Matt Reeves, whose film The Batman is awaiting the okay to resume filming, will be expanding his Bat-verse with a series for HBO Max.
The series, co-created with Terence Winter (who will be writing the script), will be set in the Gotham City police department.
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The Television Critics Association has announced the nominations for their annual TCA Awards and, surprise, Watchmen is tied for most nominations by a series (with Unbelievable).
HBO leads all networks/streamers with 16 nominations followed by Netflix with 10. FX/FX on Hulu earned seven nods; Hulu and PBS/PBS Kids are tied for fourth with six nominations, and NBC has five. Disney+ scored two noms and Apple TV+ got one.
The complete list of nominations follows.
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The Fantasia Virtual – this year’s online edition of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival – has announced its second wave of films.
The virtual film festival includes new films by John Hyams (Alone), the McManus Brothers (The Block Island Sound), Yûji Shimomura (Crazy Samurai Musashi), Yoav Shamir (The Prophet and the Space Aliens) and more.
Fantasia Virtual runs from August 20th to September 2nd.
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Some days you could argue that the Umbrella Academy are the world’s strangest superheroes (other days you could go with Doom Patrol).
The new trailer for The Umbrella Academy 2, however, makes a strong case for the group as they thought they’d prevented the end of the world just to discover they’d brought it with them – back to the early 1960s!
The Umbrella Academy 2 premieres on July 31st.
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Hulu has created a new award to reward adult animation – the Hilarious Animated Hulu (HAHA) Awards.
The awards recognize standard categories like Best New Show and Breakout Star of the Year, but also such non-standard awards as Best Fart Joke, Most Awkward Moment and Best Hangover.
The first nominees include shows like Archer, Bob’s Burgers and Solar Opposites. Voting is done by viewers (details below), with the winners being announced on Thursday, July 23rd.
This year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony will be a little bit different in that it will be replaced by an exclusive HBO special detailing the inductees’ ‘stories of their incredible contributions to music and impact on a generation of artists that followed them.’
The special will be produced due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Amazon Prime Video has released the the teaser trailer for season two of its superhero satire, The Boys.
In season two, Stormfront, a new Supe arrives with an agenda of her own; Homelander seeks total control of The Seven; the Boys are in hiding and Billy Butcher is nowhere to be found.
The even more intense second season of The Boys premieres on Amazon Prime Video on September 4th.
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CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Lower Decks has a premiere date.
The animated comedy series focusing on the unsung men and women behind the scenes (as it were) on the U.S.S. Cerritos will premiere on Thursday, August 6th.
Although Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality was hijacked by those who thought it was disrepectful to the flag and military, time has shown it to be a prophetic stand leading to the exponential growth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Netflix and Ava DuVernay are about to show us how Kaepernick became the man he is today with a dramatic limited series – Colin in Black & White – that focuses on Kaepernick’s formative high school years.
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July brings a host of DC movies to HBO Max – from Green Lantern: Emerald Knights and Batman & Mr. Freeze: sub-Zero to Superman: The Movie and Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.
New animated series Close Enough and behind the scenes doc Expecting Amy are the big originals for the month.
The full July slate follows.
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Can an intelligent book editor (Laia Costa) who’s leery of relationships and a successful mathematician who’s a little naive form a relationship over their love of good food?
That’s the premise of the new series Foodie Love from HBO Europe. The series premieres on HBO GO, HBO NOW, and on HBO via HBO Max and other partners’ platforms on Monday, July 13th. Check out the tasty trailer below.
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