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The Venture Bros. animated film coming to HBO Max

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Go Team Venture! After the untimely cancellation of the series’ eighth season last year, WarnerMedia has announced the beloved cult animated series The Venture Bros. will return in a straight-to-streaming HBO Max feature film from Adult Swim. Along with Venture Bros., Adult Swim will develop two other animated features for Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Metalocalypse.Premiering in […]

It’s Called A Lance! A Knight’s Tale at 20

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Ricky Church revisits A Knight’s Tale, released twenty years ago today…We all know that famous sports movie. The one where an underdog kid who dreams of joining the big leagues gets their chance, but has to fight against the system and upper class professionals while hiding their real identity to do so. After things go […]

David Tennant joins Terry Pratchett’s Discworld adaptation The Amazing Maurice

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David Tennant (Doctor Who) has joined the cast of the animated Terry Pratchett Discworld adaptation The Amazing Maurice from Sky Cinema. Also joining the film are Ariyon Bakare (His Dark Materials), Rob Brydon (The Trip), Julie Atherton, and Joe Sugg.Based on the late Terry Pratchett’s 2011 Discworld novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, the […]

Peacock’s supernatural series Girl in the Woods sets its cast

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Peacock’s upcoming supernatural series Girl in the Woods has chosen its main cast. Deadline reports the YA drama has cast Stefanie Scott (Insidious: Chapter 3), Misha Osherovich (Freaky) and Sofia Bryant (I Am Not Okay with This) as series regulars while Will Yun Lee (The Good Doctor), Kylie Liya Page (Social Distance), Reed Diamond (13 Reasons Why) […]

Starz historical drama The Serpent Queen casts Samantha Morton, Charles Dance and more

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Starz has set their ensemble cast for their upcoming historical drama The Serpent Queen on the 16th century French Queen Catherine de Medici. Samantha Morton (The Walking Dead) will lead as Catherine alongside Amrita Acharia (Game of Thrones), Enzo Cilenti (Free Fire), Barry Atsma (The Hitman’s Bodyguard), Nicholas Burns (Emma) and Danny Kirrane (Pirates of the […]

Dave Bautista joins Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel

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Director Rian Johnson and Netflix have just identified their first suspect in Johnson’s upcoming Knives Out sequel. Per Deadline, Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista is the first to join Daniel Craig in the anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed 2019 mystery film.Craig is reprising his role as “gentlemen sleuth” Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out sequel as the detective […]

Elizabeth Olsen to lead HBO Max limited series Love and Death

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Fresh off her Disney+ Marvel series WandaVision, Elizabeth Olsen will star in HBO Max’s limited series Love and Death as Texas killer Candy Montgomery, who murdered her friend with an axe. The series comes from David E. Kelly (The Undoing) and director Lesli Linka Glatter (Mad Men).Love and Death is based upon the book Evidence of Love: A […]

Lost’s Harold Perrineau joins Epix horror series From

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Deadline has announced that Harold Perrineau (Lost) will lead Epix’s upcoming sci-fi horror series From. Created by Josh Griffin, the series is about a small American town that traps everyone who enters it inside the town and is surrounded by terrifying night time creatures.From “unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps […]

Scarface and the Untouchable series in development at Showtime

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Al Capone and Elliot Ness will once again battle as Deadline reports that Showtime is developing Scarface and the Untouchable, a series lawman Ness’ crusade to bring down infamous gangster Capone in Prohibition-era Chicago. The series comes from producer Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Picard) and writer Ben Jacoby (Newsflash).Scarface and the Untouchable will be based […]