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Matthew Weiner, creator of the hit AMC seriesMad Men, has become the latest powerful Hollywood figure to be accused ofsexual harassment. Kater Gordon, who won an Emmy for co-writing theMad MenSeason 2 finale “Meditations in an Emergency” with Matthew Weiner, has accused her former boss of sexually harassing her while they were spending late nights writing that very episode. During these writing sessions for that episode, Matthew Weiner reportedly told Kater Gordon that she owed it to him to at least let him see her naked....

Maniac Coplives! After years of development on a remake of the 1988 cult slasher classic, Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive,Too Old To Die Young) has finally closed a deal to bring the franchise to the modern age. The catch? It’s being turned into a TV series for HBO, as opposed to a movie. John Hyams (Universal Solider: Regneration,Dragon Eyes) is also on board to co-direct the series alongside Refn. According to a new report, HBO has picked up domestic rights for aManiac Cop TV Show, while Canal+ has locked the show down in France....

The2020 Oscars winnershave been officially announed. Hollywood’s biggest night has come and gone and we know who walked away with Oscars in hand after this year’s Academy Awards. One movie that didn’t go home with anything extra to carry, somewhat surprisingly, was Martin Scorsese’s latest,The Irishman. The expensive gangster flick, which was produced and released by Netflix, lost in every single category it was nominated in, which is assuredly not what the streaming service had in mind when they signed on to make this movie....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe will soon usher in a new iteration of the vampire hunterBlade, with Mahershala Ali set to lead the daywalker’s introduction to the Marvel franchise. However, Ali will obviously not be the first to play the iconic character, as that accolade goes to Wesley Snipes, who portrayed the character in three movies in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In fact, it is now 25 years since Blade made his big screen debut, and that is something many Marvel fans have been celebrating on social media....

Molly Ringwaldsays she “could not agree more” that John Hughes’Sixteen Candlesglorified rape culture in the 1980s. Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony are the big news in politics this week, bringing 2018 back to the early 1980s, which was a different time in our culture. Kavanaugh has been accused of sexual assault by Ford and four other women as of this writing, dating back to the time when they were in high school and college freshman....

Nash Bridgesstar Don Johnson has now provided some insight into the recent revival movie, and what drew him back to the character after all these years. Ultimately, it was a variety of contemporary issues being explored through the 80s buddy cop genre that tempted him, in particular the “difference between the millennials and the boomers,” and the comparison between Bridges' old-school way of doing things in the modern world. “There’s a line I ad-libbed that I think encapsulates what we’re talking about here....

In May 2023, fans of theTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Beforemovies were blessed with the continuation of one of the Covey girls’ stories, and it is an exhilarating one. In Jenny Han’s comedy romantic drama series,XO, Kitty, Kitty (Anna Cathcart), the younger sister of Lara Jean (Lana Condor), is at the center of attention. Accepted to KISS (Korean International School of Seoul), the same school her long-distance boyfriend Dae (Choi Min-yeong) attends, Kitty is moving to Seoul and ready to drop the ultimate surprise....

WhenThe Hobbitwas first announced back in December 2007,The Lord of the RingsfilmmakerPeter Jacksonwas only slated to produce, withGuillermo del Torocoming aboard to direct in 2008. After nearly two years of preparation,Guillermo del Torobacked out of directing the trilogy, which he co-wrote the scripts for withThe Lord of the Ringsteam ofPeter Jackson,Fran WalshandPhilippa Boyens. Eventually,Peter Jacksoncame back to direct all three films, but the filmmaker revealed in a candid behind-the-scenes featurette fromThe Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armieshome video release, uncovered byThe Guardian, that all ofGuillermo del Toro’s preparations had to be scrapped, becausePeter Jacksonwanted to make a different movie....

Ralph Fiennesis speaking out in defense ofHarry PotterauthorJ.K. Rowling. The actor, who played Lord Voldemort inHarry Potterfilms, called the backlash the author has received for her opinions surrounding trans people “appalling.” In a recentinterview withThe New York Times, the actor said: “J.K. Rowling has written these great books about empowerment, about young children finding themselves as human beings. It’s about how you become a better, stronger, more morally centered human being....

In 2014, a year afterRiddickhit the theater screens across the world,Vin Dieseldeclared that the franchise was still quite active. And that Universal Pictures was mulling over a possible fourth live-action chapter in thissci-fi saga. Now, a year later, the actor/producer has confirmed thatRiddick 4is moving forward with a new title. That’s not all. There will also be a TV show spinoff. This is what theFurious 7star had to say about the continuation of this franchise on hisInstagram....

Director Tim Story restoresShaftto his seventies grandeur. The ass-kicking, ladies-loving, foul-mouthed private dick is back in unrepentant glory. Everything that was missing from the 2000 film is infused here in spades. Writers Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow gleefully throw political correctness out of the window.Shaftskewers modern sensitivities. It’s an old school blaxploitation adventure that will surely offend some, but have the majority of audiences happily along for the ride. Shaft’s primary character isJohn “JJ” Shaft Jr....

After a string of successfullive-actionfairy tale adaptations such asMaleficentand last year’sCinderella, Disney is exploring yet another iconic character, with a revisionist twist.The Hollywood Reporterreveals the studio has picked up a project entitledRose Red, which follows the story of Snow White’s sister. While fairy tale fans may recognize theRose Redname, the project will present an entirely new story. Rose Redis a character who did appear in the original Grimm Brothers’fairy tale, but she was featured in a different adventure separate from the story which the iconicSnow White and the Seven Dwarfswas inspired by....

Adam Sandleris an astronaut lost in time in the newly released trailer forSpaceman, the haunting science fiction drama now set for release on Netflix later this year on March 1. The new footage offers a much better glimpse of the movie, which has been helmed byChernobyl’sJohan Renck, and reveals our first look at Paul Dano’s mysterious extraterrestrial spider-like creature. The trailer also teases another serious performance from Sandler, whose lonely astronaut character turns to this strange, terrifying-yet-reassuring creature for guidance....