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New Karate Kid Movie Shifts to Line Up With Cobra Kai

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Cobra Kai fans finally have some clarity about how, exactly, this new Karate Kid movie fits into everything. Sony Pictures just moved the new movie’s release date from December 13 to May 30, 2025, specifically so it could be released after…

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The Full Star Wars Saga Celebrates 25 Years of Lego

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Nowhere in Star Wars will old Han Solo meet young Han Solo. Yoda is not likely to ever meet Grogu. Princess Leia won’t cross paths with General Leia. Some things are just not going to happen. Unless, well, it’s Lego, where any and…

Friday, Apr 26

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How Twisters’ Director Developed a Taste for Disaster

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When Lee Isaac Chung was announced as the director of the long-awaited sequel Twisters, many of us scratched our heads. Chung is, obviously, a talented filmmaker. His most recent film, Minari, had just come off multiple Oscar nominations…

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Drake Removes Diss Track With AI Tupac to Avoid Lawsuit

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Update, Apt. 26, 2:43 p.m.: As of Friday morning, Drake appears to have pulled “Taylor Made” from X and Instagram where he originally posted the diss track. A link to the original post on Instagram read “the page may have been removed.” It…

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Former Pixar Animator Gives One Big Reason AI Video Won't Work in Hollywood

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AI-generated video has received a lot of hype lately as a tool that’s supposedly going to revolutionize Hollywood. But Craig Good, a former animator at Pixar who worked on classics like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, isn’t convinced. Good…

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Pixar Fest Is Turning Red With Mei the Panda and 4*Town at Disney Parks

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Fans of Pixar’s sleeper hit Turning Red will be happy to know that Mei and her friends have taken over both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure in a big way.

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Ella Purnell Breaks Down Fallout's Big Season Finale Twists

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Like the video games before it, Fallout is a hit. The Prime Video series is getting a second season, which means we’ll get to see what’s next for Ella Purnell’s Lucy. After leaving the artificial confines of Vault 33, she got a crash…

Thursday, Apr 25

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10 Years Ago Today, Star Wars Changed Forever

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Arguably the most important, game-changing event in the history of Star Wars storytelling happened 10 years ago today. On April 25, 2014, Lucasfilm announced that the Star Wars Expanded Universe was being pushed aside. All future…

No, This Is Not a Pope's Exorcist Sequel, It's a Different Russell Crowe Exorcist Movie

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His Jekyll and Hyde moment might have evaporated with Universal’s ill-fated Dark Universe, but Russell Crowe hasn’t turned his back on horror: on the heels of The Pope’s Exorcist, which became a surprise Netflix smash, he’s got The…

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Deadpool & Wolverine's Director Promises No Homework Is Needed

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Outside of Avengers: Endgame, Deadpool & Wolverine may carry the most pre-release baggage of anything in Marvel history. For Deadpool, you’ve got not just two movies, but also all the behind-the-scenes drama leading up to them. With…

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Love Is Always the Answer on Star Trek: Discovery

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We’ve said this many times before, and will no doubt say it a least a few times before as it nears its final end this season: Star Trek: Discovery is not a subtle show. It never has been, but ever since it really found its confidence and…

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The Lord of the Rings Is Coming Back to Theaters This Summer

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Pack the lembas bread and gather up your fellowship, we’re going back to Middle-earth. Warner Bros. is releasing the extended editions of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy in theaters for one weekend only this June, and it’s the…

Heroes & Villains' New Star Wars Collection Is Your Niamos-Worthy Look This Summer

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Ramp up your summer fandom wardrobe with Heroes & Villains’ new Star Wars resort collection. This new line from the online retailer has ‘fits perfect for May the Fourth, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day weekend, Father’s Day, and summer…

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Russell T. Davies Defends Doctor Who's Timey-Wimey New Release Schedule

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There is perhaps no funnier dichotomy in sci-fi fandom than Doctor Who—a show that has inherently been about the nature of change and the mutability of time for six decades—having a fandom that, by and large, does not cope well with change…

Wednesday, Apr 24

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This Jim Henson Documentary From Director Ron Howard Already Has Us Weeping

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Edit Kermit the Frog singing “Rainbow Connection” over almost anything and people are going to get emotional. But when you put it over a documentary about the man who created Kermit, with footage of them both together, then it’s a surefire…

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10 Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Movies to Watch After You Binge Fallout

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Fallout’s delightful fun first season dropped all eight episodes on Prime Video at once, meaning if you started watching it when it arrived, you’ve no doubt reached the end—and are longingly pining for season two’s arrival. Since that is…

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Nathan Fillion Teases Superman's Take on Guy Gardner

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Apple’s Neuromancer adaptation finds itself a new hacker. Al Pacino and Dan Stevens are teaming up for a new exorcist horror. Plus, more casting news from Wednesday season 2, what’s coming on Chucky season 2, and a new clip from X-Men ‘97.…

Tuesday, Apr 23

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Bane From Batman: The Animated Series Gets an Eye-Popping New Figure

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At over 13 inches tall, Mondo’s take on Bane as he appears in Batman: The Animated Series will lend plenty of charismatic villainy to your toy shelf. He comes with swappable facial expressions and hands, with options increased if you go…

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This Westworld Auction Suggests the Show Really Is Over Forever

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With Fallout’s success and season-two renewal, it’s been seeming ever more unlikely that Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy would get a chance to revisit their previous sci-fi series, Westworld—cancelled by HBO after four seasons, despite talk…

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That Game of Thrones Spin-Off About Queen Nymeria Would Have Been an Oceanic Epic

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House of the Dragon returns in June, and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight—aka “Dunk and Egg”—is moving full speed ahead. But despite the hunger for Game of Thrones projects, HBO is still being selective about its spin-offs.…

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WTF Is Happening in the Star-Studded Trailer for Blink Twice?

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The best trailers are the ones that tell you absolutely nothing and that’s exactly what you get with the first trailer for Blink Twice. Directed by Zoë Kravitz and starring a who’s who of awesome actors, it’s some kind of murder mystery…

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New Vegas' Director Doesn't Mind Whatever Fallout Has Planned With It for Season 2

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Fallout’s first season took the bold step of jumping a good chunk beyond the events of any game in the beloved post-apocalyptic RPG series so far, to tell its own story. But that didn’t stop fans of one of the more beloved entries in the…

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Life Under Three Suns: The Real Physics Behind Netflix’s 3 Body Problem

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By now, I’m assuming that we’ve made our way through all eight episodes of the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s The 3 Body Problem (and by we, I mean sci-fi nerds). The series is packed with science—much of it way over the top—but it…

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There'll Be No More Bluey for a While After This Week's 'Surprise' Episode

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If viewers felt that after the 28-minuteBluey finale “The Sign”—and its unannounced season three coda episode “Surprise,” which dropped on Disney+ last night—that there was a sense of finality to the beloved animated series, it was in a…

Monday, Apr 22

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Every Disney Theme Park Ride Movie That Is Somehow Still in Development

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Disney CEO Bob Iger recently revealed that the company’s theme-park expansion plans include both land and IP—and along with that, there are plenty of rides with lore yet to be explored further. After the success of the Pirates of the…

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1999's 15 Most Essential Horror Movies, 25 Years Later

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Last week, we looked back on the 15 essential sci-fi movies of 1999—a year that brought us The Matrix and the long-awaited return of Star Wars in The Phantom Menace. But horror came a close second that year, led by multiple Oscar nominee…

Mel Brooks Talks His Love of Star Wars and Teases a Spaceballs Sequel

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As some of our all-time legends get up there in years, if you have a chance to see them, you should because you don’t know when, or if, you’ll get the chance again. Among those people is iconic actor, director, writer, and comedy genius…

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Breaking Down the Heroes and Villains of Deadpool & Wolverine's New Trailer

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This morning we got our latest look at Deadpool & Wolverine, and while it doesn’t give as much about the film’s premise away as the first trailer, it’s filled with a whole lotta Logan—and some surprising other details and hints. Let’s go…

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Tom Holland Is Determined to Make Spider-Man 4 and Beyond

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As discussion and speculation about a fourth Tom Holland Spider-Man film continue, one constant that’s not in doubt is Tom Holland himself. “I’ll always want to do Spider-Man films,” the actor said in a new interview. “I owe my life and…

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Hot Toys' Latest Star Wars Figures Dip Back Into Some Gaming Legends

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For the most part, Hot Toys’ dips into the Star Wars universe for its highly-detailed action figures stick to what’s current in the world of the galaxy far, far away. The latest shows and movies, or dips back to classic heroes and villains…