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Rian Johnson officially announced the third installment in his Knives Out series: Wake Up Dead Man.Set to premiere on Netflix in 2025, the upcoming film will see Daniel Craig reprise his role as private investigator Benoit Blanc. The plot details and rest of the cast are yet to be announced. “I love everything about whodunnits, but one of the things I love most is how malleable the genre is,” Johnson wrote via X. “There’s a whole tonal spectrum from Carr to Christie, and getting to explore that range is one of the most exciting things about making Benoit Blanc movies.”The last two films in the franchise, Knives Out and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, were both critically and commercial successes. Glass Onion, which premiered in 2022, also premiered on Netflix after the streamer acquired...

Science SARU and Production I.G. officially announced the development of a brand new Ghost in the Shell anime.Gizmodo reports that the forthcoming series currently has a working title of The Ghost in the Shell with a premiere year of 2026. The show will mark the first anime entry in the long-running franchise since 2020's Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045, which took place in the franchise's Stand Alone Complex universe. The Netflix show received mainly negative reviews and featured a total of two seasons.Ghost in the Shell was first published as a seinen manga in 1989 by Masamune Shirow and focused on Public Security Section 9, a counter-cyberterrorist organization led by Major Motoko Kusanagi. It went on to spawn four more mangas, five animated films, a negatively-received live-action movie s...

FX debuted the first official trailer for The Bear season three.The upcoming season will see Carmy, Sydney, Richie and the rest of crew back in The Bear's kitchen following the restaurant's successful reopening as a fine dining establishment in season two. Season three's short but highly-adrenaline first trailer teases commotion in both the restaurant's back and front of house; Richie, Sugar and the waiters can be seen missing and dropping the orders of its patrons, while the tensions flare up in the kitchen as Marcus attempts to stop a physical altercation between Carmy and Richie. Sydney points out that they work in a dysfunctional kitchen, to which both Richie and Carmy reply, "Show me a functional one," hinting that despite their issues, the two still have at least one thing they agree...

Eddie Murphy is reprising his role as Detective Axel Foley for the fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, 30 years after Beverly Hills Cop III. The movie was initially greenlit in the mid-'90s but ultimately abandoned. Another attempt aimed to bring it to life in 2006 but also wound up fizzling out.Finally making it to screens, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F will see Foley make a long-awaited return to Los Angeles after a threat is made on his estranged daughter’s life. Foley joins forces with his daughter Jane (Taylour Paige), who works as a criminal defense attorney, along with Jane’s ex-boyfriend, Detective Bobby Abbott (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Together, the three begin unraveling a sprawling, action-packed conspiracy that takes them across Los Angeles.Joining the cast alongsi...

The Deetz family is returning home to Winter River, Connecticut in the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, fittingly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.Arriving 36 years after the original, Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) now has a teenage daughter of her own, Astrid (Jenna Ortega). After a family tragedy forces the Deetz to return to the house Lydia abandoned decades prior, Astrid discovers the same model of the town in the attic, accidentally opening up a portal to the afterlife once again.Jeffrey Jones, who played Lydia’s father Charles, has been written out of the sequel, an unsurprising element given Jones’ was essentially ousted from the industry after being arrested for child pornography charges in 2002."I can't believe grandpa is dead,” Astrid says in the trailer as the family ...

Fans of Netflix’s The Witcher have been given a first look at Liam Hemsworth in the role of Geralt of Rivia, a monster-hunter who possesses uniquely supernatural abilities. The protagonist of the series, Hemsworth is taking over the role from Henry Cavill, who left after season three wrapped filming.Hemsworth will be starring alongside Anya Chalotra, who plays the sorceress Yennefer, and Freya Allan as the princess Ciri with whom Geralt is tasked with protecting.The fourth season of The Witcher is being filmed back-to-back with a fifth and final season, which Hemsworth also stars in. There are six novels in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher book series and the fourth and fifth seasons aim to encompass the latter three novels, Baptism of Fire, The Tower of the Swallow and Lady of the Lake.Product...

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for the fifth season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.The talk show makes a full return after two years, with the trailer teasing Letterman's conversations with Miley Cyrus and Charles Barkley. Letterman and Barkley play a round of golf together, while his interview with Cyrus sees her possibly performing a song as she stands in front of a seated crowd with musicians gathered around her.My Next Guest's last full season dates back to 2022 and featured guests Billie Eilish, Will Smith, Cardi B, Ryan Reynolds, Kevin Durant and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, however the show released a special that same year with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and earlier this April with John Mulaney.Watch the trailer above. My Next Guest Needs No Intro...

With May coming to an end, Netflix has unveiled its slate of new programming for June 2024.Next month's list is led by the premiere of That '90s Show season two part one, the spinoff of That '70s Show that will be split into two parts. Also joining the selection are the premieres of Sweet Tooth season three, season five of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman and part two of Bridgerton season three, to name a few. Meanwhile, June will also be the final month for subscribers to stream the likes of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and both Kill Bill films.Check out the full list below.Coming To NetflixComing Soon100 Days to Indy: Season 2The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse: Season 1: Part 2 (JP) -- NETFLIX ANIMEAs a prophecy of doom unfolds on the...

Marvel is reportedly set to release a new Disney+ series about Paul Bettany's Vision in 2026.According to Variety, the upcoming project will follow the events of 2021's WandaVision and will see Bettany will reprise his role as the synthezoid, while Star Trek: Picard's Terry Matalas will serve as the showrunner. This marks Marvel's first live-action series announcement in nearly two years; WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer was previously developing the Vision-focused series, but had to refocus on the upcoming WandaVision spinoff Agatha All Along.Bettany's last appearance as Vision dates back to WandaVision, where he was "resurrected" by Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff. His character faced off against "White Vision," the other robotic version of him that was reassembled by S.W.O.R.D., and w...

Disney is set to transform their exclusive Club 33 into a feature film. The members-only dining club, nestled in Disneyland's New Orleans Square near the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, has been a coveted spot for Disney fans since 1967. The movie will bring this secretive world to the big screen, produced by Shawn Levy, the director behind Deadpool and Wolverine, along with Dan Levine and Dan Cohen of 21 Laps Entertainment.The film, penned by Darren Lemke, centers on Kim, a young aspiring detective in present-day New York. She receives a mysterious invite to Club 33, a magical dining club that transcends time and space. The club's members include historical geniuses, royalty, and iconic figures. When a murder occurs, Kim is called upon to solve the mystery. The film is expected to capture ...

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in a new drama series coming out of Apple TV, Presumed Innocent. The actor portrays Rusty Sabich, a Chicago prosecutor working in the district attorney’s office, whose life is upended when his colleague Carolyn (Renate Reinsve) is found murdered in her apartment.Sabich is assigned to the investigation but after his fingerprints are found in the victim’s bedroom, revealing his affair with her, he’s ultimately accused of killing her.“I was basically stalking her,” Rusty admits, as it comes out that he had texted the victim 30 times on the evening of her death.Presumed Innocent is based on Scott Turow’s 1987 novel of the same name. The book was adapted into a movie in 1990 starring Harrison Ford.Rounding out the cast for the limited series is Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, O-T F...

Apple TV+ is exploring a new compensation model for actors and production staff that ties pay to the success of a show or movie. An internal document reveals that this performance-based pay would consider metrics like subscriber growth, viewing time and production costs relative to viewership. Successful productions could see bonuses of up to $10.5 million USD.This proposed change aims to incentivize higher quality content by aligning financial rewards with performance. Apple has begun discussions with talent representatives to gather feedback. While the idea has met with some skepticism in Hollywood, with concerns about lower base pay, supporters argue it could drive better performances and more engaging productions. United Talent Agency chief Jeremy Zimmer and producer Jason Blum have bo...