‘The Morning Show’ Teaser Trailer: Our First Look At The Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon Apple TV+ Series The Morning Showis one of the many high-profile original TV series in Apple TV+’s roster as the tech company makes its bid to enter the competitive streaming field. But apart from a cast list, a very brief summary, and one stillimage of Jennifer Aniston, there is very little prove that this is a show that exists....

2020 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations: ‘The Lighthouse’ And ‘Uncut Gems’ Lead The Pack With Five Nominations Each There’s no denying it: awards season is upon us. And this morning marked the arrival of the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards nominations, where A24’sThe LighthouseandUncut Gemstied for the highest number of nominations with five each.Honey Boyalso had a strong showing, locking down four noms, along with a movie calledGive Me Liberty, which I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never heard of until this very moment....

Alejandro Jodorowsky Launches Kickstarter To Back New Film Project Alejandro Jodorowskyis planning a new film,Endless Poetry, which will pick up where his last movie,Dance of Reality, left off. He’s raising funds for the project now, and has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to gather some of the financing. He wants to “exchange your money into Poetic Money to make his latest film,” which sounds like a pretty good bargain. And if you’re wondering about the exchange rate on the poetic money market, it’s basically 1:1, and the director is actually printing “poetic money” to send to backers, which is pretty neat....

Apple’s ‘Wool’ Adds Tim Robbins To Dystopian Series From ‘Justified’ Showrunner Apple TV+continues to lure more talent, withTim Robbinssigning on to co-star oppositeRebecca Fergusonin the dystopian dramaWool, based on the first installment inHugh Howey’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi book series,Silo. According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Wool"is set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them....

Aziz Ansari Gets Real About Why He Turned Down A Role In ‘Transformers’ Aziz Ansarihas a new comedy series coming toNetflixand it looks like a great, hilarious look at life in the year 2015. And, perhaps more importantly,Master of Noneis giving the always funnyParks and Recreationveteran a new platform from which he can brutally honest about the topics that he’s obviously passionate about. Like the state of race and Hollywood and that time he turned down a role inTransformersbecause of some general racial ickiness associated with the part....

Disney Aiming To Crack Down On Password Sharing With Charter Communications Cable Company It’s a widely known fact that people like to share passwords for streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO Now, and more in order to avoid paying their own subscription fee. However, with The Walt Disney Company soon entering the streaming game withDisney+, there might soon be a crackdown on password sharing, forcing you to pay your own subscription if you want to watch Disney’s mash-up prequel ofHocus PocusandThe Three Musketeersor whatever they’re going to announce next....

Doctor Strange 2 Reveals There Are Two Kinds Of Superhero Movie Viewers Spoilers follow. Something odd happened to me last week as I watched “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.” As I cheered, other audience members groaned. When I was inert and unreactive, they yelled and clapped. Our laughs and gasps, I discovered, were just as out of sync as our applause. At first I thought the audience I saw the movie with may have just been an exception, but after watching the inevitable post-movie discourse unfold online throughout the weekend, something became clear: Marvel’s target audience has reached a fork in the road, and the two paths we’re hoping to walk are starting to seem very different....

Elizabeth Olsen To Lead A New Facebook Original Series From ‘Spectacular Now’ Director In case you haven’t heard, Facebook is trying to following in the footsteps of YouTube, Netflix and Hulu by creating their own original content for binge-watching, stream-hungry audiences to throw their gaze upon. The initiative is calledFacebook Watch, and it was first focused on helping all creators and publishers find an audience, build a community of fans, and earn money for their work....

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Dune (But Were Afraid To Ask) [TIFF 2021] I just witnessed Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” in IMAX at the Toronto International Film Festival, and as I sat bathing in the big, expensive imagery, it occurred to me that some moviegoers are going to have questions going in. Serious questions – questions they’ll be asking before they even sit down to watch the movie. If you’re one such person, I am here to help you, dear reader....

Gentle Giant’s New Mace Windu Statue Is A Purple Lightsaber Wielding Mother****** [Exclusive] Our friends at Diamond Select Toys have provided us with an exclusive first look at the latest 1/7 scale statue from Gentle Giant Ltd.’s Premier Collection: The “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” Mace Windu Statue! You can take a gander at this very cool and lifelike piece below, along with all the info you need to know for pre-ordering this purple lightsaber wielding badass for your very own....

HBO Responds To ‘Game Of Thrones’ Fan Petition, Offers Update On Prequel Pilot [TCA 2019] HBO is betweenGame of Thronesthis Television Critics Association press tour. After many years of answering questions about the upcoming season ofGame of Thrones, or the ending, this summer finds HBO taking a breather after their landmark series has wrapped, although they are developing a prequel.The final season ofGame of Thronesand its ultimate finale also proved controversial, as some fans felt characters behaved in uncharacteristic ways....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With The Producer Of ‘The Peanut Butter Solution’ This week, the gang atHow Did This Get Made?coveredThe Peanut Butter Solution, a mid-80s children’s fantasy film about a suddenly-bald 11-year-old boy who uses a peanut-butter-powered magic potion to try and grow his hair backThe key to understandingThe Peanut Butter Solutionis Rock Demers—the French-speaking, Canadian producer whose belovedReading-Rainbow-like “Tales for All” series of films has been captivating children around the world since 1985....

IMDb Top 10 Of 2017 Includes ‘It’ And ‘Justice League’ The end is nigh – the end of 2017, that is. As is the case every year, top 10 movie lists are popping up everywhere. The Internet Movie Database –IMDb– has their own top 10 list as well, and it’s a doozy. While other best-of lists tend to lean towards more independent and critically acclaimed fare, the IMDb list is loaded with blockbusters, and a few surprises....