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Thea White, the legendary voice actress behind the character of Muriel Bagge on Courage the Cowardly Dog, has died at 81 years old. The sad news was confirmed by her brother John Zitzner, telling The Hollywood Reporter that White died at the Cleveland Clinic on July 30 “after complications from surgery in her battle with liver cancer.” White was born in Newark, New Jersey and began her professional acting career in her 20s, also becoming a librarian and a personal assistant to Marlene Dietrich. She returned to acting when she got the role of Muriel on the beloved Cartoon Network show, voicing the character for all 52 episodes, several spin-offs and the upcoming Scooby-Doo and Courage the Cowardly Dog crossover Straight Outta Nowhere. White married late musician Andy White, the dr...

Kit Harington expounded on the effects that Game of Thrones had on his mental health while appearing on The Jess Cagle Show on Monday, disclosing that he took a year-long break to “concentrate on [himself]” following the HBO series’ conclusion. In the interview with Cagle on the SiriusXM show, the actor claimed that the violent and intense “nature” of the series “directly” led to his own mental health struggles. “I went through some mental health difficulties after Thrones, and during the end of Thrones, to be honest,” Harington told the host. “I think it was directly to do with the nature of the show and what I had been doing for years.” Harington played lead character Jon Snow in the highly-acclaimed series, which ran for eight seasons. After taking time away from wor...

Following initial word, Shueisha‘s Weekly Shōnen Jump has now confirmed the 20th-anniversary special manga chapter for Bleach. The one-shot for Tite Kubo‘s beloved series will be part of this year’s 35th Weekly Shōnen Jump issue and will feature 74-pages. The “new episode” for the manga was revealed to have one color page and is set to center around a “certain ceremony.” The storied magazine teases the story with the line “Ichigo was invited to Soul Society for a certain ceremony but!?” The upcoming special chapter will appear in the combined Weekly Shōnen Jump issue #36/37 set to release August 10. For more entertainment news, watch the opening sequence for Baki: Son of Ogre. Read Full Article

Scarlett Johansson was reportedly taken aback by Disney‘s response to the ongoing lawsuit involving Black Widow, the actress’ representatives told The Wrap. The Marvel staple’s team shared that she was “shocked by the tone” of Disney’s statement, which claimed that Johansson’s lawsuit was “especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.” The entertainment conglomerate also revealed that she earned $20 million USD from the franchise and that “the release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has significantly enhanced her ability to earn additional compensation.” Johansson’s agent, Bryan Lourd, also previously issued his own statement in regards to the matter, alleging that Disney is “shamelessly and fal...

Anime fans are getting excited about each new 2021 Tokyo Olympic event but not for the reasons you think. Since the opening theme for ZOIDS was heard during the first day of competitions, users have been making it a game in trying to identify each of the anime themes being used at this year’s Olympic Games. Tracks like Attack on Titan‘s “Guren no Yumiya” (Crimson Bow and Arrow) and Demon Slayer‘s “Gurenge” (Crimson Flower/Red Lotus) were used in the archery events, while the Slam Dunk and Haikyuu!! themes were aptly used for the women’s basketball and men’s volleyball matches, respectively. We will admit though, it was a bit weird hearing Ghost in the Shell 2‘s “Kugutsuuta ura mite chiru” for women’s Judo, even if it sort of made sense. 男子バレーお疲れ様でした?今日もハイキューの「ヒカリアレ」が流れててテンションがあがりましたね!!ヒカリア...

Netflix has now announced the Japanese voiceover cast for Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild along with releasing a fresh Japanese trailer with English subtitles. According to the streaming giant, the cast will include Yuma Uchida as Aiden, Takanori Hoshino as Julius, Yu Shimamura as Mae, Marika Hayashi as Nadia, Setsuji Satoh as Nox, Yugo Sekiguchi as Ravi, Takaki Otomari as Gibson, and Meiko Kawasaki as Lea. The cast will be joined by Pure Imagination Studios’ Steven. F Yamamoto as director alongside Ultimate Spider-Man veteran Joshua Fine as scriptwriter. Ryozo Tsujimoto, Kaname Fujioka, Takahiro Kawano, and Andrew Alfonso will all be supervising. As for the film itself, Monster Hunter: Legends of the Guild is a 58-minute long CG movie based around CAPCOM‘s beloved...

Snowpiercer has officially been renewed for a fourth season by TNT. The announcement comes as the third season wraps up production, staying on track with the previous renewals which have come ahead of the premier of each prior season. Co-heads of the scripted original programming, Sam Linsky and Adrienne O’Riain comments on the post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama series renewal stating, “Snowpiercer has been an incredibly successful series for us that continues to capture the imagination of viewers, grow audience and maintain strong ratings. All of our seasons embark on an emotional, unexpected ride and the well-plotted storylines will continue to evolve and remain relevant to audiences. We’re excited to keep the train running into Season Four.” The third season of the series follows Daveed Digg...

Taika Waititi‘s adaptation of Flash Gordon is officially set to be developed as a live-action film, though the movie was originally meant to be an animation. Producer John Davis recently spoke to Collider regarding the shift of the film becoming live-action, “Taika is writing it. It was a movie that was a huge influence on him growing up. It is one of his favorite movies. He initially said to me, ‘Let’s do it animated.’ I said, ‘Okay.’ Then we got into it and started developing it and he said, ‘No, let’s do it live-action.’ I said, ‘Even better.’” He adds, “We’ve been through the development process, not the writing process, but he’s laid out in great detail the characters, the movie, the way in, what it’s about, the tone, all of that stuff, right? And I can’t wait. And we’ll wait for him....

In celebration of its 35th anniversary, Fathom Events and Hasbro recently announced the re-release of The Transformers: The Movie in theaters across the United States. The iconic film will also see a SteelBook 4K UHD limited-edition release by SHOUT! Factory today. Guided by Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen), the Autobots have been going head to head with Megatron (Frank Walk) and the Decepticons for a millennia. While the constant battle continues, an even greater evil is on the horizon as Unicron (Orson Welles, Citizen Kane) sets its sight on the planet Cybertron. The mammoth-sized converting planet sucks in everything in its way and looks to consume and wipe out both the Autobots and Decepticons from existence. With danger enveloping the homeworld of the Transformers, the Autobots look to th...

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has revealed that the success of Black Panther paved the way for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Speaking to Empire in a recent interview, Feige recalled the response Black Panther and Chadwick Boseman received when the film first came out back in 2018. “I remember seeing a viral video when the Black Panther poster first came out,” he explained. “It was some young men in a movie theatre overwhelmed with excitement at seeing the poster, and it was moving because people were excited about the movie we were making. But it was also a harsh realization that they were reacting that way because they had not seen it before. So Panther really coalesced the notion of, ‘Everybody deserves to see themselves portrayed in these larger-than-life w...

Sony has unveiled a new trailer for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, the Marvel Comics-inspired sequel to the 2018 film Venom. Picking up after the post-credits scene in the original movie, the Andy Serkis-directed sequel sees Tom Hardy return as Eddie Brock, a journalist who has an alien symbiote living inside him, alongside Michelle Williams, who depicts his character’s love interest, Anne Weying. The plot focuses on a central conflict between Hardy’s alien counterpart, Venom, and the story’s villain, Cletus Kasady, or Carnage, played by Woody Harrelson. Also joining the sequel is Naomie Harris, who plays Francis Barriston (or Shriek), who briefly appears in the new visual and becomes romantically involved with Carnage. The new trailer further details the comedic identity crisis th...

Netflix has shared the official trailer for the fifth and final season of its Spanish heist crime drama, Money Heist. As the season opens, the gang has already been shut in the Bank of Spain for over 100 hours — and though they have managed to save Lisbon (Itziar Ituño), The Professor (Álvaro Morte) has been taken by Inspector Sierra (Najwa Nimri). With doom looming, the plot thickens when an unstoppable new enemy emerges — the army — culminating in an all-out war as the end of the heist approaches. Previously, Netflix announced that season five would arrive in two volumes. Volume 1 is slated to arrive on September 3 and Volume 2 will land on December 3, each with five, one-hour long episodes. “When we began to write Part 5 in the midst of the pandemic, we felt that we had to change what w...