roguelike mechanic, but all the branching paths are fixed and not randomly generated.

However, Patch 6.25's The Sil'dihn Subterrane in Final Fantasy Xiv is not accessible from the get-go for Warriors of Light. Like much of the new content released as of late, players must own and complete the entire Endwalker expansion to accept the prerequisite quest for unlocking the Variant Dungeon.

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When you consider the entire history of Westeros, the wedding that takes place in this week’s House of the Dragon doesn’t go all that badly.

Sure, someone dies on the dance floor during the rehearsal dinner. Yes, the stepmother of the bride may be very close to inciting a coup. And agreed, the father of the bride may have keeled over to his death just after the vows were said. But hey, a pregnant woman wasn’t stabbed multiple times in the belly, so… success?

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Major spoilers for the first two episodes of "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" follow!

Twenty years after the Peter Jackson trilogy changed the entire face of pop culture and blockbuster filmmaking as we know it, "The Lord of the Rings" is back to prove that author J.R.R. Tolkien's epic material still has a place in our ongoing fantasy lexicon. After months and months of cautious optimism turning into outright hype, "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" has finally arrived to tell its giant-sized story on the small screen. Though set thousands of years before Frodo or Aragorn or the rest of the Fellowship ever set foot on Middle-earth and in an entirely separate continuity altogether, the Prime Video series still features a few recognizable names, some intriguingly familiar locations, and one particular big bad whose reputation will certainly stand out to anyone...

Stanley Kubrick was, to put it mildly, an exacting filmmaker. He made it his business to know everything about every aspect of production, and leaned on his collaborators something fierce to deliver to his meticulous standards. Jack Nicholson put it best when he said, "Stanley's good on sound. Stanley's good on the color of the mike. Stanley's good about the merchant he bought the mike from. Stanley's good about the merchant's daughter who needs some dental work. Stanley's good."

While prepping his adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's picaresque "The Luck of Barry Lyndon," Kubrick immersed himself in the tale's 18th century period. It wasn't enough to evoke the look of the era; the filmmaker was determined to capture the precise look and feel and smell of that bygone age. To do so, he famously went so far as to acquire super-fast Zeiss camera lenses that were used during the...

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“Escape From Kabul Airport,” a documentary airing on BBC Two in September, will tell the inside story of the 18 days in August 2021, when the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, and the subsequent evacuation of thousands of Afghan citizens from Kabul airport after the Taliban seized the city.

The documentary is an Amos production for the BBC, in association with HBO and in collaboration with Arte France. It is produced by Emmy and BAFTA-winning Dan Reed (“Leaving Neverland”) and directed by Jamie Roberts (“Four Hours At The Capitol”).

The film combines never before seen on-the-ground archival footage from the evacuation, alongside interviews with evacuees, eye-witnesses, U.S. Marines and Taliban fighters.

Roberts said: “When the images of the chaotic Kabul airlift flashed across the news I immediately wanted to know more about what this historic moment looked and felt like on the ground, through the eyes of the people who were there.

Amblin Television is partnering with Scholastic Entertainment, the media division of Scholastic, and Marlee Matlin’s Solo One Productions to co-develop and co-produce a new live-action limited series based on the Scholastic youth memoir “Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust,” by Renee Hartman and written by Joshua M. Greene.

“Signs of Survival: A Memoir of the Holocaust” tells the true story of Renee and Herta, two sisters who faced the unimaginable together. As Jews living in 1940s Czechoslovakia, Renee, Herta, and their parents were in immediate danger when the Holocaust came to their door. As the only hearing person in her family, Renee had to alert her parents and sister whenever the sound of Nazi boots approach their home so they could hide. But soon their parents were tragically taken away and the two sisters went on the run, desperate to find a safe place to hide. Communicating...

CBS has announced its fall schedule for all new and returning series, including Season 20 of “NCIS” and the highly-anticipated second season of breakout sitcom “Ghosts.” All told, the Eye will be rolling out four new shows and 18 returning series this fall.

The 35th season of CBS’ “48 Hours” kicks things off on Sept. 17 and is followed the next day by the 55th season premiere of “60 Minutes.” “NCIS” will then arrive Sept. 19 alongside “NCIS: Hawaii.” The network’s all “FBI” programming block — which includes the fifth season premiere of “FBI,” the second season premiere of “FBI: International” and the fourth season premiere of “FBI: Most Wanted” — dominates Tuesday nights beginning Sept. 20. Thursday nights are reserved for CBS’ comedy block, which includes the return of “Young Sheldon” and “Ghosts” on Sept. 29.

CBS also has a handful of new programs to debut this fall, including edgy new drama “East New York” (Oct.

In the latest TV ratings, ABC’s broadcast of Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final averaged 3.2 million total viewers and a 0.8 demo rating, improving on Saturday’s preliminary numbers and topping Monday in the demo.

CBS’ The Neighborhood and NCIS reruns tied for Monday’s biggest audience, each averaging 3.5 million viewers.

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It’s a classic Onion headline: “U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: ‘We May Be Running Out Of Past.’” Literally classic: it’s from 25 years ago. Its prescience goes beyond the satirical: we do indeed seem to have run out of retro, because we’ve been so mired in nostalgia for the past decade that 20 years ago barely feels past. It feels impossible to be nostalgic for, say, the 14-year-old Iron Man when we’re still in the midst of an ongoing cycle of Marvel movies.

(Fyi, I first referenced this bit of brilliance from the Onion a decade ago when, in January 2012, I asked: “Have we reached a point of cultural stagnation?”)

Almost all of the movies that have topped the annual US box office since 1999 has been a sequel or based on pre-existing popular IP. There’s a shocking sameness to the past 20 years of popular movies that...

After contributing a short story for the last Hellboy prose collection, Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors, we're excited to reveal that award-winning novelist Angela Slatter makes her comic book writing debut in Castle Full of Blackbirds! A four-issue miniseries that continues the story of Hellboy's Sara May Blackburn, the first issue will be available on September 14th from Dark Horse Comics and we have all the details, along with a look at both covers:

"This September, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and acclaimed artist Valeria Burzo will be joined by award-winning novelist Angela Slatter for Castle Full of Blackbirds, an all-new miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. The four-issue miniseries will mark Slatter’s comic-book writing debut. Mignola, Slatter, and Burzo will be joined by colorist Michelle Madsen, letterer Clem Robins, and cover artist Wylie Beckert. Vanesa Del Rey will provide a variant cover for issue #1.

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Although Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson started his career in professional wrestling, he doesn’t often play the heel. Since his transition from WWE intimidator supreme to international movie star, he’s mostly portrayed well-intentioned action heroes with hearts of gold. That’s due to change with “Black Adam,” in which Johnson will make his long-awaited entrance into the DC Extended Universe as the titular supervillain.

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“He’s not the boy scout superhero,” said producer Hiram Garcia.

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One of Westworld‘s original hosts is coming back online.

James Marsden will return to HBO’s sci-fi series in the upcoming Season 4. The casting news was announced Saturday during the show’s panel at Atx Festival, which Marsden attended as a surprise guest.

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No one on the panel — which also included co-creator Lisa Joy and executive producer Alison Schapker as well as stars Jeffrey Wright,...

Jon Amiel to direct from script by David Chisholm.

Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide sales rights for Mace starring starring James Franco from Meyers Media Group and will commence sales in Cannes next week.

Jon Amiel will direct from a script by David Chisholm two very different types of cops. Franco will play veteran officer Mace, a corrupt and dangerously unhinged man, while Virgil Woods is a young rookie who believes he can change the from within.

Inspired by the recent racial injustice on the streets of America, Woods risks everything he believes in to stop Mace from destroying the...

James Franco is set to star in action thriller Mace from The Singing Detective helmer Jon Amiel.

The title, which is the first production from Meyers Media Group, follows the story of two very different kinds of cops. Mace (Franco) is a veteran officer, corrupt and dangerously unhinged, while Virgil Woods is a young rookie who believes that he can change the system that fosters cops like Mace from within. Inspired by the racial injustice on the streets of America, Woods refuses to be bullied and pits his principles against the amoral Mace, risking everything he believes in to stop Mace from destroying the city when Mace unleashes a gang war to cover up his crimes.

Amiel directs from a script written by David Chisholm while Lawrence Steven Meyers, Randy Dannenberg and John Evangelides will produce. Brendan McDonald and Kirk D’Amico will serve as exec producer with Jonathan Tybel as an associate producer.

CinemaCon is almost at an end, and our own Ben Pearson has been bringing us descriptions of the footage from upcoming films that are being shown to distributors and press. Next up is "White Bird: A Wonder Story," which is set in the same universe as the 2017 film "Wonder" starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. The original film was based on the 2012 novel of the same name by R.J. Palacio about a 10-year-old boy named Auggie (Tremblay) with facial differences from Treacher Collins syndrome. Palacio has written another book called "Auggie and Me," with stories...

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Catherine Zeta-Jones has been cast in the upcoming “National Treasure” series at Disney Plus, Variety has learned.

Zeta-Jones joins previously announced cast members Lisette Alexis, Zuri Reed, Jordan Rodrigues, Antonio Cipriano, and Jake Austin Walker, and Lyndon Smith in the series continuation of the film franchise of the same name. Production is set to begin this month in Baton Rouge, LA.

The series focuses on a young heroine, Jess (Alexis), a brilliant and resourceful DREAMer who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about her family’s mysterious past and save a lost Pan-American treasure.

Zeta-Jones will portray Billie, described as a badass billionaire, black-market antiquities expert, and treasure hunter who lives by her own code. She transformed herself from a penniless orphan to a shrewd, stylish businesswoman and adventurer. Billie’s used to getting what she wants—and she wants the Pan-American treasure. But not just for the money.

An unusual partnership between Kazakhstan and Japan is behind the film “The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time” and it is not just a co-production. The film is in fact co-directed by Kazakh filmmaker Yerlan Nurmukhambetov and Japanese Lisa Takeba – who allegedly met at a party in Cannes – and stars among others, Kazakh film actress Samal Yeslyamova, winner of best actress at Cannes for “Ayka” in 2018, and Japanese actor Mirai Moriyama. The film had its premiere at Busan International Film Festival on the 3rd of October and it is being screened in cinemas around Japan as I write. The odd English title may sound a bit arcane, while the Japanese one – which translates “Olzhas’ White Horse” – goes straight to the point; however, the simple explanation is that “Roads of Time” is the series of paintings by Kazakh artist Gali Myrzashev which are shown during the end credits.

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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSHong Sang-soo's The Novelist's Film (2022)The competition slate has been announced for this year's Berlinale, featuring the latest by Hong Sang-soo, Claire Denis, Rithy Panh, Phyllis Nagy, Ulrich Seidl, and more. Find the rest of the lineup here. In an interview with Variety, executive Mariette Rissenbeek and artistic director Carlo Chatrian discuss their plans for the festival to be an in-person event. Actor Michel Subor has died at the age of 86. Subor captivated audiences with his performances in films like Jean-Luc Godard's Le petit soldat (1960)—he also was the narrator for François Truffaut's Jules and Jim (1962)—and a number of films by Claire Denis, from Beau travail (1999) and L'intrus (2004) to White Material (2009) and Bastards (2013). We recommend reading Yasmina Price's excellent essay on L'intrus and Subor's distinct historiography as an actor. Recommended VIEWINGThe...

During the golden years of Nickelodeon, creative minds introduced young audiences to kid-centric dramas, sketch comedy, and originally produced cartoons known as "Nicktoons." From gross-out to gratifying, Nickelodeon holiday specials have something to offer for everyone.

Related: 5 Classic NickelodeonShows That Need To Come Back (& 5 That Are Better Left In The Past)

Yearly traditions include watching holiday-themed content with the whole family, and throughout the years, Nickelodeon has provided some of the best to choose from. Some episodes even broke the mold, proving that media targeted to children can tackle weighty themes with surprising depth. The following episodes can currently be streamed on Paramount+.

Here we go again!

The CW continues its fall schedule rollout with the returns of All American and Walker and the premiere of the 4400 reboot.

There is so much more for you to enjoy, so check out our recommendations below!

Saturday, October 23

8/7c Switched Before Birth (Lifetime)

Elisabeth Rohm directs this ripped from the headlines film starring Justina Machado and Sylar Samuels about the horrors of the federally unregulated IVF going wrong.

Fast friends Olivia and Anna share a mutual desire for children and bond over their IVF journeys and eventual pregnancies. Unfortunately, a miscarriage isn’t the only tragedy in this movie. Anna learns that one of the twins she carried is Anna’s, and the result is a heart-wrenching situation that drives these two women apart.

Expect smiles, tears, and genuine outrage with this. You should also return for a full review of the film!

8/7c Boyfriends of...

Star Jones is returning to “The View” and she isn’t the only one.

When the ABC daytime talk show returns for its 25th season next week, the show will introduce a series of weekly “Flashback Friday” episodes welcoming back former co-hosts, with Jones returning to the roundtable as a guest co-host on Friday, Sept. 10.

Jones was among the original cast of “The View,” co-hosting alongside Meredith Vieira, Debbie Matenopoulos, Joy Behar and moderator Barbara Walters during the show’s first season in 1997. She stayed with the program through Season 9, departing in 2006.

ABC has not yet announced which other past hosts will return to the show, but the list of past “View” hosts also includes Lisa Ling, Rosie O’Donnell, Rosie Perez, Raven-Symone, Michelle Collins and Candace Cameron Bure, among others. Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sarah Haines serve as permanent co-hosts on the show for Season 25, with Ana Navarro recurring.

Exclusive: Daniel Sunjata (Power Book II: Ghost) is set as a lead opposite Michelle Monaghan and Matt Bomer in Echoes, Netflix’s psychological thriller limited series from 13 Reasons Why showrunner Brian Yorkey.

Created and written by Vanessa Gazy, Echoes is a mystery thriller about identical twins Leni and Gina, both portrayed by Monaghan, who share a dangerous secret. Since they were children, Leni and Gina secretly have swapped lives, culminating in a double life as adults: They share two homes, two husbands and a child, but everything in their perfectly choreographed world is thrown into disarray when one of the sisters goes missing.

Sunjata will play Gina’s husband, Charlie Davenport. The quintessential Los Angeles psychotherapist, he is empathetic, charismatic with an intellect to match. Married to Gina, he finds himself caught in the undertow of her deep connection to twin Leni. But he has a hidden dimension as well.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is our next Morticia Addams in Tim Burton's Wednesday series at Netflix. Just days after it was reported that actor Luis Guzmán had been cast to play the Addams family patriarch Gomez, Variety now reports that Zeta-Jones will co-star as Morticia in the next live-action incarnation of the character. The upcoming Addams Family reboot series will also star Jenna Ortega in the lead role as Wednesday Addams.

Netflix has already committed to an eight-episode order of Wednesday, although it's unclear when filming is slated to begin. Moving the story forward by focusing on an older Wednesday after she leaves the family mansion to attend Nevermore Academy. Her attempts to "master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago - all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.

Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Morticia in the upcoming Wednesday Addams series at Netflix.

Zeta-Jones will appear in a guest starring role as the iconic Addams family matriarch in the series, titled “Wednesday.” She joins previously announced cast members Jenna Ortega and Luis Guzmán. Ortega will star as Wednesday while Guzmán will play Gomez Addams, Morticia’s husband.

“Wednesday,” which received an eight-episode order at Netflix in February, is described as a supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.

Zeta-Jones is the latest actress to offer a live-action rendition of Morticia. Carolyn Jones played the character first in the 1960s “Addams Family” TV series.

The pandemic had at least one happy outcome, people stayed home and played. When the docuseries A Toy Store Near You brought viewers into the collectible toy store community, they did it to keep the tightly knit group together. The Nacelle Company knows about the power of collective nostalgia. They made Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us, and The Toys That Made Us. But even they were surprised at how many people found comfort in the smallest things. Nacelle will premiere A Toy Store Near You season 3 on June 23, on Amazon Prime Video.

The first season of the behind-the-scenes specialty show showcased store owners scrambling during Covid. Season 2 highlighted the vintage toys. A Toy Store Near You season 3 trots the globe to drop in on stores and lets the owners, employees and sometimes customers explain why this is their favorite vintage toy store. The upcoming season also explores educational and science toys,...

Even if you’ve never played a Dragon Quest game, you’ve undoubtedly played other titles influenced by the series. Basic Jrpg tropes like the overhead view, turn-based combat, and the medieval fantasy setting all got their start with the original Dragon Quest (then called Dragon Warrior in the West).

While many of these game design innovations are attributed to Final Fantasy, which was released in North America first, the Japanese release of Dragon Quest actually beat Final Fantasy by a full year at a time when Square and Enix were still separate companies. In fact, Final Fantasy probably wouldn’t exist if not for the massive success of Dragon Quest.

Since then, the series has seen plenty of ups and downs. While Dragon Quest has always been a huge hit in Japan, the original game sold so poorly in the U.S. that it was given away with subscriptions to Nintendo Power.