Month: September 2020

This year’s New York Comic Con will be available to fans across the globe, not just those lucky enough to be in town for the event. The 2020 panels featured will be made virtually available, with live and prerecorded content available to watch on the NYCC YouTube page. “Star Trek” and “The Stand” have been
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Check out newly announced release dates, which movies are coming to home video this week, and recommendations from your host Khail Anonymous, in this new episode of ‘Weekly Ticket’! ► Buy Movie Tickets: https://www.fandango.com?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc ► Buy or Rent Movies on FandangoNOW: https://www.fandangonow.com?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Tune-in to Weekly Ticket every Tuesday to help you decide what to watch
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Among the many praiseworthy qualities of “My Tender Matador,” the most notable is its honesty. It would have been so easy for the film, about a transgender woman in Pinochet’s Chile and her relationship with a straight political activist, to have overplayed its hand with ill-judged sentiment or sensationalism, but instead director Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa
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When Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy “broke” the Cannes Critics Week selection six years ago with the devastating “The Tribe,” casting deaf actors in an institutional parable exclusively told through sign language, it seemed some sort of event horizon for authenticity and formal daring had been reached. But the deserving Best European Film winner in the Giornate sidebar
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Samuel L. Jackson’s profanity-laced persona on the Alexa voice assistant is getting a major [expletive deleted] upgrade. The actor’s voice skill on Alexa, which Amazon introduced a year ago, is adding over 30,000 new phrases on the platform with new jokes, roasts, stories and other content. Based on popular demand, that includes five times the
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“Prison is the only place that won’t kick you out no matter how badly you behave,” remarks the ex-con protagonist, who gets no second chances in Japanese society. Directed with piercing insight, emotional depth and true compassion by Miwa Nishikawa, “Under the Open Skies” tells the heartbreaking tale of a pariah whose soul is crushed
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There are troubles of the familial kind at the center of “Wildfire,” writer-director Cathy Brady’s gloomy debut feature set in a border town of Northern Ireland. Then there are “The Troubles,” the decades-long conflict between the region’s unionists and nationalists, the aftermath of which gives Brady’s straightforward and overstretched story its faint backdrop. Throughout, the
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Veteran cable executive Chris McCumber is leaving NBCUniversal. The exec, who announced his departure in a memo to staff in Wednesday, played a key role in USA Network’s success during the aughts “blue sky” era and later developed and launched that channel’s most prestigious hit, “Mr. Robot.” Most recently he oversaw USA and sibling channel
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Facebook is launching new line of wearables: The social giant is developing the “next generation” of smart glasses, in partnership with European eyewear company EssilorLuxottica. The first product under the multiyear pact will be branded Ray-Ban, scheduled to launch in 2021. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the pact during the Facebook Connect virtual conference, where
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“The Devil All the Time,” debuting Sept. 16 on Netflix, plunges viewers into the darkest recesses of damaged souls. There are blood sacrifices and serial killers, sexual deviants and false prophets, deranged fathers and murderous sons. Think Flannery O’Connor with a much higher body count. Director Antonio Campos, the acclaimed auteur behind “Christine,” returns with a cast
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Even amid a global pandemic, you can’t keep a good producer down! Some had to pivot the most recent seasons of their shows to remote writers’ rooms, while others came up with brand new, social distancing-inspired material. Many also signed new overall deals, guaranteeing to deliver fresh content ready to be shot whenever they deem
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Laverne Cox, Sterling K. Brown, Lin-Manuel Miranda and “Sesame Street’s” Count von Count are among the next round of stars who have signed on to appear and/or present awards during this Sunday’s Emmy Awards. The news comes as producers for the 72nd Emmy Awards are scheduled to share more details about this year’s most unusual
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Check out the official Synchronic Trailer starring Anthony Mackie! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Sign up for a Fandango FanALERT: https://www.fandango.com/synchronic-2020-223458/movie-overview?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Want to be notified of all the latest movie trailers? Subscribe to the channel and click the bell icon to stay up to date. US Release Date: October
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Lionsgate announced it has acquired the North American rights to “Wander Darkly” starring Sienna Miller with plans for a fall release. A source close to the film has shared there are plans to mount an awards campaign for Miller for best actress, as well as other eligible categories including best original screenplay. “Wander Darkly” premiered
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National Research Group, a leading entertainment and technology research firm, has announced two new leadership hires. Becky Wu will serve as executive VP of data science and Cindi Smith has been promoted to vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion practice. Wu co-invented ZQ Intelligence, a data software company that monitors technology. She most recently
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New York’s LGBTQ film festival NewFest will honor “Ammonite” director Francis Lee with its inaugural World Queer Visionary Award. “Ammonite” star Kate Winslet will present Lee with the kudos ahead of the movie’s opening night drive-in screening at the Queens Drive-In at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Oct. 16. The 32nd edition of NewFest, held
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