Nothing is official until HBO confirms it, but Deadline is reporting that John Lithgow is in talks to play Dumbledore in the network’s upcoming Harry Potter reboot series scheduled to debut some time next year.
When FX renewed its English Teacher series for a second season last Friday, the network emphasized how the comedy was “one of the most critically acclaimed new shows of 2024.” Much of that acclaim came before Vulture’s extensive report published back in December detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by The English Teacher creator Brian Jordan Alvarez. And as Maureen Ryan points out in a new Salon piece, everything about the way FX is handling the situation feels equal parts grim and disheartening.
A24’s Heretic was one of last year’s more surprisingly fun (read: deranged) horror features, and it’s set to make its Max streaming debut on March 7th.
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DreamWorks’ plan to make a live-action How to Train Your Dragon adaptation has never sounded like a great idea, and the movie’s new trailer really makes it seem like the studio might have been better off keeping this franchise strictly animated. The film hits theaters on June 13th.
It is still kind of hard to believe that Amazon MGM is producing a live-action Masters of the Universe movie starring Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man and Jared Leto as Skeletor. But it’s true, and Deadine reports that Morena Baccarin (Deadpool) and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Vikings: Valhalla) have signed on to play The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull and Fisto, respectively.
It has been a good long while since Marvel debuted a villain with some real pizzaz to them, but the shots of Thunderbolts’ big bad turning people into shadows in the movie’s latest trailer looks promising as hell.
Though Fubo has always been a more streaming-focused service, the company announced today that it has plans to distribute its Fubo Sports linear network “on over-the-air (OTA) stations in more than 100 markets nationwide including major markets New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.”
