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Feb. 16, 2022

Netflix Making A "BioShock" Cinematic Universe?

Prepare for the Rapture.  No, not the biblical one, the underwater city from the BioShock games, because Netflix is gearing up to turn the BioShock world into its own cinematic universe! Netflix is teaming with Take-Two Interactive to develop …

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Feb. 15, 2022

The Wonder Twins Are Getting Their Own Movie At Warners

Look out, Space Ghost.  The Wonder Twins are letting their powers combine in a new movie! Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Black Adam and Scoob! scribe Adam Sztykiel to pen and direct a Wonder Twins live-action feature based on the DC character…

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Feb. 15, 2022

HBOMax renews Julian Fellowes' drama "Guilded Age" for second season

Just three weeks after the new period drama The Guilded Age launched on HBOMax, the network has renewed Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes’ late 19th century New York-set drama. The nine-episode series (which spent nearly a decade in devel…

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Feb. 15, 2022

Bridgerton Is Back - With A Vengeance!

A new teaser trailer for the second season of its Shonda Rhimes-produced saucy period drama Bridgerton has been released by Netflix ahead of its premiere on the service on March 25th. According to the synopsis for the new episodes, the action fol…

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Feb. 15, 2022

Russell T. Davies Talks His Plans For Doctor Who

Prepare for more wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. After reviving Doctor Who in 2005 and overseeing the Christopher Eccelston and David Tennant-led eras, writer Russell T. Davies stepped away as showrunner and handed the reins over to Steven Moffat.…

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Feb. 14, 2022

Lord of the Rings: The Rings Of Power Teaser - Awesome or Hot Garbage?

Amazon Prime has released the first official trailer for its billion-dollar The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series. Expected to run at least five seasons at a cost of well over $1 billion and showrun by Patrick McKay and JD Payne, th…

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Feb. 14, 2022

New Trailer For Doctor Strange 2 Drops During Superbowl

Marvel Studios has released the official full trailer for Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which is different from the trailer that premiered at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home. The new film follows in the wake of…

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Feb. 14, 2022

Ghostbusters Director Ivan Reitman Dies

Famed comedy director Ivan Reitman has passed away at the age of 75. Reports are that he died in his sleep at his home in Montecito, California, on February 12th, 2022.  No cause of death has been given.  Reitman had no known illnesses or…

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Feb. 14, 2022

Moon Knight's "Brutality" A Tonal Shift For Disney+ Marvel Shows?

One of the big commercials during the superbowl this year was an extended look at the upcoming Marvel TV show, Moon Knight.  The superbowl spot gave us our first good look at the costume and the vigilante in action, with plenty of Oscar Isaac a…

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Feb. 14, 2022

No More Marvel Shows On Netflix?

Netflix users in certain countries have started noticing a notification on the service – it seems the six Marvel series created for the streamer are set to leave on March 1st. In the wake of that, sources confirm to Deadline that Netflix&rsqu…

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Feb. 14, 2022

The Return Of MoviePass?

Remember MoviePass?  The service that allowed you to see unlimited movies for one monthly fee?  It was nice while it lasted, but the business ended up collapsing two years ago.  However, the movie ticketing subscription service is set…

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Feb. 11, 2022

Amazon Announces A Blade Runner 2099 Series

Amazon Studios, which has been pumping out some really interesting original series lately, has begun development of Blade Runner 2099, a big-budget live-action series that serves as the third major installment in the franchise following Ridley Scott…

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Feb. 11, 2022

Warners Previews 4 DC Comics Films For 2022

A new one-minute teaser trailer has dropped from Warner Bros. Pictures giving fans a look at the four major films based on DC Comics properties that the studio is releasing in 2022. The clip offers both old and new first-look footage from Black A…

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Feb. 11, 2022

More Info About The Quantum Leap Reboot Surfaces

Things are starting to come together for the Quantum Leap reboot.  It's been announced that director Helen Shaver will direct the pilot and executive produce the soft-reboot of NBC’s beloved 1990s sci-fi series. Shaver has a number of TV…

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Feb. 11, 2022

David Ayer Plans To Adapt "End of Watch" To TV Series

David Ayer's gritty 2012 Jake Gyllenhaal cop drama, End of Watch, is getting a TV series adaptation, courtesy of FOX. The series would follow the daily grind of two young police officers in Los Angeles who are partners and friends, and what happens…

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Feb. 10, 2022

Zack Snyder Announces Another Bloated Sci-Fi Mess With Rebel Moon

Zack Snyder has announced his next project with Netflix after the ridiculous and horribly made zombie-fest that was Army of the Dead (and it's even dumber prequels that have nothing to do with zombies). Rebel Moon is an "epic sci-fi fantasy feature…

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Feb. 10, 2022

Jurassic World Dominion Trailer Signals END Of The Jurassic Series

A new trailer has dropped for the next Jurassic World movie, giving audiences a first look at what the "final" movie in the Jurassic Series is going to be about. Apparently, Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth, and some humans are still trying to…

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Feb. 10, 2022

New Trailer For Jonathan Tropper's The Adam Project

Check out the new trailer for the upcoming Ryan Reynold's sci-fi action adventure film, The Adam Project. The Adam Project is a new movie from Shawn Levy, the director of Free Guy, about a time travelling test pilot who teams up with his younger …

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Feb. 10, 2022

Disney Plus Proves All The Star Wars Haters Wrong

Remember how everyone is talking about how "Star Wars is Dead" and "No one cares about Marvel anymore" and "Pixar is a straight-to-streaming studio now"? Yeah, not so much. Disney+ reportedly added 11.8 million subscribers worldwide in the last qu…

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Feb. 10, 2022

Lucasfilm Sets Date To Ruin Obi-Wan Kenobi & Love Of The Prequels

After a long period of radio silence since it's announcement way way back in 2019, the Obi Wan Star Wars series officially has a premiere date.  That date is May 25th 2022, which means we can expect to see the return of Ewan McGregor and Hayden…

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Feb. 10, 2022

Futurama Returning for a New Season on HULU.

It's been nearly ten years since we last saw any new adventures of Fry, Leela, Bender and the rest of the Futurama crew.  Now it looks like we will be getting a new 20 episode season of the popular cult animated Sci-Fi show thanks to Hulu. …

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Feb. 9, 2022

The Buzz Lightyear Movie Trailer Is Here!

The full trailer for the Toy Story spin-off, Lightyear, is now out and it looks absolutely amazing!  Lightyear is scheduled to come out in cinemas on June 17th and is one of the first non-direct-to-Disney+ offerings from Pixar in quite some t…

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Feb. 9, 2022

The Return Of GUMBY?

Everyone's favorite green Play-Doh man, GUMBY, is gearing up for a comeback.  FOX Entertainment (the FOX entity that Disney DOESN'T own) has acquired the rights to the Gumby universe with plans to reimagine Art Clokey’s classic green clay…

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Feb. 9, 2022

Warners SUED Over Failure Of The Matrix Resurrections

The production company behind the latest Matrix movie, Village Roadshow, is reportedly suing Warner Bros. Pictures, alleging the studio sabotaged the theatrical release of The Matrix Resurrections in order to drive subscribers to HBOMax. Variety re…

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