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Star Wars. Indiana Jones. RoboCop. Jurassic Park. These films and franchises will live forever, and they attained those heights with a little help from Phil Tippett—one of the most legendary visual effects artists in Hollywood history. He’s especially known for his work with stop-motion animation and now, he’s directed his very own stop-motion movie—which looks, quite frankly, awesome.

The film is called Mad God and it’ll have its world premiere in August at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and its North American premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada. The trailer is below along with the newly released poster.

That just looks like an awful nightmare and we love it. What is this world? Who are these creatures? What the heck is going on? Well, we don’t really know. What we do know is that Tippett has been working on this film for a long time. (The trailer says 30 years and even just a quick glimpse at his YouTube shows that he posted a behind-the-scenes video nine years ago.) He began working on it during RoboCop 2 and filmed a few scenes, but after working on Jurassic Park, he thought practical effects and stop-motion would probably go extinct. He basically forgot about it and continued to work on projects like Starship Troopers, Willow, Dragonslayer, and the final four Twilight films. In recent years he added holochess to The Force Awakens, some walkers into The Mandalorian, and consulted on all of the Jurassic World films (including the upcoming Dominion), to name just a few.

However, a little while ago, some of Tippett’s colleagues found his original work on Mad God and encouraged him to get back to work on it. During 2020, he had plenty of time on his hands, so he ended up doing just that. The result is an experimental, adult-themed showcase of a whole new world.

As for when you can see Mad God, it seems like it’s concentrating on the festival circuit now but maybe once that’s over it’ll get some kind of streaming or VOD release. We’ll certainly keep you updated. For now, you can follow the film’s official site for more info.

Correction 7/28/2021, 11:30 a.m. ET: A previous version of this post had an exclusive poster that was said to be “not the final” after publication. We were asked to swap it out for the festival poster, which is no longer exclusive to io9.

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The night before Thanksgiving usually means getting together with friends and preparing for the feast to come. This year though, it means Hawkeye. Marvel Studios just revealed that its fourth live-action series will debut on November 24, with new episodes coming each Wednesday after that. If the series is six episodes (like the previous two were) that would give us Hawkeye right into the new year.

Along with the news, which was first reported by Entertainment Weekly, came the first official image from the show, which you can see above. It’s Hawkeye himself (Jeremy Renner) and Kate Bishop, played by Pitch Perfect’s Hailee Steinfeld, along with a bunch of archery equipment. “[Kate is] a 22-year-old kid and she’s a big Hawkeye fan,” Renner told EW. “She has a wonderfully annoying and equally charming manner about her, because she’s such a fangirl of Hawkeye. The relationship grows from that, but the biggest problem for Clint is Kate Bishop and the onslaught of problems that she brings into his life.”

This is a nice start to the series but it leaves a bunch of unanswered questions. Like, where is Clint’s family? Are they in this? How did they cope with being snapped? And how is Clint doing now that his family is back considering he spent five years as a murderous, vengeance crazed assassin? Oh, and what about that other assassin who is apparently going to be coming after him, Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh, who was sent after Clint in the end credits of Black Widow)? So many questions, not many answers, but seeing Clint with a potential protégé sounds like a great way for fans to see his softer side, which we know is there, but only see in small doses.

Also, with the November 24 release date, any rumor that Ms. Marvel would be coming to Disney+ in 2021 is probably kaput. A six-week Hawkeye run would hypothetically put its finale on December 29. With an Assembled the week after that, the earliest Ms. Marvel could debut is January 12.

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Bruce is the new musical from the Seattle Repertory Theater based on Jaws’ screenwriter Carl Gottlieb’s memoir The Jaws Log.

Bruce is about 26-year old director Steven Spielberg who sets out to adapt the best-selling novel, Jaws. Deadline reports, the show features music by Richard Oberacker and lyrics by Oberacker and Robert Taylor.

This isn’t the duo’s first rodeo as they are the team behind the Broadway musical Bandstand, which follows military veterans upon their return from war. Bruce will be directed and choreographed by Donna Feore, who is most noted for her work at the Stratford Festival.

The show was supposed to debut summer of 2021, but the pandemic put the premiere on hold. Previews of the show begin May 27, 2022, at Seattle Repertory Bagley Wright Theater, with opening night set for June 1, 2022. The show will run through June 26, 2022. Cast and creative announcements to come soon.

The synopsis of Bruce is as follows: “While invading a sleepy fishing island off Cape Cod to shoot on the open ocean, he faced several challenges including weather, water, hostile locals, an exploding budget, endless delays, and a highly dysfunctional mechanical star named Bruce, to bring his vision to life in what proved to be one of the biggest success stories in film history.”

While Bruce is an adaptation of a book based on a film, the trend of movies turned stage off-broadway musicals isn’t new. The first one that comes to mind is The Evil Dead. The show was performed on stage in 2003 at the Tranzac club in Toronto, Ontario. The show instantly became a hit and eventually moved on to an off-Broadway run in 2006 at the New World Stages.

What do you think? Will Bruce see the same success as The Evil Dead musical? 

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Martial arts movies that double as historical epics are supposed to be set in Asia. They’re not supposed to take place in the opulent, luxurious, ostentatious mansions of the bewigged aristocracy of 1760s France. Yet 2001’s Brotherhood of the Wolf has the audacity to take these wildly incohesive elements, along with so much more, and mesh them almost seamlessly into one hell of an entertaining movie.

There’s the monster itself—based on the legendary Beast of Gévaudan—a mysterious creature who killed over a hundred men, women, and children in France between 1764 and 1767. There’s the titular Brotherhood, a secret society controlling the monster for their own nefarious purposes. There’s politics, romance, a guy with a sword that turns into a whip, and an Italian courtesan-spy (Monica Bellucci) who’s secretly working for the Pope. At the heart of it all are two knights: the royal naturalist Grégoire de Fronsac (Simon Le Bihan) and the Iroquois tracker Mani (Mark Dacascos), sent by the king to investigate the giant beast terrorizing Gévaudan.

There’s so much going on, Brotherhood of the Wolf should be an absolute mess, but the film has such complete confidence in itself that it works—again, as if a historical epic/martial arts flick/conspiracy thriller/romance/mystery/monster movie set in 18th-century France is the most natural genre in the world. Director Christophe Gans (Silent Hill) moves from badass fight sequence to gauzy romance scene to beast attack to unbelievably ornate historical drama with ease, all of them just a bit overindulgent but in the best sorts of ways. It helps that Gans’ direction and cinematography are marvelously stylish, sometimes mythic, sometimes empyreal, often simply beautiful. If you want a perfect encapsulation of the style of the movie, look no further than the incredible transition from Bellucci’s body, lounging in a luxurious bed, into a beautiful French landscape, which you can glimpse in this trailer (along with a lot of other great stuff).

To be certain, it’s not great that the non-Native American Dacascos was cast as Mani, but the actor has never been better than in Brotherhood of the Wolf, bringing a world of depth and wit to the mostly silent role. It also helps that the relationship between Mani and Fronsac is built on Dacascos and Le Bihan’s incredible charisma together. Fronsac called Mani his “brother,” and their performances, as well as the narrative, prove it. Honestly, all the actors are solid at the very least. None of the film’s other main characters are particularly inventive, and the actors portraying them could perform the roles in their sleep: Vincent Cassel as the increasingly deranged aristocrat/hunter Jean-François de Morangias; Émelie Dequenne as his ethereal sister and de Fronsac’s love interest Marianne; Bellucci as the enigmatic seductress Sylvia. But all of these actors are so talented that they’re compelling by default, and Brotherhood of the Wolf benefits immensely from them all.

The film also benefits from the fact that the Beast of Gévaudan was real. Whether it was an actual giant wolf or some other creature will always remain up for debate, but there really was something that killed people in 1760s France. It killed for sport instead of food, so vicious that its victims were frequently found beheaded, and so powerful that it could shrug off bullets. Without spoiling the film, Brotherhood of the Wolf is based on some real theories about the nature of the beast, including that someone purposefully created it and controlled it. There’s just enough reality inside the movie that Brotherhood’s wilder sequences feel satisfyingly grounded instead of totally ludicrous.

However, the film does need to come with a trigger warning: There’s a heavily implied rape scene, and there’s a long scene of regular wolves paying the price for the beast’s rampage, as they sadly did in reality. Mani is very much the “Magical Native American” trope, and you could argue Fronsac does some cultural appropriation later in the film. So there’s certainly no shame if you want to give Brotherhood of the Wolf a miss. But if you decide to check it out, you’ll be rewarded with a beautiful, genre-defying, and highly entertaining film that’s unlike any other movie you’ve ever seen. Unless there’s another historical epic/martial arts flick/conspiracy thriller/romance/mystery/monster movie I don’t know about.

Brotherhood of the Wolf is currently available on Blu-ray from Shout Factory (be warned, though, because the subtitles are impossibly bad—a big problem if you want to watch the movie in its native French language instead of dubbed in English).

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The first full trailer for the new Nicolas Cage movie Prisoners of the Ghostland is here and it features a bold proclamation from the star himself. In the trailer, Cage is quoted as saying Ghostland is “The wildest movie I’ve ever made.” Which, coming from someone with a resume like Cage, is saying something. But considering it’s a film about a criminal forced to wear a bomb suit and go into a wasteland to rescue the granddaughter of a crime boss from a bunch of mysterious nomad ghost people—sure, it’s pretty wild.

Directed by Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Cold Fish, Tokyo Tribe), Prisoners of the Ghostland will be released in theaters and on VOD September 17. It co-stars Bill Moseley and Sofia Boutella, and here’s the trailer.

So the trailer pretty much says it all, but here’s what you just watched. The movie is set in a place called Samurai Town, where Cage is a bank robber imprisoned after a job goes horribly wrong. However, when the granddaughter (Boutella) of the town’s warlord (Moseley) goes missing, the warlord offers the robber a deal. Put on this explosive suit and head into the wastelands and retrieve her, or else. He does, of course, and what he finds is not at all what anyone is expecting.

Prisoners of the Ghostland debuted at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival before being picked up by RLJE Films. We watched it and, frankly, found the wildness to be a bit too much. The movie just kind of never comes together and feels hugely disjointed. At least that was my opinion. You can read the full review here. But, as you can see in the trailer, plenty of people who aren’t the stars of the movie enjoyed it quite a bit. Lots of critics from other sites heaped praise on the unique film and hey, I’d rather watch something that takes a huge risk like Prisoners of the Ghostland than another remake of a movie that wasn’t good in the first place, or a franchise reboot prequel that never gets off the ground. So even just in that aspect, it’s pretty darn wild.

Again, the film opens in theaters and on VOD September 17.

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What a treat on this fine Friday the 13th, to get not just a brand-new trailer for FX’s What We Do in the Shadows’ upcoming third season—but also the news that the series will be returning for a fourth installment, too. Makes us want to go out on the town, drink the drug-filled blood of a bunch of random New York partygoers, and try to eat pizza even though human food makes us projectile vomit! In other words, celebrate like vampires! At least, What We Do in the Shadows-style vampires!

While that epic season one episode will always be one of our all-time favorites, this trailer for season three, shared by Deadline along with the renewal news out of the network’s TCA presentation today, suggests so much goodness to come. Check it out!

Let’s see, we’ve got the roommates—vampires Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), plus Nandor’s human familiar/Van Helsing-descended vampire slayer Guillermo (Harvey Guillén)—dealing with the fallout from that dramatic season two finale in a surprising way. Instead of being in trouble for, uh, Guillermo slaughtering almost all their peers at the Nouveau Théâtre des Vampires, they’re now in charge of the Vampiric Council! But who will get to sit on that fancy throne?

Also, looks like Nandor will be hitting the gym and maybe looking for love; Laszlo will be trying out the legal profession (as season two showed us, he was excellent at bartending, so sky’s the limit!); at least one werewolf will pop up; Colin Robinson will be set on fire; and the group will make what looks like an eventful casino visit—as well as all the mundane hilarity we’ve come to expect from this show, like Nandor not knowing how to work a vacuum and everyone freaking out about taking an escalator for the first time.

Oh, What We Do in the Shadows. How we’ve missed you. FX should just go ahead and greenlight seasons five through 5,000! The 10-episode third season arrives on FX on September 2 (and as Deadline notes, the first two episodes will premiere back to back: “The Prisoner” and “The Cloak of Duplication”); you can catch new episodes the next day on FX on Hulu.

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FX has officially granted Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s popular supernatural comedy series What We Do in the Shadows an early fourth season renewal, which is expected to premiere in 2022.

The renewal also comes with the release of the full What We Do in the Shadows Season 3 trailer which you can check out below, featuring the return of our favorite vampires and Guillermo as they continue to deal with modern technology, dating, and society. It also highlights the group’s new leadership role at the Vampiric Council, with Nandor and Nadja fighting for the throne. The series is scheduled to make its return on Thursday, September 2, with the first two episodes titled, “The Prisoner,” and “The Cloak of Duplication.”

It’s a game of…throne. Watch the official Season 3 trailer for #ShadowsFX, returning Thursday, Sept. 2nd on FX. Next Day #FXonHulu pic.twitter.com/cRRJLEXaLq

— What We Do In The Shadows (@theshadowsfx) August 13, 2021

“Fans can’t seem to get enough of What We Do in the Shadows and FX is ready to feed that appetite by setting up the series for a fourth season,” FX Entertainment’s President of Original Programming, Nick Grad said in a statement. “Our thanks to the extraordinary job by the creative team, cast, and crew who keep making a great show better each season.”

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The series is written and executive-produced by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. It stars Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillen, and Mark Proksch. It has already featured appearances from Beanie Feldstein, Nick Kroll, Vanessa Bayer, Kristen Schaal, Dave Bautista, Tilda Swinton, Evan Rachel Wood, Wesley Snipes, Mark Hamill, Craig Robinson, and more.

RELATED: Reservation Dogs Trailer Previews New Comedy Series From Taika Waititi

What We Do in the Shadows is executive produced by Clement, Waititi, Paul Simms, Stefani Robinson, Sam Johnson, Garrett Basch, and Eli Bush. It is produced by FX Productions.

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During FX’s TCA presentation, chairman John Landgraf has revealed some new status updates regarding the long-awaited third and fourth seasons of Atlanta.

Landgraf has confirmed that the network is currently targeting an early 2022 release date for Season 3, which was mostly filmed in Europe. He also shared that production on the fourth season has already started in Atlanta while teasing how great the scripts are both seasons.

“We haven’t locked down the scheduling for Season 3 yet as it just finished shooting — it’s shot primarily in Europe,” Landgraf said (via Deadline). “It’s in post-production and it’s a lengthy post-production process, and part of that is because they’re currently in production of Season 4 in Atlanta. All the scripts for that season have been written, and I absolutely adore the scripts for both seasons.”

He also went on to reveal that it’s currently difficult for them to set a definite return date for the acclaimed comedy-drama due to the busy schedules of executive producers Donald Glover and Hiro Morai.

“The reason I can’t lock down a date right now is that it’s being driven by Donald Glover and Hiro Morai’s schedule and availability and the length of post, both for Season 3 while in the process of producing Season 4. I did list it as one of the things coming back in the first half of 2022, that is our anticipation. I think we’ll be able to lock down an actual date for 3 and maybe for both cycles within the next couple of months.”

RELATED: Donald Glover Inks Eight-Figure Overall Deal With Amazon

Atlanta hails from creator, executive producer and star Glover. The series is also led by Brian Tyree Henry as Paper Boi, LaKeith Stanfield as Darius Epps, and Zazie Beetz as Vanessa.

The series tells the story of two cousins named Earn Marks and Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles. Glover stars as Earn, who is a Princeton dropout who now manages his cousin’s burgeoning rap career. He along with his cousin are trying to find their way to the top of the local rap scene, all the while dealing with the many real and absurd troubles black folk face in the city.

RELATED: Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith Lands Glover & Waller-Bridge To Lead/Create

Atlanta is executive produced by Stephen Glover, Paul Simms, Dianne McGunigle, and Hiro Murai. The first two seasons were an instant hit to viewers, with the first season winning two major Golden Globe Awards including Best Comedy Series. As for the second season, it earned multiple Emmy nominations including Outstanding Comedy Series. 

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The Suicide Squad director James Gunn took to Twitter to confirm that production on the upcoming first season of HBO Max’s newest DC spinoff series Peacemaker has finally been completed after 131 days of filming. Gunn went on to express his gratitude and appreciation to the cast and crew for their hard work on the project, which he first pitched to the streamer less than a year ago. The filming wrap comes less than a month before the highly-anticipated theatrical and HBO Max release of The Suicide Squad, which is set to feature the introduction of John Cena’s titular hero.

Even though a second season still hasn’t been confirmed, the Guardians of the Galaxy director previously revealed that he already has an idea on what he’ll do for the potential second season including the DC characters he would like to include.

And that’s a wrap on Day 131 & Season One of #Peacemaker. Less than a year ago I pitched a vague pitch to @HBOMax – here we are 11 months later with 8 astounding episodes in the can. Cast & crew: I love you all. Thank you for putting your hearts & souls into this project.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 13, 2021

RELATED: The Suicide Squad Trailer Features New Action-Packed Footage

Further details about the plot are still being kept under wraps, but it will likely explore the origins of John Cena’s Peacemaker, who is being described as the world’s biggest douchebag. He is a man who believes in peace at any cost — no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.

Joining Cena is Steve Agee as John Economos, Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo, Robert Patrick as Auggie Smith, Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt, Freddie Stroma as Vigilante/Adrian Chase, and Chukwudi Iwuji as Clemson Murn. It will also include Lochlyn Munro, Annie Chang, Christoper Heyerdahl, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Rizwan Manji,  Nhut Le, Aison Araya, and Lenny Jacobson.

RELATED: The Suicide Squad Wants to Add Depth to DC’s Dumbest Character

Based on the characters from DC, Peacemaker is written and created by James Gunn, who directed multiple episodes. Executive producers are Gunn, Cena, Peter Safran, and Matt Miller. The 8-episode first season is expected to make its debut in January 2022.

It will be produced by Troll Court Entertainment and The Safran Company in association with Warner Bros. Television. The series will extend the world that Gunn is creating for The Suicide Squad movie, which is scheduled to be released in theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 6, 2021.

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FX has released the first teaser for the highly-anticipated third season of the hit mockumentary supernatural comedy series What We Do in the Shadows, which is currently scheduled to make its return on September 2. The Season 3 teaser, which you can check out in the player below, features Kayvan Novak’s Nandor as he experiences the joys of being out in the sun with the use of virtual reality glasses.

Experience the world in Vampire Reality. What We Do in the Shadows returns Sept 2 on FX. Streaming next day #FxonHulu. pic.twitter.com/l4zSzhfn5u

— What We Do In The Shadows (@theshadowsfx) July 14, 2021

RELATED: HBO Max’s Our Flag Means Death Adds Taika Waititi as Blackbeard

The series stars Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillen, and Mark Proksch. It has already featured appearances from Beanie Feldstein, Nick Kroll, Vanessa Bayer, Kristen Schaal, Dave Bautista, Tilda Swinton, Evan Rachel Wood, Wesley Snipes, Mark Hamill, Craig Robinson, and more.

The series is written and executive-produced by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement. It stars Matt Berry (The IT Crowd), Kayvan Novak (Early Man), Natasia Demetriou (Year Friends), and Harvey Guillen (The Magicians).

RELATED: Taika Waititi: There’ll Be More Emotion in Thor: Love and Thunder

The original film starred Taika Waititi, Clement, Jonathan Brugh, and Ben Fransham, where it followed a group of vampires who live together in modern-day Wellington, New Zealand as they go through the mundane tasks of everyday life and of rooming with other people, as well as bringing in a vampire (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer) just turned by the group. It earned rave reviews from critics upon release and quickly became an international cult classic, propelling Waititi and Clement even further into the spotlight as actors, writers, and directors.

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FX has released the full Reservation Dogs trailer for Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo’s new coming-of-age comedy series, which is scheduled to make its debut on August 9 on FX and Hulu. The video, which you can check out below, begins with four Indigenous teenagers as they steal a truck full of chips in an effort to raise money for their dreams of going to California. It also features main quartet dealing with another group of young misfits ambushing them with paintball guns.

They’re the best in town, even if it’s a small town. Watch the OFFICIAL TRAILER for #ReservationDogs, FX’s new original comedy from @TaikaWaititi and Sterlin Harjo. Streaming August 9th — Exclusively on #FXonHulu. pic.twitter.com/dOUFGBj9eu

— Reservation Dogs (@RezDogsFXonHulu) July 15, 2021

Skoden! #ReservationDogs premieres August 9, exclusively on #FXonHulu. pic.twitter.com/tKFAVLsBxt

— Reservation Dogs (@RezDogsFXonHulu) July 14, 2021

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Reservation Dogs is a coming-of-age comedy that will follow the story of four Native American teenagers in rural Oklahoma who spend their days committing crime… and fighting it. The series will be led by D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Creeped Out) as Bear, Devery Jacobs (American Gods) as Elora Danan, Paulina Alexis (Beans) as Willie Jack and newcomer Lane Factor as Cheese.

The series will also feature guest stars including Tamara Podemski, Zahn McClarnon, Macon Blair, Kirk Fox, Matty Cardarople, Dallas Goldtooth, Lil Mike and Funny Bone.

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Reservation Dogs is executive produced by Taika Watiti and Sterlin Harjo. It is also being produced by Garrett Basch through his Scott Rudin Productions banner.

Harjo has been directing films that primarily focuses on Native American people which are all set in his home state of Oklahoma. The series marks second collaboration between Waititi and FX, who are currently working together on the upcoming third season of What We Do in the Shadows.

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First Shang-Chi trailer & poster reveals Simu Liu’s Master of Kung-Fu!

Marvel Studios has revealed the first trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, along with a debut poster featuring our first look at star Simu Liu (Kim’s Convenience) in costume. Check out the Shang-Chi trailer in the player below, along with the poster in the gallery!

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Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization. The film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Chen, Meng’er Zhang, Florian Munteanu and Ronny Chieng.

Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and produced by Kevin Feige and Jonathan Schwartz, with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and Charles Newirth serving as executive producers. David Callaham & Destin Daniel Cretton & Andrew Lanham wrote the screenplay for the film, which opens in theaters on September 3, 2021.

Shang-Chi, also known as The Master of Kung Fu, was first introduced in the pages of Special Marvel Edition #15 back in 1973 after they’d failed to obtain the rights to the then-popular TV series Kung Fu, which starred David Carradine. A master of fighting, Shang-Chi eventually gains the ability to create an infinite number of replicas of himself. After Special Marvel Edition changed its name to The Hands of Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu, the character went on to appear in issues of Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-in-One. He’s also been a member of The Avengers and Heroes for Hire, the latter alongside fellow kung fu masters Daughters of the Dragon.

What do you think of the Shang-Chi trailer? And what do you think of Liu’s costume in the film? Let us know in the comments below!

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FX’s Dave Season 2 sets return date & guest stars including Kevin Hart

FX has finally set the premiere date for the upcoming second season of their record-breaking sitcom Dave, which sees the return of titular star Dave Burd (a.k.a. rapper Lil Dicky). The series is scheduled to make its return June 16 on FXX with a two-episode premiere, then new episodes available each subsequent week. Episodes will also be available for streaming the following day via FX on Hulu.

In addition, the network has also revealed the new season’s star-studded guest lineup including K-Pop superstar CL, Kendall Jenner, Hailey Bieber, Benny Blanco, Kyle Kuzma, Doja Cat, J Balvin, Rae Sremmurd (Swae Lee & Slim Jxmmi), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lil Yachty, Lil Nas X, Kevin Hart and more.

RELATED: FX’s Atlanta Season 3 Officially Begins Production!

Based on the life of rapper and comedian Dave Burd (stage name Lil Dicky), FXX’s Dave centers around a neurotic man in his late twenties who has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help he actually might convince the world.

In the second season, Dave knows he’s destined for rap superstardom – but at what cost? With the pressure mounting as he records his debut album, he has to decide if he’ll sacrifice friendships, love and his own sense of self in order to make his dream come true. Simultaneously exasperating and inspiring to his friends, Dave vows to leave no stone unturned on his quest to become the next superstar.

Season 1 notably featured a number of celebrity cameos and guest appearances, including Justin Bieber, Kourtney Kardashian, Marshmello, Macklemore, Ninja and more.

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Dave is created and executive produced by Burd and Jeff Schaffer. Executive producers are Saladin K. Patterson, Ben Sinclair, Luvh Rakhe, Kevin Hart and Hartbeat Productions, Scooter Braun, Greg Mottola, Marty Bowen, Mike Hertz and SB Projects’ James Shin and Scott Manson.

The first season was a success for FX as it became the network’s most-watched comedy series ever, with an average episodic audience of 9.4 million Total Viewers to-date across linear, VOD and streaming, and that number is growing.

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Raven’s Banquet is dead, long live...something.

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In a move straight out of our fanfic dreams, Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Childish Gambino himself Donald Glover will executive produce and star in a new series based on the 2005 movie Mr. and Mrs Smith for Amazon Prime.

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To celebrate the 18th anniversary of the publication of Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Invincible (that's 2003 for those not looking to do the math), Kirkman and host Hector Navarro took part in a livestream broadcast to not only mark the occasions but to offer some news regarding the upcoming animated Amazon Prime series- and they […]

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Here’s how weird 2020 was for movies: Unless you saw something in January or February (like The Invisible Man, Birds of Prey, or Bloodshot), there’s a good chance you didn’t see a movie in a movie theater for the entire year. A whole year without going to the movies. Frankly, it’s hard to even fathom, even though we…

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The Goonies cast reunite for script reading for No Kid Hungry charity

After gathering together for Josh Gad’s Reunited Apart back in April, the cast of the fan-favorite adventure film The Goonies are reuniting virtually for a special script reading event to raise funds for No Kid Hungry, an organization working to help feed kids and families during the pandemic and beyond.

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Exciting news! The cast of The Goonies will be reuniting for a LIVE virtual script read next Saturday, December 5, at 8pm ET benefiting @nokidhungry.

Learn more: https://t.co/eBJYT5jr85 #GooniesLive pic.twitter.com/7bZ1TLhawM

— No Kid Hungry (@nokidhungry) November 25, 2020

The special event, which is set to air on Saturday, December 5 at 5 p.m. PST, will include Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Sean Astin, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, Ke Huy Quan, Jeff Cohen, Joe Pantoliano and Robert Davi as well as special guests Zach Braff, Cary Elwes, Donald Faison and Gad!

“The same spirit of bravery, sacrifice and camaraderie that the Goonies showed in our movie is what families all over the world are experiencing as we all face this pandemic,” director/producer Richard Donner said in a statement. “We are honored to have the opportunity to help No Kid Hungry and to hopefully bring a little light and love into homes across the globe.”

The virtual reunion will be broadcast and available for viewers to watch and donate at the official site, with the event being free to the public though No Kid Hungry encouraging donations even as small as $1 as, due to the global pandemic, one in four kids could face hunger this year and every dollar will go towards their plan to make sure kids are fed during this crisis and all year long.

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“Millions of kids in America rely on the meals they receive at school for the nutrition they need,” Tom Nelson, President and CEO at Share Our Strength, the organization behind the No Kid Hungry Campaign, said in a statement. “With more students learning virtually than ever before with record jobs and wages lost, an unprecedented number of kids are going hungry during this crisis. Amidst this increased need and an uncertain school year, kids need our support more than ever. We’re grateful to the cast of The Goonies, Warner Bros., Warner Media and those tuning in to the reunion special to help ensure kids have access to the food they need.”

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