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‘Game Of Thrones’ Animated Series In Development At HBO Max HBO Max is plotting its own trip to Westeros – in animated form. A new report says HBO Max is developing aGame of Thronesanimated series, although the report cautions that it’s still in the early stages and there’s a chance the show never comes to fruition. The Hollywood Reporterbrings word that aGame of Thronesanimated series is officially in the works at HBO Max, which is notable for multiple reasons, not the least of which is because the original series, the upcomingHouse of the Dragonprequel, and the potentialDunk and Eggprequelhave all fallen under the umbrella of HBO proper instead of being developed for the streaming service....

‘Loki’ Just Confirmed A Key Part Of Loki’s Sexuality And It Has The Lighting To Prove It This post containsspoilersforthe latest episode ofLoki. Marvel Studios has been hit or miss with depicting LGBTQ characters. The closest thing we had was that time a Russo brother had a throwaway lineabout a boyfriendinAvengers: Endgame— a scene that was criticized for its halfhearted depiction of what was meant to be the first “openly gay” character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

‘Magnificent Seven’ Reunites ‘Training Day’ Stars Ethan Hawke And Denzel Washington TheMagnificent Sevenremake is also going to be aTraining Dayreunion.Ethan Hawkehas just joined hisTraining DaydirectorAntoine Fuquaand co-starDenzel Washingtonon the project, which also starsChris PrattandHaley Bennett. More details on theMagnificent SevenEthan Hawke casting after the jump. Varietyreports Hawke is in final negotiations for the MGM project.The Magnificent Sevenis based on John Sturges' 1960 film starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen, which itself was a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 filmThe Seven Samurai....

‘NOS4A2’ Season 2 Premieres In June NOS4A2(which is pronouncedNosferatu, in case you still haven’t figured that out), is returning for a whole-new season this summer. Inspired by theJoe Hillnovel of the same name,NOS4A2season 2 will premiere in June on AMC, continuing the story of Vic McQueen, a young working-class artist who discovers she has a psychic connection to Charlie Manx, an immortal, vampire-like being who preys on children. Ready to head back to Christmasland?...

‘Pulp Fiction’ At 25: The Path Of The Righteous Filmgoer Leads To Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 Masterwork Pulp Fictionis a profanity-laden crime drama with drugs, sodomy, and exploding brains, but when it hit theaters in mid-October 1994, it was technically a Disney movie. After Disney acquired the independent film studio Miramax in 1993,Pulp Fictionwas the first project to receive a greenlight. The 2010s would commence withDisney shuttering Miramax, then selling it as it shifted focus to more lucrative in-house brands withtheme park and merchandise potential, like Pixar and Marvel....

‘Snowpiercer’ Season 4 Greenlit Ahead Of Season 3 Premiere After a famously bumpy development period, TNT’sSnowpiercerwill continue to chug along for a while longer: the network has handed the series a fresh renewal, continuing itstraditionof giving a greenlight to an advance season before the impending season’s premiere even hits the airwaves. Actually, I guess “airwaves” aren’t technically involved since TNT is a cable network. But you know what I mean. Watch a video below of starDaveed DiggsannouncingSnowpiercerseason 4....

‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ Will Be Shot On 65mm Film Collin Trevorrow’sStar Wars: Episode 9will be shot with 65mm film cameras, a move away from the 35mm film format that JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson used on the previous two installments. The result will probably be a higher resolution image that shows more detail, making it more suitable for projection on larger screens like IMAX (which has its own format)....

‘Stranger Things 4’ Teaser Confirms That Hopper Is Alive Break out the vodka, because we’re definitely not in Hawkins anymore. Netflix has released a newStranger Things 4teaser and it’s harboring a big secret: the surprise return of a character we all know and love. And you’ll…hop out of your seats to see him. Watch theStranger Things4 teaser below. Stranger Things 4 Teaser That’s right, Hopper is alive! And he’s not doing so hot....

‘The Avengers’ Super Bowl Commercial Tease, Twitter Chat Recap, IMAX Announcement For the past week, Marvel had been pimping a live, Twitter chat featuringJoss Whedon, Clark Gregg, Tom HiddlestonandSamuel L. JacksonregardingThe Avengers. We’ll it’s now over and it was very uneventful. The two biggest revelations were Whedon confirmed there’s not a Spider-Man cameo in the Disney movie and Samuel L. Jackson teased an upcomingNick Furyfilm. Oh, and then they showed a 10-second tease of the 30-secondAvengersSuper Bowl commerical featuring our first glimpse at the film’s villains....

‘The First Purge’ Poster Is Here To Ruffle Some Feathers Oh, boy. They went there. The first poster forThe First Purge, the fourth film in the series and a prequel set years before the events of part one, has arrived and it’s…well, just look at it. This series has always worn its politics on its blood-soaked sleeve, but this is just active trolling. Remember whenThe Purge: Election Year —the third movie in a series set in a science fiction dystopia where an authoritarian government legalizes crime one night a year to allow the wealthy and powerful to consolidate power as lower classes are decimated (theactual,literaltext of the second and third movies, so don’t give me that “keep politics out of my horror movies!...

‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ Trailer: Ryan Reynolds Tries And Fails To Take A Break From Bodyguarding Ryan ReynoldsandSamuel L. Jacksonwere at each other’s throats in the action comedyThe Hitman’s Bodyguardin 2017. After bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds) and hitman Darius Kincaid (Jackson) were forced to team up in the face of danger, Bryce now finds himself haunted by Kincaid in his dreams, so his therapist has recommended that he take a sabbatical from bodyguarding....

‘The Hottest August’ Review: A Documentary About Just How Doomed We Really Are Life during late stage capitalism is fraught with anxiety and hypocrisy. No one quite knows what the future holds for us, but if the present is any indication, it doesn’t seem promising – unless things start to change very quickly. Global warming, gentrification and a vanishing middle class, among other woes, all lead up to a sense that we’re headed toward a kind of post-apocalyptic Dickensian society....

‘The Nevers’ Featurette: Discover HBO’s Genre-Bending Sci-Fi Fantasy Series Right now, HBO’s upcoming seriesThe Neversis best known for what happened behind the scenes: namely that it was meant to be the big return to television for creator and original showrunner Joss Whedon, only for him to step away from the show in late 2020. But once audiences get a chance to actually see the show instead of just reading about its production, I expect it will be able to carve out a reputation of its own outside of Whedon’s involvement....