New to Stream: Starz December 2020 Movie & TV Titles Announced

The full list of December 2020 movies and TV titles that will be available for streaming on the Starz App has been released (via Vital Thrills), which you can now view below along with the titles that are set to leave from the streaming service this month. This includes the return of the crime drama spinoff Power Book II: Ghost as well as the premiere of all the classic Friday The 13th films!

RELATED: Power Book II: Ghost Midseason Trailer Sets December Return

Available December 1

3000 Miles To Graceland (2001)

Animal Kingdom (2009)

Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis Of Evil (2006)

Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia (2008)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Broken Lance (1954)

Chicago (2002)

Chloe (2009)

Deep Impact (1998)

Extinction (2014)

For Colored Girls (2010)

Frankie & Alice (2010)

The Frog Prince (1986)

Frontier Uprising (1960)

Golden Child, The (1986)

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday (1976)

Half Magic (2018)

Hide And Seek (2005)

Inferno (1980)

The Legend Of Zorro (2005)

The Mask of Zorro (1998)

More Dead Than Alive (1968)

Quarantine (2008)

River Of No Return (1954)

Damages – Episodes 101-213

Rescue Me – Episodes 101-213

Available December 3

Oculus (2014)

Available December 6

Power Book II: Ghost – Episode 106

Available December 7

Power Book II: Ghost – Episode 105

Power Book II: Ghost Extra – S1B Trailer

SEDUCED: INSIDE THE NXIVM CULT – Episodes 101-104

Available December 10

The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)

Available December 11

aTypical Wednesday (2019)

Bay of Silence (2020)

End of Sentence (2019)

Friday The 13th (1980)

Friday The 13th, Part II (1981)

Friday The 13th, Part III (1982)

Friday The 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter (1984)

Friday The 13th, Part V: A New Beginning (1985)

Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

Friday The 13th, Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

Friday The 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

Godzilla (1998)

Night Shift (1982)

Tootsie (1982)

Available December 13

Power Book II: Ghost – Episode 107

Available December 15

Damages – Episodes 301-308

Rescue Me – Episodes 301-308

Available December 16

Bruce Almighty (2003)

Available December 18

Big Bully (1996)

Chill Factor (1999)

Crush, The (1993)

Hit List, The (2010)

Hoffa (1992)

Jagged Edge (1985)

Major League II (1994)

Major League: Back To The Minors (1998)

Mickey And The Bear (2019)

Other Boleyn Girl, The (2008)

Radio (2003)

Sin (2002)

State And Main (2000)

Surrogate, The (2020)

Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison (2020)

Wild America (1997)

Wrongfully Accused (1998)

Available December 19

Birth (2004)

Available December 20

Power Book II: Ghost – Episode 108

Available December 26

My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising (2020)

Available December 27

Power Book II: Ghost – Episode 109

Available December 28

Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Here’s what is leaving Starz in December:

Leaving December 1

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)

Leaving December 4

Butterfly Effect, The (2003)

Leaving December 6

Power Book II: Ghost – Episode 105

Leaving December 9

Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990)

Possession of Hannah Grace, The (2018)

Leaving December 12

Nitro Circus (2012)

Windtalkers (2002)

Leaving December 14

Laid in America (2016)

Leaving December 15

American Gangster (2007)

Flash Of Genius (2008)

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

It’s Kind Of A Funny Story (2010)

Land Of The Lost (2009)

Limits Of Control, The (2008)

MacGruber (2010)

Place Beyond The Pines, The (2012)

Tale of Despereaux, The (2008)

Leaving December 17

Big Fat Liar (2002)

Bigger Fatter Liar (2017)

Leaving December 20

Jack And Jill (2011)

Leaving December 24

White Orchid (2018)

Leaving December 27

Padre, The (2018)

Leaving December 31

24 Hour Party People (2001)

About A Boy (2002)

Accepted (2006)

Action Jackson (1988)

Adventures Of Rocky & Bullwinkle, The (2000)

American Tail, An (1986)

American Tail: Fievel Goes West, An (1991)

American Tail: The Mystery Of The Night Monster, An (1999)

American Tail: The Treasure Of Manhattan Island, An (1998)

Apache Drums (1951)

Aviator, The (2004)

Away We Go (2009)

Babe, The (1992)

Balls Of Fury (2007)

Balto (1995)

Balto II: Wolf Quest (2000)

Balto III: Wings Of Change (2004)

Barb Wire (1995)

Baseketball (1998)

Bean (1997)

Beast Within, The (1981)

Blue Collar (1978)

Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)

Brass Legend, The (1956)

Bravos, The (1971)

Burn After Reading (2008)

Car Wash (1976)

Case 39 (2010)

Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About Christmas Special, The (2012)

Chasing The Blues (2018)

Chinatown (1974)

Clay Pigeons (1998)

Cloak & Dagger (1984)

Cockeyed Cowboys Of Calico County, The (1970)

Coraline (2008)

Dad (1989)

Daughters Of The Sexual Revolution: The Untold Story Of The Dallas Cowboys

Cheerleaders (2018)

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Drag Me To Hell (2009)

Duplicity (2009)

Eddie Murphy Raw (1987)

Elizabeth (1998)

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

Empire State (2013)

Enough (2002)

Evil Roy Slade (1972)

Evolution (2001)

Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Firm, The (1993)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Fourth Kind, The (2009)

Funny People (2009)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Green Zone (2010)

Gun Duel In Durango (1957)

Gunfight In Abilene (1967)

Hamlet 2 (2008)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Hart’s War (2002)

Hellbound (1995)

Hired Hand, The (1971)

Home Fries (1998)

Hot Shots! (1991)

Hunted, The (2003)

I.Q. (1994)

In The Time Of The Butterflies (2001)

Into The Wild (2007)

Jackal, The (1997)

Jackie Brown (1997)

John Carpenter’s They Live (1988)

K-9 (1989)

K-911 (1999)

Kindergarten Cop (1990)

King Kong (2005)

Kull The Conqueror (1997)

L!fe Happens (2011)

Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure, The (1994)

Land Before Time III: The Time Of The Great Giving, The (1995)

Land Before Time IV: Journey Through The Mists, The (1996)

Land Before Time IX: Journey To Big Water, The (2002)

Land Before Time More Sing Along Songs, The (1999)

Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island, The (1997)

Land Before Time VI: The Secret Of Saurus Rock, The (1998)

Land Before Time VII: The Stone Of Cold Fire, The (2000)

Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze, The (2001)

Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration, The (2003)

Land Before Time XI: The Invasion Of The Tinysauruses, The (2005)

Land Before Time XII: The Great Day Of Flyers, The (2006)

Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom Of Friends, The (2007)

Land Before Time, The (1988)

Last Sunset, The (1961)

Legend Of Bagger Vance, The (2000)

Little Rascals Save The Day, The (2013)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Miami Vice (2006)

Milk (2008)

Mortician, The (2011)

Mousehunt (1997)

Mr. Baseball (1992)

Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007)

My Life As A Zucchini (2017)

Mystic Pizza (1988)

Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)

Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad!, The (1988)

National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

Night At The Museum (2006)

Night At The Roxbury, A (1998)

No Country For Old Men (2007)

October Sky (1999)

Oklahoma Frontier (1939)

Old Chisholm Trail, The (1943)

Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)

Out Of The Furnace (2013)

Peacemaker, The (1997)

Peter Pan (2003)

Premonition (2007)

Primal Fear (1996)

Private Parts (1997)

Psycho (1998)

Psycho II (1983)

Psycho III (1986)

Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Repo Men (2009)

Ride Out For Revenge (1958)

River Wild, The (1994)

Salt And Pepper (1968)

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

School Ties (1992)

Scoot And Kassie’s Christmas Adventure (2012)

Scorpion King 2: Rise Of A Warrior (2008)

Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, The (2012)

Showdown In Little Tokyo (1991)

Simple Plan, A (1998)

Skeleton Key, The (2005)

Slap Shot (1977)

Soapdish (1991)

Soul Plane (2004)

Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003)

Star In The Dust (1956)

State Of Play (2009)

Superstar (1999)

Surf’s Up (2007)

Talk To Me (2007)

Traffic (2000)

Trigger Effect, The (1996)

Two Brothers (2004)

Undercover Brother (2002)

Unfinished Life, An (2004)

Untouchables, The (1987)

Very Bad Things (1998)

Walking Dead, The (1995)

Wayne’s World (1992)

We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story (1993)

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

White Chicks (2004)

Witness (1985)

Wiz, The (1978)

Wolfman, The (2010)

Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That!, The – Episode 101-320

Death Valley Days – Episode 2-448

Galaxy Angel – Episode 101-612

Littlest Pet Shop – Episode 101-426

Men From Shiloh, The – Episode 101-124

Virginian, The – Episode 101-824

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Disneyland reveals Avengers Campus’ Spider-Bot & early sale date!

Though fans may still have a ways to go until they can finally visit the highly-anticipated Avengers Campus at California’s Disneyland Resort, the park has revealed the first look at the remote-controlled Spider-Bot as well as a sale date ahead of the new land’s opening! The announcement video can be viewed below!

RELATED: Disneyland Offers Early Look at New Attractions, Including Marvel

Starting December 4th, get your very own Spider-Bot from Avengers Campus -the holiday must-have -available at #DowntownDisney District! https://t.co/fZJPVhfXXX pic.twitter.com/3G4IM9v6yS

— Disneyland Resort (@Disneyland) November 23, 2020

As part of The Worldwide Engineering Brigade, also known as WEB, the new Spider-Bots are there to be a friendly sidekick for superheroes looking to help protect their neighborhood and puts owners in control of the action to battle opponents with programmed combat and defensive abilities. The RC bots can crawl backward and forward, crouch, spin 360 degrees, stare down with their laser eyes, attack opponent Spider-Bots and even blast off their shields.

The new WEB invention is set to go on sale alongside fresh apparel from the Avengers Campus attraction, with Annual Passholders getting the opportunity to make a reservation for a special upcoming, limited-quantity pre-sale even in Downtown Disney from November 30 to December 3 for both Spider-Bots and Avengers Campus merch!

For fans without an annual pass, the Spider-Bots and other WEB apparel is set to go on sale in Downtown Disney at Disneyland in both the World of Disney and Disneyland Resort Backlot Premiere shops beginning December 4!

Avengers Campus, which was announced a few years ago, will focus on looking for the next generation of heroes, inviting fans to team up with the titular group of Marvel heroes and their allies to live out their wildest superhero dreams in the fully immersive area blending innovative technology and fun for all ages.

Much like the neighboring park’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge area, the Avengers Campus will feature various performers portraying iconic heroes, including Spider-Man, Iron-Man in brand-new armor, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Widow and more, alongside legendary villains Taskmaster, who can replicate other heroes’ abilities, and the mischievous Loki.

After the initial tease of the park with 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy — Mission: BREAKOUT!, the next ride to be unveiled for fans and parkgoers will be Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure, which will see star Tom Holland reprising his role for an action-packed adventure inviting guests to put their web-slinging skills to the test as they help Spidey capture the out-of-control Spider-Bots before they can wreak havoc on the campus. During an open house at the World Engineering Brigade, aka WEB, Peter Parker and the aspiring inventors ask guests to wear 3D glasses and test drive their latest invention, the WEB Slinger vehicle, which will allow fans to sling webs like the hero and experience what it’s like to have powers.

The area will also feature new food locations for guests, including Pym Test Kitchen, in which fans can use the famous “Pym Particles” to grow and shrink just about anything, creating numerous possibilities to showcase normal foods at unusual scales, including shareable bites, inventive-sized entrees and tiny treats. Guests can watch the Pym food scientists at work in the kitchen lab, as well as taste-test foods like the Impossible plant-based large and micro meatballs with pasta served with a super-sized spoon and tiny fork, as well as gigantic soda cans and condiment bottles.

Next to the Pym Test Kitchen fans can visit the Pym Tasting Lab, which will offer grown-up beverages that includes a craft beer, ranging from a blood orange hefeweizen to an amber lager, poured from a reverse draft system where the food scientists ensure the glass fills from the bottom up.

For those wanting a more Avengers-focused experience, they can relive the iconic post-credits moment from the original film with Shawarma Palace, which is a recreation of the iconic New York location in which guests can enjoy their favorite shawarma-inspired snacks at the food cart decked out with memorabilia and offers hand-held savory wraps with chicken shawarma and garlic sauce, or the Impossible plant-based falafel wrap.

RELATED: Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway Attraction Opens at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Guests will also have the ability to travel to the cosmos for Terran Treats, with a menu cultivated by Guardian of the Galaxy‘s Taneleer Tivan that will feature everything from churro spirals with unique flavors to a cosmic orb with an outer shell revealing a decadent creamy filling, and it will be located next to the ride.

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Exclusive Popeye Featurette Clip For the Upcoming Blu-ray Release

ComingSoon.net is debuting an exclusive clip from a new Popeye featurette ahead of the movie’s Blu-ray release on December 1, featuring director Robert Altman speaking about the late Robin Williams who played the titular character in the 1980 film. You can check out the clip in the player below and pre-order your copy of the Blu-ray here!

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The legendary, beloved anvil-armed sailor of the seven seas comes magically to life in the delightful musical, starring Oscar winner Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society) as Popeye and Emmy nominee Shelley Duvall (The Shining, Three Women) as Popeye’s devoted long-limbed sweetie, Olive Oyl, one of many loveable characters who join the “sailor man” in his adventures in the harbor town of Sweethaven.

The movie was written by Jules Feiffer based on characters created by E.C. Segar.

RELATED: Michael B. Jordan’s Without Remorse Pulled From Paramount Schedule

Popeye was released on December 6, 1980, from Paramount Pictures and earned $49.8 million at the worldwide box office.

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Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up Adds Perry, Lynskey & Perlman

As if the film didn’t already have a star-studded roster, Adam McKay’s upcoming meteorite satire pic Don’t Look Up has expanded its cast with the additions of Emmy winner Tyler Perry (Gone Girl, Vice), Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock, Mrs. America) and Golden Globe winner Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Monster Hunter), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

RELATED: Don’t Look Up: DiCaprio, Streep, Chalamet & More Join Adam McKay’s Comedy

The film, which is being written and directed by McKay (Vice, The Big Short), will center on two low-level astronomers who have to embark on a media tour around the globe in an effort to warn mankind of an approaching asteroid that is going to destroy Earth.

The cast for the film will be led by Leonardo DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and Jennifer Lawrence (Dark Phoenix) as the central astronomers alongside Meryl Streep (The Prom), Jonah Hill (The Beach Bum), Himesh Patel (Yesterday), Timothée Chalamet (Dune), Cate Blanchett (Where’d You Go, Bernadette?) and Rob Morgan (Luke Cage). In addition to this ensemble roster, the Netflix film will feature a number of cameos including Ariana Grande (Kidding), Kid Cudi (Bill & Ted Face the Music), Matthew Perry (Friends) and Tomer Sisley (Messiah).

McKay has had a successful run in the satire genre over the past few years, earning one Oscar nomination and one win for 2016’s The Big Short and three Oscar nominations for 2018’s Vice, including Best Picture. The 52-year-old filmmaker will produce the project alongside partner Kevin Messick via their productions banner Hyperobject Industries.

RELATED: Hillbilly Elegy Trailer Starring Gabriel Basso, Amy Adams & Glenn Close

Don’t Look Up is set to begin filming in Boston next week.

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Black Panther sequel set to film in July, enters talks with potential antagonist

This year saw the world rocked by the sudden loss of Chadwick Boseman and left many wondering how Marvel Studios would move forward with the highly-anticipated Black Panther 2 and now, nearly four months after his death, it appears they’ve found their path as they’re eyeing a July 2021 start date for filming, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

RELATED: Black Panther 2: Marvel Studios Exec VP Refutes Rumors of Using Digital Double for Chadwick Boseman

Not only did this year see the loss of Boseman, but it also marked the first year that Marvel Studios went without releasing a single film since jumpstarting the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2008, and sources report the studio is pushing to get production started on the tentatively-titled Black Panther 2 in Atlanta in July for at least six months. In addition, Narcos: Mexico star Tenoch Huerta is reportedly in talks to join returning cast members Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett as an antagonist, while some sources report that Wright’s beloved Shuri may take on a more central role in the sequel.

Since his loss, there’s been little-to-no word regarding how the studio and writer/director Ryan Coogler would handle the absence of Boseman for the story, though Marvel Studios Executive Vice President Victoria Alonso has stated outright they would not use a digital double for the late star.

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Marvel Studios’ Black Panther follows T’Challa (Boseman) who, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne and take his rightful place as king. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as king – and Black Panther – is tested when he is drawn into a formidable conflict that puts the fate of Wakanda and the entire world at risk. Faced with treachery and danger, the young king must rally his allies and release the full power of Black Panther to defeat his foes and secure the safety of his people and their way of life.

The film stars the late Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Oscar winners Lupita Nyong’o and Forest Whitaker, Danai Gurira, Oscar nominees Daniel Kaluuya and Angela Bassett. It also features Martin Freeman, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, and Andy Serkis.

RELATED: Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King Special Now Available on Disney+

Based on the Marvel Comics by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the film was directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole. Kevin Feige and David J. Grant were producers; and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Jeffrey Chernov, Nate Moore, and Stan Lee served as executive producers. The film was produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and is currently available on Disney+.

Black Panther received seven nominations at the 91st Academy Awards including Best Picture, with wins for Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, and Best Production Design. Black Panther is the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination and the first MCU film to win an Academy Award. It also received three nominations at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, two wins at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three wins at the 24th Critics’ Choice Awards from 12 nominations, among others.

Black Panther 2 is currently slated for a May 6, 2022 release.

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Lord, Miller & Tatum reunite for Universal’s untitled monster project

It’s been six years since we last saw Channing Tatum, Phil Lord and Chris Miller properly team up for both The LEGO Movie and 22 Jump Street and now the trio are reuniting for an untitled monster thriller at Universal Pictures, according to Deadline.

RELATED: Lord, Miller, Morales & Fiallo Team for Miami-Set Comedy at Universal

The film, which is being penned by Wes Tooke (Midway) baed on an original idea and story treatment from Reid Carolin (Magic Mike), is described as “a modern day, tongue-in-cheek thriller inspired by Universal’s classic monster legacy” that will see Tatum in the lead role.

Though not stepping into the director’s chairs for this project, Lord and Miller and Aditya Sood will produce via their Lord Miller banner alongside Tatum, Carolin and Peter Kiernan via their Free Association production banner, while Universal’s Senior Vice President of Production Jay Polidoro and Director of Development Lexi Barta, Lord Miller’s Will Allegra and Free Association’s Michael Parets will oversee the project for the studios.

The untitled film marks the latest project in development from Universal Pictures tapping into their classic monster library following Leigh Whannell’s highly-acclaimed The Invisible Man and its in-development sequel, as well as the David Koepp-penned The Bride of Frankenstein, Paul Feig’s Dark Army, Dexter Fletcher’s Renfield, the Robbie Thompson-penned Frankenstein, the Elizabeth Banks-starring and directed Invisible Woman, musical project Monster Mash, Karyn Kusama’s Dracula, the Ryan Gosling-pitched/starring and Whannell-helmed Wolfman and Josh Cooley’s Little Monsters.

RELATED: Lord, Miller & Lucas Brothers Team Up for Untitled Comedy

The project also becomes the latest in development for the Oscar-winning duo set at Universal under their major first-look deal with the studio, which also includes a Miami-set comedy from Natalie Morales and Cyrina Fiallo and an untitled comedy from The Lucas Bros., while also set to helm the tentatively titled astronaut action pic Project Hail Mary at MGM with Gosling in the lead role.

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CS Recommends: Hulk Statue, Plus Soundtracks, TV & More!

Stuck inside? Don’t know what to watch/read/play/listen to? ComingSoon.net has got you covered. In this week’s CS Recommends our staff kicks off gives you solid tips on the best media to consume during your downtime, including Sideshow Avengers Assemble Hulk Statue and more! Check out our picks below!

RELATED: November 17 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases

MAX EVRY’S RECOMMEND: Sideshow Avengers Assemble Hulk Statue

Hulk Marvel Statue – $580.00
from: Sideshow Inc.

I’m super into this new statue I’ve added to my collection from Sideshow’s Avengers Assemble collection, which reimagines Marvel characters to their most iconic essence. This take on the Hulk is superb, combining elements of some of my favorite artists to draw Big Green over the years (Jack Kirby, Todd McFarlane, Ed McGuinness, Art Adams, Joe Bennett) and melding them into one amazing statue that is as beautiful to look at as it is enormous. I love this line, and I love this statue, and hope the company continues churning out more beauties like this to give us a fun alternative to the movie versions that have urned themselves into the pop culture psyche. Right now the statue has FREE SHIPPING in the U.S.!

KYLIE HEMMERT’S RECOMMEND: Ratched

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Created by Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky, Ratched is a prequel series to the Oscar-winning drama One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest starring Jack Nicholson, as well as a prequel origin story to the novel written by Ken Kesey following the infamous character Nurse Mildred Ratched, played effortlessly by Sarah Paulson in the show. In the series, Mildred begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital where new and unsettling experiments have begun on the human mind. Beneath her stylish exterior lurks a growing darkness and plenty of secrets, and even though she hasn’t yet reached the full villain status of One Flew‘s Nurse Ratched, the series introduces a compellingly flawed, manipulative, emotional, and well-rounded character while carefully laying the groundwork for who she becomes later in life.

Ratched is extremely vibrant, giving the appearance of an idealistic setting in a story that is largely full of death, mistreatment, abuse, and cruelty, intertwined with genuine moments of love and humanity – simply put, the story is complex, bizarre, wonderful, and upsetting. There also may not have been a better ensemble cast on the small screen this year than in Season 1 of Ratched. Everyone brings their A-game, each ready to steal the scene – and, in Sophie Okonedo’s case, succeeding every single time. You don’t need to have read the book or seen the movie to jump right into the series and appreciate its characters or storytelling, though it will be interesting to see how they continue the story of Mildred Ratched next season as the character further evolves into her final transformation.

GRANT HERMANNS RECOMMENDS: Samurai Jack

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I’m not afraid to admit that as a kid, my taste in film and TV wasn’t always the best and I missed out on some great shows because of it and one in which I’m incredibly glad I decided to give another chance was Cartoon Network’s Samurai Jack. When I was younger, the moody atmosphere and seeming lack of story development and humor made it a real bore for me, but when it was announced it would get an Adult Swim final season revival, I elected to give it another go and found the original series to be a poignant, incredibly animated and compelling tale exploring a number of mature themes and artful styles that was incredible from start to finish, especially in said final season.

MAGGIE DELA PAZ’S RECOMMEND: Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

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Before Jumanji went on to become a billion-dollar box-office franchise with the latest Dwayne Johnson-led sequels, Columbia Pictures had first made the attempt to kickstart the Jumanji franchise 15 years ago with 2005’s standalone spinoff Zathura: A Space Adventure. Also based on Chris Van Allsburg’s children’s book of the same name, the sci-fi adventure film was directed by MCU alum and The Mandalorian creator Jon Favreau from a screenplay adapted by David Koepp and John Kamps.

The film centers around two young brothers Walter and Danny, who like the first film suddenly find an unknown board game within their house. Due to Danny’s curiosity, he started playing the game with the unwilling participation of Walter. From then on, things quickly escalated as they discover that their house has now been mysteriously transported into space. Now, the brothers must find a way to work together by setting aside their quarrels in order for them to win against the game’s challenges that include a visit from human-eating aliens.

Zathura is an underrated Jumanji spinoff that definitely deserves more recognition due to its fast-paced and entertaining storyline that’s ahead of its time. Despite receiving positive reviews from critics, this film is often forgotten due to its poor box-office performance with a worldwide gross of over $65 million against a reported budget of $65 million. What I like the most about the film is its well-balanced mix of heart and humor that was also fantastically presented in the 1995 Robin Williams-led iconic film. I also loved that the film had retained the original’s child-like wonder aspect which the latest installments had unfortunately lost.

So, if you’re looking for a fun movie to add on your family’s holiday movie list, I highly-recommend you to check out or revisit Zathura!

JEFF AMES’ RECOMMEND: Solo: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Deluxe Edition)

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What an awesome pre-Thanksgiving surprise! John Powell has released a deluxe edition of his fabulous score for Ron Howard’s vastly underappreciated Solo: A Star Wars Story, featuring 35 tracks that amount to just over two hours of music. I’ve long been a fan of Powell’s work and thought his work here gave him the perfect opportunity to show off his extraordinary talent. Yeah, there are a lot of cues lifted from previous Star Wars scores, particularly in the exciting track, “Kessel Run in Less Than 12 Parsecs,” but that doesn’t make them any less enthralling; and Powell does a fine job blending newer themes written for Solo (with help from John Williams) with the older motifs we all know and love. The only disappointment comes from knowing that (at least as of now) there aren’t any other Solo movies in the foreseeable future, but hopefully this won’t be Powell’s last journey to that galaxy far away!

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20th Century Studios taps Dan Trachtenberg to helm fifth Predator movie

It’s been nearly five years since Dan Trachtenberg last stepped in the director’s chair for his feature debut, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and now it looks as though he’s found his next project in the form of a fifth Predator film at 20th Century Studios, according to Deadline.

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Plot details are currently unknown on the film, but sources report that it will not pick up on the unresolved plot threads from the fourth installment in the sci-fi action franchise, 2018’s The Predator, co-written and directed by original film co-star Shane Black (The Nice Guys). That film ended with the military, led by Boyd Holbrook (The Fugitive), finding a special mech suit entitled the Predator Killer onboard the titular creature’s ship built to help humanity fight against the alien race.

The script for the forthcoming fifth title is set to be penned by Patrick Aison, who’s previously worked as a writer and producer on Fox’s Wayward Pines, Audience Network’s Kingdom, Amazon Prime Video’s Jack Ryan and USA Network’s Treadstone. John Davis, who has been attached as producer of the franchise since the 1987 original, is set to once again produce the film.

The original Predator centered on a group of elite paramilitary soldiers heading into a guerrilla-held territory of Central America on an operation to rescue hostages, only to encounter the technologically-advanced titular alien and enter into a fight for their lives. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the original film was a smash success, grossing nearly $100 million at the box office and garnering positive reviews from critics in the years since its initial negative reception. It success spawned a franchise that included three sequels, two film crossovers with the Alien franchise, five video games and countless comics and novels.

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After helming the acclaimed short films Portal: No Escape, More Than You Can Chew and the Black Mirror episode “Playtest,” Trachtenberg went on to make his feature directorial debut in Paramount Pictures’ 10 Cloverfield Lane, which was a critical darling and grossed over $110 million at the global box office. He was briefly attached to the upcoming film adaptation of Sony’s Uncharted before dropping out of the project, which is now being helmed by Venom‘s Ruben Fleischer.

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CS Interviews: Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer Discuss Fireball

The fascinating new documentary Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds is now streaming on Apple TV and ComingSoon.net was able to sit down and talk with the film’s directors, Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer, who discussed what it was like to travel around the world to discover the power behind meteorites.

Here’s the synopsis: A journey across the planet and universe explores how meteorites, shooting stars and deep impacts have awoken wonder about other realms — and make people rethink their destinies.

ComingSoon.net: Is it wrong for me to say this documentary, while fascinating, scared me a little bit?

Oppenheimer: I hope it’s only half terror. I was in South Korea after the release of our last feature Into the Volcano and I met up with the Koreans who annually go down to Antarctica to search for meteorites for scientific work; and it was talking with Werner and seeing some of these remarkable stones, which is so exotic, but also thinking of the cultural significance of meteorites and impact craters to human societies around the world through time that I felt this was a topic rather like volcanoes which is not a science topic but an entanglement of nature and culture. And it speaks to cosmologies and anthropologies. So, I got back from that trip and put some ideas together with Werner and we took it from there.

CS: Fireball shows people worshipping meteors and also builds a strong case for why we should fear them. Where do you guys stand on this discussion?

Herzog: I think it’s not a debate, we must not be didactic. We must be very expedient of science and be in awe of what we are looking at. That’s how science functions and that’s how cinema functions.

Oppenheimer: It was something of a revelation to me to discover that NASA does have a planetary defense coordination office. So, the threat is taken seriously. The larger objects in the far future that might strike the Earth are being detected and being monitored. It’s not that when you see one of these things it’s coming straight at us. By and large they’re in a race track going around the sun like the Earth is. So, these potential threats can be identified centuries in advance of a potential problem. So, I certainly don’t lose sleep over the threat. It’s fascinating, the idea the existential threat has a deep history in the human imagination — the fear of comets and what it means and what the gods are saying when they’re interfering in human affairs with these signs in the sky. In the 19th century there was a lot of anxiety about the potential for a comet to strike the Earth. One of the first disaster movies, 1916 — a Danish film — The End of the World, which the scenario is astronomers see an object they predict is going to strike the Earth. And so, it does have a deep resonance for us. And that’s before we get to talk about the aliens and life forms that have been carried by these stones.

CS: What do you think Fireball says about religion?

Oppenheimer: I think these are very alternative ways of seeing the world and using the human imagination to piece together what we see in the natural world. And when you think about how important the night sky was for our ancestors, in past civilizations, and the passages of stars, celestial bodies across the night sky dictated the tides and the pace of the seasons; and these were fundamental, or the practices of agriculture and navigation. And so, if something shows up in the night sky that wasn’t there the day before, then it’s gonna mean something. And it’s up to us to figure out what it means.

CS: With all the wonders and miracles that are inherent in meteors, why do you think people aren’t as fascinated with them as they probably should be?

Oppenheimer: I think they’re just topics that we don’t know much about. I mean, I’m a geologist. I didn’t realize that there are some meteorites if you snip them, they smell like the contents of a vacuum cleaner. Molecules, organic molecules from the earliest times of the solar system. Not biological, a biotic inorganic molecule — amino acids and sugars. Yes, there is a popular culture around the demise of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous. But there’s an awful lot more to these stones that I wasn’t aware of that I discovered through making this movie

CS: Of all the places that you journeyed to in the film, which location did you find to be the most fascinating?

Herzog:There’s some obvious places, Antarctica … and then the sports arena in Oslo where we find a jazz musician who started a new branch of science.

Oppenheimer: I loved our array of locations — on the roof of a sports arena in in Oslo and on the polar plateau in Antarctica. So, there’s certainly some variety — the Vatican Observatory. Who knew that the Pope has an astronomer? So, these were discoveries for us as much as they are for the audience.

CS: You mentioned the scene in Antarctica, which was my favorite scene in the film. What was it like to be out there to be on this patch of land that just goes on for miles?

Herzog: I think the commentary puts it in perspective. A person can walk on for 5,000 miles — as large a distance in crossing the continental United States. You can walk 5,000 miles without encountering a human. And the day will end in five months because the sun is circling in the sky doesn’t go down. So those are the dimensions.

Oppenheimer: I think one of the sensations for me in Antarctica is a very extraordinary aloneness. I mean, not in a mawkish sense, but it’s such a vast terrain. And you are almost in that situation where you’ve stepped outside the space capsule in a very, very hostile atmosphere — very, very, very cold. And you’re enduring a lot of extreme weather gear to cope with it. I find my spirits soars actually when I’m in Antarctica and out on the top of Erebus volcano … I feel alive.

CS: Are you still surprised by these different locations and societies that you visit?

Herzog: The world is full of full of surprises and full of awesome things. It’s just right around you. Everything.

Oppenheimer: I think one of the things that we know — those of us that live in cities, and that’s more than half of the world’s population now — where we have become very dissociated from nature in the natural world. Even though I live in a village, outside Cambridge in England, I’m lucky if I see a dozen stars in the night sky. And I think you could ask many people who live in cities, When did you last see the Milky Way? You can probably ask kids, Have you ever seen a single Milky Way, and they might not even know what you’re talking about.

Herzog: This is something that we read last week about the earthquakes in the valley in 1996 or something. Someone called the 911 emergency room …

Oppenheimer: Oh, yeah, that is referring to the earthquake that struck LA in ‘94 in the winter and at night. So, people ran outside their homes. And pretty soon people were calling emergency services because they spied a silvery cloud in the sky and thought maybe there was some emanations from the San Andreas Fault from noxious gases. And whereas what had happened was the earthquake had knocked out the power grid and people were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.

CS: So, what you’re saying is that we just need to look up a little bit more, right?

Oppenheimer: Yeah, we all have lights in our backyards. We can’t get away from light pollution now. That’s not good news for astronomers. But there is a Dark Sky Park, and I think this is a wonderful thing, to kind of rediscover the night nocturnal; and that aura of the infinitude of night sky, the stars.

CS: I would say that’s why a documentary such as Fireball is important because it helps us remember just how amazing our planet is.

Oppenheimer: One of the places where we filmed was at Arizona State University at the center of meteorites studies, where we have a really wonderful collection of historic specimens, as well as very recent ones. We sniffed the Aguas Zarcas meteorite that fell in Costa Rica last year, which has this remarkable pungent odor of organic molecules. But there’s the collection, a lot of that collection, I think it’s from one of the pioneers of meteoritics science, Harvey Nininger. And he observed a bright fireball in the sky — I can’t remember where — in Texas or New Mexico and he said, I figure if I head out to the desert, I’ll be able to find the stone that hit the ground. And so, he goes out and everyone says, you know, you’re crazy, there’s no way of finding it with all the rocks out in the desert there. And sure enough he didn’t find it. But the remarkable thing was he found a lot of other meteorites. And that’s when people realized if you can be systematic about how you go out and you go these places where the surfaces are undisturbed for long periods of time, like the desert, on land or in Antarctica, you’ll find these stones and they are extraordinary relics of the earliest period of the solar system.

CS: What is a good starting place for somebody to get in this type of field?

Oppenheimer: A conventional route might be through the geosciences through geology, geochemistry, and chemistry as well. But, I think, like volcanoes there are different angles, astronomy, planetary science, planetary missions. There’s archeoastronomy — there’s a whole field of where people are looking at indigenous knowledge of the night sky, the significance of meteors. There are different ways to approach it and they are all very, very fascinating.

CS: You guys first met while making Encounters at the End of the World. How has your relationship changed over the course of these projects?

Werner: I think it hasn’t, because I was immediately surrounded by the presence of Clive at the top of a volcano and in Antarctica — five degrees below zero. I said we should stay in touch a film together some day. Ten years later, we were out of touch. I mean, not completely. Clive showed up for the volcanoes and this film on meteorites. In both cases we would do it in the spirit of friendship, in the spirit of respect.

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Ronan, Rockwell & Oyelowo team up for new murder mystery film

According to Deadline, four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan, Oscar winner Sam Rockwell and Golden Globe nominee David Oyelowo have officially signed on to star in an untitled murder mystery pic set at Searchlight Pictures.

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Set in 1950s London, the untitled film begins when a desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular West End play into a film. However, when members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Rockwell) and overzealous rookie Constable Stalker (Ronan) find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit within London’s glamorous Theatreland and sordid underground.

The film will be directed by Tom George from a screenplay written by Mark Chappell. It will be produced by Damian Jones with Head of Development & Production Katie Goodson-Thomas, Director of Production Richard Ruiz, and Senior Development Executive Pete Spencer set to oversee the project in behalf of Searchlight Pictures UK.

The untitled project marks Ronan and Rockwell’s latest collaboration with Searchlight, who have previously worked on acclaimed films such as Ronan’s Brooklyn and The Grand Budapest Hotel as well as Rockwell’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Jojo Rabbit.

Ronan is best-known for her acclaimed performances in drama films such as 2007’s Atonement, 2015’s Brooklyn, 2017’s Lady Bird, and 2019’s Little Women which all earned her Oscar nominations. She will next be seen in Francis Lee’s romantic drama Ammonite starring alongside Kate Winslet and in Wes Anderson’s star-studded dramedy The French Dispatch.

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Rockwell’s notable film credits include: Lawn Dogs, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Matchstick Men, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Seven Psychopaths, Iron Man 2, Richard Jewel, Vice, and the most recent one is Disney’s The One and Only Ivan.

Oyelowo gained critical acclaimed for his role as Martin Luther King Jr. in Ava DuVernay’s biopic drama Selma which gave him his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. He will next bee seen in George Clooney’s The Midnight Sky, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, and Chaos Walking.

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