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The CW's new DC TV show, Gotham Knights, gets negative early reviews as critics have begun sharing their thoughts on the upcoming superhero series. While the Arrowverse is winding down, The CW is still keeping its annual tradition (for now) as they have a new DC TV show coming this season. From Batwoman writers/producers comes Gotham Knights, which is not meant to be a spinoff or have any ties to the video game of the same name. Gotham Knights will center on Bruce Wayne's adoptive son, Turner Hayes, who gets framed for his father's murder along with several children of Batman's enemies.

While Gotham Knights have been promoted since last spring, the DC TV drama has struggled with its marketing, including several fan backlash. The DC series is currently scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, March 14, at 9 Pm, right after the Superman & Lois season 3 premiere.

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Following its world premiere screening in Los Angeles, reviews for Star Trek: Picard season 3 have come out, with plenty of praise being heaped on the final adventure of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Picard season 3 reunites the Tng icons for the first time since Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002, and the final season is set up to be both a fitting bow for those legendary characters as well as, essentially, the fifth Tng movie - albeit 10 hours long - that the beloved cast deserved.

With Star Trek: Picard season 3 premiering on Thursday, February 16th, on Paramount+, members of the press received the first 6 of the season's 10 episodes in advance, giving audience members early impressions. Check out several spoiler-free samples of what reviewers say about the final season of Star Trek: Picard:

Related: Where Every Tng Character Is Before Picard Season 3

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To live in Nashville is to love John Prine, so it never sat right how quarantine robbed the late singer, songwriter, and hometown hero of a proper in-person memorial when he died of Covid complications in April of 2020. Prine finally got the wake he deserved this week in Nashville with a string of celebratory concerts titled “You Got Gold,” which featured an all-star, cross-generational casts of admirers covering songs and exchanging anecdotes about the man.

On Sunday, performers and presenters remembered Prine’s generous spirit and the way he modeled...

Exclusive: UTA has added three agents to its Endorsements & Voiceover department: Garrett Smith, Maximilian Ulanoff and James Murray. Reporting to Evo partners and co-heads Brittany Balbo and Sam Stone, Smith and Murray will join the division in the Los Angeles office, while Ulanoff will be based in New York.

“Our division is having a banner year and with the rapid expansion, we’re excited to welcome three incredibly successful agents to our roster,” Balbo said. “Each agent brings a variety of experience and skills that will help elevate UTA’s reach in the marketplace.”

Smith most recently worked at Gersh, where he secured endorsements and voice-over campaigns for talent such as Eva Longoria, Kaley Cuoco, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kathryn Hahn, Joe Keery, Jacob Elordi and more.

Ulanoff is joining from ICM Partners, where he oversaw branding for the Unscripted Television department, as well as consumer product licensing. Clients included Giancarlo Esposito,...

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Hilarity for Charity — the nonprofit led by Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen and dedicated to support for dementia family caregivers, brain health advocacy and education — has big plans for its 10 anniversary.

The organization will take over L.A. event venue Rolling Greens on Mateo on Oct. 1 for a “birthday extravaganza” hosted by the Hfc co-founders and featuring an acoustic performance by John Mayer, magic by Justin Willman, music by celebrity DJ Sam Ronson and a performance by Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies. The program will also feature “food, drinks, throwbacks and exceptional talent.”

“This year’s event is going to be hard to beat,” the couple said in a joint statement. They launched the organization in 2012, inspired to take action after Lauren’s mother, Adele, was diagnosed with the disease at 55 years of age. Over the years, they have hosted a variety of fundraisers,...

The Box

Your vote counts; your vote matters - perhaps more than you might initially anticipate. Masquerading as a Donnie Darko-esque lurid mystery, director Richard Kelly's third feature is rather a cinematic essay on cause and effect (in this manner, forming a bizarre duality with Rob Zombie's great Halloween 2), here using the act of existential button-pushing on the part of Virginia couple Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) to comment upon the consequences of all our individual actions, be it directly hurting or even murdering another individual or jamming a paper into the ballot-box. Not so much critiquing democracy as it contemplates the topsy-turviness of it all, ruminating on the conflicting positives and negatives of asserting one's allegiance. After the fact, The Box additionally qualifies as one of the most overtly satisfying studio films to have originated from Hollywood in recent times.

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This is the review for The Box starring Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, Gillian Jacobs, Holmes Osborne, James Marsden, James Rebhorn and Sam Oz Stone. It is directed by Richard Kelly. When the nicest thing that can be said about The Box is that it isn't quite as bad as Kelly's previous film; Southland Tales, things don't bode well. It is a tremendous and tragic fall from grace from the apparent visionary behind the cult-hit; Donnie Darko. In perhaps one of the most interesting unravelling-of-a-Hollywood-career stories, the consensus now seems to be that Donnie Darko was a fluke and Richard Kelly is a busted flush. Not because he was denied opportunities to fulfil his creative visions, but because he has mercilessly squandered them.

"I'm sorry Mr. Lewis, the button has been pushed." Richard Matheson wrote a marvelous short story called the Box, but director Richard Kelly didn.t want to be boxed in by that and used it as a jumping off point for his film. Donnie Darko fans might be delighted, but most others will be scratching their heads. In 1976 Richmond, Virginia, Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur (James Marsden) Lewis hear their doorbell ring at 5 am. They sleepily answer the door and find a package on the doorstep, their son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) wonders if Christmas has come early. When they pen the package they find an expensive card with the mysterious note saying that .Mr. Lewis...

Chicago – Most filmmakers are content in recycling ideas. Richard Kelly strains to come up with new ones every time he steps behind a camera. It’s difficult to think of him ever becoming a commercial commodity (thoughts of David Lynch directing “Return of the Jedi” come to mind). Yet Kelly’s boundless ambition has often far exceeded his abilities.

“The Box” is only Kelly’s third feature, and it very well may be his last for quite some time. It’s the kind of film guaranteed to send most mainstream moviegoers running for the hills. Kelly’s first picture, the wonderfully idiosyncratic “Donnie Darko,” is a quintessential portrait of modern teenage angst, though it was abandoned by audiences upon its initial release in October 2001 (they probably weren’t ready to see a plane engine crash into a house). If “Darko” was Kelly’s “Sixth Sense,” then “Southland Tales” was his “Heaven’s Gate.

Director: Richard Kelly Writer(s): (short story "Button, Button") Richard Matheson, (screenplay) Richard Kelly Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella The Box begins with a CIA internal memo being typed out onscreen concerning a man named Arlington Steward who has suffered severe burn wounds. Next thing we know, it is 1976 and we find ourselves in Richmond, Virginia as Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) are awoken (at 5:45 am) by their doorbell. Norma notices a mysterious black sedan pulling away and she discovers a non-descript box wrapped in brown paper on their front step. Norma and Arthur open the box, it contains: a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, a key, and a note reading something along the lines of “Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm.” Later in the morning, their son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) leaves for school. Arthur drives...

By Susan Granger - Sci-fi movies like .The Incredible Shrinking Man,. .I Am Legend. and .Somewhere in Time. sprang from the visionary mind of writer Richard Matheson, who wrote the terrific short story .Button, Button. on which this movie is based . and never has his work been so badly served.

Writer/director Richard Kelly (.Donnie Darko,. .Southland Tales.) has totally botched the provocative, philosophical concept that revolves around a couple who face a moral dilemma: if they push a button that will kill a complete stranger somewhere in the world, they will get one million tax-free dollars.

Set during the 1976 Christmas holidays, Norma Lewis (Cameron Diaz), her husband Arthur (James Marsden) and son Walter (Sam Oz Stone) live in an affluent Richmond, Virginia suburb. Driving a new Corvette, Arthur is a Nasa engineer, an optics expert and inventor who worked on the Mars Viking landing. Norma teaches literature at a...

Richard Matheson is one of my favorite writers—not only of science fiction and horror but of Westerns (try his superb Spur Award-winning Journal Of The Gun Years, recently reissued in paperback by Forge). Also, he’s one of my favorite screenwriters (adapting both his own & others’ works) with such credits as The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, The Legend Of Hell House, The Night Stalker (& The Night Strangler), The Raven (1963) and Somewhere In Time. And I haven’t even brought up The Twilight Zone and his stellar contributions to that TV classic. I treasure a letter I got from him 30 years ago in response to my efforts at promoting a Tz colleague (the late Charles Beaumont). Starlog has interviewed him several times (#100, #150, #151, #203, #256). And I even know the industrious writer (Matt Bradley) who has busily been preparing Matheson’s new, eagerly-awaited biography for several years.

Perchance I know Too Much. Because...

Richard Matheson is one of my favorite writers—not only of science fiction and horror but of Westerns (try his superb Spur Award-winning Journal Of The Gun Years, recently reissued in paperback by Forge). Also, he’s one of my favorite screenwriters (adapting both his own & others’ works) with such credits as The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, The Legend Of Hell House, The Night Stalker (& The Night Strangler), The Raven (1963) and Somewhere In Time. And I haven’t even brought up The Twilight Zone and his stellar contributions to that TV classic. I treasure a letter I got from him 30 years ago in response to my efforts at promoting a Tz colleague (the late Charles Beaumont). Starlog has interviewed him several times (#100, #150, #151, #203, #256). And I even know the industrious writer (Matt Bradley) who has busily been preparing Matheson’s new, eagerly-awaited biography for several years.

Perchance I know Too Much. Because...

To answer the most obvious question right away: No, sadly, Richard Kelly’s The Box is not a return to the absorbingly strange glories of his knockout debut feature Donnie Darko. But nor is it as frustratingly out of control as his follow-up film Southland Tales either. In fact, it’s kind of a combination of both: opening and closing reels of compelling and dark personal drama surrounding more expansive, elaborate plotting that loses its grip.

Based on Richard Matheson’s 1970 short story “Button, Button,” The Box relocates the action to Virginia in 1976, where Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) is a Nasa technician and his wife Norma (Cameron Diaz, with a fetching drawl) teaches at the private school attended by their preteen son Walter (Sam Oz Stone). They’re a loving couple, and Arthur is even taking advantage of his skills and facility to create a prosthesis for Norma’s disfigured...

What would you do if you were given the opportunity of receiving a million dollars? Unfortunately there is a catch. Someone you don’t know will die. That is the intriguing premise behind “The Box”, a movie that is both thrilling and baffling. Director/screenwriter Richard Kelly has been waiting a long time to spring another mind trip on people like he did with “Donnie Darko”. That was a movie that became a cult classic after going to video. That was way back in 2001. After that, Kelly wrote the screenplay for the universally panned “Domino” and directed the little seen “Southland Tales”. He was due to bring his furtive mind back to the forefront. What better way to do it than bringing short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson to the big screen. Matheson’s previous work includes “A Stir of Echoes”, “I Am Legend”, “What Dreams May Come” and countless “Twilight Zone” episodes.

Bloody-Disgusting’s got your look at five groovy clips from Richard Kelly’s “The Box”. The film doesn’t look like it has the makings of a blockbuster, given that it’s not a slam-bang actioner, or indeed a scarefest. It’s somewhere in the middle, like one of those slow-boil thrillers. And given the plot, which has Cameron Diaz and her hubby James Marsden getting a box that will net them a million bucks if they press a button on it and kill some stranger in the world, how could you not be slightly intrigued? So the question is, would you press the button? Well, would you? Starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne, Sam Oz Stone, Gillian Jacobs, Celia Weston, Deborah Rush, and directed by Ricahrd Kelly. Get a piece of the box November 6, 2009. Clip 1: What are you Going to Do Norma? Clip...