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‘True Detective’ Season 3 Gets The Green Light, Grabs ‘Green Room’ Director Jeremy Saulnier HBO is officially moving forward withTrue Detectiveseason 3, which will starMahershala Ali(Moonlight). Here’s what makes this announcement especially sweet: Ali will be directed byJeremy Saulnier, the filmmaker behindGreen RoomandBlue Ruin. Saulnier and the show’s creator,Nic Pizzolatto, will direct the third season – which will unfold in three different time periods. Below, learn Detectiveseason 3. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Nic Pizzolatto wrote every episode of season 3, except for one he co-wrote with the creator ofDeadwoodandNYPD Blue,David Milch....

‘True Detective’ Season 3 Premiere Date Set For January 2019 True Detectiveseason 3 will hopefully redeem the season as a whole in January 2019. The new season, which stars which starsMahershala Ali,Carmen EjogoandStephen Dorff, tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks. The officialTrue Detectiveseason 3 premiere date can be seen below, along with new images from the show. It’s official:True Detectiveseason 3 arrives onJanuary 13, 2019....

‘Twin Peaks: The Return’ Review: The Best Scene In Part 6 (Each week, we’re going to kick off discussion aboutTwin Peaks: The Returnby answering one question: what was the best scene of the episode?) Twin Peaksis a mercurial show by nature, but one thing’s for sure about last night’s part 6: it wasn’t quite as taxing as last week’s. That’s damning with faint praise, considering part 5 wasone of the low points of the seriesfor me....

‘Vader Immortal’ Concept Art Teases Episode II, Where Darth Vader Teaches You To Use The Force The first episode of ILMxLAB’s new VR seriesVader Immortalis available now, allowing fans to step into the world ofStar Warsand be in the intimidating presence of Darth Vader. The Dark Lord of the Sith has been looking for a recruit to help him retrieve an ancient artifact, and wouldn’t you know it, you’re the one who finally has the skillset he needs to help retrieve it....

Animation Legend Don Bluth, Creator Of ‘The Land Before Time’ And More, Has Formed A New Animation Studio Don Bluthmade waves in the 1980s and 1990s as an animation alternative to what was being made by Walt Disney Animation Studios. With titles likeThe Secret of NIMH,The Land Before Time,An American Tail,All Dogs Go to Heaven,Rock-a-Doodle, andAnastasia, Don Bluth Productions carved out a nice niche for themselves during the Disney renaissance. Now he’s going to try again by ushering in a renaissance of their own with the recently founded Don Bluth Studios, which will be focusing on bringing hand drawn animation back in a big way....

Beyond Fest 2014 Features ‘Starry Eyes,’ ‘Nightcrawler’ And 4K ‘Halloween’ With John Carpenter And Jamie Lee Curtis For those who live in LA, October is a great month. Several theaters really orient the month’s programming to horror, the supernatural, and the strange. One of the best recent events in town isBeyond Fest, which in 2014 runs from September 25 to October 4. (Leaving fans the rest of October to enjoy horror at other venues!...

Boyhood Budget: How Much Did It Cost To Shoot A Movie For 12 Years? One of my favorite movie of the year isRichard Linklater’sBoyhood, which tells the story of a young boy’s childhood from age 5 to age 18. You’ve probably also heard that the movie was filmed over the course of 12 years using the same actors. Its not a gimmick,but a remarkable cinematic achievement. But one wonders, how was such a film produced and how much did it cost?...

Brad Bird’s ‘The Iron Giant’ Coming Back To Theaters With Brand-New Footage Brad Bird’sThe Iron Giantis getting polished and upgraded for a theatrical rerelease. Warner Bros. and Fathom Events announced today that a remastered version of the 1999 animated classic, enhanced with brand-new footage, is coming to cinemas for a limited engagement this fall. More details on theIron Giantrerelease after the jump.EWreports the new cut ofThe Iron Giant, calledThe Iron Giant: Signature Edition, will play in theaters across the country on Wednesday,September 30at 7 PM....

Bryan Singer Says The Next ‘X-Men’ TV Show Is A ‘‘Family Drama’’ After 17 years and 10 movies, it makes perfect sense that theX-Menare finally heading to live-action television. It would be unfair to say that the cinematic potential for these characters have been exhausted (the possibilities are infinite andLoganlooks great!), butX-Men: Apocalypsemade it very clear that it’s time to shake things up and break away from the formula. A shift in mediums may be just what the professor ordered....

Chris O’Dowd Will Star In The ‘Get Shorty’ TV Series Earlier this summer, EPIX started working on aGet Shortytelevision show, reportedly based on bothElmore Leonard’s novel andBarry Sonnenfeld’s excellent adaptation. Unlike the source material and the 1995 film, Ernest “Chili” Palmer isn’t the protagonist of this story. EPIX’s adaptation centers around Miles Daly, a former member of the Nevada crime syndicate who will be played byChris O’Dowd(The IT Crowd). Below, learn more about theGet ShortyTV series....

Could James Cameron Direct ‘Cleopatra’ Before ‘Avatar 2?’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. James Cameronis such a big director that if there’s a chance in the slightest he might do a new movie, we’re obligated to report on it. So, as unlikely as it may seem, rumors are circulating that the brass at Sony are “exploring the possibility” that the King of the World could direct a new version ofCleopatrastarringAngelina Jolie, written byBrian Helgelandand produced byScott Rudin....

David Lowery Takes Over ‘Torso’ Graphic Novel Adaptation The graphic novelTorso, which follows Elliot Ness after the capture of Capone as he moves on to a serial killer investigation in Cleveland, has been the object of multiple adaptation attempts by various producers. We haven’t talked much about theBrian Michael BendisandMarc Andreykographic novel since David Fincher walked away from a possible adaptation in ‘09. Rights to the storylapsed at that point, blocking Fincher’s potential version....

Dead & Beautiful: 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.) Say what you want about its terrible Xbox interface (please update it so it’s semi-useful, I’m personally begging you), butShudderalways delivers. The horror-themed streaming service acquired David Verbeek’s “Dead & Beautiful” back in February, 2020 (ah, those much simpler times), and now the Chinese vampire thriller is showing atFantastic Festand heading to a TV near you very soon....