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With just a few days to spare until its premiere, Netflix has released an explosive final trailer for Stranger Things Season 4 Vol. 1. The minute-long trailer introduces the kids’ Dungeons & Dragons team Hellfire Club, led by Dustin, who rolls a 20-sided die to decide their future. The group is also seen venturing into an ominous location of the Upside Down, filled with towering spikes and red storm clouds. Additional shots feature David Harbour‘s Jim Hopper seemingly staging a prison break from his confines in Russia. Season 4 is broken up into two volumes and begins six months after the events of the Season 2 finale. Each episode of Vol.1 will be noticeably longer than usual with an average runtime of 75 minutes. In addition to the familiar faces, the penultimate season will feature ...

Gearing up for the introduction of Marvel‘s first Muslim superhero on Disney+, the studio has released a new trailer for Ms. Marvel. The new trailer sees Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American teenager from New Jersey wield her superhuman abilities. Audiences can see the moment where Khan transforms from a teenager to a superhero and subsequently, the immediate effects it has on her life. The trailer provides a detailed snippet of her adjustment to superhero life, from her obsession with Captain Marvel to how she uses her powers. The beginning of the trailer sees Khan in conversation with the mosque’s priest as she explains that Captain Marvel would be able to convince everyone “how she’s good.” THe priest then responds, “Good is not a thing you are Kamala… it is a thing you do.” The moment dra...

Down With The King, the feature film debut of Freddie Gibbs, has received an official streaming and on-demand release date along with a brand new trailer. The Diego Ongaro-helmed movie is set to hit digital and on-demand on June 28, and stars Gibbs as disillusioned rapper Money Merc. His manager Paul, portrayed by David Krumholtz, sends him to a rural area to help him regain his interest in music, but it backfires once Merc realizes he prefers a much simpler life and announces his retirement. As Merc creates relationships with locals like Bob Tarasuk’s Bob, Sharon Washington’s Darlene and Jamie Neumann’s Michaele, Paul must try his best to lure his client back into the lucrative industry. In 2021, right after Down With The King held its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, HYPEBEAST spoke...

While LeBron James is not in the NBA playoffs this season, the King is still making noise despite being off the court. James recently took to Instagram story to remind fans of how Reebok once tried to give him $10 million USD to stop him from signing with Nike or adidas. Obviously backfired, James later signed a seven-year deal with Nike worth $90 million USD. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar reposted a post from Bleacher Report that noted LeBron James’ Nike deal “has a lifetime deal worth $1B.” Accompanying the repost on his Instagram stories, LeBron James wrote, “The doc is/will be insane!!” The “is/will” hyphenate sent fans in a frenzy, speculating that there might just be a LeBron James documentary regarding his Nike deal in the works. There is currently no concrete details revealed ju...

MTV officially announced a reboot of Jersey Shore, one of its most popular reality TV shows, with a brand new cast. However, the show’s original faces publicly shared that they are not on board with the idea of a revival. Original cast members Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, DJ Pauly D, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Vinny Guadagnino, Deena Cortese and Angelina Pivarnick all shared a joint statement on Twitter with the hashtag #WeAreJerseyShore, stating that they do not approve of a show that will “exploit” their origins and that fans should watch their ongoing spinoff: “As a cast that took a chance with a network in need, we put our most vulnerable moments on television for the world to see,” the statement begins. “We gave our all over the past 13 years, became a family a...

Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto has some words regarding Paramount+‘s TV adaptation of his video game. Earlier last week, Lehto took to Twitter to reveal his thoughts on the Halo TV show, commenting on how Paramount+’s plot has strayed far away from the original storyline of his characters. Between the years 1997 to 2012, Lehto worked at Halo‘s original franchise developer Bungie and was involved in the growth from the game as both its creative director and 3D artist. In a response to a fan comment who expressed their dislike for the new TV show adaptation, Lehto responded that he too was disappointed in the show, “I’m not sure where the inspiration for the show comes from now.” He even went as far as saying that the show was “not the Halo I made.” In a follow-up Tweet, a fan claims that Leht...

Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter spinoff, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, will be receiving an HBO Max release. Nearly a month after hitting theaters across the United States, the fantasy drama will be making its way to a wider audience on the streaming platform. The David Yates-directed film arrived as the third installment in the spinoff series, following 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, the narrative is set several years after its predecessor and sees the two wizards take on the dark magic of Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen). Magizoologist Scamander assembles a powerful team of wizards and witches and even taps one brave Muggle bake...

Warner Bros. on Monday dropped off the second official trailer for Elvis, Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming biopic on the “King of Rock and Roll” starring Austin Butler. The trailer provides a closer look at the film’s exploration of Elvis Presley‘s (Butler) life and career through the lens of his complicated relationship with his manager Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks. “The story delves into the complex dynamic between Presley and Parker spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and loss of innocence in America,” the official synopsis reads. “Central to that journey is one of the most significant and influential people in Elvis’s life, Priscilla Presley (Olivia DeJonge).” Aside from Butler,...

Netflix is set to release Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area later this summer as a spin to its popular Spanish series Money Heist. In the months leading up to the debut, the streaming giant has released another teaser trailer, this time focusing on how the unification of both North and South Korea is looking to produce more conflict than expected. The trailer gives audiences a glimpse of what the socio-political climate will look like after both nations’ reunification leads to the production of a newly united currency for the joint economic area. The issues that surface point toward an unjust system that benefits only the rich. A group of criminals with nothing to lose find themselves banding together to pull off one of the biggest money heist missions in the familiar red jumpsuits ...

Squid Game was unarguably one of most popular TV shows in 2021 and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is timid about being a victim of his success. During an interview with Deadline, Hwang revealed that he is developing three new shows — Squid Game season two, a feature film a novel inspired by respected Italian essayist Umberto Eco with the working title Killing Old Man’s Club and a satirical series reflecting Squid Game’s overnight success, currently entitled The Best Show on the Planet. “Season 1’s success has given me an immense amount of pressure and I am having nightmares about the reception for Season 2 not being so good,” he told Deadline. Hwang is putting his all into preparing for Squid Game season two, recently confirming that fan-favorite Gi-hun and Lee ...

Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Ackie and Toni Collette are reportedly joining Robert Pattinson in the ensemble cast of Bong Joon-ho‘s next Warner Bros. film. According to sources, the upcoming movie will be based on Edward Ashton’s recently-released novel Mickey7, which follows the story of an Expendable named Mickey7, “a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal…and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it.” The untitled film will be Bong’s followup to his 2019’s Parasite, and will see him write, direct and ...

Paramount Pictures on Monday dropped off the first official teaser for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, starring Tom Cruise. Dead Reckoning will arrive as the seventh installment in the decades-spanning spy thriller franchise, which sees Cruise play a special agent from the Impossible Missions Force named Ethan Hunt. The teaser confirms the return of several Mission: Impossible veterans, including Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Vanessa Kirby. Additionally, the trailer reveals that Henry Czerny will reprise his role as IMF director Eugene Kittridge from the original 1996 Mission: Impossible film. “Your days of fighting for the so-called ‘Greater Good’ are over,” Czerny tells Cruise in the preview. “This is our chance to control the truth. The conc...