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Ed and Lorraine Warren have one final case to crack in the iconic “The Conjuring” franchise. The paranormal investigating duo, portrayed by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, first appeared onscreen in 2013; now 12 years and a slew of spinoff films later, the original “The Conjuring” will close out with “The Conjuring: The Last Rites.”

Michael Chaves returns to direct “The Last Rites.” In total, the franchise has three “Conjuring” films, three “Annabelle” features, two “Nun” movies, and “The Curse of La Llorona.” Chaves helmed “La Llorona,” “The Nun II,” and “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.” A “Conjuring” series is in development at Max as well.

“The Last Rites” is set in the mid-1980s when the Warrens were retired. However, the couple returns for one last case involving the Smurl family. The Warrens most famously investigated the 1976 hauntings in Amityville, New York, which inspired the “Amityville Horror” franchise.

The night belongs to sinners in Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Black Panther) new horror movie Sinners, and Warner Bros. has unleashed the official trailer this afternoon.

Michael B. Jordan stars in dual roles. Sink your teeth into the official trailer for Sinners below, which Warner Bros. is describing as “a new vision of fear from Ryan Coogler.”

You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home…

Sinners will be released in theaters on April 18, 2025. Here’s the synopsis:

“Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.”

“Sinners is a unique one. It’s genre fluid. There are vampires in the film, but it’s really about a lot more than just that. It’s one of many elements, I’ll say. I...

The Conjuring premiered in 2013, and is one of the best horror franchises of all time, with multiple spin-offs and sequels. The original series will end with the upcoming fourth installment, The Conjuring: Last Rites, which has just received a new update from the lead actress.

In an Instagram post, Vera Farmiga shared a heartfelt tribute to her co-star, Patrick Wilson, looking back on their relationship since they signed to play Ed and Lorraine Warren 12 years ago. At the same time, Farmiga confirmed The Conjuring: Last Rites is nearing the end of production, as she mentioned Wilson wrapped filming on Nov. 21. The final fourth installment is set to premiere on Sept. 5, 2025.

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The first installment was a huge critical and commercial success.

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On Saturday November 9 2024, CBS broadcasts NCIS: Origins!

Last Rites Season 1 Episode 5 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “NCIS: Origins,” titled “Last Rites,” promises to take viewers deeper into the early days of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Set in the bustling environment of Camp Pendleton, this episode showcases Gibbs as he begins his journey as a special agent. The audience will witness the challenges and triumphs he faces as he integrates into the newly established NCIS office.

Gibbs finds himself among a diverse and unconventional team. Led by the experienced Mike Franks, the group is a mix of personalities that adds both tension and camaraderie. As Gibbs navigates his new role, he learns the ropes of being an agent in a world filled with both danger and complexity. The episode hints at the personal and professional struggles that shape his character, setting the stage for the legendary figure he becomes.

“Last Rites...

Cote de Pablo's breakout role as Ziva Dvid has left a lasting impact on NCIS fans, with a Ziva spinoff in the works. She earned $120,000 per episode post-season 9, totaling her net worth at around $6 million, mostly thank to her NCIS tenure. Born in Chile, Cote de Pablo started her acting career in 2000, taking on roles in various TV series and movies.

Cote de Pablo is best known for her performance on NCIS, and since that role, people have been curious about the actor's net worth, height, and everything else. The Chilean-born actress first began appearing in movies and TV shows in 2000 with a one-episode character Fiona in the drama series The $treet. Before that, she served as a co-host on the Latin-American magazine show Control from 1994-1995. Roles in TV series such as The Education of Max Bickford and The Jury gave way to her breakout as Ziva David...

Franchises are in fashion and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not the only proof of this. Horror sagas like The Conjuring or The Purge have shown that telling different stories within the same universe can work very well, even if it wasn't planned from the very beginning.

The first film in the horror franchise created by James Wan was released in 2013, and a total of eight films and five short films have been released since then, with The Conjuring 4 and The Nun 2 soon to be released. However, 10 years ago, not even Wan himself imagined how far the franchise would go.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the director explained how a great shared universe was created from a movie in the best style of Marvel Studios:

“It happened organically, but in the back of our minds, we always knew that the Warrens investigated so many different cases...

Silk Road tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht; the infamous dark web mastermind better known as his online moniker, "Dread Pirate Roberts". A brash egomaniac with an ultra-libertarian, anti-government philosophy, Ulbricht created the "Silk Road", an untraceable Amazon-esque marketplace for narcotics and illegal goods on the internet. The film charts his meteoric rise and fall, in tandem with the unhinged DEA agent who initially found him. Silk Road has a choppy, Wikipedia styled narrative that explores the radical extremes of both men. It could have used a more cinematic flow, but is certainly interesting to see.

We first meet Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) at a bar in San Francisco circa 2011. He rails to his best friend (Daniel David Stewart) against the government for restricting personal freedoms. His diatribe catches the attention of the fetching Julia (Alexandra Shipp). She's impressed by his brash demeanor and ideology. Ulbricht wants to change the world.

Exclusive: “I considered myself both a cop and a gangster.” New documentary The Seven Five chronicles the story of New York City police officer Michael Dowd, whose headline-grabbing 1992 arrest for leading a ring of criminalized cops exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for 14 years. Friday at Doc NYC, Dowd will appear at the film’s world premiere, where he’ll be reunited for the first time in decades with the former partner who exposed him.

Dowd began squeezing dealers for cash while working out of the 75th Precinct in crime-ridden East New York, eventually recruiting partner Kenny Eurell and others into an expanding ring of dirty cops active from 1986 through 1992. Their flashy transgressions were so flagrant that then-Mayor David Dinkins appointed the Mollen Commission to investigate, uncovering a history of “brutality, theft, abuse of authority and active police criminality” that had been willfully ignored by Internal Affairs.

Acclaimed actor Michael Sheen and actress Lizzy Caplan have been cast as the leads in the Showtime drama pilot Masters of Sex, where they will portray 1960's human sexuality pioneers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Directed by Academy Award nominee John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), the pilot will begin production in New York in March. Michelle Ashford (The Pacific), Judith Verno, and Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Justified) are executive producers. Michael Sheen and Tammy Rosen will serve as producers. Masters of Sex is produced by Sony Pictures Television.

Masters of Sex chronicles the lives and the intriguing, unusual relationship between Masters and Johnson, the pioneers into the science of human sexuality, whose research touched off the sexual revolution. The series is an adaptation of Thomas Maier's book Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, The Couple Who Taught America How To Love.

A&E Network presents Stephen King's Bag of Bones, a four-hour epic miniseries based on The New York Times #1 bestselling novel, and featuring Pierce Brosnan's return to television. The two-night event from Sony Pictures Television premieres on Sunday, December 11 and concludes on Monday, December 12, airing at 9Pm Et/Pt on both nights.

Stephen King's Bag of Bones is a ghost story of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, about an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire and a new love haunted by past secrets. Melissa George30 Days of Night), Annabeth Gish (Texas Killing Fields), Anika Noni Rose (The Princess and the Frog), William Schallert (Green Lantern: First Flight), Jason Priestley (The Last Rites of Ransom Pride) and Caitlin Carmichael (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Frank Reynolds' Little Beauties) also star.

In Stephen King's Bag of Bones, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan (Pierce Brosnan) is unable...

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Fade to Black" (2010)

Directed by Oliver Parker

Released by Image Entertainment

It looks like we'll have to update our list of actors who've played Orson Welles with this long-delayed drama from "The Importance of Being Earnest" director Parker, which stars Danny Huston as the "Touch of Evil" auteur who gets caught up in a murder mystery all his own on 1948's "Black Magic" in Italy when he finds out his name is on a hit list. Christopher Walken, Diego Luna and Paz Vega co-star.

"30 Days of Night: Dark Days" (2010)

Directed by Ben Ketai

Released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Rare for a direct-to-video sequel, original author Steve Niles returns to co-write this follow-up to the 2007 graphic novel adaptation about a vampire attack in Alaska. This time, "Lost" star Kiele Sanchez is protecting her neck, along with Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Rhys Coiro and Mia Kirshner,...

Lizzy Caplan recalls taking on the female lead in this action-packed Western ode to Tarantino and Peckinpah

Tiller Russell's action-packed Western The Last Rites of Ransom Pride seemingly shot forth from out of nowhere, quietly amassing a cult audience that has fallen in love with its rich, atmospheric photography and its hearty scenes of violent mayhem. Lizzy Caplan, who rose to fame in Cloverfield and put in stellar work on the short-lived but much loved Starz sitcom Party Down, stars as the film's protagonist, a tough-talking, quick-drawing cowgirl out for revenge.

Its not often that we see a female lead in a Western, and it certainly adds an honest and unique flavor to the adventure that Lizzy's Juliette Flowers embarks upon in The Last Rites of Ransom Pride. With an ensemble cast that also includes Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, Scott Speedman, Peter Dinklage, and Jason Priestley, Tiller Russell has...

Jesus, it's a slow news day.

So here's the trailer for The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride, a western/revenge flick (aren't all Westerns revenge flicks?) directed and co-written by Tiller Russell (previous works of note: none). It's got a fairly unique premise contained in its (albeit brief) IMDb synopsis: A western centered on a woman trying to bring her outlaw lover home for his burial.

It's also got a pretty interesting cast -- Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, "True Blood"), Peter Dinklage (!), Kris Kristofferson, and Dwight Yoakam. If you can ignore the presence of Jason Priestly (finally returning to westerns after his brief, pathetic turn in Tombstone) and the man-shaped pile of wood called Scott Speedman (again, you mention "Felicity" and you get a badger crammed up your ass), it's a fine cast.

So here's the trailer. And it looks fucking terrible. Terrible accents, terrible editing, atrocious dialogue, and fourth grade-level production values.

Lizzy Caplan stars in Tiller Russell’s Western “The Last Rites of Ransom Pride”, in which she plays an outlaw woman trying to bring her outlaw lover (the aforementioned Ransom Pride, played by Scott Speedman) home for burial. Things get really complicated, as you can see from this trailer, and much gunfightin’ ensues. It’s a Western, and I love me my Westerns. This one definitely looks pretty good, too. Starring Lizzy Caplan, Scott Speedman, Jason Priestley, Peter Dinklage, Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, Jon Foster, and “NCIS’s” Cote De Pablo. The film’s official site has the 2009 movie finally making its premiere in L.A. at the Laemmle Sunset 5 on September 10 and 11, before rolling out to selected theaters in Texas (Dallas, Forth Worth, and Denton) and Arizona (Phoenix and Tucson). Check the official site for more showings. The film is also up for DVD/Blu-ray pre-order on Amazon with a October 5, 2010 release date.

Carl reviews The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride, and finds even the presence of Lizzy Caplin and Kris Kristofferson can't save the Western from mediocrity…

There's this girl called Juliette Flowers, and she was in love with Ransom Pride who, after accidentally killing a priest, got shot and killed. His body was then claimed by some kind of spiritual witch lady who said he belonged to the devil now, and Juliette says, "I'm having none of that!" and decides that she'll do everything to get his body back.

So she puts on some ridiculously awful clothes, and the dumbest, unfitting hat I've ever seen, goes to see the witch lady, Bruja, and then lets slip that he has a brother. Which, apparently, will do for a swap. The devil won't mind who it actually is, apparently. "Oh, he's got a dog. Will that do?"

So, she goes off and finds...

The Edinburgh International Film Festival this afternoon published their full line-up for 2010, and it’s looking good. Check out the website - www.edfilmfest.org.uk

I’ll be covering the festival which runs from 16th-29th of June, so keep your eye out for reviews, interviews and insider info in our third year of coverage from Eiff.

The McHenry brothers direct Jackboots on WhiteHall an eagerly anticipated film in which Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices an alternative animated history of WWII – I can’t wait to see this one! In Ollier Kepler’s Expanding Purple World, the brilliant Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’; Bunny and the Bull) stars in a darkly funny study of one man’s walk on the weird side. Then there’s Cherry Tree Lane, Paul Andrew Willaim’s latest thriller. Pelican Blood by Karl Golden looks pretty incredible and...

Former Paypal executive Jack Selby has partnered with filmmakers Tiller Russell and Duncan Montgomery to launch Horsethief Pictures.

The interactive production, digital distribution and marketing company, which plans to release 2-3 films a year, will encourage audiences to participate in every phase of the moviemaking process from development to production, distribution and marketing.

"I am excited to be partnering with Tiller and Duncan to launch this venture at a time when the entertainment industry's audience is transitioning to consuming content online," said Selby. "With Horsethief, we will look to capitalize on this digital shift by creating smart, targeted digital marketing campaigns that keep audiences tuned in to high quality content."

The company's first feature is "The Last Rites of Ransom Pride," a western directed by Russell. Lizzy Caplan, Peter Dinklage, Dwight Yoakam, Jason Priestly, Scott Speedman and Kris Kristofferson star in the story of a woman trying to bring her...

If you know nothing else going into this exclusive trailer for "The Last Rites of Ransom Pride," know this: you will see the words "gun-totin' dwarf" appear on the screen before the minute is over.

Sold yet?

An ensemble cast that includes Lizzy Caplan, Scott Speedman, Peter Dinklage, Jason Priestley and the one and only Kris Kristofferson. I can't wait to see this thing, which hits as a digital download in early 2010.

Just a month ago, we learned that Adrien Brody and Michael Chiklis were heading back to High School -- a rather unique comedy about a high school valedictorian (Matt Bush) who gets high with the school stoner (Sean Marquette), and then tries to use his smarts to get out of an upcoming drug test. Rather then messing with his own results, he schemes to get the entire school stoned to beat the system. Brody's the drug dealer, Chiklis is the principal, and now The Hollywood Reporter posts that Lisa Simpson, aka Yeardley Smith, will play a homeroom teacher while Luis Chavez (Crash) plays a druggie friend of the valedictorian.

Meanwhile, Variety reports that Navy NCIS actress Cote de Pablo is making the jump to the big screen with Scott Speedman's The Last Rites of Ransom Pride. The Calgary Herald describes it as "a violent ransom about a woman trying...