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Warner Bros. is gearing up to release non-fungible tokens (NFTs) inspired by the upcoming movie The Matrix: Resurrections later this month, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Matrix NFT collection will take cues from popular NFT “avatar” art companies, including CryptoPunks and Bored Ape Yacht Club, which sell unique avatars that exist within their respective universes. Warner Bros. has partnered with social NFT platform Nifty’s to create the project, which includes 100,000 unique avatars that will be available to purchase for $50 USD each beginning November 30. On December 16, those who purchase a Matrix NFT will have the option to choose between a “Blue Pill,” which will make their avatar stay in the Matrix, and a “Red Pill,” which will turn their...

Creed star Michael B. Jordan is doing “something different” with the upcoming third installment in the franchise, Jonathan Majors said in a recent interview with NME. Jordan has starred as Adonis Creed in the Rocky film spin-off series, Creed, which first landed as the seventh Rocky film to be created, since 2015. The first film followed Creed’s entrance into the realm of lightweight boxing, while the second movie saw the titular character fight against the son of Ivan Drago, who killed Creed’s father, Apollo. Sylvester Stallone, who starred as Rocky Balboa and directed Creed and Creed II, previously announced that he will not return for Creed III. In his place, Jordan has assumed the role of director for the upcoming movie, and he’s adding a “more intimate” feel t...

Netflix has debuted its first mobile game titles to its global subscribers on Android, Netflix’s VP of Game Development Mike Verdu announced on Tuesday. The inaugural lineup includes two Stranger Things titles — Stranger Things: 1984 and Stranger Things 3: The Game — which first arrived for Android users exclusively in Poland in August. Additional games available to the platform’s subscribers include Shooting Hoops (Frosty Pop), Card Blast (Amuzo & Rogue Games) and Teeter Up (Frosty Pop). “Whether you’re craving a casual game you can start from scratch or an immersive experience that lets you dig deeper into your favorite stories, we want to begin to build a library of games that offers something for everyone,” Verdu said in a blog...

Carole Baskin is reportedly suing Netflix for using her footage in the upcoming sequel, Tiger King 2. According to Variety, Baskin and her husband Howard Baskin have filed a suit in Tampa, Florida against the streaming giant and prodcution company Royal Goode Production for allegedly breaching their contract. The Baskins have claimed that Royal Goode Productions have breached the contract by continuing to use footage of Carole and Howard without their permission. Carole and Howard claimed that they only signed appearance release forms for the first Tiger King documentary. The lawsuit document reads, “Understanding that the Appearance Releases limited Royal Goode Productions’ use of the footage of the Baskins and Big Cat Rescue to the single, initial documentary motion picture, the Baskins ...

Chris Pratt has officially signed on to voice the titular, lasagna-loving, orange feline Garfield in a new animated movie. Jim Davis, who created the Garfield character first published the comics in 1978. The lazy, Monday-hating cat was known to cause trouble for his human owner, Jon Arbuckle and their household dog Odie. Garfield debuted in 41 newspapers and presently holds the record for the “most widely syndicated comic strip in the world.” The script for the new animated film is written by Finding Nemo‘s David Reynolds and is directed by Mark Dindal. In 2004, Garfield hit the big screens for a live-action animated hybrid film titled Garfield. The sequel to the movie, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties was released in 2006 and saw both films feature Bill Murray as Garfield. Pratt is no str...

It is official. Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery will be reprising their roles as the MacManus brothers — Murphy and Connor — for Boondock Saints III. According to Deadline, creator Troy Duffy will be directing the third instalment and co-wrote the story with Sean Patrick Flanery with Reedus serving as one of the executive producers. Duffy comments, “The fans have loved these characters for twenty years. They use terms of endearment like ‘the Brothers’ or ‘the Boys.’ We left them in jail at the end of Boondock 2 and fans want to know what happened to them. Norman and Sean have been a driving force to keep this franchise on track and break some new ground story-wise. The fans have been waiting. They literally ask about it daily, and I am really excited to be working with Impossible Dr...

FX and Hulu are set to release a documentary surrounding the Janet Jackson Super Bowl scandal involving Justin Timberlake. The 2004 Super Bowl halftime show became a much-talked-about spectacle that saw Justin Timberlake momentarily expose Jackson’s breasts to millions of viewers. While Jackson’s career took a negative spiral from the incident, Timberlake’s career seemed to move forward stronger than ever. The documentary, titled Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson aims to examine both the cultural and racial currents that occurred because of the situation and the different impacts of both pop musicians. Deadline reports that the documentary will feature rare interviews and footage of those who were working the controls the night of the Houston Super Bowl event. Both NFL and MT...

Director Zack Snyder has revealed additional details regarding his next Netflix sci-fi film Rebel Moon. The film was first announced in July this year and reportedly stems from a Star Wars pitch the director developed a decade ago. Snyder will be directing, producing and co-writing the film for the streaming giant. In a recent Post-Credit podcast, Snyder described Rebel Moon as a film on a similar scale of the 2013 Man of Steel. He has even gone as far as calling it a film “on the biggest steroids I can give it.” The director reveals that the synopsis of the movie follows a “romantic sci-fi film on a scale that is just frankly as big as you can make a movie.” In another interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder discusses the film’s inspirations sharing, “This is me growing up as a...

With season three of Atlanta slated to release in 2022, Donald Glover unveiled a website containing a teaser for the show’s upcoming season. The visual clocked in at almost one minute and begins with scenic shots as Sun Ra’s “It’s After The End of the World” plays in the background. Eventually, David Tyree Henry’s Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles is shown sitting at a table while two people behind him are facing the wall. The camera zooms closer to Paper Boi’s face, which expresses what seems like fear and uncertainty, and ends with the confirmation that the show will be making its return next year. Glover also took Twitter to share his excitement for the upcoming season and respectfully shut down the comparisons between Atlanta and Dave. In a series of now-deleted tweets, he wrote, “i cant wait t...

Disney+ has dropped the official trailer for The Book of Boba Fett, Lucasfilm‘s latest series that was first announced in the end-credit sequence after the season two finale of The Mandalorian. The trailer plays into the The Madalorian‘s mixture of past and present, making several mentions of characters, names and places from the original film and introducing a new underworld plot that will be added to the franchise. The series “finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate,” according to Disney’s official synopsis. Temuera Morrison will return under the Mandalorian helmet as Boba Fett and Ming...

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, comedic actor Will Ferrell divulged that he had turned down a $29 million USD offer to make an Elf sequel. Ferrell recalls the moment he refused the multi-million dollar deal to play Buddy, the man who was raised by Santa’s elves, just because the script was bad. He shared, “I would have had to promote the movie from an honest place, which would’ve been, like, ‘Oh no, it’s not good. I just couldn’t turn down that much money.’ And I thought, ‘Can I actually say those words?’ I don’t think I can, so I guess I can’t do the movie.’” At the time of its release in 2003, Elf was a raving success, grossing $220 million USD against a $33 million USD budget, later becoming one of the most popular Christmas movies of all time. However, the film did r...