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With word of a fourth Kelvin Star Trek film moving forward, fans are clamoring to know what the plan may be for the new classic crew of the enterprise. The last few entries have certainly entertained as action spectacles, with most plots revolving around internal struggles within Starfleet, in-fighting amongst high-ranking officers, and revealing corruption within the organization. Unfortunately, this misses the mark for some fans. While Starfleet being an imperfect political entity certainly bears creative fruit, there is also the entire universe to draw a story from....

The very first character art from the Star Wars Resistance series has leaked online thanks to the Disney France Partners Event 2018. In addition, it was announced that fans will be able to see the show this fall. The animated series was first announced in April of this year and it focuses on a young Resistance pilot who spies on the First Order. The series takes place in the early days of the Resistance and will serve as a prequel to The Force Awakens....

Stephen King‘s novel Billy Summers is getting a film adaptation. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the author’s bestseller book published in 2021. J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way are set to co-produce the film for Warner Bros. Billy Summers is the next work of King that is getting an adaptation, following the series Lisey’s Story, Castle Rock, and 11.22.63. Deadline previously confirmed last year that the novel was supposed to be adapted as a ten-episode limited series and was shopped around through different networks....

While a good amount of us are trying to cut back on the number of cigarettes we ingest per day, week, and year, it looks like Netflix is going to be cutting back as well soon. This update comes on the heels of the recent release of the third season of the streaming giant and The Duffer Brothers’ hit teen sci-fi horror series Stranger Things. With the release of the new season, Truth Initiative, an anti-smoking group released a report claiming that Netflix - and especially Stranger Things - was one of the biggest offenders in depicting tobacco use more often than even broadcast or cable shows....

DAYTIME AWARDS NO NIGHTTIME HITABC’s coverage of the Daytime Emmy Awards may have moved to Hollywood from New York and tacked on an additional hour, but it failed to improve its ratings, which sank to a record low last year and was 8 percent lower this year. The 33rd annual affair averaged only a 4.7 rating and an 8 share to place third for the night, behind CBS (7.5/13), and NBC (5....

IDOL GIVES BACK – ITS AUDIENCE The second annual American Idolcharity show, Idol Gives Back,saw its audience decline from last year Wednesday night even as an all-star list of personalities appeared on the show, urging viewers to help the disadvantaged at home and overseas. The primetime portion of the show between 8:00 p.m. and and 10:00 p.m. (it began at 7:30 p.m.) averaged 17.5 million viewers versus last year’s 26.9 million....

MOVIE REVIEWS: BEDTIME STORIES Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Timesbegins his review of Bedtime Stories with a prediction: “This is a harmless and pleasant Disney comedy and one of only three family movies playing over the holidays,” he writes. (The other two are the animated The Tale of Despereaux and Marley & Me). “It will therefore win the box-office crown big time, with Adam Sandler crushing Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L....

WILL COMCAST AND NBC MERGE? After initially expressing skepticism about a report that originated with Sharon Waxman’s TheWrap.com, prominent business news media on Thursday confirmed from their own sources that General Electric, the principal owner of NBC Universal and Comcast, the nation’s largest cable dealer, were in talks that would result in Comcast acquiring a majority stake in NBC Universal. CNBC’s David Faber, one of the original skeptics (he originally commented “An entertainment gossip site – this is where we are in journalism today – started a great deal of speculation on whether Comcast would buy or take control of NBC Universal – that is not the case....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, CBS has picked up The Amazing Race for a 15th cycle season. History was made when this renewal was made known via Twitter. The host of the show, Phil Keoghan posted this on the social networking site on Thursday: “Great news. Just got the call from the network. CBS has ordered another season of The Amazing Race " Once making things known on Twitter, CBS then went through their normal news channels with a regular news release, that gave more information about the network’s plans for the show....

The weekend box office win goes to Dreamworks’ latest animated feature The Bad Guys. Making its debut in theaters with this weekend, The Bad Guys follows an animated group of criminal animals who present themselves as model citizens after they’re caught. The film claimed the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office by pulling in $24 million, putting it pretty firmly in first place as many filmgoers brought the whole family to see the new film....

The Riddler and Catwoman reunited live from New York on Saturday night. On Saturday night’s episode of the long-running sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, Zoe Kravitz made her hosting debut coming off hot of the release of The Batman in theaters. With the film enjoying immense success at the box office, one of Kravitz’s co-stars reunited with her with a surprise appearance in the middle of a sketch. This would be Paul Dano who appeared alongside Zoe Kravitz in The Batman, and you can check out the sketch below, courtesy of SNL on YouTube....

Payback has arrived in the new poster for The Boys. Set to arrive on Prime Video in June, the third season has been very highly anticipated by fans. Many are stoked to see the arrival of Payback, a superhero group that was essentially the world’s most elite team of superheroes in the years before Vought assembled the Seven. They’re led by Soldier Boy, a Captain America-like superhero portrayed by Supernatural star Jensen Ackles....

The Boys star Karen Fukuhara has called to #StopAsianHate after an unprovoked attack. Taking to Instagram, the actress shared a statement addressing the situation, telling her followers that she’d been randomly “struck” by a man hard enough to knock off her hat. Though she says she’s “physically fine” after the incident, she still feels that she’s “lucky” that the situation didn’t get worse. Fukuhara hopes that telling the story will help raise awareness about these kinds of random attacks against women, Asians, and the elderly....

Rose McGowan (Conan the Barbarian, Planet Terror) joins famed thriller film director Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers, Powder) in Rosewood Lane as he goes back to his roots creating a new nightmare every bit as original as his Jeepers Creepers franchise. The story follows McGowan as she plays Doctor Sonny Blake, a radio talk show psychiatrist, when she moves back to her childhood home after her alcoholic father dies. Once back in her old neighborhood she discovers the local paperboy is a frightening and cunning young sociopath that targeted her father and now targets her....

After a lengthy investigation, it was announced this week that criminal charges are getting filed in relation to the death of Halyna Hutchins. In October 2021, Hutchins was killed during the production of the Western movie Rust which featured one of its producers, Alec Baldwin, as the lead star. Producer and star Alec Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed have been formally charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter as the investigation concludes, while assistant director Dave Halls took a plea deal for a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon....

Prime Video has released another sneak peek for The Legend of Vox Machina ahead of its highly anticipated sophomore season. The 12-episode season premieres Friday, January 20th with the promise of being sillier, darker, and closer to the Dungeons and Dragons gameplay adapted from Critical Role’s weekly live stream. The brief clip shows the quick-witted Scanlan using his powers to skate on thin ice (literally) before he encounters a monstrous water creature that places him in a perilous position....

Perhaps the Scream world hasn’t seen the last of Jill Roberts just yet. In 2011’s Scream 4, the fourth and final film in the series to be directed by late horror mastermind Wes Craven, Emma Roberts had a key role as Jill, Sidney’s (Neve Campbell) teenage cousin. In the end of the slasher movie sequel, it is revealed that — SPOILER ALERT — Jill is one of the two killers orchestrating the Ghostface murders....

The cast of Scream 6 continues to grow, with Henry Czerny becoming the latest actor to join the iconic slasher franchise, per reports from Deadline. Czerny is best known for playing Eugene Kittridge in 1996’s Mission: Impossible, a role he’s reprising in the final two Mission: Impossible films. He also collaborated with Scream 6 directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett on the 2019 slasher comedy Ready or Not. While Czerny’s Scream 6 role is being kept under wraps, keeping with the franchise tradition, we do have the official logline that reads: “The Scream saga continues with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter....

Scream VI is perhaps the most anticipated horror release of 2023, and long-time fans of the franchise have been hungry for information regarding the newest installment ahead of its March release date. Following the wildly successful release of the film’s trailer last month, more news has come to the surface regarding the film’s runtime. According to Regal Cinema and confirmed by Paramount, Scream VI will have the longest runtime of the films in the Scream franchise, at 123 minutes, or just over two hours....

Seth Rogen, star of Knocked Up, sent a tremor of fear throughout the fan community when it was announced that he would be getting behind the wheel of the Black Beauty in the upcoming The Green Hornet. In an interview with MTV, Rogen discussed his vision for the film. Rogen insists that The Green Hornet will be unlike anything seen before. “Just a few weeks ago, [co-writer Evan Goldberg and I] laid out our outline for the movie to the studio, and before the phone call, Evan and I were like, ‘This is not like any superhero movie - they might just hate that,’ " Rogen recalled....