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Following months of build-up, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios have now released an official poster and trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, The More Fun Stuff Version. After working hard to keep the appearance of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield a secret for Spider-Man: No Way Home, the duo have put the Spider-Men and accompanying villains front and center for the poster. The upcoming release is expected to feature features 15 minutes of additional footage, adding to the original 148-minute film that was released last year. The additional footage is expected to show more scenes with all three Spider-Men and another interaction with Charlie Cox’s Daredevil.​ Unfortunately, the new trailer does not reveal any of the new footage, simply cutting together a conversation between Peter Parker a...

The cast of Matt Johnson’s upcoming film about BlackBerry has been revealed. According to reports, This Is The End’s Jay Baruchel and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Glenn Howerton lead the cast and will most likely portray BlackBerry co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. Joining the pair are Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek, Rich Sommer, Martin Donovan, Michael Ironside and director Johnson. BlackBerry is an adaptation of the 2015 bestseller Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry penned by The Globe and Mail reporters Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff. The movie will detail how the world’s first smartphone hit its apex in the 2000s and ended up falling off about two decades later, as well as focus on how the many legal disput...

Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1993 novel Paprika will become a live-action series, Deadline reported. The techno-thriller was originally published in installments in Marie Claire magazine, chronicling a psychotherapist who infiltrates the dreams of her patients to treat mental illnesses. Her colleague invents a device to streamline the process, which is ultimately stolen, allowing the thief to enter anyone’s dream and control their mind. Paprika has already been adapted into both a manga and an animated film in the early 2000s. Cathy Yan will executive produce and direct the live-action series for Amazon Studios and Hivemind. Additional producers on the project include Rewild’s Ash Sarohi, as well as Masi Oka and Hivemind’s Jason F. Brown. Yan was recently nominated for her first Emmy award. Her...

Just earlier this week it was reported that The Batman 2 has not yet been confirmed. However, in a recent interview with Deadline, Matt Reeves revealed that a sequel is on the way. The publication has reported that Reeves has signed a multi-year first-look film deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. Under the new deal, it has been revealed that Reeves has begun writing the second installment of the Robert Pattinson-led Batman film. Pattinson is slated to return as the titular character. Reeves will also be penning the script with Mattson Tomlin, who was an uncredited writer on the first film. Reeves discussed his new deal with Deadline stating, “Making this legendary studio my home is a dream. I am so excited to be working with Mike, Pam, and Channing and our teams to bring captivating stories I...

J.J. Abrams‘ Batman: Caped Crusader is one of the six animated series cancelled by HBO Max. According to reports, the supposed show — which had The Batman director Matt Reeves attached as executive producer — would have followed Bruce Timm’s 1992-1995 Batman: The Animated Series. Variety adds that HBO Max axed Caped Crusader and the other five shows, Merry Little Batman, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Bye Bye Bunny: A Looney Tunes Musical, Did I Do That to The Holidays: A Steve Urkel Story and The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie, as its parent company Warner Bros. Discovery distances itself from kids and family content. The show’s cancellation follows the removal of the children’s series Little Ellen and some seasons of Sesame Street last week, along with the staff la...

Following the release of the first teaser trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water earlier this year, the franchise has now announced that its original 2009 Avatar film will be returning to theaters in “4K High Dynamic Range.” Showing 13 years since the original release, Fox offers fans a much-needed refresher on Avatar a few months before the December release of the highly-anticipated sequel. Written and directed by legendary filmmaker James Cameron, Avatar holds the standing record for the highest-grossing movie of all time with nine Academy Award nominations. The main cast, including Sam Worthington, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldaña, and Stephen Lang is mostly expected to return for the sequel. Take a look at the new trailer above, the poster below, and expect the movie to arrive in the...

Following the release of the first teaser trailer for the spin-off Disney+ series, National Treasure: Edge of History, film producer Jerry Bruckheimer reveals that development for National Treasure 3 is still going forward. In a recent interview with Comicbook, Buckheimer touches upon plans for the highly-anticipated return of Nicolas Cage’s character Ben Franklin Gates. “Let’s hope we’re working on the script right now. Hopefully [Cage] likes it, but it’s really good. So I think we’ll get it to him shortly,” he said. With the debut National Treasure film released back in 2004 and the National Treasure: Book of Secrets sequel released in 2007, the National Treasure: Edge of History series marks the first return of the franchise in 15 years. While a number of cast members will return for th...

Sony is reportedly tapping X-Men: First Class writer Sheldon Turner to adapt Days Gone into a film, with Outlanders‘ Sam Heughan set to star as the lead. According to a new report from Deadline, the video game giant is hoping to follow on the success of Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg‘s Uncharted by adapting another one of its video games into a live-action film, much like its current work with HBO on The Last of Us. Bend Studio developed and released Days Gone back in 2019 and while the PlayStation title sold a decent 9 million units, the game really gained wider popularity among gaming fans when it was ported over to PC back in 2021, earning a “Very Positive” rating over on Steam with more than 26,000 reviews submitted. The game itself is set in the Pacific Northwe...

It’s official: Curb Your Enthusiasm is coming back for its 12th season. After Larry David himself recently stated Curb would be coming back once again, the executives at HBO have made it official with a formal announcement. “Larry outdoes himself season after season and always manages to come back when the audience needs him most,” said HBO’s EVP of programming. We’re thrilled for him, Jeff Schaffer, and our phenomenal cast to continue making us laugh and cringe in equal measure.” Until David’s recent announcement, it wasn’t known if Curb would return for a 12th season. The above-mentioned Jeff Schaffer, who produces the show with David, told the Hollywood Reporter that they’d actually filmed an ending for season 11 where David died, but the comedian, actor and Seinfeld co-creator decided ...

Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday delivered a new trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, offering an all-new look at the hotly-anticipated Lord of the Rings prequel series. The nearly-three-minute preview largely follows Elven warrior Galadriel, played by Morfydd Clark, who can sense an incoming threat to Middle-earth. “My brother gave his life hunting the enemy,” Galadriel says in the trailer’s opening, before flashing visuals showcase her brother fighting to his death in the last great war. Standing before her sibling’s body, she takes his sword and sheds a single tear, stating, “His task is now mine.” “Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence o...

Cineworld, the owner of Regal Cinemas, is considering filing for bankruptcy in the United States. The British conglomerate operates 9,518 screens across 790 sites and is the second-largest movie theater chain, following AMC. In a statement released on Monday, Cineworld said that a “voluntary Chapter 11 filing in the United States” is among the “strategic options” the company is considering as it seeks to grapple with its debt burden. Cineworld attributed its financial struggles to lower admissions at theaters due to a limited lineup of films. The company was also forced to close theaters for several months throughout the pandemic. In the meantime, Cineworld theaters will be open for business as usual and continue to welcome guests and members,” the company said. “Cineworld would expect to ...

Before North America received an English dub of Toei Animation‘s original Japanese animated series, an American live-action adaptation of Sailor Moon was conceived, and ultimately scrapped, in the ’90s. A 17-minute pilot for the show was made but never publicly shown, aside from a viewing at Anime Expo years ago, until now. The full pilot was recently uncovered and featured in a documentary by lost media YouTube documentarian Ray Mona. Holding a cult status among American Sailor Moon fans, Mona received permission to show the pilot from former Bandai America President, Frank Ward, after obtaining the footage from The Library of Congress. Colloquially known online as “Saban Moon,” after its Haim Saban, the producer that brought the Power Rangers to North America, the adaptation of Sailor Mo...