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After running out of anime to watch together, YouTuber Oceaniz asked his girlfriend Laura if she would be up to watch Naruto. Despite being one of Oceaniz’s favorite series, the YouTuber didn’t want to subject her to all 720 episodes of the iconic anime. Starting back in January and completed around mid-March, Oceaniz took it upon himself to create “Oceaniz’s Naruto: The Ocean Cut.” The version created in Adobe Premiere cut out unnecessary flashbacks and filler that stretched the Naruto and Naruto Shippuden story to its massive length. In a video titled “I Re-Edited ALL of Naruto for my Girlfriend,” Oceaniz noted that he had always wanted to create the abridged cut and adamantly noted that he believes in the English dubs. The creation of the cut saw around three to six episodes cut into 50...

Daniel Radcliffe recently shared that he is interested in doing superhero films, thought he is waiting for the right opportunity to come and “not rushing” into it. In a conversation with Insider to promote his new film The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, he also spoke about how he will be a “natural fit” for the role of Spider-Man. On the red carpet of SXSW he said, “The one I would be a natural fit for has now been done by three very good actors. Tom Holland is incredible and no one could ever replace him, so I’ll let that one go.” While he did not mention the franchise by name, it was not hard to deduce that Radcliffe was thinking of the successful Marvel hero. Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield and Holland have all played different versions of Spider-Man between 2002 a...

Netflix has officially dropped the trailer for its newest season of Conversations with a Killer, which will focus on John Wayne Gacy, best known as the Killer Clown. Premiering on April 20, The John Wayne Gacy Tapes will include a total of three, one-hour episodes and will feature never-before-heard audio between the serial killer and his defense team: “Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was an aspiring politician, beloved local contractor, and part-time clown-for-hire who murdered 33 young men between 1972 and 1976. The majority of his victims were found buried under his house, in the quiet northwest suburbs of Chicago. Fifty years later, DNA scientists are still trying to identify all of his victims, but thanks to 60 hours of unearthed audio between Gacy and his defense team, we have fresh pe...

Back in February 2020, Death Note creators Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata release the “a-Kira” one-shot, set a decade after the events of the original story. Viz Media has now announced the popular one-shot and other stories will be available in an upcoming release, titled Death Note: Short Stories. Releasing in English, the collection asks the question “Is Kira’s story truly over, or does his influence linger?” Featuring other stories like the Death Note pilot chapter, “C-Kira” and vignettes of L’s life, the complete series is fully written by the iconic manga series’ creators. Death Note: Short Stories serves as a must-have for fans of Death Note and those looking to get into the series. Death Note: Short Stories will be available via Viz Media and at select retailers May 10. In case you...

With season two just around the corner, Netflix has now revealed the opening animation sequence for the return of Ultraman. Aside from a few action sequences in the clip, much of the plot for season two remains under wraps. However, various promotional material from the show reveals that many more Ultraman characters will be joining the series this season, including Jack, Taro and Zoffy, who will partner up with the other three main characters from season one to form the legendary Ultra 6 Brothers. Along with new protagonists, we’ll also be getting a new villain with Alien Pedanto joining the series, voiced by Jujutsu Kaisen and Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway‘s Junichi Suwabe as his voice actor. For fans of the series, the second season of Ultraman will debut on Netflix o...

A rare copy of the first issue of Captain America Comics has just sold for a record $3.1 million USD. The near-mint book was sold on auction earlier this week, with its price starting at a whopping $1.8 million USD over at Heritage Auctions. Once bidding started, the book’s value jumped immediately to $2.2 million USD, and before long the copy was sold for a grand total of $3.12 million USD. As Captain America’s debut, the issue was first released back in 1940, depicting the titular superhero punching Adolf Hitler in the face. Notably, it was another year before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, spurring the U.S. to join World War II. “Every time I looked up during the comic art portion of the session, a new record was falling, and with the comic books, that trend continued,” said ...

John Cena is slated to star in an upcoming action-comedy film titled Officer Exchange for Amazon Studios, according to Deadline. The Suicide Squad star will front the feature film project, which is currently in development, in the lead role of Shepard, or “Shep,” who is billed as an incompetent cop, the outlet reports. The movie follows Shep as he joins forces with an Indian police officer to bust a diamond smuggling ring in India. The movie is being created based on a script written by Ben Zazove and Evan Turner, who previously penned the script for The Out-Law, which is currently in post-production at Netflix. Cena is executive producing the film, while Peacemaker‘s EP Peter Safran and producer John Rickard of The Safran Company are producing. Cena, who is a 16-time WWE ch...

Netflix on Thursday dropped off the official trailer for season two of Russian Doll, its Emmy-winning sci-fi series starring Natasha Lyonne. Season two, which is set four years after Nadia (Lyonne) and Alan (Charlie Barnett) managed to escape mortality’s time loop, promises to continue exploring “existential thematics through an often humorous and sci-fi lens,” according to the official description. “Discovering a fate even worse than endless death, this season finds Nadia and Alan delving deeper into their pasts through an unexpected time portal located in one of Manhattan’s most notorious locations,” the synopsis reads. “At first they experience this as an ever-expanding, era-spanning, intergenerational adventure but they soon discover this extraordinary event might be more than the...

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The forthcoming Jurassic World: Dominion is expected to be the longest film in franchise history. Collider has reported that the run-time for the sixth-entry to the long-lived Jurassic storyline will be at two hours and 26 minutes. The film is directed by Colin Trevorrow and will see the film’s staple cast Chris Pratt, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Neil return to the big screens. The third installment of the franchise’s refreshed run led by Pratt, comes in close to two-and-a-half hours, but falls short of long-length three-hour films like The Batman and Avengers: Endgame. Within the Jurassic franchise, the upcoming film beats Jurassic Park (2 hrs, 7 min), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (2hrs, 9min), Jurassic Park III (1hr, 32min), Jurassic World (2hrs, 4min), and Ju...

Ahead of Star Trek: Picard‘s season two finale this week, Paramount Plus has announced the cast for the third and final season of the series. In a teaser led by Patrick Stewart, who reprises his role as Jean-Luc Picard in the series, Paramount Plus revealed that six Star Trek: The Next Generation stars — LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner — will join the cast for Picard‘s final chapter. Notably, Frakes, Sirtis and Spiner have previously appeared in episodes of the series over the last two seasons. The announcement, which was made on April 5, or Star Trek‘s “First Contact Day,” marks the first time that Paramount Plus has confirmed that the series will end with season three, though several actors had previously sha...

The 74th Emmy Awards will take place on Monday, September 12 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, the Television Academy and NBC announced on Wednesday. The ceremony, which rotates between ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC each year, typically airs on a Sunday; however, in years when NBC has broadcast rights, the ceremony occurs on Monday as the network airs NFL games on Sunday evenings. One week prior to the awards ceremony, the 2022 Creative Arts Emmy Awards will take place on Saturday, September 3, and Sunday, September 4. Following the event, an edited presentation will air on September 10 at 8 p.m. ET on FXX. NBC has not yet announced who will host or produce the 2022 Emmys, nor has the network disclosed the event’s location. Nominations for this year’s ceremony will be unveiled on Tuesday, July 12. The show’...