TV and Movie News (page 494)

'The Walking Dead' Season Seven is Finally Here
October 20, 2016 @ 1:29 pm PST    The Walking Dead     EG    
The series has been able to keep fans hooked through the summer with its season-ending cliffhanger. Now the wait is over, and those fans are bracing for the cliffhanger's brutal resolution.

New 'Black Mirror' Season Showcases Tech Horror
October 19, 2016 @ 1:14 pm PST    Black Mirror, Stranger Things, American Horror Story, Jurassic World, Boardwalk Empire     EG    
It's a good time to be a fan of horror TV. High-quality, scary TV series are everywhere these days, and new episodes of one of the best, scariest series hit Netflix at the end of this week.

New Movies October 21: A Scary Busy Week at the Box Office
October 19, 2016 @ 12:54 pm PST    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Boo! A Madea Halloween, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Ouija, Keeping Up with the Joneses     EG    
Theaters were already filled with movies that have been hanging around for the past several weeks, but a whopping four new movies join the crowd this weekend. Good luck sorting them all out.

Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood to Star in Stephen King's 'Gerald's Game'
October 18, 2016 @ 9:03 am PST    Hush, Oculus, Watchmen, Star Trek Into Darkness     EG    
Horror director Mike Flanagan agreed to make an adaptation of King's novel for Netflix two years ago, but the project just this week announced its principal cast.

'Kevin Can Wait,''Bull' and 'MacGyver' Get Full Seasons
October 18, 2016 @ 8:36 am PST    Kevin Can Wait, Bull, MacGyver (2016), This Is Us, Lethal Weapon, Speechless, Designated Survivor     EG    
Three of CBS' new series have been doing well enough this fall to get orders for nine more episodes each.

'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Goes Mainstream on Fox
October 18, 2016 @ 8:15 am PST    The Rocky Horror Picture Show, High School Musical , Grease: Live     EG    
Fox's new version of the cult classic jettisons subversive grown-up humor in favor of Disney-esque production values.

'Walking Dead' Gets an Eighth Season
October 18, 2016 @ 7:41 am PST    The Walking Dead     EG    
AMC is so confident that you'll be clamoring for more Walking Dead after this week's premiere of season seven that the network has already signed up for season eight.

Weekend Box Office: 'The Accountant' Exceeds Expectations
October 16, 2016 @ 2:00 pm PST    The Accountant, Kevin Hart: What Now?, The Girl on the Train, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Deepwater Horizon, Storks, The Magnificent Seven, The Birth of a Nation, Jack Reacher, Keeping Up with the Joneses, Ouija, Inferno, Doctor Strange     EG    
Ben Affleck's The Accountant did better at the box office than most experts predicted it would do. That's good news during an otherwise ho-hum Hollywood weekend.

Aubrey Plaza Horror Series Gets Pilot at TBS
October 14, 2016 @ 9:26 am PST    Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Dirty Grandpa     EG    
The 'Parks and Rec' star gets her chance to create a funny/scary pilot for consideration by TBS, and it sounds totally insane.

Fox Orders a Full Season of 'Lethal Weapon'
October 14, 2016 @ 9:07 am PST    Lethal Weapon, MacGyver (2016), The Exorcist, Frequency     EG    
There was some question of whether or not all the reboot series on TV this fall would be successful. This week, one of them got an indication that it's being at least successful enough.