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‘The Lion King’ Set Visit: How Jon Favreau Reimagined A Disney Classic With Cutting Edge Tech It’s July 05, 2025, and I’m standing in the African savannah. Pride Rock looms in the distance. A single tree stretches toward the sky, which has an almost otherworldly orange hue. A massive rhinoceros suddenly rumbles by, just a few feet to my right. I look around for a while, taking it all in: I’m on the set of Disney’sThe Lion King....

‘Transparent: Musicale Finale’ Trailer: The Award-Winning Amazon Series Waves Farewell With Jazz Hands If a beloved series runs for long enough, it will inevitably have a musical episode — usually a one-off gimmick that will change the language of the show for one hour, before reverting back to the house style. ButTransparentis doing something unusual by making its musical episode its finale. We’ve known for over a year now that the fifth season of Amazon’s Emmy-winning serieswould be its last, but we have a new trailer giving us a glimpse atJill Soloway’s musical finale, which killsJeffrey Tambor’s transgender character and family matriarch Maura Pfefferman off screen and shows how the Pfeffermans grapple with that loss through song and dance....

2019 WGA Award Nominees Include ‘Black Panther’, ‘Eighth Grade,’ ‘A Quiet Place’, And More Green Bookwon the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay atlast night’s awards show, and that particular train seems like it’s going to continue chugging all the way to the Oscars. Peter Farrelly’s film starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen is one of several 2019 WGA Award nominees, joining films likeA Quiet Place, Roma, Eighth Grade, andViceas contenders for the Writers Guild trophy....

Casting Bits: Michael K. Williams May Still Appear In ‘Django Unchained’, Charlize Theron In Talks For ‘Cities Of Refuge’, Leven Rambin Lands ‘Mavericks’, Paula Patton Joins ‘Disconnect’ Michael K. Williamsmay have missed out on the lead role ofDjango Unchained, but it seems there may still be room for him to appear in a different capacity. In an interview withShadow & Act(viaThe Playlist), theThe Wireactor confirmed that he had just barely lost the lead role toJamie Foxx, but that directorQuentin Tarantino(or “QT, as I call him”) liked Williams enough to consider creating a new role just for him....

Chronological ‘Westworld’ Timeline: All Of Your Time Period Questions Answered Nine episodes intoWestworldseason one and it should be clear to even the least attentive viewer that we are seeing more than one time period cut together. And those of you who have fallen down the rabbit hole of Westworld theories have a much clearer understanding of the chronology of everything we’ve seen thus far, but being a Nolan-produced series, its all a bit complicated....

Comic Con: Lost Info Revealed Unlike the Heroes panel presentation, where they delivered in full by bringing out the entire cast and airing the season premiere, the only good thing to come out of the Lost panel was a sampling of interesting tidbits and one quick clip. The brief footage featured everybody’s favorite Asian Dharma doctor, this time introducing himself as Dr. Marvin Candle. Instead of the usual scratched up black-and-white recording, the video was being shot digitally with Marvin sitting on a couch....

Cool Stuff: Cinematic Macguffins Explored In Kiddie Pop Art Style By 100% Soft Every artist has their own distinct style. Some styles are close to that of other artists and make them hard to distinguish. Others are so completely original, you know exactly who it is. Such is the case with100% Soft, a Los Angeles based artist who makes work with tiny, simple, almost baby-like characters. It’s impossible to see a piece of art by 100% Soft and not know exactly who did it....

David Tennant And Catherine Tate Are Returning To Doctor Who For 60th Anniversary Following the announcement that “Sex Education” starNcuti Gatwawould be playing the Fourteenth Doctor in the next season of"Doctor Who,“it appears that his Doctor won’t be the only iteration of the Time Lord from Gallifrey on deck forRussell T. Davies' return to the long-running sci-fi staple. According to theBBC, the showrunner revealed that David Tennant is set to reprise his iconic role of the Tenth Doctor....

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Behind-The-Scenes Video Is Full Of New Footage A new Sam Raimi movie is always cause for celebration and excitement, regardless of one’s own personal thoughts on the particular franchise that happens to be serving as his vehicle at the moment. With “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” movie fans who have been following Raimi’s career for decades now will get another chance to see the horror aficionado unleashed on a truly epic scale — which will hopefully lead to Hollywood remembering that, hey, Sam Raimi is a wildly talented director who should be allowed to make whatever movies he wants, whenever he wants!...

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Mentions Some Beloved Marvel Characters, And They’re Kind Of A Big Deal “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has blown the Marvel Cinematic Universe wide open. Whereas “Loki” revealed the complexity of the multiverse and the origins of branching timelines and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” showcased multiversal chaos coming to the Earth-616 we know and love, our new Doctor Strange outing sends our heroes falling through the multiverse and making frenemies along the way....

Edward James Olmos Has Been Cut Out Of ‘The Predator’, But He’s Okay With That Edward James Olmoswas cast inThe Predatorin March of 2017, however, as the September release date nears, theBattlestar Galacticastar told /Film during the publicity rounds for his new FX showMayans M.C.that he’s been cut out of the movie entirely. The good news is that Olmos doesn’t have any hard feelings about it, and cutting his character may turn out better for the movie....

Eternals Just Opened The Door To Countless Potential Marvel Movies Spoilerwarning: this article discusses some very specific surprises and plot points. Marvel’s newest high profile team has now graced our theaters in “Eternals,” exploring vast new swaths of territory on the cosmic side of the Marvel universe. Following a group of the long-living, powerful Eternals as they wrestle with both the apex predator Deviants and the desires of the powerfulCelestials(basically, massive space gods), it’s a film full of big swings that basically upends the entire history of humanity, the universe, and our place within it....

Fast Five Trailer Universal Pictures has released the first movie trailer for the latest installment of theFast and the Furiousseries,Fast Five. The film starsPaul Walker, Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese GibsonandLudacris.Justin Lin, who has directed the last couple of sequels (beginning with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006), directed this latest installment. I havent really enjoyed a film in this series since the original movie. I must admit, this trailer actually makes the new sequel look like it could actually be fun....