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Jeremy Renner speaks with Diane Sawyer in his first post, a near-fatal snowplow accident interview, detailing his brutal injuries and exactly what happened.Sitting down with Sawyer, audiences can see the Marvel star starts out the interview by welcoming Sawyer into his home and telling her that he "just got upright yesterday." At the time of the interview, it had only been 10 weeks since he was run over by his 14,000 lbs snow plow. Renner recalls the incident and how he tried to get back in the driver's seat of the rolling vehicle, as it moved towards hitting his nephew. The accident occurred at his Nevada property, leaving him with 30 broken bones, including eight ribs, his right shoulder and knee, as well as a pierced liver and a collapsed lung. At first, Renner was skeptical as to how h...

During the Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm announced a bevy of exciting updates in the ever-expanding franchise's world. Among them, the production imprint revealed a first look at The Acolyte to in-person attendees (unfortunately, it is not yet online) along with a release date window of sometime in 2024.First announced in 2020 at Disney's Investor Day, the series will take place in the final days of the High Republic, when the Sith were believed to have been exterminated and the Jedi were operating at their strongest. Notably, the series is set a century prior to the happenings of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, marking the farthest back in time that any live-action Star Wars project has taken place.Lee Jung-jae will star across Amandla Stenberg, who takes the femal...

Junji Ito's Bloodsucking Darkness (also known as Blood Slurping Darkness/The Dark Drinks Blood) manga is receiving a live-action adaptation from Fangoria Studios.According to reports, the project is billed as a feature film and will be written and executive produced by The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass and oculus writer Jeff Howard. Bloodsucking Darkness marks the first of three titles the studio will be adapting from Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, and follows the story of a girl named Nami who develops an eating disorder after the demise of a relationship and begins to dream of blood raining on her. A boy by the name of Kazuya Tani attempts to befriend her and encourages her to regain her weight, but she brushes him off the first time. Upon their second encounter, Kazuya is ...

Once Star Wars and Disney+ started to notice the overwhelming love it was receiving for The Mandalorian, it decided to amplify the famed franchise's catalog with other sub-series. In 2022, Disney+ and Lucasfilm announced that it would be creating a whole new TV series for Ahsoka who is played by Rosario Dawson, and its first official trailer has finally arrived.The show will follow along the journey of Ahsoka Tano as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy. The trailer shows scenes from her getting attacked in a mystic Jedi site, Sabine Wren and her lothcat meditating and Hera Syndulla in a shootout battle. Ahsoka is seen having a conversation with a fleet of officials that includes Mon Mothma played by Genevieve O'Reilly and to warn them of the dangers that are ahead "I...

Lucasfilm has announced that it has three new live-action Star Wars films currently in the works. The president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 during its annual studio showcase.The three movies will be directed by James Mangold, Dave Filoni and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Mangold is the director who recently took the reins from Steven Spielberg for the fifth Indiana Jones flick, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, while Dave Filoni most notably directed The Mandalorian. Obaid-Chinoy, who has been awarded Academy and Emmy Awards, is known for directing Ms. Marvel.Mangold’s movie will date back to the dawn of the Jedi. Filoni’s, meanwhile center on the New Republic and serve to wrap up the interconnected stories of The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Ahso...

Harrison Ford is reprising his beloved role as Indiana Jones in the new trailer for the franchise’s fifth installment, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. While the flick is slated to premiere this June, fans have only received one trailer up until now, which didn’t offer much in terms of a preview.This latest trailer paints a larger picture of the ongoing adventure of the globetrotting Jones. Set in 1969, Professor Jones (Harrison Ford) is ready to announce his retirement from his archaeology studies position when his goddaughter Helena Shaw (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) brings up the dial of destiny.Shaw decides to go after the dial herself but finds herself pitted against Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a former Nazi and member of NASA. Naturally, Jones is along for the ride.Joining the lea...

The worldwide rights to the Swedish series The Pirate Bay has been acquired by Dynamic Television.According to reports, the forthcoming show will follow Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Swartholm as they went on to create the BitTorrent site in 2003 that became a hotbed for the illegal distribution of copyrighted material such as movies, shows, books, computer softwares and more. “It’s a classic rise and fall story, a tragedy about flying too close to the sun, but also a timeless story of a generational conflict,”head writer writer Piotr Marciniak said. Production is set to begin this fall with B-Reel Films Swedish pubcaster SVT producing, Jens Sjögren directing and Patrik Gyllström serving as episodic writer.“We are thrown between the driving perspectives – quick cuts between the ba...