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Hawkeye TV Spot Promises ‘The Biggest Surprises Are Yet To Come’ Marvel Studios By Ryan Scott/Dec. 3, 2021 12:14 pm EST Ahead of next week’s fourth episode of “Hawkeye” on Disney+, Marvel has revealed a brief new TV spot for the show. Brief though it may be, the tiny bit of new footage, in addition to a teasing bit of narration, makes it quite intriguing. It seems we still have more than a few mysteries to unravel before Clint Barton and Kate Bishop wrap up the Christmastime mission....

HBO Cancels ‘Lovecraft Country’ After Just One Season By Eric Vespe/July 3, 2021 7:30 am EST Our HBO overlords giveth and they taketh away. Hot on the heels of the first look at Day One of shooting on The Last of Us, the cable network will not be renewing Lovecraft Country for a second season, which is sure to be a surprise for a whole lot of the show’s fans....

How To Watch The Matrix Resurrections At Home Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Dec. 14, 2021 5:48 pm EST (Welcome to How to Watch, where we get down to brass tacks and tell you “Hey, here’s how you can watch this thing.”) The long-awaited “The Matrix Resurrections” is almost here, arriving in theaters in the U.S. on December 22, 2021, just in time for Christmas. In fact, the cast even wants to wish everyone a happy MatriXmas....

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 4 Trailer Debuting in September of 2020, each season of “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous” has received generally positive reviews, culminating with the highest praise yet for season 3. The premise of the series is that a group of six teenagers visiting Jurassic World for summer camp have become stranded on the island, due to the events depicted in “Jurassic World.” Ever since, their adventures have taken place in parallel with the ongoing series of movies, sometimes even including Easter eggs for observant viewers that further tie in with the films....

Kumail Nanjiani Plays ‘A New Type Of Star Wars Character’ In The Obi-Wan TV Series Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Oct. 12, 2021 2:28 pm EST If Kumail Nanjiani getting into the superhero game with Marvel’s “Eternals” was a development that nobody saw coming, then the actor quickly turning around and joining the “Star Wars” universe was on a whole other level of surprise — especially considering that it will be for the long-gestating “Obi-Wan” series....

Meet All Of The New Toy Story 3 Characters By Peter Sciretta/April 6, 2010 11:58 am EST As you may have noticed over the past couple months, Disney has been teasing the release of Pixar’s Toy Story 3 by releasing more information, photos and video of each of the new characters, week by week. We’ve been trying to keep track of all the new characters as they have been revealed. After the jump you can see the final two new toys, Big Baby and Bookworm, and learn more about the characters....

Michael Cera Learning Spanish For Sebastian Silva’s Next Film By Germain Lussier/Feb. 9, 2011 6:30 pm EST People who complain that Michael Cera always plays the same character haven’t seen his last two films. In Miguel Arteta’s Youth in Revolt, Cera played a dual role that included an evil, uber-confident a**hole named Francois Dillinger an in Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Cera was a legitimate bad-ass, literally fighting for the girl he loved....

Well, Lookie What We Have Here… Universal Pictures First up is Brazilian graphic designer Rafa Orrico with a limited-edition (less than 200 printed) screenprint poster, selling along with its variant for under $100, respectively. This poster and its variant are scheduled to ship in March of 2022, proving George McFly’s maxim that, “If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.” Says Mondo on their website: Rafa has quickly become one of our favorite artists to work with, as his work so excellently merges strong concepts with wonderful graphic design....

Phil Lord And Chris Miller Will Direct COVID-19 Movie ‘The Premonition’ By Chris Evangelista/May 11, 2021 11:30 am EST Does anyone actually want a non-documentary movie about the COVID-19 pandemic? I honestly don’t know, but Hollywood seems to think the answer is “yes.” The latest entry in a growing line-up of pandemic-based movies is The Premonition, which is based on the book by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and The Big Short....

“I’m Constantly Looking for Something Fresh and Different.” Dreamworks Pictures In a press conference in support of his latest film, “The Last Duel,” at the Venice Film Festival, Scott said specifically that he’s never done a Western or a musical and is looking for projects to check those off his bucket list, per Collider. He specifically seemed keen on musicals, citing the effortless mastery of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. “The Last Duel” stars Ben Affleck and Jodie Comer were on hand during this press conference and Comer instantly volunteered as tribute....

Sony Clarifies That Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Isn’t Done In The MCU Sony Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 14, 2021 5:31 pm EST Another day, another attempt to clear up the messy and confusing environment that the character of Spider-Man finds himself in these days. A lesser writer than I would probably say he’s helplessly caught in a web of convoluted, sometimes even contradictory corporate legal strictures … thankfully, I’m above those sorts of puns!...

Ted Lasso Cast And Writers Just Earned A Well-Deserved Pay Raise AppleTV+ By Shania Russell/Sept. 14, 2021 1:26 pm EST “Ted Lasso” spent the past two years capturing hearts (and occasionally breaking them), quickly becoming one of the most popular series on Apple TV+. So as audiences tearfully approach the season 2 finale, Lasso fans are probably wondering what comes next. Well good news, season 3 has been confirmed for over a year now — and even better, the creative team behind the show is getting a serious pay raise for all their hard work....

The Brutal Reaction Audiences Had To 2001: A Space Odyssey’s Premiere Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Nov. 26, 2021 3:58 pm EST Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 feature film “2001: A Space Odyssey” is — and I know this appellation is tossed about freely, but in this case it’s warranted — one of the best films ever made. Written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, it is one of the few films to reach out and scrape its fingernails against the infinite....

The Morning Watch: ‘Promising Young Woman’ Scene Breakdown, Secrets Of ‘Black Panther’ & More By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 17, 2021 5:00 am EST In this edition, listen as Promising Young Woman writer/director Emerald Fennell breaks down a confrontational scene between Carey Mulligan and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Plus, learn some of the secrets from behind the scenes of Marvel’s Black Panther by way of Disney+’s The Deets. And finally, watch some NSFW bloopers from the fifth season of The Expanse....

When Hollywood Is For Sale: What Media Mergers Mean For Movie Lovers Disney By Ryan Scott/Oct. 12, 2021 3:55 pm EST For those who have any interest in media, be it from Hollywood’s perspective or purely from a business side of things, it is no secret that media consolidation has been a big thing in recent years. This, arguably, hit its apex of public interest when Disney completed its buyout of the majority of Fox’s media assets in 2019....

Why ‘Grindhouse’ Failed, According To Quentin Tarantino By Chris Evangelista/April 17, 2020 2:30 pm EST Grindhouse, a big double-feature from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino complete with fake trailers from Edgar Wright, Rob Zombie, and Eli Roth, arrived in 2007, and promptly bombed. Despite the hype, and the prospect of seeing to rebel auteurs like Rodriguez and Tarantino join forces, audiences just didn’t seem to give a damn, and the release only took in $25....

‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’ Japanese Trailer Features New Footage Of Godzilla Slapping Kong By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 8, 2021 10:00 am EST There’s a new-ish Japanese trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong, and while it’s at times nearly identical to the domestic trailer we saw a few weeks ago, it does feature a new shot of Godzilla slapping Kong right in the face. So if that’s what you’re looking for in a movie like this, you can breathe a sigh of relief and get ready to sit back and watch some slappin’....

‘Halo’ TV Series Moves From Showtime To Paramount+ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2021 2:52 pm EST Nascent streaming service Paramount+ (which technically isn’t very nascent at all since it’s just a rebranding of CBS All Access) just landed itself a high-profile title. The Halo TV series, based on the popular video game franchise, was originally destined for Showtime but will now drop on Paramount+ instead. You’ll be able to find it there in the first quarter of 2022....

By Hoai-Tran Bui/Feb. 8, 2021 1:30 pm EST Dan Harmon is returning to network TV with a new animated comedy series set in mythical ancient Greece. The Rick and Morty creator has set an animated comedy series at FOX, which plans to premiere the yet-untitled series in 2022. Dan Harmon was burned before by network TV, infamously fighting to keep his NBC cult comedy hit Community on the air after he was let go and brought back, only for the show to be canceled and saved by Yahoo (only to subsequently tank Yahoo’s attempt to make television)....

‘Shadow And Bone’ Featurette Focuses On The World-Building Of The New Netflix Series By Chris Evangelista/April 15, 2021 9:30 am EST Based on a series of books by Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone is the type of big, epic fantasy series that requires a lot of world-building. Is Netflix up to the task? The new Netflix series hails from showrunner and writer Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Bird Box) and is set in a war-torn world full of magic and monsters....