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According to reports, HBO Max has now canceled its plans for The Boondocks reboot. Back in 2019, HBO‘s streaming platform had ordered a two-season, 24-episode return of the adult animated sitcom from creator Aaron McGruder and Sony Pictures Animation. The reboot was initially set to start with a 50-minute special in fall 2020 but plans did not come to fruition. It was also noted that the reboot would see Robert “Granddad” Freeman and his grandsons Huey and Riley move to an idyllic community in suburban Maryland. Only to be met by Uncle Ruckus, who had taken over the once peaceful community. Sony Pictures Animation is now seeking new options for The Boondocks reboot. For more entertainment news, The Batman recently received a new ominous poster. Read Full Article

Disney has reportedly greenlit Star Wars: Andor for a second season before its first one even premieres. In a recent Swedish interview, co-creator Stellan Skarsgård told Dagens Nyheter that Disney has already approved a second season for the show and that shooting will commence later this year. “We start with [filming Dune: Part Two] in July. And then in the autumn, it’s time for the second season of the Star Wars series Andor,” the creative remarked. “I do not know when they will start broadcasting it. It will take some time so that it does not take too long between season one and season two.” As for season one itself, Disney is currently scheduling its premiere for some time during the fourth quarter of this year. Diego Luna will reprise his role as the titular Rebell...

Since its original release in 1977, The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson has gone on to inspire countless horror films and franchises, and now you’ll be able to learn about the true events that itself inspired the terrifying book. Titled The Making of a Haunting: The Amityville Murders, the new docuseries is produced by B17 Entertainment and slated to release on Epix. The show’s four parts will investigate the real incident that inspired Anson’s book, where a man named Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. murdered his father, mother, two brothers, and two sisters in the infamous Amityville house back in 1974. Executive producers for the show include Lesley Chilcott, Blaine Duncan, Brooklyn Hudson, Amanda Raymond, Rhett Bachner and Brien Meagher. There’s currently no release date just yet for Th...

Emmy-winning drama series Euphoria will return for a third season, HBO has confirmed. The news arrives halfway through the second season of the hit show created by Sam Levinson. The second season, Zendaya reprises her role as Rue, a high school student struggling with a recent relapse and the difficulties of navigating her relationship with Hunter Schafer’s Jules. Season one actors appearing alongside Zendaya and Schafer include Nika King, Eric Dane, Angus Cloud, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Javon Walton, Storm Reid and Austin Abrams. Musician Dominic Fike made his acting debut in season two of Euphoria, portraying the independent Elliot. “Sam, Zendaya, and the entire cast and crew of Euphoria have taken season two to extraordinary heights, chal...

Dakota Johnson is reportedly in negotiations to join the Sony–Marvel universe as Madame Web. According to sources, the film will be helmed by Jessica Jones director S.J. Clarkson while Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless will write the screenplay. Deadline adds that a female lead has “always been a top priority” for the Sony-Marvel universe, with studio executives taking their time to decide on who will be given the role. Johnson supposedly became the favorite before the holiday season. Madame Web, whose real name is Cassandra Webb, is a clairvoyant who appears as as an elderly woman with the neuromuscular disease myasthenia gravis and is connected to a life support system similar to a spiderweb. She first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #210 from November 1980 and is the grandmother o...

Paramount+ and CBS are reportedly looking to expand the Star Trek universe with a new series titled Starfleet Academy. According to Deadline, sources close to the project reveal that the show will be developed with Star Trek boss Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout banner and bring on Absentia‘s co-creator Gaia Violo to lead. Starfleet Academy shares the same name as a video game from the franchise back in the ’90s and will follow the adventures of a group of cadets who are in college preparing to take on leadership roles for the United Federation of Planets. Other details including casting remain scarce at the moment, and no official announcement has been made by Paramount+ or CBS yet, although Kurtzman himself has previously hinted at its plans, stating that “there is another [...

Following the release of its trailer, Studio Ghibli launched its official website of the Ghibli Park to further tease the forthcoming landmark. This will be the world’s first park inspired by the beloved Japanese animation studio known for its wildly imaginative narratives and visuals. Currently undergoing construction, the park is set to be structured in Aichi Expo Memorial Park (Morikoro Park) in Nagakute, Japan — a massive land full of greenery much like the settings in the films. As co-founder Hayao Miyazaki intended, there will be no big attractions or rides to invite guests to “take a stroll, feel the wind, and discover the wonders” of the world of Ghibli to fully immersive one’s self. The site will be divided into five sectors and will showcase areas inspired by the classics namely ...

Michael Vicens-Segura has filed a lawsuit against Jackass staples Steve-O and Chris Pontius over a jet ski stunt that supposedly left him injured. According to papers obtained by TMZ, Vicens-Segura is suing the two stuntmen for negligence and claims that in 2018, the two stuntmen asked if they could use his jet ski for a water stunt while they were in Puerto Rico. The water stunt was supposedly a tug-of-war on jet skis — similar to the group’s BMX Tug of War from the past — where two people, attached to each other via a bungee cord, will be on jet skis facing opposite directions. The pair will then speed off and see who gets pulled to the water first. Vicens-Segura now alleges that he was asked to hold one of the jet skis due to the waves and when Steve-O and Pontius attempted to spee...

Spike Lee will direct an upcoming multi-part documentary on Colin Kaepernick for ESPN. The project, which was first unveiled in July 2020 in tandem with Kaepernick’s first-look deal with Disney via his production company Ra Vision Media, has already begun production. “Kaepernick, who has never given a full, first-person account of his journey, is collaborating closely with Lee who plans to use extensive new interviews and a vast never-before-seen archive to help Kaepernick tell his story from his perspective,” a press release reads. ESPN Films will executive produce the documentary in partnership with 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. No title or release date has been announced for the project. Kaepernick previously executive produced his own Netflix series titled Colin in Black & Wh...

Netflix has revealed a full list of every new original movie that will premiere on the streaming platform in 2022, which will include one new release per week. A star-studded trailer, released on Thursday, sees actors including Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron, Ryan Gosling and more speak directly to the camera while in character. Elsewhere, stars like Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Reynolds, Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth, Jason Momoa, Mark Wahlberg Kevin Hart, Queen Latifa and others make appearances to deliver messages about the streamer’s upcoming projects. The new slate features work from Hollywood’s top filmmakers, including Guillermo del Toro, Rian Johnson, Anthony and Joe Russo, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Niki Caro, Nora Twomey, Sally El Hosaini, George C. Wolfe, Ju...

Following the recent box office success of Scream, Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media have announced that another Scream sequel is officially in the works. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will return to direct the next installment in the slasher franchise, while James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick will co-write the script. While plot details remain under wraps, it is known that production is scheduled to begin this summer. The latest Scream saw the return of Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott, Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, David Arquette as Dewey Riley and Marley Shelton as Judy Hicks. The film also welcomed several new faces to the franchise, including Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Mason Gooding, Mikey Madison, Kyle Gallner, Jack Quaid and others. “We are ...