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Apple and iTunes have parted ways. In a story from Home Media Magazine, Apple Inc. announced on August 31 that “it would cease selling downloads of NBC television programming on iTunes.” Apparently NBC wanted to hike the rates on the content they provide. From what Apple says the new “demands would have resulted in it upping the retail cost per episodic download from $1.99 to $4.99.” Other networks like “ABC, CBS and FOX along with more than 50 cable networks remained committed to sell TV content from their upcoming fall seasons on iTunes at the current $1....

The Good A solid movie that makes you want to beat up all the jerks in the world. The Bad This film was a little too much like that story about Daniel Larusso.Never Back Down gives us the story of Jake Tyler. He’s the new kid in school and he’s just trying to find his place. He becomes friendly with Baja (Amber Heard) and it seems he may have found something to look forward to in his new digs....

Universal has updated their official Hellboy II: The Golden Army website with yet another new image. This time, it’s everyone’s favorite aquatic genious Abe Sapien that gets a gorgeous theatrical lobby display. Yesterday, Liz Sherman’s (aka Selma Blair) theatrical lobby display made its first appearance. To check it out, CLICK HERE With a signature blend of action, humor and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world’s toughest, kitten-loving hero from Hell continues to unfold in “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army....

New episodes of Unsolved Mysteries are on the way and could be seen as early as the end of this year according to the show’s creators. The trailblazing investigative show premiered in 1987 and 30 years later fans are still clamoring for more. The show was presented in a documentary format that profiled real-life mysteries with re-enactments of unsolved crimes, conspiracy theories, missing person cases, and unexplained paranormal activity. The show was revived for a third time in 2008 when the Spike Network produced new episodes for 2 years and ran updated versions of the old shows....

After all the buzz about reboots and reunions, Friends creators have finally set the record straight. One of the most popular sitcom of all time will not be following the recent wave of revivals says creator and executive producer Marta Kauffman during a friends 25th anniversary panel at the Tribeca TV Festival in Manhattan Friday. She avoided all vagueness when she answered the long asked question. The 10 season series ended at a point in the character’s lives when all of that changed as their own families grew....

Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight, starring Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector, a.k.a. Moon Knight, May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly, a.k.a. Scarlet Scarab, Ethan Hawke as Arthur Harrow, and Karim El Hakim and F. Murray Abraham as Khonshu, premiered on March 30, 2022. The series brought the sometimes-Avenger, sometimes-Defender into the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time, and quickly became must-see TV over its six-week run. Despite the character’s popularity, Marc Spector (and his alters) had yet to be officially confirmed as returning to the MCU, but that changed today....

When Our Flag Means Death hit HBO Max, it made an unexpected impact. The series, which is loosely based on the life of the real Stede Bonnet, quickly soared in views and overtook major competitors. But despite its tremendous fame, and the major cliffhangers the first season left us all hanging with, there is still no word of a second season from HBO Max. Series creator, David Jenkins, gives an update on the silence from the streaming service in an interview with the Los Angeles Times....

The format war continues and it suddenly looks even more interesting… Paramount Pictures, a unit of Viacom Inc. and DreamWorks Animation SKG, each announced today that they will exclusively support the next-generation HD DVD format on a worldwide basis. The exclusive HD DVD commitment will include all movies distributed by Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films, as well as movies from DreamWorks Animation, which are distributed exclusively by Paramount Home Entertainment....

NBCUniversal is trimming some of the more questionable content from past wrestling shows on Peacock after the acquisition of WWE Network and its video library. While WWE programming has gotten to be much more family-friendly in recent years, there have been many moments from the past that probably wouldn’t fly in our current climate. Likely not wanting to ruffle any feathers, Peacock has been heavily editing these old shows as noticed by many wrestling fans tuning in....

The Good This film is able to pull off its period look. The Bad Yet another boring, music video, horror movie about vampires. Taking place in an alternate world in New Zealand in the 1960s, vampires have been genetically enhanced to protect mankind as a group known as The Brotherhood. These two species live side by side in a symbiotic union, but things soon get altered when a virus is a created that turns man against them....

We have some of the first details for the Star Trek Picard Series. The new show was initially announced last August and represents the highly-anticipated return of Patrick Stewart to the Trek universe. For years, it seemed like the legendary actor had moved on, but CBS was able to court him back and it sounds like he’s loving it. But for Trekkies, it’s important to know things are going to be quite different this time around, as Picard will no longer be a Starfleet Captain....

The Queen and The Damned United producer Andy Harries is set to bring Pink Floyd’s seminal 1979 number one hit Another Brick in the Wall to the big screen. This is not a remake of Alan Parker’s Pink Floyd: The Wall. Instead, it will be a biopic revolving around the schoolchildren who appear on the track, and their music teacher Alan Renshaw. It has been described by Deadline as “Dead Poets Society meets School of Rock”, with its story following Renshaw’s arrival in a struggling north London public school in the late 70s, where he eventually leads his music class to sing the chorus on Pink Floyd’s seminial hit....

The release of Prey has turned out to be a big success for Hulu, the Predator prequel’s streaming home, but many fans have been left wondering why they couldn’t have enjoyed the movie in theaters. In recent years, partly due to the pandemic heavily affecting the movie theater business, there has been a rise of movies getting released exclusively on streaming services. Given the continued popularity of the Predator franchise, it was a big win for Hulu to get the domestic streaming rights, but the straight-to-streaming strategy meant that Prey would skip a theatrical run....

In a surprise video message at New York Comic-Con, Psych star Dulé Hill revealed that USA’s Psych: The Movie will premiere December 7 at 8/7c. You heard that right, Psych-O’s! T-minus two months. The Psych stars reunited for a panel and Q&A discussion moderated by TVLine’s founder and editor-in-chief Michael Ausiello. James Roday, Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson and Corbin Bernsen, alongside creator Steve Franks and executive producer Chris Henze, shared fun behind-the-scene moments, challenged fans to participate in the ultimate pineapple toss and revealed WWE Superstar John Cena’s return as Ewan O’Hara (Juliet’s brother)....

Rick and Morty has no shortage of memorable moments and ancillary characters that have lived on far beyond their moments within the series. One such character, the “pass the butter” robot that Rick created simply because he didn’t want to reach across the table and get it himself, has inspired quite a bit of internet fandom for having very little screentime. The latest, and unquestionably most awesome, example of this fandom comes in the form of a 120-pound, real-life version of the butter passing robot, but with one serious upgrade; it has flamethrowers now....

Movie Picture I had high hopes for Rise of the Dead, I admit that freely, but when I started the DVD and discovered that it was not only a seventy two minute movie, but also had a menu consisting only of a shot of the box art, my high hopes began to burst like a housing bubble in lead mining country. And yet, at least in the start, it managed to rise above its less than auspicious beginnings and really pique my interest....

The future of the DCU is something that is less clear than ever, but in the midst of the chaos a new report has suggested that James Gunn and Peter Safran were very much not the first people to be considered for the DC Studios CEO job. According to The New York Post, it seems that Gunn and Safran were simply the only ones willing to take on the highly pressurized role, with many others including Joker director Todd Phillips turning down the chance to bring the DCU back to life....

The first footage has been released for Knives Out 2 with more to come soon enough, according to writer-director Rian Johnson. After Netflix shelled out big bucks for Johnson to develop two Knives Out sequels for the streamer, the filmmaker has since wrapped his work on the first of the two follow-up movies. A brief snippet of the film was shown in a new trailer touting all of the upcoming 2022 releases on Netflix, and Johnson spliced out that footage and turned it into a GIF to share with his followers online....

Ricky Gervais is an absolute treasure. His quick wit and intelligence can skewer anything and turn it into comedy. He is so adept at his craft that he can insult you, and you probably won’t even realize it until 20 minutes later. How else does anyone explain the delightful and uncomfortable series An Idiot Abroad or, for that matter, The Office? In 2020, he was invited to host the Golden Globe Awards for a whopping fifth time, after hosting it three years in a row and then in 2016....

MGM and Dimension Films have launched the official website for Rob Zombie’s Halloween, which arrives in theatres on August 31. The film stars Scout Taylor-Compton, Malcolm McDowell, Daeg Faerch, Tyler Mane, Sheri Moon Zombie, Pat Skipper, Dee Wallace Stone, William Forsythe, Ken Foree, Lew Temple, Danny Trejo, Hanna Hall, Danielle Harris, Adrienne Barbeau, Clint Howard, Courtney Gains, Daryl Sabara, Heather Bowen, Brad Dourif, Udo Kier and Kristina Klebe. The site is pretty bare except for a full-length theatrical trailer, which is worth the watch!...