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James Wan has teased new details regarding the highly-anticipated upcoming Aquaman 2, revealing that the film takes great inspiration from the iconic 1965 film, Planet of the Vampires. The director is of course known for being at the helm of horror films like The Conjuring and Insidious. Recently, he spoke to TotalFilm saying, “Aquaman 2 is very heavily inspired by Planet Of The Vampires. You can take the boy out of horror but you can never take the horror out of the boy.” Planet Of The Vampires has been known to be a campy ’60s Italian sci-fi horror film that follows the events after two spaceships crash and an unexplored planet appears to be inhabited by evil that possess the bodies of the crew. Wan added, “Well, the first movie took a lot of people by surprise, right? And that’s partial...

Reno 911! fans will be delighted to learn that Roku has now ordered more episodes of the cult classic comedy. According to Variety, Roku Channel — which picked up the Emmy-nominated series after Quibi shut down last year — has ordered four additional episodes, all of which will be full 30-minute segments instead of the recent plans of five to 10-minute shorts. The news of both the series’ revival and longer episodes will no doubt fire up the excitement of Reno 911! fans, especially after Quibi announced its demise just one month into production of the show’s eighth season. The first season of Reno 911! premiered back in 2003 on Comedy Central and quickly built a cult following over the years. The series takes on the style of a mockumentary following the daily lives of law en...

While Daniel Craig may be among the highest-paid men in Hollywood, the five-time James Bond actor has shared that he doesn’t plan on leaving the entirety of his wealth to his children. Speaking to the UK’s Candis Magazine, Craig revealed that he finds the concept an inheritance “quite distasteful.” “Isn’t there an old adage that if you die a rich person, you’ve failed?” he told the outlet, noting that industrialist Andrew Carnegie gave away most of his fortune before and after his death, equivalent to billions in today’s currency. “I don’t want to leave great sums to the next generation,” he told the outlet. “I think inheritance is quite distasteful. My philosophy is get rid of it or give it away before you go.” Craig will be the recipient of a paycheck of more than $100 million USD as a r...

Japanese actor and martial arts legend Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba has died due to COVID complications at the age of 82. The actor who has been in the film and television industry for five decades between the 1960s and the 2010s, starred in roles for noteworthy American films including Kill Bill and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. His career spanned across Japan and the U.S. as he took on projects that showcased his martial arts skills. He later went on to choreograph elaborate fight scenes later on in his career. Chiba studied under karate master Masutatsu “Mas” Oyama and earned his first-degree black belt in 1965. In the 1970s, he starred in a trilogy of films, playing Oyama in Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter and Karate for Life. Throughout his illustrious film career, he was sta...

The first official clip of Nia DaCosta and Jordan Peele‘s Candyman has finally arrived. The one-minute and 40 second teaser is set in a high school bathroom and previews what exactly will happen if you say the name “Candyman” in front of a mirror five times. While viewers are unable to see just exactly how Candyman takes his victims, it does confirm that his methods are bloody, cruel and painful as the young girls attempt to make a run from the vengeful spirit. Candyman is set to star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Anthony McCoy, Teyonah Parris as Brianna Cartwright and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Troy Cartwright and will see the return of Tony Todd as Daniel Robitaille/Candyman — marking the actor’s fourth appearance as the titular antagonist. “It’s a continuation of the first film,” Todd told Bl...

Following the release of Godzilla vs. Kong earlier this year, Legendary Entertainment has announced plans for a live-action adaptation of the popular superhero manga and anime series, My Hero Academia. Shinsuke Sato, the director of Netflix series Alice in Borderland and Kingdom, and live-action adaptations Death Note: New Generation and Bleach, will make his English-language film debut with this project. My Hero Academia was created by Kohei Horikoshi in 2014, and has become a hit sensation in Japan and abroad, with over 50 million manga copies sold, five seasons of anime, and a feature film. For those unfamiliar with the show, the story is centered around Izuku Midoriya, a young student who’s a huge fan of superheroes despite not having any natural abilities (quirks) of his own. In a cha...

Apple TV+ dropped off the trailer for its upcoming series adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. After publishing his initial works as short stories in the 1940s, Asimov converted his writings into a trilogy in the following decade, before continuing his stories with both prequels and sequels in 1981. Now, helmed by showrunner David S. Goyer (Batman Begins), Foundation will have a new lease on life as a 10-episode sci-fi series. The official synopsis reads: “When revolutionary Dr. Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) predicts the impending fall of the Empire, he and a band of loyal followers venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish The Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilization. Enraged by Hari’s claims, the ruling Cleons (led by Lee Pace) — ...

Daniel Craig has claimed Hollywood’s largest movie-star salary, taking home more than $100 million USD thanks to Netflix‘s acquisition of two upcoming sequels to Knives Out, according to a new report from Variety. Craig’s sizable paycheck can be credited in part to the fact that Netflix pays film actors for the projected back-end box office participation they would have claimed had their movie released in theaters. That figure, combined with the additional salary Craig would have received for the mystery series’ subsequent films, breeds a whopping nine-figure check. Ranking in a distant second place, Dwayne Johnson earned $30 million USD for his starring role in Amazon‘s Red One, a figure which Variety reports could reach as high as $50 million USD once his backend is comple...

Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that they are charging three former Netflix employees and two close associates for revealing confidential information regarding the streaming giant’s subscriber growth that led to them netting a profit of $3.1 million USD. In a recent report, the SEC identified Sung Mo “Jay” Jun as the prime suspect for the insider trading scheme. The scheme began when he first started working for Netflix and he is currently accused of providing his brother, Joon Mo Jun and close friend, Junwoo Chon a series of classified information through a messaging channel, Rage Against the Market. He had supposedly revealed the information before the streamer would make its earning announcements where Jun was allegedly paid $60,000 USD for tipping ot...

Batman fans were filled with joy when Michael Keaton confirmed his return as the older Bruce Wayne in Andrés Muschietti and Ezra Miller‘s The Flash, and now the actor has touched on why he decided to reprise the role after almost 30 years. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the 69-year-old actor revealed that he was impressed by Christina Hodson’s script and Muschietti’s vision. Keaton was also intrigued by the mere idea of his return as Batman. “Frankly, in the back of my head, I always thought, ‘I bet I could go back and nail that motherf*cker,’” he explained of the role of Batman, which he walked away from in the mid-90s because he wasn’t a fan of the Batman Forever script. “And so I thought, ‘Well, now that they’re asking me, let me see if I can pull that off.’” Keaton added that...

Just shortly after Marvel gave Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings its Hollywood premiere, the massively popular studio has now released the final trailer for Eternals ahead of its November release, shedding more light on the backstory of these godlike beings. Featured above, the new trailer answers a whole series of questions many fans have been asking since the introduction of the film, such as why the immortal group never interfered with the battle with Thanos (or any other war in the history of Earth), where these superheroes came from and what their powers might be, and who the new enemies are: the Eternals’ counterpart named Deviants. On top of this, we also see the return of another cosmic species known as Celestials who might prove to be a threat to Earth, and ...

Star Wars fans have finally got a detailed explanation as to how Emperor Palpatine survived after Return of the Jedi to show up in The Rise of Skywalker. In a new blog post over on Star Wars‘ official website, Emily Shkoukani of the Lucasfilm Story Group finally explained in detail how Palpatine survived the events of Return of the Jedi when thrown into the depths of the second Death Star by Darth Vader. In fact, he didn’t so much “survive” as he did simply transfer his consciousness into a clone of himself. According to Shkoukani, the entire plan for the Sith Emperor to return to power began long before his death, when he came up with a plan known as the Contingency which would help him regain control of the Empire if he were to be struck down. Aside from various ...