ENTERTAINMENT

Amazon Prime is entering into the world of college football docuseries with the release of a new exclusive clip from the upcoming Coach Prime. Focusing on one of the best coaches in college football, Deion Sanders gets a four-part documentary that shows just how the head coach of HBCU Jackson State University has transformed the program. Sanders has been known to bring in a plethora of high-ranking football recruits, changing the fortunes of the team under his leadership. The docuseries, produced by SMAC Entertainment and executive produced by Michael Strahan, Constance Schwartz-Morini and FredAnthony Smith, follows the events of how Jackson State has risen from its rough patch at the start of the season which was caused by the water crisis in the city. With players moving to different loc...

Universal Pictures on Tuesday unveiled the first official trailer for M3GAN, a forthcoming horror following an AI robot doll with a blood-thirsty agenda. The film, hailing from thriller masterminds James Wan (The Conjuring) and Blumhouse (Halloween), stars Allison Williams as Gemma, a toy roboticist who creates the namesake artificial intelligence doll. Gemma programs the doll to befriend her niece Cady (Violet McGraw), whose parents both died in a car crash. At first, everything goes as planned, but over time, M3GAN’s protective nature brings out a vicious side that no one saw coming. “M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally,” reads an official synopsis for the film. “M3GAN can listen an...

Michael J. Fox and his Back to the Future co-star Christopher Lloyd had fans tugging at their heartstrings. The pair reunited on stage at New York Comic Con, reflecting on their two decades of friendship and career together. Fox and Lloyd took a trip down memory lane, recalling the days of filming the iconic Back to the Future. The film was released in 1985 and became an immediate success that has grown into a major franchise. The lasting legacy of the film was perpetuated over 30 years of friendship between the two. Lloyd discussed how he found out Fox replaced Eric Stoltz for the role of Marty McFly, “The announcement — at one o’clock in the morning after we were shooting for six weeks — was that the actor playing Marty would no longer be playing Marty, and that tomorrow, we would start ...

Building on the unprecedented success of Squid Game, Netflix is now gearing up to deliver Season 2 of the South Korean series. Confirmed this past summer with no real information revealed just yet, rumors are now circulating that veteran Hong Kong actor, Tony Leung, who recently appeared in Marvel Studios‘ Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings, will be joining the cast for Season. Rumors began to surface after Leung’s wife, actress Carina Lau, shared images of her husband sitting down with Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk on Instagram. Photographed during the couple’s visit to the 27th Busan International Film Festival, the images were accompanied by the caption, “Ready for Squid Game?” Speaking with local media Korea Herald, Tony Leung shared his interest in the K-drama genre, “If ...

Young Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin has revealed that he is ready to throw in the hat for a superhero role. In a recent Q&A session at the 2022’s Heroes Comic Con in Brussels, McLaughlin said he wanted to join the DC Extended Universe live-action for Static Shock. McLaughlin told fans at the panel, “What other movie would I like…I want to do a superhero film. I would love to play Static Shock honestly… I would want to do something like a superhero, or even something…it doesn’t matter. I’m really open to being any character. I feel like I can play anybody honestly. It really — I feel like how I pick my films is really what speaks to me. Also, I’m also developing other projects myself that will be coming out. Not soon, but soon. But yeah, it really doesn’t matter actually. It’s j...

Director Todd Field has exited Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese and Hulu‘s The Devil in the White City series adaptation just days after lead actor Keanu Reeves. According to Variety, a reason for his departure nor a possible connection to Reeves’ move were not confirmed, but the project is now looking for a new director. This only lengthens the production time of the series, which has been in the works since 2010 when DiCaprio purchased the movie rights and initially planned the project as a film directed by Scorsese. The Devil in the White City is based on the book of the same name by Erik Larson and “tells the true story of Daniel H. Burnham, a demanding but visionary architect who races to make his mark on history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. H. Holmes, America...

Tom Cruise is all about taking his acting expertise to new heights. After the success of Top Gun: Maverick, Cruise has redefined taking his projects o new heights, but now, it appears that he will quite literally do so. The 60-year-old Hollywood action veteran is set to become the first actor to shoot a film in space. When it comes to new heights, Cruise is quite literally going above and beyond for a project that is out of this world. Cruise is currently working alongside director Doug Liman, who worked on The Bourne Identity and have been in talks with Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) to send the actor to the International Space Station for his next film. NY Post reports that UFEG Chairman Donna Langley confirms, “I think Tom Cruise is taking us to space. He’s taking the world...

Universal Pictures continues to expand their partnership with famed director M. Night Shyamalan. The studio has now announced yet another new thriller coming from the director, set to release in 2024. Currently, two-time nominated filmmaker Shyamalan is set to release another thriller with Universal titled Knock at the Cabin starring Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Jonathan Groff, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Ben Aldridge. The new 2024 release will be the sixth movie Shyamlan will release with the studio. So far, the Shyamalan and Universal partnership has landed four successful releases including, The Visit, Split, Glass and Old have grossed a combined $713 million USD globally. Old is slated to release on February 3, 2023, and follows a girl and her parents who are taken hostage by armed strangers ...

Netflix has officially released the trailer for its upcoming series Blockbuster, starring Randall Park. The show is set to premiere on November 3 with a total of 10, 30-minute episodes, and sees Park as Blockbuster Video manager Timmy Yoon, who finds out that the branch he’s managing is the last one standing in America: “Timmy Yoon (Randall Park) is an analog dreamer in a 5G world. He’s spent his entire adult life dedicated to his first love, movies — a passion that’s kept him at his first and only job, managing his hometown Blockbuster Video. Then Timmy is alarmed to learn that his store is officially the last Blockbuster in America. He now has no choice but to take action to stay open and keep his friends employed. Timmy and his staff quickly come to realize that being home to the last B...

While Santa comes to the rescue in Violent Night, The Mean One from XYZ Films is a horror-fueled take on How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The upcoming film is a terrifying expression of Dr. Seuss‘ 1957 holiday classic which turns The Grinch into a serial killer. Instead of being just a delightfully green Christmas-hating grouch, The Grinch leans into the classic slasher trope to end the season of giving for good for an unlucky group this Christmas. “As a passionate fan of seasonal horror (and the TERRIFIER franchise), The Mean One is exactly the kind of film that lands on my personal ‘nice list,’ said XYZ Films’ Manager of Acquisitions and Development Alex Williams. “This movie is a stunningly great time with a ferociously subversive turn from (director) David Howard Thornton – and XYZ Film...

Keanu Reeves has reportedly exited the upcoming Martin Scorsese series adaptation of The Devil In The White City. According to Variety, The Matrix star has been tied to the Hulu series since January of this year. The series is an adaptation of Erik Larson’s 2003 book of the same name and was set to be Reeves’ first major American TV role. The film has garnered major attention in the industry, dating back to 2010 when Leonardo DiCaprio bought the film rights to the book. DiCaprio will serve as the series’ executive producer alongside Scorsese. However, it appears that Reeves will no longer be a part of the series. Hulu and the actor have declined to comment about Reeves departure and the studio has not yet found a replacement for the lead role of Daniel H. Burman. The official synopsis of t...

Netflix has officially dropped the trailer for its upcoming comedy horror series Wednesday. The trailer dropped at this weekend’s New York Comic Con, where comedian Fred Armisen was revealed to be the extremely pale Uncle Fester. In the same trailer, Netflix teases Christina Ricci‘s role in the series. Ricci originally played the young Wednesday Addams in the 1991 The Addams Family and 1993 Addams Family Values films. Her return role to the franchise has been kept a secret since the announcement in March, but the trailer has now given audiences a glimpse of Ricci’s character. Ricci will play a teacher at Nevermore Academy where Wednesday, played by Jenna Ortega, has started her studies and is set to hone in her psychic abilities. The series features a large cast filled with big names inclu...