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19 Oct

Dexter Revival Will Have “No Resemblance” to Original Finale

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According to returning showrunner Clyde Phillips, Dexter’s new 10-episode limited revival at Showtime will seek a more fitting ending for the series, after fans were left largely disappointed by the Season 8 finale that saw Michael C. Hall’s serial killer retiring to the Pacific Northwest to become a lumberjack. Phillips, who was in charge of the better first half of the Miami-set crime drama, says that the revival won’t exactly “undo” what happened at the end of Season 8, but instead “basically start from scratch.” “We want this to not be Dexter season nine,” Phillips informed THR on its Top…
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28 Sep

The Utopia US Remake’s Easter Egg Nods to the UK Original

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It’s only polite, when you’ve borrowed an idea, to acknowledge its originator. Amazon Prime’s blackly comic conspiracy thriller remake Utopia does that by giving an executive producer credit to Dennis Kelly, the creator of the original UK series. Kelly recently told Den of Geek that though the remake had his blessing and best wishes, his involvement in the US series had been nil. As is often the case, his executive producer credit was a courtesy.  Another little courtesy is paid at around 04:30 in the remake’s second episode. A gang of comic book fans who’ve been speaking online for months meet up…
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23 Sep

Jurassic World: Dominion Director Says Fans ‘Underestimate’ Size of Original Cast’s Roles

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One of the most exciting things for fans of the original Jurassic Park is that the film’s three leads, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, will all be reprising their roles in Jurassic World: Dominion. As the third and final (at least according to marketing) Jurassic World film, the picture is intended to be a finale for both the current Jurassic World trilogy of films that began with the Colin Trevorrow-directed blockbuster in 2015, and the original Jurassic Park movies, including Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic. Yet there has been some small skepticism in certain quarters, where it’s being snarked…
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22 Sep

The Flash: The Secret Origin of the Original TV Series

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A flash of lightning. An iconic red and gold costume. Weird sci-fi villains and blockbuster special effects. We could only be talking about the beloved The Flash TV series, right? Ah, but this isn’t Grant Gustin and Team Flash from the CW’s The Flash. No, this is The Flash TV series from 1990, the one starring John Wesley Shipp and boasting a theme song by none other than superhero movie maestro Danny Elfman. The Flash was an expensive gamble for CBS and ultimately only lasted one season, but its legacy lives on and it remains an important part of superhero…
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04 Sep

Hidden Secrets in Disney’s Original 1998 Mulan

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It’s been over 20 years since the original Mulan movie hit our screens and now Disney is blessing us with a remake of the princess-with-a-twist tale. Forget sparkly slippers and a true love’s kiss, Mulan leads her army to victory in her fight for freedom. The phenomena that became Mulan was originally set to be a short based on an oppressed woman who finds love with a soldier who sweeps her off her feet, but doesn’t find independence. But Disney didn’t want to work on that. The Mulan we all know and love wouldn’t be anything if she wasn’t the…
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31 Aug

Link Tank: Movie Remakes That Are Better Than the Original

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More often than not, movie reboots suck. These excellent remakes are the exceptions to the rule. “You can hear the collective groan from all the way across the internet whenever Hollywood announces a new remake. No, their success rate isn’t great. Critics and groaners get one thing wrong, though: Remakes are nothing new. Studios have been remaking their own stories since shortly after creating their first stories.” Read more at Mental Floss. The queer representation in Netflix’s The Old Guard should be a wakeup call to big studios to make their movies more inclusive. “While major movie studios might make…
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22 Aug

Beastmaker Remake Floated by Original Director

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Forget the divide between baby boomers, Generation X, and millennials, our society can most easily be divided into those who are old enough to have seen Don Coscarelli’s 1982 sword and sorcery masterpiece The Beastmaster roughly one hundred times on HBO (or maybe TBS if you’re slightly younger) and those who have not. If you haven’t seen it, get thee to Amazon Prime in the US, where you can currently watch one of the best fantasy flicks of its era for free. The Beastmaster stars Mark Singer as Dar, a young warrior in the kingdom of Aruk, which resides in…
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20 Aug

Battletoads Review: Rocks Harder Than the Original’s Pause Music

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Battletoads is one of those ’90s franchises that, despite a handful of video game releases and a very short-lived cartoon, fizzled out for all except a group of dedicated fans. For those of us who do remember Battletoads, the classic beat ’em up/platformer remains a classic. What started as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles clone became a NES title notable for its legendary difficulty and the way it altered the gameplay from level to level. Now, with a revival of the series about to drop for a new generation, the question is: how do you make a modern Battletoads game?…
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14 Aug

DC Universe Loses Original Content to HBO Max, Comics to Stay

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It appears that the DC Universe experiment is coming to an end. Launched in 2018 with the noble intention of providing fans with a one stop resource for comics, message boards, and new original programming, the streaming service and comics library has struggled almost out of the gate. Despite producing a succession of critically acclaimed live action and animated original shows, confidence in DC Universe as its own entity never seemed terribly high. Its flagship live action show, Titans, was met with middling reviews. The next on its slate, Swamp Thing, fared better critically but was canceled and saw its…
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31 Jul

How The Last of Us HBO Series Will “Expand” on the Original Game

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Fans already know that an HBO live-action series based on The Last of Us is in the works, with Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann attached to write and executive produce the series. But players who have spent countless hours with Joel and Ellie may still have some questions and concerns about HBO’s adaptation. In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live about Chernobyl, Mazin also dropped a few details about how he and Druckmann are approaching The Last of Us TV series that’s also in the works at HBO. The Last of Us portion…
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30 Jul

Pixar Reveals New Original Film is Luca

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Disney and Pixar Animation Studios may still be angling for the intriguing Soul to meet its current November release date, but the pair is also now moving onto the next project with the announcement of Luca. The previously untitled film slated for June 18, 2021 was unveiled by Pixar on Tuesday after the movie’s name, Luca, leaked online earlier this week. That was due to Disney filing a trademark application for the title. Now we have our first concept artwork from the film, visible above, as well as new details about the animated movie, which is set in the Italian…
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22 Jul

Malorie Review: Does the Bird Box Sequel Live Up to the Original? (Spoiler Free )

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When Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box landed in 2014, it was a critical and financial success and quickly found itself optioned for a movie, despite being apparently ‘unfilmable’. The movie arrived on Netflix in 2018, starring Sandra Bullock and was a storming success for the streaming channel. Hot on the heels of the buzz around John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, Bird Box was likened to that movie, switched hearing for vision. The premise was simple: Earth has been invaded by mysterious creatures. If you look at them, you go mad and kill yourself. The book worked wonderfully, telling the…
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21 Jul

Xbox Boss Explains How Game Pass Allows For More Original Games

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In an interview with Polygon, Xbox boss Phil Spencer speaks about the team’s interest in encouraging their partners to pursue more original video game ideas. “We now have a platform that can really support us taking more creative risk,” Spencer says. “I think absolutely there’s an opportunity for us to do that with more franchises, whether it’s … kind of spinoff genres, or even revisiting things like Flight Sim, and bringing those back. They’re actually part of the same lens for us of, ‘What is it in our portfolio that we have? And what ideas would we either like to…
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17 Jul

Link Tank: The Original Golden Girls House Is Up For Sale

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The original Golden Girls house is now on the market for the first time ever with an asking price of just under $3 million. “The perfect retirement home for a group of close friends is up for sale. As Variety reports, the house where Rose, Blanche, Dorothy, and Sophia live together in The Golden Girls has hit the market for the first time ever for an asking price of just under $3 million.” Read more at Mental Floss. Despite multiple attempts, Disney has not been handling the re-opening of their theme parks and attractions well. “From Disneyland in Hong Kong…
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17 Jul

The Sandman Audible Original Review: the Dreaming Comes to Audiobook

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Screen adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s celebrated graphic novels have been teased since the 90s, with various talent attached but none as yet managing to materialize in physical form. While a TV series for Netflix is in pre-production with Wonder Woman writer Allan Heinberg showrunning and David Goyer and Gaiman exec producing, an audio book has arrived from Audible boasting super-high production values and a starry cast. More like a radio play than a straight up reading of the text, this adaptation works surprisingly well and stays very faithful to the books, adding in physical descriptions of characters where necessary. The…
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16 Jul

Netflix: Top Ten Most Popular Original Movies Revealed

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Netflix has confirmed its ten most popular original films for the very first time. The streaming service has only quite recently started to give prying eyes a bigger peek behind the curtain by setting up a trending Top Ten on the platform and giving subscribers an idea of which projects have been hit or miss as they’re released, but this week’s unveiling of its original hits to date (via Bloomberg) reveals that some of its more expensive feature films seem to have been worth the risk. Below, we’ve got a look at Netflix’s official Top Ten Most Popular Original Movies…
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13 Jul

Star Trek: The Original Series Needs A Real Origin Story

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When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds eventually debuts on CBS All Access and gives us the further adventures of Captain Pike, Spock, and Number One aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, another gap in the Star Trek timeline will be fully explored. And yet, this gap isn’t the weirdest missing piece of Trek history. Other than one episode of The Original Series, we have almost zero on-screen canonical record of adventures that may have occurred for some — or all — of the year 2265, the first year of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy’s five year mission on the Enterprise. In essence,…
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02 Jul

Hamilton Movie: Meet the Original Cast

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Wait For It. More than just one of the best songs in Hamilton—that Aaron Burr has soul!—those words signify how long fans around the world have waited to see Hamilton performed. Not everyone could afford a ticket at the height of the musical’s popularity or lived near a city where the touring show has visited. Yet now, in times when the lights across Broadway are out, we all can be in the room where it happens. Thanks to Disney+, and the $75 million the Walt Disney Company shelled out for the rights, a filmed performance with the original Broadway cast…
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29 Jun

Russo Bros Recall Busting Tom Holland’s Chops For Skipping Original Star Wars Trilogy

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In early May, MCU veterans Joe and Anthony Russo launched a weekly Instagram Live show to discuss a range of classic movies that made them want to be directors in the first place. Starting with Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine, the ‘Russo Bros. Pizza Film School‘ has been a fun time for viewers choosing to tune in during quarantine ever since. In a new interview about the ongoing project with Fox 5 DC, the Russo brothers chatted about their various attempts to school audiences who have gaps in their film history knowledge, including a young Tom Holland during his Marvel debut…
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15 May

Al Capone: 10 Actors Who Played the Original Scarface

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Mother of mercy, did the movies mark the beginning of RICO? The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was named after the character Rico Bandello in what is largely considered to be the first gangster movie, Little Caesar. While Edward G. Robinson’s Rico wasn’t specifically Al Capone in that film, the real-life gangster’s signature cigar fumes are all over it. Josh Trank replaced the Cuban Corona with a carrot in the recent Vertical Entertainment film Capone, which stars Tom Hardy as the title character in his twilight years, suffering from a premature burial. The aging mobster’s memories were buried by…
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