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Quentin Tarantino has responded to Kanye West‘s recent claims regarding Django Unchained, wherein the YEEZY head alleged that the filmmaker had stolen the film’s original idea from him. Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, Tarantino refuted the claims and said that “there’s no truth to the idea,” adding that he already had plans for Django Unchained before he even met Ye. “Okay, well, there’s nottruth to the idea that Kanye West came up with the idea of Django, and then he told it to me and I go, ‘Hey, wow, that’s a really great idea. Let me take Kanye’s idea and make Django Unchained out of it.’ That didn’t happen,” he confirmed. The filmmaker did reveal, however, the West once had the idea for a “giant movie version” of College Dropout and briefly shared the idea of “Gold Digger” music video the ar...

In recent news, James Gunn, director, and screenwriter of Guardians of the Galaxy and Suicide Squad, along with his producer Peter Safran were named as co-chairmen for DC studios. According to Collider, Gunn and Safran have plans to create a more coherent universe for DC, which will apply to future productions. As indicated, movies that have already begun production will most likely be excluded from the new DC Extended Universe (DCEU). This mainly affects the highly anticipated Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux — as it was slated months ago to release in October 2024. The movie will most likely remain separate from Gunn’s DCEU in the future. Speculations have also been made concerning the possible exclusion of other spin-offs that also set ...

By now, the buzz from the release of Black Adam has received global recognition as Henry Cavill made an appearance and reprised his role of the titular superhero character, Superman. In a recent tweet, Dwayne Johnson, who played the protagonist in the most recent DC Comics film, revealed that he had in fact “fought for years” to bring back Henry Cavill as superman for the big screens. Johnson took to social media to celebrate Cavill’s return and shared that he never took “no” for an answer, “They always said no. But for [producers] Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia & myself ‘no’ was never an option. We can’t intelligently & strategically build out our DC Universe without the greatest superhero of all time. Because for us, the fans will always come first.” In another Tweet, Johnson responde...

Netflix has revealed the first teaser trailer for The Pale Blue Eye, an American horror mystery film set in the United States Military Academy, West Point in 1830. Starring in the film is Christian Bale as former detective August Landor who was enlisted to investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. To help him with the case, Landor partners with a young Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling), who grows up to become one of America’s most renowned short-story writers and poets. The film is based on Louis Bayard’s novel published in 2007 and is directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) with Bale also serving as producer. The Pale Blue Eye marks a reunion for Cooper and Bale who have already worked together on two movies. Also starring in the film are Lucy Boynton, Gillian Anderson, and Robert Duv...

Another teaser has dropped for Netflix and Junji Ito‘s highly anticipated horror anime series, Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre. Posted on the project’s official website, the latest teaser reveals the anime’s opening animation and theme song, “Paranoid” performed by MADKID which includes credits to key staff, followed by 15 seconds of additional footage from the series itself. The anime will be produced by Studio DEEN, which is known for its popular adaptations of the horror series, When They Cry as well as the first Fate/stay night anime. Key staff from the previous Junji Ito “Collection” TV anime will also return to work on this new adaptation —Shinobu Tagashira will reprise his role as director and character designer, while Kaoru Sawada will retur...

Amazon Prime has released the new official trailer for season three of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. The trailer reveals snippets of John Krasinski‘s return as the eponymous CIA agent, this time going rogue. The series returns for its third season after a three-year hiatus and is set to drop all-eight episodes on the December release. This new season begins with Jack finding himself on the run from the CIA. On the quest to prevent a devastating global conflict, Jack is acutely aware that he faces life or death situations. Wendell Pierce and Michael Kelly return and reprise their roles of James Greer and Mike November, while the show also features newcomers like Nina Hoss as Czech President Alena Kovac and Betty Gabriel as CIA Rome Station Chief Elizabeth Wright. Earlier this year, Hypebeast repo...

Studio Ghibli has officially given an update to its final film with critically acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki. The Film Stage reports that the upcoming film, which is titled How Do You Live?, is almost complete and ahead of schedule. Studio Ghibli president Koji Hoshino said that the film has “progressed very smoothly,” however fans should not expect a release date for the film anytime soon. Producer Toshio Suzuki adds, “We are still hand-drawing everything, but it takes us more time to complete a film because we’re drawing more frames.” The upcoming How Do You Live? film is said to feature a much larger animation team than Studio Ghibli has ever worked with before. Suzuki said, “Back when we were making [1988’s] My Neighbor Totoro, we only had eight animators. Totoro we made in e...

Ye’s Donda Academy has abruptly shut its door for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year, according to an email sent to parents from the Southern California school’s principal Jason Angell via The Times. On Wednesday evening, Angell alerted the Academy’s families of its closure with the following message: “At the discretion of our founder, Donda Academy will close for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year effective immediately.” “Our leadership team will be working diligently to assist all families during this transition, ensuring that every scholar has what they need to succeed in their next community in a prompt and gracious manner,” Angell added. Donda Academy is a largely mysterious and controversial entity. Opened in 2021, the unaccredited Christian school requires ...

DC Comics and HBO Max‘s much-anticipated drama Green Lantern TV series is changing its focus after being in the works since late 2019. The Hollywood Reporter has reported that the show will now be focusing on John Stewart, one of DC’s first Black superheroes, now that showrunner Seth Grahame-Smith has departed from the show. Grahame-Smith has already completed the scripts for a full season of eight episodes, which have all been focused on Guy Gardner and Alan Scott. The news comes after producer Greg Berlanti already announced the casting of Finn Wittrock and Jeremy Irvine for the respective Green Lanterns. Those close to the project have revealed that Grahame-Smith originally joined the series a year after it was announced. However, it was his choice to leave after DC Comics and HBO Max c...

Following the success of Cyberpunk Edgerunners, CD Projekt Red recently announced several new projects including a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 codenamed “Orion,” an entirely new universe named “Hadar,” and several new Witcher games including a remake of its first The Witcher (2007) game which will be developed in Unreal Engine 5, the world’s most advanced and capable real-time 3D creation tool yet. Codenamed “Canis Majoris,” the remake was said to have entered pre-production in spring, marking the first remake of the series. CDPR will work with Polish game studio Fool’s Theory to develop the game including developers who have worked on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Thanks to the success of Netflix‘s The Witcher series, and follow-up games, the franchise has g...