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Rick and Morty celebrated 10 years of alien planets and adventures gone astray at this year's San Diego Comic-Con – and what better way to commemorate the monumental milestone than with two new trailers? Following a 10-year retrospective on the cult-followed animated series, Adult Swim also previewed the forthcoming seventh season of the show and the first official look at Rick and Morty The Anime.The anime spinoff, which was first announced last May, is written and directed by famed manga illustrator Takashi Sano – who previously joined the Schwifty Squad back in 2020 and 2021 to direct the "Rick and Morty vs. Genocider" and "Summer Meets God (Rick Meets Evil)" special episodes respectively.Consisting of 10 episodes, Rick and Morty The Anime will appeal to Rick and Morty fans all over the...

Barbenheimer, the collective name of Greta Gerwig's Barbie and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, surpassed expectations with their box office debuts.According to reports, Barbie set the record for the biggest debut of 2023 so far with $155 million USD, while Oppenheimer overcame its projected start of $50 million USD with a $80.5 million USD debut. At the global box office, Barbie added another $182 million USD for a total of $337 million USD while Oppenheimer's total went up to $174 million USD thanks to its additional $93.7 million USD.In addition to posting the biggest debut of the year, Barbie also broke the record for the biggest opening weekend by a woman-directed film, overtaking the record previously set by Captain Marvel co-director Anna Boden.Variety adds that "Hundreds of thousan...

Adult Swim and Production I.G. have delivered a new preview for their highly-anticipated anime adaptation of Junji Ito's Uzumaki.The preview clocks in at almost three minutes and sees the two lead characters, Kirie and Shuichi, talk about the urban legend of the "spiral curse" that haunts their small town of Kurouzu-cho. While Kirie laughs off Shuichi's story of a man's eyes moving in circles independently, he tells her that she won't understand the true horror of it unless she sees it with her own eyes.Uzumaki has been in the works for four years now after being first announced in 2019 and will have Hiroshi Nagahama will serve as director.Watch the preview above and stay tuned for an official release date.Elsewhere in entertainment, take a look at the first trailer for Adult Swim's Lazaru...

The first teaser trailer of the much-hyped Lazarus anime was officially unveiled at the Adult Swim Festival “Toonami on the Green” event yesterday.Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, the acclaimed director behind Cowboy Bebop, the anime has been highly anticipated by fans who were expecting a production that is as spectacular as the 1998 neo-noir cult classic. In this 81-second-long trailer, stunning animation by Studio MAPPA and slick action sequences by Chad Stahleski come together with a chic, jazz-infused electro soundtrack. Along with breathtaking visuals, the teaser itself is enough to showcase the premise and charm of Lazarus.As of yet, no official launch date has been announced, but it is speculated that the anime will not be released until 2024. Get a taste of the world of Lazarus in...

Netflix has pulled back the curtain on the official trailer for its live-action series, One Piece. Coming August 31, the show is set to adapt the fan-favorite manga of the same moniker, from Eiichiro Oda.The series follows Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), a boy who possesses an elastic body, as he hunts for a hidden treasure known as "One Piece," alongside a squad named the Straw Hat Pirates. Luffy swears that he and his team will uncover the elusive prize, which has the power to name him the Pirate King, in the Grand Line, "a treacherous stretch of ocean with bigger islands and bigger pirates."The freshly-minted trailer features a slew of action scenes, filled with daring adventurous, fantasy-inspired sequences and comic relief. Notably, One Piece, which already exists as an anime series, b...

The original 1987 animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is headed to Nickelodeon, according to Variety.The television network has acquired the rights to the famous Fred Wolf series, just before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is scheduled to hit theaters. The series, which ran from 1987 to 1996, follows Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo through a slew of adventures across 193 episodes.In the deal, Nickelodeon will house the entire series on its digital outposts, including YouTube, Pluto TV and O&O linear channels. The decades-old series will debut later this month in the U.S., before landing on Nickelodeon's international platforms soon after.The news was revealed art San Diego's Comic-Con, during a panel supporting Paramount Pictures' Mutant Mayhem. “We ...

The second season of Prime Video's Invincible has received an official release date and new teaser trailer.Revealing the news during San Diego Comic-Con, it was confirmed that the forthcoming season will feature a total of eight episodes, with the first four premiering on November 3 and last four in early 2024. Season two will pick up where its predecessor left off and will focus on the arrival of the new villain, Angstrom Levy, as well as lead character Mark Grayson's personal conflicts. “Still reeling from Nolan’s (Simmons) betrayal in Season 1, Mark struggles to rebuild his life as he faces a host of new threats, all while battling his greatest fear — that he might become his father without even knowing it," the logline reads.The main cast of Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh and J.K. Simmons will...

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two may not be hitting theaters until 2024.According to reports, the Warner Bros. Film Group is "strongly considering" delaying the highly-anticipated sequel to next year due to the ongoing writers and SAG-AFTRA strike. Conflicting sources tell Variety that Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. — the two co-producers of the film — need to come to a consensus on a new release date, and that although there have been no official discussions yet, the length of the strike remains to be seen.Reps for Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment have not commented.Dune: Part Two is currently scheduled to hit theaters on November 3 and will star Zendaya, Timotheé Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, S...

Amid SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America's Hollywood labor strikes, movie production studios are already shifting their release calendars as the duration of the union battles for new contracts is unpredictable. Among them, Warner Bros. is "strongly considering" postponing the release of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi pic, Dune 2, starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, to 2024, according to Variety.The film, which is currently scheduled to come out on November 3, is a co-production from Warner Bros. and Legendary, so both parties will need to agree on a new premiere date, per the outlet's sources. Warner Bros. has not yet formally approached Legendary regarding the shift, according to one insider.Along with Dune 2, Warner Bros. is reportedly eyeing new release dates for The Color Purple ...

Adult Swim has green-lit a new original series by Shinichiro Watanabe, the renowned director behind the hugely successful Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo anime. Titled Lazarus, the new series in development will be produced by Sola Entertainment for Toonami, and entirely animated by Studio MAPPA.Set in the near future of 2052, the world is now in a utopic era where mankind is finally freed from all forms of sickness and pain — a result of a miracle cure-all drug called Hapuna developed by Dr. Skinner, a Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist. The doctor vanished shortly after the drug was officially introduced, only to return three years later with an ominous threat — everyone who has taken Hapuna will die in around three years, and that “death is coming for this sinful world.” In an attemp...