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CS Video: Michael Hundgen on the future of Epcot Center
ComingSoon.net recently spoke with Michael Hundgen, the executive producer at Walt Disney Imagineering, to discuss the upcoming expansions at Walt Disney World Resort’s Epcot Center. You can check out the full interview now in the player below!
RELATED: CS Video: Rise of the Resistance Designer Doug Chiang
The new expansions and attractions include the Epcot Experience, which is open now, that allows guests to take a giant leap

Matt Reeves casts Peter Sarsgaard for The Batman
Matt Reeves has taken to Twitter once again to announce another addition to his star-studded The Batman featuring Robert Pattinson (The Lighthouse) in the titular role with Peter Sarsgaard (Green Lantern) joining the cast!
RELATED: The Batman Adds John Turturro as Carmine FalconeOh… Hi, Peter… pic.twitter.com/GsS2ktuWxE
— Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) December 6, 2019
In addition to Sarsgaard, whose role is curren

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCrisis on Infinite Earths extended trailer features new footage
Ahead of the highly-anticipated premiere of Crisis on Infinite Earths, The CW has released the extended trailer from this year’s Arrowverse crossover event, featuring a lot of new footage including a new look at Kevin Conroy’s Kingdom Come Batman and a scene where a version of Superman dies. Check out the video in the player below!
Crisis on Infinite Earths will be based on Marv Wolfma

Will Yun Lee set to return for Altered Carbon season 2
Fans have been anxiously waiting for the return of the hit Netflix future cyberpunk series Altered Carbon and now Deadline reports that Will Yun Lee is set to return to the series, albeit in a very secretive and recurring role for the second season.
RELATED: Power’s Lela Loren Joins Altered Carbon Season 2
It was previously announced that Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War) would be taking over the role of Takeshi K

HBO orders Adam McKay’s Showtime Lakers drama to series
After amassing an impressive cast led by Jason Clarke (Catherine the Great) and John C. Reilly (The Sisters Brothers), Adam McKay’s (Succession) Los Angeles Lakers series has been given the series order from HBO, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
RELATED: LeBron James’ Barbershop-Set Talk Show The Shop Greenlit at HBO
The untitled series, with the pilot written by Max Borenstein (The Terror: Infamy) based on Jeff

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CS Video: Rise of the Resistance designer Doug Chiang
ComingSoon.net had the chance to speak with Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance designer Doug Chiang, who is an award-winning designer and the Vice President and Executive Creator Director of Lucasfilm. Chiang, “a huge Star Wars fan” himself who spent five years on the project, talks about the challenges of bringing the universe to life in the new attraction, which is now open to the public at the Walt Disney World

"Nobody gets ahead in this game!" Saban Films has debuted an official US trailer for the indie thriller The Corrupted, which is opening in the US in January following an initial UK release earlier this summer. The crime thriller is set in London, specifically in East London and Stratford which has been redeveloped. Sam Claflin plays Liam, an ex-con trying to win back the love & trust of his family. His drive for redemption will see him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption

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Wonder Woman 1984 trailer officially coming this Sunday
According to Fandom, the first trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ highly-anticipated DC film Wonder Woman 1984 is officially set to be released this coming Sunday, December 8 during the film’s panel at the upcoming Brazil Comic Con, which will be attended by director Patty Jenkins and lead star Gal Gadot. You can watch the Wonder Woman 1984 panel live through the film’s Twitter account @WonderWomanFilm at

Train to Busan sequel planned for 2020 release
The South Korean zombie action thriller Train to Busan blew audiences away both domestically and internationally, earning rave reviews for its blend of fast-paced action, social commentary and terrifying portrayal of the undead. A year after director Yeon Sang-ho stated he was working on a sequel, it appears it’s already been wrapped and could be hitting screens overseas this summer, according to Bloody Disgusting.
RELATED: New

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CS Soapbox: Is it okay to watch The Irishman on a phone?
Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited crime epic The Irishman has finally hit Netflix, but despite the initial anticipation for the mobster crime epic given its rave reviews at the New York Film Festival, the film found itself facing a few speed bumps. The first of which is the comments from its director surrounding the recent surge of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the second his telling viewers how not t

"If I was a girl, this would never had happened." Screen has debuted the first official trailer for a film titled Cook F**k Kill, which is not as lighthearted as that title makes it seem. Described as an "absurd drama", the film is directed by a Czech filmmaker named Mira Forney and deals with domestic abuse - about a man who loves to cook, fuck, and, well, kill. "Seen through the prism of a metaphor, the film is an intimate story about family or 'the most aggressive group within a society, wit

"If I was a girl, this would never had happened." Screen has debuted the first official trailer for a film titled Cook F**k Kill, which is not as lighthearted as that title makes it seem. Described as an "absurd drama", the film is directed by a Czech filmmaker named Mira Forney and deals with domestic abuse - about a man who loves to cook, fuck, and, well, kill. "Seen through the prism of a metaphor, the film is an intimate story about family or 'the most aggressive group within a society, wit

"If I was a girl, this would never had happened." Screen has debuted the first official trailer for a film titled Cook F**k Kill, which is not as lighthearted as that title makes it seem. Described as an "absurd drama", the film is directed by a Czech filmmaker named Mira Forney and deals with domestic abuse - about a man who loves to cook, fuck, and, well, kill. "Seen through the prism of a metaphor, the film is an intimate story about family or 'the most aggressive group within a society, wit

George Miller offers update on Mad Max future
After giving audiences hope earlier this year that the financial dispute between him and Warner Bros. over the smash Mad Max: Fury Road was coming to a close, director George Miller has revealed that major headway is finally being made on getting another installment in the action franchise underway!
RELATED: George Miller Says Mad Max Sequels Are ‘Going to Happen’
In an interview with Deadline for his next mystery action projec

Star Wars news for the week of December 6, 2019
The purpose of this roundup is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of December 6, 2019, in one location. If you read this each week, you should be able to converse fluently with any Star Wars fan on everything from the latest Star Wars developments to the latest toys. And maybe you’ll even share with them something that they might have missed.
Let’s get to it!Rise of Skywalker News and RumorsWeâ€re live with the

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife First-Look photos tease new characters’ connection to the original
The first official photos for Sony Pictures‘ upcoming follow-up sequel to the first two original Ghostbusters films titled Ghostbusters: Afterlife have been released, featuring the return of the iconic Ecto-1. Featuring Paul Rudd as Mr. Grooberson, Finn Wolfhard as Trevor and McKenna Grace as Phoebe, you can check out the photos below (via Vanity Fair) and catch the traile

Homeland season 8 trailer: Question everything in the final season
Showtime has released the official Homeland Season 8 trailer for the drama thriller’s upcoming final season, starring Golden Globe and Emmy winner Claire Danes and Emmy winner Mandy Patinkin. You can check out the trailer now in the player below!
RELATED: Homeland Season 8 Teaser Trailer: Enter the Lion’s Den One Last Time
The final season of Homeland finds Carrie Mathison (Danes) recovering from month

Reno 911! revival set at Quibi for season 7!
According to Variety, the upcoming streaming service Quibi is reviving Comedy Central’s Reno 911! series for a Season 7. The original mockumentary series ran from 2003 to 2009 and was created by Robert Ben Garant, Kerry Kenney, and Thomas Lennon, who also starred in the series.
RELATED: Andie MacDowell Joins Soderbergh’s Quibi Survival Series Wireless
Garant, Kenney, and Lennon will be returning to write and star in the new season of the

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Mandalorian season 1 episode 5 recap
Another Friday brings another highly-anticipated episode of Disney+’s hit new Star Wars series The Mandalorian and things are getting tense for Pedro Pascal’s titular bounty hunter as he continues to search for a peaceful home for The Child and a way for him to return back to his normal life. The latest episode sees Mando head to a familiar planet for the franchise, Tatooine, in search of ship repairs and a

Legends of Tomorrow Season 5 trailer promises more crazy adventures
The CW has released the first trailer for the upcoming fifth season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, offering us a glimpse of the new crazy antics and action-packed adventures that our time-travelling heroes must face in this new season. The series is set to return on January 21 which will be the episode after the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event. Featuring Brandon Routh’s parody of Mister Rogers, you can

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Supernatural 15.08 promo & photos: Our Father, Who Aren’t in Heaven
The CW has released the promo for Supernatural 15.08 titled “Our Father, Who Aren’t in Heaven,” featuring Sam, Dean, and Castiel asking an unlikely ally (and featuring a big return) for help taking down Chuck. You can check out the promo in the player below, as well as the photos in the gallery, and catch the midseason finale on December 12!
Written by Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buc

BEGIN SLIDESHOWRey, Finn and Poe lead the fight in new The Rise of Skywalker TV spot
Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Pictures have released another TV spot for director J.J. Abrams’ highly-anticipated epic conclusion Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, featuring a new scene of Rey, Finn and Poe as they try to stick together till the end while leading the Resistance against the First Order. Check out the video in the player below!
RELATED: J.J. Abrams Says Rise of Skywalker Will Properly Tell

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First look at Kurt Russell & Goldie Hawn in The Christmas Chronicles 2
Netflix has shared the first look at Golden Globe nominee Kurt Russell (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Escape from L.A., The Hateful Eight) and Oscar winner Goldie Hawn (Private Benjamin, Overboard, Cactus Flower) as Santa and Mrs. Claus in The Christmas Chronicles 2, which will be directed by Oscar nominee Chris Columbus (The Help, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Home Alone). You can check o

BEGIN SLIDESHOWRyan Reynolds sells Free Guy merch ahead of trailer release in new video
Ahead of the official trailer’s release tomorrow, a new Free Guy teaser for 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney Pictures’s forthcoming action-comedy film has been released, featuring the cast with lead star Ryan Reynolds as he tries to sell his character’s merchandise. Featuring Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, and Lil Rel Howery, you can check out the video in the player below!
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"Stop it!" "I'm not doing anything!" Ohhhhhh, brothers. Oscilliscope Labs has debuted an official US trailer for an indie documentary titled Don't Be a Dick About It, which originally premiered at the IDFA Film Festival in Amsterdam last year. It also stopped by numerous other doc festivals last fall, including DocPoint Helsinki and Docs Against Gravity. Ben Mullinkosson's doc film is a hilarious and beautiful portrait of two brothers growing up in Maryland. He follows the brothers – 

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNew character posters for Birds of Prey released!
Ahead of the new trailer’s release, Warner Bros. Pictures has released new colorful character posters for their upcoming DC film Birds of Prey, featuring the main cast in poster art designs that are similar to the previously released poster which was inspired by iconic Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli’s Nascita di Venere or Birth of Venus painting. Check out the full poster in the gallery below (via IMP

BEGIN SLIDESHOWJon Favreau Opens Up About Baby Yoda
The Mandalorian producer and creator Jon Favreau took some time out of his busy day filming episodes for Season 2 of the aforementioned series to discuss the show and one of its most popular creations – Baby Yoda.
In case you have lived under a rock for the last month, one of the biggest surprises in the new Mandalorian TV show now streaming on Disney+ is a tiny “child” viewers have dubbed Baby Yoda. Not only is he adorable e

BEGIN SLIDESHOWThe Walking Dead: World Beyond posters feature a new set of survivors
AMC has released the character posters for their forthcoming second The Walking Dead spinoff series titled The Walking Dead: World Beyond, introducing us to six newest additions to the TWD universe including Alexa Mansour’s Hope, Aliyah Royale’s Iris, Nico Tortorella’s Felix, Annet Mahendru’s Huck, Nicolas Cantu’s Elton, and Hal Cumpston’s Silas. Check out the full posters be

Looking for Alaska Episode 8 Recap
In the previous episode of Hulu’s Looking for Alaska, the whole class attended Alaska’s wedding, and Pudge, the Colonel, and Takumi learned that Alaska received a call from Jake the night she died. In the finale of Looking for Alaska, the boys searched for answers about what happened to Alaska that night.
Reasons
Miles, Chip, and Takumi visited the police station to speak with the state trooper who was there when Alaska died. The Colonel claimed th

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Kylo Ren doesn’t need redemption, says Adam Driver
Will Kylo Ren find some sort of redemption? That’s one of the many lingering questions moviegoers will carry into Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Well, according the man himself, actor Adam Driver, who has portrayed the character in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, the answer is no — the man who killed Han Solo does not need a redemptive finale, but only because he might have already had one.
While speaki

Stephen Graham is reportedly set to join the cast of Venom 2, alongside a cast that includes Naomie Harris, Woody Harrelson and returning stars Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams.
According to Deadline, Graham will play an unspecified role in the Marvel sequel – which will see Andy Serkis heading behind the camera to replace Ruben Fleischer, who directed the first movie.
Graham, who was most recently seen in The Irishman, will be joined by Harris as Frances Barrison, a drug dealer who becomes

There’s no crying at Fox in Lionsgate’s Bombshell clip
Lionsgate has released the first official clip from director Jay Roach’s Fox News scandal movie Bombshell, featuring Oscar nominee Margot Robbie’s character Kayla as she freaks out at the possibility of getting fired from her dream job at Fox. Also featuring Emmy winner Kate McKinnon as Jess Carr, you can check out the video in the player below!
Bombshell (previously titled Fair and Balanced) is described mostly

"It will heal me." "It will heal us." Kino Lorber has debuted a full-length official US trailer for the acclaimed Russian drama Beanpole, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. After initially winning the Best Director in Un Certain Regard award in Cannes, the film has since gone on to play at the Telluride, Toronto, Hamburg, London, Busan, and New York Film Festivals this fall. Beanpole is made by a 28-year-old Russian filmmaker named Kantemir Balagov. Set in the

"It gets easier… But it ain't ever gunna be easy." An official trailer has arrived online for an indie coming-of-age comedy titled Bully, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Santino Campanelli. This premiered at the Dances With Films Festival last year, but hasn't played anywhere else yet - and it's pretty clear why as there's not much here. Bully is about a heavy-set high school kid named Jimmy who is constantly tormented by the resident school bully and his cronies. But after he

"Beware - even those who look innocent can be dangerous." Vertical Entertainment has unveiled an official trailer for an indie crime mystery thriller titled The Host, the feature directorial debut of TV director Andy Newbery. There have been at least two other major films with the name The Host, including Bong Joon-ho's monster movie, and also the sci-fi flick from Andrew Niccol. Can we stop using this especially bland title, please? Newbery's The Host is about a London banker who risks everyth

One of the key figures involved in the production of Justice League has shared a mysterious behind-the-scenes photo from Zac Snyder’s fabled cut of the superhero movie.
Clay Staub, who served as the aerial second assistant director on the film, shared an image of Batman (Ben Affleck) on horseback as he looks out to sea.
It’s thought that the still is from the Caped Crusader’s journey to find Aquaman (Jason Momoa) in the film and fans have claimed that it reflects the mythi

BEGIN SLIDESHOWVenom 2 casts Stephen Graham, may be R-rated
Today’s been an exciting day of announcements for the follow-up to the 2018 hit adaptation of the Marvel anti-hero Venom as Deadline reports that Stephen Graham, best known for playing Al Capone on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, has signed on to join the cast.
RELATED: Filming Officially Begins on Sony Pictures’ Venom Sequel
In addition to the casting of Graham in a currently undisclosed role, producer Ma

John Boyega says he once met some Americans who were “confused there were black people in London.”Read more: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker — what we know so far about the final film in the trilogyIn a new interview with The Radio Times, the Star Wars actor said he doesn’t think enough people speak for black British culture, which is one of the reasons why he started his own production company.
“I’m black British and I’m from London. And that in i