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Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut is in an unusual spot because it’s simultaneously a current-gen upgrade as well as a vessel for a whole new expansion. It’s playing two different roles but ones that are intertwined due to Sony’s insistence on bundling both together. And even though it’s not a giant step up for those playing the original on PlayStation 5, the Iki Island expansion is the main highlight here as it is a phenomenal companion piece to the main game.
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The Loud House Movie, based on the popular animated series, is currently streaming on Netflix and marks the directorial debut of Dave Needham who previously worked in various roles on films such as Trolls, Penguins of Madagascar, The Boss Baby, The Lego Batman Movie, and Smallfoot.
ComingSoon’s Jeff Ames spoke with Needham about The Loud House Movie, what drew him to animation, working with Jamie Hewlett on Gorillaz, and working with David Tennant and Michelle Gomez on the new feature

Comedian, actor, and screenwriter Yassir Lester (Making History, The Carmichael Show, Girls) will serve as the head writer for Disney+’s Armor Wars, featuring the return of the MCU’s Don Cheadle as James Rhodes aka War Machine, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project will serve as a reunion for Lester and Cheadle after working together on Showtime’s comedy series Black Monday.
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Disney+ has finally released the first official photos for the upcoming anthology series adaptation of R.L. Stine’s horror graphic novel Just Beyond. The series has no exact release date yet, but it is expected to make its debut sometime this fall, which will most likely be just in time for this year’s Halloween season.
The Just Beyond photos, which you can check out below, provides our first glimpse of the horror comedy’s ensemble cast including Emmy nominee McKenna Grace (The

FX has dropped a brand new trailer for the upcoming third installment of Ryan Murphy’s acclaimed anthology drama series, Impeachment: American Crime Story. The video features new footage that continues to highlight the affair between former U.S. president Bill Clinton, and Monica Lewinsky as Sarah Paulson’s Linda Tripp gathers enough evidence to expose this national scandal. The series is scheduled to make its return on Tuesday, September 7.
Check out the new Impeachment: Americ

Josh Brolin, who stars in the upcoming adaptation of Dune, has said that he was “blown away” when he saw the film, and described it as “a cinematic masterpiece.”READ MORE: Dune: release date, plot details, cast and everything we know so farBrolin, who plays the ally Gurney Halleck in the film, also likened the film to another that he starred in, the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men.
“You don’t know until you see it how great it’s goi

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf is out on Netflix on August 23, 2021. The film focuses on the witcher that trained Geralt named Vesemir and gives key backstory details for the hit series.
“The world of The Witcher expands in this anime origin story: Before Geralt, there was his mentor Vesemir — a swashbuckling young witcher who escaped a life of poverty to slay monsters for coin,” says the official synopsis. “But when a strange new monster begins terrorizing a pol

ComingSoon is excited to debut the exclusive trailer and poster for Small Town Monsters and director Seth Breedlove’s latest documentary Skinwalker: The Howl of the Rougarou.
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“Do real werewolves exist?” asks the official synopsis. “In the American south legends tell of encounters with a creature that stalks the swamps and bayous. A creature who was here long before the immigrants who settled the regio

According to Deadline, Transformers alum Josh Duhamel has officially signed on to star opposite Oscar winner Renée Zellweger in Blumhouse Television and NBC’s upcoming true-crime limited series The Thing About Pam, centering around the suspicious murder of Betsy Faria. Duhamel is set to portray the role of Joel Schwartz, the defense attorney to Betsy’s husband Russ Faria.
This marks the latest collaboration between the 48-year-old actor and NBC, following the dramedy seri

HBO Max has announced that Emmy nominee Fred Armisen (Portlandia, Los Espookys, Documentary Now!) and Samba Schutte (Sunnyside, 9-1-1, The Tiger Hunter) have joined the Max Original comedy series Our Flag Means Death, executive produced by Academy Award winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, What We Do in the Shadows, Thor: Love and Thunder) who stars as Blackbeard in the series, “history’s most feared and revered pirate.”
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Gamescom’s opening night is almost here, and ahead of the festivities, Geoff Keighley and Saints Row are teasing some sort of announcement regarding the game.
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In a post on Friday on Twitter, Keighley said that the team behind the upcoming conference was “Bossing it” with their announcements this year. He included a photo of a wall covered in graffiti, with the word “Rebooting” spray-painted on it a

Genshin Impact’s latest update is on the horizon, and ahead of its launch next month, miHoYo has detailed what some fans can expect when Version 2.1 of the game launches.
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In a post made on the PlayStation Blog, Zhenzhong Yi — miHoYo’s Studio Technical Director — outlined what to expect from the latest update when it launches on September 1. Perhaps the biggest addition to the update wi

Square Enix announced on Friday that the original Life is Strange: True Colors soundtrack to the upcoming game is officially out and available to stream for fans.
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Composed and performed by award-winning indie-pop group Angus & Julia Stone, the album — titled Life is Strange — features 12 new songs, led by the track “Love Song.” You can stream the album now on Spotify, or check out a music vide

Ironheart will make her debut appearance in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel boss Kevin Feige has confirmed.READ MORE: Chadwick Boseman – 1976-2020: a real-life superhero who gave hope to manySet to be played by Dominique Thorne (Judas And The Black Messiah, If Beale Street Could Talk) in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, Ironheart is a superhero created by Brian Michael Bendis and Mike Deodato in 2016, who also goes by the name Riri Williams.
After Disney announced last December a

Netflix has released the official Nightbooks trailer for David Yarovesky and Sam Raimi’s forthcoming horror fantasy film adaptation of J.A. White’s children’s book of the same name. Starring Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter, the film is scheduled to make its debut on September 15.
The video, which you can check out below along with the key art, begins with a young boy who discovers that he has become a prisoner in an evil witch’s magical apartment. In order to survive th

ComingSoon is excited to debut an exclusive Collusions clip for Vertical Entertainment and Boomerang Productions Media’s thriller. Directed by Anthony Vietro from a script by Monica Zepeda, the film is a crime mystery that takes place in Los Angeles. It’s out today in theaters and on video on demand services.
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“Collusions is a cerebral, character-driven c

Ahead of the long-running horror series’ return this Sunday, AMC has revealed the opening minutes for the upcoming premiere of The Walking Dead’s eleventh and final season. The nearly 5-minute long clip teases an intense zombie encounter, with our main survivors including Daryl and Maggie accidentally waking up a horde of undisturbed walkers while on a hunt for supplies.  The debut episode of the first part of the final season is now available for streaming on AMC+ and is slated

The 1981 arcade game Frogger is getting turned into a game show, as Peacock shared a trailer for their upcoming competition series based on the iconic video game.
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Much like the ’80s game saw players guiding a frog across a busy road, the Frogger game series will see contestants trying to cross a variety of obstacles in an effort to make it to the other side. The trailer for the show has very strong similarities to ot

HBO Max has released its full lineup for the movie and TV titles heading to the streamer in September 2021, including James Wan’s horror crime drama Malignant, starring Annabelle Wallis, and Clint Eastwood’s drama Cry Macho based on the novel by N. Richard Nash. Both of these films will be available in theaters and on HBO Max on the same day; they will stream for 31 days from their theatrical release.
Next month, the first season of The CW’s hit drama series Walker, starring an

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from Mattel and Netflix’s new animated musical Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams, out on the streamer on September 1.
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Fans will get to meet Barbie “Brooklyn” Roberts in the feature film, who meets Barbie “Malibu” Roberts in the exclusive clip.
Check out the exclusive clip from Barbie: Big City, Big Dreams below:

“It’s a fun, new part of Barbie

"What's happening? Please go! I don't want you here!" Shudder has unveiled an official trailer for an indie supernatural fairytale horror film titled Martyrs Lane, the latest feature directed by actress / filmmaker Ruth Platt. Based on her own 2019 short film. This just premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal this month. Leah, age 10, lives in a large vicarage, full of lost souls and the needy. In the day the house is bustling with people; at night it is dark, empty, a space for Lea

Marvel Studios has released a brand new clip for Destin Daniel Cretton’s highly-anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, featuring franchise newcomers Simu Liu and Awkwafina.
The new Shang-Chi clip, which you can check out in the player below, provides us an extended look at the film’s epic bus fight sequence that was first teased in previous trailers and teasers. It highlights the titular hero’s martial arts skills as he defends his

Starz has released new four first look photos, available in the gallery below, for the upcoming second season of its hit crime drama series Hightown, starring Monica Raymund (Chicago Fire). The series will return on Sunday, October 17 (via Deadline).
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“In Season 2, the picture-perfect version of summer on Cape Cod clashes with its off-season reality,” reads the official synopsis. “Jackie Quinones (Raymu

Peacock has officially decided not to renew Soleil Moon Frye’s Punky Brewster revival series for a second season. The cancellation comes after nearly six months since the sitcom had debuted its 10-episode first season, making it the streamer’s first comedy series cancellation.
“Punky Brewster was a beloved series that tackled meaningful storylines with so much heart,” President of Scripted, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, Lisa Katz said in a statement (vi

It’s no secret that Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac didn’t have a great time working on 20 Century Fox’s 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse due to the filming challenges that came with wearing the titular villain’s heavy latex costume, which also prevented him from being able to interact with some of his fellow A-list co-stars in the film. Adding to his disappointing first venture into the superhero genre is that his portrayal of Apocalypse wasn’t well-received and wa

"A playful riff of art-imitating-life." Utopia has revealed the first official US trailer for an acclaimed indie film titled El Planeta, set in Spain, made by an Argentinian filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. This initially premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival this year to some rave reviews. And it also stopped by New Directors/New Films, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Rooftop Films, and more fests. El Planeta is a dark comedy exploring contemporary poverty, female desire, and the always compli

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from the upcoming sci-fi thriller The Colony, co-written by director Tim Fehlbaum, Mariko Minoguchi, Jo Rogers, and Tim Trachte. The movie will arrive in select theaters and on demand on August 27 from Saban Films.
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“Cataclysmic conditions on Earth forced a mass exodus to a distant planet,” reads the official synopsis. “Generations later, a manned mission hurtles back to

Jonny Greenwood will curate the final day of cinema screenings at End Of The Road Festival next month.
The 15th edition of the Larmer Tree Gardens festival is set to run from September 2-5, with the likes of Hot Chip, King Krule and Sleaford Mods all set to perform.READ MORE: Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’: The story of an anti-capitalist, anti-cynicism classicEnd Of The Road have today (August 20) announced details of their film programme for the 2021 edition of the festival.
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Amazon Prime Video has released four first look images, available in the gallery below, of the latest installment in the Welcome to the Blumhouse anthology films, described as “unique, unsettling thrillers developed and produced with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling.”
The first two films, Bingo Hell and Black as Night, will be exclusively released on Prime Video on October 1, followed by Madres and The Manor on October 8.
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"He's only in it for the money and the fame! Now he gets what he deserves." Netflix has unveiled a teaser trailer for the first Dutch Netflix original film, titled Forever Rich, the second feature by Dutch filmmaker Shady El-Hamus. The film tells the story of Richie, who wants to be rich and famous, and his journey to becoming the greatest rap artist in the Netherlands. One evening he is violently robbed by a group of teens and loses his most prized possession: an expensive watch. When images o

UK cinema box office takings over the past month have reached 50 per cent of the levels achieved pre-pandemic.
According to box office tracker Comscore (via BBC News), £65.7 million was spent in the four weeks following “freedom day” on July 19. In the same set of weeks for 2019, there was £129 million in box office takings.READ MORE: Black Widow review: Marvel’s cinematic web ensnares a new generationThe results were similar in the US, with the last four weeks gene

"I'm not sure my health is your business…" Quiver Distribution has unveiled an official trailer for an indie journey into the wilderness film titled East of the Mountains, the latest from filmmaker S.J. Chiro (also of Lane 1974). This first premiered at the Seattle Film Festival earlier this year, and opens in September for those interested. Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog

The Hong Kong government has defended its decision to allow Nicole Kidman to enter the region without adhering to quarantine rules.
Kidman has faced criticism from Hong Kong citizens and local media for skipping COVID-19 quarantine measures after flying in via private jet from Sydney, Australia on August 12.
Last week, anyone flying into Hong Kong from Australia would have been subject to seven-days quarantine in a government-approved hotel. The rules changed today (August 20) in response to the

Former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter was recently a guest at the MEGACON convention in Orlando, where the writer potentially let it slip that Marvel Studios is working on a Secret Wars film.
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Speaking about the industry in general, Shooter brought up a story about how someone from Marvel called him to offer $10,000 for Shooter to write a novelization of Secret Wars.
“This one clown called me from

Bandai Namco Entertainment UK announced on Thursday that Shinso Hitoshi would be the next. Character entering the world of My Hero One’s Justice 2, making it the sixth DLC character overall and the first of the game’s second season pass.
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Alongside Hitsohi making his way into the game, three collaboration costumes from the My Hero Academia The Movie: World Heroes’ Mission film have been brou