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Scarlett Johansson Reboot of '70s Masterpiece Finally Reveals New Title

Scarlett Johansson, who has largely steered clear of horror despite early roles in Eight-Legged Freaks and acclaim in Under the Skin, will star in an upcoming entry in The Exorcist franchise. The new movie comes from Mike Flanagan, creator of The Haunting of Hill House. Flanagan’s production company, Red

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Terence Stamp's Wartime Memories Shape His Valkyrie Role

Valkyrie, the 2008 thriller often recalled for Tom Cruise’s eye patch and the plot to kill Adolf Hitler, also features Terence Stamp as General Ludwig Beck. Stamp brings something most of the cast did not: memories of World War II from his childhood in London during the Blitz, decades

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 gets first full trailer

Netflix dropped the first major trailer for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, a sci-fi series set to debut this fall. The footage is a sensory overload, offering a first look at the new four-character main cast in motion with plenty of explosions, murder and grainy VHS-style recordings. Much of the trailer is

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Supergirl writer seemingly misinterpreted the Woman of Tomorrow comic ending

Supergirl screenwriter Ana Nogueira appears to have misread the ending of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, producing a different fate for a key villain in the new film. Nogueira said the comic "ends with Ruthye killing him, but in the far, far future," and that the movie team couldn’

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Supergirl’s Opening Weekend Trails Morbius and Joker

Supergirl arrived in theaters last week. Critics praised Milly Alcock’s performance, but the film received mixed reviews and opened at number two domestically with $38 million, well behind Toy Story 5’s $70 million in its second week. That puts its debut below the opening of any Marvel Cinematic

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Bond Veteran Rules Out Longtime Favorites as Reboot Auditions Begin

Amazon MGM Studios has taken creative control of the Bond franchise from Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and casting director Nina Gold is now helping to find the next star. Longtime Bond casting director Debbie McWilliams — who cast Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig — says she does not

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House of the Dragon's Nettles Replacement Imperils Rhaena

Season 3 of House of the Dragon diverges sharply from Fire & Blood by folding the mysterious rider Nettles into the character of Rhaena. The show has Rhaena claim the wild dragon Sheepstealer and ride into battle, a change that reshapes her role in the conflict. That decision quickly puts

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Cryptic crossword No 30,046

1 down. Ferret wounded small creatures in a hole. 7 letters. 2 down. Try united batter and stew. 7 letters. 3 down. Social gathering vital for one usually on laptop. 8 letters and 3 letters. 4 down. Selective eaters may have struggles to eat this protein? 7 letters. 5 down.

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Jerry O'Connell says he likes Rebecca Romijn's 'funky' body odor

Jerry O’Connell admitted his wife Rebecca Romijn’s body odor smells “funky,” but he’s all for it. “Well, I have to tell you, my wife, Rebecca Romijn, rubs crystals under her arms,” the actor shared on the “Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim” podcast. “And I’m here to

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After 36 years, Akira's manga still offers one of cyberpunk's best endings

Cyberpunk often leaves room for a glimmer of hope. Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 film Akira became a cornerstone of the genre, yet it was adapted from a manga that only finished serialization on June 25, 1990, and the two versions take different paths to their conclusions. Both works follow teen

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New Look at Resident Evil Promises Non-Stop Thrill Ride

A new image offers a closer look at the upcoming Resident Evil, directed by Zach Cregger and starring Austin Abrams as Bryan. Cregger, who made a name with films such as Barbarian and Weapons — the latter of which received an Academy Award — was given wide creative freedom on the project.

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Quincy Jones emailed saying, 'Hey man, I need to have a word'

Jacob Collier grew up as part of the YouTube generation, filming himself in the family back room and layering vocal parts on Stevie Wonder covers and instrumentals. One of those videos reached Quincy Jones, who emailed: "Hey man, what’s going on with these chords? I need to have

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Prime Video Adapts Ali Hazelwood's 'Love, Theoretically'

Prime Video has leaned into swoon-worthy YA and romance projects, from Off Campus to Every Year After, even hosting an Obsessed Fest celebrating the creatives, casts and fandoms behind those titles. At the top of its list sits The Love Hypothesis, the feature adaptation of Ali Hazelwood's novel

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Peta Murgatroyd and Maks Chmerkovskiy tear up as family moves to Florida

Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have left Los Angeles and moved to Boca Raton with their three sons — Shai, 9, Rio, 3, and Milan, 1. They documented the move in a YouTube video Murgatroyd posted Monday and shared an Instagram clip of themselves crying in a car with moving boxes

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The Last Stand remains Dawn of War 2's best co-op MOBA

Comp stomp—loading into a map with friends to face only AI opponents—often feels hollow in an RTS, with bots that either try and fail to mimic humans or simply cheat. Dawn of War 2’s The Last Stand sidesteps those problems by turning the idea into a focused,

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Reylo fan fiction turned rom-com arrives on Prime Video

Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis began as a Star Wars fan fiction titled "Head over Feet" on Archive of Our Own, written under the pen name Ever-so-Reylo and reimagining Rey and Kylo Ren in a modern setting. Hazelwood reworked that material into an original rom-com. The

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Krysten Ritter set to return for Dexter: Resurrection season 2

Krysten Ritter will return as a guest star in Dexter: Resurrection season 2, a press release says. Her fan-favorite role, the vivacious and voracious Lady Vengeance (Mia Lapierre), had appeared to meet her demise while in prison. The season finale offered a small but telling detail that sparked debate. In

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Tekken 8's Roger Jr DLC Trailer Evokes Infamous Kangaroo Punching Meme

During yesterday’s EVO livestream in Las Vegas, Roger Jr. and fan-favorite Bob were revealed as two of Tekken 8’s upcoming season 3 DLC fighters. Fans quickly noticed the announcement trailer nods to a viral 2016 video of an Australian man punching a kangaroo, and remembered that former Tekken

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Russell Crowe's 'Nuremberg' Becomes Streaming Hit

One of the most recent war thrillers to reach theaters has found a new audience after its streaming debut. Nuremberg, an unconventional blend of war drama and legal thriller, examines a side of World War II and its figures that’s rarely seen and has climbed into Prime Video’s

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Which Oscar Best Picture Is Your Perfect Movie?

A quiz asks ten questions to pair you with one of five Oscar Best Picture winners, matching viewers’ cinematic tastes to a single film. The choices are Parasite, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Oppenheimer, Birdman, and No Country for Old Men. Each entry comes with a short profile: Parasite operates

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Robin Byrd took cable to the Supreme Court — and won

Before there was YouTube or OnlyFans, Robin Byrd built a late-night following on public access Channel J from 1977 to 1998, inviting porn stars, strippers and downtown deviants. When cable provider Time Warner tried to scramble adult content unless subscribers requested it, Byrd and Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein filed

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Musical cancellations spur calls for tax reform to save Australian theatre

Two major touring musicals and a $20m opera have been cancelled within a week, plunging parts of Australia’s live theatre sector into crisis. Waitress will end in Melbourne on 19 July and will not tour to Sydney in August, while Beetlejuice ended its Brisbane run three weeks early and

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Netflix is adapting Atlus Persona for new live-action TV series

Netflix is developing a live-action TV series based on Atlus' Persona role-playing game franchise. The project is being developed by Story Kitchen, which produces the Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise for Sega, alongside 21 Laps, the production company founded by Shawn Levy. Christopher Monfette is attached to write the

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Romero: Doom's 20 million shareware players 'were not pirates'

John Romero pushed back against Sandy Petersen’s claim that piracy destroyed studios. Petersen argued that "70-90% of Doom's players pirated it," suggesting lost sales meant the team would have had "so much more for our workspace and upcoming projects" and that "Quake

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Netflix Reportedly Developing Live-Action Persona Series

Netflix is developing a live-action series based on the Persona franchise, though the report did not specify which game or characters will appear or whether the show will tell a new story in the same universe. Atlus officially teased the next entry in the series, Persona 6, earlier this month.