BBC & Amazon Have Ordered Two New Seasons For The 2016 Spy Thriller, Tom Hiddleston Returning To Star
After rumblings last year, it’s official: “The Night Manager” is back. Deadline reports that BBC and Amazon are developing not one but two new season sequels to the 2016 spy thriller, with Tom Hiddleston returning to star. Read on to find out who else will return for the…
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Apple’s Sci-Fi Series With Joel Edgerton & Jennifer Connelly Hits In May
The multiverse has infinite realities is a tagline that would probably fit snugly within a Marvel movie. But the same ideas apply and work perfectly well within the confines of the more adult drama, “Dark Matter,” a new sci-fi mindbender…
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Acclaimed Doc Series Returns Continue The Story Of Convicted Murder Robert Durst
In 2015, HBO’s Emmy-winning documentary series, “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst” took the documentary world by storm, helping popularize the true-crime streaming obsession—additionally fueled by Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” also released the same year— which took…
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Apple TV’s Sugar Explained by X-Men Producer Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon
Sugar immediately introduced itself as one of the coolest, most stylish, and downright enigmatic series of the year when the first episodes premiered on Apple TV+ on April 5. The Colin Farrell and Amy Ryan series follows a compassionate and…
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Kevin Costner Says He Wants To Return To ‘Yellowstone’
This summer, Kevin Costner will return to the Western genre as both star and director with “Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1” (and the movie will debut at Cannes). But for fans of all things Costner, “Horizon” is essentially…
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Park Chan-Wook, Robert Downey Jr. Are in Inspired Pairing for HBO’s Ambitious Adaptation
There is so much going on in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 novel “The Sympathizer” that it would take a team of true craftsmen even to attempt to unpack it in episodic form. HBO is lucky they hired one…
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One Note Clash Of Post-Apocalyptic Hostility & Quaint ‘50s Retro Futurism Is Exhaustingly Dull
Built on a wearying cheerful optimism/cruel fatalism dichotomy—contrasting chords that aren’t all that engaging or novel to begin with but repeated ad nauseum regardless—it’s astonishing just how quickly the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series, “Fallout,” wears out its welcome. Startlingly glib, one-note,…
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Shogun Star Hiroyuki Sanada Would Love to Join the Star Wars Franchise
Summary Hiroyuki Sanada expresses interest in joining Star Wars , calling himself a big fan. With critical acclaim for Shōgun , fans dream of Sanada wielding a lightsaber in the Star Wars franchise. Shōgun , set in 17th century Japan,…
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Kit Harington Says The ’Game Of Thrones’ Jon Snow Spin-Off Is Dead
In the post “Game of Thrones” era, HBO notoriously put seemingly dozens of shows into development, trying to capture lightning in a bottle again. One of them, starring Naomi Watts, even shot a pilot but was scrapped and not picked…
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New Doc Series About One of Pop’s Greatest Bands Hits Disney+ In May
What made The Beach Boys musical icons? The band that helped a generation connect with their California dreams is getting the documentary treatment. “The Beach Boys” gives viewers an unprecedented look at a group who defined ‘60s surf culture. Hits…
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‘Westworld’: Jonathan Nolan Recalls Butting Heads With HBO & Their “Handwringing”: We Were At “Loggerheads”
Three months after it was renewed for season five, HBO abruptly changed course and suddenly canceled “Westworld” last year, the dystopian science-fiction series by creator Jonathan Nolan (co-writer on ‘The Dark Knight’ trilogy) and his wife and creative partner Lisa…
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Ewan McGregor Says ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Started With Drunken Jedi
After years of waiting, “Star Wars” actor Ewan McGregor was able to finally explore his lone wolf Jedi Masters character in the “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Disney+ series prequel. Initially envisioned as three films, Lucasfilm eventually pivoted towards a series in 2018, and some of the…
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