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The popular Masterpiece mystery seriesMiss Scarlet and The Dukehas released a new teaser photo for the upcoming Season 2. Filming is currently taking place in Belgrade, Serbia with expectations of a 2022 season release on Masterpiece on PBS. Kate Phillips(The Crown, Peaky Blinders) andStuart Martin(Jamestown) reprise their roles as the titular characters Eliza Scarlet and William “The Duke” Wellington. The story continues with Scarlet, the first female detective of London, attempting to expand her private firm with the help of her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest Duke....

We’re hitting the streets of Los Angeles again with our blue and red lights, blaring sirens, and “Daddy Cop” on the radio as Season 8 ofThe Rookieis given delightful updates at this year’sSan Diego Comic-Con. The cop procedural is one of the most talked-about on TV at the moment, giving us iconic lines and an even more iconicwill-they-won’t-they romance in the form of Chenford. We started with a group of rookie cops stumbling their way around a police station and their TO’s shops, but now, the show has taken flight, quite literally, asSeason 8 kicks off in Pragueafter the rollercoaster of the Season 7 finale, where new villains are forced to work with our favorite L....

Medical shows are a dime a dozen on TV, butNetflix’s latest K-drama is already drawing in an audience.The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, directed byLee Do-yoonand written byChoi Tae-kang, was originally adapted from the animated web seriesTrauma Center: Golden Hour, and focuses on a hospital that, at least initially, functionally has no trauma department. When devilishly handsome trauma surgeon Baek Kang-hyuk (Ju Ji-hoon) arrives at the hospital, he is horrified to find out that doctors from all departments take turns being on-call for emergency surgeries....

In directorMark Mylod’s horror-comedy,The Menu, a group of people head to a remote island where the renowned Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes)is hosting an exclusive fine dining experience. Included in that group are Chef Slowik superfan Tyler, played byNicholas Hoult, and his +1,Anya Taylor-Joy’s Margot, who seems to be the only person suspicious of the tension at the start of the evening. In his interview with Collider’sPerri Nemiroff, Hoult dissects the finer qualities of his character and shares his own personal backstory for him....

Nintendo revealed onPokémon’s officialTwitteraccount the box art forPokémon Legends: Arceus, together with a release date for the open-worldPokémonRPG we’ve always dreamed about.Pokémon Legends: Arceuswill be available on the Nintendo Switch in January 2022, and preorders are already open. Pokémon Legends: Arceuswasrevealed last February, during the special streaming celebrating the 25th Anniversary of thePokémonfranchise. The game will be the first open-worldPokémongame ever made, allowing players to wander freely through a world filled with creatures you can capture in real-time....

Welcome back toTheCollider Pop Culture Review, in which Collider’s weekend editor Vinnie Mancuso wakes up only slightly hungover on a Saturday to rate the week’s biggest stories in film and television on a scale from 1 to 10. (1 is soul-crushingly bad, 10 is mind-blowingly incredible.) This week:Game of Thronesis going to end on a pants-shittingly large battle scene, Ridley Scott is working on aGladiatorsequel, Ewan McGregor has been cast asBirds of Prey’s Black Mask, and James Cameron will be makingAvatarfilms long after any of us are dead....

When it comes to great prison break movies, there are few more iconic thanPapillon, the 1973 classic that starredDustin HoffmanandSteve McQueen. WhileThe Shawshank Redemptionmay be a more emotional film andEscape From Alcatrazhas more exciting action,Papillonwas ahead of its time in how it depicted the grueling living conditions faced by men behind bars. AlthoughPapillonwas highly influential on the next several decades of prison films, it’s also a work of art that has shown its age, and does not hold up as well on repeated viewings compared toother classics from the New Hollywood era....

John Carpenterspent the last quarter of the 20th Century as one of the best directors in the game, but did you know that he got his start directing a sci-fi comedy with a beach ball in it? That’s right, Carpenter’s debut was 1974’sDark Star, a low-budget independent film about a crew of astronauts who fly around the galaxy and destroy dying planets. The film’s production was lengthy, but the four years spent on it gave Carpenter and co-writerDan O’Bannonplenty of room to hone their craft and shape them into the artists they would become....

Netflix has released the first official teaser forWake Up Dead Man, the third installment inRian Johnson’s whodunnit mystery series. Things have been eerily silent on theKnives Outfront sincea new image ofDaniel Craig’s Benoit Blancwas released earlier this year. This teaser may be brief, but it could mean that marketing forWake Up Dead Manis about to ramp up. Netflix has yet to announce an official release date for the film, but both previousKnives Outmovies were released during the holiday season, so it wouldn’t be a surprise to seeWake Up Dead Manbe assigned a release date between October and December, similar to its predecessors....

Things are moving steadily along for Disney+ seriesSecret Invasion, as the upcoming project has just nabbedThomas BezuchaandAli Selimto direct. The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news of the duo’s addition to the project which already has a stellar cast consisting ofSamuel L. Jackson, Olivia Colman, Emila Clarke, Kingsley Ben-AdirandBen Mendelsohn. With only four feature films in his directorial resume, Bezucha is mostly known for Christmas hitThe Family Stone, and more recently 2020’sLet Him GowithKevin CostnerandDiane Lane....

Lionsgate is working on an adaptation of a bestselling thriller novel, and they have tapped two of the biggest names in Hollywood to lead the project.Sydney SweeneyandAmanda Seyfriedare set to star in the studio’s adaptation ofThe Housemaid,based on the novel of the same name byFreida McFadden,according toDeadline.Lionsgate also has one of the best in the business behind the camera, asPaul Feig,no stranger to thrillers, is set to direct the film....

Netflix has officially announced the premiere date forThe PunisherSeason 2 in a new announcement trailer that isvery intense. Now, we kinda already knew what the date was earlier this week when some of Netflix’s international accountsspilled the beanson Twitter, in Tweets that were later deleted. But now we can officially confirm that we will see the return ofJon Bernthal’s Frank Castle on Friday, January 18th. (Butwhen will Netflix cancel it?)...

Hollywood churns out one disaster movie after the next and while many are entertaining enough, few prove to be more than quick thrills and box office cash grabs. However, Norway just gave the genre its first shot and directorRoar Uthaugabsolutely obliterates the big budget studio competition. The Waveis set in Geiranger, a small tourist town just below Åkerneset, an unstable mountain that is truly expected to collapse one day and destroy the village with an enormous tidal wave....