“The Acolyte” Composer Michael Abels on Scoring a “Star Wars” Story Unlike Any Before It

Fans of Star Wars have been eagerly anticipating their newest live-action series, The Acolyte, which features all-new characters in a tense and action-filled story that explores the light and dark sides of the force, as well as many grey areas in between. Set in the High Republic era that leads into Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte is the creation of Russian Doll writer/producer/director and lifelong Star Wars fan Leslye Headland.

James Gunn Taps “Watchmen” Creator Damon Lindelof to Join Green Lanterns Series for DC Studios

Damon Lindelof is no stranger to superheroes, a fact that DC Studios co-chief James Gunn was well aware of when he tapped him to help bring a brand new series based on the Green Lanterns to life.

Lindelof, the co-creator of ABC’s seminal series Lost and the man who helped steer HBO’s sensational Watchmen adaptation, which riffed on writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins’ iconic graphic novel and went on to win 11 Emmys,

Vision Resurrected: Marvel is Brining Back Paul Bettany’s Superhero for New Disney+ Series

You can’t keep a good superhero down, especially not Paul Bettany’s Vision, who will be returning once again to lead a brand new Marvel series on Disney+.

Bettany’s red-skinned, Infinity Stone-charged superhero (it’s the Mind Stone, to get technical), one of the more tragic figures in recent Marvel lore considering his death at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity and his bittersweet resurrection in Disney+’s WandaVision, will return to center a new series from the studio.

“Under the Bridge” EP/Director Quinn Shephard on Lily Gladstone & Riley Keough’s Twisty Murder Mystery

In 1997, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to a party and never came home, then became front page news around the world when a tight-knit circle of girls and one troubled teenage boy were implicated in her murder. Journalist Rebecca Godfrey wrote about the crime in her acclaimed book “Under the Bridge”, and now Hulu’s narrative series of the same name delves into the life of the victim, as well as those involved in her death.

“The Acolyte” Drops Two Stunning Teasers Ahead of Two-Episode June 4 Release

How talented is The Acolyte star Amanda Stenberg? In a new teaser for the latest live-action Star Wars series to arrive on Disney+, we get a chance to listen to Stenberg play a solo violin arrangement of John Williams’ deathless Star Wars score. Stenberg is the star of the new series, which comes from creator Lesyle Headland, and will tell the story of Stenberg’s Mae, a former Padawan who reconnects with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes,

Dressing a Spy in Plain Sight and Many Robert Downey Jrs. in “The Sympathizer”

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 novel “The Sympathizer” won the Pulitzer Prize and was subsequently adapted into a miniseries by showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, a historical black comedy now airing on HBO. The show follows the journey of the Captain (Hoa Xuande), a communist operative working as a mole in South Vietnam’s army who winds up fleeing to the U.S. alongside the General (Toan Le) he putatively works for. Ultimately landing in California, the Captain remains embedded in a South Vietnamese refugee community whom he monitors and reports on to the Viet Cong.

Netflix’s Production of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a Bold Showcase of Latin American Culture

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” 

With these haunting words, acclaimed as one of the best opening lines in literature, Gabriel García Márquez introduces readers to the enchanting world of Macondo in his celebrated novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Now, after a decade since the passing of the Nobel laureate,

The First Teaser for “Dune: Prophecy” Unveils the Powers That Shaped the Dune Universe

The first teaser for Max’s Dune: Prophecy has landed, taking us back 10,000 years before the events depicted in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films and centered on two Harkonnen sisters fighting against dark forces who will eventually found the secretive, powerful sect called the Bene Gesserit. Prophecy will offer lovers of both Villeneuve’s astonishing two-part epic and Frank Herbert’s novels a look at how the combative, fragile intergalactic community present during the rise of Paul Atreides (played in the films,

Reimagining Korea’s Dynamic Film & TV Industry With Wow Point Executive Producer Yoomin Hailey Yang

Wow Point CEO and executive producer Yoomin Hailey Yang is blazing a trail for young female producers in the Korean film and TV industry.

After stints working with Korean broadcaster MBC and agency-producer BH Entertainment, she co-founded Wow Point with leading Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho (Train To Busan, Peninsula) in 2021. The Seoul-based company has launched two series on Netflix so far this year: Parasyte: The Grey,

“House of the Dragon” Season 2 Trailer Finds House Targaryen Careening Toward a Civil War

The House of the Dragon season 2 trailer has arrived, and boy, things are getting ugly in House Targaryen.

Season 2 will find Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) and her father, Ser Otto Hightower (Rhys Ifans), dealing with the aftermath of the death of King Viserys (Paddy Considine). Season 1 chronicled the end of the peaceful King’s rule as his health deteriorated and his house was rife with rumor, intrigue, and murder.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 2 Trailer Reveals Sauron in the Flesh

“An evil, ancient and power, has returned!”

These words are how the first trailer for season 2 of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power begins, with our ragtag band of Middle-earth heroes facing the legendarily malevolent entity known as Sauron.

This first look at season 2 reveals Sauron in the flesh for the first time in the series. Played by Charlie Vickers, this iteration of Sauron can blend in among the regular folk of Middle-earth,

Nicolas Cage set to Star in Live-Action Spider-Man Noir Series

Nicolas Cage is slipping on Spider-Man Noir’s trenchcoat in a live-action series at MGM+ and Amazon Prime called Noir.

Cage is reprising his role from the Oscar-winning animated sensation Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, only this time he’ll get to literally flesh out his character. The announcement was made ahead of Amazon’s upfront presentation to advertisers on Tuesday in New York.

“Expanding the Marvel universe with ‘Noir’ is a uniquely special opportunity,

“Game of Thrones” Spinoff “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Nabs “Black Mirror” Director

One of the most beloved episodes of Black Mirror is, without question, “San Junipero,” and now its helmer, Owen Harris, has been tapped to board one of HBO’s biggest productions.

Harris is joining HBO’s next Game of Thrones spinoff, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, only the second spinoff series that will have made it to air—House of the Dragon was the first—and now it has a stellar director in Harris,

“House of the Dragon” Season 2 Timeline Revealed

Leave it to Lord Corlys to clue us in on House of the Dragon‘s season 2 timeline.

Actor Steve Toussaint, who plays Lord Corlys, aka “The Sea Snake,” gave us a major clue regarding the timeline for season 2 of House of the Dragon during a panel at CCXP. Toussaint revealed that season 2 will begin a mere 10 days after the end of season 1. This is intriguing news for a series that ambitiously took a massive time jump in season 1,

“Blade Runner 2099” Adds Michelle Yeoh to Cast in Leading Role

Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 just got a major talent upgrade.

Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast in a lead role, adding a major star to one of TV’s most mysterious, exciting new projects. Yeoh joins a limited series that comes from showrunner Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) and is executive-produced by original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott. The Blade Runner 2099 team also includes director Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun),

Jake Gyllenhaal is Caught in a Deadly Affair in “Presumed Innocent” Trailer

Jake Gyllenhaal is in some serious trouble in the first trailer for Apple TV+’s new limited series Presumed Innocent. 

Gyllenhaal stars as Rusty Sabich, a chief deputy prosecutor in Chicago’s Prosecuting Attorney’s office who has all the trappings of a successful, highly well-adjusted life: an important job, a loving wife, Barbara (played by Ruth Negga), and a family. But Sabich finds himself irresistibly drawn to his colleague, Carolyn (Renate Reinsve). The trailer sets the stage for what happens next—once Rusty and Carolyn begin an affair,

“Shōgun” Stunt Coordinator Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle on Lady Mariko’s Last Stand

In part one of our conversation with Shōgun’s stunt coordinator and second unit director, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, he shared details about the extensive choreography training for the cast and what made Lord Toranaga’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) fighting style distinctive. Now, we turn toward Toranaga’s two allies, the “Anjin,” English sailor John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), and the woman Toranaga tasks with acting as Blackthorne’s translator, Lady Mariko (Anna Sawai).

When an assassin breaks into Blackthorne’s house to kill him in episode 2,

Carrie Coon Confirms “The White Lotus” Season 3 is About Death

Mike White’s The White Lotus season 3 will once again skewer the clueless rich as the first two seasons did with such gleeful precision, but it’s being built around a single theme just as seasons one and two did. This isn’t just pure speculation; it comes from season 3 cast member Carrie Coon, who will be one of the tourists idling away at the White Lotus in Thailand.

White’s anthology series has depicted both the staff and the guests of the titular White Lotus resort—Hawaii in season 1 and Sicily in season 2—with most of the guests falling somewhere on the Extreme Bozo end of the rich and entitled spectrum.

“Let It Be” Trailer Reveals the Fully Restored 1970 Film After a 50 Year Wait

The first trailer for the fully restored “Let It Be” has arrived.

Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original 1970 film about The Beatles has been meticulously restored by Peter Jackson, following Jackson’s deep dive docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, which was released on Disney+ in 2021. Let It Be will arrive on Disney+ on May 8, marking the first time it’s been available in over 50 years.

Let It Be was first released at a tumultuous time,

The Samurai Sword and the Flaming Arrow: Inside the Stunts of “Shōgun” – Part One

It has been a very busy year for stunt coordinator Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle. Not only is he on one of this season’s most-watched scripted series on broadcast—Tracker on CBS—he is also the second unit director on FX’s critically acclaimed hit, Shōgun. Still maintaining its 99% Rotten Tomatoes score after a 10-week run, the historical saga based on James Clavell’s bestselling novel is shaping up to be a frontrunner at the upcoming Emmy Awards.