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Perhaps the most iconic armor in all of pop culture is that of the storm troopers in Star Wars. Clean, imposing, yet disposable, the shiny white duds perfectly capture the sanitized yet all-powerful nature of The Empire. It only makes sense then that, when introducing its own Empire of sorts, The Walking Dead looked to those same storm troopers for style inspiration.

When Eugene, Yumiko, Ezekiel, and Princess arrive in The Commonwealth in The Walking Dead season 10, they know that they are immediately dealing with a formidable community. While folks back in Alexandria starve, The Commonwealth apparently has enough resources to allow its guards to cosplay as white-armored super soldiers. What’s more is that one of the those soldiers gets distinctive orange armor. It’s through that armor that we know the character wearing it, Mercer (Michael James Shaw), is not to be trifled with.

Comedy -action movie “Sinkhole” lifted the South Korea box office over the weekend with a $5.58 million start in theaters.

The debut was the highest weekend score this year by a local Korean movie and trailed only “Black Widow” and “F9.” It was achieved from a launch on 1,604 screens according to data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking service.

The disaster film was the second directed by Kim Ji-hoon, who previously made another in a similar vein “The Tower” in 2012. It tells the tale of a massive man-made disaster which swallows up a multi-story building and the people in it.

Including traffic from the Wednesday release, the film has a five-day cumulative score of $7.77 million, making it already the eight highest grossing film of the year in Korea.

The strong start lifted the nationwide weekend total to $10.4 million, the second highest weekend of the year. Previously, “Black Widow” grabbed...

Disaster movies have always found favour in Korean cinema but recently, there has been heightened interest in the genre, with several tentpole productions with big name stars going on the floors and releasing in quick succession. Director Kim Ji-hoon himself is no stranger to the genre either, with his previously released film “The Tower” being in the same vein and “Sector 7” also going strong on the mayhem, thanks to its monster element. While his completed project “I Want to Know Your Parents” still languishes in release hell, his first film to be released in nine years since “The Tower” happens to be “Sinkhole”, also a disaster movie, albeit with a somewhat different treatment this time round.

“Sinkhole” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival

After 11 years of hard work, saving up and frugal living, Park Dong-won manages to buy an apartment for himself which he moves into with his wife and son.

The New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center have announced two final titles, completing the lineup for the upcoming 20th edition of the New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff). The festival will be screening over 70 films, both virtually and in person, to audiences in New York and across the country from August 6 – 22, 2021. Tickets are already on sale.

Nyaff is thrilled to present as its festival Centerpiece the international premiere of Nyaff favorite director Benny Chan’s final work, Raging Fire. Completed shortly before his untimely death in August 2020, the Hong Kong-Chinese action film stars the inimitable Donnie Yen as Shan, a by-the-book cop whose past returns to haunt him. After a sting operation goes disastrously awry, Shan finds himself pitted against Ngo (Nicholas Tse), a former protégé who has turned criminal mastermind and is out for revenge. Nothing, it seems, can stop him, including his former mentor.

There's no place like home—and it looks like Judy Garland's dress from The Wizard of Oz has found its new residence after going missing years ago. As fans well know, Garland played Dorothy Gale in the 1939 film, winning a special honorary Oscar for her performance. In the movie, the actress wore a now-famous blue and white checked gingham dress. And just last month, the costume appeared to be rediscovered. So where did it end up? Well, it certainly wasn't in Kansas anymore. In fact, it appeared to be at The Catholic University of America (Cua) in Washington D.C. And it wasn't a twister that brought it there, either. According to a 1973 article by the student newspaper The Tower, actress...

Yet another disaster movie from South Korea, but “The Tower” and “Sector 7” director Kim Ji-hoon gives the genre a comedic twist in his newest film “Sinkhole”.

Synopsis

Jung Man-soo is a resident of Chungwoon Villa, which is a cheap apartment building. He works hard to raise his son alone. Park Dong-won works at a company. He finally becomes a homeowner after 10 years, but his home falls into a sinkhole. Park Dong-won and his co-worker Kim Seung-hyun are stuck in the fallen house.

The star-cast also includes actors who’re either known for or have proved their comedy chops in previous projects. Cha Seung-won (“Man on High Heels”) plays Jung Man-soo, Kim Sung-kyun (“The Witness”) plays Park Dong-won whereas the Prince of Asia Lee Kwang-soo (“Tazza: One Eyed Jack”) plays Kim Seung-hyun. The film is scheduled for release of August 11th, 2021.

Exclusive: Sarah Goldberg (Barry) and Jimmy Akingbola (In The Long Run) have joined the cast of UK thriller Freegard, which is in production in London.

As previously revealed, cast is led by James Norton (Little Women), Gemma Arterton (The King’s Man), Shazad Latif (Star Trek Discovery), Marisa Abela (Industry), Edwina Findley (The Wire), and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh).

Based on true events, the movie will chart the story of career conman, Robert Freegard, played by Norton, with Gemma Arterton as the woman who brought him down.

Adam Patterson and Declan Lawn are directing from a script by Michael Bronner (The Mauritanian), Patterson and Lawn (The Salisbury Poisonings). Rabbit Track Pictures and The Development Partnership produce with backing from Night Train Media.

Goldberg is best known for her portrayal of Sally Reed in HBO series Barry, which earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Today sees the launch of The Literary Tarot campaign on Kickstarter, pairing some of the world's best authors and artists for a great cause: the Brink Literacy Project!

This project tasked authors with pairing a tarot card with a seminal book that embodies the meaning of the arcana and we are exclusively revealing horror authors that are taking part in this project, along with the novel and card they have chosen:

Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Victor Lavalle (The Changeling) pairs The Tower with H.P. Lovecraft's "The Outsider"

Bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians) pairs Three of Quills (Swords) with W. W. Jacobs’s seminal, supernatural short story Monkey's Paw

Isaac Marion (the author of the bestselling Warm Bodies series) pairs The Hermit with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Bestselling Mexican Gothic novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pairs The Lovers with Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence

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Exclusive: Game Of Thrones and Killing Eve star Gemma Whelan has been cast as the lead in ITV’s drama series The Tower, Homeland writer Patrick Harbinson’s three-part adaptation of Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem.

Whelan will play Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, who investigates after a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.

Collins works to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.

Whelan is best known for playing Yara Greyjoy in HBO mega-franchise Game Of Thrones, but has appeared in other high-profile series, including Season 3 of Killing Eve,...

Exclusive: Homeland writer and executive producer Patrick Harbinson is to adapt Kate London’s Metropolitan Police novel Post Mortem into a three-part ITV series, which will be housed at Harbinson’s new UK-based production firm and Mammoth Screen.

The drama will be titled The Tower, in a nod to the novel’s thrilling opening sequence in which a veteran beat cop and teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in south-east London, leaving a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths on the roof, only for them to go missing.

Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins is drafted in to investigate, working to find Lizzie before she comes to serious harm, but also to uncover the truth behind the grisly tower block deaths. Collins and Griffiths later become the central characters in three books written by former Met officer London.

The Tower will be produced by Harbinson’s...

Our Halloween episode! The legendary actor and star of Shudder’s The Mortuary Collection talks about his favorite horror movies from his childhood.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Mortuary Collection (2020), now streaming on Shudder!

Nightmare Cinema (2019)

We Come In Pieces: The Rebirth of the Horror Anthology Film (2014)

Bad Boys (1983)

Gentle Giant (1967)

Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)

The Green Slime (1969)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Tarzan’s Three Challenges (1963)

The Professionals (1966)

Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966)

Ultraman (1967)

Batman (1966)

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

The Brides of Dracula (1960)

Psycho (1960)

Jack The Ripper (1959)

Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1974)

Count Dracula (1977)

Son of Dracula (1943)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

The Haunting (1963)

The Haunting (1999)

The Others (2001)

The Babysitter Murders (2015)

Halloween (1978)

Frankenstein (1931)

King Kong (1933)

Scanners (1981)

Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

The Bride (1985)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

The Love Bug (1968)

Son of Frankenstein (1939)

Son of Kong (1933)

The Road Back (1937)

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The Walking Dead finally aired its season 10 finale over this past weekend, which was good news for fans, but it seems general audiences hardly noticed it. The episode, 10×16 “A Certain Doom,” has officially earned the lowest ever ratings in Twd history.

As per SpoilerTV, the finale was viewed by 2.73 million viewers and scored a 0.87 demo rating. About the same time last year, the season 10 premiere earned 4 million viewers and a 1.4 demo rating. The penultimate episode, meanwhile, “The Tower,” which aired back in April, was watched by 3.49 million with a 1.13 demo.

Fans will know that The Walking Dead‘s ratings have been continuing to descend over the past few years, ever since the gory season 7 premiere. As you can see from the above figures, though, season 10 was relatively steady, so the finale failing to recoup many of those viewers back after the half-year break is a big blow.

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After a Covid-induced delay, viewers finally witnessed the conclusion to The Whisperer War on “The Walking Dead.” Episode 16, “A Certain Doom,” brought an end to Beta (Ryan Hurst) and The Whisperers, but left plenty of dangling threads for fans to ponder. As we look forward to the six newly announced episodes that will be added to Season 10, let’s theorize about the show’s five biggest unanswered questions below.

See ‘The Walking Dead’ episode 15 recap: Princess panics, Beta loses his marbles in temporary season finale ‘The Tower’

The Man in the Iron Mask

Fans cheered when Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) made her grand return to the series. She arrived just in time to save Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) from being sliced and diced, but viewers are still scratching their heads over her companion. She had a lieutenant by her side wielding Japanese kama blades, with his face shielded by a metal mask.

The global coronavirus pandemic delayed “The Walking Dead” Season 10 finale from seeing the light of day, but AMC finally unveiled the action packed episode on Sunday, October 4. Actually, this episode will no longer serve as the finale as it was recently announced Season 10 would be expanded by an additional six episodes. So this installment, “A Certain Doom,” simply serves as the epic conclusion to The Whisperer War.

Beta (Ryan Hurst) has trapped the survivors in a hospital by surrounding them with a horde of thousands of zombies. It’s an impossible scenario for the scrappy team, but as Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) points out: the efforts of the united communities combine to make “a mighty fist.” See the top six moments from “A Certain Doom” below, as “mighty fist” meets walker herd.

See ‘The Walking Dead’ episode 15 recap: Princess panics, Beta loses his marbles in temporary season finale ‘The Tower’

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This The Walking Dead review contains spoilers.

The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 16

The Walking Dead has, occasionally, taken some heat for its special effects. For some, the problem is the practical effects, because they look a little too good for the comfort of some. For others, the issue is the CGI effects, because they have looked a little less than stellar at times. Remember the CGI deer? If not, don’t worry, no one will let you forget it. Special effects take money, time, and expertise to pull off well, and, as it turns out, the coronavirus delay was a positive for The Walking Dead‘s special effects crew.

There’s an immediate sense of tension to the characters from the very beginning of the episode. We’ve seen them running around, being nervous, preparing for a big battle before, but there’s an edge to them that we haven’t seen thus far.

Previously on AMC’s The Walking Dead, the survivors were in dire straights as Beta sent an enormous horde of walkers to surround their should-have-been safe house at the abandoned medical tower. Thanks to sneak peeks and trailers, though, we know how the gang is going to get out of this one: by reusing a tried and tested trick. They’ll cover themselves in zombie guts and blend into the crowd. This time, however, there will be an added complication.

While teasing what’s to come next on Comic-Con@Home’s virtual Twd panel last Friday, director Greg Nicotero revealed the difficulty on this occasion is that there are Whisperers amongst the walkers. What this means is that the survivors have to be extra careful not to be spotted by Beta’s soldiers posing as the undead. The risk is doubled, then, so it’s possible not everyone will make it out alive.

The survivors were in a tight spot last time we caught up with them. The Walking Dead season 10’s penultimate episode, “The Tower,” saw Beta send an enormous horde of walkers to surround the various evacuees from the different communities in their supposed-to-be safe house at the abandoned medical tower. Going into the long-delayed finale, we’re wondering how they could possibly escape. But if anyone’s going to find a way, it’ll be Daryl Dixon.

Back in season 6’s midseason finale, Daryl had an awesome moment where he used a rocket-propelled grenade during a walker invasion of Alexandria. When ComicBook.com caught up with star Norman Reedus over Comic-Con@Home last weekend, they asked the actor if the show would continue to up the ante with Daryl’s signature badass moments. He said he hoped that they would and also teased one happening in the very next episode.

“I hope so,...

After four long months, The Walking Dead season 10 episode 16 finally has a return date.

As promised, AMC revealed the release date for the long-awaited Walking Dead season 10 finale during the show’s Comic-Con@Home panel. The final episode will air at 9 p.m. Et on October 4, 2020. That will be followed by the series premiere of spinoff The Walking Dead: World Beyond at 10 p.m. Et.

In a surprising turn of events, the season 10 finale that will air in October won’t technically be the final episode of the season, which is getting six “extra” episodes in early 2021. As you might have expected, this means The Walking Dead season 11 has been delayed indefinitely. You can read more about all of that here.

The panel also showed some previously released footage from the finale. You can watch it below:

AMC announced back in March that the final episode of The Walking Dead...

The Walking Dead may have—due to circumstances beyond its control—left its viewers in the lurch back in April with its yet-to-air Season 10 finale, but it seems that there’s news to be had about Season 11—casting news, specifically.

Margot Bingham has joined the cast of The Walking Dead for Season 11, reports Deadline. While the trade can’t confirm what role Bingham will play, it’s certainly worth noting that she has already been involved with the series, having voiced the role of Eugene’s (Josh McDermitt) mysterious radio chat-mate/would-be-romance, Stephanie; a fact that might lead one to presume she’s set to play the role in person, now having been properly cast.

The actress will make her Walking Dead onscreen debut in Season 11 after recent television runs on NBC medical drama New Amsterdam, Netflix Spike Lee adaptation comedy She’s Gotta Have It and CBS All Access drama One Dollar.

According to The Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang, fans may finally get a release date for The Walking Dead season 10 finale, “A Certain Doom,” which was delayed in April due to the coronavirus pandemic, at the upcoming virtual Comic-Con@Home event. Kang confirmed the impending announcement in a reply on Instagram.

When asked by a fan on Instagram when the season 10 finale would air, Kang teased an “announcement at virtual Comic Con!” AMC announced in June that The Walking Dead would have a digital panel at Comic-Con@Home, a replacement event for the canceled Sdcc 2020, that will “spotlight the season 10 finale episode.” Comic-Con@Home will be held from July 23 to July 26. The panel is scheduled for Friday, July 24 at 4 pm Et.

The Walking Dead season 10, which sees the conflict between the settlements and the Whisperers come to a head, ended on a cliffhanger in April. Episode 15, titled “The Tower,” saw what remained of Alexandria,...

The Walking Dead fans have been waiting a long time now for the season 10 finale. It was supposed to drop back in April, but the pandemic forced AMC to pull it from schedules due to post-production work being interrupted. Three months later and we’ve still yet to get a new air date for it, even if AMC has one behind the scenes. In lieu of that, then, at least showrunner Angela Kang has offered up some fresh teases at what we can expect from the episode, titled “A Certain Doom.”

Kang was a guest on the latest episode of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s virtual talk show Friday Night In With The Morgans. In an outtake from the show, shared by Entertainment Weekly, the EP talked about where things are at on Twd. First off, she recapped where we left things in the penultimate installment, “The Tower.”

“Obviously we’ve...

For many years now, the highly competitive domestic Korean film market shows a exponential growth. The Oscar winning streak of “Parasite” (2019) was one of the well-deserved results of this process. Celebrating its 101th birthday, the Korean film seems to be on its peak in terms of international recognition. “Parasite” gained a huge amount of attention and people start to turn their eyes to the foreign country. In 2019, “Parasite” had many other national competitors. For example the action thriller “The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil” starring Ma Dong-Seok and the historical blockbuster “The Battle: Roar to Victory” by Won Shin-Yun. Nevertheless, “Extreme Job” by Lee Byeong-Heon was the most successful film in Korean last year and outperformed “Parasite” with more than 16 Million moviegoers. It is more than surprising that Lee Sang-Geun’s debut film “Exit” took the third place of Korea’s movie market. Following the tradition of other apocalyptic Korean...

As “The Walking Dead” fans anxiously await news on when the Season 10 finale will air, let’s take a look back at the show’s dozens of Rip moments. The characters on AMC’s zombie apocalypse drama live in perpetual fear of death. In fact, of the entire Season 1 cast only a precious few are still alive as of today. Grab the tissues and then tour our photo gallery above highlighting 32 of the most shocking “The Walking Dead” deaths so far. Did we leave anybody out?

See‘The Walking Dead’ episode 15 recap: Princess panics, Beta loses his marbles in temporary season finale ‘The Tower’

Let’s start with perhaps the biggest death of all time: Carl (Chandler Riggs). He was bitten in the torso by a walker in Season 8 while trying to bring a new doctor, Siddiq, to camp. The teenager soon succumbed to his wounds, but not before writing...

The Black Lives Matter movement has seen a major resurgence following the death of George Floyd on May 25th. Floyd was killed by asphyxia when officer Derek Chauvin held a knee on his neck for nearly 9 minutes despite pleas to let him breathe. The murder has resulted in the arrests of all four officers on the scene, and Chauvin has now been charged with second-degree murder.

In the time since Floyd’s death, protests have taken place in every state in the Us and throughout various other countries in an attempt to end police brutality and reform law enforcement. The mass gatherings and loud voices have slowly resulted in some of the changes activists had hoped to see, and it’s brought a lot of attention to the movement many have been a part of for so long. In addition, a multitude of businesses, platforms and celebrities have voiced their...

One of the most frustrating TV delays that came about because of the Covid-19 pandemic is the hold-up with the season 10 finale of The Walking Dead. AMC was able to bring us all but the last episode the latest run before the global lockdown prevented post-production work from being finished on the finale. And as of yet, we’ve still no idea when we may see it.

What’s particularly worrying, though, is that it might not be until the fall that fans get to see how things will be resolved for their beloved survivors. At least, that’s according to ComicBook.com, who put forth an interesting case for why AMC may hold off on airing the episode until later this year.

As they explain below, important installments of The Walking Dead often act as leads-ins for other shows on the network, and it might make sense to air the...

One of the most frustrating TV delays caused by the global lockdown is the hold-up with the season 10 finale of The Walking Dead. AMC managed to air all but the last episode of the post-apocalyptic drama’s latest run before quarantine prevented post-production work from being completed on the concluding chapter, titled “A Certain Doom.”

Producer, and director of this particular episode, Greg Nicotero has now offered an update on the process behind getting the finale ready to broadcast that helps us understand the reason for the hold-up. Outlining how things usually work, he told EW:

“When you’re in post-production, it kind of goes like this,” Nicotero said. “You have to edit the episode, then you do sound effects, and then you do music, and then visual effects, and then color timing to make sure all the colors in all the scenes match, and then you have to do...

The Walking Dead will be going into its 11th season soon and its multiple spinoffs, video games, and other world-building canon has proven that it’s among pop culture’s most beloved properties. However, not everyone seems to feel this way, and some viewers have made that abundantly clear by filing complaints with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) over the past few years.

Reports requested and obtained by Observer from January 1, 2017 to February 1, 2020 are filled to the brim with complaints regarding the show’s brutality and gore. These filings became more prevalent following the season 7 premiere, which saw The Walking Dead‘s most notorious villain, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), mercilessly bash in the heads of fan-favorite characters Glenn (Steven Yeun) and Abraham (Michael Cudlitz).

In reference to the season 7 premiere’s overtly gruesome deaths, one viewer from Florida complained:

Watching human beings bashed over the head with a [sic] barbwired basball...

The Walking Dead season 10 finale is coming, eventually. The latest run of the post-apocalyptic drama came to a premature end earlier this month, thanks to the current lockdown preventing work from being completed on this year’s final episode. However, it’s still set to air at some point and fans are desperate to know what new horrors await the survivors in season 10’s concluding chapter.

Going by the episode’s ominous title, “A Certain Doom,” it sounds like a bunch of deaths are on the way. And sure enough, the official Twd Twitter account has teased that the body count will be high in the finale. Yesterday, the account offered to answer folks’ questions, with the responses coming in the form of GIFs. It didn’t take long before one fan asked “how many deaths” there will be in the episode. In the reply, Dwayne Johnson himself promised “so...

One of the many TV shows that have had their current seasons disrupted is The Walking Dead, whose tenth run wrapped up one episode early this April thanks to the Covid-19 outbreak affecting production. Or, in this case, post-production. Filming on the season 10 finale, titled “A Certain Doom,” had actually been completed prior to the lockdown, but the VFX needed to bring the post-apocalyptic world to life weren’t done.

With so much uncertainty around, well, everything these days, AMC has yet to schedule a new release date for the episode, only promising that it will be with us later this year. Director/producer Greg Nicotero has given us a little more insight into the situation, though. While speaking to Den of Geek, he revealed that it was doubly frustrating to stop work on the finale as the team was so close to getting it ready to air.

“We were...

The Walking Dead wasn’t always the ratings powerhouse it has become over the years. Before it was the highest rated show on AMC, it was a financially-limited series that suffered from budget cuts and substantial behind-the-scenes drama between the network and the producers.

Michael Rooker – known for playing Daryl’s older brother, Merle, in seasons 1-3 – hasn’t ever been shy about pointing out how the show’s low budget in early seasons affected the cast’s pay. At a convention earlier this year, he was even heard calling AMC “cheap” and claiming that “nobody got any money.”

In a recent discussion on Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, he was asked about those previous statements, to which he continued his candid streak by saying:

Were they cheap? Of course they were cheap! Come on, give me a break! Are you serious? Nobody got any money those first three,...

In another timeline, we’d have already seen the grand finale to The Walking Dead season 10 – not to mention being a couple of episodes into The Walking Dead: World Beyond, to boot. However, what with the coronavirus pandemic delaying post-production work, the episode – ominously titled “A Certain Doom” – has been indefinitely pulled from the schedules. It will arrive eventually, though, and one star of the show is now promising that it’s going to be “massive.”

Speaking to Too Fab, Jeffrey Dean Morgan offered up some comments to tease what’s to come in the season finale. Having been part of Twd for four and a bit years now, though, the actor is a pro at keeping secrets and was careful with his words. But he did hint that Negan and Beta will have some kind of showdown in the episode.

“I know there needs to be some sort of something with Beta,...

We’ve seen just about 10 seasons of The Walking Dead over the past decade, and over that time the post-apocalyptic drama has delivered some spectacular TV. But what is the single greatest episode of the show, as declared by fans? Well, a new graph which collates the IMDb user ratings for every episode, from 2010’s pilot all the way to season 10’s penultimate installment “The Tower,” reveals the answer.

It makes clear that the episode currently sitting at the top of the pile is season 4’s eighth outing, “Too Far Gone,” which sports an extremely impressive 9.7 rating based on 21,452 votes. The only one that comes close to this December 2013 broadcast is “No Way Out,” the season 6 midseason premiere which isn’t far behind at 9.6, on the back of 23,759 votes.

“Too Far Gone” served as season 4’s midseason finale and memorably featured David Morrisey’s Governor launch an attack on Rick Grimes’ neighboring prison group.

The Walking Dead season 10’s been a big year for Negan. Following on from his saving Judith in the season 9 finale, he started to get more freedom at Alexandria, though it looked like he’d gone rogue again when he escaped jail and joined up with the Whisperers. Ultimately, Negan chopped off Alpha’s head, bringing to an end the long mission he’d been sent on by Carol to complete. And though his true loyalties to the survivors have been made clear now, it’s not like he’s being welcomed with open arms.

In the penultimate episode, “The Tower,” Negan had a loaded chat with Lydia, Alpha’s estranged daughter, who made clear that he’d never be accepted by the communities no matter what he did. While speaking to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Angela Kang promised that there will be some more exploration of this in the season...

Deep in production on “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story,” Vince Gilligan kept hearing about an episode of the upcoming Season 5 of “Better Call Saul.”

“We’re all in the same suite of offices and every time I would pass them in the hallway, this thing would get bigger and bigger in the telling,” Gilligan told IndieWire. “Gordon Smith and Peter Gould really tortured me because they were telling me for weeks and months in advance of reading the scripts how big it was gonna be. I’d say, ‘When am I gonna read this script you guys are cooking up for me?’ And they’d say, ‘Oh, it’s gonna be a wild one, man. It’s big!'”

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A couple of weeks ago, Michonne was written out of The Walking Dead, with the impetus for the character’s exit being that she’d discovered evidence that long lost lover Rick Grimes was actually alive somewhere out there. We won’t see Danai Gurira again on the show (but maybe in the movies), as Michonne’s gone off in search of “the Brave Man,” and though young Judith Grimes know the truth of why her adoptive mother has left, she’s deciding not to tell anyone.

In season 10’s fifteenth episode, “The Tower,” Judith tagged along with Daryl Dixon while he went to check that the woods around the survivors’ safe house were secure. After an altercation with a Whisperer spy, who Daryl kills, a troubled Judith comes clean that Michonne got in contact and told her that she wouldn’t be back right away. The girl apologizes for...

The Walking Dead season 10 came to an endpoint, of sorts, this past weekend. The penultimate episode, 10×15 “The Tower,” is essentially acting as the season’s conclusion, though the actual finale will air later this year, once post-production work is able to be completed. Episode 15 left things on a nail-biting cliffhanger, then, as new Whisperer leader Beta got his walker army to surround the people of the assembled communities in their safe house.

Things look dire, and this being Twd, all the signs are pointing to there being some casualties when the show returns. Sure enough, exec producer Denise Huth teased on the last Talking Dead installment that maybe everyone won’t make it out alive. With regards to the finale’s promo, which hints at what’s to come, Huth summed up the situation as it stands:

“Following the attack on Hilltop, they reconvened at the rendezvous point and clearly things have happened,...

The Walking Dead reached its penultimate episode of season 10 last night, but that’s all we’re getting for a while. Due to the coronavirus crisis preventing the completion of post-production work, the finale has been indefinitely delayed and will air as a special episode sometime later this year. However, AMC was still able to create a thrilling promo which promises that 10×16 “A Certain Doom” will be worth the wait when it eventually arrives.

The trailer follows on from the dire cliffhanger set up in 10×15 “The Tower,” with Beta leading a walker army to the old hospital tower where the assembled survivors of Alexandria, Hilltop and Oceanside have gathered. Our heroes have got a plan together, but they don’t have much chance of winning. “We’re not all gonna make it through,” Daryl tells everyone. “But this is the only way.” The next shot is Judith closing the door on Daryl,...

The Walking Dead season 10 came to an impromptu close last night, with episode 15 “The Tower.” Originally intended as the penultimate installment, it was upgraded to the finale when the concluding chapter of the run was pulled from schedules, due to the coronavirus crisis interrupting the post-production process. The episode’s shocking cliffhanger, then, which was supposed to only keep us guessing for a week, is now a nail-biting ending that we’ll have to wait ages to see resolved.

“The Tower” saw Beta launching his revenge on the survivors for the death of Alpha, with the former second-in-command now taking charge of the Whisperers and claiming the evacuated Alexandria. But last time we saw him, Beta was leading his walker army to the old hospital tower where the gathered peoples of the three communities have retreated. With the undead surrounding them, our heroes apparently have no way out.

Daryl and...

Charades, the Paris-based sales company behind the Oscar-nominated “I Lost My Body” and “Mirai,” has closed a raft of deals on high-profile animated features, including “Little Nicholas” and “Marona’s Fantastic Tale.”

Anca Damian’s “Marona’s Fantastic Tale,” which world premiered in competition at last year’s Annecy Film Festival and was nominated at the European Film Awards, portrays a dog who, reflecting back on her life, reminisces about her different homes and owners after being hit by a car.

Set for a North American release later this year with Gkids, “Marona’s Fantastic Tale” has been acquired by Japan (Riskit), Spain (Pack Magic), the Baltics (Scanorama), Taiwan (Sky Digi), China (Legend Film), Poland (New Horizons), South Korea (Challan), Sweden (Triart) and Netherlands (Windmill). Damian’s followup to “Crulic: The Path to Beyond,” “Marona’s Fantastic Tale” is made with a range of styles, from expressionistic sketches to crayon drawings.

“The Addams Family,” “Frozen II,” “Toy Story 4,” “Abominable” and “The Secret Life of Pets 2” are among the record 32 movies submitted for the animated feature film category at the 2020 Oscars.

Last year’s Academy Awards race boasted 25 entries, while 2017 had 26 and 2016 had 27 (a then-record).

The list of contenders makes for an interesting race leading up to the awards show on Feb. 9, 2020. Featuring an ensemble that includes Charlize Theron, Allison Janney and Bette Midler, “Addams Family” has raked in $35 million at the domestic box office since its release on Friday. While it brought in half the earnings of its predecessor, Universal and Illumination’s “Secret Life of Pets 2” had a decent showing, grossing $46.7 million in its opening weekend. Moviegoers are still anxiously awaiting the release of “Frozen II,” which hits theaters on Nov. 22.

Here’s the complete list of qualifying movies:

“Abominable”

“The Addams Family”

“The Angry Birds Movie 2...

Now that five nomination slots are guaranteed for the burgeoning animated feature Oscar category, it doesn’t matter that as many as 32 films have been submitted. Assuming they are eligible (several films have not yet had their required Los Angeles seven-day qualifying run), they will contend for the Oscar won last year by “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”

Read: Oscars 2020: Best Animated Feature Predictions

Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch are automatically eligible to vote for the final five nominees in the category, while other Academy members are invited to opt-in and must watch a minimum number of films to be eligible to vote for the animated final five.

Films submitted in the Animated Feature Film category also qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture.

Frontrunners in the animation race include PIxar’s “Toy Story 4,” DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released its list of films submitted for the Animated Feature race at the 92nd annual Academy Awards. Thirty-two films will vie for a slot on the Oscar shortlist and, ideally, a nomination when those are announced in January.

Here are the toon hopefuls, several of which have yet to yet to have their required seven-day qualifying run in Los Angeles:

Abominable

The Addams Family

The Angry Birds Movie 2

Another Day of Life

Away

Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles

Children of the Sea

Dilili in Paris

Frozen II

Funan

Genndy Tartakovsky’s ‘Primal’ – Tales of Savagery

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

I Lost My Body

Klaus

The Last Fiction

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Marona’s Fantastic Tale

Missing Link

Ne Zha

Okko’s Inn

Pachamama

Promare

Rezo

The Secret Life of Pets 2

Spies in Disguise...

Showbox, one of South Korea’s leading studios, is launching sales of disaster comedy “Sinkhole” at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Film Market. Helmed by “The Tower” director Kim Ji-hoon, the film is the story of the events that follow the appearance of an urban sinkhole that swallows an entire apartment building.

It stars fashion model-turned-actor Cha Seung-won, Kim Sung-kyun (“Fengshui”) and Lee Kwang-soo (“Tazza: One Eyed Jack”). Aiming for a 2020 release, “Sinkhole” started shooting in August and is currently in production.

Showbox is also handling international sales of “The Man Standing Next,” a film by “Inside Men” director Woo Min-ho. Based on the fact-based novel of the same title, “Man Standing Next” tells an untold story of Korean Central Intelligence Agency and its political maneuvering in the 1970s. With a star-studded cast that includes Lee Byung-hun (“Inside Men”), Lee Sung-min (“Spy Gone North”), and Kwak Do-won (“Steel Rain...

The 16th edition of Japan's Skip City has come to an end with winners announced in both their international and Japanese film competitions. The international jury - led by the iconic Miike Takashi - gave the highest prize to Mats Grorud's animated The Tower with the Ogigami Naoko led Japanese competition jury giving the nod to Tsuboi Taku's Sacrifice. Check out all the winners below! Launched in 2004 as one of the world’s first film festivals to focus solely on films shot on digital in order to discover and nurture emerging talent, the 16th edition of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival has been held from Saturday, July 13 to Sunday, July 21 for 9 days and wrapped at the Closing Ceremony today, Sunday July 21....

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“The Tower,” Mats Grorud’s animation about the plight of the Palestinians, as viewed through the eyes of an 11-year-old girl in Beirut, won the grand prize in the international competition at the 16th edition of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival. The film also scooped the section’s audience award.

The Skip City festival, which launched in 2004 to promote the then-new medium of digital cinema, played July 16-21 in Kawaguchi, a suburb of Tokyo and the site of the Skip City media complex.

In the Japanese feature film competition the best picture winner was “Sacrifice,” a drama by first-timer Taku Tsuboi that focuses on strange incidents at a college – and a female student who was once a member of a religious cult.

In the same competition the Skip City Award went to “F Is for Future,” Teppei Isobe’s drama about an aimless high school boy who finds a purpose...

Auteur director Nicolas Winding Refn explodes the barrier between TV and film with a highly stylized whimper in Too Old to Die Young.

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This Too Old to Die Young review contains no spoilers.

After one of the series’ gracefully quicker hits, Too Old to Die Young finds police officer turned hitman Martin Jones (Miles Teller) and his handler Viggo (John Hawkes) driving down a California highway in the dead of night. The two men are silent, as is the road ahead of and behind them. The only sound that director Nicolas Winding Refn allows to infiltrate the scene is the angry voice of a radio show host complaining about “clowns… on the sidelines” who are the “white noise background for the collapse of the American empire.”

If this seems like an abrupt and nonsensical way to start a review of Refn and Ed Brubaker’s neo-noir crime epic,...

After having been successfully adapted into a pair of live-action movies, “Le Petit Nicolas,” based on the popular series of French children’s books from the ’60s, will be back on the big screen in an hand-drawn animated feature directed by Gilles de Maistre (“Mia and the White Lion”) and Amandine Fredon.

“Le Petit Nicolas, une enfance rêvée” is being produced by French animation powerhouse On Entertainment (“The Little Prince”), in co-production with Foliascope (“The Tower”), Luxembourg outfit Bidibul Productions (“A Cat in Paris”) and Canada’s Kaibou. Charades, the banner behind the Oscar-nominated “Mirai,” is handling international sales and will introduce the project (currently in pre-production) to buyers at Cannes.

“Little Nicholas” marks the first 2D animated feature undertaken by Aton Soumache at On Entertainment, whose credits include the Cannes-premiering, BAFTA-nominated “The Little Prince” and the upcoming “Playmobil: The Movie.” Foliascope is the company launched by animation veteran Pascal Le Notre,...

Here are three of the best albums of 2019 so far. Two of them are surprising and heartening resurrections by American bands who deserved better in their first lifetimes but haven’t given up. The third is bold prog-rock violence from Norway by a band with nearly three decades of mayhem in their discography but is still too much of a secret in this country. May the silence end here.

The Long Ryders, Psychedelic Country Soul (Omnivore)

Founded in the combined insurrectionist spirit of punk, Folkways Records and the Declaration of Independence,...

In a year of change and growth for Mexico’s Guadalajara Intl. Film Festival (Ficg), the revamped animation competitions, godfathered by Guadalajara native Guillermo del Toro, stand out as key examples of ambitions shared by the event’s new leadership, headed by Vendo Cine co-founder and longtime Ficg Industria head Estrella Araiza.

Where many animation-focused festivals and awards programs in Latin America tend to celebrate domestic or Ibero-American productions – think Mexico’s Pixelatl, Spain’s Quirino Awards – this year’s selected films at Guadalajara demonstrate a global inclusion with less peers – France’s Annecy Festival and Los Angeles’ Annie Awards are good examples.

“I think it’s important that every festival has its idiosyncrasies,” explained Carolina López, Ficg’s animation section curator. “Ficg is a festival with a specific DNA and we are adding to that DNA with what will be almost a festival within a festival.”

Previously Ficg did...

European animated films continue to tackle weighty subject matter with diverse works aimed at older and more mature audiences.

A number of celebrated titles last year impressed by tackling historical, political and cultural subject matter in original ways, among them Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nenow’s European Film Award winner “Another Day of Life,” above, Denis Do’s “Funan,” which took the top prize in Annecy, and Nora Twomey’s “The Breadwinner,” which won a plethora of prizes around the globe.

This year the trend continues with new and upcoming projects that explore wide ranging subject matter, from such sobering themes as the plight of refugees, racism and war to lighter fare like surrealist cinema and quirky romance.

Norwegian director Mats Grorud tackles the politically charged topic of Palestinian refugees in “Wardi” (The Tower). The film follows an 11-year-old girl living with her family in a Beirut refugee...