ENTERTAINMENT

The highly anticipated League of Legends Netflix series Arcane has turned out to be a great success scoring a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomato’s Tomatometer and a 98% audience score. With a combination of stunning animation, a captivating storyline, and an exciting soundtrack/sound design, LoL fans and non-players alike have been thoroughly impressed by the six episodes released so far. As the tension between Piltover and Zaun teeters on the brink of all-out war, the Part III teaser shows Jinx continuing her Hextech testing and following orders from the Zaun underground’s head honcho Silco, while Vi seeks revenge on the villain for brainwashing her sister. Seen forming an unlikely alliance with Piltover’s new Councilor Jayce, Vi is given the prototype Hextech gauntlets as the two set off to b...

With just a month to go before its theatrical release, Searchlight Pictures has now dropped the full trailer for Guillermo del Toro‘s latest psychological thriller Nightmare Alley. Helmed by the Oscar-winning The Shape of Water director alongside screenwriter Kim Morgan, Nightmare Alley follows a charismatic con-man named Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) who ends up partnering up with a mysterious and seemingly menacing psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett) in order to manipulate a business tycoon (Richard Jenkins). The three are joined by an all-star cast including Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Toni Collette, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn. Check out the full trailer above while you wait for the film’s release on December 17. Elsewhere in entertainment, Wesley Snipes says he feels “no e...

American rock band The Grateful Dead is getting a biopic and Jonah Hill has been cast as the iconic lead guitarist and vocalist, Jerry Garcia. The upcoming work is set to be directed by Academy award-winning director and producer Martin Scorsese, the mind behind films like Taxi Driver, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Irishman and more. The forthcoming movie has been set in motion by Apple, which owns the Grateful Dead catalog, and will see Hill and Scorsese as co-producers. Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, in addition to Rick Yorn of LBI Entertainment, have also signed on to the project, according to Deadline. The Grateful Dead bandmembers Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Garcia’s daughter Trixie Garcia will also serve as executive producers. The new m...

Hulu has released the first official trailer for its upcoming limited series Pam & Tommy, which stars Lily James as Pamela Anderson and Sebastian Stan as Tommy Lee. Helmed by I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie, the forthcoming show will chronicle the relationship of the Baywatch star and Mötley Crüe drummer after their wedding in 1995, the birth of their children and the leak of their honeymoon sex tape by Rand Gauthier, portrayed by Seth Rogen, and Uncle Miltie, portrayed by Nick Offerman. The trailer teases how Gauthier and Miltie got their hands on the private tape and their plans to publicly release it, along with the stronger impact the tape initially had on Anderson as compared to Lee. Also joining the cast is Taylor Schilling as Erica Boyer, the late former pornographic actress a...

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk is now getting his own documentary over on HBO. Directed by renowned photographer and director Sam Jones and produced by the Duplass Brothers, Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off will follow the life and career of the Californian athlete, most known for being the first person ever to complete a documented 900 trick back in 1999 among his various other accolades. Deadline reports that the feature will have “unprecedented access to hawk, via interviews and never-before-seen footage” along with guest appearances from big names in the sport, including Stacy Peralta, Rodney Mullen, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Neil Blender, Andy MacDonald, Duane Peters, Sean Mortimer and Christian Hosoi. “I’ve been enamored and fascinated with Tony Hawk...

With the month quickly coming to a close, Disney+ has unveiled its slate of programming for December 2021. Next month’s list is led by the premiere of The Book of Boba Fett, which marks the first live-action Star Wars title since the second season of The Mandalorian. The forthcoming series will see Temuera Morrison portray Boba Fett while Ming-Na Wen will return as Fennec Shand. Other releases to watch next month are the new animated film Encanto and the season finale of Hawkeye. Subscribers can also check out seasonal offerings like Christmas… Again?! and Mickey & Minnie Wish Upon A Christmas, along with fan favorites such as Edward Scissorhands, Tron Legacy and more. Take a look at the full list of new Disney+ titles below. Coming to Disney+ December 1Disney InsiderHawkeye – Epi...

The U.S. remake of the original South Korean zombie blockbuster Train to Busan has been given the official name Last Train to New York. The remake will be produced by New Line Cinema and directed by Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto, who’s behind Netflix‘s The Night Comes for Us and award-winning thriller Headshot. Gary Dauberman and James Wan will also be involved in production assistance and screenplay writing, having worked with New Line in the past to produce horror classics such as Annabelle, The Nun, and The Conjuring series. As the name suggests, the new zombie-filled train will be arriving in New York, with some fans speculating the origin location to be either Boston or Washington D.C. based on the similar three to four hour travel time from Busan to Seoul. The announcement follo...

After months of leaks, we now have a new trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home. Coming after the packed first look at the highly-anticipated Marvel Studios film, the latest trailer confirms a series of villain appearances and teases other things we can expect both in the film and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We now have an in-depth look at the Easter eggs and details that you might have missed. Aside from getting more scenes of Doctor Otto Octavius, we received a first look at Willem Dafoe‘s Green Goblin from Sam Raimi‘s take on Spider-Man. Other past villains that show up include Jamie Foxx‘s Electro, Sandman, the Lizard and the Hobgoblin. Additionally, we have various callbacks to other past Spider-Man films through various recreated scenes. Interestingly, there also appears to b...

Netflix has officially released its teaser trailer for Ozark‘s fourth and final season. Titular characters played by Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz and Skylar Gaertner are set to return to their roles as part of the Byrde family. While the tagline for the forthcoming season emphasizes, “All decisions have consequences,” as echoed by Bateman’s voiceover for the teaser, fans are given a glimpse of an ominous ending to the series. In the eerie footage that sees a series of events played backwards, Bateman is heard saying, “Human beings make decisions. They commit acts, and that makes things happen. It creates a snowball effect, causes other people to make decisions.” The trailer ends with a shot of the Byrnes family driving and all smiling. The fourth season is set to be 14 episod...

MCU staple Jeremy Renner has opened up about his future with Marvel after the Disney+ series Hawkeye, sharing that he has “no idea” what will come next. In an interview with GamesRadar+, the actor, who has played Clint Barton since 2011, explained that he is simply excited for the Hawkeye series and its new cast members. “I don’t have a crystal ball, or I’m not a soothsayer,” he said. “But having Hailee come in, and these characters, I think it opens it up for six great episodes for this event type of television. After that, I have no idea. But these six episodes are pretty exciting.” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige added they always wanted to take a much deeper dive into the character of Hawkeye. “All of these roles have been fairly small. And then Ultron, we got a little more. And t...

Netflix‘s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series has officially cast three major roles, as production on the show has now begun. Paul Sun-Hyung Lee (The Mandalorian) will play Uncle Iroh, the retired Fire Nation general and the all-knowing apprentice to his quick-tempered nephew, Prince Zuko. Lim Kay Siu (Anna and The King) will assume the role of Gyatso, the loving Air Nomad monk who acts as a father figure to Aang. Ken Leung (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) will depict Commander Zhao, the conniving Fire Nation officer who places his personal goals first during a run-in with a distressed Prince Zuko. The newly announced cast members will join Gordon Cormier (Aang), Kiawentiio (Katara), Ian Ousley (Sokka), Dallas Liu (Zuko) and Daniel Dae Kim (Fire Lord Ozai) in the ser...

Netflix subscribers across the globe have collectively watched 2.1 billion total hours of Squid Game through Sunday, according to the streamer’s new public popularity charts. For context, that figure is equivalent to more than 239,700 years. In Squid Game‘s first 28 days on the platform, the series received 1.65 billion hours of viewing time, making it the most-watched show on Netflix. The second most-watched titled, Bridgerton, received less than half that figure in its first 28 days, clocking in at 625 million hours. The new statistics have been made available through the official Top 10 Netflix website, which the streamer now plans to update every Tuesday with information regarding the most-viewed English and non-English titles during the previous Monday through Sunday. “Figur...