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Over two years since its premiere, Star Wars: Andor has been revealed to be receiving its long-awaited second season. The next run of the series is slated to arrive on Disney+ on April 22, 2025.The new season was announced at Disney’s D23 event in Brazil. The show acts as a prequel to Rogue One and the second season is set across four years, The Wrap reported. With 12 episodes in total, three-episode arcs will center on a different period of days during each of the four years.Diego Luna is set to return as Cassian Andor alongside Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O'Reilly and Forest Whitaker.The new season is said to serve as a bridge between Andor and Rogue One and will offer a closer look at the formation of the Rebel Alliance. It’ll also reportedly see Andor meet h...

Following Gladiator II, director Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal are expected to work together again for a new project. This time, the re-team will see Scott direct The Dog Stars, the Mark L Smith-adapted apocalyptic thriller by Peter Heller to life.According to Variety, Mescal is now in the advanced stages of negotiations to star in the film. Scott is said to be working with Steve Asbell and the 20th Century Studios team to bring the film to life. The plot follows a civilian who lives a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-Marine. The story is set in the near feature when an unnamed pandemic decimates the American population. The two men who are both mismatched in personalities must find a way to work together to fend off any invaders. However, a random tr...

Disney and 20th Century Animation announced that Ice Age 6 is on its way. The Pleistocene era will see the return of Manny, Sid and Diego and the rest of the herd to the big screen.In an official video announcement posted by Disney, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary, and Simon Pegg -- all of which have led the voice cast of the franchise, shared the news of the return for a new adventure in the sixth installment. The announcement also confirmed that the film is currently in production. The last Ice Age film arrived in 2016 and grossed $408.5 million USD globally. The first film arrived in 2002 and the franchise has since grown to include several shorts, series and even a spin-off in 2002. While Disney has not given an update as to when the sixth will release just yet. ...

Following last month's announcement that Christopher Nolan has plans to set his next film at Universal with Matt Damon and Tom Holland expected to star, two new additions have been added to the cast. Zendaya and Anne Hathaway are now slated to join the film alongside Holland and Damon.For Hathaway and Nolan, the two reunite following their 2014 space epic collaboration on Interstellar and 2012's The Dark Knight Rises. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Hathaway expressed deep gratitude for Nolan who cast her in Interstellar following the backlash online from her Oscar win for Les Misérables, "I had an angel in Christopher Nolan, who did not care about that and gave me one of the most beautiful roles I've had in one of the best films that I've been a part of...And my career did not los...

A new Star Wars trilogy is being developed at Lucasfilm, Variety reported. The three films will reportedly be written and produced by Simon Kinberg, who is best known for producing several movies in the X-Men franchise.The trilogy was said to serve as Episodes 10, 11 and 12 – set after the events of 2019’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – but a report from Deadline detailed that insiders disputed that notion, suggesting that the trilogy will be a standalone film series.Alongside Kinberg, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy will be producing the trilogy, according to Variety.Star Wars already has two projects slated to release in 2026 and 2027, though the titles of those have yet to be revealed.Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast

Bong Joon Ho's upcoming sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yuen and Mark Ruffalo has set a new release date. Originally expected to release on January 31, 2025, the new date sees the film now premiere three months later. Warner Bros. has shifted the date to make room for the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic titled Michael from director Antoine Fuqua, which was originally set for April 18, 2025. Now, Mickey 17 takes over the April 18 date for the Easter holiday release. A Warner Bros. spokesperson said in a statement, "When the April 18 date became available, we quickly moved to secure it for Mickey 17. We're thrilled with the new date, and very happy the film will be available to audiences in IMAX."The film is based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The sci-...

Netflix has announced that the fifth and final season of Stranger Things will premiere next year. The streamer has not yet revealed the next installment's release date; however, the company did reveal the season's full list of episode titles, which you can find below.Episode 1: “The Crawl”Episode 2: “The Vanishing of …” (this title is intentionally unfinished to not spoil plot lines)Episode 3: “The Turnbow Trap”Episode 4: “Sorcerer”Episode 5: “Shock Jock”Episode 6: “Escape from Camazotz”Episode 7: “The Bridge”Episode 8: “The Rightside Up”Fans will have to continue theorizing about what those titles mean until Netflix decides to share further information on what to expect from Stranger Things' finale. The streamer has been largely quiet on the show's fifth season ever since the series' four...

Smile 2, the horror sequel directed by Parker Finn, hit theaters on October 18. Fans of Finn’s eerie universe now have the chance to catch the first seven minutes of the film online. But there’s a twist, Paramount has made the preview available for free, with a unique challenge: viewers must keep a steady smile on their faces throughout the entire clip.The film follows pop sensation Skye Riley, played by Naomi Scott, as she grapples with terrifying and inexplicable events, all while navigating the intense pressures of fame. Upon visiting the Smile 2 website, fans are prompted to enable their camera and maintain a continuous smile. If their grin falters, the video stops, displaying a chilling “Keep Smiling” reminder.Watch the exclusive seven-minute teaser through the official website.Click ...

Tilda Swinton portrays the matriarch of a family that survived the end of the world in the first trailer for The End. Directed and produced by Joshua Oppenheimer, The End shakes up the concept of the post-apocalyptic movie as a musical drama.All of the characters are unnamed, with Swinton playing the mother. Michael Shannon co-stars as her husband, while George MacKay plays the duo’s son. Moses Ingram portrays a young woman who shows up at the family’s underground bunker, where they’ve been living for two decades in solitude.“Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stra...

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has revealed the reason behind the Netflix show's culmination with season three.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he explained that he "naturally" felt like there are simply no more stories about both the deadly game and Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) to tell. “When I was thinking about the idea for the ending of season three, I think it sort of naturally came to me that this was the finale,” he said. “I believed that with that story, I was able to tell everything that I wanted to tell through the story of Squid Game and also in the perspective of Gi-hun as a character, and I thought that we don’t need any further stories from here.” He also confirmed that he is “nearly done with the editing portion of season three,” with the final season premiering in 2025.Hwan...

The Weeknd is expanding his upcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow into a feature film.Hurry Up Tomorrow is set to star The Weeknd, Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan in the lead roles and is described as "an extension" of his next album of the same name. Trey Edward Shults, the director behind Waves and It Comes at Night, has written and directed the film while The Weeknd's Manic Phase, Reza Fahim, the late Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss will serve as producers. Ortega, Shults, Michael Rapino, Ryan Kroft, Wassim “Sal” Slaiby and Harrison Huffman will executive produce. Lionsgate will distribute the thriller in theaters worldwide.Adam Fogelson, chair, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said, “Abel is a visionary whose art cannot be confined by any single medium. With Hurry Up Tomorrow, in partnership ...