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Taika Waititi‘s latest pirate comedy series Our Flag Means Death has finally received a release date over on HBO Max. Scheduled to arrive this March, the new show will make its debut over the month on four different occasions. The first two drops will release three episodes each on March 3 and 10, with the final four episodes of the 10-episode season split between two on March 17 and two on March 24. As for the show itself, comedic actor Rhys Darby will be portraying the infamous Stede Bonnet, an aristocrat-turned-pirate who leads a group of “gentlemen pirates” across the Caribbean and subsequently partners with Waititi’s Blackbeard before the two leaders fall apart and seek revenge on each other. Joining the two will be a cast list including Leslie Jones, Fred Armisen, Kristian Nairn, Nat...

Unfortunately for fans of The Last of Us, the epic game’s live-action series adaptation on HBO will not be arriving this year. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, HBO programming president Casey Bloys revealed that the video game-based series will not be airing any time soon. “We haven’t announced an air date yet,” he said, “but it’s not 2022,” noting that the series is still filming in Calgary, Canada right now. Most likely to arrive in 2023 then, the series will feature Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal as Joel alongside his Game of Thrones co-star Bella Ramsey as Ellie. Joining the two will be Gabriel Luna as Joel’s brother Tommy, Merle Dandridge as resistance leader Marlene, Anna Torv as Tess, and Nick Offerman as Bill. The plot of the series will mirror ...

Paramount Pictures has announced that Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be the first of a new trilogy series. The upcoming film is based on the Beast Wars animated series and will be the seventh film in the Transformers live-action film saga. Set in 1994, Rise of the Beasts is a sequel to Bumblebee and will revolve around the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, who’ll be pictured in NYC and parts of Peru. The Beast Wars inspiration hints at the live-action premiere of new factions of Transformers including Predacons, Terrorcons, and Maximals, who are sub-factions and descendants of Decepticons and Autobots. Steven Caple Jr. is the director of the film, and the main cast will star Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback. “We wanted to give the audience a lot of new,” producer ...

Warner Bros. has officially confirmed that it is adapting the beloved Wonder Twins comic into a live-action DC Comics film. The film has brought on Adam Szykiel, who has worked on the upcoming Black Adam, to write and direct the original live-action feature. The film is set to be produced for HBO Max and follows the storyline of the pair of alien siblings, Zan and Jayna. The twins, best known for their superhero catchphrase, “Wonder Twin power, activate!” is said before Jayna transforms into any animal of her choosing and Zan is turned into various shapes of water. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the characters have been made popular “thanks to their introduction on Hanna-Barbera’s The All-New Super Friends Hour as young companions to adult heroes such as Superman, Batman and Wonder W...

Paramount+ has announced a July 2022 release for its upcoming Beavis and Butt-Head film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. Marking the first Beavis and Butt-Head movie since 1996’s Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe follows Mike Judge’s animated slackers in their trip to space: “In perhaps the dumbest space movie ever made, Beavis and Butt-Head are sentenced to Space Camp by a “creative” judge in 1998. Their obsession with a docking simulator (huh huh) leads to a trip on the Space Shuttle, with predictably disastrous results. After going through a black hole, they reemerge in our time, where they look for love, misuse iPhones, and are hunted by the Deep State. Spoiler: They don’t score.” Paramount+ also confirmed the new season of the beloved series a...

HBO Max has released the trailer for Larry David‘s two-part documentary, The Larry David Story. The original documentary takes audiences and fans alike on David’s rise to comedy stardom. The start of the journey begins at his standup career and touches on his co-creating efforts for Seinfeld and his most recent eleven seasons of the ground-breaking series Curb Your Enthusiasm. David gives fans a glimpse of how his career in comedy began and can be heard saying in the trailer, “Twenty-five years old, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. Well, what do you do when you’re talking and people are laughing? You do comedy.” He adds, “I never thought of myself as being funny. Anything I was associated with that could be successful was a shock.” David recalls one of his memories with his mother, when ...

John Cena is set to star in Warner Bros.‘ upcoming Looney Tunes film, Coyote vs. Acme. Helmed by Dave Green and written by Samy Burch, reports state that the movie is being billed as a hybrid live-action and animated title based on the iconic Looney Tunes characters and Ian Frazier’s “Coyote v. Acme” New Yorker article. Coyote vs. Acme will follow Wile E. Coyote as he attempts to sue the ACME Corporation for their products’ failure in helping him catch the Roadrunner. Cena will portray the “intimidating” former boss of the lawyer Coyte hires to sue ACME, “but a growing friendship between man and cartoon stokes their determination to win.” Chris DeFaria and James Gunn, the latter of whom created Cena’s Peacemaker series on HBO Max, will produce under the Two Monkeys, A Goat and Another...

SEGA Corp and Paramount Pictures have officially announced the third Sonic the Hedgehog film and a Knuckles-focused spinoff series with Idris Elba. The news was announced during this week’s Viacom Investor Event — about two months before Sonic the Hedgehog 2, which will mark Elba’s debut as Knuckles, hits theaters on April 8. Reports additionally state that Elba’s Knuckles spinoff on Paramount+, which is described as the “first-ever original live-action Sonic series,” will premiere in 2023. “We are delighted to announce that the third Sonic theatrical film and the first live-action Sonic series for Paramount+ are being actively developed. We’ve got a remarkable partnership with Paramount, and we are excited to continue expanding the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise with them,” SEGA CEO Ha...

A Quiet Place III is in the works with an anticipated release scheduled for 2025, John Krasinski shared during Paramount’s investor day on Tuesday. The first film in the series premiered in 2018, starring Krasinski alongside his wife, actress Emily Blunt. The franchise follows a family fighting to survive in a world invaded by aliens who hunt by sound. It was succeeded by A Quiet Place II in May 2021, in which Krasinski had a cameo role. There’s also a spinoff set in The Quiet Place world currently underway from Pig director Michael Sarnoski. Blunt first teased that Krasinski may have a potential trilogy in mind during an interview last May. “I think he just wanted to see how people responded to [Part II] before he fully engaged his brain on a third one,” she said. “But he has a couple of ...

Showtime has renewed its TV series Super Pumped for a second season. Each season of Super Pumped focuses on a company that “rocked the business world to its core and changed culture.” For its second run, the show will shift its focus to Facebook’s rise from a startup to the powerhouse it is today. Based on a book by journalist New York Times Mike Isaac, the series “focus on the relationship at the center of that metamorphosis — between Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg — and the world-changing forces unleashed, intentionally and unintentionally, as a result,” per the logline. Sandberg assumed the role of Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer in 2008, where she remains today. The first installment of the show, which premieres on February 27, takes a look at the notorious “boy’s club” work cu...

HBO Max has renewed James Gunn‘s popular DC series Peacemaker for a second season. The Suicide Squad spin-off, which stars John Cena in the role of government assassin Chris Smith/Peacemaker, first premiered on the platform in January. HBO Max made the announcement for season two on Wednesday, just hours before the show’s season finale airs this evening. “Creating Peacemaker has been one of the true highlights of my life, both professionally and otherwise, with John Cena and the incredible creative team around me, as well as our partners at HBO Max,” Gunn said in a statement. “To have something we all love so much be loved by the audience in turn has been a wonderful experience. I can’t wait for folks to see where team Peacemaker goes in season two!” Prior to HBO Max’s ...

Following the finale of Demon Slayer Season 2, in which viewers were shown the tragic backstories of Upper Six demons Gyutaro and Daki and Tengen Uzui‘s retirement, a new teaser has been released, revealing that Season 3 Swordsmith Village Arc is currently in production. [embedded content] From the images shown in the teaser, the new arc looks to revolve around the Demon Slayer Corps’ Mist Hashira, Muichiro Tokito, and Love Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji. Scenes from the Entertainment District Arc finale also hint at the appearance of rainbow-eyed Upper 6 demon, Doma. While Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Seasons 1 and 2 had a more-than two-year gap, the Mugen Train movie was released in between, and complications brought on by COVID-19 reportedly had an impact on the release dates. While no offi...