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13 Reasons Why is getting a third season at Netflix. The streaming service released a 30-second teaser to reveal the news, which comes just 3 weeks after the premiere of Season 2. The teaser features a hand putting in a locker combination and then opening the locker to take out a lunch. The locker is then slammed to reveal a number 3 scrawled on it. The message is quick and to the point, notifying fans of the controversial show that it will be back in 2019 with 13 brand-new episodes....

Documentary filmmaker June Beallor revisits a tumultuous year that fundamentally changed America. 2020 CHAOS AND HOPE explores the COVID-19 pandemic response, economic inequality, racial unrest, and sociopolitical upheaval in vivid detail. Interviews with key government players, noted experts, and regular citizens driven to action are coupled with a montage-styled, timeline format. She captures the breadth of human emotions with raw reactions to personal tragedies. Beallor has a decidedly liberal viewpoint but effectively uses damning footage to frame her arguments....

New Line Cinema and HBO Max have just released the trailer for what is bound to be a new holiday classic for children and boomers alike. 8-Bit Christmas sees a grownup Jake (Neil Patrick Harris) sharing with his children the epic crusade of his childhood… to find the elusive Nintendo Entertainment System sitting pretty under that Christmas tree. You’re not going to shoot your eye out, but the adults have new concerns....

The nominations are in for The 83rd Annual Academy Awards, which airs on ABC Sunday, February 27th, 2010 @ 6:30pm/3:30pm. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide. Black SwanThe FighterInceptionThe Kids Are All RightThe King’s Speech127 HoursThe Social NetworkToy Story 3True GritWinter’s Bone...

Director Adam McKay has never been far away from a new project to make people pay a little more attention to the issue of climate change, and following the success of satirical Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, he is now trying a new way of drawing attention to the big issue of the world around us. In benefit of the Climate Emergency Fund, McKay is selling off personal items including movie props, comic books, trading cards and for someone with deep pockets a walk-on role in his next movie....

The actor’s hilarious brand of humor takes him to India for a government study After a very tumultuous afternoon, Albert Brooks proved how much he cares for his films and the media. On the Los Angeles press day for his new film, Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Albert was in the middle of doing television interviews when a light stand fell on his head. He took a break from those interviews to get treated, but determined to promote the movie, he continued doing television interviews....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Alex Wolff, famous for his roles in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Patriots Day, and most recently for his appearance in M. Night Shyamalan’s Old, will be joining the all-star ensemble of Christopher Nolan’s next, Oppenheimer. The film is set to be a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer and will focus on his efforts and the adverse impact the scientist faced for developing and inventing the atomic bomb in the infamous Manhattan Project....

It was announced today that Arnold Schwarzenegger will star opposite Sylvester Stallone in the action/thriller The Tomb, which will be directed by Swedish filmmaker Mikael Håfström. An Emmett-Furla Films/Mark Canton production, the film is produced by Atmosphere Entertainment chairman Mark Canton (300, Immortals), Randall Emmett (Lay the Favorite, Rambo), George Furla (Lay the Favorite, Rambo), Robbie Brenner (Machine Gun Preacher, A Perfect Getaway), and Kevin King Templeton (The Expendables, Rambo, Rocky Balboa)....

This year’s highly-anticipated Arrowverse crossover event just got a lot more interesting, as it’s been officially titled Elseworlds. DC fans who are in the know will likely perk up at the title, as it comes with some potentially major implications. This could mean big things are coming to The CW’s little corner of the DC universe. Here’s what DC had to say about the crossover in their announcement tweet, which came with a new poster for the event as well....

Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) announced today that it has acquired U.S. rights to Attack the Block written and directed by Joe Cornish. Screen Gems will distribute the highly regarded film which won the Midnight Feature Audience Award at this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival. The announcement was made today by SPWA President Steve Bersch and Screen Gems’ President Clint Culpepper. The London-set action-adventure Attack the Block stars Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway, Jumayn Hunter, and Nick Frost....

A series of character posters show off the leading players of Avatar: The Way of Water, and provide another look at the sheer level of detail that has gone into bringing the Na’vi back to life after all these years. Released courtesy of the official Avatar Twitter account, the posters have been unveiled alongside the final trailer for the long-awaited sequel, which promises a powerful, blockbuster epic. You can check out the new Avatar: The Way of Water character posters below....

Armando Iannucci, creator of deeply satirical political dramas like Veep and The Death of Stalin, came out with absurdist space comedy Avenue 5 in February 2020. A sci-fi show about a handful of oddball characters stuck in involuntary isolation turned out somewhat prophetic when a pandemic shut down the whole world a month later. Despite getting renewed even before the first season was done airing all nine episodes, the production on the second season ended up getting delayed indefinitely due to the pandemic....

During a recent press junket for Spider-Man 3, Superhero flix Producer Avi Arad discussed another mega-production he is working on, Iron Man. How involved are you right now in Iron Man? Avi Arad:Iron Man enjoys a lot less of my presence especially in the last month, because we are concentrating on this picture. That is fine really because the toughest part of the movie is preproduction, getting the script right, getting interesting casting, after that there is an amazing production team and a great director, and I go and visit in between....

Animation legend Bruce Timm and award-winning writers Josh Olson, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka and Alan Burnett will be the featured panelists when DC Comics, Warner Premiere, Warner Home Video and Warner Bros. Animation present the World Premiere of the DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movie, Batman: Gotham Knight, at Wizard World Chicago on June 28, 2008, it was announced today. The Batman: Gotham Knight premiere will commence at 7:00 p.m. in the 1,500-seat hall within the Donald E....

Released in 2003, Battle Royale has become a cultural icon that still somehow is underrated. It helped, indirectly, start an entire video game genre while also providing the backbone to what made the mega-franchise, The Hunger Games, so successful, even if the author might disagree. Originally a passion project of director Kinji Fukasaku’s son, Kenta Fukasaku, Battle Royale dredges deep into his memories of a post World War 2 Japan, and manages not only to be a fun and exciting action movie, but also a deeply disturbing treatise on what people can become in a desperate situation....

Sherlock, the hit BBC One drama produced by Hartswood Films, will return to screens for a Special, followed by a series of three new episodes. The last series saw Sherlock’s life change a lot - he returned from the dead, his best friend John Watson married Mary Morstan and he met his match in Charles Augustus Magnussen. After the briefest of exiles, Sherlock came back only to face one of his biggest mysteries yet....

Ben Rappaport and Anisha Nagarajan takes us behind-the-scenes of NBC’s latest Must-See comedy NBC’s latest addition to its Must-See Thursday night comedy line-up is Outsourced, a new sitcom where the Midwest meets the exotic East in a hilarious culture clash. The series centers on the all-American company Mid America Novelties that sells whoopee cushions, foam fingers and wallets made of bacon – and whose call center has suddenly been outsourced to India....

Production company, Benderspink is adapting the Japanese anime show, Star Blazers (also known as Space Battleship Yamato) for a live-action film. The series comprised three television series, five animated features and a host of merchandise, says The Hollywood Reporter. The story is set in the 22nd century after an alien attack on Earth has forced survivors to live in underground cities. After a message arrives from a distant planet promising a cure for the proliferating surface radiation, Earth’s last vestige of hope rests on the crew of a powerful yet untested spaceship, which must reach the purported new ally and return home before mankind ceases to exist....

The late ’70s were a time of deep exploration. New Hollywood was into full effect, French New Wave inspired a new generation of experimental filmmaking, and a vast collection of American auteurs (Francis Ford Coppola, Brian DePalma, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, etc.) began their career. Out of the countless filmmakers from this era, Italian horror director Lucio Fulci belongs among the most innovative and daring of the bunch. While his career spans five decades, the bulk of his best work is found 3/4ths of the way through....

Mila Kunis’ first role as an actress came from the popular TV series, That 70s Show where she played the princess Jackie. Per Looper, Kunis, who was only 14 years old at the time of casting, lied about being 18 in order to win the part. Her role not only kick-started her successful career in Hollywood, but also introduced her to her husband, Ashton Kutcher. Only one year after landing her role in That 70s Show, Kunis jumped into another long-standing TV series, Family Guy, where she still plays Meg Griffin....