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‘The Irregulars’ Trailer: Who Needs Sherlock Holmes When You Have Victorian Street Kids With Superpowers? By Chris Evangelista/March 15, 2021 1:30 pm EST The Irregulars is a show where Sherlock Holmes is missing in action. Dr. John Watson is still lurking about, though, and he’s recruited a gang of street urchins to do his bidding. That gang is the Irregulars, teens who get sucked into a world where the supernatural is lurking around every street corner....

5 Reasons You Should Be Excited For ‘Anansi Boys,’ The Latest Neil Gaiman TV Adaptation By Vanessa Armstrong/July 21, 2021 11:45 am EST Adding Anansi Boys to the roster of Gaiman stories making their way to the small screen is a wonderful thing. Here are five reasons I think it’s wonderful, and why I think you’ll be excited about this news as well. Gaiman and Mackinnon Are Showrunning Gaiman in control also means that it will be made in a way that properly reflects the book....

Meet the Justice Society of America Warner Bros. Pictures The “Black Adam” presentation during DC FanDome began with a mini-featurette that provided some new concept art, behind the scenes footage, and an early introduction to Justice Society of America. The superhero team will have to deal with the return of “Black Adam,” who is undoubtedly pissed off after being imprisoned for thousands of years. This isn’t the original roster of heroes introduced in the team’s debut back in 1940, but rather a smaller assembly of a variety of superheroes from the ensemble’s comic history....

Cool Stuff: ‘WandaVision’ Has Unleashed Scarlet Witch Toys & Collectibles By Ethan Anderton/March 9, 2021 6:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Now that WandaVision is over, Wanda Maximoff has finally been unleashed as the Scarlet Witch. That means there’s an onslaught of new toys and collectibles coming to shelves that will let fans bring Elizabeth Olsen’s tragic Marvel Cinematic Universe character home. Following last weekend’s WandaVision series finale, there are a couple new Funko POPs, a Marvel Legends figure, a Marvel Select figure from Diamond Select Toys, a fancy Disney Shop doll, and a pair of those expensively detailed Hot Toys figures....

Daily Podcast: Super Pumped, Black Panther, Damon Lindelof, Garbage Pail Kds, Lord And Miller, & Oscars 2022 By Peter Sciretta/May 28, 2021 1:45 pm EST On the May 28, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film Editorial Director Peter Sciretta is joined by senior news editor Jacob Hall, and weekend editor Brad Oman to talk about the latest film and TV news, including Super Pumped, Black Panther, Damon Lindelof, Garbage Pail Kds, Lord and Miller, & Oscars 2022....

Danai Gurira’s Okoye Will Get Her Own ‘Black Panther’ Spin-Off Series On Disney+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 28, 2021 7:30 am EST Danai Gurira’s Okoye made her debut in 2018’s Black Panther and was an immediate scene-stealer, leading to her appearing again in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. And we’ll be seeing even more of her in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Not only will Gurira be reprising her role as the leader of the Dora Milaje in the theatrical sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, there is word she is now getting her own Black Panther spin-off series on Disney+....

“I was certainly quite nervous to re-enter that space.” So you take on the role six years after you originated onstage. Was it easy or difficult stepping back into the cast and the blue polo of Evan Hansen? Definitely challenging, mostly in the really fun, juicy ways. But definitely a little bit scary. I had a wonderful experience doing the show for many years on the stage and developing the piece, and it was a very formative experience for me in many ways, professionally and personally....

Director Timur Bekmambetov Says ‘Dusk Watch’ Will Happen At Some Point By Jack Giroux/March 29, 2016 12:30 pm EST It’s been a few years since we last heard about Dusk Watch. For a variety of reasons, we still haven’t seen the third installment in the Russian series, despite previous installments Night Watch and Day Watch being considerable box office hits overseas. Director Timur Bekmambetov is a rather busy man these days, but he hasn’t forgotten about Dusk Watch, and he says it will happen at some point....

Doctor Who: Flux Goes Around The World In Too Little Time In The Penultimate Survivors Of The Flux BBC By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 29, 2021 2:24 pm EST The fifth and penultimate episode of “Doctor Who: Flux” feels like the closest to Marvel that “Doctor Who” has ever been — and that’s not just because “Survivors of the Flux” throws around words like “multiverse” and gives UNIT an origin story ripped straight from the HYDRA infiltration of SHIELD (don’t even get me started on the Division revelations and its parallels to “Loki”)....

Dopesick: Release Date, Cast And More By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 13, 2021 6:13 am 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.)Dopesick, the non-fiction book about America’s opioid crisis, is now a Hulu limited series. The show will dramatize the true story of how the country got hooked on OxyContin and other pain killers after Big Pharma aggressively pushed them to drive up sales....

Everything Everywhere All At Once Has The Best Trailer Of 2021 A24 By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 14, 2021 1:13 pm EST Happy Trailer Tuesday, folks! Not only did we just receive what has been boldly promised to be “The most Nicolas Cage movie ever” with the hilariously meta trailer for “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” but A24 and the quirky filmmaking duo known collectively as “The Daniels” (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) also went ahead and dropped our first extended look at their follow-up to 2016’s gloriously weird and incredibly heartfelt “Swiss Army Man,” titled “Everything Everywhere All At Once....

Everything We Know About Marvel’s Moon Knight So Far Marvel By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 7, 2021 3:50 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is ever expanding, with the slew of series already on or coming soon to Disney+. One of those series is “Moon Knight,” a show focused on the Marvel character Marc Spector (AKA Moon Knight), a man with dissociative identity disorder who may (or may not) have superpowers. Here’s what we know so far about the live-action MCU miniseries, “Moon Knight....

Sony Pictures Animation By Max Evry/Oct. 6, 2021 9:49 am EST Nontroversy Averted Kristine Belson, president of Sony Pictures Animation, also made a statement on the move to bring the film exclusively to streaming. “The success of the Hotel Transylvania franchise over the years speaks for itself. Audiences around the world have fallen in love with the films created by the brilliant Genndy Tartakovsky, and the latest installment is the perfect ending to an incredible journey....

Inventing Anna First Look: The Viral Heiress Conwoman Gets Dramatized In A Netflix Series Netflix By Shania Russell/Oct. 25, 2021 4:50 pm EST Shonda Rhimes continues to rule Netflix with glamour — but instead of more regency romance, she’s delving into the 21st century New York social scene. Her upcoming series “Inventing Anna,” is inspired by the story of Anna Delvey, the German fraudster who pretended to be a socialite. Julia Garner (“Ozark,” “The Assistant”) is taking on the role of the fake heiress, and Netflix just provided our first look at her new persona....

Listen To The New ‘Mortal Kombat’ Reboot Theme, Prepare To Shout “MORTAL KOMBAT!” When Necessary By Chris Evangelista/April 9, 2021 10:00 am EST There’s a Mortal Kombat reboot movie on the way, and the question on everyone’s lips is, “Will it have that badass techno theme song where some guy yells ‘MORTAL KOMBAT!’ at the top of his lungs?” The answer is yes. although rather than reuse the original song, which is called “Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat),” the Mortal Kombat reboot has gone ahead and rebooted the theme as well, with composer Benjamin Wallfisch handling the music....

Mary Elizabeth Winstead Would Love To Play Huntress Again Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 27, 2021 5:17 pm EST The DC Universe is steadily getting back on track, with Warner Bros. leaning into the inherently scattered nature of comics and opening up their cinematic plans for any number of interpretations and spins on the classic material rather than upholding a single filmmaker’s all-encompassing vision for the property at large. Recent movies like James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” opened to rave reviews and plenty of eyeballs, even if many of those views happened to come from HBO Max subscriptions rather than in movie theaters....

New Ghostbusters: Afterlife Posters Bring The Next Generation Together Sony Pictures By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 22, 2021 11:00 am EST “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is less than two months away from hitting theaters, and so help me, if the COVID-19 pandemic pushes this movie back again, I will summon Gozer the Gozerian to destroy this planet once and for all. Those who attended CinemaCon last month were lucky enough to catch an early screening of the entire movie, and the early buzz is full of praise so far....

Now That ‘Conan’ Is Over, What Is Conan O’Brien Doing Next? By Ethan Anderton/June 25, 2021 9:17 am EST Last night brought the final episode of Conan to TBS. The conclusion of the series also marks the end of comedian Conan O’Brien’s tenure as a late night television host. After taking over Late Night on NBC in 1993, having an all-too-short stint hosting The Tonight Show, and taking his comedy over to TBS in 2010, the comedian will no longer be a staple of the late night circuit....

Peacock Orders Mysterious New Series ‘Mrs. Davis’ From Damon Lindelof And ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Producer By Ethan Anderton/May 28, 2021 8:30 am EST After delivering the hit HBO series Watchmen in 2019, executive producer Damon Lindelof is heading into the streaming world with a new project that’s just been given a straight-to-series order at Peacock. Mrs. Davis is a new drama series that will be executive produced by Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers), who is teaming up with a surprising collaborator in Tara Hernandez, a writer and co-executive producer on The Big Bang Theory and the spin-off series Young Sheldon....

Superhero Bits: DC Comics Variant Covers Feature ‘The Suicide Squad’, Engineer Creates His Own Redwing & More By Ethan Anderton/May 27, 2021 6:00 pm EST Why is Thor star Chris Hemsworth disappointed in what his son wants to be when he grows up? What DC villain were the Black Lightning creators hoping to create a new version of on the show? What does a Zack Snyder cut of The Late Show look like?...