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Tom Hanks must feel solitude is good luck. The two-time Oscar winner won another nomination for 2000’s Castaway in which he spent most of his screen time stranded on an island talking to a weathered volleyball named Wilson. Can the new movie Finch do the same thing for him? Hanks is, as often the case, is perfectly…

“It all happened so fast,” Tom Hanks laments in the first official trailer for Finch, released today by Apple. “There was a solar flare. Goodbye crops and food, goodbye everything.” While the Oscar winner’s robotics engineer of the same name notes that he was left “frightened and so alone,” following a cataclysmic…

Tom Hanks starrer Finch will debut on Apple TV+ on November 5, Apple Original Films said Thursday. Check out the first-look image below. In the film directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones, True Detective), the Oscar-winning Hanks plays a robotics engineer who is among the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Original Films won a very competitive weekend auction among streamers to land the Tom Hanks-starrer Finch, an Amblin Entertainment sci-fi film that previously carried the title Bios and was originally intended to be released by Universal. It will now be released on Apple TV+ later this year, likely in…

One Game of Thrones prequel may be dead, but another one has been given the gift of life by HBO. House of the Dragon is coming to the premium cable network, it was announced Tuesday at WarnerMedia’s news-heavy HBO Max investors presentation. Foregoing a pilot, the House Targaryen story from George R.R. Martin and Ryan…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing drama series Conan, based on the books by Robert E. Howard, Deadline has learned. The project hails from Colony co-creator Ryan Condal, Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale executive producer Warren Littlefield, Pathfinder Media and Endeavor…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Entertainment has acquired the spec package Bios with Tom Hanks starring and Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones) directing. The project would be distributed through Universal. Amblin won the highly competitive bidding war this AM we’re told. Another aggressive bidder was Legendary…

Fitting for HBO’s ruthless and scheming Game of Thrones, a murderer’s row of GoT directors have been set to take on the series’ final Season 8, a planned super-sized six episodes that are expected to air sometime in 2019 to wrap up the saga. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are on the list of course, as the creators of…

Last night’s Game of Thrones season finale, “Winds of Winter,” is already being hailed as one of the greatest episodes in series history. That’s no small feat considering it follows the previous week’s incredible “Battle of the Bastards,” which stunned viewers and critics similarly declared a series-best. But where…

Spoilers for Game of Thrones below. Tonight’s episode of HBO’s Game of Thrones, “Battle of the Bastards”, promises to be the centerpiece of already consistently excellent 6th season that, if rumors (which we won’t spoil) are true, means dramatic changes for the show’s status quo going into the season finale and what…

HBO has added the final three episodes of the sixth season of Game of Thrones to its schedule, revealing not only some possible major spoilers, but also that the season 6 finale will be the longest single episode in the series’ history (so far anyway – winter is still coming). Suffice to say, previous episode spoilers…

The Killing alum Joel Kinnaman is set as the lead in Netflix’s Altered Carbon, a futuristic drama series conceived, written and executive produced by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar). Miguel Sapochnik (Game Of Thrones) has come on board to direct the first episode of the series, from Skydance Television. Based on Richard…