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Marvel Studios’ next Disney+ series looks on the surface to be a typical MCU action blockbuster in serialized form. Secret Invasion is one the most anticipated shows coming to Disney+ in early 2023, having seemingly been delayed from this year due to the continued Covid effect on many productions over the last couple of years. While we still have the one-off Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special to come this December, fans are now focusing on the arrival of Secret Invasion, which according to actor Martin Freeman is not a run-of-the-mill Marvel story....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Follow that Bird Warner Bros. Follow that Bird features many great comedy cameos from the 1980s such as Chevy Chase, John Candy, Dave Thomas, and Joe Flaherty, who were fresh off SCTV, a Canadian comedy show that churned out countless stars. Watch for Kermit the Frog and Sandra Bernhard as an overworked waitress in one of the most outrageous food fight scenes ever immortalized on celluloid....

We take a trip to New Mexico for a first look at Frank Miller’s latest directorial effort I knew this was going to be a good trip. As soon as I got in the Prime Time Shuttle for a quick ride to LAX, I found a handful of cash wedged in the seatbelt hole. A surge of excitement ran through my veins. “How much?” Was all I could think as I pulled it out and counted it....

Ever since HBO’s original series Sex and the City hit television screens during the late ’90s (1998 to be exact), pop culture has transformed drastically. Still airing today globally in syndication and on select streaming platforms (HBO and Hulu) Sex and the City is an empire of sorts — the original six-season series, two feature films (Sex and the City from 2008 and Sex and the City 2 two years later), as well as two spin-off television series (CW’s The Carrie Diaries and Michael Patrick King’s new HBO adaptation And Just Like That); all hone in on the everyday life from the perspective of a variety of female characters....

It seems that Disney has already begun to improve the look of She-Hulk in the upcoming Disney+ Marvel series, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. The studio shared the recently released trailer to the show’s Disney+ page, but this time the footage comes in a much higher quality, with some improvements having been made to the rendering of the titular superhero. So clear are the changes that fans have since taken to social media to make some comparisons…...

The She-Hulk trailer may have brought a mixed reaction from fans, with some criticizing the design of Marvel’s latest addition to the MCU and others not massively impressed with the CGI effects on display. However, the trailer now has the second largest debut for a Marvel Studios Disney+ series with a massive 78 million views in the first 24 hours, which puts it behind only The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, which had the added benefit of being released to a Super Bowl audience....

In a story from Variety Sony Pictures is in final talks to put together a feature film about the late Michael Jackson. The film will be culled from 80 hours of rehearsal footage that was filmed for concerts that Jackson was in preparations to perform in London. Sony will most likely pay about $50 million for the worldwide rights to AEG Entertainment, which presently owns the footage. They showed it to studios last week....

The team is back together to prove their worth to a new administration in the second season of Space Force. On Monday, Netflix announced that the second season of the comedy series will officially premiere on Feb. 18, 2022. Along with that announcement comes a slew of first look images along with the official poster, but there’s no footage to share of the new episodes at this time. A workplace comedy series, Space Force follows the sixth branch of the United States Armed Forces, dubbed the United States Space Force....

Given the amount of money that’s already come in for Spider-Man: No Way Home, there’s not going to be an end to the stream of Spidey movies getting churned out by Marvel and Sony anytime soon. There are tentative plans for a new movie trilogy with Tom Holland returning as Peter Parker, and perhaps that could be just one of many big projects for fans to look forward. Before we proceed in this story, be warned that MAJOR SPOILERS are ahead for Spider-Man: No Way Home....

Paramount Digital Entertainment confirmed today that Star Trek, licensed by CBS Consumer Products, will be coming to the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation3 computer entertainment system and Windows PC in summer 2012. With an original story and unprecedented co-op experience, the game casts players as Kirk and Spock for the first time ever. The game, which continues the adventure that director and producer J.J. Abrams envisioned with Star Trek (2009), boasts a stand alone story filled with action-packed combat as Kirk and Spock must work together to stop a legendary enemy race bent on conquering the galaxy....

Stardust is a 2007 fantasy movie directed by Matthew Vaughn, and based on the 1999 novel by Neil Gaiman. It centers around a young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox), who enters the fantasy world of Stormhold to retrieve a fallen star so that Victoria (Sienna Miller), the woman he loves, will marry him. He meets Yvaine (Claire Danes), the human form of the star, and tries to get her back to Victoria while witches and the princes of Stormhold pursue Yvaine and her power....

Starz Chief Executive Officer Chris Albrecht today announced a third season for the Starz Original series Da Vinci’s Demons has been greenlit. The historical fantasy, created and executive produced by David S. Goyer and produced by Adjacent Productions, follows the ‘untold’ story of the world’s greatest genius, Leonardo da Vinci, during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. John Shiban joins Da Vinci’s Demons Season 3 as executive producer and showrunner. Shiban began his career as a staff writer on Fox’s The X-Files....

CHRISTMAS TREASURE It appeared Tuesday that National Treasure: Book of Secretswould wind up with about $65 million for the five-day Christmas holiday. The figure, released by Walt Disney Pictures on Tuesday, was based on actual receipts through Monday and an estimate for Tuesday. However, a wild card for Tuesday was the opening of the latest Aliens vs. Predatormovie, which was expected to compete for the same audience that would ordinarily be attracted to Treasure....

WATCHMEN DISPUTE SETTLED Ending one of Hollywood’s most bizarre copyright battles, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox said Thursday that they had settled their feud over Watchmen, thereby allowing the film to open as scheduled on March 6. Although a joint statement did not specify terms of the settlement, published reports, citing sources close to the negotiations, said that Warner Bros. had agreed to pay Fox about $10 million to cover costs of its original development efforts plus legal fees connected with the lawsuit....

HOW HIGH IS UP? There’s no disagreement that Disney/Pixar’s Up will dominate the box office this weekend. The only disagreement is about how far up its gross will go. Disney distribution chief Chuck Viane predicted Thursday that Up will likely match the $63.1-million opening for WALL-Elast June, but other box-office forecasters are predicting much stronger results, given the fervent street buzz and nearly universal critical praise. Several suggest it will have no difficulty beating the $70....

FOX – JUST LIKE GIANTS The Fox TV network, which already was expected to dominate the ratings this month with the return of American Idol, absolutely crushed the opposition Sunday night with the primetime airing of the NFC championship game between the New York Giants and the Green Bay Packers. According to preliminary Nielsen results the game drew an enormous 26.3 rating and a 39 share, translating to about 49 million viewers – peaking to a 27....

LENO BREAKING STRIKE RULES? On the same day that Writers Guild of America West President Patric Verrone told the New York Timesthat he had “made it absolutely clear” to Jay Leno that writing for The Tonight Showconstitutes a violation of the guild’s strike rules, Leno once again delivered a self-written monologue on Thursday night’s show. Meanwhile, L.A. Weeklycolumnist Nikki Finke disclosed on her Deadline Hollywood Today blog that a meeting between Leno and Verrone took place on Dec....

BASEBALL FOULS ONE OUT Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, which once produced the highest ratings of the summer, was beaten Tuesday by the series premiere of NBC’s Singing Bee –at least in terms of total viewers. The NBC lyric competition drew 13.31 million viewers, according to final figures from Nielsen Research, while the baseball contest averaged 12.53 million. (Wednesday’s Singing Bee follow-up plummeted to 4.7 million viewers.) In household ratings, the All-Star Game ended up slightly ahead with an 8....

VIACOM TO GET A LOOK AT THE YOU IN YOUTUBE Viacom’s efforts to keep its TV shows and movies off YouTube has resulted in a court ruling that could have profound implications for websites in general. Under the ruling the video website must turn over to Viacom the user names (but not the actual names) of every YouTube user, their IP addresses and a list of videos that each user has watched on YouTube....

It’s official: Superman & Lois is just getting started. The CW has announced that the DC Comics series has been renewed for season 2. This early renewal comes hardly a week after the series premiere, which was met with a warm response from critics and fans, in addition to being a hit in the ratings department. As such, the network wasted zero time in getting a sophomore season on the books....