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Donald Glover ‘s multi-Emmy Award-winning show  Atlanta has been renewed for a fourth season at FX, long before its third season even arrives on the cable channel. The series – a comedy/drama hybrid which was compared to Twin Peaks in the lead-up to its premiere but is actually unlike anything else on television – will now film both its third and fourth seasons starting this spring. TVLine brings news about the Atlanta season 4 renewal, and the fact that production on seasons 3 and 4 will commence in the spring. It’s unclear if the seasons will be shot simultaneously or back-to-back, but perhaps it will be a combination of both, like how the Russo brothers shot Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame . Both the third and fourth seasons will consist of eight episodes each. The first season was made up of ten episodes, while season 2 had eleven. I’m glad to see Glover and his collaborators take a “less is more” approach here, because Atlanta ‘s unique tone seems like it...

There’s more trouble brewing in the Fast and Furious family. Michelle Rodriguez , who plays Letty, has voiced her displeasure with the way the franchise has treated its female characters in the past, though she seemed to resolve that dispute earlier this year . But now she’s taken to Twitter to dismiss the contributions of writer/producer Chris Morgan , who has been the architect of the Fast franchise since 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift . Specifically, Rodriguez says that Morgan has nothing to do with the “Justice for Han” narrative. Take a look at her comment below. I’ve been around since the beginning way before Chris Morgan came along & he has absolutely nothing to do with where this narrative is or where it’s going FYI ? Hobbs and Shaw writer promises that justice for Han is coming | https://t.co/B3ZbIZ5vot https://t.co/6u2oDTec5U — Michelle Rodriguez (@MRodOfficial) August 6, 2019 There’s so much to dig into there, but let’s start with a quick recap ...

Director Paul W.S. Anderson arrived on the scene by directing the awesomely bad adaptation of the popular video game Mortal Kombat . But after that, he directed what might be the best movie of his career: the sci-fi horror film Event Horizon starring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson, Richard T. Jones and more. Now that movie is poised to become a new series from from Amazon and Paramount Television. Variety has word on the Event Horizon TV series in the works with Adam Wingard slated to executive produce and direct. Wingard is coming off working on the blockbuster monster sequel Godzilla vs. Kong , but he also previously helmed horror and thrillers like The Guest, Blair Witch , and You’re Next , so he’s no stranger to genre filmmaking. So what’s Event Horizon about? Here’s the official synopsis: When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Acc...

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is now in theaters and it is a bonkers action movie that brings the street racing franchise into soft sci-fi territory and a step closer to their inevitable movie set in space . Who would have thought back in the early 2000s that a franchise that started with petty criminals and street racing would one day introduce superhuman cybernetics and a programmable virus? With the franchise’s first spin-off (unless you count Tokyo Drift ) feeling like such a departure from the early years of the Fast & Furious movies, let’s take a scroll down memory lane to see how we got here. The Fast and the Furious (2001) Remember when the Fast & Furious franchise was little more than a rip-off of the 1991 bro-tastic Point Brake , only with muscle cars instead of surfboards? Neither does anyone working in the Fast & Furious franchise, apparently. Anyway, this one follows LAPD cop Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker) who goes undercover in the...

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Though a lot of indie glory goes to studios like A24 and Annapurna Pictures, the indie distributor Bleecker Street has their fair share of gems:  Beasts of No Nation, Captain Fantastic, Paterson, Logan Lucky and more. Now their movies will be much more accessible to audiences thanks to an multi-year exclusive streaming deal they’ve just finalized with Hulu for their upcoming theatrical releases. Find out some of the Bleecker Street movies included in the Hulu deal below. The Hollywood Reporter has word on the deal Hulu landed to exclusively stream Bleecker Street movies for the next few years. This comes after the distributor previously had a licensing agreement with Amazon that began in 2014. So while we don’t know exactly how long this new agreement will last, we can assume it will be roughly four years. The deal will include some of Bleecker Street’s early 2019 releases, including the thriller Hotel Mumbai starring Armie Hammer and Dev Patel, as well as music industry dr...

ABC announced to the Television Critics Association that it would air The Wonderful World of Disney Presents: The Little Mermaid Live on November 5. This isn’t exactly a live musical like Grease: Live or the ill-fated Rent: Live . There is a Broadway musical of The Little Mermaid , but this is not a production of that.  Director and executive producer Hamish Hamilton explained how he’s going to present The Little Mermaid as part of The Wonderful World of Disney . Auli’i Cravalho will play Ariel, Shaggy will play Sebastian, and Queen Latifah will play Ursula. Here’s what we learned. The Animated Feature Will Be Part of It The Little Mermaid Live will include an airing of the 1989 classic The Little Mermaid . Fans will be invited to the Disney lot to see the film projected and folks at home will begin watching the film. “We’re celebrating this incredible animated feature, and we’re gonna do it on the Disney lot,” Hamilton said. “We’re going to do it live to air in f...

Jordan Vogt-Roberts , the director of 2017’s Kong: Skull Island , is stepping into another existing universe. He’ll direct AMC’s third Walking Dead series, the untitled spin-off which will follow members of a separate civilization which survived the zombie apocalypse – specifically, a group of young people who grew up in the relative safety of a walled community . Read on for more information about the upcoming spin-off, including its newly-announced star. Deadline reports that Jordan Vogt-Roberts will be behind the camera directing this new show, which was co-created by Scott M. Gimple (the overseer of the entire Walking Dead universe) and  The Walking Dead  writer/producer Matt Negrete , who’s on board as this new series’ showrunner. Vogt-Roberts, who has also directed the excellent indie film The Kings of Summer and episodes of You’re the Worst , has been hoping to make a Metal Gear Solid film for years; we’ll have to continue to patiently wait and see if that pro...

Spoiler alert: It’s about family. And that’s it? We can end this article there, right? Okay. We’ll go beyond that. When taking about Hobbs and Shaw , the latest film in the Fast and Furious saga, it helps to step back a bit when reflecting on the ridiculousness of the first spin-off from what I’ve dubbed the Fast and Furii (I’ll keep going ‘till it catches on, dammit). And here’s your real spoiler warning : all plot points are on the table from here on out. First Gear The summer of 2001 was a simpler time, where the core idea of an automotive Point Break was meant to amuse viewers. The role of the undercover cop was bestowed upon Paul Walker, with Timothy Olyphant tasked to play Toretto. Olyphant bailed, and the producers gave Vin Diesel the role. It was a pre-9/11 world, and summer audiences just wanted to see cars race and Walkers ride. Rob Cohen’s film is exactly what you’d expect – near pornographic shots of feet (take that, QT) slamming into car pedals, the vrooming of...