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Following its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September, A24 and Apple Original Films’ drama Causeway has received its first official trailer. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as a military engineer who returns to the United States from Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to civilian life after suffering a traumatic brain injury. In New Orleans, Lawrence’s character acquaints herself with an unlikely stranger, played by Brian Tyree Henry, and the two “find solace in newfound friendship as they navigate their journey from grief to healing,” according to the streaming service. Causeway, directed by Lila Neugebauer, marks the first film to come from Lawrence’s production imprint Excellent Cadaver. Filmed in New Orleans, the movie’s production first began in 2019, though it was s...

During a Nintendo Direct on Thursday, Illumination delivered the first official teaser trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The visual gives fans a first look at many fan-favorite characters in action, as well as several Koopas, Kamek and Dry Bones. In one scene, Bowser’s (Jack Black) army of Koopa Troopas fight against an ice kingdom’s army of penguins; and in another, Mario (Chris Pratt) slides through a green pipe that leads to the Mushroom Kingdom, where the famed mustachioed plumber bounces between massive red mushrooms. Along with Pratt and Black, the film’s star-studded cast includes Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach, Charlie Day as Luigi, Seth Rogan as Donkey Kong and Keegan-Michael Key as Toad. During the Direct, Illumination founder Chris Meledandri discl...

Ice Cube has shared some updates on his journey to get a new Friday film out, revealing that things aren’t going so well with Warner Bros. as the studio supposedly rejected two of his scripts for a sequel. In a recent episode of Drink Champs, he first explained that he now wants to “get [‘Friday’] out of Warner Bros.” as “[t]hey don’t believe in the culture.” He also explained that it isn’t as simple starting a new IP outside of the studio with the same concept but a different title, “Once I take the character’s names, it becomes a property of ‘Friday,’” he said. “It’s useless. They just need to come off that shit.” Cube further claimed that Warner Bros. actually rejected two of his scripts for the next Friday film; one of them followed Craig, who was played by Cube in the orig...

In recent details highlighted by The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix and HBO were initially in the running for producing a Lord of the Rings TV series. Both streamers were pitching the Tolkein estate before Amazon landed the rights to develop the series which is now titled, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. According to the report, HBO’s pitched was “essentially remaking” Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy but as a series. The estate, however, was not interested in retreading Middle-Earth in the Third Age. Netflix, on the other hand, wanted to take a different approach, apparently pitching a Ganalf series and an Aragorn drama. An insider equated their pitch to the “Marvel approach [which]…completely freaked out the estate.” Before settling on Second Age of Middle-Earth for The Ring...

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Back in early 2021, HBO Max ordered Velma to straight-to-series as the new adult-oriented Scooby-Doo spin-off series. The series unveiled its first official poster for Velma, a Mindy Kaling-led adult animated series. The series promises to be more gruesome as foreshadowed by the series poster which sees Velma’s signature glasses splattered with blook on the floor. The tagline reads, “It’s the mystery before the Inc.” Kalitn is set to voice the Mystery Inc.’s resident bookworm, Velma Dinkley. The series reimagines Velma to be of South Asian descent. The official synopsis for the show reads, “Velma is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and underappreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. An original and humorous spin that unmasks...

Netflix has unveiled a new trailer for its Money Heist Berlin spin-off series. After the success of the original Money Heist, which catapulted the series into a Korean spin-off, Netflix continues to expand the franchise. The streamer reveals a first-look trailer at what to expect for the prequel series Berlin, which is set to follow the character Andrés de Fonollosa. The original series focused on The Professor and his team of eight as they try to pull off the greatest robbery in the history of Spain. The group is able to break into the Royal mint of Spain, hold 11 people hostage, while they print out millions of dollars and rob The Bank of Spain, stealing just enough gold to not hurt the economy. The latest trailer for Berlin focuses on character introductions for the cast of the new heis...

It looks as if the growing anticipation for the upcoming DC Comics film Black Adam with Warner Bros. Discovery is slated for an impressive opening weekend. The Dwayne Johnson-starring film’s opening weekend is projected to be on par with the first Venom film and is also set to be the actor’s biggest box office opening ever. Black Adam was originally planned as just the villain for Shazam!, however, Johnson pushed for the character to have its own feature film. The film was previously set to release in 2021, but due to the pandemic, the film has been delayed to later this year. Deadline reports that the film is “very hot on tracking now.” There is currently nothing like it on the market and is boding well for men over and under 25 and women under 25, as well as Latino and Hispanic moviegoer...

Ye. A name that has been on the minds of the masses all week, whether by choice or force. Most of Ye’s headlines in 2022 have focused on his battles with adidas and GAP. However, just as he stepped into a fresh, art-centric direction by showcasing YZY SZN 9 at Paris Fashion Week, he decided to put him and his team’s work to the side to emphasize “political” shock value. Now, in the midst of artists, collaborators and friends publicly their disapproval with Ye’s actions, the DONDAartist has hopped on Instagram to ask “WHO SHOULD PLAY ME IN A YE MOVIE?” In the caption, he shares “My pick is Jamie Foxx[.] One of the greatest geniuses[.]” Curiously enough, this comes just a day after Jamie Foxx reiterated his support for the Black Lives Matter movement on Instagram, almost certainly in respons...

Netflix has officially debuted the trailer for Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 3. The upcoming season will premiere across a special three-week event, with three different episodes premiering on October 18, October 25 and November 1. Fans can expect more unresolved cases surrounding sudden deaths, disappearances and paranormal activity, with Skye Borgman, Gabe Torres, Clay Jeter, Robert M. Wise, Joie Jacoby and Donnie Eicher directing the nine episodes. Meanwhile, Terry Dunn Meurer, Shawn Levy and Josh Barry will serve as executive producers. Check out the episode descriptions below and watch the trailer on YouTube. Unsolved Mysteries: Volume 3 premieres October 18 on Netflix. Premiering October 18, 2022 “Mystery at Mile Marker 45”Directed by Skye BorgmanWhen talented 18-year-old volleyball sta...

Riding on the success of a domestic release, the ONE PIECE FILM RED anime is ready to take the international market by storm — starting with a massive New York Times Square billboard takeover. Timed with New York Comic Con, a full ad campaign is set to start on October 8 from 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EST. and will see multiple digital billboards with a countdown animation with all the Straw Hat Pirates with multiple memorable scenes. Said to be the largest out-of-home advertisement campaign in ONE PIECE series history, this marketing push sets up the North American release that’s slated for November 4. The film was already released in Japan on August 6, 2022, where it to date has amassed a box office revenue of ¥15.8 billion JPY (approximately $110 million USD). In other entertainment news, N...