Street Fighter
Estranged fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah
Centineo) are recruited by the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina
Liang) to enter the World Warrior Tournament. Beneath the
tournament lies a deadly criminal conspiracy tied to M. Bison (David
Dastmalchian). Ryu and Ken must confront past demons, wrestle with the dark
energy of the Satsui no Hado, and face off against each other before it results
in a game over. The film is set in 1993 and opens with an animated sequence
detailing the franchise's early arcade history.
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Animals (Netflix)
When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped,
he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the
ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his
political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty
and expose a side of
their
lives they never intended to see the light of day.
Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, the story
follows wealthy political outsider Mark Kimmell (Ben
Affleck) and his wife, Abigail (Kerry
Washington), as they navigate a high stakes
kidnapping. The kidnappers demand a massive ransom and
force Mark into a tense psychological and ethical
predicament involving class divide, corruption, and the
dark realities of his own public persona.
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Below (Netflix)
Hard bitten fisherman and iceberg harvester Calvin
Penney (Josh Hartnett) and marine
biologist Dr. Fonda Howander (Mackenzie Davis)
investigate a massive iceberg drifting into
the bay. The iceberg houses a giant deep-water
cephalopod (a mother squid) and her frozen egg-sac nest
fleeing warming Arctic waters. Local merchant-class
families (the Crockers) exploit the terror to force a
community relocation and clear the village for copper
and cobalt mining. A 6 episode mystery, drama, and
horror miniseries created by Jesse McKeown.
The Buzz...
HBO has given a two season order to the new half
hour animated comedy Merrick & Treves,
which comes from three alums from FX’s
long-running Archer: Adam Reed,
Casey Willis and Lucky Yates.
Riding
the wave of interest in Netflix’s mini series
East of Eden, Florence Pugh
is the most popular star of the week on IMDb. Her
co-stars Christopher Abbott and Mike
Faist, who play the Trask brothers in the John
Steinbeck adaptation, also made the top 10.
Ava DuVernay’s 14th led all films
with six nominations for the 11th annual Critics
Choice Documentary Awards, the
Critics Choice Association.
Marvel and Sony’s Spider-Man: Brand New
Day involved nearly 2,000 VFX shots and just 24
weeks of post production, with 445 shots delivered in a
single week, overall VFX supervisor Jerome
Chen revealed.
Girls is coming back. HBO has ordered a
limited run of five episodes of Lena Dunham’s
hit comedy with the majority of the original cast
confirmed to return.
A reboot of The X-Files shepherded by Ryan
Coogler has landed a series order at Hulu.
The Sinners filmmaker has been developing the
project for several years, and he wrote and directed the
pilot episode. Coogler will be an executive producer on
the series, with Jennifer Yale
(Underground, See) serving as showrunner.
Fashion drama series Bella From Barneys
received a series order from Amazon MGM
Studios with Fake Empire’s Josh
Schwartz and Stephanie Savage set
to create, executive produce and showrun.
Mark Harmon and Michael
Weatherly will be back on screen together for the
first time in a decade. The duo will reunite for an
episode for NCIS: Origins. The reunion
finds Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Harmon) returning to NCIS’
D.C. headquarters to enlist the help of new director
Tony Dinozzo (Weatherly) after Gibbs was shot by unknown
assailants in the Origins season premiere on Oct. 6.
Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes marked the
lowest rated of the season so far, losing a massive 4
million viewers from the previous week’s season high.
Kelsey Grammer may soon be returning to
NBC. 20 years after the end of his hit sitcom
Frasier, the 71 year old Emmy winning actor
will be starring in and executive producing the new Emt
drama series Pops currently in development at the
network.
Filming for The Housemaid’s Secret
has officially begun. Sydney Sweeney and
Michele Morrone filmed scenes for the
upcoming sequel to their hit 2025 thriller The Housemaid
on Wednesday afternoon in Hoboken, New Jersey.