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Why Impeachment: American Crime Story Isn’t Available On Hulu After months of hype, “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” the latest season of the FX anthology, is finally hitting our screens. The show is airing weekly on the cable channel, one episode at a time, using an illustrious cast to retell the drama of the Clinton impeachment scandal. For the cable cutters among us, watching weekly at 9:00 P.M. is basically a foreign concept, but at this point, at least one of themanystreaming services should have us covered....

Legendary Cinematographer Roger Deakins Now Has His Own Podcast Roger Deakins, the cinematographer behindBarton Fink,No Country For Old Men,The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,Blade Runner 2049,1917, and so much more, now has his own podcast. Co-hosted with his wife and collaboratorJamesDeakins, the podcast – titledTeam Deakins– features the cinematographer talking about the tricks of the trade, including lighting, location scouting, and more. Think of it as a film school for your ears....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’: Mark Hamill Clarifies Disagreeing With Rian Johnson’s Plan For Luke Towards the end of last month, a slew ofStar Wars: The Last Jedidetails came fromVanity Fair’s big cover story, but there was one new piece of information that caught fans off guard. During an interview,Mark Hamillbrought up a conversationhe had with director Rian Johnson: “I at one point had to say to Rian, ‘I pretty much fundamentally disagree with every choice you’ve made for this character....

Olivia Thirlby To Star In Timur Bekmambetov-Produced Alien Invasion Movie The Darkest Hour “What happened toOlivia Thirlby?” I asked this very question to a friend a couple weeks back, while riding the tube in London. The actress broke onto the scene with a small role in the Paul Greengrass-directed Oscar-nominatedUnited 93, and proceeded to go on a tear, starring in some of my favorite indie films of 2007/2008: David Gordon Green’s underrated adaptation ofSnow Angels, Jason Reitman’s Oscar-nominated filmJuno, and Jonathan Levine’sThe Wackness....

Stan Lee Makes His First-Ever Cameo In A DC Movie Stan Lee’s cameo power is so strong that he’s started to move across the aisle to DC movies. The Marvel Comics legend has become an ubiquitous presence in Marvel movies, appearing in both Marvel Studios andX-Menmovies for the past few decades. But Lee does not belong to one cinematic universe, as shown by his most recent cameo in his first DC Comics movie....

Damon Lindelof Rewriting Alien Prequel? Depending on how you felt about the final season ofLost, this news will either excite or infuriate you. Word is thatLostco-creatorDamon Lindelofmet withRidley Scottand studio reps from 20th Century Fox, and is now set to do a rewrite on the script for Ridley Scott’sAlienprequel. Learn more about this (possible) development after the break. The announcement comes fromDeadline, who claim “studio insiders” as their source. Let’s wait until official confirmation before assuming this as truth....

Eddie Redmayne Could Star In ‘Harry Potter’ Spin Off ‘Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’ It’s a pretty magical time to beEddie Redmayne. Weeks after winning an Oscar, the actor is eyeing the lead role of Newt Scamander inFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, theDavid Yates-helmedHarry Potterspin off written byJ.K. Rowlingherself. Read more on the Fantastic Beasts casting news below. Varietybroke the Fantastic Beasts casting news. According to them, Redmayne hasn’t decided if he wants to do the role yet but he’s the favorite and if he wants it, it’s his....

Jonathan Demme Is Working On A “Space Age” Justin Timberlake Concert Documentary After dropping a back-to-back double album in 2013, pop sensationJustin Timberlakeembarked on the20/20 Experience World Tour, a 134-date global concert tour spread out over 14 months that took him to five different continents, delivering concerts where he was playing 30 songs some nights. The man is a true performer. But if you weren’t lucky enough to see Timberlake perform live, that doesn’t mean you won’t get a taste of what his live performance in concert was like, becauseSilence of the LambsdirectorJonathan Demme, who currently hasRicki and the Flashwith Meryl Streep in theaters right now, is working on a Justin Timberlakeconcert documentarychronicling the last night of the tour....

Sam Raimi Loves A Good Skeleton (Even In A Marvel Movie) Two decades after his first Marvel film, Sam Raimi returns to the IP with “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” — and boy, does this feel like a uniquely “Raimi” production. The movie is the 28th in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it dovetails from the previous films nicely, while managing to continue storylines from the recent Disney+ Marvel miniseries....

‘Fargo’ Season 3 Teaser Declares War On Christmas Every article about FX’sFargoseries has to begin with the observation that this series had no right to work as well as it does, so here we go: FX’sFargoseries has no right to work as well as it does and creator/showrunnerNoah Hawleycan probably be filed away for future reference under “miracle worker.” And because two acclaimed seasons of pitch black comedy, criminal idiocy, and startling violence (not to mention 36 Emmy nominations) are not enough, the show is set to return in just a few months....

‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Trailer: Peter Jackson’s World War I Documentary Brings 100-Year-Old Footage To Stunning Life Peter Jacksonhas put his cutting-edge visual technology to good use withThey Shall Not Grow Old, a World War I documentary unlike any other. The documentary takes BBC archival footage shot during the war 100 years ago, and brings it to life via a state-of-the-art restoration and colorization process — and in 3D for good measure....

All Classic ‘Doctor Who’ Episodes Now Available To Stream On BritBox Doctor Whois regenerating into a new life on streaming devices. Every episode of the “ClassicDoctor Who” series, the original incarnation of the long-running British sci-fi series that aired on the BBC from 1963 to 1989, will be available to US viewers on BritBox, the new streaming service from the BBC and ITV. BritBox, which is a fairly new service that currently streams several British TV series likeBlackadderandEmmerdale, will feature nearly every episode of the original series, called “ClassicWho” by fans of the show....

Trailers For New NBC TV Shows NBC has announced their 2010/2011 television line-up. After the jump you can find trailers for most of the new television shows set to air on the network. The full NBC schedule: 8-9 p.m. – “Chuck” 9-10 p.m. – “THE EVENT” 10-11 p.m. – “CHASE” 8-10 p.m. – “The Biggest Loser” 10-11 p.m. – “Parenthood” 8-9 p.m. – “UNDERCOVERS” 9-10 p.m. – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”...