FX gave everyone a late Christmas present when it released a teaser trailer for Atlanta season 3. After nearly a four year hiatus the hit show is returning to FX on March 24th. Atlanta follows the crazy lives of Atlanta residents Earn, Darius, Alfred, and Van — played by Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, LaKeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz the group tries to live through the craziness of the music and entertainment industry along with dealing with social and personal issues. Little is known about season 3 from the trailer, but it looks like Paper Boi is on tour, and Earn who is his cousin and also manager is dealing with life on the road. If you’re looking for a great show with a great cast then Atlanta is where it’s at, even though judging from the teaser trailer below how much of season 3 will be taking place in Atlanta. Check out the teaser trailer below. And be sure to tune into FX on March 24th for Season 3:
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Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn are movie stars who share a great admiration for each other, and it took a great director to bring them together. That director happens to be Paul Thomas Anderson’s whose latest movie, ‘Licorice Pizza’ is now playing. ‘Licorice Pizza’ is a drama-comedy coming of age story. It revolves around Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up and running around and going through the scary thing called first love in the San Fernando Valley in 1973. Anderson also wrote the film. The film is currently playing in select theaters. Bradley Cooper has always looked up to Sean Penn and was even filmed on Inside the Actors Studio back in the day asking him a question. And when Cooper directed A Star Is Born, Penn went on his little press tour promoting how good the movie was and put Cooper over. And now they’re finally in the same film together. Thanks, Paul. The movie also stars Alana Haim, Tom Waits, Cooper Hoffman, and Jon Peters. Check out the trailer below:
This December Guillermo Del Toro returns with Nightmare Alley. This will be the the first film since 2017’s Oscar-winning The Shape of Water, that Del Toro returns to the directors chair. Nightmare Alley was written by Del Toro and Kim Morgan, adapted by the novel by William Lindsay Gresham. The film will star Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Cate Blanchett, and William Dafoe. The film follows an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is. Checking out the trailer the film looks like a mix of horror and a psychological thriller. This film had a lot of hurdles getting out, and were glad that it’s finally hitting the theaters. The film has an all star cast, and with Del Toro behind the camera it is surely going to be a must see his holiday season. The film is a remake of the cult classic 1947 film of the same name. Check out the trailer below.
We had the awesome opportunity to talk to director, Kellie Madison about her new film Never Back Down: Revolt. Check out our interview below. Never Back Down: Revolt revolves around a woman who is kidnapped and forced to compete in elite underground fights as she battles to way back to freedom. AOTN: So what got you interested in making films like and doing all this stuff? KELLIE MADISON: I always knew I was going to be an entertainment. Since I was a super young child, and I always knew, but it has had an evolution. It went from actor to writer to producer to director and that order, okay. And so I thought I wanted to be an actor. But then, once, I felt like I got good at it. I was like, Okay, this is I feel like I tackled it. You know, I studied and studied, but now I’m like, Ah, you know, it’s not as fulfilling for me. So then I just got bit by the filmmaking bug. Still, I’m grateful for the acting …
The always busy legendary rock band the Foo Fighters are going to be in movie. It was recently revealed that he band which were just recently inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame have announced that they are going to be in a horror-comedy movie called Studio 666. The movie which was shot in secret will be about a legendary band that rents a haunted Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history, to record their 10th album. Trouble starts a brewing when the front man, Grohl is creatively blocked, and when evil forces in the house sink into his consciousness, the creative juices begin flowing but so does the blood. Can the Foo Fighters’ complete the album without meeting a bloody end? The Foo’s are comprised of bandmates Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Rami Jaffee, and Chris Shiflett. The film was directed by BJ McDonnell. The film will also star Jenna Ortega, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jeff Garlin, and Whitney Cummings. Open Road Films has acquired worldwide rights to the film and will …
News has just broke through various media outlets that Squid Games will be back for a season 2. The hit series hit Netflix a few months back and took the world by storm. The series was the number one rated show on Netflix and was seen by millions of people. Fans wanted more, and they have gotten their wish. Squid Games is a South Korean drama series that revolves around survival games with a deadly twist. The show was created by Hwang Dong-hyuk and had a nine episodes. We loved the series and look forward to seeing what the future holds. “There’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season. So I almost feel like you leave us no choice!” Hwang told the Associated Press on the Monday night. Hwang also added that that lead actor Lee Jung-jae will return as main character Seong Gi-hun.
The hit comedy show Reservation Dogs has all ready been renewed for a second season. The show premiered in early August on FX and Hulu. The show was created by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi and revolves around four indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, as they commit crimes and fight it out all in effort to get to California. The cast of young actors do a great job. The cast includes Devery Jacobs as Elora, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai as Bear Smallhill, Lane Factor as Cheese, and Paulina Alexis as Willie Jack. Each character on the show has a story to tell and the casting is great. Comedy heavyweights Bobby Lee (Mad Tv, Bad Friends Podcast) and Bill Burr (The Mandalorian, F is For Family) make special cameos. The show deals with a lot of things from growing up in a rural town, poverty, racial inequality, and even suicide. And the comedy in the show helps balance out the sometimes dark subject matter. Music is another great thing in the show. Each episode seems to end with the perfect song that the …
If you are a fan of vampire films Shudder has a treat for you. Landing on the horror streaming service is Jakob’s Wife. The film stars the beautiful Barbara Crampton who is no stranger at getting bloody. Crampton stars as a bored house wife named Anne who is married to a small town minister. After an encounter with “The Master” Anne starts having a new sense of power and a bit bolder, but the change comes at the cost of a high body count. The film was produced and directed by Travis Stevens with a screenplay by Stevens, Kathy Charles, and Mark Streensland. The film also stars Larry Fessenden as Pastor Jakob, C.M. Punk, and Bonnie Aarons. So for a bloody good time be sure to check out Jakob’s Wife streaming on Shudder starting tomorrow. Check out the official trailer below of Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden vampire film ‘Jakob’s Wife’ below:
Chucky the killer doll from the 80s that horror fans have come to love is getting his own television series this October. The television series is being created by Childs Play creator Don Mancini who has been with the franchise from the very beginning and helped make Chucky a world wide sensation. The series will serve as a continuation of Cult of Chucky the seventh film in the Childs Play franchise. Brad Dourif will return as the voice of Chucky as well as series regulars Alex Vincent, Christine Elise McCarthy, Jennifer Tilly, and Fiona Dourif. Joining the series in recurring roles will be Devon Sawa, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Lex Doig. During Comic-Con@Home it was revealed by Mancini revealed that the protagonist of the series will be a gay teen named Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur) who is struggling with his sexuality while growing up in a small town. Mancini who is a gay man also revealed that he made it his mission to steer the series back to the tone of Childs Play. Check out the The Legacy of Chucky …
Dimitri Logothetis knows a thing or two about movies. Dimitri acted in a few movies as a child, including The Choirboys, New York, New York, and Victory at Entebbe. Dimitri has worn many hats in the entertainment industry, including producer, writer, and director. We had the incredible opportunity to interview the busy director about his movies Kickboxer and his latest film Jiu Jitsu which stars, Nicolas Cage and is now streaming at #4 on Netflix. AOTN: What is it like working with a major studio? DIMITRI LOGOTHETIS: You know, the majority of my work is independent. 75% independent? And I do about 25% of major studio stuff. Which is a longer road because you need to, you know, build your resume. You need to work at the studio, and the studio needs to agree. You get an actor, and maybe there not available. So you go through a lot of development. You know, you have to fly by the seat of your pants when you’re ready to go. And most of the time, what I tell everybody is, you know, …
Michael Connelly knows a thing or two about justice and murder. The writer/creator has been writing about those very things for decades and is showing no signs of slowing down. Connelly is probably best known as the creator of the hit show Bosch, which is in its seventh season. The films Blood Work and The Lincoln Lawyer are based on Connelly’s books. It was recently announced that Netflix had ordered a series based on The Lincoln Lawyer with famed television showrunner David E. Kelly. With all that going on, Connelly has still found time to write and make podcasts (Murder Book), and now The Wonderland Murders & The Secret History of Hollywood, which is available on Audible. AOTN: What got you into writing about crime and mystery? MICHAEL CONNELLY: It’s almost like all these dominoes of faith had to fall. And then again, but one of the key things was when I was 16, I witnessed a witness in a case where I saw a guy hiding a gun and using it to shoot somebody. And so I spent a …