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‘My Hero Academia’ Is Your Next Superhero Obsession By Rafael Motamayor/July 18, 2019 9:30 am EST (Welcome to Ani-time Ani-where, a regular column dedicated to helping the uninitiated understand and appreciate the world of anime.)With Spider-Man: Far From Home already in theaters, and Joker seemingly not following anything from the comics, we don’t have any superhero movie to look forward to for half a year, until Birds of Prey comes out in February....

‘Peaky Blinders’ Season 6 Will End The Series, But A Movie Will Conclude The Story By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 19, 2021 9:00 am EST The British crime drama series Peaky Blinders is coming back for a sixth season, but unfortunately for fans, it will be the last run of episodes for the show from BBC and Netflix. However, there is a bit of a silver lining in the show’s conclusion, because creator and writer Steven Knight says the story will “continue in another form....

‘Primal’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Battles Wild Animals And A Crazed Assassin On A Ship By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 28, 2019 11:00 am EST This might be the most Nicolas Cage movie Nicolas Cage has ever done, and that’s saying something. In Primal, Cage plays a hunter of exotic animals who captures a rare white jaguar for a zoo. The jaguar is being transported via ship – but so is a crazy political assassin....

‘The Assistant’ Trailer: Julia Garner Works For A Sexually Predatory Entertainment Mogul By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2019 5:30 pm EST The monstrous behavior of Harvey Weinstein finally met its match a couple years ago when women in Hollywood took a stand against the heinous abuse and sexual harassment that came from one of entertainment’s most infamous producers. It sparked the #MeToo movement and made waves across show business, targeting the manipulative men who had been taking advantage of women and behaving inappropriately for years....

‘The Mandalorian’ Books Are On The Way, But How Much Will They Expand The Series? By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2020 11:41 am EST The Mandalorian is the latest success in the Star Wars franchise, and with the first season of the show complete, Lucasfilm is ready to dive into some books centered on the Disney+ production. Later this year, a variety of The Mandalorian books will be released, including a book collecting some of the stunning concept art from the first season, as well as an adult novel by author Adam Christopher....

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Poster Takes Baby Yoda For A Ride By Ben Pearson/Oct. 1, 2020 2:30 pm EST It’s October, so you know what that means: it’s finally Mando month. The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars series, makes its triumphant return to Disney+ in a few weeks after its first season racked up a handful of major Emmy Award nominations and took seven trophies back home to a galaxy far, far away....

‘Toy Story 4’ Comes Home On Digital, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray And DVD In October By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 22, 2019 9:30 am EST Toy Story 4 surprised the hell out of everyone this summer by actually being a very good sequel that somehow put a better period on the end of the Pixar Animation franchise than the already stellar ending of Toy Story 3. But if you missed your chance to catch the return of Woody and Buzz Lightyear, or you just can’t wait to watch it again, you’ll be happy to hear that both the Toy Story 4 Blu-ray/DVD and Digital release dates have been set for early October....

‘Weathering With You’ Is Japan’s First Anime To Be Submitted For International Film Oscar Since ‘Princess Mononoke’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 27, 2019 8:30 am EST For the first time in 22 years, Japan has selected an anime film as its best international film entry at the Oscars. Makoto Shinkai’s romantic fantasy movie Weathering With You is the Japanese entry for best international feature film category at the 2020 Oscars, marking the first time since Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke in 1998 that Japan has thrown its weight behind an animated film for its foreign-language category contender....

‘Weathering With You’ Review: Makoto Shinkai’s ‘Your Name’ Follow-Up Is As Light As A Cloud By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 17, 2020 1:00 pm EST Makoto Shinkai is a filmmaker whose heart lies with the cosmos. The Your Name director looks at the world through a lens so expansive that sometimes humans can get lost in it — his earliest films more often than not forgot about the character and favored the awe inspired by natural phenomena: meteor showers, typhoons, the unchanging rhythm of the seasons....

A24 Sets ‘Minari’ On Demand Release Date In Late February By Ben Pearson/Jan. 21, 2021 2:30 pm EST If you read a handful of “best of the year” lists as 2020 was coming to a close, chances are probably pretty high that you saw director Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari pop up multiple times. The beloved drama has been winning hearts since premiering at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it won both the Grand Jury prize and the U....

Alan Tudyk Discusses Returning To Play K-2SO In The Cassian Andor Disney+ Series [TCA 2020] By Fred Topel/Jan. 13, 2020 2:00 pm EST After the success of The Mandalorian, the Cassian Andor streaming series might be the next Star Wars series we see on Disney+. Alan Tudyk said his droid character K-2SO might appear in the series back in February 2019.This weekend, Tudyk was on a Television Critics Association panel for his upcoming Syfy series Resident Alien....

Disney+ Orders ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’, An Animated Series Spin-Off Of ‘The Clone Wars’ By Ethan Anderton/July 13, 2020 9:27 am EST Disney+ let the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars complete one final season to properly send off the show that expanded the prequel period of the sci-fi saga in much more satisfying way than the actual film trilogy. Now the prequel era of Star Wars will expand even more with Disney+ ordering Star Wars: The Bad Batch, an animated spin-off series that will focus on the titular group of elite and experimental clones as they navigate the Star Wars universe after the end of the Clone Wars....

HBO’s ‘Scenes From A Marriage’ Remake To Star Oscar Isaac And Michelle Williams By Ben Pearson/July 10, 2020 11:30 am EST HBO is developing a limited series remake of Scenes From a Marriage, the 6-episode Swedish television series directed by master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman in the 1970s. Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Last Jedi) and Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea) are set to star in this new version, which will be written, produced, and directed by Hagai Levi (The Affair)....

How The ‘Hamilton’ Movie Gives Disney+ Viewers A “Snapshot” Of The Show At Its Height By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 29, 2020 7:00 am EST The original cast of Hamilton remembers being very tired in June of 2016. They were a month away from taking their final bow after nearly a year of performing eight shows a week, to critical acclaim and astronomical popularity. Creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda was in the middle of writing the songs for Disney’s upcoming animated film Moana....

Is Joel Edgerton Returning To ‘Star Wars’ For The Obi-Wan Kenobi Series? By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 2, 2019 11:00 am EST Ewan McGregor may not be the only familiar face returning for Disney+’s upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series. Another actor that could make a potential return to the Star Wars franchise is Joel Edgerton, who played young Uncle Owen in the prequel films. While nothing has been confirmed, a recent interview suggests that we could see him return in the Obi-Wan series....

Joss Whedon Leaves HBO’s New Series ‘The Nevers’ Before First Season Premieres By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2020 11:00 am EST Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly have been excited for creator Joss Whedon to return to the small screen with HBO’s new series The Nevers. An original sci-fi project following people in Victorian-era London who develop superpowers, the series is slated to premiere in the summer of 2021....

The Morning Watch: Aaron Paul Surprises ‘Breaking Bad’ Fans, A Marine Reviews Military Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 25, 2019 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch as Aaron Paul surprises fans at a special midnight screening of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie....

The Morning Watch: Directing ‘Rick And Morty’, Coronavirus Survival Advice From The Movies & More By Ethan Anderton/May 11, 2020 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out what’s involved in directing Rick and Morty....

‘A Christmas Carol’ Trailer: Guy Pearce Hates Christmas In FX’s Dark Reimagining By Ben Pearson/Nov. 20, 2019 3:30 pm EST We’re just over a month away from Christmas, and while that means we’re going to be spending lots of time in theaters catching up on some of the year’s best movies, FX is giving us something else to watch in our downtime at home. The cable channel is airing a “dark reimagining” of A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as he’s guilted into transforming from a penny-pinching, Christmas-hating miser into the world’s best boss....

‘A.P. Bio’ Isn’t Canceled After All, Will Be Moving To NBCUniversal Streaming Service By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2019 1:00 pm EST Back in May, NBC handed down the unfortunate order of cancellation to their midseason comedy series A.P. Bio. The show starred It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton as a disgraced Harvard philosophy professor-turned-high school A.P. biology teacher, and tracked the lengths he went to in order to avoid teaching biology, opting to use his smart students to get revenge on a rival professor instead....