Author: Bill Watters

Thus far in 2017, Fox has been dragging their feet when it comes to placing orders for new television pilots. One interesting comment has come from Fox chairman Gary Newman in speaking with Deadline that he expects a final draft of an X-Men series penned by Matt Nix (Burn Notice, Complications, The Good Guys) to […]

Francine York is a name that might not jump out as someone you immediately recognize, but her television credits is an amazing who-who list of most of the classic series from the beginnings of the 1960s onward. Sadly it has been announced today that she passed away at the age of 80 after a battle with […]

In an ironic twist, HBO has had a documentary titled Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds focused on the mother/daughter duo waiting on the shelf since premiering it back at Cannes. It had been intended to be premiered in March, but in light of their passing, HBO has decided to move the date up to January 7th at 8 p.m. (ET/PT).

It comes as no real shock that Rogue One continues to dominate the holiday season box office. With a midweek boost in response to the recent passing of Carrie Fisher, the Star Wars Expanded Universe film has racked up another $153 million at the domestic box office (its total worldwide take is nearing $700 million […]

Vikings is a series that’s never been shy about killing off its characters, with a nearly Game of Thrones-level of nonchalance. This week was no exception, and while the fate of King Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Frimmel) has long been expected by fans of the History Channel’s first scripted series, there had always been the hope that the series writer Michael Hirst would give us more time.

It’s been a hard day for fandom as everyone struggles to come to terms with the passing of actress Carrie Fisher as well as author Richard Adams earlier today. The outpouring of sentiments on social media included both eulogies specific to those who passed away today, as well as a general feeling that 2016 has been a […]

It’s Christmas Eve, and we’re flipping through the movie collection trying to decide what to watch. Sure, there’s the obvious traditional fare, like A Muppet’s Christmas Carol, A Christmas Story, and It’s A Wonderful Life. But you might as well hold off on those, since you’re likely to spend some part of the holidays watching […]

Let’s caveat that if you intentionally don’t watch trailers for movies because you don’t want anything spoiled, then this isn’t the post for you. We’ve gone through the entire trailer frame by frame and picked out some of the most badass moments in there. Though really, you’ll want to go back and watch it for […]

Directly Ridley Scott has decided to give us all a bit of an early Christmas present with the dropping of the first trailer for Alien: Covenant. Over the last week we’ve been being teased with various images from the film and from on-set, most notably Katherine Waterston as Daniels and believed to be the character […]

Denzel Washington’s passion project shows that when he has a vision, he is willing to take the long road if it means getting it right. Fences is a powerful and brilliantly acted film adaptation of the late playwright August Wilson’s stage production about an African-American family living in Pittsburgh in the mid-1950s.