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Netflix on Tuesday announced that Tom Brady will be the first guest on its upcoming roast series, Greatest Roasts of All Time: GROAT. For those unacquainted with the renowned footballer, the streamer comically describes him as “Gisele Bündchen’s Husband,” “sixth-round NFL draft pick and avocado ice cream aficionado.” Additionally, Brady will serve as executive producer on the series in a “multi-roast deal,” according to Netflix. His own roast is slated to tape in 2023, following the conclusion of his next NFL season. “To quote my good friend, Marshawn Lynch … ‘I’m just here so I won’t get fined,’” said Brady in a statement. Aside from Brady, additional producers on the series include Casey Patterson for Casey Patterson Entertainment, Jeff Ross and Carol Donovan. “We can’t wait to burn thre...

The first trailer is out for Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Starring Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters, the comedy follows the young lawyer navigating her newly-acquired powers and double life as the eponymous She-Hulk. The two-minute trailer offers a brief glimpse into Walters’ career as a lawyer specializing in superhuman-focused cases. In her off-hours, she’s being trained on how to control her new powers by her cousin, Mark Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner/Hulk. “The transformations are triggered by anger and fear,” Banner tells Walters during their training session. “I just want to be a normal, anonymous lawyer,” Walter says, cut to news reporters gathering outside her house. It seems that despite Walters’ intention to remain ...

Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts is set to helm a coming-of-age Star Wars series for Disney+, according to a Vanity Fair cover story on Tuesday. The show, which the publication describes as a “galactic version of classic Amblin coming-of-age adventure films of the ’80s,” will take place after the events of Return of the Jedi. Plot details remain largely under wraps. Watts is executive producing the series alongside writer Chris Ford, who wrote the script for Spider-Man: Homecoming. As reported by Vanity Fair, the series is being developed under the code name “Grammar Rodeo,” which references “an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart and his schoolmates steal a car and run away for a week, using a phony educational event as an alibi.” Presen...

Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is fully underway, but many titles such as Shang-Chi and Eternals have focused mainly on introducing its new superheroes without much reference to the rest of the MCU. Luckily, some of the original Avengers such as Spider-Man and Doctor Strange have contributed to this aspect, and now Thor: Love and Thunder are looking to bring the interconnectedness of the massive superhero franchise even further. Spotted in a new image of the upcoming Taika Waititi film that has surfaced, we see both Tessa Thompson‘s Valkyrie and Natalie Portman‘s Mighty Thor convening in a similar way as the Illuminati in Multiverse of Madness, but while it’s no surprise for the two to be appearing on screen, fans have noticed that a new character has found its way into...

FX has just released the first trailer for its adaptation of Thomas Perry’s The Old Man, pitting Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges and Golden Globes winner John Lithgow head to head. Bridges takes on the lead role of Dan Chase, a former CIA operative that has since disappeared and now lives completely off the grid. After years of hiding, his past has finally caught up to him, with an assassin attempting to kill him. Realizing that he’s being hunted, Bridges goes on the run, fighting his way out for survival while he’s chased down by Lithgow’s Harold Harper, an assistant director at the FBI who shares history with him. Joining the two esteemed actors will be Alia Shawkat, E.J. Bonilla, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Amy Brenneman, Bill Heck, Leem Lubany, and Pej Vehdat. Johnathan E. Steinberg and R...

Netflix on Tuesday dropped off the official trailer for its upcoming sci-fi thriller Spiderhead, starring Chris Hemsworth. The movie, helmed by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski, sees Hemsworth don an American accent as a pharmaceutical genius named Steve Abnesti, who runs experimental tests on prisoners in exchange for shortening their sentences. Based on the George Saunders short story “Escape From Spiderhead,” which was first published in The New Yorker, the film also stars Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollet as lovestruck prisoners who rebel against Steve at the namesake penitentiary. “Beautiful people get away with too much,” Hemsworth’s character says during a scene in the trailer. “I say that having benefited myself from time to time.” Kosinski is directing based on a...

Following the initial success of the Donda Doves basketball team which debuted in early 2022, Kanye West‘s Donda Academy school is now open for student application via its new official website. According to the page, the Christian private school will accept students between Pre-K to 12th grade. Adopting a project-based learning model, Donda Academy looks to “promote ideation, prototyping, and real-world implementation” as well as help its students “grow in their faith and community through daily all-school worship and celebration at Sunday Service.” The daily curriculum starts off with core classes of reading, math, and science, followed by daily full school worship and enrichment courses including “World Language, Visual Art, Film, Choir and Parkour.” Each class will have less than 12 stu...

Building on the popularity of One Piece, a fitness gym inspired by the iconic manga/anime series will be opening in Tokyo. Dubbed “ONE PIECE FITNESS BragMen,” the unique space references an adventure chronicled in the manga’s 13th compiled volume. Based on renders, the gym features a full training room dressed in a nautical theme in line with the aesthetic of One Piece. Trainers at ONE PIECE FITNESS BragMen will also be dressed as naval officers to accent the theme. The gym will also implement a point system to encourage training and launch a “pirate school” for elementary school-aged children. Check out renders for the ONE PIECE FITNESS BragMen fitness gym set to open early 2023 in Tokyo’s Shibuya ward. In case you missed it, the Chainsaw Man anime is coming to Crunchyroll. Read Full Arti...

Over the past year, Netflix has been receiving subscriber feedback for its original titles by streaming the projects to several members before its wide release. Variety obtained a copy of an email sent by Netflix to the group of subscribers, stating that the service is looking for members of the Netflix community to join them in a panel. “We at Netflix are building a community of members to view and give feedback on upcoming movies and series, and we’d like to know if you’re interested in being a part of it,” the email explained. “It’s simple, but an incredibly important part of creating best-in-class content for you and Netflix members all around the world.” The service confirmed the creation of its subscriber panels, which essentially serves as a focus group and have only taken plac...

Since the release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, audiences flooded to the theaters to watch the most recent Marvel film. The film later earned $187.4 million USD at the domestic bo office and $265 million USD globally. While the second Doctor Strange installment garnered the 11th highest-grossing opening weekend of all-time, the second weekend saw the film suffer a historic box office decline as an MCU film. In it second weekend, Doctor Strange 2 grossed only $16.7 million USD, a 67.5% drop from the over $180 million USD opening weekend. The number stats show an 81% decline from the $90.7 million USD earned on opening day. Projections for the second weekend see the film dropping between 65-69%, with a gross of $60-$65 million USD. To put into perspective, while Spider-Man:...

Surrounded by heavy anticipation, Crunchyroll has now announced that the anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man will be joining one of its upcoming seasons. Acquiring the streaming rights, the series will be simulcast from Japan, subtitled and dubbed, for more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Dubs will include English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German. Adapting the popular manga serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the MAPPA-produced anime will be directed by Ryū Nakayama. Chainsaw Man centers around a supernatural world overrun by Devils manifested from the collective fears of humans. A teenage devil hunter named Denji enters a contract with his pet Devil, Pochita, and becomes resurrected to become “Chainsaw Man.” Ca...

Jodie, the animated Daria spinoff starring Tracee Ellis Ross, is being produced as a film rather than a series. According to reports, Ross will remain as the voice of the titular character and will be joined by William Jackson Harper of The Good Place, Kal Penn, Pamela Adlon, Cole Escola,  Jojo T. Gibbs, Zosia Mamet, Alex Moffat, Dermot Mulroney, Arden Myrin, Kofi Siriboe, Dulcé Sloan and Heléne Yorke. Jodie will follow the life of Daria’s high school friend post-college, as she starts her career as an intern for the prestigious tech firm, Firstfinity. The initial series was first revealed in 2018 as an MTV Entertainment Studios show featuring both Daria and Jodie, but the former was removed in 2019 upon the announcement of Ross’ role. Grace Edwards is writing the film and will co-exe...