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‘Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series Budget Is $465 Million For Season One Alone By Chris Evangelista/April 16, 2021 11:30 am EST The Lord of the Rings TV series “is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness....

‘Masters Of The Universe: Revelation’ Trailer: He-Man Is Back In Action In Kevin Smith’s Netflix Sequel Series By Jeremy Mathai/July 6, 2021 7:58 am EST He still has the power. Fans of the original 1980s cartoon rejoiced when the news first hit that Kevin Smith would be leading a revival for the classic Masters of the Universe show. Picking up right where that story concluded all those years ago, Revelation is set to go all The Force Awakens on us and serve as a bridge for a whole new generation of fans....

‘The Suicide Squad’ Honest Trailer: Sorry For That Other ‘Suicide Squad’ Movie By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 18, 2021 6:00 am EST The Suicide Squad may have brought back a handful of characters from David Ayer’s DC Comics romp from 2016, but director James Gunn has delivered a completely different approach to these bad guys forced to do some good. That’s why it’s unfortunate that Warner Bros. Pictures didn’t do enough to distance this movie from its predecessor, opting only to add “the” to the title and let audiences figure out whether it was a sequel or a reboot or whatever....

‘Vivo’ Director Kirk DeMicco On The Film’s Evolution, Roger Deakins’ Involvement, And More [Interview] By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2021 8:00 am EST In the wake of the success of his stage version of In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda started writing songs for Vivo, a movie he pitched to Sony Pictures Animation in 2010. A changing of the guard at the studio meant that the film essentially slipped through the cracks, but after Hamilton became a mega-hit, the new guard at Sony gave it a second look and hired filmmaker Kirk DeMicco (The Croods) to direct....

‘WandaVision’ Finale Originally Had Larger Roles For Monica Rambeau And That Creepy Rabbit, Director Matt Shakman Reveals By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 8, 2021 8:30 am EST WandaVision finished shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, in March 2020, mere days before the entire country would shut down due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It seemed like a stroke of luck for the Marvel Studios production, but WandaVision would still end up feeling the effects of the pandemic in major ways....

11 Marvel Comics Villains We Really Want To See In The MCU Marvel Entertainment By Max Marriner/Aug. 30, 2021 5:40 pm EST The Marvel Cinematic Universe is celebrated by fans around the world for its textured, flawed, and riotously entertaining heroes. But what are heroes if not adversaries to the world’s greatest threats? The MCU has played host to many bad guys, and although most of them aren’t cherished among fans, exceptional heavy-hitters like Thanos and Loki have become stars of a magnitude that no one at the House of Ideas was probably expecting....

23% Of Fans Said This Is 2021’s Best Horror Movie So Far — Here’s How We Feel Warner Bros. By Ryan Scott/Oct. 29, 2021 8:36 am EST (Welcome to Survey Says, a feature where we conduct a movie-related survey for a random group of people and explain why they’re completely right, completely wrong, or somewhere in-between.) 2021 has truly proven to be a banner year for the horror genre. We get a new “Halloween” movie, “Chucky” is back with a TV show, Zack Snyder returned to the zombie genre for the first time since “Dawn of the Dead,” James Wan created a bonkers original horror flick....

Badass (And Her Sister): Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Creators Reunite For A Hulu Comedy Series Smallz & Raskind / Getty Images By Danielle Ryan/Oct. 22, 2021 6:28 pm EST Fans of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” rejoice! According to Variety, series creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna are working together on a comedy series in development at Hulu. The series, titled “Badass (And Her Sister),” follows a superspy who gets tired of her exciting life of espionage and goes to live with her pushover twin sister....

Cool Stuff: NECA’s Impressive ‘Gargoyles’ Action Figure Line Starts Off With Goliath By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2021 6:00 am EST One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was the age of gargoyles. And now it’s the age of Gargoyles action figures, thanks to the magnificent toy makers at NECA. A new line of Gargoyles action figures is coming from the toy company that has been delivering stellar action figures from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gremlins, Back to the Future, Scream, Halloween, and more....

Ep. 613 - Godzilla Vs. Kong (GUEST: Max Evry From ComingSoon.net) By Slashfilmcast/April 7, 2021 8:00 pm EST David, Devindra, and Jeff give updates on the COVID vaccine, moving-going, and box office performance. For the feature review, the cast is joined by Max Evry, Managing Editor at ComingSoon.net, to review Godzilla vs. Kong. The Slashfilmcast is launching a Patreon! Support us at http://patreon.com/filmpodcast. Follow Max on Twitter. Use #slashtag on Twitter to recommend titles to us....

Freelance: John Cena In Talks To Star In Action-Comedy From Taken Director Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 27, 2021 2:51 pm EST The “Summer of Cena” may have ended, but Big Match John isn’t stopping his reign of action comedies anytime soon. As was first reported on Deadline, John Cena is currently in negotiations to star in the newest film from Pierre Morel (“Taken,” “From Paris with Love,” “Peppermint”) an action-comedy called “Freelance....

Horror Movies Like The Exorcist That Will Truly Scare You United Archives/Getty Images By Liam Gaughan/Oct. 28, 2021 11:28 pm EST “The Exorcist” is undoubtedly one of the greatest horror films ever made. Based on the gripping novel by William Peter Blatty, William Friedkin’s 1973 classic is one of the most chilling stories of demonic possession ever seen on screen. In an era of jump scares, Friedkin’s slow approach feels even more unsettling....

Locke & Key Season 2 Trailer Breakdown: Demons Abound And A New Key Is Forged Netflix By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 14, 2021 3:57 pm EST “Locke & Key” season 2 is coming to Netflix on October 22, and the streaming platform dropped a teaser trailer today offering a hint of what to expect. The teaser has a lot going on in it, and none of it seems to bode well for the Locke siblings....

Movie Review: Lost Boys 2: The Tribe By Hunter Stephenson/Aug. 10, 2008 1:25 pm EST If Warner Bros asked us for a pull quote for the DVD to Lost Boys: The Tribe, it would say, “Corey Feldman can’t be felled, man. -/Film.” The most prominent Corey, in this sequel and IRL, manages to endearingly synopsize and upstage this laughable production in a single scene. Feldman cracks open a raw egg into a glass, a la Rocky Balboa, filled with garlic and holy water and swallows it....

Superhero Bits: ‘Static Shock’ Coming To HBO Max, Joss Whedon Wanted Anatomically Correct Vision & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 2021 6:00 pm EST Which comic book movies and shows were nominated for GLAAD Media Awards? When did Batman start speaking with a growly voice? When is Static Shock coming to HBO Max? What’s one detail Joss Whedon initially wanted Vision to have in Avengers: Age of Ultron? Why do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles each have different accents?...

Superhero Bits: Patton Oswalt In A Real-Life ‘MODOK’ Suit, Sony Trolls With A ‘Spider-Man’ Trailer & More By Ethan Anderton/May 20, 2021 6:00 pm EST What is Patton Oswalt doing in a full-size MODOK costume? What is the new Tech-On Avengers comic series? Which famous Christmas movie house did WandaVision use during production? Would you believe that Marvel had no plans for what happened to Loki when he escaped in Avengers: Endgame?...

The Best Movies And Shows Coming To Disney+ In September 2021 Disney/Pixar By Vanessa Armstrong/Sept. 2, 2021 4:20 pm EST Bye bye, summer! September is here and Disney+ is getting some new content for you to enjoy as the leaves start to change colors. In addition to providing us with new episodes of Marvel’s “What If…?” each Wednesday, the streaming platform is also releasing some new shows during the month of the autumnal equinox....

The Interesting Reason Everything In Ozark Is So Blue Netflix By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 19, 2021 8:39 am EST If watching “Ozark” on Netflix has you feeling kind of blue, there’s a very good reason why that may be happening. The show deals with dark subject matter but it’s also darkly lit, often bathed in blues. This was a conscious choice on the part of the creative team. It’s one that somewhat recalls Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic,” which sought to differentiate its three different storylines through the use of color....

The Morning Watch: Eternals VFX Breakdown, Catching Up On Lost In Space & More Marvel Studios By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 29, 2021 8:20 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, watch a breakdown of the visual effects in a key sequence from Marvel’s “Eternals....

The Morning Watch: Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ Trailer Easter Eggs, ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ Oscar Campaign & More By Ethan Anderton/April 20, 2021 5:00 am EST The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, take a look at nearly four dozen Shang-Chi Easter Eggs and comic book references from the first trailer for the new Marvel movie....