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A new, currently untitled comedy produced by Will Ferrell will see Shang-Chi star Awkwafina and Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh play sisters in a story by Hocus Pocus 2 scribe Jen D’Angelo that seems to revolve around the popular game show Jeopardy. Deadline reports that 20th Century Studios have fought off some stiff competition to acquire the rights to the project, and have already tapped Jessica Yu to direct. While the project was originally announced back in October 2020 with Ferrell and Jessica Elbaum signed on as producers, there has been very little word on it since then, and with so many projects falling by the wayside due to the COVID pandemic and the uncertainty around movie releases, it seemed that this could have been another casualty....

DC fans are suspicious of Pennyworth, especially since Epix started dropping the official cast list over the past couple of weeks. Many believe the show is coming too soon in the wake of Fox’s Gotham, which is wrapping up its run this fall. Today, we have yet another casting announcement for Pennyworth, which is going to really have to knock it out of the park to get audiences onboard. The DC drama has finally found its villain....

Animation is often at its best when delivering what can only be possible within its medium, creating worlds and images which are otherwise unthinkable in live-action films or literature. From the dancing brooms of Fantasia to the eyeballed lumps of adorable coal in Spirited Away, animation has the ability to express a creative vision with more imagination than almost anything else. Paradoxically, this is what makes Mamoru Hosoda’s new film Belle be simultaneously wonderful and, in some minor ways, a missed opportunity....

Mexican cinema has been an underrated gem in the movie world, but, in the 2010s, Mexican directors finally had the chance to shine. Three prominent Mexican directors — Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Guillermo del Toro — have captured the spotlight in Hollywood, potentially paving the path for not only Mexican filmmakers, but for Latin American creatives as a whole. When Cuaron’s autobiographical movie Roma released in 2018, it garnered many Oscar nominations and is now considered one of the best and most visually stunning movies of the 2010s....

Those who have been watching K-Dramas for a long time definitely know who Park Min-Young is. She is one of the most popular and fine actresses in the industry, with an exceptional portfolio. She debuted on TV in 2006 through the hit sitcom, High Kick!. She is known in the industry for her lovely expressions and doe-like eyes, and has always made an active effort to fit into the genre of the movie or TV show she is in....

2022 has been an exceptional year for movies. The year delivered terrifying and gory horror, phenomenal superhero flicks, and some cute romance movies to cement itself as a year of movies to look back on in awe. Romance movies come with a few sub-genres, mostly through rom-coms or romantic dramas, and 2022 has had its fair share of romance movies. From the latest groundbreaking rom-com, Bros, to the more dramatic, Where The Crawdads Sing, 2022 has had much to offer in terms of romance films, and here are some of the best from the year....

The “thriller” genre of film has grown more and more popular among audiences as years fly by. With enough suspense for those that are not fans of horror, enough drama for those who don’t enjoy dramatic or romantic films, and enough action for those who don’t like pure action movies, thriller films have something for everybody. Plus, some of the most iconic films of all-time (Vertigo, Pyscho, On the Waterfront) are a part of the thriller genre....

The Western film: it’s something vaguely inspired by the American West, even if the story sometimes relies on stereotypes, historical inaccuracies and legends, or if the language isn’t the lingua franca of the Wild West. These kinds of movies tend to embody the concept of Manifest Destiny: the protagonist is often living within a society with a strict moral code and relies on the concepts of revenge, pursuit, and retribution in order to propel the plot forward....

The coming-of-age movie is a classic genre in the film world, except for one glaring problem: the male gaze. In 2021, out of the top-grossing 51 films released that year, only seven of the movies were directed by women, and out of that group, only three of the women were of color (Chloe Zhao, Liesl Tommy, and Nia DaCosta). Due to the lack of women involved in the artistic and technical processes of creating a movie, the script and storyline are filtered through the lens through which men see girlhood....

South Korean actor Yoo Ah-in has become one of the nation’s most celebrated actors in recent years. The 36-year-old, who was born in the conservative city of Daegu, made his debut in local television commercials, but did not find his big break until he began to be cast in films. After being cast in a low-budget indie titled Boys of Tomorrow, Yoo found himself at the beginning of a rising career, landing roles that often consisted of complex characters....

It needs no explanation that Bill Murray is one of the greatest comic forces working in Hollywood today. Ever since his early days on SNL, Murray has established himself as a captivating and idiosyncratic actor who is likely to bring an extra spark to any film he works on. He has played some of the most memorable characters throughout comedy to date, like Caddyshack’s Carl Spackler, Ghostbusters’ Peter Venkman, and Groundhog Day’s Phil Connors - to name a few....

The actor who does many of the voices for the series talks about the new DVD and the future of the show Billy West has provided the voices for some memorable animated characters in his career like The Ren & Stimpy, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Doug. He has also provided a number of voices in the hit animated series Futurama and he came back to reprise those roles in the new straight-to-DVD series, the latest of which is Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, which hits the DVD shelves on June 24....

Blossom star Mayim Bialik and creator Don Reo have been trying for years to get a “limited reboot” of the series off the ground, and now Bialik is hoping that saying it out loud will help the revival’s chances of actually coming to fruition. Between 1991 and 1995, Blossom aired for five seasons on NBC with Bialik in the lead role as the titular teenage girl. On Monday, Blossom was made available for streaming on Hulu....

Bobby Cannavale has signed on to star as the lead of the drama pilot, M.O.N.Y. for NBC and Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson; Spike Lee is directing. The show centers on a socially conscious New York public advocate (Cannavale) who is thrust into the position of becoming interim mayor and struggles to balance his moral center with the hardball realities of New York politics, notes The Hollywood Reporter. In other TV news, Rachelle Lefevre will play the female lead in the David E....

FX has ordered 13 additional episodes of both of its late night comedy series, Brand X with Russell Brand and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, announced Nick Grad, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, FX. The final 2012 installment of Brand X with Russell Brand will air as a special one-hour episode on Thursday, November 29 at 11:30pm ET/PT and feature special guests: comedian Sarah Silverman and author and new age philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck....

While some Marvel stars are uncertain of their MCU future, Brie Larson seems to be pretty sure of hers. Having made her debut as Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel in 2019, Larson has since appeared in Avengers: Endgame, the post-credit scene of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and will be joined by Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel and Monica Rambeau in The Marvels next year. According to the actress, though, that is “just the beginning” of what is planned for Captain Marvel in the future....

Fans were overjoyed to hear that Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace alumni Ray Park had been cast in the role of Snake Eyes in the live-action G.I. Joe film coming from Paramount Pictures. But the question on everyone’s mind after that was “Who will be playing his arch-foe, Storm Shadow?” IESB has an answer for us, saying that Byung-hun Lee will be taking the role of Cobra’s resident ninja....

Friday Night Lights was a unique show that ran for five seasons and was always difficult to market. Was it a football show, a high school show, or a small-town show? It was all of the above, and it did all those things well (even if the football games were always comically close). It had great performances from the whole cast: from experienced actors like Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton to others who got their first breaks in this show: Jesse Plemmons, Taylor Kitsch, Adrianne Palicki, or Michael B....

Christian Slater has graced our screen since the early 80s, and by the 90s he was on his way to superstardom. Early on in his career he was branded a “Hollywood bad boy." The bad boy persona however seeped into his personal life in the late 90s when he began to have run-ins with the law, which inevitably hurt his career. Throughout most of the 00’s he had lost his A-list appeal....

The DC Animated Universe has a long, rich history that’s rivaled its live-action productions. While the DC films have had their issues bringing most of their iconic characters to life, the animated side of their productions has had no issues. Characters such as Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have had some of their most iconic comic-book moments depicted in animated movies in ways that live-action couldn’t do. Some of the very best adaptations of DC comics stories have been on the animated side of DC Comics....