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This year’s Primetime Emmy Awards are fast approaching. Indeed, we’re only three months away from finding out who’s going to take home an award in 2022. Per History, the first-awarded Emmy dates back as far as the year of 1949 for categories such as Most Popular Television Programme or Best Film Made For Television. Leading up to the Emmys, we’re here to look at the decade of 2010s, which was packed with many excellent performers rightfully getting awarded for their work....

Oliver Twist, written by Charles Dickens, is one of the most revered and influential novels to ever be published. Set in Victorian England, it follows the story of a young orphan boy named Oliver Twist, who escapes the cruel conditions of the workhouse he is forced to work in and travels to London, where he ends up in a criminal gang of juveniles run by an adult named Fagin. The story paints a vivid and unflinching look at the underbelly of London during the time and deals with a number of serious issues, including child labor, domestic violence, and the divide between social classes....

Known for the fashion as much as the plot, the Sex and the City franchise has struck again with the newest installation And Just Like That. The reboot picks up with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) navigating their 50s and keeping busy in an ever-changing New York City. Notably missing from the group was Samantha (Kim Cattrall, who decided not to rejoin the cast in this reboot)....

The movies and shows we are exposed to in our lives set patterns and standards that we inevitably follow, whether we are aware of it or not. This is why filmmakers have a huge responsibility when it comes to deciding what is shown and how to do it. In a sense, the entertainment industry is heavily in debt to women, as they have been consistently overlooked in productions, stories, and even in award ceremonies, which often ignore women directors....

It’s time to get all caught up on Better Call Saul ahead of the premiere of the show’s penultimate season, as season 4 of the Breaking Bad spin-off is now streaming on Netflix. Previously, the first three seasons had been streaming on the service for quite a while, leaving those without AMC who rely on Netflix to watch the show clamoring for season 4. That day has finally arrived as all four seasons of Better Call Saul are now available to watch on the streaming service, and if you’re watching it for the first time, buckle in because it’s the craziest season yet....

Potential SPOILERS for Black Adam lie ahead. An alleged leak may have revealed details of the post credits scene that will be tagged onto the end of the upcoming DC outing, Black Adam. And it brings a certain Man of Steel back into the fray. Revealing via social media courtesy of notable scooper MyTimeToShineHello, the final moments of Black Adam will reportedly tease a confrontation between Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Black Adam and Superman, played once again by Justice League star Henry Cavill....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a big hit with viewers. The long-awaited sequel to Marvel’s 2018 box office smash Black Panther is now in theaters. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a slight downgrade from its predecessor in terms of the critics and audience ratings, but it is still a poignant and well-crafted MCU entry. The film is currently sitting at an 84% Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score and 95% audience score, compared to Black Panther’s 96% RT rating and 79% audience score....

The latest Marvel leak has potentially revealed our first, albeit somewhat blurry, look at the introduction of the beloved character Namor. A character expected to make his long-awaited debut in the upcoming MCU sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Revealed courtesy of The Direct (and subsequently shared on social media), the image offers a glimpse at what the character will look like in live-action. While the blur keeps the details at bay, it’s clear that the Namor of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will take major inspiration from the pages of Marvel Comics and the classic 1960s look....

The Emmy-winning HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire will return for a fifth and final season this fall, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming, who had this to say in a statement. Series creator Terence Winter also released the following statement. It has been an incredible honor to bring this powerful and groundbreaking series to our subscribers. Terry Winter has created one for the ages." From Terence Winter, Emmy-winning writer of The Sopranos and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire is set in the 1920s during Prohibition, and chronicles the life and times of Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, the undisputed leader of Atlantic City....

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back? Whoop-doo! A lot of noise has been made in the past few weeks about this seminal sci-fi film celebrating its 30th anniversary. Every imaginable cretin has chimed in with their memories and thoughts on this triumphant Star Wars sequel. Most consider it the best of the bunch. The actual anniversary was last week. Its fitting that I come a week or so late to this particular nostalgia party....

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Avatar - $75 million Sherlock Holmes - $65.3 million Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel - $50.2 million It’s Complicated - $22.1 million Up In The Air - $11.75 million The Blind Side - $11.73 million The Princess and the Frog - $8.6 million Nine - $5.5 million Did You Hear About The Morgans? - $5 million Invictus - $4.3 million It was a very busy holiday weekend at the box office, perhaps one of the busiest of all-time, as James Cameron’s 3D outer-space epic Avatar just barely beats out three highly-anticipated new holiday films to take the number one spot in the box office for a second week in a row....

Weekend Box Office Four Christmases $18.1 million Twilight $13.1 million Bolt $9.6 million Australia $7 million Quantum of Solace $ $6.6 million Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $5.1 million Transporter 3 $4.5 million Punisher: War Zone $4 million Cadillac Records $3.5 million Role Models $2.6 million For the second weekend in a row, the Vince Vaughn/Reese Witherspoon holiday comedy Four Christmases dominated the box office charts with $18.1 million. After just two weeks in release, the film has made an accumulated gross of $70....

PREDICTED WEEKEND BOX OFFICE There were some big surprises at the box office last weekend as the George Clooney thriller The American did better than expected and beat out both Robert Rodriguez’s Machete and the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Going the Distance for the number one spot on the charts. But with the highly anticipated fourth chapter of the popular Resident Evil series, Resident Evil: Afterlife opening this weekend, Clooney and company may have their hands full defending their number one position....

Horror fans, get ready to laugh with some of the genre’s greats. Brutal Massacre: A Comedy is coming to DVD on July 22. The disc will be priced at $26.97 SRP. The film features such horror icons as David Naughton, Gunnar Hansen, Ken Foree and Vincent Butta… in comedic roles. Harry Penderecki, (Naughton) a once heralded horror auteur who now finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. Though renowned for such groundbreaking horror classics as I’ll Take the Ring Back and the Finger Too!...

Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry Prods. has joined with Radical Pictures to create a live-action feature based on Freedom Formula, a five-issue comicbook series by Edmund Shern. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Radical Publishing is unveiling the comicbook at Comic-Con, which won’t be released in August. It’s described as a futuristic Top Gun in which racing exo-suits have replaced fighter jets. The story focuses on a genetically engineered racer who learns that his bloodline has the power to change society....

Power attorney Camille Vasquez will soon be right back in the courtroom to again defend Johnny Depp. As millions watched from around the world, Vasquez represented Depp in his recent defamation trial with ex-wife Amber Heard. The coverage turned Vasquez into a celebrity and winning the trial earned her a promotion to partner at her law firm. Depp was also clearly happy with the job Vasquez did for him in court....

Horror legend Cassandra Peterson believes that her beloved Elvira character will live on long after the actress is gone, but perhaps not in live-action. With her run on television and in the film Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Peterson has long been a favorite for fans in the horror community. In recent years, she has continued to channel Elvira on occasion, which includes an appearance on The Goldbergs and teaming up with Netflix to recommend horror movies at the streaming platform last year....

We reported back in February that Nicolas Cage and Ryan Reynolds were teaming up for a new animated film and now two actresses have joined the cast as well. Heat Vision Blog is reporting that Catherine Keener and Emma Stone have joined the voice cast of The Croods. Keener will portray the title family’s mother, Ugga, while Stone will lend her voice to the daughter, Eep. Cage and Reynolds have already signed on as the father of this prehistoric clan, who is trying to get his family back on their feet after a devastating earthquake took their home....

With the Avengers on a hiatus, Captain America an elderly man, Iron Man’s legacy living on in his young daughter, and Thor currently in space, who is left to defend Earth in the MCU? Moreover, who’s there to defend people on a smaller scale? This, of course, calls to the street-level heroes, those who are grounded and aren’t fighting aliens and space creatures, or traveling through the Multiverse — just taking care of business, street-style....

While Marvel Studios has given fans a few hints as to where their multiverse is heading, at least for now, DC has been a bit vaguer on how their multiverse is coming together, with only the upcoming The Flash known to explicitly feature multiple timelines with the return of Michael Keaton’s Batman. However, Aquaman 2 star Patrick Wilson has been suggesting that the second outing for the aquatic hero has also found its place in the multiverse, but of course, he wasn’t going into specifics....