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Legendary animating duo Ron Clements and John Musker, who have previously collaborated on Disney films such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Princess and the Frog, are taking on DC Comics’ Metal Men for a new animated feature, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Clements and Musker are working with Space Jam: A New Legacy co-writer Celeste Ballard for the Warner Animation Group animated movie titled The Metal M

Dwayne Johnson has shared a new glimpse from DC’s upcoming Black Adam.READ MORE: In praise of The Rock: why Dwayne Johnson is the hero we all needFollowing a teaser at DC Fandome back in October, the actor posted the cover from the next issue of Total Film magazine which shows the anti-hero’s face for the first time.
Along with sharing the cover on Twitter, Johnson quoted Black Adam himself: “You’re right. Superheroes don’t kill bad people. But I do.”
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Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah, the two directors behind the forthcoming Kanye West documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, have shared some details about the Netflix project.READ MORE: All that power: celebrating the genius of Kanye West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’, a tumultuous decade onThe “intimate” three-part film – which was first revealed during Netflix’s livestream TUDUM event back in September – will capture two decades of th

A new animated young adult fantasy series, Supernatural Academy, will be coming to Peacock next month, the streaming company announced on Friday.
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The series — which was given a full-season order from Peacock — is an adaptation of the best-selling book series The Supernatural Academy from Jaymin Eve. Supernatural Academy will premiere on Peacock on Thursday, January 20, 2022.
The series will focus on the adventure

Mahershala Ali has said he was “losing sleep” when deciding on his Blade voice for Marvel Studios’ Eternals.READ MORE: ‘Eternals’ review: a frequently stunning MCU origin storyThe actor made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Blade during a post-credits scene in Eternals, where viewers can hear the vampire hunter’s voice, but not see him onscreen.
Speaking on The Late Show with host Stephen Colbert, Ali revealed that the cameo brought a lot of sleeple

The 25th anime film in the Detective Conan franchise, Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween, received a new teaser trailer on Friday, hinting at a big confrontation.
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The new trailer doesn’t hint at too much, showcasing just a handful of scenes cut together to the film’s soundtrack. However, in the end, it does tease a confrontation between the protagonist Conan and Rei Furuya.
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Paramount+ has released the full 1883 trailer for the upcoming Yellowstone prequel series, centering around the origins of the Dutton family. The video highlights the Duttons’ perilous journey towards No Man’s Land as they try to search for the right place to call home. The series will be available for streaming on Sunday, December 19.The official #1883TV trailer is HERE. The journey begins Dec. 19, exclusively on @ParamountPlus. #ParamountPlus pic.twitter.com/AwgcpFtc9p
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Sofia Coppola, director of Lost In Translation and The Beguiled, has revealed her favourite movie scenes of all time.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director broke down her ten favourite scenes on BBC’s Life Cinematic with Edith Bowman, divided by categories like sound design, perfect casting and perfect performance.
Lost In Translation was particularly inspired by a scene between Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in the 1945 film Brief Encounter. The scene in question earned C

"Every time I'm here, I constantly think of what I would say to you or tell you…" Another excellent stop-motion animated short film to watch. The Visit is an emotional short made by a Singaporean filmmaker named Morrie Tan, telling the story of her own visits to a prison to meet her father. Month after month, Ting makes a solo trip to visit her father in prison, talking only through a glass panel in his windowless cell. She is determined to not let anything separate him from her and the

"Their anger is a powerful weapon." Gravitas has unveiled a trailer for a "mind-bending political thriller" titled Who is Amos Otis?, arriving on VOD at the end of the year. This searing thriller is in the spirit of The Twilight Zone and based on a Pulitzer Prize-nominated play. "If you are wondering how fiction could read like our current reality, this is the story for you." After assassinating the President, Amos Otis pleads self-defense and must convince the jury that America was not only un

John Swab’s crime drama Ida Red is currently available to rent or own on digital platforms. The film features a top notch cast that includes Josh Hartnett, Frank Grillo, William Forsythe and Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo.
“Crime boss Ida ‘Red’ Walker turns to her son, Wyatt, to pull off one last heist to get out of prison,” says the official synopsis. “However, with the FBI closing in, Wyatt must soon choose between family and freedom.”
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Fall Guys is collaborating with another iconic PlayStation character, as the game’s official Twitter account teased an upcoming crossover with Horizon Zero Dawn.
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The collaboration will see Aloy — the main character of Horizon Zero Dawn — make her way into the chaotic world of Fall Guys via a new costume and new game mode, Aloy’s Blaze Canister Mayhem. In the game mode, players will have to avoid obsta

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from RLJE Films’ comedy-horror feature Silent Night, starring an all-star ensemble led by Oscar nominee Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game, Pride & Prejudice). The film is out now in theaters and streaming exclusively on AMC+.
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“The film follows parents Nell and Simon who have invited their closest friends to join their family for Christmas dinner at their idyl

A live-action Mega Man film is in the works and will be headed to Netflix, according to a recent update on production company Supermarché’s website.
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The news (via Rockman Corner) was spotted on a recent updated section on Supermarché’s writing and directing team Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, both of whom founded the company.
“Henry, Rel, and their in-house producer

A live-action Mega Man film is in the works and will be headed to Netflix, according to a recent update on production company Supermarché’s website.
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The news (via Rockman Corner) was spotted on a recent updated section on Supermarché’s writing and directing team Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, both of whom founded the company.
“Henry, Rel, and their in-house producer

Ana de Armas will reunite with Knives Out co-star Chris Evans in Ghosted, following Scarlett Johansson’s departure from the project.READ MORE: In the battle of bulging bank balances – neither Scarlett Johansson nor Disney come away richerJohansson was set to team-up with Avengers co-star Evans in the romantic action-adventure film, directed by Dexter Fletcher of Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody fame.
According to Deadline, Johansson has been replaced by de Armas due to a scheduli

"Robert was pitching this 'little disco movie.'" HBO has debuted a full trailer for the film Mr. Saturday Night, another documentary that's part of the outstanding Music Box series of doc films this fall. It already premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival. This is the next one to launch on HBO Max following Listening to Kenny G and DMX: Don't Try to Understand. Mr. Saturday Night is directed by the filmmaker also behind this year's Gordon Parks doc A Choice Of Weapons. The intro from DOC NYC: "T

Legendary has finally dropped first-look The Texas Chainsaw Massacre photos for the upcoming and newest installment to the iconic horror franchise, which will serve as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original film. The film is scheduled to make its debut next year on February 18, exclusively on Netflix.
The photos, which you can check out below, offer our first glimpse at Leatherface’s return along with new franchise characters, portrayed by Elsie Fisher, Sarah Yarkin

Electronic Arts announced Grid Legends in July and said it was merely coming in 2022. Now, that loose release window has become an exact release date. Grid Legends is coming out on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC on February 25, the same day as Elden Ring.
Developer Codemasters also revealed the first gameplay for the racer, which features all the typical racing players might expect, but with some new features such as electric cars and new tracks like London

HBO Max has revealed the full Finding Magic Mike trailer for the upcoming unscripted competition series, based on Warner Bros. Pictures’ Channing Tatum-led film franchise. The 7-episode series is slated to make its debut on Thursday, December 16.
The video, which you can check out below, highlights the not-so-easy challenges that ten contestants must face as they transformed themselves into real-life Magic Mikes in hopes of regaining their lost confidence and rediscovering their mascu

BBC has revealed the first trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller titled The Girl Before, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and David Oyelowo. The limited series will be making its UK debut this December 19 on BBC One. Meanwhile, there is currently no release date set for its U.S. release that will be available for streaming on HBO Max.
The Girl Before trailer, which you can check out below, features a woman who grabs the opportunity of living in a beautiful and mysterious house. However, s

George Clooney has said that he once walked away from a $35million payday for one day’s work for an airline commercial.
The actor justified his decision by saying that the country the commercial was associated with was questionable to him at the time.READ MORE: ‘The Midnight Sky’ review: George Clooney sci-fi epic is grand but could be bolder“I talked to Amal [Clooney, the human rights lawyer he married in 2014] about it and we decided it’s not worth it,” he t

No Time to Die’s Ana de Armas is reteaming with her Knives Out co-star Chris Evans in Apple’s romance action-adventure feature Ghosted. She is replacing Scarlett Johansson in the project, who exited due to a scheduling conflict, according to Deadline.
De Armas will next be seen in the thriller Deep Water starring alongside Ben Affleck, releasing on January 14, 2022. She will also co-star once more with Evans in Netflix’s upcoming action film The Gray Man, the Russo Brothers&rsq

Sony hasn’t quite had an answer for Xbox’s Game Pass. But according to a new report, the company is working on such a subscription service that is currently codenamed Spartacus. It is expected to launch in spring 2022.
Bloomberg is reporting that Spartacus will be a three-tiered system that will allow users to pay a monthly fee to get access to a library of classic and current titles. The article plausibly speculated that it could be available on both PlayStation 4 as well as PlaySta

"Laura does not exist. Is that understood?" Strike Media has released a US trailer for a Greek indie comedy titled In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand. It first premiered in 2019 at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, and played at a bunch of other fests including Athens, Sarajevo, Red Rock, Sunscreen, and Thessaloniki. It now opens in the US starting in January 2022. Two men who live in Athens decide to start the quest for Laura Durand, a pornstar of the 90's who has disappeared mysteri

ComingSoon is debuting an exclusive clip from the romance comedy Funny Thing About Love, featuring Napoleon Dynamite’s Jon Heder. The film is now available in theaters and to rent and own on North American Digital HD internet, cable, and satellite platforms through Gravitas Ventures.
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“Samantha Banks is on top of the world, a successful business, and a handsome fiancé,” reads the official synopsis

Netflix has released a first-look of Leatherface in its upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel.
The film, which is due to arrive on February 18, is set after the events of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic. It stars Sarah Yarkin, Eighth Grade‘s Elsie Fisher, Nell Hudson, and Jacob Latimore as a group of friends who face violent consequences when they stumble into a ghost town in Texas.READ MORE: Here’s what’s coming to Netflix UK in December“Me and my business part

Stephen Merchant is mostly known for his roles in The Office and various other film and TV projects, but he also left quite a mark on the gaming community with his character Wheatley from Portal 2. The incompetent personality core was something different for him as he hasn’t done any other roles outside of Wheatley in the video game space. But his recent role as Miika the Mouse in A Boy Called Christmas strangely brought back memories from that 2011 game, as he told ComingSoon in

Stephen Merchant is mostly known for his roles in The Office and various other film and TV projects, but he also left quite a mark on the gaming community with his character Wheatley from Portal 2. The incompetent personality core was something different for him as he hasn’t done any other roles outside of Wheatley in the video game space. But his recent role as Miika the Mouse in A Boy Called Christmas strangely brought back memories from that 2011 game, as he told ComingSoon in

According to Variety, Reservation Dogs co-creator Sterlin Harjo is currently developing his next project for FX in the form of an untitled heist series which will be led by a Native American woman. The project comes three months since the network ordered a second season of Harjo and Taika Waititi’s hit coming-of-age comedy, which recently won a Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series.
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The untitled heist thriller

"Hey, I am an excellent chef!" Gravitas has unveiled official trailer for a movie titled An Exquisite Meal, self-described as "a dark comedy arthouse thriller western satire." Okay that's definitely something. This one originally premiered at the 2020 Cinequest Film Festival last year, and it will be on VOD at the end of this month just before the New Year. It seems to be yet another incisive skewering of modern America by way of an "absurdly terrifying dinner…" A dinner party host promi

Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures have released new TV spots and character posters for Jon Watts’ highly-anticipated Spider-Man: No Way Home, which arrives in theaters on December 17.
The Spider-Man: No Way Home TV spots and posters, which you can check out below, continue to tease the arrival of Multiverse villains and how they might affect the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The video also highlights the consequences that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker must face after his failed attempt at c

"The mind is a den of scorpions better left running from, not towards." HBO has revealed the full official trailer for The Suicide Squad spin-off series called Peacemaker, hitting streaming on HBO Max starting in January. While completing work on The Suicide Squad movie last year, James Gunn began writing a spin-off TV series centered on the origins of Peacemaker, portrayed by John Cena. "[He is] not an evil person, he's just a bad guy. He seems sort of irredeemable in the film. But I think tha

"What's a Llorona? And what does it want with my son?" Saban Films has unveiled an official US trailer for a horror film titled The Legend of La Llorona, the feature debut of filmmaker Patricia Harris Seeley. This is the third horror film in the last few years about the Mexican ghost story of La Llorona. Warner Bros released The Curse of La Llorona, then there was also La Llorona from Guatemala last year. Do we really need another one? This one looks like the least interesting one yet. While va

Foo Fighters have shared the first clip from their upcoming comedy horror film, Studio 666 – you can watch it below.READ MORE: Foo Fighters: “Our connection is beyond music”The video was shown by the group prior to the start of their gig in Las Vegas last night (December 2).
In the 40 second clip, you can see the Foos playing music before heading into a creepy studio to record.
After that, you see a demonic-looking Dave Grohl and the band members flying around th

HBO Max has dropped a new Peacemaker trailer for James Gunn’s upcoming The Suicide Squad spin-off series, featuring the return of John Cena as the titular anti-hero. The series is currently slated to premiere on January 13, 2022.
The video provides us with a better idea of what’s next for the trained killer as the government enlisted him for a secret task force where he must kill serious threats to the safety of American citizens. It also gives us a new look at the other main ch

Nicole Kidman has said that she tried to abandon playing the role of Lucille Ball in an upcoming film after her casting caused controversy with fans.
The actor plays the legendary Hollywood comedian in Aaron Sorkin’s Being The Ricardos opposite Javier Bardem, who plays husband Desi Arnaz.READ MORE: ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’ review: a thrilling piece of angry social historyHowever, Kidman’s casting new was met with backlash from fans of Ball, who took to social med

Alec Baldwin has said his acting career may be over after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film Rust.
On October 21 authorities said that Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on set at Bonanza Creed Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hutchins, 42, was airlifted to hospital but later died from her injuries.
Baldwin has since claimed that he “didn’t pull the trigger” on the gun that killed Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.
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The National have shared brand new song ‘Somebody Desperate’, which features in the end credits of the new film adaptation of Cyrano – check it out below, along with NME’s exclusive interview with frontman Matt Berninger.READ MORE: Aaron and Bryce Dessner on their ‘Cyrano’ film soundtrack: “They’re National songs in a way, and have an interior, intimate feeling”Based on the classic play Cyrano de Bergerac – a fictionalised account

Yeon Sang-ho, who directed the hit 2016 film Train To Busan, has shared his thoughts and hopes for the film’s upcoming US remake, Last Train To New York. READ MORE:‘Hellbound’ review: demons rise as religious hysteria descends in this chilling South Korean series
During a recent interview with TIME, Yeon discussed his thoughts and perspective on the upcoming American remake of Train To Busan, as well as his hopes for how the final product might turn out.
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Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi‘s collaborative track ‘Just Look Up’ has been released.READ MORE: Ariana Grande – ‘Positions’ review: lots of banging, but not so many bangersThe pair will appear in the Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence-starring film Don’t Look Up, which is set to land on Netflix on December 24. An official trailer arrived last month.
The song, which was teased at the Hollywood Music In Media Awards, was written by US composer and film p

I hate the Los Angeles Lakers; the organization, most of the players, and I despise the team’s astounding success. My hatred doesn’t stem from anything personal. No, it’s purely sports hate, but at times my disdain for the purple and gold blinds my appreciation for basketball and makes it difficult to appreciate the astounding athletes who make the game so beautiful.
Indeed, Pau Gasol is one of those players loathed in my household for his allegiance to the Lakers organization,

A sequel to the 2013 cult hit 47 Ronin is in the works at Universal, with Anna Akana (Jupiter’s Legacy, Ant-Man) and action film star Mark Dacascos (Brotherhood of the Wolf, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum) set to star in the film.
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The sequel will also star Teresa Ting (Orange Is the New Black), Mike Moh (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Dustin Nguyen (Little Fish), Yoshi Sudarso (Buffalo Boys), and Chris