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A new official trailer for Solo Leveling Season 2 has been released, with Crunchyroll confirming the popular anime’s return in 2025.The first season of  Solo Leveling premiered in January 2024 and completed its 12-episode run by the end of March. Based on Chugong’s widely successful and hugely popular webtoon series, the anime was produced by A-1 Pictures and faithfully delivered a slick and compelling adaptation that lives up to the story’s action-heavy, RPG-like portal-fantasy premise.The story follows Sung Jinwoo - the world’s weakest hunter - who transforms after acquiring the System, a unique program only he can see. This system allows Jinwoo to level up his abilities, leading him to uncover the secrets behind his newfound powers and the dungeons that spawned them. Season 2, subheaded...

While Christopher Nolan continues to be busy developing his upcoming film for Universal, the Oppenheimer director has named Ridley Scott's Gladiator II as the top film of 2024. Taking part in Variety's list of directors' best films of the year, the acclaimed filmmaker highlights the reasons why he thought Gladiator II was a masterpiece.From the start, Nolan praised Scott's brilliance and masterful directing. He wrote, "Like the best long-awaited sequels, Gladiator II must be a remake and sequel in one, and it's testament to Scott's brilliance that he manages to balance the individual pathos of the original with the expansionist demands of the sequel's central theme, bringing a lifetime of experience in controlling tone." While some fans and critics alike have claimed historical inaccuracie...

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 speeds to the top of box office charts with a debut of $62 million USD at its opening weekend box office. On its way to the top, it tramples over Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King prequel. Paramount's third Sonic adventure hits the No. 1 spot across 3,761 North American theaters. Garnering a positive review and strong audience scores, the film has surpassed initial expectations of hitting $55 to $60 million USD at the opening box office. The track record for the trilogy continues to soar, with the first film opening at $58 million USD in 2020 and the second film for $72 million USD. Paramount's president of domestic distribution Chris Aronson said, "As we've seen this franchise's audience grow, we saw a window in the marketplace in December where we thought we could stand...

A new film in The Mummy universe is officially in the works over at New Line.As per The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming installment is set to release on April 17, 2026 and will be written and helmed by Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin. Plot details remain under wraps as of writing, but fans of the franchise can expect the filmmaker "to breathe modern life into ageless evil." A cast is yet to be announced.Cronin's Doppelgängers banner, Atomic Monster and Blumhouse are set to produce alongside James Wan, Jason Blum and John Keville. Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Macdara Kelleher will serve as executive producers.The first film in The Mummy IP dates back to 1932 from Karl Freund, but returned to popularity in the late '90s to early '00s thanks to Brendan Fraser's trilogy the released in ...

The Weeknd is gearing up to make his big-screen debut in an all-new suspense thriller titled Hurry Up Tomorrow. The film, which is directed by Lionsgate's Trey Edward Shults and also stars Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan, has received an official release date of May 16, 2025.The movie, described as a "musically driven psychological thriller," is inspired by The Weeknd's forthcoming album and tour of the same name. The record, which is slated to be released on January 24, will arrive as the final installment in the Grammy winner's trilogy, following 2022's Dawn FM and 2020's After Hours. Little is currently known about the plot of the film.Hurry up Tomorrow is produced by The Weeknd's Manic Phase and Reza Fahimalong with the late Kevin Turen and Harrison Kreiss. Executive producers include O...

Justin Chon and Bobby Hundreds are making a half-hour drama series about the streetwear world, according to Deadline.Titled Burnfield, the show is set to be based on the creative duo's own experiences in fashion. Hundreds founded his community-based workwear label, The Hundreds, alongside Ben Hundreds in 2003, and it has since become known for its graphic-heavy design ethos and pop-cultural collaborations. Chon, meanwhile, was behind the streetwear retail chain The Attic in Southern California for a decade.Chon and Hundreds are co-creating and co-showrunning the series, acting as executive producers alongside Garrett Basch, who previously worked on What We Do in the Shadows and Reservation Dogs. The series, which was preemptively purchased by FX, will be directed by Chon.Notably, Chon and ...

Jared Leto is set to play Skeletor in Amazon MGM's live-action Masters of the Universe film.Variety adds that director Travis Knight has also landed Sam C. Wilson, Kojo Attah and Hafthor Bjornsson as Trap Jaw, Tri-Klops and Goat Man — some of Skeletor's henchmen. They join the previously-announced cast of Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn, Camila Mendes as Teela and Idris Elba as Man-at-Arms.Details of the upcoming adaptation remain under wraps, but reports state that Skeletor and his henchmen could utilize motion-capture CGI.Chris Butler penned the script while Escape Artists and Mattel Films are producing.The live-action Masters of the Universe film is set to release on June 5, 2026.Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast

MAPPA has debuted a new teaser for the upcoming Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc. Spoiler alert for those who are yet to finish season one of the anime series.The film, which premieres in 2025, will pick up immediately where season one left off; Denji has now transformed into Chainsaw Man and has joined Special Division 4’s devil hunters. Following a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, the lead character takes shelter from the rain and ends up crossing paths with Reze, a girl who works in a café. The trailer ensures to keep the big plot points under wraps, but teases Reze's massive influence in the story.Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc will be helmed by Tatsuya Yoshihara with the likes of Kikunosuke Toya, Shiori Izawa, Tomori Kusunoki and Reina Ueda bringing the characters to l...

Crunchyroll has acquired the North American and select international theatrical rights for Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK, the series’ fifth compilation film that retells the last two parts from the anime’s final season. The film premiered last month in Japan and until now, had no updates regarding an international release.Together with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Crunchyroll will bring this colossal omnibus film to fans outside of Japan all in the first quarter of 2025. In North America, the rights extend to the U.S. and Canada with a release date of February 10. In the EMEA region, the film will be available in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the U.K. and Ireland between February 12 to 26.Meanwhile, the APAC region has the earl...

Crunchyroll has announced that the second season of Hell’s Paradise will be available to stream simultaneously with the anime’s Japan broadcast.At the annual Jump Festa 2025 event back in fall, a new promotional trailer was unveiled, while also confirming the Hell’s Paradise Season 2’s release window as January 2026.Based on Yuji Kaku’s popular manga of the same name, Hell’s Paradise is a dark fantasy action and psychological thriller set in Japan’s Edo period. Produced by acclaimed animation studio MAPPA, the series’ first season premiered in April 2023. Shortly after the season finale in late June, the studio announced that production had begun for the next cour.The 45-second-long clip offers a glimpse into the events as well as the fates and upcoming battles that await Gabimaru, his fel...

Oscar-winner Questlove has been tasked to direct a new documentary focusing on 50 Years of SNL Music for the NBC. The three-hour special is set to be titled, Ladies & Gentlemen … 50 Years of SNL Music and will be celebrating the past five decades at Saturday Night Live.As per the project logline, the film will "feature untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years." It will also include over 50 interviews featuring some of the industry's biggest stars and performers including Bad Bunny, DJ Breakout, Elvis Costello, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish and Finneas, Dave Grohl, Debbie Harry & Chris Stein, Mick Jagger, Dua Lipa, Darryl DMC McDaniels, Tom Morello, Kacey Musgraves, Olivia Rodrigo, MC Sha-Ra...