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It has just been announced that Naoya Matsumoto’s Kaiju No. 8 manga will be adapted for anime. The popular Shonen Jump+ manga — published in English by VIZ Media — involves Kafka Hibino and Mina Ashiro as they attempt to join the Japanese Defense Force in order to protect the city from monsters known as kaiju. While Mina finds great success, Kafka contines to fail his placement and is left as a cleaner of the dead bodies of kaiju. Kafka’s life suddenly changes when a talking kaiju flies into his body and transforms him into “Kaiju No. 8.” There are currently no details on when the first episode will air, but there is a teaser from TOHO Animation which can be viewed above. Head over to the manga’s dedicated page for more updates. ／ 『#怪獣８号』アニメ化発表ビジュアル公開！ ＼ ▼公式サイトhttps://t.co/sVyCRT9345 ▼アニメ化...

Over the past decade and a half, Disney has managed to build the Marvel Cinematic Universe into a multi-billion dollar franchise with a massive global following while Warner Bros. struggled to keep its DC Extended Universe coherent and engaging, but the latter media giant’s CEO David Zaslav says that that’s about to change. During the company’s latest earnings call, Zaslav reassured both fans and Wall Street that the studio is hoping to emulate the success of Marvel Studios with its own decade-long roadmap and a dedicated team behind it. “You look at Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman — these are brands that are known everywhere in the world,” the executive emphasized. “We have done a reset. We’ve restructured the business where we are going to focus, where there is going to be a team...

Drake has officially received his first every Primetime Emmy Awards nomination. The Boy earned his Emmy nom as an executive producer of HBO‘s Euphoria, receiving the nod alongside fellow executive producers Adele “Future” Nur and Zendaya, the latter of whom is also nominated for lead actress in a drama and for two original songs. Other new nominees for producers include Selena Gomez as an executive producer for Only Murders in the Building, with Variety reporting that she is the first Latina to receive a nomination for a comedy series that she also starred in, along with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono for the Peter Jackson docuseries The Beatles: Get Back. Euphoria premiered its second season this 2022 and is currently nominated for a total of 15 Primetime Emmy and Creative Emmy ...

Giancarlo Esposito confirmed that he has spoken to Marvel executives and is hoping to portray Professor X in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. According to ComicBook, the revered actor shared his admiration of Marvel to the TikTok account @countdowncitygeeks as he subtly revealed that he’s had a meeting with the studio. “So, I have not worked for Marvel yet,” he said. “I’ve been in a room with them and talked with them, and to answer your question, I think what they do is on the lines of that mythological journey that Joe Campbell talked about, who happened to be a friend of George Lucas that George Lucas put into his stories. They do the same thing.” Esposito continued that out of all the casting rumors involving Magneto, Dr. Freeze and Professor X, he would love to play the X-Men staple. “P...

Following news that Lady Gaga has been confirmed for the Joker sequel titled Joker: Folie à Deux, a French term describing “shared madness by two people in close association,” early plot details have emerged suggesting that the film will take place largely in Arkham Asylum. Joker (2019) starring Joaquin Phoenix introduced the audience to a grittier take on the rise of the failed clown turned supervillain. The subversive approach paid off and the film was a massive success, becoming the first R-rated movie to gross $1 Billion USD at the box office. Now set to premiere on October 4, 2024, exactly five years after the release of the first film, Joker 2 promises to be very different with Lady Gaga potentially as Harley Quinn promising musical elements. At the end of Joker, Arthur Fleck (Joaqui...

Ending with a major cliffhanger at the end of Season 1, it looks as though Marvel Studios‘ Moon Knight is coming back for Season 2. Earlier this week, Mohammed Diab, director of the Disney+ hit, and actor Oscar Isaac, who plays Moon Knight/Marc Spector/Stephen Grant, appeared in a TikTok video to tease that the second season is in the works. In the video, a young girl is seen asking the question we have all been wondering, “is there a Season 2?” Turning the camera on Diab, who replies with “Moon Knight?,” followed by a pan to Isaac who offers up, “why else would we be in Cairo?” Adding to the teasing, Diab shared the TikTok on his Twitter which has Marvel Cinematic Universe fans extremely excited. Catch the TikTok teasing Season 2 of Moon Knight below. Moonknight season 2? https://t.c...

Keanu Reeves is set to star in Devil in the White City, a limited series adaptation from Hulu with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese serving as executive producers. Based on Erik Larson’s 2003 book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, the series is looking at a total of eight episodes to be released in 2024. The story follows is set during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago and is told from the perspective of the architects like Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. It will also touch on H. H. Holmes, who is regarded as the first modern serial killer and built a hotel during the event that was billed as “Murder Castle.” DiCaprio purchased movie rights in 2010 and supposedly planned to star in a film adaptation ...

The John Wick franchise’s director and former stuntman Chad Stahelski has revealed that he spoke to Marvel‘s Kevin Feige about directing the Mahershala Ali-starring Blade reboot. Speaking to Comicbook in a recent interview, Stahelski said that he had actually met with Feige to discuss potentially working on a project together. “Marvel was very influential in my career. I owe them a great deal. Kevin [Feige] is an awesome guy and I’ve worked for him many times on second unit,” said the John Wick director. “After John Wick 3, he was nice enough to carve out a big chunk of time and have nice talk…. And he actually asked me, ‘What could we ever do?’ I was like, ‘Look, I’m not going to lie to you. I don’t know if I fit that kind of studio mold, but Blade would be the one interest...

Thor: Love and Thunder has officially become the lowest-rated film within the standalone Thor franchise over on Rotten Tomatoes. Now carrying a critics’ score of just 65%, Taika Waititi and Chris Hemsworth‘s latest Marvel Studios film has dipped below the 66% rating that Thor: The Dark World achieved, bringing it down to the bottom of the list of films revolving around the God of Thunder. At that score, it also makes Love and Thunder the second lowest-rated Marvel Studios film ever released, sitting just slightly above Eternals, which received a disappointing 47% and is still the only certified Rotten title in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe library. What makes it even more surprising is the success Waititi has had with the franchise. Taking on his MCU debut with T...

After what would be nine years since its original premiere, CW‘s The Flash television series is finally coming to an end with its ninth season that’s currently scheduled to air in 2023. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show had intended to conclude with season eight but the studio ultimately managed to sign a new deal with lead star Grant Gustin as well as some of the other cast members for one final, but abbreviated, season, with 13 more episodes to come next year. The past season made The Flash one of the network’s most-watched shows in the 2021-2022 broadcast cycle, averaging more than one million viewers per episode while being one of CW’s most streamed series digitally as well. “Nine seasons! Nine years of saving Central City while taking audiences on an emotional jo...

Leslie Grace has finally responded to the recent announcement from Warner Bros. that Batgirl will not be released. Taking to Instagram, the actress shared several behind-the-scenes images and videos of the film’s production, which went on for seven months in Scotland with a budget of $90 million USD. “Querida familia! On the heels of the recent news about our movie ‘Batgirl,’ I am proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film over 7 months in Scotland,” Grace wrote in the caption. “I feel blessed to have worked among absolute greats and forged relationships for a lifetime in the process! To every Batgirl fan – THANK YOU for the love and belief, allowing me to take on the cape and become, as Babs said best, “my own damn hero!...

Following reports on the matter in June, Lady Gaga has confirmed that she will star in Todd Phillips‘ upcoming Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, opposite Joaquin Phoenix. The chart-topping multi-hyphenate made the announcement on social media with a musical teaser set to “Cheek to Cheek,” which she has famously covered with Tony Bennett. “Joker: Folie à Deux,” she wrote alongside the red-and-black visual on Instagram. “10.04.24.” Aside from the movie’s interesting French title, which is named after a psychiatric syndrome that affects two or more people with the same delusional belief or hallucinations, the plot details of the film are not currently available. The teaser does not confirm that Gaga will play Harley Quinn in the movie, though sources previously stated that the...