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Scarlett Johansson‘s lawyer, John Berlinski, hit back at the Walt Disney Company after it filed to move the ongoing Black Widow lawsuit behind closed doors, calling the move predictable and the company’s initial response as “misogynistic.” “After initially responding to this litigation with a misogynistic attack against Scarlett Johansson, Disney is now, predictably, trying to hide its misconduct in a confidential arbitration,” the Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP attorney said, adding, “Why is Disney so afraid of litigating this case in public?” “Because it knows that Marvel’s promises to give Black Widow a typical theatrical release ‘like its other films’ had everything to do with guaranteeing that Disney wouldn’t cannibalize box office receipts in order to boost Disney+ subscriptions,” B...

Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige has confirmed that Fu Manchu will not be featured in Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. Variety reports that Feige spoke out about Fu Manchu’s character, which has been widely seen as a stereotypical and racist Yellow Peril symbol, stating, “[Fu Manchu] is not a character we own or would ever want to own. It was changed in the comics many, many, many years ago. We never had any intention of [having him] in this movie. Definitively, Fu Manchu is not in this movie, is not Shang-Chi’s father, and again, is not even a Marvel character, and hasn’t been for decades.” In the interview, Feige also comments on the character Shang-Chi and his urge to abandon his home country for the West, “That sense of running away […] is presented as one of his flaws. I...

Dominique Thorne has officially joined the cast of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as Riri Wililams/Ironheart. The news was confirmed by Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who told ComicBook, “We’re shooting Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, right now, and the character of Riri Williams, you will meet in Black Panther 2 first.” He added, “She started shooting, I think, this week before her Ironheart series.” Thorne was initially announced as Ironheart for the character’s self-titled Disney+ series, but her appearance in the Black Panther sequel will mark her debut. In the comics, Riri Williams is a certified teenaged engineering genius, getting accepted to MIT at only 15 years old and building her armor similar to that of Iron Man‘s. After stopping two inmates from escaping the New Me...

Angelina Jolie joined Instagram over the weekend and quickly became the fastest user on the social app to reach one million followers. The Hollywood actress joined the platform on August 20 to share a heartbreaking and impactful post of a letter from a teenage girl in Afghanistan, giving followers an insight into how the current political issues are affecting the people who are now facing Taliban rule. Jolie reportedly gained 2.1 million new followers in unde three hours, beating David Attenborough’s four hours 44 minutes and Ruper Grint’s four hours, one minute. At the time of publishing, Jolie now has 7.5 million followers. In her first post on Instagram she wrote, “This is a letter I was sent from a teenage girl in Afghanistan. Right now, the people of Afghanistan are losing their abili...

Kanye West scrubbed his entire Instagram page on Friday, leaving only a singular image of his childhood home. The home, located in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, was posted without caption or comment. According to Chicago’s WGN9, the home was purchased in the early 1980s and was sold by Kanye’s mother, Donda West, in 2004. Real estate reporter Dennis Rodkin wrote in April 2020 that the home “went through a lot of trouble after that,” facing forclosure before being bought by artist and Chicago activist Rhymefest in 2016. Rhymefest wrote in 2016 that he intended to turn the space into a community arts incubator, building out a “state of the art recording studio, a curriculum space for @dondashouse and southside music museum.” But those plans never materialized, with Rhymefest ...

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Mike Richards has stepped down as the host of Jeopardy! only a week after assuming the position. His resignation follows a report released by The Ringer on Wednesday, which exposed offensive comments that Richards had made during episodes of his pop culture podcast The Randumb Show between 2013 and 2014. This included asking his assistant and cohost if they had “ever taken nude photos” and commenting on women’s bathing suit choices. Every episode of the podcast and its website were removed after The Ringer contacted Sony and Richards’s agent. Richards was tapped last week to succeed longtime Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, who died in November at the age of 80 after a battle with cancer. The season-long search for a new host involved welcoming guest hosts on for each episode, presuma...

James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson have doubled down, once again, on the possibility of bringing the franchise to the small screens. When it was first announced that Amazon was in talks with MGM, which holds the rights to the Bond franchise, it sparked rumors across the industry that there may potentially be a TV spinoff down the line. Broccoli and Wilson recently spoke to Total Film, “We make films. We make films for the cinema. That’s what we do.” Adds Wilson: “We’ve resisted that call for 60 years.” When asked about what the future of the franchise may look like, the producers responded, “I think we just really want to celebrate this and celebrate Daniel, and then when the dust settles, then look at the landscape and figure out what the future is. Although I thi...

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...