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With five more days before its November 20 release date, The Twilight Saga: New Moon has already leaped over previous record-holders to become the top-selling pre-release title in Fandango’s ten-year history. The new record for Fandango’s fastest-selling film was set on Saturday night, November 14, shortly after 8:00 p.m. The Top 5 Advance Ticket-Sellers on Fandango (as of November 15, 2009) are now as follows: The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)...

AMC continues to see viewers abandoning The Walking Dead as the latest episode hit a new series low in the ratings. While the zombie series, which is adapted from Robert Kirkman’s Image Comics title of the same name, remains one of the most popular shows on all of cable, it’s been on a steep decline, in terms of popularity, over the past few years. It reached its peak in 2014, topping 17 million viewers....

We have a new trailer for The Walking Dead season 9, highlighting what’s to come on the show’s mid-season premiere. Even though the hit series will be away for several months following the mid-season finale, AMC didn’t make fans wait for a preview of what’s in store during the back half of this landmark season. There’s a new enemy in town in the form of The Whisperers and they’re set to shake things up for the survivors in a big, bad way....

24 producer Tony Krantz and Infernal Affairs co-director Andrew Lau are teaming up with the Weinstein Company to make three Hong Kong action flicks. According to Variety, these films are going to be shot in English. Krantz and Lau will form a new distribution label called Qi (pronounced “Chee”). And with it, they plan on redefining the “chopsocky” genre. The films are intended to go straight to DVD on Weinstein’s Dragon Dynasty label, but there is a chance that they will get theatrical distribution....

Audiences everywhere continuously gravitate towards uplifting, motivational, and heartwarming stories with brilliant characters you just can’t help but root for. Few genres are as engrossing and lucrative as true story pictures, with their moving subjects becoming a source of profound inspiration to viewers across the world. Watching compelling storylines and admirable characters on the big screen is a truly satisfying experience, even more so when the events depicted are based on real-life experiences....

Intimacy coordinators have been at the center of a number of debates recently, and award-winning actress Toni Collette has addressed the subject in a recent interview. There have been many differing opinions about the use of intimacy coordinators on film and TV sets during the filming of a number of scenes such as explicit sex scenes and scenes that may be harrowing or disturbing for actors to take part in. For Collette, the use of intimacy coordinators is not something that she feels is always needed, but should be used as more of a safety net....

Anime, per Lifewire, is a popular style of 2D animation that originated in Japan. Anime has gained a massive following over the past two decades, and with the internet becoming the number one source of content consumption, anime has become available to places outside of Japan, bringing it into the Western world. This has led to a surge in anime fans finding their fellow otakus living out their fantasies in real-life, cosplaying as their favorite characters from their favorite anime....

Tyler Perry steps behind the camera for the romantic drama Tyler Perry is quickly building quite an empire down in Atlanta; the writer/director/actor has already created the Madea franchise on the stage and on the big screen. He found himself staying behind the camera on his latest effort, Daddy’s Little Girls. The film stars Gabrielle Union as a very successful lawyer, but a very unsuccessful dater. She’s joined in the cast by Idris Elba, who is fighting to get back his daughters from his ex-wife....

From Pierre Morel (Taken) comes the foreign action film The Ambush, which will be released in select theaters on October 28, 2022, and on-demand and digitally on November 1, 2022, from Saban Films. The official trailer for The Ambush, written by Brandon Birtell (Furious 7) and Kurtis Birtell (Medal of Honor), was released moments ago, depicting the moment that sets up the plot for the entire film: when the three United Arab Emirates soldiers get trapped in an armored vehicle....

The world is watching Ukraine right now, but film fans have been watching Ukrainian cinema for decades. The country has had a complicated, difficult history for a long time, having been brought into the Soviet Union and subjugated and starved throughout the 1930s with the infamous Holodomor man-made famines. Since then, prejudice and bias toward Ukrainians has developed amongst many far-right Russian nationalists, who treated the great Ukrainian people with disdain even when they were part of the same Soviet Union....

The Good With David Mamet being involved, one can tell that this show is going to be like no other. The Bad I wish David Mamet would have appeared on the commentary track. I knew The Unit was going to be a cut above a lot of today’s current shows simply because of David Mamet’s involvement. He is one of the best writers we have working in the theater and film today, and if anything, I figured that his style would create something wholly unique in the medium of television....

Alexandra Robbins’ nonfiction book The Overachievers is being picked up by Universal Pictures for a film adaptation. Brian Gatewood and Alex Tanaka will write the comedy. The story follows the lives of Bethesda, Md., high school students as they study for their SATs. The success obsessed teens will have to contend with illness, stress, cheating, nagging parents, and emotional breakdowns all before getting into college. Shawn Levy is set to direct the piece....

Vanessa Kirby has been in the game for years, but she really started turning heads in the last ten. She is known mostly for her stage work, having won acclaim and awards for various productions, including A Streetcar Named Desire. For her scene-stealing performance as Princess Margaret in Netflix’s The Crown, she rightfully won a BAFTA Award. Kirby also starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations, and on the big screen, she certainly made her mark as the White Widow in the latest Mission: Impossible outing....

The Walking Dead returns to find our group of survivors are trapped. Some in the confines of a cave filled with walkers, while others are caught in a spiral of suspicion and grief. All orchestrated at the hand of Alpha, who continues to prove the Whisperers are always watching, and one step ahead of the communities. Which includes the new and potentially deadly threat of having added Negan to their ranks....

Everyone loves science fiction to some degree. Artists such as Mel Brooks have made successful comedic parodies of science fiction movies, but television sitcom series prior to 2016 were not as successful in this arena. There is, however, a show that has changed this trend (or lack thereof). The Orville, a parody of science fiction movies and television shows, became a hit with fans of the genre. Series creator and star Seth MacFarlane has put his visionary mind into this show, and it has won over the fans so far....

The Good Jack Klugman inspires me. The Bad There’s no way to cut it, this movie is traife. I had heard that When Do We Eat? was the Jewish My Big Fat Greek Wedding. My Aunt Audrey, who has since passed away, saw the film in a special screening and loved it. My parents were going to see it and I figured I would go with them. Well, I knew I was in trouble when about 15 minutes in my mother (who is one of the more open minded people I know), turned to me and said, “This sucks....

Most Fate fans would agree that Zouken Matou is among the, if not the most, despicable characters in the series. Not only does he look the part – appearing to be some unholy combination of Emperor Palpatine and Voldemort, but his practices in magecraft speak quite literally to the lowly being he has become. The Matous (previously known as the Makiri before immigrating to Japan) was one of the three founding families of the Holy Grail War, along with the Einzberns and the Tohsakas....

From the moment the first trailer was released, it was clear that Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, wouldn’t be like the adaptations we’d had prior. The whimsical tone set it apart significantly, as did the casting and overt yet beautifully distinctive scenic saturation. But change isn’t always a bad thing, and many Jane Austen aficionados will vouch that even a modern retelling like the 90s hit Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd made for a riveting adaptation....

The trailer for the long-anticipated Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, titled after her hit, genre-defining song of the same name, has been released. In her life, Whitney Houston worked tirelessly to use her voice for what she believed was good, to change the hearts of so many, and to represent women triumphantly all over the world with her passion for the stage and music. Her life was also filled with many facets that didn’t emerge until years after her death, and the movie is sure to explore them, but exactly how is so far unclear....

Netflix’s impressive roster of sports documentaries takes some beating. The streaming giant has been at the forefront of the genre for some years now, screening hits such as Sunderland ‘Til I Die and others. But in recent weeks, there has been much talk of new shows such as Break Point, a tennis documentary, and Season 5 of the long-running documentary series Formula 1: Drive To Survive, which is due to debut next month....