Having charmed audiences with season one in 2023, Apple TV+ has released a new trailer for the second season of their acclaimed comedy series “The Big Door Prize” Emmy-winner Chris O’Dowd (“Bridesmaids“). Audiences can watch the first three episodes when the streaming series premieres later this month on April 24. The critically acclaimed and character-driven comedy from David West Read (“Schitt’s Creek“) has a 10-episode count.

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Who better to go to when you’re feeling overwhelming grief and loss than your local veterinarian? As odd as that might sound, that’s exactly what a woman needs in the new film, “The Starling.”

As seen in the trailer for “The Starling,” the film stars Melissa McCarthy and Chris O’Dowd as a couple dealing with a tragedy. While O’Dowd’s character finds himself under the supervision of medical health professionals at a local hospital, McCarthy’s character finds solace speaking to a veterinarian, who helps her figure out her grief and move forward with her life.

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix finds itself in dire need of content. As was explained by one of the platform’s executives, the delay in production due to the global pandemic means that the latter half of 2020 could be without major Netflix Originals. So, it’s obvious why Netflix is willing to spend top dollar to land a high-profile film, such as “The Starling.”

READ MORE: Melissa McCarthy Teaming With Nicole Kidman For Hulu Series ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ From ‘Big Little Lies’ Creator

According to Deadline, Netflix has spent a hefty chunk of change for the rights to distribute the upcoming film, “The Starling,” which is set to star Melissa McCarthy, Kevin Kline, Chris O’Dowd, and Timothy Olyphant.

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While existential dread over the spreading COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has engulfed the population of our fine planet, April is actually a month where we are supposed to think about another existential threat, the pollution and the future health of our planet. That’s right, Earth Day is just a few weeks away, and Apple TV+ has a new project, “Here We Are,” with an all-star voice cast that is hoping to make you think hard about hurting our world.

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After handing out 46 winners last night, the Television Academy bestowed another 49 winners on Sunday night for the second and final night of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.  The remaining honors will be announced on Sunday, Sept. 22nd during a primetime telecast on FOX.  Tonight’s winners, in particular, showed a potentially fierce battle brewing for Comedy Series between “Fleabag” (two wins tonight), “Barry” (2 sound wins tonight)“Marvelous Mrs.

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Looks like Chris O’Dowd just went and forgot the fact that “Thor: The Dark World” even existed, something many fans wish they could do too. For Chris though, this slip-up is a bit more egregious, as he actually got paid to be in it.

Cast your minds back to 2013, after Kenneth Branagh withdrew from director’s seat but before Taika Waititi got his hands and charm on the Asgardian.

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Sometimes the Sundance Film Festival takes a few weeks to take shape. This year, the festival has taken off like a rocket with its announcements and has already unveiled the bulk of its lineup. Still, that said, there’s always more to come. Today, the festival unveiled works selected across the Indie Episodic, Shorts, and Special Events sections of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Highlights include new projects from filmmakers like Stephen Frears, Amy Berg and Gregg Araki’s new work with executive-producer Steven Soderbergh.

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Director Jesse Peretz is no stranger to the Sundance Film Festival. He wrote and directed the indie darling “Our Idiot Brother,” which premiered at Sundance in 2011. His other feature-length films include “The Château” and “First Love, Last Rites.” The filmmaker has also directed several television shows, including “Girls,” “Glow,” “Divorce,” Nurse Jackie,” and “Orange is the New Black.” Peretz returned to Sundance this year with “Juliet, Naked,” a film based on two-time Oscar nominee Nick Hornby‘s eponymous novel.

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If you’ve been looking for something in vein of John Cassavetes and Kenneth Lonergan, then you might want to put the drama “Love After Love” on your radar. The picture spend a good chunk of last year touring the festival circuit and now it’s headed to theaters, and it might be manna for those who prefer their cinema sans explosion.

Co-written and directed by Russell Harbaugh, and starring Chris O’Dowd, Andie MacDowell, James Adomian, Juliet Rylance, Dree Hemingway, and Gareth Williams, the story follows a family that starts falling apart when the husband and father of the clan passes away.

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There is not a moment wasted in “The Cloverfield Paradox,” and that includes its surprise, Super Bowl Sunday release on Netflix, with only a thirty-second TV spot dropping during the game to prepare audiences. Within the opening minutes of the latest addition to the franchise, we’re told everything we need to know: with Earth facing a massive energy crisis, Hamilton (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), with the encouragement of her husband Michael (Roger Davies), puts aside the pain of a personal tragedy, to embark on a last ditch effort to save all life on Earth.

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If you’ve ever wondered what “Cloverfield” would be like in space, you’re in luck with “The Cloverfield Paradox,” the third installment in the J.J. Abrams science-fiction horror franchise. Directed by Julius Onah from a script penned by Oren Uziel and Doug Jung, the story centers around a team of astronauts aboard a space station who find themselves fighting for survival after a scientific experiment causes Earth to disappear and a mysterious space shuttle leads them to a shocking discovery.

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PARK CITY – In theory, Nick Hornby’s 2009 novel “Juliet, Naked” would seem like a slam-dunk romantic comedy that any studio or financier would have jumped at the chance to make.  Annie (Rose Byrne), a woman living in a small town in England engages in an email correspondence with a once famous American rock musician, Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke), who disappeared twenty years prior, leaving only the positively reviewed album Juliet as his legacy.

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People climb tall mountains “because they’re there.” “Loving Vincent” which closed the Antalya Film Festival last week, suggests a similarly glib and unsatisfying explanation as to why directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman would spend 7 years engaging 125 artists to laboriously oil-paint every single frame of a feature film (62,450 frames, to be precise), in order to tell the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s last days: because they (just about) could.

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Premiering last month at the Toronto International Film Festival, if there was one thing everyone could agree on about Aaron Sorkin‘s directorial debut “Molly’s Game,” it was that it was very… Aaron Sorkin-y. Even if his chops behind the camera still need some work, the dialogue is exactly what you’d expect. It’s no “The Social Network” or even “Steve Jobs” (which was pretty underrated, if you ask me) but it does feature Jessica Chastain gamely chewing into the screenplay while wearing some outrageously beautiful/trashy attire.

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When it comes to cinema, the folks who are strictly screenwriters don’t typically receive top-billing recognition, at least not among garden-variety moviegoers. The household names tend to be actors and directors, in that order. For years, Aaron Sorkin has been one of the exceptions that prove the rule. He has penned incredible television, from “The West Wing” to “The Newsroom,” and he has penned incredible films, from “A Few Good Men” to “The Social Network.” Come this November, however, Sorkin will no longer be an exception to the rule because he is (finally!) making his directorial debut with STX Entertainment’s “Molly’s Game.”

READ MORE: Review: Danny Boyle’s Aaron Sorkin Penned ‘Steve Jobs’ Starring Michael Fassbender’ Is A Rush Of Blood To The Head

While Sorkin is jumping behind the camera for the first time, it doesn’t mean he’s left his old gig in the rearview, as he’s still the credited screenwriter for “Molly’s Game.” The drama is based on the memoir of Molly Bloom, the young woman who orchestrated one of the highest stakes poker games ever.

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There’s nothing worse than watching people you admire show up in movies you immediately regret watching: Ben Kingsley in “The Love Guru,” Julianne Moore in “Seventh Son,” Viola Davis in “Suicide Squad.” Disasters like these make you wonder if their directors had something on their actors — a scandalous bargaining chip used to undeservingly leverage their skills for nefarious moviemaking ends.

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In a cinematic world awash with no shortage of indie rom-coms about relationships and dating, standing out from the pack isn’t easy. However, “The Incredible Jessica James” has one very special secret ingredient in its arsenal: Jessica Williams.

READ MORE: ‘The Incredible Jessica James’ [Review]

“The Daily Show” correspondent breaks out into a leading role with ‘Jessica James,’ which hit Sundance earlier this year, generated some great word of mouth, and is now getting ready to drop on Netflix for the entire world to see.

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There are not shortage of films about navigating the complicated, contemporary world of dating and romance, but few of them are coming with kind of lead turn that “The Daily Show” correspondent Jessica Williams provides in “The Incredible Jessica James.” She’s the charismatic heart of what looks to be an amusing look at modern love.

Directed by Jim Strouse (“Grace Is Gone,” “People Places Things“), and co-starring Chris O’Dowd, Lakeith Stanfield, and Noël Wells, the film follows a young woman getting over a breakup who falls into an unlikely romance.

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It’s not easy to get the tone of Elmore Leonard‘s books translated to the big screen, but 1995’s “Get Shorty” was one of the few times where everything clicked. Ironically, the sequel “Be Cool” showed what happens when you get the material totally wrong. Now, Epix is going to try and make “Get Shorty” work as a TV series, and the first taste has now landed.

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PARK CITY – The first scene of James Strouse’s “The Incredible Jessica James,” which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Thursday night, is a star-making showcase for the talents of its leading lady Jessica Williams. The former “Daily Show” correspondent, actress, comedian, actress and “2 Dope Girls” podcast co-host plays another Jessica, a struggling playwright on a Tindr date with a guy who may never realize how much he’s being played.

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While we were busy doing other things, Aaron Sorkin has quietly put together an impressive cast for his directorial debut. Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Michael Cera, Kevin Costner, Brian d’Arcy James, J.C. McKenzie and Samantha Isler are already on board for the movie, which has now added for more talents to the ensemble.

READ MORE: Michael Cera Joins Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba In Aaron Sorkin’s Directorial Debut

Chris O’Dowd, Jeremy Strong, Bill Camp (aka the detective from “The Night Of“) and Graham Greene have also signed up to the high stakes poker drama.

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In an era when every moment of a film’s production is documented, from official studio announcements to trade reports to talent sharing their experience on the set on social media, “10 Cloverfield Lane” was an exciting breath of fresh air. Kept completely under wraps until its first trailer, which arrived just two months before the film opened, the next chapter in the “Cloverfield” universe was terrific fun, aided by the fact nobody knew what to expect when they bought their ticket.

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Nick Hornby has had quite a prolific career in Hollywood over the span of the last 15 years. His novels “About A Boy” and “High Fidelity” were both adapted into big screen productions, allowing Hugh Grant and John Cusack to both deliver some respective career-best performances. He penned the screenplay for the Carey Mulligan breakout film “An Education,” the 2014 Reese Witherspoon drama “Wild” and was nominated for his screenplay in last years sleeper hit and weepy romance “Brooklyn” starring Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen.

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It has been a decade since pioneering mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest delivered his last feature length work, the unfortunately underwhelming “For Your Consideration.” And in that time, Guest has seen the comedic format he perfected nearly from the start catch on like wildfire. It’s hard to imagine the oeuvre of Sacha Baron Cohen or shows like both the U.K. and U.S. versions of “The Office,” “Parks & Recreation,” and “Modern Family” without Guest laying the groundwork.

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Tim Burton’s cinema is one of outcasts and misfits trying to find their place in the world, yet as the director has become more firmly ensconced in the blockbuster machine, his films have lost their uniquely strange, soulful personality; they now resemble gigantic, CGI-ified products stamped with a consumer-grade version of his eerie eccentricity. Such, alas, continues to be the case with “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” a by-the-books YA affair that resembles “X-Men: First Class” retrofitted for the tween Hot Topic set.

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