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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is an innovative-animated movie that features Spider-Man characters from many different universes. Its predecessor, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, was a commercial success and received much critical acclaim due to its unique narrative style. It introduced fans to Shameik Moore’s Miles Morales back in 2018 and proved a huge success with its creative storylines, colorful animation, and heartwarming characters. The Spider-Man gang is set to get bigger for this new venture with Spider-Gwen and a host of interdimensional Spider-People joining forces with Miles Morales to battle a powerful new foe known as the Spot....

Just days after Alex Kurtzman took over as showrunner on Star Trek Discovery from departing producers Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts, CBS has announced that Kurtzman has signed a new five-year overall deal with CBS where he’ll oversee the expansion of the Star Trek TV franchise. CBS made the deal with Kurtzman and his production company Secret Hideout Productions, which is run by Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, who serves as president of Secret Hideout and Aaron Baiers as senior VP of television....

Way back in March of last year we reported that a new live-action TV series set in the Star Wars universe was moving forward. Now it seems that project is stalled once again. Comic Book Movie is reporting that George Lucas himself revealed the project was being put on hold. Here’s what Lucas said about the in-limbo TV series: The site reports that Lucas gave those quotes at a recent screening of Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back....

Perhaps not since the days of Jennifer Lewis’ cries or praises for Black Jesus in Black-ish have audiences seen such a satirical take on religion. Add to that, This Is Us former star Sterling K. Brown’s departure from the dramatics to join actress Regina Hall for some comedic strength in the new movie Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul which is set to premiere theaters and on Peacock on September 2....

When Game of Thrones began airing in 2011, the show was almost immediately called out for its glaring omission of diversity within its cast. Despite the series’ enormous success, the show received criticism for its casting and portrayal of minorities within the plot. The forthcoming prequel, House of the Dragon, sought to alleviate some of these concerns with far more diverse actors. However, some talent associated with the show received backlash and racist threats due to their involvement with the franchise....

Stranger Things season 4 is poised to be the scariest season of the hit Netflix sci-fi series yet. This, according to star Joe Keery, who plays Steve Harrington on the show. The streaming service was quick to renew the show for another run of episodes following season 3’s debut last summer. Now, Keery is teasing what fans can expect when the gang returns. Though, when that is going to be remains in the air for the time being....

BBC One has released the first trailer and photo for the upcoming series Strike, based on the Cormoran Strike novels written by Robert Galbraith, a pseudonym used by J.K. Rowling. The Cuckoo’s Calling (published by Little, Brown) is the first in the Cormoran Strike series and J.K. Rowling’s first crime novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It will be the first of three separate event series, with The Cuckoo’s Calling (3x60 minutes) debuting on August 27 on BBC One, followed by The Silkworm (2x60 minutes) and Career Of Evil (2x60 minutes), although dates for the other event series’ have not been released....

WILL WE SEE SAW AGAIN? So, was the Sawfranchise hacked to death by Paranormal Activityover the weekend? That was the question box-office analysts were debating as final figures revealed that Saw VI opened with only $14.1 million despite being shown on more than 4,000 screens at more than 3,000 venues. By contrast, Paranormalexpanded to two-thirds that number of screens and theaters but still managed to rake in $21.1 million – even though it had already been playing in limited release for over three weeks....

THE KILLER TAPES Although some TV viewers expressed outrage at NBC News’s decision to broadcast the tapes that Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-hui sent to it on the day of his attacks, the network’s NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams surged well ahead of its rivals Wednesday, according to Nielsen Research. After trailing ABC’s World News With Charles Gibsonfor weeks, the NBC newscast drew a 7.5 rating and a 15 share, 23 percent above ABC’s 6....

Warner Bros. has hired Footloose director Craig Brewer to write and direct their new version of Tarzan. It is said that the writer-director has come up with a take which will span over three movies. Last month we reported that Warner Bros. was considering scripts from both Craig Brewer and Adam Cozad (Untitled Jack Ryan Project). It seems the studio has sided with Craig Brewer, although the studio may work in material from Adam Cozad’s draft for this project, or its sequel....

The 1980s were something of a golden age for television theme songs. In decades prior, the theme music was either a pleasant melody that played over the opening credits (such as I Love Lucy and The Dick Van Dyke Show), or they explained the premise of the series as in The Brady Bunch and The Beverly Hillbillies. By the time we reached the 80s, MTV had revolutionized television so much that everything else being broadcast seemed tame and boring by comparison....

20th Century Fox invited us to the Santa Monica, CA production offices of the Brothers Strause (Greg and Colin), the directors of the upcoming Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem. They gave us a preview of the film and answered some great fan-questions about the movie and where the franchise is going. In the conversation, they touched upon their desires for the sequel to Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem while trying not to give any of the plot away for the current film, which arrives in theatres on December 25th....

James Gunn, Elizabeth Banks, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker and Nathan Fillion sit down to talk about the horror flick There’s horror and then there’s comedy horror. Two separate genre’s, yet they all seem to blend together. Well, the new film, Slither is definitely in the comedy horror genre. The basic plot is an alien asteroid crashed into a small mid-west town, it infects one guy (Michael Rooker). He then goes on a killer rampage trying to infect the rest of the people who live there....

TNT has ordered new seasons of three of the network’s hit series. The Closer, which continues to rank as ad-supported cable’s #1 series of all time, will return for its seventh season. Rizzoli & Isles, which currently ranks as cable’s #1 new series for the year-to-date, will return for a second season. Leverage, which is performing exceptionally well in its new Sunday timeslot, will be back for a fourth season. TNT has ordered 15 episodes each of The Closer and Leverage, along with 13 episodes of Rizzoli & Isles, with all three slated to start their new seasons in 2011....

The Good A great movie that dazzles on Blu-ray disc. The Bad How could they not include extras on this release? The story of Rocky is a classic, well worn tale but one that I will go over for your reading pleasure. Rocky Sylvester Stallone) is a down on his luck fighter who has a heart of gold. When not engaging in poor paying and poor quality fights, Rocky hangs around his Philadelphia neighborhood picking up extra money shaking down people for a local mobster....

Ron Howard is looking forward to directing an episode of Willow if the series is picked up for a second season. Howard directed the original 1988 film and serves as an executive producer for the Disney+ series. The series serves as a sequel to the original film, with Warwick Davis reprising the role of the titular sorcerer. Set 20 years after the original, Willow is now leading a rescue mission to stop an unknown evil....

Saw 3D, the final chapter in this horror series featuring Jigsaw, will be released on Blu-ray, DVD and 3D Blu-ray on January 25. The standard DVD will be priced at $29.95 SRP, the Blu-ray, which will also include discs with the standard DVD and a Digital Copy, will cost $34.95 SRP and the 3D Blu-ray, which also comes with the DVD and Digital Copy, will go for $49.99 SRP. You can take a look at the cover art and special features below:...

Director Scott Glosserman takes us behind-the-scenes of this upcoming documentary about Wikipedia and its founder Jimmy Wales, now available on DVD Although Wikipedia is the 8th most popular website on the Internet today, and it is already the 3rd most widely read ‘publication’ in human history, attracting 100 million unique visitors a month, this great social and academic experiment of our age is riddled with vandals and challenged by skeptics, posing compelling questions about whether Wikipedia’s model can truly achieve its goal....

There are certain vintage items that consistently generate a lot of interest when they come up for sale. This time around, it is an unopened 1984 VHS copy of Star Wars that is getting a lot of buzz, with the rare item expected to sell for a tidy sum of $60,000 at auction, which is set to end on February 23rd. When it comes to Star Wars media, the one thing that piques interest more than anything is copies of the original, unedited versions of the films, rather than the “Special Edition” versions that are now commonplace in any release....

The Skrulls have been a presence in Marvel Comics for a long time. Their first appearance dates all the way back to Fantastic Four #2 in the year 1962 as minor villains. Since then, their presence in the Marvel universe expanded to a range that shook it to its core. So, when the ancient alien race made its debut in Captain Marvel in 2019, fans knew that it was only a matter of time before they did the same thing in the MCU....