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Dune Director Slams Warner Bros. for HBO Max Release, Warns It May Doom the Franchise

Fear might be the mind killer, but streaming could wind up killing Dune itself. Director Denis Villeneuve is speaking out against WarnerMedia’s recent decision to give all of next year’s movies simultaneous releases on HBO Max, warning that it could mean the end of the franchise before it’s even begun. “Warner Bros.’ sudden reversal from…

Movies Beth Elderkin

The Stand Cast and Crew on Updating Stephen King’s Classic and Bringing Captain Trips to Life

Production on CBS All Access’ new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand wrapped shortly before the pandemic took hold. With an eerie new context now couching its release, the series aims to update the 1978 novel, which was previously made into the 1994 miniseries and features a new ending written by King himself. A recent…

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Servant‘s Creepy Baby Is Back in Season 2 Trailer

Tell no one, baby lives. By its season one finale, M. Night Shyamalan’s Apple TV+ series Servant had raised more questions than it had actually answered about live-in nanny Leanne Grayson (Nell Tiger Free), the show’s soft-spoken, deeply religious agent of chaos. In the trailer for its second season premiering next month, Leanne returns to…

Trailers Catie Keck

In The Midnight Sky Trailer, George Clooney Tries to Warn Astronauts of a Climate Disaster

A group of astronauts have ventured out into space and are now on their way home, but what if there’s no home to go back to? In the latest trailer for Netflix’s The Midnight Sky, star and director George Clooney is desperate to keep a crew of returning explorers, led by Felicity Jones, as far…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Bad News, Disney+ Users, Your Subscription Price Is Going Up

Disney+ is following Netflix’s lead and bumping up its monthly subscription cost in the U.S., raising it to $8 per month. The company announced the $1 price hike at its investor’s day presentation on Thursday after showing off a slew of new content headed to the streaming service. U.S. subscribers can expect their monthly fee…

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Meet the Heroes of Disney+’s She-Hulk and Hawkeye Series

Despite whatever buzz and seeming confirmations you may hear about the casting in major Marvel projects, nothing’s really set in stone until you hear the words from Kevin Feige himself, as was the case during today’s Disney Investor Day when the presentation turned to She-Hulkand Hawkeye. After an initial bit of confusion as to whether…

Books & Comics Charles Pulliam-Moore

Fantastic Four Finally Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and More Huge News

It’s official. The Fantastic Four is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Jon Watts (Spider-Man Homecoming) will direct. And that’s only the beginning. The news came at the end of a long, densely packed Marvel Studios presentation during Disney’s 2020 Investor’s Day event. Here’s a little tease. But that was just the beginning of the news.…

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Ms. Marvel Makes Her MCU Debut in This First Look

Have no fear, Marvel universe—Ms. Marvel is here! Just revealed at the Disney Investor Day event, our first look at Iman Vellani as Kamala Khan, in the upcoming Ms. Marvel Disney+ series from Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Meer Menon. The series follows the young Carol-Danvers-loving Kamala as she finds herself transformed…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

Star Wars: Bad Batch‘s First Trailer Shows the Fall of a Republic

The Clone War may be over. But Clone Force 99’s war is only just about to begin. Today at the Disney Investor Day livestream, Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy revealed the first look at what to expect from the Clone Wars continuation based around the elite Clone force introduced in Clone Wars’ seventh and final season.…

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Huge Star Wars Updates: Andor Teaser, Obi-Wan Timeline, Lando Show, and The Acolyte

Star Wars and Disney+ will continue to get cozy even when The Mandalorain isn’t around. At Disney’s 2020 Investor’s Day event, significant updates were given on the other Star Wars official shows we knew were coming to Disney+. First up, the Diego Luna-starring Cassian Andor series Andor will be released in 2022 and began filming…

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The Mandalorian‘s Ahsoka Tano and New Republic Will Receive Their Own Spinoffs

Two new Mandalorianspinoffs are coming—one for Clone Wars and Rebels legend Ahsoka Tano, and another focusing on the New Republic that replaced the overthrown Empire. Rangers of the New Republic and Star Wars: Ahsoka will be set in the post-Return of the Jedi timeline, with the former telling a story that ultimately culminates in a…

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Star Wars, Marvel, and More: Here’s Your Disney Investor’s Day 2020 Live Blog

San Diego Comic-Con, Star Wars Celebration, New York Comic-Con—covid-19 robbed us of them all and more during 2020. And though several of events went digital, the usual avalanche of news was brought to a relative standstills. We think that might change today though, at least in terms of one company in particular: Disney. Today brings…

Movies Germain Lussier

The Watch Begins in a New Trailer for the Discworld-Inspired Show

Wanna watch The Watch? Well the time is almost here. The Watch is a new BBC America show based on characters from Terry Pratchett’s expansive Discworld universe. It follows the Ankh-Morpork’s City Watch (originally from the book Guards! Guards!), who are a diverse, unlikely group of ragtag heroes who must come together to stop an…

Trailers Germain Lussier

The Expanse’s Thomas Jane on Bringing His Acting Experience Behind the Camera

The protomolecule entity formerly known as Joe Miller might have disappeared at the end of The Expanse season four, but actor Thomas Jane didn’t go anywhere. He ventured behind the scenes to direct an episode of season five, one that gives us some of the most emotional moments of the series so far. Luckily for…

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A New Sonic Series Is Apparently Speeding Its Way to Netflix

With the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie being as surprisingly solid as it was, Sega’s latest plans for the supersonic mammal hardly come as a surprise. Today, Netflix announced that it’s greenlit a new 3D animated Sonic the Hedgehog series with a now-deleted tweet featuring some spiffy new vector art depicting the titular hedgehog. The tweet’s sudden deletion…

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Wonder Woman 1984 Will Include a Post-Credits Scene for Its Theatrical and Streaming Debuts

That’s the thing about streaming debuts—you don’t actually have to wait to get to the post-credits stuff! Speaking to Cinemablend recently, Patty Jenkins confirmed that the recent screenings of Wonder Woman 1984 for the press did not include one extra bonus that will be part of the film’s theatrical (and, in the U.S., on-demand) debut…

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Star Trek: Discovery‘s Georgiou Experiment Has Reached a Fascinating Place

Since the final episodes of Star Trek: Discovery’s first season, a ticking time bomb has lurked in the show’s background, a time bomb that began to tick faster when talk of series spinoffs emerged. Whatever can we do about Emperor Georgiou? The show’s decided that it’s time to answer and see if it and Michael’s experiment…

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Fate: The Winx Saga Trailer Gives the Animated Fairy Series a Riverdale Edge

You’ve never seen the Winx Club like this before. Netflix has unveiled the first trailer and release date for Fate: The Winx Saga, a new fantasy series that’s modernized an early 2000s children’s animated show for a brand-new audience. But will these more mature fairies be ready to fly? The debut teaser trailer for Netflix’s…

Trailers Beth Elderkin

Funimation Acquires Crunchyroll in Merging of Anime Mega Powers

One of the biggest places to watch anime has acquired one of the other biggest places to watch anime in a deal that’s basically like if Netflix acquired Hulu, but (obviously) in an extremely anime-specific way. AT&T has agreed to sell its Crunchyroll service to Funimation, which is owned by Sony, for just under $1.2 billion, the company…

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CBS All Access Takes on Disney+ With New Features to Babysit Your Kids

Ahead of the launch of Paramount+ early next year, ViacomCBS has announced new kids-focused programming and features are arriving on CBS All Access. The features include the addition of up to six profiles per account, each of which can be managed by parents using “Kids Mode” to filter content by ratings for younger and older…

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Dune Director Slams Warner Bros. for HBO Max Release, Warns It May Doom the Franchise

The Stand Cast and Crew on Updating Stephen King’s Classic and Bringing Captain Trips to Life

Servant‘s Creepy Baby Is Back in Season 2 Trailer

In The Midnight Sky Trailer, George Clooney Tries to Warn Astronauts of a Climate Disaster

Bad News, Disney+ Users, Your Subscription Price Is Going Up

Meet the Heroes of Disney+’s She-Hulk and Hawkeye Series

Fantastic Four Finally Entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe and More Huge News

Ms. Marvel Makes Her MCU Debut in This First Look

Star Wars: Bad Batch‘s First Trailer Shows the Fall of a Republic

Huge Star Wars Updates: Andor Teaser, Obi-Wan Timeline, Lando Show, and The Acolyte

The Mandalorian‘s Ahsoka Tano and New Republic Will Receive Their Own Spinoffs

Star Wars, Marvel, and More: Here’s Your Disney Investor’s Day 2020 Live Blog

The Watch Begins in a New Trailer for the Discworld-Inspired Show

The Expanse’s Thomas Jane on Bringing His Acting Experience Behind the Camera

A New Sonic Series Is Apparently Speeding Its Way to Netflix

Wonder Woman 1984 Will Include a Post-Credits Scene for Its Theatrical and Streaming Debuts

Star Trek: Discovery‘s Georgiou Experiment Has Reached a Fascinating Place

Fate: The Winx Saga Trailer Gives the Animated Fairy Series a Riverdale Edge

Funimation Acquires Crunchyroll in Merging of Anime Mega Powers

CBS All Access Takes on Disney+ With New Features to Babysit Your Kids

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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