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Paramount Pictures has offered a first look at Babylon, one of its biggest movies this year from La La Land and Whiplash director Damien Chazelle. Babylon is described as an original epic set in the 1920s leading up to Hollywood’s Golden Age. During that euphoric period, Los Angeles was building up to become a bustling metropolis and the industry was transitioning away from silent films. “The basic idea was just to do a big, epic, multicharacter movie, set in these early days of Los Angeles and Hollywood, when both of these things were coming into what we now think of them as,” Chazelle tells Vanity Fair. The stills showcase a star-studded lineup led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Diego Calva. Also making appearances are Tobey Maguire, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde, Li Jun Li, Jovan Adepo, an...

After receiving a new key visual, we now have an official release date for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. Building on the rough October release info, the latest news offers a firm date for the continuation of the anime adaptation of Tite Kubo‘s iconic Bleach manga, covering the final arc of the story, Volume 55-74. The release date is accompanied by information regarding the theme songs for the series. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War will feature “Scar” by Tatsuya Kitani for its opening track and “Saihate” by SennaRin for its ending track. The Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War anime will be released on TV Tokyo October 10. A special advanced screening of the first two episodes of the upcoming series will also happen in Tokyo September 11. UPDATE– Theme Songs:* Opening: “Scar” perform...

The first teaser has officially arrived for Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The trailer shows off the all-star cast, giving audiences a glimpse of Daniel Craig‘s return as the crime-solving Detective Benoit Blanc. Acting alongside Craig is Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton, Jessica Henwick, Janelle Monae, Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson, Leslie Odom Jr. and more. Like the first Knives Out film which came out in 2019, Rian Johnson takes the lead to bring back Detective Blanc as he attempts to solve a murder-mystery-themed cruise hosted by Norton’s character. As time goes on, things are not what they seem as at least one person intends on making the murder-mystery more than a game. While the first film premiered in theaters, streaming giant Netflix, pur...

Warner Bros. and Dwayne Johnson have shared the official second trailer to the upcoming Black Adam. So far, the trailers leading up to newest release have given fans a glimpse of the action as well as Black Adam’s bountiful powers and his guilt over his son’s tragic sacrifice. Audiences now see a little more of the confrontations Black Adam has with Pierce Brosnan’s Doctor Fate, as well as a more intense stand-off between himself and Hawkman. The second trailer has confirmed the return of Amanda Waller, Viola Davis’ character from The Suicide Squad. The new scenes in the trailer shows Waller in direct communication with the team hoping to bring Black Adam to justice. DC teases audiences the Justice Society of America, as well as giving fans a real look at Quintessa Swindle’s Cyclone and No...

When Daniel Craig announced that his 15-year run as the titular 007 agent James Bond was coming to an end, it ignited one of the biggest questions within the entertainment industry. Many fans have wondered who would fill his shoes as the next British agent, with many hoping Idris Elba would take on the role. However, in a new interview on Uninterrupted’s The Shop, Elba spoke about his ultimate choice to remove himself from the running for the role of Bond. In the latest episode of the series, he spoke about how playing the role of Bond was “not a goal for my career.” He added, “I don’t think that, you know, playing Bond will satisfy some of my personal goals. It will definitely satisfy the will of a nation.” He expanded on his thoughts and continued to explain why he was not pressed to fig...

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae is slated to star in Disney+‘s forthcoming Star Wars series, titled The Acolyte, according to Variety. Lee will star across Amandla Stenberg, who has landed the female lead in the Lucasfilm-led project, with Jodie Turner-Smith also appearing on the cast list. Leslye Headland, co-creator of Russian Doll, is the showrunner on the series. Details on the show are largely under wraps at this time, though it is known that 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-ac...

The cast of the original The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy have come to the defense of Prime Video’s The Rings of Power, after the series received backlash regarding the actors of color in the cast. Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan and Sean Astin, who portrayed the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Pippin Took, Merry Brandybuck and Samwise Gamgee, took to social media to support the cast. Wood, Boyd and Monaghan were spotted together sporting a T-shirt with the phrase “You all are welcome here” written in Elvish and an illustration of different types of ears spotted in Middle-Earth in several skin tones. Meanwhile, Astin uploaded a separate solo photo of him wearing a cap with the same design, with all four cast members sharing a link to the merchandise and tagging The Rings of Power’s acc...

Netflix has released the trailer of its upcoming film Luckiest Girl Alive starring Mila Kunis. The drama thriller is based on Jessica Knoll’s book of the same name and stars Kunis as Ani FaNelli, a young woman whose perfect life is shattered when she is asked to revisit a dark time during her teenage life in school: “Luckiest Girl Alive centers on Ani FaNelli, a sharp-tongued New Yorker who appears to have it all: a sought-after position at a glossy magazine, a killer wardrobe, and a dream Nantucket wedding on the horizon. But when the director of a crime documentary invites her to tell her side of the shocking incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Brentley School, Ani is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.”...

Following a Starbucks cup being shown in Season 8, Episode 4 of Game of Thrones, audiences that watched the recent episode of House of the Dragon have now spotted a major CGI mistake. In Season 1, Episode 3, “Second of His Name,” a scene showing King Viserys handing a letter to a soldier features an element that was not handled by the VFX team during post-production. It appears that a visual effect editor forgot to edit out the green glove used to cover actor Paddy Considine’s fourth and fifth fingers. The fingers were supposed to be removed to build on Visery’s injuries from sitting on the Iron Throne. It is now being reported that HBO is planning to update the episode to remove the error on its streaming platforms. Take a look at the House of the Dragon CGI mistake spotted by audiences b...

Unsolved Mysteries Volume 3 has received an official release month on Netflix. According to the streamer, the upcoming season will feature a “three-week event” in which a new episode will be dropping every week. It remains unclear, however, if this volume will only include a total of three episodes as the last two volumes consisted of six episodes each. The topics were not divulged but Netflix did hint at “even darker and deeper mysteries” and “even more mysterious disappearances and baffling — possibly supernatural — phenomena.” Volume 2 premiered in October 2020 and saw the series dissect mysteries from around the world, including cases in Japan and Oslo. Unsolved Mysteries Volume 3 premieres October 25 on Netflix with an episode premiering each week into November. Elsewhere in entertain...

Netflix has officially released a new teaser trailer for its new animated dark, fantasy horror film Wendell & Wind. The gloomy and grim stop-motion horror film is led by the iconic visionary and director Henry Selick who was responsible for The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline and blockbuster director Jordan Peele who recently released Nope. The story follows a teenage goth girl named Kat Ellio voiced by Lyric Ross, who learns to face her demons, literally. Each of Kat’s demons have a name, Wendell voiced by Keegan-Michael Key and Wild, by Jordan Peele. In the teaser, the young girl is led by a nun to face her fears, running into the her nightmares. Under Selick’s art direction, the film is a creative revisitation of childhood terrors. The film is based on an unpublished book ti...

In a recent appearance on The Town, Justin Kroll from Deadline hinted that Yelena Belova is expected to lead the MCU antihero team in the upcoming Thunderbolts movie. “[Florence Pugh] has got the Marvel superhero that’s already got a spin-off,” said Kroll. “Upcoming for her, actually, on that character is this Thunderbolts film, which is basically Marvel’s Suicide Squad. Hopefully, it has better results. But the concept is it’d be her leading the team of like Wyatt Russell‘s John Walker, Daniel Bruhl‘s Zemo, those anti-heroes that aren’t exactly good but aren’t exactly bad. So there’s that. And people seem to like the Yelena character.” Pugh first appeared as Yelena Belova in Black Widow (2021), taking place prior to Avengers: Endgame and is the adopted younger sister of Scarlett...