Gantz Live-Action Movie Coming From Overlord Director Julius Avery

Julius Averyhas been set to direct a live action adaptation of theGantzmanga series for Sony Pictures. Based on the manga series written and illustrated byHiroya Oku,Gantzdebuted in 2000 and ran until 2013, capping out at a total of 37 volumes. There was an anime adaptation of the series that ran for two seasons in 2004 and a CGI film calledGantz: 0was made in 2016. The series tells the story of high school students Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, who after dying in a train accident, find themselves a part of a semi-posthumous “game” in which they along with a number of other recently deceased people, are forced to hunt down and kill aliens armed to the teeth in all sorts of futuristic technology, weapons, and items....

June 5, 2025 · 2 min · 393 words · Stephen Lee

Get Into the Mind of Jon Hamm With a Sneak Peek From the Iconic ‘Your Friends & Neighbors' Season 1 Soundtrack [Exclusive]

If you’re having a difficult time waiting to see what kind of troubleJon Hamm’s Coop will inevitably find himself in during the second season ofYour Friends & Neighbors, there’s something on the way that will help hold you over. Tomorrow, Friday, June 13, Lakeshore Records is set to releaseYour Friends & Neighbors: Season One — Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrackonto digital. The music, which was composed byDominic Lewis(Karate Kid: Legends), will pull audiences right back into the most nail-biting moments of the well-reviewed first season....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 449 words · Penny Williams

Graduation Review: Cristian Mungiu's Romanian Drama Stuns

The road to personal ruin is paved with good intentions.Cristian Mungiu, the Romanian filmmaker who’s earned a stern reputation with the Cannes earth-shaker4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, hasn’t delivered a film with quite the stomach churning heft since the 2007 drama, preferring instead to experiment with varying degrees of Sartrean existentialism and Romanian politics with his films since.Graduationis one such political film, but it also happens to be one of his most disturbing....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 531 words · Donald Jones

Graham King on Tomb Raider, Bohemian Rhapsody, and a 4-Hour Gangs of New York

With Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’Tomb Raideropening this weekend, I recently saw down with producerGraham Kingfor an exclusive video interview. He talked about why he acquired the rights to theTomb Raidermovies, the challenges of telling a story that primarily takes place on an island, making a movie that works for both moviegoers and gamers alike, if it’s challenging to get someone to sign on for a multi picture deal, what they learned from test screening the movie, which action sequence was the toughest to pull off, and a lot more....

June 5, 2025 · 15 min · 3169 words · Christopher Brady

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Trailer: An Emotional Conclusion to MCU Trilogy

At this year’s Comic-Con Experience (CCXP) in São Paulo, Brazil, the expo kicked the weekend’s events off with panels for Disney’s Marvel Studios, with big news ahead of the franchise’s Phase 5. President and producerKevin Feigeattended the panels, joined by the cast of directorJames Gunn’s third and final entry to his MCU trilogy,Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where they finally shared the first official trailer with the world. On Thursday, CCXP hit the ground running at the panels for Phase 5’sAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniaand the final installment in theGotGtrilogy,Vol....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 456 words · Travis Evans

How Disney Turned the Myth: A Frozen Tale VR Into a Disney+ Short Film

From Walt Disney Animation Studios, the world ofFrozenis being explored in a whole new way with the short filmMyth: A Frozen Tale, which has taken inspiration from the environments, themes and elemental characters fromFrozen 2, in developing and creating a tale set in an enchanted forest outside of Arendelle. As the tradition of telling bedtime stories manifests with narration from Queen Iduna (voiced byEvan Rachel Wood), the beautifully rich and vibrant world is brought to life through encounters with the water spirit known as the Nokk, the wind spirit Gale, the Earth Giants, and the fire spirit salamander named Bruni....

June 5, 2025 · 11 min · 2206 words · Michele Cain

How To Watch 'The Amazing Race' Season 37: Premiere Date, Racers, and More

On your mark, get set, GO!The Amazing Raceis back again, this time for its 37th season. And it’s going to be bigger than it’s ever been. With fourteen teams at the starting line, it’s officially the biggest cast in the show’s history. Family, friends, and partners fill up the roster. Should these teams succeed and reach each checkpoint, they’ll be seeing some of the most fascinating places in the world. This season, the racers are set to visit Hong Kong, Japan, France, Portugal, the United Arab Emirates, and, for the first time, Bulgeria!...

June 5, 2025 · 5 min · 894 words · Cory Sanders MD

Hugh Jackman Reinvents the Boxing Movie With This Knockout Sci-Fi Drama

Hugh Jackmanhas plenty of experience with smash hits. The star of the upcomingDeadpool and Wolverineand a Hollywood staple for the past twenty years, Jackman has starred in films by directors as accomplished asChristopher Nolanand musicals as inspiring asThe Greatest Showman, butone of his most underappreciated roles comes from a movie that puts on a very different kind of show.Real Steel, the 2011 sci-fi action film directed byShawn Levy, has largely been overshadowed byJackman’s many other movies, but the film endures in popularity likely due to its resurgence on Netflix....

June 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1146 words · Carlos Patterson

Is Nikki Exotica and Justin’s Second Attempt at Love Worth It on '90 Day Fiancé'?

Season 10 ofTLC’s90 DayFiancékicked off this year with another unusual couple. The U.S. citizen in this case is performerNikki Exotika. Nikki (Nicole) is a recording artist with a singing career and a big performing personality and is also proudly transgender. Before showing up on TLC, Nikki was reportedly booked for a season 1 episode ofE!’sBotched,but her part was left out of the episode’s final cut. She is a New Jersey native, and her foreign fiancé in this scenario is Moldovan social media influencerIgor (a....

June 5, 2025 · 7 min · 1358 words · Ashley Hayden

Is the 'American Idol' Live Voting System Legit?

Back in the day, during the FOX iteration ofAmerican Idol, the show was more than just a pop culture juggernaut. It was one of the shows that kept the network at the top of the pack.American Idolhad two episodes per week; one meant for the performances and the second for the results show. Each week, at least one hopeful would be eliminated whenRyan Seacrestsaid, “Dim the lights.” However,having a separation of days meant voting would open at the end of the first show, and fans would typically have until the morning to ensure their favorites would advance to safety....

June 5, 2025 · 4 min · 751 words · Tiffany Walker

Jennifer Jason Leigh on Lisey’s Story and Hunters Season 2

Based on the novel byStephen King, who has adapted the story himself, and directed byPablo Larraín, the Apple TV+ limited seriesLisey’s Storyfollows Lisey Landon (Julianne Moore) as she continues to find her footing after the death of her husband, beloved novelist Scott Landon (Clive Owen). Still unsure of how to put all the pieces of her life back together, Lisey must also contend with a rabid fan (Dane DeHaan) that’s dangerously obsessed with Scott’s work while trying to understand the world that her sister Amanda (Joan Allen) has retreated into....

June 5, 2025 · 6 min · 1234 words · Laura Ingram

Jimmy’s Power Trip Just Destroyed 'Big Brother's Strongest Alliance

There are many ways to win theCBSreality seriesBig Brother, but none of them are possible without at least one good alliance. Luckily for this season’s resident AI strategist,Jimmy Heagerty, he quickly scored the best of the season; the trio of Jimmy,Morgan Pope, andMickey Leehad all the charisma and strategic skills necessary to make it to the end. These were easily some of the strongest people coming into the season,and Jimmy was lucky to have these women by his side, which is what made it so hard to watch his recent power trip completely turn them against him....

June 5, 2025 · 4 min · 691 words · William Ferguson

Justified Sequel Greenlit; Timothy Olyphant Returning as Raylan Givens

We’ve got news of another returning star, folks. As announced earlier today byEric Schrier, President of FX Entertainment, prolific American actorTimothy Olyphantwill once again don the iconic hat of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens for a new limited series to be aired by the network. The 53-year-old played the character for five years from 2010 onwards in the preceding series, Western crime dramaJustified, in which the tough officer Givens dispenses his own brutal form of justice....

June 5, 2025 · 3 min · 497 words · Megan Murray