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CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, today announced the latest addition to its original programming slate, The Twilight Zone. The new series will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films. Jordan Peele, Simon Kinberg and Marco Ramirez will serve as executive producers for the series and collaborate on the premiere episode....

Last month, lesbian queen of all the land Kate McKinnon exited Saturday Night Live after 10 years. With a promising career outside the acclaimed comedy sketch show, McKinnon is sure to become even more of a household name like other SNL alumni. McKinnon was a fan favorite from the start, whether she impersonated a celebrity, politician, or a character of her own imagination. While her impersonations appeared in many sketches, her characters appeared on The Weekend Update many times, cementing her ability to make everyone on the set break character....

The Los Angeles Times recently caught up with director Kenneth Branagh about his highly-anticipated superhero film Thor, which is set for a May 6, 2011 release. Here’s one of Branagh’s quotes from the article. Branagh also talked about the rumors that actor Anthony Hopkins was unhappy with Branagh’s direction on the set, which Branagh responded to by saying the shoot is running smoothly. “Inspired by the comic book world both pictorially and compositionally at once, we’ve tried to find a way to make a virtue and a celebration of the distinction between the worlds that exist in the film but absolutely make them live in the same world,” Branagh said....

For the last few weeks we have been told that the MCU’s Spider-Man 4, 5, and 6 are in development, but not officially, or maybe officially, but then again maybe now. Finally, the man in the know, Kevin Feige, has confirmed that talks are in progress for the fourth solo movie of Tom Holland’s Spider-Man within the MCU, but they are only in the very early stages. While it seemed that this was a likely outcome, having word from the Marvel Studios boss is probably the one thing that stops the rumors and questions....

Kingdom Hearts is one of the biggest game franchises ever released by Sony since it first hit the PlayStation 2 in 2002. However, it could also have been a massive TV series too if a planned animated series based on the Disney and Square Enix collaboration had gone ahead. Now almost two decades later, director Seth Kearsley has revealed some details about the lost project, which include a VHS tape that seems to contain an early version of the proposed pilot of the show....

I was wondering if you could talk a bit about how you came into this role and what your first reaction to the pilot script was? Laura Leighton: I loved the pilot script. It was one of those scripts that, while everybody is reading everything else that is out there, really stood out. I think a lot of people were really excited about it on the page and I felt very lucky to get one of those grown-up roles....

The summer movie season will close out with The Weinstein Company’s Lawless in late August, director John Hillcoat’s true-story adaptation about the bootlegging Bondurant brothers. Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, and Jason Clarke star as the Bondurant’s, who peddle their moonshine throughout Virginia’s Franklin County in the 1920s. Today, the studio is debuting the first in a series of six infographic posters, that give us some more insight into the history of bootlegging and moonshine in the Depression Era....

When Lilo and Stitch was released in theaters in June 2002, nobody could have expected it to be the unexpected hit Disney animation needed. After a successful run in the 90s known as the Disney Renaissance with films like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King the animation studio hit a rough spot in the 2000s. The studio had high-profile disappointments like The Emperor’s New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and the film following Lilo and Stitch, Treasure Planet would be one of the biggest bombs in the studio’s history....

The world has lost a trailblazer of cinema. Lina Wertmüller, the first woman to gain a Best Director nomination at the Academy Awards, passed away on December 9th. She was living in Italy at the time. The Italian press first reported her death, stating that she was “surrounded by her daughter and loved ones”. Wertmüller was born in Rome in 1928. Her father was a lawyer of Swiss descent and her mother was born in Rome....

With Stranger Things season four incoming, it is hard to believe that the series could have been just one season long. However, star Gaten Matarazzo recently recalled how he and the rest of the cast were told to “enjoy it while it lasts,” as no one thought the series would be commissioned for a sophomore season. Now the show is one of the biggest original series in Netflix’s history, being a hit with both audiences and critics alike, and is heading towards its ultimate conclusion across two final seasons....

While we have seen Giancarlo Esposito playing many antagonist roles, but it seems like his character from The Boys is the one who stands out for the actor as the most frightening of them all. In the first three seasons, Esposito has played Stan Edgar, introduced as the head of Vought International. He plays an integral role in developing a world of superheroes by literally creating them with a special drug called Compound V....

Tommy Wirkola directs Jeremy Renner, Gemma Arterton, and Famke Janssen in the fantasy adventure Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, which comes to theaters this March. Entertainment Weekly has debuted a first look photo featuring Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as the infamous siblings who are now grown adults, and in the business of hunting witches. Check out the image below, along with more info about the movie and the upcoming trailer, which hits Thursday, December 8th....

You can bring a critically acclaimed thriller home on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of August. Harry Brown will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 31. We don’t have any cover art images as of yet, but you can take a look at the synopsis and special features below. The film stars Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles, and David Bradley. A modest law-abiding citizen, Harry Brown (Michael Caine) is a retired Marine and a widower who lives alone on a depressed housing estate....

The Good This show always put our interesting characters in action or suspense filled environments. The Bad No extra features. Jonathan and Jennifer Hart return for 20 hour long episodes that make us yearn for the simplistic period known as the 1980s. With the help of their faithful friend Max we see Jonathan and Jennifer deal with Jonathan’s amnesia (“What Murder?”), Max taking center stage when his ex-wife appears looking for a stolen necklace (“Ex-Wives Can Be Murder”) and identity theft (“Homemade Murder”)....

In horror, many names are passed around as having significantly impacted the genre in film. Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sanchez are credited with being the foundation of found-footage horror. Sean S. Cunningham showed that passionate independence could create a compelling horror film. George A. Romero exhibited social commentary alongside his brain-eating monstrosities. But who, above all, was the true horror master? John Carpenter has done it all in horror. Never one afraid to wear many hats, Carpenter has been a composer, a producer, a writer, and a director....

Netflix is staying in the Mike Flanagan business as they have revealed his next series, Midnight Mass. This follows in the footsteps of Flanagan’s highly successful The Haunting of Hill House, which went on to become a huge hit for the streaming service. Now, the full cast and additional details for the upcoming horror show have been revealed. Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), Kate Siegel (The Haunting of Hill House) and Hamish Linklater (Legion) will lead the cast....

HBO First Look has just released its behind the scenes making of special on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. To find out more about the film, its young cast, and its director David Yates, you can click on the video clips below: In this sixth installment of the popular franchise, Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and Wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was....

Discussions for a sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm are also under way, according to HBO’s Albrecht. “We hoped we’d have something to be able to talk to you about today, but we’re working toward having it for 2007,” Albrecht said, adding later that the deal was “pretty close” to being done. In another news, Albrecht said that HBO will be cancelling it’s massive 1-hour series, Rome. HBO has deemed Rome a two-season-and-out series, and Albrecht reminded TV writers that the network has no set criteria for how it schedules and orders shows....

The late Australian actor Heath Ledger was awarded one of his country’s most prestigious film awards on Saturday for his final role as The Joker in the Batman movie The Dark Knight. Ledger, 28, who died of an accidental overdose of painkillers and other medicines in his New York apartment 11 months ago, was posthumously awarded the AFI (Australian Film Institute) international award for best actor. Advertisement Guests at a packed awards ceremony in Melbourne’s Princess Theater rose to their feet clapping, but with some in tears, to pay tribute to the actor who was nominated for an Oscar for his role as a taciturn gay cowboy in 2005’s Brokeback Mountain....

Before talkies became the mainstay and mainstream for films, silent films created cinema and were the common form of motion picture entertainment until around the end of the 1920s, when The Jazz Singer was released with synchronized sound. Nevertheless, the influences of silent films have been the foundation of Hollywood filmmaking, what with their emphasis on visuals to develop character without spoken dialogue, and they utilized some of the best practical effects of the time....