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New Mutants Is Finally Getting a New Trailer

Lucasfilm looks to cast a familiar face in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series. James Gunn shares how The Suicide Squad has been his “most fun” filmmaking experience yet. Plus, a new Star Trek: Picard TV spot highlights Deanna Troi, and Harley Quinn’s Birds of Prey wish us a Fantabulous New Year. To me, my darling spoilers! … Continued

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Open Channel: What Video Game From 2019 Needs Its Own Movie?

There were a lot of interesting video games that came out in 2019, with deep and complex stories that are begging for the big screen. Of course, seems like even the popularity of shows like The Witcher might not be enough to break the video game movie curse…but could one of 2019’s games finally succeed? … Continued

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RIP Syd Mead, Legendary Designer of Blade Runner and Tron

Science fiction would not be what it is today without the influence of Syd Mead. Mead, a futurist and industrial designer whose work on films such as Blade Runner, Tron, and Aliens, died early this morning at the age of 86. Curbed confirmed the sad news. The spinner from Blade Runner, the lightcycle from Tron, … Continued

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LOL The Uncharted Movie

Much like its protagonist, Nathan Drake, the Uncharted movie keeps falling off a cliff. Deadline reports that due to “scheduling” issues, Travis Knight, the director of Bumblebee, will soon join the growing pile of directors who have been attached to, and subsequently departed, a movie based on the Naughty Dog Sony PlayStation game Uncharted. This … Continued

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The Rise of Skywalker Writer Says Rey Reveal ‘Doesn’t Negate’ The Last Jedi’s Message

“Let the past die, kill it if you have to.” That was the takeaway from The Last Jedi, and a message that was largely lost in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which felt preoccupied with its own legacy. This was perhaps most notable in the reveal about Rey, one that seemed to conflict with … Continued

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What The Witcher Gets Wrong (and Right) About Disability Narratives

The world of fantasy has been one of the few genres to regularly include disabled characters, though this inclusion has always come with the concept of disfigurement and grotesquerie. One of the most famous disabled fantasy characters, George R.R. Martin’s Tyrion Lannister, is described in the first volume of the A Song of Ice and … Continued

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Thing I Instinctively Hate Likely to Become Wildly Popular

In its quest to create new ways to make its denizens dissociate from reality, Snapchat is launching a cartoon series that puts user avatars in the episodes. Snapchat first started placing Bitmojis into content in November 2018 with the launch of Bitmoji Stories—regularly published comic strips that make the beholder the protagonist of various scenarios … Continued

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The 9 Best Star Wars Moments of 2019

Star Wars has dominated much of the pop culture landscape in the past several years, but 2019 was ridiculous. With one saga of films ending, a whole new era of TV starting, the hype leading to both, and then all matter of other media, there’s a chance we’ll never have as much Star Wars as … Continued

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Here’s Why Henry Cavill Talks That Way in The Witcher

Geralt of Rivia has his own way of doing things. Whether it’s killing monsters, inspiring ballads, or accidentally attending orgies. Yes, even his accent, which (when not just grunts) exists somewhere between gruff assistant cricket coach and cigarette-smoking great-aunt. In an interview with Polygon, Cavill shared details about his accent choice for The Witcher—which is, … Continued

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Kevin Feige Teases the ‘Legitimately Scary’ World of Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness

Venom 2 casting breakdown teases a possible Spidey cameo. Fiege promises more fear in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. Doctor Who gets a cool guest star for its upcoming season. Plus, an interesting flag has been spotted on the set of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and a new clip from Harley Quinn … Continued

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Writer Chris Terrio Offers an Unsatisfying Explanation for Kelly Marie Tran’s Limited Screen Time in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker [Updated]

Wait, where’s Rose? As anyone keeping up with the state of Star Wars discourse has undoubtedly heard, Rose Tico, the Resistance engineer introduced in The Last Jedi and played by Kelly Marie Tran, has a very small amount of screen time in The Rise of Skywalker. Like, compared to her role in The Last Jedi, … Continued

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The Costume Designer For Birds of Prey Dishes on Harley Quinn’s Killer Fashion Sense

Every time I think about Birds Of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, I think about the fashion. Its looks are just killer, with Harley herself taking the bedazzled cake as a decked-out Margot Robbie wearing some of the snazziest duds ever seen in a superhero film. In a new interview posted … Continued

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This Long-Lost Akira Game Prototype Is Full of Cyberpunk Style

One truism of the world is that more things should look like Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s legendary manga and film. The stunningly complex cityscapes, the flashes of light and energy, the sharp colors on film. It’s a dazzling work of cyberpunk visual design. And the game that didn’t happen looks almost just as good. That game, … Continued

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This Parody Explores the Serene Joy of Just Not Caring About Star Wars

Have you hugged the Star Wars nerd in your life lately? Because they’re probably far, far more stressed out than is reasonable. Such is the nature of fandom, that it can end up with a lot of unnecessary frustration when something you love ends up differently than you imagined, or otherwise it doesn’t but other … Continued

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Luke and Yoda Have a Dispute About a Party and a Stick in this Bad Lip Reading of The Last Jedi

It’s 2019, almost 2020, and I haven’t gotten tired of bad lip readings. I’m sorry. (I’m not sorry.) One of the best scenes in the new Star Wars trilogy is undoubtedly the return of Master Yoda, back from his luminous Force afterlife to do what he does best: roast Luke Skywalker. And this clip, the … Continued

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Steven’s Ship Gets Sunk in a Preview Clip For Tonight’s Steven Universe Future

Fans know the joys of shipping, of imagining two character together. The thrill. The romance. The fanfiction. But fans also know the heartbreak of seeing their ship sunk—that moment of canon confirmation that, no, that ship isn’t happening. Time to whip out the fix fics. In a new clip from Steven Universe Future, Steven himself … Continued

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Trent Reznor Hated What Bird Box Did With His Score

As a musician, you can write the score. But you can’t necessarily control how it’s used. That’s the problem Trent Reznor quite candidly lamented in a recent interview with Revolver magazine, in which he decries his work scoring Bird Box with Atticus Ross to be… well, we’ll let Reznor speak for himself. “When we got … Continued

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It’s Confirmed: The Mandalorian Is Returning for a Second Season Next Fall

Is anyone surprised? Anyone? Maybe one of Moff Gideon’s poor bumbling Stormtroopers. In the wake of the successful completion of the first season of The Mandalorian, Jon Favreau, writer and showrunner of the series, tweeted out a simple confirmation: the second season of the Star Wars riff on Lone Wolf and Cub is coming, and … Continued

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Ryan Reynolds Has a Brief Update on Deadpool 3

The Disney-Fox merger changed the fate of a number of film franchises, not to mention the entire entertainment industry. One of the most notable affected, for fans, was the Deadpool series, which has proven itself markedly successful offering a superheroic vibe not really seen in the MCU or its imitators. Since the merger, it’s been … Continued

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12 Star Wars Episodes to Watch Explaining that Mandalorian Bombshell

Did the very end of The Mandalorian season finale leave you scratching your head? Well, your Disney+ subscription has the answers. The season one finale of The Mandalorian, “Redemption,” ended with the evil Moff Gideon using a mysterious object to cut himself out of his downed TIE fighter. That object, familiar to some, was almost … Continued