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Almost a decade after J.J. Abrams and Chris Pine came together for their last Star Trek film, the two Hollywood creatives are now reuniting once again for yet another film in the franchise. The announcement came from Abrams himself during the ViacomCBS Investors Event, and Pine is currently engaged in talks with the studio to reprise his role as James T. Kirk after working with the director on 2009’s Star Trek and 2013’s Star Trek Into Darkness as well as Justin Lin in 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. While not much has been revealed regarding the film’s plot so far, the studio is also hoping to bring back Pine’s original crew, including Zachary Quinto‘s Spock, Zoe Saldana‘s Lieutenant Uhura, Karl Urban‘s Dr. Bones McCoy, John Cho‘s Sulu, and Simon Pegg‘s Scotty. With...

Owen Wilson has officially announced his return to hit Marvel and Disney+ show Loki. In a recent interview with WIRED, Wilson was asked whether or not he will be reprising his role as TVA agent Mobius for season two of Loki. Wilson simply replied, “Yes, he is coming back to Loki. And I think we’re gonna start filming that pretty soon. I had a great time working on Loki. I really enjoyed Tom Hiddleston and all the people on that.” Marvel first confirmed the second season of Loki in a post-credits scene in the finale episode of season one. In an interview with Marvel.com, protagonist Tom Hiddleston confirmed his excitement for the show stating, “I am so grateful that we got to do season one, I still am not quite able to process that we get to have another go at this. I am so excited by the p...

HBO has officially announced the premiere date of the third season of Barry, its dark comedy series starring Bill Hader. The Emmy-winning show is set to return on April 24 and will continue to follow Hader’s Barry, a former hitman attempting to turn a new leaf as an actor: “Desperate to leave his violent past behind in favor of his newfound passion, Barry (Hader) is attempting to untangle himself from the world of contract killing and fully immerse himself in acting. But getting out is messy. While Barry has eliminated many of the external factors that pushed him towards violence, he soon discovers they weren’t the only forces at play. What is it about his own psyche that led him to become a killer in the first place? Season three finds Barry and the other characters trying to make the rig...

Peaky Blinders is set to return for its sixth and final season on February 27 at 9 p.m. GMT on BBC One, with new episodes arriving every Sunday. The premiere date was revealed on Tuesday morning via a 42-foot high mural in Birmingham. Cillian Murphy returns in his leading role as Tommy Shelby, alongside Tom Hardy, Paul Anderson, Finn Cole, Anya Taylor-Joy and Sophie Rundle, among others, while Stephen Graham will also star. Murphy’s co-star, Helen McRory, passed away in April of last year and will not appear in the final season. “Peaky is back and with a bang,” creator and writer Steven Knight previously said of the upcoming season. “After the enforced production delay due to the Covid pandemic, we find the family in extreme jeopardy and the stakes have never been higher. We believe t...

Spider-Man: No Way Home has surpassed James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi movie Avatar in domestic box office sales, becoming the third-highest-grossing domestic film of all time with a total of $760.988 million USD, according to Sony via Deadline. No Way Home, which star Tom Holland in the titular role, reached the milestone in just 60 days and in its ninth week of release after raking in $1.615 million USD over Valentine’s Day weekend across 3,300 theaters. Avatar, on the other hand, took approximately nine months to reach the figure, earning $749.7 million USD, according to Box Office Mojo, and an additional $10.7 million USD from its re-release in 2010. Avatar, which earned a total of $760.5 million USD in the domestic box office, remains the No. 1 film globally, with total earn...

Paramount+ has already renewed its live-action Halo series for a second season, a month before the first season makes its debut. David Wiener, who has worked on Brave New World for the streamer, will serve as showrunner and executive producer. The TV show takes place in the original Halo world from when the game launched on Xbox in 2001, chronicling an epic face-off between mankind and an alien threat known as the Covenant. Pablo Schreiber stars as the Master Chief of Spartan-117 and Natascha McElhone portrays Dr. Halsey, the creator of the Spartan super soldiers. Jen Taylor returns as an AI assistant named Cortana, the same role she voiced in the Halo video game franchise. Fans have been awaiting the Halo show for nearly a decade. It was first announced in 2013 as a promotion for the new ...

Netflix is officially working on a movie adaptation of the BioShock video game series. According to reports, the streaming platform is teaming up with video game holding company and publishers Take-Two Interactive and 2K, while Vertigo Entertainment will co-produce alongside 2K. “Netflix is among the best and most forward-thinking storytellers in all of entertainment today. We are thrilled that they share our vision and commitment to the BioShock franchise, which is beloved by millions of fans around the world,” Take-Two Interactive’s Chairman and CEO, Strauss Zelnick, said in a statement. “2K’s Cloud Chamber studio is deep in active development on the next iteration of the series, and coupled with our partnership with Netflix, we remain highly confident that BioShock will continue to capt...

Though the Los Angeles Rams made national headlines for their win over the Cincinnati Bengals, Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI wasn’t just about football. With an estimated 36 million US households tuned into the broadcast, international brands cashed in astronomical sums (roughly $7 million USD for a 30-second slot, to be exact) to showcase their latest commercials during the highly-watched sporting event. Between Doja Cat‘s rendition of Hole’s “Celebrity Skin” for Taco Bell, Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd reminiscing on not-so-golden memories for Lay’s and NFL player Jerod Mayo tackling Pete Davidson for Hellman’s Mayo, HYPEBEAST has rounded up some of the best 2022 Super Bowl commercials below. Lizzo in Real Tone #SeenOnPixel In Google‘s Pixel 6 camera commercial, Lizzo sings an unreleased track, dub...

Fight Club director David Fincher has responded to the film’s controversially changed ending on Tencent Video, the Chinese video streaming website owned by Tencent. Speaking to Empire Magazine, the filmmaker compared the decision to change the ending to the finale of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, which saw “Jack” enter an institution, “It’s funny to me that the people who wrote the Band-Aid [ending] in China must have read the book, because it adheres pretty closely.” “Here’s what we know,” he said. “A company licensed the film from New Regency to show it in China, with a boilerplate [contract]: ‘You have to understand cuts may be made for censhorship purposes.’ No-one said, ‘If we don’t like the ending, can we change it?’ So there’s now a discussion being had as to what ‘trims’ means.” Fi...

More than a year after Hulu‘s cancellation of High Fidelity, actress Zoë Kravitz reminded the network that canning the series was “a big mistake.” In a recent interview with Elle, the 33-year-old actress doubled down on the comments she made about Hulu’s move. “They didn’t realize what that show was and what it could do,” Kravitz shared. “The amount of letters, DMs, people on the street, and women that look like us—like, that love for the show, it meant something to people. It was a big mistake.” Upon the show’s cancellation, Kravitz took to social media to share her gratitude for the short-lived series. “I wanna give a shout out to my #highfidelity family,” she wrote on an instagram post. “Thank you for all the love and heart you put into this show. I’m in awe of all of you. And...

Warner Bros. Animation and New Line‘s forthcoming anime film, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, is slated to premiere in theaters on April 12, 2024. The movie, which was first announced in June of last year, takes place hundreds of years prior to Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and centers on the Helm’s Deep fortress. Additionally, the anime will chronicle the war-filled reign of Helm Hammerhand, King of Rohan. Kenji Kamiyama, who directed Blade Runner: Black Lotus and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, will helm the upcoming film, based on a script written by Phoebe Gittins and Arty Papageorgiou. Philippa Boyens, who worked on the Oscar-winning screenwriting teams for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, is executive producing. The cast has ...

During Super Bowl LVI, Marvel Studios dropped the second trailer for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The latest look at the upcoming sequel which picks up after the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home was loaded with Easter eggs and hidden details. The trailer which runs a little over two minutes shows Doctor Strange dealing with the fractures in the universe he caused. Coming to terms with his decisions and confronting the ancient being Shuma-Gorath, Baron Mordo, Scarlet Witch and more. Aside from getting more looks at Evil Doctor Strange and Defender Strange, we get glimpses of Monica Rambeau, Rintrah, Captain Marvel, America Chavez, Captain Carter and Doctor Strange as a zombie. Though the biggest reveal was undoubtedly the existence of the Illuminati who meet a shackled Stra...