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More than four years after the ride’s initial announcement, Disney World has finally announced a 2022 opening window for its upcoming Marvel attraction Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind in EPCOT. Described as a family-friendly storycoaster, Disney says that the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind ride will be a “totally new type of roller coaster experience” it has developed specifically for the attraction. Its compartments will be able to rotate 360 degrees to allow riders to take in the entirety of their environment as they help the Guardians save the galaxy. The ride will also feature the theme park’s first-ever reverse launch on a roller coaster and will be one of the longest enclosed coasters in the world. While Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind is scheduled for laun...

Despite not appearing in James Gunn‘s The Suicide Squad, Will Smith is still open to reprising his role as Deadshot. In a new interview, the 53-year-old actor revealed that his absence from Gunn’s standalone sequel was actually due to a conflict in scheduling. “Yeah, I was working and they were ready to shoot. It was a timing issue,” Smith confirmed, also confirming that his role was not recast and that Idris Elba was not Deadshot. “A different character?” he checked with a person off-camera, continuing, “Alright, cool. So I can come back.” The Suicide Squad producer Peter Safran confirmed in July that they “discussed” bringing Smith back. “But I think the Will [Smith] of it all was really more of a schedule thing than anything else. We knew we had to start shooting in September because, f...

Lily-Rose Depp, the daughter of Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, is joining The Weeknd‘s upcoming HBO show, The Idol. According to reports, the 22-year-old French-American actress has been cast as the female lead opposite of The Weeknd. The Idol is set to follow “a female pop singer who starts a romance with an enigmatic L.A. club owner who is the leader of a secret cult,” and while HBO has not confirmed just exactly who Depp and The Weeknd are playing, it is believed that they will portray the female pop singer and the L.A. club owner, respectively. The Idol is co-created by The Weeknd and Euphoria‘s Sam Levinson and marks both Depp and the XO Records head’s foray into live-action television. Depp recently starred in the sci-fi film Voyagers, while The Weeknd previously lent his voice to ...

In anticipation of its release this Friday, Sony has now released a brand new trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, this time focusing specifically on Woody Harrelson‘s titular character Cletus Kasady aka Carnage. Centering around what appears to be a fortified execution chamber, the trailer shows Kasady being injected with a substance we soon recognize as the Carnage symbiote in front of an onlooking audience, which almost immediately becomes terrified as the serial killer starts reacting horrifyingly to the substance. As he transforms into Carnage, his tendrils tear apart the chamber while everyone around attempts to flee the prison, setting the nightmare free. Picking up a year after where the original Venom from 2018 left off, Venom: Let There Be Carnage sees the return of Tom ...

HBO has officially announced it will be releasing a documentary on the U.S. Capitol insurrection that occurred earlier this year in January. The documentary, titled Four Hours At The Capitol, explores the events that led President Donald Trump supporters to storm Capitol Hill to protest President Joe Biden’s election victory. The incident resulted in a major Congressional investigation, five deaths and Trump being banned from using social media. HBO’s film features never-before-seen footage from that day’s events and promises to be “tightly focused and comprehensive,” while also “unfolding with urgent precision” of the event. The documentary also opens the discussion surrounding the aftermath of Trump’s “fight like hell” speech during the 2020 U.S. elections. The documentary will also inco...

Disney+ on Wednesday announced that The Book of Boba Fett — LucasFilm‘s latest series that was first introduced in the end-credit sequence following the season two finale of The Mandalorian — is slated to premiere on Wednesday, December 29. The series “finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate,” according to Disney’s official synopsis. Temuera Morrison will return in the role of Boba Fett and Ming-Na Wen will return as Fennec Shand. Wen first depicted her character in season one of The Mandalorian and later provided Shand’s voice in the animated series Star Wars: Th...

Dong-hyuk Hwang, the director of the highly-anticipated Netflix series Squid Game, revealed more about the salesman played by Gong Yoo. As a special appearance in Episodes 1 and 9, the character on the subway recruits participants into the Squid Game by playing ddakji. With speculations of the red and blue envelopes representing staff and players, the director has commented on the topic and how the character fits in the plot. “The recruiter is a facilitator from the game that gains trust from the authority and is allowed to work outside in public,” says Hwang. The colors of the envelopes are just alluding to the Japanese legend Aka Manto, where a masked spirit asked people if they want red paper or blue paper in the bathroom. For casting, director Hwang added that he asked Gong Yoo for thi...

WarnerMedia’s DC on Wednesday announced that it will give away free comic-book-inspired NFTs to those who register for DC FanDome, the company’s global virtual fan event taking place on October 16. The NFTs, which will be hand-selected by DC publisher and chief creative officer Jim Lee, will depict fan-favorite superheroes including Batman, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn. Additionally, the NFTs will include comic book covers in three levels of rarity — for example, fans of Wonder Woman can collect a common (1987’s Wonder Woman No. 1 by George Perez), rare (2021’s Nubia and the Amazons No. 1 by Alitha Martinez), and/or a legendary (Yara Flor on 2021’s Future State: Wonder Woman No. 1 by Jenny Frison) cover. “We spent a lot of time on how to translate and adapt t...

Dave Chappelle has announced his sixth Netflix stand-up special, The Closer, which is slated to land on the streamer on October 5. The comedy special, which is billed as “the sixth chapter,” will be helmed by Emmy-winning director Stan Lathan, who has directed all of Chapelle’s previous Netflix projects. The stand-up will complete the comedian’s body of work that includes The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation and Sticks & Stones. “Comedians have a responsibility to speak recklessly,” Chappelle states in the teaser’s opening. “Sometimes the funniest thing to say is mean. Remember, I’m not saying it to be mean: I’m saying it because it’s funny.” The visual then cuts between a series of the comedian’s best moments from his previous fiv...

During the Tudum fan event this past weekend, Netflix revealed the official trailer for heist romantic comedy Army of Thieves, a prequel to zombie heist movie Army of the Dead. The film sees the return of Zack Snyder, known for Watchmen, 300, and Justice League, as executive producer, as well as Matthias Schweighöfer who directs and stars in the movie. Army of Thieves is set six years before the events depicted in Army of the Dead in the initial stages of the zombie outbreak. A small-town bank teller named Ludwig Dieter is drawn into an epic adventure when a woman played by Nathalie Emmanuel recruits him to join a misfit crew of Interpol’s wanted criminals. Their mission is to break into Europe’s most secure safes. Watch the trailer above, and expect Army of Thieves to release on Netf...

Larry David is making his way back to TV screens as HBO officially announced the premiere date for Curb Your Enthusiasm season 11. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedy series is scheduled to return on October 24 with its 10 new episodes airing on subsequent Sundays. LD will be joined by longtime cast members Susie Essman, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, J.B. Smoove, Ted Danson and Richard Lewis. Curb Your Enthusiasm is a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the Seinfeld co-creator’s fictionalized life and is famously shot without a script, allowing the actors to improvise their lines throughout the episode. Season 10 featured a main plotline that followed David establishing his own coffee shop, Latte Larry’s, right next to Mocha Joe’s after he was banned, kicking off a trend which saw celebrities s...

Will Smith has recently shared the reason why he has avoided making films about slavery in the past. In a recent interview discussing his new role as a slave fleeing a plantation in Louisiana in Emancipation, Smith explained why he was so adamant in refusing such films before, “I’ve always avoided making films about slavery. In the early part of my career…I didn’t want to show Black people in that light. I wanted to be a superhero. So I wanted to depict Black excellence alongside my white counterparts. I wanted to play roles that you would give to Tom Cruise.” Smith recalls turning down Quentin Tarantino’s call to star in Django Unchained, sharing that at the time, he “didn’t want to make a slavery film about vengeance.” When talking about Emancipation, Smith describes the film as “one tha...