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Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon have finally addressed the controversy surrounding Andrea Arnold’s creative control on Big Little Lies season 2. HBO’s televised adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s novel of the same name rose to monumental success after premiering on the streaming service. Though originally intended to solely be a limited series, Big Little Lies season 2 was ordered by HBO and was set to tackle the outcome of the first season’s climactic finale....

DC’s upcoming Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn) is set to wrap filming next April, and its screenwriter is confident that Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn won’t be in anyone’s shadow. Christina Hodson wrote the 2018 film Bumblebee and teamed up with director Cathy Yan for Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn). In 2016, DC released the third movie of the DCEU (DC Extended Universe), Suicide Squad....

Reported story details for Black Widow show Marvel planning a prequel film for Scarlett Johansson. Ever since Johansson made her MCU debut in Iron Man 2, she has played one of the most requested characters to receive a solo spin-off movie. Those requests only grew in number after she co-starred in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and played key roles in both Avengers: Age of Ultron and Captain America: Civil War....

The former cast of the beloved series Breaking Bad has reunited on the cover of EW this week to celebrate the show’s 10-year anniversary. As well as bringing the cast members back together for the front cover, the issue also includes an exclusive interview with the stars. Breaking Bad first debuted on AMC in January 2008 and has since been loved by audiences all over the globe. Created by Vince Gilligan, the series focuses on the story of chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) as he turns to becoming a meth manufacturer after being diagnosed with lung cancer....

Netflix’s Bright 2 is moving forward with new writer attached to the sequel. Netflix’s first foray in big-budget action blockbusters, Bright, debuted on the streaming service late in 2017. Though Bright received poor reviews, the film was better received by casual movie audiences. In fact, whether because of the differing opinions about the movie or not, Bright was reportedly viewed by 11 million U.S. viewers in the first three days following its release....

Chris Hemsworth claims that he considered pulling out of the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot movie right before filming was scheduled to begin, before ultimately deciding to go ahead with it. As one of the most successful and iconic movie franchises of the 1980s, talk of a third Ghostbusters movie has been almost constant throughout much of the past two decades but the announcement of a female-fronted reboot took fans by surprise. Unfortunately, the project was immediately set upon by online trolls who took exception to the gender-swapped cast and were posting negative reviews even before the movie had been released in theaters....

One of the main draws of AirPods has always been their ability to essentially be invisible, both to the user and to people around them. When they were first introduced they had two features, the ability to play music and the ability to talk to Siri with a tap. But over the past five years, Apple has added new features both through hardware revisions and in software updates that have us wondering if AirPods deserve their own companion app on iPhone....

1980 cult slasher flick Terror on Tour certainly isn’t the best movie in the world, but it more than deserves to finally get a DVD release. While any genre is capable of producing movies worthy of being dubbed so bad they’re good, it seems like horror is the genre most prone to doing so. In fact, there are many horror fans that enjoy watching an entertainingly bad film almost as much as they love watching a movie that’s genuinely good, if not more so....

In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Susie Greene is framed as something of an antagonist. She causes nothing but problems for her husband Jeff and his best friend Larry. But from Susie’s perspective, it’s easy to see why they bother her. Jeff constantly cheats on her, while Larry takes it upon himself to challenge social etiquette in his interactions with her. In any other show, Susie would be a pitiful character. In Curb, she’s the angriest, sweariest character, hurling insults left and right and flying off the handle at the slightest suggestion of disagreement....

HBO is finally ready to make a return to South Dakota, as the long-discussed Deadwood revival movie has been officially ordered, with production expected to begin this fall. There has been a great deal of rumors and speculation swirling about the proposed project for some time, with cast members sharing their thoughts on series creator David Milch’s script and Ian McShane saying the premium cabler is “keen” on making a return to the rough and tumble town....

An anime adaptation of Devil May Cry is coming to Netflix. The news comes from Adi Shankar, who serves as an executive producer on Castlevania, another Netflix animation series. Like Castlevania, the Devil May Cry is a Capcom video game series from Hideki Kamiya that follows a professional demon hunter named Dante seeking vengeance for the death of his family. The game has since spawned multiple sequels across a variety of platforms, with a fifth installment scheduled for 2019....

Warning: SPOILERS below for Disenchantment Season 1! Season 1 of Disenchantment concluded with a post-credits scene that addresses the fate of Elfo but opens up a slew of new questions. The season finale’s title, “Dreamland Falls”, is a double entendre - it references the terrible fate that befell the kingdom ruled by King Zog while also referring to the waterfall just outside the castle’s drawbridge. Elfo’s corpse plummeted down the waterfall after he was knocked out of his casket by the “Queen Fight” between Queen Dagmar and Queen Oona....

Disney has picked up the pitch for Sadé, a live-action fairy tale film about an African princess. The project doesn’t have a director in place just yet, but Rick Famuyiwa (the filmmaker behind the acclaimed indie hit Dope) is already attached as a producer on the movie. For the most part, the Mouse House’s recent in-house live-action features have all been remakes or re-imaginings of their classic animated movies (see The Jungle Book, Beauty and the Beast, and so on)....

While both fan and studio hopes were high for the release of Doctor Strange, no one was really sure how audiences would respond to the most magical installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So far it looks to have exceeded expectations all around, with highly positive reviews and a $325 million worldwide box office take in its opening weekend. Viewers have responded well to the mind-bending visual feast of Doctor Strange, as well as the dramatic and engaging portrayal of the title character by star Benedict Cumberbatch....

The third-party market of MagSafe accessories continues to grow. This week, Belkin has officially started selling its Boost Charge Pro Portable Wireless Charger Pad with MagSafe in the United States. This ‘portable’ MagSafe charger features a clever design with a built-in kickstand, but a high price tag to go along with it… Belkin’s MagSafe Charger Pad is Apple-certified, which means it can reach top speeds of 15W for charging on the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13....

Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS ahead for Bandersnatch Black Mirror’s newest episode Bandersnatch is an interactive experience with five main endings and a dizzying array of possible choices and consequences. Bandersnatch follows Stefan, an amateur programmer who is creating a choose-your-own-adventure video game based on a choose-your-own-adventure book by famous author Jerome F. Davies, who was driven mad by his own work and ended up brutally murdering his wife. As the viewer controls Stefan’s choices and shapes his story, Bandersnatch reveals its many layers and multiple possible outcomes....

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken over the movie industry and the hearts of many movie fans. Recently, one of the largest powerhouse blockbusters was Black Panther. The flick has earned $631 billion to date and has become the highest-grossing superhero movie ever in the U.S. Recently, Disney acquisitioned FOX’s television and movie properties. That includes the rights to The Fantastic Four and the X-Men. Between that and the success of the MCU, there has been more and more interest in what will happen next for the movie franchise....

Danai Gurira has gained a sizeable following from her role as katana-wielding Michonne on AMC’s The Walking Dead. And, though Michonne was lucky enough to survive the show’s contentious season premiere, Gurira has even more exciting things on her horizon, including a key role in upcoming Tupac biopic All Eyez on Me and Marvel Studios’ Black Panther. In the latter, she will play Okoye, a leading member of Prince T’Challa’s Dora Milaje....

The bona fides continue to pour in for Black Panther, as the soundtrack for Marvel’s latest movie looks to top Billboard charts with its sales. Black Panther is poised to start Marvel Studios’ year on the big screen with a bang, from both a critical and commercial perspective. Black Panther keeps breaking records when it comes to ticket pre-sales too and seems all but assured to set a box office opening record for February this weekend....

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