‘The Comey Rule’ Trailer: Brendan Gleeson Plays The Clown Con Man Known As Donald Trump The 2020 election is heating up, and Showtime has the perfect piece of programming to accompany all the madness. The Comey Ruleis a two-part limited series adaptation and dramatization of events discussed in former FBI Director James Comey’s best-selling bookA Higher Loyalty, specifically dealing with President Donald Trump (portrayed byBrendan Gleeson) and the 2016 election tampering investigation....

‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Gets A New Trailer – Watch Kevin Smith Recap The First Three Seasons Next month brings the return ofThe Expanse, the show that SyFy axed last spring, but was saved by Amazon for a new season. In season 4, the crew of the Rocinante is being sent through the Ring Gate to explore a new world. A group of refugees has already claimed the planet as their own, and attempts to get the situation under control have failed....

‘The Sandman: Act II’ Audio Drama Reveals New Cast With James McAvoy, Kat Dennings, Andy Serkis, And More Here comes the grand marshal of the audiobook/podcast parade, just in the neighborhood to tell you about another star-studded, radio-like drama that will be coming your way very soon. Whether it beThe Lord of the Ringsread by Andy Serkisor Stephen King’s “Strawberry Spring"performed by Garrett Hedlundand Milo Ventimiglia, it’s a good time to be a listener....

‘The West Wing’ Reunion Coming To HBO Max This Fall To Encourage Election Participation The Bartlet Administration is back. Sort of. HBO Max will stage a reunion ofThe West Wingfor the first time in 17 years, with creatorAaron Sorkinand the original cast all coming together forA West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote.The reunion is to benefit When We All Vote, a non-profit org founded byMichelle Obamato inspire voter participation in every election....

‘Winnie Mandela’ Trailer: This Fall’s Other Mandela Biopic Nelson Mandela’s story will be brought to the big screen this prestige pic season inMandela: Long Walk to Freedom, with a little help from director Justin Chadwick and star Idris Elba. But Mandela’s wife Winnie will get her own time in the spotlight next month with the unimaginatively titledWinnie Mandela. Directed byDarrell Roodt, the biopic follows the South African politician from her rural upbringing, through her husband’s imprisonment and the scandal and controversy that dogged her in later years....

12 Projects Chosen For January 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Labs Sundance has announced the 12 projects they have chosen for the 2010 January Screenwriters lab. Why should you care? Well because the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program has hand picked some of the most original filmmakers of the last 28 years. Here are some of the films that have come out of the program:Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs,Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight,Kimberly Peirce’s Boy’s Don’t Cry,Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream,John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch,Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas,Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know,Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson, and most recentlyCary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre andAlex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer....

2019 Emmy Snubs And Surprises: No Love For ‘Homecoming’, Rhea Seehorn, ‘Maniac’, And More The nominations for the71st Primetime Emmy Awardswere announced this morning, and you know what that means: it’s time to pick apart the selections and make our case for why some of our favorites didn’t make the cut. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' voting body has about 24,000 members, and their collective decisions gave us plenty of nominations to praise and scratch our heads about....

2022 Oscars Controversy May Lead To Nominees Boycotting The Awards Do you ever get the feeling that the folks in charge of the biggest movie awards show of the year … don’t actually like movies all that much? Admittedly, that’s a gross oversimplification of a much larger and more complicated conversation (hint: the keyword has something to do with “ratings”), but the end result of mishandling Oscars night is sadly the same: those already invested in the Academy Awards feel alienated, the pomp and prestige of the night inevitably become diluted, and, worst of all, the actual talent meant to be celebrated and recognized on the largest stage end up slighted....

A ‘Pretty Woman’ Musical Is Walking Down The Street To Broadway It seems like every beloved romantic-comedy from the last two decades is getting the Broadway treatment, and it looks like it’sPretty Woman’s time for a makeover. Pretty Woman: The Musicalis about to be the kind of musical you’d like to meet withLes Miserables’Samantha Barkstaking on the role of the prostitute with a heart of gold originated by Julia Roberts andOncemusical leadSteve Kazeestepping into Richard Gere’s shiny shoes....

Ben Stiller Explains Deleted Opening To ‘The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty’ One of the biggest Hollywood releases this Christmas isBen Stiller’s remakeThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a family-friendly tale of a lonely man whose day dreams inspire him to go on a globe trotting adventure. In the end, he’ll try to become the best possible version of himself. When you see it, you’ll realize not only did Stiller (who directed and stars) have a lot of story to tell, he had a ton of different tones to balance, which is an incredibly difficult thing for any director....

Cinemark Drops Request To Have Colorado Theater Shooting Victims And Families Pay Their Legal Fees [UPDATED] UPDATE:The Denver Postis reporting that Cinemark has agreed to drop the request for the victims of Aurora theater shooting to pay for their $700,000 legal fees. The theater chain’s lawyers have issued a statement saying that the company’s goal “has always been to resolve this matter fully and completely without an award of costs of any kind to any party....

Cool Stuff: ‘The Wire’ Reimagined And Analyzed As A Victorian Novel The key to great analysis is often imagination. That’s what sets apart"When It’s Not Your Turn": The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s “The Wire,“an article which purports to be an examination of the great literary textThe Wire, if it had been published as a serialized Victorian novel. The article acts as ifThe Wirewas written by Horatio Bucklesby Ogden, a contemporary of Charles Dickens, and goes on to examine the content in an appropriate manner....

Cool Stuff: Andrew DeGraff’s ‘Cinemaps’ Takes You To The Locations Of Your Favorite Films Have you ever wanted to live inside a fantastical movie? Or at the very least, have a better understanding of the geography of the landscape presented in films? Philadelphia based artistAndrew DeGraffhas found a way to transport you directly into the terrain of your favorite films with gorgeous hand-painted maps. And now he has a hardcover book collecting those maps in one place,Cinemaps: An Atlas of 35 Great Movies....