Paul Ruddis heading back to Netflix. After turning in one of the best performances of his career inDuncan Jones’ Netflix filmMute, Rudd has now signed on to lead a fully fledged comedy series for the streaming service. The actor will star inLiving with Yourself, which will be directed byLittle Miss SunshineandBattle of the SexesfilmmakersJonathan DaytonandValerie Faris. The series will find Rudd playing two roles in a story that follows a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person....

After spending six years back in the world ofJ.R.R. Tolkeindeveloping, writing, and expandingThe Hobbitinto a trilogy of new films, directorPeter Jacksontook some much needed time off. However, with the concluding installmentThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armiesnow having been released two years ago, it appears that Jackson is ready to get back into filmmaking gear—albeit not as a director just yet. Jackson and hisHobbitscreenwriting team ofFran WalshandPhilippa Boyenswill co-write an adaptation of thePhilip ReevenovelMortal Engines....

Production design is a somewhat “hidden” element of filmmaking, but it’s one that far too many people take for granted. Everything you see on screen – the location, the sets, the vehicles, the props – were specifically crafted by the film’s production designer and art department, and for films likeInterstellarandThe Dark Knightthat design is an incredibly complicated and challenging process. But of course, that’s whyNathan Crowleyis one of the best in the business....

Quentin Tarantinopreviously made all of his movies with Harvey Weinstein, first at Miramax and then at The Weinstein Company. When it was revealed last month that Weinstein had been sexually assaulting women for decades and that he would be kicked out of his company, Tarantino decided to take his business elsewhere, which led to a bidding war among all the major studios except Disney (which doesn’t release R-rated movies). Now the bidding war is over and Deadline reports that Sony has emerged victorious....

Battlestar Galacticawas seen as a cheesy relic of the 1970s post-Star Warsscience fiction boom untilRonald D. Moorereimagined it for the 21st century in 2004. Now, there’s a movement afoot to revive the property once more - and Moore is interested in seeing how it plays out. In a conversation with Collider’sSteve WeintraubatSan Diego Comic-Con, Moore revealed he’s kept an eye on recent attempts to reboot the property, and was contacted by the writer spearheading the project:...

Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for the Rings of Power Season 2 finale. It was the moment so many of us were waiting for. After spending the bulk ofThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerSeason 2 apart — though never far from the other’s mind — Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Sauron (Charlie Vickers) finally came face to face for a climactic cliffside duel. The fight,which was teased in the Season 2 trailerand sent Haladriel shippers into a veritable flurry, was a lengthy sequence full of brilliant choreography and intense character moments for both Galadriel and Sauron, moments that have us already eagerly anticipating Season 3....

Horror enthusiast Rad Chad will soon have his revenge with the release ofScare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revengelater this week onShudder. The film follows up the horror streamer’s hit anthology series by inviting everyone to Chad’s funeral only to lock them up in a series of lethal games based on his favorite movies. The guests must use their wits and horror knowledge to get out of the funeral alive. Before taking everyone back to his horror emporium, Collider can exclusively reveal a new clip from the meta-horror comedy that shows a deadly and disgusting version of the classic party game beer pong....

Before Warner Bros. and Warner Animation Group’s new animated adventure-comedy,Smallfoot, opens in theaters this weekend, I sat down with directorKarey Kirkpatrick(Annie Award-winning director ofOver the Hedgeand Annie-nominee for the screenplays forChicken RunandJames and the Giant Peach) andDanny DeVitoto talk about the film.SmallfootstarsChanning Tatumas a yeti that sends his hidden village in the mountains into an uproar when he announces that the legend of the smallfoot (aka humans) is true. The film also features the voices ofJames Corden, Zendaya, Common, LeBron James, Gina Rodriguez,Yara Shahidi,Ely HenryandJimmy Tatro....

Last night onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,J.J. Abramsdropped a pretty major bit of news concertingStar Wars: The Force Awakens, and for the first time in I don’t know how long, it wasn’t just marketing drivel.As Entertainment Weekly reports, the director discussed meetingLin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the hugely popular musicalHamilton, after one of the performances of Miranda’s stage spectacular, and the two hit it off. Playfully, Miranda suggested that if Abrams needed some new music for the upcomingStar Warssequel, he’d love to do it....

Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 1. A running theme throughoutStranger Thingshas been the battle between good and evil. Taking influence from its various references and allusions —Lord of the Rings,Star Wars,Stephen King’s stories, and Marvel Comics — the Netflix series has pitted Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who is basically a superhero and is called one by her friends, against the various evil creatures of the Upside Down seeking to enter our world and take it over....

Need something new to watch this month? Summer is in full swing, but with the pandemic still underway, there’s not a summer blockbuster to be found. Fortunately, we’ve got streaming. While Netflix keeps jamming out new original movies, Amazon Prime Video has a lot of great old favorites hitting their streaming service in August 2020, along with a pair of last year’s best feel-good films, and one of this year’s most fascinatingly flawed releases....

We’re just a couple of weeks away from the start of Season 2 ofStar Trek: Discoveryso that sounds like a pretty good time to catch up with the cast of the CBS All Access show! After the events of Season 1, the large majority of the ensemble is in a better place. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is a Starfleet commander again, Tilly (Mary Wiseman) is accepted into officer training school, Saru (Doug Jones) becomes the very first Kelpien to be awarded the Starfleet Medal of Honor, L’Rell (Mary Chieffo) and Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) are off to reunify the Klingons and then, to top it all off, in comes the U....

Netflix has debuted the (very brief) first look at its upcoming animated series,The Cuphead Show!, based on the best-selling, notoriously punishing videogameCuphead(which first debuted in 2017). And while the clips don’t reveal a whole lot, the animation looks fabulous and seems to really capture the spirit and energy of the game, along with its 1930s squash-and-stretch cartoon aesthetic. The originalCupheadvideo game was based, in part, on the classic animation of theFleischer Brothers, who created, amongst other things, the highly popular and influentialBetty Boopcartoons....