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Captain America: Brave New World will storm onto digital platforms, including Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home, on April 15 before making its debut on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on May 13.

Sam Wilson takes up the shield in this thrilling new installment, facing a global conspiracy that puts him on a collision course with the fearsome Red Hulk. Captain America: Brave New World has grossed $412.8 million at the global box office, with $199 million coming from North American theaters and $213.8 million from international markets.

Bring the adventure home in breathtaking 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and Atmos audio, delivering the ultimate viewing experience with stunning visuals and immersive sound. The Digital release and Blu-ray deliver hours of exclusive bonus content featuring deleted scenes, a gag reel, featurettes, a filmmaker commentary, and much more.

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A new spot and posters for The Amateur, from 20th Century Studios and starring Oscar winner Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) and Academy Award nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do with It), are now available.

Advance tickets for The Amateur, including early access screenings, are now available for purchase wherever tickets are sold. The new espionage thriller opens in theaters nationwide on April 11, 2025.

On Saturday, April 5, ahead of its official opening on Friday, April 11, audiences will have the opportunity to see the film early by attending The Amateur: Early Access Screenings. The Amateur: Early Access Screenings begin on Saturday, April 5 at 6:00 p.m. local time.

The movie has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) for some strong violence, and language.

In the film, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is a brilliant, but deeply introverted decoder for the CIA working out of a basement office...

Hulu has announced that Crave’s Shoresy Season 4 will premiere on Wednesday, February 26 with all six new episodes available in the U.S. on Hulu. The first three seasons are now streaming on Hulu.

Canadian entertainment service Crave also revealed today that Shoresy has been renewed for a fifth season, which will go into production later this spring.

In Shoresy Season 4, Shoresy (Jared Keeso) explores life after hockey and the Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs contend with the distractions of summer in Sudbury. The returning cast starring alongside Jared Keeso includes Tasya Teles (The 100) as Nat, Blair Lamora (Paranormal Nightshift) as Ziigwan, and Keilani Rose (Flimsy) as Miigwan.

From, Montréal, QC, rapper Jonathan-Ismael Diaby stars as Dolo, and former NHL player, author, and actor Terry Ryan stars as Hitch. Ryan McDonell (The Crossing) stars as Michaels, and former Kahnawake Condor and Mma fighter Andrew “The Canon” Antsanen returns as Goody.

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Today, the teaser trailer and poster for the upcoming feature film Thunderbolts* debuted. The highly-anticipated film will open in theaters on May 2, 2025. The poster includes the tagline, “Careful Who You Assemble.”

Marvel Studios and a crew of indie veterans who sold out present Thunderbolts*, an irreverent team-up featuring depressed assassin Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) alongside the MCU’s least anticipated band of misfits.

The film also returns to the screen Marvel Cinematic Universe characters Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus).

Jake Schreier directs Thunderbolts* with Kevin Feige producing. Louis D’Esposito, Brian Chapek, Jason Tamez, and Scarlett Johansson serve as executive producers.

The Thunderbolts* movie will be preceded in theaters by Captain America: Brave New World, which will open on February 14, 2025. The Fantastic Four: First Steps (July 25) and Blade (November 7) are also...

Tubi, Fox’s free streaming service, has announced its list of October titles. The Tubi October 2024 slate features new Tubi Originals and numerous action, art house, Black cinema, comedy, documentary, drama, horror, kids and family, romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller, and Western titles.

As a leading ad-supported video-on-demand service, the company engages diverse audiences through a personalized experience and the world’s largest content library: over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, a growing collection of Tubi Originals, and nearly 250 Fast channels.

You can watch the Tubi October 2024 lineup for free on Android and iOS mobile devices, Amazon Echo Show, Google Nest Hub Max, Comcast Xfinity X1, and Cox Contour.

You can also watch the service on connected television devices such as Amazon Fire TV, Vizio TVs, Sony TVs, Samsung TVs, Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and on the Tubi site.

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Netflix has released the official trailer for Mr. McMahon, the six-episode series premiering on the streaming service on September 25, 2024. Mr. McMahon chronicles the rise and fall of Vince McMahon, the controversial businessman and co-founder of WWE.

From his transformation of the WWE from a small, regional business into a global entertainment powerhouse to the explosive sexual misconduct allegations that led to his eventual resignation, this six-episode series offers a deep dive into McMahon’s life and his enduring franchise.

The docuseries was culled from over 200 hours of interviews with McMahon himself (before his resignation), his family members, business associates, and some of the most iconic names in wrestling history, as well as the journalists who uncovered McMahon’s allegations.

Filmmaker Chris Smith (Tiger King) and executive producer Bill Simmons (30 for 30) present an unflinching, no-holds-barred look at one of the most enigmatic figures in sports entertainment. Also executive-produced by Zara Duffy,...

The NBC television network will extend its live coverage of the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony to IMAX locations nationwide on Friday, July 26. This is the first time the global event will be presented live in IMAX.

This will be the first-ever Summer Olympics opening ceremony not held in a stadium. The organizers are turning one of the world’s most famous waterways, the River Seine, into the world’s biggest theatrical stage.

Instead of walking into a stadium, a four-mile-long flotilla of nearly 100 boats will carry thousands of athletes from more than 200 countries past hundreds of thousands of spectators seated on the banks of the Seine.

The river parade will follow the course of the Seine past the iconic sites of Paris, from Austerlitz Bridge, beside the Jardin des Plantes, crossing through central Paris and finishing in front of the Trocadéro, where the final elements of the show and ceremony will take place.

Warning: spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania are ahead!Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania writer Jeff Loveness is determined to defend the McU's depiction of Modok at all costs, refusing to listen to fan criticisms against the intentionally silly portrayal of the classic villain from the comics. Given a brand-new origin for the MCU, the Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing is revealed to be a twisted version of Darren Cross' Yellowjacket (played by Corey Stoll). Having been transformed into Modok after the first Ant-Man's ending where Cross was violently sent down to the Quantum Realm, Loveness is making it clear that he will always defend the ridiculous villain (giant head and all).

In an interview with Vital Thrills, Loveness reveals he isn't interested in hearing complaints about Modok or arguments that the villain should have been made more serious. Doubling down, Loveness reveals he'll always fight...

Shinya Tsukamoto's Vital and A Snake of June are playing on Mubi in the United States in the double bill The Human Extremes of Shinya Tsukamoto.Top: A Snake of June. Above: Vital. Shinya Tsukamoto has explored the full spectrum of human darkness over his four decades of filmmaking, including the raw nihilism of 1989’s Tetsuo: Iron Man, the desperate grief of 1998’s Bullet Ballet, and the paralyzing pacifism of 2018’s Killing, just to name a few select examples. And yet the director is usually only associated with the violence and surrealism of the earlier films, particularly edgelord employee pick Tetsuo. What’s often overlooked by fans is that these earlier films stem from the same fascinations foregrounded in his later, more restrained works like Killing (2018) and Fires on the Plain (2014): abject corporeality amid environments molding us as much as we exist in them, and ontological explorations of breaking through those constraints.

Arrow Video is excited to announce the July slate of titles on their subscription-based Arrow Video Channel, including acclaimed undead comedy Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection, all twelve films starring mankind’s greatest defender: a fire-breathing mutant turtle.

An infectiously funny slice of modern Korean cinema where Train to Busan, The Quiet Family and Warm Bodies collide to create Zombie for Sale, a memorable rom-zom-com from debut director Lee Min-jae. For the first time ever, fans can trace the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.

Zombie for Sale and Gamera: The Complete Collection will be available July 1st on the Arrow Video Channel in the Us and the UK. Additional new titles available July 1st include Creepshow 2,...

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto. Review: Adam Wing. Mental instability takes a deadly turn in Shinya Tsukamoto’s Kotoko, the only Japanese film to win the Best Film Award in the Orrizonti of the Venice Film Festival. Tsukamoto is best known around the world for his first two entries in the Tetsuo series, with Tokyo Fist, Bullet Ballet and A Snake of June cementing his name in cult legend. His latest surreal nightmare is available in the UK this month courtesy of Third Window Films. Cocco – a well-known Japanese folk singer – performed the closing theme tune for his 2004 film, Vital. She takes centre stage in Kotoko, playing a young single mother with unrestrained reality issues. Cocco also provides the soundtrack for Kotoko, a move that might be considered self-indulgent by some, especially when you consider the amount of time she spends singing and dancing on screen. Tsukamoto’s latest comes with a fascinating concept,...

Japanese auteur and cult favourite Shinya Tsukamoto returns with “Kotoko”, combining the apocalyptic style of his classic “Tetsuo” films with the monstrous and terrifyingly intimate tale of a young single mother losing her mind in hallucinogenic and violent fashion. Taking on the difficult lead role is singer and songwriter Cocco, who previously worked with Tsukamoto back in 2004, providing the lead song for his morbidly beautiful “Vital”, and who here also co-scripted with the director as well as providing Art Direction and music. In addition to writing and directing, Tsukamoto also served as producer and editor, as well as playing one of the lead roles himself, adding a fascinatingly personal and artistic dimension to the film. Coco plays the titular Kotoko, a single mother who struggles to take care of herself and her new born child. Tormented by frightening visions and often seeing hostile doubles of the people she meets, she...

Kotoko

Directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto

Written by Shin’ya Tsukamoto

2011, Japan

Festival veteran, Japanese Diy master, Shinya Tsukamoto has earned a devoted cult following for his unnerving explorations of the junction between body and technology, most notably as seen in his Tetsuo films. Kotoko serves as both a union of themes explored in his previous movies, while investing his lead with some psychological depth. Now the genre master delves beyond the flesh and into the mind, in this case that of a single mother suffering from Postpartum depression- a serious form of clinical depression which can affect women, typically after childbirth. Symptoms include fatigue, insomnia, reduced libido, bodily harm, anxiety, and irritability. It’s unclear when Kotoko’s illness began, but it appears to be getting increasingly worse as our protagonists explains in a voice over that, “she cuts herself not because she wants to die but to see...

After a trip back to his roots with Tetsuo: The Bullet Man it would appear that Japan's Shinya Tsukamoto is returning to the sort of dark drama that has marked more recent works like Vital.The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. She is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.Anyone worried that a suspected child abuse drama would turn into a two-hankie weepie melodrama in Tsukamoto's hands need only look at the still above to allay those fears. I don't know about child abuse but someone has clearly been abusing Tsukamoto's face. Two...

If the nineties were the years which marked the return of Japanese cinema on the international film circuit, introducing and establishing numerous directors working in various genres who, in most cases, connected with a larger foreign than domestic audience, then the following decade could be described as an about face. Japanese films began dominating box office scores for the first time in over thirty years, with films by confirmed directors as well as emerging talents; in both cases, many of these films, and their directors, would remain within the country. Some would on occasion be screened in festivals, but fewer still were distributed abroad theatrically.

Between 2000 and 2009, some of Japan’s auteurs saw their fortunes change, either through the inability to continue making films building on, or making a relevant break with, their previous output, as with Takeshi Kitano, whose Zatoichi stands out among of a series of daring and flawed experiments,...

Excuse me while I jab a magnificent fist into the air and strike this breathtaking pose. Indulge me, because being away for the past two weeks covering Sfiff had prevented me from noticing awesome news a-happenin'. And yes, this is awesome news indeed.

On Wednesday, Screen Daily broke the news that a third installment of Tetsuo: The Iron Man is in the works, currently called Tetsuo Project. Not only that, but apparently it's already finished shooting, and a cut is being rushed to Cannes for buyers. Yeah, like the festival wasn't already mindblowing enough. Dammit.

The pic above is a promotional image for the film, which shows its star Eric Bossick in his half-machine make-up.

I began my love affair with Shinya Tsukamoto in high school, when I first discovered the original Tetsuo on video. It was a mesmerizing work of art for the younger and more reckless me: there it was,...