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‘The Hate U Give’ Is Available To Rent For Free On Digital Platforms As Protests Supporting Black Lives Matter Continue As the protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement continue across the country, more and more people are looking for movies and shows to watch that address the root issues of that movement. (And no,The Helpisnot exactly the best available option.) Studios and filmmakers are making some particularly relevant movies free to rent, and it’s hard to get more relevant than 2018’sThe Hate U Give, which involves the police shooting an unarmed black man, and what happens when the officer’s non-conviction inspires massive protests and riots....

‘Witness Protection’ Will Let ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Star Annie Murphy Try Out Her Movie Star Chops Alexis Rose would be proud. The woman who portrays that character onSchitt’s Creek,Emmy winnerAnnie Murphy, is set to star and executive produce a movie calledWitness Protection. Murphy has been busy with TV and streaming work, but this is her first starring role in a feature film. Discovering Your Identity While Hiding It Witness Protectioncenters on a woman who spent her life defining herself by her romantic relationships....

Adam McKay And Seth Rogen Team For New Comedy Some very funny people are about to join forces.Adam McKayis set to direct an untitled comedy written byBen SchwartzforWill Ferrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions, withSeth Rogenattached to star. Schwartz will also co-star. In addition to starring, Rogen will produce alongside his usual partnerEvan Goldberg. Hit the jump for more details on the new Adam McKay Seth Rogen comedy. THRreported the news. No details have been given about the plot of the new movie....

AMC Will Allow Minors To See ‘Bully’ With Parental Permission There’s been a strange turn of events in the tale of The Weinstein Company’s upcoming documentaryBully. The latest info was the film, whichwas in danger of being saddledwith an R-rating the studio deemed unfair,would be released unrated and uncut. Normally, that would mean the film could not play in most major movie chains as they don’t playunrated or NC-17 rated movies....

Baby Yoda’s Name Was Decided During ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 1, And Ahsoka Tano Was There When George Lucas Held Him One of the biggest revelations to come out of last weekend’s episode ofThe Mandalorianwas the real name of Baby Yoda. His name is Grogu, and executive producerJon Favreauhas known that since the first season, but it was fellow executive producerDave Filoniwho figured out how to finally reveal it with the debut ofRosario Dawsonas Ahsoka Tano....

Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley Confirms Kate And Anthony’s Story Will Continue In Season 3 As Ashley explained during dinner, there’s way more ofAnthony and Kate’s storyto tell: “We’re going to be back! Kate and Anthony are just getting started … We have the amazing Jess Brownell who is taking the lead as showrunner in season 3. In season 2, there was a lot of push and pull between Kate and Anthony, there were complications with the family, and then they find each other towards the end....

Charlie Brown And New ‘Peanuts’ Specials Are Coming To Apple Fire up the Vince Guaraldi music: newPeanutsspecials and series are headed to Apple. Charlie Brown, Snoopy and all the other giant-headed children will be headed to Apple’s upcoming streaming service. New specials include short-form STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) content, featuring Snoopy in space. According toDeadline, Apple has signed a deal with DHX Media to produce newPeanutscontent, including new series, specials and shorts inspired by the comic strip created by Charles M....

Charlie Kaufman Wasn’t Pleased With ‘Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind’ It’s not an accidentConfessions of a Dangerous Mindwasn’t shown as last week’sCharlie Kaufmanretrospective. Although theAnomalisawriter and co-director received sole credit onGeorge Clooney’s directorial debut, he had very little involvement in the film, and he wasn’t happy with the end result. After the jump, read Charlie Kaufman’s thoughts onConfessions of a Dangerous Mind. I remember listening to George Clooney and cinematographerNewton Thomas Sigel’s audio commentary for the film, and I was surprised that not once did Clooney even mention Kaufman....

Cloverfield: Slusho Appears On Heroes The stars ofHeroeshave a new favorite frozen drink, and it may look somewhat familiar. The following photos showed up on theblogofHeroesdirector/producer Greg Beeman of the cast of the hit show drinking “Slusho!” a drink which first appeared in the JJ Abrams' series Alias, and has now become a focal point of the viral marking behind the hot JJ Abrams produced monster flickCloverfield. So what will Heroes have to do with the upcoming movie?...

College Double Dare: Marc Summers Wants To Reboot ‘Double Dare’ RememberMarc Summers? The producer of food network shows likeRestaurant: Impossible, most people from my generation probably know Summers better as the host of the Nickelodeon television game showDouble Dare(and in later incarnations,Super Sloppy Double Dare, Family Double DareandDouble Dare 2000). The show was an 1980’s classic, combining trivia questions with messy physical challenges and the climactic Obstacle Course. Now Summers has an new spin which could bring back the television game show which has been credited for putting Nickelodeon on the map....

Cool Stuff: Mondo’s Epic ‘John Carter’ Poster, Available For Free At IMAX Midnight Screenings On Opening Day Disney’sJohn Carterhas had a rough go of it on the marketing front — a tracking report leaked last week showed “shockingly” low public interest in the film, and you don’t need statistics to know that the trailers and teasers so far have been kind of a mess. Such a mess, in fact, that one particularly devoted fan was able to createthe movie’s best trailer yetusing clips that had already been released....

DC Comics TV Round-Up: ‘Doom Patrol’ Renewed For Season 3, ‘Young Justice’ Season 4 Title Revealed & More A second round of DC FanDome unfolded over the weekend, and though it wasn’t anywhere near as star-studded or exciting as thefirst round of the virtual convention, there were still some new tidbits of information revealed on the DC Comics television side of things. Below, we’ve rounded up the more noteworthy reveals that might be of interest, includingDoom Patrolgetting renewed for a third season, the fourth season title forYoung Justice, and some details on the upcoming seasons ofPennyworth,DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,Superman & Lois, andBatwoman....

Dexter Season 8 Confirmed As Last, For Real This Time; Watch The Sneak Peek It’s been all but confirmed for a while now thatDexter’s upcoming eighth season would be its last, but now the end is actually, officially, 100% confirmed. Showtime announced today that the serial killer drama would come to a close after the new season, which kicks off this summer. Just how the Bay Harbor Butcher’s story ends remains to be seen, but the network offered a small taste of the final chapter in a new sneak peek video....