Tim Burton has cast his new Gomez for Netflix’s forthcoming live-action Addams Family drama Wednesday in the form of veteran comic actor Luis Guzman.
Star Wars ‘The Bad Batch’ has been renewed for second season
LucasFilm/Disney have announced that animated Star Wars show The Bad Batch has been renewed for a second season on Disney Plus; expected to release in 2022. 
‘The Purge 5 Movie Collection ‘ & ‘The Forever Purge’ coming to BluRay
As well as latest installment ‘The Forever Purge‘ getting it’s own 4K UHD & Blu-Ray release, all five ‘Purge’ films will be released as part of the new ‘The Purge: 5-Movie Collection’ BluRay/DVD set. Both releases are due on September 28th 2021.
‘Welcome to an America where all crimes are legal for one night a year and The Forever Purge, in The Purge 5-Movie Collection. A family finds their home under siege by a mob that will stop at nothing to kill them in The Purge. The Purge: Anarchy finds five strangers banding together to take down the bloodthirsty gangs who pursue them. When a presidential candidate threatens their rule in The Purge: Election Year, the government targets her for assassination on Purge Night. The prequel The First Purge welcomes you to the movement that began as a sociological experiment in one isolated community, but spread across the nation. In The Forever Purge one night is not enough as the chaos continues into daylight. Set in a future only a few years away, The Purge 5- Movie Collection is an explosive series of pulse-pounding thrillers where anyone can get away with murder!’
The real-life horror stories behind American Horror Story
With news emerging of an American Horror Story spinoff project by creator Ryan Murphy, fans of the show are understandably excited. Some are also beginning to wonder just how different it will be to Murphy’s original AHS, a show which drew a lot of inspiration from history with several characters based on real-life people and horrific historical events.
Review: The War Master – Killing Time
Review by Jacob Licklider
What made the first two instalments of The War Master work incredibly well was the decision to have the Master acting as a background character, working his scheme and influencing people to do things that seem to be good before things fall right apart at the end and it turns out the Master’s been in control all along. Killing Time, the sixth installment (though the fifth to be recorded, switched due to the COVID-19 pandemic) places the Master on the Stagnant Protocol. The planet is one that is out of the way and only noticed when people think that it can be taken over for its own gain. Currently there is a viral plague which the government has been inefficiently handling allowing for a new empress to take power with the Master working from behind the scenes. Now, this series was recorded in 2019 before the COVID-19 virus even existed, yet James Goss and Lou Morgan, in writing a science fiction set where the government doesn’t take the plague seriously, and the scientists are trying desperately to find a cure to the variants. In the behind the scenes interviews, the absurdism of Goss and Morgan’s premises for these episodes, as they weren’t expecting a global pandemic to take the world into one where the situation of the Stagnant Protocol is one that we now all know far too well. Even more coincidentally, this isn’t the only time this happened for Big Finish, two main range releases were delayed for similar reasons.
‘Scream’ getting 4K BluRay release
Wes Craven’s modern classic 1996 slasher hit ‘Scream’ is being released on 4K UHD BluRay from Paramount.
Kevin Smith documentary ‘Clerk’ gets release date.
The documentary Clerk from director Malcom Ingram (Small Town Gay Bar, Out To Win) explores the life and career of filmmaker and multi-hyphenate Kevin Smith. The film which had its premiere in March at SXSW and will now get a digital release on November 23rd 2021 thanks to a distribution deal with 1091 Pictures (The Last Blockbuster). 
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First look and release date for Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series
We now have our first look at Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings television series. The series is a a prequel to both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings; with the events taking place thousands of years before the events of those books. The series is headed by showrunners/exec producers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay with film-maker J.A. Bayona directing the first two episodes and serving as executive producer, alongside his creative partner Belén Atienza; with executive producers Lindsey Weber, Bruce Richmond, Callum Greene, Gennifer Hutchison, Jason Cahill, Justin Doble and Sharon Tal Yguado. It will be released exclusively on Amazon Prime.
Noel Clarke officially removed from his production company ‘Unstoppable’
Noel Clarke has officially been removed from his production company, Unstoppable Film and TV, following multiple sexual misconduct and bullying allegations that emerged against the British actor this spring.
Review – Kringle Time
Kringle Time is a new dark comedy feature debut from director Matthew Lucas, who self-produced and financed the project with writer Zan Gillies. The film is out now in North America on TVOD, BluRay & DVD from Gravitas Ventures.
When Kringles (Vernon Wells, “The Road Warrior,” “Commando”) — the singing, dancing snowman on a popular kids’ show — drops dead on live TV, a citywide crisis brings several small town characters out of the woodwork. To keep the ship afloat, a down-on-his-luck station manager named Jerry (Benny Elledge, “Happy,” “Gotham”) must don the Kringles costume himself. But the cast and crew are rooting against him, the added pressure is too much for his girlfriend (Gigi Edgley, “Farscape”), and the mayor (Jeff Wincott, “Night Heat”) won’t stop pestering him about building a pointless memorial statue. To make matters worse, the ghost of Kringles returns to haunt Jerry, revealing a dark secret that he carried to the grave. With Kringles’ reputation on the line, Jerry has to choose what his legacy will be as the man beneath the mask.
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