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A Monopolygame leak seems to have caused Stranger Things‘ creators the Duffer Brothers to be quite disappointed. Leaks online of the official Monopoly game for the shoe appeared to have revealed key details regarding the plot of the forthcoming fourth season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix was not too thrilled with the mishap, but the Duffer Brothers have revealed that the streaming giant nor the Monopoly creators consulted with them on the game. Both brothers have longed valued secrecy for the series and were said to have had a “total meltdown” regarding the situation. A Reddit thread revealed that a customer purchased the board game that featured the leak at a “nationally recognized retailer.” While many retailers are still selling Stranger Things Monopoly sets tied to prev...

Riverdale will officially end with the final season coming on The CW. The seventh and last season is set to debut midseason of 2023. Mark Pedowitz, chairman of the CW, announced on Thursday morning and said that he believes “seven years is the right amount.” Riverdale star, JK Apa, has also taken the opportunity to comment on the upcoming and final season, claiming that he promises the show will conclude with a bang.  “I am a big believer of giving series that have had a long run an appropriate send-off. We had a long conversation with Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa] yesterday, and he is thrilled with the decision,” Pedowitz said. “We are going to treat the show in the manner it deserves. It’s been an iconic pop culture star, and we want to make sure that it goes out the right way.” The show...

A teaser for Mad Max creator George Miller‘s newest film, Three Thousand Years of Longing, has been released. Based on A.S. Byatt’s 1994 short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, the 20-second teaser sees Tilda Swinton as Dr. Alithea Binnie and Idris Elba as Djinn, a magical entity who offers the academic three wishes for his freedom: “This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary tales of wishes gone wrong. The Djinn pleads his case by telling her fantastical stories of his past. Eventually she is beguiled and makes a wish that surprises them both.” Augusta Gore co-wrote the screenplay with Miller, while Doug Mitchell co-produced alongside the director. The film was first announ...

After teasing Netflix‘s Daredevil character several times in its own projects, Marvel Studios has officially greenlit a Daredevil series for Disney+, according to Variety. The Disney+ show, which will be written and executive produced by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, will mark the first of the Netflix Marvel projects to receive an entirely separate but continued show. Before going to Disney+, Marvel’s TV projects, which were previously led by Jeph Leob, landed on Netflix under a massive deal. Among them were Daredevil, Jessica Jones, The Punisher and Iron Fist. Daredevil, which proved to be popular on Netflix and lasted three seasons, starred Charlie Cox in the lead role of Matt Murdock, aka Daredevil. Cox reprised the role for a cameo in 2021’s Spider-...

Warner Bros. appears to be making moves to continue to expand the Ocean’s franchise. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Margot Robbie is set to star in and produce the new Ocean’s Eleven film. The script will be written by Carrie Solomon and the project, helmed by Jay Roach who directed Robbie in her best-supporting actress Oscar nomination for Bombshell. While there is still limited detail surrounding the script, the new film is expected to be an original Ocean’s Eleven set in Europe in the 1960s. Robbie will be producing the project alongside her partner LuckyChap Tom Ackerley. The project is still underway and has yet to be green-lit, however, the goal is to begin production in Spring 2023. The heist franchise first launched in 2001 with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt ...

Squid Game, the popular survival drama Netflix game series has an update. Show creator Hwang Dong-hyuk teased viewers with new insights on what’s to come for the show, sharing updates on the current writing process for the second season during an interview with Vanity Fair. He revealed that he currently has about three pages of initial ideas which he will use as the basis of the script for the upcoming season; Gi-hun, the imperfect protagonist, will inevitably return for season two, and the Front Man may possibly play a bigger role. “Humanity is going to be put to the test through those games once again,” said Hwang. “I want to ask the question, ‘Is true solidarity between humans possible?’” The Korean Netflix show received positive feedback for its first season which a...

Stan Lee‘s iconic Marvel Cinematic Universe cameo could make a comeback with the help of CGI and old footage. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel has signed a 20-year deal with Genius Brands International and POW! Entertainment’s joint venture Stan Lee Universe. This gives Marvel the right to license the likeness of Stan Lee in future films and TV productions and experiences worldwide, such as Disney theme parks, however it has not been confirmed if they will utilize this agreement to bring back his cameos. “We are proud to be the stewards of the incredibly valuable rights to Stan Lee’s name, likeness, merchandise, and intellectual property brand,” said Andy Heyward, Chairman & CEO of Genius Brands. “It really ensures that Stan, through digital technology and archival foot...

Netflix on Thursday dropped off the official trailer for season three of The Umbrella Academy, revealing that the superhuman Hargreeves siblings have discovered new enemies in the opposing Sparrow Academy. The first preview for the series’ upcoming season sees the Umbrella Academy — played by Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan and Aidan Gallagher — return home after believing they’ve evaded the apocalypse and stopped 1963’s doomsday. However, they quickly realize that they’ve created an entirely new predicament for themselves. “When we jumped here, we created a time paradox. Our little paradox brought forth a kugelblitz,” Number Five (Gallagher) says in the visual. “What the hell is a kugelblitz?,” Elliot Page’s Viktor Hargeeves responds....

Netflix on Thursday unveiled the final trailer for the third volume of its popular animated anthology series Love, Death + Robots. The series, which is created by Tim Miller and David Fincher, showcases various animation techniques by inviting different teams of artists and screenwriters to create short stories on the fantasy-meets-sci-fi spectrum. The trailer offers up a sneak peek at both ultra-realistic 3D episodes and fully 2D stories, while also paying homage to British philosopher Alan Watts by playing his “The Dream of Life” speech. According to the official logline, the next installment sees “terror, imagination and beauty combine in nine new episodes which stretch from uncovering an ancient evil to a comedic apocalypse, telling startling short stories of fantasy, horror and scienc...

Sacha Baron Cohen and King of the Hill creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge have teamed up to develop an animated special for HBO Max and Cartoon Network. Entitled Chelm: The Smartest Place, the upcoming “family-oriented” project was created alongside Nathan for You’s Michael Koman and will reportedly feature Cohen as the narrator. The animated special is set in a place called the Town of Fools and will “nod to Jewish intellectual traditions” with “absurdist humor and interpretive questioning,” all the while maintaining the classic folktales. “Chelm: The Smartest Place on Earth is a perfect pairing of comedy and satire, and no one does that combination better than Sacha, Greg, Mike, and Michael,” Amy Friedman, head of kids and family programming at Warner Bros., said in a statement. “This ...

Earlier this month, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that the live-action adaptation of Wonder Twins has been scrapped. The news comes just a month after KJ Apa and Isabel May were announced to play the lead roles in the DC Comics film. Now, Variety has learned that Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav canceled the Wonder Twins project because of its $75 million USD budget. The news also come after the company announced that it was considering a full overhaul of DC Entertainment. The project was first reported to be in the works in February this year and was expected to be led by Black Adam‘s Adam Sztykiel. Wonder Twins has long been a beloved story in the DC universe and follows a pair of alien siblings named Jayna and Zan from the planet of Exxor. The film was supposed to release on HBO...

Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy has officially confirmed that Star Wars and Disney will be “moving on” from the Skywalker saga. Speaking to Vanity Fair in a recent interview, Kennedy revealed that the Skywalker saga is no longer the focus of the studio. Instead, they’re looking to jump around the Star Wars timeline, exploring different eras in the galaxy far, far away. “Just staying within the construct of George [Lucas]‘s storytelling, to keep chipping away at that, I think would be wrong. It’s our job to step away now, but still have a connection to the mythology that George created,” she explained. “That won’t stop. But we are moving on from the Skywalker saga. That’s what’s taking a lot of time, discussion, and thought right now.” Aside from exploring the Star Wars universe’s...