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Tye Sheridansegued into blockbuster fair with this year’sX-Men: Apocalypse, and he’ll soon be seen headlining the adaptation ofReady Player Onefor directorSteven Spielberg. But he’s still keeping up appearances as the indie darling that he is. He can now be seen in the trailer forDetour, which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. Christopher Smith, whose feature film directorial debut was 2004’sCreep, wrote and directedDetour. In it, Sheridan plays a law student, Harper, consumed with suspicion over his stepfather (Stephen Moyerfrom HBO’sTrue Blood), whom he believes to have been involved with his mother’s nearly fatal car crash....

[Editor’s Note: Spoilers ahead forEternals] Chloe Zhao’sEternalsintroduces a new team of superheroes only to break them apart. By the time the film is over, Ajak (Salma Hayek), Gilgamesh (Don Lee), and Ikaris (Richard Madden) are dead. Thena (Angelina Jolie), Druig (Barry Keoghan), and Makkari (Lauren Ridloff) have left on their spaceship Domo to tell the truth to the other Eternals—that they’re synthetic beings created to ensure population growth so that seeds of Celestials can sprout, destroy the planet that harvested them, and create new galaxies, essentially trading billions of lives on a planet for billions more....

A more diverse and inclusive reboot of the 1991 comedyFather of the Brideis in development at Warner Bros., multiple sources have told Collider. Matt Lopezhas been tapped to write the script, and he has plenty of experience writing family films, with credits including theAdam SandlervehicleBedtime Stories, as well asRace to Witch MountainandThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Father of the Bridewas, itself, a remake of the 1950 film of the same name starringSpencer TracyandElizabeth Taylor....

We can never get too much Godzilla, as the worldwide box office is proving right now after the superb success ofGodzilla Minus One, as well as the continued financial boons provided byLegendary’s Monsterversefilms. The spin-off series of those,Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, has been a smash hit for Apple TV+ and Collider is thrilled to be partnering with Apple TV+ to bring our readers an exclusive sneak peek from Episode 6 of the show, entitled “Terrifying Miracles....

InThis Week in Animation News, I’ll take a look at the previous week in the world of animation in order to get you caught up on everything you might have missed. It’s your one-stop shop for news regarding cartoons, anime, and animated web series. We’re talking movies, TV shows, digital shorts, and everything in between! For the latest animation stories we’ve already covered on the site this week, take a look at the following links....

In brightest day, in blackest night, an expensive new HBO Max series will be green lit … That’s how the Green Lantern oath goes, right? Because HBO Max has, in fact, green lit a newGreen Lanternseries, this one hailing from co-writers and executive producersMarc GuggenheimandSeth Grahame-Smith(Grahame-Smith will also serve as showrunner),according to Variety. While the project was announced as beingin development in 2019, HBO Max has firmly committed and a plot synopsis has been revealed (again via Variety): “The show will depict the adventures of a multitude of Lanterns, including Guy Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz and Alan Scott — Earth’s first Green Lantern, who, true to the comics, is a gay man — and many more....

Alexis Bledel, who plays one of the central characters of Hulu’s adaptation ofTheHandmaid’s Tale, has announced that she will not be returning for season 5,Varietyreports. After four seasons, the star amicably parts ways with the show and her co-stars. It’s time we say a fond “Under His Eye” to Bledel. For her role as Emily/Ofglen in Hulu’s series adaptation ofMargaret Atwood’s influential and frighteningly relevant novel, Bledel was nominated for four Emmy nominations and won an Emmy for outstanding guest actress....

HBO shows are mostly known for leaving the audience affected by their character-driven narratives. Butthe network’s most devastating miniseriesis the starkest example, as it tells a very compelling — and real — story in which the focus isn’t on the characters at all, but rather on a catastrophic event.The 2019 miniseriesChernobyl, created byCraig Mazin, follows the events and the aftermath of the infamous nuclear incident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, tracking main character Valery Legasov (Jarred Harris) as he’s forced to navigate the inescapable bureaucracy of the Soviet government while investigating the causes of the incident and how to prevent it from happening again....

Although we’re in the dog days of summer, the spooky season is right around the corner. Because of that, companies like Funko and NECA have been preparing by rolling out their scary-good Halloween lineup. However, forhorrorfans, it’s not truly Halloween until you walk into aSpirit Halloweenfor the first time. The one-stop retailer for all things costumes,horror collectiblesand blood-soakedanimatronicsalways have their own batch of exclusive items. Now, just as the days are starting to get a bit shorter,Spirit Halloween has unleashed their Horror Movie Babies to warm your undead heart....

In the mood for a trip to the Old West? Then you should definitely check outRedeeming Love, a Western romance drama movie directed byD. J. Caruso(Standing Up,I am Number Four). Based on the novel of the same name byFrancine Rivers, the movie starsAbigail Cowen(Fate: The Winx Saga),Tom Lewis(A Discovery of Witches),Eric Dane(Euphoria), andLogan Marshall-Green(The Invitation), among others, and was written by Caruso and Rivers. Set during the California Gold Rush of 1850,Redeeming Loveis the story of Angel (Abigail Cowen), a young woman who falls in love for the first time but struggles to overcome her inner demons and the trauma of her past....

The enigma of comedy and how one becomes “funny” has long been an alluring curse for TV.30 Rockcame awfully close to grasping it but the humor of that show rarely emanated from the writing, direction, or production of the sketches.Studio 60 on the Sunset Stripattempted to get inside the mind of a comedy writer while also working as a behind-the-scenes workplace drama, butAaron Sorkin’s political appetite proved too large for the show to sustain convincingly....

We’re now a little over one month away from the release ofZack Snyder’s Justice Leagueon HBO Max – formerly known asThe Snyder Cut– and filmmakerZack Snyderhas opted to share a first look at what fans can expect fromJared Leto’s Joker in the movie. You may recall that The Joker did not appear in the theatrical cut ofJustice League, but Snyder pulled Leto back in to reprise hisSuicide Squadrolefor his director’s cutof the superhero team-up movie....

Up-and-coming actressJi-young Yoois set to joinNicole Kidmanin Amazon’s drama seriesExpats, which hails fromThe Farewellwriter-directorLulu Wang, Collider has exclusively learned. Expatsis based onJanice Y.K. Lee’s novelThe Expatriates, and the series is set against the fabric of Hong Kong, where an international community of expats find their lives bound together forever after a sudden family tragedy. Ji-young will play Mercy, a carefree New Yorker who becomes tangled up in the lives of the expat community in Hong Kong....