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Roughly half a year after its previous season wrapped up in October of 2021, the fan-favorite My Hero Academia has finally announced the release window for its upcoming season six. Revealed alongside a new visual, the sixth season of the popular anime will be arriving sometime in autumn this year. Unlike the previous two posters unveiled back in November last year, the new version showcases a range of Pro Heroes that will no doubt play a large part in the upcoming arc, including Endeavor in center stage surrounded by Hawks, Edgeshot, Mirko, Mt. Lady, Eraser head and Midnight. Other details about season six remain scarce at the moment, and no precise release date has yet been announced, but you can learn more over on the anime’s official website. 【ヒロアカ6期 新ビジュアルが来た!】／『僕のヒーローアカデミア』#ヒロアカT...

Legendary director Steven Spielberg has praised Netflix‘s Korean drama Squid Game. In a recent interview with Deadline, Spielberg called the short series a game-changer, “A long time ago it was domestic stars that brought the audience into movies. Today, it’s interesting, unknown people can star entire miniseries, can be in movies.” His comments come after a discussion about the importance of movie stars in casting. He believes that the time for having stars in a film to lead to successful numbers has past and that the streaming world has opened up an entirely new formula that allows unknown actors to anchor series. With Squid Game‘s success in 2021, the series opened the door to greater interest towards Korean shows and their stars. Season two of Squid Game is slated to return in 2023 the...

Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd is set to appear in season three of Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 83-year-old actor is on the call sheet for the show’s upcoming season, and will be appearing in the capacity of a guest star. Any further information regarding his character was not revealed, however, and Lucasfilm did not share a statement. The Mandalorian is currently in the midst of filming and does not have a release date as of writing. Earlier this year, rumors suggested that the series could be returning around Christmas 2022. Season two ran from October 2020 to December 2020, and went on to receive four Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Giancarlo Esposito)...

Titan Comics will be releasing a comic book sequel to the anime television show Blade Runner: Black Lotus. The comic book series will span four issues and is scheduled to launch on June 1. “Elle, AKA Black Lotus, hoped she could leave behind her violent past and find a new life. But is that possible in a world where replicants are still hunted and feared?,” Titan Comics described the new series. Junggeun Yoon, Creees Lee, Concept Art, and Mico Suayan created different pieces of cover art for the first issue of the mini-series. Swamp Thing’s Nancy Collins is writing the comic books and Hawkeye: Kate Bishop’s Enid Balam, who also works for Marvel, is illustrating. A collaboration between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim, Blade Runner: Black Lotus premiered in November last year and ran until Febru...

Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy co-directors Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah are creating a feature documentary on the McDonald’s All-American Game spotlighting all-star high school basketball players. Under the working title The All Americans: The Games That Changed The Game, Simmons and Ozah will produce the film with their production imprint Creative Control, alongside Roc Nation and Known Studios. Production on the film has already begun and will include footage from next week’s 2022 McDonald’s All-American Games in Chicago. The annual game, which launched in 1977, features the 48 best and most highly-recruited high school players from across the country as they play against each other, East vs. West. NBA stars including Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Shaquille O’Neal...

Kid Cudi is slated to direct and star in an upcoming Netflix film, titled Teddy, based off a script that he has been writing for almost a decade. The 38-year-old musician and actor shared the news via Twitter on Tuesday, noting that he first began writing the project in 2013 and has been waiting to tell his fanbase for quite some time. “I always wanted to write my own movie, so I said f*** it and started doing it,” he wrote. “The road has been long, from it being a tv show for years to finally being a film. So it means so f***** much to finally be able to bring it to the screen next year, and I cant wait for u all to meet Teddy, his friends, his family and take a walk in his world for a bit.” ?✌???? pic.twitter.com/j0vMHkIoMK — The Chosen One : I ? YOU FRESHIE 4EVER (@KidCudi) March...

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk of Netflix‘s smash hit series Squid Game has teased the return of breakout star Jung Ho-yeon for the second season. Hwang spoke to Deadline at this year’s PGA Awards and revealed that while new episodes of yet to begin production, fans can expect even greater excitement. The director shared, “There will be more great games, that’s all I can say. I’m just still brainstorming and collecting the ideas for season two. I haven’t even started with the writing yet.” He continued to explain that the second season will largely feature a new cast as most died in the first season. However, Hwang divulged, “I’ll try something to bring them back [for] season two.” He later gestured to Jung and teased, “Let’s say maybe she has a twin sister, you’ll see.” Jung responded...

Donald Glover recently announced that Atlanta will be ending after the fourth season. With the third season premiere slated to debut later this week, Glover spoke to Variety on is decision to end the show. Glover explained, “All good things end. It felt like it was time to end. I don’t like it when people [are] 40 pretending like they’re 15 and shit. It’s annoying.” The third season is expected to take place mainly in Europe as season two ended with Glover’s characters Earn, Paper Boi and Darius traveling to Amsterdam. Zazie Beetz, who plays Vanessa, chimed in and claimed, “I had no say in the matter.” Beetz also gave fans a glimpse of what they can look forward to in her character development in the next season, “It’s a very honest season. All of the characters are out of their element, w...

As March comes to an end, HBO Max has unveiled its slate of programming for April 2022. Starring next month, subscribers can catch brand new seasons of Snowpiercer, Barry, The Flight Attendant and A Black Lady Sketch Show, as well as the premieres of Tokyo Vice, Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off and Death On The Nile. Meanwhile, April will be the last month to stream classics like 2 Fast 2 Furious, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Poltergeist II and III and more. Take a look at the full list of HBO Max titles below. Coming to HBO Max Exact Dates To Be Announced:Gentleman Jack, Season 2 Premiere (HBO) March 29:Death On The Nile, 2022 (HBO) March 31:Young Justice, Max Original Season 4B Premiere April 1:10, 1979Annabelle, 2014 (HBO)Armed and Dangerous, 1986Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach, 2009B...

Director James Gunn has given fans an official update of the status of Peacemaker season two. The new season sees John Cena reprise his role as the violent vigilante Christopher Smith he portrayed in 2021’s The Suicide Squad. Since its debut on HBO Max in January this year, it has been a major hit amongst fans. In the first season, Christopher was given his own mission to uncover and stop an alien conspiracy which forced the anti-hero to confront his identity and his past. The ending of the first season saw some surprise cameos from Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller as Aquaman and the Flash, as well as highlighting the cast’s personal journeys. Going into the second season, Gunn has revealed Christopher’s state of mind. Podcaster Neil Vagg recently took to Twitter to share an excerpt of his inte...

The life story of KFC founder Colonel Harland Sanders is being adapted into a film entitled A Finger Lickin’ Good Story: The Life of Colonel Sanders. According to reports, the movie will be based on the book The Colonel’s Secret: Eleven Herbs and a Spicy Daughter, which was written by Sanders’ daughter Margaret and released in 1996. “Margaret Sanders’ 1996 book is laced with humor but also tells of a sometimes complicated relationship she had with her father. It’s a first-hand account of how Harland Sanders built Kentucky Fried Chicken, now one of the world’s largest restaurant chains,” Deadline adds. “I knew Sanders was a real man but I had no idea how many jobs he had, how many failures, how many challenges, but the biggest surprise was that he was around 65 years old when he set out to ...

Samuel L. Jackson has seemingly confirmed that his Marvel character Nick Fury will be appearing in both the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and The Marvels. In a recent interview on the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, the actor revealed that during his work on Secret Invasion for Disney+ recently in London, he also visited the neighboring sets for the other two films. “When I was in London just now, it was [Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania], and [The Marvels] was happening, and we were getting ready to do [Secret Invasion],” Jackson said. “So it was like, three Marvel movies on one lot. I was kind of running around from place to place.” The 73-year-old actor went on to joke about how many more appearances he can make in the MCU: “Well, you know, it’s kind...