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Following championships in 2015 and 2019, the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team had its sights set on a three-peat this past season. In Netflix's latest foray into the sports-documentary world entitled, Under Pressure: The U.S. Women’s World Cup Team, viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at the most decorated team in international soccer history as they prepare for and compete in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.Per Netflix's press release:The all-access sports series will allow audiences to intimately follow the U.S. Women’s National Team’s players and coaches and reveal an inside look at the most decorated team in soccer history. Viewers will get a first-hand look at the pressure, the euphoria, the joy, and the hardships that these world-class athletes experience as they strive to capture...

Following championships in 2015 and 2019, the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team had its sights set on a three-peat this past season. In Netflix's latest foray into the sports-documentary world entitled, Under Pressure: The U.S. Women’s World Cup Team, viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at the most decorated team in international soccer history as they prepare for and compete in the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.Per Netflix's press release:The all-access sports series will allow audiences to intimately follow the U.S. Women’s National Team’s players and coaches and reveal an inside look at the most decorated team in soccer history. Viewers will get a first-hand look at the pressure, the euphoria, the joy, and the hardships that these world-class athletes experience as they strive to capture...

Anxiety has arrived and it is here to stay. Disney and Pixar have introduced its newest animated character in the upcoming Inside Out 2 film. The studio has officially launched the teaser trailer for the animated sequel which sees Maya Hawke play the new emotion, Anxiety. The trailer has garnered the most views in the studio's history with 157 million views in 24 hours. Inside Out 2 has unseated the previous record holder, the studio's 2019 success Frozen 2. 78 million of the 157 million views came from TikTok.On the new trailer, Pete Docter, chief creative officer of Pixar said, "We are thrilled so many people have tuned in to check out the new trailer for Inside Out 2. When the first film came out, we knew that by telling a story where we could see our emotions — those little voices insi...

Netflix has unveiled the official teaser trailer for its live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender.Premiering out of Netflix's Geeked Week, the two-minute trailer shows off the action that fans of the animated series can expect, as well as new looks at Aang, his bison and lemur Appa and Momo, Katara, Sokka, Prince Zuko, Uncle Iroh, Fire Lord Ozai, Azula and Suki. The visual ends with an official release date of February 2022, 2024, with the official synopsis reading:"Water. Earth. Fire. Air. The four nations once lived in harmony, with the Avatar, master of all four elements, keeping peace between them. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked and wiped out the Air Nomads, the first step taken by the firebenders towards conquering the world. With the current incarna...

Last month, Disney announced that it would be purchasing Comcast’s one-third stake in Hulu before the end of the year. Following the deal, Disney would become the sole owner of the streaming platform.Disney has already begun ideating ways to carry over some of Hulu’s content onto its own platform. Disney already operates its own streamer, Disney Plus, and will be offering select Hulu content in the Disney Plus library.During its latest earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors that the company would be rolling out a new app that merges Disney Plus and Hulu’s content. While the standalone apps would still exist, the new app would act as a one-stop-shop for both content libraries. Parents would be able to create profiles for their children and implement settings for age-appropriate c...

Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have returned with their follow-up to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Entitled Masters of the Air – an adaptation of Donald L. Miller’s 2007 nonfiction book Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the War Against Nazi Germany – the production powerhouse has enlisted Austin Butler and Barry Keoghan to star as Major Gale Cleven and Lt. Curtis Biddick, respectively, in the action-packed nine-episode drama series.Per the official logline, Masters of the Air "follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”)", honing in on their "perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany, [grappling] with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air, and "portraying the psychologica...

After 188 days, Hollywood has reached a tentative deal to end the SAG-AFTRA strike as of November 9, 12:01 a.m. EST.One of the latest union negotiations have involved the use of AI. The union pushed back on studios that wanted to continue to use re-use AI-created likeness for popular or deceased performers without consent. A union source told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week, "They can't have that loophole to exploit performers. We could not allow the language to stand." The publication also reported that The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) made a proposition that would "secure AI scans" for Schedule F performers aka union members earning more than $32,000 USD per TV episode or $60,000 USD per film. The deal suggested by the studios would require the ac...

After 188 days, Hollywood has reached a tentative deal to end the SAG-AFTRA strike as of November 9, 12:01 a.m. EST.One of the latest union negotiations have involved the use of AI. The union pushed back on studios that wanted to continue to use re-use AI-created likeness for popular or deceased performers without consent. A union source told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week, "They can't have that loophole to exploit performers. We could not allow the language to stand." The publication also reported that The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) made a proposition that would "secure AI scans" for Schedule F performers aka union members earning more than $32,000 USD per TV episode or $60,000 USD per film. The deal suggested by the studios would require the ac...

During a recent interview, Nicolas Cage finally shared his thoughts on the memes generated from his various movie roles. The famed actor shared that he did feel "frustrated" by the memes and went through "an adjustment" to see his characters being used for humor.Promoting A24's upcoming comedy film Dream Scenario, Cage noted that he struggled with discovering he was becoming a source for memes on the Internet. "I might have been the first actor who went through a kind of meme-ification," said Cage. "One person had cherrypicked from all these different movies where I was having meltdowns, but without any regard for how the character got to that place. I was frustrated because I didn't know what people were taking from the movies other than that."Adding, "I didn't understand how to process w...