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Apple Watch Ultra was announced at Apple’s September special event along with Apple Watch Series 8. However, while Series 8 has already hit stores, Apple Watch Ultra will be available starting this Friday, September 23. Ahead of its launch, two Apple apps exclusive to Apple Watch Ultra have now appeared in the App Store: “Siren” and “Depth.” Apple Watch Ultra exclusive apps “Siren,” as the name suggests, is the app that lets users turn on a new siren built into the Apple Watch Ultra....

Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are confirmed to direct DC’s Flashpoint movie. The Flash solo movie was first announced in 2014 as part of Warner Bros.’ initial slate of films for their unofficially titled DC Extended Universe, with a release date that was tentatively planned for March 2018. It was supposed to be the first movie to release after Zack Snyder’s Justice League hit theaters in November 2017. Unfortunately, The Flash solo movie suffered numerous delays behind the scenes - most notably, directors Seth Grahame-Smith and Rick Famuyiwa both departed the DCEU film in 2016 - and it was removed from Warner Bros....

[This is a review of the Frequency series premiere. There will be SPOILERS.] – This fall, four out of five nights of The CW’s primetime schedule will be anchored by the network’s DC Comics-based superhero dramas. However, while the younger-skewing of the big five broadcast networks has fully invested in the current trend of comic book adaptations, The CW also has other types of dramas and dramedies among its lineup. In addition to mainstays Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries, The CW is home to Golden Globe-winning dramedies Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend....

The Internet is a handy place to find lots of things. And if what you’re looking for is a discussion amongst fans of Game of Thrones about what has happened, how it compares to the unfinished series of novels by George R.R. Martin, or what is likely to happen from here on out, now that the series is poised to embark on its quest to tell the story of the Seven Kingdoms without the help of Martin’s source material, you’ll likely have no problem finding what you’re looking for....

Gentler Streak, the Apple Watch app that brings a more compassionate perspective on your workouts, has just received another big update, this time with new Workout Views, which will be one of the main features that watchOS 9 plans to introduce later this fall. watchOS 9’s Workout Views help users to better understand their workout by scrolling the Digital Crown and seeing new views of metrics like Activity rings, Heart Rate Zones, Power, and Elevation....

Paul Rudd is joining the cast of Ghostbusters 3, which is now going under the title Ghostbusters 2020. Three years after Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot failed to turn a profit at the box office, the paranormal franchise is making a comeback. The new film is being directed by Juno and Tully filmmaker Jason Reitman - aka. the son of Ghostbusters 1 & 2 director Jason Reitman - and will serve as the long-awaited third entry in the original Ghostbusters continuity....

Gwyneth Paltrow poked fun at herself for her Halloween costume when she dressed as her character from Se7en - with her severed head in a box. One of the great final twists in modern movie history, Se7en’s stunner of an ending shocked audiences as much as any during its time. The 1995 film propelled director David Fincher to greater levels of fame, and its final scene helped make it one of the more memorable ’90s thrillers....

Doctor Who has retconned the season 12 Master into a Patrick Troughton episode from the original series. Doctor Who is the BBC’s longest-running science-fiction TV series. It’s hard to believe, but there was a time when the British broadcaster didn’t realize how valuable the property was; they gave it a shoestring budget and didn’t bother to store the episodes, because they assumed nobody would ever want to rewatch them. As a result, the BBC wiped a lot of the tapes from the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras....

Does Doctor Who’s recent Timeless Child reveal clear up a lingering mystery from the David Tennant era? It’s been over a decade since the final voyage of the Tenth Doctor in “The End of Time” but for many fans, those scars are still raw. The emotional climax of Tennant’s TARDIS tenure saw The Doctor team up with John Simm’s Master, as the duo prevented the Time Lords from escaping the sealed Time War and endangering 21st century Earth....

In the era of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman might have seemed like a quaint Little House on the Prairie rip-off. Centered around Michaela Quinn (Jane Seymour), the daughter of a renowned Boston physician, it followed her journey from a life of privilege in Massachusetts to the rustic post Civil War town of Colorado Springs. She became the town doctor and battled sexism, prejudice, and intolerance with the same tenacity she battled death and disease....

Netflix has purchased the rights to Paramount’s upcoming horror film Eli. The R-rated horror film revolves around a boy that is receiving treatment for his auto-immune disorder, who finds out that his house is no longer safe. The film stars Charlie Shotwell as Eli, as well as Lili Taylor, Kelly Reilly, and Max Martini, with Ciarán Foy calling the shots as director. While Netflix has dozens upon dozens of original TV shows and movies, they have also been buying the rights to several movies from big studios such as Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros....

The Elon Musk Twitter deal is now ‘temporarily on hold,’ says the billionaire, in a tweet today. Twitter had told him that spam and fake accounts represent fewer than 5% of users, and Musk now says he wants to see the evidence for this. While Musk followed up with ‘Still committed to acquisition,’ some are suggesting that this is not the case … Background The Tesla and SpaceX CEO last month offered to buy Twitter outright at a price per share which valued the company at around $44B – a significant premium over its then-current value....

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is, on one level, a whimsical adventure that takes place in the Wizarding World and follows the Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), as he scrambles to recover the magical creatures that have gotten loose from his enchanted briefcase in New York, circa 1926. The film is also the first chapter in a larger saga about the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald and his rise to power, as was crafted by Harry Potter and the larger Wizarding World’s creator, J....

Escape From Pretoria tells the true story of South African political prisoners in the late ’70s. Having just premiered in the United States, both in select cinemas and on digital platforms, the film stars Daniel Radcliffe as the protagonist and author of the autobiographical source material. Director Francis Annan also took on the task of writing the script, a process he discussed with Screen Rant in a recent interview. He also shared how Radcliffe got into the mindset of Tim Jenkin and the next historical drama up his sleeve....

Rachel Green was always up to something. She always stirred up the hornet’s nest in order to fulfill her selfish desires and motives. But in doing so, she committed a bunch of mistakes on Friends. These weren’t just harmless errors but shameless acts. Since Friends has considerable influence on people of all ages, we thought it’d be great to go over Rachel’s most shameless moments. Our sole purpose: so we can learn something from them....

It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like Gambit might finally get his own film after all. Earlier this week, X-Men franchise producer Simon Kinberg confirmed that the project is definitely moving forward. Channing Tatum, who’s been attached to the project since 2014, is still slated to star as the Ragin’ Cajun. The film’s now aiming for a summer 2019 release date. Since it was first announced, Gambit’s been plagued by numerous production delays, shifting release dates, and a revolving door of potential directors....

[SPOILERS ahead for those not caught up on Game of Thrones season 6.] - Being one of the biggest and most influential television series currently on the air, everyone knows that Game of Thrones is based off of a projected seven-book series called A Song of Ice and Fire, written by George R.R. Martin. What most perhaps don’t know, however, is that Ice and Fire is only one of three strands of texts that Martin has written, detailing the previous three centuries of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros’s backstory (and hinting at the 12,000 years before that, to boot): a series of prequel novellas, stretching as far back as 150 years before the main story (that’s during the Targaryen civil war popularly known as the Dance of the Dragons, for all those maesters-in-training at home), are generally released in between each new ASOIAF installment, while The World of Ice and Fire is an encyclopedia-esque book that lightly recounts all known history, starting with the First Men’s arrival at Westeros and the start of their war with the children of the forest (a war which, we now know thanks to Game of Thrones, would have major consequences for thousands of years to come)....

Gary Oldman came down with a case of nicotine poisoning while portraying Winston Churchill in the biopic Darkest Hour. Believed to be one of the year’s top awards contenders, director Joe Wright’s World War II drama has attracted a considerable amount of attention due to Oldman’s performance. As demonstrated in trailers and still images, the actor truly transformed himself into the former prime minister, establishing himself as the frontrunner in the Best Actor race....

George Lucas caused heads to turn yesterday when an interview between the Star Wars creator and Charlie Rose hit the Internet. In the interview, Lucas had questionable words for the approach that Disney was taking with his “kids” - the Star Wars franchise and its characters. In the conversation, the filmmaker criticized Disney’s retro approach in Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens, which he claimed was the safe call and didn’t “take chances” like he did with the previous six films - all of which, he suggested, pushed the boundaries of the cinematic world in diverse ways....

Next year’s Ghost in the Shell remake is taking a page out of the recent Disney playbook, adapting an animated classic into a live-action outing (despite the fact that the 1995 original – with its constant parade of nudity, over-the-top violence, and existential introspection – is a far, far cry from kiddie fare). Rupert Sanders’s 2017 release looks to add a fair bit of new material into its retelling of Mamoru Oshii’s 21-year-old movie, including a new villain, a more “international” story, and, unsurprisingly, more martial arts fisticuffs involving Major Motoko Kusanagi (Scarlett Johansson)....