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For months now, Netflix has teased the enforcement of password sharing fees in the United States. Now, the time has officially come and the streamer is cracking down on users. Those who are sharing Netflix passwords with someone who does not live in the same household should get ready to pay $7.99 USD/month extra just to add another user to the account. On Tuesday, Netflix announced that it is launching its official crackdown on illicit password sharing. In an email to its U.S. customers, Netflix wrote, "Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with your household." Those who are sharing with someone outside their household can either transfer the profile to a new membership altogether r pay the additional cost. Netflix claims that paid sharing is not available in all countr...

The newest Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny TV Spot, entitled "Steal," has shared a closer look at the film's titular artifact.The one-minute visual begins with Harrison Ford's Indy and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Helena Shaw (Indy's goddaughter) exploring and having a face-off with Mads Mikkelsen's Jürgen Voller for the Dial of Destiny. It then teases the adventures Indy and Helena will go on in search of the artifact, promising the classic Indiana Jones scenes that audiences love.Dial of Destiny is set in 1969 during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, with Indy unhappy about the fact that his government was working with former Nazis to get to space first. He also has to face Voller, the former Nazi and now NASA member, who has plans to “fix up” the world. Anto...

As HBO Max officially rebrands to Max — Warner Bros. Discovery's "enhanced" streaming service — on May 23, the platform has unveiled a series of 4K programming that will be available to its new Ultimate Ad-Free tier.The Ultimate Ad-Free tier will allow subscribers to utilize up to four concurrent streams, 100 offline downloads and almost eight times the amount of 4K UHD content in comparison to HBO Max, including the likes of Game of Thrones, The Last of Us, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Dark Knight trilogy and the Matrix films.Check out the 4K UHD programming below.Coming To Max's Ultimate Ad-Free on May 232001: A Space Odyssey2nd Annual Ha Festival: The Art Of Comedy8-Bit ChristmasA Christmas MysteryA Christmas Story ChristmasA Clockwork OrangeA Hollywood ChristmasAhir...

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Fast X.With Fast X recently premiering over the weekend, Vin Diesel is already looking forward to new projects within the franchise. The titular actor recently confirmed to Variety that spinoffs within the Fast & Furious are already in the works and that fans can expect one with a female-led installment. Diesel said, "I started developing the female spinoff...in 2017 with other spinoffs, and the sooner I deliver the finale, the sooner I can launch all the spinoffs." Fast X is just part one of two projects for the finale. Those who watched the film already know that the film has brought back some surprise characters. In an interview earlier this May in Rome, Diesel even teased that the finale will potentially spread across three films, "Loo...

Natalie Portman is game to return to the Star Wars universe as Padmé Amidala — a role she first played 24 years ago, in Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace. All she needs is a call from Lucasfilm.In response to a question from a Reddit user in GQ's "Actually Me" series, which inquired about Portman's return as the character in a forthcoming film or television project, she said, "No one's ever asked me to return, but I'm open to it."While her character's original storyline came to a conclusion in Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith, Padmé's potential return is not all that unlikely. Hayden Christensen's Anakin Skywalker and Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi both reappeared in Disney+'s series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, 17 years following their respective conclusions in Revenge of the Sith. Fu...

Benedict Cumberbatch has signed on to the cast of the highly-anticipated Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. The film’s director James Mangold revealed the news of Cumberbatch’s casting to Deadline in a recent interview.Mangold is helming the film for Disney’s Searchlight Pictures starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic singer-songwriter. Elle Fanning is also in the main cast.“Searchlight has really been providing a home for me,” Mangold said of the film.Cumberbatch will portray Pete Seeger, an early supporter of Dylan who encouraged Columbia Records A&R to bring the singer’s first album to life. He was behind Dylan’s performance at the Newport Folk Festival, where he served as a member of the board.Seeger was also an accomplished folk artist in his own right and a leading creator o...

During MAPPA Stage 2023 over the weekend, a new key visual for the second half of Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 3 (Shingeki no Kyojin The Final Season Kanketsu-hen) was revealed, confirming the return of the final chapter this Fall.The anime adaptation for Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan has run for a decade now, beginning in 2013. The first half of The Final Chapters was released on March 4 as a one-hour special, and is available now on various streaming platform.The visual shows Eren and Mikasa's tranquil cabin shrouded by two towering shadows of Colossal Titans holding hands. Text on the poster translates to "Take Care Eren."Below is a description of the series from Crunchyroll:Known in Japan as Shingeki no Kyojin, many years ago, the last remnants of humanity were forced to r...

In a new interview with Total Film, famed filmmaker Christopher Nolan promises an epic runtime for this highly anticipated flick, Oppenheimer. No stranger to hard hitting films, the filmmaker has confirmed that this upcoming one is the longest one he has made just yet.The biopic is slated to clock in much longer than that of Interstellar and while Nolan did not give an exact time, it is expecting to be more than two hours and 49 minutes. Nolan told the magazine, "It's slightly longer than the longest we've done. It's kissing three hours." His latest historical drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer, also known as the American theoretical physicist who was credited to being the "father of the atomic bomb," stars Cillian Murphy as the titular character. When asked about the lead character, Nolan ...

Dolphin Medien and Red Shadow Studios are teaming up to deliver two horror films based on Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan.The news revealed at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, will the German distributor and UK horror production house unveiling the titles Winnie the Pooh: Death House and Peter Pan Goes to Hell. Death House is helmed by S.J. Evans and written by Stephen Kelly, with Variety noting that the plot will be focusing on a school reunion in a remote mansion that was actually planned by cult members "who were mercilessly tormented by the guests as children." Evans said, “The script is supremely clever with scope for iconic visuals, and we have assembled a terrific young cast loaded with star potential. I’m very excited to share this dark and disturbing horror with the world.”Meanwhile, ...

The latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise Fast X is projected to hit upwards of $67.25 million USD for its domestic box office over the weekend. The action-packed street racing film garnered $28 million USD on Friday across 4,046 theaters and is expected to hit $22.43 million on Saturday and $16.82 million USD on Sunday. The film is on track to knocking off Marvel and Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 starring Chris Pratt, from the top spot. The film is in its third weekend of release and is set to bring in $267 million USD across North America. With Fast X, the movie is also set to hit $319 million USD at the global box office, putting the tenth film of the saga at No. 7 in terms of the franchise's highest box office debuts. Expected to earn more than $60 million US...

As the premiere date for Disney+'s highly anticipated Samuel L. Jackson series nears, Marvel has released a new trailer, this time teasing the official fight that sets things into motion.It is evident that the series is set to be featured with an abundance of action-packed sequences. The upcoming spy thriller takes the MCU in a different direction than before. The trailer gives fans a glimpse of the ongoing Skrull refugee crisis and the subsequent escalating war on Earth. Jackson makes his return as Nick Fury, as he returns from space to take on the increasing threat of the rogue Skrulls. The Skrulls continue to take things personal when Fury appears to show lack of progress for re-homing their displaced population. This series heavily focuses on Fury and his mission. Fans are able to have...