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24 Apr

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 5 Review: Operation New Improv Moves

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This My Hero Academia review contains spoilers. My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 5 “We’re birds of a feather.” Battles are chaotic and it can be easy to focus on only the immediate danger within them. Survival can give the illusion of strength, but sooner or later this facade crumbles away without the right preparation. “Operation New Improv Moves” is an exciting My Hero Academia episode that presents another grueling fight between the students of Class 1-A and 1-B, but it also speaks to how essential it is to adopt a bird’s eye view perspective. This vantage point, which considers…

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14 Oct

Grease Spinoff Moves to Paramount+ from HBO Max

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The original high school musical, Grease, premiered for Paramount Pictures in the summer of 1978. Now more than 40 years later, the Grease spinoff will premiere for Paramount’s streaming descendent Paramount+. According to Variety, the previously announced Grease spinoff, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, will be moving to Paramount+ from HBO Max. Paramount+ is the new streaming brand from ViacomCBS, which will be taking over for CBS All Access next year. HBO Max is the recently launched streaming concept from WarnerMedia. The news comes almost a year to the day after the spinoff was originally announced.  The move appears…

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09 Oct

Pixar’s Soul Moves to Disney Plus for Christmas

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In news that hardly qualifies as a surprise, although still bitter for movie theater owners, Disney is officially breaking the theatrical window for the next Pixar movie, Soul, in favor of a Disney+ premiere. The Mouse House announced the news late Thursday, making good on a move that’s long been speculated, particularly after Disney moved Marvel’s Black Widow and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story remake out of 2020, but left Soul on the calendar. As per Disney, the film will be abandoning its current perch of Nov. 20 and skipping Thanksgiving altogether in order to be home in time for…

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03 Oct

James Bond: No Time to Die Release Date Moves From November to April 2021

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No Time to Die, the 25th official James Bond movie, is leaving its November 20 release date and jumping to April 2, 2021. According to Deadline, MGM issued a statement saying, “MGM, Universal and Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli today announced the release of No Time To Die, the 25th film in the James Bond series, will be delayed until 2 April in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience.  We understand the delay will be disappointing to our fans but we now look forward to sharing No Time to Die next year.” No Time…

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21 Sep

Mr. Mercedes Moves to Peacock, New Home of the Stephen King Series

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Mr. Mercedes has found a new home in NBCUniversal’s recently launched streaming premium platform, Peacock. The move to Peacock yields a new lease on life for Mr. Mercedes, the Stephen King adaptation crime series, which started life in 2017 as a broadcast offering on the AT&T-owned, DirecTV-exclusive Audience Network, only to be left derelict with an uncertain future after the channel’s dissolution this past January. With the move—announced on Sept. 21, King’s birthday, of all days—Mr. Mercedes Seasons 1 and 2 will be bingeable on Peacock starting on October 15. That premiere will eventually be followed by the show’s most…

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06 Aug

Bill & Ted Face the Music VOD Release Moves Up to August

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The planners behind Bill & Ted Face the Music have decided that the film’s recently announced release date for VOD and limited theatrical engagements was too bogus to keep. Thus, in yet another frantic shift (one that’s become quite commonplace in the COVID era), the belated third entry in the film franchise will see its recently-set September date shift to the end of August—that’s this month! Bill & Ted Face the Music is now set to hit VOD and limited international theatrical showings on Friday, August 28. The new premiere is just one week earlier than its previous September 1…

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30 Jul

SpongeBob SquarePants Spinoff Kamp Koral Moves to CBS All Access

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Kamp Koral is officially relocating its SpongeBob SquarePants prequel hijinks to the new lakefront platform of CBS All Access. As part of a massive refurbishing to both its interface and lineup, streamer CBS All Access has announced that it will claim exclusivity of the previously Nickelodeon-bound prequel series, titled Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years. With the series having passed its original July 2020 Nickelodeon premiere window, it is now set for a streaming premiere on CBS All Access in early 2021 on a date to be revealed. The streaming move is merely the latest from chimerical corporate parent ViacomCBS of…

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27 Jul

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Moves to 2021

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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins will silently and stealthily shift its way out of a 2020 film industry schedule that’s been snakebit by the COVID cobra. Studio Paramount, which is partnering with property owners Hasbro Toys to produce, plans to move the release of the Snake Eyes film—a prequel intended to relaunch the G.I. Joe film franchise—to an unspecified date in 2021, as revealed by Hasbro (via THR,) in a call about the company’s quarterly earnings report. While the film had been set to hit theaters on October 23, 2020, the companies seem to have concluded that its long-set fall…

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20 Jul

Grease Prequel Moves Forward with Director Brett Haley

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Paramount’s plan to tell you more, tell you more about the crucial amorous 1950s-set teen backstory to its iconic 1978 musical, Grease, appears to be coming to fruition. The project, a prequel movie titled Summer Lovin’, went into development last year and has just procured a director in Brett Haley. Summer Lovin’ is officially moving forward with Haley in the director’s chair, reports Deadline. A surging indie talent for whom the film will serve as a potential mainstream breakthrough, Haley will work off a script by Leah McKendrick, a surging talent poised to break out in her own right. They…

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08 Jul

Halloween Kills Moves to 2021 Due to Coronavirus Concerns

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Halloween Kills will have to wait a full year to fulfill its titular declaration. That’s because the film, a direct sequel to 2018’s Halloween revival movie, is quickly approaching an October 2020-scheduled release date that’s looking increasingly unfeasible in the face of a possible second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Universal Pictures, who’s handling distribution for the Blumhouse co-production, has moved Halloween Kills to October 15 2021—exactly one full year from its previous October 15, 2020 date. Consequently, the shift will directly affect the film’s would-be successor, trilogy-completing offering Halloween Ends, which will similarly shift back from its October 15,…

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15 Jun

Bill & Ted Face the Music Moves Up Release Date

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Bill & Ted will face the music sooner than everyone thought. The long-awaited sci-fi comedy franchise threequel, titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, experienced a circuitous process in getting made, eventually setting a release date that serendipitously avoided the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, auspiciously enough, said release has been shifted to an earlier date. Bill & Ted Face the Music is now set to air-guitar and time-travel its way to theaters on August 14, one week earlier than its previous August 21 release date, reports Deadline. The move occurs over a year after the March 2019 announcement…

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13 Jun

WB Moves Release Dates for Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984, Godzilla vs. Kong and More

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After sticking to its original July 17 release date for months, and long after just about every other summer tentpole on the calendar moved or abandoned the season, Tenet has finally shifted. A little. But its small transition has had profound effects on the rest of the Warner Bros. blockbuster calendar, from Wonder Woman 1984 to The Matrix 4 moving all the way to 2022! Warner Bros. Pictures has moved Christopher Nolan’s time-bending espionage epic to July 31, two weeks later than initially planned, no doubt to give more theaters a chance to re-open and have audiences begin to feel…

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04 Apr

Black Widow Moves to November, Pushes Eternals to February

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In not entirely surprising news, Disney is starting to claim some of the shifting release calendar real estate in 2020 and 2021. Chief among its biggest moves is the revelation that the Mouse House has pushed Black Widow from its previous May 6 launch date to Nov. 6. The announcement, which accompanies news of Mulan moving to July and Jungle Cruise being delayed a full year until summer 2021, has resulted in Marvel’s entire movie release calendar getting shifted and shaken. Indeed, the Nov. 6 release date that Black Widow moves to was previously staked out by fellow Marvel Studios…

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04 Apr

Mulan Moves to July and Leads Disney Release Schedule Shake-Up

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Things are changing fast for Disney and its usually reliable conveyor belt of blockbusters. After being one of the most proactive studios in hunkering down during the coronavirus pandemic—delaying Mulan and other releases early in March and suspending all film production—the Mouse House is looking at a more hopeful fall… and summer. Indeed, Mulan is back on the release calendar in 2020 and sooner than you might expect. With a new release date of July 24, Mulan is now scheduled to essentially be one of the first summer releases, even as the summer is beginning to wind down into its…

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02 Apr

A Quiet Place Part II Moves to September for Theatrical Release Date

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In what many in the film industry—or just self-quarantine—will take as a hopeful sign, Paramount Pictures has moved from being one of the first studios to delay a spring release in the face of the coronavirus crisis to now putting that same movie back on the calendar at the end of summer. Indeed, A Quiet Place Part II, which was supposed to come out last month, now has a release date of Sept. 4, 2020. The news, which came as Paramount further rearranged its 2020 release schedule by moving Top Gun: Maverick from June to December, is the latest sign…

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