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‘Normal People’ Trailer: The Director Of ‘Room’ Heads To Hulu With A Forbidden Romance Since directing Brie Larson to an Oscar win in 2015’sRoom, Irish writer/directorLenny Abrahamsonhas been fairly quiet, directing only a couple episodes of a TV series calledChanceand a single feature, the 2018 horror mysteryThe Little Stranger, which starred Domhnall Gleeson. Now Abrahamson has returned to his home country as one of the two directors ofNormal People, a new Hulu co-production with the BBC which focuses on two young lovers from Ireland who find themselves on opposite sides of a class divide....

‘Ocean’s 8’ Review: A Light, Fluffy, And Altogether Pleasant Heist Flick The ingredients to pull off an entertaining heist movie are much the same as those needed to pull off the heist itself. First, there has to be motley crew, each of whom has specific talents that will come in handy at the opportune moment. Then, there needs to be a big enough haul worthy of a cinematic heist, followed by moments of high tension, only to be resolved; and a deserving enough bad guy whose misdeeds are enough that you want other criminals to rob him or her blind....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Announces Its Last Three Hosts Of 2017 Saturday Night Livefinished up a batch of three episodes just before Thanksgiving, and now they’re about to do the same with three more back-to-back episodes scheduled for the month of December, leading right up to Christmas. NBC announced the final trio of episodes airing in 2018 along with the three stars who will be hosting them. Find out the line-up ofSaturday Night LiveDecember 2017 hosts below....

‘The Fast And The Furious’ Is Getting A 15th Anniversary Re-Release In Theaters It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 15 years sinceThe Fast and the Furioushit theaters. At one time, it felt like the franchise might run out of gas, but once Dwayne Johnson arrived on the scene to help beef up the action inFast Five, the game changed. Since then, the franchise realizes its potential to become an over-the-top action franchise with just the right amount of heart, and we apparentlyhave one whole trilogy left to go....

‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ Score Is Coming To Vinyl, ‘The Haunting Of Hill House’ Soundtrack Returns If you’re a fan of Netflix’s horror anthology showsThe Haunting of Hill Houseand the recently releasedThe Haunting of Bly Manor, especially the scores byAndy GrushandTaylor Newton Stewart(akaThe Newton Brothers), we have good news. Waxwork Records is not only re-releasing the previously out of print vinyl soundtrack forThe Haunting of Hill Housein a new color variant, but they’re also releasing a vinyl soundtrack forThe Haunting of Bly Manorfor the first time....

‘The White Lotus’ Star Jake Lacy Would Love To Return For Season 2 Writer/directorMike Whiteintroduces audiences to a familiar type of villain in his social satireWhite Lotus. ActorJake Lacy, who starred as one of the most obnoxious and painfully prominent characters in the series, said that he would love to do it again. If you haven’t seenWhite Lotusyet, queue it up on HBO and watch it immediately. Beware, there is a spoiler in the last paragraph of this article....

‘Watch The Sound With Mark Ronson’ Music Docuseries Is Coming To Apple TV+ Ever wondered how the hit maker behind songs likeUptown Funk, Shallow,andRehabdoes it all? Well, Apple TV+ has the answer with a new music docuseries,Watch the Sound With Mark Ronson, a six-part documentary series that examines “sound creation and the revolutionary technology that has shaped music as we know it.” Apple TV+ announced the new six-part music docuseriesWatch the Sound With Mark Ronson, which comes from Oscar-winning producer Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) and is hosted by Mark Ronson, a DJ and Oscar, Golden Globe, and Grammy Award-winning artist and producer who has worked with artists like Bruno Mars, Amy Winehouse, Lady Gaga, Adele, Miley Cyrus, and more....

‘Weathering With You’ Trailer: Get Ready To Cry Over The Beautiful Animation Of Makoto Shinkai’s ‘Your Name’ Follow-Up There’s no one who cananimate rainlikeMakoto Shinkai, the director of the 2016 global anime hitYour Name, so it’s no surprise that he would make an entire film about a character that can control the weather.Weathering With Youlooks to be another cerebral sci-fi tearjerker that could potentially earn the filmmaker his long-deserved Oscar nod....

‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Trailer: Wolverine Assembles A Team After some intense promos and clips (and a couple of truly WTFCarl’s Jr. commercials), Fox has released one finalX-Men: Days of Future Pasttrailer. As usual, the video has mutant heroes battling mean humans, terrifying Sentinels, and their own inner angst across two different timelines. What’s different is that this particular trailer plays up Wolverine’s role in the whole thing. Though he doesn’t tend to be much of a team player, desperate times call for desperate measures, so this one has him running around the ’70s trying to get the gang together....

40 Things We Learned On The Set Of ‘Terminator: Genisys’ On July 11th 2014, I traveled to New Orleans to visit the set ofTerminator Genisys, the fifth installment of theTerminatorfilm franchise. My visit to the set ofMcG’sTerminator Salvationfour years prior couldn’t have been more different than my experience on the latest installment. SalvationdirectorMcGhad talked up Jonathan Nolan’s script (right on the heels ofThe Dark Knight’s release). He showed us a ton of practical creations designed by Stan Winston’s Legacy Effects; we explored gritty lived in sets made out of dilapidated buildings in Albuquerque, saw a room of cool concept art, and we watchedChristian Balefilm a “should have been” iconic scene....

A Very British Scandal Trailer: We Need A Crown Crossover Claire Foy is back in another British period piece about an unhappy marriage, and I’m not talking about “The Crown.” Your favorite young queen is once again diving into British history with her upcoming BBC/Amazon series “A Very British Scandal.” I love a title that tells you everything about a project before you even press play, and the scandals and British-ness of this production are definitely off the charts....

Actors' Unions End Boycott Of ‘The Hobbit’; Peter Jackson To Film In New Zealand After All? Looks like the Australian trade union MEAA (Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance) lost this game of chicken. Aftergarnering supportfrom SAG (Screen Actors Guild) and AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) in ordering their members to not take jobs onThe Hobbitunless directorPeter Jacksonand co. drew up a new contract “providing minimum guarantees on wages and working conditions, residual payments, and cancellation payments to actors engaged on the production,” Jackson issued his own response declaring their move “a grab for power”....

AMC Developing Black Lives Matter Series Based On Book ‘They Can’t Kill Us All’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Black Lives Matter is not going away. And as more cases of police brutality are unveiled each day, Hollywood begins to take more notice. Television was the first to address the ongoing movement calling for less police violence targeting African Americans, with episodes ofScandal,Black-ish, andDear White Peoplesetting aside their sleek or comedic facades to candidly tackle the topic head-on....