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“Bullet Train” is maintaining the top slot at the box office this weekend, fending off newcomers “Fall” and “Mack and Rita,” as well as the expanding slasher-comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies.”

Sony’s Brad Pitt action vehicle added 3.865 million on Friday. The film remains the widest release in the country with 4,357 locations. The studio is projecting a 13 million gross for the sophomore outing, which would mark a fairly solid 56 drop from its opening last weekend.

“Bullet Train” is expected to expand its domestic cume to 54 million through Sunday. The adaptation of Kōtarō Isaka’s crime novel of the same name carries a 90 million production budget — hefty for a prospective blockbuster outside of a franchise. With an August slate that’s light on high-profile new releases, Sony is hoping for “Bullet Train” to leg it out and draw in a solid gross over the month.

From there, it becomes a much tighter race between steady holdovers.

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Incoming Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa won’t have to wait too long until he’s given the keys to the Tardis.

The Hollywood Reporter understands that the Sex Education star will begin filming the next season of Doctor Who — the 14th since its 2005 revival and his first as the famed Time Lord — for the BBC this November.

Unveiled by returning showrunner Russell T. Davies in May, Gatwa takes over from Jodie Whittaker, whose four-year stint as the Thirteenth Doctor is due to come to an end in a special episode broadcasting this October as part of the BBC Centenary celebrations.

At least one more special episode is due to be broadcast in late 2023 to mark the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who (THR understands there may be as many as three episodes), with previous Time Lord David Tennant returning to reprise his role.

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For those of us not driven by the pathological impulses that propel criminals to perpetuate some of the most heinous atrocities, the fascination for True-Crime Documentaries is quite understandable. It's the only way we can take a journey into their dark souls and attempt to decipher how their mind works. The intrigue of watching law enforcement investigate these crimes adds another layer of suspense, throw in some sly storytelling tricks and a cliffhanger somewhere, and you have yourself another addictive genre. While it's true that Netflix has got a larger repertoire of true crime originals, Hulu isn't doing too badly. Here are some of the Best True-Crime Documentaries you’ll find on Hulu.

Composer Natalie Holt’s work for Marvel Studios’ Loki Season 1 has been nothing short of exceptional, and she has been nominated twice for this year’s Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score) and Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music category for it. In a recent chat with Discussing Film, she reveals her collaborative process and how the score for Season 2 is already coming along.

Musicians turning to film is nothing new, but every few years, there's a new crop of talented musicians turning their skills towards the film industry. There have been countless musicians turned actors, like Ice Cube, Mark Whalberg or Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez and Madonna, and legendary stars, like Prince, Bowie, Cher, and the late great Olivia Newton-John. They would release numerous hits before starring in the beloved musical, Grease (1978).

Ever since SAG-AFTRA opened its membership to intimacy coordinators in July, the film industry has been ripe with discourse about what the position contributes to a film set. For the most part, actors have overwhelmingly praised intimacy coordinators for making sex scenes easier and safer to film. But “Game of Thrones” alum Sean Bean recently made waves when he slammed the idea of working with one, saying it would ruin the spontaneity that’s necessary for a good sex scene.

“I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it. Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word. It would spoil the spontaneity,” Bean said. “I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.”

Emma Thompson disagrees.

The actress, who recently earned strong reviews for her sex-positive performance in Sophie Hyde’s film “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,

After a four-season run ahead of their fifth and final, Netflix's Stranger Things creators, Matt and Ross Duffer have no doubt built up a world of meaningful characters. From the very beginning, audiences have watched each one of the main cast experience the adventures and dangers together, watching as they develop their arcs, all leading up to whatever is waiting for them over Season 5's threshold. In an interview with IndieWire, the brothers claim that while their many lovable side characters have been wholeheartedly embraced by fans, going forward the writers of Stranger Things will be refraining from introducing new faces.

Board up the haunted houses and keep your creepy woods: In the modern age, there’s simply no place more terrifying than the internet.

Since even before the days of the Sandra Bullock-starring “The Net” from 1995, cyberspace has provided a compelling backdrop to countless horror, thriller, and suspense films. Some are rooted in science fiction, while others employ the supernatural. The eerie expanse of the web provides for it all and is made infinitely more interesting by the spooky implications of an unseen world that millions of users don’t actually understand.

Found footage flicks are among some of the first scary internet movies to come to mind, with cheeky titles like “Unfriended,” “Followers,” and even “#Horror” bringing a knowing goofiness to the conceit of computer screen films. “Searching” and “Host” garnered newfound appreciation for the format, integrating smart authenticity into their design and direction. Meanwhile, movies like “Spree

Even by the standards of edgy high school television shows, Euphoria is on the cutting edge of showing the dark side of youth culture. And one of the show's main signatures is its setting in a high school, though very few students in the school even bother to bring, say, notebooks or book bags, the backdrop has proven to be an anchor in the series.

Although it’s been almost two weeks since Batgirl’s shocking cancellation, DC fans are still recovering from that disheartening news. With every new behind-the-scenes image or plot detail shared by the likes of star Leslie Grace or directors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi, the film’s fate only gets harder to swallow. There were a lot of things to get excited about when it came to Batgirl, but one of the lesser known tidbits was that Loki composer Natalie Holt was doing the score for the film. Now Holt has broken her silence over the film’s cancellation.

After the Season 2 finale of The Morning Show fans were left wanting more. In its course of two seasons, the Apple+ series has tickled us and tackled grave themes ranging from exploitation of power and sexual assault to Covid and cancel culture all the while giving us characters that we really care for. While the plot details about Season 3 are tightly under wraps, actor Reese Witherspoon has shed some light on new character dynamics and the show’s latest addition Jon Hamm.

In a soon-to-be 7-film action franchise like Mission: Impossible, it's nearly impossible to not have a few sports car causalities along the way. During episode 201 of the M:i-devoted Light the Fuse podcast, star Maggie Q who plays field agent Zhen Lei in Mission: Impossible III, admits that during filming she managed to do just that. In a frightening stunt-gone-wrong scenario, the actress tells a memorable but harrowing story of how she crashed an Italian sports car due to a wardrobe malfunction.

While it may seem simple to depict stand-up comedy on screen — simply point the camera at the subject telling jokes, and you’re home free — a truly satisfying series about the ins and outs of both live comedy performance and the life of a stand-up is a rare find. Often, the stand-up on screen must be genuinely funny (an audience of people laughing won’t save the scene from that), or, alternatively, both the jokes themselves and the camera must reflect where the character is at during that point in their lives or in their stand-up career. However, there are a few television series that do all of the above, and also manage to make us root for their protagonists the whole way through. From slapstick '90s sitcoms like Seinfeld to more recent, moodier dark comedies like Hacks, the following titles are exceptional in their depiction of stand-up comedy.

Few upcoming shows have higher expectations attached to them than “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Amazon’s upcoming fantasy epic isn’t just the most expensive television show ever produced, it’s also based on one of the most popular book series of all time. On top of that, Peter Jackson’s first trilogy of “Lord of the Rings” movies set the standard for fantasy filmmaking, so “The Rings of Power” will inevitably be compared to that as well.

That’s a lot of pressure for showrunners Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne. They’re dealing with the high expectations by placing all of their trust in J. R.R. Tolkien, focusing on making the show as true to the books as possible. When a reporter at the Television Critic Association’s press tour on Friday noted that the show was “vaguely connected” to Tolkien’s books, the

If you’re a fan of Prime Video’s The Boys, you’re likely no stranger to having your jaw drop to the floor several times during each and every episode. From shocking reveals to major deaths and even affairs with sea creatures, those penning the production know how to keep audiences guessing. During the show’s latest third season, one Supe, in particular, had a short, but noteworthy character arc. The tiny man in question? That would be Termite. And in a post made by the show’s Twitter account, fans got to see some of what went into making the little guy’s big scene one of the most talked about moments of the season.

Mack & Rita is a comedy film that serves an updated version of a story we have previously seen in films such as Big and 13 Going on 30. The movie focuses on Mack Martin, a 30-year-old writer who rarely seems to leave her house until she is persuaded to embark on a trip to Palm Springs for her best friend's bachelorette party. While there, she attends a past life regression ceremony and is magically transformed into her future self, 70-year-old "Aunt Rita". Free to truly be herself, Mack seems to finally live a life free of limitations and fear, sparking a rollercoaster ride of romance, fun, and adventure.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has concluded that the firearm that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust” could not have fired “without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional.”

According to an FBI reported obtained by ABC News, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger.” Alec Baldwin, the star and producer of the Western, was holding the firearm at the time of the incident last October. Baldwin has stated that he was under the impression that he was holding a “cold gun” — one without live ammunition. The live round killed Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza.

The FBI’s conclusion does not align with Baldwin’s previous statements regarding the tragedy. The actor has maintained that he believes that he did not pull the trigger on the gun prior to it firing.

“The trigger wasn’t pulled,

In 1976, a young director set out to make a rock music take on the Wizard of Oz. John Safran speaks to those behind Oz: A Rock’n’Roll Road Movie about everything that went wrong

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Before the ABC ran commercials for Q&a and Bananas in Pyjamas between shows, they ran meditative interludes – waves crashing against rocks, hot air balloons drifting through the clouds, that sort of thing. This is how the director of Oz: A Rock’n’Roll Road Movie, Chris Löfvén, got his start. At 14 years old, he darted around Melbourne with his 16mm camera, licked a stamp and posted the footage to the television station. They liked it and ran it.

Chris’s first job out of high school was working for director Fred Schepisi (who’d go on to make The Devil’s Playground and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree - for a film with a title involving multiverses, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness sure explores its fair share of different realities. The majority of universes appear in the brief scene where Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez) tumble through the multiverse, with major hints of possible universes to be visited in the future.

From Halloween to prom, is there any other event that sounds perfectly fitting for a high school setting with a thriller twist? The answer is yes, and having a carnival in Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin not only enables more lies to be uncovered, but yet the presence of another iconic horror-like chase. In this chapter, we get to know more about Mouse's (Malia Pyles) dark past and fill in all the blanks about her odd habit of connecting with people that have missing children. Not only that, but Imogen (Bailee Madison) and Tabby's (Chandler Kinney) sexual assault experiences could be an even more important story to tell with Tabby's film project. These and other important moments for the main ensemble are showcased in Episode 7.