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While speaking on the ReelBlend podcast alongside his Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avery earlier this week, Quentin Tarantino, who typically does not disclose his opinion on new movies, offered a rare review of Top Gun: Maverick. Before sharing his thoughts, the revered director explained that he normally does not like to discuss new films because he is “only forced to say good things” or else he’ll be quoted for “slamming someone.” “But in this case, I f****** love Top Gun: Maverick,” he said. “I thought it was fantastic. I saw it at the theaters. … That and [Steven] Spielberg’s West Side Story both provided a true cinematic spectacle, the kind that I’d almost thought that I wasn’t going to see anymore. It was fantastic.” “But also there was just this lovely, lovely aspect becau...

Warner Bros. Discovery will merge HBO Max and Discovery Plus into one larger streaming service, CEO David Zaslav confirmed in a second-quarter earnings call on Thursday via Variety. The media giant has not yet disclosed the name of the new platform, though it did set a launch date in the U.S. for next summer. “One of the most important items here is that we believe in a combined product as opposed to a bundle… We believe that the breadth and depth of this content offering is going to be a phenomenal consumer value proposition,” Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels said in a statement to the outlet. “The question is, in order to get to that point and do it in a way that’s actually a great user experience for our subscribers, that’s going to take some time. Again, that’s nothing that’s going to h...

After seven long years, the Garou Arc from One-Punch Man‘s The Human Monster Saga has concluded. Garou, the former disciple of Bang was first introduced alongside the Monster Association where he received the name “Hero Hunter” due to his targeting of heroes. Wrapping up in a massive battle with Saitama — where a fully-monsterized Garou levels up to GOD threat — the two participate in a fight that transcends time and space. While the arc has finished, fans of the manga will still get to learn the fate of Garou as Yusuke Murata revealed that the next chapter will explore the aftermath in the wake of Orochi and Garou. While it is a little bittersweet to be seeing the end of such a long arc, One-Punch Man readers are most likely ready to learn of the new heroes and enemies teased during the s...

Following the release of Top Gun: Maverick, Sony Pictures now readies a film titled Devotion, offering more action in the skies. Based on a novel written by Adam Markos, the movie is based on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, one of the fiercest battles of the Korean War. The film highlights the relationship between the main character of the film, Jesse L. Brown (Jonathan Majors), who’s the first black pilot in the U.S. Navy, and fellow pilot Glen Powell (Tom Hudner). J.D. Dillard (Stray) will direct the film and the screenplay is written by Jake Crane and Jonathan A.H. Stewart with Dillard and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) serving as producers. “The film tells the harrowing true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War. Their heroic sacrifices would ultimately make ...

Although Stranger Things 4 has cemented itself in Netflix history as one of the streamer’s most-watched seasons, the series has still come up short compared to Squid Game, Variety reported. The South Korean drama continues to hold the record for Netflix’s most-watched TV season ever. Netflix calculates and ranks its content based on viewership in the 28 days following its premiere. Since Stranger Things 4 was broken down into two volumes, the streamer combined the viewership of Volume 1 during the 28-day period with the viewership of Volume 2 after the window. That means that while the viewer counts for the volumes were combined, Netflix was only counting during the Volume 2-eligible window. Overall, Stranger Things 4 garnered 1.4 billion hours viewed, whereas Squid Game clocked 1.7 billio...

Warner Bros. has pulled six of its movies from HBO Max in what appears to be an attempt to cut spending, Variety reported. The films were all advertised as “Max Originals,” meaning that they were exclusively streaming on the service. Among the films were the Seth Rogen-fronted comedy An American Pickle and a 2020 remake of The Witches, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci and Chris Rock. There was also the sci-fi rom-com Moonshot starring Lana Condor and Cole Sprouse and the dystopian comedy Superintelligence with Melissa McCarthy. The move to pull the films from streaming follows Warner Bros.’ decision to cancel the release of its feature film Batgirl, both in theaters and on streaming services. The company has also canceled the HBO Max pr...

Despite Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) arriving next year, Hasbro is already teasing the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with a range of accompanying toys. Fans of Marvel‘s Web Crawler have now spotted a series of toys at select Target locations revealing the upcoming addition of Spider-Punk. A major part of the “Spider-Verse” in Marvel comics, Hobart Brown, Earth-138 Spider-Man, becomes Spider-Punk after being bitten by a spider irradiated by Norman Osborn’s toxic waste dumping. Spider-Punk is expected to be as many as 40 characters from six multiverses that join Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and Spider-Man 2099 in the upcoming Sony Pictures feature film. The toys available now include a mask marked with Spider-Punk’s signature spike adornments and a matching Web B...

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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s Everything Everywhere All at Once, which stars Michelle Yeoh, is officially the first A24 film to earn $100 million USD at the global box office. According to reports, the sleeper hit grossed $68.9 million USD in the United States and $31.1 million USD abroad; the top-earning territories are the United Kingdom with $6.2 million USD, Canada with $5.1 million USD, Australia with $4.5 million USD, Russia with $2.4 million USD, Taiwan with $2.3 million USD, Mexico with $2 million USD, Hong Kong with $1.7 million USD, Germany with $1.5 million USD and the Netherlands with $1.1 million USD. Its recent theatrical re-release, which included eight minutes of outtakes and a pre-recorded message from the Daniels, raked in $650,000 USD from 1,490 locations between Fr...

After axing Batgirl for HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday announced that Todd Phillips‘ Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, will premiere in theaters on October 4, 2024. The release date is exactly five years following the first film’s debut, according to Deadline. The movie, which sees the return of Joaquin Phoenix in the role of the Joker, will reportedly begin production in December of this year. Per Variety, the sequel will arrive as a musical, with Lady Gaga expected to take on the role of Harley Quinn. Aside from the movie’s interesting French title, which translates to a psychiatric syndrome that involves two or more people sharing the same delusional belief or hallucinations, details on the plot are scarce at this time. Warner Bros. Discovery has not yet reveale...

After extending its multi-year partnership with Netflix, Dark Horse Entertainment has announced a new David Leitch-directed spy thriller film, titled Bang!, starring Idris Elba. Leitch, whose previous work includes Bullet Train and Deadpool 2, will helm the pic based on the comic series by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres. The feature film, written by Kindt and Zak Olkewicz, will follow a terrorist group that attempts to birth the apocalypse with a brainwashing series of novels. As they put their plans into practice, the world’s top spy is tapped to exterminate the evil author behind the scheme. Bang! is produced by Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg for Dark Horse, Leitch and Kelly McCormick for 87 North and Elba. The film has not yet received a release date at Netflix. ...

Donald and Stephen Glover have responded to the Black community’s criticism of Atlanta being “only for white people.” Speaking on the show’s TCA panel this week, Donald first opened up about how “everybody’s gonna have an agenda on some level” on the internet, and that those criticism affect him as a Black person. “It would be silly to say that sometimes what people say doesn’t affect you because—especially being Black —I feel like a lot of the Black criticism bothers me only because it sounds like [it’s from] Black people who don’t really know what we’ve been through,” he said. “I don’t think they give a lot of credit to what we’ve gone through. So to be like, ‘Oh, these Black people hate Black people or these Black people hate Black women.’— I’m like, It’s such, my it’s such a small view...