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As the studio gears up to finally debut its MonsterVerse crossover Godzilla vs. Kong tomorrow, Warner Bros. has announced a slight change in scheduling as the highly-anticipated video game adaptation Mortal Kombat is moving back a week from its original April 16 release to April 23. When asked his feelings on the release shift, all Scorpion had to say was “GET OVER HERE!”
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"This is unnatural, we gotta tell someone." "No, we can't!" "Why not…?" "Because they'll take it away from us!!" Time to catch up with this clever sci-fi short film titled Burnt Grass, which originally premiered in 2014 at the Toronto Film Festival. Thanks to a bump from Short of the Week, it's now available to watch on YouTube. Alex Paxton-Beesley and Christopher Jacot star as Sally & Jack, a young couple in the city, discover a strange phenomenon in their backyard that duplicates o

"There can't be two alpha titans." Everyone's favorite big cuddlelizard is back with another smash & tumble adventure around the world. Godzilla vs. Kong is finally here! You're Next and The Guest director Adam Wingard picks up where Mike Dougherty left off with Godzilla: King of the Monsters just a few years ago. And Wingard also picks up where Jordan Vogt-Roberts left off with his Kong: Skull Island movie. This is a very American franchise now, focusing more on the epic destruction and CG

The Academy Awards has relaxed its decision that nominees must attend in-person this year or not at all.READ MORE: Oscars 2021 Best Original Song and Score shortlists announced – Janelle Monáe, Trent Reznor, Celeste and moreFollowing an outcry that the move would inhibit dozens of overseas actors, crew members and filmmakers amid a pandemic, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) which organises the Oscars appears to have now ruled that virtual appearances will be a

"Let's get lost… anywhere beyond these shores. And I'll summon good spirits." Performing Arts Film has released a trailer for Grace Fury, a dance documentary biopic about a Scottish dance champion named Laura Carruthers. Filmmaker, choreographer, ballerina, and dancer - she leads world class performing artists in this stunning documentary. The feature film travels the elements of her personal story as an artist on a breathtaking flight of choreography, cinematography, realization, and re

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March 30 Blu-ray, Digital and DVD Releases
Welcome to ComingSoon.net’s March 30 Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD column! We’ve highlighted this week’s releases in detailed write-ups of different titles below! Click each highlighted title to purchase through Amazon! 
New Movies on Blu-ray/DVD
Wonder Woman 1984Fast forward to the 1980s as Wonder Woman’s next big screen adventure finds her facing a wide array of foes including: Max Lord and The Cheetah.
Our

"I just want to get home." Don't we all. Fandango has debuted an official trailer for a selection of the Short Film Nominees from this year's Academy Awards. As usual every year, Fandango and many cinemas will be showing ALL of the Oscar nominated short films in theaters (and in virtual cinemas for those who are still staying home). You can review all of the 2020 Oscar nominees here. "Short films can pack tremendous viewing value into just a few minutes of screentime. The very best of the best

New to stream: Starz April 2021 movie & TV titles announced
Starz has released their full April 2021 movie and TV titles that will be available on the Starz App, including the final episodes of the new Starz Original series Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham, as well as the premiere of the new original docuseries Confronting a Serial Killer from Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger on Sunday, April 18.
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The 10 Best Episodes of Parks and Recreation
ComingSoon.net is binging up a storm to determine the very best episodes of Parks and Recreation. Check out our picks in the gallery below!
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Often considered to be one of NBC’s greatest comedies, right up there alongside The Office and 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation remains incredibly popular due to success found on streaming giant Netflix. The show existed on the bubble of cancell

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CS Video: An extended chat with Nobody director Ilya Naishuller
ComingSoon.net had the chance to speak at length with director Ilya Naishuller about the Bob Odenkirk-led action thriller Nobody, which is now in theaters! Naishuller talks about movie villain tropes, wanting to surprise the audience with certain casting choices, making sure Odenkirk was “as cool as possible,” and much more. You can check out the full interview in the player below!
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"One wrong step and they will deport us." Focus Features has revealed the official US trailer for an indie trailer for Limbo, the latest from filmmaker Ben Sharrock (of Pikadero previously). This was selected for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, but premiered later at the Toronto & London & Zurich Film Festival in the fall last year. Nominated two times at the 2021 BAFTA Film Awards, Sharrock's Limbo is a "wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardshi

Ray Fisher addresses Cyborg’s removal from The Flash movie
The premiere of Zack Snyder’s Justice League was a huge triumph for everyone who kept the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement alive. But in the case of Cyborg actor Ray Fisher, its release is bittersweet. Earlier this year, Fisher confirmed that he won’t reprise his role in Warner Bros.’ The Flash movie as planned. His removal was likely a result of his months-long war of words against WarnerMedia over how he and his c

Universal Studios Hollywood planning grand reopening this April
Universal Studios Hollywood has announced they are planning to resume operations and welcome guests back to the theme park beginning on Friday, April 16. The occasion will commence with a special park preview for Annual and Season Pass Members starting on Thursday, April 15.
While most rides will be operational, some rides and attractions will reopen at a later date as the theme park complies with government restrictions. Universal

BEGIN SLIDESHOWCS Soapbox: why boycotting WB won’t restore the SnyderVerse
We’re at a weird point in our universe. A little film called Zack Snyder’s Justice League just got released on HBO Max due to overwhelming fan support, something that has never ever in the history of the world happened before — and may never happen again. Kinda like a Seahawks Super Bowl. There are any number of terrible, rotten, downright horrible films released each year, many of which likely en

Sylvester Stallone developing potential Rocky prequel series
While the Michael B. Jordan-led sequels continue to power forward with the Oscar nominee reprising his iconic role, it’s been 15 years since audiences last got a solo Rocky venture from creator Sylvester Stallone and now the filmmaker has revealed he’s working on a prequel series to the film franchise. Stallone took to Instagram to offer a peek at his handwritten story treatment for the project, which can be view

BEGIN SLIDESHOWLet us prey with The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4 trailer & key art
Just a month after announcing the April premiere date for the next chapter of the Emmy-winning drama, Hulu is inviting viewers to prey as the streaming platform has debuted the official trailer and key art for The Handmaid’s Tale Season 4! The trailer, which sees June struggling to enact her path to freedom for the rest of the women in Gilead after her escape and the deadly lengths the gover

BEGIN SLIDESHOWNetflix unveils official Shadow and Bone trailer & new photos
With only a few weeks left until the streaming platform’s adaptation of Leigh Bardgo’s bestselling Grishaverse franchise arrives, Netflix has unveiled the first trailer and new photos from Shadow and Bone teasing the fantasy drama to come. The trailer, which offers a first look at the incredible powers Alina Starkov possesses and the many forces out to kill her and the dangers that threaten al

Six 20th century films set in the 2010s
ComingSoon.net is going back to the past so we can look forward to the future to determine which movies tried to imagine what our present would look like. Check out our selections in the gallery below!
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Visions of the future differ depending on who you’re talking to. Who’s to say what the world will look like a decade or two from now, let alone several? Well, these filmmakers gave it a shot back in t

Starz cancels American Gods, though may return for finale event
After a turbulent rollercoaster of development cycles for the series adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s iconic novel, Starz has elected to bring American Gods to an early close after three seasons at the network, with the cancellation coming on the heels of the latest season finale, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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The new trailer for Spiral: Book of Saw has just been released – check it out below.
The forthcoming film, the ninth installment in the Saw franchise, stars Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella.
Rock, Jackson and Minghella are playing three officers investigating a string of grisly murders in New York which are “eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past.”
Watch the new trailer here:Director Darren Lynn Bousman told NME last year about the fr

Rick and Morty Season 5 trailer announces June premiere date!
Nearly a year after fans last dove back into the sci-fi hijinks of its titular mad scientist and his grandson, Adult Swim has debuted the first official trailer for the highly-anticipated Rick and Morty Season 5 also revealing a June premiere date for the latest group of episodes from its major renewal order in 2018. The trailer for the new season, which sees the Smith family readily taking part in more of Rick’s wild

Armie Hammer has been dropped from new film Billion Dollar Spy.
The actor was set to star in Amma Asante’s Cold War drama, but is no longer attached in light of recent sexual assault allegations, according to Variety.
This marks the latest and final project in development to cut ties with Hammer – every upcoming project in which the actor appears was completed before the allegations broke.
Earlier this month, Hammer was accused of rape by a woman named Effie, who said she &

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New Star Wars: The Bad Batch trailer for Disney+ animated series
Check out the brand-new trailer for Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Bad Batch, an original animated series launching exclusively on Disney+. The show makes its debut on Tuesday, May 4 with a special 70-minute premiere, followed by new episodes every Friday starting on May 7. Check out the new Star Wars: The Bad Batch trailer in the player below, along with new key art in the gallery!
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BEGIN SLIDESHOWSpiral: From the Book of Saw Trailer: A new game begins
On the heels of announcing a May release date and a series of chilling new character posters for the latest installment in the iconic horror franchise, Lionsgate has debuted the official trailer for Spiral: From the Book of Saw, teasing that a new game is beginning! The trailer, which can be viewed below, also sees further references to where the film sits in the overall storyline of the series, addressing John Kramer,

BEGIN SLIDESHOWWonder Woman 1984 and The Little Things dominate Vudu and FandangoNOW charts
Diana Prince held onto her crown this week as Wonder Woman 1984 dominated Vudu’s streaming charts, ranking ahead of Disney/Pixar’s Soul, Monster Hunter and the Denzel Washington thriller The Little Things.
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Washington’s flick continued its power play on FandangoNOW where viewers made the John Lee Ha

BEGIN SLIDESHOWLionsgate announces The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard release date!
Lionsgate announced the release date for the sequel to the hit comedy The Hitman’s Bodyguard, aptly titled The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, which will make its theatrical debut on Wednesday, June 16, putting it squarely between the releases of Warner Bros.’ film adaptation of In The Heights and Pixar’s Luca. The announcement was made by Ron Schwartz, Li

"I thought the Jigsaw killer was dead?" "He is…" Lionsgate has debuted a second official trailer for horror sequel Spiral. The full title is Spiral: From the Book of Saw, though they seem to be switching between just Spiral and the full title. This was delayed from release last May, and has now been reset for release this May, opening exclusively in theaters because that's how they want everyone to experience this. Directed by Darren Bousman (of Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Repo! The Genetic

WB Taps Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard for ThunderCats movie!
“Thunder, thunder, ThunderCats, ho!” After years of speculation and fake trailers, it looks like ThunderCats may finally reach the big screen under the direction of Adam Wingard. Per Deadline, the Godzilla vs. Kong director has been tapped to write and direct the adaptation of the popular cartoon series that ran from 1985-89 and will use a combination of CGI and animation to bring Lion-O and his warrior cat clan

Rachel Bilson has said Rami Malek asked her to remove a photo of the two of them on social media.
The actress explained that Malek was “a good friend” of hers when the two went to Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California, together.READ MORE: Will there be a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody 2’? Everything we know about the Queen and Freddie Mercury sequel film“I had posted a throwback of us from our senior trip to New York,” Bilson said on Dax Shephard’s

"Either my husband dies or I die." Netflix has released an official trailer for a Japanese indie drama titled Ride or Die, the latest from prolific filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki. If you love me, destroy everything. A road movie about two women on the run with nowhere to go, depicting what it means to love someone, and to protect the one you love. Rei (Kiko Mizuhara) helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. And while on the run, their feelings for each other begin

"Through this music, we are shown the path to the Divine." Netflix has unveiled the trailer for a musician drama from India titled The Disciple, which first premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year and won Best Screenplay there. It also stopped by the Toronto, Zurich, New York, and London Film Fests last year, which is an indication this is worth your time. Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives fo

Sylvester Stallone has shared his handwritten treatment for a Rocky prequel TV series.
The actor, who played the titular character in the 1976 classic, took to Instagram to post a scan of his ideas for a new project which he had been devising himself.READ MORE: 10 reasons why we love Rocky“This may be the strangest posting yet,” Stallone wrote. “I started out this morning by writing a treatment for a Rocky prequel for streaming.
“Ideally 10 episod

The pandemic has given new opportunities to independent and smaller films, says MP Dean Russell, head of the new All-Party Parliamentary Film and Production Industry Group which has been set up to lobby parliament to support UK companies as they recover.
Cinemas across the country have yet to open in 2021 due to government restrictions – and the UK box office shrunk 76 per cent in 2020. While many, including chains like Cineworld are planning to reopen their theatres from May 17, there are

KSI has signed a new open letter urging Black Britons to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The rapper and YouTube star is among the famous faces who have lent their support to the open letter, which has been written by comic legend Lenny Henry.
Henry said that people should “trust the facts” surrounding the vaccine, with his message also being backed by Oscar-winner Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton and DJ Trevor Nelson.
The letter comes as statistics continue to reveal the gulf in vaccinati

Russell Crowe will make a special appearance in the upcoming Marvel movie Thor: Love And Thunder.
The forthcoming film is set to be released in May 2022, starring Chris Hemsworth as the titular character alongside Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale.READ MORE: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: what to look out for in the remaining episodesThe Taika Waititi-directed film has now officially added Crowe to its cast list, with Deadline reporting that producers had been hoping to keep

The trailer for Jason Statham’s new film Wrath of Man has been released today, featuring a cameo from Post Malone.
The film, directed by Guy Ritchie, stars Statham as “H”, who, as a caption for the trailer describes, “goes to work at a cash truck company that moves hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles every week.”
The trailer depicts H revealing his skills as a gunman to his co-workers when a heist is attempted on his truck’s load, culm

Seth Rogen has elaborated on his recent comments on a rumour that Emma Watson walked off set during filming for a specific scene in the 2013’s This Is The End. 
Speaking to British GQ earlier this week, Rogen appeared to confirm that Watson walked off set due to feeling uncomfortable about a particular scene set to be included in the film, where Danny McBride embraces cannibalism and Channing Tatum plays his prisoner while wearing a gimp mask.
Now, Rogen has taken to Twitter to explai