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‘Bloodshot’ Beat ‘Birds Of Prey’ In VOD Sales And You Should All Be Ashamed By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 31, 2020 2:30 pm EST One of the few good things about not reporting box office numbers at the moment is that we don’t have to see how audiences around America ignore the critically acclaimed, underseen fare in favor of the bad popcorn flick of the month. But it turns out that, even with movie theaters closed around the country, things don’t change much....

‘Bloodshot’ Trailer: Vin Diesel Gets Resurrected As The Valiant Comics Super Soldier By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 21, 2019 5:03 am EST Vin Diesel is no stranger to the comic book movie world since he provides the voice of the giant tree creature known as Groot in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. But now the Fast and Furious franchise star is getting his own franchise courtesy of Valiant Comics.Bloodshot finds Vin Diesel playing a former soldier with powers of regeneration, technomancy and meta-morphing made possible through nanites injected into his blood....

‘Bojack Horseman’ Season 6 Trailer: The Final Two-Part Season Is Almost Here By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 27, 2019 1:00 pm EST The good news: Bojack Horseman is coming back for a sixth season. The bad news: it’s the final season. The good news (question mark?): that final season is being split in half so it will seem like we’re getting two seasons! Hooray! The Bojack Horseman season 6 trailer is now here, and it gives us a look at what’s to come: change....

‘Cursed’ First Look: Netflix Re-Imagines The Arthurian Legend In This New Fantasy Series By Chris Evangelista/May 7, 2020 3:30 pm EST The Arthurian Legend – you know, the one about some random guy who gets to become king just because he pulled a hunk of metal out of a rock – is getting an update from Netflix. Based on the book of the same name, Cursed is a new Netflix series about “Nimue, a young woman with a mysterious gift who is destined to become the powerful (and tragic) Lady of the Lake....

‘Frozen 2’ Honest Trailer: Disney Could Sue Itself For Recycling ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ By Ethan Anderton/March 3, 2020 6:00 am EST Frozen 2 is now the highest grossing animated movie of all-time, adding to Disney’s domination of the box office. It might have taken Walt Disney Animation six years to follow up their original animated hit, but you might be surprise to learn that you already saw this story play out at Marvel Studios in the form of Thor: Ragnarok....

‘Happy Death Day 3’ Still Isn’t Happening (Yet), But Here’s What It Might Be About By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 14, 2020 10:30 am EST We, the people, demand another Happy Death Day movie. Unfortunately, the fate of Happy Death Day 3 remains in doubt. While both Death Day movies have a vocal fanbase, Happy Death Day 2U didn’t exactly clean up at the box office. As a result, Blumhouse has yet to greenlight a third film – but director Christopher Landon hasn’t given up hope just yet....

‘Home Alone’ Reboot Casts ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Actor Archie Yates (But Not As A New Kevin McCallister) By Ben Pearson/Dec. 10, 2019 4:49 pm EST Archie Yates, who can currently be seen as the title character’s scene-stealing best friend in Jojo Rabbit, has been cast as the young lead of the Home Alone reboot at Disney+. Ellie Kemper (The Office, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and Rob Delaney (Catastrophe, Deadpool 2) will play his parents....

‘Jumanji: Reverse The Curse’ VR Attraction Will Let You Enter The Jungle By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 5, 2019 11:30 am EST No one seems to have a good time in the Jumanji movies — they tend to be accidentally sucked into the mystical game and have to fight to escape. But the upcoming Jumanji: Reverse the Curse VR attraction allows you to actually play the game as it is meant to be enjoyed, without dealing with all those above dangers or the untold body horror of being stuck in another person....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2020 7:30 am EST Mindy Kaling and Brooklyn Nine-Nine creator Dan Goor are giving the Legally Blonde 3 script a makeover. Kaling and Goor have signed on as the Legally Blonde 3 writers to pen the fabulous new adventures of Reese Witherspoon’s Elle Woods in the star’s long-awaited return to the iconic role. Deadline reports that Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor have officially signed on to write MGM’s Legally Blonde 3, featuring Reese Witherspoon reprising her role as the pink-loving lawyer Elle Woods....

‘Master Of None’ Is Finally Returning For A Third Season By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 19, 2021 8:30 am EST It’s been four years since Master of None aired its second season, which should be enough time for Aziz Ansari’s Dev to become master…of something, right? We’ll soon find out in the third season of the Emmy-winning comedy series, which is reportedly set to return to Netflix after its long hiatus. UK-based comedy website Chortle (via Collider) reports that Master of None is set to finally return for a third season, this time set in London....

‘Night Books’: A Child Must Tell A Scary Story Every Night To Survive By Ben Pearson/Oct. 13, 2020 5:30 pm EST The director of Brightburn is heading to Netflix for a…family movie? Yep. David Yarovesky, who directed the nasty, James Gunn-produced, supervillain origin story Brightburn, is on board to direct Night Books, a film adaptation of author J.A. White’s children’s fantasy story about a young boy who is imprisoned by a witch....

‘The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah Producing Movie About An 8-Year-Old Chess Champion By Ben Pearson/April 23, 2020 5:00 pm EST According to Variety, Paramount is teaming with producers George Tillman Jr. (The Hate U Give, Faster), Bob Teitel (Barbershop, Mudbound), and Trevor Noah to produce a movie about “a Nigerian family that escaped terrorism in their home country, sought and received asylum in America, and — against all odds — found a welcoming new home in New York....

‘The Flash’ Director Andy Muschietti Teases A “Different Version” Of The ‘Flashpoint’ Storyline By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 9, 2020 7:30 am EST When a standalone movie for The Flash was first announced by Warner Bros. Pictures at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2017, fans were psyched that it would be called Flashpoint. But since then, after the disappointment of Justice League, there have been some major fluctuations in the direction of the DCEU, not to mention cycling through several different directors who have come and gone from The Flash movie itself....

‘The Invisible Man’, ‘The Hunt’, And ‘Emma.’ Filmmakers Will Participate In A Live Tweet Of Their Films Now That They’re Available To Stream By Ben Pearson/March 20, 2020 11:00 am EST Earlier this week, NBCUniversal became the first major Hollywood studio to shatter the traditional theatrical window by announcing that some of its films which recently debuted in theaters would be heading to VOD on an accelerated timeline. Each of those films – Focus Features’ Emma....

‘WandaVision’ Going Back To Production In July Despite Wrapping In March Before Coronavirus Shutdown By Ethan Anderton/June 4, 2020 10:30 am EST Back in March, before the coronavirus pandemic started shutting down film and TV production in Hollywood, Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series WandaVision had seemingly wrapped production. However, it sounds like they still have some work to do in front of the camera, because WandaVision is reportedly returning to production in July....

AMC Delays ‘NOS4A2’ Season 2 Premiere While Extending The ‘Creepshow’ Season 1 Cable Run By Chris Evangelista/April 21, 2020 3:15 pm EST You’re going to have to wait a little longer before returning to Chrismtasland. AMC has delayed the NOS4A2 season 2 premiere that was supposed to arrive on June 1. It will now drop on June 21, which isn’t that huge of a delay. Meanwhile, Creepshow season 1, which is already streaming on the AMC-owned Shudder streaming service, is being extended for a six-week run on the network....

Cool Stuff: Hallmark Unveils 2020 ‘Star Wars’ Christmas Ornaments For ‘The Mandalorian’, ‘Empire Strikes Back’ & More By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2020 6:00 am EST Sure, it’s only April, but at this point, thinking about Christmas feels like a nice escape from the hellish reality that is the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Right on schedule, Hallmark has announced the new line of Star Wars Christmas ornaments that will be available for order throughout this year....

Damon Lindelof Thinks ‘Watchmen’ Comic Writer Alan Moore Cursed Him By Ben Pearson/Oct. 17, 2019 2:15 pm EST This Sunday night, HBO will premiere Watchmen, Damon Lindelof’s live-action continuation of a story that began in the pages of a comic written by famed comic writer Alan Moore. Moore, who’s one of the biggest names in comics with credits like as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Batman: The Killing Joke, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to his name, is a practicing occultist and magician who is notoriously unhappy to see any of his work adapted by anyone else, and in a new interview, Lindelof says he’s convinced that Moore actually put a “magical curse” on him because he made this new Watchmen show....

Gillian Anderson Joins ‘The Crown’ As Margaret Thatcher By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 9, 2019 9:30 am EST Gillian Anderson is steeling herself for her next role. Netflix has elected to cast Anderson as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in season 4 of The Crown. Anderson will be starring as the controversial political figure opposite Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II, who replaces the Emmy-winning Claire Foy in The Crown cast starting with the award-winning Netflix drama’s third season....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 7, 2021 10:10 am EST Kevin Feige’s mysterious Star Wars movie has a screenwriter. Disney has reportedly tapped Michael Waldron, the writer of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and head writer and creator of the upcoming Disney+ series Loki, to pen the yet-untitled Star Wars feature film being developed by Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige. Deadline reports that Waldron has been hired to write the new Star Wars movie being developed by Kevin Feige as part of the writer’s recent deal with Disney....