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Are you freaking out over the midterm elections? Join the club.

If you spend even 5 seconds on Twitter, your feed will likely be overgrown with the politically active set eyeing Tuesday’s vote with a mixture of cautious optimism and abject horror. Particularly Democrats shellshocked by the last two, uh, fun years under the Trump administration.

Helping them cope is a new meme that perfectly encapsulates the mood of voters just 24 hours before they go to the polls. Called “Me voting in 2016 vs me voting in 2018,” it sees users post pictures that illustrate the difference between their optimistic outlook during the 2016 presidential election, and their world-weary, psychologically-scarred Pov of today.

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Sources for glum puns include “Westworld,” Marvel’s “Captain America” franchise, the difference between “Mad Men” and “Handmaid’s Tale” eras of actress Elisabeth Moss,...

It's been nearly two years since we last had any news about Mike Le Han's in-the-works feature film debut Merciful but it looks like the project may finally head into production.

Recent news is that Kate Bosworth has signed on to not only star but also produce the movie which has had a title change since we last reported on it.

Written by Brian Scully, Genesis will star Bosworth as Amy, a mother searching for her daughter in a Pa wasteland shortly after a cataclysmic event destroys the moon.

Bosworth has bit big into genre titles lately. She recently starred in the P...

Writer/director Mike Le Han has signed on to direct Merciful, a post-apocalyptic thriller written by Brian Scully whose script Counterpoint landed him on the 2012 hit list.

We've been tracking Le Han since he released his short film Mrs. Peppercorn a few years ago. Since then he's floated around a couple of great story concepts including a wicked Hellraiser: Origins pitch video which we hoped would mark the return of that franchise.

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Updated: Animated series writers are protesting a decision by the Television Academy to allow NBC’s Community to compete for Emmys in animated categories, arguing that they should be allowed similar cross-genre privileges.

Community made it onto the Emmy nomination ballot in several categories, including best animated program — along with 33 entries from full-time animated shows. The episode, “Digital Estate Planning,” features the cast rendered into 8-bit characters to compete in an old-school-style video game.

Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy), David X. Cohen (Futurama) and Al Jean (The Simpsons) are among the 52 writer-producers who signed a letter to the TV Academy arguing...