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“Theft” Brings Some Shock And Awe To ‘His Dark Materials’ With The Help Of Paddington Bear His Dark Materialsis only getting better with each episode of its second season, with the third episode, “Theft,” finally bringing an end to the sluggish witches vs. Magisterium plot and getting to the real action. And by real action, I mean Will and Lyra sitting down in a movie theater to watchPaddington. No, I don’t really mean that....

‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ Will Start Shooting After ‘Coming To America 2’, According To Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphyis back. He’s earning rave reviews for his work in the crowd-pleasingDolemite Is My Name, and he’s already hard at work on the long-awaitedComing To America 2. But that’s not the only classic film he’s returning to. According to Murphy,Beverly Hills Cop 4is going to ramp up production as soon asComing To America 2is done....

‘Bond 25’ Reportedly Eyeing ‘Lucky Number Slevin’ And ‘Sherlock’ Director What kind of filmmaker is the perfect match for theJames Bondseries? On one hand, it seems like it should be a journeyman, the kind of director who is comfortable working alongside protective producers, a capable craftsman who knows how to deliver productions on time and on budget. But on the other, it seems like it should be an artist, someone capable of grabbing this 55-year old series by the lapels and giving it a good shake....

‘Booksmart’ Review: Olivia Wilde’s Directorial Debut Is A Hilarious, Female-Driven Coming-Of-Age Comedy [SXSW] Having an internal crisis, high schooler Molly turns to to her classmate and exclaims “You guys don’t care about school!” To which she snidely responds “We just don’tonlycare about school.“What happens when your whole worldview shifts and you discover the choices you made for yourself were not the only viable options? For two teen girls who are quickly approaching graduation, they discover that the fun of their teenage years has almost slipped out of their hands – and they have one night to fix that....

‘Drinking Buddies’ Director Joe Swanberg Will Go Mainstream With ‘Work Wife’ Over the past decade,Joe Swanberghas built himself a nice career in the indie realm. He rose to prominence as one of the leading figures of the mumblecore movement, then had two of his most high-profile hits yet in 2013’sDrinking Buddiesand 2014’sHappy Christmas. But now he’s ready to mix things up. Swanberg is set to directWork Wife, his first-ever studio project, for New Line....

‘Fargo’ Season 2 Casting: Jeffrey Donovan Boards, Nick Offerman Courted Noah Hawleyis cozying up to a whole new cast forFargoSeason 2.Jeffrey DonovanandRachel Kellerare reportedly in talks to board the FX anthology series, while Nick Offerman has an offer out. The next season of theCoen Brothers-inspired series will take place in 1979, with some of the Season 1 characters returning in younger iterations. More on theFargoSeason 2 casting after the jump....

‘For All Mankind’ Season 2 Trailer: Apple’s Science Fiction Series Wages A Cold War In Space It’s the ’80s and the Cold War is silently raging. But a different kind of Cold War is about to be waged inFor All Mankind, Apple TV+’s acclaimed alternate-history space drama, which premieres its second season this February. Watch theFor All Mankindtrailer below. For All Mankind Trailer Apple TV+ released the official trailer forFor All Mankindseason 2, the alt-history drama series from Emmy winner Ronald D....

‘Green Book’ Director Peter Farrelly On Realizing His Movie Could Be Funny As Well As Dramatic [Interview] The Farrelly Brothers became the kings of comedy in the ’90s withDumb and Dumber, KingpinandThere’s Something About Mary.However,Green BookisPeter Farrelly’s first solo film and his first drama. Based on a true story, the film follows Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) as he gets a job as a driver for Dr. Shirley (Mahershala Ali). While Shirley tours the south with his jazz trio, he needs a savvy problem solver to bail him out of jams that may come up between gigs in racist communities....

‘Jungle Cruise’ Review: A Decent Adventure That Owes A Lot To Other Films Considering its own inspiration, it’s somewhat surprising that the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland took so long to become the inspiration for a movie of its own. The opening-day attraction was partially inspired by the 1951 romantic comedy/adventureThe African Queen, bringing two of the greatest stars of the era, Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, together. So now, things have come as full circle as is humanly possible withJungle Cruise, a romantic comedy/adventure that brings together two big enough stars of the 21st century, Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt....

‘Knives Out 2’ Will Reunite Dave Bautista With His ‘Spectre’ Co-Star Daniel Craig Dave Bautistais heading to Greece for a murder mystery. TheGuardians of the GalaxyandArmy of the Deadactor is the second major actor to sign on toKnives Out 2, writer/directorRian Johnson’s follow-up to his 2019 hit. This will mark a reunion between Bautista andKnives Out 2starDaniel Craig, since the two previously worked together on the 2015 James Bond filmSpectre, in which Craig played the British super spy and Bautista played a hulking silent brute named Hinx....

‘Lost Girls’ Trailer: Amy Ryan Discovers A Sex-Trafficking Ring After Her Daughter Goes Missing The 2020 Sundance Film Festival kicks off next week, and while there will be plenty of new indie movies that you’ll have to wait several months to see in theaters, some of them will be available for you to watch sooner than you think. One of them will beLost Girls, a new thriller inspired by Robert Kolker’s best-selling true story of the same name that finds a mother (Oscar nomineeAmy Ryan) searching for her missing daughter, only to uncover a sex trafficking ring that has taken many more girls, and is seemingly of no consequence to the police department that is supposedly on the case....

‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Thanksgiving Marathon Will Have New Host Segments Back whenMystery Science Theater 3000aired on Comedy Central, the network would run what they called Turkey Day Marathons every Thanksgiving. The marathons would involve between six and twelve rebroadcasts of previous episodes with new host segment material cut throughout. The tradition carried over briefly to the Sci-Fi Channel era with one Turkey Day Marathon, and then died out. After a Netflix revival,MST3Khas once again come to an end....

‘Primal’ Is Genndy Tartakovsky’s Raging And Devastating Magnum Opus Blink and miss one frame of detailed animation and you miss the entire world. At least, that’s the case when watching the masterful animation and razor-blade precision ofGenndy Tartakovskyand his team.Echoing the flat, sharp-lined, dimensional aesthetic of its spiritual predecessorSamurai Jack, elements like whiplash, stillness, noise, and quiet are vital to the first five episodes ofPrimal, Tartakovsky’s latest limited series for Adult Swim....