Marvel’s Black Panther will help usher in a new era for Saudi Arabia, breaking the nation’s 35-year cinema ban. Though a Marvel movie doing well in the theaters is hardly a surprise, few could have predicted that Black Panther would be such a runaway success. The movie scored a massive opening and quickly climbed past not just the rest of the MCU, but every other superhero film at the domestic box office....
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 Hail, Caesar’s opening weekend and scroll to the bottom of this post to see how our previous picks measured up....
Captain America: Civil War is a great superhero blockbuster that lays the groundwork for even bigger and better things to come in Phase 3 of the MCU. Captain America: Civil War picks up with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and the current Avengers team one year after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron. When a mission in Nigeria goes south, the Avengers are left facing a concerned public that has grown increasingly wary of not only Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the collateral damage they’ve caused saving the world, but of superheroes and/or super-powered people in general....
The place where everyone knows your name. We all know it, and now the theme song is probably stuck in your head. Cheers wasn’t quite an instant success but it held on long enough to become a sensational and groundbreaking hit. Barflies and patrons alike love Cheers because it’s a home away from home, a place where you can hang out even if you’re not physically present. While we were laughing at the humor or getting frustrated with the whole will-they or won’t-they component of Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane’s (Shelley Long) relationship, here are 10 details you never noticed....
Ever since Curb Your Enthusiasm last aired a new episode back in the summer of 2011, creator Larry David and HBO have had the same line: The show has not been cancelled, and it will come back if and when David decides to produce a new season. Over time those chances have appeared more or less likely, depending on the tone of that particular interview with David. The series, a semi-fictional and mostly exaggerated comedy starring David as himself, premiered in 2000 and aired eight seasons between then and 2011....
Warning: Spoilers for Deadpool 2. Deadpool 2’s end-credits scene may just be the best in the history of superhero movies. With the extended coda to his latest raunch-fest, Ryan Reynolds not only throws the middle finger up at conventional superhero narrative, but also directly addresses some of his biggest spandex mistakes: X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Green Lantern. This end-credits scene had a high bar to reach given the standard of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s game-changing post-credits stingers and, indeed, Wade Wilson’s own debut....
This Page: The Big X-Force Hitters Deadpool - Ryan Reynolds 2016’s Deadpool successfully launched this R-rated corner of the X-Men universe, so it’s very much appropriate Deadpool takes charge. In fact, according to the trailer he’ll actually be the one to give the team the “X-Force” name. In what seems to be a common thread, Domino looks at him askance and asks if that’s “a little derivative.” Naturally, for Deadpool, that’s exactly the point....
The latest videos from the set of Deadpool 2 provide new details regarding the plot and offer us our first look at Domino using her mutant powers of altering probability fields. Production on the highly-anticipated sequel commenced in late-June, and things were going rather smoothly, with Ryan Reynolds sharing first look images of Josh Brolin as Cable and Zazie Beetz as Domino. Unfortunately, production was then halted for a couple days when accomplished motorcyclist Joi “SJ” Harris tragically died, while performing her first movie stunt....
After over a decade, the Destroy All Humans! franchise is on its way back. THQ Nordic has been hard at work on bringing back properties that many may have thought to be shelved indefinitely. Most recently gamers have been treated to the return of Darksiders through a third core entry and the brand-new spin-off Darksiders Genesis. Even SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is getting a remaster through the company’s aptly subtitled ‘Rehydrated’ edition....
A sequel to Detective Pikachu is already in the works with 22 Jump Street scribe Oren Uziel onboard to write the script. Positioned as one of Warner Bros.’ major tentpoles for the summer, Detective Pikachu has been steadily generating buzz since the first trailer debuted late last year. Fans are excited to see the world of Pokémon finally come to live-action, and the casting of Ryan Reynolds as the titular fast-talking sleuth gives it some extra star power to boot....
Bryan Fuller wants a Pushing Daisies revival to replace the canceled Roseanne on ABC. The Disney-owned broadcasting station has been generally praised for its swift decision to cancel the series after its headlining star, Roseanne Barr sent out racist tweets against former President Barack Obama’s senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett. This is despite the fact that the show has been one of their most-watched offerings. The revival’s pilot was even the most-watched sitcom on broadcast television in three years....
Amidst all of the praise directed at Captain America: Civil War since its release, one of the biggest has been the film’s ability to successfully balance a boatload of Marvel characters within a single compelling narrative. Of course, not every notable MCU participant made an appearance in Civil War, with the three biggest exceptions being Thor, Hulk, and former S.H.I.E.L.D. boss Nick Fury. While Thor is presumably off handling Asgardian business in preparation for next year’s Thor: Ragnarok, and the Hulk is still likely in hiding after the events of Age of Ultron, Fury’s absence from the pivotal plot arc has led to questions about why he would just sit on the sidelines as the team he assembled fell apart....
Captain Marvel toys confirm another Marvel character in the movie is an alien. One of the main plot points in the Captain Marvel will certainly be focused on uncovering aliens who are disguised as humans or other creatures - of which one of them is Talos, who is impersonating a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, but there are plenty of other disguised creatures in the movie. When Kelly Sue DeConnick launched her iconic Captain Marvel comic book run back in 2012, she was focused on fleshing out Carol Danvers as a character....
Deadpool 2 is almost in theaters, and while fans will see a number of new characters like Cable, they’ll also see the return of a number of old ones, including Colossus, who will have an important role. The sequel to the beloved R-Rated title has kicked off its promotional campaign, which continues to add a touch of humor to the more serious X-Men franchise. Deadpool introduced a number of smaller X-Men characters and, much like the title character himself, brought rejuvenated life back into fans excited for mutants....
Curb Your Enthusiasm is far and away one of the best television comedies in history. Despite starring a protagonist who has more money than any of us can ever imagine, Larry David has a way of tapping into our biggest pet peeves and issues with societal norms that few other creators can. The amount of times that one can watch the show and say “I agree with Larry” is staggering....
David Tennant nearly made the leap from Doctor Who to Doctor Lecter. The beloved Scottish actor has revealed he had meetings with Hannibal showrunner Bryan Fuller about starring as the titular cannibal in NBC’s version of the Thomas Harris literary character, made globally famous by Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs. Tennant, of course, became wildly popular for his portrayal of the Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who from 2006 to 2010....
After unveiling its new USB-C UltraSharp 32 4K Conference Monitor that features a built-in 4K HDR Sony webcam at CES back in January, Dell has opened preorders today. The new monitor offers a number of features that may make it a compelling alternative to Apple’s Studio Display. Along with the headline feature of the UltraSharp 32 4K Conference Monitor being the integrated 4K webcam powered by an HDR Sony STARVIS CMOS sensor, the display brings a list of other impressive specs....
Don Lusk, an animator who worked on many of Disney’s classic films, has passed away at the age of 105. Lusk’s career spanned more than sixty years, beginning when he was hired by Disney in 1933 and later going on to include 23 years at Hanna-Barbera, where he worked until his retirement in the early 1990s. According to the Disney Animation Research Library, which confirmed the news of his death in a post on Instagram, Lusk was considered the last surviving artist from the early days of Disney Animation....
2016 has been an unexpectedly rewarding year for the Pokémon brand in general, between the unanticipated mass success of the Pokémon Go mobile game, Nintendo’s Pokémon Sun & Moon games becoming best-selling titles well ahead of their release, and Legendary Pictures picking up the rights to a live-action Pokémon movie (one that is now being actively scripted). Things are going well for the world of pocket monsters on the animated movie/television side of things too, what with the 20th season of the animated TV show Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon set to premiere in the U....
