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‘Killing Eve’ Season 3 Ordered, With Yet Another New Showrunner Season 2 just started, butKilling Eveseason 3 is already a sure thing. The third season was officially announced by AMC, who air the show simultaneously with BBC America. Curiously, the third season will have a brand new showrunner, even though a new showrunner just stepped into season 2. This is a design, not a flaw, though, with the plan being to pass the series to a new female writer every season....

‘La Brea’ Season 1: Release Date, Cast, And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Every few years, a show or movie comes along that flings its characters across time and explores how they react in unfamiliar circumstances.Futureman,11.22.63,Alcatraz,Terra Nova,the list goes on – and considering how awful the world has seemed over the past few years, it’s no surprise that a new show is coming along to do the same thing to a fresh round of characters....

‘Landline’ Trailer: The ‘Obvious Child’ Team Reunites For A New Ensemble Dramedy DirectorGillian Robespierre’sObvious Childwas such a pleasant surprise for a lot of people back in 2014 thatnews she was reuniting with starJenny Slatefor a new movie calledLandlinewas greeted with cheers. Amazon Studios picked up the film and has debuted the first trailer for the dramedy, which is set in 1995 and focuses on a dysfunctional family with parents played byJohn TurturroandEdie Falco....

‘Lion King’ Cast Adds Amy Sedaris As New Character, Proving It’s Not A Shot-For-Shot Remake The cast for Disney’s remake ofThe Lion Kingis already very impressive, but we’re apparently not done learning about additional members of the ensemble. The latest:Amy Sedaris, who has some experience voicing animals throughBoJack Horseman, will play a new part inJon Favreaulive action-esque remake of they Disney classic. Sedaris' character is described as “an animal brand new to the kingdom....

‘The Crime Of The Century’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Tackles The Opioid Crisis How did opioids become the center of one of the worst public health crises in U.S. history? That’s what the new HBO documentaryThe Crime of the Centuryaims to find out. Directed byAlex Gibney— who won three Emmys in 2015 for his thorough Scientology docGoing Clearand an Oscar for his 2008 look at the U.S. torture and interrogation techniques in Afghanistan,Taxi to the Dark Side—The Crime of the Centuryis a new two-part documentary that examines how Big Pharma, political operatives, and government regulations led to the opioid crisis claiming half a million lives in this century....

‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Could Make $280 Million Worldwide This Weekend The Fate of the Furiousis a disappointing setback for the series, but as you all probably know, it’s still on its way to another massive opening weekend at the box-office. While box-office analysts don’t see it surpassingFurious 7’s opening in the United States, directorF. Gary Gray’s sequel is expected to land somewhere between $110 million to $125 million. The sequel may double that number worldwide, although some speculate it’ll make even more than $280 million this weekend....

‘The Meg’ Early Buzz: The Stupid, Fun, Bonkers Blockbuster You’re Hoping To See Summer is jam-packed with blockbuster action movies, and while some hope to be taken a little more seriously than others, there are always a couple that stand out as intentionally stupid fun.The Megis one of those movies. Described asJawson steroids,The Megbrings an event bigger shark to the crowded summer beach. But rather than facing a trio of ill-equipped men who have no idea how to deal with a shark, this time the titular prehistoric creature has to tangle with Jason Statham and a team of scientists....

‘The Purge: Election Year’ TV Spot: You Must Purge To Keep Your Country Great Even though it feels like it’s been an election year for much longer than a couple months, this year is officially the year when we elect a new President of the United States of America. And while the craziness of the primaries unfolded last night with yet another political debate between potential presidential candidates, an all too appropriate TV spot debuted for this year’s action thriller sequelThe Purge: Election Yeardebuted, taking cues from the political ads that we all get sick of seeing....

‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ Featurettes And Interviews Explore Scorsese’s Latest Martin Scorsese’s new film,The Wolf of Wall Street, is turning into one of the biggest firebrands of late 2013 as it provokes conversations about glorification versus excoriation of the film’s central character, and about our national obsession with getting rich. You won’t see too much of that in the official marketing, which is aimed squarely at getting across how much fun these characters have screwing people over....

‘Toy Story 4’ Teaser And Character Poster: Bo Peep Is Back, And This Time She’s Wearing Pants Bo Peepis back and this time, she’s no delicate porcelain figure. She’s traded her hoop skirt for pantaloons and her bonnet for a cute side ribbon in our first look at the long-missing toy in the latestToy Story 4teaser. After being absent fromToy Story 3, Bo Peep is making her big return with a brand new look....

A 30-Second Pep Talk Prevents Generations Of Fascism In Episode 6 Of Star Trek: Picard Last week’s recap of “Star Trek: Picard"was a lamentation that the series habitually skews away from philosophy and theme and pushes disappointingly headlong into the more pedestrian storytelling fundamentals of plot and action. Not that a thematically lightweight-yet-fascinating plot cannot carry an episode of “Star Trek” — the parallels between this season of “Picard” and the equally plot-forward film “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” are myriad — but in so doing, the showrunners have left behind a vital element of “Trek” that has always made it fascinating: It’s wrestling with ideas....

Andrew Garfield Says Being On Set With Tobey Maguire And Tom Holland Was Pretty Special (And Hilarious) At long last, the time for lies is over! Andrew Garfield has been freed from the shackles of Marvel secrecy and now that he’s no longer forced tolie directly to our faces, he can talk about histhrilling appearancein “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” This means a couple of very important things are finally in play: first, we can spend all our time showering Garfield with much deserved praise for being the funniest and most loveable part of the movie....

Apple’s Foundation Has An 8 Season Plan Five decades after Hollywood first set its sights on adapting Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction novel series “Foundation” for the screen, it’s about to debut as an AppleTV+ streaming series. David S. Goyer (“Batman Begins”) is the man who finally figured out a way to tell this story, which was famously dense on the page. (The “Foundation” novels make the often-brainy “Star Trek” feel like the more action-oriented “Star Wars” franchise....