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Marvel’s Jessica Jones has a new behind-the-scenes featurette that stars Krysten Ritter, Carrie-Anne Moss, Rachael Taylor, Eka Darville, and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg. The action-packed preview has been released ahead of the long-awaited second season. There’s more to Jessica’s story, and it takes a talented group of women on- and off-camera to do it justice, which the new featurette highlights. Jessica Jones returns for its second season on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2018 on Netflix....

John Cusack will star in The Numbers Station for Furst Films and Matador Pictures. We first reported on this project last September, when Malin Akerman joined the cast. That report also indicated Ethan Hawke was starring, although it seems he has dropped out since then. The story centers on a former black ops agent who lands a dead-end job protecting a CIA code operative in a Nevada desert station. They must fight for survival when the station comes under attack by unknown forces....

Jon Hamm was a big part of the enormous success of the critically-acclaimed Mad Men’s success, starring as the 1950s New York City ad man Don Draper. The series was the first basic-cable series to win the Emmy for Best Drama and the series recently capped off its successful second season. AMC recently talked with Hamm about the second season and the show in general and here’s what he had to say....

Kevin Hernandez talks Get the Gringo, on Blu-ray and DVD starting July 17th You may remember Kevin Hernandez as the adopted foster child with a strong taste for cherry bombing bathrooms in The Sitter. He returns this week in Get the Gringo, playing opposite Mel Gibson as a youngster forced to live inside a sprawling Mexican prison with his prostitute mother. We recently caught up with Kevin to chat about his experiences in bringing this film to the screen, and as it turns out, he and Mel Gibson have a lot more in common than exploding toilets....

Gary Oldman is set to reunite with director Christopher Nolan in the upcoming period thriller Oppenheimer. The film already features a stacked star cast, comprising Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and more. However, Oldman’s role won’t be a major one, and it only involves a day of filming. Gary Oldman is currently busy doing press for his spy thriller series Slow Horses, which premiered on Apple TV+ on April 1....

– New Line Cinema has launched a nationwide casting search to fill three roles, including the lead role of Tracy Turnblad, in its upcoming feature film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Hairspray, it was announced today by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of Hairspray and the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning Best Picture Chicago. The casting search will begin on Feb. 4 with an open call audition in Atlanta on the campus of Georgia State University....

We have our first look at Girls5eva season 2. At South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival, the Girls5eva cast was on hand to speak about the upcoming second season on Peacock. A sneak peek teaser has also been released, featuring a three-minute long scene from the series. Ahead of the show’s return to Peacock on May 5, you can watch the sneak peek scene below. In the first look footage, Gloria (Paula Pell) learns that he needs knee replacement surgery....

Executive producer and supervising animator Glen Keane talks Tangled Tangled will hit the shelves on Blu-ray and DVD on March 29, which is a landmark release because Tangled is the Walt Disney Pictures’ 50th animated movie. One of the driving forces behind this new spin on the Rapunzel tale is Glen Keane, who served as both the supervising animator and executive producer. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment recently held a virtual roundtable junket with Glen Keane, to discuss his experiences working on Tangled....

The definitive inside story continues when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Ultimate Editions arrive on Blu-ray and DVD June 14 from Warner Home Video. Created for fans of the world’s #1 film franchise, each Ultimate Edition features a new chapter of “Creating the World of Harry Potter,” a unique 8-hour documentary series with never-before-seen footage, intriguing stories and an authoritative insider look behind the films....

Shudder is set to have a strong 2022, acquiring many great recent horror films but also creating a slew of anticipated originals. They’ve recently released the critically-acclaimed movie The Last Thing Mary Saw and are set to release both Slapface and They Live in Grey in February, but Hellbender may currently be the film horror fans are awaiting with gory glee. The film is extremely unusual and very specific, and the trailer has especially opened the floodgates, sparking interest in this weird witchcraft wonder....

“It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes control;” it’s a phrase that will forever echo in the ears of die-hard fans. In 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was adapted from the stage to the screen. In April 1976, the movie found its home during the midnight time-slot at the Waverly Theater (now the IFC Center) in New York City. The midnight showing was the perfect opportunity for the fans of both stage and screen to come together and share their love of the experience....

Fox has won the bidding war for the rights to Will Smith’s 2005 theatrical comedy Hitch, which is now being turned into a television series, according to Deadline TV. The Proposal screenwriter Pete Chiarelli will pen the pilot episode, with Will Smith and James Lassiter’s Overbrook Entertainment producing. Overbrook previously tried to turn the movie into a TV series three years ago at CBS with writer Ben Wexler. This new version is described as an, “action-packed one-hour” series, although it isn’t clear how the action elements will be introduced into the series....

The creator of Scored to Death: The Dark Art of Scary Movie Music is raising funds on Kickstarter. Author and filmmaker J. Black Fichera is producing and directing the film based on his popular Scored to Death book series. The feature-length documentary is currently in production, and over $13,000 of a $40,000 goal has been raised already. Both Scored to Death: Conversations with Some of Horror’s Greatest Composers and Scored to Death 2: More Conversations with Some of Horror’s Greatest Composers explored the art of creating music for horror movies through in-depth interviews....

The creative team behind The Darkness, Paul Jenkins, Ron Marz and artist Phil Hester, gave CBR News an update on the development of a feature film based on the Top Cow property. The comic’s central theme is the power known as The Darkness and its wielders. The Darkness is an ageless power dating back beyond human history. The Darkness is passed down a family line from father to son, leaving the previous user (and taking his life) as his first child is conceived....

Jessica Jones is the last show standing when it comes to Marvel Originals on Netflix. The final episodes are set to debut later this month. Today, we finally have the full-length trailer for this grand climax, with season 3 bringing it all to a close on June 14. We also have the final poster for Jessica Jones season 3. When Jessica (Krysten Ritter) crosses paths with a highly intelligent psychopath, she and Trish (Rachael Taylor) must repair their fractured relationship and team up to take him down....

The Hollywood Vampires are going to go back on the road. Following Johnny Depp’s recent trial win, the Edward Scissorhands star’s band — a supergroup that also includes Alice Cooper, Joe Perry, and Tommy Henriksen — has announced a new European tour to kick off next summer. The tour will begin just under a year from now on June 20, 2023. Six shows have been announced at this time. The tour launches at Rudolf-Weber Arena in Oberhausen, Germany, with subsequent stops including Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany; Stadtpark in Hamburg, Germany; Citadel Music Festival, Zitadelle Spandau, in Berlin, Germany; and Summer in the City, Zitadelle Mainz, in Mainz, Germany....

Comedy Central confirmed Thursday that its late night talk shows The Jon Stewart Show and The Colbert Report will return to the air on January 7th, two months after going dark on the day the Writers Guild of America strike against the major studios and nets began November 5th. Variety reports that The Jon Stewart Show and The Colbert Report will resume production a week after the scheduled return of NBC’s Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, CBS’ David Letterman and Craig Ferguson and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel....

Twentieth Century Fox has set Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz to write X-Men: First Class. He had the option to direct the superhero feature as well, but opted out. According to Variety, Schwartz (The O.C. and NBC’s Chuck) is expected to inject a next-gen sensibility into the superhero series, which has earned $1.2 billion worldwide. Fox is keeping quiet on plans and declined to confirm details of the project. Fox has been leaning toward using the younger characters introduced in the previous pics in future installments – teenagers with powers taught at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning....

The busiest man in show business extrapolates on bullies, male frontal nudity, and his next directorial effort with Adam Sandler Taking a break from his directorial duties, entertainment’s busiest worker bee, Judd “The Smartest Person in Hollywood” Apatow, has stepped into the producer’s seat to bring us this month’s new comedy Drillbit Taylor. Kristofor Brown and Seth Rogen wrote the film from a forty-page script treatment by Edmond Dantes (a pseudonym for the legendary John Hughes)....

Even though Kaley Cuoco was one of the best parts of the comedy series The Big Bang Theory, her name was never up for an Emmy or Golden Globe for making the character of Penny so uniquely memorable. But, as they say, “it is better to be late than never,” her talents have finally been recognized as her HBO Max series The Flight Attendant has earned her not one but two nominations in the recently released list of Golden Globe 2021 nominees....