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How Shemar Moore’s New S.W.A.T. Spinoff Changes CBS’ 8-Season Action Series (Exclusive)
EXCLUSIVE: S.W.A.T. is gearing up for a highly-anticipated return, and things will be somewhat different this time around. 2025 saw the cancellation of the original CBS incarnation of the action-packed police procedural series, but that bad news was quickly followed by good news, as Sony Pictures Television ordered ten episodes of a S.W.A.T. spinoff series bringing back Shemar Moore as veteran officer Hondo.
Mark Wahlberg's Sci-Fi Thriller Infinite Finds Streaming Salvation
Mark Wahlberg and sci-fi have a very complicated relationship. It’s true that three of the star’s biggest box office hits belong to the science fiction genre, with Transformers: Age of Extinction topping the list as Wahlberg’s only movie to surpass $1 billion worldwide. Unfortunately, two of those three blockbuster movies are also among the star’s lowest-rated on Rotten Tomatoes, along with a handful of other critical sci-fi bombs.
Will Smith’s I Am Legend 2 Officially Avoids One Flaw From First Movie
Will Smith's long-awaited I Am Legend sequel promises to be a safe space for those who hated the first movie's most controversial story development. Fans of post-apocalyptic action were likely already on-board for the long-awaited follow-up to Smith’s 2007 box office hit, following the 2022 announcement that I Am Legend 2 was indeed finally happening, bringing back the first film’s star alongside new cast member Michael B. Jordan.
Monster Season 4 Changes Netflix's Most Controversial Series In 1 Major Way
EXCLUSIVE: Monster season 4 is breaking with series tradition in more ways than one. Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Netflix anthology show continues exploring famous murder cases from across American history, with the new season focusing on notorious axe murderer Lizzie Borden (Ella Beatty).
Task Season 2 Release Date Gets Disappointing New Update From HBO CEO
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. It will be a tall task getting Mark Ruffalo’s crime-fighting crew back together in time for next year's awards season. The Emmy-winning Task season 1 starred the MCU's Ruffalo as the head of a special FBI team assembled to stop a crew of robbers responsible for violently taking down a series of drug houses around Philadelphia.
Holiday Cult Classic Sequel The Family Stone 2 Brings Back 10 OG Actors
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. The Family Stone 2 is bringing back much of the cast of the original holiday cult classic. The long-awaited sequel has just added Claire Danes as Julie Morton, Rachel McAdams as Amy Stone, Dermot Mulroney as Everett Stone, Craig T.
BBC's New Historical Epic Based On 167-Year-Old Classic Earns Stellar Rotten Tomatoes Score
It’s a case of great expectations realized for a new BBC period epic. Or perhaps it’s really a case of realistic expectations realized, given the network’s reputation for producing quality prestige series. That reputation began to be built in the 1970s with such multi-season shows as Downton Abbey precursor Upstairs, Downstairs, and such limited series as I, Claudius, starring Patrick Stewart.
Baywatch Season 2's Fate Seemingly Sealed Ahead Of Fox's New Reboot Premiere
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. FOX's Baywatch reboot gets a big season 2 update months before the show's premiere. It appears Baywatch season 2 is on the way after comments by an L.A. official to local lawmakers.
Stanley Kubrick's Last Movie Eyes Wide Shut & Rumored Missing 20 Minutes Get An Official Statement From Daughter
Stanley Kubrick conspiracy theorists might want to sit down for this one. Ever since moon-landing skeptics first advanced a story claiming the director had helped NASA fake Apollo 11’s historic touchdown, Kubrick’s filmography has become much-loved fodder for those who enjoy dubious dot-connecting.
Guy Ritchie Star Explains The Gentlemen Season 2’s Crucial New Gangster & Relationship With Eddie And Susie
EXCLUSIVE: It’s not easy being the adopted daughter of a mob kingpin. Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen is set in the world of such criminals and their sometimes-non-criminal family members, revolving specifically around the exploits of the aristocratic Eddie (Theo James) as he breaks bad with assistance from mob boss Susie (Kaya Scoldelario), who runs her father’s underworld enterprises while he’s in prison.
Two Sopranos Alums Set Reunion For New Mob Drama Based On True Events
This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. A Sopranos reunion is in the offing as a pair of series stalwarts get together for a new mob drama. UnderGround Zero: 9/11 & The Mob brings Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa on-board for an audio drama from iHeart Podcasts and Thoroughbred Studios (via Deadline). The show premiered September 1.
Jennifer Lawrence’s Rare 101-Minute Movie Lands New Streaming Home This Week
The versatile Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly set to return to a genre where she has made a comfortable home over the years, reprising the role of Katniss Everdeen in the dystopian YA drama prequel Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. This after playing Katniss in all installments of the original four-movie Hunger Games trilogy of stories. But Lawrence’s output spans many genres besides the Hunger Games brand of sci-fi/action aimed at young adults.
Ridley Scott Backtracks Alien: Romulus Review Ahead Of Proposed Sci-Fi Follow-Up
The legendary director behind 1979’s original Alien movie has ducked in and out of the franchise in the years since, surrendering the helm for many decades before re-engaging with the polarizing pair of Prometheus and Covenant, only to exit again. 2024’s Alien: Romulus continued the sci-fi saga without Scott as director, who later made remarks indicating he was finally done with all things xenomorph-related.
Robert De Niro & Michael Keaton's First-Ever Scene Together In New Netflix Thriller Explained By Director & Star
Robert De Niro’s latest teaming with a fellow movie icon led to something he can only call “really good.” It was also really good when the Oscar-winner for Raging Bull made his first-ever on-screen appearance with the equally legendary Al Pacino in Heat, a pairing that led to explosions of joy for many movie fans.
New Riveting Spy Series With Former James Bond Star Officially Finds A Streaming Home
Gemma Arterton can take solace in knowing her hit spy series has found a streaming home in the US. The one-time James Bond actor is back in the espionage game in ITV’s Secret Service, which has proven a big hit in Britain since premiering in April with 4 million viewers, the second-largest launch of a new drama on the year for the network.
David Duchovny’s 101-Minute ‘X-Files Meets Ghostbusters’ Cult Classic Is One Of The Biggest Movies On Streaming
The X-Files made David Duchovny an icon of TV sci-fi, but the star’s film output has been notably lacking in further encounters with aliens, supernatural entities, or anything else Fox Mulder might have run into on a week-by-week basis. Perhaps looking to avoid typecasting, Duchovny has mixed things up in his movie choices, taking on hard-hitting dramas, romantic-comedies, and almost everything else that isn’t science fiction or horror, with only a couple of notable exceptions.
The X-Files' New R-Rated Movie Earns Polarizing Rotten Tomatoes Score For Director's Cut
Vrach Frankenshteyn is making a believer out of some critics, but not all. Chris Carter’s long-promised director’s cut of the mangled 2008 franchise film X-Files: I Want to Believe restores enough footage to boost the movie’s rating from the original PG-13 up to R, while somehow winding up with a shorter runtime than the theatrical cut.
Sam Elliott’s 138-Minute Vietnam War Epic Praised For Its Realism Enjoys Major Global Streaming Resurgence
Sam Elliott is a streaming hit with an epic Vietnam War film. Known for his trademark mustache and gravelly-yet-warm speaking voice, Elliott has been gracing movies with his unique brand of sensitive masculinity since the 1960s. But it wasn’t until the 1980s that the gruff character actor fully established his persona, becoming one of Hollywood’s most in-demand performers.
Kevin Bacon's New Horror Movie Family Movie Gets 2027 Release Date After Stellar Rotten Tomatoes Score
Moviemaking is family business for Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. The long-time couple has of course appeared together on the big screen many times over the years, most notably in 1995’s Murder in the First, for which Bacon won the Critics Choice award for Best Actor. The Hollywood power-pair are now taking their collaboration into uncharted territory, not just starring together in a new horror film, but co-directing as well, with two of their children in the cast.
A24's Hereditary Star Marks First Movie In 8 Years With Shudder's New Horror Releasing This October
A breakout horror star of 2018 is making a long-delayed return to the genre. Milly Shapiro blew some minds as Charlie Graham in Ari Aster’s terrifying psychological thriller Hereditary, becoming a budding horror icon thanks to her unsettling performance as a disturbed young girl. But the award-winning actor chose not to follow up on her apparent star-making turn with another film, instead focusing on a music career, as well as stage and television work.
Stephen King & Guillermo Del Toro’s Praise For Apple TV’s Widow's Bay Gets Cast Reaction
Even Rosemary can’t help cracking a grin over all the Widow’s Bay love. Dale Dickey is the actor behind the perpetually grouchy mayor’s office employee who provides one of the most verbose and hilarious exposition dumps in TV history in episode 9 of Apple TV’s acclaimed horror-comedy series starring Matthew Rhys.
Yellowstone Star’s Gritty New Western Revealed In Trailer For 66-Year-Old Book Adaptation
A one-time Yellowstone star is going back to Montana. Josh Holloway joined the cast of Taylor Sheridan’s epic neo-Western TV show in season 3, playing the unscrupulous investor Roarke, whose plans to take over Dutton land placed him at odds with John and the rest of the clan. But those schemes came to a premature end thanks to Rip Wheeler and his rattlesnake, bringing Roarke’s brief Yellowstone character arc to a brutal conclusion.
Warner Bros.' Ocean's Franchise Return Movie Gets Surprising Filming Update From Star
Always expect the unexpected when it comes to the Ocean’s franchise. It was indeed quite a surprise when Steven Soderbergh, fresh off his award-worthy 2000 double-whammy of Erin Brockovich and Traffic, veered into the strictly commercial with a remake of the classic Rat Pack heist movie Ocean’s Eleven.
Disney+’s Cancelled Revival Of The Sandlot Franchise & Potential Future Addressed By Star
Disney+ has decided not to take a swing at a revival of The Sandlot. The streamer’s planned series built around characters from the original 1993 comedy about a group of baseball-loving kids in the ‘60s was announced way back in 2019, with OG cast members set to return. But rather than go for a hit with a nostalgic Sandlot reboot, Disney checked up and watched the pitch sail on by.
One Of Tony Todd's Final Roles Revealed In New Thriller Trailer For Hate Thyself, & The Movie Releases Next Month
Dan Zinski is a freelance scribe currently contributing to ScreenRant as a movie and TV news writer. He previously wrote for FanSided, The Viking Age and Lightly Buzzed. Sign in to your account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. One of legendary horror icon Tony Todd's final screen appearances is getting set for release.
Karl Urban's Horror Classic With All-Time Great Opening Scene Is Leaving Streaming
Grabbing the audience right away is vital to making a memorable horror film. There may be no greater proof of this than Jaws, which boasts arguably the greatest opening scene in the genre’s history, as Steven Spielberg sinks his razor-sharp cinematic teeth into the viewer’s flesh from minute one. In the slasher realm, few movies have topped Scream and its harrowing first kill, a fitting introduction to the iconic Ghostface, as well as a shockingly premature exit for Drew Barrymore’s Casey.
Maya Hawke's New R-Rated Dystopian Movie Was Originally Connected To $533M Horror Franchise
Set for wide theatrical release August 7, the rom-com One Night Only imagines a dystopian future where sex outside marriage has been outlawed, except on a single night per year when singles are allowed to hook up provided they use protection.
Stephen King Sets First Acting Role In 7 Years With Returning Disney Series
Stephen King hopes to shine in his first acting role in seven years. The horror author made the last of his sporadic appearances as a performer in a small part in 2019’s IT: Chapter Two, but now King has shaken the cobwebs from his vocal cords to lend his voice to a returning animated series from Disney, along with a bunch of other famous names who have also signed on for guest appearances.
Russell Crowe Reveals Stunning Transformation For New Historical Action Epic
The Oscar-winning star of Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind garnered early awards buzz for his performance as the notorious Nazi Göring in 2025’s historical drama Nuremberg, but ultimately was left off the Academy Awards ballot. A year after starring as the notably heavyset war criminal in that film, Crowe is going a completely different direction with the physicality of his character for the new film The Last Druid, and seems happy to be leaving his Göring body behind.
BBC's New Agatha Christie Series Based On Iconic Detective Rounds Out Full Cast With Game Of Thrones Stars
Dan Zinski is a freelance scribe currently contributing to ScreenRant as a movie and TV news writer. He previously wrote for FanSided, The Viking Age and Lightly Buzzed. Sign in to your account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. The BBC's new Agatha Christie series is getting reinforcements from Westeros.
Peter Jackson Reveals Scrapped Planet Of The Apes Reboot Details & Almost Teaming With James Cameron
The most intriguing Planet of the Apes reboot was the one that never happened. Tim Burton took the first shot at resurrecting the classic film franchise with a 2001 remake of the Charlton Heston original, and though the movie made a respectable $362 million on a budget of $100 million, it failed to launch a new series. It wasn’t until 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes that the franchise received a true relaunch, with three sequels following.
New Elvis Presley Movie Sets Major Release This November
Dan Zinski is a freelance scribe currently contributing to ScreenRant as a movie and TV news writer. He previously wrote for FanSided, The Viking Age and Lightly Buzzed. Sign in to your account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Elvis Presley is getting a new showcase later this year.
Syfy’s Hit Horror Series Sets Exciting New Release As Season 2 Waits In Limbo
The creators of Syfy’s acclaimed supernatural horror show are practically begging fans to save it. Revival debuted to solid critical praise back in 2025, and quickly built a fan following thanks to an initial airing on Syfy, followed by a successful streaming run on Peacock. Unfortunately, Revival season 2 has not yet been greenlit, and the show seems in some danger of never returning. But now there’s potentially great news about the series’ future thanks to a big upgrade in its streaming home.
Timothy Olyphant Teases New Star Wars Return Potential After Cobb Vanth's Fate Twist
Cobb Vanth’s Star Wars story may not have ended with Book of Boba Fett. Timothy Olyphant’s Western-style lawman character was last seen getting treatment from The Modifier for the wounds he suffered during his showdown with bounty hunter Cad Bane, setting up a possible Cobb Vanth return as a cyborg a la BOBF’s cybernetically-enhanced Mods gang.
The Exorcist Getting Exciting New Release Next Month Ahead Of Mike Flanagan’s 2027 Reboot
A neglected piece of Exorcist lore is finally getting a thorough exploration. The saga of demonic possession horror’s most famous series of course began with William Peter Blatty’s book, which received a blockbuster adaptation in William Friedkin’s 1973 film. Fast-forward to 2026, and The Exorcist franchise now includes six movies and a TV series, with a seventh film, Mike Flanagan’s The Exorcist: Martyrs, coming in 2027.
Matthew Lillard’s New 104-Minute Supernatural Adaptation Releases On Netflix Next Week
Scream will always be the title most associated with the actor, but Lillard's contribution to the darkest of genres goes much deeper than one movie. The star indeed made his debut in a horror film, the low-budget 1991 sequel Ghoulies III, before making his permanent mark as Stu in the first installment of the long-running meta-slasher Scream series.
JJ Abrams' Hit 5-Season CIA Thriller Series Sets Free Streaming Release Date
J.J. Abrams knows how to thrill an audience. The prolific creator known for launching the TV show Lost took his talents to the big-screen when he got behind the camera for Tom Cruise’s action-packed spy movie Mission: Impossible III. That successful gig led to Abrams being recruited by more huge franchises, first taking the captain’s chair for a Star Trek reboot, then blasting off for a galaxy far, far away for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Mark Wahlberg Disaster Movie That Led To Multiple Lawsuits Is Rapidly Climbing Streaming Charts
Hollywood arguably achieved peak Wahlberg in 2016 thanks to the actor's harrowing one-two punch of oil rig drama Deepwater Horizon and terrorist attack thriller Patriots Day. A military mishap set up the action in yet another Wahlberg vehicle, 2013’s Lone Survivor, based on the exploits of a real-life Navy SEAL in Afghanistan. But arguably the biggest catastrophe ever faced by Wahlberg on-screen was the end of the world as envisioned by M.
The Big Lebowski Meets Blade Runner In Scarlett Johansson's New Netflix Sci-Fi Ray Gunn
“Genre-bending” is the word for Brad Bird. Set for release by Netflix December 18, the Ratatouille and Iron Giant director’s new effort Ray Gunn mashes up film-noir and sci-fi to tell the story of Earth’s last human private detective, voiced by Sam Rockwell. Bird’s latest animated film also stars Scarlett Johansson as pop star Venus Nova, Tom Waits as Ray Gunn’s alien sidekick Eyera, and Patton Oswalt as a sure-to-be-snarky hologram.
George R. R. Martin's Hit Crime Series Returns With "Career Performance High" In Season 5
Things are about to get dark for one star of AMC’s acclaimed hit crime series. Boasting Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin as an executive producer, Dark Winds follows a trio of Navajo Tribal Police officers as they fight crime in the 1970s Four Corners area of the American Southwest. Jessica Matten plays one of the three officers, Bernadette Manuelito, a sergeant who works closely with the show’s lead character, Joe Leaphorn, played by the critically-lauded Zahn McClarnon.
Russell Crowe & Christian Bale's Western Remake That "Improves On The Original" Cracks Netflix's Top 10
Improving on a classic is never an easy task. For every successful movie remake – Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven, the Coens’ True Grit, or De Palma’s Scarface — there are dozens that fail to go over with critics or at the box office. The disaster gets more pronounced when the redo in question must endure comparison to not just any run-of-the-mill original, but a true movie classic.
Westworld Writer Officially Developing Horror Comic Book Adaptation With Arrowverse Boss
Prime Video may have found its Westworld. The HBO sci-fi series about an amusement park populated by sentient androids blew minds when it premiered in 2016, spawning a whole internet movement devoted to theorizing about its many ongoing mysteries. Only some of those vexing storylines were satisfyingly resolved, however, as Westworld ran out of steam and was finally canceled in 2022.
Liam Neeson & Zachary Levi's Tehran-Based Heist Goes Totally Wrong In Official Trailer For The Fix
Liam Neeson & Zachary Levi's Tehran-Based Heist Goes Totally Wrong In Official Trailer For The Fix Close up of Liam Neeson at the Berlin premiere of The Naked Gun Dan Zinski is a freelance scribe currently contributing to ScreenRant as a movie and TV news writer. He previously wrote for FanSided, The Viking Age and Lightly Buzzed. Sign in to your account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.
Freddy Krueger's Real Anger Source In The Nightmare On Elm Street Franchise Revealed By Robert Englund 42 Years Later
Freddy Krueger had good reason to be angry. The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise villain’s horrifying backstory, one bound to put a man in a dark mood, included a truly shocking origin as the “son of a hundred maniacs.” Then during his reign of terror as a serial killer of children, Krueger was burned alive by the parents of Elm Street, only to return as a dream-haunting scarred demon armed with one razor glove and a million snappy one-liners.
Timothy Olyphant’s New Crime Thriller Adaptation Is Subtly A 7-Movie Release On Apple TV
Apple TV’s new Timothy Olyphant thriller series is not your typical serialized show. Lucky stars the Alien: Earth actor as the criminal father to Anya Taylor-Joy’s eponymous protagonist, a former con artist on the run from both the FBI and a ruthless crime boss after a heist gone wrong.
Ridley Scott's TV Adaptation Of Barack Obama-Approved Bestselling Novel Gets New Update From Producer After 4 Years
Barack Obama’s 2010 beach read is still waiting for its TV adaptation. Scott Free Productions announced back in 2022 that it was partnering with Tomorrow Studios for a TV version of Jonathan Franzen’s Obama-approved novel Freedom, with Melanie Marnich (The Affair) tapped to write. Four years later, there has been little further news about the would-be series, but it seems the Ridley Scott-produced project has not been entirely abandoned.
Liam Neeson & Zachary Levi's New Action Movie Gets Official Release Date & New Title
There’s no funny business in Liam Neeson’s new movie. Having achieved legendary status as an action hero for growling and punching his way through a string of mostly-serious shoot-em-ups and chase movies, the Taken star showed his goofier side in 2025’s The Naked Gun, a remake of the Leslie Nielsen classic.
Norman Reedus’ Forgotten $107M R-Rated Legacy Sequel Is Officially The #2 Movie In The U.S.
The Walking Dead’s Daryl Dixon actor also helped Wesley Snipes dispatch vampires as the weaponsmith Scud in 2002’s Blade II. As the hot-headed Murphy MacManus in the cult film Boondock Saints, Reedus gunned down any number of Russian and Italian mobsters, contributing to the movie’s high body count, and later returning for more slaughter in Boondock Saints II.
The Sopranos Creator Officially Returning With New CIA Movie
The creator of The Sopranos is leaving the mob behind to explore a different dark corner of American history. David Chase drew upon his love of criminal lore in crafting the HBO mob series that would come to define prestige TV in the 21st Century, but his focus has now shifted to the presumed other side of the legal tracks.
H.P. Lovecraft’s New Horror Reboot Reportedly Casts Beloved Mad Scientist
H.P. Lovecraft’s iconic mad scientist first came to cinematic life in 1985’s cult classic horror Re-Animator, embodied in unforgettable fashion by Jeffrey Combs, who reprised the maniacal role in 1990’s Bride of Re-Animator and 2003’s Beyond Re-Animator. 23 years after Combs’ third and final time playing Lovecraft’s take on Victor Frankenstein, the obsessively brilliant character is set to make a comeback in a modern-dress re-imagining.
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