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Netflix and the Duffer Brothers have revealed a first look at the upcoming fifth and final season of Stranger Things. The featurette was posted to social media and gave fans a first look at the cast in the upcoming season, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Hawkins kids. The actors reflected on their time on the show with Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven, recounting, "I started when I was 10, I’m now turning 20 years old." Noah Schnapp said, "It's just so exciting, I think this is going to be the best season yet." The final season is expected to finish filming around Christmas, currently just halfway done. The next season is slated to arrive sometime next year.In the social media post, Netflix teased, "Take it all in, nerds...we've hit the halfway mark of filming the final season a...

Timothée Chalamet is already gearing up for his next project, which is slated to be an A24 film from Josh Safdie. Titled Marty Supreme, the fictional film is said to follow a professional ping pong player named Marty Reisman.The film will be produced by Chalamet alongside Eli Bush and Anthony Katagas while Safdie and Ronald Bronstein are slated to pen the script. Marty Supreme brings Safdie and A24 together once again, both of which have worked together on two features, the popular Adam Sandler Uncut Gems and Good Time.. A24 took to X to reveal the upcoming film starring Chalamet, "Josh Safdie's MARTY SUPREME starring @RealChalamet. Coming soon." While the film is fictional and loosely based on the real Marty Reisman's life, it touches on his relationship with the sport. Reisman died in 20...

A war is raging between humans and machines in Netflix’s animated take on Terminator. In Terminator Zero, an AI called Skynet gained self-awareness in 1997 and has since been on a mission to eradicate humans. The series is set between two timelines, 1997 and in the wartorn 2022.A soldier named Eiko (Sonoya Mizuno) must travel back in time to prevent the course of events by protecting scientist Malcolm Lee (André Holland), who is working on an AI that’ll combat Skynet. Lee struggles to grapple with the moral complexities of his own work and simultaneously being hunted by an assassin from the future.“You can’t see it yet, but you’ve been on a collision course your entire life,” Eiko says in a voiceover. “There’s no going back, not really. It will never, ever stop.”The trailer also offers gli...

Neon's Longlegs has debuted with an impressive $22.6 million USD in the box office.As per Variety, Osgood Perkins's indie horror film, which stars Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee and Dakota Daulby, cost under $10 million USD to produce and used a similar budget for its marketing and distribution. Longlegs marked Neon's biggest debut so far and even triumphed over Columbia Pictures' Fly Me to the Moon, with its marketing inspired by the cult favorite The Blair Witch Project; an old school website detailing the crimes of the film's serial killer was created, as well as a valid phone number that would play a message from Cage's evil character.“This has been a really wild ride,” said Elissa Federoff, Neon’s chief distribution officer. “Working with t...

Despicable Me is becoming one of the most popular animations to date. Following the release of Despicable Me 4 arriving in theaters and gaining great traction at the international box office, the films have now become the first animated franchise in history to cross the $5 billion USD mark. The beloved fourth sequel brought back Steve Carell as the reformed supervillain Gru and Will Ferrell as Maxime Le Mal, his former schoolmate turned evil rival. Currently playing in almost 80 foreign markets, the Universal and Illumination film earned $11.8 million USD in China alone, where it debuted 35,000 screens and 11,000 locations in the country. Despicable Me 4 goes up agains Disney and Pixar's smash hit sequel Inside Out 2 earning $777.5 million USD globally to make it the fifth highest-grossing...

A production start date for Euphoria season three has officially been set.HBO announced that filming will begin in January 2025 with Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi and Hunter Schafer all set to return. “I am thrilled that we are ready to begin production on Euphoria in January,” said Francesca Orsi, HBO's head of drama. “We could not be happier with our creative partnership with Sam and this incredible cast. We look forward to bringing this new season of Euphoria to life for the fans.”Sam Levinson's series last aired in January 2022 and has been put on pause for several years due to several reasons, including the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of 2023, Levinson's rework on the scripts and most likely the busy schedule of its A-list cast. The Hollywood Reporter adds that season three may ...

The widely popular Despicable Me franchise kicked off on July 9 2010 and is still going strong 14 years later. Out of the core films, the beloved yellow-hued minion got their own film entitled Minions in 2015. Now the third installment of the Minions film spinoff is set to hit theaters in June of 2027.The announcement of Minion 3's release date is aptly timed given Despicable Me 4 just landed in theaters on July 3 with a $230 million USD box office debut on opening weekend. The full franchise timeline follows Despicable Me in 2010, Despicable Me 2 in 2013, Minions in 2015, Despicable Me 3 in 2017, Minions 2 in 2022 and Despicable Me 4 in 2024.With Minions 3, the film sees the return of Brian Lynch who wrote all of the spinoff films. In the director role, the film sees Pierre Coffin who dir...

Marvel Studios has dropped off the first official teaser for Captain America: Brave New World, the fourth installment in the series starring Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson — the film's protagonist who finds himself at the epicenter of an "international incident" and must uncover the reason behind a "nefarious global plot."Harrison Ford makes his Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) debut as the newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, who makes Wilson privy to the plot's central scheme and looks to bring him on as an official military member. Notably, Ford takes on the role originally played by the late William Hurt in films spanning 2008's The Incredible Hulk to 2021's Black Widow.Directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore, Brave New World takes place after the events ...

Netflix is releasing a sequel to the sci-fi dystopian hit, The Platform. The Spanish-language film had premiered at TIFF in 2019, after which Netflix secured a streaming deal for it.In the first movie, prisoners wake up in a tower-style vertical prison consisting of around 250 floors with just one cell per floor. Once a day, a platform filled with food descends from the top floor downwards, momentarily stopping at each floor – those at the top can feast, while prisoners on the lower floors are left to starve. Prisoners are randomly relocated to a new level each month and if they attempt to hold on to food from the platform, their cells are lowered to freezing temperatures.Director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia will return for The Platform 2 with Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena and Ós...

Fans of Rick and Morty have received the first trailer for the upcoming spinoff Rick and Morty: The Anime which sees the beloved adult animation characters reimagined in an anime-animation style. Premiering August 15 on Adult Swim, the new addition to the franchise explores an anime multiverse where the same intergalactic hijinks ensue.The trailer gives fans glimpses of the series with plenty of fighting, mishaps and funny moments that define the franchise. In addition to the Smith family, fan-favorite side characters appear in their new styles like Space Beth, Birdperson, President Curtis and Mr. Nimbus. The show's overview teases what's to come stating, “In this 10-episode anime series from the world of Rick and Morty, Rick relaxes in a pseudo-world between multiverses, Summer helps Spac...

Shelley Duvall died on Thursday at her home in Blanco, Texas, her family and longtime partner Dan Gilroy reported. Her family said the cause of death was complications due to diabetes. Duvall was 75 years old.Born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1949, Duvall was one of the most celebrated actresses of the 1970s, particularly for taking on eccentric roles. While Duvall wasn’t pursuing a career in acting, she fortuitously met director Robert Altman while attending a party in Texas. Altman was shooting his film Brewster McCloud nearby and tapped Duvall to play Suzanne Davis, the love interest to the protagonist.The actress went on to star in more of Altman’s movies, 1971’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller and 1974’s Thieves Like Us. She rose to fame for her portrayal of Martha in 1975’s Nashville, a film cen...