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Apple TV unveiled the trailer for "Brothers," the new comedy series starring and executive produced by Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey and Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson, and showrun and executive produced by multi-Emmy Award nominee and Peabody Award winner Lee Eisenberg. The eight-episode comedy will premiere on Apple TV with the first two episodes on Wednesday, September 23, followed by one new episode every Wednesday through November 4, 2026...

A new way to experience Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is here. Serving as the director's follow-up to 2023's Oppenheimer, the action epic chronicles the story of Matt Damon's Odysseus, and his arduous journey home after the Trojan War. The Odyssey hit theaters on July 17 and continues to dominate in theaters, with critics and audiences alike largely blown away by the sheer spectacle. As the film remains available on the big screen, a new release for the title is now here in the form of Filming the Odyssey: Inside the Making of Christopher Nolan's Modern Epic. The Barnes & Noble Exclusive Edition, which features a unique cloth cover design and two 8x10 art prints, is now available for purchase for $70. The standard hardcover edition of the book retails for $75. the Insight Editions book features concept art, interviews with Nolan and other key creatives, set photos, and more. Written by James Mottram with a foreword by Damon, the book has been designed to serve as the ultimate companion piece to the movie, revealing how Nolan brought his epic vision to life across 280 pages...

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's independent studio Artists Equity has launched the fourth round of its Writers' Room program. Affleck (Good Will Hunting, The Town), Damon (Good Will Hunting, The Last Duel) and Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, Dune) will lead the program and provide the writers with regular feedback. All three are Oscar winners for screenwriting. Over 12 weeks, eight writers will be split across two rooms to develop original screenplays for Artists Equity's slate. The writers can pitch ideas across a range of genres, with rooms then launched around selected concepts...

Canal Plus' StudioCanal unveiled the global launch of catalogue label StudioCanal Classics to further bolster "its ambitious editorial strategy across the StudioCanal catalogue, which is one of the most prestigious film libraries in the world." It boasts more than 18,000 titles, making it "the largest library outside the U.S., spanning 100 years of film history," StudioCanal highlighted. "Over the past seven years, StudioCanal has invested close to 25 million euros ($29 million) into the 4K restoration of nearly 1,000 classic feature films. StudioCanal's restoration strategy gives both longtime cinephiles and the Letterboxd generation the opportunity to experience classics as they were meant to be seen – on the big screen." StudioCanal also noted that its territory footprint spans the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand, with the company also distributing via partners in Scandinavia and South Africa. Among the theatrical releases from StudioCanal Classics has been Michael Mann's Manhunter to mark the 40th anniversary with the release of a 4k restoration, Michael Mann's Manhunter: The Final Cut. Developed in partnership with StudioCanal, the new restoration opened in U.S. cinemas on July 24. Following its debut at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in the U.S. last month. The restoration opens in U.K. cinemas on Sept. 25 September. Similarly, to mark the 35th anniversary of James Cameron's landmark sci-fi action classic, Terminator 2: Judgment Day will return to the big screen in 2D, 3D, 4DX and D-BOX, opening in theaters worldwide beginning on Thursday, Aug. 27. Other StudioCanal Classics titles include the likes of Apocalypse Now, Basic Instinct, Paddington, Rambo, The Graduate and The Third Man...

Next year is going to be big for "One Piece." The popular franchise that recently became the best-selling comic series of all time (tied with "Superman") should be ending the stunning Elbaph arc in 2027 as it closes in on the story's actual end. That same year, we're getting the Netflix anime remake "The One Piece," which is meant to be a more streamlined and better-animated retelling of the first couple of arcs from the manga, and we're also getting Season 3 of the live-action "One Piece" series that has surpassed all expectations of what a live-action anime adaptation can be. Now there's even more news, with the announcement coming over the weekend that "One Piece" is finally getting a new anime movie...

The other side of Tim Curry.The game "Cluedo" (later known, especially in the U.S., as simply "Clue") was created in 1943 by British board game designer Anthony E. Pratt as an encapsulation and homage to detective fiction and murder mystery games that were rampantly popular at the time. Pratt sought to boil the genre down to its essence in game form and seemed especially influenced by the works of Agatha Christie, whose seminal 1939 novel "And Then There Were None" must've provided Pratt with a workable blueprint. As such, a movie version of "Clue" was always going to be archetypal in its structure and basic characterizations. Director and screenwriter Jonathan Lynn embraces these qualities at every turn in the film. It even begins on a literal dark and stormy night. Being a consummate, savvy performer, Tim Curry certainly realized this and leaned into it as well. That's not to say his fellow ensemble cast members didn't; quite the opposite, as each of them delivers performances that are just as quintessential as Curry's. However, while folks like Madeline Kahn (as Mrs. White) and Martin Mull (as Colonel Mustard) had more freedom to dig into the caricatures of their characters, much of the film depends on Curry's choices, given that he's the movie's de facto host and leading man. Thus, the actor brings a delightfully manic, twisted emcee energy to Wadsworth, often delivering exposition while literally on the run.  The combination of a butler's obsequiousness and Wadsworth's nervousness about being a potential victim, and, alternatively, his excitement at putting together the clues, makes Curry the most dynamic character in a film full of eccentric, hilarious people. He is, for all intents and purposes, the definitive murder mystery butler. Perhaps all this high-wire work was much ado about nothing for the jaded audiences of 1985, who considered a movie based on a board game somehow cheap. Yet for those of us who know it's all about the craft no matter the source, "Clue" and Curry's legendary performance in it will be eternal. Courtesy Bill Bria..