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Snow White has always been a tale wrapped in magic, wonder, and a sprinkle of timeless innocence. But in 2025, it seems the beloved princess is stepping out of her fairytale world and into the harsh spotlight of modern controversy. Disney’s live-action remake is supposed to reignite nostalgia, but instead, it’s caught in a whirlwind of mixed reactions and unexpected backlashes. The problem?

Rachel Zegler in Snow White (2025) | Credit: Disney Pictures

Snow White’s 2025 remake, directed by Marc Webb, isn’t just taking on the legacy of the 1937 classic; it’s stirring up something much bigger. The controversy surrounding the casting choices has cast a shadow over the film before it even hit theaters.

Rachel Zegler, cast as Snow White, is currently at the center of a storm she never saw coming. The young actress, known for her breakout role in West Side Story, has become the focal point of hatred for the film,...

A hauntingly bad new trailer for the studio’s next live-action remake promises a nightmarish procession of CGI dwarves

Here are two things that recently happened in very quick succession: my oldest son opened his laptop and said: “Daddy! There’s a new Snow White trailer!” And then, less than two minutes after that, he shrieked: “Daddy! These dwarves are Terrifying!”

Reader, it brings me no happiness to inform you that Disney has done it again. Several decades after shaping the animation industry as we know it with exquisite, characterful, cutting-edge feature-length fairytales that are still rightly regarded as classics, it has decided to squeeze out a hot fat turd. As the years of counselling my son now requires will tell you, there is a trailer for Disney’s new live-action Snow White movie. And it is beyond horrible.

Disney has handled the release of Snow White's trailer in an undeniably bizarre manner. The studio ignored the low-res versions which did the rounds after the sneek peek started playing in theaters a couple of weeks ago and failed to react to the fully HD version that followed. 

The official version has finally been released today, though, and it's accompanied by a colourful, eye-catching new poster for the live-action remake.

As you might expect, the spotlight is put squarely on Rachel Zegler's Snow White and Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot as the villainous Evil Queen. 

Reshoots are thought to have brought this version of the classic fairy tale more in line with the 1937 animated movie. Early plans supposedly called for the Seven Dwarfs to be excluded following scathing comments from Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage. Well, they're in there now and the CGI used to bring them to life is certainly.

Disney has revealed a new trailer for its upcoming live-action remake of Snow White starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot, which arrives in theaters on March 21st, 2025.

The trailer signals Snow White to be a faithful adaptation of the 1937 animated film, itself an adaptation of the 1812 Brothers Grimm fairytale. Zegler stars as Snow White, a princess living with her evil stepmother The Queen (Gal Gadot) who rules the kingdom with an iron fist. Once Snow White is urged to flee into the woods by the Huntsman (Ansu Kabia), she ends up in a cottage surrounded by doting animals and seven (CGI) dwarves. Now armed with the help of her friends, Snow White attempts to restore light back into the kingdom. Watch the trailer below.

Disney originally unveiled the first trailer for Snow White at their D23 event in August, and has been teasing the new reimagining for multiple years now.

Whether you think Disney is being too woke or not woke enough, there’s been no shortage of people more bizarrely upset about a live-action remake of a Disney classic than there has been for “Snow White,” even though they had never seen a frame of it.

Now we have the full trailer of the remake of Disney’s 1937 animated masterpiece, with the Latina Rachel Zegler and Israeli Gal Gadot as the evil queen.

The initial footage should be familiar to anyone who has seen “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” complete with a rendition of “Hi-Ho,” with Snow White laughing and singing along with the seven CGI dwarves Grumpy, Sneezy, Dopey, Sleepy, Happy, Bashful, and Doc.

Disney had to push back “Snow White” because of the writers and actors strikes last year, with the movie now slated to open March 21, 2025. Though it probably didn’t hurt that it bought...

George R.R. Martin ended 2023 with a big announcement. Not about his books — the new ones, anyway — but the author of “A Song of Ice and Fire” offered an update on the various projects in progress that will adapt his works, including animated series.

Martin posted to his blog on December 31, echoing popular sentiments about Peak TV and heaping praise on Netflix’s “Blue Eye Samurai,” a show that recently won him over. He noted that he has discussed multiple animated projects from the “A Song of Ice and Fire” and “Game of Thrones” universe in previous and ongoing conversations with HBO, including two which were shelved (he strongly preferes “shelved” to “killed”).

He then announced that “Nine Voyages,” a “House of the Dragon” tie-in about the adventures of Corlys Velaryon (Steve Toussaint), had moved from live-action to animation, a move Martin says he wholeheartedly supports.

“Budgetary constraints would likely have...

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Welcome to one of our big 2024 and beyond previews here at What’s on Netflix. In this post, we’ll provide you with a comprehensive rundown of all the Indian movies and TV shows in development set to release on Netflix globally throughout 2024 and beyond.

Some long-awaited projects are nearing completion, old favorites are returning, and recently-announced movies and series are waiting to surprise and delight us. Here are the details on 7 upcoming Indian Original series and 10 new Original movies, plus scoop on the fates of more than two dozen Indian series — some of which have been officially renewed and others whose futures are still up in the air.

Editors note: All release dates and windows are subject to change.

Here all the Indian Original series and movies we hope to see in 2024 or beyond:

New Indian Netflix Original Series Coming in...

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Enter the arena again when “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” arrives on premium video on demand and premium electronic sell-through on Dec. 19 from Lionsgate. The film will be available to buy for $24.99 and to rent for $19.99 on participating digital platforms, including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu.

Based on the Suzanne Collins novel of the same name, the prequel centers on Panem’s President Snow — 64 years before Katniss Everdeen’s games. Tom Blyth’s Coriolanus Snow is an Academy student tasked with mentoring District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird, played by Rachel Zegler, in the 10th annual Hunger Games. Their pairing sets off a series of events that force Snow to battle his instincts for good and evil. Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera,...

The story of the 1972 Andes plane crash and its survivors has inspired many books and movies, even the TV series Yellowjackets. With Society of the Snow, J.A. Bayona adapts Pablo Vierci’s book of the same name to make something that’s close to the reality of the experiences endured by those aboard Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The aircraft was carrying 45 passengers and crew, including 19 members of the Old Christians Club rugby team, when it crashed in the Andes. Of those, only 16 would survive across an ordeal that lasted two months.

The crash itself is harrowingly portrayed at the start of the film, and with a minimum of buildup. The plane’s tail and wings are torn away on impact while the fuselage sails down the snowy mountainside like a sled. We catch flashes of the passengers’ limbs twisting and breaking, of metal shooting into flesh. The story moves quickly from there,...

Zach Bryan is going to have a busy year in 2024.

Bryan announced the Quittin’ Time Tour 24 on social media back in August, just before wrapping up his Burn, Burn, Burn Tour.

“This year was too much fun, thank you guys so much for making our lives a dream. Boys are headed home and gearin’ up,” he wrote in the announcement.

He will be kicking off his 2024 tour on March 5 with three nights in Chicago. Throughout his tour, he will make stops in other major cities like New York City, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

While the “Quittin’ Time” Tour will have Bryan performing for most of 2024, he will be taking a break after August and will return to the stage in November before ending in December.

In September, Bryan was arrested in his native state of Oklahoma for “obstruction of investigation.”

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2024 “Quittin’ Time” Tour Dates:

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Society of the Snow, directed by Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona and Spain’s submission into the 2024 Oscar race, is based on the true story of the 1972 Andes flight disaster in which a flight carrying Uruguay’s Old Christians Club rugby team for a match in Santiago, Chile, crashed on a glacier at the Valle de las Lágrimas (Valley of Tears).

Of the 45 people aboard Flight 571 only 16 survived, including Roberto Canessa, who joined producer Belén Atienza and Bayona to discuss the film for Deadline’s Contenders Film: International.

The Netflix movie is adapted from Pablo Vierci’s 2008 book La Sociedad de La Nieve [Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story], which gives it distance from previous books and films about the story.

“You can that tell in this new take you have the gravitas, the weight of the time that has passed,” said Bayona. “It’s a much more spiritual book which was a challenge; what made the...

Shortly after Halle Bailey and Rachel Zegler were crowned real-life Disney princesses, they met for the first time at a ball — the 2021 Met Gala, to be exact. It was the beginning not only of a beautiful friendship, but of a new era for Disney. Bailey became the first Black Ariel in Rob Marshall’s live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid,” based on Disney’s beloved 1989 animated film. Zegler — who used to dress up as Snow White as a little girl — will embody a Latina fairy-tale heroine who befriends seven CGI-created dwarves in 2025’s “Snow White.”

The singer-actors are also showcasing their golden voices in literary adaptations: Bailey, as young Nettie in “The Color Purple”; Zegler, as Lucy Gray Baird in the “Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” Here, Bailey, 23, and Zegler, 22, reflect on their princess experiences and strategies for silencing the social media haters.

Halle Bailey:...

Spanish director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s debut feature, 20,000 Species of Bees, a touching and tender drama about an 8-year-old transgender child who begins to transition, is the front-runner for the 2024 Goya Awards, the Spanish film academy’s equivalent to the Oscars.

The film, which won its young star Sofía Otero the Silver Bear for best performance in Berlin in February, picked up 15 nominations for the 2024 Goyas, including for best film and best director. Otero was oddly snubbed in the acting categories, though co-stars Ane Gabarain and Itziar Lazkano were nominated in the best supporting actress category, Martxelo Rubio received a best supporting actor nom, and Patricia López Arnaiz a Goya nomination for best actress.

In its review of the film, The Hollywood Reporter called 20,000 Species of Bees a “moving chronicle of an 8-year-old’s gradual transitioning, and the effect it has on a family over their summer vacation...

This article contains spoilers for "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes."

Lucy Gray Baird, co-lead of "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes," is a folk singer in the impoverished District 12 of fascist dystopia Panem. Chosen to fight in the titular death match, she wins over the Capitol of Panem with her voice, guitar, and songwriting. It's clear this is one reason why accomplished singer Rachel Zegler was chosen for the part; before Zegler was a movie star, she was belting out "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born" to her adoring YouTube subscribers.

Now, she sings Lucy's songs on the silver screen. The highlight of her discography is the lively and defiant shindig song "Nothing You Can Take From Me."

Music has been important in "The Hunger Games" even before this prequel. In particular, the song "The Hanging Tree" from the original two-part trilogy finale "Mockingjay.

China-set drama Stonewalling, co-directed by husband-and-wife team Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji, won best narrative feature at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards, which is celebrating its 60th edition this year.

The film, which premiered in Venice and won best film at Hong Kong film festival’s Young Cinema Competition, follows a young woman in mainland China grappling with issues around career, relationships, health and fertility. It also won best editing, which was shared by Otsuka and Taiwan’s Liao Ching-sung, with the latter winning his first Golden Horse award after 12 nominations stretching back four decades.

The awards were evenly spread among the nominated films. Taiwan’s Wu Kang-ren won best leading actor for his role as a deaf-mute in Malaysian drama Abang Adik. Best actress went to 12-year-old Audrey Lin for her role in Trouble Girl, making her the youngest ever best actress winner at the Golden Horse awards.

Best...

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival drifted to a conclusion in midweek, with project awards presented on Wednesday, followed by Thursday’s festival closing events. These involved a screening of portmanteau film “Tales of Taipei” followed by a sit-down dinner-cum-ceremony with a breezy pair of speeches and no prizes.

The film fortnight then sprang to life again on Saturday evening when the 60th edition of the Golden Horse Film Awards represented a new climax. The winners were announced at a ceremony at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.

For decades the Golden Horse awards had been the most prestigious prize ceremony in the Chinese-language firmament. That high profile has been harder to maintain over the last couple of years, given that the mainland Chinese industry is under government instruction to boycott the event, following a pro-independence speech given by an award winner at the 2018 ceremony.

Parts of the Hong Kong industry have stayed away too.

After six months of strike-related stoppages, global production is set to resume in a massive way, as producers, execs and day-to-day facilitators anticipate an early 2024 surge in production that could very well last throughout the calendar year. Only (and tellingly) — despite such evident and abundant relief — all of those facilitators are also quite measured in their optimism.

“I keep telling [my members] not to expect that same post-covid insanity,” says Location Managers Guild International president John Rakich. “I don’t think we’re going to see that insane [post-lockdown stretch] of two years straight of just back to back work. That might be the case for a few months [as we deal with the bottleneck of productions ready to shoot] but ultimately this business is cyclical, and I want our members to plan accordingly.”

Given that cyclical nature, and given a foreseen contraction in full-season streaming commissions, Rakich anticipates an eventual return to a more seasonal production cycle buoyed by more features than in previous years,...

Explore the world of Kevin Roditeli's Freak Snow in Washed In The Blood, inspired by Mad Max, Hellraiser, Fallout and the filmography of David Cronenberg! Written by Roditeli, with art from Rob Cannon and Kostas Pantoulas, Washed In The Blood #1 will be available on January 10th from Massive Publishing, and we have a look all of the variant covers.

"Washed In The Blood takes you on a trippy thrill ride through visceral illustrations and an intensely cold, savage, post-apocalyptic tale." - Jason Bennett, Popculthq.com

"The best storytelling (both textually and artistically) that I Have Ever Seen." - Comicbookposer.com

"If you give yourself to Roditeli's narrative, it will take you somewhere, and you'll arrive at the end smarter than whence you started." - Blake Morgan, Blakebuzz.com

Synopsis: "What if you were called upon by the Worst god of all time? In a frozen post-apocalyptic wasteland called "Freak Snow,...

For the foreseeable future, HBO’s lineup will be like Westeros during the Long Summer: No sign of Snow.

Game of Thrones‘ reportedly in-the-works spinoff centered on Kit Harington’s character is nowhere near to getting an official go-ahead from the network, HBO CEO and chairman Casey Bloys recently said. In fact, none of the saga’s potential offshoots are.

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Those big teases at the BBC have spent months drip-feeding us tiny morsels of juicy Doctor Who news, from confirming series 14 guest stars one by one to (finally!) giving us the 60th anniversary special air dates (and even deleting a reference to a “spring 2024” series 14 release date), so it was quite a shock to see that Disney seems to have casually leaked the Doctor Who Christmas special episode title and air date in a random social media post today.

All we really knew so far was it was to be Ncuti Gatwa’s first full episode as the Fifteenth Doctor, would feature the debut of his new companion Ruby Sunday (Coronation Street’s Millie Gibson) and that it was airing “over the festive period in 2023”.

So what crucial details did Disney let slip?

Doctor Who Will Air on Christmas Day For The First Time in Six Years!

The Disney social...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including WSJ. Magazine‘s Innovator Awards and Halloween party highlights.

Nhmc Impact Awards Gala

The National Hispanic Media Coalition hosted its annual Impact Awards Gala on Oct. 27, honoring those making strides towards a positive portrayal of the Latine community, both in front of and behind the camera. Hosted by actress Francia Raisa and Mj Acosta-Ruiz, the event honored Eva Longoria, Eugenio Derbez, Miguel, Gina Torres, Jharrel Jerome and Ángel Manuel Soto.

Jharrel Jerome, Jessica Sarowitz, Gina Torres, Aarón Sanchez, Brenda Victoria Castillo, Julissa Prado, Miguel, Angel Manuel Soto, Eva Longoria and Eugenio Derbez

Montclair Film Festival Filmmaker Tribute event

Martin Scorsese sat down for a tribute conversation with Stephen Colbert on Oct. 27 at Newark’s New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of the 2023 Montclair Film Festival.

Martin Scorsese and Stephen...

Freeform’s 2023 “25 Days of Christmas” lineup includes holiday favorites Home Alone, The Santa Clause trilogy, and classic animated offerings Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The network’s December lineup also includes all four Toy Story films, Frozen I and II, and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Noelle starring Anna Kendrick and Godmothered with Jillian Bell will screen this December on Freeform. 2018’s Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch and a batch of Santa Paws films will help put viewers in a winter holiday mood.

A scene from ‘Frozen’ (Photo Credit: Disney)

Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” Lineup

Friday, Dec. 1

7:00 a.m. – “Unaccompanied Minors”

9:00 a.m. – “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish”

11:00 a.m. – “Eloise at Christmastime”

1:00 p.m. – “The Star” (2017)

3:00 p.m. – “Disney’s A Christmas Carol”

5:00 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” (2018)

7:00 p.m. – “Home Alone”

9:30 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York...

Kate Bush has announced a new archival campaign that will see her back catalog reissued in new physical formats.

Among the re-releases are “two radically different presentations” of Bush’s 1985 album, Hounds of Love. The Baskerville Edition features new cover art created by Glasgow-based design studio Timorous Beasties, alongside a solar powered flashing LED light. The Boxes of Lost At Sea consists of two boxes, each containing one side of the album, Uv printed illustration on white vinyl and a battery powered LED light. These releases are due out on December 1st and a portion of proceeds will benefit War Child.

Additionally, Bush’s entire discography will be reissued in different physical formats, including limited-edition vinyl and CD. Selected colored pressings will only be available at independent record stores or via Bush’s website.

“It’s been great fun putting together these new versions, including the coloured vinyls for independent record stores,...

With the holidays right around the corner, Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” is back.

This year, starting December 1, the special lineup event will introduce Disney+ holiday films “Noelle,” which stars Anna Kendrick, and “Godmothered,” which stars Jillian Bell, as the flicks make their Freeform debut.

In addition to the new favorites, the network will welcome back classic holiday movies, including 2000 film “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Disney’s A Christmas Carol,” “Frozen,” “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” “Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas” and the 1994 version of “Miracle on 34th Street.”

Several beloved film franchises will also make their return, including the “Home Alone” and “The Santa Clause” trilogies alongside the “Toy Story” franchise. During the special event, Freeform will also air holiday episodes of “The Simpsons” and “Family Guy.”

During last year’s “25 Days of Christmas,” Freeform distinguished itself...

Though they never completely went away as a genre, survival thrillers are clearly having A Moment. You've got Yellowjackets on TV, Ja Bayona's Society Of The Snow headed our way early next year and :a[Idris Elba gearing up to co-direct a story of astronauts]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/idris-elba-to-direct-astronaut-survival-thriller-above-the-below/' } trying to survive a bad crash landing. Ron Howard, though, has been ahead of the game for sometime, developing ideas for his own thriller, Eden for 15 years. He already has Jude Law, Ana De Armas and Daniel Brühl aboard the film, and is added Euphoria's Sydney Sweeney and :a[Mission: Impossible]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/mission-impossible-dead-reckoning-part-one/' }'s Vanessa Kirby to the cast.

The film, per Deadline, is based on an unsolved mystery that unfolded on a remote island in the Galapagos. And it charts the lengths humans will go in pursuit of happiness.

Mia Talerico was just a toddler when she first started acting on Good Luck Charlie and now she’s a young woman – Just Jared Jr Why did the monarchy choose Prince William‘s press secretary over Prince Harry? – Celebitchy Look back at Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez‘s 15-year friendship – Popsugar Disney has picked a new release date for the Snow White movie – Just Jared Jr

“On the Way Down” singer Ryan Cabrera and his wife Lexi, who are expecting their first child in December, hosted a Halloween themed Karaoke Night at Planet Hollywood Orlando on Thursday night (October 26). Check out a fun photo below!

Ryan and Lexi Cabrera kick-off Halloween season at Planet Hollywood Orlando...

The Daily Wire announced Monday that it is making a live-action Snow White movie starring conservative media personality Brett Cooper.

Called “Snow White And The Evil Queen,” the film is slated as the first feature-length production for the Daily Wire’s children’s vertical, Bentkey. Daily Wire — which also produces Cooper’s YouTube series “The Comments Section” — posted a teaser on X (formerly Twitter).

“Once upon a time,” the video begins with a woman singing while a camera takes aerial shots of a forest. The next clip shows a woman stacking apples in a basket. “In time, a prince would come. Once upon a time, but now that time is gone.”

Announcing Bentkey's first live-action feature film: Snow White and the Evil Queen starring @imbrettcooper pic.twitter.com/HpYoskemAG

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 16, 2023

As the video concludes, it shows a full reveal of Cooper as the woman seen, before its end title,...

Conservative media company The Daily Wire announced it is making a live-action Snow White movie following right-wing backlash over Disney’s upcoming live-action Snow White.

Titled Snow White and the Evil Queen, the movie (teaser trailer below) stars YouTuber Brett Cooper as the princess in a film based on the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale, which is now in the public domain.

“It’s a story about a princess and a prince, about beauty and vanity, about love and its power to raise us from death to life,” said Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing. “It’s our own adaptation of an ancient fairy tale.” Boreing made the announcement when launching Bentkey, Daily Wire’s new kids’ entertainment brand that seeks to take on Disney+ at a time when some conservatives have grown frustrated with the legacy studio.

“It’s taken 100 years to build Disney,” Boreing added. “We know we aren’t what Disney is today,...

Ashley and Manuel have a major obstacle to get past if they’re going to build a life together, and TV Insider has an exclusive sneak peek of just that in the Sunday, October 15 episode of 90 Day Fiancé. “What’s the meaning of the word witch? It’s a person whose attributes are magical powers, obtained from the devil. So basically, they only look to do harm, right? So then don’t tell me you’re. witch. Because I don’t have as my fiancée or soon to be wife, a witch,” Manuel tells her. Both end the conversation frustrated, with Ashley walking outside for air and to vent to a producer. “This witch thing is going to be hard to navigate through because he’s not understanding. He’s looking at these old school witch from Snow White definitions,” she explains, stressing that she’s witch and not understanding,...

Distributor, Day for Night has acquired a trio of Asian titles for U.K. and Ireland at the Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Contents and Film Market.

Day for Night is acquiring the late Pema Tseden’s “Snow Leopard” from Rediance. Pema Tseden, the Tibetan art house film director known for “Jinpa” and “Balloon,” died at 53 earlier this year. The film explores the complicated coexistence of animals and people on the Tibetan plateau. After a snow leopard kills nine rams owned by a herder, a bitter conflict ensues between the herder who wants to kill the snow leopard and the father who wants to release it.

“Snow Leopard” world premiered at Venice and subsequently played Toronto and will next be at Tokyo.

“Next Sohee” by Korean filmmaker July Jung (“A Girl at My Door”), which premiered at Cannes’ Critics Week in 2022 and played at Busan and London, has been...

The animated 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will unveil a 4K restoration when it debuts on Disney+ Monday, Oct 16, in celebration of The Walt Disney Company’s 100th anniversary.

The makeover is courtesy of the Walt Disney Studios Restoration and Preservation team, which worked closely with key artists from Walt Disney Animation Studios and previously gave us the restoration of Walt Disney’s 1950 animated classic, Cinderella.

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Kevin Schaeffer,...

Break out the hand sanitizer: We officially have a release date for Peacock’s upcoming Monk movie.

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie will release Dec. 8, 2023, TVLine has confirmed. The 90-minute movie finds Monk (Tony Shalhoub) returning to solve one final, very personal case involving his beloved stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding.

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Shalhoub will reunite...

Fans of the 2022 animated hit The Bad Guys are getting quite the holiday gift.

Netflix has announced that The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday, a roughly 23-minute prequel “film” rated TV-Y7, will be released by the streaming giant on Thursday, Nov. 30.

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Directed by Emmy winner Bret Haaland (The Penguins of Madagascar), The Bad Guys: A...

‘’Eye Of The Storm’ and ‘Marry My Dead Body’ also secure several nods.

Chong Keat-aun’s historical epic Snow In Midsummer leads the nominations for the 60th Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, scoring nine nods including best film and best director.

Lin Chun-yang’s Sars drama Eye Of The Storm and Cheng Wei-hao’s ghost comedy Marry My Dead Body are close behind with eight nominations apiece.

Each will compete in the best film category along with Stonewalling by husband-and-wife team Huang Ji from mainland China and Ryuji Otsuka from Japan, and Time Still Turns The Pages, the feature debut...

“Snow in Midsummer,” a drama film which premiered in the Venice Days section of the recent Venice film festival, narrowly emerged as the front-runner for the Golden Horse Film Awards.

Nominations for the November awards were announced on Tuesday, with “Snow” gathering recognition in nine categories, including best film. But it was only narrowly ahead of a pair of films with eight nominations each – “Marry My Dead Body” and “Eye of the Storm” – and a further cluster with seven nominations each. These include “Abang Adik,” “Old Fox,” “Trouble Girl” and “The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon.”

The best picture category includes “Snow,” “Dead Body” and “Eye of the Storm” as well as Hong Kong’s “Time Still Turns the Pages” and Chinese-Japanese indie film “Stonewalling.” Directed and written by husband and wife team of Otsuka Ryuji and Huang Ji, “Stonewalling” is enjoying a career on the international festival circuit,...

It looks like Game of Thrones fans might just have something to celebrate. While nothing’s official quite yet, it appears that a Jon Snow sequel featuring Kit Harington could be coming to the HBO Max lineup within the next several years. Here’s what we know about the potential Jon Snow sequel so far.

Jon Snow sequel

American novelist and screenwriter George R.R. Martin is the creator of the renowned fantasy novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, later adapted into Game of Thrones. This Emmy-Award-winning HBO series ran from 2011 to 2019. To the delight of Got fans, Martin broke the news in a 2022 blog post that a Jon Snow sequel was in the works.

In his blog post, Martin also revealed that English actor Kit Harington, who played Jon Snow in the original Game of Thrones series, was the one to dream up the idea of a sequel.

Spanish director J.A. Bayona has gone from prehistoric blockbusters with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and mega-budget trips to Mordor with Amazon’s The Rings of Power (he directed the first two episodes). Now, he returns with something a little different. Society of the Snow, a survival thriller about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book, comes from Netflix and is set to close the 2023 Venice Film Festival out of competition on Saturday. But it also marks the director’s return to his native Spanish language for the first time in 16 years, since his 2007 breakout The Orphanage.

The disaster, which saw a plane of 45 mostly young rugby players from Uruguay crash in the Andes, with only 16 people surviving after 72 days in the snowy environment and after having been forced to take extreme measures — including cannibalism — to stay alive, has been put to screen before (most notably...

Nearly a decade after “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” debuted in theaters and brought the YA action franchise to a close, Lionsgate is heading back into the arena. But this time, there’s no Katniss, no Peeta and none of the high-tech horrors that awaited them.

“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is instead taking us back to the early days — the 10th Annual Hunger Games. So, just low-tech horrors.

That means audiences are about to meet a (mostly) new ensemble of characters and an all-new cast of actors playing them. Lionsgate has debuted a batch of “Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” posters introducing all of them, including Tom Blyth as young Coriolanus Snow, “Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer as Tigris and “West Side Story” breakout Rachel Zegler as District 12 contestant Lucy Gray.

“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” arrives in theaters on Nov. 17. For now, meet the new...

When Disney finds a trend that makes money, the company will more or less run it into the ground. If the Marvel Cinematic Universe is doing well, it will continue to churn out feature films and TV miniseries until the market is oversaturated. If "Pirates of the Caribbean" is successful, it will try out all the sequels, "Lone Rangers," and "John Carters" they can to emulate the same success. Over the last several years, Disney has struck gold with a series of big-budget remakes of its well-worn animated classics. "Aladdin," "The Lion King," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Little Mermaid," "Dumbo," and multiple others have been remade to the enthusiasm of audiences and to the indifference of critics.

Due for release on March 22, 2024 is Marc Webb's "Snow White," a live-action remake of the 1937 film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," originally directed by David Hand, Perce Pearce, William Cottrell,...

When the actors strike was called earlier this month, many industry eyes turned to the fall festival season and how SAG-AFTRA’s strict rules when it comes to film publicity might limit their star-power.

With the Venice Film Festival being the first major event on the calendar, would the Lido — typically awash with A-list names each year and where the screams for Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles from the 2022 festival have only just died down — see a noticeably reduced red carpet?

For all the worry that the actual lineup of the festival — which has become arguably one of Hollywood’s most important awards season launchpads — would be impacted, Tuesday’s program announcement instantly put that to bed.

While Challengers, the R-rated Luca Guadagnino drama starring Zendaya, was last week revealed to have been pushed from its Venice opening night slot as Warner Bros. shifted its release date to 2024 to avoid the strike,...

The first reactions to Disney’s Haunted Mansion have emerged following its world premiere, and it seems as if the studio has hit the mark this time around with a movie that might have viewers hurrying back…

Much of the praise for Haunted Mansion centers around it being just the sort of movie that will be enjoyable for adults, the little ones and die-hard fans of the iconic dark ride, with as many easter eggs as there are happy haunts. Check out some of the Haunted Mansion reactions below:

Happy to report #HauntedMansion is one of those family films that will spook kids, make adults laugh (a lot), and fans of the ride will keep pointing at the screen because it’s loaded with Easter eggs. Director Justin Simien & screenwriter Katie Dippold did great work. pic.twitter.com/07MfbUUCFC

— Steven Weintraub (@colliderfrosty) July 16, 2023

#hauntedmansion is an entertaining movie for your whole family can enjoy.

Director J.A. Bayona – whose credits include The Orphanage, The Impossible, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – has set up a Spanish-language thriller at the Netflix streaming service. Titled Society of the Snow, or La sociedad de la nieve, the film is an adaptation of the non-fiction book of the same name, written by Pablo Vierci. The film is about the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive.

That is the same real-life event that director Frank Marshall brought to the screen with the 1993 film Alive, which was based on Piers Paul Read’s book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.

Bayona wrote the screenplay for Society of the Snow with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego. The Hollywood Reporter notes...

Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Quantum Devil: "Crazed House ltd. is proud to announce the Texas Premiere of The Quantum Devil at Texas Frightmare Weekend. Saturday May the 27th at 8:00 pm. They will also also host a special live Q&a with Director Larry Wade Carrell, Writer and Producer Zeph E. Daniel and actor Tyler Tackett. Additionally, they will be available all weekend for autographs at the Crazed House booth #507.

As part of Texas Frightmare Weekend, the Quantum Devil will screen inside the Irving Convention Center's fourth floor Grand Ballroom. Renamed "the Alamo Drafthouse Screening Room". Screening Saturday evening at 8:00 pm. All screenings are complimentary with a convention pass at the convention center. For tickets and info, please visit texasfrightmareweekend.com."

Coming Soon From 1091 Pictures: The Quantum Devil

"An international team of scientists are summoned by ominous invitation to a remote location in Eastern Europe to conduct clandestine...

Like a peckish panda let loose in a showroom for bamboo patio furniture, the modern audience’s craving for true-life stories is seemingly insatiable. And like said ursine gnawing greedily on a flavorful teakwood club chair, nonfiction has been steadily gobbling up narrative filmmaking, with almost every major news item of the last 40 years being dutifully reimagined as a prestige limited series. And sure, projects like HBO’s Love and Death or Hulu’s The Dropout can help fill the void abdicated by the mid-budget studio drama, but where does that leave actual documentary movies—or documentary filmmakers for that matter?

While there’s certainly not an overabundance of industry support out there for emerging nonfiction filmmakers, there is at the very least the Film Independent Documentary Lab. And today, we’re thrilled to welcome seven new Fellows and six new projects to the 2023 Doc Lab cohort. “Documentary filmmakers remain...

Disney is going there, you guys.

As previously teased during the company's quarter one earnings call, the company is purging several titles from its streaming services, Disney+ and Hulu.

The practice has become common in recent months, with HBO Max leading the charge, wiping several projects from existence.

Undoubtedly, fans and creatives are struggling with the concept, but maybe some of the affected shows could show up elsewhere.

"We will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms and currently expect to take an impairment charge of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion," Disney's chief financial officer, Christine McCarthy, said during the earnings call.

Westworld, The Nevers, and other HBO fare popped back up on Fast services shortly after the controversial decision.

But for some shows, this could be the death knell that could be the difference whether new fans find them down the line.

Initially, people purchased physical media, and with the rise of streaming,...

Both Disney+ and Hulu will “pull an HBO Max” on Friday, May 26, and (not-so-)quietly remove dozens of shows from their respecting streaming libraries.

Disney’s chief financial officer, Christine McCarthy, gave a heads-up on the library edit during the company’s recent Q1 earnings call, saying, “We will be removing certain content from our streaming platforms and currently expect to take an impairment charge” — or, write-off — “of approximately $1.5 to $1.8 billion.”

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SeriesFest has announced the official lineup for SeriesFest: Season 9, which will be held from May 5 to 10 in Denver. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers will be presented with the SeriesFest Impact in Television Award at the annual festival, Variety can exclusively reveal.

SeriesFest: Season 9 has slated a wide variety of screenings, panels, workshops and sneak peeks/television premieres at this year’s festival. The non-profit organization is committed to showcasing and uplifting rising talent and underserved communities through episodic storytelling.

This year’s Impact in Television Award will be presented to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” producers Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey and Tom Campbell, for their pioneering and creative developments in the world of television production. Barbato, Bailey and Campbell will also participate in a panel on Monday, May 8, where audiences can ask the creatives questions.

“We’re excited to celebrate this amazing content and embrace conversations about the ever-changing industry,” Randi Kleiner, co-founder and CEO of SeriesFest,...

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is still reeling from “Game of Thrones.”

The “GoT” alum admitted he found it “too soon” to watch prequel series “House of the Dragon,” especially after hearing the “similar” opening credits.

“I have not [watched it],” Coster-Waldau told Entertainment Weekly. “One day it came on and I saw the opening credits. And it was a little strange because it was the same music and the title sequence was kind of similar. I was like, ‘Ah, this is too soon. Too soon.'”

He added, “I’ll wait. I’ll give it a couple of seasons, then I can binge watch it and then there’s the whole thing. But I know that so many people love that show, and I’m really happy for them.”

Former co-star Emilia Clarke similarly said she found it “so weird” to watch the new show.

“It’s too weird,” Clarke told Variety. “I just can’t do it.

Since the end of “Game of Thrones” in 2019, star Kit Harington has clearly been very particular with what projects he signs on to do. It makes sense, as his time of ‘Thrones’ dominated his work schedule for years, so now he just wants to do projects that seem worth the time. Of course, the big highlight of that post-‘Thrones’ life has been Marvel’s “Eternals,” but he’s also shown up in series such as “Extrapolations” and “Modern Love,” as well as the film, “Baby Ruby.” Well, it appears he’s heading back to HBO for his next project, but it’s not the “Snow” sequel series fans have been hoping for.

Continue reading ‘Industry’: Kit Harington Joins The Cast Of HBO’s Drama Series For Season 3 at The Playlist.

Jeremy Renner proved himself to be a real-life superhero on New Year’s Day when he sacrificed his own body to save his nephew in a horrific snow plow accident. Next month, he’ll open up to Diane Sawyer for his first on-camera interview since the life-threatening incident.

The hour-long ABC special, titled Jeremy Renner: The Diane Sawyer Interview – A Story of Terror, Survival and Triumph, will air on April 6th at 10:00 p.m. Et. In advance, the network has shared a three-minute teaser clip in which Renner recalls the aftermath of the accident.

In the video, Swayer lists Renner’s injuries from the 7-ton snow plow, which included eight ribs broken in 14 places, a collapsed lung, pierced liver, and numerous other broken bones. The Hawkeye actor says he remembers the pain clearly and was “awake through every moment,” but he would “do it again” without any reservation.

Immediately following the accident,...