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Now Stream This: More Of The Best Movies To Stream For The Halloween Season (Welcome toNow Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) Holy Great Pumpkin, folks, Halloween just a little bit over a week away! Time is running out, so if you haven’t pieced together your costume for the year or carved several season gourds yet, you better get cracking!...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s New Movie Has Begun Filming [UPDATED] UPDATE:Focus Features has officially announced the start of production on Paul Thomas Anderson’s untitled movie and their press release includes this plot description: “The new movie is a drama set in the couture world of 1950s London. The story illuminates the life behind the curtain of an uncompromising dressmaker commissioned by royalty and high society.” There is no release date, but the film will be released later this year....

Russell Crowe Talks Up The “Supersonic” Superman In ‘Man Of Steel’ There’s a lot we don’t know aboutMan of Steel. Taking cues from producerChristopher Nolan,Zack Snyderand the team at Warner Bros. have kept details of the film hidden to the greatest degree possible. The teaser and trailer give us a few clues — this seems to be an action movie wrapped in a melancholy outer shell. But even with the glimpses of otherwordly images seen in the trailer, we have little real info to go on when it comes to plotting out the more remote locations visited in the film....

Shining Girls Showrunner Silka Luisa Wants To Keep You Guessing [Interview] Murder mystery shows have been a staple of television for decades, but since the true crime boom, it feels like there has been a tidal wave of shows about traumatized detectives or reporters who are desperately trying to stop an active serial killer. On paper, the intriguing new Apple TV+ series “Shining Girls” seems like it might fall into that same category....

Sony Accidentally Uploaded An Entire Movie To YouTube Instead Of A Trailer You may not have heard of the filmKhali the Killer, but for a brief, shining moment today, you could’ve watched the whole film for free. Because some unlucky intern at Sony accidentally uploaded the entire movie to the Sony YouTube page, instead of uploading the trailer. Whoops. In 2014, a hacker group hacked Sony Pictures, releasing confidential data, emails and even screeners of then-unreleased films....

Spider-Man Director Jon Watts Reveals His Comic Book Influences Marvel and Sony’s newSpider-Manwon’t make his big-screen debut for another seven months, and he won’t get his own solo film for another 15 months after that. As such, it’s going to be a while before we get any concrete plot details about the rebooted franchise. But in the meantime, directorJon Wattsis dropping some intriguing hints. In a new interview, he revealed which books he’s reading as research for his new Spider-Man movie....

Squid Game Creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk Planted Clues For Season 2 In Season 1 In this day and age, it’s always good to have a backup plan in your pocket, just in case your would-be one-off project unexpectedly skyrockets in popularity and you suddenly find the entire world breathing down your neck, demanding more (or maybe it’s really only Netflix that’s doing that). Lucky for Hwang Dong-hyuk, that’s exactly what he did when he wrote and directed “Squid Game” season 1, leaving just enough plot threads dangling so as to assure he would have somewhere to go in a second season....

Star Wars Bits: ‘Solo’ Easter Eggs, Deep Cut References, And The Legendary Cameo That Never Was In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Solo: A Star Wars Storymight’ve underperformed at the box office, but it definitely didn’t underperform when it comes to easter eggs. Not justStar Warseaster eggs though, asSyFydiscovered there are also some pop culture easter eggs from classics like the Indiana Jones movies andBack to the Future. TheStar Wars Storymovies have brought us some fantastic new droids in the form ofRogue One’sK-2SO andSolo’sL3-37, and some fans have been wondering if the sassy sidekicks might’ve made a good couple....

Superhero Bits: ‘DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow’ Gets Animated, ‘Howard The Duck’ 4K Release & More Why isDC’s Legends of Tomorrowgetting animated for the sixth season? What doesWyatt Russellthink ofU.S. Agent’s “new” costume onThe Falcon and The Winter Soldier? What didMichael B. Jordanhave to say about rumors of him possibly playing the newSuperman? WillEli Bradleybe part of the future of theMarvel Cinematic Universe? IsHoward the Duckgetting a 4K release? All that and more in this edition ofSuperhero Bits....

The ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Poster Is Here! Before the new trailer forStar Wars: The Force Awakensarrives tomorrow, a new official poster for the sci-fi saga sequel has arrived, finally putting some of the characters we’ve seen in the previous teaser trailers into the frame. The artwork is mostly what we’ve come to expect from theStar Warsmarketing campaign after six movies preceding it, though it does seem to be missing that Drew Struzan touch....

The 2016 Black List Reveals The Latest Batch Of Hollywood’s Best Unproduced Screenplays The annual “Black List” of best unproduced screenplays is interesting in the moment but fascinating in the long run. What looks like a list of unfamiliar titles now could, in a few years, become a list of actual movies that have hit theaters, found audiences, won awards, made a ton of money bombed horribly, developed horrifying reputations, and led to bitter Twitter arguments....

The Essex Serpent Clip: Claire Danes Can’t Pay For Friendship [Exclusive] If you were missing the goth, sultry vibes of Guillermo Del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” then you’ve clicked on the right headline, because Apple TV+ is serving up a heavy helping of cute ladies crying in dresses that look like they came from a collaboration line between your local Hot Topic and your local renaissance festival. I know the renaissance was a different era, but the drunks at your local renaissance festival sure as hell don’t know that (and neither do I, when I am drunk at the renaissance festival aka my annual booze cheat day)....

The Matrix Resurrections Star Jessica Henwick Helps Bring The Matrix Back To Life [Interview] Audiences couldn’t have asked for a much cooler tour guide through The Matrix than Bugs. The new hero, played by actress Jessica Henwick, helps ease viewers back into the Wachowskis' world with a bang in “The Matrix Resurrections.” Bugs is, as Henwick says, the audience’s eyes, and the performer has a lot of heavy lifting to do, not only with the action, explaining the how and the why of this new movie, but she makes it all play cool and smooth....