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Today, Eleven Arts announced it has acquired the distribution rights for the North America release of Gintama: The Very Final.
As seen in the tweet below, Eleven Arts will be bringing the popular film to the west. While a date has yet to be announced, there is a teaser visual for the film featuring much of its cast of characters.
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Here is Eleven Arts’ description of the film:
This is the actual ending

Is there a safe way to still host in-person screenings at a film festival in the middle of a pandemic? That's the question that has been on the mind of every last film festival all over the world. But there is one solution – hosting outdoor "open air" screenings with social distanced seating (or drive-in screenings in places where most people have cars). The Berlin Film Festival usually takes place in February every year, but this year they had to cancel their main event, as the third wav

Netflix and CD Projekt Red have slowly been trickling out more information for WitcherCon, but now the two have finally unveiled the full schedule. The virtual Witcher-focused convention set for July 9 now has a list of each panel and a general overview. However, don’t expect times as those are still under wraps.
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According to the official website, the first stream is set to have nine events while the second strea

"You don't get it because you're the best at everything. Not in a bad way, but…" This film Twice As Good is a terrific short made by Kristian King, presented in the "Scene in Color Film Series" this summer, highlighting "up-and-coming filmmaking talent." It's College Decision Day. Ann, a Black high school senior and valedictorian, has finally taken her future into her hands, but she's been keeping it a secret. Now, out of time, Ann must find the courage to reveal her truth at the risk of

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions is partnering with Amazon Studios to develop the feature film Red One.
From the mind of Hiram Garcia, the President of Production at Seven Bucks Productions, Red One will star Johnson. Chris Morgan will reunite with the Fast and Furious actor to write the script for the film. It is scheduled to begin shooting in 2022, and release in holiday 2023.
Here is a very brief description of the film that may not be spe

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions is partnering with Amazon Studios to develop the feature film Red One.
From the mind of Hiram Garcia, the President of Production at Seven Bucks Productions, Red One will star Johnson. Chris Morgan will reunite with the Fast and Furious actor to write the script for the film. It is scheduled to begin shooting in 2022, and release in holiday 2023.
Here is a very brief description of the film that may not be spe

"It's obvious this animal didn't kill for food…" It must've killed out of spite! Black Mandala Productions has unveiled an early promo trailer for another new werewolf film titled The Hunting, marking the feature narrative directorial debut of filmmaker Mark Andrew Hamer (executive producer for I See You). The basic logline for this sounds like every other werewolf film but that's not surprising: When a mysterious animal attack leaves a mutilated body in the forest, a conservative small

Laurence Fishburne has said he still doesn’t know why he was not invited to star in The Matrix 4.
The actor, who played Morpheus in the original trilogy, recently commented on the fact that he keeps being asked about the upcoming fourth film, despite not being part of the cast.READ MORE: ‘The Matrix 4’: release date, trailers, cast and everything we know so farCollider asked Fishburne if he was tired of being asked questions about Matrix 4, to which the actor replied: &ldq

Ready to hit the streets and play some dodgeball? The latest sneak peak for the Knockout City roadmap gives some details for the upcoming second season. As detailed in the latest blog post from EA, Season 2 of Knockout City will begin on July 27, 2021. In fact, each season will last a total of nine weeks, so that should give a good idea of when Season 3 and 4 will land within their respective fall and winter 2021 release window.
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Nintendo kicked off its E3 Direct with a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character kicks quite a bit — Kazuya from the Tekken series — and promised a full breakdown would follow just under two weeks later. Director Masahiro Sakurai finally gave said breakdown, detailing Kazuya’s unique Tekken-like mechanics, extensive move list, and his release date, which is June 29. He will be $5.99 and is included in the Fighters Pass Vol. 2.While players only have to wait a day to start thr

Remember that seemingly incomplete lineup coming to the Crunchyroll streaming service for summer 2021. Well, it seems a few more anime television shows have been added to the list including Drug Store in Another World, Remake Our Life!, and My Next Life as a Villainess.
Updated on Crunchyroll’s official website, the “New Simulcasts” section gets three new additions to its lineup. Specifically, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X, Remake Our Life!, and Drug

Netflix has released a new trailer for Fear Street Part One: 1994 – check it out below.READ MORE: Cult director Ben Wheatley picks his five fave horror filmsIt’s the first full-length trailer to tease the first film in the forthcoming trilogy, which is due for release this Friday (July 2).
The films are inspired by the books of horror author R.L. Stine, and are aimed at an adult audience despite the books being aimed at teenagers.
Part One follows a serial killer possessed by an anci

HBO Max has officially renewed Christina Lee’s dark comedy series Made For Love for a second season. The renewal comes after over two months since the Cristin Miliot-led sci-fi series had wrapped up its first 8-episode season, which became one of the streamer’s top original half-hour long shows. Season 2 will feature author and executive producer Alissa Nutting joining Lee as a co-showrunner.
“We’re thrilled we get the chance to work with our incredible cast and crew aga

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Coming off from her acclaimed leading performance in Netflix’s Pieces of Woman movie, it looks like Vanessa Kirby has found her next drama feature in the form of Florian Zeller’s film adaptation of his award-winning stage play The Son.
Variety brings word that the Oscar-nominated actress has officially signed on to join Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern in the French filmmaker’s follow-up movie to his critically-acclaimed 2020 fi

According to Deadline, award-winning actor John Lithgow has signed on to reprise his memorable role as Arthur Mitchell a.k.a the Trinity Killer in Showtime’s forthcoming Dexter revival. His casting comes after nine years since last appearing as the twisted character in the fourth season finale of the series’ original run. For his performance, Lithgow earned his second Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actor.
Further details about his character’s return is still unclear, esp

Fast And Furious stars Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster have said they wanted Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge to join the franchise to punch up the script.READ MORE: Fast & Furious 9 review: slick but safe sequel never reaches top gearBrewster told The Hollywood Reporter that she and Rodriguez were considering reaching out to Waller-Bridge, before she was announced as co-writer on the new James Bond film No Time To Die.
“I would see Phoebe Waller-Bridge to

Avatar filmmaker James Cameron has addressed claims he’s “cruel” on film sets.
In a new MasterClass on filmmaking, the director called himself a “tinpot dictator” and spoke to his reputation on film sets as a strong character.READ MORE: Avatar 2: Everything we know about the upcoming sci-fi epic“[The director] does say that if he could go back and do one thing differently in his career, it would be to improve the nature of the working relationships h

Oscar-nominated director Rian Johnson took to Twitter to confirm that production on his upcoming sequel to 2019’s acclaimed whodunnit film Knives Out has finally begun in Greece. The Knives Out 2 filming start comes three months after Netflix has officially acquired the growing franchise for over $400 million, which includes the rights to the upcoming second and third installments.Aaaaaaaand WE’RE OFF! Day one of filming on the next Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanks to all the lovely pat

Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom has officially begun production.
Director James Wan posted on social media an Aquaman 2 filming photo in an icy area to show that production is underway. The blockbuster is set to arrive in theaters on December 16, 2022, which is four years since the first film debuted in 2018.
Check out the first Aquaman 2 filming photo below:RELATED: James Wan Unveils Official Title For Aquaman Sequel
Aquaman 2 will again be directed by 

John Wick: Chapter 4 production has officially begun. The latest installment in the Keanu Reeves-led action series is set to feature an all-star cast featuring Donnie Yen, Rina Sawayama, and more. “Consider this a professional courtesy,” said the note that came with the photo. “John Wick: Chapter 4 is now in production.”
Check out the John Wick: Chapter 4 production image below:RELATED: Mortal Kombat’s Hiroyuki Sanada Joins Keanu Reeves in

"Not all banks can be trusted. Not all heists are created equal." Gravitas Ventures has debuted an official trailer for a mysterious low-budget heist thriller titled No Loss // No Gain, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Christian Rousseau. There isn't much of an intro to this film, and the official synopsis is extremely short: a mysterious modern-day Robin Hood gives the victims of a bank robbery a million dollar opportunity. Apparently it's about a bank heist, but of course th

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With only less than two weeks left to go before its long-awaited debut, Marvel Studios has released a pair of new Black Widow TV spots for their forthcoming Scarlett Johansson-led MCU film. Directed by Cate Shortland, the film will arrive in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access on Friday, July 9.
The videos, which you can check out below, features some new footage that highlights the movie’s main villain, the mysterious Taskmaster, who can mimic everyone he’s

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As production continues on Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Collider brings word that Hellboy star Ron Perlman has officially signed on to voice Optimus Primal in Paramount Pictures’ seventh installment to the blockbuster action franchise. The Golden Globe winner has already lent his voice to the character in the 2018 animated series Transformers: Power of the Primes, which was first voiced by Garry Chalk in the original animated series Beast Wars: Transf

Quentin Tarantino has admitted that he would work under a different name if he could start his career over.
The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director reflected on his family name in a new interview, revealing that while his birth father’s name was Tarantino, he grew up under his stepfather’s name Zastoupil.READ MORE: ‘Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood’ film review – Tarantino’s most satisfying work in decades“I didn’t even know about the

Apple TV+ has finally announced the premiere date for their long-awaited series adaptation of Foundation, based on Isaac Asimov’s iconic and influential sci-fi books of the same name. The series is scheduled to make its debut on Friday, September 24 with the first three episodes, followed by one new episode weekly, every Friday.
In addition, the date announcement also came with the release of the second Foundation teaser trailer which you can check out below, showcases the sweep

"How do we save ourselves?" Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, by filmmakers Rosalynde LeBlanc and Tom Hurwitz. The doc film brings to life the creative process that culminated in choreographer / dancer / director Bill T. Jones' tour de force ballet D-Man in the Waters, one of the most important works of art to come out of the AIDS crisis. In 1989, D-Man in the Waters gave physical manife

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The Holy Game is the latest documentary film from director Brent Hodge (I Am Chris Farley, Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary) and Hodgee Films. The documentary launches on CRAVE today in Canada, and is being launched by Gravitas in the U.S. and worldwide for Digital and Cable on Demand Release on June 29, 2021. The doc offers an exclusive look at an officially sanctioned Vatican soccer tournament

As expected, Universal’s F9 cruised to an easy victory over the weekend, taking in a massive $30M on Friday en route to $70M over its first 3-days in over 4,000 theaters (per Deadline). That total actually trumps plenty of pre-pandemic openings, including Bad Boys for Life ($62.5M) and the Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw ($60M), even if it pales in comparison to previous Fast openings, namely Fast Five ($86M), Fast and Furious 6 ($97M), Furious 7 ($147M) and The Fate of the Furi

Netflix has released the full Fear Street Part 1: 1994 trailer for the first installment of the highly-anticipated summer movie event, which is based on R.L. Stine’s hit YA horror novel series of the same name. Starring Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, and Maya Hawke, the Fear Street trilogy officially kicks off this Friday, July 2.
The video, which you can check out below, begins with the townspeople of Shadyside dealing with the aftermath of a mall massacre. Because of this, a dark ur

"The dude was wearing a Halloween skull mask – how is that not fun?!" Netflix has released the first solo trailer for their upcoming, highly anticipated Fear Street horror trilogy adapted from the R.L. Stine books of the same name. This trailer is specifically for the first movie only, titled Fear Street Part One: 1994, introducing us to the opening story in "modern" times (even though it's set in 1994, at least compared to the other two movies). The trilogy begins in Shadyside, 1994

"You can't save yourselves… but you can save your legacy." Bring on more epic sci-fi!! Apple has revealed the second teaser trailer for their grand new sci-fi series Foundation, based on the seminal book series of the same name from Isaac Asimov. As we already know, Hollywood has been trying to adapt these books for decades, now we're finally going to see how DavidGoyer brings this futuristic story to life on screen. Foundation chronicles "the thousand year saga of The Foundation, a band

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Marvel Studios has released the mid-season sneak peek for Disney+’s third MCU series Loki, highlighting some of the key moments from the first three episodes. The new video also features our first glimpse at the remaining episodes, teasing the appearance of the mysterious Time-Keepers, and TVA’s eventual arrest of Loki and Sylvie as well as some of their action-packed sequences. The untitled Episode 4 will be available for streaming on Wednesday, June 30.
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"This is their story." ScreenDaily has released an early festival promo trailer for a film premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in the Director' Fortnight sidebar section. This Iraq-Italy-Kuwait co-production is a film about an Iraqi refugee chased through the wilderness by "migrant hunters" on a border in Europe. Adam Ali stars as Kamal, a migrant trying to get to Europe. At the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, local mercenaries are ruthlessly hunting down migrants. Alone in the fore

Vin Diesel has admitted he felt like Paul Walker had “sent” John Cena to play his on-screen brother Jakob Toretto in Fast & Furious 9.
Walker, who passed away in 2013, was an original star of the franchise, appearing as Brian O’Conner up until 2015’s Furious 7.READ MORE: ‘Fast & Furious 9’ review: slick but safe sequel never reaches top gearSpeaking to NME, Diesel opened up about casting wrestler Cena in the most recent film, admitting: “I&r

Netflix announced it will be bringing the Chinese live-action Dynasty Warriors film to the streamer on July 1.
The live-action Dynasty Warriors film premiered in Hong Kong on April 29. It then opened to mainland China the next day, on April 30. It was initially scheduled to premiere back in 2018. It then moved to a 2019 debut but was inevitably delayed to its 2021 release date.
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Produced by Hong Kong company China 3D, the live-a

Even three years after release, Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker is coming out with new content. Season Pass 4 for the game has been revealed and will include Sakura Haruno and Kawaki.
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Revealed in the new trailer for Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, Season Pass 4 (which is subtitled “Regeneration”) will include a total of five characters. While three have yet to be revealed, the first inclusion will be Sak

Square Enix announced it is making a Legend of Mana anime adaptation with Warner Bros. Japan.
Announced during the 30th-anniversary livestream for the Mana game series, Square Enix revealed Legend of Mana: The Teardrop Crystal, an anime adaptation of its popular Legend of Mana video game. While a premiere date was not announced, a teaser visual for the upcoming anime was revealed.
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