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Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut has found its next star in Keke Palmer. The Searchlight Pictures project will also be starring Bill Murray and Seth Rogen. Based on Atul Gawande’s non-fiction book of the same name, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End will mark Aziz Ansari’s first role as a filmmaker. Ansari wrote the script and will also be playing a role in the movie. While Palmer and Ansari have previously worked together as voice actors in the Ice Age franchise, Being Mortal will serve as their first live-action collaboration....

Batman: The Animated Series legend Kevin Conroy will provide the voice of The Dark Knight for the final time in the upcoming video game Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, it has now been confirmed. Conroy sadly passed away on November 10 from cancer, leaving fans wondering whether we would ever hear the actor’s iconic voice emanate from beneath the cowl ever again. Well, thankfully it has been revealed during The Game Awards that Conroy will indeed don the cape as Batman one last time....

The Good Imaginatively packaged and packed with extras that film historians can use, this is one of the best DVD releases ever assembled. The Bad I don’t like the fact that when you remove the shrink wrap the back cover comes with it. I went into King King not knowing something I probably should have known years ago. This movie is a sound picture. Here I am, graduate of college with a BA in Film Studies and I had no idea that this seminal piece of cinema was in fact not of the silent variety....

Director Rian Johnson’s whodunit murder mystery Knives Out was a pleasant surprise in 2019. The film starred Daniel Craig as the private detective Benoit Blanc, who was tasked with investigating a death in a rich, dysfunctional family. Knives Out featured an impressive ensemble cast that included Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, and Ana de Armas. It went on to win Best Cast at the Hollywood Critics Association Awards and the Satellite Awards....

Halloween Ends will soon be coming home, hitting Digital outlets this month with the 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD releases coming on Dec. 27. To promote the upcoming release, Universal Pictures has unveiled a clip from behind the scenes featuring Kyle Richards, who appears as Lindsey Wallace once again in the sequel. Wallace previously appeared in the original Halloween in 1978 along with last year’s sequel Halloween Kills. “I have survived all these years,” Richards says Lindsey’s longevity in the franchise....

The latest look at Black Adam teases the power, speed, brutality, and rage that the DC antihero will possess when he finally makes his big-screen debut later this month. A new clip from Black Adam has been shared by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson on social media, with the action movie superstar having been wanting to bring the character to theaters for many, many years. Check out the new clip from Black Adam below....

The upcoming drama Frank & Louis has boarded some strong talent for its titular leads. Per Deadline, Laurence Fishburne (John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, All the Old Knives) and Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld, Jockey) have been cast in the film that’s in the works from Participant, Zodiac Pictures, and Peachtree & Vine Productions. Petra Volpe (The Divine Order) is directing using a script co-written with Esther Bernstorff. No other cast members have yet been announced....

Lee Tergesen and Tony Curran have been tapped to star on Spike TV’s one-hour drama pilot A.M.P.E.D., from Fox 21 and co-creators/executive producers Frank Spotnitz and Vince Gilligan. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Steven Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle, who co-created and produced NBC’s The Pretender, have come on board the project as showrunners/executive producers, while Rob Lieberman (USA Network’s The Dead Zone) will direct the pilot and serve as an executive producer....

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese will be reunited once again with The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio will play Jordan Belfort, who pilfered millions of dollars from investors and was sentenced to 22 months in jail for securities fraud. His chop shop firm, Stratton Oakmont, also served as the inspiration for the 2000 movie Boiler Room. The project, which is an adaptation of Jordan Belfort’s book of the same name, was originally set up at Warner Bros....

Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Bros. are set to team up for a series of live-action motion pictures based on anime artist, Katsuhiro Otomo’s masterpiece, Akira . According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gary Whitta has been hired to write the adaptation, which DiCaprio will produce through his Appian Way production company. The films are being fast tracked for release in summer 2009. Each feature will be comprised of three of the books in Otomo’s series....

The Associated Press spoke to George Lucas about the animated TV series of Clone Wars that could air next year. The series is set during the time when the Republic is fighting a civil war against separatists led by Count Dooku. The mythic period hasn’t been dealt with too much in the popular Star Wars movies, so “it’s a fun place to go,” Lucas said. “There’s nobody famous,” Lucas told The Associated Press....

Years before social media had this much power over society, Gossip Girl had already warned us about the dangers of it, even though the characters in the series were not really paying attention. This teen drama show based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, adapted by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, aired from 2007 to 2012 on The CW network. It follows the exclusive and drama-filled lives of the Upper East Side’s high-class teens, who happen to be closely scrutinized by Gossip Girl, an anonymous blogger that thrives on chit-chat and seems to know everything....

The Good Solid acting, solid writing lifts up a hokey premise. The Bad If this is indy film than what is mainstream moviemaking? Gray Matters is a love triangle between a man, women and the man’s sister. Heather Graham plays Gray, a girl who wants to be in a relationship and wants her brother, Sam (Tom Cavanagh), to be in one as well. So she helps him meet Charlie (Bridget Moynahan) and they hit it off and proceed to engage in a shotgun wedding....

Halo may be new, but it has already proven to be a ratings success. According to Deadline, the Paramount+ tv show’s first episode broke the record for being the streaming service’s most-watched premiere worldwide in 24 hours. The achievement was higher than the previous record set by the Yellowstone spin-off 1883. Like many streaming series, no exact numbers were given for Halo. Given that 1883 drew 4.9 million audience members for its pilot, the numbers for the video game adaptation will be larger....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. Pictures’ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire worked some powerful and much-needed magic at the boxoffice this weekend, levitating an estimate of a $101.4 million pot in its North American bow. With about $80 million in international receipts, the worldwide boxoffice for Goblet stands at an impressive $181.4 million. The sensational domestic debut marked a new high for the franchise, the fourth-biggest nonholiday opening in boxoffice history and the largest opening in the fourth quarter....

Presiding over a packed house Wednesday, the third day of the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour in Pasadena, Albrecht told reporters that HBO will “definitely do” a new series from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball called True Blood, the vampire drama he has been developing for the past year, says Variety. Albrecht also gave a virtual greenlight to David Milch’s John From Cincinnati, a Hawaiian surf-set one-hour that HBO began developing several months ago....

HBO has renewed comedy series Insecure for a fifth season, announced by Amy Gravitt, executive vice president, HBO Programming. The ten-episode fourth season of Insecure debuted April 12 on HBO. The series stars Emmy, Golden Globe and NAACP nominee Issa Rae (The Photograph) who heads the ensemble cast, and continues to follow our favorite characters as they evaluate their relationships, both new and old, in an effort to figure out who and what comes with them in this next phase of their lives....

The Good The Bad The lives of Diana (Glenn Close), Isabel (Elizabeth Banks), Jonathan, (James Marsden) and Alec (Jesse Bradford) intersect in this “past catching up the the present” tale of love, hope, desire and commitment. This film revels in the fact that almost the whole time it is staying two to three steps ahead of the viewer. Diana is a drama teacher in an open marriage with a man who seems to have found another soulmate....

How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) was one of the beloved shows of its time, nabbing an impressive nine-year run during a time in which most series couldn’t sniff that level of success. The CBS series was so adored and popular that it inspired a spin-off series, How I Met Your Father starring Hillary Duff, eight years after its finale. This came despite the fact that HIMYM has not exactly aged well, considering the offensive and deprecating nature of its jokes, particularly towards women....

After receiving a series order last year, Syfy officially released the trailer for the upcoming science fiction mystery The Ark. The stakes are set from the moment the trailer begins and couldn’t be higher for the crew aboard Ark One. The interstellar drama comes from Stargate and Independence Day’s Dean Devlin and Stargate SG-1’s Jonathan Glassner, who both serve as showrunners and executive producers. Given both of their attachments to the widely popular Stargate franchise, audiences can expect a visually compelling sci-fi adventure with loads of action....