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Exclusive: Fantasy icon George R.R. Martin, billionaire entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine and animation veteran Conrad Vernon (The Addams Family) are advisory board members and stakeholders in new LA-based animation company Bizaar Studios, which is launching today.

The outfit has been set up by Iovine’s son, Jeremy Iovine, and Amir Mohamadzadeh, who together previously founded creative agency Rosewood Creative, and film and TV exec Eric Bromberg who will serve as co-founder and President.

Rosewood’s work has included short films, animations, and marketing campaigns with Dr. Dre, Bono, Snoop Dogg, Spike Lee and LeBron James. Bromberg previously worked at Exile Content Studios and Gunpowder & Sky. He helped drive horror and sci-fi labels Alter and Dust.

The ambitious company is oriented towards adult animation and aims to include development, marketing and distribution of original films and TV series. It will create content in house and acquire third-party material. First projects are...

Barry Sonnenfeld's "The Addams Family" turns 30 this year, and it's hard to imagine the irreverently macabre movie starring Raul Julia, Angelica Houston, and Christopher Lloyd as anything other than a hit.

But when it was in production, the movie was anything but a sure hit, and the success of "The Addams Family" is even more impressive when one realizes the challenges Sonnenfeld faced when the movie was filming. Halfway through shooting, the movie moved from the first director-friendly Orion Pictures to Paramount and then had to deal with a leadership change at the movie's new studio. The experience wasn't...

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“The Addams Family,” the big-screen adaptation of Charles Addams’ comic stories of an aristocratic family with a taste for the macabre, became a box office sensation when it opened in theaters in 1991. The film, which had built-in interest thanks to the popularity of the 1960s television show that was also spawned by Addams’ cartoons, defied the odds to become one of the year’s biggest commercial hits.

A lot of things could have gone wrong or proved fatal before it got to that point. Orion, the studio that had greenlighted the picture and entrusted first-time filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld to strike the right darkly silly tone, went bankrupt, and Paramount, which bought the project from the failing studio, had its own internal power shift. Plus, the track record of turning TV properties into watchable films is spotty at best. For every “The Fugitive” or “Mission: Impossible,” there are scores of duds like “Baywatch,...

It looks like Halloween is coming early this year. All week long, Gold Derby users have been making their predictions for what film will win the U.S. box office for the weekend of October 15-17, and “Halloween Kills” (dir. David Gordon Green) is the odds-on front-runner. Universal’s slasher flick is the direct sequel to “Halloween” (2018) and the 12th movie overall in the decades-long “Halloween” franchise. Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle are back once again as victim Laurie Strode and killer Michael Myers, with new cast members Anthony Michael Hall and Thomas Mann joining the spooky fun.

Agree or disagree with our readers’ predictions? Hurry — you can still make your box office predictions at Gold Derby before the cutoff time on Thursday at 5 p.m. Pt. Financial numbers and rankings are based upon weekend data (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) featured at Variety Insight. The eligible user with the best predictions score...

“Free Guy” (Disney/$19.99) continued to dominate VOD charts over the weekend. Shawn Levy’s action comedy with Ryan Reynolds repeated as #1 for a second week at iTunes and Google Play (ranked by transactions) and Vudu (which calculates by revenue). Meantime, the highest grossing non-franchise domestic release in theaters since “1917” almost two years ago held the #6 position in theaters this weekend, despite its home availability and losing 1,050 theaters. Once again, both hands are washing each other to mutual benefit.

A mere 14 titles charted across all three charts, which, continuing a recent trend, saw a broad consistency irrespective of the method of calculating results. Only three new films broke into any of the top 10 listings, but two placed second on one chart each. Their routes were very different, though.

M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old” has been the only Universal release in over a year to not have a Premium VOD release three weeks after hitting theaters.

The film has £52.6m, ahead of ‘Spectre’ at the same stage but behind ‘Skyfall’.

Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 8-10) Total gross to date Week 1 No Time To Die (Universal) £15.2m £52.6m 2 2 The Addams Family (Universal) £2m £2m 1 3 Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings (Disney) £556,579 £20.5m 6 4 The Paw Patrol Movie (Paramount) £126,000 £8.3m 9 5 The Many Saints Of Newark (Warner Bros) £125,000 £1.9m 3

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.36

Universal’s No Time To Die has surged to £52.6m from just 11 days in cinemas, comfortably retaining the UK-Ireland box office lead on its second weekend.

The film took £15.2m from Friday to Sunday,...

Strong holds added to North American debut boosted Universal and MGM’s release of 007 thriller.

Worldwide Box Office October 1-3 2021 RankFilm (Distributor) 3-day (World) Cume (World) 3-day (Int’l)Cume (Int’l) Territories 1. No Time To Die (Universal) $145.5m $313.2m $89.5m $257.2m 67 2. The Battle At Lake Changjin (various) $108.3m $632.2m $108.3m $632.2m 1 3. Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Sony) $56.8m $185.5m $24.8m $43.9m 14 4. My Country, My Parents (various) $19.6m $181.8m $19.6m $181.8m 3 5. The Addams Family 2 (Uni) $14.5m $35.7m $4.5m $4.5m 13

Credit: Comscore, all figures estimates

‘No Time To Die’ achieves strong hold in second session

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Bron Creative’s “The Addams Family 2” will be made available for at-home rental in the U.S. and Canada on the same day it opens in theaters.

The animated movie, which debuts Friday, Oct. 1, is a sequel to 2019’s “The Addams Family,” which made more than $203 million at the box office.

Oscar Isaac (who voices Gomez Addams), Charlize Theron (Morticia Addams), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday Addams), Nick Kroll (Uncle Fester), Snoop Dogg (It) and Bette Midler (Grandma) reprise their roles from the original movie. Bill Hader joins the voice cast for the new installment as “Cyrus,” with Javon ‘Wanna’ Walton taking over the role of Pugsley Addams (voiced in the first movie by Finn Wolfhard).

The film will be released in the U.S. via MGM’s United Artists Releasing banner. The film’s international release is being handled by Universal Pictures International.

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The founder and program director of the Etheria Film Festival, Heidi Honeycutt, discusses her favorite films from women filmmakers with Josh and Joe.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Destroyer (1988)

Army of the Dead (2021)

The Howling (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine recommendation

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Wonder Woman (2017)

The Dirty Dozen (1967) – Ed Neumeier’s trailer commentary

The Wild Bunch (1969) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Joe Dante’s review

The Women (1939) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

The Opposite Sex (1956) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

The Women (2008)

Halloween (1978) – Adam Rifkin’s trailer commentary, Alex Kirschenbaum’s series and timeline power rankings, Randy Fuller’s wine recommendation

Valley Girl (1983) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s trailer commentary

Valley Girl (2020)

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Wicker Man (2006)

Mandy (2018)

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982) – Karyn Kusama’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s trailer commentary

Clueless (1995)

Legally Blonde (2001)

The Craft (1996)

Runaway...

A sequel. How original. The Addams Family is back and going on an awful new adventure in the new trailer for The Addams Family 2 Only in theaters October 1, 2021 In Theaters October 1, 2021 Everyone’s favorite spooky family is back in the animated comedy sequel, The Addams Family 2. In this all new movie …

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MGM has released an official trailer for The Addams Family 2. A direct follow-up to the animated movie released in 2019, The Addams Family 2 takes the kooky family out of their mansion by putting them on the road for a vacation. You can take a look at their reunion by watching the new trailer below.

The logline reads: "Everyone's favorite spooky family is back in the animated comedy sequel, The Addams Family 2. In this all new movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with 'scream time.' To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin, It, as well as many new kooky characters.

With the world still in the midst of a global pandemic, it’s fair to say that this Halloween is going to probably look a little different. Indeed, with social distancing and tighter local restrictions in place, it’s likely that most people will be enjoying the creepiest season of the year from the comfort and safety of their own home, away from the bustling crowds.

Fear not, however! Tradition dictates that a good ol’ horror flick is all you need to help get you into that spooky spirit. And we’ve discovered a handful of spine-chilling movies that you can stream on Netflix right now to keep you entertained while staying indoors this October. I mean, sharing is caring, right?

So, without further ado, let’s dive in…

The Addams Family

It’s always handy having a family-friendly horror offering up your blood-soaked sleeve, and Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 classic black comedy is no different.

Spider-Man 3, Resident Evil, Every Note Played, and Other Film Casting News — Spider-Man 3, Resident Evil, Every Note Played, The Addams Family 2, Umma, She Will Rise, Don’t Worry, Darling, and M3GAN have made recent film casting, screenwriting, and director news. These films come from movie studios primarily based in [...]

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MGM’s recently announced The Addams Family sequel The Addams Family 2 will be released into a theater near you next Halloween. And today we have the poster. Check it out below. The CG-animated family flick just added Bill Hader (It Chapter Two) to its voice cast as a new character named Cyrus and Javon “Wanna’ Walton (HBO’s Euphoria) […]...

Hollywood studio executive William Bernstein, a co-founder of Orion Pictures who also worked for United Artists and Paramount Pictures, died Wednesday. He was 87.

Longtime associate Mike Medavoy confirmed Bernstein’s death, first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. “He was a brilliant guy, just very very smart,” Medavoy said.

Bernstein, Medavoy, Arthur Krim, Robert Benjamin and Eric Pleskow departed United Artists and launched Orion in 1978 as a mini-major that was the first significant new player in Hollywood in many decades. Medavoy credited Bernstein with conceiving the name of the studio. Bernstein explained the choice in a 1992 interview with the New York Times

“Orion is the largest constellation; it has five stars, just like us, and it was the brightest constellation in February, when we were forming the company,” he told the newspaper. “Besides, it was simple to spell.”

Between 1984 and 1991, Orion released four films that won the Academy Award for best picture: “Amadeus,...

"Until the world returns to abnormal..." MGM + United Artists have debuted a brief announcement teaser for The Addams Family 2, revealing that this animated horror comedy sequel will be arriving in theaters during Halloween next year. The sequel to MGM's 2019 box-office smash hit, The Addams Family, this new one has rounded out its stellar voice cast with the additions of Bill Hader as all-new character Cyrus, and Javon "Wanna" Walton taking on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, Pugsley. Hader and Walton join returning Addams Family film stars Charlize Theron (Morticia), Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Nick Kroll (Fester), Bette Midler (Grandma) as well as Snoop Dogg (It). Director Greg Tiernan has also returned for the sequel, which will be released in theaters at the beginning of October in 2021. Who knows if things will even be "back to normal" then anyway? For now, enjoy this tease. Here's...

The sequel to MGM’s 2019 box-office smash hit, The Addams Family has rounded out its stellar voice cast with the additions of Bill Hader as all-new character “Cyrus,” and Javon “Wanna” Walton taking on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, “Pugsley.” Hader and Walton join returning Addams Family film stars Charlize Theron (Morticia), Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Nick Kroll (Fester), Bette Midler (Grandma) and Snoop Dogg (It).

Director Greg Tiernan has also returned for the sequel, which will be released in theaters October 8, 2021 via MGM’s United Artists Releasing banner.

Said Tiernan: “The success of last year’s animated film was proof of the enduring legacy of The Addams Family and its ability to transcend popular culture. This second film will be every bit as fun as the original. We are thrilled to welcome Bill Hader and Javon Walton, and to welcome back our incredible original...

One year removed from a successful theatrical run, The Addams Family is returning to theaters next year. MGM announced that The Addams Family 2 will be arriving on Halloween 2021 with two high-profile actors, Bill Hader and Javon “Wanna” Walton via a new teaser trailer. The Addams get tangled up in wacky adventures and find […]

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The Addams Family 2 is officially set to bring its wholesomely horrifying brand of animated dread back to the big screen for the 2021 Halloween season.

The sequel, arriving via MGM’s United Artists banner, follows up the 2019 sleeper animated iteration of the often-adapted iconic 1960s spooky snap-happy sitcom, which went on to gross $203 million worldwide against a $24 million budget. Indeed, The Addams Family 2 was reportedly in the works less than a week after the first film’s October 11, 2019 bow, and signaled an October release date of its own for 2021. While the woeful year of 2020 obviously changed the trajectory of the entire entertainment industry, it appears that, in true Addams fashion, the rules didn’t apply to this sequel, which now remains on its original pre-pandemic course for Halloween 2021. Check out the teaser trailer announcing the sequel just below.

Greg Tiernan (Thomas & Friends), who co-directed the first film with his Sausage Party co-director,...

The animated adaptation of The Addams Family just arrived in theaters last year, but with a box office haul over $203 million on a budget of just $23 million, MGM has wasted no time in getting a sequel off the ground. The Addams Family 2 has been officially announced to arrive just in time for […]

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MGM has announced a sequel to 2019's animated version of The Addams Family and is giving fans the opportunity to voice a character in the movie! More details and the announcement teaser are below:

The sequel to MGM’s 2019 box-office smash hit, The Addams Family has rounded out its stellar voice cast with the additions of Bill Hader as all-new character “Cyrus,” and Javon “Wanna” Walton taking on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, “Pugsley.” Hader and Walton join returning Addams Family film stars Charlize Theron (Morticia), Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Nick Kroll (Fester), Bette Midler (Grandma) and Snoop Dogg (It). Director Greg Tiernan has also returned for the sequel, which will be released in theaters October 8, 2021 via MGM’s United Artists Releasing banner.

Said Tiernan: “The success of last year’s animated film was proof of the enduring legacy of The Addams Family and its ability to transcend popular culture.

Saturday Night Live alum and three-time Emmy winner Bill Hader and Samaritan actor Javon “Wanna” Walton are boarding MGM’s animated sequel The Addams Family 2 from returning director Greg Tiernan. Hader will voice the new character of Cyrus, while Walton will takeover for Finn Wolfhard in the role of Pugsley.

The duo joins returning Addams Family film stars Charlize Theron (Morticia), Oscar Isaac (Gomez), Chloë Grace Moretz (Wednesday), Nick Kroll (Fester), Bette Midler (Grandma) and Snoop Dogg (It). The sequel will hit theaters on Oct. 8, 2021 via MGM’s United Artists Releasing banner. The first movie released a year ago grossed over $203M at the WW box office.

Said Tiernan, “The success of last year’s animated film was proof of the enduring legacy of The Addams Family and its ability to transcend popular culture. This second film will be every bit as fun as the original. We are thrilled...

MGM’s The Addams Family sequel has added Bill Hader and Javon “Wanna’ Walton to its voice cast.

Hader will lend his voice to the new character Cyrus, and Walton takes on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, Pugsley. Finn Wolfhard, at 18 years of age, played Pugsley in the 2019 The Addams Family movie, but has aged out of the role.

The CG-animated family pic has already announced a voice cast led by Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg and Bette Midler. Director Greg Tiernan has also returned for the sequel, which will be released ...

MGM’s The Addams Family sequel has added Bill Hader and Javon “Wanna’ Walton to its voice cast.

Hader will lend his voice to the new character Cyrus, and Walton takes on the role of the youngest Addams sibling, Pugsley. Finn Wolfhard, at 18 years of age, played Pugsley in the 2019 The Addams Family movie, but has aged out of the role.

The CG-animated family pic has already announced a voice cast led by Oscar Isaac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg and Bette Midler. Director Greg Tiernan has also returned for the sequel, which will be released ...

The View Conference is offering free streaming access to its 2020 program, which runs from Oct. 18-23 in Turin, Italy.

“There has been so much bad news in 2020, so I’m thrilled to be able to share some great news for a change,” said conference director Maria Elena Gutierrez. “Everyone could use some extra light and joy in their lives, so we have made the unprecedented decision to make this year’s conference completely free.” Those who register will have streaming access to the conference’s 125 online and on-site talks, workshops, master classes and panels.

“Every session will be available online, allowing anyone to attend anywhere in the world,” said Gutierrez. “This is a fantastic chance to grow the View community and to welcome into our family participants who are unable to travel to Torino or buy a full access pass.”

Keynote speakers include Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, Industrial Light & Magic’s Dennis Muren,...

Pop culture's creepiest and kookiest family will return next year, as a new poster for The Addams Family 2 teases its planned Halloween 2021 release date. A second, nearly identical poster only says 'Coming Soon'. Contrasted against a bright yellow background, both posters features a gloom Wednesday looking very apathetic about her upcoming return to the big screen. "A sequel. How original," the poster also reads, channeling Wednesday perfectly. The poster also says, "Halloween 2021" at the bottom, coinciding with the planned release date previously reported on last year.

Directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, last year's animated reboot of The Addams Family was met with a mixed reception. Because the original live-action movies have become so iconic, it's difficult for many longtime fans to embrace a new take on the classic characters. Although the animation style is based on the comic series that spawned the franchise decades ago, some fans...

Chloë Grace Moretz has been cast in one of the lead roles in the upcoming series adaptation of William Gibson’s “The Peripheral” at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.

The series centers on Flynne Fisher (Moretz), a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow’s America. Flynne is smart, ambitious and doomed. She has no future – until the future comes calling for her.

Moretz will next be seen in Roseanne Liang’s “Shadow in the Cloud.” The film made its world premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the festival’s annual Midnight Madness award. She is also currently in production on the sci-fi thriller feature “Mother/Android” and is set to star in the live-action film adaptation of the cartoon “Tom and Jerry.” Her other recent film credits include “Greta,” “Suspiria,” and the animated version of “The Addams Family.

Free Guy, a comedy that centers itself in a socially-distant video game virtual landscape, ironically finds itself as one of the most prominent stragglers in the dwindling group of major movies still on schedule for a theatrical release in 2020. Indeed, the December-scheduled film continues to tout its plans to hit theaters with the release of a new trailer.

Shawn Levy directed the film off a script by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn. Ryan Reynolds stars as the eponymous Guy, a suddenly self-aware Npc (non-playable character) in a fictional open world video game who, upon forming a romantic connection with a player (Jodie Comer), starts living his best (virtual) life, eventually faced with having to save his world.

On that note, check out the new Free Guy trailer just below.

A frequent observation about this film in the duration of its now-year-long buildup is that Free Guy is the product of familiar multimedia elements,...

For the first time in a while, Netflix is adding no new titles today, so let’s instead take the opportunity to recap what’s gone up on the streaming site over the past week, from Saturday, August 1st to Saturday, August 8th. As that encompasses the first day of the month, there was a huge amount of fresh content added to Netflix’s library over this period. To be exact, there were 49 movies and 24 TV shows.

On the film side of things, this haul includes many an acclaimed or cult favorite flick from across the decades in all kinds of genres. The highlight is probably the entire Jurassic Park trilogy, which has proved popular with Netflix users as the first two entries have been hanging around the top 10 most-watched movies list almost ever since arriving. 80s classic fantasy flick The NeverEnding Story and its sequel were added on the 1st as well,...

Netflix has big plans for us when it comes to their August 2020 lineup. In a lengthy list released this week, we're getting a look at all of the new movies and TV shows (plus a ton of Netflix originals) headed our way as the summer reaches its peack. Among the highlights in the movie department: The first three Jurassic Park movies will switch over from the recently-launched Peacock streaming service, giving Netflix subscribers the chance to have some quality dino time. Other classics, including A Knight's Tale, The Addams Family, Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's …...

With the summer starting to wind down, Netflix appear to be taking their foot off the gas a little bit when it comes to releasing high-profile original movies. Over the last few months, the streaming service has debuted a string of in-house projects that have either been subjected to widespread critical acclaim or racked up huge viewing numbers, and frequently both.

Netflix can sometimes be fairly secretive about their viewership data unless they’re shouting their success from the rooftops, and having recently revealed their Top 10 most-watched original movies ever, you can understand why they went public. If you include the reported 72 million streams for Charlize Theron’s The Old Guard that would see it claim sixth spot in the rankings, then four of the Top 10 were released between March and July of this year alone.

However, despite having a huge number of high-profile originals scheduled for the rest of the year,...

As good of a month as July was for Netflix subscribers, the streaming giant looks to deliver an almost as impressive August and they kicked things off yesterday with a huge drop that comprised old classics, forgotten films, underrated gems and more. And while not super heavy for horror, in particular, there were still a few notable titles that arrived on the platform yesterday that are sure to get your blood pumping and make your palms sweaty.

For instance, the original Jurassic Park trilogy – that’s Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III – is now on Netflix and while perhaps not the scariest films out there, they still do have their moments of horror and hold up very well even today. The first one, of course, is a bonafide classic, but its two sequels are certainly worth a watch as well.

Meanwhile, 1991’s The Addams Family...

Netflix is kicking off a new month by adding a fresh slate of movies and TV shows to its streaming service.

Original films being added in August include Laura Terruso's dance-competition movie, Work It, starring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy and Jordan Fisher, and Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's sci-fi thriller Project Power, about a pill that gives people superpowers, starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback.

Other movies hitting Netflix throughout the month include The Addams Family, An Education, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, three Jurassic Park films, The Ugly Truth, Nightcrawler, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Scary ...

Netflix is kicking off a new month by adding a fresh slate of movies and TV shows to its streaming service.

Original films being added in August include Laura Terruso's dance-competition movie, Work It, starring Sabrina Carpenter, Liza Koshy and Jordan Fisher, and Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's sci-fi thriller Project Power, about a pill that gives people superpowers, starring Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback.

Other movies hitting Netflix throughout the month include The Addams Family, An Education, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, three Jurassic Park films, The Ugly Truth, Nightcrawler, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Scary ...

Though Netflix has dropped a few notable titles from its library to say goodbye to July, today has brought us a whole heap of fresh content to usher in the new month. With over 30 new movies and TV shows, August has been welcomed with a truckload of classic films, mostly from the 90s and the early 00s, as well as some other interesting titles that you may want to check out.

The most attention-grabbing additions are all three Jurassic Park movies, which are hopping over to Netflix after a short stint on Peacock. So, you may want to travel back to Isla Nubar yet again this weekend and treat yourself to a rewatch of the prehistoric trilogy. Elsewhere, there are the two sequels to Ocean’s Eleven and medieval adventure A Knight’s Tale starring the much-missed Heath Ledger.

Also, watch out for Tobey Maguire’s horse-racing themed drama Seabiscuit, Robert Pattinson...

Netflix is out with its list of everything coming and going in August, and the list includes Season 5 of “Lucifer” and a new film starring Jamie Foxx called “Project Power.”

Other highlights include the 1991 “The Addams Family” movie; “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet; “Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic Park III,” and the 1979 version of “Mad Max,” to name a few.

Netflix original series include season three of “The Rain,” and “Selling Sunset,” a new cartoon called “Hoops,” and the “Game On: A Comedy Crossover Event” featuring characters from “Mr. Iglesias,” “Family Reunion,” “The Big Show Show” and “Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love” — including Eva Longoria.

Watch Netflix’s August highlights video featuring sneak peeks at new additions above.

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Leaving at the end of August are “Valentine’s Day,” “V for Vendetta,” “Jerry McGuire,” and the “Karate Kid” trilogy,...

You’re going to have to steel yourself for this monster of a content update. Between them, Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime have an obscene number of quality titles debuting this weekend.

Be it films or television shows, new releases or old classics, there’s a ton to dig into here. So if you’re ready, let’s dive right in…

Netflix

July 31st

Get Even — Netflix Original

Latte and the Magic Waterstone — Netflix Family

Seriously Single — Netflix Film

The Speed Cubers — Netflix Documentary

Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet — Netflix Original

The Umbrella Academy: Season 2 — Netflix Original

Vis a vis: El Oasis (Locked Up) — Netflix Original

August 1st

A Knight’s Tale

Acts of Violence

The Addams Family (1991)

An Education

Being John Malkovich

Death at a Funeral

Dennis the Menace

Elizabeth Harvest

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hardcore Henry

Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Season 1-2

Jurassic Park...

“Rough business, this movie business. I’m gonna have to go back to loan-sharking just to take a rest.”

Barry Sonnenfeld will be the keynote speaker for opening night of the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival on Sunday, November 1. Sonnenfeld will speak about his new book Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker. Now in its 42nd year, the Festival is nationally recognized for both its excellence and its size – it is one of the largest in the country. People from all backgrounds and faiths come to Festival events to hear premier speakers on topics such as history, music, politics, cooking, family, religion, sports, and more. This year, the Festival expects to attract even more people through its accessible online format. The Jewish Book Festival, which runs November 1-8, is a program of the Jewish Community Center.

Festival-goers can take advantage of the Premier Pass, which grants access to...

As we finish up July and head into August, Netflix has a bunch of great new content coming this week. Though Monday doesn’t feature anything fresh, Tuesday through Sunday will deliver a ton of exciting titles, including a lot of classic movies and a bunch of Netflix Originals.

The highlights of what’s to come in the last days of July include Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege season 1, the beginning of a new trilogy exploring the final hours of the civil war that was fought between the Autobots and the Decepticons on their homeworld, and also The Umbrella Academy season 2, in which things are set to get even weirder for the Hargreeves clan.

For more, the full list of everything that’s due on Netflix this week can be found below:

July 28th Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons (Season 4) N Jeopardy! (Collection 6) Last Chance U: Laney (Season 5) N July...

With the end of the month ahead of us, we now have a full list of everything that’s coming to Netflix and the various other streaming services across August. The sites will continue to do their best to keep you from straying out into the sun for the rest of the summer, too, as each of them has got a whole heap of new movies and TV shows coming to their libraries that you’ll want to check out. Mostly classic films you’ll enjoy sticking on again, but also a few much-anticipated originals, too.

See below for the full line-up of titles coming to Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu and Prime Video, as well as our own picks for what should be on your radar.

August 1

Netflix

A Knight’s Tale

Acts of Violence

The Addams Family (1991)

An Education

Being John Malkovich

Death at a Funeral

Dennis the Menace...

Netflix has often had a reputation for being better for TV than movies, but lately has been more than rectifying this. Its library of quality horror and genre entertainment will once again be expanding in August as well, with several new titles being added throughout the month.

First up, 1Br sees a young woman looking for a new start move to Los Angeles and into an apartment complex populated by friendly people who seem to buck the trend of L.A.’s isolationist lifestyle. Soon afterwards, however, her surroundings become increasingly sinister as the true nature of her new neighbors is revealed.

The Jurassic Park movies, meanwhile, might be major blockbuster material, but people being stalked and devoured by rampaging dinosaurs is certainly within the parameters of horror and the original trilogy of films – the iconic first movie, the mediocre follow up Jurassic Park: The Lost World and the surprisingly...

Netflix‘s new releases for August 2020 should be a hell of a good time.

How else are we supposed to describe the month that features the long-awaited arrival of Lucifer season 5? Yes, ol’ Lucy finally returns on August 21 for what is now the penultimate season of the show.

While Lucifer is the main highlight of Netflix’s original offerings on August, that doesn’t mean there aren’t some other intriguing options to stream. The Rain season 3 arrives on August 6, Wizards: Tales of Arcadia on August 7, and Teenage Bounty Hunters on August 14. That’s not even to mention a potential blockbuster movie in the form of the Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt starring Project Power.

In August, Netflix also continues its high-profile poaching of other worthwhile properties as well. August sees the arrival of both The Legend of Korra and Cobra Kai, opening up two worthwhile series to an even wider streaming audience.

Netflix is adding a seriously impressive line-up of content across August. In a bid to keep you indoors and out of the sun, the streaming giant has got a wide range of titles coming to its library next month, including various highly-anticipated original movies and TV shows, as well as countless beloved films that are being added – or are returning – to the site.

We’ve previously had a couple of updates on what to expect in August, but this is the full official list of everything that’s due on Netflix over the course of next month. As we already knew, some of the highlights include Jamie Foxx superhero vehicle Project Power and the fifth and penultimate season of DC’s Lucifer. Now, however, we can see there’s a lot more to look forward to besides just that.

The first day of August, in particular, brings a whole heap of titles.

It’s hard to believe it, but “Clueless,” the seminal comedy that perfectly captured teenage life, has just turned 25, making it several years removed from high school graduation.

In the subsequent two and a half decades, “Clueless” has achieved near classic status, but writer and director Amy Heckerling still remembers the many times producers and executives passed on the story of a girl named Cher. The film was initially in development at Fox before it was put in a turnaround.

“Everybody in Hollywood passed on it, and my agent Ken Stovitz was just driving himself insane trying to think of places and things and people that he could get it to and who would read it,” Heckerling tells Variety. “And, you know, it was pretty much, ‘No no no no.’ It’s kind of like when you read it, I don’t think people understood the humor.”

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With Warner Bros. vacating its August 12 worldwide release date for “Tenet,” we’re still many weeks away from any approximation of normal business. Meanwhile, the VOD world continues apace with Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan war-set “The Outpost” leading the way. Now in its third week, the Screen Media title remains at #1 at Apple and Spectrum.

Perhaps even more impressive: “Outpost” is #2 at FandangoNow, which ranks by revenue — and Lurie’s film has a non-premium price of $6.99. Even outside a theater, some of its truisms remain — never underestimate the appeal of a military-themed film. In first place at FandangoNow was “Trolls World Tour,” which recently reduced its price from $19.99 to $5.99.

Among other recent premium VOD titles, the best showing this week is “The King of Staten Island” at #2 at Amazon Prime. However, there’s a growing trend for some more specialized titles to pop up. “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” the acclaimed documentary about the late Rep.

The Supporting Actress Smackdown of 1991 is just a week away so get your votes in! Before we get there it's time for more context of that year in showbiz history. Ready? 

Great Big Box Office Hits:

The year's biggest hit by an enormous margin was James Cameron's Terminator 2 Judgment Day (which has aged spectacularly well). The other major blockbusters were Kevin Costner's hit Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and Steven Spielberg's Hook. The big sleeper hit of the year was The Silence of the Lambs. Other hits that year included City Slickers, Backdraft, Sleeping With the Enemy, The Addams Family and the remakes of Father of the Bride and Cape Fear.

Oscar's Best Picture Nominees: 

Most people remember 1991 as the year of Silence of the Lambs (7 noms / 5 wins) but many Oscar fanatics remember it just as clearly for another milestone...

Fans of 80s fantasy and practical special effects should take note of Man & Witch. The new movie is currently in the works and appears to be dripping with 80s nostalgia. First and foremost, it stars Tami Stronach, who is known best as the Childlike Empress from The NeverEnding Story. She will appear alongside several other stars from 80s classics, with the added bonus of featuring puppets crafted by The Jim Henson Creature Shop.

According to a new report, Man & Witch was written by Greg Steinbruner, Tami Stronach's husband. Rob Margolies (She Wants Me) is set to direct. The movie is described as "heartwarming homage to the lo-fi fantasy films of the '80s" and a "comic adventure that both fulfills and subverts the expectations of what a fantasy universe can be." Stronach, it's said, will star as a reclusive and powerful witch. The mysterious figure loses her heart...

Exclusive: Lucifer star Aimee Garcia has signed to executive produce and star in Match Me If You Can, a romantic comedy about the world of dating in today’s geek culture. Marian Yeager is directing the pic from a script by Betsy Morris.

Garcia, who is set to reprise her role as Ella Lopez in the sixth and final season of Netflix’s Lucifer, will play Kip Parsons, a talented computer nerd who is rejected by an online dating service as “unmatchable.” After her online blog about her humiliating status goes viral, Kip quickly becomes the reluctant spokesperson for all the frustrated singles out there. There’s just one problem: the dating service swears they didn’t reject her and she becomes the target of a kangaroo court.

Yeager and Monica Lund are producing the project via My Productions (The Conway Curve), with Garcia and Stacey Parks serving as executive producers.

The Munsters is an American sitcom that ran for two seasons and for 70 episodes from 1964 to 1965. In 2004, a short-lived two-episode revival was made but failed to resonate the way the original did. Serving as a companion piece to The Addams Family, The Munsters revolves around a family of harmless monsters trying to navigate ordinary life in America. The half-hour satire pokes fun about both monster movie conventions and the family TV drama popular at the time.

Related: 5 Things The Addams Family Does Better (& 5 Things The Munsters Does Better)

The cast of characters includes the Frankenstein-like Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne), his vampire wife Lily Yvonne De Carlo), aging father (Al Lewis), half-werewolf-half-vampire son Eddie (Butch Patrick), and niece Marilyn (Pat Priest). As the show turns 56 years old this year, here are 10 jokes from The Munsters that have aged rather poorly!

Nathan Lane took another dramatic turn in his career playing LAPD officer Lewis Michener in the Showtime fantasy series “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.” Lane is a three-time Tony winner and two-time Emmy winner.

Lane spoke in May with Gold Derby contributing writer Sam Eckmann about taking on dramatic roles, the collaborative process on “Penny Dreadful” and his memories of working with the late playwright Terrence McNally. Watch the exclusive video chat above and read the complete transcript below.

SEEPaco Cabezas Interview: ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels’ director

Gold Derby: You have become known for great comedic performances from “The Producers” to “The Birdcage” and you certainly haven’t stopped doing comedy. I’ve enjoyed you on Broadway in many comedies recently but there’s also been a more dramatic bent to your career lately. Seeing you in this show certainly and “The Iceman Cometh” and “Angels in America,” is...