ENTERTAINMENT

The official list of the 2022 Golden Globes nominees has been released. This year’s 79th Annual Golden Globes Awards come at a sensitive time as NBC had decided earlier this year that they will not be airing the ceremonies. The controversy occurred after an exposé of the Globes revealed the lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In response to the backlash, the HFPA announced in October that it has its “most diverse” class of new members this year. This year’s nominations were announced by rapper Snoop Dogg. Netflix has once again dominated the list with The Power of the Dog leading with seven film nominees, Don’t Look Up with five, Tick, Tick…BOOM! with three and Squid Game with four. Belfast also has seven nominations while HBO drama series Succession earned the mo...

Disney has now greenlit a live-action tv series reboot for Zorro, and Wilmer Valderrama is set to play the titular hero. According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, the media giant intends to bring the legendary Latino hero back via a “telenovela style” series under Disney Branded Television, with former Disney Channel president Gary Marsh acting as producer alongside Valderrama himself. Zorro Productions’ John Gertz will also return to the franchise as executive producer following his work on both The Mask of Zorro and The Legend of Zorro. “Growing up, Zorro was the one character that made me, as a Latino, feel like I could be a hero,” Valderrama said in a statement. “As an adult and a storyteller, I have a responsibility in the stories that I help bring to ...

Spider-Man: No Way Home has been one of the most highly-anticipated films this year. The Marvel movie received its worldwide premiere in Los Angeles last night and immediately scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is Tom Holland‘s third venture as MCU‘s Spider-Man, following his debut performance in Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2017 and Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019. The latest film seems to live up to the hype surrounding the MCU franchise and is mostly due to its ability to tie in all the Spider-Man films. The MCU’s Peter has battled against the most iconic villains from Sam Raimi and Marc Webb’s Spider-Man films. With 45 reviews, Spider-Man: No Way Home has received an “Certified Fresh” rating. The positively overwhelming 100% grading sees the film receive praises from some industry...

A month after dropping the first teaser for the Ultraman anime’s second season, Netflix and Tsuburaya Productions have now unveiled the series’ new key art along with the announcement of its release window. For fans of the action-packed anime, Ultraman season two will finally arrive on Netflix in April 2022, exactly three years since the first season’s debut back in 2019. While most details revolving around the new season are still being kept under wraps, we do know from promotional material that many more Ultraman characters will be joining the mech suit team come April, including Jack, Taro and Zoffy to form the legendary Ultra 6 Brothers. The announcements also revealed that a new Alien Pedanto will be introduced in the upcoming season, with Jujutsu Kaisen and Mobile...

A24 on Tuesday shared the first official trailer for Everything Everywhere All at Once, an upcoming sci-fi adventure film from Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. In the movie, Michelle Yeoh stars as Mrs. Wang, “an exhausted Chinese American woman who can’t seem to finish her taxes,” according to A24’s brief synopsis. The trailer begins as Wang discusses her finances with a concerned and hardly recognizable Jamie Lee Curtis. “Now, you may only see a pile of receipts, but I see a story,” Curtis says. “I can see where this story is going. It does not look good.” Wang is then thrust into the “multiverse,” where she discovers thousands of different versions of herself, and she is able to access the skills and memories from each variation of her identity. While there, Wang is tasked with van...

Netflix‘s JEEN-YUHS trilogy documentary following Kanye West‘s rise to global stardom is slated to premiere at the 2022 Sundance Festival in January. The doc, directed by Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah, will then hit Netflix for widespread streaming at an undisclosed date later next year. “Shot over 20 years, this documentary trilogy is an intimate and revealing portrait of Kanye West’s experience, showcasing both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist,” Netflix wrote of the project on Twitter. JEEN-YUHS Shot over 20 years, this documentary trilogy is an intimate and revealing portrait of Kanye West’s experience, showcasing both his formative days trying to break through and his life today as a global brand and artist....

Lionsgate on Tuesday shared the official trailer for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, an upcoming film starring Nicolas Cage as a fictionalized version of himself. The movie centers on a heavily-indebted Cage who agrees to attend the birthday celebration of a rich megafan (Pedro Pascal of The Mandalorian and Narcos) for $1 million USD, only to be recruited by a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) to execute a mission. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which was directed by Tom Gormican, also stars Sharon Horgan, Lily Sheen, Jacob Scipio, Ike Barinholtz, Neil Patrick Harris and Paco León. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly earlier this week, Cage said that his fictional character is “feeling unfulfilled and contending with the rejection that can happen so of...

In celebration of one of the episodes of its Xbox docuseries over on YouTube, Microsoft has now made Red Ring of Death posters you can buy for $25 USD. Titled Power On: The Story of Xbox, the six-part docuseries follows the creation and development of the now legendary console over the years since its original launch exactly two decades ago, exploring all of its highs and lows. Of course, it wouldn’t be a proper documentary about Xbox if it didn’t discuss the infamous Red Ring of Death that occurred on the Xbox 360, and so the team dedicated the entirety of the fifth episode to explore the tragedy. For those unfamiliar, the Red Ring of Death occurred when the Xbox 360 is confronted with a hardware issue that required physical repairs. When experiencing this problem, the front LED ring...

With the long-awaited The Matrix: Resurrections reboot film just around the corner, Warner Bros. Japan releases its character posters, opting for a different aesthetic than the English posters released earlier this month. The Japanese black and white character posters feature six movie characters wearing different styles of sunglasses in red and blue tints, referring to the two pills that can be taken. The personalities portrayed include Keanu Reeves as Neo, Carrie-Anne Moss as Trinity, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Morpheus, Jessica Henwick as Bugs, Eréndira Ibarra as Lexy, and Neil Patrick Harris as Neo’s mysterious therapist. The Matrix: Resurrections will premiere first in Japan on December 17, followed by an international release in theaters and HBO Max on December 22. Take a browse throug...

Just as WB Games Montréal is developing a video game for Gotham Knights, the CW is now expanding on its own DC content with a live-action series of the Batman-related heroes. According to new reports, the network is now working on the series that will follow Bruce Wayne’s son following the murder of Batman as he teams up with the children of different villains within Gotham. Though not a spin-off of Batwoman, the project will be helmed by its writers James Stoteraux, Chad Fiveash and Natalie Abrams, and has no connection with the upcoming game either. The synopsis reads: “In the wake of Bruce Wayne’s murder, his rebellious adopted son forges an unlikely alliance with the children of Batman’s enemies when they are all framed for killing the Caped Crusader. And as the city’s most w...

Snoop Dogg is teaming up with 50 Cent to bring the story of his murder trial to Starz. A Moment in Time: Murder was the Case, a working title, is currently in development and is executive produced by the two hip-hop powerhouses. The project marks the second installment in an anthology series that focuses on the criminal events that occur behind the scenes in hip-hop history. Variety has reported that the project will be set in 1993, the time of Snoop’s trial for the first-degree murder of Phili Woldermariam. Woldermariam was a rival gang member who actually killed Snoop’s bodyguard, McKinley Lee. At the time of the trial, Snoop released his debut album Doggystyle and the hit single, “Murder was the Case.” The publicity of the trial boosted sales of the album to over five million albums eve...

Warner Bros. has released the official trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Written by J.K. Rowling, the new movie is the third installment of the Harry Potter spin-off series with David Yates returning as the film’s director. The almost three-minute visual showcases Professor Albus Dumbledore entrusting Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead a ragtag team of wizards, witches and a muggle to stop Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald from taking over the wizarding world. But with high stakes, Dumbledore himself may have to enter the battle to stop Grindelwald as illustrated by a luminous move from Dumbledore against a Dark wizard towards the trailer’s end. The last Fantastic Beasts film revealed that Dumbledore’s long-lost brother Credence Barebone works with Grindelwald. ...