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The 21st annual Israel Film Festival, the largest showcase of Israeli films in the US, and the only film festival that will visit three American cities - Los Angeles (November 30 - December 15), New York (February 23 - March 9, 2006) and Miami (March 22 - 29, 2006), will screen 40 new feature films, documentaries and television films. The first leg of the film festival will start in Los Angeles starting this Wednesday....

Fans of The Orville, we have some good news and some bad news. Starting with the good news, Hulu has released a new sneak peek teaser for the upcoming third season of the series, dubbed The Orville: New Horizons. Lasting nearly four minutes long, the action-packed teaser also includes the opening credits. You can watch the video below. While this is a nice treat for fans, Hulu has released the video as a way to soften the blow for the bad news....

FlickLaunch, the first movie distribution platform built on Facebook for independent filmmakers, will premiere the horror thriller The Perfect House on October 1, 2011 as a 7-day rental on the film’s Facebook fan page. The film is directed by Kris Hulbert and Randy Kent and stars Monique Parent, Felissa Rose, William A. Robertson, Andrea Vahl, Chris Raab, Jonathan Tiersten, and John Philbin. This new platform enables independent filmmakers to market to and access a global audience through Facebook without the prohibitive costs of traditional and outdated distribution....

The dark side of the hit musical series Glee is explored in the new docuseries The Price of Glee. Coming to Investigation Discovery, the three-part series has also been given a first trailer to provide fans a sneak peek at the show’s behind-the-scenes issues, such as the shocking deaths of three of its lead stars at young ages. Was the series cursed? See how you feel by watching the new trailer below....

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power took its time with the first season, fleshing out the ensemble cast of characters that audiences will follow for the next five seasons. When showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne conceptualized the Tolkien epic, they realized certain scenes would need to be moved around to properly tell the story. During an interview with Deadline, The Rings of Power executive producer Lindsey Weber discussed several key moments intended to be in the first season, which was inevitably pushed to the upcoming second installment....

Another seven days has come and gone, and brought us a new slew of movie news, box office info, new official sites for upcoming flicks and new trailers. So lets get right into it with this week’s Notables. NOTABLES “Sylvester Stallone Has a Death Wish” - Monday, November 5: I thought there had to be a string of successful films in order for there to be a trend… After two recent vigilante films have floundered through the theaters (See: Death Sentence, The Brave One), it looks like MGM is going back to the source of both of those flicks, with a remake of Death Wish....

You can revisit the first film in 1080p on the same day you can purchase the sequel this December. The X-Files: Fight the Future will be released on Blu-Ray on December 2, the same day The X-Files: I Want to Believe comes to DVD and Blu-Ray. The BD disc will be priced at $29.99 SRP and there will also be a BD two-pack with both films, priced at $59.98 SRP. We have no cover art at this time, but we’ll update this story as soon as we have it....

This article contains spoilers for They/Them (2022)The recent release of the slasher film They/Them has sparked a lot of discussion in viewers, with some saying that the movie doesn’t quite work while others say it’s a new twist on the genre. This queer-centered horror film does have a lot of redeeming qualities– the talented cast, the diversity, and honesty of the characters – but even still, the movie is lacking in a lot of places....

THQ Inc. announced its upcoming videogame based on HBO’s critically acclaimed series The Sopranos. Currently under development, the game will evoke the atmosphere, action and conflicts that are the cornerstone of the hit show, which has found worldwide success as one of HBO’s premier original programs. The game is backed by key members of the all-star cast who will lend their voices and likenesses, including James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. The The Sopranos game is scheduled to release for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system this holiday season....

With the return to Arrakis drawing ever closer, a report from Collider has confirmed that actor Tim Blake Nelson has joined the already impressive cast of Dune: Part Two, slated for release on Nov. 3. The role he plays, however, has not yet been disclosed. Nelson is a longtime actor best known for his roles in movies such as the southern comedy O’ Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), in which he plays an escaped convict alongside George Clooney....

However, if there is one man who can do 3D right - even 3D conversions - it’s James Cameron, whose 3D masterpiece Avatar overtook Titanic as the highest-grossing movie in cinematic history. This Titanic 3D conversion is no rush job, though, as I witnessed myself on the Paramount lot today with a special presentation of eight 3D scenes. James Cameron and Jon Landau were on hand to present this footage, and, for James Cameron, he seemed to be more excited that those who never got to experience Titanic on the big screen, will be able to do so in April....

Spider-Man: No Way Home is officially the highest-grossing movie of the year, having sped past the billion-dollar mark on Christmas. The film is receiving praise from around the world, and Marvel is seriously considering an Oscar campaign for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Tom Holland, who plays the wall-crawling superhero, recently joked that No Way Home could win him an Oscar. It turns out he really was being serious. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Holland discussed his MCU future and No Way Home’s Oscar chances....

You’ll finally get your chance to watch Top Gun: Maverick at home next month. On Tuesday, it was announced that the year’s No. 1 movie will be coming to Paramount+ on Dec. 22, 2022. This follows the sequel previously hitting theaters in May to incredible success, flying high at the box office for several months. Many Paramount releases had been made available for streaming 45 days after their theatrical premieres, but that wasn’t the case for Maverick....

Starz is hoping to premiere its upcoming U.S. version of Torchwood: The New World, about a team of alien hunters, sometime in July, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The network hopes to introduce Captain Jack to stateside audiences this summer, although nothing is set in stone. Here are the credits for Torchwood: The New World so far: Bharat Nalluri - Director - Life on Mars Kelly Manners - Producer - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Nathaniel Goodman - Lead DP - Heroes; Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Gregory Melton - Production Designer - Stephen King’s The Mist; The Walking Dead Skip Schoolik - Post-production Producer - The Walking Dead Shawna Trpcic - Costume Designer - The Cabin in the Woods Todd McIntosh -Make Up - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Hunter M Via - Film Editor - The Walking Dead; Stephen King’s The Mist MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY...

Rogue Pictures, the genre arm of Universal-based Focus Features, has made a three-year first-look deal with Platinum Dunes’ Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, according to Variety. The three will produce fright fare budgeted under $25 million and receive as much as 10% of first-dollar gross. Platinum, which has already completed production on a Rogue remake of The Hitcher for April release, will kick off the deal by remaking Near Dark, the 1987 pic about a cowboy wooed into joining a roving band of vampires....

This fall, a wicked new housewife arrives to Fairview when the multi-talented Vanessa Williams joins the Season Seven cast of ABC’s Desperate Housewives. Fresh off her stint on Broadway’s “Sondheim on Sondheim” and the critically-acclaimed series Ugly Betty, Williams will play a housewife who’s sure to shake things up in the neighborhood and wreak havoc in the lives of the women of Wisteria Lane. Williams is one of the most respected and multi-faceted performers in entertainment today....

While a $400 million international box office wouldn’t be something for a big budget superhero movie to shout about a couple of years ago, Venom: Let There Be Carnage passed that milestone on Tuesday, making it only the fifth movie to do so since the beginning of the Covid pandemic. The Andy Serkis directed sequel falls massively short of the $800 million plus haul of 2018’s Venom, but in pandemic terms this has been a huge triumph, and in no small part has been helped along by the current hype around Marvel Studio’s collaborative effort with Sony on Spider-Man: No Way Home and the crossover potential that has been rife for a long while....

With Black Adam bringing attention back to Henry Cavill’s Superman and his almost guaranteed return to the DCEU for a number of movies, there has been a question hanging over the previously announced Black reboot of the Man of Steel which is in development from J.J. Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates. According to the latest reports, the movie is still moving ahead at Warner Bros. Discovery, although how it will fit into the other DC releases already in production and those now rumored for the future is unclear....

Actor Warren Beatty prevailed in his ongoing legal battle with Tribune Co. over the movie rights to the Dick Tracy comic strip. Warren Beatty obtained the rights to Dick Tracy in 1985 from Tribune Co., which he used to star in, direct and produce the 1990 Dick Tracy movie. There is a clause in Warren Beatty’s agreement with Tribune that the rights would revert back to Tribune if he wasn’t using them for a movie or TV project....

Coming to Disney XD this June is the new animated series Tron Uprising, which expands the popular Walt Disney film franchise to the world of television. The story focuses on the time that transpired between 1982’s Tron and 2010’s Tron: Legacy. Watch as Beck (Elijah Wood) becomes an unlikely leader in the uprising against The Grid. Visit TVWeb to check it out, CLICK HERE Produced by Disney Television Animation, Tron Uprising follows Beck, a young program who becomes the unlikely leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid....