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The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation will reunite in the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard and we have a new sneak peek at the returning characters. It had previously been announced that the whole gang would be getting back together one more time to help conclude the Patrick Stewart-led series in a satisfying way for longtime fans. At San Diego Comic-Con, a new teaser trailer for season 3 was unveiled which features different Star Trek stars back in their Next Generation roles....

Ahead of its upfront presentation this morning in New York City, CBS All Access released the first official photo from Star Trek Beyond, featuring Sonequa Martin-Green as First Officer Michael Burnham and Michelle Yeoh as Captain Philippa Georgiou. Production has been under way since mid-January, although it isn’t clear when the first trailer may arrive, or when the official premiere date will be set. This series has certainly gone through its share of ups and downs on its way to the CBS All Access streaming service, but now it seems the show is on the right track....

Following Emperor Palpatine’s treacherous power grab in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, the brainwashed clone troopers were ordered to purge the galaxy of Jedi in a mass genocide known as Order 66. When that film came out in 2005, it was presumed that all the Jedi, excluding Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda, had been killed. However, canon in the Star Wars universe has come a long, long way since then — and as it turns out, there were more than a few Jedi clever or lucky enough to avoid the mass murder, as well as The Mandalorian’s Baby Grogu....

Star Wars fans will meet Fanboys on Friday, May 25, when the world’s biggest Star Wars party hosts an exclusive look at select scenes from the upcoming comedy, followed on Saturday by a special panel discussion with the filmmakers. In Fanboys, director Kyle Newman has fashioned an uproarious comedy that follows a group of young friends on a cross-country quest to break into Skywalker Ranch and see {FI7Yw8ba2bXha7|+|Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace} before it is released....

Netflix’s smash hit, Stranger Things, is chock-full of references that pay tribute to the 80s, specifically, 80s horror. Since Season 1, the Duffer Brothers have been carefully curating these aspects into the show and even cast popular actors from the decade to take on leading roles. One of whom being Winona Ryder who had a prominent career in the 80s and 90s. Season 4, which was released in two parts earlier this year, introduced one of the biggest villains that the series has seen to date: Vecna....

Spoiler Warning: Stranger Things Seasons 3-4 It’s been over two weeks since Netflix dropped the much-awaited volume one of the fourth season of Stranger Things. This paranormal horror 1980s extravaganza has become one of Netflix’s most ambitious shows yet, with run times for each episode going well over an hour. Despite that, most of us binged these seven episodes in one go. After all, we have waited three years for this season to drop....

The wait for Stranger Things season 4 is almost over, and while Netflix continue to the tease the new two-part penultimate season with recaps and new images, series creator Ross Duffer has been giving his own tantalizing comments about the upcoming episodes. Although we already know that this season is bigger than its predecessors, the writer has indicated that we should expect some feature length episodes when the first set of new episodes arrive at the end of May, and that will make fans of the series very happy....

STUDIOS OPERATING AT A LOSS, SAYS REPORT Back-end participation deals with top directors, producers and actors, in which they receive a percentage of a movie’s gross – regardless of whether it is profitable – have been principally responsible for pushing the movie industry into an annual loss, according to a report produced by research company Global Media Intelligence and Merrill Lynch and reported by today’s (Monday) New York Times.In its report about the study, the newspaper commented that it may be particularly relevant during the current writers’ strike....

THE WORLD ENDS WITH A BANG 2012certainly shook things up at the box office over the weekend. The Sony film took in an estimated $65 million domestically and another $120 million overseas leaving just about every other film grasping for life and box-office prognosticators and movie critics gasping at the magnitude of its triumph. “Even the Maya would have struggled to forecast an opening weekend this big,” commented the Los Angeles Times, referring to the central premise of the movie – that the ancient Mayan calendar ends on December 21, 2012....

i>DANCING DANCES AWAY WITH RATINGS HONORS An hour and a half of Dancing With the Starsgave ABC an overwhelming victory over its rivals Monday night as it averaged an 11.6 rating and an 18 share, peaking in the final half hour at 9:00 p.m. with a 12.4/18, representing more than 18 million viewers. ABC’s Samantha Who?,which followed, was unable to ride its coattails, as it lost half of Dancing’s audience and fell to second place behind NBC’s game show, Deal or No Deal....

ANGER FOLLOWS STRIKE, SAYS VARIETY The aftermath of the writers’ strike has seen a striking downturn in the number of scripted television shows and pilots ordered by the television networks, affecting not only the number of jobs for writers but also the number for actors and crew members who would ordinarily have appeared on them, Daily Varietyreported today. In its lead story, headlined “Anger Management,” the trade paper commented, “The wave of euphoria that swept over Hollywood following the end of the WGA strike has been replaced by a whole new set of emotions: anxiety, depression, fear, nervousness – and anger....

The DCU has begun! News of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s plans for the first chapter in the franchise have now dropped, with the title of the already confirmed Superman project revealed as Superman: Legacy. The Superman project, which will not see Henry Cavill return to the role of Man of Steel, has also been given a release date of July 11, 2025, with Variety reporting that Superman: Legacy will be the beginning of this new DCU....

Warning: This story contains minor spoilers for That ’90s Show. Netflix has officially premiered That ’90s Show, an official follow-up to the hit sitcom That ’70s Show (which also conveniently ignores the short-lived spinoff That ’80s Show). In the series, many original cast members return, including most of the starring cast that played the show’s teen characters in That ’70s Show. But noticeably absent is Steven Hyde, played by Danny Masterson in the original show....

In a story from Variety, it appears that the A&E drama The Beast is being cancelled. The show, which starred Patrick Swayze as a rogue FBI cop in Chicago, was canceled after 13 episodes. The last episode aired April 23. The Sony-produced show got on off to rough start when Swayze got diagnosed with with cancer. Due to the actors illness there was talk of bringing in a new actor to replace him....

Ben Foster has been quietly plugging away in the acting world, starring in some of the most underrated movies of the past 15 years or so. At the young age of 16, Foster took the lead role of Tucker James in the Disney Channel original series Flash Forward, and was nominated for a Gemini Award as a result. He found small roles in some films and television before really breaking out with a 22-episode stint in one of the best American TV shows of the century so far, Six Feet Under....

Gen Z kids will never be able to fathom the pious pedestal at which Cartoon Network was placed by the previous generation. Before there were phones, screens, and tabs, the main source of digital entertainment came via a TV set in the form of cartoon characters. Due to the lack of technological advancements and the simplicity of life in the late ’80s and ’90s, Cartoon Network single-handedly shaped, entertained and raised an entire generation of children....

There are a lot of cooking shows on Netflix these days. Anyone with enough time on their hands could absorb them all and gain the sum knowledge of several dozen good cooks (or just a really bad temper). Either way, watching too many cooking shows isn’t advised; there’s a lot of chaff out there, and if you’re going to commit to a binge, you may as well get something worthwhile out of it, whether that’s exclusive tips, entertaining drama, or that perfect brain-massaging experience of watching steamy chocolate ganache drip down the side of a fresh spongecake....

With the first season of The Boys introducing audiences to a very different world of superheroes, we have all been left wondering what exactly the second series and beyond will bring. Well, one of those things could end up being The Walking Dead star, Jeffrey Dean Morgan who, having publicly lobbied for a role in the show on social media last year, is now discussing a potential appearance with showrunner Eric Kripke....

It seems that James Cameron’s smashing box office success has influenced yet another film in the works. MTV Movies Blog recently spoke with 2012 director Roland Emmerich, who revealed that his upcoming Issac Asimov adaptation Foundation will be done in 3D, which was influenced by Avatar’s success. Emmerich added that the film will use motion-capture technology along with 3D technology. “The Avatar technology applies to Foundation,” Emmerich said. “It has to be done all CG because I would not know how to shoot this thing in real....

Singer and actress Sally Kellerman has passed away. Perhaps best known for her Oscar-nominated performance as U.S. Army Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan in the original MAS*H movie, Kellerman reportedly died on Thursday at an assisted care facility where she’d been staying in Woodland Hills. Her son, Jack Krane, told The Hollywood Reporter that Kellerman had been battling dementia before her death. She was 84 years old. One of Kellerman’s most popular roles saw her starring in director Robert Altman’s black comedy war film MAS*H, released in 1970....