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A deal has been closed that will see Netflix acquire the Fear Street films from Disney, reports Deadline. The plan now is to premiere each of the interconnected film entries—all directed by Leigh Janiak—in Summer 2021 at the interval of a month apart. Netflix’s early marketing plans will see the trilogy heralded by a campaign dubbed “The Summer of Fear.” While a solid release date was not provided, the summer window seems solid and shouldn’t be susceptible to COVID-dealt delays, since principal photography on the films has already wrapped....

Each Indiana Jones cosmetic in Fortnite is locked behind a different quest, and not all of those missions are created equal. You don’t exactly need a team of top men working on those quests in order to unlock them, but you can’t rely on an X to mark the spot, either. While some missions are as easy as shooting an enemy in the face, others take players on one heck of a treasure hunt....

Caribbean history is often ignored in US discussions of the era, despite myself and many other Americans having ancestry from this part of the world. Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park has extended references to Caribbean slavery but many adaptations sidestep these implications or briefly address them before moving back to the white main characters. In addition, the focus is often on male leaders of rebellions such as Toussaint L’Overture leading the Haitian rebellion, or on women with island ancestry such as Dido Elizabeth from the movie Belle living in England....

“We’ve thought a lot about how to expand Jin’s story, and we’ve also spent the last year poring over all of your feedback about how we could improve the experience of playing Ghost of Tsushima,” says Sucker Punch Productions communication manager Andrew Goldfarb in a recent PlayStation Blog post. “We’ve been hard at work on a brand new edition of the game, which not only includes a new chapter in Jin’s journey, but also some new updates that are a direct response to some of the community’s most-requested features....

The Legend of Korra, the sequel series to the acclaimed Avatar: The Last Airbender, is getting the SteelBook® treatment! This means all four seasons are available with awe-inspiring artwork by Caleb Thomas. And Den of Geek is hosting a giveaway to celebrate! On each season (book) cover, is a stunning work of art highlighting a different element in the Avatar universe. Following the footsteps of the previous Avatar, Aang, Korra must master the four elements of earth, fire, air, and water....

Gravity is, in some ways, what the trailers tell you it is. The inhospitable vacuum of space provides all the horror you need via the creeping awareness that one more mistake could spell the end. And that’s the thing: the characters make MANY mistakes, as human beings tend to do, it’s just that the stakes are much, much higher when a missed grab, or a chance collision with something tiny, will expose the fragile human body to the extremes of outer space....

Harley Quinn Season 2 Episode 8 Love is messy. Sometimes the best way to distract from a romantic entanglement that’s getting you down is to distract yourself. And that’s exactly what Harley Quinn dedicates herself to this week during “Inner (Para) Demons.” After kissing Ivy and the pair stating that actually it was just a one time thing, a crazy mistake, Harley needs to get her head right and, sadly for the people of Gotham, she has a wild ass plan to do it....

His Dark Materials had so much world-building to do in season one that it took a little while to get moving. Once off the ground though, the BBC/HBO fantasy soared. By the time the story had landed in the Far North, a place of armoured bears, cruel scientific research facilities and windows to other worlds, the adaptation had captured the scope and excitement of Philip Pullman’s books. Before then, the foundations were being carefully laid to explain the nature of a world “both like and unlike our own” and to prepare for the epic journey that young Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry were about to take....

Actor Carroll O’Connor, who was a large part of the creative process of the series, consistently maintains he took the now-iconic role of Archie Bunker because All in the Family was a satire, not a sitcom. It was funny, but it wasn’t a lampoon. It was grounded in the most serious of realities, more than the generation gap which it openly showcased, but in the schism between progressive and conservative thinking....

But then last month, Romero’s widow, Suzanne Romero, told The Hollywood Reporter that her husband had been working on a final film in his iconic Dead series, tentatively titled Twilight of the Dead, before his passing. So when we had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Suzanne this week, naturally we wanted to hear more about this exciting news. George had apparently gotten as far as writing a treatment with screenwriter Paolo Zelati, and after his passing Zelati developed a screenplay under Suzanne’s supervision....

Miles faces a big test through the course of the approximately 15-hour story campaign, as he finds himself in the middle of a war between the Roxxon Energy corporation and a terrorist group called The Undergound, which is led by comic book villain The Tinkerer. At stake are the people of Harlem and those Miles cares about. It’s quite the challenge for the 17-year-old teenager who is still in high school and figuring out what his place is as a superhero....

Yet when actress Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven, The Girl on the Train) invited him to her theatrical debut in a little workshop production in Connecticut, Wright saw something new: a Cyrano who really lived the character’s encumbrances. A Cyrano played by Peter Dinklage. “I went along and was shocked to find myself somewhere around the end of Act III weeping my eyes out, and I still had two acts to go,” Wright tells us years later and on the eve of the wide release of his filmic adaptation of that musical play....

It’s well known that J.J. Abrams, along with many other Trekkies, Trekkers, and people who sometimes watch Star Trek, is especially fond of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and used that film as inspiration for his own take on Star Trek. The Wrath of Khan is many people’s favorite Trek film, one of the best of the Star Trek movies, the source of the idea that the even-numbered ones are the good ones....

Storytelling synergy has existed for a long time between Star Wars movies, books, comics, and games, but rarely in the Marvel way where one series or movie directly teases or leads into the next. Sure, Skywalker Saga films technically work that way, but those three trilogies are really one big story. But in Marvel’s case, it’s par for the course for a tonally unique series like WandaVision to still set the stage for the next Doctor Strange movie or Captain Marvel 2....

On the surface, the story of Star Wars is one of good and evil, oppression and rebellion, failure and redemption – the sort of big, broad themes that have resonated across decades and through generations. In actuality, Star Wars is a story of seemingly unending daddy issues, as a series of men who range from outright horrible to simply neglectful abandon, abuse, and otherwise damage their children to such a degree that the entire galaxy often ends up paying the price for it....

While a definitive list of changes from the Rocky IV Director’s Cut will obviously have to wait until the film’s November release, its just-dropped trailer is nevertheless a gold mine of teased tweaks. What is immediately clear is that Stallone has done his level best to mitigate the Cold-War-evoking movie’s more notorious aspects, namely its perceived status as a mindless, conventionally-jingoistic actioner rife with synthesizer-strewn rock ballads, overly-ostentatious Foley sounds and… well, a robot....

Cash Mountain didn’t go down the Welsh Outward Bound route but stuck to its questions-and-cash simplicity to become global smash hit Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? That Brummie voice belonged to Steve Knight (played in Quiz by Keir Charles). He was one of the three creators credited with devising the quiz show that was later struck by the “Coughing Major” cheating scandal so brilliantly dramatised in James Graham’s play and TV adaptation....

While the discourse over the quality of that vision will wage on, our own critic suggests that Snyder doesn’t quite achieve his goals for a Justice League film much less the idea of a live-action Justice League film so good that it somehow becomes hard to imagine that idea ever being done better. Perhaps some of those shortcomings can be attributed to the unique nature of his cut’s development and release, but there’s still a feeling that Snyder is chasing something he may not have the chance to catch....

Iron Fist Season 2 was, as usual, packed with Marvel lore. That isn’t much of a surprise given how these Marvel Netflix shows usually work, but it did do one thing that nobody could have possibly seen coming: it made fans excited about the prospect of Iron Fist Season 3. It did that by elevating Colleen Wing, giving Danny Rand a new purpose, and finally bringing in elements of what is generally considered to be the best Iron Fist comics story....

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s second feature – his first being the coming-of-age drama The Myth Of The American Sleepover – is a heady mix of clanging, overwhelming sound and an observant, lingering camera. About an ordinary teenager (Maika Monroe) pursued by a terrifying, malevolent force, It Follows is both reminiscent of all kinds of classic horror (including John Carpenter’s Halloween) and an intelligent reworking of the genre’s more familiar trappings....