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The winner of Beast Games, MrBeast's upcoming Prime Video reality competition show, is set to take home TV's most expensive cash prize — $5 million USD.According to Variety, the $5 million USD reward is "believed to be the largest single payout ever in TV history." Details of Beast Games' challenges are yet to be announced, but Prime Video has stated that 1,000 contestants will be fighting for the cash prize in a “fast-paced and high-production format.”“My goal is to make the greatest show possible and prove YouTubers and creators can succeed on other platforms,” MrBeast said in a statement. “Amazon gave me the creative control I need to try and make it happen. I hope to make the YouTube community proud.”Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios, added, “MrBeast has captured the attention...

The creators of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey are bringing together several childhood characters in the public domain for the low-budget horror crossover, Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.According to Variety, the upcoming title will unite the blood-curling counterparts of Winnie the Pooh, Bambi, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tigger, Piglet, The Mad Hatter and Sleeping Beauty. All the characters will first star in their own stand-alone films before coming together for the Poohniverse, which will then see the characters put up a united front against the survivors of the solo films. The monsters themselves, however, will struggle to get along in what actor-producer Scott Chambers describes as “carnage within the group” and “epic sequences of monster vs. monster.”Starring in the crossove...

Following its win for Best Animated Feature at the 2024 Oscars, The Boy and The Heron will be once again gracing theaters.The movie was originally released in Japan in June 2023 after seven years of production, with one of the producer’s referring to it as the most expensive film ever made in the country. It’s also Hayao Miyazaki’s last ever film. The filmmaker had initially announced his retirement in 2013 but then resumed work to put out The Boy and The Heron, although he’s saying he doesn’t plan on releasing any more movies.Distributor GKIDS announced the re-release in theaters, which will include a dub cast with a star-studded lineup of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh.“After losing his mother durin...

Dune: Part Two is proving to be burgeoning success at the global box office, surpassing $500 million USD. The Denis Villeneuve film starring Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh and Austin Butler has been hugely successful it just its first 10 days on the big screen. It has now become the highest grossing film of 2024 globally and domestically. The film has had the strongest turnout in China garnering $36 million USD with the UK coming in second at $32.8 million USD. The sequel has quickly become the seventh-fastest film hit $100 million USD from IMAX releases. The film, which was co-produced by Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment and cost the studios a total of $190 million USD to produce and an additional $100 million USD to promote around the world. So far, the film as more th...

Netflix has unveiled the first official video teaser for City Hunter’s live-action film. Greenlit for production back in late 2022, the new City Hunter film is based on Tsukasa Hojo’s legendary manga — an incredibly popular and iconic piece of media that has received numerous adaptions for the past three decades. While the events of the source material take place from the mid-’80s to early ‘90s, the new adaptation brings the characters to a modern setting, while still retaining much of the original’s charms.From the teaser alone, many iconic elements and scenes have been recreated and will instantly speak to longtime fans of City Hunter. From Ryo’s red Mini Cooper to spotting an “XYZ” message on the Shinjuku Station blackboard. Midway through the video, a brief ear of City Hunter’s ‘90s an...

About a year ago, it was reported that Star Wars films helmed by director Patty Jenkins and Kevin Feige have been halted. Jenkin's Rogue Squadron was initially delayed from 2021 to 2022 and later fully removed from Disney's 2023 schedule. Now, it appears that the Wonder Woman filmmaker is back on the project. In a recent Talking Pictures Podcast, Jenkins confirmed that the movie is now back in production. She said, "When I left Star Wars to do Wonder Woman 3, and I started working on that, we talked about, 'Well, maybe I'll come back to Star Wars after Wonder Woman 3.'" Jenkins added, "So we started a deal for that to happen. So when Wonder Woman 3 went away, Lucasfilm and I were like, 'Oh, we've got to finish this deal.' We finished the deal right as the strike was beginning. So I now owe...

A24 has joined forces with IMAX for a monthly screening of some of its fan-favorite films. The series will enlist over 300 IMAX theaters across the US to deliver the immersive, high-resolution experience.Kicking off on Wednesday, March 27, the inaugural film will be Alex Garland’s 2015 sci-fi flick Ex Machina.A film from A24’s catalog will be shown on a select Wednesday each month for a year after. April 24 will draw in fans and first-time watchers alike for a Ari Aster’s Hereditary screening and May 22 will pay homage to the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems.All of the films in the series have been shown in IMAX prior. A24 hasn’t yet shared the roster for screenings after May but will be keeping fans updated throughout the next year.Friday, March 15, marked the release of the film studio’s late...

South Korean actor Oh Young-Soo has been found guilty of sexual misconduct and sentenced to prison. After playing Oh Il-nam in Netflix’s Squid Game, the actor rose to global fame, winning Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a series, along with an Emmy nomination.The following year, the 79-year-old was charged with sexual misconduct for an incident that occurred in 2017, in which he hugged and kissed a woman’s cheek without her consent. The two were co-starring in a play and had been on a walk together.The accusations had first been brought up by the victim in 2021 but police had dropped the case that same year, citing a lack of evidence. It was reopened after the woman filed an appeal and Oh was charged in 2022.Oh was sentenced to up to eight months in prison, suspended for two year...

Netflix officially announced that Black Mirror season seven will make its premiere in 2025.The upcoming season of Charlie Brooker's dark, satirical anthology series will return with a total of six brand new episodes, which includes a sequel to the "USS Callister" episode from season four. The episode starred Jesse Plemons as Robert Daly, a brilliant yet anti-social programmer who co-founded a successful multiplayer online game. Resentful about not receiving recognition for his work, he creates a private space adventure game that sees him ordering around sentient digital clones of his colleagues. The clone of his new colleague Nanette, played by Cristin Milioti, proves to be trouble, however, as she attempts to stage a coup and overthrow Robert.Brooker, Jessica Rhoades and Annabel Jones wil...