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My Best Friend Anne Frank Trailer: The Real-Life Holocaust Story Heads To Netflix Netflix is kicking off the month of February with “My Best Friend Anne Frank,” a new movie “based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.” The Dutch-language film is based on the YA (young adult) book, “Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend” by Alison Leslie Gold, who also co-authored the adult non-fiction book, “Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped Hide the Frank Family....

Netflix’s ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Series Has Started Shooting; Find Out Who’s Back At one point in 2001’sWet Hot American Summer, the counselors of Camp Firewood make an earnest promise to reunite at in exactly one decade. Well, it looks like they’ve missed the mark by a few years, but better late than never, right? Netflix is officially moving forward with theWet Hot American SummerTV seriesfirst teased last year. Shooting is already underway with much of the original cast, including a few names who are much bigger now than they were then....

Paramount To Adapt Comic ‘Last Man Standing’ Paramount Pictures has acquired the rights to make a big screen adaptation of the graphic novelLast Man StandingfromTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesco-creatorKevin Eastman’s Heavy Metal Publishing. We have more information about the graphic novel and a ton of artwork after the jump. LMS (Last Man Standing) tells the story of Gabriel, the last living Paladin soldier. Genetically engineered, he is a warrior of supernatural strength, anointed as the guardian of Amerika and its people....

Raging Bull, Okja, And Drive My Car Are Coming To The Criterion Collection Christmas tends to come around only once a year, but movie fanatics and physical media junkies usually find themselves in for a treat just a little more often than that. The Criterion Collection periodically announces a batch of both new and classic films entering the prestigious halls of the home-video distribution company, having most recently revealed that the acclaimed romantic dramedy “The Worst Person in the World” would be ushered into the Criterion Closet inJune of this year....

Resurrection Review: Rebecca Hall Delivers Another Fierce Performance In This Disturbing Thriller [Sundance 2022] Rebecca Hall is one of the best actresses working right now. No matter what the material, Hall appears to throw herself into the role, building a unique, believable character every single time. Blockbusters, indie titles — it doesn’t matter. She always delivers. Hall also has a knack for playing solitary women coming completely unmoored — something she did so well in films like “Christine” and “The Night House,” and something she does again with “Resurrection,” a disturbing little thriller from writer-director Andrew Semans....

Sequel Bits: ‘Jack Reacher’ Needs Asian Coin To Buy A Sequel, Plus Possible Dan Brown Movies, ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation,’ ‘Twins 2’ WhenChristopher McQuarriewas set to directOne Shot, which eventually becameJack ReacherstarringTom Cruise, the idea was to launch a franchise based on the dozen-plus Reacher books byLee Child. Turns out thatJack Reachermay be the character’s one shot at the big screen, at least in this incarnation. The movie wasn’t all that expensive, at only $60m, butTHRreports that Pararmount doesn’t consider the $153m combined worldwide gross to be impetus enough to make another one....

Single Drunk Female Star Ally Sheedy Wants To Tell Sobriety Stories With A Different Point Of View [Interview] Life is hard. Sometimes we stumble and need a helping hand getting back up, even if it’s horribly embarrassing. That’s the premise behind “Single Drunk Female,” the newFreeform seriesstarring Sofia Black-D’Elia as Samantha, an alcoholic in her twenties who moves back in with her overbearing mother Carol (Ally Sheedy) after an ugly public meltdown at a New York media company....

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Collects $6.3 Million At Thursday Box Office, Laps The Original It is a downright huge weekend at the box office — in some ways one of the biggest we’ve had since the pandemic began. Not only is it the second weekend for “Morbius,” but both"Sonic the Hedgehog 2"and Michael Bay’s “Ambulance” are hitting theaters, while “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is expanding wide. There is a lot for moviegoers to choose from, that much is certain....

Star Wars Bits: Ciena Ree Revealed In New Art, New Star Wars Celebration Pins, And The Future Of Star Wars: Battlefront In today’s edition of Star Wars Bits: As seen on The#StarWarsShow, the first official image of Ciena Ree from@ClaudiaGray’s Lost Stars, for@FFGames!pic.twitter.com/Zw4vI60x7D — Star Wars (@starwars)August 13, 2025 Imperial pilot Ciena Ree was introduced in the pages of Claudia Gray’s novelLost Starsand now we know exactly what she looks like....

Steven Spielberg’s ‘Terra Nova’ Series Premiere Moved From May 2011 To Fall 2011 It’s been a rough several months forTerra Nova, the highly anticipatedSteven Spielberg-produced Fox series, and it looks like we’re not quite out of the woods yet. The network recently announced that it has moved the series premiere date from May 2011 to fall 2011. The series starsJason O’Mara(Life on Mars) as the head of a 22nd century family sent back in time to live in a prehistoric colony called Terra Nova....

Superhero Bits: Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Joker, Punisher, Superman, Captain America DidJared Letojust drop aKilling Jokereference? DoesWonder Womanhave a new VFX supervisor? IsHenry Cavillbummed about not getting to star inSuperman Flyby? How’sJon Bernthal’s Punisher looking on theDaredevilset? DoesSupergirlhave another new promo? Which friendly neighborhood superhero turns 53 today? What wouldHoward the Ducklook like as a modern Marvel movie? How long before Marvel wins back theFantastic Fourrights? Read about all this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ Plays LA In March; Director’s Next Film Being Prepped We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ever since the opening of the first part ofQuentin Tarantino’s two-film opusKill Bill, there have been rumblings about a domestic release of the full unified version of the film that ended up playing Cannes in 2006. The film would be both halves ofKill Billplus new animation expanding the backstory of O-Ren Ishii, and some other bits and changes toPart Ithat were seen in the Japanese release, but not in the US and Europe....

The ‘Dangerous Men’ Trailer Is 91 Seconds Of Pure, Unadulterated Insanity Dangerous Menis a very strange, very special beast that has to be seen to be believed. Although you could be forgiven for thinking it was written and shot by aliens who had never seen a movie (but had a few described to them), it’s actually the one and only film of the lateJohn S. Rad. It’s a singular, glorious, totally unbelievable, jaw-droppingly bizarre, wonderfully tone-deaf slice of pure, uncut insanity....