‘Selma’ Director Ava DuVernay Strikes A Podcast Partnership With Spotify Ava DuVernaydirected the powerful drama about the famed march led by Martin Luther King Jr. inSelma, the eye-opening documentary13thabout the history of racial inequality in our prison system, and the harrowing story of five teens from Harlem falsely accused of a brutal attack inWhen They See Us. The filmmaker is also making huge waves inbuilding diversity behind the camerathrough her her nonprofit company ARRAY Alliance....

‘Sex Education’ Season 3 Trailer: The Students Of Moordale Are Back In Netflix’s Hit Series Season 3 of Netflix’s smashing British comedySex EducationpremieresSeptember 17, and we finally have a teaser for it. Playing like an advert for the school where the series is set, the teaser features the kids of Moordale Secondary School trying to convince others to enroll. As with most school projects, the enthusiasm is met with vastly different levels of interest....

‘Solo’ Box Office Means ‘Star Wars’ May Flee The Summer For The Foreseeable Future The box office performance ofSolo: A Star Wars Storyis so off-the-mark that it has Disney and Lucasfilm reconsidering its entireStar Warssummer release strategy. In a rare miss for Disney,Solounderperformed at the box office, raking in half as much as its spin-off film predecessor,Rogue One. Now, withSolostruggling to break even, Disney and Lucasfilm are at a crossroads. Do they continue releasingStar Warsmovies in the high-competition summer season?...

‘The Comedian’ Trailer: Robert De Niro Has Jokes, And They’re Not Very Good The comediesRobert De Nirohas made in recent years have left more than a little to be desired. Still, when news of De Niro playing a stand-up comedian in a new drama fromTaylor Hackfordsurfaced, I was hoping that we might get something akin to his darker turn in Martin Scorsese’sThe King of Comedy. But now that the first trailer for the film has arrived, it appears I might be slightly disappointed....

‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’ Gets New Release Date As ‘The One And Only Ivan’ Heads To Disney+ Disney has updated release plans for two of its upcoming titles.The Personal History of David Copperfieldwill now open in theaters onAugust 14whileThe One and Only Ivanis now headed directly to Disney+ a week later. These are just two more entries in the ever-shifting movie release landscape of 2020, the year that refuses to stop being so extra, as the kids say....

‘The Simpsons’ DVDs Have Been Discontinued The Simpsonshave finally become a victim of their own longevity. In 2001, the entire first season of the show was first released on DVD. Many fans – myself included – decided we wanted to have the entire series on our shelves. This continued for several years until the packaging changed changed with season 6. Fans complained because the series wouldn’t look uniform on their shelves and Fox offered an alternative....

‘The Simpsons’ Replaces Hank Azaria With Alex Désert As The Voice Of Carl In Season 32 Premiere Three years ago, Hari Kondabolu released a documentary calledThe Problem with Apu,which snowballed into a years-long discussion aboutThe Simpsonsand the racial stereotypes it may have perpetuated with a mostly white writer’s room and voice cast. Earlier this year, it resulted inHank Azariastepping down from voicing Apu to leave room for an actual Indian actor to voice the character....

‘The X-Files’ Guest Stars Include Robbie Amell And Lauren Ambrose The X-Filesis back in January, and in addition to returning stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, there are some new faces on the show. Among other additions, we now know thatRobbie Amell(The Flash) andLauren Ambrose(Six Feet Under) are suiting up as FBI agents for at least one episode of the six-episode event series.TV Linehas the report, with these character details:...

‘Wild’ Director Jean-Marc Vallée Will Direct Every Episode Of HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ Jean-Marc Valléeis pulling a Cary Fukunaga. TheDallas Buyers Clubdirector is set to direct all seven episodes of the HBO limited seriesBig Little Lies, which will reunite him with hisWildstarsReese WitherspoonandLaura Dern.Nicole Kidman,Shailene Woodley,Adam Scott, andZoë Kravitzalso star. More about the Jean-Marc ValléeBig Little Liesproject after the jump. In October we got word Valléein talksto helm the first episode “and maybe more” ofBig Little Lies, andTHRnow confirms he’s signed on to direct all seven episodes from scripts byDavid E....

As Demand Increases, Conditions Are Getting Worse For Hollywood Stunt Performers We’re approaching 2019, and Hollywood stunt performers are still some of the most under-appreciated workers in the entertainment industry. But the lack of recognition at the Academy Awards seems to be the least of their problems. With the increased demand for content comes an increased need for competent stunt people, and with many of them stretched thin, a new report says productions are cutting corners, resulting in dangerous working conditions and therefore more injuries and deaths for stunt people than in years past....

Ben Stiller Teaming With ‘Reality Bites’ Writer For Edith Wharton-Inspired Horror ‘The Mountain’ Ben Stilleris set to reunite withReality BiteswriterHelen Childressfor a new picture that couldn’t be more different from their last collaboration. The new project, titledThe Mountain, will be a period horror story based on characters fromEdith Wharton’s novelSummer. The movie marks a sharp change of pace for Stiller, whose past projects have been mostly comedies. In addition, it represents a return to writing for Childress, whoseReality Biteswas her first and last feature screenplay....

Contest: Win A ‘Winchester’ Poster Designed By Daniel Danger Confession time: I don’t handle ghost stories very well. I lost my damn mind duringThe Conjuring, and I still remember emerging into a dark and foggy street after seeing the firstParanormal Activityand being jumpy for a few hours. But I may have to psyche myself into seeingWinchester, the new horror film starringHelen MirrenandJason Clarke, when it comes out on Friday. In the meantime, we’re hosting a giveaway of prints of an alternate poster for the movie that was designed by celebrated artistDaniel Danger, who’s done some incredible work for companies like Mondo over the years....

Cool Stuff: ‘Star Wars’ Funko POPs Add More ‘Clone Wars’ Characters To The Mix Even thoughThe Clone Warsis one of the most successful spin-offs in theStar Warsfranchise, only recently has the series been given a wider swath of collectible merchandise with the rest of the saga. Out of hundreds of Funko POPs that have been released over the years, there have probably barely been a dozen of them, but that’s about to change....