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  • ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Heading to Starz “Over the Next 6 Months”

    ‘Spider-Man No Way Home’ Heading to Starz “Over the Next 6 Months”

    Spider-Man: No Way Home has just dominated the international box office, and eyes are already on when it might find its way into our homes. It turns out, the big winner might end up being Starz, as Deadline unveils in an interview with its CEO Jeffrey Hirsch that it’ll release on the service sometime “over the next six months.” So, we can expect its release sooner rather than later, as they aim to utilize big-name projects to grow their original offerings as well by creating strong viewership retention.

    Ours is a retention game, not an acquisition game. Lining up content week to week, 52 weeks a year. Seeking to move our core audience from one show to the next.

    Jeffrey Hirsch

    It’s a smart strategy, which Netflix has also utilized when offering their originals based on existing IPs. Their plan makes sense, as it focuses on finding crossover between their target audiences between projects, and no project had a wide acceptance like Spider-Man: No Way Home. So, it’s one of the biggest films to get your hands on right now, especially with those interested in watching it again once it’s available at home. It would be interesting to see how big the film will be once it gets a home release, especially with the promise of over 100 minutes of additional content.

    Source: Deadline

  • Jeremy Renner and Brie Larson Developing Documentary Series for Disney+

    Jeremy Renner and Brie Larson Developing Documentary Series for Disney+

    Disney+ has been busy expanding its streaming service filmography In addition to the usual Marvel and Star Wars fair, they’ve started exploring other well-known franchises to add cult-classic and popular franchises that have been dormant for years. Not just that, they’ve also continued to build a repertoire of documentary series featuring big named stars. It looks like they are adding some MArvel veterans to that list, as it’s been revealed during the Television Critics Association, as shared by Alex Zalben on Twitter.

    Brie Larson is directing a series titled Growing Up that explores what it’s like to grow up. Throughout ten episodes, we join various people between the ages of 18 to 22 years, as they share their experiences growing up. With the help of some creative “cinematic reenactments,” we’ll get to witness those events that they share. Jeremy Renner has a very different adventure ahead of him, as in a four-part series titled Rennervations – nice pun – he’ll work with communities to rebuild purpose-built vehicles to help their local needs.

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    They sound like fun ideas, and the talent will definitely have some fun with these projects as a way to explore things they love while taking a break from the massive Hollywood productions they usually are busy with.

    Source: Twitter

  • Rita Ora Joins ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Prequel Series

    Rita Ora Joins ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Prequel Series

    There’s no stopping Disney+ from adding talent after talent for their upcoming The Beauty and the Beast prequel that explores the time of Luke Evans‘ Gaston and Josh Gad‘s LeFou before they entered Belle’s story. Deadline just broke the news that they have also added pop star Rita Ora, who many know for her work on songs like Your Song and Anywhere, who will take on the role of a fugitive with a strange ability. Her dark secret may turn the kingdom upside down.

    The project has been developed by Gad, who also has writing credit and is showrunning the project alongside Once Upon a Time creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. Currently, the pilot episode will be directed by Eclipsed‘s Liesl Tommy but there’s no word who might tackle the rest of the eight episodes of the musical series. As they are building upon the musical whimsy of the original, it makes sense to add a talent like Rita Ora who can add something to the project.

    We know quite a bit about the plot, as Gaston and LeFou set out to help his step-sister Tilly as they are cast out into quite the adventure. Details naturally are kept under wraps, but it does sound like a promising fun project, even if it’ll be curious to see if the show tries to redeem Gaston as a character in some way.

    Source: Deadline

  • Super Bowl LVI to Feature First Look at Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’

    Super Bowl LVI to Feature First Look at Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’

    This Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI will feature the first teaser for Amazon Prime’s upcoming Lord of the Rings streaming series, the most expensive show ever produced with a budget of $465M. The series, which will premier this fall, is set during Middle-earth’s second age (well before the timeline of either the Hobbit or Lord of the Rings films) and will focus on the rise to power of the evil Sauron. A previously released synopsis detailed what to expect.

    Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.

    Amazon began marketing the streamer last week with a series of 20+ posters that teased the main characters, including one clad in black armor and sporting a nasty looking gauntlet who fans have theorized might be the Dark Lord Morgoth, the source of evil in Middle-earth. Hopefully the new teaser sheds some light on this and other mysteries about the show.

    Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will debut with an 8-episode first season this September and production has already begun on a second season of the series.

    Source: THR

  • Disney+’s ‘National Treasure’ Adds Catherine Zeta-Jones

    Disney+’s ‘National Treasure’ Adds Catherine Zeta-Jones

    the upcoming spinoff of the popular National Treasure films has found its new co-lead in Catherine Zeta-Jones. She will star opposite Lisette Alexis, who was cast back in October after her breakout role in Total Eclipse. Jerry Bruckheimer returns to executive produce the project with Jon Turteltaub set to direct, as well as Marianne and Cormac Wibberley set to write the series. It won’t be a direct adaptation of the original film series and there’s no word we should expect familiar faces to make an appearance.

    The story focused on Alexis‘ Jess, who is a dreamer hoping to find answers on her family and embarks on an adventure that will lead her to uncover a lost Pan-American treasure – wouldn’t be a National Treasure film without one. Zeta-Jones will take on the role of Billie, who will race for the same treasure, as it not only has a monetary value but also a deeper connection to the character, who grew to become a black market specialist after growing up penniless.

    She will join additional series regulars Zuri Reed, Jake Austin Walker, Jordan Rodrigues, Antonio Cipriano, and Lyndon Smith. Production is currently eyeing a start this month in Baton Rouge. It’ll be interesting to see how they tackle the franchise’s overall atmosphere and Indiana Jones-inspired adventure atmosphere.

    Source: Deadline

  • ‘Shang-Chi’s Michelle Yeoh Reunites With Destin Daniel Cretton for ‘American Born Chinese’

    ‘Shang-Chi’s Michelle Yeoh Reunites With Destin Daniel Cretton for ‘American Born Chinese’

    It looks like the upcoming Disney+ series adaptation of American Born Chinese will become a Shang-Chi reunion, as Deadline reported that Michelle Yeoh will reunite with director Destin Daniel Cretton, who will direct the project. The series is part of 20th Television’s production for Disney Branded Television, which is eyeing a production start sometime this month in Los Angeles.

    It’ll adapt the Gene Luen Yang graphic novel with Kelvin Yu attached as its showrunner and executive producer. It’s unclear how many episodes Cretton will direct from the series, but is also acting as executive producer alongside Jake Kasdan, Erin O’Malley, Melvin Mar, and more. She joins a cast that consists of MacGyver‘s Ben Wang, Mortal Kombat‘s Chin Han, Daniel Whu (Reminiscience), Just Add Magic’s Sydney Taylore, Jim Liu, Ke Huy Quan (Finding Ohana), and Yeo Yann Yann (Wet Season).

    Source: Deadline

  • ‘She-Hulk’ Director Confirms 2022 Premiere and Comedic Tone of Series

    ‘She-Hulk’ Director Confirms 2022 Premiere and Comedic Tone of Series

    She-Hulk director Kat Coiro was recently making the press rounds promoting her upcoming film Marry Me. In an interview with The Wrap, the director shared her thought process when asked to join the Marvel family, confirming the rumored comedic tone of the Tatiana Maslany-led series.

    I never choose a project based on genre. And I actually don’t think very much about genre, I think about character. And I think about the emotional lives of the characters and, you know, can I bring something? Can I bring a mix of humor and heart to this? Because that is what I love to watch. And it’s what I love to work with. And so when I stepped into, you know, the Marvel playground — the cool thing about Marvel is that it is an ever-evolving universe and you have straight dramas, and you have very comedic films, and we are in that world where we’re definitely playing with a more comedic world, but it also is still part of Marvel land.

    Coiro was asked whether a second season can be expected, to which she affirmed the show’s release this year, following the vague teaser from Disney+ late last year.

    I will let Kevin Feige answer that question. For now, we have done a season and it’s coming out sometime this year. And we’ll go from there.

    Source: The Wrap

  • ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Producers Hint at MCU Crossover

    ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Producers Hint at MCU Crossover


    Fan-favorite Hollywood creatives Phil Lord and Chris Miller have a lot on their plates with the highly-anticipated sequel to their smash hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The next film in the series, the first of a two-part story, promises to introduce audiences to a plethora of new and exciting spider-verses. Just which ones viewers will see is still being kept mostly under wraps, though the world of Marvel 2099 seems like a safe bet, and the realm of Spider-Man: India was teased in the movie’s first trailer.

    One fun idea fans haven’t been able to shake is the idea of a crossover with the live-action MCU. While the thought might have once seemed far-fetched, the multiversal shenanigans of Spider-Man: No Way Home have made anything seem possible. During a recent interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Miller and Lord were asked directly about the possibility of a surprise universal overlap, and a connection between the MCU’s multiverse and their own. The answer was more optimistic than expected:

    The Multiverse is big and wide. And all things grow… Why would you think a Multiverse, in which many things are possible, that [those things are] not related?

    Chris Miller

    Lord continued with the quip, “Everything’s possible except for this one thing that everyone wants.” Obviously, this confirms nothing. However, it does leave the door open for an animated Tom Holland to swing his way Across the Spider-Verse. Or even better, for a live-action Shameik Moore to appear as Miles Morales.

    Source: Happy Sad Confused

  • New ‘Ms. Marvel’ Set Photos Tease a ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Connection

    New ‘Ms. Marvel’ Set Photos Tease a ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Connection

    It looks like set photos have slowly found their way online from the Ms. Marvel reshoots, which offer a curious update on what we can expect from the Disney+ series. What stands out is that these photos not only include Iman Vellani in the costume that was briefly teased in the initial Disney+ Day trailer, but the fact she is seemingly chased down by a very familiar-looking drone to Spider-Man fans.

    Spider-Man: Far From Home viewers might instantly recognize the drone that Mysterio used to pin everything on Peter Parker. With the help of EDITH, these Stark Tech drones ended up causing a lot of damage to London Bridge. That wasn’t the last we saw of them, as they would eventually show up in No Way Home as the government seized the assets after Parker was blamed for Mysterio’s murder. So, there’s a chance that someone got their hand on it and repurposed You can check the images shared by @CosmicMMedia here:

    It’s really interesting to see the drones make a return even if they aren’t the exact same that we saw back in No Way Home. Stark’s legacy might live on, but it opens up the question of who might be controlling them if they are chasing down Kamala. She may have her abilities already at this point. So, someone is out there trying to control the meta-human population. It’s not too dissimilar to Marvel’s Avengers plot, which also focused on the young Inhuman.

    Source: Twitter

  • Charlie Cox Finally Breaks Silence on Daredevil Return in ‘No Way Home’

    Charlie Cox Finally Breaks Silence on Daredevil Return in ‘No Way Home’

    A handful of actors are breathing sighs of relief since the film they’re in, Spider-Man: No Way Home premiered a little under two months ago. One of those actors is Charlie Cox, who in his MCU debut reprised his role as Matt Murdock. Cox, for the past few months, has been doing his best to mask his excitement over the truth. That’s now over though as the actor has finally given his first interview since the film’s release.

    I don’t think I’ve done any interviews. I still don’t know what the rules are. Obviously, it’s now known that I’m in Spider-Man. So, yeah. But more than that, I don’t know, and the little I do know, I’m obviously not going to say. But the only thing I would say is that for a long time I was asked these questions and I genuinely had not heard anything.

    Fans who diligently follow leaks and rumors are aware that Daredevil may be slated for a handful of appearances down the road, with the most likely one being She-Hulk. In addition to that, those rumored appearances are said to feature Daredevil with his Silver Age yellow suit. Should this turn out true, the little Cox knows may not be so little after all.

    Cox defended himself a little bit by jokingly stating that while he lied, he hadn’t been lying as long as fans assumed.

    For years, I have been asked questions about returning as Daredevil, and the genuine truth was I 100% assumed that was gone, that ship had just sailed. I didn’t hear from any of the folks at Marvel for a couple of years. It does now look like I was lying for a long time, I actually wasn’t, I was only lying for a little bit of time. You still don’t want to spoil it for people.

    Source: Supanova