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A24 films will now exclusively stream on Max as part of the independent entertainment company's multiyear pay-1 US output deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.A press release confirmed that some of the new films covered in the agreement are Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla starring Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny, Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario with Nicolas Cage and Sean Durkin’s  The Iron Claw, which stars Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White. Other newer releases include Dicks: The Musical, The Zone of Interest, Stop Making Sense (2023), Love Lies Bleeding and Civil War. Between the current and new catalog of A24 titles, subscribers will be able to stream more than 100 films, including beloved movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once, Uncut Gems, The Whale, Past Lives and more.“Continuing our r...

Max has officially unveiled a first glimpse at It prequel Welcome to Derry. The teaser shows that the upcoming series is connected in the world of Stephen King, expanding the thrilling storyline in the city of Derry.While Derry might not be the first place you might book for a vacation, the events of Derry keep you captivated. Warner Bros. Discovery has recently released a reel of clips for the upcoming shows for 2024 and beyond. Giving new looks at shows like True Detective, The Penguin, House of the Dragon and more, the It prequel captures the attention of fans worldwide. The series is created by Andy Muschietti and his sister Barbara Muschietti. Written by Jason Fuchs, Welcome to Derry stars Jovan Adepo, Chris Chalk, Taylour Paige, James Remar, Stephen Rider, and Madeleine Stowe. Andy i...

Dave Chappelle is closing out his 2023 with a brand new Netflix comedy special.Premiering on December 31, the still-untitled standup special was announced via a short teaser that sees his "C" logo lit up with neon lighting. In the background, Chappelle's voice can be heard thanking the roaring crowd and is capped off with Morgan Freeman proudly stating, "He's back, folks!" The phrase "DAVE IS BACK" then appears, followed by the release date of December 31.It remains to be seen when and where this special was filmed. This marks Chappelle's sixth Netflix comedy special in six years; he released The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity and The Bird Revelation in 2017, Stick & Stones in 2019 and The Closer in 2021.Watch the teaser below. Dave Chappelle's comedy special premi...

Apple TV+ has finally dropped the official trailer for Steven Spielberg's new World War II pilot drama starring Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan. The nine-part limited series is the follow up release to Band of Brothers and The Pacific and is slated to release in early January of next year. The aviation drama reunites Spielberg with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman. In 2001, Goetzman produced the 2001 Band of Brothers and 2010's The Pacific. Written by John Orloff, the limited series also sees big-name episode directors like Cary Joji Fukunaga, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Dee Rees and Tim Van Patten. The trailer gives audiences a glimpse at Butler and Keoghan's characters taking to the sky as U.S. pilots. The pilots are assigned their roles as a part of a special group preparing to go "straight i...

Netflix has renewed Squid Game: The Challenge for a second season. Based on the hit namesake South Korean drama, the debut season of Netflix’s reality show-style spinoff aired just last month.Enlisting competitors from throughout England, 456 individuals competed for$4.56 million USD in prize money, the largest cash prize lump sum in game show history. More than two years after the release of the original Squid Game, the reality show maintained the top spot among Netflix’s English language shows for a few weeks after its release.Several contestants, however, have taken to social media to complain about ill-treatment while competing on the show. One user on TikTok explained that a game of "Red Light, Green Light" – which took place over a few minutes in the original Squid Game show – took s...

Kid Cudi is no stranger to the big screen, dabbling across a handful of production roles in titles including his own Entergalactic, among others such as A24's recent thrillers X and Pearl. Cudi is now readying for the release of his animated horror film Slime, which sees the musician take a starring role alongside animator Jeron Braxton, who will be making his feature directorial debut on the project.While details remain scarce at the moment, a press release describes the film as "a sonic/visual experience that marries Braxton’s distinct style with a trippy, elevating original soundtrack."“I’m always looking for what’s new and always trying to elevate what we know about music, film, TV and animation," Cudi shared in a statement to Deadline. "Jeron is a powerhouse creative at the forefront ...

Yoshihiro Togashi’s Yu Yu Hakusho 1990s manga series is coming to screens. Originally announced in 2020, Netflix has shared the first trailer for the live-action adaptation.“Long ago, the human World and the demon world were connected,” a narrator says in a voiceover. “Yokai crept into the human world to prey on humans.”Cut to paramedics failing to revive protagonist Yusuke Urameshi after he’s been hit by a car. While the event may have marked the end of his mortal life, it’s only the beginning of his journey as a Spirit Detective.He’ll embark on rigorous training under his mentor, exercise his new magic powers and ultimately, take on the demons that have found their way into the human world.While Yu Yu Hakusho has already been adapted into an anime, video game and film, fans are looking f...

The success of Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie's Barbie was beyond what anyone could imagine. Months after its release, fans still have the film fresh in their mind with many calling it one of the best movies this year. In a recent conversation for Variety's Actors on Actors series, Robbie spoke with Cillian Murphy. Murphy starred in another hotly anticipated film, Oppenheimer, which released on the same day as Barbie and sparked the "Barbenheimer" movement.In the series, Robbie revealed that before the films were released in theater, she received a call from Oppenheimer producer Charles Roven who asked her to change the release date of Barbie so that both films won't open on the same day. On moving the release date so that it did not collide with Christopher Nolan's atomic bomb epic Robbie...

Marvel Studios confirmed that it has three Disney+ series that are set to premiere in 2024.According to reports, the three titles are the Hawkeye spinoff Echo, which hits the streamer on January 10, the WandaVision spinoff Agatha: Darkhold Diaries and the revival of X-Men: The Animated Series entitled X-Men '97. Echo will see Alaqua Cox reprise her role as Maya Lopez/Echo alongside Vincent D'Onofrio, Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Cody Lightning, Charlie Cox, Devery Jacobs and Zahn McClarnon, while Agatha: Darkhold Diaries will see Kathryn Hahn return as Agatha Harkness with a cast comprised of Aubrey Plaza, Joe Locke, Patti LuPone, Sasheer Zamata, Ali Ahn, Debra Jo Rupp, and Miles Gutierrez-Riley.X-Men '97 marks Marvel Studios' first X-Men project since regaining the fran...

Alicia Keys' semi-autobiographical musical Hell’s Kitchen saw its world premiere at New York City's Public Theater on November 19. Now not even a month post-opening night – and selling out nearly every show thus far – Hell's Kitchen is officially set to head to Broadway, opening at the Shubert Theater on April 20, 2024.Hell's Kitchen features new songs by Keys as well as many of her timeless tracks such as new arrangements of “Fallin’,” “Girl on Fire,” “No One” and “Empire State of Mind." Keys herself does not perform in the show, but, per the New York Times, spent over a decade working closely with playwright Kristoffer Diaz who wrote the book Hell's Kitchen is also loosely based off. The official synopsis reads as follows:In a cramped apartment hanging off the side of Times Square, 17-ye...