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‘Game Of Thrones’ Final Six Episodes Will Each Cost $15 Million; Here Are The Most Expensive TV Shows Of All Time We’ve written about how each of the episodes inGame ofThrones’upcoming eighth seasonmay be 90 minutes long, and now it sounds like HBO is giving showrunnersDavid Benioff andDan Weissa big enough budget to verify the show goes out with a bang. A new report indicates that each of the show’s final six episodes will cost $15 million, but where does that placeThroneson the overall list of the most expensive TV shows ever made?...

‘Groundhog Day’ TV Series In Development, According To Stephen Tobolowsky OK campers, rise and shine: aGroundhog DayTV show is evidently in the works. ActorStephen Tobolowsky, who played Ned Ryerson in Harold Ramis’s 1993 time loop classic film, revealed in a new interview that aGroundhog Dayseries is in development. Not only that, but Tobolowsky has agreed to reprise the role of Ned Ryerson (AKA Needlenose Ned, AKA Ned the Head) should the series actually make it into production....

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Hits Home Video In August As Disney’s First 4K Ultra HD Release Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2is still playing in theaters everywhere right now, and if you’re like me, you’ve taken advantage of that a few times by now. But soon, you won’t have to pay the high ticket prices to enjoy the Marvel Studios sequel over and over again. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Marvel Studios have announced thatGuardians of the Galaxy Vol....

‘Hands Of Stone’ Red Band Trailer: This Boxing Drama Apparently Has A Lot Of Sex Just like last year brought us bothSouthpawandCreed, this year we get two more boxing dramas. However, while last year’s stories set in the ring were entirely fictional, this year we get two non-fiction boxing movie.Bleed for Thisstarring Miles Teller won’t arrive until November (watch the trailer here), but the other is arriving in theaters next week....

‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Review: Netflix’s Best Marvel Show Is Back Jessica Jonesreturns for an entertaining, if slightly muddled, second season.Krysten Ritter’s droll, damaged private eye remains the best character Netflix has in their Marvel line-up, and while Ritter’s work is enough to make season 2 worthwhile, things get off to a shaky start. Read ourspoiler-freeJessica Jonesseason 2 review below (and look for our spoiler-review a little down the road)....

‘Justice League’ Is Officially The Lowest-Grossing DCEU Movie No one could’ve predicted this, butJustice Leaguehas ended its theatrical run as the lowest-grossing DCEU film to date. EvenSuicide Squadsomehow made more money than DC’s huge superhero team-up film. So what happened with theJustice Leaguebox office? While Iwasn’t a fanofJustice League, I was all-but-sure that the film would do well at the box office. I was wrong.Justice Leaguehas ended its domestic run with $229 million at the domestic box office, bringing it to a grand total of $657 million worldwide....

‘Love And Monsters’ Trailer: Can Young Love Survive In The Aftermath Of A Giant Monster Apocalypse? Some of the most soul-crushing and formative experiences come from young romance. But imagine how much harder that kind of love would be in the wake of a giant monster apocalypse. Love and Monstersis a new sci-fi romance that finds a young man named Joel (Dylan O’Brien) estranged from his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick) after giant monsters appeared on Earth and forced what remained of humanity to hide underground....

‘Maze Runner’ Director Wes Ball To Helm ‘The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August’ For Amblin Maze RunnerdirectorWes Ballhas landed a new sci-fi film. Ball is set to direct the feature film adaptation of the sci-fi Claire North novelThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry Augustfor Amblin Partners, his first feature film project since 2018’sMaze Runner: Death Cureand since 20th Century Fox’sMouse Guardadaptation fell through. Deadline reports that Wes Ball is set to directThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, a sci-fi story about a man “who is repeatedly born into the same life, remembers all his past experiences, and seeks to save the world by outmaneuvering a similarly gifted rival who’s willing to make any sacrifice to attain a godlike knowledge....

‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Originally Set Up Another Spin-Off Film – Here’s Why Director Michael Chaves Cut It The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do Itis very different from the two mainConjuringentries that came before. For one thing, ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick WilsonandVera Farmiga) aren’t dealing with a haunted house this time. They’re also up against a human antagonist. On top of all that, unlike the two otherConjuringfilms,The Devil Made Me Do Itdoesn’t explicitly set up a spin-off character....

‘The Conners’ Trailer: It’s ‘Roseanne’ Without Roseanne Roseanneis dead, long liveThe Conners. At least, that’s what ABC is hoping everyone will say as they get ready to debut their new spin-off. AfterRoseanne Barrwas fired from her own show for offensive comments on Twitter and the show was subsequently cancelled, producers scrambled to come up with a game plan. That plan involved killing off Roseanne as a character, and launching a whole new show focused on the rest of the characters....

31 Days Of Streaming Horror: ‘The Cell’ Turns Pain And Suffering Into Art Welcome to31 Days of Streaming Horror. Every day this October we’ll be highlighting a different streaming horror movie to help you get into the Halloween spirit. Today’s entry:The Cell(2000). Now Streaming on Netflix Sub-Genre:Serial killer thriller that belongs in the modern art wing of a museumBest Setting to Watch It In:Trapped in the mind of a murdererHow Scary Is It?...

Bass Ackwards To Be Released On Demand One Day After Sundance Independent films usually screen at the Sundance Film Festival in hopes of gaining positive buzz and snapping up distribution. The process can be long, and some sales don’t happen until after the close of the festival. Some films picked up at the fest don’t arrive in theaters until sometimes two years later. The distributors ofBass Ackwards, one of eight films scheduled to premiere in a new section called NEXT (selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking) is planning to take a different route....

Casting Bits: Wentworth Miller In ‘Analog;’ Paul Walker In Fred Durst’s ‘Pawn Shop Chronicles’ Prison BreakstarWentworth Millerhas been newsworthy of late because he wrote the script forStoker, which Park Chan-wook will direct with stars Mia Wasikowska, Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman. Now he has booked a new role, taking the lead in an indie calledAnalog, whichMike Millionwrote and will direct. The script has been around for a few years — it hit the Black List in 2005 — and follows " an introverted genius who tries to find a love connection in an increasingly digital world....