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‘Project Greenlight’ Is Getting Resurrected At HBO Max With Issa Rae Calling The Shots Project Greenlighthas received the green light, again. The docuseries originally produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Sean Bailey, and Chris Moore for HBO has been revived by HBO Max withIssa Raeleading the show, which will now focus on the “next generation of talented female filmmakers who are given the chance to direct a feature film.” HBO Max has given an eight-episode order to itsProject Greenlightrevival, which will reinvent the original HBO docuseries with a new focus on rising female filmmakers....

‘The Brigands Of Rattlecreek’: Park Chan-Wook Directing Violent Western For Amazon, Matthew McConaughey Eyed To Star Years before writerS. Craig Zahlermade his directorial debut with his ultra-violent westernBone Tomahawk, he sold a screenplay for a different ultra-violent western calledThe Brigands of Rattleborge, which hadOldboydirectorPark Chan-wooklined up to directway back in 2012. Despite the script being on The Black List in 2006, the project was stuck in development hell for years, but now Amazon has picked it up with a slightly-altered name:The Brigands of Rattlecreek....

‘The Simpsons’ And ‘Dexter’ Could End This Season Due To Contract Disputes What’s the one thing that can destroy both a yellow-skinned family and a sympathetic serial killer? Money. According to reports, contract disputes between the networks and casts of bothThe SimpsonsandDexterhave put the future of each show in serious jeopardy. In regards toThe Simpsons, Fox executives have said they won’t renew the show for a 24th season unless the six primary voice actors, who make about $8 million each per year, cut their salaries by 45%....

‘The Stand’ TV Series Reveals Cast, Confirms New Stephen King-Approved Ending [TCA 2019] CBS All Access confirmed the first four leads of its adaptation of Stephen King’sThe Standfor its streaming service.The Standis considered by many to be King’s definitive book. Well, it’s eitherThe StandorIt, as both are over 1000 pages and have been adapted as miniseries in the past. WhileItgot a two-part movie,The Standwill get a streaming series on All Access....

‘The Standoff At Sparrow Creek’ Trailer: Someone Is Hiding Something The Standoff at Sparrow Creekearned positive reviews out of Fantastic Fest, and now the first trailer is here. This shadowy thriller finds a group of militia members descending into paranoia after one of their members engages in a mass shooting at a funeral. But who did it? No one knows for sure, and the clock is ticking. Watch the tenseStandoff at Sparrow Creektrailer below....

‘The Witchfinders’ Conjures Up One Of The Best ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes This Season After “Rosa” and “Demons of the Punjab,” it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that all ofDoctor Who’s historical episodes this season would be somber, pensive affairs. And that’s good, and great, and powerful! But this isDoctor Who, and I still want me some camp and creepy crawlies. And thank Satan,“The Witchfinders"delivers on all of that. The latest historical episode ofDoctor Whomanages to tackle this season’s prevailing social issues while injecting it with a little classicDoctor Whocamp, the latter of which is mostly handled by a gloriously foppishAlan Cumming....

‘X-Men: Apocalypse’: Bryan Singer Addresses Backlash Over The Villain’s Voice When the first teaser trailer arrived forX-Men: Apocalypse, some fans weren’t happy with the way the title villain, played byOscar Isaac, actually sounded. Apocalypse is essentially a god, and his voice is not supposed to sound like any other person. It’s meant to be booming, inhuman and threatening. Thankfully, Apocalypse’s voice has been modified in the most recent trailer, and it’s something that directorBryan Singerhas been perfecting in post-production....

12 Things To Know About Kate Bishop Before The Disney+ Hawkeye Series WithHailee Steinfeldset to portray Marvel’s world-famous female archer Kate Bishop on the new Disney+ “Hawkeye” series, it’s time to brush up on our knowledge of the character. Kate Bishop was only introduced to Marvel comics in the early ’00s, but already has a complicated, Marvel-esque history replete with time travel, universe hopping, and tragic familial connections to villainy. While there’s a lot to discuss when it comes to the junior Hawkeye, the most important elements (and those most likely to relate to the Disney+ series) come from her adventures in the first and second volumes of “Young Avengers” and the Matt Fraction and David Aja run of “Hawkeye,” which is the loose inspiration for the new show....

4-D Coming Soon To A Theater Near You It wasn’t too long ago that good 3D felt like cutting-edge technology, but apparently those three measly dimensions are no longer enough to impress the moviegoing public. At least, that’s the thinking of the South Korean conglomerate CJ Group, which plans to bring its 4D system to our shores this year. Whereas 2D and 3D movies rely mostly on sight and sound to draw audiences in, 4D is a more immersive sensory experience — imagine actually feeling the spray of the ocean or the shaking of an earthquake as characters experience them onscreen, or smelling the roses during the finale’s grand romantic gesture....

5 Brilliant Sidney Poitier Movies And Where You Can Watch Them We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Activist, trailblazer, and acting icon Sidney Poitierhas died, and what better way to honor his legacy than by watching some of his best performances? The Bahamian actor performed in dozens of movies, a handful of television shows, and he was even nominated for a Tony award for his work in theatre....

A New ‘Star Wars’ Stage Show Has Debuted At Disney’s Hollywood Studios Theme Park Star Warscharacters haven’t been strangers in Disney theme parks for some time now. Even before the cooperation acquired Lucasfilm and theStar Warsfranchise, Darth Vader and Stormtroopers and other familiar faces were regular sights at Walt Disney World’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida as part of the Star Wars Weekends event. And if you go back before that, there’sStar Tours, the ever-popular motion simulator attraction....

A Third ‘Blair Witch Project’ Movie Is “Inevitable” Says Co-Director The firstBlair Witch Project was a cultural landmark.We’ve covered this in the past. But no movie that grosses $250 million against a budget of $60,000 is immune to the terrors of Hollywood. A sequel,Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2was released just a year later and though it made money, it was a terrible excuse for a follow-up. Fifteen years have now passed since the lastBlair Witchfilm and the horror genre has changed and evolved probably at least that many times over that time....

Amy Pascal Steps Down From Sony Pictures Leadership Post Amy Pascalis stepping down as co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and as chairman of Sony’s Motion Picture Group. Her profile was battered last year when the hack of Sony servers revealed email conversations between Pascal and producers and execs. And while the official line is that Pascal’s transition has been in the works for a while (which might not surprise those who have paid attention to Sony’s troubles over the past couple years) the broad supposition is that this change is directly related to the hacks....