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Manifest Season 3 Presents a ‘Fundamental Shift’

When a show like Manifest reaches its third season with so much of its central mystery still unsolved, the onus is on the characters and their relationships to keep viewers engaged. If the audience truly cares what happens to the Stone family and those around them, the mythology of the series can build upon that foundation, making it fun, not frustrating, to hatch theories and speculate on the deeper meaning of the callings. At least that’s what showrunner Jeff Rake is counting on when Manifest season 3 returns to NBC on April 1, 2021. Rake credits that emotional complexity for…
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Jamie Foxx to Star in Netflix Vampire Hunter Comedy Day Shift

Jamie Foxx is reteaming with Netflix after having recently starred in the streamer’s Project Power to headline another movie exclusive to the platform, this one a comedy in which he plays a vampire hunter.   Day Shift, as the film is titled, will see Oscar-winning actor and box office draw Foxx as its star. However, the director’s chair will be occupied by an untested talent in J.J. Perry, a second unit and stunt coordinator from major films such as Fast & Furious 9, The Fate of the Furious, Bloodshot and the John Wick franchise. Perry will work off a script…
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12 Hour Shift

Nurse Mandy (Angela Bettis) is desperate to make it through her double shift without incident. This is particularly hard to do when you’re an addict and are also involved in a black market organ-trading scheme. When her hapless but dangerous cousin Regina (Chloe Farnworth) messes up a kidney delivery, chaos descends on the Arkansas hospital as Mandy and Regina frantically try to secure a replacement organ through any means necessary. Things grow increasingly complicated when injured convict Jefferson (David Arquette) is brought in, and events spiral even further out of control.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 02, 2020
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The Last Shift

The Last Shift is an American story about two men struggling in the same town, while worlds apart. Stanley (Richard Jenkins), an aging fast-food worker, plans to call it quits after 38 years on the graveyard shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish. His last weekend takes a turn while training his replacement, Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie), a talented but stalled young writer whose provocative politics keep landing him in trouble. These two who share little in common are brought together through circumstance. Stanley, a high school dropout who has watched life pass by his drive-through window, proudly details the nuances…
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Spider-Man 3, Doctor Strange 2, Thor 4 Release Dates Shift

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures announced a new round of release date changes on Friday afternoon (April 24), with sequels starring Thor, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man — both the live-action and animated versions — all moving to new arrival berths (via Deadline). First out of the gate was Sony, which pushed the untitled follow-up to Spider-Man: Far from Home from July 16, 2021 to November 5, 2021. Remember that latter date for a minute. Sony also removed the sequel to the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse from its April 2022 release slot to October 7, 2022. In related non-Marvel news,…
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Ghostbusters, Morbius Moved in Sony Schedule Shift

Sony Pictures has just shifted the release dates of a very large chunk of its upcoming slate, according to Deadline, pushing a number of major releases and summer tentpoles into next year in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps the two biggest films that are getting moved are Ghostbusters: Afterlife and the Sony/Marvel comic book movie Morbius. The former, directed by Jason Reitman and starring Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd and Finn Wolfhard (along with cameos from most of the original Ghostbusters cast), has jumped from July 10, 2020 to March 5, 2021. Meanwhile, Morbius, Sony’s newest entry in…
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