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Exclusive: Chloe Bennet (Interior Chinatown) and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) have been tapped to lead Hello Out There, an indie marking the feature debut of writer-director Otis Blum, which has wrapped production in New Mexico.

The film centers on Minnie (Bennet), a young journalist who embarks on a road trip across New Mexico with her cousin, Rex (Dunster), a punk rock guitarist fresh out of rehab, who is trying to figure out what’s left. Their stated mission: to investigate Area 51 and unearth the truth about extraterrestrial life. But as the journey unfolds, a deeper, more personal reason for their quest comes to light.

Thomas Mahoney produced via Handsome Watson, with Purple Intuition providing production services.

In a statement on the project, Blum told Deadline, “This is a story about connection. How do we connect from one individual to another, and from one planet to another?...

Scarlett Johansson’s plethora of successful movies has cemented her status as a major star in the Hollywood business. However, even she is not immune to controversies that stir public debate. One such instance was her involvement in the movie Ghost in the Shell, adapted from a beloved Japanese manga.

Scarlett Johansson in a still from Ghost in the Shell || Paramount Pictures

But the movie faced severe backlash for casting Johansson, a White actress, for the role of Major Motoko Kusanagi (live-action Mira Killian), a character who is Japanese. However, despite this outrage, the actress in a past interview detailed she may return for a sequel. But her participation depends on one crucial condition.

Scarlett Johansson Demands This One Specific Condition for Ghost in the Shell Sequel

Scarlett Johansson is undoubtedly one of Hollywood’s finest leading ladies, with blockbusters like Avengers and Lucy under her belt. So, her participation...

Believe it or not, but in the time before the internet it was possible for media to actually disappear. In that dark era, nothing felt more temporary than television.

While film existed on reels, books in print, and music on vinyl, television was but a mere signal that broadcast into your living room. Like a ghost, it was right in front of your face one second and gone forever the next. Without a world wide web to obsessively catalog it, so much of television felt like it was purely a one-time experience. And for folks of a certain age (i.e. the absolutely ancient creatures running this website) this often meant having a surreal TV memory that you were sure you were the only one in the world to have ever witnessed…until the internet came along to assure you otherwise.

Whether it was an obscure scary TV movie you...

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 lotsa shows including Ted Lasso, Grey’s Anatomy, Magnum P.I. and The Mandalorian!

1 | What was the silliest part of last week’s Fire Country: The over-the-top, Leone-taunting Knox character, or firefighter Vince negotiating a prison gang war truce (with “the worst of the worst,” no less)? And did it take you a sec to recognize Tahmoh Penikett beneath Knox’s soot and stubble?

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With the news of Paul Haddad’s death spreading, Resident Evil fans from all over have been flocking to Twitter to share their memories of one of the voice actor’s most iconic roles.

For those who are a bit out of the loop, here’s a quick recap. As we recently reported, Paul Haddad, the actor who voiced rookie Raccoon City Police Department cop Leon S. Kennedy in the original Resident Evil 2, passed away earlier this week at the age of 56. The news was originally shared by Invader Studios, an Italian game development company that collaborated with Haddad on their 2019 title, Daymare: 1998. While a cause of death has not been confirmed, there are reports floating around that Paul was battling stage-3 throat cancer.

Unsurprisingly, Twitter is chock-full of reactions, heartfelt comments, and even some impressive fan art from gamers, many of whom have fond memories for the original...

"Must be hard finding love when nobody likes you." Global Digital has debuted a trailer for indie comedy Rupert, Rupert & Rupert, from English filmmaker Tom Sands. Sandy Batchelor stars as a struggling actor with multiple personality disorder whose three identities battle for control when he wins the lead role in a West End play. Described as a "bittersweet comedy-drama" about what it's like to have three identities, and how hard life can be when there's different versions of you. "His emotional world becomes more and more chaotic with hilarious and heart-breaking consequences." The cast includes Daisy Keeping, Adam Astill, Ben Porter, Pandora Clifford, and Clifford Barry. This looks quirky and amusing, check it out. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Tom Sands' Rupert, Rupert & Rupert, direct from YouTube: A bittersweet comedy-drama about a struggling actor named Rupert Lindsay (Sandy Batchelor) with multiple personality disorder whose three identities battle for...

Season 31 of The Amazing Race will leave the starting line more than a month earlier than scheduled. CBS said today that the new iteration will premiere at 9 Pm Wednesday, April 17; it had been set for May 22. With that move, the network has banished LeBron James’ Million Dollar Mile from its Wednesday timeslot to Saturdays after just two episodes. CBS will air a repeat of NCIS in Million Dollar Mile’s timeslot next week.

Million Dollar Mile will air the remaining eight episodes of its 10-episode season on Saturdays beginning May 4, at 8 Pm with Ransom moving back an hour to 9 Pm.

The move comes after Million Dollar Mile premiered to soft ratings. It opened with a 1.0/4 rating and 4.1 million viewers in its debut episode, declining to 0.8/4 and 3.4 million viewers in week 2.

The network also released a sneak peek at the upcoming season, which comes with a twist: It will match teams...

Louisa Mellor Jan 17, 2017

We’ve scoured Sherlock’s The Final Problem for tiny details and references to other stories, and here’s what we found…

Warning: contains spoilers.

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With the help of the pause button and a pot of strong coffee, we’ve picked through Sherlock’s series four finale The Final Problem to seek out the nerdy references and painstakingly added background details. (You can find the same for the previous episodes here and here.)

Here goes…

1. Starting with the obvious, The Final Problem is of course the title of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1893 short story in which Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty appear to tumble to their deaths in the Reichenbach Falls. Andrew Scott’s Moriarty references the title several times in series two finale The Reichenbach Fall.

Ron Moody as Fagin in 'Oliver!' based on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist.' Ron Moody as Fagin in Dickens musical 'Oliver!': Box office and critical hit (See previous post: "Ron Moody: 'Oliver!' Actor, Academy Award Nominee Dead at 91.") Although British made, Oliver! turned out to be an elephantine release along the lines of – exclamation point or no – Gypsy, Star!, Hello Dolly!, and other Hollywood mega-musicals from the mid'-50s to the early '70s.[1] But however bloated and conventional the final result, and a cast whose best-known name was that of director Carol Reed's nephew, Oliver Reed, Oliver! found countless fans.[2] The mostly British production became a huge financial and critical success in the U.S. at a time when star-studded mega-musicals had become perilous – at times downright disastrous – ventures.[3] Upon the American release of Oliver! in Dec. 1968, frequently acerbic The...

Adding some female flair to the fete, Jessica Alba and Stacy Keibler showed up at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Tuesday night (March 17) for the Independent School Alliance for Minority Affairs Impact Awards Dinner.

Joined by Mira Lee and Brian Lee, the “Fantastic Four” actress and the WWE stunner posed for photographs ahead of the exciting evening.

In legal news, Jessica is going after the owner of a small business called Honest Earth Candles due to the similarity to her own brand The Honest Company. Kiki Rupert says Alba’s legal team has sent a letter to warn of the name issues, though there has not been a formal lawsuit just yet.

Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and has been blogging about Survivor strategy for People.com since 2009. Follow him on Twitter @stephenfishbach. Erik Reichenbach is a Survivor fan-turned-favorite, a comic book author and artist. He placed fifth on both Survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: Caramoan. Follow him on Twitter @BloodyAmer1can"You don't have to trust someone to have an alliance with them. You just have to have the same interests. You could hate someone's guts, but if you could help them get farther and they could help you go farther, hey, we've got an alliance.

Stephen Fishbach was the runner-up on Survivor: Tocantins and has been blogging about Survivor strategy for People.com since 2009. Follow him on Twitter @stephenfishbach. Erik Reichenbach is aSurvivor fan-turned-favorite, a comic book author and artist. He placed fifth on both Survivor: Micronesia and Survivor: Caramoan. Follow him on Twitter @BloodyAmer1can

"You don't have to trust someone to have an alliance with them. You just have to have the same interests. You could hate someone's guts, but if you could help them get farther and they could help you go farther, hey, we've got an alliance.

Available on Blu-ray, Sneak Peek Part 1 of the animated feature "Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman", starring actress Kyra Sedgwick as the voice of 'Batwoman'.

"...a new heroine has arrived in 'Gotham' whose identity is a mystery— even to 'Batman'.

Batman must figure out who 'Batwoman' is and stop familiar enemies the 'Penguin' and 'Rupert Thorne', from selling illegal weapons to the nation of 'Kasnia', with gangster 'Carlton Duquesne', hired to provide protection.

"'But Bruce Wayne', Batman's alter ego, becomes involved with 'Kathy Duquesne', the crime boss's daughter, 'Dr. Roxanne Rocky Ballantine', a new employee at 'Wayne Tech' and 'Sonya Alcana'..."

Cast also includes Kevin Conroy, Kimberly Brooks, Kelly Ripa, Elisa Gabrielli, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin Michael Richardson, John Vernon, Héctor Elizondo, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Eli Marienthal, Tara Strong, Bob Hastings and Robert Costanzo.

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Sneak Peek "Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman", starring actress Kyra Sedgwick as the voice of 'Batwoman'.

Available for the first time on Blu-ray disc, the animated feature from Warner Bros. Animation, will be released March 12, 2013.

"...a new heroine has arrived in 'Gotham' whose identity is a mystery— even to 'Batman'. Batman must figure out who 'Batwoman' is and stop familiar enemies the 'Penguin' and 'Rupert Thorne', from selling illegal weapons to the nation of 'Kasnia', with gangster 'Carlton Duquesne', hired to provide protection.

"'But Bruce Wayne', Batman's alter ego, becomes involved with 'Kathy Duquesne', the crime boss's daughter, 'Dr. Roxanne Rocky Ballantine', a new employee at 'Wayne Tech' and 'Sonya Alcana'..."

Cast also includes Kevin Conroy, Kimberly Brooks, Kelly Ripa, Elisa Gabrielli, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin Michael Richardson, John Vernon, Héctor Elizondo, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Eli Marienthal, Tara Strong, Bob Hastings and Robert Costanzo.

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The 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is gearing up to take Montreal by storm with three weeks of inspiration and thrills starting July 19 and running all the way through August 7. Read on for the latest!

The full 2012 lineup of programming and special events will be revealed next month, and we've got all the preliminary details for you below!

Fantasia Proudly Presents The World Premiere Launch Of A Unique, All-star Travelling Art Show

If They Came From Within: An Alternative History of Canadian Horror Movies

Cinematheque Quebecoise, July 20– July 29

Opening gala July 20, 5Pm

Imagine an alternative universe of Canadian horror movies that didn’t get made, couldn’t get made and maybe even shouldn’t get made… but we’d still love to see.

Rue Morgue magazine Editor-in-Chief Dave Alexander brings together some of Canada and Quebec’s most celebrated genre filmmakers with some of the country’s best...

DVD Playhouse—November 2011

By Allen Gardner

Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc.

The actors, producers, directors and crew of the Harry Potter series tell Ryan Gilbey the inside story of the defining film franchise of the last decade

Tanya Seghatchian, co-producer/executive producer, Harry Potter 1-4: I started working with David Heyman at Heyday Films in 1997. We had a deal with Warner Bros to be the eyes and ears of the studio in the UK. I remember a friend of mine, Tony Garnett, who produced Kes, saying to me: "Listen, this deal will only last if you find Warners the equivalent of the Bond franchise." I read an article on a book that was due to be published, about a boy who discovers he's a wizard. It said it was going to be one in a series – so that's a franchise. I rang Christopher Little, Jo Rowling's agent, to introduce myself and win him over if I could.

David Heyman, producer,...