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Apple TV+ unveiled the trailer for “Where’s Wanda?,” the eight-episode German-language dark comedy produced by UFA Fiction, starring International Emmy Award nominee Heike Makatsch (“Love Actually”), German Comedy Award winner Axel Stein (“The Vault”), multiple award-winning actress Lea Drinda (“The Gryphon”), newcomer Leo Simon, entrepreneur, actress and author Nikeata Thompson (“How to Dad”), presenter and actress Palina Rojinski (“Welcome to Germany”), Kostja Ullmann (“My Blind Date With Life”) and rising star Harriet Herbig-Matten (“Maxton Hall”). Apple TV+’s first German original will premiere globally with the first two episodes on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, followed by one episode weekly through November 13...

Jude Apatow is set to direct "Cola Wars," a film that will chronicle Pepsi's challenge of Coca-Cola as the number one soda in the marketplace, which began in the '80s. Spielbeg's Amblin Entertainment is set to produce the film, which is set up at Sony Pictures. Ben Affleck's "Air" became a genuinely great film last year, and it was just about the creation of the Air Jordan sneakers. There was also IFC's criminally underrated "BlackBerry," which chronicled the rise and downfall of the infamous handheld smart phone. Executed correctly, movies about how culturally relevant stuff happened can be supremely entertaining...

The producers and filmmakers behind “The Apprentice” are positioning their movie as the film that Donald Trump and corporate America don’t want you to see — and now they want your help. Producers have launched a Kickstarter campaign in a bid to fuel the movie’s marketing, cover some anticipated legal fees, and hold more screenings. “The Apprentice” follows Trump in the late ’70s and early ’80s as he’s being coached by Roy Cohn on his real-estate empire. (Before Cohn got pushed out.) The film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Cohn, Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, Martin Donovan as Fred Trump, and Catherine McNally as Mary Anne Trump...

Alamo Drafthouse is dedicating its newly renovated downtown Brooklyn theater to Spike Lee. The director, who is synonymous with all things New York, will be honored on Sept. 12 with a ceremony and screening of his semi-autobiograpical 1994 film “Crooklyn.” Lee will also participate in a live Q&A.The private event will feature the reveal of the Spike Lee Cinema plaque, which will read: “Like many of the greatest films over the past 40 years, this theater is a Spike Lee Joint. From his nuanced portrayals of Brooklyn life in ‘Do the Right Thing’ and ‘Crooklyn’ to his towering portrait of ‘Malcolm X,’ his vision has shaped our culture and left an indelible mark on this city. For that reason, as of Thursday, Sept. 12 2024, this Alamo Drafthouse Cinema shall hereby and forevermore be known as the Spike Lee Cinema.”..

When it comes to showcasing environmental and climate change messages on the silver screen, Hollywood could look to the likes of Will & Grace and Cheers for inspiration, Sam Read, executive director of the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance, said in Toronto on Saturday. The Alliance, a consortium of entertainment industry stakeholders working to reduce their global environmental footprint and inspire a sustainable future, is always looking at “how can we support creators who want to tell these stories in exploring how climate change is interacting with all of our lives … and what sustainable behaviors could be shown on screen,” he explained. “It could be something as specific as a whole show being written around it, but it also can be something as minor as putting solar panels on a house in the background of a shot. Or, if you’re writing a sitcom and you’re writing the dad as a plumber, can you make the dad a solar panel technician?”...

Halloween is right around the corner, and movie theaters are getting in the spirit. To celebrate spooky season, Cinemark Theatres announced the return of Pennywise and Chucky souvenir cups and popcorn buckets based on the iconic characters from It and Child's Play, respectively. The downside is that these collectibles are only at Cinemark locations, and a select few at that, so anybody who wants to track them down has to hope there's a location nearby...