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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...

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...