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Dark Phoenix is projected to be a bigger bomb than the 2015 Fantastic Four reboot. Fox’s run of X-Men movies came to an underwhelming conclusion earlier this summer, when Dark Phoenix received widely negative reviews and struggled mightily at the box office. The film earned just $33 million domestically in its opening weekend, which was a new all-time low for the franchise. A couple of weeks later, Dark Phoenix was pulled from half its theaters to make room for the Avengers: Endgame re-release....

Sony Bend isn’t quite ready to give out full details on when their ambitious action title Days Gone is coming out, but they were willing to offer up some information when asked. Screen Rant recently talked to Studio Director Chris Reese, who revealed that an announcement regarding the release date would be coming “very soon.” That’s a good sign for the development of the upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive. Days Gone immediately became one of PlayStation’s marquee titles when it was revealed way back at E3 2016....

David Leitch is hoping that he’ll get to continue working on his vision for the Deadpool franchise in the MCU. Boarding the Ryan Reynolds-led superhero franchise after the original film’s helmer, Tim Miller, exited the sequel due to creative differences, Leitch expanded the title character’s world with the addition of Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beetz). A third instalment has been expected for the film series, but with Disney’s acquisition of Fox’s TV and movie assets, everyone’s waiting to hear official word about what will happen to the Merc-with-a-Mouth - apparently, including the filmmaker....

The Super Asymmetry paper that Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) have been working on all season long has recently encountered a major setback, but Leonard (Johnny Galecki) may actually be the key in salvaging the study if they’re willing to ask for his help in The Big Bang Theory. For a time, Sheldon suffered from a career crisis after he felt that his goals to receive a Nobel Peace Prize in Physics is nowhere near reality....

Big Little Lies star Shailene Woodley may have just dropped a major spoiler for the show’s season 2 finale during a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The second season of HBO’s hit drama has largely focused on how Woodley’s character Jane and the rest of the so-called Monterey Five - Celeste (Nicole Kidman), Madeline (Reese Witherspoon), Renata (Laura Dern) and Bonnie (Zoë Kravitz) - have fared in the aftermath of the death of Celeste’s abusive husband Perry at the end of season 1....

This year’s release of Bohemian Rhapsody describes the end of a tumultuous production, but the drama around the Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic is not yet over. Television producer and scriptwriter Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, American Gods) took to Twitter after this week’s release of the first Bohemian Rhapsody trailer, calling out what he saw as an overt erasure of Mercury’s queer identity, demonstrating scenes of the singer flirting with women but making no mention of his same-sex relationships....

Breaking Bad is now among the movie and TV show properties that are formally getting a virtual reality makeover. Nearly four years after its final episode aired in September 2013, the series’ legacy is secure as one of the most acclaimed shows of the new millennium. The story of the transformation of sad-sack, cancer-stricken high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) into the cold-blooded meth king of the American Southwest won awards, drew rave reviews, and drew better and better ratings throughout its five-year run on AMC....

Showrunner Kyle Killen - of the alternate-realities police procedural Awake - and director/executive producer Rupert Wyatt (responsible for Rise of the Planet of the Apes and “Why Cookie Rocket?”) will have their pick of whichever presently-unemployed high caliber actors are interested in being attached to a 10-episode season of one of the biggest video game franchises of all time. The Halo source material is ripe for long-term prestige storytelling, so hopes are high that the talent finally attached won’t disappoint....

Two decades ago American cinema was in a very different place than it is now. The superhero film was a relatively new phenomenon, thanks to the success of Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns, along with Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever. The future looked bright for Batman on the big screen, but things were about to change. The next Batman film by Joel Schumacher, Batman & Robin, was met with a very negative response, so the studio would end up scrapping any further Batman films for a very long time....

Dark Phoenix provides an unsatisfying ending to the X-Men film franchise, with a storyline that’s neither character-driven nor well-developed. The X-Men film franchise has been around, in some form or another, for nearly two decades since kicking off with X-Men in 2000. Now, with the recent finalization of the Disney-Fox deal, the franchise will officially come to a close. The last of the mainline X-Men movies, Dark Phoenix, sees longtime writer-producer Simon Kinberg make his directorial debut in another attempt to adapt Marvel Comics’ Dark Phoenix Saga storyline....

New Gods director Ava DuVernay appears to be teasing the main characters of her forthcoming adaptation of the Jack Kirby comic. Following the box-office disappointment of Justice League in 2017, DC appears to be making a concentrated effort to turn around the reputation of their films. Their upcoming slate includes some exciting, director-led projects such as Matt Reeves’ The Batman, Cathy Yan’s Birds Of Prey and Todd Phillips’ Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix....

Doom Patrol, the latest live-action TV series set in the DC Universe, might’ve found its main villain. Doom Patrol is one of several TV series that DC Comics and Warners Bros. are planning to launch on DC Universe. The aspect that sets Doom Patrol apart from other DC Universe series like Swamp Thing and Young Justice: Outsiders is that it’s a spinoff. Doom Patrol will be set up in the first season of and exist in the same universe as the somewhat controversial Titans....

Deadpool 2 reshoots will supposedly add more Cable (Josh Brolin) and Domino (Zazie Beets), squashing rumors that the additional photography was due to the film getting bad reviews after test screenings. Helmed by a new director in David Leitch following the exit of Tim Miller, the film promises to bring in a bigger spectacle compared to its predecessor. Early last month, Brolin announced that he was coming back on set for Deadpool 2 reshoots....

One of the biggest comic events of the early 90s was The Death of Superman, which saw the Man of Steel fall at the hands of Doomsday. Superman #75 sold out multiple printings and reshaped the DCU, leading to Reign of the Supermen event that teased out the return of Kal-El with four potential candidates. The story was eventually adapted as an animated film called Superman: Doomsday in 2007, but it was highly condensed in order to fit the plot within the film’s short runtime....

Many tech giants – including Apple – have implemented digital sanctions against Russia, cutting the country off from the supply of hardware, software, and services alike. It’s even been suggested that the country is just two months away from running out of cloud storage. But while the pressure on Russian president Vladimir Putin is to be welcomed, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) warns that if the situation continues, it could result in a “splinternet” …...

Disney has confirmed the start of production on the Artemis Fowl movie. Written by Irish author Eoin Colfer, the Artemis Fowl books tell the story of a filthy rich and absurdly intelligent young boy who discovers a hidden world of magic, trolls and flatulent dwarfs and, naturally, seeks to make a profit from it. Aimed at a younger audience but enjoyed by all ages, the Artemis Fowl series mixes fantasy themes with light-hearted espionage action and have proved highly popular, spawning a total of eight novels....

New reports suggest that Disney will spend up to $500 million on programming for its upcoming streaming service, Disney Plus. Details on the marketing and development plans for the service have recently been coming to light, with the years-in-the-making Disney/Fox acquisition nearly a done deal. Despite legislative and shareholder concerns similar to the ones that came out of the AT&T/Time Warner merger, and rival bids from Comcast, the Disney/Fox deal is expected to be completed this March....

Division 2 launched its latest update Warlords of New York and with it comes big changes to loot and more importantly, the Recalibration Station. Previous to the update, if a piece of equipment had a great stat on it, it would have to be destroyed completely to get the upgrade. Agents also had no idea what a max roll would be for different pieces. That’s all changed and navigating the changes is easy as pie....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps expanding with its third “phase” - something that began earlier this year with the release of Captain America: Civil War. Phase 3 will delve deeper into the cosmic side of the MCU too, by introducing characters like Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, and more space misfits in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. The next big release on the list is Doctor Strange, the first standalone movie featuring neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen Strange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch)....

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 Inferno’s opening weekend and scroll to the bottom of this post to see how our previous picks measured up....