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The reviews for Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series, Moon Knight, are now in. So, has Marvel Studios managed to capture the more bizarre aspects of the vigilante, or do audiences have a more middling comic book-inspired effort on their hands? Well, based on this review round-up, Moon Knight is very much the former. Beginning with James Dyer of Empire Magazine, Moon Knight earns an incredibly exciting 4/5 stars, with the critic praising the series’ unique approach to the expectations set by the comic book genre....

Movies that are based on true stories tend to generate interest because audiences are drawn to the human experience, especially when it’s way more interesting than their own. Knowing this, Hollywood loosely throws the phrase “based on a true story” around even if most of the movie is fictionalized. As long as there are some elements of truth, it can be marketed as such and most of the time people won’t even realize how much is really embellished....

When shows are canceled these days, it isn’t always the kiss of death. It’s become a popular and regular occurrence that other networks or streaming services will pick the show up, reviving it and even giving it new life. Great examples include Netflix picking up Manifest from NBC and Longmire from A&E, NBC reviving Brooklyn 99 from FOX, and CMT snagging Nashville from ABC. Mr. Mayor, an NBC sitcom canceled after two seasons, could be a series revived by another network....

NBC has ordered an additional nine episodes of its freshman comedy Kath and Kim (Thursdays, 8:30-9 p.m. ET) to complete a full-season order, it was announced today by Ben Silverman, Co-Chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. “Kath and Kim is a show we love and believe in,” said Teri Weinberg, Executive Vice President, NBC Entertainment. “We have incredible confidence in the creative auspices of this show and we believe it’s a perfect fit with our Thursday-night comedies....

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss stand together once again as humanity’s saviors Neo and Trinity in a new image from the upcoming sci-fi action sequel, The Matrix Resurrections. While much of the movie remains a mystery, we do know that the freedom fighting pair will reunite to save us all from the machines and the digital world we are trapped in. While Reeves’ Neo has clearly picked up a different grooming regime along the way, with the character now looking more akin to the actor’s other action icon, John Wick....

Stranger Things Season 4 will be coming to Netflix as an epic two-volume run starting May 27th. The long-awaited return of Netflix’s hit series comes with the surprise announcement that the fourth season is being split into two parts to allow the first episodes to be released as soon as possible. According to the ’80s style typed out release put out by Netflix on their Geeked Twitter account, the new season is twice as long as previous seasons, and rather than make fans wait until the entire season is ready to go, Netflix will be releasing Volume 1 on May 27th, and then Volume 2 five weeks later on July 1st....

New Line has signed a video game licensing deal with Sega for His Dark Materials, according to Variety. The agreement, which also involves book publisher Scholastic, gives Sega interactive rights to all three books in Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy. New Line is currently shooting a film based on the first book The Golden Compass and expects to make two more, with Sega producing companion games. Electronic Arts has made several successful Lord of the Rings games not tied to the films and recently extended its deal with New Line and books rights holder the Saul Zaentz Co....

Rob Cohen has posted the very first picture from the set of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor on his personal blog. It is a recreation of the Tomb of Xi’an where the Terracotta Warriors were discovered by a Chinese farmer digging a new well in 1974. Here is the photo: In the blog entry, Rob talks about the soundtrack, and the reason why Rachel Weisz is not reprising her role in the film....

HBO has released a new trailer for its Perry Mason reboot. The famed lawyer is being brought back to life for modern audiences, this time with Matthew Rhys (The Americans, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood) in the leading role. Roberty Downey Jr. also serves as a key producer, which makes it a rather high-profile project for the network. This latest trailer offers our best look yet at the period drama....

The History Channel is setting up a remake of the historic 1977 mini-series Roots, one of the most celebrated and highest-rated programs of all time. Filmmaker Allen Hughes (The Book of Eli, Broken City) has signed on to direct and executive produce the mini-series, which is expected to get an official order from History very soon. History acquired the rights to Roots back in November 2013 from Mark Wolper, the son of late Roots producer David L....

The first trailer for the Quibi remake of The Fugitive has now been released, and pits Kiefer Sutherland against Boyd Holbrook’s falsely accused cop. The trailer drops the classic cat-and-mouse story slap-bang into the modern world, with an emphasis on the kinds of advanced surveillance technology and social media-driven news cycle that one would expect. You can read the official synopsis for The Fugitive below. “Kiefer Sutherland (24) and Boyd Holbrook (Narcos) star in this edge-of-your-seat crime thriller from the creator of Most Dangerous Game and co-executive producer of Prison Break, in which an innocent man on the run, desperate to clear his name, is chased through Los Angeles by the cop who will not rest until he is captured....

Nick Stahl has joined the cast of the new Fox pilot Locke & Key, which is based on the comic book series by Joe Hill. The story centers on Nina Locke (Miranda Otto) and her children Kinsey (Sarah Bolger), Tyler and Bode who move into her late husband Rendell’s old family home, Keyhouse. The family is tormented by an evil being named DODGE which holds the family hostage. Nick Stahl will play Duncan Locke, Rendell’s younger brother who lives in the area and stops by to visit Nina and the kids on occasion....

Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 83rd Academy Awards. Sixty-six films had originally qualified in the category. The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are: Algeria, Hors la Loi (Outside the Law), Rachid Bouchareb, director Canada, Incendies, Denis Villeneuve, director Denmark, In a Better World, Susanne Bier, director Greece, Dogtooth, Giorgos Lanthimos, director Japan, Confessions, Tetsuya Nakashima, director Mexico, Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu, director South Africa, Life, above All, Oliver Schmitz, director Spain, Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain), Icíar Bollaín, director Sweden, Simple Simon, Andreas Ohman, director Foreign Language Film nominations for 2010 are again being determined in two phases....

Outlander season six is officially over, and season seven’s on the way. A long-lasting TV show and fan favorite, the fantasy story with time travel and star-crossed lovers, still makes the hearts of viewers everywhere pound faster when they hear the somber melody of the opening titles. The series is a historical romance with various distinct elements that makes it stand out, and magic stones that engender time travel back in time are only one example....

Their primary responsibility on Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides were shots involving the mermaid Syrena, portrayed by Astrid Berges-Frisbey and other effects-heavy moments of this Jack Sparrow adventure. Here’s what they both had to say below. Visual Effects Supervisor Ben Snow I was up here recently for Rango, and it was interesting because that was the first animation movie ILM has produced, and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is one of the first really big 3D movies ILM has produced....

Ed Pressman Film Corp has bought the rights of Robert Kanigel’s 1991 biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan. The production company will distribute the film which is based on the true story of the self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Matthew Brown will write the screenplay as well as direct the picture. The film will focus on Ramanujan’s journey from the slums of Madras, India to Cambridge University during World War I....

“Ron Howard at Imagine [Entertainment] came to and said, ‘Would you be interested in telling a story?’” Poehler previously said of the film at the Creative Coalition Television Humanitarian Awards, per Variety. “We started talking about Lucy, who I grew up with and, of course, I’m a fan of her comedy. But I’m also very inspired by her story and what kind of woman she was in business, and what kind of culture she was in when she was making the show, and the relationship between her and her husband Desi Arnaz, and how interesting and complicated and loving it was....

We have an exclusive special feature clip from Rango, which hits the shelves on Blu-ray/DVD Combo pack and DVD on July 15. Click on the video player below to go behind-the-scenes and watch how composer Hans Zimmer crafted the score for this Paramount Pictures animated tale. The incomparable Johnny Depp voices Rango, a chameleon living as an ordinary family pet who dreams of being a fearless hero and is challenged to become just that when he inadvertently becomes the sheriff of a lawless desert town called Dirt....

There are only so many things I can say about Alive or Dead. The upshot is that only a few of them require expletives. The downshot, meanwhile, is that few of them would ever get put on a video box. The plot of Alive or Dead doesn’t really help the position at all. Basically, some random chick stumbles across an abandoned school bus. This alone doesn’t mean very much until she notices the hand-lettered “help me” sign written across the back window....

DVlivolsY4D2op Congratulate me, everybody…because I truly care about my readership, I have sat through a truly magnificent wreckage of a film JUST so I can warn you about it in the strongest possible terms. It’s called Five Across the Eyes, and it’s ninety minutes of reprehensible, pointless brutality laughingly called a movie. Apparently someone failed to get the torture porn memo once again, and thus launched off on a path of idiocy that makes my flesh crawl....