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Last Updated on February 3, 2025

With Stranger Things concluding in epic fashion this year, The Duffer Brothers (that’s Matt and Ross) are going to have to find a way to fill their time; after all, they’ve spent a decade on that show alone. With that, The Duffer Brothers have a couple of projects going on, one of which is The Boroughs, another project in development for Netflix. And while it might not be taking viewers to the Upside Down, it does share some qualities.

The Duffer Brothers turned up at the Next on Netflix event this week to not only promote Stranger Things but The Boroughs and Something Very Bad is Going to Happen, in which they will serve as executive producers. On these, Matt said, “Of the two projects, The Boroughs probably shares the most DNA with Stranger Things because it’s about a group of misfits who fight an otherworldly evil.

Netflix is set to break new ground in supernatural drama with “The Boroughs,” a unique series from the creators of “Stranger Things” that shifts the genre’s focus to older protagonists. Announced during the streaming platform’s 2025 content presentation, the show promises to blend horror and humor in a retirement community setting.

The series follows a group of senior residents who must band together to fight an otherworldly threat targeting their most valuable resource: time. Creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, with oversight from Matt and Ross Duffer, have crafted a premise that moves beyond traditional supernatural storytelling.

“This time our misfits are a little on the older side. They ride golf carts, not bikes,” Matt Duffer said, highlighting the show’s distinctive approach. The series will be set in a retirement community located in the New Mexico desert, offering a fresh perspective on supernatural drama.

An all-star cast anchors the project,...

When word of The Boroughs, a new series produced by Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers, first got out more than two years ago, the supernatural/horror drama was referred to as “Stranger Things at a retirement home.”

Netflix pushed back at that description and the link between the two shows. At the streamer’s Next on Netflix 2025 slate presentation Wednesday, the Duffers made the connection themselves, revealing for the first time that, like their Stranger Things counterparts, the characters in The Burroughs also will be battling “otherworldly evil.”

The Duffers made the comments while speaking about two upcoming series from their Upside Down Pictures, The Boroughs and Something Very Bad is Going to Happen.

“Of the two projects, The Boroughs probably shares the most DNA with Stranger Things because it’s about a group of misfits who fight an otherworldly evil,” Matt Duffer said. “Only unlike Stranger Things, it...

Kaia Gerber and Lewis Pullman might be in a new relationship!

Following her split from Austin Butler at the end of 2024, Kaia was spotted out for dinner with Lewis on his birthday and a source is calling them a “couple.”

The Lessons in Chemistry and Top Gun: Maverick actor was spotted celebrating his 32nd birthday with Kaia, 23, at Salazar restaurant on Wednesday night (January 29) in Los Angeles.

Also in attendance was Lewis‘ famous dad, Independence Day actor Bill Pullman.

So, what do we know about them?

Keep reading to find out more…

“They’ve been spending time together the last few weeks,” a source told People. “They’re a cute couple and very low-key.”

During the birthday outing, Kaia was seen holding onto Lewis‘ arm at one point.

Fans thought that Kaia was throwing shade at a different ex-boyfriend in an Instagram post last summer.

The Stranger Things team is once again teasing a colossal final season.

At Netflix’s Next on Netflix press event, creators the Duffer Brothers discussed the eagerly anticipated fifth season, which is debuting later this year and marks the first new episodes of the coming-of-age sci-fi hit in three years.

“We spent a full year filming this season,” Ross Duffer said. “By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty insane.”

Matt Duffer added, “At the same time, we think it’s our most personal story. It was super intense and emotional to film — for us and for our actors. We’ve been making this show together for almost 10 years. There was a lot of crying. There was so much crying. The show means so much to all of us,...

For the Duffer Brothers, the Next on Netflix 2025 event was a platform to discuss the end of their Emmy-winning global hit series “Stranger Things,” and the beginning of the next chapter of their partnership with the streaming service.

After the presentation began with a clip reel teasing how Season 4 villain Vecna and the Upside Down have invaded the characters’ hometown of Hawkins, Indiana, the filmmaking pair came onto the Egyptian Theatre stage in Hollywood to share some behind the scenes details about the show’s final season.

“This is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies,” said Ross Duffer. “At the same time, we think it’s our most personal story. It was super intense and emotional to film—for us and for our actors,” said Matt Duffer.

With both the introduction they received from Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, and their own presentation,...

After spending the last 10 years of their lives plotting and crafting Stranger Things, you can forgive Matt and Ross Duffer for getting teary-eyed while filming its final episodes. “There was a lot of crying,” Matt Duffer told journalists on Wednesday. “There was so much crying.”

The Duffers took part in the Next on Netflix event at The Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. The theme of the morning was “you’re not ready for what’s next,” and those in attendance saw a special sizzle reel of Stranger Things 5, which featured behind-the-scenes moments of actors like Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard on the set, plus quick clips from the final season.

“We spent a full year filming this season,” said Ross. “By the end, we’d captured over 650 hours of footage. So, needless to say, this is our biggest and most ambitious season yet. It’s like eight blockbuster movies. It’s pretty insane.

“Stranger Things” is nearing its end. With the fifth and final season set to be released sometime later this year, creators Matt and Ross Duffer (collectively known as the Duffer Brothers) are closing the book on the Hawkins, Indiana gang and their superpowered bestie. And at a Next on Netflix event in Los Angeles on Wednesday, they showed off the very first footage from the series.

The footage, described by Ross as “the world’s very first behind-the-scenes look” at “Stranger Things” Season 5, showcased our main characters going up against the villainous Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). Since this was behind-the-scenes footage, you also saw some guys in grey leotards that will probably be replaced by Demogorgons or some other creepy crawlies from the Upside Down. (The season is set in 1987.)

There was a heavy emphasis on Hawkins’ radio station Wsqk, with its lightning bolt logo (we can already see the...

The existential apocalypse of a Turkish literature professor gets an oblique and chilling study in “The Things You Kill.” On its surface, this disquieting diptych about male anxiety has the feel of, say, an Asghar Farhadi movie, a moral dilemma urging forth a thriller plot. But that’s precisely the sort of bait-and-switch Iranian writer/director Alireza Khatami is operating on here, until his tense and nightmarish film starts to resemble more something like David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” as directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Khatami (“Terrestrial Verses”), who lives in Canada, relocated the setting from Iran to Turkey to evade censorship in his native country — a censorship of patriarchal violence that the film itself also rings upon like a warning bell of a bleak future.

“The Things You Kill” ends with the same enigmatic line — “kill the light” — spoken by two very different people. One is borne from a dream,...

I've recently been on a disaster movie kick. Perhaps it's because everything seems a little bleak right now. Or perhaps I just needed something brainless to watch — disaster movies can be fun, but let's be honest: they're not exactly high art. As I went from one disaster movie to another, a curious theme began to arise. In addition to these films all following a similar set-up, in which we see famous landmarks and buildings completely obliterated by destruction, they also all seem to share a similar plot element: the hero/main character is almost always going through a divorce or separation, or already divorced from their spouse. And in almost every case, the impending disaster ends up rekindling that seemingly dead relationship.

This got me thinking: is there any sort of deeper meaning here? Speaking from experience, I can tell you the act of divorce can seem like world-ending event...

The late, great David Lynch obviously gave us so many wonderful films over the course of his career. I mean, the guy literally turned a failed ABC TV pilot with no surviving costumes or sets into a movie that some have hailed as the greatest film of the 21st century.

Probably one of his more underrated works was 1997’s Lost Highway, the film that dared to ask: what if O.J. Simpson was a saxophone-playing Bill Pullman, and he briefly had the ability to shape-shift? At the very least, it’s the only movie in history to use “Two Thumbs Down” from Siskel and Ebert as a selling point in its marketing campaign.

Lost Highway is especially notable for comedy fans, because it featured Richard Pryor’s final screen performance. Pryor plays Arnie, who owns the auto shop that employs Pete – the young man who may or may not be some...

The life of David Lynch has left a mark on Hollywood, especially for those who worked with the 4x Oscar-nominated writer and director.

Patricia Arquette, who starred in Lynch’s 1997 neo-noir thriller Lost Highway, mourned the filmmaker as she learned of the his death during an interview on Thursday, hours after he died at age 78.

“I was just at the Marrakech Film Festival, and the woman who ran it, Melita [Toscan du Plantier], she loves David and they’re good friends. We were talking about David, and then I called my friend Balthazar [Getty], who was in Lost Highway with me, and I was like, ‘We gotta go see David.’ And I tried to leave word for him. I was feeling like I needed to see David,” she said on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy. “David was really incredible. There’s nobody like him.”

In Lost Highway, co-written by Lynch and Barry Gifford, Arquette...

After nearly three years, “Severance”, one of 2022’s most celebrated shows, is finally returning. The critically acclaimed series, which explores the sci-fi extremes of work-life balance, begins its ten-episode second season on January 17. Patricia Arquette, who earned an Emmy nomination for her role as the calculating Harmony Cobel, returns to play the office manager who stalks her employees outside of the company. As the air date approaches, Arquette is excited, but reluctant to open up too much about what lies in store. “I don’t really carry characters with me, or I try very hard not to, but ‘Severance’ is different,” she told IndieWire.

“Whenever people ask me about playing Harmony Cobel or ‘Severance,’ this little thing comes into my mind and I just want to lie to them,” she said with a wry smile. “So, whatever I say, I wouldn’t count on it.”

One thing fans of the...

David Lynch—the visionary director of Twin Peaks and films such as Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet, and Inland Empire—has died. His family announced the filmmaker's death in a post on his official Facebook page, writing "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist,...

You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of movies and TV shows but ... Well, actually, just movies and TV shows.

For our purposes here, we're focusing on one of the greatest and most influential television series -- "The Twilight Zone." Hosted by Rod Serling, this anthology zipped with ease between the genres of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and thriller, and popularized tropes and concepts within each that have inspired writers for decades.

Almost 70 years after the first episode of "The Twilight Zone" aired, genre anthology series are still the rage, so much so that some of the most popular entries in the format are still running today. From wandering gamblers and killer portraits to monster crabs and White Christmases, we've found 15 series that are more than worthy of the dimension beyond.

Read more: The Twilight Zone's 7 Most Notable Episodes, Ranked

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Netflix is removing six of its own original shows and movies in February 2025. In the increasingly uncertain streaming landscape, many streaming services have removed their own originals from their libraries, for a variety of reasons. This includes low viewership, as was the case with Paramount+'s Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies and Disney+'s Willow. Other reasons include tax write-offs, as has been the case with many Max titles including the cancelled Batgirl movie, which had wrapped filming and was in post-production but was never released.

Netflix has also removed a number of original titles from its library, though the majority of these have been taken down because of the end of licensing agreements rather than viewership or financial issues. This includes the Netflix Marvel shows in the Defenders universe, including Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and The Punisher, which are now streaming on Disney+. Even though many shows and movies...

After decades of speculation, Mel Brooks is returning to make Spaceballs 2, and there are already a ton of exciting updates about the long-awaited comedy sequel. The original Spaceballs is writer/director Mel Brooks' parody of Star Wars and features Bill Pullman as the Han Solo-esque Lone Starr, John Candy as his sidekick Barf, and Rick Moranis as the villainous Dark Helmet. While the film was only a moderate success upon release, it soon became a cult hit thanks to its pitch-perfect sendup of the original Star Wars trilogy, picking apart its commercialism and silly sci-fi tropes.

Spaceballs itself teases a sequel dubbed Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money, but while fans hoped for a follow-up for over 3 decades, little news ever materialized. However, with director Mel Brooks returning for his TV series, History of the World, Part Two in 2023, hope was reignited that the comedy maven would...

Somehow, Dark Helmet has returned.

In 1987, MGM and Brooksfilms released a feature-length parody of the Star Wars movie trilogy that would become almost as enduring as its target with Spaceballs, a Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis and John Candy-starring send-up of science-fiction’s three biggest films. Since then, George Lucas revived the Star Wars franchise with a second trilogy, spun off the series with countless novels, comic books, TV shows and video games, sold Star Wars to Disney for a bajillion Space Bucks and watched as the franchise bloated into a behemoth of cash-in content and merchandising that would make Yogurt proud.

However, in the nearly 40 years since Mel Brooks produced, wrote, directed and starred in Spaceballs, the comedy icon has taken a break from following every branching path that the vast, multimedia Star Wars franchise has gone down. As such, when Josh Gad approached Brooks about giving Spaceballs a...

As each new year begins, folks celebrate, sometimes with great relief, the passage of time and the cultural highs that held us aloft. Looking back means not quite being ready to look forward, which helps explain the phenomenon of bad movies that plague theaters every January, a notorious dumping ground...

A long time ago in a galaxy not so far away, Mel Brooks blessed Star Wars fans with the ultimate parody… but he hasn’t kept up with the franchise since.

Josh Gad, who is developing a sequel to Brooks’ Spaceballs (1987), revealed that he had to explain the latest Star Wars installments when pitching his take on the follow-up to the beloved parody.

“Mel is incredibly involved,” he said on the Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast. “I’ll share a funny story that I haven’t yet shared. When we were pitching him the original conceit for what we wanted to do with the film, at the beginning he goes, ‘I’m just telling you now, I want you to really go into detail because I don’t know a lot about the new Star Wars films.’ And I said, ‘okay.'”

Gad said he pitched Brooks for “40 minutes,...

Few actors in Hollywood are as respected and admired as Denzel Washington. After getting his start in acting back in the late 1970s and having his first breakout role in the medical drama St. Elsewhere, in which he played Dr. Phillip Chandler on all six seasons, Washington has played a number of iconic characters in a variety acclaimed movies. Some of his most memorable early movies include Glory (1989), Malcolm X (1992), The Hurricane (1999), and, of course, Training Day (2001). In fact, he has been nominated for 10 Oscars so far, winning two, for Glory and Training Day.

Starting in the mid-2000s, a career shift occurred and Washington became something of an action star alongside his continued work in more dramatic productions such as 2002's Antwone Fisher, 2007's The Great Debaters, and 2012's Flight. This new phase of Washington's career could largely be considered to start with Man on Fire in 2004. A handful of years later,...

Over the years, Sandra Bullock has certainly become a versatile actress. Although she has tried her hand at many genres, her defining specialty has become rom-coms, simply because of how many times she has starred in one. While she has been a part of such films for years now, the first that pushed her into the romance genre was 1995’s While You Were Sleeping.

Sandra Bullock in a still from While You Were Sleeping (1995) | Credit: Hollywood Pictures

The film came at the right time, taking her from the success of Keanu Reeves’ Speed but showcasing her in a completely different light. While there is no denying that the film was extremely successful as a whole, one cannot help but wonder what motivated the actress to move from action to romance.

It would seem that there were a lot of secrets hidden behind the scenes, ranging from Bullock’s motivations to join the project,...

Netflix's 1992 may be a unique addition to the crime thriller genre, but viewers looking for something similar to watch have a long list of shows to choose from. Created by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Álex de la Iglesia, 1992 centers on two characters, Richi and Amparo, who form an unlikely alliance to solve a series of interconnected murder mysteries. However, the closer they get to catching the killer, the more they realize there is more to his motives than meets the eye.

1992's title comes from its past timeline, which adopts Seville Expo '92 as the primary trigger event that sets off a series of political and criminal upheavals in the future. Although the show adopts many well-worn tropes of the genre and struggles to etch its unique identity in the genre, it manages to conclude on a well-rounded note, barely leaving any plot threads hanging. Owing to this, many viewers...

Film Bridge International has added Sidhartha Mallya (“Mafia Wars”) to the cast of “Thrill Ride,” with production scheduled to commence in the U.K. during the first quarter of 2025.

The thriller, helmed by Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura from a script by Chad Law (“Lights Out”) and Christopher Jolley (“Granny Krampus”), follows a group of passengers trapped upside down on a roller coaster when a mysterious saboteur threatens to drop them to their deaths one by one. Mallya steps into the role of Trey.

During the American Film Market, Film Bridge International landed several distribution deals, with Volga Films taking Cis and Benelux territories, and Falcon Films securing the Middle East. Signature acquired U.K. rights during the Cannes Film Market. Additional territory sales are pending announcement.

Mallya, who recently appeared alongside Tom Welling and Cam Gigandet in “Mafia Wars,” is represented by Untitled Entertainment and Carey Dodd Associates in the U.

Zac Efron walks around on the set of his upcoming new movie Famous on Tuesday (December 10) in Los Angeles.

The 37-year-old actor’s muscles could be seen through his tight yellow t-shirt as he looked to be having a snack in between filming scenes.

The day before, Zac was spotted wearing a suit while driving around in a yellow Ferrari.

In the upcoming movie, which is based on a novel by Blake Crouch, Zac will play the dual roles of Lance Dunkquist and James Jansen. The former is a fame-obsessed aspiring actor who is headed to Hollywood. Meanwhile, James is the already famous actor who closely resembles Lance.

The film “explores the dark side of celebrity and the lengths people will go to attain it.”

It was just recently announced that Daniel Zovatto and Bill Pullman have also been cast in the upcoming film, alongside Zac, Phoebe Dynevor, Nicholas Braun,...

Earlier this year, Paramount and Miramax announced that they are reviving the Scary Movie horror parody series to bring a Scary Movie 6 to theatres sometime in 2025, with the Wayans Brothers back in creative control – and that announcement has inspired us to go back and revisit the earlier entries in the franchise. Now we’re up to the 2006 sequel Scary Movie 4, and you can hear all about it in the video embedded above.

Directed by David Zucker from a screenplay by Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams, and Pat Proft, Scary Movie 4 has the following synopsis: Dim-witted Cindy Campbell and her sex-crazed friend, Brenda, team up with cute-but-clueless Tom Ryan to save the world from a hostile alien invasion, with hints of War of the Worlds, Saw II, Million Dollar Baby and The Village.

The cast includes Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Leslie Nielsen, Bill Pullman, Anthony Anderson, Kevin Hart,...

Casper the Friendly Ghost made his theatrical debut in I. Sparber's 1945 short "The Friendly Ghost," released by Famous Studios. The gimmick of the short was that a boy-like apparition named Casper, feeling lonely and wanting friends, would causally approach animals and adults to introduce himself only to see them flee in terror. He is, after all, a ghost. Only open-minded children could see that Casper wasn't a threat and befriend him.

The success of "The Friendly Ghost" led to 54 additional Famous Studios Casper shorts that lasted through 1959. Casper also began starring in a series of Harvey Comics in 1951, and the character's mythos expanded greatly. He soon became friends with a witch named Wendy and was bullied by some baddies called the Ghostly Trio. The comics and shorts also spawned multiple TV shows to feature the Friendly Ghost, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, and his popularity was retained throughout the 1980s through incessant reruns.

Early this year, it was announced that Zac Efron (The Iron Claw) had signed on to star in the A24 thriller Famous for director Jody Hill, and it was revealed that he’ll be playing dual roles in the film, which is based on a novel by Blake Crouch. Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) has since joined the cast, along with Nicholas Braun (Succession), Stephanie Koenig (Lessons in Chemistry), Debby Ryan (Insatiable), Mekki Leeper (Jury Duty), and Cory Michael Smith (Saturday Night) – and now that the project is in production, it has been revealed that Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Daniel Zovatto (Woman of the Hour) are also in the cast!

Scripted by Chad Hodge, who created the short-lived, Crouch-inspired TV series Wayward Pines back in 2015, Famous has the following synopsis: Lance Dunkquist has one asset that’s about to change his life – he has the face of a movie star. And...

Exclusive: Woman of the Hour‘s Daniel Zovatto and Independence Day star Bill Pullman are boarding the Black Bear, Esmail Corp, Caviar production Famous which A24 is releasing stateside theatrically.

They join Zac Efron, Bridgerton‘s Phoebe Dynevor, Nicholas Braun, Stephanie Koenig, Debby Ryan, Mekki Lepper and Cory Michael Smith. Cameras are rolling in LA on the Jody Hill directed movie.

Famous explores the dark side of celebrity and the lengths people will go to attain it. Efron plays dual roles: Overzealous fan, Lance Dunkquist and Hollywood heartthrob, James Jansen. Lance has the spitting image of James, and will do whatever it takes to be famous. Pic is based on the novel by New York Times bestselling author Blake Crouch. Chad Hodge adapted for the screen, the scribe also adapted Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy into a series.

Famous is being produced by Sam Esmail and...

These movies capture the magic of the season and the joy of falling in love. What’s better??

With the holidays here, it’s the feel-good season. And there’s nothing that makes me feel better than a great rom-com. These movies are like a hug for your soul, blending the magic of the season with the always-satisfying ending of true love. So, in that spirit, here’s a list of the top 7 holiday romantic comedy movies you can stream right now. With a mix of classics that never get old, and a few newer additions breaking the mold, one thing’s for sure: they will deliver all the feels this holiday season.

Top 7 Holiday Romantic Comedy Movies on Streaming Right Now

No. 7: ‘Love Hard’

No. 6: ‘While You Were Sleeping’

No. 5: ‘Happiest Season’

No. 4: ‘Four Christmases’

No. 3: ‘The Family Stone’

No. 2: ‘Love Actually’

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A year and a half ago, Netflix announced they had given a series order to The Boroughs, a supernatural mystery show that’s executive produced by Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers. A couple of months ago, they revealed an impressive cast had been assembled: Alfred Molina (Spider-Man: No Way Home) plays Sam, Geena Davis (Blink Twice) plays Renee, Alfre Woodard (Salem’s Lot) plays Judy, Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story) plays Wally, Clarke Peters plays Art, and Bill Pullman (Independence Day) plays Jack. Now, the names of more cast members have been revealed. Variety reports that the previously announced actors have been joined by Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Ed Begley Jr. (Better Call Saul), Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), Rafael Casal (Loki), Eric Edelstein (Twin Peaks: The Return), and Mousa Hussein Kraish (American Gods).

Details on the characters the new additions will be playing have not been revealed.

The latest collaboration between Netflix and Executive Producers The Duffer Brothers (“Stranger Things”) is the supernatural mystery series “The Boroughs.” Per Variety, six new cast members have been added, including actors Dee Wallace and Ed Begley Jr. (Strange Darling).

Rafael Casal, Jane Kaczmarek (“The Changeling”), Eric Edelstein, and Mousa Hussein Kraish have also joined the cast.

The logline for the upcoming series sounds like a blend of “Stranger Things“ and Cocoon that sees Senior citizens saving the world from an otherworldly threat. The official logline:

“In a seemingly picturesque retirement community in the New Mexico desert, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.”

The six new cast additions join previously announced cast members Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman. In other words, “The Boroughs“ is shaping up to have an impressive cast.

The upcoming Netflix supernatural drama “The Boroughs” has added six new cast members.

Rafael Casal, Dee Wallace, Ed Begley Jr., Jane Kaczmarek, Eric Edelstein, and Mousa Hussein Kraish have all joined the show, which hails from creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews and boasts the Duffer brothers among its executive producers.

They join previously announced cast members Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, and Bill Pullman will all star in the eight-episode series, which was greenlit at the streamer back in April 2023.

The series’ logline states, “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.”

Casal is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman. Wallace is repped by Amsel Eisenstadt Frazier & Hinojosa Talent Agency and Kramer Management. Begley is repped by Innovative Artists and Constellation Media Group.

With Stranger Things‘ final season on the horizon, the Duffer Brothers are ready to explore some territory outside of Hawkins, Indiana, and the Upside Down. Their next television foray will be called The Boroughs, and details about the project are starting to come through. Here’s everything we know about The Boroughs so far. When will The Boroughs be released? Netflix has not set a premiere date for the show just yet. Who will star in The Boroughs? The series’ cast includes Alfred Molina as Sam, Geena Davis as Renee, Alfre Woodard as Judy, Denis O’Hare as Wally, Clarke Peters as Art, Bill Pullman as Jack, Rafael Casal as Neal, Dee Wallace as Grace, Ed Begley Jr. as Edward, Jane Kaczmarek as Lilly, Eric Edelstein as Hank, and Moursa Hussein Kraish as Dr. McGinnis. According to Deadline, Jena Malone, Carlos Miranda, Seth Numrich, and Alice Kremelberg have also joined the cast as Claire,...

Exclusive: Rafael Casal (Loki), Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Ed Begley Jr. (Young Sheldon), Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in the Middle), Eric Edelstein (Twin Peaks: The Return) and Moursa Hussein Kraish (American Gods) have joined The Boroughs, Netflix’s upcoming supernatural mystery series from the Duffer brothers, for what are believed to be recurring roles.

Created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who also serve as showrunners, The Boroughs is set in a seemingly picturesque retirement community where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.

Casal plays Neil; Wallace is Grace; Begley Jr. portrays Edward; Kaczmarek plays Lilly; Edelstein is Hank and Kraish plays Dr. McGinnis.

They join previously announced cast Alfred Molina as Sam, Geena Davis as Renee, Alfre Woodard as Judy, Denis O’Hare as Wally, Clarke Peters as Art, and Bill Pullman as Jack,...

There are few TV shows as consistently compelling as a mystery series. Though lighthearted crime drama TV shows are a fun way to pass the time, there's something uniquely enrapturing about a series that creates a foreboding atmosphere and imparts a sense of dread to the viewer. These series typically incorporate horror and thriller elements into the story and have a cohesive visual style that creates a moody feel as much as the plot. For audiences looking to be immersed in a narrative unafraid to get serious and almost surreal, these shows are perfect.

It's impossible to guess the killer right away in these murder mysteries, as the stories are full of twists and turns that leave the audience guessing until the end. While the crime aspects are vital to the plot, these series are character-driven, focusing on the detectives who take on the investigation and unravel them. The detectives...

Walton Goggins first started his career in the 1990s, but didn't start gaining recognition until he portrayed detective Shane Vendrell on FX's hit drama The Shield. Since then, Goggins has been involved in several popular series and delivered excellent performances. He portrayed Lee Russell in Vice Principals, Boyd Crowder in Justified, Baby Billy Freeman in The Righteous Gemstones, and many more beloved characters. He has made a name for himself on television. Goggins started to get more mainstream recognition when he debuted his role as Cooper Howard, also known as The Ghoul, in the hit video game adaptation series Fallout.

With a second season of Fallout in the works, he will only continue his climb in popularity. Additionally, Goggins is confirmed to be cast in the highly anticipated third season of The White Lotus, where he will undoubtedly shine. He always brings life to whatever project he is on,...

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Dear Child is a mystery crime drama series written and directed by Isabel Kleefeld. The Netflix series is based on an international bestselling novel Liebes Kind by Romy Hausmann. Dear Child revolves around a 13-year-old missing persons case which is reopened after an unknown woman is struck by a car in a German forest and the girl who accompanies her is being interviewed by the police. The Netflix series is a claustrophobic and dark experience with plenty of twists and turns. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, intensely dark story, and compelling characters in Dear Child here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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The Sinner is a police procedural mystery crime thriller drama anthology series created by Derek Simonds. Based on the 1999 novel of...

In 1987, comedy legend Mel Brooks released Spaceballs, a parody of Star Wars that pit space rogue Lone Star (Bill Pullman) and his furry companion Barf (John Candy) against the vile Darth Helmet (Rick Moranis). Star Wars mania had by no means abated by that point — Return of the Jedi had come out four years before — but Spaceballs didn't get its own cult of fans until it came out on home video, which is how watched it when I was a tiny baby in the 1990s. I actually think I watched Spaceballs before I watched Star Wars, and it's still probably first in my heart.

Brooks made a couple of attempts over the years to get a sequel to Spaceballs made, but nothing took; according to Forbes, Moranis once pitched him on a movie called Spaceballs III: The Search for Spaceballs II, but it never came together. And so a couple...

Spaceballs 2 has gotten a major progress update from co-writer Josh Gad, who reveals just how far along production is on the upcoming sci-fi comedy sequel. Spaceballs was originally released in 1987, the Mel Brooks-directed movie acting as a parody of Star Wars. The upcoming Spaceballs 2 was announced in June 2024, being developed by Amazon MGM Studios and produced by Gad and Brooks. Gad was also revealed to be writing the script alongside Benji Samit and Dan Hernandez (Pokmon Detective Pikachu), while also being announced to star in the comedy film.

Speaking with Forbes, Gad revealed the draft script for Spaceballs 2 is complete, and that readers of it have "been blown away." The co-writer and star explained how support from Brooks has been extremely helpful in developing the movie, especially since it coincides with the joke about the sequel Yogurt made in the original. However, he made sure not to give away any surprises.

Josh Gad is working on a sequel to Spaceballs alongside Josh Greenbaum and Mel Brooks.

The actor will produce and star in the film for Amazon MGM Studios and recently revealed that the script’s first draft had been completed.

“Without MGM taking me into their Culver prison cells, I can tell you that the draft is done,” Gad told Forbes. “Everybody who’s read it has been blown away. The process of working on this with and alongside Mel Brooks has been one of the highlights of my career.”

Gad says the whole experience has been “sort of a fever dream” and noted that Brooks “has been so unbelievably supportive, involved, and electrified by this because it’s the one that surprisingly got away.”

“It’s a dream to be able to finally make the reality prophesied by Yogurt in the first movie happen. I can’t say more than that,...

The American Film Market, which runs Nov. 5 – 10, kicks off in new digs as the event relocates from its long-standing base in Santa Monica to the bright lights of Las Vegas. The move will see hundreds of exhibitors setting up shop in the Palms Casino Resort, which will also play host to the AFM’s conference series, the AFM Sessions, as well as industry screenings inside the resort’s 14-screen multiplex, the Brenden Theatres.

More than 285 companies and organizations from 80 countries are exhibiting at this year’s AFM, with the event’s organizers announcing that exhibition space in the Palms Casino Resort has sold out. Countries including China, France, Germany, Italy, Romania and Thailand will host dedicated umbrella stands showcasing national companies and producers, and a total of 34 countries will be represented by international trade organizations, film commissions and national delegations.

Here are some of the buzziest films at AFM 2024:...

Two years have gone by since we learned that Elizabeth Hurley (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery) had signed on to star in Piper, a new horror film from director Anthony Waller. More than a year has passed since the film had its world premiere at FrightFest… but now it’s ready for a wider release. Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has picked up Piper distribution rights and will be making it available to rent/own on all North American digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, as of November 12th.

Back in 1995, director Waller made an impressive breakthrough with the thriller Mute Witness… then quickly squandered the good will he had earned with that movie by following it up with An American Werewolf in Paris. Waller has made a couple movies since the Paris debacle...

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Before is a psychological thriller drama miniseries created by Sarah Thorp. The Apple TV+ series follows Eli, a recently widowed child psychologist who meets his next patient and soon figures out that the young boy has a haunting connection to his past. Their unconventional bond deepens as Eli tries to figure out the mystery behind the boy. Before stars Billy Crystal, Jacobi Jupe, Maria Dizzia, Ava Lalezarzadeh, Rosie Perez, and Judith Light. So, if you loved the intense story, psychologically thrilling mystery, and compelling characters in Before here are some similar shows you should check out next.

The Patient (Hulu) Credit – FX

The Patient is a psychological thriller miniseries created by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg. The FX series follows Alan Strauss, a grieving therapist who is held prisoner by a patient who reveals himself to be a...

Lewis Pullman, whose father is critically acclaimed actor Bill Pullman, has started to carve out his own path to Hollywood success. Pullman has showcased his acting range in various projects, from independent works to blockbuster mega-hits, and has developed his own unique acting style. His career is just starting to blossom, and while having a famous father in the industry doesn't hurt, Pullman's acting ability and dedication are what have brought him into starring roles.

He started his acting career back in 2013, acting in a series of short films before landing a role in the feature-length production, The Ballad of Lefty Brown. Since then, Pullman has racked up films, including a breakout performance in Bad Times at the El Royale and in the box-office smash hit Top Gun: Maverick, marking him as one of the best young actors of his generation. In every role he plays, he brings a commitment...

Casper left a couple of questions and mysteries that havent been solved in other media, and now one theory solves a major character mystery but with a more tragic twist. After becoming widely famous in cartoons and comic books, Casper the Friendly Ghost made the jump to the big screen in 1995, in a live-action/CGI adventure. Directed by Brad Silberling, Casper is the first feature film to have a fully CGI character in the lead role, and it took viewers to Friendship, Maine, to meet the title ghost.

When spoiled heiress Carrigan Crittenden (Cathy Moriarty) hires paranormal therapist James Harvey (Bill Pullman) to get rid of the ghosts at Whisptaff Manor, he moves in with his teenage daughter Kat (Christina Ricci). Casper is smitten by Kat and, after a chaotic first meeting, they create a very special and strong bond. Accompanying Casper at Whipstaff is the Ghostly Trio Stretch, Fatso,...

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Clint Eastwood was one of the biggest movie stars in the world in 1995, but, up until that point, he was not known for appearing in family-friendly films. CBS' "Rawhide," the television series that launched him in the 1960s, and 1982's "Firefox," with its video game tie-in, are probably his two most kid-appropriate works. "Bronco Billy" and "Honkytonk Man" are also family films in a way, though, really, Eastwood only hit the bullseye with kids when he plopped Clyde the orangutan into the bare-knuckle-brawling adventures of Philo Beddoe in "Every Which Way But Loose" and "Any Which Way You Can" (both of which have no shortage of gleefully raunchy moments).

Eastwood also wasn't known for his romantic dramas, so the summer of 1995 promised to be an outlier for him with his adaptation of Robert James Waller's runaway bestseller "The Bridges of Madison County.

Exclusive: Anders Danielsen Lie (The Worst Person in the World), Bill Pullman (Independence Day) and Oscar nominee and Tony winner Laurie Metcalf (Lady Bird) have been set to star in biopic Everybody Digs Bill Evans about the acclaimed U.S. jazz pianist and composer.

Two-time Grammy nominee Grant Gee (Joy Division) will direct from a script written by Mark O’Halloran (Viva!), based on the book Intermission by Owen Martell.

The synopsis reads: “June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans (Danielsen Lie) has found his musical voice and created the perfect trio, including bass player Scott Lafaro, said to be his soulmate through music. A residency at New York’s Village Vanguard culminates in the live taping of two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one night. Ten days later, Lafaro dies in a car crash. Numb with grief, Evans stops playing. Everybody Digs Bill Evans is the...

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Woman of the Hour is a crime thriller drama film directed by Anna Kendrick from a screenplay by Ian McDonald. Based on the true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala, the Netflix film is set in the late 1970s and it follows the story of The Dating Game show contestant Cheryl Bradshaw who aspires to become an actress until she crosses paths with a serial killer on the dating show. Woman of the Hour stars Kendrick in the lead role with Daniel Zovatto, Autumn Best, Kathryn Gallagher, Pete Holmes, Kelley Jakle, and Tony Hale starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the thrilling story, a terrifying serial killer, and compelling characters in Woman of the Hour here are some similar movies you should check out next.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Extremely Wicked,...

Casper the Friendly Ghost is the friendliest ghost, but he also had a tragic life, dying at a young age and being left to haunt his old family home. He was also much more than the Casper of the 1995 movie starring Bill Pullman and Christina Ricci. Casper started out as a character in the 1930s before reaching the comic book world in the late '40s. After the success of the comics, Casper began popping up in cartoons and later the live-action movie fans adore today.

Unlike other mystical ghosts, Casper isn't scary or malicious. As his name describes, he's a friendly ghost who craves human interaction. '90s kids most likely aren't familiar with the comics or the cartoon from the '30s and '40s, but they are very familiar with the movie, Casper. The movie and the comics reveal little details about his former life, but there...