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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Renewed For Fourth Season At Hulu At the Television Critics Association summer press tour, Hulu announced that the streaming service has officially renewed its Emmy-winning dramaThe Handmaid’s Talefor a fourth season. Varietyhas the news aboutThe Handmaid’s Taleseason 4 announcement. StarElisabeth Mosswill presumably be back as June, but with three episodes still left in season 3, I suppose the show couldtechnicallytake a drastic turn and kill off its central protagonist....

‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Holiday Short: Even The Apocalypse Deserves A Holiday The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Partmay not be coming to theaters until next year, but Warner Bros. has an early Christmas present for us in the form of a new holiday short. The year 2018 and Bricksburg alike may be fiery hellscapes right now, but that shouldn’t stop you from celebrating the holidays. So get in the mood for some Christmas cheer withEmmet’s Holiday Party: A LEGO Movie Short....

‘The LEGO Movie 2’ Trailer: ‘The Second Part’ Brings Back The Old Gang For A New Block Party Warner Bros. Animation has debuted the first trailer forThe LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, showcasing the continuing adventures of LEGO minifigures Emmett (Chris Pratt) and Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks). Will this movie be able to hold a candle to the hilarious and inventive 2014 original? Check out the trailer below to get your best look yet at the latest return to the LEGO universe....

Akiva Goldsman Producing ‘Space Invaders’ Movie Akiva Goldsmanhas signed on to develop and produce aSpace Invadersmovie based on the classic Taito video game. Goldsman, who is known forI Am LegendandHancock, and who just directedWinter’s Tale, will produce withJoby Harold and Tory Tunnell. More details on theSpace Invadersmovie after the jump. Warners bought Midway Games in 2009, but the US publisher ofSpace Invadersdoes not own the theatrical rights to the game. The company later acquired the feature film rights for the game, however, and started developing a movie....

Alamo Drafthouse Expands Virtual Cinema To Bring Terror Tuesday And Weird Wednesday Into Your Home Alamo Drafthouserecently announceda newVirtual Cinemainitiative that will allow indie distributors like Kino Lorber, Film Movement, and Magnolia Pictures to let independently owned movie theaters screen films digitally to viewers. But now they’re also using the newAlamo-at-Homebanner to keep some of their longest-running genre programming alive. In conjunction with the American Genre Film Archive, the Alamo Drafthouse is bringing their signatureTerror TuesdayandWeird Wednesdayprogramming line-up to the Virtual Cinema space....

Alex Borstein Thinks Her Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Character Is A Bit Of A 40-Year-Old Virgin It seems just yesterday that we were all biting our collective fingernails waiting for season 4 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” But after the paradoxically generous and coy release schedule of two episodes a week, the fun has abruptly ended, and now — not unlike Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) — we have been left somewhat alone in the dark wondering what’s next....

Avatar Blu-Ray Sets Record For First-Day Sales Does the Blu-Ray-buying public at large care at all about special features? Record-breaking first-day sales forJames Cameron’sAvatarwould indicate that no, they don’t. Despite the fact that the recent release ofAvatarcontains no special features to speak of, the disc has destroyed the previous record-holder for first-day Blu-Ray sales:The Dark Knight. According toThe Hollywood Reporter, theAvatarBlu-Ray disc has already sold a staggering 1.5 million in its first day of release alone....

Bad Robot Is Going To Make Video Games Now Not content to just stick with movies and TV,J.J. AbramsandBad Robotare now jumping headfirst into the world of video games as well.Bad Robot Gameswill create large scale and indie titles for mobile, PC, and consoles. Movie studios want to evolve beyond movies. Warner Bros. have their own game line – Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Ditto Annapurna Pictures, who have Annapurna Interactive. Now you can add J....

Beanie Mania Trailer: HBO Max Explores The Craze That Swept The World When I was 7-years-old, there was a traffic jam in town so severe that emergency vehicles had to be dispatched to side roads because the main drag was gridlocked bumper to bumper … waiting in the drive-thru of McDonald’s for Teenie Beanie Babies in Happy Meals. The biggest toy craze in history, Beanie Babies were popular due to their deliberate design of being under stuffed (and therefore poseable and playable) but became a collector’s item as the toy’s manufacturer, Ty Inc....

Ben Affleck No Longer Directing Batman Even beforeBen Affleckmade his DC debut inBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,the plan has been for himto direct and star in a solo Batman movie. Over the past few months, talk about the project really began to heat up, and we were wondering if he was gearing up to get behind the camerasometime this year. But it looks like that’s no longer happening. Affleck has officially announced that he no longer plans to direct the movie — although he still plans to star as the Caped Crusader, just under a different director....

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Goes On Hiatus Today As Letitia Wright Recovers From Injuries Any injury suffered on a movie set that is significant enough to sideline an actor and force a temporary shutdown of production is obviously a serious one. News of trouble from the filming of the “Black Panther” sequel, “Wakanda Forever,” first arrived in late August of this year when astunt mishapduring principle photography in Atlanta, Georgia resulted in injuries to star Letitia Wright....

Casting Bits: Ellen Page Joins ‘The East’, Anthony Mackie Developing Jesse Owens Biopic, Tom Everett Scott Boards ‘Us & Them’ Ellen Pageis in final negotiations to star withBrit MarlingandAlexander SkarsgardinThe East,Zal Batmanglij’s thriller about a mysterious eco-terrorism organization called The East. Marling, who co-wrote the script with Batmanglij, leads as an undercover agent who infiltrates the group but then finds herself developing feelings for the group’s leader (Skarsgard). Page will play Izzy, a member of The East and Skarsgard’s ex, who becomes jealous of relationship between Marling and Skarsgard....

Casting Notes: Three For Salvation Boulevard; Susan Sarandon Revives A TV Western; Jaime King Romances A Journalist The indie comedy/thrillerSalvation Boulevardgot an interesting trio of actors today:Pierce Brosnan,Ed HarrisandJim Gaffiganhave all joined the cast. What’s the story? The film “is set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor....