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Spider-Man is easily one of the most loved superheroes of all time. Whether it be his charming and easy-going personality, or the concept of being a friendly neighborhood hero, the Spider-Man franchise is continuing to grow in popularity. Now, the debate on which franchise was the best, between Sam Raimi’s trilogy, The Amazing Spider-Man, and the MCU Spider-Man, is ongoing — and honestly, it will never be settled. Every Spider-Man actor has brought his own spark to the beloved character, and no matter how much we like to pick favorites, every time a new project is announced and a new trailer drops, count us in....

Following the shocking events of the Season Two finale, the thrills of CBS’s wildly popular Star Trek Discovery continue in a new three-issue comic book miniseries from IDW Publishing, Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath! This riveting new comic book, under license by CBS Consumer Products, reunites co-writers Kirsten Beyer, Mike Johnson, and artist Tony Shasteen (who previously worked together on 2018’s Star Trek: Discovery - The Light of Kahless) for a storyline focused prominently on Spock....

During Sunday’s AFC Championship Game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cincinnati Bengals, Paramount+ and CBS debuted the official trailer for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard. The new Star Trek: Picard trailer shows the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation reuniting for the first time in over 20 years at the edge of Federation space to face a new foe, Vadic (Amanda Plummer). Excitingly, the trailer also revealed that two new characters would join the Star Trek universe, Outlander’s Ed Speleers, and 12 Monkeys’ Todd Stashwick, when Picard begins airing this February....

Strap on your jetpacks and helmets. Star Wars Rebels goes full Mandalorian in Imperial Supercommandos. This episode made me feel like a kid again. I remember sitting in the theater with my father; watching Boba Fett blast off in Return of the Jedi. It’s awesome that thirty-three years later, Mandalorian armor is cooler than ever. Sabine (Tiya Sircar) is playing a holographic game with the imprisoned Fenn Rau (Kevin McKidd) on a rebel ship....

At a press conference for the highly anticipated film The Mist by Academy Award nominated director Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption), Stephen King, whose novella the film is based on, gave his blessing of the film adaptation as well as sent out a chilling message to anyone who dares to give away the film’s ending. Stephen King stated, “Frank wrote a new ending that I loved. It is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last 5 minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead....

It seems that the three men’s baby from the 80s is all growns up and heading down the aisle. Hollywood.com recently spoke with Three Men and a Baby star Steve Guttenberg, who revealed that Disney is moving forward with Three Men and a Bride. Here’s what Guttenberg had to say. Guttenberg also revealed he’d like to see sequels to two of his other 80s franchises as well: “Disney’s developing Three Men and a Bride....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Extant is a mystery thriller about a female astronaut trying to reconnect with her family when she returns after a year in outer space. Her experiences lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history. Here’s what Scott Koondel, Chief Corporate Licensing Officer, CBS Corporation, had to say in a statement. Extant is a co-production of CBS Television Studios and Amblin Television. Steven Spielberg, Greg Walker, Mickey Fisher, who wrote the script, Brooklyn Weaver, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank will serve as executive producers....

ANIMATED MOVIE TO OPEN CANNES FOR FIRST TIME Disney/Pixar’s Up will have its world premiere as the opening film of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, becoming the first animated film as well as the first 3D film ever to open the celebrated festival, organizers announced today (Thursday). It is due to be released in the U.S. on May 29th. While other animated films have been featured in and out of competition at Cannes over the years, the French black-and-white film Persepolisis the only one ever to have won a prize, taking the Jury Award in 2007....

THE $42-MILLION-A-WEEK SHOW With ads each costing $623,000 per 30 seconds, Fox’s American Idolbrings in about $7 million for each 30-minute segment, or $42 million on an average week when it airs a two-hour performance show and a one-hour results show, according to Forbes.The magazine, which cited estimates of commercial revenue by TNS Media Intelligence, noted that Fox’s 24 was network television’s second most lucrative show, bringing in $3.7 million for a 30-second spot and $366,000 per half-hour segment....

CAN MILLIONAIRE REVIVE ABC AGAIN? ABC, which is slogging through another year of lackluster ratings, is planning to revive the show that rescued it when it was last in a ratings bind ten years ago – Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The network said Wednesday that it will air a two-week Millionaire"tournament" in August, once again featuring Regis Philbin as host. The quiz show, which launched in 1999 and at one point regularly drew around 29 million viewers, lasted in primetime only three years, with season-to-season audience erosion blamed on overexposure....

COURIC ADMITS REGRETS ABOUT CBS DECISION Katie Couric has acknowledged that she now has second thoughts about accepting the job of anchor for the CBS Evening News. Asked by New Yorkmagazine whether she would have accepted the job if she had known that she would be delivering the traditional newscast that she hosts today, Couric replied, “It would have been less appealing to me. … It would have required a lot more thought....

COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES FOR CBS With an overrun of the NCAA basketball tournament giving the overall schedule a big boost, CBS dominated every half hour of primetime Sunday night. The combination of the basketball game and the first half hour of 60 Minutes(featuring Katie Couric’s interview with Senator John Edwards and his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth) led the way at 7:00 p.m. with an 11.5 rating and a 21 share. Even the final – and deciding – episode of NBC’s Your the One That I Want, aimed at finding the leads for a Broadway revival of Grrease,could not find a substantial audience, settling for a third-place 4....

TO CROSS OR NOT TO CROSS? MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY CAN ARNOLD TERMINATE THE STRIKE? California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed reports that first appeared on the Internet site Politico.com that he has been acting behind the scenes to bring striking writers and producers representatives back to the negotiating table with a federal mediator. At a news conference in Sacramento Thursday, Schwarzenegger said, “I’m talking to the parties that are involved because I think it’s very important that we settle that as quickly as possible, because it has a tremendous economic impact on our state....

On April 17 The Last King of Scotland comes to DVD! To celebrate the release of this powerful film we are giving away copies of it! Winners Receive: The Last King of Scotland DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: As Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, Forest Whitaker gives “one of the greatest performances of modern movie history” (Wall Street Journal), one that Premiere calls “the most high-voltage performance of his career....

If you love The Addams Family then have we ever got a series set for you! In a story from DVD Times, it seems that MGM Home Entertainment will be releasing The Addams Family: The Complete Series on November 13. Synopsis: The Addams Family is not your typical family: they take delight in most of the things that “normal” people would be terrified of. With Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Pugsley, Wednesday, Thing and the rest of the clan on hand, we realize just how undefined the term nuclear family can be....

Marvel Studios is pulling The Avengers out of Detroit after Governor Rick Snyder introduced his new budget proposal for film incentives in the state of Michigan. The Avengers was to be partially shot in Detroit this summer, but the studio has decided to not wait around in case Rick Snyder’s proposal goes through, which would eliminate the current film tax incentive in Michigan, and would instead call for $25 million in each of the next two years for future movie projects....

The stereotype of fantasy and its adjacent genres is that audiences should ostensibly enjoy themselves. This means creating action scenes that are high on wonder, spectacle, and dazzling visual effects, and low on blood, guts, and general viscera. Only Game of Thrones and its acolytes acquainted us with the idea that popular fantasy need not be all fun and games all the time – take the show’s infamous “Red Wedding” as the key example of an unfair fight, an unexpected instance of gratuitous injustice in a magical world; a massacre, in short....

‘Scream queen’ is an epithet for actresses who have become iconic for portraying roles in horror movies. One of the biggest scream queens (who some might call the GOAT), of all time is Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis has had a lot of big roles in scary movies, including the franchise that some say started the golden age of the slasher movies, Halloween. Her mom, Janet Leigh, is also considered a scream queen for her role (especially in one of the most memorable scenes in cinema history) in Psycho....

Astronauts stuck on Earth’s last space research station watch as the planet is consumed by a toxic fog. Rubikon is a sharp sci-fi thriller about the deadly consequences of unfettered human behavior. There are no aliens or asteroids to blame for our sudden downfall. Mankind pays the price for arrogance and hubris. The film tackles sobering themes of environmental disaster, economic disparity, and interpersonal relationships in a critical situation. It’s an absorbing character study of the worst case scenario’s hard choices....

The release of the new Fantastic Four Blu-ray Disc will have a Silver lining. In a story from DVD Town, apparently the next generation release of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer had been having trouble playing on the “Samsung BD-P1200 and LG BH100 dual-format player.” At first it had been thought that the new BD+ “encryption technology” was the problem but according to “Steven Feldstein, Senior Vice President of Corporate & Marketing Communications at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, ‘BD+ is not the culprit....