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With the stressful lifestyles most of us are caught up in, and, not to forget, the toll taken on people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, vacations seem to be the ideal break. Whatever your vacationing style happens to be—whether it’s relaxing on a beach, mountain climbing, or backpacking through Europe, or something more low-key with friends, family, or partner(s) — a vacation is meant to relax, share new experiences, and enjoy the company of your travel companions....

HBO Max is ordering two reimagined seasons, with 24 episodes of the beloved animated series The Boondocks The series from creator Aaron McGruder will launch in Fall 2020 with a 50-minute special. All 55 episodes of the original The Boondocks series will also be available on the direct-to-consumer offering at launch. Based on the comic strip created by McGruder, The Boondocks both depicted and presaged the nation’s most roiling cultural issues, earning McGruder a Peabody Award, and the devotion of fans who see him as both the voice, and the Nostradamus of his generation....

What if The Boys was a family-friendly sitcom and not the blood-soaked, curse-filled violent romp that it’s known for? We can only imagine, and Prime Video is getting in on the idea by sharing a fun video on social media. The video reimagines a new intro for The Boys, presented as a sitcom that would have fit right in with the likes of classic sitcoms from decades ago. It’s The Boys as you’ve never seen it before, and you can check out the clip below....

The trailer itself is very much a teaser. It’s a series of very quick glimpses at scenes from the show, giving us the briefest of looks, with very little context, of the characters we’re set to follow. But it’s clear from the imagery alone that this isn’t going to be a show about do-gooders in tights who want to save the world. This looks to be a gritty, sultry and darkly comedic take on the superhero genre....

A spinoff film to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is in development from Paramount Pictures, according to reports from Deadline. The project is titled Sam and Victor’s Day Off, following the same-day adventure of the valets who took the Ferrari for a joy ride in the original 1986 film. The movie comes from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, who produce Sam and Victor’s Day Off. Richard Edson and Larry ‘Flash’ Jenkins play the unnamed Valet attendants in the original film, who will now be the film’s stars....

The Director discusses making the new film, the possibility of a fourth installment and what it would take to get him to do The Hobbit Having directed Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 Sam Raimi was destined to finish the third installment of the franchise, and complete the arc with the character of Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) that he’d laid out so brilliantly in the first two films. Spider-Man 3 gives us a new Peter....

Samsung has pulled back some Blu-ray artillery. In a story from Video Business, it seems that the manufacturer isn’t going to be releasing “its high-end third-generation player, the BD-P2400, in order to better focus on its other new 2007 models.” They company didn’t give a date for when the BD-P2400 would surface. Also, “Samsung has confirmed a mid-to-late December launch of its dual-format player, the BD-UP5000, which will be compliant with new Blu-ray Disc hardware requirements by the time titles featuring advanced Blu-ray technology, such as picture-in-picture interactivity, launch next year....

A suspected “Chinese spy balloon” is shot down in the cold open sketch for Saturday night’s new episode of SNL, and as the balloon himself makes it clear in an MSNBC interview, he’s clearly not too happy about it. The sketch begins with media coverage of the U.S. military shooting down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean. Now floating in the sea, the balloon (Bowen Yang) participates in an interview about the situation....

SCI FI Channel’s Mark Stern, EVP, Original Programming, announced today an aggressive slate of original scripted dramas, miniseries, alternative reality and late night series for the Channel. Already established as an industry leader with highly acclaimed and award-winning shows such as Battlestar Galactica, SCI FI Channel’s latest slate of high profile projects showcases top industry luminaries and offers imaginative, broad appeal entertainment. Scripted Series CAPRICA From executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick (Battlestar Galactica), writer Remi Aubuchon (24) and NBC Universal Television Studio, this new series is set over a half a century before the events that play out in Battlestar Galactica....

Shia LaBeouf, one of the fastest-rising stars in the world of film, has now been set for the new Indiana Jones movie, it was announced by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. He will join Harrison Ford who returns as the action hero, the man with the hat and the whip. Production on this fourth installment of the Indiana Jones adventure is scheduled to begin this June in Los Angeles and will also film at undisclosed distant locations....

Sinqua Walls, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz and Joel David Moore have joined the horror film Shark Night 3D from director David R. Ellis (The Final Destination and Snakes on a Plane) and producer Mike Fleiss, according to Heat Vision. Written by Jesse Studenberg and Will Hayes, the story revolves around seven men and women who spend a weekend at a lake house in Louisiana’s Gulf area. When their vacation quickly becomes a nightmare of hellish shark attacks, unheard of in freshwater lakes, they soon discover that the sharks are part of a sick, greedy plan on the part of several locals....

Universal Pictures announced today that its epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman will make a bold move into the early summer movie season with its new release date of June 1, 2012. The much anticipated film stars Twilight’s Kristen Stewart, Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Thor’s Chris Hemsworth and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Sam Claflin. This breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale from Joe Roth, the producer of Alice in Wonderland, and acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders (Halo 3 campaign) had originally been set for release in late December of next year....

Sofia Coppola is the queen of coming-of-age tales. From the dreamy dissection of girlhood in The Virgin Suicides to the rise and fall of kleptomaniac young socialites in The Bling Ring, the filmmaker is in her element when portraying the disillusionment of maturing. So, it was only natural when Coppola’s family production company American Zoetrope bought the rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland, a personal memoir about growing up with alongside a father with AIDS, soon after its publication in 2013....

Sony Pictures Imageworks has released a list of their current and upcoming projects: Sony Pictures Imageworks, the award-winning digital production company whose most recent project Hancock opens July 2, announced six major motion picture projects that are currently in production at the facility. The films include: Action thriller Eagle Eye for DreamWorks Pictures Mystery adventure Watchmen for Warner Bros. Pictures Dramatic thriller untitled Ridley Scott film for Warner Bros. Pictures...

Although it was always expected that Spider-Man: No Way Home would be the biggest movie of 2021, no one could have foreseen just how big the film would get beyond that. This weekend saw more records falling to the might of Tom Holland’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man as the movie of the moment stormed into the Top 10 worldwide movies of all time by not only passing former number ten Frozen II, but also 2012’s The Avengers and Furious 7 to claim the number 8 spot with both The Lion King and Jurassic World in its sights....

James Cameron makes George Lucas and Steven Spielberg re-edit their beloved classics to fit his PandoraVision 3D technology Are you ready to have all of your television content, your entire DVD collection and anything else you watch at home in 3D? If you have $4000 the above question can become a reality. With the overwhelming success of James Cameron’s Avatar at both the domestic and global box office, it seems that every studio, TV network and cable company has 3D fever....

It looks like we will still get a Static Shock movie set in the DC Extended Universe. After Warner Bros. merged with Discovery, the new management shook up the DC Films division by canceling several projects, including Batgirl, and changing the release schedule. And as the cancelation took effect, there were concerns about the status of other in-development projects at DC Films, including Static Shock. However, Static Shock writer Nikolas Draper-Ivey has positively updated the film’s status....

TNT has greenlit Murder in the First, a new scripted drama from Emmy-winner Steven Bochco and starring Taye Diggs (Private Practice) and Kathleen Robertson (Boss). Co-created by Bochco and Eric Lodal (The Locrian Mode), Murder in the First also stars Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Mimi Kirkland (Safe Haven), Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time), Ian Anthony Dale (Hawaii Five-0), Bess Rous (What Just Happened) and Steven Weber (Dallas, Wings). TNT has ordered 10 episodes of Murder in the First, which is being produced by TNT Originals....

Spoiler Warning: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season One When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered, it was quite a shock for some people to see the last name Noonien-Singh listed on the cast of characters. Star Trek fans will realize it indicates the same family as the dreaded villain Khan, the deadliest opponent the Enterprise ever faced. But the surprising part here was that it wasn’t Khan’s name on the roster but a descendant named La’an....

MOVIE REVIEWS: NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS Jerry Bruckheimer’s National Treasure: Book of Secrets is certainly not regarded as any treasure by most critics, but then the name Jerry Bruckheimer in the credits probably makes the film critic-proof. That’s something that several critics themselves acknowledge. Writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: “The person who attends National Treasure: Book of Secrets expecting logic and plausibility is on a fool’s mission. This is a Mouth Agape Movie, during which your mouth hangs open in astonishment at one preposterous event after another....