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We’re really close to the release of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, folks, which means it’s time for us to look back at previous Bat flicks to remember the journey that ultimately led us here.
To start, we’re ranking all of the actors who have donned the cape and cowl on the big screen in live-action form over the years from worst to best. Feel free to let us know your own rankings in the comments below!
6. GEORGE CLOONEY
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This Is Us star Lyric Ross (Sirens, Chicago Fire) is joining Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos in Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Ironheart, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Thorne is playing Riri Williams aka Ironheart, and Ross is set to portray Riri’s best friend in the series. It is rumored that Ramos could be playing the villain.
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Thorne’s Riri Williams is described as “a brilliant teenager who, in the

A new anime based on Isuna Hasekura’s anime series Spice & Wolf has been greenlit and is currently in development.
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The news came via a brief teaser trailer for the series that appeared on Hasekura’s official website. The announcement didn’t exactly specify whether or not the anime would be a remake of the original Spice & Wolf series that premiered in 2008, but the taglines of the anime &mdash

The free-to-play platform fighter Brawlhalla has received a whole mess of crossover characters over its many years. Developer Blue Mammoth Games isn’t done either, as the team has just added two more: G.I. Joe‘s Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow.
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These two ninja-like combatants are in the game right now for 300 Mammoth Coins each, which is around $12 to $13. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow have the abilities of That

Yeah, it's true, sh_t does happen. This mesmerizing Czech short film is a superbly creative, quirky, amusing animation creation that is worth your time. Sh_t Happens was made as a graduation project by animation filmmakers Michaela Mihályi & David Stumpf. It premiered in 2019 at the Venice Film Festival, then stopped by a bunch of other fests, including Sundance, L'Étrange, and the Brussels Animation Film Festival. It's set at apartment building full of self centered inhabitan

Disney has set the official release dates for a handful of highly anticipated films, including its Haunted Mansion film starring LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson, Danny DeVito, and Tiffany Haddish.
RELATED: Danny DeVito Joins the Cast of Disney’s Haunted Mansion
Haunted Mansion is currently set to release in theaters on March 10, 2023, with Disney also setting the date for The Banshees of Inisherin, a Searchlight Pictures film that is set for a limited release on October

NBC has dropped the full trailer for Blumhouse TV’s upcoming true-crime miniseries The Thing About Pam, centering around convicted killer Pam Hupp and her diabolical schemes surrounding the murder of Betsy Faria. It is scheduled to premiere on March 8.
The Thing About Pam trailer, which you can check out below, highlights the web of lies that Renée Zellweger’s Pam Hupp will orchestrate in order to frame Betsy’s husband Russ for the crime. It teases her major role in the

"The GameStop frenzy ripped the curtains of how rigged our markets really are." HBO has revealed the trailer for a doc titled Gaming Wall Street, the second doc about the GameStop stock debacle. Paramount also already debuted their own doc GameStop: Rise of the Players on Paramount+, and HBO has dropped in with their rival offering on the same story. "The underdogs had the upper hand, but then what happened?" Gaming Wall Street is narrated by Kieran Culkin, best known recently as Roman on HBO's

An Outlander prequel series is currently in development at Starz, according to a report from Variety.
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Executive Producer and showrunner Matthew B. Roberts is attached to write and executive produce the prequel, while a writers’ room is currently being put together with the hopes of getting to work within the coming weeks.
No official plot details or information on what the series will focus on has been revea

Pixar has released the Turning Red featurette for its next coming-of-age fantasy comedy film, which will be making its debut on March 11, exclusively on Disney+.
The video features commentaries by Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell, Rosalie Chiang, and Sandra Oh as they talk about Pixar films’ entertaining and deep stories as well as its important impact on a lot of people’s lives. Producer Lindsey Collins and director Domee Shi also revealed that Turning Red‘s unique

"This is not going as swimmingly as we'd hoped." Cinedigm has revealed the first official trailer for an indie crime thriller titled Boon, the latest feature from filmmaker Derek Presley (Ouija 3: The Charlie Charlie Challenge, Cronus, and last year's Red Stone). The widowed Catherine, is busy trying to protect herself and her son from a local criminal organization tormenting her. When former enforcer Nick Boon and Catherine's lives cross paths they find themselves leaning on each other to prot

Universal Pictures will release the horror-comedy Renfield, starring Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage, on Friday, April 14, 2023. The film will open against Sony Pictures’ sci-fi thriller 65 from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, starring Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, and Chloe Coleman.
RELATED: Universal’s Horror Comedy Renfield Begins Production, More Cast Revealed
“In this modern monster tale of Dracula’s loyal servant, Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men franchise) s

According to Variety, Chinese blockbuster superstar Wu Jing has been tapped to star opposite Jason Statham in Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming Meg 2: The Trench. It has also been confirmed that The Meg‘s female lead Li Bingbing won’t be reprising her 2018 role as Suyin in the action-thriller sequel.
Known as China’s highest-grossing actor of all time, Wu Jin is a former martial artist turned actor-director, who has appeared in a number of popular Chinese action films

Crunchyroll unveiled more news about the upcoming North American release of Jujutsu Kaisen 0, including a brand-new trailer, stills, and more information on the voice cast.
RELATED: Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Theatrical Release Date Set for U.S. and Canada
The latest trailer for the highly anticipated anime film sees Yuta Okkotsu promising to do whatever he can to break a curse.
Check out the new trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen 0 below:Alongside the new trailer, new images for the upcoming film were also

Bandai Namco has been quick to advertise A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin’s involvement with Elden Ring. Even though fans are tired of waiting for his next book and were generally disappointed in the HBO show’s final season, having such a storied author attached to a game from a beloved team would obviously draw in even more people. It is an odd pairing and although there are signature elements of Martin’s writing, fans should not expect something as simple

Sony Pictures has revealed another Morbius featurette for its long-delayed superhero film, featuring commentary by Oscar winner Jared Leto. The video, which you can check out below, highlights Morbius’ Marvel lore, with Leto discussing the character’s transition from being a Spider-Man antagonist to becoming an anti-hero.
It is currently slated to arrive in theaters this April 1, pitting it directly against the Chris Pine-led action thriller film The Contractor. The film will al

Batman has descended upon Google search pages ahead of The Batman’s release next week.READ MORE: ‘The Batman’ movie: release date, plot details, cast and everything we knowOn Google Search (desktop or mobile), searches for “Bruce Wayne”, “Gotham City” or “Bat-Signal” will show an animated yellow Bat-signal icon. Click the icon and the screen will dim, as his famous beacon summons Batman who swings across the screen with a grappling hook.

Amazon Studios has dropped the first official photos from the upcoming genre-bending western drama titled Outer Range, starring Oscar nominee Josh Brolin, Imogen Poots, Lili Taylor, and more. The series is scheduled to make its debut this April on Prime Video.
The Outer Range photos, which you can check out below, provide us with our first look at the leading characters including the Abbott family as they encounter a supernatural mystery within their Wyoming ranch. Outer RangeVIEW GALLERYRELATED

"What are you, rebranding?" An early festival trailer has debuted for an indie horror film called Sissy, which is premiering at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival kicking off in March. It's screening in the Midnighters section at the festival, as another brutal social media horror thriller for the digital age. Invited away on a bachelorette weekend, "Sissy" ends up stuck in a cabin with her old high school bully. Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream of an independent, moder

Sally Kellerman, best known for her Oscar-nominated performance as Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in film M*A*S*H, has died at the age of 84.
Kellerman died on Thursday (February 24) at an assisted care facility in Woodland Hills after a battle with dementia, as confirmed by her son Jack Krane (via The Hollywood Reporter).
She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 1970 film M*A*S*H, directed by Robert Altman. Kellerman went onto work with the director on nume

2022 is proving to be the year of Batman as three iterations of the DC hero are set to grace the big screen this year. One of them is Oscar nominee Michael Keaton, who recently shared a brand new photo on Instagram, continuing to tease fans on his return as Bruce Wayne/Batman.
Keaton is expected to appear in two upcoming DC projects, with the first being Warner Bros. Pictures’ Ezra Miller-led The Flash film, which will arrive in theaters on November 4, 2022. Meanwhile, he is currently film

Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise is back with A Madea Homecoming, which is now streaming on Netflix. The comedy doesn’t shy away from important topics and focuses on the graduation of Madea’s great-grandson, played by Brandon Black, who also decides to come out as gay to his family.
“Madea’s back — hallelujer! Tyler Perry returns with everyone’s favorite character in A Madea Homecoming, the newest film in the Madea franchise set to debut on N

"Brave, bold, brilliant." Bulldog Distr. in the UK has revealed the trailer for a film called Europa, which originally premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival last year in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar. This film is essentially Son of Saul but for Middle Eastern refugees in Europe today. It has the same intense, non-stop focus on just one Iraqi refugee on the run on the Turkey-Bulgaria border. Europa is based on real events happening on the dangerous 'Balkan Route' where migrants are smug

It has been 17 years since Quentin Tarantino directed a TV episode for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and now it looks like the Oscar-winning filmmaker is planning to make his TV directorial comeback with FX’s Justified: City Primeval. Deadline brings word that Tarantino has entered early negotiations to helm one or two episodes of the upcoming limited series revival of the Timothy Olyphant-led Western crime drama.
Olyphant, who previously worked with Tarantino in Once Upon a Ti

"Everyone's being mean, and I don't know what's going on…" Super LTD has revealed an official trailer for a UK horror comedy film titled All My Friends Hate Me, marking the feature debut of director Andrew Gaynord. This premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and stopped by the London Film Festival in the fall. Pete is cautiously excited about reuniting with his college crew for a birthday weekend. But, one by one, his friends slowly turn against him. Is he being punished, or i

In a recent interview with Deadline, Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Wright has finally shared a new update about HBO’s upcoming fourth season of Westworld, confirming that production has already been completed. He also teased that the next season’s story will be more familiar to viewers than the last season.
“We wrapped last December, but I’m not exactly sure when it’s when it’s coming out,” Wright said. “Season 4 is going to be more of the Westw

Led by creator and showrunner Jeb Stuart, Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla is now streaming. The historical drama features the end of the Viking age and serves as a follow-up to the hit drama Vikings.
“Set over a thousand years ago in the early 11th century, Vikings: Valhalla chronicles the heroic adventures of some of the most famous Vikings who ever lived — the legendary explorer Leif Eriksson (Sam Corlett), his fiery and headstrong sister Freydis Eriksdotter (Frida

Sean Penn is in Ukraine filming a documentary about Russia’s invasion.
As confirmed by Vice Studios to Variety, the actor appeared at a press briefing by the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on Thursday (February 24), listening to government officials speak about the crisis.
Penn previously visited Ukraine in November last year, where he prepared for the documentary by visiting with the country’s military. Photos from the visit were released by the Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation Press

Michael Madsen was arrested at his Malibu home for trespassing.
The actor, known for starring in Quentin Tarantino films Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill, was arrested on Wednesday night (February 23) shortly after 9pm.
Police were called to Madsen’s Malibu home, which he’s renting, by the property owner who had detained the actor in a citizen’s arrest.
According to Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records (via Entertainment Tonight), Madsen was transported to West Hills Hosp

Former Wonder Girls members Yubin and Lim have reflected on their 2012 made-for-tv film The Wonder Girls.READ MORE:Taeyeon talks Girls’ Generation: “It always feels like home when we’re all together”
In a new interview with Billboard, Yubin and Lim reminisce their experiences while shooting the film, which premiered on TeenNick in February 2012. The movie starred members Hye-rim, Yubin, Yeeun, Sunye and Sohee during their US expansion in the early 2010s
“W

ComingSoon is pleased to offer a pair of exclusive tracks taken from Three Months — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack featuring music by Roger Neill (20th Century Women, Mozart In The Jungle).
The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, February 25 via Lakeshore Records and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The score features glimmering keyboards and electronics mixed with whimsical handclaps that evoke a youthful innocence. The coming-of-age drama written and directed

The dodgeball multiplayer game Knockout City is going free-to-play later this year, shortly after the end of its upcoming fifth season of content.
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In a blog post on the Knockout City section of Electronic Art’s website, developer Velan Studios showed off the upcoming Season 5 of Knockout City, which is titled “Greatest Hits.” The new season will celebrate the first year of Knockout City ahead of its

"You put peace out in the world, you get peace back." Take a look at this. Sony has quietly released a little viral marketing ad for an action movie arriving his summer called Bullet Train. Yes, it's set on a bullet train, which almost makes me feel like we're in the 90s waiting for the next kick ass train action movie. The ad is for a fictional train line in Japan called "Nippon Speed Line" or NSL, with some stunning footage of the train in Japan. It ends with a shot of a beat up Brad Pitt tak

ComingSoon was able to speak with writer/director Monique Matthews about her work on Hallmark’s A Holiday in Harlem.
Monique Matthews is a Los Angeles-based writer and director. Prior to this, Monique, a Harlem native, was an entertainment journalist and managing editor of a national hip-hop magazine. She has also been a guest panelist on NPR’s Tell Me More and more. Monique transitioned into filmmaking after graduating from the UCLA School of Film and Television. She has written for