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By Ben Pearson/Jan. 14, 2020 4:00 pm EST The Wheel of Time TV Show Update “As you know these big world building shows take some time to craft,” Vernon added. “There will be news as the year progresses on the series. But we feel incredibly optimistic about the show.” Unfortunately, anyone who was hoping for a concrete release date – or even a release month! – will have to continue waiting, because while Vernon said he had a release quarter in mind, it was “too soon to say right now....

Ben Schwartz And Sam Rockwell To Reunite In New Comedy For Searchlight Pictures By Ben Pearson/May 1, 2020 4:00 pm EST 2020 will go down as an awful year in global history, but if we put the pandemic aside, comedian/actor/writer Ben Schwartz is actually having a pretty solid year career-wise – and it just got even better. Schwartz will write the screenplay for a mysterious new comedy for Disney’s Searchlight Pictures, which he’ll also executive produce and star in alongside Oscar winner Sam Rockwell....

Cool Stuff: Shag Unveils A Groovy ‘Star Wars’ Line Of Tiki Mugs, Shirts, Screen Prints & More By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2020 7:30 am EST The artist Shag is known for artwork that feels like it came straight out of advertisements in the 1950s and 1960s, and now he’s brought that aesthetic to the Star Wars universe. Shag has created a new line of screen prints that take the characters from a galaxy far, far away to some pretty groovy-looking locales....

Dave Chappelle Dropped A Surprise Netflix Comedy Special On YouTube About George Floyd And Police Brutality By Ethan Anderton/June 12, 2020 11:30 am EST Dave Chappelle has never been shy about addressing racial issues in his comedy, whether it’s in his stand-up specials or his late, great sketch comedy series on Comedy Central. So it should come as no surprise that in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in Minnesota, and the Black Lives Matter protests around the globe, Dave Chappelle has a few things to say as only the influential comedian can....

DC Comics TV Round-Up: ‘Doom Patrol’ Renewed For Season 3, ‘Young Justice’ Season 4 Title Revealed & More By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 13, 2020 12:00 pm EST A second round of DC FanDome unfolded over the weekend, and though it wasn’t anywhere near as star-studded or exciting as the first round of the virtual convention, there were still some new tidbits of information revealed on the DC Comics television side of things....

Disney+ Passes 50 Million Subscribers In Just 5 Months By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 9, 2020 7:30 am EST Disney+ has passed a major milestone. Following a rollout in more than a dozen international territories, Disney+ has passed 50 million paid subscribers globally — up more than 22 million since the Walt Disney Company last disclosed subscriber numbers two months ago. It took only five months for Disney+ to reach this major subscriber count milestone....

Massive Harry Potter Video Game Still On The Way, But Developers Are Worried About J.K. Rowling Controversy By Ethan Anderton/June 30, 2020 12:30 pm EST Back in the fall of 2018, footage of a rumored open world Harry Potter video game was leaked online. The massive RPG has yet to be officially announced by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, but the existence of the game is one of the worst kept secrets in the video game industry right now....

New ‘The Suicide Squad’ Poster Reveals Funky Logos For All The Characters (Most Of Whom Will Probably Die) By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 24, 2020 7:30 am EST James Gunn knows what’s important in a superhero movie. It’s not the villains, it’s not the action, it’s not the story. It’s the branding. (I’m kidding, by the way.) But Gunn sure has knocked it out of the park with the marketing teases for The Suicide Squad, with brightly colored ’70s exploitation-inspired posters that give a real feeling for the flashy approach Gunn will take with his follow-up to David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad....

Quibi Posts Full Episodes Of Three Original Movies On YouTube By Ben Pearson/April 30, 2020 3:00 pm EST After a much-hyped launch and a somewhat muted response from potential customers, Quibi has now posted three full episodes of three of its original “movies in chapters” on YouTube. It’s a classic strategy: give audiences a taste of your product for free, and hope they like it enough to pay for more. Check out the first episodes of Most Dangerous Game (starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz), The Stranger (starring Maika Monroe and Dane DeHaan), and Dummy (starring Anna Kendrick) below....

Taika Waititi Entering The World Of ‘Charlie And The Chocolate Factory’ With Two Animated Series At Netflix By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2020 7:30 am EST Even though writer/director Taika Waititi is gearing up to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Thor: Love & Thunder, he’ll soon be entering a different world of previously established intellectual property. And it’ll be animated too. Netflix has announced that the Oscar-winning writer/director of Jojo Rabbit will be writing, directing and executive producing two new animated series inspired by Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....

The Best TV Shows & Movies Coming To HBO Max In September 2020 By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 21, 2020 2:00 pm EST The HBO Max library continues to grow, and September offers up some exciting titles. Now if only HBO Max and Roku could settle their dispute so more people could take advantage. Here are the best TV shows and movies coming to HBO Max in September 2020. The Invisible Man...

The Key To Adapting Stephen King And More: Everything We Learned From Mike Flanagan’s Fantasia Film Fest Panel By Kalyn Corrigan/Sept. 4, 2020 10:00 am EST “In college, I wrote an adaptation of Christopher Pike’s The Midnight Club and sent it to his agents,” Mike Flanagan tells filmmaker Mick Garris over Zoom. “They sent me a cease and desist letter.“Back before he became the world-famous showrunner and director of Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan was just hustling like the rest of us....

The Morning Watch: ‘The Boys’ Season 1 Bloopers Reel, Disney’s July 4th Fireworks Spectacular & More By Ethan Anderton/July 6, 2020 5:00 am EST In this edition, watch lines get flubbed in The Boys season 1 bloopers reel, featuring cast members like Karl Urban, Simon Pegg and more. Plus, enjoy the Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular from Disney’s Magic Kingdom Park to make up for the fact that a lot of big fireworks shows were canceled this year....

Watch: New Looks At ‘Star Wars Squadrons’, ‘LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga’, And ‘The Sims 4’ Galaxy’s Edge Game Pack By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 27, 2020 5:00 pm EST There may not be a new Star Wars movie this year, but fans will easily be able to get back into a galaxy far, far away with three new and very different video game offerings arriving soon. Star Wars: Squadrons will put players in the cockpit of starfighters of the New Republic and the Galactic Empire, while LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga allows them to experience all nine main chapters of the primary film franchise in building brick form....

‘13 Reasons Why’ Star Christian Navarro Auditioned For Prince Eric In ‘The Little Mermaid’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 5, 2019 4:00 pm EST As many a Disney movie has taught us: If you wish it, it could come true. That’s what may happen for 13 Reasons Why star Christian Navarro, whose tweet to Disney opened up an audition opportunity for Prince Eric in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. Disney may have to go in another direction after Dunkirk’s Harry Styles passed on the role, but Christian Navarro is more than happy to step in for him....

‘Grease’ Prequel Brings In ‘Hearts Beat Loud’ Director Brett Haley By Chris Evangelista/July 20, 2020 11:30 am EST Yes, that Grease prequel is still happening. And it’s even found a director! Brett Haley, the filmmaker behind the charming indie flick Hearts Beat Loud, is set to direct the project, which is currently called Summer Lovin’ but will probably end up being retitled Grease: Origins or something stupid like that, since studios love brand recognition....

By Ethan Anderton/April 16, 2020 8:30 am EST Saved by the Bell Trailer It’s not all new faces though, because Mario Lopez is back as A.C. Slater, who has taken a job as the school’s physical education instructor. Also returning are Elizabeth Berkley as Jessie Spano, who now has a son of her own named Jamie (played by Belmont Cameli), as well as Tiffani Amber Thiessen as Kelly Kapowski and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Zack Morris....

‘Star Wars: Rise Of The Resistance’: See The First Footage From Inside The Ride’s Star Destroyer Hangar By Ben Pearson/Sept. 26, 2019 2:30 pm EST At this year’s D23 Expo, we saw a slickly-produced piece of footage that showed off Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, the new ride coming to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. It’s been referred to as “the most immersive and advanced attraction ever imagined in a Disney Park,” and now we can get a better sense of the scale of that immersion in a Good Morning America video which shows off the huge Rise of the Resistance hangar, where riders will encounter fifty Stormtroopers....

‘The Mandalorian’ Feeds The Child’s Hunger With Official, Infuriatingly Expensive Macarons By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 24, 2020 10:30 am EST Last week’s episode of The Mandalorian gave us the latest adorable Baby Yoda scene. We watched the Child admire a pack of blue macarons that a kid was eating, and when they rudely wouldn’t acquiesce to The Child’s desire for one, he rightfully used his Force abilities to snatch them. He even brought them back to the Razor Crest for a space snack (though he ended up throwing them up all over himself)....

By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 17, 2020 3:15 pm EST Utopia Red Band Trailer “My idea was to not only Americanize it and deal with things that I think specifically feel resonant with Americans in a lot of ways, but also to make it gritty, and dirty, and nasty, in a very realistic way,” Flynn said. “Whereas [Dennis Kelly] took his cue from graphic novels themselves, I took my cue more from the ’70s paranoia thrillers I loved that came out after Watergate, in that era where no one trusted anyone and there was a breakdown in what society, the government, and the world was feeling like....