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‘Shadow And Bone’ Season 2 Heading To Netflix For More Fantasy World-Saving And Yearning By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 7, 2021 10:44 am EST Thank the Saints: Shadow and Bone has been renewed for a second season. Netflix has ordered Shadow and Bone season 2, after the first season of the adaptation of Leigh Bardugo’s beloved Grishaverse novels was a massive word-of-mouth hit. Prepare for a whole new season of world-saving quests and yearning, because Shadow and Bone has been officially renewed for season 2....

‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Restricted Trailer Cuts Off Heads And Drops Plenty Of F-Bombs By Chris Evangelista/May 14, 2019 3:00 pm EST Jim Jarmusch’s all-star zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. If you were unable to attend, and want in some of that Jarmusch zom-com action, perhaps this new restricted trailer will hold you over. It features lots of scene of Adam Driver chopping off heads, and lots of scenes of Bill Murray saying the F-word....

‘The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum’ Trailer Shows Off What It’s Like To Play As The Saddest Villain In Middle-Earth By Vanessa Armstrong/July 26, 2021 9:40 am EST Did you ever wonder what Gollum was up to when he wasn’t onscreen in The Lord of the Rings trilogy? If so, you’re in luck — a new video game, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, sheds light on the decrepit doings of the once-holder of the ring, and we’ve got a trailer to show us what playing Gollum will be like....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Soundtrack Is Getting A Vinyl Release From Mondo By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 6, 2021 12:25 pm EST Director James Gunn is known for putting together killer mix-tape soundtracks, and The Suicide Squad is no exception. The vinyl for the soundtrack to DC Comics’ latest movie is available for pre-order from Mondo, and it’s superb. Spin the Squad Mondo released the vinyl in conjunction with The Suicide Squad hitting theaters and HBO Max....

Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore Trilogy, Including Wolfwalkers, Gets A Limited Edition Box Set Cartoon Saloon By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 5, 2021 9:16 am EST If you or someone you love is a fan of the Irish Folklore Trilogy from Cartoon Saloon, holiday shopping is about to get a whole lot easier. A new Blu-ray box set featuring the Academy Award nominated films “The Secret of Kells” and “Song of the Sea” will be available as part of a limited-edition release that also serves as the exclusive Blu-ray release of the best animated film of 2020, “Wolfwalkers”...

John Guydo’s Avengers Infinity Saga Poster Collection Bottleneck Gallery In conjunction with the upcoming New York Comic-Con, Bottleneck Gallery is kicking things off with this collection of “Avengers” posters inspired by all four chapters in the “The Infinity Saga.” Each of the “Avengers” movies gets their own poster with a mesmerizing composition of heroes and villains from their respective movies. Since it can be a little hard to see the details with all four of the posters lined up next to each other, let’s take a closer look: Bottleneck Gallery Bottleneck Gallery We’ve got prints for “The Avengers,” the sequel “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” and the two-part saga that is “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame....

Emilia Clarke And Chiwetel Ejiofor To Star In Sci-Fi Romance The Pod Generation Universal Pictures By Shania Russell/Oct. 27, 2021 3:54 pm EST Chiwetel Ejiofor and Emilia Clarke are sharing the screen in an upcoming romantic comedy, which is probably all the info needed to secure your ticket purchase — but wait, it gets better! Their sci-fi rom-com has a “Black Mirror”-esque concept, taking place in a near future where babies can be generated in detachable pods....

What Happens in the PSA? The short PSA has all of the staples of an episode of “Family Guy” but crossed with some fourth wall-breaking “Schoolhouse Rock!” educational information and stylized like that episode of “The Magic School Bus” where Ms. Frizzle and the rest of the class shrink the bus down and enter the body of their sick classmate, Ralphie. Peter Griffin shows up at Dr. Hartman’s office feeling a little skeptical about getting vaccinated against COVID-19 when Stewie and Brian teleport inside of Peter’s body and explain how the vaccines work....

Final ‘Eternals’ Trailer Addresses Why The Newest Marvel Heroes Didn’t Stop Thanos By Hoai-Tran Bui/Aug. 19, 2021 5:37 am EST Hope springs eternal with each new Marvel movie — maybe this one will be better than the last. And Chloé Zhao’s Eternals is certainly shaping up to be. The cosmic epic directed by the Oscar-winning director has a stacked cast and a new vision for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as a potential new villain for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (and beyond) to cross swords with....

In Foundation, Jared Harris Plays The Key To Saving The Universe [Interview] Apple TV+ By Jacob Hall/Sept. 23, 2021 10:11 am EST Jared Harris is making a habit of playing very smart men who anger the powerful. He received an Emmy nomination for his incredible work as a Soviet scientist who dares to speak the truth in HBO’s “Chernobyl,” and now, he’s one of the leads in “Foundation,” playing a mathematician who predicts the end of a galactic civilization … but also the key to saving it....

James McAvoy Is Living The Dream In The Sandman Act II [Interview] HBO By Hoai-Tran Bui/Sept. 24, 2021 11:42 am EST James McAvoy played the captive Morpheus in his own kind of locked room. In the first part of “The Sandman” audio drama directed by Dirk Maggs and released by Audible, Morpheus — the ancient anthropomorphic personification of dreams — is captured by a group of cultists that hold him captive for 80 years, before he’s finally released to return to his decaying domain....

‘It’s F***ing Obi-Wan’ Disney We don’t know too much about Disney+’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” series yet other than that McGregor and Nanjiani obviously appear in it along with Hayden Christensen (Darth Vader himself), Moses Ingram, Joel Edgerton as Uncle Owen, Bonnie Piesse, Indira Varma, Rupert Friend, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Sung Kang, Simone Kessell, and Benny Safdie. Nanjiani also mentioned in the Rolling Stone article that his character is “intimidated” by Obi-Wan. That doesn’t give us too much insight into Nanjiani’s role, however, for who wouldn’t be intimidated by a Jedi Knight?...

Leslie Jones Is Not Happy About Jason Reitman’s ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequel [Updated] By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 21, 2019 2:00 pm EST Update: Ghostbusters 2016 director Paul Feig has chimed in, offering his support for Leslie Jones: “An absolute honest to God never ending supply of bulls**t and hate from these trolls. Leslie spoke her truth and I support her. I am very open to Jason’s new version of GB but am also sad that our 2016 team may not get to bust again....

MacGruber TV Series: Release Date, Cast, And More Peacock By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 23, 2021 1:27 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) MacGruber! Making life saving inventions out of household materials! MacGruber! Started as a “Saturday Night Live” sketch and became a box office bomb of a movie!...

Michael Bay May Not Be The Only One Done With ‘Transformers’ After ‘The Last Knight’ By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2017 1:00 pm EST Earlier this year, Michael Bay indicated that Transformers: The Last Knight would be his farewell to the franchise based on the Hasbro toy sensation. This is something that he’s said several times before, only to get behind the camera again for another sequel, but this time it feels like he’s telling the truth, unless someone comes up with a cool spin-off idea that he can’t resist....

Ruh-Roh: Mindy Kaling’s ‘Velma’ Animated Series Won’t Feature Scooby-Doo By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 11, 2021 9:51 am EST Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? Not in the Velma animated series coming to HBO Max. Executive produced by and starring Mindy Kaling, the adult animated series will shake things up dramatically for the bespectacled member of Mystery Inc., reimagining the character as East Asian, and keeping Scooby-Doo and Shaggy out of the picture altogether....

Salma Hayek Was A Finalist For ‘The Matrix,’ But Wasn’t Down For The Whole “Running” Thing By Ethan Anderton/June 24, 2021 9:18 am EST The Matrix turned Keanu Reeves into an iconic action star, but another actress was almost slow-motion kicking alongside him instead of Carrie-Anne Moss. While making the publicity rounds for the action comedy sequel The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, Salma Hayek revealed that she was one of four finalists in consideration for the role of Trinity in The Matrix....

What The 100 Prequel Show Would Have Been About Warner Bros. Television “The 100” is set 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse decimated life on Earth, with only a tiny fraction of the human population escaping to survive in an orbiting space station called the Ark. When the Ark begins to fail, 100 juvenile detainees are sent to Earth as, effectively, canaries down the coal mine. If they manage to survive and report back, it means Earth is habitable and the others in the Ark can safely return; if they immediately die of radiation poisoning, at least the Ark has 100 fewer mouths to feed....

The Daily Stream: The Clovehitch Killer Will Make Your Daddy Issues Seem Pretty Chill IFC Midnight By Marisa Mirabal/Dec. 5, 2021 3:27 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “The Clovehitch Killer” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: The holidays lure families out of their mundane daily lives to gather and spend quality time with one another....

The Gucci Family Aren’t Very Happy With House Of Gucci MGM By Kaylee Dugan/Nov. 30, 2021 10:48 am EST The Gucci family (or at least some of them) have finally seen “House of Gucci” and, surprise, surprise, they are none too pleased. Considering that a few members of the family had spoken out about how much they didn’t like the casting before the movie was even in theaters, their response to the movie at large is definitely on theme....