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In addition, a catalogue consisting of thousands of past “Neighbours” episodes will launch on Freevee sometime before the new season premieres. Created by television executive Reg Watson, “Neighbours” premiered in 1985 and ran for over 9,000 episodes of seemingly as many plot twists, marriages, and family rivalries on Ramsey Street, a cul-de-sac in the fictional Melbourne suburb Erinsborough. The news comes after the show was forced to end its 37-year run this July, after U....

Gorgeously mounted period western “News of the World,” on the other hand, not only boasts sumptuous production values, but Paul Greengrass also turned it into a timely political drama. The London filmmaker likes to embed politics in his films. His 2002 breakout “Bloody Sunday,” about The Troubles in Northern Ireland, showcased his ability to ratchet tension (a skill he aced in three “Bourne” installments). He places audiences inside real-life traumas, from ocean kidnapping thriller “Captain Phillips,” his first outing with Tom Hanks, to true terrorist stories “22 July and “United 93,” the latter of which earned him his first directing Oscar nomination....

Affable everyman Geno Walker provides a neutral canvas as Ken Barber, a single dad whose drinking led to the dissolution of his marriage. The movie opens with Ken trying out different online personas, which goes a lot like you’d imagine an unemployed Gen X-er trying to become a YouTuber to go. “Thank you for taking the time to watch Ken Barber’s management tips,” he tells his invisible audience of 11 viewers, hiding the meager surroundings that would reveal his questionable authority on the matter....

The move is one that the Academy had hoped would quell irritation from fans and filmmakers about the lack of popular films being recognized at the Oscars, most notably last year’s Spider-Man feature, “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” Earlier this month director Kevin Smith slammed the Oscars for failing to nominate the Marvel film for Best Picture. Smith said, “What the fuck? They got ten slots, they can’t give one to the biggest fucking movie of like the last three years?...

“It was the best choice in a bunch of bad choices at the moment” and a “heartbreaking experience,” Jenkins said, according to Deadline from a report on the ground. Like the rest of Warner Bros.’ 2021 slate, most of the studio’s 2020 titles went straight to the streaming platform. “Wonder Woman 1984” ended up being watched by nearly four million households, but Jenkins said the hybrid release was “detrimental to the movie....

“We are in development,” Knight said about the movie. “It’s a fully formed idea and it has a beginning, middle, and end. And I think it’s going to be a fitting conclusion to the story told so far.” Knight’s “so far” is telling, as he’s intending to continue the “Peaky Blinders” story beyond the show’s final season and follow-up feature film. While the flagship series will not continue after Season 6, additional television shows are being planned to spin out of the movie....

A “Knives Out” meets “Scream” crossover? We’d love to see it. In an interview with Variety, “Scream” screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick revealed that they had tried to cast Rian Johnson as a fictionalized version of himself to play the “Stab 8” director. Johnson, the writer-director of “The Last Jedi,” is only referenced in “Scream” as “the guy who made ‘Knives Out’” but Vanderbilt and Busick were hoping Johnson could be onscreen for a winking cameo....