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Vin Diesel recently took to Instagram to implore Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to squash their differences and return to the forthcoming Fast and Furious 10. In their last Fast and Furious film, Diesel and The Rock had a feud on set, which led to both stars’ public tension even after the release of the movie. When The Rock went on to create a spinoff of the film with Jason Statham, revealing that he had further ideas for a Hobbs & Shaw sequel, it sent fans speculating that the feud is not yet over. However, it seems that Diesel now wants The Rock to reprise his role as Hobbs for the tenth installment of the franchise. In an Instagram post Diesel wrote, “My little brother Dwayne…the time has come. The world awaits the finale of Fast 10.” He adds that he hopes The Rock will consider returnin...

Hulu has renewed Wu-Tang: An American Saga for its third and final season. The news of a season renewal arrived shortly after Season 2 aired its final episode, with Variety confirming that Season 3 will be its last. Wu-Tang: An American Saga, which stars Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Siddiq Saunderson, Julian Elijah Martinez, Marcus Callender, Zolee Griggs, T.J. Atoms, Dave East, Johnell Young, Uyoata Udi and Damani Sease, chronicles the rise of the Wu-Tang Clan and also takes inspiration from RZA‘s The Wu-Tang Manual and Tao of Wu books. An American Saga returned to screens after two years and HYPEBEAST spoke to the de facto Wu-Tang Clan leader about how the show had to adjust to the pandemic: “This is a labor of love for me. There are so many ways for me to go out there and do what I do...

Disney+ is gearing up to release 13 Marvel films on November 12 with IMAX enhanced, a viewing feature that employs an expanded aspect ratio of 1:90:1 for 26% more picture in select sequences. The Marvel films receiving the IMAX enhancement include Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which is slated to debut on Disney+ on November 12, along with Iron Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame and Black Widow. “For more than a decade, IMAX has helped filmmakers take fans across the Marvel Cinematic Universe in theaters, and now that epic journey crosses into a new world: the home,” said Rich Gelfond, CEO...

With its release date just roughly two weeks away, Sony Pictures has now dropped a new “Nightmare” trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. Featured above, the minute-long clip gives fans of the franchise a closer look at the film’s protagonists as well as the horrifying terrors they’ll be facing in the new origin story. Following closely to the beginnings of Resident Evil as a universe, the film will dive into the Umbrella Corporation and the human experimentation they carried out on the citizens of Raccoon City, transforming them into nightmarish zombies. Portraying Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine will be Kaya Scodelario and Hannah John-Kamen, accompanied by Avan Jogia as Leon S. Kennedy, Robbie Amell as Chris Redfield, and Tom Hopper as Albert Wesker...

Blade Runner: Black Lotus is an upcoming animated series directed by Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama, and co-produced by Crunchyroll and Adult Swim. The series is set in Los Angeles 2032 and follows a young female replicant named Elle. Elle wakes up devoid of memories with a programmed set of deadly skills and the only clues she has are a locked data device and a tattoo of a black lotus tattooed on her shoulder. Over the course of the series, Elle starts to uncover the details behind her brutal and complicated past as she slowly discovers her identity. The newest trailer found below shows Elle caught up in an endless action-packed cycle of searching for answers and evading deadly foes in the gritty cyberpunk metropolis. The behind-the-scenes video found above features Executive Producer ...

Looking to reach more students, an inventive Taiwanese math teacher decided to begin posting lectures onto Pornhub. Chang Hsu, better known as “changhsumath666,” launched his “Play Hard, Study Hard” on the adult website a little over a year ago garnering 1.9 million views and nearly 7,000 subscribers. The unique strategy by the teacher was his way to stand out in the highly competitive online-teaching market. Attracting unlikely students, Chang Hsu’s over 230 fully clothed videos in Mandarin now help him earn almost $270,000 USD a year via paid calculus classes on various platforms. The teacher who holds a master’s degree in math revealed that other adult websites were not interested in his clothed content and that he will be adding a “risqué” element to his online lectures to continue gro...

South Korean thriller drama Hellbound, from the director of Train to Busan and Peninsula, Yeon Sang-ho, has released its final trailer ahead of its premiere later this month. “I would like to welcome you all to the new world,” reads the trailer description. “All hell breaks loose. Utter chaos ravages the world.” As unearthly beings suddenly show up in Seoul to condemn individuals to hell, the city spirals into widespread hysteria as a mysterious religious group, The New Truth, led by their leader Jung Jin-soo (Yoo Ah-in), grows their cult following on the idea of divine justice. The series follows broadcasting station director Bae Young-jae (Park Jung-min), lawyer Min Hey-jin (Kim Hyun-joo), and detective Jin Kyung-hoon (Yang Ik-june), and others as they try to unearth the reason behind th...

Sony Pictures confirmed in a new poster that the Green Goblin will make an appearance in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The poster sees Tom Holland‘s Spider-Man in the middle of chaos brought upon by Doc Ock’s robotic tentacles, Electro’s lightning and Sandman’s sand, while the Green Goblin is flying on his glider in the background sporting the mask Willem Dafoe wore in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films form the early 2000s. No Way Home’s first trailer only initially teased the villain with his iconic cackle and green bomb, however Dafoe was not actually present in the visual. Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Marisa Tomei, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfred Molina and Jamie Foxx will be reprising their roles as MJ, Ned Leeds, Aunt May, Dr. Strange, Doc Ock and Electro, respectively. No-Way Home will mark Molin...

For Stranger Things Day, the Netflix series debuted the official map of Hawkins, Indiana, launched pop-ups in NYC and LA, released exclusive collaborative merchandise, and revealed its all-new “Welcome to California” teaser trailer. Following the first Stranger Things 4 trailer which confirmed that Jim Hopper is in fact alive in Russia, the second that flashed back to Dr. Brenner’s Rainbow Room, and the third which introduced the haunted “Creel House,” the most recent trailer reveals that Eleven and the Byers family have decided to move to Lenora Hills, California. After being separated for 185 days, Eleven writes to Mike, telling him she’s started to adapt to her new home and friends, though she clearly is having a hard time fitting as a spitball is seen hurled at her face. Eleven goes on...

For the final installment of the hit Netflix franchise Narcos: Mexico, the creators of the show have revealed to The Hollywood Reporter why they decided to end the show in its third season. Since its conception in 2018, the plot has shifted from the 1990s Colombia to Mexico follow the next threat of the global drug war. Narcos: Mexico explores the origins of the modern drug war that dates back to the 1980s in Mexico City while depicting the fall of Félix Gallardo and the Guadalajara Cartel. Co-creator Carlo Bernard, who took over from Eric Newman as the showrunner for the final season discusses the final season saying, “I used to joke with Eric that the only thing worse than organized crime is disorganized crime. And that’s what you’re seeing in terms of the chaos and the violence and the ...

Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall made its Netflix debut on November 3 and tells the story of retribution and revenge through the lens of Black cowboys in the 19th century American West. Though the story is fictional, the film based its character portrayals on legendary Black historical figures and employed a star-studded cast that includes Idris Elba, Zazie Beetz, Regina King, Jonathan Majors, Lakeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Delroy Lindo, Danielle Deadwyler and more. The prevalence of Black cowboys was the result of freed slaves who migrated from the South to the American West, with historians estimating that 1 in 4 cowboys was Black, according to the Smithsonian Magazine. Following the Civil War, being a cowboy was one of the few jobs open to Black men and there was an increased demand f...