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GameStop made quite a splash in the news in early 2021 when an internet group noticed that big-time investors were recklessly over-shorting the company shares. The major investors were convinced that the retailer was on the brink of collapse and shorted 140% of the company’s entire public shareholding. In a joint effort spearheaded through the subreddit r/WallStreetBets, the group purchased all outstanding GameStop stock, driving up the price, ensuring that the big funds bet backfired. MSNBC‘s new documentary Diamond Hands: The Legend of WallStreetBets outlines the perspective of individuals who invested in the company early on and held on to their shares. While others utilized the opportunity to make a fortune, others’ profits were slightly more modest in comparison. The documentary focus...

In a recent interview with Empire, director Sam Raimi, who is best known for directing Spider-Man and the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, revealed that he would be willing to jump ship from Marvel and direct a Batman film. He explained, “I’ve always loved Batman. If I ever saw the Batsignal up in the air, I’d come running.” He added, “If I heard that deep, gurgling laugh of The Shadow coming from the darkness, I would also tentatively step outside.” Further in the interview, he also made a list of characters he would like to continue to make films for stating, “Spider-Man would be ahead of Doctor Strange, but I don’t want to put him down the list!” Matt Reeves recently debuted his The Batman film starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano and mor...

Dragon Ball fana can rejoice as Crunchyroll has just announced the arrival of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, and Dragon Ball GT on the anime platform starting today. Both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball GT will be in the form of English subs and dubs while Dragon Ball Z will have just the English dub version. This is the first time the Toei Animation franchise will arrive at Crunchyroll for audiences in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The season and episode count for the three new Dragon Ball series now available are as follows: Dragon Ball (Seasons 1 – 5) – 153 Episodes (English Subs and Dub) Dragon Ball Z (Seasons 1 – 9) – 291 Episodes (English Dub) Dragon Ball GT (Seasons 1 – 2) – 64 Episodes (English Subs and Dub) In other entertainment news, the first official Ms. M...

The full trailer for the two sequels to the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist adaptation has just been released. Following the later arcs of the original manga, Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Chapter – The Avenger Scar and Fullmetal Alchemist: Final Chapter – The Last Transmutation will feature a whole host of new characters, including Mackenyu Arata as Scar, Yuina Kuroshima as Lan Fan Keisuke Watanabe as Ling Yao, Yuki Yamada as Solf J. Kimblee, Hiroshi Tachi as King Bradley, Koji Yamamoto as Alex Louis Armstrong, Chiaki Kuriyama as Olivier Mira Armstrong, Seiyo Uchino as Van Hohenheim, Yukie Nakama as Trisha Elric, Jun Fubuki as Pinako Rockbell, Naohito Fujiki as Yuriy Rockbell, Kaoru Okunuki as Sarah Rockbell, Koboro Terada as Selim Bradley, Long Meng Rou as May Chang, and Haruhi Ry...

Marvel Studios has dropped off the official trailer for its upcoming Disney+ series, Ms. Marvel. The series centers on Muslim-American Jersey girl Kamala Khan, or Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), who attempts to navigate high school as a superpowered human with the ability to shape-shift, stretch her limbs and alter her appearance. Between scenes showing classmates making fun of Kamala by mispronouncing her name and shots of the teenage hero fawning over a shirtless boy at a party in the trailer, the show appears to serve as Ms. Marvel’s origin story. “It’s not really the brown girls from Jersey City who save the world,” Kamala says before the trailer cuts through a series of fantastical shots of the emerging hero’s superpowers. Vellani stars alongside Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Matt Lin...

Marvel fans have been pitching their theories about the return of Professor X when he was teased in the latest Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness trailer, but film producer Richie Palmer is telling fans to keep an open mind. Speaking to Empire, Palmer quote the first X-Men movie in response to the possible return of Patrick Stewart‘s Charles Xavier: “‘Are you sure you saw what you saw?’” He added, “There are infinite versions of these characters, and just because you may have heard something familiar doesn’t mean it’s someone you have seen before.” The producer also clarified the other rumors claiming that Professor X’s return is part of the MCU’s introduction of the cabal the Illuminati, which reportedly “at times featured Xavier, plus Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, and Doctor...

HBO Max has released its official trailer for crime drama series Tokyo Vice. The series is based on Jake Adelstein’s 2009 memoir, which follows the journey of an American journalist who moves to Tokyo to investigate the corruption within the vice squad of the police department. In the trailer, audiences can see Ansel Elgort play the journalist, who is immediately alienated by his local co-workers because he is a foreigner. His character later finds himself knee-deep in the police and crime underworld in Tokyo. Elgort’s character makes light of his situation in a particular scene by asking, “What’s it like to be a Yakuza? I could write about that.” To which he receives the response, “Yes, but then I’d have to kill you.” The series is produced by Michael Mann and penned by J.T. Rogers. Ansel...

Former President Barack Obama is set to host and narrate Netflix‘s upcoming docuseries Our Great National Parks.  The series, which debuts on the streamer on April 13, centers on a plethora of famous nationals parks across the globe, with footage shot in the U.S., Chile, Indonesia, Kenya and several other locations. While Obama primarily narrates the docuseries, the trailer does see the former president introduce the show on a beach in the introduction. “Spanning five continents, the series brims with wonder, humor, and optimism as each episode tells the story of a national park through the lives of its wildest residents — both big and exceptionally small — and explores our changing relationship with wilderness,” the official synopsis reads. “Our Great National Parks beckons us t...

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn shut down reports of a possible prequel storyline, reminding fans of the relationship between Thanos, Nebula and Gamora. A tweet claimed that the Guardians of the Galaxy prequel series will focus on “Gamora’s family-like relationship with Nebula and Thanos,” to which Gunn responded, “lol no – he tortured them, not exactly a “family-like” relationship.” While the filmmaker did not directly deny any involvement of Thanos and Nebula in the supposed prequel series, he made sure to clarify that any so-called familial relationship the three had was not familial at all. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is set to hit theaters on May 5, 2023 and will see a cast comprised of Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, P...

Ahead of the release of Marvel‘s highly anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Benedict Cumberbatch has teased fans of what to expect for the upcoming film. In a recent interview with Empire, Cumberbatch promises fans that Doctor Strange is “a big, big movie.” He added, “It’s going to be an absolute riot. And if it brings off the level of ambition it’s got, we’re going to have a success on the level of Spidey. There you go, I’ll put my flag in the sand.” If it is anything that blockbusters like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame have shown is that the Doctor Strange inclusion into the storyline is quite popular when it comes to marvel films. The second installment of Doctor Strange sees Cumberbatch’s character play alongside Xochitl Gomez as he...

Darth Maul, the Sith Lord who faced Ewan McGregor‘s Obi-Wan in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, was supposedly meant to return in the upcoming Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, but was written out and replaced by Darth Vader instead. According to The Hollywood Reporter, sources state that Ray Park was “in active prep” to reprise his role as the fan-favorite villain but was written out when the show’s original writer, Hossein Amini, was removed from the project. Lucasfilm was reportedly not happy with the scripts, and Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau were not on board with the storyline of Obi-Wan coming out of hiding to protect a young Luke Skywalker as it was too similar with The Mandalorian‘s. Filoni was also allegedly the one who “keyed in on a way for Vader to be brought back” a...