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Squid Game star O Yeong-su has revealed details regarding the now officially confirmed the second season of the Netflix smash-hit series. Speaking with DiscussingFilm, O Yeong-su revealed that creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has several “new” and even more “dramatic” games in mind for Squid Game Season 2, before explaining how the shadow of his character, the duplicitous Oh Il-nam, will hang over the show’s return. Released in September 2021 to mass acclaim, the first season of Squid Game centers on a contest in which 456 players, drawn from different walks of life but each deeply in debt, play a set of children’s games with deadly consequences in the hopes of winning a 45....

On November 1, 2022, a judge declared a mistrial in a felony grand theft case against Keya Morgan, Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee’s former business manager and dismissed all three counts. If he had been convicted of grand theft for stealing $222,480 from Lee in May 2018, just months before his death at 95, Morgan could have been sentenced to nine years in prison. There is still a civil case pending....

One of the biggest mysteries of Star Trek: Prodigy, the nature of the origin of Captain Del Re’l (Brett Gray), is beginning to unfold! In the midseason premiere, Season 1, Episode 11, “Asylum,” the crew of the Protostar arrives at Comm Relay station CR-721. Once there, and at the behest of Lt. Jr. Grade Barniss Frex (Eric Bauza), they each submit to a DNA scan in order to begin their conscription into Starfleet....

Star Wars is a franchise that has spanned the last four decades. With over ten films, several TV series, and countless books and video games, the Star Wars universe is a gold mine of sci-fi content for every fan to obsess over. From terrifying planets covered in lava, like Mustafar, to the underground culture of the Mandalorians, there is a never-ending amount of places, characters, and stories to explore. One thing that Star Wars has become known for in particular is its wide array of characters and their range in power....

BOX OFFICE REMAINS ON A TEAR Box-office forecasters who bet the odds and predicted that the nearly two-month-long hot streak would end this weekend lost hopelessly when ticket sales ended up garnering a record not only for the President’s Day weekend but for the entire month of February – $190 million for three days and an estimated $223 million for four. Moreover, the top film, Friday the 13th, which was butchered by critics, earned an estimated $45....

FATTER-THAN-EXPECTED HOGS Not only did the estimates for the biker comedy Wild Hogs exceed analysts’ expectations when they came out on Sunday, but the final figures released on Monday exceeded the original estimates. The Disney film, which stars John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy and Tim Allen, hauled in $39.7 million, well above the 38 million that the studio had expected and nearly double the amount that box-office forecasters had predicted at the time the movie was released....

3-D MAKES BIG COMEBACK The majority of moviegoers who saw Beowulfover the weekend sought out 3-D theaters to see it in, Paramount indicated Sunday. Although the film played in just 740 theaters equipped with digital 3-D projectors, the film earned twice as much in those theaters than in all the rest combined. In all, the film grossed $28.1 million – a figure that came in at the low end of analysts’ expectations....

LOST LOSES VIEWERS ABC’s Lost,facing stronger competition from Major League Baseball on Fox and CBS’s Criminal Minds, lost some of its audience Wednesday night, posting a 12.6 rating and a 19 share, versus a 13.1/20 a week ago. Nevertheless, it remained by far the top-rated show of the evening. Fox and ABC’s sitcoms tied in the 8:00 p.m. hour with an average 5.7/9, only slightly ahead of NBC’s Jerry Bruckheimer drama E-Ringwith a 5....

FACTIONS AT CBS TAKE STAND ON COURIC Some websites are describing a veritable civil war developing in the hallways of CBS News over Katie Couric, with Couric loyalists describing her recent critics as traitors. The latest rumpus arose over a report in the Philadelphia Inquirer in which unnamed CBS insiders voiced pointed criticism of Couric. Two of the Inquirer’s sources were later identified by FoxNews.com’s Roger Friedman as Bob Schieffer and Leslie Stahl....

NEVADA DEMOCRATS BOYCOTT FOX NEWS MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY MSNBC HOST RITA COSBY HANDED WALKING PAPERS Rita Cosby is out at MSNBC. The tabloid-show personality, who recently flew to the Bahamas to attend the funeral of Anna Nicole Smith said on Friday that she will remain with the cable network until the end of the month when her current contract expires, then move on to “explore the new opportunities.” Since her 10:00 p....

MSNBC MAY BE COMING UP ROSIE Rosie O’Donnell may be returning to television on the cable news network MSNBC going head-to-head against Larry King, the New York Timesreported today (Tuesday). The newspaper, which cited unnamed executives on both sides of the netotiations, said that O’Donnell would likely replace Live with Dan Abramsin the 9:00 p.m. hour. The newspaper also observed that a podcast on lyingonthebeach.com described O’Donnell as saying that she would soon be competing against “the guy with the suspenders and the long, long face....

The Supernatural series finale is a “personal” and “old-school” episode, promises showrunners Andrew Dabb and Robert Singer. After 15 seasons and a lot of monsters, the Winchester Brothers are ending their story later this week. The show was originally supposed to end back in May, but the public health crisis brought the production to a screeching halt. The Supernatural cast and crew were able to reunite in the fall to complete the final two episodes ever....

On April 3 Copying Beethoven composes itself on DVD! To celebrate this release which looks at the great Ludwig van Beethoven we are giving away copies of it. Winners Receive: Copying Beethoven DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: It is 1824 and one of history’s greatest composers - the notoriously volatile Ludwig van Beethoven - urgently requires help finishing his masterpiece in time for its first performance. But for the young student selected for the daunting task of transcribing the demanding taskmaster’s score notes, Copying Beethoven proves to be far more than just a job....

On October 17, things will get a bit crazy as road trip gone wrong Rest Stop comes to DVD! To celebrate we are giving away some copies to a few lucky people! CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: Nicole (Jaimie Alexander) and Jess (Joey Mendicino) begin a cross-country road trip together from Texas to Hollywood. Their careless, open road adventure comes to a screeching halt as the journey takes a deadly turn at an out-of-the way rest stop....

A haunting new motion poster for upcoming comic book outing The Batman requests that you question everything. Shared to social media by The Batman director Matt Reeves, the poster gives us another look at Robert Pattinson as the titular DC icon, as the shape of his iconic cowl slowly transforms into a question mark, ushering in the arrival of Paul Dano’s serial killer, The Riddler. Once again leaning into the red and black colour palette that much of the marketing material for The Batman has used, the motion poster teases the darkly atmospheric comic book outing that director Matt Reeves has created....

The upcoming DC outing, The Batman, transforms the infamous character The Riddler into a terrifying serial killer, with many comparisons being made to the real-life Zodiac Killer. Well, according to actor Paul Dano, who will suit up (so to speak) as The Riddler opposite Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight, there is a lot more to the supervillain than being a simple Zodiac copycat. While the similarities between The Riddler and the mysterious Zodiac Killer are clear, with both taunting the police with letters and cryptic clues during their killing spree, as actor Paul Dano explains to Empire, this was merely a starting point....

The interstitial hopelessness of administrative limbo; the claustrophobic stuffy cubicle that traps salaried people from 9 to 5; an outdated state computer that freezes mid-through; the ludicrous hoops of functionary impresarios; the quicksands of endless paper filling; the existential horror of making a mistake in an official document. No Lovecraftian monster is a match to the mundane and callous abhorrence of bureaucracy that sucks people’s souls out, leaving only empty shells to exist rather than live....

The team behind TNT’s The Closer, including creator/executive producer James Duff, are working on a spinoff from the hit cop drama starring Kyra Sedgwick, according to The Hollywood Reporter. TNT confirmed that it has handed out a script order for the spinoff but declined comment on other details. The Closer stars Sedgwick as a deputy police chief who has a love-hate relationship with junk food. It’s unclear whether the untitled spinoff – referred to in industry circles as The Fixer – would focus on an existing The Closer character or an altogether new one....

The show’s Executive Producers discuss why they chose to end things after the Fourth Season In a rebooting Battlestar Galactica for the 21st century, Executive Producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick created a show that, while based on an older property, managed to be more topical than almost any other show on TV. Having already had three seasons with fans and critics alike both clamoring for more, Eick and Moore recently sat down to discuss the Fourth Season and final season of this show....

Referred to as “one of the most unique and distinguished of all Hollywood actors”, Roy Scheider made quite a name for himself over the course of his career. Most people remember him for his role as Chief Brody in Jaws (1975) and Jaws 2 (1978), but the actor boasts quite a long list of iconic performances. He’s even been nominated for quite a few awards, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award....