SeriesFest has unveiled its non-competitive award winners for its upcoming 12th edition, to include an inauguralVisionary Awardfor John J. Sie, the founder and former chairman of Starz Entertainment Group, with The Testaments actressand indie icon Amy Seimetzpicking up theSpotlight Performance Award. The May 8 SeriesFest Soire for the Denver-based festival will also see theAmbassador Awardgo to Bridgerton directorGia-Rayne B. Harris...

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Warner Bros. is again shifting the release date of its live-action hybrid movie Animal Friends. The road trip adventure feature is now set to hit theaters Jan. 22, 2027, after previously having been scheduled for May 1, 2026. Prior to that, the film had been slated for release on Oct. 10, 2025. Peter Atencio directs the film from a script...

If you watch anime, Apple just made things a bit more convenient. Crunchyroll is now available as a channel inside the Apple TV app, where you can subscribe and watch directly without switching apps. The rollout is live in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia, and it comes just in time for the spring anime season. 　　Heres what you get...

Universal Pictures The Mummy is reuniting the family. John Hannah, who appeared in the previous Mummy movies made at the turn of the century, is reuniting with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz for the latest installment of the horror-adventure franchise. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of film collective Radio Silence, who together revitalized the Scream franchise with 2022sScream and 2023sScream...

James Tolkan, the character actor who expressed a disdain for slackers in theBack to the Future trilogy and portrayed Tom Cruises no-nonsense commanding officer inTop Gun, has died. He was 94. Tolkan died Thursday in Saranac Lake, New York, Michael Klastorin, a unit publicist on the second and third Back to the Future films, announced. Tolkan also played Napoleon and...

For a brief off-Broadwayrun last fall, Julio Torres performed his first one-man show. A TED Talk masquerading as absurdist stand-up, Color Theories explained how Torres views the world not by the colors he sees, but by the colors that represent everything from Real Housewives and step mothers to Dwayne The Rock Johnson and war crimes. Its less of a thesis...

Ten years after Deadpool arrived in theaters and broke the rules of the comic book genre, two of its players are back together. Filmmaker Tim Miller has tapped actor Stefan Kapicic to join the cast of his upcoming, high-concept movie starring Keanu Reeves. The Warner Bros. sci-fi action film is currently in production in the Dominican Republic, and while plot...

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A time-bending short film is winding its way to the small screen. Mobius Loop has been acquired by Watermelon Pictures, which is putting the short on its new streaming service Watermelon+ starting today. It can be viewed here. Mobius Loop hails from filmmaker Lee Mosa-Peterkin and spans three time periods. Theres the 1970s, with a scientist (Jay Abdo) discovering the...

A documentary feature about a notable researcher of unexplained phenomena is ready to launch. Falcon Scout Media has acquired North American rights for Sleeping Dog and is planning a mid-May theatrical and digital release. Director Michael Lazovskys movie focuses on filmmaker and ufologist Jeremy Corbell, who is known for his UFO research and for directing the 2018 documentary Bob Lazar:...

Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died. He was 94. Kluges family confirmed his death to German media on Wednesday. A cause of death was not given. Kluge was one of the signatories of the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto, which called for a new, auteur-driven German...