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Noah Jupe Watched Fantastic Four: First Steps Three Times; Fans Bet He’s Franklin Richards
The guessing game around Noah Jupe’s secret Avengers: Secret Wars role didn’t even need a full day to produce a frontrunner. Within hours of the casting news breaking, fans zeroed in on Franklin Richards — Reed and Sue’s reality-warping son — and they’re backing the guess up with receipts. A Pedro Pascal lookalike and a…
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Zach Cregger Says ‘The Flood’ Might Be His Most Unsettling Movie
Zach Cregger’s next movie just got its most revealing description yet, from the director himself. Asked about The Flood during his live Resident Evil AMA on r/movies, Cregger said the film is “not quite as horror central as the other movies,” then immediately pulled it back: it “might be the most unsettling,” and it “does…
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First Resident Evil Reactions: Terrifying, Fantastic, Feels Like The Game
The crowd saw it. The crowd talked. Sony put the opening 30 minutes of Resident Evil in front of audiences in Los Angeles, New York, and Dallas on September 1, ahead of Zach Cregger’s live Reddit AMA, and the reactions that came back are the ones a studio dreams about seventeen days before release. Attendees…
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Zach Cregger Says Resident Evil Counts Every Bullet: “You Will Care When He Misses A Shot”
UPDATE 9/2: First audience reactions to the opening 30 minutes are in, and they’re hot. The movie keeps count. Zach Cregger answered r/movies questions live on the night of September 1, posting from Sony’s Los Angeles screening of Resident Evil as the thread ran north of 1,200 comments. And the answer that matters most to…
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Peter Cullen Voices Optimus Prime One Last Time In ‘Optimus Prime: Awakening’ 12-Minute Short
The mystery bonus content attached to the Transformers: The Movie 40th anniversary screenings has been revealed, and it carries a weight nobody saw coming when it was teased at Comic-Con: it contains Peter Cullen’s final original voice performance as Optimus Prime. Hasbro and Fathom Entertainment announced “Optimus Prime: Awakening,” a fully realized 12-minute animated short…
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Tom Cruise Lays Out Paramount’s Plan — Insider: Disney & Netflix Doing ‘EVERYTHING’ To Stop It
Tom Cruise didn’t just announce a sequel at Daytona, he laid out Paramount’s whole game plan. Fresh off announcing Days of Thunder 2 with Anne Hathaway for June 2, 2028, Cruise sat down with Pat McAfee at the track, confirmed he’s the one driving, and made the case for a Paramount that’s about to flood…
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Talamasca Tops Netflix After AMC Canceled It: This Show Needs a Season 2
I just finished Talamasca: The Secret Order, and I went in not knowing the show was already dead. AMC canceled it back on March 27 after a single six-episode season, which means I got to the finale — a genuine cliffhanger — and then found out nothing is coming. Six episodes honestly felt like half…
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He-Man’s Streaming Crown Lasted One Week: Masters of the Universe Falls Out of Nielsen’s Top 10
That didn’t last long. One week after Masters of the Universe topped every movie and show in all of streaming, the He-Man reboot has fallen out of Nielsen’s overall Top 10 entirely. Per Nielsen’s weekly chart for July 27 through August 2, the overall Top 10 runs from The Big Bang Theory at 1.141 billion…
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New ‘Star Trek’ Movie Is ‘Training Day’ Meets ‘Crimson Tide’: The Insider ‘Wrath of Khan’ Reset Confirmed
As Cosmic Book News exclusively reported back on June 29, David Ellison and Mike De Luca are out to save Star Trek, and on July 2 our Hollywood insiders spelled out the plan: take the franchise back to what made The Wrath of Khan through The Next Generation work. Now the two filmmakers writing and…
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Snyderverse Hal Jordan Concept Art Drops After Lanterns Backlash: ‘THIS Is a Comic Accurate Green Lantern’
Two days after Episode 3 set off the worst backlash of the Lanterns season, the right shade of green showed up on Instagram. Jerad Marantz — the veteran concept artist whose credits span the DC and Marvel movie universes — posted his Hal Jordan Green Lantern concepts developed for Justice League alongside costume designer Michael…
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No, Lanterns Season 2 Is Not Confirmed: Damon Lindelof Says ‘If It’s Successful’
Lanterns Season 2 talk blew up, with fans treating comments from co-creator Damon Lindelof as confirmation that a second season is happening. It isn’t. The word doing all the work in Lindelof’s quote is “if.” ‘If it’s successful and people love it’ The clip (watch below) making the rounds comes from Lindelof’s interview at the…
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Zack Snyder On The Dark Knight Returns Rumors: ‘The Rumors Work’
Asked about The Dark Knight Returns rumors, Zack Snyder didn’t deny a thing: “I put weight on the rumors, because the rumors work” — pointing to the campaign that got his Justice League made.
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Zack Snyder Says Escape From New York Is Next, Got John Carpenter’s Blessing
Zack Snyder confirms Escape From New York is his next movie — “I’m working on it right now” — and reveals his meeting with John Carpenter: “They’ve seen my movie, so what do you got?”
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Zack Snyder Teases 300 Series: ‘The Game of Thrones-ian Version Of 300’
Zack Snyder can’t say much about the 300 prequel series — “but it is awesome” — and teases the scale himself: “the Game of Thrones-ian version of 300.”
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Zack Snyder Answers The Last Photograph Violence Talk: ‘The Director’s Cuts Are The Movie’
Zack Snyder answers the talk that The Last Photograph is too violent — quoting Sam Peckinpah and invoking The Wild Bunch — and lays down the rule: “The director’s cuts are the movie.”
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Josh Allen Becomes CEO of Out of Pocket Studios: First Slate Includes Buffalo Blizzard Doc, NFL Play Action
Josh Allen has a new job title heading into the 2026 season, and this one has nothing to do with reading defenses: CEO. The Buffalo Bills quarterback has launched Out of Pocket Studios, his own media company backing entertainment projects, commercials, and live fan experiences, via Variety. Allen serves as chief executive and will take…
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Noah Jupe Joins Avengers: Secret Wars In Secret Role Fans Think Is The Beyonder
UPDATE: The Beyonder guess has a rival, with fans coalescing around Franklin Richards after spotting a Pedro Pascal resemblance and Jupe logging Fantastic Four: First Steps three times on Letterboxd. Noah Jupe is the first new name to board Avengers: Secret Wars, with Deadline reporting the A Quiet Place and Hamnet star has been cast…
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Spider-Man & X-Men Star Sadie Sink All Grown Up In New Calvin Klein Ads
Sadie Sink is all grown up. The Stranger Things alum — freshly unmasked as the MCU’s Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day — stars in Calvin Klein’s Fall 2026 “Feel the Fit” denim campaign, which launched Tuesday across the brand’s stores, website, social channels, and out-of-home placements. And if a young genre star stripping…
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Resident Evil Tickets On Sale Now With New Raccoon City Posters
UPDATE 9/2: First reactions from that night’s screenings are in — the word of mouth Sony was counting on. Original article follows. The presale window is open. Sony put Resident Evil tickets on sale this morning, seventeen days before the September 18 release, and announced it with new posters and the line “Incoming call from…
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James Gunn’s DC Contract Still Expires In 2027: No New Extension, No Batman Movie (Exclusive)
Insiders say no new James Gunn extension exists — his current DC contract IS the extension, it expires in 2027 after Man of Tomorrow, and there’s no Batman movie coming.