Looking at the major players in Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange movie we can immediately see how director Scott Derrickson is modernizing the ’60s origin story for 2016. The Ancient One - or at least, the current person in this position - is no longer a blatant racial stereotype and is now a woman. Baron Mordo isn’t a 2-dimensional villain fueled simply by jealously and instead is an ally of the protagonist....
One of the most anticipated new shows of 2019, Black Monday, makes its unofficial debut before the end of 2018, as Showtime offers the series premiere weeks ahead of schedule. The premium cabler has been marketing the new series starring Don Cheadle, Regina Hall, and Andrew Rannells for months now, and though each teaser or trailer made the series look more and more entertaining, it would seem the network just can’t keep its excitement to itself, and wants to share with everyone....
Marvel’s Black Panther is breaking records left and right, but it’s worth pointing out that the film has already surpassed a handful of other major superhero films at the domestic box office as well, such as DC’s Justice League. Creed’s Ryan Coogler directed the film - starring Chadwick Boseman as the eponymous superhero - based on a script he co-wrote with screenwriter Joe Robert Cole. Together, they were finally able to bring T’Challa’s story onto the silver screen after the project spent 24 years stuck in development hell....
Blumhouse Productions has found its lead for upcoming horror movie The Hunt: the company will reportedly offer Glow’s Betty Gilpin the lead role. As previously revealed, The Hunt, inspired by films such as Battle Royale and The Most Dangerous Game, will follow a group of characters violently pursued by other characters in a rich vs. poor class warfare battle for survival. Directed by Craig Zobel, The Hunt also features a partnership between Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof and Jason Blumhouse as producers....
Welcome to the Screen Rant Box Office Prediction. Every week we put together an informal list of box office picks for the upcoming weekend to offer readers a rough estimate of how new releases (and returning holdovers) will perform in theaters. For a recap of last week’s box office totals, read our box office wrap-up from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’s opening weekend and scroll to the bottom of this post to see how our previous picks measured up....
One of the big stories of the pre-summer movie season was the supposed breakdown in relations between film critics and the superhero genre, owing to the reception that greeted Warner Bros’ Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. However, if fans were worried that the trend might continue, said worries were likely alleviated when the early reviews began to arrive for Captain America: Civil War with critics signing a much more positive tune about a different story of once-friendly superheroes coming into conflict....
Ryan Reynolds celebrated the one-year anniversary over the smash hit Deadpool and the beginning of his new X-Men franchise over the weekend, but there’s little time to waste for the star and producer who’s involved at every level of development on the sequel as he was on the first. Reynolds helped handpick the writers, director, and cast of the first movie and with Deadpool 2 we can already expect the same from the Canadian actor who waited for a decade to get the “Merc with a Mouth” his fair shake on screen....
Everyone knows of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, but hardly anyone knows what actually happened, and series creator Craig Mazin hopes to tell the true story with his HBO miniseries, Chernobyl. The true story of Chernobyl is a complicated one, seeing as the Soviet Union initially attempted to withhold as much information as possible, even causing the delayed evacuation of nearby citizens - all of which is addressed in the Chernobyl miniseries....
Facebook has been conducting an interesting experiment in “informed democracy” as it figures out how to deal with the huge number of posts containing climate change misinformation … Background Deliberate disinformation, or misinformation based on either ignorance or misunderstanding, is one of the biggest moderation challenges faced by social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Topics with significant false information range from COVID-19 vaccinations to climate change – with the latter proving particularly difficult to tackle....
Fear The Walking Dead is a fast-paced and exciting prequel to AMC’s hit show The Walking Dead. Each character is so unique and interesting. Here’s what we think their D&D alignments would be like. It is undeniable that Fear The Walking Dead is a huge hit around the world. The actors are all successful and maintain their high standard of performing throughout, which makes this show 100% worth a watch. What makes this show interesting is the humanity (or lack thereof) that each character possesses and due to the variety of characters being portrayed it is easy to relate to at least one....
What Pokémon are featured in the trailer for Detective Pikachu? The first footage has been released for the Pokémon movie, giving fans their first taste of what the gaming icons look like in live-action. Not only do they look awesome, but there’s no shortage of classic monsters, and some new ones, for fans to see. Following a talking Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds that only Justice Smith’s Tim Goodman can understand, Detective Pikachu promises to be a journey through the magical land of these creatures like we’ve never seen before....
Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan shares that his adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining has officially wrapped production. In the realm of horror fiction, few names carry with them the reputation for greatness as Stephen King. While every one of the prolific author’s many stories might not hit it out of the park, King’s endlessly creative mind has birthed some of the best horror in history, including tales like IT, The Stand, Pet Sematary, and of course, The Shining....
UPDATE: Here’s our picks to replace Ben Affleck as Batman. Ben Affleck expresses his excitement for Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which will star a new actor as Bruce Wayne. Back in 2013, Affleck was cast as the Caped Crusader for Zack Snyder’s Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and many will remember he was a controversial pick for the role at the time. However, Affleck was able to prove the skeptics wrong by delivering a grizzled performance as a world-weary and older Bruce, depicting the character onscreen like never before....
Netflix may be paving the way for interactive television with the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, but the dystopian sci-fi series will be back for a more optimistic fifth season, likely by late 2019. The series has become an incredibly successful and acclaimed anthology since its premiere back in 2011, and since creator Charlie Brooker moved his technophobic story collection to Netflix just a few years ago, Black Mirror has gone on to earn Emmy awards, as well as legions of new fans willing to watch ‘Bandersnatch’ over and over again, just to see all the different endings that are possible....
In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike plays the quintessential villain audiences hate to love. He comes barging into Sunnydale early in season two, with his then “pet”, Drusilla, hoping to kill Buffy. Spike, also known as William the Bloody for the death and destruction he’s caused in his one hundred and forty-seven years being un-dead, is the character on this show with the most interesting character arc. He goes from being one of the biggest and baddest villains the Scooby gang has to take on, to falling and pining for Buffy like a lovesick puppy dog....
When Bumblebee hit theaters, there was some uncertainty over its success due to its box office numbers, though the CEO of Viacom has now expressed satisfaction with its performance, which is a good sign that a sequel could be in order. Directed by Travis Knight and produced by Paramount Pictures, Bumblebee released at the end of last month. Set in the 1980s, the Transformers spinoff serves as a prequel to the franchise and focuses on the story of Bumblebee, who makes friends with a teenage girl named Charlie played by Hailee Steinfeld....
Captain Marvel merchandise is due to hit stores in January 2019, and some new promotional art reveals the best look yet at the MCU’s newest superhero, showing off her costume and helmet. Having already been teased to play a major role in Avengers 4, Captain Marvel is set up to become one of the most significant characters in the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. The plot of Captain Marvel is still largely a mystery....
Marvel Studios is ringing in the New Year with a new TV spot and motion poster for Captain Marvel, the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of 2019. Brie Larson will make her debut as Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel, a member of an elite Kree military team who ends up on Earth and realizes that she once had a life there. Captain Marvel will be a pivotal character in the final stage of the MCU’s Phase Three....
Lee Pace is bringing Ronan the Accuser back for Captain Marvel, and he couldn’t be happier. First introduced to moviegoers in 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Ronan appeared to take the typical route for Marvel Cinematic Universe villains. With the focus of the film understandably turning towards the heroes, the Kree radical took a backseat. Despite Pace giving it his all when he had the chance, Ronan was still viewed by many as the weakest part of James Gunn’s space opera....
Warning: Major SPOILERS for Pacific Rim: Uprising ahead - Charlie Day’s Kaiju-obsessed scientist Dr. Newton “Newt” Geiszler played a pivotal role in Pacific Rim, drifting with a Kaiju brain in order to gather information about the extra-dimensional species. The tactic proved to be a bit of a double-edged sword; although the humans gained valuable information about what the Kaiju are, where they come from and why they keep attacking, the Kaiju also stole information from Newt’s mind....
