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Prime Video’s November programming will dip its toe into Christmas and other holiday offerings such as The Holiday (2006) starring Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. The streamer will also add some films with sequels arriving in theaters this month, like Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Ridley Scott’s 1992 film Gladiator.

For the full list of Prime Video programming in November 2024, see below.

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Movies:

12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004) 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) 50 To 1 (2014) A Knight’s Tale (2001) Absolute Deception (2013) Across The Universe (2007) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Airplane! (1980) All Saints (2017) Almost Christmas (2016) Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) Anger Management (2003) Apache (1954) Bad Company (2002) Battlefield Earth (2000) Battleship (2012) Big Night (1996) Blizzard (2003) Blown Away (1993) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) Boomerang (1992) Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star (2011) Carrie...

Chicago – One of the most reliable and relatable character actors in film is Greg Kinnear. The actor, Oscar nominated for “As Good As It Gets,” has been working steadily in film and TV ever since he made a splash on the scene with “Talk Soup.” From there he was cast in the remake of “Sabrina,” and his roles ascended from there. His latest film role is in “Sight.”

Rating: 3.5/5.0

One of America’s great Eye Doctor/Scientists is Ming Wang (Terry Chen), a Chinese-American immigrant who came from nothing to become one of the world experts on curing blindness through breakthrough discoveries. When a case of a blind girl from India falls on his lap, it leads to one of this greatest sight reviving ideas, with help from his colleague Misha Bartnovsky (Greg Kinnear). In this incredible true story, Wang goes over his life in flashback, including his survival during...

Exclusive: Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham and The Nightingale‘s Aisling Franciosi have joined the cast of Three Point Capital and David Permut Production’s movie Twinless. They will star opposite previously announced Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney.

Sweeney is also writing and directing the pic which follows two young men who meet in a twin bereavement support group, and form an unlikely bromance.

O’Brien and Miky Lee are EPs. Alex Astrachan, Director of Development at Permut Presentations is co-producer. Republic Pictures has worldwide rights to the film.

Three Point Capital is financing the feature with Ali Jazayeri, David Gendron and Liz Destro also serving as executive producers.

Graham is known for playing Lorelai Gilmore on the hit CW series, Gilmore Girls. She’s also starred in such movies as Flash of Genius, The Answer Man with Jeff Daniels, Evan Almighty with Steve Carell, Because I Said So opposite Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore,...

Now a week into the new year, Max is, like many of us, cleaning house. The streamer is ushering in a new month of library additions and new originals, and, like usual, we have to give to get.

While the streamer has lost a few titles already this month, including 2018’s “The Nun,” nearly all of Max’s departures will make their exit during the final week of the month, including “Birdman,” “Barbarian,” and more!

Before January comes to an end, check out The Streamable’s top picks of what to watch before they’re gone, and see the full list of what’s leaving Max throughout the rest of the month!

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Georgina Campbell leads the horror-thriller as Tess, a young woman who books a rental home only to...

August is heating up on Max, with “90 Day: The Last Resort” premiering on the streamer Aug. 15 (one day after it airs on TLC).

Five fan-favorite couples from “90 Day Fiance” have reached their breaking points. In a final attempt to salvage their relationships, each couple will participate in a couples retreat to determine whether or not they can heal old wounds. Alongside a team of professionals, they’ll actively navigate issues with trust, sex, jealousy, anger and intimacy. Explosive group therapies, intense couples sessions, past life regressions, unique on-and-off-resort activities and so much more ensue. At the end of the retreat, each couple must decide if they will stay together or move on separately.

Fans of dating and relationship shows may also be interested in “Kim vs Kayne: The Divorce” on August 7, which chronicles the split between Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. There’s also Season 18 of “Sister Wives,...

Summer isn’t over yet but HBO and its streaming arm Max are already moving on to fall. With its list of new releases for August 2023, Max is focusing on football! The American kind, mind you, not the actually footy kind.

August 2023 sees the release of two major football documentaries on HBO and Max. The first is the premiere of Hard Knocks on Aug. 10. The new season of long-running NFL training camp docuseries will center on the New York Jets, new employers of legendary quarterback Aaron Rodgers. On Aug. 23, Max will air the aptly named Bs High. The doc tells the stranger-than-fiction story of high school football team Bishop Sycamore, which pulled off one of the more notable sports scams you’re likely to ever hear about.

Not of the football variety but in keeping with the North American sports theme will be season 2 of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty on Aug.

DeVaughn Nixon, Quincy Isaiah, and Delante Desouza in ‘Winning Time’ season 2 (Photograph by Warrick Page/HBO)

Hard Knock‘s new season focusing on the New York Jets and the second season of the original drama Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty join Max’s August 2023 lineup, along with Tracy Morgan’s latest comedy special. August’s schedule also includes the season finales of And Just Like That… and Warrior.

Rap Sh!t season two premieres on August 10th, and the new half-hour young adult animated series Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake arrives on August 31st.

Series & Films Arriving On Max In August 2023:

August 1

A Hologram for the King (2016)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child...

August is one of the weird months on the calendar. It feels like it should be early fall; September is Right there, after all. And yet August is one of the hottest months of the year for many in the United States, one last gasp of summer before autumn and its traditional TV schedule of new releases settle in.

This year’s fall schedule will look markedly different thanks to strikes by both the leading actors’ union and the leading writers’ guild in Hollywood, but August will still have some fantastic new hits coming to streaming. Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform Max is debuting new titles in just about every imaginable category, so here are the five we’re most excited for at The Streamable!

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‘Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty’ Season 2 Premiere | Aug.

Exclusive: J. Miles Dale, the Oscar-winning producer of The Shape of Water and an Oscar nominee for Nightmare Alley, has formed a creative partnership with Netflix. Dale will produce feature films under a multi-year first-look deal via his Demilo Films banner.

Dale’s currently an executive producer and co-showrunner on the Netflix series Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and also executive producer on the Netflix series Sex/Life.

“Having just produced two series on the TV side at Netflix, I’m beyond excited to begin this new adventure with the feature film team,” Dale said. “I enjoyed a great partnership with Scott Stuber on a couple of films earlier in my career, and I look forward to expanding that relationship. Netflix has always been incredibly filmmaker friendly in my experience, and that support is so critical as we continue to explore the challenging and compelling stories that inspire us at Demilo Films.

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Closet Monster (Stephen Dunn)

Writer/director Stephen Dunn’s feature debut Closet Monster cares little about convention to tell the story of Oscar Madly (Connor Jessup) growing up with a psychological revulsion to his sexual urges, all thanks to an extremely disturbing event witnessed as a child. This prologue glimpse at his youth (played by Jack Fulton) is a mash-up of tough coming-of-age-dramatics and a dark-edged imaginative whimsy that intrigues to draw you closer.

Next month, Netflix offers up a giant selection of films — modern to classic, animated to live action, Oscar winners and indie favorites — and we’ve picked seven that you should watch as soon as they’re available on the streaming service, either for the first time or as part of a nostalgic binge. Enjoy.

1. “Boogie Nights” (available January 1)

Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore and Burt Reynolds star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 comedy about a young man who gets into the California porn industry in the late 1970’s and ‘80s. The film was nominated for three Oscars: Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay.

2. “Braveheart” (available January 1)

Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Director, the Mel Gibson-starring drama follows William Wallace’s revolt against King Edward I of England after his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her.

Marc Abraham's career has known box office success as well as critical lionising, with films such as Children of Men and Spy Game standing out for attention on a resume which covers over twenty years in the business. Having made the transition from producer to director with 2008's Flash of Genius, his latest film I Saw The Light is a study of country legend Hank Williams. He spoke with CineVue's Tom Duggins, making his infectious passion for William's writing apparent from the get-go in an interview that focused on the folklore of country and the difficulty of representing pop stars on screen.

Sarah Davis lives and works in Brooklyn with her husband Millree Hughes and daughter Meriel.

Bradley Rubenstein: What were some of your early experiences, like school, for example, where you decided to become an artist?

Sarah Davis: My radar was, What’s the best thing to be doing when you’re 80? Where are the best-looking old people? And for me, that was obviously painters, or the art world more generally. Maybe I was close to my grandparents, or maybe it came from going to high school in L.A., where the projected end was 30. Still, painting was my identity from about age 8. Every kind of picture book, and there were tons of them, was how I spent my free time. I copied everything and made up my own. Making paintings and drawings was how I socialized, from third grade on.

Br: A lot of your work deals with...

“I Saw the Light” opens with Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams, sitting on a stool in a spotlight, his face downward and obscured by his ever-present cowboy hat. He’s singing “Cold Cold Heart” a cappella. It’s hauntingly beautiful; there likely won’t be a peep in the theater. It’s also a highlight of a film that proceeds to nose-dive fast. See Video: Tom Hiddleston Channels Hank Williams' Dark Life in First Trailer for 'I Saw the Light' Writer-director Marc Abraham‘s second feature as helmer — he previously gave us “Flash of Genius,” a paean...

We've seen a few stills and a clip from the Hank Williams biopic I Saw The Light starring Tom Hiddleston as the country music star, and now the first trailer has finally been released. Based on the Colin Escot book Hank Williams: The Biography, the upcoming film comes from Flash Of Genius director Marc Abraham, and also features the talents of Hiddleston's fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe star... Read More...

Once set to have arrived in theaters last week, Sony Pictures Classics decided to move I Saw the Light, the Hank Williams biopic which finds Tom Hiddleston in the leading role, to 2016. Coming from longtime producer Marc Abraham (Children of Men, Dawn of the Dead), whose directorial debut was Flash of Genius, the film will now arrive in March and today brings the first trailer.

We said in our review, “The opening to Marc Abraham‘s I Saw the Light holds a lot of intrigue. Based on Colin Escott‘s biography about hillbilly legend Hank Williams, the start goes from a faux black and white newsreel interview with producer Fred Rose (Bradley Whitford) recounting how one-of-a-kind the singer was to a magically lit performance by Tom Hiddleston as Williams (the actor sings every note and the actors playing his band pluck every string). He’s sitting on a stool with a hazy spotlight pouring down,...

Monopoly enthusiasts will one day receive their money’s worth with the unknown backstory to their beloved game. Deadline reports that Big Beach’s Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf will produce alongside Diane Nabatoff (Dancing in Jaffa) and have set Howard A. Rodman to adapt not one, but a pair of books: Mary Pilon’s best selling non-fiction book The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World’s Favorite Board Game and Ralph Anspach’s The Billion Dollar Monopoly (R) Swindle.

Gist: This is about the unknown David and Goliath story of S.F. State Universal economist Ralph Anspach, who invented the game Anti-Monopoly as a cry against rampant capitalism, and was promptly sued by Parker Brothers and was shored up against the game invented by Elizabeth Magie, a stenographer who hatched The Landlords Game to lash out against slumlords and other monopolists of the early 20th Century.

Toronto – We’re not going to beat around the bush here. Despite the worthy efforts of stars Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen, the Hank Williams biopic “I Saw The Light” is a shockingly bad movie. It’s such a disappointment we’re not even sure where to begin. Well, perhaps a quick history lesson is in order first. Hank Williams (Tom Hiddleston) was a legendary Country music singer and songwriter who had 11 no. 1 singles on the Billboard Country and Western Charts during a career that lasted only six years. The Alabama native first hit the charts in 1947 and actually had one of his biggest hits, “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” following his untimely death in 1953. He was just 29-years-old. In the decades since his music has influenced icons such as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Keith Richards, among others. Let's continue, shall we? He was married twice, first to Audrey Williams (Elizabeth Olsen...

I Saw the Light is the title of one of the most cherished songs by country legend Hank Williams, as well as that of a polished new biopic from producer turned director Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius). But another Williams standard, “Lovesick Blues,” would have been a more appropriate designation for this heavily dramatic recreation of the man's short and turbulent life, in a film that focuses more on his many marital woes than it does on the brilliant music he created. Carried by an uncanny turn from British actor Tom Hiddleston, who convincingly swaps his Loki helmet and

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This fall, it seems two musical biopics will be slugging it out. Don Cheadle takes on jazz legend Miles Davis in "Miles Ahead," while Tom Hiddleston goes country as Hank Williams in "I Saw The Light." And the first look at Thor's brother in a ten gallon hat is here. Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones, Bradley Whitford, Maddie Hasson, and Wren Schmidt co-star in the Marc Abraham ("Flash Of Genius") directed movie about the musician who hit the top of the charts and the depths of despair. Here's the official synopsis: I Saw The Light, the story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life. "I Saw The Light" opens on November 27th.

A deeply moving and very satisfying piece of entertainment that knits up seemingly disparate elements in a tapestry of family pain and pride. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Maria Altmann just wants back that portrait of her aunt, the pretty one that used to hang in her family’s home when she was a child, and which reminds her of her aunt, who died far too young. Problem is, that home was in Vienna in the 1930s, and when the Nazis swooped in, they confiscated the painting and all her family’s other belongings. And despite Austria’s new spirit of reconciliation in the late 90s, including efforts toward art restitution, this painting is different. It’s Gustav Klimt’s famous “Woman in Gold” — now known as “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” — and it...

Will this upcoming awards season be the year of Tom Hiddleston?  The popular Brit already has Guillermo Del Toro's "Crimson Peak" on tap for October and, now, he's officially in the mix for his performance as the iconic Hank Williams in Marc Abraham's "I Saw The Light." "Light" is based on Colin Escott's 1994 novel "Hank Williams: The Biography" and chronicles his rise to superstardom and tragic death at the age of 29.  An autopsy revealed he died of a heart attack, but he was also a known alcoholic who had also developed addictions to morphine and other painkillers.  Williams had 11 no. 1 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart including two posthumously.   The cast also includes Elizabeth Olsen as William's wife Audrey Mae and Bradley Whitford as Fred Rose (founder of the legendary Acruff-Rose Music which published Williams songs) as well as David Krumholtz, Cherry Jones, Wrenn Schmidt and Josh Pais.

Most notably known for this producer creds (Children of Men), Marc Abraham’s Hank Williams passion project has found a home with the Sony Pictures Classics. Check-marking Spc’s method of operation in acquiring titles with an already built-in fanbase, we’re expecting a Walk the Line type treatment for I Saw the Light. If we had to guess, it’ll contain generous musical outtakes in the Williams library, and in the best of worlds showcase a transcendental, fighting the demons perf from Tom Hiddleston and cover the bases of what would be a competitive/romantic/abusive dynamics with the equally headstrong Audrey Mae Williams (here played by Elizabeth Olsen). Look for a film festival launching – Telluride and/or Tiff would be appropriate.

Gist: Written by Marc Abraham and based on Colin Escott’s biography, Williams ranks high among the most influential country music singer-songwriters, and he lived a life...

• Another big name has been launched into consideration for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi film The Martian. Emmy winner Jeff Daniels is the latest actor in talks to join Matt Damon in the movie about a stranded astronaut struggling to survive. Daniels would play the Nasa director dealing with the crisis back on Earth. Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig and Kate Mara may also star in the film written by Drew Goddard (World War Z) and adapted from the self-published book of the same name by Andy Weir. [THR] • Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon, Fred Armisen, Ron Livingston, and Clea DuVall have signed on for Fresno,...

First they took our American superheroes, and now they're after our country music legends, too? British thesp Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers) is set to play American music icon Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light. The film will be directed by Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius), and will be based on Colin Escott's "Hank Williams: The Biography."

Hiddleston is best known for his work as Loki in the Marvel movies, but has also had diverse roles in films like War Horse, and Midnight in Paris directed by Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, respectively. The actor has all ready taken to twitter to give us our first official glimpse of him as Williams- the singer-songwriter responsible for classics such as "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."

I Saw The Light. pic.twitter.com/LBSiP5tBVb

— Tom Hiddleston (@twhiddleston) June 13, 2014

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Audiences are mostly familiar with Tom Hiddleston causing trouble for Thor and The Avengers, but now they'll see the actor in a completely different light. Deadline has word that the British star of stage and screen has been lined up to play country music legend Hank Williams in a biopic called I Saw the Light. The film is coming together as a co-production between Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment (he's been really busy producing lately), Bron Studios and Creative Wealth Media Finance. Flash of Genius director Marc Abraham will direct the film from his own script based on a biography on Williams by Colin Escott. The biopic will follow Williams as he rises to fame, and the consequences that came from it, shaking up his personal life dramatically, before his time was tragically cut short by heart failure at the age of 29. And much like Joaquin Phoenix did as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line,...

Best known for his reptilian portrayal of Loki in The Avengers and the Thor movies, as well as for uncanny impressions of some of his co-stars like Chris Evans and Owen Wilson, Tom Hiddleston is about to go the biopic route. The London native is attached to star as country and western icon Hank Williams in I Saw the Light, for heavyweight Hollywood producer Marc Abraham.

Hiddleston certainly looks the part, and plans to do all of his own singing for the role as well. So fans of the actor and his real-life counterpart should be ready to swoon during renditions of “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” That said, hopefully the genre’s most devout fans are fine that a British actor is taking the helm of an American songbird.

I Saw the Light will tell the story of the rise of the Hall of Fame musician,...

Tom Hiddleston is on tap to play one of the greatest American music icons, Hank Williams. Named for one of Williams' best known songs, "I Saw the Light" will see the British actor trying on a deep South accent and tackling tunes from the Williams songbook. The British actor has risen to fame in recent years for his delicious turn as Loki in the "Thor" films, for dancing on command, and co-starring as a storied and tortured musician in one of 2014's best films "Only Lovers Left Alive." Williams, on the other hand, rose to fame in his teens and died at 29 of complications due to his raging alcoholism and drug abuse, leave behind a rep of at least three dozen country, blues and gospel originals and renditions one could easily qualify as stone-cold classics. The singer/songwriter's fabled death alone could fill volumes (or at least a 90-minute film...

• Tom Hiddleston will star (and sing) as Hank Williams in an upcoming biopic about the country legend. I Saw The Light will be directed by Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius), who adapted the script from Colin Escott’s biography of Williams. Quite different than his role in The Avengers, Hiddleston will sing from the entire Williams catalog, with songs like “Hey, Good Lookin’,” after the rights were secured through a deal with Sony Atv. The film will follow Williams’ rise to fame before dying of heart failure at age 29. [Deadline]

• Demi Moore (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle) has replaced Sex and the City...

Greg Kinnear is the perfect actor to star in Heaven is for Real, an adaptation of the nonfiction best-seller of the same name. The guy from Flash of Genius and Little Miss Sunshine is the one you want for another character struggling in life and trying to convince people of something. He has sad eyes but a charming smile. And in movies like this, no matter how you feel about the message at its core, you’ll like the person he’s playing and want him to succeed. If Tucker: The Man and His Dream or Field of Dreams were remade today, Kinnear would be a great choice to play either’s protagonist. Heaven is for Real is actually quite reminiscent of the latter. It’s set in the Midwest farmlands and deals with a man about to lose everything, it involves a father/son relationship and, most importantly, it involves the afterlife. Yet...

Film to Premiere at a special one-night, invitation-only, engagement sponsored by HBO(R) on October at the AMC Empire 25 on 42nd Street

New York, NY – September 25, 2013 – (Hispanicize Wire) – ProyectoNEXT, a new showcase for emerging Latino and Urban talent sponsored by HBO, will debut next month with the New York premiere of director Henry Barrial’s “The House That Jack Built.” The one-night, invitation-only feature presentation will take place October 2 in Manhattan at the AMC Empire 25.

Hailed by The Hollywood Reporter as a “convincing portrait of a neighborhood and its Nuyorican culture,” and “a majestic journey of crime, family drama, and redemption” by The Awards Circuit, “The House That Jack Built” stars Bronx native E.J. Bonilla and features an all-Latino cast of Caribbean descent from New York, including Melissa Fumero, Leo Minaya, Flor De Liz Perez, Saundra Santiago, John Herrera, and Rosal Colon.

“HBO is extremely excited to partner in the...

Here is the first trailer for the Steve Jobs biopic, Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher. He will play the Apple founder in what looks like a very safe by-the-numbers movie. It reminded me a lot of the movie Flash of Genius with Greg Kinnear playing Robert Kearns who takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. Note: Dermot Mulroney starred in that movie as well as Jobs, he’s like the go to biopic sidekick. That was a good movie, but like Jobs would likely play out better on TV instead – because it’s just not that interesting.

The trailer likes to make out that Jobs was “The Original Innovator”, “The Original Rebel”, and “The Original Visionary” because movies lie. There was a lot of innovation before the 1970′s I’m pretty sure. But look, Ashton Kutcher tucks in his shirt just like Steve Jobs…...

Garret Dillahunt (“Raising Hope”), Tom Felton (Harry Potter), and Jake Abel (The Host) are set to star in Ghosts Of The Pacific, the true story of three WWII Navy flyers cast adrift on the South Pacific in 1942. The feature will be produced by The American Film Company, which specializes in making movies based on true stories from America’s past.

Producer and American Film Co. president Brian Falk will be making his directorial debut recounting the incredible journey of pilot Harold Dixon (Dillahunt), bombardier Tony Pastula (Felton), and radioman Gene Aldrich (Abel) – virtual strangers assigned to a scouting mission on January 16, 1942. When they are forced to ditch their plane, the men are left with no food, water, or supplies; only a 4×8-foot yellow life raft to keep them afloat on a dangerous ocean.

Written by Mark David Keegan and Falk, Ghosts is being produced by Falk and Mark Moran (Struck by Lightning,...

Exclusive: Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are dissolving Strike Entertainment after an 11-year run as a Universal-based production company. The Universal first-look deal falls by the wayside this spring, and this ends a 15-year tenure at the studio for Abraham and Newman; Abraham previously partnered with Charlie Lyons and Army Bernstein in Beacon Communications, and Newman was a key executive there. Abraham and Newman said the partnership simply ran its course and that the parting is amicable. They will continue to work together on a bunch of projects they still have percolating under the Strike banner, but they have differing ambitions. Basically, Newman wants to continue to be a prolific producer. Abraham, who started as a writer and then made his directing debut on Flash Of Genius, the 2008 film that starred Greg Kinnear as the creator of the intermittent windshield wiper as he waged a long bitter battle against the...

The fans are in the seats, the fields have been lined in white and the players are ready for some football action. Can’t you smell it in the air? The early days of Fall are here and we’re in the thick of the hallowed football time of year – high school, college and NFL. Wamg is counting down our 35 favorite football films you need to see before the kickoff of pigskin season. It’s never too early or too late to talk the sport loved by fans everywhere. Many of these true stories can be found on DVD, Blu-ray and Video On Demand. Let us know in the comments section below how you would have ranked your favorite football movies or if we left any on the sidelines.

1. Rudy

“You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there...

This Means War

Directed by: McG

Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Chelsea Handler

Running Time: 1 hr 38 mins

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: February 17, 2012

Plot: Two best friends and CIA agents (Pine and Hardy) fall for the same woman (Witherspoon). They try to top one another for her affections.

Who’S It For? This one is mainly for the ladies who absolutely adore the idea of two good-looking men fighting over her.

Overall

A hip bass line starts us off. Two CIA agents strut in and get ready for battle. Gun fire, explosions, and fisticuffs follow. We’re watching a spy movie! Right about then, the record screeches. This Means War makes me mad, even though it’s just an average, forgettable film.

The reason you may think I’m upset is because it begins as an action film and quickly turns into a rom-com. That’s not the case.

Speaking briefly, ‘Greg Kinnear and Billy Crudup swindle Alan Arkin in Wisconsin.’ Directed by Big Love producer Jill Sprecher, Thin Ice might be twisted suspense comedy, but it’s rather a cold, hard drama, which co-stars Lea Thompson (Mickey’s wife), David Harbour and Bob Balaban. Well, in Wisconsin-set indie titled Thin Ice Kinnear (As Good as [...]

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Look, I dunno how lots of women do it, either. I’m just barely holding my shit together, and I only have myself to take care of: no husband, no kids. Not even any pets anymore. Not even any plants. But it’s pretty fucking clear how Sarah Jessica Parker’s Kate Reddy does it. How she manages to juggle a high-powered career, two demanding moppets, and a marriage: She’s got a buttload of dough, enough to live in a gorgeous Boston brownstone (with trips to the vacation home in New Hampshire!) and rely on a fantastic nanny and just buy stuff as a shortcut in the time-is-money, money-is-time tradeoff. Her husband has a flexible work schedule, doesn’t mind changing diapers or making dinner, and is all around a pretty amazing guy, as far as we can see. She’s even still crazy in love with him, as well she should be,...

This beautiful new poster manages to pull together the main themes of Lars von Trier's film incredibly effectively

The languid, deceptively simple poster for Lars von Trier's new film Melancholia works effectively on several different levels.

The movie is about the reaction of depressed newlywed Kirsten Dunst to the impending end of the world. A "rogue planet" that has been hiding behind the sun is about to hit the earth.

Von Trier's film is intended to illustrate his theory that people with depression react more calmly to awful events because they already expect everything that happens to them to be awful.

It's actually a relatively uncontroversial idea from this professional provocateur, who may have finally gone too far earlier this year when at a press conference to promote this film he said he understood and sympathised with Hitler "a little bit" and got himself banned from Cannes.

The...

It's like The King Speech, but with orgasms!

Sex comedies are a dime a dozen these days.  They are huge money makes and in the world of Judd Apatow and Kevin Smith, they certainly reign supreme amongst all other comedy genres.  Because of this, we've seen Tons of sex comedies hit theaters.  Hysteria is another one of these films.  But this is...different, that's for sure.  For one, its a period piece and, for two, it stars a bunch of classy British actors.  And for three, its about the creation of the vibrator.  If The King's Speech, Flash of Genius, and Zack and Miri Make a Porno had a baby, this would be it.  Well the trailer certainly presents it as a one joke comedy, it was interesting enough to get me interested.  I just hope the film will rise up past its slocky premise and deliver something truly special.

Brad Pitt looks for revenge in Sleepers

Remember Sleepers? The acclaimed 1996 drama film starring Brad Pitt (Seven), Kevin Bacon (Tremors) and Robert De Niro (Little Fockers) is coming to Blu-ray on Aug. 2 from Warner Home Video along with two other dramas, Sean Connery (Highlander) starrer The Name of the Rose and Copycat with Sigourney Weaver (Alien).

Sleepers is our favorite of the three movies. Directed by Barry Levinson (The Natural), the film tells the disturbing story of a group of boys who, after pulling a prank, are sent to a detention center and brutalized by the guards. Ten years later, the boys are grownup and get their chance for revenge. Billy Crudup (Almost Famous), Minnie Driver (Barney’s Version), Jason Patric (The Losers) and Dustin Hoffman (All the President’s Men) also star in the R-rated film, which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Score.

The winner of two BAFTA awards,...

With the release tomorrow of The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey, I was challenged to look back at other notable depictions of lawyers on film, and specifically come up with a list of those under-dogs who fought against seemingly insurmountable odds for the good of their clients.

This list is in no particular order and nor is it definitive, but I was challenged to come up with six and six I have included…

Atticus Finch – To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

Ranked the #1 Film Hero of All Time by the American Film Institure in 2003, Gregory Peck’s portrayal of a morally crusading lawyer in a small Alabama town during the 1930′s deservedly won him his one and only Oscar. As Atticus Finch he takes on the case of a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman, and the racially divided town instantly condemn him as guilty despite no...

We've already heard that A-Team director Joe Carnahan would re-team with the film's star Liam Neeson for The Grey - a thriller that follows a group of Alaskan pipeline workers hunted by wolves in the frigid wilderness after their plane crashes on their way back home. Now we have word on the cast surrounding Neeson in the man vs. nature thriller as Deadline reports "Rubicon" stars James Badge Dale (left) and Dallas Roberts (right) will play two of the oil-rig roughnecks in danger. Production was greenlit to begin next week up in Vancouver and Northern British Columbia where it can be as cold as 30 degrees below zero! Also joining the cast will be Dermot Mulroney (Flash of Genius), Frank Grillo (My Soul to Take), Nonso Anozie (RocknRolla) and Joe Anderson (The Crazies). Props to all of them for braving the cold weather which Carnahan loves as a way of making...

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"Overkill is underrated" was the understandable motto of Col. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) in last summer's 'The A-Team,' Joe Carnahan's underrated big-budget adaptation of the small-screen series. For now, though, it seems that Neeson and Carnahan are going to forgo overkill by teaming back up for a more scaled-back man-versus-nature adventure.

According to Deadline, the director now has the green light for production on 'The Grey,' in which an oil-drilling crew is stranded in the Alaskan wilderness following a plane crash and is forced to fend off a nearby pack of wolves. Neeson will be joined by Dallas Roberts ('3:10 to Yuma,' "Rubicon"), James Badge Dale ("Rubicon"), Dermot Mulroney ('Flash of Genius'), Joe Anderson ('The Crazies') and others.

It's nice to see Carnahan change things up with a project about as far from 'The A-Team,' 'Narc,...

Filed under: Cinematical

"Overkill is underrated" was the understandable motto of Col. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) in last summer's 'The A-Team,' Joe Carnahan's underrated big-budget adaptation of the small-screen series. For now, though, it seems that Neeson and Carnahan are going to forgo overkill by teaming back up for a more scaled-back man-versus-nature adventure.

According to Deadline, the director now has the green light for production on 'The Grey,' in which an oil-drilling crew is stranded in the Alaskan wilderness following a plane crash and is forced to fend off a nearby pack of wolves. Neeson will be joined by Dallas Roberts ('3:10 to Yuma,' "Rubicon"), James Badge Dale ("Rubicon"), Dermot Mulroney ('Flash of Genius'), Joe Anderson ('The Crazies') and others.

It's nice to see Carnahan change things up with a project about as far from 'The A-Team,' 'Narc,...

Update: Director Jon Favreau says his upcoming film about Disneyland Magic Kingdom, will Not be like A Night at the Museum. Favreau (Elf, Zathura, Iron Man 1 and 2) said on Sirius Satellite Radio's "Geektime!" that the storyline would be about a family in Disneyland who bring the attractions to life, but, "I don’t think it’s going to be mixing all the other movies. I think it’s going to be its own thing; I don’t think it will be like Night of the Museum. I want to make it a little bit spookier like the old Disney movies were and try to really capture that tone.

"This is something that I’ve always been drawn to and now to say ‘What characters do you want to use and how do you not make it Space Jam or like the Christmas parade with every character?’ How do you show...

It would be awesome to be one of Iron Man director Jon Favreau's kids for the next few months -- they're going to be spending a lot of time at Disneyland. That's because their dad has been hired to figure out how to turn the theme park into a movie called The Magic Kingdom. The idea is to use the locations, rides and characters within the Magic Kingdom similar to how the Smithsonian was utilized in Night at the Museum so Daffy Duck, Buzz Lightyear and Jessica Rabbit could theoretically be dodging headhunters on the Jungle Cruise. Strike Entertainment (Flash of Genius) is developing the project for Disney.

Disney has been exploring this for a while, originally brought to them through the book series "Kingdom Keepers" in which a bunch of Florida teenagers are turned into holographic guides who have to fight Maleficent as the park's characters come to life.

Sony Pictures Classics recently unveiled this new official trailer (via Apple) for the British historic comedic drama Made in Dagenham, starring the always charming Sally Hawkins (seen above) as well as Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson and Rosamund Pike. The film is about a group of female workers in England in the 60s who start a strike at a Ford factory in protest against sexual discrimination. It has a kind of Flash of Genius vibe to it (another great film) but with some British sensibilities. It received mixed reviews from Toronto, but it doesn't look that bad, it actually looks like a solid film, so check out the official trailer below. Watch the official trailer for Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham: You can also watch the Made in Dagenham trailer in High Definition on Apple Set against the backdrop of the 60s, Made in Dagenham is based on a...

Ben Stiller (A Night at the Museum), Eddie Murphy (Shrek), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Alan Alda (Flash of Genius) and Michael Pena (Observe and Report) will star in Universal and Imagine Entertainment's Tower Heist. The comedy is about the building manager (Stiller) of a Trump Tower-type building who lead the angry employees (Sidibe, Pena) who lost their pensions to a Bernie Madoff-type conman (Alda) to get even with the guy who is currently under house arrest at the luxury high-rise. Murphy is also an exec producer on the movie.

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Sam Neill, the main dude in all of the Jurassic Park movies, and Jessica Lange (Tootsie) are joining the cast of Nicholas Sparks' The Vow. Rachel McAdams (The Notebook) and Channing Tatum (Dear John) will play real-life newlyweds Kim and Krickitt Carpenter in the story based on a 1993 car accident that caused Krickitt to lose her recent memory. The film will follow her struggle with her own identity.

The rest of the cast includes Australian actress Jessica McNamee, Scott Speedman (xXx: State of the Union), Dillon Casey ("The Vampire Diaries"), Rachel Skarsten (Made...the Movie), Britt Irvin (Hot Rod), Jeananne Goossen ("Aaron Stone"), Tatiana Maslany (Flash of Genius), Kim Roberts ("Degrassi: The Next Generation"). Michael Sucsy (HBO's Emmy and Golden Globe winning "Grey Gardens") is directing.