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WarnerMedia has ordered a second season of its post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Snowpiercer prior to its series premiere. Based on the acclaimed film of the same name, the highly anticipated futuristic thriller will debut next year on TBS. Known for its culture-defining comedies, TBS will be adding dramas to its programming lineup starting with Snowpiercer, starring Oscar® winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) and Tony Award® winner Daveed Diggs (Hamilton, Black-ish), in Spring of 2020....

Gotham hasn’t even given us a fully formed Batman yet, but they are working their way through the character’s massive library of villains. Gotham season 4 is stepping things up in that department and bringing us even more classic Batman bad guys, and the latest one is definitely on the stranger side of things. The next episode of Gotham is finally going to unleash Solomon Grundy, which has been teased for a little while now....

As the final season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy winds down, series creator Kurt Sutter will appear on TBS’ Conan, along with several cast members for their first ever group talk show appearance. Take a look at the official details from TBS’ press release. TBS’s late-night show Conan will welcome the cast of the FX series Sons of Anarchy on Tuesday, November 11, for their first ever talk show appearance as a group....

Webhead, wall-crawler, menace: Spider-Man has as many nicknames as he does feature films over the extent of nearly two decades. Over the years, audiences have been thrilled with the adventures of Spider-Man and his web-slinging adventures, seeing the hero leap from the comic book to the silver screen. Multiple actors have taken on the mantle of Spider-Man, and while the heroes might be described as amazing the same cannot be said for all of his films....

Variety reports that Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks TV and Showtime are currently developing a new scripted series that will follow the development of an original Broadway musical. It will start at its creative inception all the way to its opening night. After this, a production of the show will be mounted after the series airs. Apparently, Spielberg has been putting together “the concept for the TV-to-legit show for years, and he’s been hands-on in setting up the project at Showtime and recruiting” Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, all of whom have done past projects together....

Stranger Things fans have had a few reasons to celebrate in the last few days thanks to finally being told when they can expect to see the fourth season of Netflix’s hit show. Today they were given another reason to swamp social media as Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown marked her 18th birthday. Having appropriately been a part of the Netflix franchise since the age of eleven, Brown has grown up in the public eye, following her breakthrough as the mysterious Eleven in the Netflix franchise with movie appearances in the Godzilla franchise and Netflix’s Enola Holmes, which she also produces....

3-D FOR ALL DISNEY FEATURE CARTOONS All future Disney and Pixar animated features will be released in 3-D, beginning with next year’s Up, Disney Animation chief John Lassiter said Tuesday. Speaking at New York University, Lassiter gave a rundown of the company’s slate of animated features, which includes Toy Story 3to be released in June 2010 (bearing the Pixar banner) and The Princess and the Frog to be released in December 2009 (bearing the Disney banner)....

A DREAM DEBUT FOR DREAMGIRLS It only played in 852 theaters during just one day of the four-day holiday weekend, but Dreamgirlsmanaged to place seventh on the list of top box-office performers for the penultimate weekend of the year with a take of $8.7 million. Paramount marketing chief Rob Moore told the Los Angeles Timesthat the movie had received a 95-percent approval rating on exit polls. “That’s the highest I’ve ever seen, and I’ve been involved in testing for more than 20 years,” he said....

MOVIE REVIEWS: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END (PT. 1) Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and their assorted pirate family members have landed again and the first wave of critics have arrived to pounce on them. Clearly the critics are no match for the pirate force – as even they readily admit. Nathan Lee, writing in The Village Voice, commented: “Long before the third, fourth, or fifth climax in this endless, obligatory summer diversion, I slunk into my seat in a passive, inattentive stupor, fully submitting to the fact that I hadn’t the slightest idea what the hell was going on....

THEATER NECKING TO TAKE ON NEW MEANING Defying conventional wisdom that teenage boys control the box office, box office analysts are predicting record crowds – mostly of teenage girls– for this weekend’s opening of Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Today’s (Friday) Los Angeles Timessaid that the film will likely sell about $90 million worth of tickets and could possibly cross the $100-million mark, putting it just behind the year’s biggest ticket seller, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen....

CBS RETURNS TO TOP SPOT IN RATINGS Ratings for CBS’s Survivor: China may have been considerably lower than those for past Survivorseries but they were strong enough last week to give the network an easy win over its rivals. Daily Varietyobserved that Survivorwas one of the rare shows to win its time period every week during the season both in total viewers and among adults 18-49. The network’s numbers were overwhelming on Thursday as a new episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigationdrew 20 million viewers, followed by a Survivor: Chinaepisode, which captured 14....

Some directors spend their careers largely occupying one genre or another, some however manage to avoid being pigeonholed and create a diverse and eclectic body of work in the process. Throughout his career, Terry Gilliam has crafted films that are sometimes comical, scary, fantastical, and sometimes a mix of all these elements combined. Gilliam rose to prominence initially as a member of the Monty Python collective before venturing into his own feature length films....

Tribeca Enterprises announced today the launch of their new alternative marketing and distribution branch Tribeca Film, which plans to acquire and distribute independent films across multiple platforms including Video on Demand launching concurrently with the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival on April 21 with day-and-date screenings of seven of the 10 feature titles on their roster. Two days later, on April 23, Tribeca Film will kick-off the first-ever Tribeca Film Festival Virtual (TFFV) with the premiere of the new film from filmmaker Edward Burns, Nice Guy Johnny, which will be available online at the same time as its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival....

Young Adam’s future is coming for him much quicker than he thinks in the first full trailer for Netflix’s upcoming sci-fi adventure, The Adam Project. Starring Ryan Reynolds and newcomer Walker Scobell as the older and younger versions of the titular Adam, the movie sees Reynolds re-team with Free Guy director Shawn Levy for what looks like a funny, emotional, family-driven action-adventure. You can check out the trailer for The Adam Project below....

In 1997, Batman and Robin was released and became one of the most infamous comic book movies, being a critical catastrophe and domestic box office disappointment. Ever since, there has been a sentiment that Robin did not fit with a darker Batman, and that he was a relic of the goofier side of the superhero. Even when he nominally appeared in The Dark Knight Rises, it was as mostly an homage than as an actual sidekick....

WARNING: The following article contains some spoilers for The Blacklist season 9 finale “The Bear Mask.” Please proceed at your own risk. The cast of The Blacklist has tended to consider itself a family over the course of the past nine years. But now it seems that two members of that family are leaving at the end of the show’s ninth season. According to an article from Deadline, series regulars Amir Arison and Laura Sohn are departing the procedural after the season 9 finale....

Juliette Lewis has officially joined the cast of The Conners opposite Johnny Galecki. Lewis is set to play Blue, David’s girlfriend who was mentioned in the Roseanne revival series this year. Lewis was the first to announce the news on social media with a picture of herself, Galecki, and Sara Gilbert on the iconic couch of the Conner family. Galecki’s involvement in the series had previously been a mystery due to his commitment with The Big Bang Theory and its last season, as well as the turmoil surrounding Roseanne Barr’s departure from the series....

James Gunn’s violent, raunchy superhero series Peacemaker debuted on HBO Max last month, becoming the streamer’s first DCEU TV series. Peacemaker stars John Cena as Christopher Smith, aka Peacemaker, a vigilante who’ll go to any lengths to maintain peace. Cena delivers a stellar performance in the show, which is further complemented by Robert Patrick, who plays Peacemaker’s dad, Auggie Smith. But Patrick’s character is not a doting father, as the show soon reveals him to be a white supremacist who’s got nothing but resentment for his son....

The Hollywood community has lost another beloved actor far too soon today. Robert Vaughn, who may be best known for starring in the 1960 classic The Magnificent Seven and the hit 1960s TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E., has passed away at the age of 83. The actor had been suffering from acute leukemia, his manager confirmed earlier today. The actor passed away surrounded by his family. BBC reports that the actor passed away in New York City this morning....

Gonna fly now! In a story from The Digital Bits, it looks like Fox is going to be bringing out the Rocky: Collector’s Edition on December 5. The two disc set will sell for $26.98. Synopsis: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive....