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Marvel season is upon us and Ant-Man 3 director Peyton Reed is chiming in to tease fans about the production start of Ant-Man 3. Reed recently took to Twitter to post a photo of the ugly bunny which initially appeared on the first film of the series. The third installment titled, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, is set to see Paul Rudd return as the titular character Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man and Evangeline Lily as Wasp. Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer will also be joining the cast of the film as Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne respectively. Although Ant-Man and the Wasp previously received higher reviews and box office numbers than any of its predecessors, Marvel was focusing on Avengers: Endgame at the time which slowed down the development of the third film. As Comic-Con@Home comes to...

Back by popular demand after her first Cooking with Paris lasagna video, Paris Hilton is making her official cooking show debut on Netflix. Teasing the upcoming six-episode first season, the video gives a look at the show’s guests like Kim Kardashian West, Nikki Glasser, Demi Lovato, Saweetie, Lele Pons, and Kathy and Nicky Hilton. Declaring that “any b*tch can cook,” Hilton will make six of her favorite dishes where different celebrities will join her for an exclusive cooking experience and tasting of her home-cooked meal. Bringing the same energy witnessed in The Simple Life reality television series, you best believe that each episode will be full of mishaps, culinary faux-pas, and memorable quotes. Those interested can tune in on Netflix on August 4. [embedded content] In other enterta...

Lucasfilm has officially confirmed that they had hired YouTuber deepfake creator as their new “senior facial capture artist.” Shamook, who is a U.K.-based video content creator, recently created a viral deepfake video that garnered much attention from the Star Wars community. Shamook took to YouTube to share an improved appearance of a young Mark Hamill during the season two finale of The Mandalorian. The video, which raked in over two million views, captured the attention of Lucasfilm’s computer graphics subsidiary, Industrial Light and Magic, for its deepfake work. In a statement to Indiewire, a spokesperson for the company said, “Over the past several years, ILM has been investing in both machine learning and A.I. as a means to produce compelling visual effects work.” They added that th...

A new trilogy in The Exorcist franchise is currently in the works over at Universal and Peacock. The upcoming reboot is produced by Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Productions and will reportedly star Leslie Odom Jr. and original actress Ellen Burstyn, who will reprise her role as Regan’s (the 12-year-old who was possessed in the 1973 film) mother, Chris MacNeil. David Gordon Green will direct the first of the three films planned, as well as pen the script alongside Peter Sattler, while Jason Blum, David Robinson, James Robinson, Green, Danny McBride and Couper Samuelson will executive produce. “There’s no better time to be joining forces with the team at Peacock, reuniting with the great team at Universal and finally getting to work with my friends at Blumhouse, than on this classic franc...

Amazon Prime Video released a two-minute teaser for Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time during its panel at Comic-Con@Home. The visual sees a monologue from Mari Makinami Illustrious, as well as a conversation bebtween Asuka Shikinami Langley, Rei Ayanami and Shinji Ikari. The streaming service previously announced that it will globally premiere the final Rebuild of Evangelion film on August 13, offering it in 10 languages including English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian with subtitles in 28 languages. “I’d like to thank every Eva fan in the world for your continued support,” creator Hideaki Anno said in a previous statement. “We were looking for the best way to offer the movie to fans overseas as early as possible in a challenging situation with movie theat...

A new live-action Pokémon series is in early development at Netflix, according to Variety. Though there are no details on the show’s plot as it is still in its early stages, the outlet’s sources said that Joe Henderson — current co-showrunner and executive producer on Netflix’s highly-acclaimed series Lucifer — is attached to the upcoming Pokémon project as a writer and executive producer. Variety‘s sources also claim that the series will mimic the live-action nature of the 2019 Pokémon film, Detective Pikachu, starring Ryan Reynolds and Justice Smith. Henderson, who has worked as Lucifer‘s co-showrunner since 2016, moved with the former FOX series once it was picked up by Netflix in 2018, where he has had major success delivering multiple seasons over several years. On top ...

A scripted series about Vince McMahon’s steroid trial is in the works from WWE and Blumhouse Television. The United States of America Vs. Vince McMahon will be a multi-part docuseries centered around a series of 1990s New York Post stories written by sports writer Phil Mushnick that accused WWE chairman and CEO McMahon of supplying his wrestlers with steroids. Inflammatory headlines like “Legislators Give WWE A Free Pass On ‘Roids” and “McMahon Skips Through the Cemetery” compelled the FBI to indict McMahon on charges of distributing steroids and of conspiracy to distribute steroids. What followed was a high-profile, high-stakes trial, in which McMahon, “with his liberty at stake, two school-aged children at home and with WWE on the brink of bankruptcy, refused to take a plea deal,” per th...

Syfy and USA have shared a brand new trailer for its forthcoming horror series, The Legacy of Chucky, during its panel at Comic-Con@Home. A followup to 2017’s Cult of Chucky, the TV series stars Zackary Arthur as Jake Webber, who is described by Child’s Play franchise creator Don Mancini as “a 14-year-old gay boy who’s bullied and sort of lost after the recent death of his mother.” After purchasing Chucky at a yard sale, he seemingly begins to succumb to the evil doll’s influence as Chucky begins a series of murders that reveal the town’s “deep hypocrisies and hidden secrets.” “One of the things I wanted to do was bring [the franchise] back to its Child’s Play roots and have the protagonists [be] kids,” Mancini told EW. “But since, with the first couple of movies, we’d already delved into ...

In an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience last week, Joe Rogan accused Saturday Night Live of being a “den of thieves” that stole ideas and material from not only writers but also performers. Speaking to Shane Gillis during his podcast — who himself was fired from SNL after past racist remarks he had made surfaced — Rogan claimed that “By all accounts, that place is a den of thieves,” reflecting on his earlier conversation with Jim Breuer, who was a cast member on the show from 1995 to 1998. “You hear Jim Breuer’s account of the climate in that place and it’s horrific,” he continued. “They’re all stealing from writers, they’re stealing from performers. If you’re a writer and you submit your packages, the higher-up writers will steal your shit, according to Breuer.” “If ...

Netflix has dropped its official trailer for its new six-part documentary series, Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami. The show is set to follow up the 2006 film, Cocaine Cowboys and will similarily focus on the rise of coke in Florida and its drug war. Netflix stated that the docuseries will be mainly about “the South Florida traffickers indicated in one of the largest drug cases in U.S. history.” The Kings of Miami dives deeper into the stories of Cuban exiles Salvador “Sal” Magluta and Augusto “Willy” Falcon. Both Sal and Willy were supposedly America’s greatest distributors for Colombia’s biggest drug cartels. It has been alleged that the pair brought in more than 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S in the 1980s. The synopsis from Netflix reads, “The high school friends built a reputed $2 ...

Lee Isaac Chung has reportedly exited the live-action adaptation of Makoto Shinkai‘s revered anime film, Your Name. The Minari filmmaker was announced as Your Name.’s director in September 2020, joining producers and distributors Paramount Pictures, Toho and J.J. Abrams‘ Bad Robot. The studio is now supposedly “acting fast” to replace Chung, who was already named the second director after Marc Webb’s departure in 2019. Previous reports have stated that Your Name. will have a “Western viewpoint” and will replace the original plot of a boy and girl living in Tokyo and Gifu to a boy from Chicago and a Native American girl in a rural town. Abrams is a big fan of the 2017 film, and he acted fast to acquire the rights. Stay tuned for more info on the Your Name. adaptation. Elsewhere in entertain...

Riding her success from In the Heights, Afro-Latina actress Leslie Grace has now been cast as the titular superhero in DC, Warner Bros. and HBO Max’s upcoming Batgirl. According to Deadline, the new film will feature Grace as Barbara Gordon, daughter of Commissioner Gordon, who’ll be donning the cowl for this iteration. She’ll be joined by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah as co-directors, with Christina Hodson penning the script and Kristin Burr producing. The project will also make its debut exclusively on HBO Max, making it one of the first DC properties to do so. Plot details remain scarce at this point, but reports suggest it’ll likely premiere in 2023. “With Batgirl, we hope to take the audience on a fun ride and see a different side of Gotham,” said Burr earlier this yea...