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Entertainment News Before 04/27/2018

S.J. Clarkson First Female to be Chosen to Helm Star Trek Franchise Film

S.J. Clarkson First Female to be Chosen to Helm Star Trek Fran...
S.J. Clarkson has been chosen to direct the next installment of the Star Trek films, making her the first female to direct on the iconic sci-fi franchise.Clarkson is best known for her work on Dexter, Bates Motel, Orange is the New Black, Jessica Jones, and Defenders.The new...

04/26/2018 11:04 PM EST | Read More

Cinemacon 2018 Closes Out With Presentations from Fox, Amazon Studios, and Lionsgate

Cinemacon 2018 Closes Out With Presentations from Fox, Amazon ...
The final day of Cinemacon 2018 saw more presentations from movie studios beginning with 20th Century Fox. Known for big production numbers they opened with a chorus line type broadway number to promote the upcoming Deadpool 2 and showed a brief trailer. they dis...

04/26/2018 7:45 PM EST | Read More

Universal Orlando Resort Announces New Original Content Haunted House
Universal Orlando Resort announced today that they will launch their first original content haunted house coming to Halloween Horror Nights 2018. Dead Exposure: Patient Zero will be thrust into Paris in 1982, where a virus is turning people into vicious zombies. As they...

04/26/2018 5:19 PM EST | Read More

LAIKA Partners with STUART FORD's AGC STUDIOS for International Sales of New Animated Feature

LAIKA Partners with STUART FORD's AGC STUDIOS for Internationa...
LAIKA, the animation studio that brought us Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls, ParaNorman, and Coraline, has recently joined forces with AGC International, the worldwide sales and distribution arm of AGC Studios, Stuart Ford's recently launched global content studio. T...

04/26/2018 5:04 PM EST | Read More

HBO's High Maintenance Season 2 Available for Digital Download
High Maintenance, the acclaimed HBO series, now has its second season available for digital download.The dramedy series stars Ben Sinclair(Sisters, No Pay, Nudity), who also co-created the series with Katja Blichfeld (Emmy®-winning casting director of "30 Rock"...

04/26/2018 1:51 PM EST | Read More

Tom Cruise Humbly Accepts Honor on Day Three of CInemacon 2018
The Will Rodgers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation awards their annual Pioneer of the Year award at a dinner on Wednesday, April 25, 2018. This year's recipient was Megastar Tom Cruise, The first actor in the foundations 70 plus year history to receive this honor.&nbs...

04/26/2018 4:30 AM EST | Read More

Fathom Events CEO Comes To Cinemacon 2018
Fathom Events has grown in the past few years giving more and varied options to moviegoers. Now under the helm of CEO Ray Nutt, they hope to expand even more. FlickDirect Senior Correspondent, Allison Hazlett, had the opportunity to speak with him at Cinemacon 2018 wher...

04/26/2018 4:05 AM EST | Read More

Universal Studios, Focus Features, and Paramount Pictures Shine At Cinemacon 2018

Universal Studios, Focus Features, and Paramount Pictures Shin...
Cinemacon day three is turning out to be the biggest and best so far. The morning started off with a breakfast and presentation from Entertainment Studios, The company that brought us last year's underwater thriller 47 Meters Down (the highest grossing indepe...

04/26/2018 4:00 AM EST | Read More

Disney, Warner Bros., and STX Films Do Not Disappoint at CinemaCon 2018

Disney, Warner Bros., and STX Films Do Not Disappoint at Cinem...
Day two of Cinemacon 2018 Studio presentations brought a wide variety of options as Disney, Warner Bros., and STX Films all gave sneak peeks of the rest of their 2018 movies.The morning started with Walt Disney Studios bidding a fond farewell to Dave Hollis and passing the r...

04/25/2018 3:08 AM EST | Read More

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Already Gets the Second Season Go-Ahead from Amazon

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Already Gets the Second Season Go-Ahead...
Amazon has announced that they have already greenlit season two of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. The first season of the series is set to premiere on August 31 on Amazon Prime Video."With so much early anticipation for Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan from our customers and per...

04/24/2018 2:15 PM EST | Read More