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Geralt of Rivia is deep in his feelings atop The Witcher‘s second season, and it’s going to take more than a little questing to distract him from his pain. The more he quests… the more he feels.

The season premiere, one of eight episodes now streaming on Netflix, picks up directly after that little kerfuffle at Sodden Hill, with soldiers taking stock of casualties and survivors. Believing Yennefer to be among the former, Tissaia relays this fake news to Geralt, who looks devastated enough to cry. (If only he could!) Geralt gives Tissaia a brief “Was it worth it?...

While The Witcher Season 1 was criticized by some for its narrative form, it was lauded universally for the world-building it accomplished, and The Witcher Season 2 Episode 1 uses that foundation to begin fleshing out the action.

The premiere manages to pick up immediately after the climactic ending of the first season, despite the two years that have elapsed in real-time. The North collects its dead on the Sodden Hill battlefield, while Nilfgaard licks its wounds.

But, almost immediately, Geralt and Ciri have a side-adventure that sets in place what may prove a recurring theme for the season: Who are the real monsters?

The sojourn at Nivellan's estate borrows heavily on the fairy tale tropes of "Beauty and the Beast" but flips enough to make it innovative.

Nivellan's enchanted home is never satisfactorily explained. Is his ability to conjure things up (to drop from the ceiling) part of his curse? Or is...

18 of the contributors of Asian Movie Pulse from America, Oceania, Europe and Asia have voted the 25 Best Films of 2021, resulting in what we consider a great selection, particularly since the offer of titles this year was much wider, as the industry started to recover from the disaster that was 2020, particularly during the second semester. In that regard, the list includes films Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, S. Korea, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Lebanon, Iran, China and Taiwan, while crime thrillers, animations, shorts, action and documentaries have found a place.

Without further ado, here are the best Asian films of 2021, in reverse order. Some films may have premiered in 2020, but since they mostly circulated in 2020, we decided to include them, in one of the calmer votes in the history of Amp.

25. Barbarian Invasion

“Barbarian Invasion” strikes without a doubt as a very personal film for Tan Chui Mui, and consequently it strongly...

The actor wants to use her fame for good. But her controversial comments about ‘self-partnering’ may not have helped her

A year after filming wrapped on the final instalment of Harry Potter, the actress Helen McCrory, who played the dark witch Narcissa Malfoy, said that “so often when you meet child actors they’re weird, they’re freaks. No, I mean it,” she added for emphasis. “They’re really odd people.”

Her co-star Emma Watson, the precocious daughter of two divorced lawyers, was nine when she was famously picked from a line-up in her school gym to audition for the role of Hermione Granger. If Watson was strange then, her life in the 20 years since has arguably been stranger still. An English graduate from Brown University. A United Nations goodwill ambassador fighting for gender equality. An activist and model who happens to have banked tens of millions of pounds in...

Bill Condon’s ‘The Good Liar’, Roland Emmerich’s ‘Midway’ also open this weekend.

eOne’s The Aeronauts will hope to capitalise on momentum gained through a debut on Monday, November 4, as it heads into its first weekend in UK cinemas.

Directed by Tom Harper (Wild Rose), the film reunites The Theory Of Everything co-stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as a scientist and pilot respectively, looking to fly their hot air balloon higher than anyone has ever been.

The film debuted at Telluride Film Festival in August, going on to screen at Toronto and London.

Redmayne and Jones both...

Andes Films has taken the distribution rights in four Latin American countries for Wizart’s animated feature “Sheep and Wolves: Pig Deal,” which is being sold by the Russian company at the American Film Market. Wizart has also signed an agreement with Peppermint for the release of “Fantastic Return to Oz” in Germany.

Andes has picked up rights to “Sheep and Wolves: Pig Deal” in Chile, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. The company is a major distributor in the region, handling the release of movies from Sony Pictures, Universal and Paramount.

Previously announced deals for the family pic include Klb Sas (France), Ads Service (Hungary), Bohemia Motion Pictures (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Kino Swiat (Poland), Koch Films (Germany), Storytelling Media (Norway), McF MegaCom (former Yugoslavia), Pro Films (Bulgaria) and Acme Film.

“Sheep and Wolves: Pig Deal” was produced by Sergey Selyanov, Yuri Moskvin and Vladimir Nikolaev, in collaboration with Ctb Film Company.

Soundtrack albums are rare when it comes to Grammy winners for Album of the Year. Only three have ever won the top prize, and none in 18 years. Could “A Star is Born” end that drought?

To date, the three honored soundtracks were “Saturday Night Fever” (1979), “The Bodyguard” (1994) and most recently “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2002). Other movie music compilations have been nominated over the years but haven’t won, including “West Side Story” (1962), “The Sound of Music” (1966), “Grease” (1979), “Flashdance” (1984), “Beauty and the Beast” (1993), “Waiting to Exhale” (1997) and “Black Panther” (2019).

The good news for “A Star is Born” is that we already know the recording academy likes it. Its centerpiece ballad, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s duet “Shallow,” won two Grammys last year and was also nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. But the whole soundtrack album wasn’t eligible until now because of the Grammys’ unique eligibility period.

Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) is a widow in her 70s who lives in a home full of tasteful pastel furniture in a calmly boring suburb of London. She’s sweet, pretty, pert, and polite, with glowing skin framed by an impeccable gray-white coif; if Doris Day had been a conventional middle-class Englishwoman, she might have looked and acted like this. The opening sequence of “The Good Liar” hops back and forth between Betty filling out the user questionnaire on a website called Distinctive Dating and the man she’s just met on the site doing the same thing. The tone is genial and spry, very senior-citizen “You’ve Got Mail,” and the film then cuts to Betty arriving at a posh London restaurant, where she and her date are meeting for dinner.

He walks in, looking like a hound dog in a trench coat, and sits down opposite her with his eyes a-twinkle.

On their first night out together after meeting on a dating site for widowed septuagenarians (Ok Boomer?), Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) and Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) take in a screening of “Inglourious Basterds” at a London cinema. It’s the summer of 2009, and neither of these characters knows what happens at the end of Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist World War II extravaganza. Leaving the theater, Roy scoffs at what they’ve just watched: “Young people will think that’s what actually happened.” Betty isn’t so sure — she argues that the modern world has done more to clarify history than it has to obscure it.

More than just a crafty bit of foreshadowing (the full mirth of which isn’t clear until almost two hours later), this early scene appears to set up a pleasantly middle-brow thriller about our power to alter the past. If Bill Condon’s “The Good Liar...

On November 17, 1989, Disney debuted “The Little Mermaid” to audiences across America, and 30 years later, it’s about to do it again. “The Little Mermaid Live!” is the latest live musical event to hit television, preceding the Mouse’s live-action film adaptation starring Halle Bailey (and slated to start production in 2020) and following in the footsteps of small screen hits like “Grease,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and last year’s “Rent” adaptation. But this is the first entry from ABC, the first attempt to reimagine a beloved Disney classic on TV, and everyone involved aims to make a pretty big splash.

First off, “The Little Mermaid Live!” isn’t reimagining the original film so much as it’s accompanying its melody. Ron Clements and John Musker’s classic movie will be “interwoven” into the live production — in other words, when there’s a song to be sung, it’ll be performed live...

Further evidence that Disney’s Frozen 2 is going to be a gargantuan hit at the November box office: Both Fandango and Atom Tickets have announced that the first day presales for the Chris Buck-Jennifer Lee-directed sequel have eclipsed those for all other animated films. While tracking has Frozen 2 opening to $100M over the weekend of Nov. 22-24, some B.O. prognosticators believe its higher at $125M.

For Fandango, Frozen 2 is the online and mobile-ticket seller’s fastest-selling animated pic in its 19-year history, outpacing the presales of Toy Story 4.

Fandango’s new top five animated first day presales record-holders are as follows:

Frozen 2 (2019) Toy Story 4 (2019) Incredibles 2 (2018) Finding Dory (2016) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

“Film fans can’t wait to hear the instantly memorable Frozen 2 songs and enjoy the surprising new adventures of Anna, Elsa and Olaf,” said Fandango Managing Editor Erik Davis. “It’s a Thanksgiving season...

Take a look at new images of actress Emma Watson ("Little Women") posing for the December 2019 issue of "Vogue" (UK) magazine, wearing Burberry, Balenciaga and Gabriela Hearst, photographed by Alasdair McLellan:

Watson attended the 'Dragon School' and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of 'Stagecoach Theatre Arts'. As a child artist, she rose to prominence after landing her first professional acting role as 'Hermione Granger' in the "Harry Potter" film series.

Watson then appeared in the 2007 TV adaptation of the novel "Ballet Shoes" and performing voice work in "The Tale of Despereaux" (2008). 

Following her last "Harry Potter" film, she appeared in "My Week with Marilyn" (2011), "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (2012), "The Bling Ring (2013), "This Is the End" (2013), "Noah" (2014), "Regression" (2015), "Colonia" (2015), "Beauty and the Beast" (2017) and "The Circle" (2017).

Watson's latest film "Little Women", opens December 25, 2019.

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Exclusive: STXinternational has picked up rights to Dave Franco’s directorial debut The Rental, which stars Dan Stevens (Beauty And The Beast) and Alison Brie (Glow).

Written by Franco and Joe Swanberg, the pic follows two couples who embark on a weekend getaway to a seemingly perfect house they’ve booked online. But what begins as a celebratory weekend for the four close friends turns into something far more sinister as secrets they’ve kept from each other are exposed, and they realize they may not be alone.

Also starring are Shelia Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night) and Jeremy Allen White (Shameless). The film is currently in post-production. We broke news of the project earlier this year.

Stx will be shopping international rights at Afm this week. Endeavor Content is handling domestic.

Ramona Films’ Elizabeth Haggard and Dave Franco, and Black Bear’s Ben Stillman and Teddy Schwarzman...

“It was often thought that nostalgia was a bad thing,” Jeff Goldblum intones in his new Disney Plus documentary series, “The World According to Jeff Goldblum.” “It was thought to be an illness. But nostalgia can be a potent psychological force for uplifting.”

He’s talking, here, about ice cream. “It’s like a time machine,” he says, sounding like Don Draper describing a photo carousel, “this lovely sweet treat, in that it can take us back to a time when we were happy, when we first enjoyed it.” But he could as easily be providing the pitch for Disney Plus itself. The streamer, which launches Nov. 12, promises viewers something that delighted them in youth no matter what their age now: The Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar libraries are represented, with “The Simpsons” and National Geographic TV brand thrown in for good measure. Disney Plus’s catalog offerings are unmatched — indeed,...

The first shows for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” begin tonight, and there’s every expectation that is will be the biggest-opening, top-grossing domestic release of 2017. At a minimum, we’re looking at a $200 million opening, with $225 million very likely.

With strong holiday playtime following the first 10 days of release, a multiple of at least three times its opening is possible, which could propel to the domestic take to around $700 million.

Yes, it’s going to be huge — but there’s a few records it might not beat. Here (with adjusting numbers to 2017 values) are some comparable numbers that “Jedi” will easily best, and a few that seem unlikely.

Top domestic grosses of 2017: Yes

“The Last Jedi” should find the opening numbers easy to beat, and it’s hard to imagine it won’t be the best-performing movie of the year.

Film Studio Opening Gross Domestic Total Beauty and the Beast...

It’s not easy to parse the idiosyncratic minds of the Hollywood Foreign Press, a motley crew of 90 veteran entertainment media who chum up with publicists and junketing stars throughout the year as they report on movies and TV for their outlets in 55 countries. Many of these folks have been covering the usual suspects for so long, they feel like friends.

And that’s one reason why they make such different choices from other critics’ groups. The relatively senior HFPA’s taste runs the gamut from sophisticated (“Moonlight”) to mainstream (“The Martian”). They do like celebrities to come to the glitzy Golden Globes Awards show on January 7 (Daniel Day-Lewis, Margot Robbie, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon, and Jennifer Lawrence come to mind), which is by far the most fun party night of the year in Hollywood. So that’s another factor.

Early Friday morning, a messenger arrived at the front doors...

Girl Talk is a weekly look at women in film — past, present, and future. This week, we look back on a monumental year, for better or worse.

Ask enough women in Hollywood about being a woman in Hollywood, and eventually a theme emerges: conversation is great, and the acknowledgement of the skewed numbers and lack of equality is essential. It’s a discussion that needs to happen, but won’t it be great when we can stop just talking and put words into action?

It’s a two-pronged dream — that conversation will move past chatter and produce real results, and that those results will create a world where inequality becomes a thing of the past.

But talking has a way of being one-sided and, as it turns out, there needed to be one more step in between the chatter and actually moving things forward. That finally happened in 2017, the year people stopped talking,...

Roy Dotrice, a veteran British actor, died at his London home on Monday. He was 94.

Dotrice was known for his role as Leopold Mozart in the Oscar-winning film Amadeus and his many theater and TV roles.

He won many accolades throughout his lengthy career, including a Tony Award in 2000 for his role in the Broadway revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten.

Dotrice is remembered for his role in the CBS TV series Beauty and the Beast and won a BAFTA best TV actor award in 1969 for his role in Misleading Cases.

He gained many new fans later in...

Roy Dotrice, who played Game of Thrones‘ pyromancer Hallyne, has died, EW.com reports. He was 94.

Appearing in two Season 2 episodes, Dotrice portrayed one of the men charged with creating King’s Landing’s stores of wildfire. He helped inform audiences about what Mad King Aerys did with the substance, and Hallyne also was involved in Tyrion’s plan to use wildfire at the Battle of Blackwater.

Dotrice also was the voice behind all of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks. Performing that duty for the first novel, A Game of Thrones, earned him a...

Ron Perlman has some fairly iconic roles in his credits, on both the small and big screens. For years, he played the shaggier half of TV’s Beauty And The Beast, as well as Clay Morrow, the Claudius-inspired character on Kurt Sutter’s Sons Of Anarchy. The actor, who recently joined the cast of Crackle’s StartUp, is…

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With plans afoot for a live action take on Mulan, we look at the challenges facing Disney...

After more than 50 years of making animated features, Disney have now turned their attention to live-action adaptations of their famous films. After releases such as 101 Dalmatians (1996), Maleficent (2014) and Cinderella (2015), the studio's new creative direction has earned critical acclaim and financial success. It is also making its mark on the global box office, as the recently released Beauty And The Beast remake has earned small change in the region of $1.2bn and counting.

Among the upcoming remakes planned is Mulan, which already has fans of the 1998 Disney film debating about its faithfulness to the animated feature. That's especially so given reports about director Niki Caro's indecisiveness regarding the inclusion of songs such as Honour To Us All and I'll Make A Man Out Of You, as well as the...

Audra McDonald is counting her blessings.

The Beauty and the Beast star, 46, stopped by to talk to People about her work and family — including her and husband Will Swenson‘s new baby girl Sally James, 5 months.

“I’m so lucky. She was such a surprise, and I didn’t think this was where my life would be at this age,” the six-time Tony-winning actress and singer says of becoming a mother again later in life. (McDonald’s daughter from a previous marriage, Zoe Madeline, is 16.)

“But I’m thrilled to be there,” she continues. “This is obviously a soul that...

Tomorrow Top Cow Productions Inc. will release their new series Magdalena. It is written by Tini Howard and Ryan Cady. The artwork is done by Chrisian Dibari and Mike Spicer. The Magdalena is a woman that protects the world from demons and beasts. According to legend those who are chosen are part of a divine blood line from Jesus and "the lost apostle" Mary Magdalene. They are also armed with a relic called the Spear of Destiny which according to the story had pierced Christ's side at the crucifixion. The character first made her appearance in the 90's in the Darkness series and since then has had it's own series once in 2010 of 12 issues.

Now the character is back with a story featuring the current Magdalena wounded and trying to find her replacement. Here is the official synopsis and press release sent to us from Top Cow Productions Inc.:...

As part of an appreciation of the cult '80s fantasy series Beauty and the Beast — which includes an in-depth talk with series writer George R.R. Martin — THR offers this reminiscence from the show's Beast himself, Ron Perlman.

Beauty and the Beast is a project that remains very near and dear to my heart, for a full assortment of reasons.

When I got the part, I had been kicking around Hollywood for a while but hadn't yet made it. The show was the first mainstream gig I ever got. Friday night, 8:00 p.m. on CBS primetime, playing one of...

Before Beauty and the Beast became a Ziegfeld-esque follies of dancing silverware in a 1991 Disney animated feature — now a blockbuster live-action adaptation — it captivated adults as a 1987 CBS fantasy-romance series.

The show, which drew inspiration from Jean Cocteau's 1946 classic La Belle at la Bete, envisioned the tale unfolding in modern-day Manhattan, where our beauty is Catherine Chandler (The Terminator's Linda Hamilton), a lawyer savagely attacked in Central Park and left to die. She is rescued by the lion-faced Vincent (Ron Perlman) — a sensitive, literate soul with savage tendencies — who inhabits a rich...

Beauty and the Beast myth should be safe for generations to come: The beloved 1991 animated version returns March 17 for a live-action adaptation. But in 1987, millions fell for a very different take on the ultimate odd couple, with CBS' modernized version of the 18th century French fairy tale.

In that Beauty and the Beast, Linda Hamilton, then 31, played a New York City assistant D.A. who is savagely beaten, slashed and left to die in Central Park. (The "Preppy Murder" case had grabbed headlines the year prior.) She is rescued by Vincent, a...

Without uttering a word, the main title sequence for FX’s new anthology series “Feud: Bette and Joan” sets the dramatic yet somber tone for the entire series by using musical and graphical cues from ‘60s cinema.

While the images trace the plot of “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,” it also reflects the misery of the actresses drawn into a cycle of torment of their own devising. Take a look at the sequence:

The credits fit right in with “Feud,” a technicolor feast that examines the even more colorful rivalry between acclaimed actresses Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, which reached its pinnacle while they co-starred in the psycho-biddy horror movie “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” in 1962. The series takes place during and after the shooting of the film, in which Bette (Susan Sarandon) and Joan (Jessica Lange) play combative siblings Baby Jane and Blanche, respectively. There is no love lost between these sisters,...

Weekend Preview:The final, R-rated, impale-happy, Hugh Jackman-cussing Wolverine film, Logan hits 4,071 theaters this weekend and Fox's guidance is $60 million. The studio is pulling its punches (or adamantium claws) though as that means they think it's heading for $14.7K per screen average. In a weekend where its competition is the well-reviewed holdover Get Out, the Groundhog Day Ya film, Before I Fall, and Lionsgate/Summit's faith-based film, The Shack, Logan's prospects seem better than that.Since moving out of the X-Men Academy to make it on his own Wolverine has had solid commercial, if not always critical, success. The first outing, 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine may have made $85 million its opening weekend (in 4,099 theaters for a psa of $20.8K) but it had a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 6.7 on IMDb, a B+ on CinemaScore and nearly knee-capped the Deadpool character for all time. It ended up with $173 million domestic, $193 million...

A new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has been cut and is ready to go! According to Trailer Track, the new trailer will be released soon, but there's no exact date given. Alberta Film Ratings adds that the new trailer will be two minutes and twenty seconds long. That two minutes and twenty seconds of absolute awesomeness that awaits us!

I'm going to go ahead and speculate that the trailer will be released with Disney's Beauty and the Beast, which comes out on March 17th. That's going to be a huge film that everyone's going to see, so it makes sense to me that the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 trailer would be attached to it.

Whenever the next trailer is going to be released, we know that James Gunn is going to load it with all kinds of great footage to get fans even more pumped for the film.

TNT has released the first trailer for its upcoming original series “Claws,” executive produced by Rashida Jones. Actress and comedian Niecy Nash stars as the lead character. The hour-long dramedy follows the rise of five diverse and treacherous manicurists working at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County salon, where there is a lot more going on than silk wraps and pedicures.

Read More: Emma Watson and Dan Stevens Fall in Love In The Live-Action Tale ‘Beauty and the Beast’ – Watch Trailer

Carrie Preston, Jenn Lyon, Judy Reyes, Jack Kesy, Karrueche Tran, Kevin Rankin, Jason Antoon, Harold Perrineau and Dean Norris complete the cast of the show, which is described by TNT as a “midnight-dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness.”

At the center of the story is salon owner Desna (Nash), who lives with and cares for her mentally ill twin brother, Dean (Perrineau). Desna’s staff includes best friend...

Ewan McGregor is pretty busy these days — in addition to both the “Trainspotting” sequel and live-action “Beauty and the Beast” remake, he also has two roles in the third season of “Fargo.” Now, add yet another job to McGregor’s schedule: He’s replacing Charlie Hunnam in Drake Doremus’ “Zoe.” Doremus is fairly prolific himself: He’s currently at Sundance with “Newness,” starring Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa, and “Equals” came out just last year. Deadline first broke the news.

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McGregor will star opposite Léa Seydoux in “Zoe,” which Hunnam had to leave due to a scheduling conflict. Per Deadline, the film “follows two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab who design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound than they could ever have imagined.

Ok, so maybe this pic would be more seductive, at least to me, if it was Gamora's head in the forefront of the image as opposed to Drax's fat noggin. Instead, Star-Lord is giving much more of an incredulous look, perhaps Drax is pondering the metaphorical meaning of life, maybe he is wondering how a planet could also be a father, or it's possible he decided that everyone is responsible for killing his family so everyone must die. Either way, more and more images of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 are trickling in and I'll take what I can get concerning one of my favorite franchises of all time.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is the sequel to Guardians Of The Galaxy, a surprise megahit in the Marvel superfranchise, that focuses on a group of space "pirates" turned heroes, the aftermath of Ronin's defeat, and the relationship with...

It’s a Kandi Koated Kristmas!

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss and husband Todd Tucker celebrated Christmas Eve on Saturday with a family trip to Florida’s Disney World.

It’s the first time the couple have brought their son Ace Tucker to “The Happiest Place on Earth.” The boy, who was born on Jan. 6, has some milestones coming ahead of him: his first Christmas and his first birthday.

Also in attendance on the trip was Kandi’s 13-year-old daughter Riley Burruss. (Todd’s daughter Kaela and Kandi’s mother Mama Joyce didn’t appear to be in...

December 25th is internationally marketed as a day of cheer, togetherness, and bright lights during one of the darkest nights of the year. But, there are those of us who want to indulge in that darkness. There is a wealth of terror to be found in winter nights, and the following stories are perfect fodder for that breed of dread. Curl up by the fire, turn the lights off, and read... if you dare.

"The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood: A group of hunters in snowbound Montana encounter a windy, wintry forest spirit in one of Algernon Blackwood’s scariest tales. By taking an ancient, metaphorical legend and bringing it face-to-face with research and authentic characters, Blackwood forms an account of elemental terror that freezes the soul. Nothing is creepier—or more fun—on a windy December night.

"The Yattering and Jack" by Clive Barker: A family, tormented by...

‘La La Land’ (Courtesy: Lionsgate)

By: Carson Blackwelder

Managing Editor

If you’ve been paying attention to the 2017 Oscars race, you’ve likely heard of a little movie titled La La Land. The Damien Chazelle-directed romantic musical features numerous tunes throughout but Lionsgate is pushing hard for just two — “City of Stars” and “Audition” — in the best original song category. One question remains: does having multiple pieces nominated help or hurt a film? Let’s take a look back at what history seems to indicate.

La La Land — while likely a frontrunner for many categories at the upcoming Academy Awards, even the coveted best picture — we’re going to be focusing on the musical side. Both of the film’s stars, Ryan Gosling (jazz musician Sebastian) and Emma Stone (aspiring actress Mia), lent their vocal chops to these two numbers with him owning most of “City of Stars” and her dominating in “Audition.

As you no doubt know by now, the newest trailer for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 was a huge success. As far as previews go, it’s probably one of the best we’ve seen all year, teasing the film’s humor, action and chemistry between the main cast without giving away anything at all about the plot. It resulted in a very tantalizing look at the upcoming sequel and allowed fans to rest assured that it’ll be every bit as good as its predecessor was – if not better.

As such, it’s no surprise that the teaser has racked up an incredible amount of views in its first 24 hours. How many, you ask? Well, according to Gunn, it received 81 million views in its first day of being live. That makes it the second biggest teaser trailer of all-time, behind only Beauty and the Beast.

No one could have guessed how big of a phenomenon the HBO series Game of Thrones was going to be. Okay, maybe some could have, but certainly didn't. Yes, it was based on a bestselling series of novels, and yes the storytelling in those books is nothing short of breathtaking, but given the meditative pacing and the huge cast of characters, I personally didn’t foresee this becoming anything more than a moderate success. Since its first season, Game of Thrones has become a worldwide sensation, and has firmly found its place next to big franchises like Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter in terms of its rabid fanbase and existence in the pop culture zeitgeist.

The conclusion of this show has been quite the slow build, but in 2018, it looks like we will be seeing the last of the likes of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen. While the...

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s classic fairy tale “The Beauty and the Beast’ has been adapted to film and television numerous times. There’s Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version, the 1987 CBS TV series starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton, and of course, the 1991 animated Disney musical film. While there’s a highly-anticipated live-action Disney adaptation of the fable, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens as Belle and Beast respectively, set to be released next year, audiences can check out a different adaptation very soon. Christophe Ganz’s French-language “Beauty and the Beast,” starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel, will be ready for theaters this week.

Read More: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Trailer: Vincent Cassel & Léa Seydoux Ignite An Unexpected Romance In The French Adaptation

The film follows the original tale’s story: A widowed, financially-ruined merchant (André Dussollier) is forced to flee into the woods after a debtor threatens to harm...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Last Ship, Dancing With the Stars, Suits and American Horror Story!

1 | How did Quarry‘s Mac expect to surprise his wife, if his and Arthur’s plane landing was all over the news? Also, is holding a super-secret, highly illegal meeting in an extremely echo-y quarry a good idea?

2 | Masters of Sex fans, what’s the over/under on how long Virginia and Dan’s marriage is going to last?

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The Legends of Tomorrow this season will battle no less than the Legion of Doom — and half of the criminal quartet is accounted for in a photo shared by Matt Lestcher aka Reverse-Flash.

RelatedMatt Letscher on The Flash‘s Flashpoint Twist, Pitting Legion of Doom vs. Legends

Making its debut in Season 2, Legends‘ Legion of Doom is made up of Reverse-Flash aka Eobard Thawne (played by The Flash vet Letscher), Damien Darhk (Arrow’s Neal McDonough, also pictured below), Captain Cold (Legends’ Wentworth Miller) and Malcolm Merlyn aka the Dark Archer (Arrow vet John Barrowman).

And though Letscher told...

One decade ago today, we first learned the story of American hero Ricky Bobby. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby opened in theaters 10 years ago today. Audiences came out in droves that weekend for the comedy starring Will Ferrell as a winning-obsessed Nascar driver. Behind The Lego Movie, Talladega Nights remains Ferrell’s second largest movie opening. The movie reunited Ferrell with his Anchorman director Adam McKay. The two of them, along with John C. Reilly (who plays Ricky Bobby’s teammate Cal Naughton Jr. in Talladega Nights) would soon team up again for Step Brothers. Other notable August 4 happenings in pop culture history: • 1942: Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire film Holiday Inn premiered in New York. Crosby song “White Christmas” is featured in the movie musical. • 1957: The Everly Brothers made their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. They introduced their upcoming single, “Wake Up Little Susie...

As we settle in for the long ten month wait until Game of Thrones returns to television, we're not quite ready to stop talking about the show yet. And since we're really going to be off-book moving forward (unless George R.R. Martin releases The Winds of Winter between seasons and it contains story points beyond what we've seen so far in the show), I figured I'd throw out a few predictions about some plotlines that could happen in season 7 and see what you all think.

Jaime vs. Cersei

At this point in Martin's novels, Jaime Lannister is pretty much done with Cersei because she slept with Lancel (and a litany of other people) and he feels betrayed and inadequate. The finale left his reunion with his sister/lover intentionally vague, but that look they shared at the end certainly wasn't a loving one. He's gotta be pretty pissed that his...

Netflix and DreamWorks have 16 TV series in development, says DreamWorks CEO.

Director Guillermo Del Toro was joined by DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg during an Annecy Film Festival masterclass this week in which the two men revealed some insider titbits on projects they have worked on and more general thoughts on animation.

“In my early days at DreamWorks, Jeffrey said I increased the murder rate at the company by 100%,” Pan’s Labyrinth director Del Toro joked.

The colourful Mexican director has been a consultant and executive producer on a handful of DreamWorks titles, and the audience heard how he was responsible for significant edits to 2010 feature Megamind and for some of the more exuberant action scenes in Kung Fu Panda 2.

Del Toro and Katzenberg have most recently collaborated on animated series Trollhunters, of which they showed several clips.

The recent Netflix acquisition about a school kid who takes possession of a magical amulet that transforms him into...

Fan favorite actor Ron Perlman took to his official Facebook page and Instagram account to put his name in the running to play the mutant Cable in Director Tim Miller's "Deadpool 2" starring Ryan Reynolds. The actor has started a campaign to get cast in the film which would see Reynolds reprise his role as Wade Wilson aka 'Deadpool' alongside the time-traveling mutant Cable.

Perlman has posted photographs of himself side-by-side with Cable from the comic books and the resemblance seems uncanny.  The actor shared a pic on Instagram with the caption "Even my fave artist got into the fray..." implying comic book artist Shaine Schroeder who first posted an image of Perlman and Cable. Perlman added another comparison of himself and Cable on his official Facebook account with the caption: "Or hair. I'm the only one with Cable's friggin Hair!." 

Even my fave artist got into the fray.

THR profiles the last living silent star: Baby Peggy who is now 97 years old and at peace with the lost fortune her parents spent

The Cut talks to the immortal Bernadette Peters about her diet and exercize regimen. Takeaway: never aging in the past 30+ years is strictly regimented work!

Decider Today in TV History looks back at that great Natalie Portman episode of SNL  

Av Club Steven Spielberg's career in 30 iconic shots

Angry Asian Man the nonsense Asian actors have to deal with for bit parts 

Mnpp The Sebastian Stan Strut 

THR Have you been keeping up with this Nina biopic drama? The Nina Simone estate is Not having it with the new biopic starring Zoe Saldana (opening in April). But Simone's daughter feels bad for the backlash against Zaldana 

Variety R2-D2's model builder Tony Dyson dies at 68 years of age 

i09 More diversity blunders/handwringing: Marvel...

With the Oscars quickly approaching, here are some fun facts about the Academy Awards throughout the years.

Oscar Facts:

Q) Which films have won the most academy awards?

A) It was a three-way draw between Ben Hur, Titanic and Lord of Rings: Return of the King at 11 each.

Q) Which films have the most Oscar nominations?

A) All About Eve and Titanic are tied for the most nominations, with 14 each.

Q) What was the longest film to ever win the Best Picture Oscar?

A) Gone With the Wind at 3 hours and 56 minutes.

Q) Which was the shortest Best Picture winner?

A) Marty at 90 minutes.

Q) Which sequels have won Best Picture?

A) The Godfather Part 2, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.

Q) Which movies won best picture but were not nominated for Best Director?

A) Wings (1928), Grand Hotel (1931), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Argo (2012)

Q) What was the...

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed new cast members for FX's X-Men television series,"Legion", which includes "Downtown Abbey" actor Dan Stevens, "Parks And Recreations" actress Aubrey Plaza, and veteran actress Jean Smart. Stevens recently wrapped filming on Disney's live-action "Beauty And The Beast", while Plaza currently stars in "Dirty Grandpa" alongside Robert De Niro and Zac Efron. 

Stevens will play the lead role of David Haller, the son of Professor Charles Xavier who has been in psychiatric hospitals since he was young boy. Now as an adult, David is diagnosed with schizophrenia and after a run in with another patient, David questions the possibility that the voices in his head and the projected images he sees might be real.

Aubrey Plaza will play Lenny, David's friend who is a former drug user and alcoholic who believes she can turn her life around. Jean Smart will play Davids therapist named Melanie...

"The Guest" and "Downton Abbey" hunk Dan Stevens has scored the lead role in FX's "Legion," the upcoming TV series based on Marvel's "X-Men" spin-off comic and produced by "Fargo" showrunner Noah Hawley.

Aubrey Plaza and Jean Smart have also hopped onboard the previously announced Rachel Keller on the project which is scheduled to begin production in March.

Stevens will play David, a haunted man diagnosed as a schizophrenic at a young age. Trying to find a way back to sanity and on the verge of suicide, he meets the girl of his dreams and soon discovers he may be more than human.

In the comics the character is Professor Charles Xavier's mutant son. It has previously been said the series will Not be connected to the "X-Men" universe of the films including May's "X-Men: Apocalypse".

Plaza will play his friend Lenny, a woman with a rough demeanor and a...

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Universal's classic monster movie Creature From The Black Lagoon was almost remade by John Carpenter in the 1990s. So what happened?

It's one of the great suspense scenes in 50s genre cinema: a woman swims in the clear cool water of an Amazonian lagoon, blissfully unaware of the grotesque creature emerging from the depths beneath her. The score builds to a crescendo as the monster closes in, reaching out with a clawed, webbed hand...

Director Jack Arnold directed some of the best American sci-fi movies of the post-wwii era, and Creature From The Black Lagoon is perhaps his most famous. About a team of scientists investigating the fossilised remains of a strange man-fish hybrid - and discovering the thing still very much alive in the depths of the Amazon - the movie was a sizeable hit for Universal when it came out in early 1954.

The cultural impact...

Ritch Brinkley, who played Carl Wishnitski, the burly cameraman who was lovingly obsessed with Candice Bergen’s character on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, died Nov. 5, his family announced. He was 71. The bearded Brinkley also was known for his role as William the Cook on the 1987–90 CBS series Beauty and the Beast, starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. And on David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, he portrayed prosecutor Daryl Lodwick in a couple of episodes of that ABC drama. Brinkley was quite funny as Carl, who would gladly lay down his life for his beloved anchorwoman, on 28 episodes of the acclaimed

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