Moonlight, the first original production from ace indie distributors A24, was a buzzy fall festival film which appears to be headed for some heavy Oscar attention. Particularly after a few high profile disappointments fromBilly Lynn’s Last WalkandThe Birth of a Nationhave alreadydropped this month. And such recognition would be welldeserved. Barry Jenkins' (Medicine for Melancholy) film follows a young Miami boy into early adulthood in a three act structure; Chrion’s played by three actors at three distinct times in his life,Alex Hibbert,Ashton SandersandTrevante Rhodes....

Once you figure out just what to make of the titleNOS4A2(pronounced like “Nosferatu,”) you might expect some classic vampire lore from AMC’s latest horror offering. And indeed, you will find a vampire of sorts, but the new series based onJoe Hill’s celebrated novel of the same name avoids the classic tropes and familiar monsters of the genre, offering instead an immortal man by the name of Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto) who feeds on the souls of young children and discards the husks of their souls in a terrible Christmas village in his mind called Christmasland....

The fourth season ofThe Real Housewives of Salt Lake Cityhad an explosive final moment when it was revealed thatMonica Garciawas part of the Finsta account, Reality Von Teese. As the newest addition to the housewives franchise, Garcia fought with many of the women during Season 4, but none more thanLisa Barlow. The two got into screaming matches often, and it lead to one of the most confrontational friendships to date. Now, Barlow is talking about Garcia’s involvement in the show and what she felt about the situation....

The Movie Talk team of John Campea, Kristian Harloff, Mark Ellis and Perri Nemiroff dive in to give their non-spoiler review ofRogue One: A Star Wars Story. One of the years most anticipated film is finally among us and the Movie Talk crew got the chance to see it a little early. Ever since George Lucas signed over the rights forStar Warsto Disney, the world has certainly seen a change in a galaxy far, far away....

After days of silence on the matter,SaturdayNight Livehas officially firedShane Gillisfrom the season 45 cast afterracist, misogynist, and homophobic comments made by the comedianas recently as 2018 surfaced mere hours after he was announced as a new cast member.SNL’s decision to fire Gillis comes after his resurfaced comments spread like wildfire across social media, sparking outrage from people of color — especially the Asian and Asian-American community, who were Gillis' primary targets — on the dangerous precedent his hiring would set in he was allowed to remain in the cast and thus implicitly gettingSNL’s support....

Back in March,we reportedthat aThe Sopranosprequel movie was in the works.SopranoscreatorDavid Chaseco-wrote the script withSopranosveteranLawrence Konnerabout the era of the Newark riots in the 1960s. Specifically, this time period saw African Americans and the Italians of Newark at each other’s throats, and the gangsters of each group took lethal measures. The setting then allows forSopranoscharacters to appear as their younger selves. The Wrapis now reporting thatAlan Taylor, who previously directed episodes ofThe Sopranosincluding winning an Emmy in 2007 for Outstanding Directing for the episode “Kennedy and Heidi”....

WhileSteven Soderbergh’s sabbatical from feature filmmaking yielded two magnificent seasons ofThe Knick, hisreturnto the film world could be just as exciting. It was announced today that theOcean’s Elevendirector is set to produce with an eye to direct a feature film about the Panama Papers, which was the biggest data leak in corporate and government history, for Anonymous Content and Grey Matter Productions.Scott Z. Burns, the screenwriter behind Soderbergh’sContagion,The Informant!, andSide Effectsas well as the filmmaker’snever-made iteration ofThe Man from U....

While studios continue to place tentpoles throughout the calendar, the summer movie season is still a warzone where every weekend new films vie for supremacy at the box office. It’s easier to be a film in February or March and make a splash rather than one that’s released from May through August. Furthermore, summer 2017 wasn’t great for the domestic box office as theaters reported declining sales, and rather than look at how to revitalize their business, whined about Netflix and shorter release windows....

Don’t expect to seeThe New Mutantspop up on Hulu or as a Premium VOD. 20th Century Studios pulled the long-delayedX-Menmovie from its planned August 02, 2025 release date in March over COVID-19 concerns, opting not to announce a new release date right away. This led many to speculate that the film might be released on Hulu (which Fox/Disney owns) or released as a PVOD title like Universal Pictures did withTrolls: World Tour,and speculation only further intensified when the film went up for pre-sale on Amazon last week....

TV reboots are all the rage at the moment, but given that the Second Golden Age of TV is still fairly new, we haven’t seen many updates of foundational shows likeThe Wire,Mad Men, orBreaking Bad. But there’s always the possibility of a prequel! That’s the route theBreaking Badteam went with the excellent AMC seriesBetter Call Saul, and somewhat shockingly that’s the route thatThe SopranoscreatorDavid Chaseis taking with his iconic HBO property....

Funkohas just announced a newlimited-edition Pop! Chaos (Translucent) figurein itsSonic the Hedgehogseries. With only 1,200 units made, this exclusive collectible drops on August 05, 2025, and is expected to sell out fast. The exclusive figure comes pre-packaged in a UV Premium Plastic POP! Protector and retails for $39.99.The collectible features the main antagonist of theSonicuniversein a translucent blue finish, complete with his signature yellow eyes. The Pop!Chaos (Translucent) figurestands at approximately 4....

In a rare bit of Hollywood cooperation between Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures, both studios reached an agreement that will allow them to share–and benefit from–Spider-Man appearing on the big screen. But while Marvel hasTom Hollandcast as Peter Parker, who made his introduction inCaptain America: Civil Warand will be leadingSpider-Man: Homecoming, Sony still owns the cinematic portrayals of the web-crawler and something on the order of 900 Marvel characters. It goes without saying that they’d like to capitalize on that intellectual property....

In 2014,David FincherdirectedBen Affleckin the psychological thrillerGone Girl. And apparently, Affleck, quite the director himself (Argo,The Town), has been stewing on it ever since. “My theory about you, having thought about it quite a bit,” began Affleck to Fincher in a Variety Directors on Directors chat, “is that you have these two incredibly powerful competing instincts as a filmmaker. One is that you have a very specific idea of how you think it will work the best and how you’d like it to be....