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‘Goosebumps’ Trailer #2: R.L. Stine’s Creations Come To Life When Sony acquired the rights toR.L. Stine’sGoosebumpsbooks, we wondered which volumes they’d choose to adapt. The original series yielded 62 novels between 1992 and 1997, and that’s not counting the various specials and spinoffs that were also part of the franchise. The answer, it turned out, was all of them. In the movie, all the monsters Stine (played byJack Black) has written about are real, and it’s only his careful protection that keeps him away from the rest of us....

‘Iron Fist’ Canceled At Netflix, But The Marvel Series May Not Be Dead Despite reviews praising the recently released second season of Marvel’sIron Fistseriesas a vast improvement over the mostly panned first season, Netflix won’t be bringing back the mystical warrior for a third season. Netflix and Marvel Television made a joint announcement aboutIron Fistcanceled after only two seasons, but they also teased that fans haven’t seen the last ofFinn Jonesas Danny Rand....

‘Last Flag Flying’ Director Richard Linklater Discusses Ensemble Stories, Time, And More [Interview] Like many of writer-directorRichard Linklater’s films,Last Flag Flyingmoves with grace. The smooth rhythm of the dialogue, the lived-in settings, and characters you want to spend hours with – these well-known qualities found in Linklater’s body of work are on full-display in his latest drama, based onDarryl Ponicsan’s novel. The film starsBryan Cranston,Laurence Fishburne, andSteve Carellas veterans and old war buddies on a road trip and despite a tragic core, the film contains the sense of joy we often get from Linklater....

‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ Tweaks The Disney Princess Scene After Whitewashing Criticisms At least this one time, criticisms of whitewashing in a major Hollywood movie will have a happy ending. WhenRalph Breaks the Internetdebuted its first footage to eager fans at last year’sD23 Expo, all the buzz surrounding theWreck-It Ralphsequel was about the scene in which Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) stumbles upon the room housing all of the Disney princesses, voiced by most of the original voice actors....

‘Star Wars Battlefront 2’ To Unveil New Mode That Lets You Play As An Ewok Have you ever wanted to send endless Ewoks into battle to die over and over again?Star Wars Battlefront 2has you covered. The game is set to unveil a new Ewok mode that allows players to play as an Ewok defending its village or a raiding Stormtrooper trying to survive an ambush. If this game is even remotely realistic, a whole bunch of digital Ewok deaths are going to be happening very soon....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Features A Secret George Lucas Cameo Every newStar Warsmovie is chock full of cameos, but a cameo by the creator of the franchise himself,George Lucas, seems like one you couldn’t miss. But Lucas managed to sneak intoStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalkerthrough a classic cinematic in-joke from the movie’s sound designers. Lucas has kept his distance from theStar Warsfilms for the past few years, not even attending the premiere forStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker....

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Trailer: Welcome To The Day After Judgment Day A newTerminator: Dark Fatetrailer is here, and one thing’s for sure: it’s a lot better than the first trailer we got. There’s plenty of dark, violent action in every frame of this trailer. There’s also plenty ofLinda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor being pretty badass. Will that be enough to draw in audiences? Can the lopsidedTerminatorfranchise be redeemed? Watch the latestTerminator: Dark Fatetrailer below and decide for yourself....

‘Terminator: Dark Fate’ Will Show The Consequences Of A Critical Moment In ‘T2’ Ask a person to summarize theTerminatortimeline, and you might just drive them insane enough to create a world-destroying AI technology. James Cameron’s first 1984 sci-fi/horror movie and its 1991 sequel,T2: Judgment Day, were straightforward enough action movies with some admittedly loose approaches to time travel. But things went downhill from there — both creatively and canonically — as sequels, spin-offs, and reboots fudged the timeline up even more....

‘The Dark Tower’ Movie Is A Continuation Of Stephen King’s Book Series Longtime fans ofStephen King’slengthy seven-book sagaThe Dark Towerweren’t exactly thrilled with the film adaptation’s first trailer. Instead of being a straightforward retelling ofThe Gunslinger, the first story in King’s saga, directorNikolaj Arcel’smovie picks and chooses aspects from multiple books in the series, leaving fans wondering what they’re in for when the movie finally hits theaters. Now Arcel has confirmed something King himself hinted at over a year ago:The Dark Towermovie is actually a continuation of the story that began in King’s novels....

‘The Wandering Earth’ Review: China’s First Sci-Fi Blockbuster Is A Spirited But Overlong Spectacle The Wandering Earthplays like a sci-fi movie made by an algorithm. You’ve got your doomsday premise, your seedy post-apocalyptic world, your scrappy teen leads, your ambitious space mission to save the Earth from certain destruction. Throw in the operatic bombast of Chinese blockbusters, and you’ve got yourself a hit. Based off the novella of the same name byLiu Cixin(whose Hugo Award-winning novelThe Three-Body Problemis about to receive its ownbig-budget adaptation from Amazon),The Wandering Earthis being billed as China’s first proper sci-fi blockbuster....

‘Truth Seekers’ With Nick Frost And Simon Pegg Canceled By Amazon After One Season Amazon has decided to pull the plug onTruth Seekers, the horror-comedy series from creatorsNick Frost,Simon Pegg,James Serafinowicz, andNat Saunders. The series premiered on Amazon Prime Video in October of 2020, but it won’t be moving beyond its first season. Frost announced the show’s cancelation via social media.Truth Seekersdealt with the adventures of amateur paranormal investigators. Truth Seekers Last summer, I covered theTruth Seekerspanelat (virtual) Comic-Con, and I really liked what I saw....

15 Things We’re Looking Forward To At Comic-Con… And 5 Things We’re Disappointed Won’t Be There Each year Comic-Con is one of the most highly anticipated events on our calendar, and each year Comic-Con more than lives up to our expectations with big announcements, exclusive footage, and just plain cool moments. In anticipation of this year’s grand event, we’ve compiled a Comic-Con 2015 preview. After the jump, we list our top 15 things we’re excited for at Comic-Con — as well as 5 things we’re disappointed won’t be there this year....

5 Reasons To Watch ‘The Dragon Prince’, The Best New Netflix Show No One Is Taking About Did you know it’s been almost 12 years since Netflix moved their business model from subscription-mail DVD rentals to online streaming? The company pivoted to video (sorry!) in 2007. Why am I bringing this up? Because I can recall, clear as day, having conversations at the time that boiled down to my generation telling older generations that Netflix had just killed cable....