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Sorry Tarantino, Netflix’s Hollywood Is How You Do Revisionist History

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EJ Moreno on Netflix’s Hollywood and how to correctly rewrite cinematic history… BEWARE: Spoilers for Hollywood follow. For our spoiler free thoughts, watch the video review here… If you had the chance to go back in time and change the world to your vision, would you? That’s the question Ryan Murphy and company asked themselves […]

The CW picks up DC Universe’s Swamp Thing as 2020/21 TV schedule pushed back to January

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With the global health crisis wreaking havoc with television schedules for the upcoming season, The CW has acquired the rebroadcast rights to a number of series in order to fill out its slate until the launch of the delayed 2020 – 2021 season in January 2021. Along with CBS All Access’ anthology thriller Tell Me […]

The CW promises to bring the final episodes of Supernatural this fall

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The fifteenth and final season of Supernatural went on a forced hiatus in March, due to the public health crisis shutdowns preventing the last episodes from being finished. At the time of the closures, showrunner Andrew Dabb stated, “We have filmed through episode 18 (of 20); however, our visual effects and sound departments have closed […]

Paul Verhoeven returning to the small screen with Bel Ami TV series

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Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven looks set to take a break from the big screen as he makes his return to television with a French-language TV adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s Bel Ami. Deadline reports that Verhoeven will serve as showrunner and director on all eight episodes of the contemporary adaptation, which is being scripted by […]

Percy Jackson series being developed for Disney+

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Disney+ looks to tackle the iconic series of novels titled Percy Jackson & the Olympians. After seeing two live-action film adaptations, the series will come to the Disney streamer, says the franchise’s creator. Rick Riordan, the author of the Percy Jackson book series, announced in a video on Twitter alongside his wife, Becky. Check out […]

Superman & Lois gets a poster, synopsis and premiere date

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The CW’s Arrowverse is set to expand once again this January with the launch of the Supergirl spinoff Superman & Lois, which sees Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch reprising their roles as Clark Kent and Lois Lane respectively, and the network has released an official poster for the new series along with a detailed synopsis; […]

The Grudge comes to the small screen with trailer for Netflix’s Ju-On: Origins

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After thirteen feature film instalments (including four American productions), the classic Japanese horror franchise Ju-On (a.k.a. The Grudge) is heading to the small screen this summer courtesy of Netflix, and the streaming service has now unveiled the first trailer for the TV adaptation Ju-On: Origins, which we have for you here; check it out… “The […]

Trailer for Dark Side of the Ring – ‘The Final Days of Owen Hart’

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VICE has released a trailer for next week’s season two finale of its pro-wrestling documentary series Dark Side of the Ring, entitled ‘The Final Days of Owen Hart’, which will explore the tragic death of the beloved WWF Superstar Owen Hart during an accident at the World Wrestling Federation’s 1999’s Over the Edge pay-per-view event; […]

The Purge and Treadstone cancelled by USA Network

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USA Network has cancelled two of its major series based off existing Universal movie franchises – The Purge after two seasons and Treadstone after one season. According to Deadline, these cancellations are a part of the overall programming shift away from ongoing scripted series toward more live and unscripted programming. Based on the movie franchise The Purge, the […]