TV, Movies & Home Theatre - Page 29

Remember when Game of Thrones ended and we caught wind of HBO making a prequel series that would explore the events before Westeros' seven kingdoms? Well, apparently that idea has been abandoned.

According to a new report coming out of Deadline, the prequel series is now dead in the water. Jane Goldman the writer and showrunner for the prequel series has reportedly been sending emails out to cast and crew about the project, telling them that the pilot not going to happen.

At the moment HBO hasn't commented on whether or not the prequel will go ahead, but for the time being it doesn't seem very likely. According to Game of Thrones writer, George R.R Martin, the Game of Thrones prequel show would concentrate on Westeros in the era when it had 100 petty kingdoms, more on that here.

HBO Max was announced in full today with a release window of May 2020 and monthly cost of $14.99, it'll rock the entire series of mega-hits Friends and The Big Bang Theory, as well as every single Joker, Batman, and Superman movie ever made.

This means you'll get the classic (and my childhood favorite movies) in Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Not only that, but you'll even get the recent R-rated success in Todd Phillips' Joker, as well as every theatrical release of the Batman franchise including The Dark Knight Trilogy.

We can also expect other movies in both characters' history with Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice starring Henry Cavill as Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman and Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman. We'll also see Justice League, Suicide Squad, Aquaman, and many others. This will be a huge win for HBO Max as it has Warner Bros. behind it, and will be the big battler against Disney+ that now owns Marvel and the entire MCU.

We've been waiting, and the day is finally here -- HBO Max has been announced in full, with the new streaming platform coming in at $14.99 per month when it launches in May 2020.

If you're an existing HBO subscriber on AT&T or a HBO Now direct billing subscriber, you will receive HBO Mac for free. If you're with AT&T and subscribe to AT&T's premium video, mobile and broadband packages you'll also get HBO Max for free. In 2021, there will reportedly be an ad-supported version of HBO Max.

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was on-hand at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California where he explained that HBO Max is "very different from anything else that you've seen in the market so far," adding that, "This is not Netflix. This is not Disney. This is HBO Max".

Dragon Ball is one of the biggest pop culture franchises out there, and with many fans of the series itching to get a hold of it on a accessible streaming platform, Netflix might be the one to shoulder the responsibility.

The rumor has originated from Spanish-language speaking websites that have claimed that ANMTV Brazil revealed that Netflix would receive Dragon Ball Z Kai. According to these rumors, the platform would be blessed by the arrival of Dragon Ball Z Kai on November 15th, 2019.

Contrary to these rumors, What's on Netflix reports that Forbes Mexico has said that these rumors are simply just that, rumors. What's on Netflix also says that the series will remain on its home streaming service FUNinmation where it has been for quite some time. Since we have contradicting arguments and no official announcement from Netflix, the only thing we can do is wait and see.

Some new images for the upcoming Witcher TV show have been released, showcasing some quite familiar aspects of what we know and love about Geralt.

Above we have the first screenshot and as you can see from the size of the claws and hand, its quite large. We don't necessarily know what the monster is, but from the image it seems somewhat friendly? If that's even possible in the Witcher world. The rest of the images are located in the entirety of this article.

Next we have Geralt and his trusty companion Roach (his horse). From the image it could be speculated that Geralt and Roach are tracking something, as Geralt looks perplexed or in deep train of thought, while Roach's head is pointed towards the ground.

If there is a god, he has blessed us all with this new announcement from HBO Max. Adventure Time will continue to live on, but this time it will be in hour long episodes.

Just as Adventure Time concluded its massive 10th season on the Cartoon Network, a new announcement has come out from the Cartoon Network Twitter page. The announcement says that the adventure will continue, but this time on exclusively on HBO Max and under the name Adventure Time: Distant Lands.

Each of these episodes will be one hour long, and at the moment HBO has already released the descriptions for each of them. The four episode titles are as follows; BMO, Obsidian, Wizard City and Together Again. The press release says that Adventure Time: Distant Lands will be released on HBO Max sometime in 2020. In other news about HBO Max, Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away will be exclusively available on the service, more on that here.

Terminator: Dark Fate is nearly here, with the new entry in the refreshed Terminator franchise directed by Tim Miller, who was behind the camera for the Ryan Reynolds vehicle Deadpool.

There are a bunch of first reactions on Twitter and early reviews from various influencers and websites, with most of them mixed -- but some are calling Terminator: Dark Fate the best entry in the Terminator franchise since Terminator 2 from 1991, directed by Avatar and Titantic director James Cameron.

The last time we saw Terminator we still had Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800... but it seems the secret sauce in Terminator: Dark Fate is Sarah Connor, or Linda Hamilton. Hamilton was a force to be reckoned with in T2 back in 1991, and it seems she was the right ingredient for Dark Fate.

Netflix's El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie has taken off to a great success, as recent reports have shown that 6.5 million viewers have already seen the movie in just its first three days of release.

According to Nielsen's SVOD Content Ratings, 40% of the people that tuned into the show which is 2.65 million viewers watched it on the first day of release. The ratings service also says that the majority of the people who watched the film were adults in the age range of 18-34, which equated for 1.08 million people. The second largest age range was between 35-49 years old, measuring at 738,000 people.

El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie was an incredible compliment to Breaking Bad. It probably wasn't as good as Breaking Bad, but I don't personally think that was the films goal. El Camino felt as if it was more so an epilogue to Breaking Bad, and designed to not be anything close to how spectacular the shows finale was, but instead compliment it in a way that left viewers satisfied with the final concluding events of Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).

Disney just released the final Rise of Skywalker trailer, and we get some big teases from the final chapter.

Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker is the end of George Lucas' legendary sci-fi saga, so it's only proper the series goes out with a bang. The trailer shows lots of little tidbits that speak volumes. We get a glimpse of a big all-out war that could be the Resistance's last-ditch fusillade against the New Order, what appears to be a Kylo-Rey alliance to destroy a statue of Darth Vader, and a tantalizing clip of a robotic Emperor Palpatine at the end.

"Long have I waited. And now...you're coming together," Palpatine says in the trailer, possibly hinting that Kylo will try to seduce Rey to the dark side just as Vader did with Luke. Kylo could change and finally come into the light--at least temporarily--but there's some sequences where he's fighting Rey on an ocean planet.

It seems that Twitch have started testing a brand new feature that will allow for streamers to share a selection of Amazon Prime Video content with their viewers.

This new feature is called 'Watch Parties' and according to an email sent to Travis Shreffler, a content creator and author, Prime Video has asked him to test this new feature that will allow for selection of Prime Video and movies to be shared on his channel while he is streaming.

The email also says that this feature will only be available for viewers who already have Prime Video, and to kick off the new feature Amazon will be making Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Mission Impossible: Fallout and Pokemon available. Amazon also says that after some more testing time they will continue to add more titles to service, but for the time being it will only be available in the US and with the previously mentioned titles.

A new deal between WarnerMedia and Studio Ghibli's American distributor GKids will see multiple classic Japanese animation movies arrive on HBO Max.

WarnerMedia has scooped up a large selection of classic Studio Ghibli titles, the following animations will be available on HBO Max: Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle. Koji Hoshino, chairman of Studio Ghibli, spoke to Variety about the new deal, saying "We are excited to be working with HBO Max to bring the complete collection of Studio Ghibli films to streaming audiences in the U.S. As a premium content brand, HBO Max is an ideal home for our films."

Hoshino continued and said "Upon launch of the service this spring, existing Ghibli fans will be able enjoy their favorites and delve deeper into the library, while whole new audiences will be able to discover our films for the first time." Originally, Disney was responsible for many of the dubbing of these titles, which raises the question to why they didn't purchase the streaming rights from GKids. Regardless of that though, HBO Max will now be home to some of the greatest pieces of work from legendary director and screenwriter Hayao Miyazaki.

The Matrix 4 just secured Neil Patrick Harris for its cast, with Harris joining franchise stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, who play Neo and Trinity, respectively.

Jada Pinkett Smith is reportedly in negotiations to return to The Matrix franchise according to "several sources" of Deadline, with Pinkett Smith starring as Niobe in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Deadline adds that "it is not a done deal yet", so don't go telling your friends just yet.

Now we just need Laurence Fishburne to join the franchise, and it'll be like a family reunion. I really want to see Australian actor Hugo Weaving come back as one of the best villains in movie history in Agent Smith, I think I'd genuinely tear up if I saw Reeves and Weaving in The Matrix 4.

Naturally when a tech giant emerges to massive success books, movies and/or TV shows follow closely behind. Thats exactly whats going to happen for Uber as a TV show is currently in the works.

Uber will soon take its place next to other tech giants that have had movies made about them but with a new TV show produced by Showtime. At the moment the TV show doesn't have a title but we do know that it will be based on the bestselling book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber".

Showtime President of Entertainment, Jana Winograde talked about the show and said, "The story of Uber is rich in plot twists, one-of-a-kind personalities and important implications for corporate America. It is a case study of ingenuity and insanity, and there are no writers better suited than Brian and David to explore this business and the people who drive it, literally and metaphorically."

Amazon's highly-anticipated Lord of the Rings TV show has reportedly snagged another actor to join the cast, welcome Maxim Baldry for what has been called a "significant role" in the series.

According to Collider, Baldry has been picked up for what they call a "significant role" in the series and as per usual details about that role have not been released. Amazon are keeping the writing of the series under extremely tight wraps, and an example of how tightly kept the secrecy is - Amazon Studios head, Jennifer Salke said the writers are "down in Santa Monica. You have to go through such clearance, and they have all their windows taped closed. And there's a security guard that sits outside, and you have to have a fingerprint to get in there, because their whole board is up on a thing of the whole season."

Baldry is known for his roles in Mr. Bean's Holiday, and the HBO series Years and Years. Judging from the report, Baldry will be playing quite a major role in the coming show, what that role might be probably won't be known until Amazon have compiled their full cast. Will Hugo Weaving return to his role of Elrond? Who will play the king of numenor? Who will play Sauron throughout his downfall and how far back in the Second Age of Middle-Earth will we see? All of these questions will puzzle fans until Amazon are good and ready.

Netflix has teased the release of the first full trailer for the upcoming Witcher TV series with a short but awesome clip. Are you ready for Geralt?

The above trailer has been slyly released onto the Italian Netflix YouTube channel and while the clip is only 16 seconds long there is definitely some never-before-seen scenes contained within it. Fans will most likely have to pause the video numerous times to catch the scenes, but regardless of the effort to be put in, it worth it for the scenes as they are quite awesome.

At the moment Netflix doesn't have a solid release date on the series, all we know is that its expected to launch sometime in 2019. A recent report has said that Netflix will have a strong presence at the Lucca Comics & Games event, which will have complete panels for the show and also show the first full trailer. This also means that Netflix could drop the full release date for the show in just less than two weeks time, how exciting!

There was a bunch of hype around the news that Superbad and Wolf of Wall Street star Jonah Hill being offred a role in Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman, but Hill has "moved on from the project" reports Variety.

We don't know why Hill passed on the role in The Batman, with insiders telling Variety that "when the news was initially reported, it was very early in the negotiations and that a deal was far from closing". It was barely 24 hours ago that Zoe Kravitz was confirmed as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, who will join Robert Pattinson in the titular role.

Matt Reeves and Warner Bros. will now have to re-think what they're going to do with the role that Hill was reportedly up for, which was either the Penguin or Riddler. They will have to find a new actor to take on those role/s, but I was actually kind of keen to see what Jonah would've done in either of those roles.

The Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been previewed by Paramount pictures in April of 2019, and it was not received with much fanfare. Many long-time video games and Sonic fans lamented to the origin of the cartoonish character. Which took a garish turn trying to recreate the live-action film style that so many of our childhoods have had to endure thanks to modern CGI. To catch up, the less initiated, let's roll the trailer.

As you can see, the Sonic character is a bit too real for what Sonic is. Everything about Sonic's anatomy and overall appearance feels wrong for what he has been through the life of his character and associated game's character art.

Fans have even remade the trailer with what seems to be a broadly acceptable appearance for the ring obsessed blue spiny mammal. I, for one, think the fan-made version feels more faithful to the original and also looks better, whereas the first trailer feels like a painfully bad MOCAP/CGI blunder.

Imagine a new comedy set in the world of eSports, well, that is just what is going to happen as CBS given out a put pilot order for a series, according to Variety.

Variety says that the currently untitled single-camera series will follow the story of the recently retired pro basketball star who attempts to try and reconnect with his son by purchasing an eSports team franchise. Kapital Entertainment's Aaron Kaplan and Dana Honor will executive produce the show alongside Dan Kopelman who will also be the writer.

Dan Kopelman is known for his other CBS comedy series "Me, Myself, and I", and his other accomplishments include "Malcolm in the Middle," "Big Wolf on Campus," "Galavant," and "Rules of Engagement." So if the coming eSports series is anything like the previously mentioned titles, gamers could have an amazingly funny series to enjoy.

Joker continues to be a massive hit in the box office as recent reports have indicated that the controversial movie has already surpassed the $200 million mark in its second weekend.

The DC Film raked in another $8.4 million from domestic theaters on Monday which pushes the 11-day domestic total past $200 million to a precise $201.99 million. Just over the weekend, Joker already set a new record in the box office, earning $55 million and creaming movie projections that expected it to only reach $40 million.

Joker also cracked the opening weekend record with $96 million, previously the record was set by Venom that debuted at $80 million. Joker also broke Venom's October Friday box office record by raking in $39.8 million in its first day in theaters. If you haven't seen Joker yet, I cannot recommend the movie enough. If you are planning on going to see the film, I recommend that you go into it by taking out any previous thought that the movie is about comic book characters. The film is instead about the slow decline of a persons mental health, and how much a persons mentality can take before their mindset becomes that of the Joker.

Disney has been slowly acquiring what feels like every single company in the world, with the gigantic company owning both Marvel Studios and Fox -- and now Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds is doing what he does best: trolling.

Reynolds posted a new photo up on his personal Instagram when he visited Marvel Studios, where he said he auditioned for the role of Anthony Stark, before he was escorted from the building. The news could be leading right into Deadpool entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but if Deadpool does, it most likely won't be until we see Phase 5.

Deadpool wasn't included in any of Marvel Studios' recent teases of Phase 4, but if he was it's not like the studio (nor Disney) would allow that news to break before it was ready and all those contracts and NDAs were signed. Reynolds is as I said at the start of the article, doing what he does best... and that is being just like his alter-ego in Deadpool, and trolling the world.