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Despite the efforts of a passionate social media campaign, Warrior Nun will not be renewed by Netflix for a third season. News of its cancelation comes as a devastating blow to the show's advocates, but not just because of the plethora of unresolved plot lines. 2022 has been full of disappointment for fans of shows with sapphic couples at their center. This year, fan-favorite queer-led stories like First Kill, Gentleman Jack, and The Wilds all met premature ends. The Owl House — a critically-acclaimed cartoon featuring several LGBTQ characters— aired its final full-length season and the first of three 44-minute specials that make up the entirety of Season 3, which was cut short when the series was canceled in its prime.

The holidays are upon us! Last week was the jolliest episode of Season 48 thus far, as comedy royalty Steve Martin and Martin Short hosted together. The two funnymen brought along their Only Murders in the Building co-star Selena Gomez as well as their A-game to Studio 8H for a very festive episode that featured a bloody parody of A Christmas Carol and a Father of the Bride reunion with the very grown-up Kieran Culkin. But this episode was filled with more tears than there were laughs, as it was announced that this would be veteran cast member Cecily Strong’s final show. Many were surprised when Strong, who has been with SNL for 11 years, wasn’t part of last season’s mass exodus. Considering many of the folks she started with, namely Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant, made Season 47 their last, being able to have Strong for the first half

Most people know Christmas as a time when families come together to drink eggnog and open presents, but it's also a time when film fans can watch many movies set on the holiday. These movies include plenty of comedies and dramas such as Miracle on 34th Street and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and plenty of action films such as Batman Returns and, of course, Die Hard. However, there are also various horror movies that fans of the genre can watch on Christmas, and one example is none other than 1974's Black Christmas. Shot in Canada and directed by the late American filmmaker Bob Clark, who would go on to direct 1986's A Christmas Story, this movie is set in an unnamed college in the US and follows several sorority sisters that are receiving increasingly obscene phone calls from a deranged maniac who plans to pick them off one-by-one. Despite being a Canadian film,

The era of reboots and revivals seems to be never-ending, and NBC has now gotten in on the action. The network has released a video showing off a first look at the upcoming series Night Court, a rebooted sequel of the iconic 1980s sitcom of the same name. The series will star Melissa Rauch as Judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the original series' protagonist, Judge Harry Stone (Harry Anderson).

James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” (Disney) fell short of (perhaps unrealistic) domestic opening expectations, by perhaps 50 million. For now, let’s defer judgment and focus on the director’s own history and the calendar rather than comparisons to past Marvel and “Star Wars” films.

Disney estimates the domestic weekend will come to 134 million, worldwide 435 million. This is phenomenal by any standards other than the franchises mentioned above. However, with an estimated cost of at least 400 million “The Way of Water” is a film that does not conform to standards.

The total for all films this weekend is an estimated 152 million. Last year, with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” opening to 260 million, that figure was 283 million. In 2019, when tickets cost 20 percent less, it was 248 million.

At 61 percent of 2019, our unadjusted four-week rolling average falls to 51 percent. That’s a horrible rate as we move into the all-important Christmas weeks.

Every time there is a Please Don't Destroy sketch, we know something chaotic is on the horizon. Whether it is the camera working overtime to make us sit on the edge of our seats or bringing us the most uncomfortable of situations, the comedy group loves to put fans in a moment where we worry about what is about to come out of their mouths. Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy love to bring mess to Saturday Night Live and with host Austin Butler, we weren't sure where this sketch was going.

Austin Butler really would have made his mother proud with how good he was at hosting Saturday Night Live with musical guest Lizzo. And don't worry, there were plenty of nods to the fact that Butler is, most likely, going to be nominated for an Academy Award for his work in the Baz Luhrmann film Elvis​​​​​ where Butler plays Elvis Presley. Including a commentary about his new "voice" in the monologue and a sketch called "Jewish Elvis" where Butler, dressed in drag, played an older woman in love with Jewish Elvis (Sarah Sherman).

History has a funny way of repeating itself. After nearly two decades of headlines about streaming services killing off DVD rental services, Netflix is once again delivering the deathblow to Blockbuster Video.

Last month, the streamer made the very ironic call to launch a new 10-episode series called "Blockbuster," embracing the idea of a throwback with a single-camera workplace comedy about the employees of the last Blockbuster video store. The concept turned heads for pretty obvious reasons: long before the era of 'Netflix & Chill,' Netflix was just a lowly DVD rental service being crushed by the cultural domination of Blockbuster Video. But overtime, they went from underdog to usurper and eventually, forced Blockbuster out of business. So making a chummy, lighthearted comedy about the company's destruction seemed a bit petty — but that's nothing compared to the latest update.

Per Variety, Netflix has decided not to renew "Blockbuster" for a second season.

Avatar: The Way of Water is taking the box office by storm as the highly anticipated and long-awaited follow-up to James Cameron's 2009 record-breaking success and it has already brought in 435 million in revenue for its opening weekend. One of the most exciting aspects of the original film's release 13 years ago was getting to experience the groundbreaking visuals in 3D, something that the sequel also gives movie-goers the chance to do. Even 13 years after the 3D hot period, the ability to see Pandora as close as possible still holds strong for many fans going to see The Way of Water as new projections made based on data from Comscore are pointing to an estimated 66 of the opening weekend sales came from 3D ticket sales.

Unlike many of his Japanese filmmaking peers such as Yasujirō Ozu and Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa often adapted Western literature in his films. That said, he was always sure to give them a Japanese reframing. He remade "Macbeth," "Hamlet," and "King Lear" as "Throne of Blood," "The Bad Sleep Well," and "Ran," respectively. However, "Throne" and "Ran" traded medieval Scotland/England for Feudal Japan while "The Bad Sleep Well" was about the 20th-century Japanese corporate world, not the Danish monarchy.

While Kurosawa was a student of Shakespeare, he didn't only trade in high-end literature. For "High and Low," he adapted the pulp detective novel "King's Ransom," moving the setting from Manhattan to Yokohama.

National Shoes executive Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) is disgusted by his colleagues' greed and apathy. He plans a leveraged buyout of the company, putting his life savings on the line. Unfortunately for Gondo, a kidnapper picks the

Although the first feature film to make use of CGI was 1973's Westworld and the first full-length CGI movie was 1995's Toy Story by Pixar, there is no doubt that there was a massive and impressive upgrade during the 2000s. Since then, these effects have successfully developed throughout the years, providing viewers with photorealistic visuals for audiences to immerse themselves in.

Every season, the Christmas episode of "Saturday Night Live" packs the late night sketch comedy series with holiday-themed laughs. Typically, there are some big guest stars who pop up just for the hell of it, but due to a big announcement just hours before the episode aired, the show hosted by "Elvis" star Austin Butler became somewhat of a bittersweet affair. "SNL" announced that Cecily Strong would be leaving the series after 11 seasons, and this episode marking the halfway point of the 48th season would be her last. 

As expected, "SNL" allowed Cecily Strong to say goodbye to the sketch comedy series that launched her career, including a proper heartfelt sendoff at the end. Unfortunately, the rest of the episode was rather uneventful and uneven, especially for a Christmas episode. Maybe the cast and crew were a little off their game due to the anticipation of Cecily Strong leaving the show.

Set 1200 years prior to the events of Netflix’s 2019 hit series The Witcher, showrunner Declan de Barra is taking fans back to a time when the elven world was in its golden era with The Witcher: Blood Origin. This four-part limited prequel series will explore all that transpires leading up to both the “Conjunction of Spheres,” and the first prototype Witcher within the extensive lore of author Andrzej Sapkowski’s multiverse of men, monsters, and elves.

Game shows are already hard but what if someone is cheating? On Saturday Night Live, host Austin Butler came onto the show talking about how shy he was as a kid but then showed us all how willing he was to poke fun at himself and just have a really good time on the sketch show. With musical guest Lizzo, the episode posed a lot of fascinating questions with its sketches. Like what would happen if you went on a game show and one of the other contestants was so good at it that you didn't even have a chance?

Gwendoline Christie has starred in some of Hollywood’s biggest franchises, including “Game of Thrones” and “Star Wars,” before being cast in “Wednesday.” But even she wasn’t immune to being intimidated by Tim Burton.

In a new interview with Wwd, Christie recalled being starstruck when she was asked to participate in Burton’s Netflix series.

“‘Tim Burton would like to speak to you about his latest project. It’s the Addams family,’” Christie recalled her agent telling her in a text. “And truly, I stopped and went silent. I’m fairly certain I atomized. And then by some mysterious force I came back together into something at least partially resembling a human being, and I had to just put the phone away and carry on. I didn’t even say anything for a little bit because I just had to process.”

She eventually did speak to the “Edward Scissorhands” director on a Zoom call,

From creator and executive producer Taylor Sheridan, Paramount+ series 1923 is a prequel that builds out more of the Dutton dynasty first established on-screen in Yellowstone. The show takes place after the events of the previous prequel, 1883, starring Tim McGraw as James Dutton and Faith Hill as Margaret Dutton, which chronicled the story of the family's journey West to settle in Montana and form the beginnings of what will become the Yellowstone Ranch. When 1923 begins, a new generation of the Dutton family has taken ownership of the Yellowstone — led by James' brother Jacob (Harrison Ford), his wife Cara (Helen Mirren), and James' surviving children, who are now running the ranch in his stead. That's all before they're confronted with the hardships of such events as Prohibition and the Great Depression — as well as competitors who are constantly looking to take over the land that the Duttons have firmly staked their claim on.

Today, comedy almost feels like a dying art. Big blockbuster comedy films are rare. Sitcoms have given way to HBO and Netflix drama and action series. And Saturday Night Live has seen its relevance wane now that Donald Trump isn’t the focal point. There was a time, however, when comedy reigned supreme. That was the case in the 1990s, when SNL was the water cooler show, and big names like Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey ruled the cinemas. Then there was Chris Farley.

"Batman Begins" proved that Christopher Nolan could helm a blockbuster and Christian Bale could be the star. Between their first two trips to Gotham City, they took a detour and worked together on a more modest film, "The Prestige," about two dueling magicians in Victorian London. Bale played magician Alfred Borden, opposite Hugh Jackman as Robert Angier.

One might think that since they'd already worked together, Nolan wrote the part with Bale in mind, but that wasn't the case. In fact, the director actually met with Jackman first. In a 2020 interview with Empire, Jackman said Nolan asked him which of the two lead roles he preferred. Jackman thought Angier was a better fit for him, so that's the part he got. Bale, on the other hand, had to lobby Nolan for the part of Borden. According to Nolan in a 2006 interview with IGN:

"Christian actually just called out of the blue.

Born in London and raised in Tokyo until the age of eight, Will Sharpe is half-Japanese, and half-British, and grew up that way. His exposure and growing up in two cultures influenced his acting, writing, directing, and comedy. He often incorporates the idiosyncrasies of both countries in his best works, such as Giri/Haji, and Flowers, a show he created, directed, and starred in and eventually gave him the recognition he deserved.

Google "quirky method actor" and it's a guarantee: you won't have to scroll too far down before seeing Nicolas Cage's name. Few actors have veered so wildly in their career choices or acting styles. One day he's the drunken, suicidal television writer in Leaving Las Vegas (a role that won him an Oscar); another day, he's chewing up and spitting out all the scenery as both hero and villain in John Woo's Face/Off. One minute Cage is playing it straight as a treasure hunter in the popular, PG-rated National Treasure series, then he's going feral in the bloody revenge movie Mandy. Cage is a Hollywood anomaly because while his talent is undisputable, his performances veer from great to terrible, sometimes both in the same film. What really makes him a star though is that he's, almost without exception, always entertaining.to watch.