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Keep your fingers close. The Advent Calendar, the new French horror fantasy, is the upcoming Shudder offering for the holidays. With the ultra creepy advent calendar counting down the days to Christmas, our Eva is playing chicken with each little nook she opens. Once she begins, she is locked in! No chocolate is worth this! The official synopsis reads, “Shudder, AMC Networks’ streamer for horror, thrillers and the supernatural will soon premiere writer/director Patrick Ridremont’s ornate and elegant French horror fantasy The Advent Calendar....

Dimension Films and Miramax today announced the production of The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes. This is the first film to be produced under the agreement between Miramax and The Weinstein Company to create sequels to some of Miramax’s best-known properties. Dimension also announced that it has acquired the rights to a new screenplay for the film by Casey La Scala and Daniel Farrands. Farrands and La Scala are also set to direct the film....

One of the entertainment industry’s most charming and effortlessly funny actors, Bill Hader has been making audiences laugh for nearly two decades. The gifted performer first made a splash when he became a cast member on the popular, long-running television series Saturday Night Live, where he spent eight seasons delighting fans with his quirky characters and spot-on impressions of celebrities like Clint Eastwood, Vincent Price, and Al Pacino, nabbing a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his impressive efforts....

Dragon Ball has long been regarded one of the most enduring and popular anime franchises and has spawned several series, movies, and spin-offs in the process. With such a long-running property (beginning in 1984 with a manga), the franchise has given us an array of characters that have since gone on to become iconic and well-embraced by the fanbase, and has ignited quite a few conversations along the way. Perhaps the most popular and significant iteration of the Dragon Ball franchise, and the one with arguably the most beloved characters, is Dragon Ball Z....

With a colorful career spanning three decades, Milla Jovovich is a model who became an esteemed actress and action star. After making her big-screen debut in the 1988 film Two Moon Junction, she went on to gain recognition in the ‘90s with roles in beloved classics like Dazed and Confused and The Fifth Element, establishing herself as a powerful leading lady. Jovovich was cast as the zombie-killing superhuman heroine Alice in the action-horror franchise Resident Evil, becoming a certified superstar and later being dubbed the “reigning queen of kick-butt” by The Sydney Morning Herald....

Bazinga! If that phrase triggers images of Sheldon Cooper flailing around in a ball pit, you’re familiar with the famously “nerdy” show The Big Bang Theory. The sitcom ran for 279 episodes and invited the audience in to observe the lives of physicists Sheldon, Leonard and Raj, as well as the engineer, Howard, and the microbiologist, Bernadette. Rounding out the group is Penny, the actress/waitress/sales representative that lives next door....

You can bring home the latest mystery from Richard Kelly on DVD and Blu-ray next month. The Box will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 23. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.98 SRP and the Blu-ray, which will include a Digital Copy and a copy of the standard DVD, will be priced at $35.99 SRP. The film stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella. What if someone gave you a box containing a button that, if pushed, would bring you a million dollars…but simultaneously take the life of someone you don’t know?...

Things are going to get insane pretty quickly when The Boys returns, and there’s a good chance that the madness will involve at least one of these two characters. Showrunner Eric Kripke has consistently been teasing that the first episode will include one of the “craziest” scenes that has ever been shown in any series. He recently told SFX Magazine that the first 15 minutes alone will shock viewers, even those who’ve seen how far the first two seasons had already pushed the envelope....

Peacock has pulled the plug on Rutherford Falls. Per Variety, it has just been announced that the comedy series has been canceled after a two season run with no plans for a third season in the works. The season 2 finale, which hit Peacock along with the season’s other seven episodes in June, now serves as the series finale. It’s not exactly clear why the show was canceled, but it could be because viewership numbers on Peacock just weren’t as high as NBCUniversal had been hoping for....

Mandate Pictures has won the rights to remake The Day of the Triffids, which Sam Raimi will produce and may even direct, according to Deadline. Mandate won the heated bidding auction over Universal Pictures, which was bidding on behalf of director David Yates. Sam Raimi and his longtime producing partner Robert G. Tapert will join Don Murphy, Susan Montford and Mark Gordon as producers. We first reported on this project last month, which indicated the movie would utilize 3D technology, although the Deadline story didn’t indicate if the movie will still be in 3D or not....

We reported earlier this month that Andrew Lincoln had been cast as the male lead in a new AMC series and now it seems the female lead has been set as well. Ausiello Files is reporting that former Prison Break star Sarah Wayne Callies has been cast as the female lead in The Walking Dead. Callies will portray Lori Grimes, the wife of Lincoln’s Rick Grimes. The series follows Rick Grimes, a cop who lead a group of survivors after a zombie outbreak occurs....

Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel have joined forces for the upcoming indie comedy Goon, which takes place inside the world of Minor League Hockey. According to The Hollywood Report, Alison Pill and Marc-André Grondin have also come aboard the project. Jay Baruchel wrote the screenplay with Evan Goldberg, inspired by the Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio non-fiction book Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey....

We visit the set of Monday Mornings, debuting Monday, February 4 at 10 PM ET on TNT Monday mornings are the bane of every working man and woman’s existence. It doesn’t matter what job you have, it just doesn’t get any worse than waking up early after a relaxing weekend and going back to the daily grind. Now, imagine, if you will, that you had to go into work on a Monday only to get in front of your peers to discuss your mistakes every week?...

Warner Bros. has provided us with a whole gallery of images from their upcoming horror-thriller film, Trick ‘r Treat, arriving in theatres this fall. The film is produced by Bryan Singer (Superman Returns) and stars Dylan Baker, Rochelle Aytes, Anna Paquin and Brian Cox. CLICK HERE to check out the image gallery! Movie Picture It is said that Halloween is the night when the dead rise to walk among us and other unspeakable things roam free....

You can bring home a genetic thriller home on both DVD and Blu-ray this fall. Splice will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 5. You can take a look at the cover art and special features for this new title below and the standard DVD will be priced at while the BD version will be priced at $35.99 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art for both releases below....

Social media has recently seen a lot of chatter over the use of a “fat suit” to make Emma Thompson appear heavier in Matilda the Musical, and Shannon Purser has taken a moment to share her thoughts on the situation. Purser is well known for her popular role as Barb in Stranger Things, a part that had gotten her an Emmy nomination along with a social media campaign calling for “justice” for her character....

The Emmy-nominated series Strike Back will return to Cinemax in 2013 for a third season of ten new episodes, which will shoot in South Africa and Hungary. Cinemax/HBO will again produce the series with partners Left Bank and Sky, who will air the series in the U.K. Returning for season three will be Left Bank’s Andy Harries as executive producer, series producer Michael Casey and head of production Marigo Kehoe. Sky’s Huw Kennair-Jones will executive produce....

GLOBES SPIN TO A STANDSTILL The Golden Globe awards, known more for their glamour and glitz than for the prestige of the awards themselves, had neither Sunday night as they were reduced to a perfunctory announcement of the winners by the hosts of several syndicated entertainment TV magazines. The awards are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a small group of mostly part-time and freelance writers for overseas newspapers and magazines (none of whom announced any winners)....

ANOTHER TALENT SHOW IS HOT ON ARRIVALThe debut of the Simon Cowell-produced America’s Got Talentdelivered huge ratings (for a summer show) for NBC over two hours of primetime Wednesday night, giving the fourth-place network an easy win for the night. The first hour of the talent contest at 9:00 p.m. registered a 7.3 rating and a 13 share, beating out Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance, which recorded a 6....

A FILM “NO ONE WILL PAY TO SEE” IS SOLD Although some analysts had predicted that Death of a President, which made its debut at the Toronto Film Festival this week, would never find a distributor – others had predicted it would never see the light of day in the U.S. – Newmarket Films announced Monday that it had purchased U.S. distribution rights from producer-director Gabriel Range. It reportedly paid $1 million....