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Savage Opress: The ‘Star Wars’ Character Cool Enough To Redeem Darth Maul By Evan Saathoff/Nov. 2, 2020 11:00 am EST (Welcome to The Galaxy-Wide Star Wars Character Guide, where we give proper due to the smaller figures in Star Wars history.)Some Star Wars fans started watching The Clone Wars from the first theatrical film and stuck with it all the way through. To those folks, its jump from animated curiosity to the main engine driving the saga’s narrative future probably wasn’t a huge surprise....

Sequel Bits: ‘Bill And Ted 3’, ‘Furious 9’, ‘Frozen 2’, ‘Maleficent 2’, ‘Breaking Bad’ By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 2, 2019 3:00 pm EST In this edition of Sequel Bits: Bill and Ted 3 wraps filming. Is Fast and Furious 9 bringing Brian back? Probably not, but let’s speculate. No love interest for Elsa in Frozen 2. Check out everyone awkwardly standing around in a new Maleficent 2 banner. Aaron Paul shares a Breaking Bad scene to “prepare you” for the upcoming Breaking Bad movie....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Exorcist III’ May Be An Unnecessary Sequel, But It’s Still Pretty Darn Great By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 21, 2020 10:00 am EST Years of bad, unnecessary sequels may have turned some people off of ever checking out The Exorcist III. And, hell, watching Exorcist II, or the two different prequel films (Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist), certainly may make you warry of ever checking this out....

Theme Park Bits: Six Flags’ New Rules, Social Distancing Reminders, And More By Josh Spiegel/May 22, 2020 4:00 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Six Flags will be instituting reservations when they reopen. Take a look at how Universal Studios Orlando will enforce social distancing when it opens. And more! While the Disney theme parks still don’t have an opening date – no matter what the clickbait-y headlines tell you, it’s just the shopping and dining destination at Walt Disney World that reopened this month – there are plans afoot for one of its competitors for how they’ll handle guests moving forward....

Tiffany Haddish Is Confident Someone Can Save ‘Tuca & Bertie’ [TCA 2019] By Fred Topel/Aug. 5, 2019 2:00 pm EST Tuca & Bertie joins the list of Netflix shows that got cancelled too soon. Since Netflix does not release their numbers, it’s confusing as to why some shows are cancelled and others are not. Tuca & Bertie was created by Lisa Hanawalt and produced by Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and only had one season....

With Its First Episode, ‘The Mandalorian’ Is Already A Welcome Addition To The ‘Star Wars’ Universe By Bryan Young/Nov. 12, 2019 9:00 am EST Naturally, there are spoilers for the first episode here.The Mandalorian is the first live-action television series to spring from the world of Star Wars. Created by Jon Favreau, this first episode is directed by Dave Filoni, the powerhouse mind behind Lucasfilm’s popular (and important) animated shows. It stars Pedro Pascal as a nameless Mandalorian bounty hunter who gets an offer for a job he can’t refuse from another nameless mystery man with Imperial connections played by Werner Herzog....

‘Avatar 2’ Set Photo Shows The Return Of Sigourney Weaver By Ben Pearson/April 29, 2020 3:37 pm EST James Cameron’s Avatar 2, which will take us back to the world of Pandora first established in his 2009 record-smashing blockbuster behemoth, had to shut down its New Zealand production last month due to the coronavirus pandemic. But today, the film’s official Twitter account shared a behind-the-scenes photo (hopefully taken long before that shutdown) that gives us our first look at returning characters played by Sigourney Weaver and Joel David Moore....

‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’ Poster Brings Back A Familiar Time Machine, Which You Can Now Buy By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2020 10:30 am EST This summer brings the release of Bill and Ted Face the Music, the third installment of the sci-fi comedy franchise. We’re still waiting patiently for a trailer, but the recent appearance of Bill S. Preston, Esq. in Walmart’s Super Bowl commercial has sparked the arrival of the sequel’s first teaser poster, featuring the famous time traveling phone booth....

‘Doctor Who: Revolution Of The Daleks’ Teaser Reveals The Return Of A Familiar Face In The Holiday Special By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 24, 2020 7:30 am EST Jack is back! On the 57th anniversary of the Doctor Who premiere, the beloved BBC sci-fi show finally released a teaser for its upcoming holiday special with one whopper of a reveal: Captain Jack, played by John Barrowman for four seasons on the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood and in recurring appearances on the flagship show, is back, baby....

‘High Fidelity’ Teaser: Zoe Kravitz Counts Down Her Most Memorable Heartbreaks By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 22, 2019 1:00 pm EST It’s all about 808s and heartbreak for Zoe Kravitz, who stars in the Hulu’s High Fidelity series, based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. But this a new High Fidelity for a modern age, taking only loose inspiration from the 1995 Hornby novel, which is likely best known by the John Cusack 2000 classic feature film....

‘It’s A Sin’ Trailer: A New HBO Max Series From The Creator Of ‘Queer As Folk’ By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 26, 2021 5:30 pm EST HBO Max has unveiled the trailer for It’s a Sin, a new series from writer Russell T Davies, creator of Queer As Folk. The series is set in 1981 and explores HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom. It’s a Sin originated in the UK, where it’s currently airing on Channel 4....

‘Lady And The Tramp’ Trailer: Must Love Dog Romances By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 15, 2019 7:30 am EST If you were thrown off by the photorealistic animals of Disney’s The Lion King, the upcoming Lady and the Tramp live-action remake has none of those problems. With real rescue dogs playing the beloved characters, Lady and the Tramp is kicking it old school, featuring voice actors narrating over dogs who are trained to share meatballs and chase after dog pound vans....

‘Morbius’ Release Date Delayed Again To October 2021 By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 12, 2021 7:30 am EST Jared Leto’s Morbius will rise…in seven months. Sony’s living vampire has got his chompers in a new release date, following the studio’s latest delay of the Marvel film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Morbius release date has been pushed back seven months, from March 18, 2021 to October 8 2021. This follows an initial delay for the comic book movie from July 31, 2020 to March 2021 amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....

‘Nadiya’s Time To Eat’ Trailer: The Great British Baking Show Winner Hosts Her Own Show By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2020 1:30 pm EST Nadiya Hussain, one of the more memorable winners of The Great British Baking Show (AKA The Great British Bake-Off), now has her own show – Nadiya’s Time to Eat. The series originally aired in the UK on BBC Two, but now comes to the United States courtesy of Netflix....

‘Nightbreed’ TV Series Lands ‘Godzilla: King Of The Monsters’ Director Michael Dougherty By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 1, 2020 10:30 am EST It’s been 30 years since Clive Barker’s Nightbreed hit theaters, and quite some time since we last heard an update about a developing TV series adaptation of the cult horror movie. But the project is rising from the dead once again with the news that Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Trick ‘r’ Treat director Michael Dougherty has been tapped to direct the Nightbreed TV series adaptation....

‘Not Alone In Here’ Is Yet Another Creepy Shot-In-Quarantine Short Film From David F. Sandberg By Chris Evangelista/May 18, 2020 3:30 pm EST David F. Sandberg is at it again, making yet another short horror movie while under lockdown. Sandberg, director of Shazam! and more, previously released Shadowed under quarantine conditions, and his latest, Not Alone in Here, keeps the trend going. Like Shadowed, and several of Sandberg’s other shorts, it features Sandberg’s wife and collaborator Lotta Losten being stalked by some sort of supernatural force....

By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2020 3:28 pm EST Lionsgate first announced Now You See Me 3 way back in 2015, a year before the second movie even hit theaters. But the studio has never given up on the magic-infused heist franchise, and now they’ve conjured up a writer with a brand new take on the material: Eric Warren Singer, who was nominated for an Oscar for writing American Hustle and who also has a credit on Paramount’s upcoming Top Gun: Maverick....

‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Is The Latest Recent Release To Race Onto Digital Early By Chris Evangelista/March 20, 2020 1:30 pm EST If you thought we were going to close out the day without at least one more big movie announcing an earlier-than-expected digital release date, think again. Sonic the Hedgehog is the latest movie to secure itself a theatrical window-breaking digital release. Sonic will hit digital at the end of the month, 46 days after it opened in theaters....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Delivers A Massive Cliffhanger In Penultimate Episode “The Missing Agent” By Caroline Cao/Dec. 27, 2019 11:30 am EST If you found the recent The Mandalorian “The Reckoning” cliffhanger anxiety-inducing, now you’re faced with a Star Wars Resistance cliffhanger in the latest “The Missing Agent.” The episode opens on an unknown planet with a humanoid alien fellow, Norath Kev (Daveed Diggs), and his rollie droid running fast in the night from an ominous force....

‘Star Wars Resistance’ Review: “The Engineer” Delivers The Neeku Spotlight We Deserved By Caroline Cao/Nov. 3, 2019 4:00 pm EST Neeku (Josh Brener) is perhaps an underrated hero of the Star Wars universe. His kid-appeal existence could easily be as clunky as Jar Jar Binks, the alien comedy relief sidekick that’s largely considered more annoying than endearing (the heartwarming movement to rehabilitate Jar Jar’s image is another conversation entirely). Except Neeku’s character in Star Wars Resistance works from the get-go simply because he has a developed personhood and his moments of comedy relief register as much as his emotional needs, as best expressed in “Bibo,” one of the breezier episodes of Resistance....