On stage in front of a South by Southwest crowd that had just been laughing, gasping and cringing to the wildly dark premiere of Pet Sematary, director Dennis Widmyer said, "What do you think? Feel good movie of 2019?"

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura had no use for sarcasm. He was blunt: "How f–ked up is this movie?"

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During his featured session at SXSW, Noah Hawley shared some updates on the Doctor Doom movie that he first announced in 2017 at Comic-Con. Good news: the script is finished so we know it’s in the works. Bad news: the impending takeover of Fox by Disney has put it on hold.

Fox owns rights to the Fantastic Four series, …

Filming for Noah Hawley's long-awaited FX adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle could begin as early as next year, the busy Legion and Fargo creator said Tuesday at SXSW. "Probably not airing in 2020, but filming in 2020," he said during a panel at the Austin Convention Center, in which he also discussed the…

When tween actors Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Brady Noon got cast in Good Boys, they were eager to work with producer Seth Rogen. Except they hadn't seen Rogen in the role they were hoping to channel for their own film. So Noon says they got permission from their parents and then got together to watch Superba…

During SXSW in 2016, Ethan Hawke and Jason Blum were riding together in Austin's dizzying traffic when Hawke told Blum about a book he had just read with his wife. It was called Good Lord Bird, and he thought they should bring it to the screen.

From there, Hawke said, "dominoes started falling." And Monday afternoon at…

Stacey Abrams' star turn happened last month when she provided the Democratic response to Donald Trump's State of the Union address (Marco Rubio sent me like a really nice tweet," she said. " 'Hydrate before you give the speech' "). Although at the time the stage was set for her to tackle Trump one-on-one, Abrams said…

As a 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg lacks the state and federal political experience of the opponents he's facing in the primary. But he showed this evening at CNN's Democratic Presidential Town Hall at South By Southwest that he can criticize the White House…

With hyped Democratic presidential candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — not to mention rising star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — advocating for more and more progressive stances on government, the 2020 election is bringing socialism to the forefront like never before.

But Democratic Presidential cand…

The CW has set its spring 2019 premiere dates for new series In the Dark, plus the returns of The 100 and DC's Legends of Tomorrow and premieres for the final seasons of Jane the Virgin and iZombie.

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, which came off the schedule in December to make room for the displaced Black Lightning, will…

The sale of The Weinstein Company to Lantern Capital for $289 million is set to go forward Friday after a Delaware bankruptcy judge rejected objections from several Hollywood A-listers this morning.

"This has been a difficult company to sell," TWC attorney Paul Zumbro said, "and I'm confident we have the best deal in h…

A group of shareholders will be fighting National Amusements on the same schedule as CBS after a Delaware judge denied NAI's motion to stay the class action lawsuit and ruled it could be tried with the television company's.

The decision from the Delaware Court of Chancery is the latest in the saga involving CBS' desire…

Les Moonves lives to fight Shari Redstone for another day as a Delaware judge just granted a protective order on CBS' motion of May 14 for a temporary restraining order to stop National Amusement from halting a dilution of the holding company's control of 79.6% of the media corporation's voting shares – for 24 hours.

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