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Britney Spears getting the biopic treatment from Wicked director Jon M. Chu

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Britney Spears is the next musician to be getting the biopic treatment. Wicked director Jon M. Chu will helm the film from a screenplay by New Girl creator Liz Meriweather. The film will be based off Spears’ memoir The Woman in Me which came out in 2024 and became one of the fastest selling memoirs ever published. The […]

Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is in “deep” post-production for IMAX release

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While Spider-Man will be swinging back into theaters in just a few weeks in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, fans won’t have to wait that much longer to see him on the big screen again in next year’s highly anticipated Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse. Writers and producers Christopher Miller and Phil Lord recently provided a new update […]

Tom Holland trains for swordplay in The Odyssey featurette

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With just over a week left until the release of Christopher Nolan’s anticipated Greek epic The Odyssey bursts into theatres, Universal has shared a behind the scenes look at Tom Holland’s fight and sword training for the film. Holland stars in The Odyssey as Telemachus, Odysseus’ son who is determined to find his long lost father and protect his […]

Movie Review – Supergirl (2026)

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Supergirl, 2026. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Milly Alcock, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, Jason Momoa, Alice Hewkin, Ferdinand Kingsley, Diarmaid Murtagh, David Corenswet, Emily Piggford, Bruce Lennox, Thalissa Teixeira, Kadiff Kirwan, Imogen Turner, Asha Soetan, and Leo Bill. SYNOPSIS: Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an […]

DC Studios announces Absolute Batman, Joker and Krypto animated series

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Batman fans really do have a plentiful time ahead as DC Studios announced at Annecy three more upcoming animated series. The studio will adapt Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s Batman Absolute comic alongside Joker: Laugh Riot while the Superman side of DC will see Krypto lead his own currently untitled series. DC launched the Absolute Universe in 2024 […]

Ghostbusters: Night Shift gets first look from Netflix

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Netflix has given a first look at the upcoming animated series Ghostbusters: Night Shift as a new group of young ghostbusters begin defending New York City from supernatural threats. The series will take place in 1994, five years after Ghostbusters II with Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz and Winston Zeddemore in retirement after Egon Spengler took all their […]

New foes come to Gotham in Batman: Caped Crusader season 2 trailer

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Yesterday gave us our first look at the Batman: Knightfall animated trilogy, but that is not the only animated project fans can look forward to. Prime Video just released the trailer for the second season of Batman: Caped Crusader, the film noir-inspired series from Bruce Timm and Matt Reeves. Check out the trailer and images below… Season two […]

Ballerina animated movie expanding with sequel and TV series

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Though it has been 10 years since France’s animation studio released Ballerina, the studio is now expanding the film with an upcoming sequel and TV series. Ballerina, which had the title of Leap! in the U.S., followed a young girl who flees a rural orphanage to pursue her dream of becoming a ballerina at the […]

Hazbin Hotel creator Vivienne Medrano developing animated musical feature Prehistoria

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Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss creator Vivienne Medrano is developing Prehistoria, an animated musical feature film for Warner Bros. The studio announced the news at Annecy with Medrano sharing a first-look image of the film’s central character. Little to no information was given about Prehistoria‘s story or its character, but Medrano described the film as taking place in a “fossil […]