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- Jon Stewart says NBC and CNN won't let their reporters come on his podcast
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Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez wanted to capture the
"psychosexual fucked-up-ness" of the original
Those rascally Facehuggers are back. Kicking off the final stretch of its years-long gestation period, Alien: Romulus stopped at Comic-Con. Before that little Xenomorph breaks free from 20th Century Studio’s chest cavity, director Fede Álvarez and stars Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, and Spike Fearn stopped by Hall...
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Michael C. Hall will be back to Young Sheldon the Dexter
prequel
Presumably realizing that there's no escape, at this point, from the basic accusation that it's trying to apply the Young Sheldon formula to TV's favorite serial killer, a new teaser for upcoming prequel show Dexter: Original Sin has now confirmed that original star Michael C. Hall will be back for...
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Clone High revival canceled at Max
Way, way back in the 2020s/Hopeful Warner Bros. employees/Dug up old MTV cartoons/And rebooted them to mixed reviews/Then the clones got two full seasons /But they won't make it, though they tried/Because Max announced this evening/That it's canceling Clone High/You're out of time to watch Clone High…Ahem.So, yeah: Variety reports tonight that...
- Eddie Redmayne is your next hit man in Peacock’s The Day Of The Jackal teaser
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Amazon renews Invincible, Hazbin Hotel, and, against all
odds, the Sausage Party show
Today, in "Well, you have to keep Seth Rogen happy somehow" news: Amazon announced at Comic-Con today that it's renewing pretty much every show on its slate of adult-aimed animated properties, including Hazbin Hotel, Invincible, and… Sausage Party: Foodtopia.That latter one got a genuine note of surprise from us today, given that the series...
- Deadpool & Wolverine's Cassandra Nova Is One of Marvel’s Coolest Villains in Years
- Michael C. Hall Back For “Dexter: Resurrection”
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Teaser Trailer: Peacock’s “The Day of the Jackal”
Debuting alongside the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, NBC has unveiled the first trailer for their upcoming mini-series adaptation of Fredrick Forsyth’s iconic 1971 novel “The Day of the Jackal”. Eddie Redmayne plays the skilled assassin who makes his living killing targets for the highest bidder. Following his...
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“Batman Forever” Director’s Cut Came Close
With Akiva Goldsman showing up at Comic-Con the other day to talk about producing films, one project that came up in discussion was 1995’s “Batman Forever” which he wrote. Long tied to that film have been rumors of a director’s cut that the late Joel Schumacher completed. This long-rumoured ‘Schumacher...
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“Batman Forever” Director’s Cut Was Real
With Akiva Goldsman showing up at Comic-Con the other day to talk about producing films, one project that came up in discussion was 1995’s “Batman Forever” which he wrote. Long tied to that film have been rumors of a director’s cut that the late Joel Schumacher completed. This long-rumoured ‘Schumacher...
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Strike Won’t Impact “Grand Theft Auto VI”
A representative for the SAG-AFTRA union says the current actor’s strike related to the video game industry will not impact Rockstar Games’ upcoming “Grand Theft Auto VI” according to Kotaku reporter Ethan Gach. The strike, called by labour union SAG-AFTRA, began today after negotiations over the Interactive Media Agreement fell...
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“Invincible,” “Sausage,” “Krapopolis” Renewed
Amazon has announced that a fourth season of Prime Video’s “Invincible” is in the works – comic creator Robert Kirkman making the announcement at Comic-Con on Friday. The news came as a part of Prime Video’s adult animation panel with news that both “Hazbin Hotel” and “Sausage Party: Foodtopia” have...
- Caple Jr. Eyed To Direct “I Am Legend 2”
- Is Deadpool’s healing factor better than Wolverine’s?
- Can Deadpool survive losing his head?
- How tall is Wolverine supposed to be?
- “Rings of Power” Season 2 Comic-Con Trailer
- Clip: The “Doctor Who” 2024 Xmas Special
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Trailer: Prime Video’s “Yakuza: Like a Dragon”
Amazon Prime Video has set an October 24th premiere date and released a first trailer and poster for its six-episode live-action series adaptation of the SEGA game franchise “Like a Dragon”/”Yakuza”. Deemed a crime-suspense-action series with gritty realism, the project is being directed by Take Masaharu (“100 Yen Love”) and...
- 22 details you might've missed during the Paris 2024 opening ceremony
- Every Avenger cameo and Easter egg in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
- San Diego Comic-Con 2024: All the biggest trailers from the convention
- Jensen Ackles To Lead “The Boys” Prequel
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First Trailer: DC Studios’ “Creature Commandos”
The very first effort in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Studios initiative, the animated series “Creature Commandos,” has released its first trailer. Following the events of “Peacemaker,” Amanda Waller is no longer able to put human lives in jeopardy for her clandestine operations as she did with the...
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Josh O’Connor Joins Spielberg’s UFO Film
Universal Pictures previously announced that Steven Spielberg’s next directorial effort, a “new original event film,” will launch on May 15th 2026. The project’s details are under wraps, but it has been referred to as a ‘UFO film’ in times past. Today, during the latest IMAX Investor Presentation, it seemed to...
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“Doctor Who” Spin-Off “War” Sets Cast
Russell Tovey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jemma Redgrave and Alexander Devrient will lead the cast of “The War Between The Land And The Sea,” a new “Doctor Who” spin-off announced at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Disney Branded Television and BBC are producing the series which hails from showrunner and executive producer...
- Maggie and Negan are warring (again) in The Walking Dead: Dead City season 2
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Doctor Who announces new spin-off, plus shows off Nicola
Coughlan guest appearance at Comic-Con
Having recently gotten a big infusion of Disney cash, the Doctor Who franchise is determined to spend it—announcing today, at its Comic-Con panel in San Diego, that it's launching a new five episode spin-off series staring Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. (Both of whom have previously appeared in Doctor Who, of course, but there's maybe...
- Darkness binds Hall H with a Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power season 2 trailer
- The Boys is getting a prequel starring Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash
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There’s now video of Francis Ford Coppola apparently
embracing extras on Megalopolis
Unfortunately, the allegations of Francis Ford Coppola’s misconduct on the set of Megalopolis aren’t going away. Instead, Variety has obtained video that seems to substantiate some of the stories that he was touching and kissing extras while filming his expensive, long-gestating epic. The behind-the-scenes footage was taken during the filming...
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Deep Blue Sea still reigns as the eminent anti-Jaws
“A hundred million sharks are murdered every year,” impassioned activist Mika (Léa Léviant) decries in Under Paris, the recent Netflix original about a massive shortfin mako that manages to swim up the Seine and breed in the city’s catacombs. “Decades of overfishing have deprived sharks of their food source, forcing...
- Halsey echoes Britney Spears with "Lucky," but it might as well be a cover
- Film Trivia Fact Check: Danzig ain’t no goddamn Wolverine
- Game Theory: Nintendo World Championships is a lazy speedrunner's delight
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The Police's new Synchronicity box set balances the band's
egos
Few rock albums from the early ’80s experienced the kind of blockbuster success The Police enjoyed with their final studio LP, Synchronicity, upon its release on June 17, 1983. Its title comes from Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s study of coincidence as the driving factor of external world events as opposed...
- Netflix is adding 40+ new shows and movies next week – I’d stay away from these 3
- The Rings of Power looks action-packed in season 2 trailer
- ‘The Boys’ is getting another spinoff with ‘Vought Rising’ and the timing couldn’t be worse
- What is the Backstreet Boys’ net worth, and how much money did their crooked manager Lou Pearlman take from them?
- Matt Damon kept telling Josh Harnett he'd regret gaining 30 pounds for 'Oppenheimer:' 'You're never gonna get that off again'
- Fans React to First Look at Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan
- Thanks to Deadpool & Wolverine, we know how Iron Man will return to the MCU
- Ryan Reynolds says he'll only make 'Deadpool 4' if he's 'capital B broke.' Here's what to know about a potential fourth film.
- The 7 best things to stream this weekend, from a Netflix comedy about the bubonic plague to the first Olympic events
- Everything you need to know about Miss USA: What it is, who can compete, and why there is so much controversy
- What is an Anchor Being in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine?’
- ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ ticks 8 big boxes to give MCU its deadline only to dead drop the ball at the last minute
- ‘Dirty Pop’ reminds us that 2 Backstreet Boys are cousins and one of them is a Trump supporter with possible links to a certain conspiracy theory
- The best looks worn by athletes and other stars at LVMH's pre-Olympics event
- No, Taylor Swift isn't in 'Deadpool & Wolverine.' Here's why Swifties and Marvel fans were convinced she'd make an appearance.
- Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's kids have cameos in 'Deadpool & Wolverine' — and you probably missed it
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Former Netflix Chief Revives United Artists
Scott Stuber, the former head of film at Netflix, has set a multi-year film partnership with Amazon MGM Studios. As part of this new first-look pact, the company will finance and release movies from Stuber’s new production company under the once-famed United Artists label. The agreement will see Stuber and...
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LAIKA Unveils First “Wildwood” Artwork
Beloved animation studio LAIKA (“Paranoman,” “Missing Link”) has revealed a first look at their next film, “Wildwood,” via a stop-motion animated digital cover for the latest issue of Empire and created exclusively for the magazine. The cover took 120 days to make, and was worked on by over 160 LAIKA...
- All Deadpool variants who cameo in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
- ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ could have turned Wade into a hero without villainizing its nicest character
- A major Marvel star returns in 'Deadpool & Wolverine' in an unexpected way, and it might be one of the MCU's most satisfying cameos ever
- 35 of the most daring looks MCU stars have worn on the red carpet
- Between ‘Deadpool 3’ and ‘The Boys,’ should superhero movies be rated R moving forward?
- James Bond Star George Lazenby Retires
- All 18 songs on the ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ movie soundtrack, ranked
- All Wolverine variants who cameo in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’
- Will there be a ‘Deadpool 4?’
- Lundgren To Voice “Mutant Year Zero”
- Against all the odds, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ paves the way for DC’s next Batman in its most epic moment
- A ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ icon makes a sneaky cameo in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ and you definitely missed it
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One of Stephen King's weirdest unfilmed books just started
filming
Every now and then, you run into a piece of casting news that's less interesting in terms of the actual information being conveyed—i.e., "Mark Hamill and Judy Greer have been cast, in undisclosed roles, in Lionsgate's attempts to adapt Stephen King novel The Long Walk"—and more because it reminds you...
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Video game actors are going on strike tomorrow
Another summer, another strike: After more than a year of negotiations, SAG-AFTRA announced this afternoon—via America's most famous Crabtree-Smith, Duncan—that the actors union is striking tomorrow on its Interactive Media Agreement. That, in case you weren't up to date on your various union Media Agreements, is the one that covers...
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Ryan Reynolds had a dopey plan to secretly release Deadpool
& Wolverine
In a universe where almost every superhero movie now gets compressed, in the span of just a couple of weeks, down to little more than its various teasers, stingers, cameos, and other franchise obligations, the spoiler has become a matter of million or billion-dollar interest. Having your big, flashy reveal...
- What We Do In The Shadows cast says to expect surprises for the final season
- ‘Sister Wives’: What do the now ex-wives do for a living?
- The Deadpool & Wolverine Credits Scenes, Explained
- Channing Tatum's Deadpool & Wolverine Appearance as Gambit, Explained
- There's Only One Way to See Deadpool & Wolverine
- 10 Must-Read Deadpool (and Wolverine) Comics
- Review: Don’t expect ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ to be anything besides exactly what it is — a superhero movie
- Grimes, Elon Musk's ex, is speaking out in support of his estranged trans daughter
- What caused ‘cancel Netflix’ to trend, and what does it have to do with donations to a certain presidential candidate?
- Does Timothée Chalamet sing in the Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’?
- Deadpool & Wolverine will make NSYNC’s Bye Bye Bye blow up all over again
- Fortnite is coming to third-party app stores on iOS in the EU
- How to stream the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony on Friday
- Disney+, Hulu, Max bundle now available starting at $17 a month
- Leagues Cup returns July 26 for MLS Season Pass subscribers on the Apple TV app
- Mark Hamill Joins “SpongeBob,” “Long Walk”
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Jordan Peele is rebooting horror prank show Scare
Tactics
Trust Jordan Peele to make the television landscape a little bit spookier. Following his reboot of The Twilight Zone, Peele’s production company Monkeypaw has now turned its attention to Scare Tactics. The hidden camera horror-comedy prank show previously aired on SyFy (at the time, the Sci-Fi Channel). This new iteration...
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Transformers One finds the AllSpark at Comic-Con
Paramount is doing something a little interesting with its latest entry into the headache-inducing world of Decepticons and Autobots: It’s making it for kids. Transformers One, the animated prequel, takes a step away from the Michael Bay universe that generated seven movies, including last year’s Rise Of The Beasts, offering...
- George Lazenby follows Joe Biden’s lead and announces retirement
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Kevin Feige, who made a lot of money on sequels, isn’t
cynical about sequels
Kevin Feige is doing the media rounds for Deadpool & Wolverine, which also means a round of defending Marvel Studios’ honor. Superhero fatigue doesn’t exist! We’re fixing the oversaturation problem! The X-Men are coming! Now, ahead of the studio’s appearance at San Diego Comic-Con, here’s another soundbite for the books:...
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Evil takes root in the traditionally slow-burn folk horror
Starve Acre
Despite the whirlwind tragedy of its opening act, Starve Acre is not rushing to get anywhere. With his second feature, writer-director Daniel Kokotajlo wants us to breathe in as much of Starve Acre’s rancid air as our lungs can tolerate. Capturing the English countryside’s ethereal black magic with patience and awe, the movie...
- His Three Daughters trailer forces Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon, and Elizabeth Olsen to share their grief
- Breaking down the BBC Strictly Come Dancing abuse allegations
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My World Of Flops: Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania
My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.In a 2022 interview with Vulture, Golden Raspberries co-founder Maureen Murphy addressed one of the odious organization’s most controversial/transparently wrong...
- Cindy Crawford says the secret to her 26-year marriage with Rande Gerber is knowing how to 'fight nice'
- 'Deadpool & Wolverine' is filled with cameos — here they all are
- Hugh Jackman makes a triumphant return in 'Deadpool & Wolverine,' and the explanation for how Logan is alive is surprisingly simple
- 'Deadpool & Wolverine' has one end-credits scene — here's what happens
- The 15 highest-grossing animated movies of all time
- A child rapist competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics sparks international outrage