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It’s official, the Roseanne spin-off series The Conners will premiere this October. The announcement comes a few months after ABC canceled the Roseanne revival series after creator Roseanne Barr made some racist posts on Twitter. The comedian has since apologized for her behavior in a few pretty bizarre ways that seem to have actually made everything worse. With that being said, the spin-off idea was hatched pretty early on during all of the controversy, and was officially announced a few weeks after all of the dust had settled....

Deadpool has long been one of the most popular Marvel Comics characters, and the love from fans only grew with his big-screen debut in 2016. The first Deadpool film was unlike anything that had been produced since the superhero genre exploded in 2000, with Wade Wilson’s origin story being a blood-soaked, fourth-wall-breaking, action-comedy. Deadpool was not only brought to life on-camera by Ryan Reynolds, but the actor had a significant role in putting the film together behind the scenes as well....

Ryan Reynolds has over the years grown from a young up-and-coming star into one of Canada’s most recognized and renowned actors, having appeared in many big-budget movies such as Deadpool, Detective Pikachu and Free Guy. Now he is being honored in his home country by having a street named after him in the capital city of Ottawa, where he briefly spent part of his youth. Both Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively, are heavily involved in charity work, and along with millions raised for the likes of the Chicago-based Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, as well as Feeding America and Food Banks Canada, they have also donated generously to charities in Reynolds’ old hometown....

A courtroom drama is all about getting to the truth. “You can’t handle the truth!” shouted Jack Nicholson from the stand in A Few Good Men, and maybe that’s sometimes the case. Mostly, though, we just can’t understand the truth. Saint Omer turns the legal drama of courtroom movies on its head by peering straight into the mysterious void of the human heart and finding more questions than answers. Alice Diop’s film takes a true crime case and depicts it with intense formalism and rigid accuracy, only to discover the same impasse which haunts nearly every crime (and every person) — you can’t really know what’s going on in someone else’s head....

Veteran actor Samuel L. Jackson wants a recount after being told that he doesn’t hold the record for most onscreen profanities spoken in feature films. For decades, Jackson has been known to play characters who don’t hold back when it comes to the foul language, all the way down to the custom message his Pulp Fiction persona has embroidered on his wallet to the way he expresses his frustrations with snakes on a plane....

30 Days of Night is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on February 26, and we wanted to celebrate this wonderful new dark disc, high-def style. We’re giving away copies of the Blu-Ray version of this David Slade film, and these will surely go fast, so enter up as fast as your fingers can fly! Winners Receive: 30 Days of Night Blu-Ray disc CLICK HERE to enter this huge giveaway! Hard Candy director David Slade took the helm for this adaptation of Steve Niles’ terrifying comic-book series of the same name....

Julia Leigh’s directorial debut, Sleeping Beauty, caused quite a stir when it debuted earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival. Its frank subject matter and stark portrayal of a sexually blase college student is certainly interesting, but not nearly as much as expected after the festival hype. Emily Browning (Sucker Punch) stars as Lucy, an emotionally distant college student who struggles financially with menial jobs. Whiling away as a copy girl and waitress, she spends her nights having random sexual encounters....

We all know the classic phrase, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Give that woman the powers belonging to a Kryptonian, and you just know things are going to get interesting. And that’s what we had this week on Smallville. I should start off by saying I wasn’t looking forward to this episode - the “Clark’s love interest gets his powers” plotline has really worn me out. But I was pleasantly surprised by “Wrath”....

Spoiler Warning: Solar Opposites Season 2 Solar Opposites announced on their Twitter that the show would be returning for another season starting July 13, 2022, and we’re all hoping for more sci-fi weirdness along with it. Every passing season before this has been so full of surprises it would be impossible to speculate what we could see in season 3. Or maybe everything that we speculate could happen. Perhaps Korvo and Terry have built a speculation machine designed to harvest our ideas and turn them into show material....

He’s a demon on wheels, and he’s coming to Apple TV+. That’s right, the streaming service has officially ordered a live-action reboot of the beloved racing anime. According to Deadline, the series will be produced by Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. Right now the details aren’t very clear, but supposedly the project will be written by Hiram Martinez (Snowpiercer) and Ron Fitzgerald (Westworld). The two are also set to be executive producers/co-showrunners....

Halloween fans may be happy to know that a movie about Spirit Halloween, the specialty store that opens during the trick-or-treat season every year to sell costumes and other spooky novelties, is in the works. Variety reports that the popular store has partnered up with Strike Back Studios, Hideout Pictures, and Particular Crowd to develop a family-friendly feature that’s simply called Spirit Halloween. On board to star in the film are Back to the Future favorite Christopher Lloyd and She’s All That star Rachel Leigh Cook....

This article contains spoilers for Squid Game.Last year on September 17th, Netflix’s survival/mystery/thriller series Squid Game hit the streaming service and took the world by storm, making history with its Emmy wins. The show follows the lives of indebted participants or ‘contestants’ as they compete in a series of games in an attempt to win billions of dollars. Sounds fun, right? The only catch is if any of the participants fail in any of the contests, they are killed as a result of the game or by guards wearing strange uniforms....

Netflix’s Iron Fist is one of the only Marvel properties to attend this year’s San Diego Comic-Con and it’s teasing something big ahead of the panel this Friday. In a new video promoting Season 2 and the Comic-Con appearance, a hint about Steel Serpent’s presence in the upcoming season has been made and it could be just the kick that the show needs after lackluster reviews for the first season. One of the more common complaints is that there weren’t enough fight scenes for one of the greatest martial artists in Marvel history, but if Steel Serpent is involved, Season 2 is about to get a lot more action....

YouTube Red has released the first trailer for Step Up: High Water, the latest offering from the streaming service to be based on a hit movie series. Production is already under way on the Karate Kid revival series entitled Cobra Kai, with YouTube Red also ordering a pilot for Impulse, based on the same novel series that spawned the movie Jumper. This time around, Lionsgate is teaming up with YouTube red for Step Up: High Water, which is based off the hit Step Up movies that have grossed over $650 million worldwide....

Leading up to the highly anticipated season finale tomorrow, Oct. 11 at 8pm ET/PT, Audience Network is pleased to announce that it has picked up this year’s break-out show, Mr. Mercedes, for a second season. Production for the 10 one-hour episodes is scheduled to begin in February of 2018 in Charleston, South Carolina with the premiere launching later in the year. The series is produced by Sonar Entertainment. Here’s what David E....

After a year of very impatient waiting, Stranger Things season 2 is just around the corner. Netflix is dropping the highly-anticipated second season this weekend, just in time for Halloween, and fans are feeling anxious. Netflix is aware of just how excited fans are for the new season and, that being the case, they’ve decided to include a fun Stranger Things Easter egg on their app that turns Netflix into the Upside Down....

GREY PREDICTS HE’LL WORK WITH CRUISE AGAIN After a week of silence, Paramount Chairman Brad Grey has finally commented on the decision by his boss, Sumner Redstone, to cut off ties with Tom Cruise’s production company. In an interview with Newsweekmagazine, Grey said, “Sumner is a maverick. He said what he felt, and that’s his prerogative. He certainly didn’t ask my permission, and I’m certain, knowing Sumner as I do, that he felt no obligation to....

HARD KNOCKS FOR PIRATES Although it faced no competition from the opening of another summer blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s Endsaw its ticket sales plunge 68 percent in its second weekend to $44.2 million. It was the biggest second-week drop of any summer tentpole flick, and several analysts attributed the drop to an absence of repeat business. Particularly troubling – galling even – for studio executives who have routinely been pouring $100-200 million into such films is that Universal’s Knocked Up debuted in second place with $30....

RECORD HAUL IN SPIDEY’S OVERSEAS WEB Setting the stage for what almost certainly will be an auspicious bow in the U.S. on Friday, Spider-Man 3 debuted in about a dozen countries Tuesday and set opening-day records in virtually all of them. (Ticket sales in some countries were not immediately reported.) In Japan, the film took in $3.46 million, beating the previous record holder, Spider-Man 2, which opened with $3.42 million. Sony distribution chief Jeff Blake said that the movie also bested opening day records in Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines....

MOVIE REVIEWS: THE HEARTBREAK KID The Heartbreak Kid, starring Ben Stiller and directed by the Farrelly brothers, is a remake of a 1972 movie by the same name that starred Charles Grodin, was written by Neil Simon, and was directed by Elaine May. “That movie was better in every way,” comments Roger Ebert in his review of the new one, which he calls “a squirmy miscalculation of tone.” Ebert is by no means alone....