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After much speculation, Marvel Studios has officially announced the cast of the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot.Marvel's First Family will be comprised of Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing. The main villain of the film is yet to be announced, but many are assuming that it will be the franchise's main antagonist, Victor von Doom/Dr. Doom.WandaVision producer and director Matt Shakman will helm the reboot while Josh Friedman, Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer wrote the screenplay. Filming is rumored to begin this summer with a confirmed premiere date of July 25, 2025.This Fantastic Four reboot will mark the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Uni...

Usher has some big plans in store following his Super Bowl LVIII performance. The R&B artist released his Coming Home album days prior and is gearing up to head on a US tour later this year.He’s now also in the television production business. Usher is developing a series with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, Variety reported first.The show is a drama about “Black love in Atlanta and individuals looking to find a place to call home” and will “explore music, style, sex, romance and secrets that threaten to tear relationships apart.”The series is described as being based on Usher’s music and while there’s no official word on this yet, it’s possible the singer will make an on-screen appearance.“My 30-year catalog has resonated with so many people no matter where they were in thei...

Stephen Amell is getting ready to suit up for a highly-anticipated spin-off set by NBC. Earlier this month, NBCUniversal announced that a Suits spinoff titled Suits: LA is in the works with production beginning as early as March. Now, more news arrives from the upcoming series, pinpointing who will lead the show. Amell is slated to play the character Ted Black who is "a charismatic force of nature who puts his own needs above others." Production is set to begin in March in Vancouver for the new drama, created by the original Suits creator Aaron Korsch. The series will follow a new group, led by Amell's character, who is a former New York prosecutor who moved to LA to build a new law firm that specializes in criminal and entertainment law. The original cast originally starred Patrick J. Ada...

The White Lotus Season 3 has added another big name to its star-studded cast. BLACKPINK's Lisa is the latest to join the imminent third installment of the HBO anthology series.Lisa – who will be credited as Lalisa Manobal – will join the likes of Leslie Bibb, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Dom Hetrakul and Tayme Thapthimthong. She'll now be the second member of the girl group to appear on the big screen – for an HBO show, nonetheless – following up Jennie's role in The Idol.Natasha Rothwell, our beloved Belinda from season 1 will return for the new season. Other stars include Christian Friedel, Julian Kostov, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Shalini Peiris, Carrie Coon, Scott Glenn, Francesca Corney, Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Walton Goggins, Patrick Schwarzeneg...

Adam Sandler is set to have a new comedy special at Netflix. This time around, Josh Safdie will be directing the special. In the past, Safdie and Sandler worked on the 2019 film Uncut Gems.The special is currently untitled but it will be his second one on Netflix as a follow up to his 2018 set, 100% Fresh which also scored 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not much is known about this special but Sandler's relationship with Netflix continues to grow with each project. He is set to appear in another Netflix film next month, titled Spaceman which sees him take on a more dramatic sci-fi role. Other Netflix projects with Sandler include Murder Mystery, Leo and Sandy Wexler.Safdie and Sandler also worked together on a 2020 short film titled Goldman v. Silverman. Sandler is also set to lead another featur...

Netflix is taking a look behind the scenes of Prince Andrew's infamous interview with Newsnight surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in 2019. Releasing a first teaser for the new project, the trailer sees Gillian Anderson star as the notorious Emily Maitlis, whose grilling on the BBC interview left Prince Andrew in enormous humiliation. The dramatization, titled Scoop follows the behind-the-scenes process of the interview of Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.In the trailer, Anderson's character Maitlis can be seen with her team prepping for the interview at Buckingham Palace that Prince Andrew agreed to speak out on. Revealed to be one of the most shocking British TV interviews of all time, the prince has since settled the sexual assault case filed against him by Epstein...

Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap, has officially signed a multi-year, first-look feature film deal with Warner Bros. Her partners in the company include Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara. Following the huge success of Barbie, which garnered $1.45 billion USD globally and became the highest grossing film of 2023 and the biggest of the studio's 100-year history, Warner Bros. is placing their bet on Robbie and her team.In a previous statement, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairs and CEO Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy commented on how they would build out their repertoire of films and said that they are on a mission to "invest and commit to working with the greatest partners in front of and behind the camera." On the deal with LuckyChap De Luca and Abdy said, "“Margot, Tom and Jos...

During the Super Bowl, 20th Century Fox dropped the official trailer for the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The latest installment of the legendary franchise is set to arrive in theaters this spring. Set almost three centuries after the events of the last film, the 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes, the new trailer gives a glimpse of the new ape leader, Proximus Caesar played by Kevin Durand. Proximus becomes a tyrannical leader and enslaves other ape clans by obscuring the truth of how apes became the dominant species. At this point, humanity has regressed into a primitive state, leaving one human who appears to be smarter than the rest. The film follows a young chimpanzee named Noa who discovers Proximus is hiding the truth from everyone about the enslavement of humans. No...

Nearly 20 years after the release of the blockbuster Twister, a sequel is on the way. Directed by Jan de Bont, the original 1996 film starred Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton as married storm chasers on the brink of divorce in the late 1960s. Despite their impending separation, they reunite to deploy their tornado research device during an outbreak in Oklahoma.The trailer for the forthcoming sequel, Twisters, premiered during Super Bowl LVIII. Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell star as Kate Cooper and Tyler Owens, respectively, a pair of storm chasers who “try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.”The video kicks off with the duo attempting to drive their way out of a tornado, with Anthony Ramos’ character, Javi, warning them to get out of the way via radio. Afte...

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo star in the upcoming adaptation of Broadway’s Wicked. Split into two parts, a new teaser trailer for the first of the two movies premiered during Super Bowl LVIII.Viewers were transported to the Land of Oz, where Glinda Upland (Grande) and Erivo (Elphaba Thropp) encounter one another while studying sorcery at Shiz University.“You’re green,” a shocked Glinda remarks upon seeing Elphaba. Although the two initially clash, they unexpectedly become close friends.“Something just takes over me,” Elphaba warns. “And when it does, bad things happen.”Rounding out the main cast are Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater and Marissa Bode. Yeoh stars as the headmistress of Shiz University, while Bailey plays Glinda’s love interest, Fiyero. Goldblum a...

Still to this day, Star Wars is one of the most successful and popular movie franchises with a total gross of over $10.3 billion USD. From its success, the franchise has grown into other arenas including television, video games, toys and even select apparel. Now the movie that started it all, Star Wars: Episode 1 – the Phantom Menace is returning to theaters.The movie's theater returns sees the celebration of its 25 anniversary – as it was released on May 19, 1999. Written and directed by renowned cinema figure George Lucas, Episode 1 grossed over $1 billion dollars at the global box office, which would still be a marvelous and above-average feat by today's standards.Additionally, the movie was complete with names like Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Jinn, Natalie P...