“Don’t ever take off your blindfold.” Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) stars in first trailer for the dystopian thriller Bird Box, from the novel by Josh Malerman, where forces invade the planet in the form of your worst fear and what you see can kill you. Following a similar path as films like The Happening and The Road, …
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Netflix is making sure they’re dominating the festival season ahead of awards season and that now includes the world premiere of Susanne Bier’s dystopian thriller Bird Box starring Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock and Emmy winner Sarah Paulson at next month’s AFI Fest. That makes three of the five Galas at the fest Netflix films which also includes The Ballad …
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M. Night Shyamalan brings together the narratives of two of his standout originals-2000’s Unbreakable, from Touchstone, and 2016’s Split, from Universal-in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller: Glass. From Unbreakable, Bruce Willis returns as David Dunn as does Samuel L. Jackson as Elijah Price, known also by his pseudonym Mr. Glass. Joining from Split are James McAvoy, reprising his role as Kevin Wendell Crumb and the …
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Unlike the series categories, there are no ‘returning champs’ in the Limited Series/TV categories…well, not exactly. Anthologies such as American Horror Story feature returning actors (like Sarah Paulson, below) but not necessarily in recurring roles. Then there is the case of Elisabeth Moss in Top of the Lake. While not an anthology, but a continuation of a short-form miniseries, she …
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Having this much fun should be a crime. Oscar winners Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway will be ready to kick your summer off as they join Emmy nominee Mindy Kaling, Emmy-winner Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Grammy-winner Rihanna and Oscar nominee Helena Bonham Carter and we have the new trailer to whet your appetite for the heist of the century. Warner Bros …
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Glitz, glamour and bad ass women. What more could you want? The first trailer for next summer’s Ocean’s 8 is here and it’s a blast. Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson, Awkwafina, Rihanna and Helena Bonham Carter star in this crime caper. But don’t call it a remake. It’s more of a sister spinoff with Bullock as Danny …
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Will it be Game of Thrones or Mr. Robot? Veep or Transparent? Here are the 2016 Emmy winner predictions from the Emmy Experts to tell you. Throughout the summer until the Emmys are announced in September keep up with the Emmy Experts as we track the buzz and episode submissions for every show and all top categories and rank …
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Freedom of the press, the rise of a woman in a man’s world, government corruption. The final piece of the awards season puzzle is here, the trailer for The Post. Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a …
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In our first Emmy podcast of the 2016-2017 Emmy season, Chris Pepper and I focus on the Limited Series and TV Movie categories. Starting with Supporting Actress and Actor, we debate if American Horror Story can still muster nominations for Emmy winners Kathy Bates and Sarah Paulson or will Ryan Murphy’s new venture, Feud: Bette and Joan, gobble up those …
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The current box office champ, Hidden Figures, found itself with the highest honor of the Screen Actors Guild tonight for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture over other Best Picture nominees Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea, Fences and Captain Fantastic. Earlier in the evening both Viola Davis and Denzel Washington won their respective categories (Supporting Actress and …
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