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The Jujutsu Kaisen anime has just announced that Season two will run without any breaks for half a year. Banking their episodes, this means that fans will be able to enjoy six months of story development from the anime that covers both the “Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu” and the “Shibuya Incident” arcs. While this is good news for those that have been waiting for the announcement, it is still hard to forget that viewers will have waited over two years for Season 2 since the anime debuted in October of 2020 with 24 episodes. There’s no specific release date for Season 2 just yet but it has been confirmed for 2023. In other anime news, Rurouni Kenshin anime reboot receives new trailer and release date. Read Full Article

Netflix is chronicling the creation of Spotify in a forthcoming limited series entitled The Playlist. Premiering on October 13, the six-episode run will offer a loose telling of Spotify’s launch in Sweden and how it came to be the top music streaming service in the world. “In this fictionalized account, a Swedish tech entrepreneur and his partners set out to revolutionize the music industry with a legal streaming platform,” Netflix describes the series. Vikings actor Edvin Endre will portray Spotify’s co-founder and CEO, Daniel Ek, while Christian Hillborg will play Ek’s friend and co-founder of Spotify, Martin Lorentzon. Additional cast members include Gizem Erdogan portraying ​​lawyer and longtime Spotify employee Petra Hansson, and Joel Lützow as Spotify’s CTO, Andreas Ehn. A trailer fo...

Hugh Jackman is officially reprising his role as Wolverine in the upcoming Deadpool 3, which also received its official release date. Franchise star Ryan Reynolds made the announcement in a comical video shared on social media, wherein he channeled his inner Deadpool to make a long, profound and eventually, pointless, statement. He first apologized to fans for missing the D23 Expo earlier this month and explained that they’ve “been working very hard on the next Deadpool film for a good long while now,” adding, “I’ve had to really search my soul on this one. His first appearance in the MCU obviously needs to feel special. We need to stay true to the character, find new depth, motivation, meaning — every Deadpool needs to stand out and stand apart. It’s been an incredible challenge that has ...

Following a record-breaking first season, the South Korean survival drama series, Squid Game, has been renewed for Season 2. While fans wait for the show to return, director Hwang Dong-hyuk prepared a “small gift” in the form of an unreleased Season 1 clip for Netflix‘s annual Tudum global fan event. The 40-second short focuses on Front Man, the main antagonist behind the survival game who was previously revealed as the brother of police detective Hwang Jun-ho and the winner of the 28th Squid Game in 2015. The exclusive clip shows the Front Man, played by Lee Byung-heon, walking back to his apartment with a bag of live goldfish. He empties the fish into a bowl and stares into it from above — symbolic of the way he oversees the cash-strapped players in Squid Game. The clip ends with a shot ...

John Cena has been a vocal proponent of the Make-A-Wish foundation since joining the WWE in 2002, and now, two decades later Cena’s commitment to the organization has been honored as an official Guinness World Record. The Peacemaker star has taken part in 650 Make-A-Wish engagements, an average of nearly 33 a year, since first partnering with the organization. Cena’s Guinness World Record is mostly an acknowledgment of a long-forgone conclusion: he’s more than 400 “wishes” ahead of the next closest Make-A-Wish partner as no other individuals have more than 200. Cena issued Make-A-Wish’s 1,000th total wish back in 2012 and made it to 500 personal wishes fulfilled in 2015. “If [Make-A-Wish] ever [needs] me … I don’t care what I’m doing, I’ll drop what I’m doing and be involved because I thin...

AMC Networks has teamed up with Goldin for a special auction featuring collectibles and memorabilia from The Walking Dead. The auction kicks off as the series airs it last few episodes and will include over 100 items beloved and seen by fans during the show’s 11-season run, including but not limited to Daryl Dixon’s (Norman Reedus) production-used custom Classified Moto motorcycle built from a Honda CB750 Nighthawk, Negan’s (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) production-used baseball bat “Lucille,” named after his late wife and wrapped with barbed wire, Michonne’s (Danai Gurira) production-used 28-inch katana featuring the “triple goddess” symbol on the hilt and Rick Grimes’ (Andrew Lincoln) production-used T-shirt worn by the Deputy Sheriff in the series pilot, which features a bullet hole and blood. “...

More details have been revealed surrounding the new Rurouni Kenshin anime. The forthcoming series received a release date and trailer at Aniplex Online Fest 2022, confirming that the new series will be a reboot of the initial 1996 anime adaptation. The manga that the anime is based upon follows a former assassin who dedicates his life to preserving peace and protecting others. While wandering the countryside, he encounters a young woman in need of help and ultimately invites her into his dojo. The television adaptation is now slated to premiere on Fuji TV’s anime-centric Noitamina programming block in 2023. Liden Films will be responsible for animating the series, while Hideyo Yamamoto will direct. Hideyuki Kurata has written scripts for the anime and Terumi Nishii has designed the show’s ...

Netflix has officially unveiled the first look at the streamer’s blockbuster sequel, Extraction 2. The film marks titular actor Chris Hemsworth‘s return as Tyler Rake, a mercenary who is set to rescue the battered family of a Georgian gangster from prison. The first look was unveiled at Netflix’s 2022 Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event. Hemsworth returns as Tyle Rake, a former SASR operator turned black ops. The first look video provides both anticipated scenes from the upcoming sequel as well as action sequences. The clip gives audiences a chance to see director Sam Hargrave behind the camera who can be heard saying, “With the title of 2 behind your name, you have to bring at least twice the action.” Golshifteh Farahani reprises her role from the first film, with Daniel Bernhardt and Tinat...

Adding to the #ReleaseBatgirl fan campaign, actress Leslie Grace recently shared Batgirl behind-the-scenes footage. The starring actress took to TikTok to share a montage of clips from pre-production and the set of the now-canceled DC film. Originally scheduled to release on HBO Max this year, the project directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life) was scrapped alongside a wide array of Warner Bros. Pictures titles. It is interesting to note, the budget for Batgirl shot up to $90 million USD due to COVID-19 protocols, and the film has already completed filming. Grace captioned the post with “I couldn’t resist,” and can be seen getting her makeup done, rehearsing fight choreography, and doing her own stunts. Clips also show co-star Brendan Fraser, as Firefly, preparing fo...

Netflix is drumming up suspense for season three of Lupin with the release of a teaser. The show is ready to capture the audience’s attention for the third time, drawing fans in with the next adventures of the French heist thriller. The show’s titular character Assane Diop, played by Omar Sy returns as the thief known as the 21st century Arsène Lupin, as depicted as the gentleman cambrioleur in Maurice LeBlanc’s mystery novels. The third season picks off from the season two finale where Assane is seen finally getting revenge on Hubert Pellegrini for framing his father. According to Netflix, the action almost immediately starts off the third season where Assane has gone into hiding and “must learn to live far from his wife and son. With the suffering they endure because of him, Assane can’t...

Ahead of the release of the much-anticipated film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel boss, Kevin Feige spoke to Empire about the decision to not recast the character of T’Challa in the MCU just yet. The Marvel producer reflects on the upcoming sequel and discusses how the franchise has been affected by the loss of Chadwick Boseman. When referring to the decision to not recast the role and wanting to maintain his legacy, Feige knew that fans would push back. Last year, fans petitioned to recast T’Challa for the MCU, despite producers saying that is not currently in the works. Feige said, “It just felt like it was much too soon to recast. Stan Lee always said that Marvel represents the world outside your window. And we had talked about how, as extraordinary and fantastical as our charac...

Netflix has provided viewers with more details about its forthcoming adaptation of Liu ​​Cixin’s science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem at its annual Tudum event. The live-action show was first announced in 2020 with Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss leading the project. The series has finally received a release date for 2023, although exactly when next year still hasn’t been determined. The live-action The Three-Body Problem is billed as telling “the story of humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization.” The main cast for the show includes Benedict Wong, Eiza González, Tsai Chin, John Bradley, Liam Cunningham and more. Alexander Woo will executive produce alongside Benioff and Weiss. Hong Kong-based director Derek Tsang has been confirmed as at least o...