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Mad Heidi is a horror/comedy whose website bills it as the very first Swissploitation film (“Yes, this time Switzerland will be exploited!”). Based on the popular children’s book Heidi by Johanna Spyri, the movie is an action-adventure exploitation spoof made in much the same vein as Machete or Hobo with a Shotgun. It was directed by Johannes Hartmann and Sandro Klopstein and produced by Valentin Greytert. The trailer, courtesy of Gambit, begins in peaceful Switzerland with its beautiful mountains, delicious cheese, and of course, Heidi (Alice Lucy), whose shown frolicking through the hills, warmly greeting her boyfriend, Goat Peter (Kel Matsena)....

The convictions were only the beginning. The worldwide phenomenon Making a Murderer continues October 19th, only on Netflix. Today, we get a look into the post-conviction process and the struggles experienced by Stephen Avery over the last few years in the first official trailer for Making a Murderer Part 2, along with the poster. Netflix presents the highly-anticipated second chapter of the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning original documentary series Making a Murderer, which followed the unprecedented journey of Steven Avery from DNA exoneree and reformer to convicted murderer....

Having secured her next significant TV role as an investigative journalist on Dr. Death, Mandy Moore has lined up her next major TV role. The actress stars alongside Edgar Ramirez as a celebrated surgeon in season two of the Peacock anthology series. Mandy Moore had previously starred in This Is Us, a six-season NBC drama that concluded in May. As part of her recent casting for Hulu’s Twin Flames, Moore reunited with Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, who co-created This Is Us....

Marvel Studios returned to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time in three years with a jam-packed Hall H panel on Saturday, July 23. With million-and-one announcements coming out of this year’s SDCC 2022 panel, one of the least expected was that Bulgarian actor Maria Bakalova would be voicing the telepathic Russian Cosmonaut Labrador Retriever, Cosmo the Spacedog, in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3. It was first revealed that Bakalova would be joining the Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3....

Labor Day weekend is upon us, and to celebrate, Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios is bringing back the biggest movie of the summer to help drag the curtain closed on this past season at the box office. Marvel’s The Avengers will be back on the big screen August 31st through September 6th. Playing in 1705 theaters across the country for this one week encore, Marvel Studios announced the film’s return on their Facebook page....

After being nominated for an Academy Award for The Lost Daughter, Jessie Buckley will next appear in the upcoming A24 movie Men. According to writer-director Alex Garland in an interview with Entertainment Weekly (EW), Men is “a horror movie about a sense of horror,” or, more simply, “a ghost story.” Buckley will play Harper, a young widow who, following the death of her husband (Paapa Essiedu), has rented an isolated holiday home in the English countryside....

Danger Girl is eyeing Milla Jovovich, Kate Beckinsale and Sofía Vergara to star in the upcoming big screen adaptation. The Danger Girl comic series was based on elite female spies reminiscent of Mission: Impossible mixed with Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Charlie’s Angels. Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil: Retribution) and Kate Beckinsale are no surprise in the rumors for the casting of Danger Girl while Sofía Vergara (Modern Family) would be debuting her action actress talent....

Millie Bobby Brown has deleted her Twitter account. The Stranger Things star has had a somewhat meteoric rise to fame, thanks to her role as Eleven on the wildly popular and critically-acclaimed Netflix series. However, the actress has now decided to delete her Twitter account after various users on the social networking site began turning pictures of her into homophobic and even violent memes. Brown is an outspoken supporter of GLADD and the LGBTQ community....

If you’re wondering if Ms. Marvel will get renewed at Disney+, your guess is as good as that of series star Iman Vellani. At this time, the series has not been renewed with no indication that a second season will happen, though the first season does leave the door open for a continuation. We also know Vellani will be back as Ms. Marvel on the big screen for The Marvels, but whether she’ll be back on Disney+ for more of Ms....

Road Rules is coming back to MTV. The new season or the reality show will incorporate interactive elements - the ability of viewers to determine through an online vote which cast member is eliminated each week, putting them in control of which six people remain behind the wheel, notes The Hollywood Reporter. In essence, the real-time version presents its action through two episodes, one on-air and one on MTV’s broadband video channel Overdrive....

NASCAR fans will have the chance to choose their side in the battle to control the planet when Paramount Home Entertainment and ESPN launch a unique promotional campaign in support of the October 20 debut of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on DVD and Blu-ray. Paramount Home Entertainment will sponsor not one, but two of the vehicles taking part in the October 17 “NASCAR Banking 500 only from Bank of America Race” at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina, a first for any film property....

Netflix means to right the wrong that was Iron Fist with a new action-packed martial arts crime drama series starring The Raid’s Iko Uwais. Wu Assassins will launch globally on Netflix August 8, 2019. The supernatural-infused action series comes to us from executive producers John Wirth (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Falling Skies) and Tony Krantz (24). Wirth will also serve as showrunner and head writer. Altered Carbon’s Byron Mann co-stars as Uncle Six, while Summer Glau (Firefly makes an appearance as Miss Jones in the Netflix original....

Mean Tweets hasn’t just grown into a flash fire viral meme that gets instant recognition and attention at this point. It’s practically an institution. And it’s hard to believe that there have only been eleven of these videos released over the past couple of years. It’s a hard segment to pull off, and it requires shooting a number of different actors over a period of days and weeks as they visit they show....

Risky Business Blog is reporting that Oren Moverman (The Messenger) is planning to rework the screenplay for Universal’s presently untitled Kurt Cobain project and he will direct it as well. Screenwriter David Benioff (Brothers) was initially attached to the project in the Fall of 2007 when it was at Working Title and Reveille. Much of the material on the life, music and 1994 suicide of the Nirvana singer-songwriter will be adapted from Charles R....

Today Starz, in association with Sony Pictures Television, announced that season three of the Golden Globe nominated series Outlander will return in September 2017. The third season will include 13 episodes based upon Voyager, the third of eight books in Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling Outlander series. In March, production and filming on the current season moves from its home base in Scotland to Cape Town, South Africa, to shoot pivotal sea voyage scenes on the former sets of the Starz original series Black Sails....

Peace Arch Entertainment Group Inc. announced that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to the feature film The Deal, a romantic comedy currently in production in Capetown, South Africa, starring high-profile actors William H. Macy, Meg Ryan, Elliot Gould and LL Cool J, as the Company continues to expand its portfolio of film, television and DVD productions for lucrative international and domestic distribution. A 2008 theatrical release is planned by Peace Arch....

Last week James Gunn hinted that filming on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was heading to a close, and it looks like Pom Klementieff has already wrapped on the movie. The actress plays Mantis in the Guardians series of movies and after originally joining the group in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, she almost managed to end the plans of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War before being dusted and then brought back in Avengers: Endgame to aid in the defeat of the Mad Titan and his army of followers....

One of the most successful modern horror franchises is The Purge. What started as a relatively humble, low-budget horror flick with a unique premise has spawned two sequels, and a forthcoming prequel. Not only that, but a TV series based in the universe of The Purge is in the works and is expected to come out next year. Now, some new details on the show have been revealed and it is going to truly expand the franchise....

Lionsgate, the premier independent filmed entertainment studio, announced today that it has acquired the home entertainment distribution rights to the new animated series from global entertainment licensing company Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Wolverine and the X-Men. Under the terms of the arrangement, Lionsgate retains the United States home distribution rights to all 26 action-packed half-hour episodes of Wolverine and the X-Men,(a co-production with Toonz Entertainment Pte Ltd., Singapore and First Serve International Ltd....

You won’t find a gentle water horse over here. Loch Ness Terror is coming to DVD on April 15. The disc will be priced at an SRP of $24.96. The film first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel last month and stars Brian Krause, Niall Matter, Carrie Genzel and Don S. Davis. From deep uncharted waters and through cavernous subterranean tunnels emerges into Lake Superior an unknown and menacing species. The gruesome bloodshed to follow doesn’t stop at Nessie; she’s brought her vicious offspring to help terrorize the innocent townspeople living around the lake....