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Paramount Pictures has unveiled the final trailer for the upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. The film is the first film that is planned for the live-action Transformers franchise.The film is set to be a summer blockbuster and arrives a year from its original June 24, 2022 release date. The studio describes the film as seeing the world return to the action and spectacle brought on by auto transforming robots. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts takes audiences on a '90s globetrotting adventure and introduce Maximals, Predacons and Terrorcons to the existing battle on earth between Autobots and Decepticons. The plot follows an unsuspecting human and how they ended up becoming one of the most important participants in the longstanding Cybertronian war. Noah Diaz, played by Anthony Ramos...

Tom Holland has officially announced that he is taking a year off of acting following the release of his new Apple TV+ series, The Crowded Room.The Crowded Room is a psychological thriller that stars Holland as Danny Sullivan. The story is inspired by a 1981 non-fiction novel titled The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keys. The series focuses a lot on mental health and sees Danny Sullivan go through the motions following the events of his arrests for his involvement in a New York City shooting in 1979. His past is uncovered throughout the series by interrogator Rya Goodwin played by Amanda Seyfried. In a new interview with ExtraTV, Holland discusses the impact the role has had on him, making him reach a breaking point. Holland said, "I loved the learning curve of becoming a producer. I'm...

The highly-anticipated official trailer for The Expendables 4 has been released and fans can expected immediately off the bat an abundance of action. The fourth installment hopes to bring the continued success of the franchise to the world. In the past, the franchise grossed over $804 million USD globally. This upcoming film will reintroduce audiences to the titular characters -- Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross, Jason Statham as Lee Christmas, Dolph Lundgren as Gunner Jensen and Randy Couture as Toll Road. The group of elite mercenaries have once again teamed up for the fourth film, banding together to try to prevent a World War III from happening. Heavily armed and with experienced skills, the four are the last line of defense to protect the world. The fourth film will see new members j...

When it comes to the Star Wars franchise, you can trust that there's always something new around the corner. In 2020, a key part of the beloved universe's roadmap for content notably included an Ahsoka series that fans have been anxiously awaiting ever since. Now, following its teaser trailer that appeared in April, a new cut has been shared -- featuring information regarding the show's premiere.Centering around Ahsoka Tano -- played by Rosario Dawson -- the show takes place after the fall of the Empire and leans heavily on the ending of the animated series Star Wars Rebels. Again, we see Ahsoka joined by Sabine Wren with Ezra Bridger's lightsaber, Grand Admiral Tharwn, Hera Syndulla, Chopper (C1-10P), Mon Mothma and more in this anticipation-building preview.At the end of the trailer cut,...

MGM and Orion Pictures have released the official trailer for Emma Seligman's SXSW hit, Bottoms.The teen comedy stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri as PJ and Josie, two queer high school senior who form a Fight Club-like school organization in order to get with cheerleaders Isabel and Brittany, portrayed by Havana Rose Liu and supermodel Kaia Gerber. Led by adviser Mr. G, played NFL star Marshawn Lynch, they attempt to steal the cheerleaders away from their jock boyfriends who also threaten to end their club.Seligman directed and co-wrote the script alongside Rachel Sennott, while Max Handelman, Alison Small and Elizabeth Banks — director of Cocaine Bear — serve as producers. Charli XCX and Leo Birenberg deliver music.Bottoms made its world premiere as the headliner of the 2023 SXSW film ...

Netflix has officially unveiled the first look images of Zack Snyder's upcoming space epic. Headed to a completely new world, his new film Rebel Moon takes audiences on a journey to a far corner of the galaxy where a peaceful moon colony Veldt is forced to surrender their harvest to the militant Mother World.A mysterious young woman embarks on a interstellar mission in attempt to protect her world, bringing together warriors from around the world to help fight the evil. The sci-fi epic is inspired by the classic 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai and is slated to be a two-part adventure that stars a major cast of galactic adventurers. In a conversation with Vanity Fair Snyder shares, "I'm a glutton for punishment. I don't know why I always make an ensemble movie. I can't wait to not do...

Following a brief pause in June last year, the beloved One Piece manga is going on hiatus once again. Earlier this week, on the website for the popular series an announcement was shared revealing that the manga will go on hiatus for four weeks (June 19 to July 10).The hiatus is due to creator Eiichiro Oda's having to go in for surgery to deal with his astigmatism, Oda noted that his astigmatism has caused his vision to be blurry and has been affecting his work. Following Chapter 1087 in the 2023 29th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, the One Piece manga will be returning in the 33rd issue come July 18.Stay tuned regarding the One Piece manga's progression toward the final story arc.In case you missed it, Spider-Man producers reveal a live-action Miles Morales movie and an animated Spid...

Titular Thor star Chris Hemsworth recently sat down with GQ UK to discuss his career and more specifically, his long-time involvement with Marvel. When asked about the criticism the fourth Thor film received, Hemsworth admitted to the publication that Love and Thunder was slightly too comedic, "I think we just had too much fun. It just became too silly. It's always hard being in the center of it and having any real perspective...I love the process, it's always a ride. But you just don't know how people are going to respond." In total, Hemsworth has starred in eight Marvel films and while he is not contracted to any other projects in the MCU, he says he will return if there is an opportunity. In the meantime, he hopes to do "some other stuff for a while." He added, "I love the experience. I...

A third installment in Disney's Hocus Pocus series is officially in the works.The news was confirmed in a New York Times profile of Disney exec Sean Bailey, where it was also revealed that his upcoming projects include live-action versions of Moana, Hercules and Lilo and Stitch, the photorealistic Mufasa: The Lion King prequel and possibly Pirates of the Caribbean (Johnny Depp is "[n]oncommittal at this point."). He did not share any other information, however, such as the cast and its release date.Hocus Pocus 2, which was released almost 30 years after the original, proved to be a huge success as it earned 2.7 billion streaming minutes to be named the most-watched Disney+ movie ever. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy all returned as the Sanderson sister witches, but it r...

Gearing up for the theatrical release of Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan sat down for an interview with Empire to discuss what makes this film unique. The filmmaker revealed to the publication that when he first developed the story for the film, his process was nothing like any of his projects he has done in the two decades Nolan has been making films. Nolan revealed that he wrote the script in first person, visualizing himself as J. Robert Oppenheimer himself. Nolan said, "There's the idea of how we get in somebody's head and see how they were visualizing this radical reinvention of physics." He added, "One of the things that cinema has struggled with historically is the representation of intelligence or genius. It very often fails to engage people."Nolan spoke about sending over ...

Studio Ghibli has announced that it will not be releasing any trailers or advertising materials for Hayao Miyazaki's final movie, How Do You Live?The movie is the first traditionally-animated Studio Ghibli film in almost a decade as well as the first anime directed by Miyazaki since The Wind Rise in 2013. According to lead producer Toshio Suzuki, the film abstains from releasing early previews because the team didn't feel a need to and wanted to do something different while saving the magic of the movie for the actual day of the premiere.“As part of company operations, over the years Ghibli has wanted people to come to see the movies we’ve made. So we’ve thought about that and done a lot of different things for that, but this time we thought, ‘Eh, we don’t need to do that,'” said Suzuki as...