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IFC Midnight announced today that the company is acquiring U.S. rights to director Padraig Reynolds’ thriller Rites of Spring. The film, with a screenplay also by Reynolds, stars AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Sonny Marinelli, Katherine Randolph, Marco St. John, Hannah Bryan, Sarah Pachelli, James Bartz, Shanna Forrestall, Skylar Burke, and Andrew Breland. Bobby Benton and John Norris served as executive producers while Wes Benton and Eric Thompson produced. In Rites of Spring, a group of kidnappers abduct the daughter of a wealthy socialite and hide out in an abandoned school in the middle of the woods....

Two years after dropping out of college following the infamous college admissions scandal, Olivia Jade is set to compete on the next season of Dancing with the Stars. Jade, the daughter of Full House star Lori Loughlin, has reportedly joined the cast of season 30 alongside other celebrity contestants like pop star JoJo Siwa and The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kenya Moore. E! News and TMZ have reportedly confirmed the development though ABC has yet to comment....

Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues reveals the iconic entertainer in a brilliantly artistic format. Armstrong recorded conversations and kept detailed scrapbooks throughout his legendary career. Documentary filmmaker Sacha Jenkins presents the jazz master using collages, archival footage, and his own words. Interviews with friends, family, collaborators, and admirers are heard as voice-over narrators but not seen. Armstrong is front and center for a remarkable experience. He was America’s most popular musician for decades but suffered humiliating exploitation and racism....

M. Night Shyamalan, best known for his thriller films with their twist endings like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and The Happening, has just finished the screenplay for The Last Airbender, his adaptation of the very popular Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Shyamalan told MTV about the direction he’s taking the film - or rather series of films, since he intends for the tale to be told over three films....

In an interview with The Chicago Tribune promoting I Am Legend, screenwriter Mark Protosevich revealed a little bit about his script for Matthew Vaughn’s Thor. “There used to be a segment in the Thor comics called Tales of Asgard – and it’s much more akin to that,” Protosevich said. “It really is set in that world. It does deal with Earth. The primary focus we’re taking on it is really all about the Norse myths....

Disney is well known for providing family-friendly content on their platforms, but after acquiring the licensing to multiple Marvel properties, they began to see the potential in building a blockbuster action franchise. 15 years later, we have the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and we have been treated to a litmus test of violence, with Marvel becoming more comfortable depicting violence on a rising scale. Here, we will review some of the most graphic, surprising, and in some cases, disturbing scenes to be featured in an MCU film....

Modern scream queen Melissa Barrera faces a new kind of terror in Bed Rest, a psychological horror thriller that is days away from its debut on the free streaming platform Tubi. Barrera, who appeared in this year’s Scream movie and is set to return in the upcoming Scream 6, stars in the film as a pregnant woman whose bed rest leads to her mind completely unraveling, having her question what’s real and what’s not....

Popular MeTV host, Svengoolie, is growing his brand. Dubbed “Spawn of Svengoolie,” the campaign was announced on October 1, 2022, at the conclusion of “Svengoolie Uncrypted,” a one-hour special that followed the character, played by 70-year-old Rich Koz, as he escaped his dungeon and explored the world. Svengoolie has been a local Chicago TV staple for over 40 years and Weigel Broadcasting, which owns MeTV, added the character to its national lineup in 2011....

The hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once would have been an entirely different movie is Jackie Chan had been cast as the protagonist rather than Michelle Yeoh, but that’s almost what happened. When the film was first written by the Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, the idea was for Chan to play the lead role with Yeoh in a supporting role as his character’s wife. After Chan turned down the film, however, the Daniels had the idea to shift Yeoh into the protagonist spot with Ke Huy Quan as her husband....

After 14 seasons, NCIS: Los Angeles is coming to an end. Per THR, it has been revealed that the show’s current 14th season will serve as the last for the NCIS spinoff series, and the season finale episode, set to air on May 14, will now serve as the series finale. It will also mark 322 total episodes of the show before getting to the end of its run. In a statement, CBS Entertainment president Amy Reisenbach said, “For 14 seasons, NCIS: Los Angeles has been a stalwart of our lineup with characters who were a joy to watch....

Dog Gone tells the story of a father and son who embark on a mission in search of their missing dog in the wild. They do this in a bid to find each other on their journey and prevent major consequences. In order to track down Gonker, the Marshall family must overcome their differences and difficult relationship while hiking the Appalachian Trail. The movie is scheduled to be released on Netflix in January 2023....

Following Fox’s announcement of all their new shows debuting in the 2014-2015 TV season, the network has released the first trailers for Mulaney, Empire, Wayward Pines, Utopia, Hieroglyph, Backstrom and Gracepoint. Check out the first footage for each of these upcoming programs, then read the official description for each series. From Emmy Award-winning writer and comedian John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live) comes Mulaney, a multi-camera ensemble comedy series about a rising stand-up comic trying to take his career to the next level and the friends and mentors who lift him up, hold him back and push him around....

A brand new international trailer has just been released for Gamer, which is set for release on September 4. Click below to take a look at this brand new international trailer for the film which stars Gerard Butler. FIPyZURSOQRTVP|+|Gamer} is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people…for keeps....

AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan commented on the upcoming series ends of two hugely popular AMC dramas, Breaking Bad and Mad Men, by stating that there is no end in sight for their most popular series to date, The Walking Dead, which could go on indefinitely. What do you think The Walking Dead will look like in the year 2022? Will Rick still be alive? Will we care? “We’ll all suffer from some minor heartbreak when these shows come to a natural close....

When Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit theaters just a few weeks ago, many believed a star was being born before their very eyes with the breakthrough performance of Daisy Ridley. The 23-year-old British actress only had a handful of TV guest starring credits to her name, and one other movie role before she portrayed Rey in director J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi blockbuster. Before she returns in Star Wars: Episode VIII, fans can see a new side of the actress, as she lends her voice to the animated film Only Yesterday, which opens in New York City January 1 before expanding across the country on February 26....

NBC is bringing back the classic competition series American Gladiators and will be auditioning both contenders and gladiators for the upcoming season beginning Saturday, Sept. 8 in Los Angeles before moving onto four additional cities around the U.S including New York, Chicago, Miami and Dallas. The show’s contenders are “weekend warriors” who have excelled and take pride in their level of fitness and want to test their physical ability in the Gladiator Arena....

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, have been running since 1929. In this first iteration of the ceremony, there were only 12 nomination categories, with three nominees in each. Interestingly, the categories that we know now as Best Picture and Best Director were both split in two for this ceremony. Best Picture was divided into Outstanding Picture and Best Unique and Artistic Picture; Best Director was divided into Best Directing (Comedy Picture) and Best Directing (Dramatic Picture)....

Lionsgate, the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, announced today that “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul has joined the creative team of Bratz: The Movie, the first live action feature based on Bratz, the highly popular brand of fashion dolls manufactured by leading consumer entertainment products company MGA Entertainment. Crystal Sky Pictures is financing the live action feature film, directed by Sean McNamara (“Raise Your Voice”). Arad Productions’ Avi Arad, MGA’s Isaac Larian and Crystal Sky’s Steven Paul are producing the picture, and Crystal Sky Pictures president Benedict Carver will executive produce....

Fans of Seth MacFarlane’s 2012 film Ted have something to keep an eye out for. The movie was a success, and now MacFarlane is gearing up to release a prequel series based on the character. The series is set in Boston in 1993 and revolves around a young John Bennett and his friend, Ted. The show will follow the two as they navigate their way through adolescence. While the movies were more focused on the adult John Bennett and his relationship with Ted, the series will be more light-hearted and will focus on the friendship between the two characters....

After playing a character for a decade, it is not surprising that an actor may feel relieved when the time comes to move on. For Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage, however, the relief he felt when the show ended was for a couple of specific reasons. Having played the role of Tyrion Lannister in the George R. R. Martin fantasy series from the beginning, the fan-favorite brought a book accurate version of the character to screens, but the final seasons saw some changes made that fans were not quite so happy about....