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After just one critically-acclaimed season, FX’s The Bridge is already considered among the best shows TV has to offer, winning a coveted Peabody Award earlier this year, alongside highly-lauded programs such as Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black and Scandal. A few weeks ago, I was invited to attend the red carpet premiere for Season 2 of The Bridge, which debuts Wednesday, July 9 at 10 PM ET on FX with “Yankee”, it became immediately clear that the show is not resting on its laurels....

The famous This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia has found his new project. Ventimiglia, who started his career on television on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is now set to headline a new show. The Company You Keep will be an adaption of a hit Korean drama series. The new series will find its home on the Disney-backed ABC network and receive a formal pilot order. With This Is Us in its final season, you will soon see him again on your TV screen....

Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, has posted on his official website that Sam Elliot has been cast as Lee Scoresby in The Golden Compass, which arrives in theatres on December 7, 2007: The film of The Golden Compass is progressing very well. I spent yesterday at the studios in Shepperton, meeting some of the cast, including Sam Elliott, who’s playing Lee Scoresby. Sam’s resemblance to the Lee in my mind is just astonishing....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has pulled out all the stops when it comes to delivering a Marvel movie like no other, with cameos from every corner of Marvel’s movies and TV shows being promised by director Sam Raimi. While speaking to Rolling Stone ahead of the arrival of the movie, Raimi has addressed how approaching a movie that incorporates non-MCU characters has to be handled in a certain way, as while the audiences may know some of these characters very well, it is unlikely that the likes of Stephen Strange have encountered them before....

In 2020, co-director Aaron B. Koontz released the horror comedy anthology film Scare Package to success among horror lovers. Now, Koontz is following it up with the upcoming Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge. The first film featured several short vignettes, each helmed by a different director poking fun at a particular horror genre trope. While not particularly well-known in the mainstream, Scare Package was successful on AMC Networks’ supernatural-themed streaming service Shudder....

Thanks to the reboot trend of bringing back old favorites, the Scream franchise has been resurrected for its fifth installment. Perhaps it is the self-awareness that makes the Scream franchise so popular even today, according to the NY Times, and the way they use a meta-style that mixes horror and comedy to create an interesting experience. Whether that is the case or not, Scream has officially hit the 10th highest-grossing horror franchise of all time....

Los Angeles County prosecutors announced Wednesday that former Scrubs executive producer Eric Weinberg was arrested on Tuesday on several felony sexual assault charges. Per the district attorney’s office, the 18 charges against Weinberg include rape, forcible sexual penetration, attempted forcible penetration with a foreign object, oral copulation, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, and assault by means of force likely to cause great bodily injury. Weinberg, 62, is accused of luring several young women to his home under the guise of a photo shoot before sexually assaulting them....

There’s no denying that Sherlock Holmes is popular. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle originally wrote four novels and 56 short stories about the famous detective, and many imitators have continued to add to the canon. Even now, movies and TV show adaptations continue to get made based on the original series. However, none have been nearly as popular as The Hound of the Baskervilles. Though it is the third book in the novel series, it somehow manages to get adapted the most....

Silent Night, Deadly Night released during the holiday season in 1984, and with it followed a slew of criticism and controversy all across the board. Some fans of the horror genre loved it; others were appalled by its blatant antagonizing of the Santa Claus figure and considered it offensive to Christmas as a whole. Film critics also had their opinions on the film, deeming it blasphemous to a downright display of distasteful cinema....

You can bring the most inspirational drama of 2008 home on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of this month. Slumdog Millionaire will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 31. The standard DVD will be priced at $29.98 SRP while the Blu-ray, which will come with a Digital Copy, will be priced at $39.98 SRP. The film stars Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Madhur Mittal. Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, is about to experience the biggest day of his life....

Sony Pictures has released their second batch of sneak peek images for their films coming out in 2007, including Resident Evil: Extinction, Perfect Stranger with Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, 30 Days of Night with Josh Hartnett, and The Other Boleyn Girl starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson and Eric Bana. Click an image below to access the film’s fresh gallery of preview images. Movie Picture Starring Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan, Patti D’Arbanville, Clea Lewis...

Annapurna Pictures announced today that they have purchased the U.S distribution rights to Harmony Korine’s new film, Spring Breakers, the American college pop-culture and music-fueled story following the adventure of four young girls gone wild on spring break. Additional distribution information will be revealed at a later date. Annapurna’s Megan Ellison is also included as an Executive Producer on the film. Written and directed by Harmony Korine, the film stars James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, Heather Morris, and Gucci Mane, and is produced by Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, David Zander and Charles-Marie Anthonioz....

Starz Home Entertainment, in co-production with Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, Inc., is leading the pack with the first of two brand new, full-length, animated feature films created by fantasy maestro Stan Lee. On January 9, 2007, experience the wonders of a teenage world turned upside down with the release of the animated feature, Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic. Created by the originator of comic book icons like Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and The Hulk, Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic is a powerful new adventure that brings the New Year in with a bang....

Based on Stephen King’s 1982 novella The Body, Stand by Me is a 1986 coming-of-age comedy film. The movie follows a group of four boys who go on a hike and discover the dead body of a missing boy. Stand by Me, with its memorable soundtrack, is a brilliant film, portraying a variety of themes including loss of innocence and the trauma of growing up. Perhaps, one of the most impressive things about the film is the impressive cast and the in-depth dialogues....

In 1983, two masters of horror converged to make a classic. John Carpenter, the director of Halloween (1978), added a tale from fellow horror master Stephen King to his impressive resume with Christine (1983). It is a film with the simplest of premises but introduces its insidious intentions right from the start. Carpenter establishes an eerie tone that carries throughout the film and jumps out at the audience with brute force when the occasion calls for it....

Netflix’s Stranger Things is gearing up to start production on Season 3, with all of the major stars securing sizeable raises ahead of production starting on April 23. A new report reveals that the main adult stars of the show, Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers) and David Harbour (Sheriff Jim Hopper) will be making $350,000 per episode, while most of the young stars are earning a reported $250,000 per episode, a raise of roughly 12 times their salary on previous seasons....

The Transformers franchise has been ongoing for almost 40 years now. In fact, the newest addition to the franchise Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is slated for a 2023 release. Throughout its multi-decade existence, hundreds of characters have been introduced in games, comic movies, and even toy-exclusive characters. The abilities, personal histories, and overall mythology of the entire series combined with media and merchandising have helped the entirety of the Transformers universe reach an estimated $29....

THERE WERE PIRATES UNDER THE TREE The DVD that most people gave as a gift at Christmas time turned out to be Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The movie returned to the top of the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart last week after being displaced a week earlier by Sony’s Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, which fell to fourth place. The football drama Invincible, also from Disney,bowed in second place, ahead of the dance drama Step-Up,yet another Disney film....

GANGING UP ON GANGSTER Revelations that most of the screenplay of American Gangsteris based on rumors and speculation and contains untrue accounts of what actually occurred could crush the film’s Oscar chances, the Associated Press observed Thursday in a feature story that contradicted many of the allegations in the movie. The wire service noted, for example, that Frank Lucas, the ’70s’ drug lord depicted in the movie by Denzel Washington, never employed caskets of Vietnam casualties to smuggle heroin and never provided information that led to the arrests of narcotics officers....

THE ELEPHANT’S IN THE ROOM Box-office analysts are predicting an elephant-sized take this weekend for the opening of 20th Century Fox’s Horton Hears a Who!, based on the Theodore Geisel/Dr. Seuss children’s classic. They are predicting that the animated movie, featuring the voices of Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Carol Burnett and Seth Rogen, will earn $50-60 million. The studio itself, perhaps well aware that such forecasts have been well off the mark in recent weeks, is conservatively predicting that the film will take in around $35 million....