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Confucius Movie Trailer #2, Starring Chow Yun Fat We coveredthe firstthree-minute long trailer for theChow Yun Fat-starringConfuciusback in September, and now we have yet another glimpse at the historical epic. There have been several small trailers released since then, so I’m just going to go ahead and call this trailer number two. This trailer has the benefit of being in HD, and gives us a much better look at the scope of the film, as well as the many large-scale battles....

Cool Stuff: Grogu Connects To The Force In ‘The Mandalorian’ Statue From Iron Studios Last fall,The Mandaloriansaw The Child who came to be revealed as Grogu reconnect with The Force in a big way. When the titular bounty hunter brought the little guy to Tython, he called out to any surviving Jedi that might be listening. SoonStar Warsfans will be able to bring home that pivotal moment in the form of an Iron Studios statue of Grogu sitting on top of the Seeing stone that allows him to feel The Force through the ancient ruins of a Jedi Temple....

Cool Stuff: Jason Edmiston’s Gorgeous The Hateful Eight Print From Mondo Mondo has again teamed with filmmakerQuentin Tarantinoto release a poster print for his latest film,The Hateful Eight. Created by artistJason Edmiston, we are excited to exclusively premiere this new print, which will be offered as a timed edition — which means that unlike with the usual super limited edition Mondo prints, you’ll have an opportunity to buy one of these if you really want it....

Cool Stuff: Mondo Unveils Matt Taylor’s Packed Poster For ‘Avengers: Endgame’ The first era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to an end earlier this year whenAvengers: Endgamearrived in theaters. Now Mondo is providing a proper send-off with a new print by artistMatt Taylorthat commemorates the final stand thatThe Avengersmake against the mad titan Thanos. If you’ve loved Matt Taylor’s work on the Marvel Studios movies before, you’re going to love this print, which packs nearly every square inch of the print with the massive assembly of characters....

Could One Of These Domain Names Be The ‘Wonder Woman 2’ Title? We still have well over a year until the best DCEU superhero returns to the big screen, but Warner Bros. has remained astonishingly tight-lipped about the title of theWonder Womansequel. It evades our grasp, even as the highly anticipated sequel builds anexciting, star-studded castand heads to the glorious era of big hair and Cold Wars. But a flurry of registered domain names may have just provided us the hint we needed to narrow down theWonder Woman 2title....

Darth Vader Hunts Our Heroes In Star Wars Rebels Second Season Premiere Teaser The premiere of the second season ofStar Wars Rebelsis just a couple weeks away. We’ve already seen the season premiere thanks to Star Wars Celebration (check out ourvideo blog from afterwards here), but everyone else has been waiting patiently. And now we have a new tease of the second season’s one-hour first episode,The Siege of Lothal. It looks likeDarth Vaderis going to play pretty prominently, at least in this first episode, as he’s been dispatched by the Emperor to hunt down our heroes....

Early Buzz: Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa Is “Simply Brilliant Or Brilliantly Simple” You probably knowCharlie Kaufmanfrom his screenplay contributions to Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry’s filmography, which includesBeing John Malkovich, Adaptation.andEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Or you might even have even seen his 2008 directorial debutSynecdoche New York, which we’veanalyzed on the podcastandin a series of videos. Kaufman’s newest film Anomalisa made its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, and we have rounded up the early buzz....

First ‘Iron Fist’ Set Photos Reveal Finn Jones As Danny Rand; More Casting Updates Announced Shooting on Netflix’snextnext Marvel drama,Iron Fist, is finally underway, and that means the first photos ofFinn Jonesas the eponymous superhero have hit the web. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the show has also locked in the final pieces of its main cast.Jessica StroupandTom Pelphreyjoin the Netflix and Marvel drama as Joy and Ward Meachum, children of Harold Meachum (David Wenham)....

HBO’s Lakers Series “One Of The Most Heavily Researched Sports Shows,” Says Writer Max Borenstein HBO’s untitled series about theLos Angeles Lakerswill leave no stone unturned. Based onJeff Pearlman’s bookShowtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, the all-star-led show focuses on the reigning champs in the ’80s. With Pat Riley coaching Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and James Worthy, the legendary team won five championships. Although the series is described as a drama, executive producer and writerMax Borensteintold us to expect a lot of laughs from the intensely researched show....

Jurassic World Dominion Runtime Revealed, And It’s The Longest Jurassic Movie Yet “Jurassic World Dominion” is going to be one of the biggest movies of the year, without question. The sixth entry in the franchise overall and the third entry in the most recent trilogy, the latest sequel will see dinosaurs and humans trying to co-exist out in the real world. The movie has a lot to handle, with the cast from the original “Jurassic Park” uniting with the cast of the current films, among many other things....

Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Concept Artist Teases A Very Different Middle-Earth “Lord of the Rings” fans will get their long-awaited return to Middle-earth this fall, when the prequel to the beloved series arrives on Prime Video. “The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power” looks like an epic fantasy-adventure on scale with the Peter Jackson films themselves (the series is among themost expensive ever made), but its world also may look somewhat unfamiliar to fans of the original film trilogy....

Lucasfilm Casts Trans Actress Talisa Garcia In Willow Series, A First For The Company With post-production underway on the"Willow"sequel series, we’ve just gotten word the project will be the first by Lucasfilm to feature an openly transgender actress in the form of Talisa Garcia, star of “Baptiste,” “Serve and Protect,” and “The Girlfriend Experience.” What’s more, Garcia’s casting marks the rare occasion of a trans woman playing a cis-female character in a film or series....

Marvel Celebrates 10 Years Of The MCU With A New Website, Glitzy Gold Posters Gold is usually reserved for 50-year anniversaries, but we’ll let it slide forMarvel Studios. The studio is celebrating an unlikely 10-year anniversary that began all the way back withIron Manin 2008 — a movie that no one expected to launch a cinematic universe spanning 10 years and 19 movies. But jump forward to 2018, and here we are: there’s a brand spanking new anniversary website and collection of posters to celebrate Marvel’s first 10 years....