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Kristen Stewart to Portray Astronaut Sally Ride in TV Series ‘The Challenger’

©Seberg, courtesy of Amazon Studios Kristen Stewart will play astronaut and physicist Sally Ride in The Challenger, an upcoming TV series about the space race of the 1970s. Ride was the first woman and the first member of the LGBTQ+ community to be launched into space at a time when astronauts were typically heterosexual white…

Tokyo Vice Cancelled At Max After Two Seasons

It’s really sad to hear the news that a wonderful drama Series, Tokyo Vice, has come to a conclusion.  At a panel at the PGA’s Produced By Conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, the producers confirmed that the show will be ending its existence on Warner Bros. Discovery platform. The series, which was initially developed…

“Train to Busan” Director Yeon Sang-ho to Direct His First English-Language Film, “35th Street”

© 2019 CJ ENM Corporation All right reserved. Yeon Sang-ho, the prolific Korean director acclaimed for Train to Busan (2016), is poised to make his first English-language film for TriStar Pictures. Titled 35th Street, the movie will also be in the action/horror genre. Yeon will be directing the film and co-writing it with Ryu Yong-jae. No…

Shawn Levy Reported in Talks to Direct New ‘Avengers’ film for MCU

©Photo by Sergei Bachlakov/ABC – © 2016 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. According to press reports, Canadian director Shawn Levy is being seriously considered to direct Marvel Studios’ next Avengers film, the fifth in the series. Destin Daniel Cretton had originally been attached to the project, but he left in November of 2023…

Amazon Prime Will Make a Live Action “Ryu ga Gotoku”(Like a Dragon) Series, Starring Ryoma Takeuchi

©Courtesy of Amazon Prime Amazon Prime is reportedly set to create a six-episode live-action series adaptation of the one of the most popular SEGA game franchise “Ryu ga Gotoku(Like a Dragon)”. A press conference was held in Tokyo on June 4 to announce the global distribution of the new movie Take Masaharu and Takimoto Kengo…

‘Godzilla Minus One’ Tops the Netflix and VOD Charts

Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One is setting records on the Netflix and VOD charts, where it captured the number one spot on both this week, an unprecedented accomplishment. The film, which was released in December, has already grossed some $56 million in North America alone, picking up an Oscar for best visual effects. Though the…

Netflix Plans Second Season of ‘One Piece’ Amidst Rumors of a Third

©Courtesy of Netflix  Netflix will soon start filming the second season of its highly popular One Piece anime in South Africa, but it’s unclear how many episodes that would include, or whether the streamer plans to move ahead with a third season. The confusion arose when actor Brashaad Mayweather was quoted in an interview with…

Award-winning Film ‘Agent of Happiness’ Set for North American Theatrical Release

©Courtesy of BNB Films/Match Frame Production Agent of Happiness, a documentary about the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan that debuted at Sundance, will be released in North America later this year by Film Movement. Cinephil has licensed the rights to agents in the United Kingdom and most of Europe as well as Australia, New Zealand, and…

‘300’ Television Series Being Development by Warner Bros. Television

©Courtesy of Warner Brothers A television series adaptation of the acclaimed action film 300 is in early development by Warner Bros. Television, Variety is reporting. While there aren’t any writers currently attached to the project, and exact plot details are still being developed, the show is expected to serve as a prequel to the 2007…

Bill Skarsgård to Reprise Pennywise Role In ‘Welcome to Derry’

Bill Skarsgård will star in and executive produce the anticipated It television prequel series, which has a working title of Welcome to Derry. He’s set to reprise the title role from New Line’s hit 2017 supernatural horror film, It, and its 2019 sequel, It Chapter Two, Deadline is reporting. On the show, which is being…

Apple TV+ to Premiere Season Two of “Pachinko” on Friday, August 23

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ Apple TV+ unveiled a first-look and the premiere date for the second season of its award-winning and critically hailed, epic hit drama Pachinko. Told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — and consisting of eight, one-hour episodes, season two of Pachinko will premiere globally on Friday, August 23 with…