Mayberry. Home to fictional characters Sheriff Andy Taylor, Deputy Barney, Aunt Bee and others and backdrop for the 1960s classic television seriesThe Andy Griffith Show. Monday was the kick-off for an all-week celebration of Mayberry Days in Mt. Airy, N.C., which was the home of thelateAndy Griffith. Griffith’s co-star onMatlock, Daniel Roebuck (Cliff) will also be there for his first Mayberry Days and the annual festival will also honor the late Betty Lynn....

It’s official:Colin Farrellwill reprise his role fromThe Batmanin a spinoff series for HBO Max. News ofThe Penguinentering development had previously been reported on, but DC has now officially announced that the series is a go at the streamer. Farrell also confirmed the news with a statement expressing his excitement to return to his scene-stealing role. “The world that Matt Reeves created forThe Batmanis one that warrants a deeper gaze through the eyes of Oswald Cobblepot," Farrell said, perThe Hollywood Reporter....

Looking atSofia Coppola’s body of work leading up to 2013’sThe Bling Ring, one wouldn’t think the director would want to take the project on. The real-life tale of a group of fame-obsessed teens that used the internet to track and steal from celebrities is a bit of a departure from her previous work that focused on the female perspective. However, Coppola tapped into an element of the story that is still relevant today....

The creators behind Netflix’sThe Toys That Made Usare back with a brand new seriesThe Movies That Made Us. The new series goes behind the scenes of movie classics and is coming out with some big guns. Season 1 is taking a deeper look atDie Hard,Ghostbusters,Home Alone, andDirty Dancing, which should be a hit right away. As it turns out, making these movies wasn’t exactly easy work as the trailer shows us....

The world of Dunder Mifflin has more offices than just the Scranton, PA branch formerly led by Michael Scott. Greg Daniels (who developed the original U.S. version ofThe Office) andMichael Koman (ofNathan For You)set up a writers' room in January 2024 to work on the next iteration of the series, which will take place at a different office location in the company. The first round of casting has been confirmed —Domhnall GleesonandSabrina Impacciatoreare confirmed to star in the show....

Netflix has just released the new trailer for the upcoming Western thrillerThe Power of the DogfeaturingDoctor StrangestarBenedict Cumberbatch. They truly teased us this summer with the teaser trailer for the film, but after viewing just two minutes and change, I think we’re all going to be glad of our Netflix subscriptions. Giddy up! The Netflix official synopsis forThe Power of the Dogreads, “Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud....

This July, have your voice be heard. The first TV spot for The Purge: Election Year has arrived. And it urges U.S. Citizens to purge. Because staying in is Un-American. Don’t let your freedoms get taken away. Show your support. This July 4th, Universal Pictures wants you to keep America great. Expanding the universe introduced in the hit franchise that electrified the culture and earned $200 million at the worldwide box office, Universal Pictures' The Purge: Election Year reveals thenext terrifying chapterthat occurs over 12 hours of annual lawlessness sanctioned by the New Founders of America to keep this country great....

It’s been a great summer forPolly Morgan; the cinematographer has had two movies release. The first wasWhere the Crawdads Singback in July, and the second — and the topic of our Zoom interview at Toronto International Film Festival 2022 — isThe Woman King, which had itsworld premiere at TIFFbefore it’s wider theatrical release this past weekend. “I actually got sent the script [forThe Woman King] while I was on-location in Louisiana [for]Where the Crawdads Sing,” Morgan says....

The Dark Knight is perhaps the darkest of all popular superheroes, and that amuses directorTim Burton, who can recall when people were criticizing him in the late 80s and early 90s for going that route with hisBatmanmovies. In 1989, Burton released his firstBatmanfilm with Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne. The two later collaborated on the sequel,Batman Returns, which was released in 1992. Burton walked away ahead of a planned third film due to some friction with the studio, and Keaton would soon after follow suit, leading to Joel Schumacher’sBatman Foreverwith Val Kilmer....

Exactly one week from today,Netflixwill debut their new seriesVoltron: Legendary Defender, offering a dose of nostalgia for fans of the 1980s cartoon this summer. To get everyone ready for this epic sic-fi adventure, we have a new clip and a sizzle reel, which teases an iconic moment from the original cartoon. This clip gives us our first look at the entire process of forming Voltron, after the Galra Empire sends a mighty Robeast to challenge the Paladins....

When it comes to the sticky web of TV and film rights, there can be very few that are as tangled asSpider-Man. Marvel sold the movie rights toSpider-Manmany years ago to Sony, long before the creation of the MCU. While that deal in itself had become quite contentious recently, with Disney and Sony falling out and making up to allow the inclusion of the webbed wonder in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, heading into the world of TV rights is an even more murky predicament to get involved in....

Perhaps it will be hard for some of you old timers to fathom, but for Millennials, Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord is a whole new generation’s Han Solo and Indiana Jones rolled into one.Guardians of the Galaxyis one of the biggest movies of this decade. And it’s a superhero movie that is quite unlike no other. At the heart of it all isPeter Quill, the dashing hero who is sweet, gentle, and kind of a self-centered doofus and asshole....

When you think of Britishsci-fimovies, what comes to mind? For many, it will be directors like Ridley Scott and Alex Garland being exemplary of UK filmmakers who have put a stamp on the genre with films likeAlienandEx Machina. However, outside the heavy hitters and big titles, British sci-fi movies largely go underappreciated; relegated to cult status, or completely ignored in America. These 10 movies don’t get nearly enough attention for their approach to sci-fi, whether it be innovative techniques, a clever approach to the genre, or being so over-the-top they had problems finding an audience....