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No Time to Die Festival Premiere Confirms James Bond Is Not Moving Release Date

After taking their No Time to Die title to heart and moving the new 007 adventure from April 2020 to November 2020, and then to April 2021 and now back to the fall of this year, Eon Productions and MGM appear adamant: the 25th James Bond movie will be coming out this year, meeting its September and October release dates. And now, No Time to Die has added a film festival premiere to prove it. MGM confirmed as much Friday when it announced No Time to Die will have its Swiss premiere at the Zurich Film Festival on Sept. 28,…
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Raya and the Last Dragon Star Kelly Marie Tran Talks Moving On After Star Wars

One of the darkest stains on the history of Star Wars, Disney, and fandom in general was the disgraceful treatment of Kelly Marie Tran, who played Resistance mechanic Rose Tico in 2017’s The Last Jedi and 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. Starting almost immediately after she was cast and continuing through the release of The Last Jedi, Tran was the subject of hideous online abuse and harassment from a toxic subsection of alleged Star Wars “fans.” The constant attacks ultimately drove Tran off social media as members of the Star Wars cast and crew — as well as other actors…
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How Firefly Lane Depicts a Messy and Moving Female Friendship

This article contains spoilers for Firefly Lane. There’s something altogether predictable yet endearing about Firefly Lane, the latest in a line of Netflix shows adapted from the realm of romance and/or women’s fiction with a clear strength of star power at its center. It’s a story that spans three decades of friendship between two women who meet in their teenage years, following them through their strongest and lowest points in life (both together and apart) and all of the heartache, turmoil and drama that provides.  In short, it’s prime material to mine from, and seemingly tailor-made for the types of…
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Wonder Woman 1984 Delayed to December, Possibly Moving Dune

It appears Warner Bros. is not satisfied with the Labor Day weekend rollout of Tenet. That at least should be one takeaway from the news that Wonder Woman 1984 has been delayed from its Oct. 2 perch all the way to December, which would also displace Warner Brothers’ Dune remake as well. The news came Friday afternoon out of The Wall Street Journal, which reported WB is delaying the superhero sequel because Hollywood studios “worry U.S. moviegoers are hesitant to return to theaters in sufficient numbers to justify a second major release in the span of a month.” The delay…
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New York Comic Con Festivities Cancelled, Event Moving Online

New York Comic Con, the most attended comic book and pop culture convention in the United States, is officially moving online less than two months ahead of its previously scheduled October kickoff. The grim news, while hardly shocking, does come with the small silver lining that the event will live on via live digital panels on YouTube. ReedPop, the large public event-based company behind NYCC and a number of other pop culture gatherings, also announced Tuesday several major television panels have already agreed to move to YouTube panels, including Starz’s American Gods, CBS All Access’s catalogue of new Star Trek…
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Moving Forward at Paramount

This time last year, things did not look good for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. The first trailer for Paramount’s adaptation of Sega’s video game franchise had just been released, and the backlash was severe. It was late April of 2019 – which feels like an aeon ago now – that we got our first proper look at the ‘live-action’ version of the beloved blue hedgehog, and it revealed that certain design decisions had led to him sporting human teeth, for reasons that are still fairly mystifying. To put it bluntly: it did not go down well, and a hasty…
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SXSW Film Festival Moving to Amazon Prime

The cancellation of the SXSW in Austin, Texas last month—an intersection of festivals and conferences in film, music, and technology—was one of the first major social upheavals caused by the coronavirus pandemic in North America. It of course would not be the last. However, as prudent a decision as it was by the city of Austin to prevent 400,000 global revelers to descend upon their city, there is no denying the heartbreak of denying hundreds of independent filmmakers, many of them first-timers, their moment of triumph. That’s why it’s a ray of good news that SXSW and Amazon Prime Video…
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