Brace yourselves Star Wars fans — we'll be getting a little less Jedi action in The Rise of Skywalker than initially believed. Director J.J. Abrams recently confirmed he has indeed shortened the runtime for The Rise of Skywalker.
Read More
Marvel Studios has done it again... stoked the ire of some fans on the internet, that is. While reactions to the first trailer for Black Widow were largely positive, a certain subset of fans took issue with what they perceived as the fat-shaming of the Red Guardian, portrayed by David Harbour.
Read More
After 20th Century Fox's final attempt to revive the Fantastic Four for a feature film failed, news of Marvel's plan to do its own Fantastic Four reboot came as quite a shock. But that's now eclipsed by the rumor that a powerful comics character may be attached to the team's big-screen comeback.
Read More
Jellicles can and Jellicles do a number of wild things, but they also sometimes need a bit of a tune-up to put a spring back in their step. Following the release of the second Cats trailer, which debuted in November 2019, director Tom Hooper has revealed that the film's visuals have been updated.
Read More
Zack Snyder's cut of Justice League may never see the light of day, but fans' fascination with it isn't going anywhere. The director recently took to his Vero account to share an image of Ben Affleck's Batman from his cut of the movie, and it is — to put it mildly — freakin' sweet.
Read More
The first trailer for Black Widow, the solo vehicle for the heroic Avenger, is finally here, and it is pretty spectacular. There's plenty to unpack in the spot, but with all of the insane action, there are a few details that you may have missed. Fortunately, we're pretty good at spotting those.
Read More
Disney has already faced backlash for the wonky Simpsons aspect ratio upon the launch of Disney+. Now, the Mouse House is facing a new wave of criticism over image quality, and this time it's coming straight from Avengers: Endgame fans who say the film looks drastically worse on the streaming site.
Read More
Several thousand Marvel fans have a pretty interesting idea about who should be next in line to play Wolverine. With the adamantium-infused mutant's entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe imminent, a petition suggesting Danny DeVito for the role has gone sailing past 50,000 signatures.
Read More
The release of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian brought with it one of the most adorable creatures in the entire Star Wars canon. We are, of course, talking about Baby Yoda, whom The Rise of Skywalker director J.J. Abrams recently spoke about with Esquire.
Read More
Fans of Alita: Battle Angel want a sequel — and one of the flick's producers wants them to keep on asking for one. Jon Landau, who worked on the movie, has gone public with words of encouragement for fans who have racked up over 120,000 signatures on a petition asking for a continuation.
Read More
Disney recently released a limited edition Blu-ray set of the entire Infinity Saga, which includes a whole bunch of extra content, like deleted scenes from the 23 films that comprise the first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One scene in particular reunites Hulk and Black Widow.
Read More
Martin Scorsese's Netflix original film The Irishman is getting dragged quite a bit online — so the official Twitter account Netflix Film decided to do a little dragging back. The account jumped in to respond to a tweet humorously lamenting the user's only available option for viewing.
Read More
Many Game of Thrones fans have wondered what happened to Daenerys after she was killed, where Drogon took her, and if there was even a body left to bury. Now, these Game of Thrones mysteries have been unraveled, thanks to the commentary track on the DVD release of the show's final season.
Read More
Will Ferrell is a Saturday Night Live legend, and when he circled back to host the show for a fifth time, he proved that his comedy chops are sharp as ever. Ferrell partook in a handful of sketches that were cut for time, and you won't want to miss out on the laughs that result from watching them.
Read More
Game of Thrones still has a few secrets left to share. After the show wrapped its eight-season run, Thrones fans were thrown into a frenzy over the wildly unpopular series finale. Luckily, a new commentary track is here to clear up some of the finale's threads and offer some surprising revelations.
Read More
Hey, Mando — we know you're a man of few words, but can you say whoops? After the fourth installment of The Mandalorian hit Disney+, fans noticed that the episode had fallen prey to one of the oldest, most common boneheaded errors in filmmaking history: the old boom-mic-in-the-shot gaffe.
Read More
Iron Man is the greatest of all the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — so why did his solo films stop at three? In a recent interview, Avengers: Endgame screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely shed some light on why the Armored Avenger never got a fourth solo outing.
Read More
The Force giveth and taketh away — that's the lesson poor Mando learns in the newest chapter of The Mandalorian. As Mando grows more obviously attached to his onetime bounty, and the consequences of his betrayal of his guild begin to stack up, how does this end in anything other than tragedy?
Read More
You've got to love when old friends unexpectedly drop by to visit for the holidays. On Thanksgiving Day, Comcast dropped one heck of a heartstring-tugging commercial: a four-minute spot that sees E.T. visiting the family of a grown-up Elliott (Henry Thomas) for Christmas.
Read More
In what would've been a security breach on the level of those Death Star plans falling into the hands of the Rebels, it seems that a legit screenplay from J.J. Abrams' Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker almost made it out into the world over a month before the film's release.
Read More
In one of the most recent issues of Avengers, comic readers got to meet the earliest same-sex couple in Marvel's long history. In Avengers #26, we meet two cavemen who leave their respective tribes because they know they're different in ways their prehistoric brethren won't understand.
Read More
Little Women is already making a big splash. Ahead of its holiday season release, Little Women's critical consensus is overwhelmingly positive, which is a great sign for writer-director Greta Gerwig's second major project.
Read More
From Nebula, to Ruby, to... April? Currently making the rounds in support of Jumanji: The Next Level, star Karen Gillan took to social media to post photos of herself in attire similar to that favored by an iconic comic book character: April O'Neil, friend of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Read More
It sounds like no amount of hash-tagging is going to convince Warner Bros. to give us Zack Snyder's fabled cut of Justice League. Even as the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign has grown, the position of the studio that it will not release Snyder's version of the flick has remained unchanged.
Read More
Bruce Banner and his angry, green alter-ego almost came to an understanding one movie sooner. In a recent interview, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely revealed that Smart Hulk almost made his dramatic debut in the third act of Avengers: Infinity War, during the battle of Wakanda.
Read More
Fear not, Mandalorian fans — everyone's favorite 50 year-old infant will be on physical and virtual shelves in time for Christmas. Disney has announced that merchandise featuring "The Child" — or, as viewers of the Disney+ series have nicknamed it, "Baby Yoda" — will be on sale as soon as Friday.
Read More
Emperor Palpatine owes his return to Star Wars to another guy's exit. Speaking with Empire, filmmaker Colin Trevorrow — who at one point was attached to write and direct the ninth film in the Skywalker Saga — disclosed that it was J.J. Abrams whose idea it was to bring back the character.
Read More