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Split Fiction is the hot topic at the moment, with rave reviews from critics and players alike, huge player numbers on Steam, and an always outspoken Josef Fares not standing for any anti-dei nonsense. Now, we can add a huge sales record to that list, and we doubt it’ll be stopping any time soon either.

Split Fiction Passes One Million Units Sold Already

Many developers will tell you just how difficult it is to make a good game, and then on top of that, to make a good game that sells well. After three hits with Brothers, A Way Out and It Takes Two, Hazelight Studios have gotten the formula down for must-play two-player co-op games, and the faith in that is getting repaid multiple times over by overzealous fans buying the latest release.

Speaking on BlueSky, the studio announced the first sales milestone of the game, with it...

Prime Video has unleashed the trailer for the upcoming Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage-led comedy ‘Brothers.’

The movie tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother (Peter Dinklage) on a cross-country road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.

‘Palm Springs’ director, Max Barbakow helms, the movie stars Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Marisa Tomei, Taylour Paige, M. Emmet Walsh, Jennifer Landon, with Brendan Fraser and Glenn Close.

Also in trailers – Cillian Murphy stars in trailer for ‘Small Things Like These’

The movie hits Prime Video on October 17th.

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Although Better Call Saul brought the story of the Breaking Bad universe to a close, there's still dramatic mileage in a spinoff focused on the early life of Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) that could answer some important questions. Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan has stated that he's moving on to other projects, but would "never say never" to a return to the rich fictional world he and Saul co-creator Peter Gould created (per Variety). Given that both shows are held up as masterpieces of the crime genre, a second Breaking Bad spinoff series would need careful handling.

The stories of Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), Walter White (Bryan Cranston), and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) may have ended, but there's still one enigma that neither Breaking Bad nor Better Call Saul ever resolved. The pre-Breaking Bad life of Gustavo Fring is an unsolved mystery that would provide enough fresh...

The final episodes of Better Call Saul contained shocking conclusions for many of the show's longest-running characters while also introducing new faces, with David the sommelier (Reed Diamond) being one of the most compelling. While David only appears in one scene of the show, he adds a significant level of detail to one of the most mysterious characters from both Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, aloof crime boss Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). Through a short conversation between the two, viewers were given a rare glimpse inside Fring's mind.

Deception is one of the biggest themes in Better Call Saul, so while it was unsurprising to see Fring have yet another secret, the rapport that he shared with David demanded a deep level of analysis. David is one of many memorable side characters from Better Call Saul who exude the energy of a main character, but the fact that he...

AMC’s Better Call Saul has concluded its sixth and final season, wrapping up the prequel series to Breaking Bad while failing to solve one huge Gus Fring mystery. The show explored the backstories of a number of Breaking Bad characters including Saul Goodman, Mike Ehrmantraut, Hector Salamanca, Tuco Salamanca, and many more key figures in the previous story of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman. However, while Better Call Saul expanded on Breaking Bad's Albuquerque-centered mythology, there’s still a major mystery that the creators left unsolved: what happened to Gus Fring in Santiago?

Better Call Saul provides a much deeper look into Gus’ origins, including the story behind the construction of his underground meth lab. However, what happened in Santiago, an event referenced in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul ,has been left to the audience's imagination. We first hear about Santiago in Breaking Bad season 4, episode 8, “Hermanos,...

Portuguse public broadcaster Rtp has taken an undisclosed co-production stake in animated series “My Brother Is a T-Rez,” a Spanish-Portuguese project created and directed by Spaniard Javi Peces (“Bento”).

Executive produced by Celine Fernandes at Portuguese animation house Lusco Fusco Animation in co-production with Madrid-based Mr. Klaus Studio, “My Brother” is an upper pre-school series project aimed to promote adventure, educational and sustainability values.

The project was previously pre-bought by Spain’s public broadcaster Rtve for its children-oriented channel Clan TV.

“The Rtp deal completes a seal of recognition and support from both TV channels in our respective countries, so the circle is closed in the Iberian peninsula,” Fernandes told Variety.

“Our goal is to produce an animation series that is successful on the TV screen with a strong marketing reach,” Peces added.

One of the eight animated TV series projects produced or co-produced from Spain presented at 2022 Cartoon Forum’s pitching sessions,...

If you need a menacing and malevolent villain for further seasons of your acclaimed TV show, then look no further than Giancarlo Esposito, who appears to be the name at the top of everyone’s list. The 62 year-old took a much bigger role in the second run of The Mandalorian as the nefarious Moff Gideon, just weeks after shady businessman Stan Edgar played a more substantial part in the sophomore outing of Amazon’s subversive superhero hit The Boys.

The third season of Better Call Saul, meanwhile, also saw him make a welcome return as Gus Fring, the iconic small screen bad guy he first tackled in season 2 of Breaking Bad almost a decade previously. Esposito clearly has no issues running the risk of being typecast, then, and the head honcho of Los Pollos Hermanos remains the defining role of a lengthy career that began over 40 years ago. In fact,...

Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile have released a new duet, “A Beautiful Noise,” meant to encourage voter turnout in the 2020 elections.

The track is a straightforward but effective bit of piano balladry, with Keys and Carlile trading verses before coming together in perfect harmony, “It’s believing you belong/It’s calling out the wrong/From the silence of my sisters/To the violence of my brother/We can, we can rage/Against the river/Feel the pain of another/I have a voice.”

Keys and Carlile debuted “A Beautiful...

Hulu has dropped an action-packed trailer to “No Man’s Land,” an epic war series, love story and, above all, tale of personal odyssey.

Setting it apart, the eight-part series takes place against the background of the Syrian Kurd Ypj women’s militia push back against Isis, a struggle featuring formidable female fighters.

A Hulu Original, set to bow in the U.S. on Nov. 18, “No Man’s Land” is created by “Fauda” and “First Flag” producer Maria Feldman as well as Eitan Mansuri, behind Omri Givon’s 2018 Canneseries best series winner “When Eagles Fly.”

In a pedigree creative package, the series is written by “False Flag’s” Amit Cohen and “Euphoria’s” Ron Leshem.

That is reflected in a multi-level series which is at once intimate drama and geo-political eye-opener, and spangled by set piece action scenes between the Ypj and Isis, which make up much of the trailer.

In a first,...

The Social Justice Now Film Festival, which is launching this year with the support of co-ambassadors Michael B. Jordan and Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, has on Monday unveiled its inaugural lineup of film selections.

Headlining the festival will be the documentaries “40 Years a Prisoner” and “Freedia Got a Gun” and narrative features “Us Kids,” “Reefa” and “Sncc,” among others.

The films will all be available for free to stream virtually through a new platform at abffplay.com powered by Endeavor Streaming between October 21-25. And the festival will kick off with two films screened at the Paramount Drive-In Theater, “Just Mercy” and “Fruitvale Station,” both starring Jordan and sponsored by Amazon Studios.

The Social Justice Now Film Festival is organized by the Film Life Foundation, and some of the other films screened include the narrative features “The Obituary of Tunde Johnson,” “Even In Darkness, Cities of Dreams Are Born,...

One of the buzz films at Visions Du Reel, Mexican filmmaker Laura Plancarte’s Montana-set “Non Western” explores the romantic journey of Thaddeus, a Cheyenne native, and Nanci, a Caucasian, and the challenges their interracial union faces. Through them, Plancarte explores the chains of oppression that persist from one generation to another.

Thaddeus and Nanci were all set to travel to Visions du Reel in Switzerland when the coronavirus pandemic scuttled those plans, said Plancarte, who has lived in London for the past 11 years since winning a grant from BNP Paribas in recognition of her career as an artist.

She met the couple while making her previous film, the acclaimed “Hermanos,” when filming a main character’s return to Montana. “I fell in love not only with the landscapes, but with the people,” she said, noting the similarities in her Mexican culture and that of Native Americans. “Ours are both colonized cultures,...

The Coen brothers' Raising Arizona is one of those films that you can watch over and over without ever getting tired of it. Though the film was a box office disappointment when released in 1987 and received a mixed response from critics, it has since gone on to become a cult classic.

Related: 10 Best Coen Brothers Movies, According To IMDb

The movie stars Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as a married couple desperate for kids of their own who kidnap a baby from a set of quintuplets born in their town. The zany, slapstick comedy has a wild energy and unique sense of humor that makes it so fun to revisit. We share behind-the-scenes facts about this quirky gem.

The final 12-episode season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is almost upon us and now Disney+ has picked out 20 of the most important episodes to watch before the show returns in less than two weeks.

It’s a known fact that Star Wars fans are usually divided about almost everything that comes out of a galaxy far, far away. But surprisingly, this has never been the case with The Clone Wars. The critically acclaimed series came to an abrupt end in 2014 with a shortened 13-episode season, but fans have been asking the Mouse House to revive it ever since. As such, everyone collectively freaked out when they learned that Dave Filoni would be back with his hit show to conclude the story, this time in a satisfying way.

In fact, this final run promises to explore the events that lead to Revenge of the Sith and fill in the gaps.

With Gretel & Hansel now cooking up scares on the big screen, Heather Wixson is joined by a very special guest from the new horror film on this episode of Corpse Club!

To celebrate the release of Gretel & Hansel, Heather Wixson is joined by director Osgood Perkins on this special episode of Corpse Club! Listen as Perkins discusses his new take on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, including the film's haunting visuals, the subversive script by Rob Hayes, the story's reflections of how society mistreats women, and the powerful performances by Alice Krige and Sophia Lillis. Perkins also reflects on directing his previous horror films The Blackcoat's Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. So, whether you grew up reading Grimm fairy tales or you're following the trail of bread crumbs for the first time, sit back, relax, and enjoy this special episode of Daily Dead's official podcast!

Paramount’s spy thriller “The Rhythm Section,” starring Blake Lively, opened quietly with $235,000 at 2,256 North American locations on Thursday night.

Horror fantasy “Gretel & Hansel” also launched on Thursday, but Orion Pictures did not report preview numbers.

The new entries are expected to generate only modest returns of less than $10 million during the typically quiet Super Bowl weekend while Sony’s action comedy “Bad Boys for Life” tops box office charts for the third weekend in a row. The third iteration of the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence franchise should take in between $15 million and $20 million, followed by Universal’s sixth frame of World War I drama “1917” in the $10 million to $12 million range.

Lively teams with Jude Law in “Rhythm Section,” an R-rated action drama about a woman investigating a plane crash that killed her family. It’s been forecast to open in the $4 million to $8 million range at 3,049 theaters. Critics...

A brooding, beautiful, mystical bedtime story, Gretel and Hansel has been delegated to a release in the dead days of January, but deserves better. Oz Perkins‘s mystical, occult-heavy take on the classic folktale from the Brothers Grimm has so much style, and so many bold ideas, that it seems destined to become a cult classic someday – the […]

The post ‘Gretel and Hansel’ Review: A Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy appeared first on /Film.

The Property Brothers are moving into the kids’ TV space with a pre-school animated series.

Drew and Jonathan Scott, stars of the long-running Hgtv series and numerous spin-offs, are developing Builder Brothers’ Dream Factory via Scott Brothers Entertainment and Sinking Ship Entertainment.

Builder Brothers’ Dream Factory centers around 10-year-old twins, Drew and Jonathan. A pair of regular kids whose extraordinary imagination, creativity, grit and heart help solve problems in their neighborhood by dreaming big and sometimes too big. Along with their dog Moose and best friends Mel, Cee-Cee and Aiden, the Builder Brothers navigate the highs and lows of trying to make the world a better place – one big dream at a time.

The character-driven comedy series also doesn’t shy away from real kids’ issues and what they go through in navigating life’s ups and downs. It encourages kids to share their ideas, dream big, and not to be disheartened.

While most horror films these days pile on the jump-scares or attempt to provide more cerebral terrors, few borrow elements from fairytales, where much horror has been found for hundreds of years. As cautionary fables, fairytales from all over the world, particularly in Europe, have been dark stories designed to instruct children not to stray from paths, not to venture out alone at night, and not to talk to strangers.

Horror films that draw on fairy tale themes can effectively use imaginative methods to terrify audiences, especially in the area of creature designs and strong environmental visuals. With the release of Gretel and Hansel, a retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairytale, lets look at 5 fairy tale horror films fans love & 5 they don't.

The trivia battle of the century has found two worthy teams on Riverdale Season 4 Episode 11.

In one corner, there was the devious and elitist clique from Stonewall Prep. Of course, with Brett taking the helm as their leader. While coming up for the heroes in the second spot, Betty and her Riverdale High ladies were ready to slay the competition.

After weeks of Betty dealing with Brett's smug attitude, their face-off was long overdue!

Betty was so close to having her Stewie Griffin moment and shouting "Victory is mine!" with no consequences. She earned it! We want the best for her, and she had it before it was taken away.

Just when you think life is turning around for her, something emerges from the dark to drag it back down.

Alice's heart was in the right place by wanting to see Betty succeed, but has she learned anything these last four years?...

Ticket sales could grind to a halt over Super Bowl weekend, a notoriously quiet time of year at the box office.

Two new movies are opening — Paramount’s spy thriller “The Rhythm Section” and Orion Pictures’ fantasy adventure “Gretel & Hansel” — though each is expected to make less than $10 million. Since the Super Bowl is the most-watched TV event of the year, studios shied away from releasing any blockbuster-hopefuls, assuming America’s attention will shift to the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs.

“The overwhelming attention paid to the Super Bowl over the entire weekend has traditionally made this a weekend that belongs more to football and less to the movies,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with Comscore.

Instead, Sony’s action comedy “Bad Boys for Life” should rule box office charts for the third weekend in a row. The latest entry in the Will Smith and...

Album of the year

?When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,? Billie Eilish

Record of the year

?Bad Guy,? Billie Eilish

Song of the year

?Bad Guy,? Billie Eilish

Best new artist

Billie Eilish

Best rap album

?Igor,? Tyler, the Creator

Best rap performance

?Racks in the Middle,? Nipsey Hussle featuring Roddy Ricch and Hit-Boy

Best rap song

?A Lot,? 21 Savage featuring J. Cole

Best rap/sung performance

?Higher,? DJ Khaled featuring Nipsey Hussle and John Legend

Best RandB album

?Ventura,? Anderson .Paak

Best RandB song

?Say So,? Pj Morton featuring JoJo

Best RandB performance

?Come Home,? Anderson .Paak featuring Andr??3000

Best urban contemporary album

?Cuz I Love You,? Lizzo

Best pop vocal album

?When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?,? Billie Eilish

Best pop solo performance

?Truth Hurts,? Lizzo

Best pop duo/group performance

?Old Town Road,? Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus...

HBO Asia, the Asian arm of the American premium TV channel second venture into the world of wuxia, focuses on another iconic Chinese folk hero,Wong Kei-ying.

Wong Kei-ying is a quiet and honest physician, who spends his life upholding medical ethics and saving lives, while avoiding conflicts and politics. However, China in the mid-19th century is swarming with opium, with a number of opposing powers trying to control its distribution, while the consequences lay heavy on the populace, from kids to the elderly. The new governor of Canton, General Wei tricks Wong into helping him take control of the opium control from the Ma gang, who are the chief distributors, and subsequently, tasks him (supposedly) to find a cure for the addiction. The first task ends up with the beaten leaders of the Ma gang becoming Wong’s friends, and the second with him becoming...

Exclusive: BBC One’s gripping missing persons drama Baptiste is to return for a second, and potentially final season, with Killing Eve star Fiona Shaw joining the cast.

The six-part series, made by Fleabag producer Two Brothers Pictures, follows retired detective Julien Baptiste (Tchéky Karyo) as he delves into Budapest’s corrupt underworld in an attempt to find a British Ambassador’s family, who go missing on a skiing holiday in the Hungarian mountains.

Ambassador Emma Chambers is played by Shaw, a character who is thrust into the crosshairs of Baptiste’s most complex case to date, as the detective navigates an untrustworthy Hungarian police force and international media interest as he hunts for her husband and two sons.

Harry and Jack Williams, writers and managing directors of Two Brothers Pictures, said the second season will pay homage to The Missing, the BBC drama from which the character of Baptiste originated,...

Madrid — Spanish film-tv director Salvador Calvo, who made his mark with his debut feature, 2016’s “1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines,” plus a string of admired TV series, is joining Madrid-based Boomerang TV, a bastion of Spanish scripted fiction over the last two decades.

Calvo – whose latest movie, Telvcinco Cinema’s immigration drama “Adu,” bows shortly via Paramount in Spain – already has a strong relations with Boomerang TV where he saw one of his earliest hits, directing suspense thriller “Motivos personales” way back in 2005.

At Boomerang TV, Calvo will develop new scripted series. He will also, however, in a significant move, develop feature films. His appointment and Boomerang TV’s foreseeable plunge into movie production, looks set to mark further growth at the Spanish production house which has made some of the most successful long-running soaps (“The Secret of Puente Viejo”) and big series (“The Time in Between”) this decade,...

We have to admit, the post-Marvel Studios career for the Russo Brothers, and their production company, Agbo, hasn’t been the most electric, thus far. Their first Agbo-produced series, “Deadly Class,” was unceremoniously canceled by Syfy after only one season. And the first feature film to be produced by the brothers, coming off their record-breaking “Avengers: Endgame,” was the mediocre “21 Bridges,” which quickly disappeared after an uneventful box office showing.

Continue reading Priyanka Chopra Jonas & Richard Madden To Headline New Russo Brothers Series ‘Citadel’ At Amazon at The Playlist.

The first trailer for Deandra Spinner's Death Trap (2020) shows six friends on the way to a Halloween party when they get into a car accident; however, cars won't be the only thing that collides on that fateful night. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a trailer for The Barber Brothers' short film Go Back, Nightmares Are Dreams Too Kickstarter details, Full Moon Features' theater distribution deal with Agfa, and Panther Squad Blu-ray and DVD release details.

Death Trap (2020) Trailer and Poster Released: "Emerald Wolf Studios has released the first trailer and poster from director Deandra Spinner's Death Trap. Spinner's directorial debut takes place on Halloween 1999 when six friends crash their car and cross paths with sadistic Baptist zealots.

Spinner, alongside producers Christopher Smith and Darien Moultrie, enlisted the talents of actors Bruce Klefstad, Emma Butler, Laith Wallschleger, Mercedes Gutierrez, Nicholas Denmon, Dafni Sufra and Troy Brookins.

Death Trap follows the...

The Allman Brothers Band has announced the release of Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection, a box set of rarities, unreleased tracks, live performances and classic songs. The box set, out February 28th via Island Mercury/UMe, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the rock band, and is available as a 10-lp or 5-cd box set or on digital.

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The box set was produced by Allman Brothers Band historians and aficionados Bill Levenson, John Lynskey, and Kirk West, and collects 61 Allman Brothers Band classics, live performances and rarities, and includes seven previously unreleased tracks,...

Cut off from civilization, two lighthouse keepers fight the elements and themselves in The Lighthouse, a period drama directed by Robert Eggers and written by Eggers and his brother Max. Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, the film premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke shot Eggers’s previous feature, The Witch (2015), as well as the Eggers shorts The Tell-Tale Heart (2008) and Brothers (2015). The Lighthouse was filmed in Nova Scotia in black-and-white and a 1:1.19 aspect ratio. It screened in the Debut Cinematographers series at Camerimage, the International Film Festival […]...

Cut off from civilization, two lighthouse keepers fight the elements and themselves in The Lighthouse, a period drama directed by Robert Eggers and written by Eggers and his brother Max. Starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, the film premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke shot Eggers’s previous feature, The Witch (2015), as well as the Eggers shorts The Tell-Tale Heart (2008) and Brothers (2015). The Lighthouse was filmed in Nova Scotia in black-and-white and a 1:1.19 aspect ratio. It screened in the Debut Cinematographers series at Camerimage, the International Film Festival […]...

British TV and film executives woke up to news of another American awards show dominated by their compatriots, who can lay claim to winning 40% of the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

Ten of the evening’s 25 prizes at the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards went to television shows and movies spearheaded by British talent, with projects including 1917 and Fleabag winning big. It comes after Brits were involved in 13 of the 27 Emmy Awards in September.

Here is how people are reacting over in the UK:

BBC director of content Charlotte Moore hailed the success of Fleabag, which was originally commissioned by online channel BBC Three. The show won Best TV Series – Comedy, while Phoebe Waller-Bridge took home Best Actress TV Series – Comedy. “An incredible night for the hugely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge and BBC comedy’s hit series Fleabag on the global stage at the Golden Globes, alongside Renee Zellweger’s star turn in BBC Films’ Judy,...

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Aew's much-maligned group has taken on some serious Nwo undertones the last two weeks ...

The Dark Order has been a maligned group in Aew. From their debut over the summer to the ill-timed push the group has been receiving since Aew Dynamite debuted on TNT this past fall, every step for the Dark Order has been met with heavy criticism.

Not enough was done to build the characters. Formerly the Super Smash Brothers, no explanation was given to longtime wrestling fans on why the team had new personas. At the same time, to new Aew fans who maybe didn't see the Super Smash Brothers in Roh or the indie scene, little was done to introduce them or tell the audience their backstory.

They were this group of evil, who had followers in masks, and they existed merely to exist. One of Aew's biggest missteps since the launch...

The tale of “Hansel and Gretel” is one that isn’t exactly new to Hollywood. From its more classical and traditional adaptations of the original Brothers Grimm story like the 2002 film of the same name to the more unique retellings like 2013’s “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” starring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton, their story has seen many shapes and forms.

Continue reading ‘Gretel & Hansel’ Trailer: The Fairy Tale Gets A “Grim” Retelling In Upcoming Horror Film at The Playlist.

With all the talk about “Uncut Gems” and possible Oscars recognition, many film fans might have forgotten that the Safdie Brothers were actually attached to another film before that. In fact, the film that the Safdies were signed on to develop is none other than a remake of the popular ‘80s buddy cop comedy, “48 Hrs.”

But according to a new interview with MovieWeb, the Safdies explained why they’re not working on that film anymore and how that experience taught them to stick with originals…for now.

Continue reading The Safdie Brothers Explain Why They’re No Longer Attached To ’48 Hrs’ Remake at The Playlist.

Padma Lakshmi had the cleverest response after The New Yorker’s Instagram account confused the Indian author and “Top Chef” host with Indian actress Priyanka Chopra by accidentally tagging Chopra in a photo of Lakshmi.

“Thank you to the illustrious ‘@nydailynews’ for the shoutout,” Lakshmi wrote in a caption to go with a screen shot of the mistake, deliberately tagging the wrong publication. “I know to some we all look alike, but… #desilife #justindianthings.”

The New Yorker has since deleted the Instagram post. Reps for Chopra and the magazine did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

Also Read: Padma Lakshmi to Explore Culinary Traditions of Immigrant Communities in New Hulu Series

Chopra is known for starring on ABC’s “Quantico” as Alex Parrish for three seasons, as well as for films like “Kaminey” and “Baywatch.” She will next be seen in “The Sky Is Pink.” The actress is...

Despite their popularity, particularly among the mainstream audience, action movies are probably most difficult in terms of production, particularly regarding the budget demanded for such efforts. Stuntmen, SFX, action coordinators and a big budget for editing are some of the few standards a good action movie should include, and evidently, these cost money. However, since, most of the time these movies manage to get their money back and even have a profit, we still saw a plethora of them, and Asian cinema could not remains “outside the dance”, with a number of entries of the genre coming out every year, particularly from China and Hong Kong. Of course, the golden era of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest is long since gone, but this does not mean that one cannot find quality movies in the category.

This year, in our continuous effort to present lists that focus on both prowess and diversity,...

Disney continued its truly mind-melting, record-breaking year at the box office last weekend with the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which earned $177.3 million. While that was lower than both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, it's still easily one of the biggest December openings ever. As such, as we head into the Christmas holiday, the competition will be vying for, at best, the number two spot. Fox's Spies In Disguise, Sony's Little Women and A24's Uncut Gems all arrive in theaters ahead of the weekend.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is poised to easily win its second weekend at the box office. With the family crowd heading to theaters for the holidays, and considering that the movie has fared better with audiences than critics up to this point, expect to see a drop of around 50 percent from weekend-to-weekend, somewhere in the $85 to $90 million range.

Here is TheWrap’s list of the 12 biggest and best viral videos from late-night TV in 2019. The Jonas Brothers ate some nasty things with James Corden, the “Game of Thrones” cast tried not to reveal spoilers, and there were plenty of Mean Tweets. Watch the videos below.

“Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts w/ The Jonas Brothers”

James Corden gives Kevin Jonas a choice: Pick a favorite between Dnce and Nick Jonas… or eat beetle-marmalade on toast.

“Seth Meyers and Rihanna Go Day-Drinking”

Spoiler alert: Seth is a lightweight, and to no one’s surprise, Rihanna can hold her liquor way better than him.

“Conan Interviews His Assistant Sona Movsesian”

When Kumail Nanjiani fails to show up, Conan gets crafty by sitting down with his right-hand woman of 10 years instead.

“Stephen Guesses ‘GoT’ Endings With Kit Harington”

Colbert tries to wheedle answers out of Jon Snow, who is sworn to secrecy.

YouTube’s Dobre Brothers -- a fraternal faction of four vlogging megastars named Cyrus, Darius, Lucas, and Marcus, who count a combined 30 million subscribers and 10 million Instagram followers -- are delving into the mobile gaming business.

They’re partnering on the venture, dubbed Dobre Dunk, with Bbtv Interactive -- the division of BroadbandTV that creates mobile games in coordination with top YouTube stars. Available on both iOS and Android, the game will enable players to dunk their favorite brother into a basketball hoop -- by flipping and flopping their characters en route -- as many times as possible. The game, which is free to play but features in-app purchases, was inspired by the guys’ content, which most frequently comprises stunts, sibling-fueled pranks, and original music.

Bbtv Interactive, launched in Jan. 2018, has worked with other top creators to build original games and mobile apps across multiple platforms, including Bhad Bhabie's Ride Or Die!

Stranger Things would not have been the hit it is today had the Duffer Brothers listened to outside pressure. The series is arguably Netflix's crown jewel and it has been since the start. The show premiered in 2016 and quickly became one of the streaming platform's most viewed pieces of original content. Season 3 has been its biggest to date and a fourth season was just officially announced. However, the Duffer Brothers originally struggled to find a home for the nostalgic series since they didn't really have a big resum&#233 in the entertainment industry.

The Duffer Brothers were having trouble pitching Stranger Things and ended up pitching it to networks, which would have more than likely doomed the show for that reason alone. However, since the directing/writing duo were relatively unknown, they were given advice about how the show should "really go." According to a 2016 interview with the Duffers, the...

The Jonas Brothers were in full force as they attended the premiere of Nick's upcoming movie, Jumanji: The Next Level, in La on Monday. Looking incredibly dapper in similar suits, the brothers were all smiles as they walked the blue carpet together. At one point, Joe teased his little brother by playfully smushing his face for the cameras.

Turns out, Kevin and Joe were stepping in for Nick's wife, Priyanka Chopra, who unfortunately couldn't attend due to filming. "She's in India right now, shooting a movie there," Nick told Entertainment Tonight during the premiere. "Although she's jealous because she loves Jumanji. She loved the last one. And she really wanted to be here, but she's got work." Even though we didn't get any cute moments between Nick and Priyanka during the premiere, the rare Jonas Brothers appearance totally makes up for it. See more pictures from the premiere ahead.

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Given how hungry fans were for any and all info on the movie, security on Avengers: Endgame was so tight that the cast was apparently only allowed to read the parts of the script that involved their characters and weren’t allowed to know the full storyline. At least, that goes for most of them.

Furthermore, we also know that in order to keep spoilers at bay, fake scripts were given to most of the actors which hid the real plot developments behind fictitious ones that were never going to be filmed. But of course, a lot of moments in the movie saw the actors go off script and improvise a bit, and Karen Gillan, who plays Nebula, has now revealed one such scene.

While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the actress touched on the part at the beginning of the film, where her character is traveling through space with Iron Man.

Need to catch up? Read our previous Riverdale recap here.

Riverdale‘s fall finale tied up a few storylines while introducing some new ones — and also added a big twist to the “Jughead is dead” flash-forwards.

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Jughead submits his Baxter Brothers story to his class at Stonewall Prep, and Mr. DuPont calls it “outstanding,” naming him the winner of the contest to write the next book.

On a slow bridge weekend between Thanksgiving and the Christmas season, the indie box office was highlighted by the two-screen debut of Neon’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” the period Lgbt drama from director Celine Sciamma that won Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Opening at the Arclight Hollywood and New York’s Angelika Theater, the film grossed $67,105 for a per screen average of $33,552. The film, which follows the secret relationship between a young painter and her subject at the end of the 18th century, stands along fellow Neon release “Parasite” as the two 2019 films with the highest Metacritic scores. “Lady on Fire” has a 95 on the review website, while “Parasite” holds a 96. The film has been selected to join the Criterion Collection next year and will expand to more cities next weekend.

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Adam Sandler plays a New York-based jeweler and compulsive gambler who gets in over his head in the Safdie brothers' crime thriller Uncut Gems.

He joined the Actor Roundtable to discuss his research process for the role of Howard Ratner, saying, "I spent a lot of time on 47th Street. I gamble in the movie a lot, so I spent a lot of time with a lot of gamblers who had bad problems and lost a lot of things and lost their lives because of it."

"The Safdie brothers, the guys who did the movie, they did the research ...

Adam Sandler plays a New York-based jeweler and compulsive gambler who gets in over his head in the Safdie brothers' crime thriller Uncut Gems.

He joined the Actor Roundtable to discuss his research process for the role of Howard Ratner, saying, "I spent a lot of time on 47th Street. I gamble in the movie a lot, so I spent a lot of time with a lot of gamblers who had bad problems and lost a lot of things and lost their lives because of it."

"The Safdie brothers, the guys who did the movie, they did the research ...

Matthew Schuchman Dec 6, 2019

We speak with director Tom Harper about The Aeronauts and a time when hot air balloons in the sky were an escape into the unknown.

Pop quiz: what is the first thing that enters your mind when you think about mankind's first venture into the skies? The smart money is on you thinking about the Wright Brothers. Maybe there is a long shot on a few of you sickos went straight to the Hindenburg. Before all of them though, we first started exploring the skies in balloons.

In his new film The Aeronauts, writer-director Tom Harper brings to light the early perils and wonder of what it was like to float up into the unknown, when one could only imagine seeing anything above the clouds. Along with his co-writer, Jack Thorne, and stars Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne, Harper set out to bring along his audience into...

The last wide entries of 2019 hit tracking today with projections for the 5-day Christmas holiday as follows: 20th Century Fox/Blue Sky’s animated feature Spies in Disguise ($23M-$30M), Sony’s Greta Gerwig directed Little Women ($19M-$35M), and A24’s Adam Sandler crime thriller Uncut Gems ($15M).

Distribution sources always say that people don’t begin to go to the movies until after Christmas, however, Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the exception to that rule. Skywalker is still looking at a $200M+ debut, though some firms are playing it safe and calling it lower at $175M when it opens on Dec. 20.

Still, every day is like a Friday at the B.O. between the Christmas and New Year’s weekend stretch. Fandango reported earlier this week that 93% of 18+ moviegoers will see...

Safdie brothers named best directors for Uncut Gems.

The Irishman and actors Antonio Banderas and Lupita Nyong’o won top honours from New York Film Critics Circle (Nyfcc) on Wednesday morning (4) as the group illustrated its penchant for blending conservatism and eccentricity, while Netflix continued to stamp its mark on early awards season.

For best film winner The Irishman, a second affirmation in two days after Tuesday’s National Board of Review vote brings more good news for Netflix in its breathless, no-expense-spared quest for a first best picture Oscar victory.

However while an Nyfcc win augurs well and will be...

Adam Sandler is going to make a bad movie on purpose if he doesn't get an Academy Award nomination for Uncut Gems. The actor/comedian jokingly made the threat in a new interview promoting his latest drama. Sandler plays Howard Ratner, who is a gambling addict trying to dig himself out of a massive hole. The performance has been receiving rave reviews from critics and those who have been lucky enough to see the movie early. Sandler also seems to be pretty happy with the job he turned in this time around.

Adam Sandler appeared on the Howard Stern Show to promote Uncut Gems. When Stern started talking about the positive reviews, Sandler joked, "That's shocking, right?" Stern went on to say that many people on his staff really enjoyed the movie and Sandler's performance in particular, which led to Academy Awards talk. Sandler says it would be a "funny...

“Fleabag” will hit Japanese screens after Wowow scooped the local rights to Phoebe Waller Bridge’s award-winning series.

Japanese pay-tv outfit Wowow has picked up both six-episode seasons of “Fleabag,” which was written by Waller-Bridge and stars her in the title role as a woman trying to make sense of the relationships and life. The Emmy-winning show is on BBC Three in the U.K. and Amazon in most other international markets.

It is produced by Amazon and Two Brothers Pictures, which is backed by All3Media. It is distributed by All3Media International, which struck the Wowow deal ahead of the Atf market in Singapore.

Wowow has also snagged rights to the first season of Two Brothers-produced U.K. thriller series “Liar,” starring Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd.

In another pre-atf Japan deal, All3Media International has sold BBC detective drama “Baptiste” to Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. The Japanese outfit has been stocking up on U.