Long-running magazine Popular Science is the basis for a new FAST streaming channel set to be launched by Toronto-based Underknown. The network will be available on FUBO, Plex, Sling Freestream, Vizio, Local Now and other FAST platforms. The channel will cover rocket launches live and
The “Prison Break” reboot pilot at Hulu has added three series regulars, Variety has learned. Emily Browning, Lukas Gage, and Drake Rodger have all been cast in leading roles in the pilot, which was originally announced in December. As previously reported, the pilot is set
When Richard Dreyfuss walked onto the Mothership at the end of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” it was just about the first time — and also nearly the last — that a movie hero voluntarily went on any such ride. More familiar notes of
Joni Mitchell covers are not for the faint of heart or voice, so Amanda Seyfried’s decision to cover a verse from the singer’s 1971 classic “California” on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” last week was a brave one — not just because of the celestial
Hazelight Studios’s new multiplayer-only game “Split Fiction” sold more than 2 million copies in its first week since its March 6 release. Written by director and Hazelight studio chief Josef Fares and Sebastian Johansson, the game blends fantasy and science fiction, following a pair of
Oscar winner Barry Jenkins looks to have found his next film — a new sci-fi thriller starring Glen Powell. The project, titled “The Natural Order,” comes from an unpublished manuscript by Matthew Aldrich (“Coco”), and revolves around the pursuit of eternal life. Universal preemptively landed
Michael Fassbender appeared on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast and revealed that he suggested Daniel Craig for James Bond during his own 007 audition for “Casino Royale.” “I met with Barbara Broccoli just you know through passing and I actually went in to an audition
When “On Swift Horses” played as a secret screening at the Palm Springs Film Festival in January, at least half a dozen people walked out, not because it’s bad, but because a certain contingent of the normally open-minded art-house audience hadn’t signed up for a