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Why The ‘Loki’ Finale Abandoned Marvel Spectacle For A Creepy, Tense Conversation By Ethan Anderton/July 17, 2021 9:40 am EST The finale of Marvel’s Loki opted to focus less on the traditional third act comic book spectacle and more on an ominous conversation between Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), and He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors). Not only did the conversation result in a heartbreaking confrontation between the two Gods of Mischief, but the creation of the multiverse and the tease of a major threat to the entire Marvel Cinematic Multiverse....

Saying No to Will Smith Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images Above, you can see what the real Richard Williams looked like in 2007, the year that Smith appeared in “I Am Legend.” Besides the beard, there’s not much resemblance, really … which is maybe why Smith and the studio were initially so keen on transforming the actor with prosthetics. However, Green was having none of it. He explained: “I looked at Will straight in the eye and said, ‘Look, we don’t need that....

‘Eternals’ Trailer: Marvel Studios Continues Phase 4 With Another Killer Cast By Ben Pearson/May 24, 2021 6:22 am EST Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicks off soon with the long-awaited Black Widow movie, and it will be followed later this year by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and then by Eternals, a movie with a gigantic scope and one of the most eclectic casts Marvel Studios has ever assembled....

‘Indiana Jones 5’ Could Feature Flashbacks With A Younger Indy During World War II By Chris Evangelista/June 7, 2021 11:25 am EST Indiana Jones 5 is currently filming in the U.K., and the first set pics found their way online over the weekend. While it’s always important to remember that out-of-context set pics don’t represent the final film, these early images do give us a hint of what to expect in the James Mangold-directed sequel....

‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ First Look: Netflix Provides An Illustrated Glimpse At Mark Millar’s Superhero TV Series By Ethan Anderton/March 1, 2021 8:33 am EST Just last week, Netflix released a teaser revealing that Mark Millar’s new superhero series Jupiter’s Legacy would be arriving on the streaming service this May. However, it didn’t come with a proper first look at the series starring Josh Duhamel as Sheldon Sampson, better known as The Utopian, who helped shape the world of today as a full-fledged superhero....

‘Kimi’: Zoe Kravitz To Star In Steven Soderbergh-Directed Film For HBO Max By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 25, 2021 1:00 pm EST Steven Soderbergh has found his next feature film with HBO Max. After the filmmaker signed an overall deal with HBO and HBO Max last year, Soderbergh released the Meryl Streep drama Let Them All Talk for the WarnerMedia streaming service. And he’s keeping busy, setting up a new HBO Max original film under New Line with star Zoe Kravitz....

‘M.O.D.O.K.’ Trailer: Patton Oswalt Is A Marvel Villain Having A Midlife Crisis By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 25, 2021 3:30 pm EST Patton Oswalt is literally a Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing in M.O.D.O.K., a new Hulu series that takes the Marvel Comics villain to very silly places. The stop-motion animated series finds M.O.D.O.K. kicked out of his evil organization, dealing with a crumbling marriage, and having an all-around midlife crisis. Watch the M....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Blu-Ray Arriving In May By Chris Evangelista/March 15, 2021 4:30 pm EST Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is currently in theaters and available for an extra price on Disney+. But soon it’ll be even more readily available – via an upcoming digital and Blu-ray release. The animated fantasy-adventure film is headed to all major digital platforms in April before it makes its way to 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD in May....

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’: Is This How Kylo Ren Got Darth Vader’s Helmet? By Angie Han/Dec. 29, 2015 1:00 pm EST When Star Wars: The Force Awakens opened earlier this month, it answered a lot of questions we had in the run-up to the film, like “What’s Leia been up to?” and “Is BB-8 somehow even cuter than R2-D2?” (answers: being a general, and yes). But it also raised a whole lot more....

‘The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ Early Buzz: Another Spooky Outing For The Warrens By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 20, 2021 11:00 am EST The Conjuring has become a monster franchise since the first James Wan-directed film debuted in 2013. Spawning several spin-off films over the past eight years, the story of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren has been limited to mostly the original film and its sequel, which was released in 2016....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Is “Neither A Sequel Nor A Reboot,” According To John Cena By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 17, 2021 8:09 am EST The Suicide Squad is James Gunn’s follow-up to David Ayer’s 2016 superhero movie Suicide Squad. But is it a sequel? A reboot? Or something else entirely? The Suicide Squad star John Cena, who is soon set to star in his own HBO Max spin-off series based on his Peacemaker character, has a really vague answer to those questions....

Truth Seekers Last summer, I covered the Truth Seekers panel at (virtual) Comic-Con, and I really liked what I saw. Specifically: I liked that the folks involved with the series realized that if you’re making a horror-comedy, you need to care just as much about the horror as you do the comedy. It’s a problem a lot of horror-comedies have – they lean way too hard on the jokes and forget all about the spooky stuff....

12 Movies Like The Matrix Sci-Fi Fans Have To Check Out Warner Brothers By Liam Gaughan/Nov. 17, 2021 8:13 pm EST In 1999, fans were highly anticipating the release of the “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace,” which had been generating hype since its trailer debut the previous November. However, while science fiction aficionados ended up largely disappointed with the direction of George Lucas’ prequel, there was another, unexpected place to turn for a mind-bending narrative and state of the art special effects: “The Matrix....

Being Human BBC A vampire, a ghost, and a werewolf walk into a house. What sounds like the setup for a joke was in fact the premise for BBC Three’s 2008 series “Being Human,” a show that ended up running for five seasons. The outlandish concept of three disparate supernatural beings sharing a flat in Bristol is not without comedic potential, but the beauty of “Being Human” is that it plays everything relatively straight....

Cars On The Road Brings Back Lightning McQueen And Mater For A Disney+ Series Disney / Pixar By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 12, 2021 12:00 pm EST Just when you thought “Cars 3” was the end of the road for Lightning McQueen, Disney+ Day comes along and brings back the sentient automobiles whose world has confounded us for years. Disney and Pixar have announced “Cars on the Road,” a new animated series coming to Disney+ in 2022....

Cool Stuff: Mark Englert’s ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Poster Speeds Off Into A New Adventure By Ethan Anderton/July 22, 2021 7:32 am EST While we’re waiting for the third season of The Mandalorian to arrive, artist Mark Englert has a new poster that all you Star Wars fans out there can frame and admire on your wall. Inspired by the second season premiere, the print features the titular bounty hunter and The Child speeding alongside Cobb Vanth, the Marshal of Mos Pelgo....

Cool Stuff: Marvel’s Disney+ LEGO Minifigures Blind Bags Include Loki, Scarlet Witch, And Frog Thor By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2021 6:00 am EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to get animated with a twist on Disney+. The upcoming series Marvel’s What If…? will bring back many of the beloved characters from the past decade of Marvel movies, but we’ll see their stories play out in a completely different way, such as T’Challa becoming Star-Lord, Peggy Carter becoming Captain Britain, Spider-Man becoming the Sorcerer Supreme, and more....

David Lynch And Pharrell Williams Opened A Very Weird Club In Ibiza Showtime By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 8, 2021 4:26 pm EST It’s not exactly the Red Room, but director David Lynch’s new club in Ibiza is still plenty surreal. Called El Silencio, the venue is located right on the beach, and is decorated with all kinds of Lynchian weirdness, including giant fabric tentacles, giant lips, and swing seats. So more or less what you’d expect from a club by David Lynch....

Dickinson Season 3 Will End The Show, Because It Could Not Stop For Death And Apple Kindly Stopped For It Apple By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 3, 2021 5:16 pm EST “Dickinson” is coming to an end. The Apple TV+ series starring Hailee Steinfeld as a cool, hip, sexy Emily Dickinson will launch its third and final season this November. The third and final season will showcase Dickinson’s most productive time as an artist, which just happens to be during the backdrop of the Civil War....

Who is Cobb Vanth? FX Our sources have confirmed to us that Olyphant filmed scenes wearing Boba Fett’s Mandalorian armor for the upcoming second season of The Mandalorian. That might sound confusing because earlier this month it was reported that Temuera Morrison, who originated the role of Jango Fett (Boba’s clone father), had been cast as Boba Fett. So what’s going on here? If Morrison is playing the role of Boba Fett, then Timothy Olyphant is playing an enigmatic character named Cobb Vanth....