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We have seen the future of Star Wars and it could be on the small screen. The first live-action Star Wars television series in the four-decade history of the storied brand launches today with The Mandalorian, which debuted with the entry of Disney+ into the streaming wars. No spoilers, but take a look in the video…

The live-action superhero drama Titans has been renewed for Season 3 on DC Universe, the subscription streaming service that launched in September. The edgy, mature-themed Titans was the first DC Universe original series and its Season 2 is underway with new episodes available every Friday. The current season of Titans…

It’s been 35 years since the final episode of the ABC supernatural drama Fantasy Island — does the show still have a foothold in the public imagination? The trailer for the new Blumhouse Productions/Columbia Pictures revival of the brand name suggests that it doesn’t much matter. That’s because this new interpretation…

It’s all hands on deck in the new masked-man teaser from The CW. The largest assembly of superheroes in the history of live-action television will suit up for "Crisis On Infinite Earths," the mega-crossover event that begins Dec. 8 on The CW and unties the entire Arrowverse family of franchises:  Arrow, The Flash, Supe…

Roland Emmerich, the filmmaker behind Independence Day, Midway, 2012, White House Down, and Stargate, will be honored with the VES Visionary Award by the Visual Effect Society. The German-born director-producer-screenwriter will be feted on January 29 at the 18th Annual VES Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Bestowed…

Eli Roth’s History of Horror will live again. AMC has renewed the fake-blood retrospective by the Hostel director for a six-episode second season that will include a deep dive into the cinema realms of magic-weilding witches, misshapen monsters, and infamously evil youngsters. Season 2, which will also appear on AMC…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Netflix has landed the landed feature film rights to The Unsound, based on the BOOM! Studios' graphic novel by Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Harrow County) & Jack T. Cole. Shazam! director David F. Sandberg is poised to return to the horror genre, where he helmed Lights Out and Annabell…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating with Colin Farrell to play The Penguin in the Matt Reeves-directed The Batman. If the deal closes, he will round out the trio of villains going against Rob Pattinson's Caped Crusader, with Paul Dano as The Riddler and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman. The Irish-born actor has turned in an…

The most unexpected beef of 2019 — Martin Scorsese vs the Marvel Universe — continued on Monday with The Irishman and Goodfellas auteur firing off another salvo this time via a New York Times Op-Ed piece. In the lengthy article, Scorsese frames the phenomenally successful Marvel brand as an economic enemy of cinema…

Striving to get the sixth and likely final Game of Thrones book finished, George R.R. Martin is rather juiced about HBO's recent announcement of a straight-to-series order for prequel The House of the Dragon and sanguine about the fiery death of another prequel to the Emmy-winning blockbuster. “It goes without saying…

Netflix has a new The Witcher trailer for Halloween. The streamer will have a premiere by Christmas. All eight episodes of The Witcher Season 1 will premiere globally on December 20, Netflix said. The trailer and the release date were unveiled at a pop culture convention Thursday in Tuscany. The series is based on the…

Pennyworth, the stylish one-hour drama devoted to the edgy, early-day exploits of Batman’s British butler, will return for a second season on Epix. The 10-episode Season 2 will begin filming in January at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK. The series stars Jack Bannon in the title role and Ben Aldridge as young…