A color-washed series about tough, no-nonsense guys dealing with high-pressure hands-on stuff in rural America, “Landman” is raw, uncut Taylor Sheridan straight from the source. Set in and around the oil fields of Midland-Odessa, Texas, the series trolls the mesquite-mixed grasslands of the Permian Basin for the artificial drama so endemic there. Smuggling mishaps, oil well blowouts, appendage mangling, and plain old heartbreak provide the fuel in this regard, which flows more liberally than what’s pumped out of the ground.

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Paramount’s Midas Touch man Taylor Sheridan is on quite the tear this year. He’ll have at four, count ‘em, FOUR series coming this fall. “Tulsa King,” season two in September, “Lioness” season two in October, “Yellowstone” season five in November, and yet another show in November, “Land Man.”

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The drama will premiere on Sunday, November 17, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S.

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Where would Paramount+ be without Taylor Sheridan? Sure, that might seem hyperbolic, but you have to assume Sheridan’s projects make up a large number of streams and minutes watched. More than any other single creator, for sure. And that’s only going to continue to rise when “Landman” is released.

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We may still be several months away from the release of Taylor Sheridan’s newest series, “Landman,” but Paramount+ is beginning the marketing push for the series already.

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What better way to bring angst to a family drama than cast a mother-son duo in its central roles? That’s what Robin Wright and her son Hopper Penn do in “Devil’s Peak,” an upcoming small-town crime thriller about a young man torn between family ties and the girl he loves.

Wright and Penn star as a mother and son in a crime-ridden Appalachian town who dream of a better life elsewhere.

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Writer/director/creator/showrunner Taylor Sheridan is practically a streaming service unto himself. Thanks to the success of his “Yellowstone” modern Western/family/crime series, which is the biggest hit on television right now and a massive boon to Paramount and its streaming service Paramount+ Sheridan can do whatever he wants. No, really. So far, that’s meant he’s been able to launch two more shows, the “Yellowstone” Western prequel “1883,” following the great grandparents of the main characters, and “The Mayor of Kingstown,” Michigan-based prison industrial complex series, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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There’s a lot of drama surrounding the upcoming film “A Million Little Pieces,” and hardly any of it has to do with the actual film. Most of the intrigue revolving around the project has to do with the backstory of the inspiration for the film, author James Frey, who released a book of the same name and was quickly outed for making up stories and changing facts about his life story for the novel.

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Mathew Cullen isn’t haven’t a great week. And honestly, if everything were to go as originally planned, this would be a time of celebration for the director. Instead, after a delay of more than three years, Cullen’s feature film debut “London Fields” posted one of the worst box office debuts in history and has a terrible 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. And in a new interview, surprisingly, Cullen not only agrees with those reviews but also explains why he chose to be the scapegoat for the film’s failure.

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Normally, when we report the weekly box office results, especially in 2018, we tend to highlight the records being shattered by blockbuster films. Whether it’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Crazy Rich Asians,” or the recent “Halloween,” 2018 has been a banner year for record-breaking box office numbers. However, lost in the haze of all this good box office news is the occasional massive bomb.

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TORONTO – Do you remember James Frey’s 2003 novel “A Million Little Pieces”? The best-selling memoir that turned out not to actually be one? When pressed about it on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 2005, Frey claimed his 2003 novel was a factual account of his life as an addict and time in rehab. After an investigation by The Smoking Gun was released three months later it turned out much of it was not.

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If you remember hearing horror stories about “London Fields” a few years ago, you aren’t imagining things. The film had an infamous premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was subsequently thrashed by critics. Soon after the screening, the film’s director Mathew Cullen sued his producers for inserting footage into his film without notifying the filmmaker. Then a few more controversies later, and the film disappeared.

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This roundtable included Sterling K. Brown (“This is Us,” “The People v.

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As expected, the awards season belongs to “La La Land,” and at the Golden Globes tonight, the picture swept up pretty much everything.

The hit musical won seven awards this evening, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress (all in the Comedy or Musical category), Best Score, Best Original Song, and Best Screenplay. Another little movie that could, “Moonlight,” capped off the evening winning Best Picture, Drama.

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In most instances, comedy sequels stink. Thus, with such a low bar to clear, “Bad Santa 2” is a triumph, at least on the order of an “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” or “22 Jump Street” — which is to say, it’s an inferior follow-up that succeeds in not sullying the memory of its 2003 predecessor, or making one regret having ever laughed at its characters’ filthy hijinks in the first place.

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The Christmas season is all about marketing, and the folks at Broad Green Pictures seem to be taking that to heart. They are continuing to pump out the promo for “Bad Santa 2,” and in a week that has already seen a NSFW red-band trailer for the film, they’ve now dropped a cleaner cut. But rather than merely repeating the naughtier version just with some different edits, this trailer has lots of new scenes and jokes, though it makes you wonder what will be left to see when you buy your ticket later this year.

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Foul, filthy, adults only — these aren’t the words you generally associate with the Christmas season, but this year, “Bad Santa 2” is going to bring plenty of raunch to the holiday season. Billy Bob Thornton is back as the irascible titular character, but with with all-new series of hijinks that will certainly find him landing in all kinds of trouble.

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Directed by Mark Waters (“Mean Girls“) and co-starring Christina Hendricks, Kathy Bates, and Tony Cox, this time around Willie is roped into a job that will see him work with his mother — who is arguably a tougher nut than he is — and join a plan to rob a charity.

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Even the folks at Amazon might concede (quietly, while no one else was paying attention) that, while they’re doing god’s work by backing and releasing movies by people like Whit Stillman, Park Chan-Wook and Kenneth Lonergan, they’re lagging behind arch-rivals Netflix when it comes to the streaming TV war.

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They have great shows — the Emmy-winning “Transparent,” first and foremost — and they have popular shows — “The Man In The High Castle” being their biggest — but they’re probably yet to unite both in a big pop-culture dominating way, as Netflix’s “Stranger Things” has.

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The original “Bad Santa” was a compact, deliciously naughty piece of R-rated comedy. Terry Zwigoff‘s movie is pitch black in tone, but lets in just enough light for audiences to side with Billy Bob Thornton‘s titular character. So how will the sequel deliver? By pushing the envelope, but not going too far over the edge.

“I think we pushed it even a little further this time, not only in the sort of dark humor, but also in the emotion,” Billy Bob Thornton said at the Television Critics Association panel for Amazon‘s “Goliath” recently (via Slashfilm).

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Over the weekend, Amazon unleashed a wave of trailers for their upcoming slate of shows, and while it has taken a couple of years, it really looks like the streaming service is going to give Netflix serious competition beyond their already acclaimed “Transparent.” One more show aiming to make some noise is “Goliath” which has skipped the usual pilot process at Amazon and gone straight to series.

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There’s been more than a few years of much talk and little action when it comes to “Bad Santa 2,” but as it goes sometimes, the timing never seemed right, and the project repeatedly stalled out. But last year, everything seemed to finally sync up and well over a decade since the original hit theaters, the sequel went into production. Will it recapture the nasty, very wrong, but totally hilarious tone of the original?

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If you ask Matt Damon if there’s any movie that got away, one that he held close to chest but didn’t work out, the answer will always be the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy‘s “All The Pretty Horses.” For years, the actor has expressed his dismay about what happened on the Billy Bob Thornton directed movie. Essentially, what happened was Harvey Weinstein.

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Watch: Tina Fey Goes To Afghanistan In New Trailer For 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' With Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, More

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Watch: Tina Fey Signals 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' In First Trailer For Wartime Comedy

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'Bad Santa 2' Officially Headed Into Production, Release Planned For 2016 Holiday Season

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Review: David Gordon Green's Threadbare 'Our Brand Is Crisis' Starring Sandra Bullock

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Producer & Director Feuding Over 'London Fields,' Johnny Depp & Other Stars Protest Helmer's Removal

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