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The Best TV Shows And Movies Coming To Hulu And Disney+ In February 2021 By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2021 1:30 pm EST Starting today, hopefully the rest of the year will start to feel a little less like a never-ending nightmare. Helping with that will be a new batch of TV shows and movies for you to soak up from Disney+ and Hulu. There’s an interesting mix of classic comedy, prestige drama, buzzed about Oscar-hopefuls, past Oscar winners, and so much more coming to these two streaming services....

Is Bob Iger Finished at Disney? Technically, not at all. He’ll serve as executive chairman for the company until the end of 2021 and he’ll be Bob Chapek’s direct supervisor. Was Iger Always Planning on Leaving? Bob Iger had been talking about leaving Disney, or at least stepping down as CEO, for a while. It’s not news that he was looking to move onto a new phase of his life; even in the earlier part of 2019, there were rumblings that he was going to run for President of the United States, but he nixed that idea publicly....

The Morning Watch: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Does ‘Hot Ones’, ‘Get Out’ Scene Breakdown & More By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 28, 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, watch Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, (500) Days of Summer) participate in one of the most honest and fun episodes of Hot Ones yet....

Theme Park Bits: Galaxy’s Edge Sporks, Pokemon In Universal Studios, And More By Josh Spiegel/Jan. 30, 2020 4:30 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: Buy a spork at Galaxy’s Edge. Get ready for the Food & Wine Festival at Disney California Adventure. Pokemon may be coming to Universal. And more! If you have a hankering for merchandise, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has you covered. Yes, they’ve got everything from puppets to droids to lightsabers to…sporks....

Theme Park Bits: Space 220 Delay, Galaxy’s Edge Wins Awards, And More By Josh Spiegel/Nov. 27, 2019 3:30 pm EST In this edition of Theme Park Bits: A new Epcot restaurant is being delayed. The Darth Vader merchandise in Galaxy’s Edge looks a bit funky for a reason. And more! If you’ve visited Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge since it opened in both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, you’ve no doubt made the pilgrimage to browse some of the merchandise, if not buy it outright....

TV Legend Norman Lear Broke An Emmy Record That He Previously Held Himself By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 16, 2020 3:30 pm EST Norman Lear has been working in television for decades. He’s the creator of classic sitcoms such as All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and Maude. More recently, he’s been having a blast by recreating episodes of those sitcoms with Live in Front of a Studio Audience specials on ABC, bringing in star-studded casts to play the beloved characters of classic TV....

‘6 Underground’ Trailer: Michael Bay’s Netflix Movie Has Parkour, Explosions, And Ryan Reynolds By Ben Pearson/Dec. 9, 2019 8:30 am EST Gratuitous slow motion. Explosions. Beautiful people framed in sun-kissed shots. Lots and lots of helicopters. Yes, a new Michael Bay movie trailer has arrived. Netflix has just released a new trailer for 6 Underground, the new action film starring Ryan Reynolds that debuts on the streaming service later this week....

‘Bullet Train’ Will Reunite ‘Deadpool 2’ Star Zazie Beetz With Brad Pitt By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 15, 2020 12:00 pm EST A couple years ago, Deadpool 2 featured a literal blink-and-you’ll-miss-it role for Brad Pitt as an invisible member of the mercenary squad known as X-Force. That was enough to skyrocket the actor to fame and land him an Oscar-winning role in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Before that, no one knew who he was....

‘Burning’ Review: A Simmering, Haunting Mystery That Lingers [TIFF] By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 13, 2018 3:30 pm EST Lee Chang-dong’s Burning moves at a pace all its own, telling a tale of mystery and obsession with no easy answers. Hypnotic, haunting, and featuring an incredible performance from Steven Yuen, Burning is one of the year’s best movies. “I like to burn down greenhouses.” So says Ben (Steven Yeun) midway through Lee Chang-dong’s simmering, disturbing Burning....

‘F9’ Trailer Breakdown: Dominic Toretto’s Past Just Caught Up With Him By Ben Pearson/Jan. 31, 2020 3:00 pm EST For years, Universal has used the Super Bowl to debut the newest looks at its Fast and Furious movies, delivering some memorable trailers full of jaw-dropping imagery that get fans hyped for the next installment. But before this Sunday’s game, the studio topped itself by releasing the F9 trailer in advance during a live concert event with the cast in Miami, and holy shit, this thing rules so hard....

‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Finds Its Way To Brazil With A Spring 2020 Production Start By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 4, 2019 11:00 am EST Warner Bros.’ globe-trotting Harry Potter prequel series has found its next destination: Brazil. The yet-untitled Fantastic Beasts 3 is finding its way to the South American country, where it will begin filming next year. Warner Bros. has officially greenlit the film with filming set to begin in spring 2020....

‘Gemini Man’ VFX Breakdown: See How Young Will Smith Was Meticulously Brought To Life By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 19, 2019 9:00 am EST Though critics didn’t seem to care for Gemini Man much, one of the consistent compliments among many have been with regards to the visual effects used to create a young Will Smith that faces off with an older version of Will Smith. The team behind this amazing technological achievement in visual effects has consistently touted the fact that they didn’t simply de-age Will Smith’s face, but instead, they created a completely digital model of young Will Smith that was informed by a motion-capture performance....

‘I Blame Society’ Poster Teases A Bold And Meta Approach To Murder [Exclusive] By Marisa Mirabal/Jan. 27, 2020 9:30 am EST There are more than a few films out there about the artistic struggles of filmmakers and writers. Outside of the films themselves, many creatives get their start directing shorts while others come out of the gate swinging with a full-on directorial feature…and the practice of abandoning projects due to lack of funding, rejection, or shifting passions is all too familiar....

MAD Magazine Movie Parodies Return in Claptrap Book Here’s the description of the book that Tom Richmond and Desmond Devlin are trying to get off the ground: The book is called Claptrap, and it will be a hardcover, full-color collection of at least ten parodies of movies in the classic tradition… with a little 21st-century twist. We’ve already completed the first spoof, the subject being Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

‘Retribution’: Liam Neeson To Growl His Way Through A New Riff On ‘Speed’ By Ben Pearson/Nov. 9, 2020 4:00 pm EST Liam Neeson’s late-stage career as an action star is set to continue in Retribution, the latest film from Predators director Nimród Antal. We just ranked all of the Old Man Liam Neeson action movies last week, and it sounds like we’ll need to update that list after this one enters the fray....

‘The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance’ Featurette: Returning To The Rich Fantasy World Of Thra By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2019 3:30 pm EST When The Dark Crystal hit theaters in 1982, it looked like no other movie. That’s not only because the fantasy adventure film was populated exclusively by puppets, but because director Jim Henson crafted an entirely original, rich fantasy world that was fully formed the moment it appeared onscreen....

‘The Glorias’ Trailer: Julianne Moore And Alicia Vikander Are Two Of The Four Actresses Playing Feminist Activist Gloria Steinem By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 21, 2020 4:00 pm EST Gloria Steinem is a feminist icon so multifaceted that she needs more than one actress to portray her. So says The Glorias trailer, which stars Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, and Ryan Keira Armstrong as Gloria Steinem, the envelope-pushing activist at the forefront of the second-wave feminist movement in the 1970s....

‘The Ice Beneath Her’ Wants Daisy Ridley To Solve A Murder For The ‘Ready Or Not’ Directors By Chris Evangelista/April 27, 2020 3:00 pm EST Now that she’s done with a galaxy far, far away, Daisy Ridley is going to try to solve a murder. Ridley is in talks to star in The Ice Beneath Her, a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo/Gone Girl-style story of two cops and a civilian trying to get to the bottom of a murder mystery in which an unidentified woman was found beheaded in a wealthy suburban home....

‘The Magicians’ Lays The Groundwork For The Series Finale With A Musical Heist Episode By Vanessa Armstrong/March 26, 2020 10:00 am EST If you ever wanted to watch a musical version of an Oceans movies set in a hotel not unlike The Continental from John Wick: Chapter 2, then look no further than this episode of The Magicians. We start “The Balls” in the gang’s New York City apartment, where Marina walks everyone else through the intricate plan they must enact in order to steal the World Seed from The Couple’s stronghold in the Nave Hotel....

‘The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent’ Casts ‘The Mandalorian’ And ‘Narcos’ Star Pedro Pascal As A Nicolas Cage Superfan By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 21, 2020 7:30 am EST Pedro Pascal is Nicolas Cage’s biggest fan. Not in real life – though that’s entirely possible! — but in the upcoming Lionsgate action-comedy starring Cage as….Nicolas Cage. Pascal is in talks to join The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent cast as Cage’s superfan who may not be all that he appears to be....