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‘DOTA: Dragon’s Blood’ Trailer: Netflix’s Video Game Anime Is Blood-Soaked Swords-And-Sorcery By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 2, 2021 7:30 am EST The popular DOTA 2 video-game franchise by Valve is becoming an anime series. Netflix’s DOTA: Dragon’s Blood adapts the beloved video game that started off as an unlikely Warcraft III mod, before Valve would trademark the name and launch the wildly successful DOTA 2. Watch the DOTA: Dragon’s Blood trailer below....

‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Trailer: A New Generation Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts By Ethan Anderton/July 27, 2021 6:01 am EST The first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife arrived over a year and a half ago before Christmas in 2019. The Ghostbusters sequel would have arrived in theaters last summer, but the coronavirus pandemic spread across the United States faster than slime on Peter Venkman’s face. Thankfully, we’re getting closer to the film’s arrival in theaters this fall, and Sony Pictures decided now was as good of a time as any to provide a new Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer....

‘He Dreams Of Giants’ Trailer: Terry Gilliam Finally Makes His ‘Don Quixote’ Movie By Chris Evangelista/March 8, 2021 12:00 pm EST Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is more well-known for its behind-the-scenes stories than its actual content. Gilliam started working on the pic in 1989, but a series of misfortunes continually got in the way. Gilliam’s long, strange quest to get the movie made was already chronicled once in the documentary Lost in La Mancha, released in 2002....

‘Nevermoor’ Movie Coming From Drew Goddard By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 23, 2017 4:30 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Drew Goddard has had a storied career, with writing credits on Cloverfield, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Lost, Daredevil, Cabin in the Woods and The Martian, for which his script was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar. Now Goddard will lend his considerable talents to a big screen adaptation of Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, a new children’s fantasy novel from author Jessica Townsend....

‘Raya And The Last Dragon’ Review: Disney’s First Southeast Asian Animated Movie Is A Hard-Hitting Visual Feast By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 1, 2021 9:00 am EST “Your favorite Disney Princess is Mulan, right?” is a question I’ve heard, and somewhat resented, many times over the years. Of course she would have to be my favorite; for decades Mulan was the only Asian face in Disney’s overwhelmingly white line-up of fairy-tale mascots, and Asian-Americans were starved for onscreen representation as it is (for the record, my favorite is Belle)....

‘Star Wars: Battlefront II’ Trailer Teases ‘The Rise Of Skywalker’ Expansion, Including Playable BB-8 By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 16, 2019 1:30 pm EST Even though Star Wars fans have been gushing about the new video game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order since it was released last month, there’s still one game that has only gotten better since its release over two years ago. Star Wars: Battlefront II may be a bit repetitive, but the growth and expansion of the game over the past two years has greatly improved gameplay and given fans what they really wanted out of a Star Wars game like this....

‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’ Deleted Scene Reveals The Final Fight Almost Involved A Giant Furby Mech By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 19, 2021 3:30 pm EST The Mitchells vs. The Machines is pretty close to a perfect animated movie. One thing that could have made it better? A giant mecha villain, of course. And that’s what almost happened in the final climactic fight of the Sony animated movie, as revealed by a deleted scene posted by Head of Story Guillermo Martinez....

‘WandaVision’ Speeds Toward The Endgame With A Spooky And Sad Halloween Special By Evan Saathoff/Feb. 12, 2021 7:00 am EST Hello all, and welcome to your weekly recap of whatever wildness occurred on the latest episode of WandaVision. These are meant to be read after watching, so they will go deep into spoiler territory. You have been warned! Brother From Another Mother According to the episode conventions utilized thus far, this should be our ’90s episode of WandaVision....

‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Spin-Off ‘Wellington Paranormal’ Gets An Extended Trailer By Joshua Meyer/July 12, 2021 5:07 pm EST While you wait for the third season of What We Do in the Shadows to hit FX, there are other corners of the same universe to explore, and not all of them involve vampires. It’s been over three years since Wellington Paranormal started broadcasting in New Zealand, but now it’s finally making its way to the shores of the U....

‘Yellowjackets’ Teaser: Christina Ricci And Juliette Lewis Survive A Plane Crash In New Showtime Series By Danielle Ryan/Aug. 4, 2021 3:25 pm EST Showtime has dropped the first teaser for their upcoming drama, Yellowjackets. The series is about a team of high school soccer players who survive a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The Canadian-American production is described as “equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama”....

1883 Trailer: Call Your Dad, Because The Yellowstone Spin-Off Is Almost Here MTV Entertainment Studios By Anya Stanley/Dec. 4, 2021 10:03 am EST Break out the bolo tie and the good whiskey glass (the one that’s not cracked), here comes a prequel to the Emmy-nominated western series “Yellowstone.” Hailing from “Sicario” writer Taylor Sheridan, “1883” takes place before the events of “Yellowstone,” which follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, dealing with land developers and a nearby reservation from their Montana ranch....

A ‘Ghostbusters’ Deleted Scene From 1984 Has Been Unearthed By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2017 1:00 pm EST The original Ghostbusters from 1984 hit home video long before movies came with special features like behind the scenes featurettes and deleted scenes. But since the advent of Blu-ray and DVD discs that come chock full of bonus material, we’ve been able to see some of the deleted scenes that didn’t make the final cut of Ghostbusters....

A Boy Called Christmas Trailer: Santa Claus Gets His Very Own Origin Story Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Nov. 1, 2021 5:10 pm EST Now that Halloween is in the rearview mirror, the wave of holiday fare is already beginning to wash over everything and everyone. While Lifetime and Hallmark have a stranglehold on the rom-com holiday subgenre, Netflix has proven in recent years to be the go-to source for unique family adventure films, with original offerings like “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey” and the Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn series, “The Christmas Chronicles....

An “Epic” Animated Series From ‘Wolfwalkers’ Studio Cartoon Saloon Is Coming To Apple TV+ By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 23, 2021 11:00 am EST In the 10 years since it debuted its first feature, The Secret of Kells, Cartoon Saloon has become a small but mighty force in the animation industry. The Kilkenny-based Irish studio, which employs only a couple hundred animators, is behind this year’s Oscar dark horse for animated feature, threatening the domination of Disney and Soul with the exquisite fantasy-adventure Wolfwalkers, the final film in its unofficial “Irish Folklore Trilogy....

Billions Season 6 Trailer: Battle Lines Are Being Drawn Showtime By Valerie Ettenhofer/Dec. 10, 2021 9:29 am EST If you’re already going through “Succession” withdrawals ahead of this week’s season 3 finale, you’re in luck: that other premium cable series about evil billionaires will be back soon to fill the hole in your heart. Showtime’s “Billions” just dropped the trailer for its sixth season, which will debut January 23, 2022....

Get Back Trailer: Peter Jackson Lets The Beatles Be In Disney+ Docuseries By Max Evry/Oct. 13, 2021 10:22 am EST Disney+ has released the official trailer and key art for director Peter Jackson’s upcoming three-part docuseries “The Beatles: Get Back,” which is set to roll out just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday on November 25, 26, and 27, 2021. The footage gives a unique, unfiltered look at The Beatles during the January 1969 recording sessions for what would become their final released album “Let It Be” (“Abbey Road” was recorded after but came out earlier)....

Continuity and Characterization in the MCU The Marvel Cinematic Universe has built its brand on popcorn entertainment, heroes who are fast on their feet, and free-flowing with witty quips. Not counting Marvel TV’s canceled Netflix shows, we’ve yet to really see the MCU deliver a serious drama — though its first Disney+ series, “WandaVision,” did deal with grief and trauma this year in its own sitcom-inspired manner. It feels par for the course that “Hawkeye” might gloss over some of Clint Barton’s murderous deeds as Ronin....

How Robin Williams Nearly Ended Up In The Shining ABC By Sandy Schaefer/Dec. 10, 2021 10:18 am EST Stephen King tends to support many of the movies and TV series adapted from his novels and short stories, with the notable exception of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining.” The author has long taken issue with the way Kubrick’s classic horror film re-works his book — enough so that it inspired him to write and produce a not-so-beloved miniseries adaptation of “The Shining” in the late 1990s....

Netflix’s ‘The Sandman’ TV Series Sets Lead Cast, Including Tom Sturridge As Dream, Gwendoline Christie As Lucifer By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 28, 2021 8:00 am EST Netflix has announced quite the dream cast for its TV series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s seminal comic series The Sandman. Led by Tom Sturridge, who will be playing Morpheus, the anthropomorphic personification of Dream, the Sandman cast includes Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer, Boyd Holbrook as the villainous Corinthian, Charles Dance as Rodrick Burgess, and more....

Rocky IV Director’s Cut Review: Say Bye To Paulie’s Robot, Say Hello To A (Mostly) Better Movie MGM By Chris Evangelista/Nov. 12, 2021 11:03 am EST “Rocky IV” is the biggest box office hit in the “Rocky” franchise. It’s also one of the sillier entries – an ’80s-infused, MTV-adjacent film overloaded with montages and featuring a comic relief robot that Rocky’s brother-in-law Paulie may or may not be having sex with....