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Netflix may have had some financial hurdles to jump in the last year, but when it comes to its output the streamer seems to be unable to stop producing huge hits. Earlier this year, Stranger Things 4 set a new record as having the most watched hours in a single week on the platform. Now that record has been shattered again by Tim Burton’s Wednesday. In its premiere week, Wednesday logged an impressive 341....

Wes Anderson’s short film Hotel Chevalier is now available on iTunes, according to Variety. Fox Searchlight removed the short that was to be played before the theatrical release of The Darjeeling Limited, as Anderson thought that Apple was his best bet if he wanted to get the film seen by a wider audience. Natalie Portman and Jason Schwartzman starred in the project for free, and by the time shooting started, Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola had finished writing the screenplay for the short’s feature-length sequel, The Darjeeling Limited....

On June. 6, 1997, an explosive blockbuster film titled Con Air by Jerry Bruckheimer landed in cinemas around the world to make a statement. Besides being a high-speed, action-packed movie, the star was Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage, the king of ’90s action cinema. To this day, Con Air is still one of the best action films, and here’s why. Inspired by Real Life Events About America’s Prisoner Transport Planes Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Releasing During a 1997 interview by the American TV journalist Charlie Rose, film producer Jerry Bruckheimer revealed that Vice President of Touchstone Pictures, Donald De Line read an LA Times’ article about the U....

Melancholia is an apocalyptic drama art film about a rogue planet colliding with Earth and follows the story of two sisters anticipating the world’s end. The film was written and directed by Lars von Trier, starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, and more. Melancholia premiered in 2011 as the second film in von Trier’s Depression Trilogy, which was preceded by Antichrist in 2009, followed by Nymphomaniac in 2013....

The Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2 for The Jim Henson Company’s fantasy adventure series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance are being released digitally on Friday, August 30 (the same day as the series launch on Netflix), and on CD and vinyl in the coming months, exclusively through Music.Film Recordings. Volume 1 of the soundtrack features original music by composer Daniel Pemberton, while Volume 2 consists of tracks by Pemberton and by Samuel Sim....

Warner Bros. is hoping to get some Oscar attention for The Dark Knight and is planning to rerelease its blockbuster Batman sequel in January at the height of Academy Awards voting season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warners domestic distribution president Dan Fellman acknowledged ongoing talks with Imax executives about the prospect of restoring the Christian Bale starrer to some number of giant-screen venues in January. It’s uncertain if The Dark Knight also will reappear in conventional venues at that point....

Now you can fly some very powerful kites on DVD and HD DVD. The Kite Runner will be released in both DVD and HD DVD formats on March 25. The standard version will be priced at $27.98, but pricing for the HD DVD version was not available. The film, based off the critically-acclaimed book by Khaled Hosseini, stars Khalid Abdalla and Ali Dinesh. Based on Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel about Amir, a well-to-do Pashtun boy from Afghanistan, who is still haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, son of a family servant....

A star studded cast has been tapped for rising director Matthew Cherry’s debut film The Last Fall. The cast includes both up and coming stars as well as silver screen veterans such as: Lance Gross, Nicole Beharie, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Harry Lennix, Keith David, and Darrin Dewitt Henson. Starring in the lead role, actor Lance Gross earned four NAACP Image Awards for the role of Calvin Payne on Tyler Perry’s hit TBS sitcom, House of Payne....

Movies have always come in all kinds of forms, shapes, and sizes. Outside a typical two-hour movie, most people are familiar with short films, especially when companies like Disney attach those great Pixar animated shorts to the beginning of their movies when released in theaters. Short films are often how many movie directors begin their careers as well. What isn’t as well known, however, and certainly not for a lack of movies that fit the category, is ’long films....

The plethora of terrifying tales originally penned by Edgar Allan Poe has shaped the landscape of the mystery and horror genres as we know them. Beginning with his startling works of literature and eventually making its way to the silver screen, Poe’s influence is almost immeasurable. Mixing his trademark macabre elements with a somewhat witty sense of realism, his poems and short stories have spooked all kinds of readers for generations....

Alexander Skarsgård towers over the supporting cast of The Northman on the latest poster for The Witch director Robert Eggers’ upcoming Viking revenge epic. A three-word description that should have many a movie fan salivating. Released courtesy of the official Twitter account for The Northman, the poster also gives us another look at the stellar cast, including Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Björk and Willem Dafoe. Alexander Skarsgård must conquer his fate in The Northman, which will drop audiences at the turn of the 10th century in Iceland, and centers on a Viking named Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), who witnesses the murder of his father, King Aurvandil, at the hands of his uncle, Fjolnir....

There is no question that The Office is one of the greatest American television shows ever made. The story follows office workers at a failing paper company called Dunder Mifflin in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and it was filmed in documentary style. It brought comedy to the mundane routine of the workplace and introduced the world to several memorable characters. The cast was, of course, led by the brilliant Steve Carrell who famously played Michael Scott, the inappropriate, yet caring, boss of the Scranton branch....

The new adaptation of The Stand at CBS All Access has just rounded out its cast with several impressive new additions. Chief amongst those additions is Alexander Skarsgard, who will portray the villainous Randall Flagg. This has been a major question mark for Stephen King fans, as Flagg is not only a major part of this particular story, but one of the biggest baddies in all of the author’s expansive multiverse....

Another seven days has come and gone, leaving us a new slew of movie news, box office info, new official websites for upcoming movies and new trailers. Before we get into all that, let’s check out what I watched last week. WHAT DID GALLAGHER WATCH LAST WEEK? Ratatouille There are two reasons I saw this movie. One, it was the only movie in my theater that I hadn’t yet seen. Two, well, it’s friggin Pixar and last time I checked, they just plain don’t make bad movies....

The Warner Bros. merger with Discovery has seen an instant change to the landscape of output from the company. It looks like one casualty of changes at the top is the Wonder Twins movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film was set to shoot this summer and head to HBO Max sometime next year. Starring 1883’s Isabel May and Riverdale’s KJ Apa as the titular DC duo, the film was to be written and directed by Black Adam co-writer Adam Sztykiel, and was set to bring the characters to life in a much different way to the 1970’s Hanna-Barbera cartoon that inspired the comic book characters....

Cinema’s resident lovable stoner and all-around endearing funnyman Seth Rogen is undoubtedly one of the best comedic minds of his generation; he has been a constant presence on both the big and small screen for over twenty years. The gifted actor, comedian and filmmaker got his start on the short lived cult classic Freaks and Geeks in 1999 before making his transition to film with a small role in the sci-fi psychological thriller Donnie Darko in 2001....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Burton and Jim Carrey are teaming up for Believe It or Not! an action-adventure loosely based on Robert Ripley. Burton and Carrey are in early negotiations to direct and star, respectively, in the movie, which is being produced by Alphaville’s Jim Jacks and Sean Daniel along with producer Ken Atchity and executive producer Chi-Li Wong. Richard Zanuck, who worked with Burton on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish and Planet of the Apes, also is in negotiations to produce....

IFC announced today a roster of guest stars who will be visiting the network’s hit original series Portlandia when the show returns in January. Penny Marshall, Jack McBrayer, Tim Robbins, Andy Samberg, Amber Tamblyn, and Kristen Wiig will partake in Portlandia’s satirical rendering of this Pacific Northwest community’s quirkiness. As previously announced, Kyle MacLachlan will return as Portlandia ’s Mayor and Mary Lynn Rajskub will also guest star. Season two premieres Monday, January 9 at 10pm ET/PT on IFC....

Tim Roth talks about his newest role and working with Francis Ford Coppola Tim Roth is one of those actors who has a strong relationship with his audience. His choice of characters in such films Reservoir Dogs and Little Odessa, lets viewers know that when they see he has made a film it most likely one that they should watch. This is what makes his work in Youth Without Youth so intriguing....

Another major character from That ’70s Show has been confirmed for the spinoff series, That ’90s Show. Currently in development at Netflix, That ’90s Show takes viewers back to Wisconsin to revisit many of the same characters from That ’70s Show, but in an entirely different decade. Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp are a part of the starring cast to reprise their classic roles as Red and Kitty Forman....