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Paramount+ has shared the first teaser trailer for season three of Star Trek: Lower Decks, along with key art for the upcoming installment. The new season, which offers a myriad of new challenges for the USS Cerritos ensigns, beginning with sorting out the happenings of season two’s cliffhanger finale, will be available to stream on the platform later this year. “Save the captain!” the official Star Trek account wrote on Twitter, alongside the teaser video. “#StarTrekLowerDecks style.” Save the captain! #StarTrekLowerDecks style. ? #StarTrek https://t.co/3Ty5h8KbMc pic.twitter.com/wbNOxhQ8ej — Star Trek (@StarTrek) April 9, 2022 The crew occupying the “lower decks” of the starship includes Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), Ensign Tendi (Noël Wells) a...

Following Tobey Maguire‘s appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home, fans have put some thought into the chances of seeing Spider-Man 4. After directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Sam Raimi is also joining in on the thoughts about seeing a follow-up to 2007’s Spider-Man 3. Speaking to Fandango, Raimi admitted that are currently no plans, but he shared his excitement about the chances of Spider-Man 4. Going on to note that he thinks that anything is possible in the Marvel Cinematic Universe after directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. “I’ve come to realize after making Doctor Strange that anything is possible, really anything in the Marvel universe, any team-ups,” said Raimi. “I love Tobey. I love Kirsten Dunst. I think all things are possible. I don’t...

Following the success of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2, director Jeff Fowler has helped proved that video game adaptation films are very possible. Fowler recently expressed his interest in making a film based on Nintendo‘s Super Smash Bros., the beloved fighting game franchise introduced back in 1999 that brings together characters from a variety of series. “Nothing would make me happier than to just throw all the characters into a battle royale,” said Fowler. “Getting Mario and Sonic in the ring, I mean everyone would be kinda dying for that, right? That’s just classic.” Despite the director being up to the challenge, putting together a Super Smash Bros. film would be clearing licensing for characters that come from a variety of companies. Another issue would be finding a co...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars for the next 10 years, in consequence of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year’s ceremony. “The Board has decided, for a period of 10 years from April 8, 2022, Mr. Smith shall not be permitted to attend any Academy events or programs, in person or virtually, including but not limited to the Academy Awards,” Academy President David Rubin and CEO Dawn Hudson said in a statement on Friday. Smith issued a succinct statement on his decade-long ban: “I accept and respect the Academy’s decision.” Rock has not yet commented on the announcement. The Academy’s letter continued, “The 94th Oscars were meant to be a celebration of the many individuals in our community who did incredibl...

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...