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tonight, galactus is coming, supergirl is two, laura croft makes three, and remember roger corman and dadney coleman.
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All that and more on this edition of multiverse tonight comic books, sci-fi, fantasy and more.
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if you're looking for a roundup of geeky news, you're in the right place.
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This is Multiverse Tonight, and here's your host, thomas Townley.
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Well, hello everyone and welcome to episode 215 of Multiverse Tonight.
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Of course, your host, thomas Townley.
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And it's been an eventful two weeks I had a vacation, I've been sick with allergies and my mother-in-law closed on a new house for us.
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So we'll be moving the Multiverse Tonight studio in two or three months a little bit down the line.
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But if you were to watch the live stream, if you were to look on the shelves behind me, you'll see they're starting to get bare.
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Things are starting to move because I'm boxing them up.
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I've already boxed up my Funko Pops.
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I've already boxed up a lot of my physical media.
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That'll be something new.
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I haven't decided on which room in our new house will be my new office or the new studio, but uh, that'll, that'll be a pick.
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It's a much nicer house than the one we're in now.
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Rooms are larger.
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The house itself is about 75 percent bigger than the house we're in now.
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It has two, two you know two garages.
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So my wife and I will each have a garage to put our car in.
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I mean, it'll be nice but it'll be different, so we're going to have to get used to that.
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Anyway, other than that, and being sick for a period Right now I sound great, but that's because I'm inside.
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We've turned the air conditioner on, so we're getting the air filtered.
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I sound great, but a couple weeks ago I sounded like crap Pretty much, hacking and coughing.
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In fact, you know, I still have my cough button all ready to go in case I do start to cough while doing the show.
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So we're all ready for that.
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But anyway, let's get on with the Marvel Comics News and we begin Marvel News with.
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Nicolas Cage is coming to the small screen as the live-action version of Spider-Man Noir that he played in Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse is coming to Prime Video.
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The series will launch domestically on MGM's linear channel, followed by a global launch on Prime Video.
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Cage previously played Spider-Man Noir in the Academy Award-winning animated film Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse.
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Now this will be the first time the character has been portrayed in live action.
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Per the official logline quote Noir will tell the story of an aging, endowed on his luck private investigator in 1930s New York who is forced to grapple with his past life as the city's one and only superhero unquote.
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Now the role will mark the first regular television role of Nicolas Cage's career.
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He's been long praised for his film work, of course, having won the Academy Award for Best Actor in Leaving Las Vegas and getting a nomination in the same category for Adaptation.
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He also is known for starring roles in films like Moonstruck, raising Arizona, face Off, national Treasure and Ghostwriter.
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His recent projects include Pig Dream Scenario and Renfield, and I do recommend watching Renfield, by the way.
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It is an interesting movie.
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It's a very different take on the Dracula-Renfield sort of relationship, but Nicolas Cage coming to TV screens.
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So I'm sure Amazon shelled out some big bucks to get Nicolas Cage in this role.
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Anyway, marvel is alleging that an Instagram user illegally posted an image from the unreleased Captain America Brave New World movie and has gone to court to try to make Instagram disclose the identity of the account's operator.
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Marvel filed a subpoena request May 7th in US District Court, california Northern District in San Jose, asking the court to order Instagram to identify the person or people behind.
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At CanWeGetSomeToast, marvel alleged that the account published a copyright image from an upcoming Marvel Studios motion picture Captain America Brave New World Without Authorization.
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The Disney-owned studio is seeking the subpoena pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and, depending on how this goes, this could have a chilling effect on you know.
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Some say this could have a chilling effect.
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Some say this will have a chilling effect on freedom of speech some say maybe this is a good thing.
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This will help squash people spoiling things.
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So this will be an interesting case to watch.
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So watch that space Galactus is coming.
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British actor Ralph Inneson from the First Omen and the Witch is the latest edition of the cast of Marvel's the Fantastic Four as the world-devouring cosmic villain Galactus.
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The superhero quartet known as Marvel's First Family, will be played, of course, by Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards, vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm, joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm and Eben Moss-Bakarach as Ben Grimm.
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The film also features Oscar nominee John Malkovich and Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser, both in undisclosed roles, as well as Emmy winner Julia Gardner as Shalabal, a version of the Silver Surfer.
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First introduced in a Fantastic Four issue from 1966, galactus is a god-like entity who survives only by feeding on entire planets and every living soul who inhabits it.
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It was designed by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to stand apart from the standard Earthbound rogues who had popular comic books up to that point and served as the template for other apocalyptic cosmic antagonists like Thanos, kane, dormammu and Ego the living planet.
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Also joining the cast of the Fantastic Four is the star of Russian Doll and Poker Face, natasha Lyonne.
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Right now it's not clear what role she'll play, but my guess is some sort of comic relief.
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You know she's very good at that.
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Marvel Studios has dated the movie for July 25, 2025.
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Disney will be limiting output on the MCU as it tries to stem the apathy currently haunting recent MCU releases.
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Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is shrinking the MCU with a new mission to drop the number of Marvel TV series to two a year and the film output to no more than three movies per year.
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Iger said that this is part of Disney's overall strategy to reduce output and focus on quality a strategy quote.
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That's particularly true with Marvel.
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We're slowly going to decrease volume and go to probably about two TV series a year instead of what's been four and reduce our film output from maybe four a year to two or a maximum of three, he said during the company's quarterly earnings call Tuesday, and we're working hard on what that path is, unquote.
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Now Iger says that Marvel has a couple of good films in 2025 and that they're heading towards more Avengers, which he's extremely excited about.
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Quote Overall, I feel great about the slate.
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It's something that I've committed to.
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Spending more and more time on the team is one that I have tremendous confidence in, and the IP that we're mining includes all the sequels.
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That we're doing is second to none.
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Unquote.
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Meanwhile, in Disney business news, disney's entertainment streaming segment, anchored by Disney Plus, scored its first profitable quarter, helping to partly offset continued weakness in the media conglomerate's linear TV business for the first three months of 2024.
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To be sure, disney's overall streaming business was still in the red for the quarter when factoring in ESPN+, which had an operating loss of $65 million.
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The company reiterated its expectation that its combined streaming operations will achieve profitability in the September 2024 quarter.
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Overall, disney revenue for the quarter ending March 30th was in line with Wall Street expectations, while it beat on adjusted earnings per share.
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The Mouse House results got their biggest lift from the theme park division, where revenue rose 10% and operating income was up 14%.
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Disney's theatrical review dropped year after year as there were no significant title releases in the quarter and revenue in the linear networks segment declined 8%.
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Disney's entertainment direct-to-consumer business, encompassing Disney+, hulu and Disney Plus Hotstar, turned a profit.
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Operating income was $47 million compared to a loss of $587 million a year ago, on revenue of $5.64 billion, up 13% for the period which was the company's second quarter of fiscal 2024.
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Also during Disney's upfront presentation, marvel finally revealed when Daredevil Born Again will be hitting Disney+.
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The series will premiere in March of 2025, though a very specific date has yet to be announced Maybe St Patrick's Day.
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Also coming is Ironheart, which is suiting up next year for Disney+.
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The series starring Dominic Thorne as genius inventor.
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Riri Williams returns after her big screen debut in Black Panther, wakanda Forever, and she'll take that in 2025.
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Marvel Studios president and producer, kevin Feige, announced Tuesday during Disney's upfront presentation.
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The studio also slayed its WandaVision spinoff, now finally titled Agatha All Along, for September 2024.
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So with that also, the WandaVision spinoff is officially on the horizon.
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As part of a friend's, new details were revealed surrounding this upcoming Disney Plus series around Catherine Han's Agatha Harkness, confirming that it was called, of course, agatha All Along.
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Now there had been previous subtitles Agatha Kaon of Chaos, agatha the Darkhold Diaries, aktha House of Harkness, aktha the Lying Witch and A Great Wardrobe.
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Having all been red herrings, the series will debut with a two-episode premiere on Wednesday, september 18th.
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Must-see TV.
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Amazon's Marvel drama Silk Spire Society from producers Sony Pictures Television is no longer moving forward.
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Sources say Sony TV, which owns the rights to a fraction of the Marvel Universe that features more than 900 characters, plans to shop the drama series from former Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang, who departed her pact with AMC for what sources say was an eight-figure deal with Amazon, who remains housed as the streamer and will continue to develop projects for the company.
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And now let's go on to the DC Comics News.
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Beginning dc comics news, frank grillo will join the cast of peacemaker season two as rick flagg senior, a role he first voiced in the animated series creature commandos.
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Now, creature commandos is part of j Gunn's Phase 1 of the new DC Universe and features a black-op team of monsters working for Amanda Waller.
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The meeting between Peacemaker and Rick Flagg Sr in Peacemaker Season 2 is expected to be tense due to Peacemaker killing Rick Flagg Jr in the Suicide Squad.
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Returning cast members for Peacemaker Season 2 include John Cena, daniel Brooks, freddie Stroma, jennifer Holland and Steve Aki.
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Supergirl Women of Tomorrow is set to debut on June 26, 2026 in IMAX, the second feature in the newly rebooted DC Universe to secure a place on the release calendar following James Gunn's Superman.
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The film stars Molly Alcock as the titular Girl of Steel, with Craig Gillespie directing from a script by Anna Nogura.
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The project adapted from a 2022 comic book series with the same title by Tom King and Bilquis F Lee, takes Supergirl away from Earth.
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As she travels through the cosmos with her trusty canine, Crypto the Superdog, in order to escape a life stuck perpetually under the shadow of her cousin, superman, she encounters an alien girl named Ruthie who has bent on revenge for the death of her father and recruits Supergirl to help her.
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Gunn's film, currently in production, is set to debut on July 11, 2025.
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And now let's go on to the Star Trek news.
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Star Trek news begins with William Shatner recently telling Canadian press that he wouldn't rule out returning as Captain Kirk in a new Star Trek project if the script impressed him.
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Now, while the actor's age might pose an issue, as Shatner turned 93 years old in March, that's nothing a bit of de-aging technology couldn't fix, shatner said about returning his Kirk.
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Quote it's an intriguing idea.
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It's almost impossible.
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But if it was a great role and so well-written, and if there was a reason to be there, not just to make a cameo appearance, but if there were a genuine, apparent reason for the characters appearing, I might consider it Unquote.
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Now Shatner suggested that he could play a younger version of the Starship Enterprise Captain through de-aging technology, similar to how 80-year-old Harrison Ford turned up as a much younger Indiana Jones, circa the character's age in Rise of the Lost Ark in last year's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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As the Lost Ark in last year's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, shatner is the new spokesperson for Otoi, which specializes in de-aging technology, so he just wants to pimp the technology.
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In other words, Ah Just as a fan here.
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Dear Mr Shatner, don't Enjoy retirement.
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You could go at any minute.
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Now You're 93.
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I know it's a battle between you and George Takei for hearts and minds of Trek fans everywhere, but let it go Retire, gracefully.
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Anyway, let's get on with some Star Wars news.
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Roger roger.
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Star Wars news begins with oh RBO releasing a limited edition Star Wars cookie pack.
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The cookies will feature either a red or blue cream filling infused with kyber sugar crystals representing the dark side and the light side of the force.
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They will also come with embossments of Star Wars characters, with 10 characters for each side of the force, with package art done by Greg Hildeildebrandt, the star wars poster artist since 1977.
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Now fans can order the cookies starting may 30th through oreo's website and they'll be available in stores starting june 10th.
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Yeah, I don't know that I'd special order cookies, oreo cookies because you know the shipping is going to cost just as much as cookies are.
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This is a money wrap, folks.
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Plain and simple.
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Wait for them to be in stores, then get them.
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Don't go out of your way to.
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Oh, I have to buy these.
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Show them off on my live stream.
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No, no, don't do that.
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Don't give in.
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Just buy them in the store, enjoy them, mash them up and put them in your ice cream.
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Make a shake out of them.
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Whatever that said, let's go on to the Geek News.
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Geek News begins with Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Tomb Raider ordered to series at Amazon's Prime Video Fleabag.
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Creator Waller-Bridge will write and exec to produce the show based on the iconic Tomb Raider video game franchise, which follows the adventures of archaeologist and adventurer Laura Croft.
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The series was first reported as being in development at the Streamer in January of 2023, and Amazon announced the Tomb Raider news out of its upfront presentation which was held at the Pier 36 event space in New York City.
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Quote Phoebe has a lifelong love affair with Laura Croft and very soon will start a worldwide search for who will play the iconic role, and I just can't wait, said Amazon MGM Studios chief, jennifer Salke on the stage.
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So who can play this role?
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Who knows?
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I'm sure there's plenty of people out there.
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Also from Amazon, the Boys has been picked up for a fifth season at Amazon Prime Video.
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Season 4 of the raunchy superhero show will debut June 13th.
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The Boys season 4 will launch with the first three of eight total episodes, rolling out the remaining episodes on a weekly basis, with the finale streaming July 18th.
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The series stars Carl Urban, jack Quaid and the star Aaron Moriarty, jesse T Usher, laz Alonso and many others.
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The Emmy-winning drama, which first premiered in 2019, hails from Sony Pictures, telschen, amazon MGM Studios, with Kripke Airprises, original Film and Point Grade Pictures.
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Currently, the Boys universe at Amazon consists of the spinoff Gen V and made anthology, the Boys Reign's Diabolical, and a Mexican-set offshoot that is still in development, also over Amazon Prime.
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Yeah, we're going to get a lot of news from Amazon.
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It was upfront.
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It was upfront season.
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Amazon Prime Video is playing a new kind of Jeopardy.
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Sony Pictures Television, which produces the show, announced a new spinoff that will be streamed only on Prime Video.
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The spinoff, called Pop Culture Jeopardy is part of a years-long expansion of what the show's producers have called the Jeopardy-verse, as they try to shake up the brand and inject new life, while trying to avoid making any major changes to the show that might tick off the fan base.
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Now the announcement about the new spinoff said contestants would compete in teams of three.
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Some of the topics that might come up, it said, include alternative rock, music, the Avengers, broadway, mixed martial arts and celebrities like Zendaya.
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Now it's not been announced who will host the pop culture spinoff.
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Jeopardy has had limited ventures into streaming before now.
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The show used to have a sports trivia spinoff that could be found on Crackle, the online streaming service.
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That never quite took off.
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So who do you think should host the pop culture version of the show?
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Hmm.
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Weird Al Inkevich that guy from At Midnight, I know who who could do it.
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Anyway, fox is moving Family Guy to mid-season, marking the first time the animated staple has been not seen on the network's fall schedule since 2005, when it returned to the air after being canceled a few years earlier.
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That's one of the major shifts to come this fall, as Fox announced, the 24-25 lineup that includes two new dramas and a new animated series in the fall, with more freshman launches coming mid-season.
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Now one of those new animated series, universal Basic Guys, comes from Fox's Bento Box Entertainment and Sony Pictures Studio and will air Sundays in the spot previously taken by Family Guy.
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Ahead of Fox's premiere of the animated series Universal Basic Eyes, the network has already given the comedy an early Season 2 renewal.
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Seasons 1 is set for the 2024-25 season.
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The show from creators Adam and Craig Melamut follows brothers Mark and Hank Hoagies who lose their jobs to automation and are given $3,000 a month in a new basic income program.
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Now they're using their free time and free money to find purpose in a world where they're no longer needed.
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Unfortunately, someone has had to be cancelled.
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The animated comedy Housebroken has been cancelled at Fox after two seasons.
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The series aired its second season at the broadcaster last year.
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It originally debuted on Fox in May of 2021.
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It was renewed for its second season in August of that year.
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According to Nielsen data, it averaged approximately a million viewers and had a .1 rating in adults 18 to 49 in the live, plus 7 ratings in its second season.
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You can still watch the show over on Tubi and
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Hulu.
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The Jim Hudson Company's live-action monster tale Grendel has rounded out its cast, with Jeff Bridges in the role of Grendel, dave Batista as Beowulf and Bryan Cranston as King Hrothgar.
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Also joining the cast are Thomasin McKenzie as Queen Walthnow, aidan Turner as Unferth and as the shaper.
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T Bowen Burnett will also provide original songs for the film.
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Robert D Krasowski directs from the screenplay he adapted from John Gardner's novel.
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Yeah, I remember having to read Bale Wolf in high school.
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Yeah, that's a film that you're Reading that you really have to use your imagination because of how it's told in this kind of lyric way.
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But yeah that might be interesting.
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The Ted prequel series has been renewed for season two at Peacock, a really present as an event series.
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The seven episode for season of Ted debuted on the streamer in January and serves as a prequel to the two Ted feature films which were released back in 2012 and 2015.
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According to Peacock, the show has been its most watched original title to date and also the top streaming comedy in the US for more than two consecutive months, according to Nielsen data.
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I've watched a few episodes of that and it's a good show.
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I do recommend going over and watching that.
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Warner Brothers will release the first of its new batch of live-action Lord of the Rings films in 2026, with the first focusing on Andy Serkis' Gollum, originally the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Filmmaker Peter Jackson has partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Bowens, who are producing the movie and will be involved in every aspect, according to Warner Discovery CEO, david Zaslav.
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According to Warner Discovery CEO, david Zaslav, zaslav also said that the project is currently in the early stages of script development from writers Walsh and Boyens, along with Phoebe Giddens and Artie Perpengero, and will explore storylines yet to be told.
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In the press release, the studio revealed that the working title is Lord of the Rings the Hunt for Gollum, and will be directed by and star, andy Serkis.
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The film will be executive produced by Ken Kamens, with Serkis and the Imaginarium's Jonathan Cavendish.
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A separate animated Middle Earth movie, the Lord of the Rings the War of the Roaring Him, is due on December 13th by Warner Brothers.
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That movie is set 200 years before the events of the Hobbit.
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Variety has learned that the Blade Runner series in the works at Amazon Prime Video has cast Michelle Yeoh in the leading role.
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The series, titled Blade Runner 2099, was ordered by Amazon back in September of 2022 and will serve as a sequel to both the original Blade Runner film and the follow-up film, blade Runner 2049.
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Exact plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources say Yeo will play a character named Olwen, described as a replicant during the end of her life.
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Comic-con has revealed a list of nominees for the 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, one of the biggest nights in the comic book industry, which takes place at San Diego Comic-Con during a gala awards ceremony on July 26th.
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The awards span works published between January 1st and December 31st 2023, and features nominees in 32 categories.
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Image Comics and DC share the honor with most nominations.
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And finally tonight.
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And finally tonight.
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Corman died May 9th at his home in Santa Monica, california, surrounded by family members.
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According to Daily Variety, the family his family said in a statement, quote Corman's empire, which existed in several incarnations, included New World Pictures and Concord.
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New Horizons was as active as any major studio and he boasted, always profitable.
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He specialized in fast-paced, low-budget genre movies horror, action, science fiction, even some family fare and this company became a work and training ground for a wide variety of major talents, from actors like Jack Nicholson and Robert De Niro to directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
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When Corman was awarded an Oscar at the first Governor's Awards ceremony in January, in November of 2009, ron Howard saluted him for hiring women in key executive and creative jobs as well as giving them big roles, and Walter Mosley was quoted as saying Corman offered one of the few open doors looking beyond them big roles.
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And Walter Mosley was quoted as saying Corman offered one of the few open doors looking beyond age, race and gender.
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Born in Detroit, corman moved with his family in 1940 to Los Angeles and attended Beverly Hills High School and then Stanford, majoring in engineering, but he was really interested in the movie business After serving in World War II and getting his education, also attending Oxford for a term studying English literature.
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After Stanford, he tried to break into the business by working as a messenger at 20th Century Fox.
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When he returned to Oxford, with a short stay in Paris, he became, in his own words, a bum.
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From 1951 to 1953, he did odd jobs and mainly collected unemployment.
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He briefly worked as a script writer and, convinced he could do better, wrote Highway Dragnet and sold it to Allied Artists for $4,000.
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With the money he made from the 1954 release and contributions from family and friends, he produced the Monster from the Ocean Floor and struck a deal with Arcoff's AIP.
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In return for cash advances, corman agreed to make a series of movies.
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From 1955 to 1960, corman produced or directed more than 30 films for AIP, all budgeted at less than $100,000, and produced in two weeks or less.
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There were westerns like Five Guns West and the Gunslinger, horror and science fiction films like the Day the World Ended and the Undead, as well as teen movies like Carnival Rock and Rock All Night.
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Critically, it wasn't until Machine Gun Kelly in 1958 that Corman gained notice.
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That pick was followed by a studio film, I Mobster for Fox.
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After a little shop of horrors.
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In 1960, corman convinced Arkov to bankroll such ambitious projects, in particular a series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, one of Corman's favorite authors.
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The horror series which started with the fall of the House of Usher in 1960, spawned eight low-budget hits, including the Tomb of Lygia and the Mask of the Red Death, and they revived the careers of Boris Karloff, vincent Price, basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre.
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During the same period, he gave unknown actors like Ellen Burstyn, jack Nolkson and Robert De Niro, screenwriters like Robert Towne and directors like Scorsese Demi, john Giudante and Peter Bogdanovich their starts.
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He wasn't satisfied with his venture into big movies for Columbia Pictures when the execs there tried to rain on his budgets.
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Back in AIP he made the Wild Angels, a biker movie with Peter Fonda that cost $360,000 and grossed more than $25 million.
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It was followed up by the Trip about LSD and other youth-oriented hits.
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But he started to run out of steam around the time of Bloody Mama in 1970 and withdrew from directing after Von Rickendoften and Brown.
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In 1970, he formed New World Pictures to produce and distribute the kinds of films Arkoff had once bankrolled, and by the end of his first year, with releases like Women in Cages and Night Call Nurses.
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He was in the black and would produce such films as Piranha, eat my Dust and Death Race 2000.
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Foreign films were one-fifth of New World's $55 million annual revenue by 1980, and he also added family films like A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich to his mix with higher-priced projects like sci-fi, Balbion, the Stars.
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In 1983, he sold New World for $16.5 million and starred in Concord's New Horizons.
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He would return to the director's chair for the first time in two decades for 1990's Frankenstein Unbound.
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But Corman disappointed genre fans and would not direct again Now.
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There's no question, however, that his high volume for a home video strategy was financially successful.
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Corman renamed the business New Concord in 2000 and reorganized the form New Concord Home Entertainment Corman, who had produced a movie called the Fast and the Furious in 1955, who had produced a movie called the Fast and the Furious in 1955, which would go on to launch a new series of movies in the 2000s called the Fast and the Furious.
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Now, under that he swapped stock footage for the name rights to the movie and its successors.
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So, if you like the Fast and Furious movies, thank Roger Corman.
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With the new millennium, corman also found a new outlet for his picks on Showtime and the Sci-Fi Channel.
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He produced the Roger Corman Presents series of science fiction, horror and fantasy films for the cable series and in the 2001 Sci-Fi Channel-backed Black Scorpion series based on two of his more popular street-to-video films.
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Telepics for sci-fi included Dino Shark, dino Croc vs Super Gator and Sharktopus.
