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‘Industry’ Season 3: Press Conference with Creators Michael Down and Konrad Kay, Actors Marisa Abela, Myha’la, Kit Harrington, Sagar Radia

©Courtesy of HBO Industry : Graduates from all walks of life compete for a limited number of available full-time employment opportunities at Pierpoint, a top investment bank in London; the graduates include Harper Stern, a Black upstate New York native who uproots her life in pursuit of success, despite having lied about the university she…

One Piece Season 2 Casts Katey Sagal and Mark Harelik

Katey Sagal and Mark Harelik,©Courtesy of Netflix Katey Sagal and Mark Harelik have been cast in the upcoming second season of Netflix’s fantasy adventure series, One Piece. The performers will play crucial roles in the sophomore season of the live-action adaptation; the actress will portray Dr. Kureha, while the actor will star as Dr. Hiriluk,…

Lionsgate Pulls ‘Megalopolis’ Trailer Offline Due to Made-Up Critic Quotes

©Courtesy of Lionsgate Finally, the audiences are getting more than just a glimpse of auteur Francis Ford Coppola’s much-anticipated Megalopolis, which features Adam Driver. The film, which also wrote the screenplay, premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The synopsis reads: The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver),…

‘Strange Darling’: Filmmakers JT Mollner,  Giovanni Ribisi, Z Berg on the Violent Action-Thriller (Video Interview)

JT Mollner’s new action-thriller Strange Darling is another example of the insanely original genre films that have been coming out all year, following the likes of Longlegs, Cuckoo, Immaculate, and more. It’s a very different take on the serial killer genre, as it follows Kyle Gallner (Smile) and Willa Fitzgerald (Scream: The TV Show) in…

Lucasfilm Scraps Second Season of Leslye Headland’s ‘The Acolyte’

Photo by Lucasfilm Ltd./Lucasfilm Ltd. – © 2024 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Lucasfilm will not be producing a second season of The Acolyte, the Star Wars Disney+ series. The first season of The Acolyte had premiered in June to less-than-enthusiastic reviews from fans, some of whom took issue with the way the film…

Y2K | Official Trailer HD | A24 : Starring Rachel Ziegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison

Photo by A24 – © Nicole Rivelli A24 has unveiled the trailer for Y2K, a disaster comedy film that is set to premiere on December 6, 2024. Kyle Mooney, a Saturday Night Live alumnus, wrote and directed it. The studio behind Hereditary, Lady Bird, Moonlight, The Whale and Past Lives is planning to release another film…

‘The Instigators’ is a Gritty Action-Comedy Worth Because of Damon and Affleck

@Courtesy of Apple Original Films Doug Liman must be a filmmaker with an iron will. Even though over the years he has clashed in one way or another with half of Hollywood Studios, reaping in some cases thunderous failures with audiences and critics, he continues undaunted to put forward his ironic, almost irreverent idea of…

Amazon MGM Studios Plans New TV Series Based on Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ Film

Amazon MGM Studios is moving forward with a new television series based on Poltergeist, the iconic 1982 horror film by Steven Spielberg. Amazon MGM had announced its commitment to the project in October of 2023. This week, the studio confirmed that Kalinda Vazquez and Robbie Thompson would be serving as showrunners, writers, and executive producers…

IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack | Official Trailer | Vijay Varma, Pankaj Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah

As a routine flight ascended into the winter sky, a chilling announcement signaled the beginning of a hijack that would change Indian aviation history forever. Inside, passengers faced mounting terror as the aircraft made emergency landings in four countries overnight. Meanwhile, negotiators outside raced against the clock to ensure the safety of 189 onboard. Launching on…

The Deliverance : Q&A with Director Lee Daniels Moderated by Bradley Cooper 

©Courtesy of Netflix  The Deliverance : Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a…

‘My Spy the Eternal City’: Press Conference with Actors Dave Bautista, Chloe Coleman and Ken Jeong

@Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios My Spy the Eternal City : Back by popular demand, My Spy’s dynamic duo, veteran CIA operative JJ (Dave Bautista) and his 14-year-old stepdaughter and protégé Sophie (Chloe Coleman), reunite to save the world when a high school choir tour of Italy is interrupted by a nefarious nuclear plot targeting…