TV, Movies & Home Theatre - Page 37

A new report has come out from the Wall Street Journal that shines a light on the coming new streaming service from Apple. The potential Apple TV replacement is set to feature HBO, Showtime and Starz shows.

According to The Wall Street journal, Apple is about to unveil a brand new TV streaming service with a new app. It is unclear whether or not this new app will replace Apple TV, or will be standalone. The contents of the app would be similar to that of Amazon Prime Video Channels, except it would have channels such as HBO, Showtime and Starz. It is said that each of these channels would cost a $9.99 fee.

The report also says that Apple is aiming to have all of their content featured in a uniform app. They ultimately believe that having a single app that allows for each individual user tick and untick what content they would like to see (News, new TV shows, popular apps etc) will ensure the most convenient user experience. Apple is set to unveil the new video streaming service and Apple News subscription this Monday.

Pixar has just released the first official trailer to Toy Story 4, which sees the iconic characters of the beloved franchise returning for another adventure. Check it out:

We know that Woody meets up with Bo Peep again in Toy Story 4, which is going to have fans of the franchise happy, as well as lots of tears shed during the movie I'm sure. We do get to see in the new Toy Story 4 trailer a new character called "Forky", which Bonnie adds to her collection of friends and I think plenty of hilarious antics will happen from this character alone.

Disney Pixar explains Toy Story 4's synopsis: "Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy".

In a move that could fuel an entire new generation of cinema, Paramount Pictures has sent a letter to cinemas across the US asking to kick off a series of tests to see what is the fastest frame rate their projectors and screens support.

The reason? Paramount wants to see Ang Lee's new movie 'Gemini Man' in 120FPS, as he shot the movie in the super-FPS format. Back in 2016, Lee released Billy Lynn's Long Half Time Walk in 120FPS but there were only 12 cinemas across the entire world that could handle the 120FPS speeds, and only two of them were in the United States.

Gemini Man would be an exciting movie to kick off the 120FPS craze, with Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Benedict Wong starring. Paramount is confident in the movie, which will drop on October 11. The letter that the studio sent to cinemas however, claims the high frame rate (HFR) version of the movie is a "turnkey experience" for cinemagoers.

Disney and Marvel have just dropped a new trailer to Avengers: Endgame, which has some spoilers in it so if you want to go into it fresh, please do not watch the trailer. If you want to be spoiled, at least a little, then you know what to do.

We get to see a bunch of new shots, characters, interaction between characters that have never met in the MCU (or ever), and more. The new Endgame trailer has a cool moment between Thor and Captain Marvel at the end, the latter of which stars in her own movie that is currently in theaters.

Spoilers below:

Ryan Reynolds has been all over high-profile movies recently with the release of Deadpool 2, and upcoming Pokemon: Detective Pikachu.

Could you imagine Ryan Reynolds playing Uncharted's Nathan Drake? Well, it almost happened whether you think Reynolds would be a good fit for the role or not. According to an interview with screenwriter and producer Joe Carnahan, Reynolds was "very, very close" to playing Nathan Drake in an R-rated Uncharted movie.

Above you will find an episode of The Mutuals on the Discussing Film YouTube Channel where Carnahan talked about his script for the upcoming movie. He says that it is "more skewed to an adult audience" and that Reynolds was about to take the role before he opted out for the role of Deadpool instead. I can't say that I'm upset with the decision of Reynold's choosing Deadpool of Nathan Drake, as I can't really see another actor filling the shoes of Deadpool after Reynolds' performance.

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Nothing can prepare you for the mind-blowing mayhem that is Overlord. Mega producer J.J. Abrams creates an insanely twisted thrill ride about a team of American paratroopers who come face-to-face with Nazi super-soldiers unlike the world has ever seen.

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The speculation can now be put to bed as Amazon have officially revealed that their upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show will be set in the 'Second Age' of Tolkien's Legendarium.

Amazon created a dedicated "The Lord of the Rings on Prime" Twitter account to share updates with fans about the coming TV show. Poetically, the account started off their tweeting with "I wisely started with a map"which is quote from J.R.R Tolkien himself. The page then proceeded to post images of a map and slowly over time it reposted the same image but with updated locations on the map. Eventually, the account posted a link to the map on the Amazon website with the caption "Welcome to the Second Age".

Now what does this mean for the TV show story-wise? and how is this going to influence what we are going to see in season 1? If the second age is the chosen setting for the TV show, we will most likely see a great display of the rise and fall of Numenor. We can see Numenor at the bottom left of the map, and its inhabitants, the Numenorians landing on Middle-Earth and the struggles of fighting Sauron throughout the Second Age. The first season should also give us a overview of the relationship between Middle-Earth's Elves and the landing Numenorians, eventually moving into the settling of Arnor and Gondor. Within the entirety of this article I have provided a much better explanation video of the Rise and Downfall of Numenor.

The second trailer for the upcoming Lord of the Rings author biopic movie titled 'Tolkien' has been released, showcasing some brand new scenes from the movie.

The trailer has been released onto FoxSearchlight and begins with lead actors Nicholas Hoult who players Tolkien, and Lily Collins who players Tolkiens partner, Edith Bratt. The trailer begins with Tolkien explaining to Bratt that he is fascinated with language, so interested that he even went on create his own through his stories or legends. Bratt then asks Tolkien to recount a story for her, we are then thrown back into the early stages of Tolkien's life while the older Tolkien narrates over his yourself's adventures.

We see many scenes from different stages of Tolkien's life, such as him growing up, going to war, the struggles of romance, the bonding of brotherhood and most importantly, the creation of the very well known 'fellowship.' The movie will be concentrating closely on the 'fellowship' that was formed during Tolkien's time in school and how it extended to the battlefield of World War 1. There will also be some concentration on the relationship between Bratt and Tolkien and how she helped shape him into the man he became and how that influenced the writings in his legendary books. Tolkien is directed by Dome Karukoski and is planned to hit theaters on May 10.

At the start of this week we saw some very strange live-action images leaked for a supposed Sonic The Hedgehog movie. Now one of the original creators of Sonic has voiced his opinion on the images.

It certainly is hard to say that the live-action image renders of Sonic look fantastic, I mean Sonic isn't even wearing his iconic gloves... Yuji Naka would also agree, as the co-creator of the original design of Sonic The Hedgehog has taken to Twitter to voice his opinion on the matter. Saying "Is this a 'Sonic' movie? I feel that it is important to look at the whole body visual of Sonic and head, body, and stomach. Did you not get a little more balance?" - translated with Microsoft.

Naka continued on his Twitter spree saying that the leaked images could of been on purpose to gauge how fans of the series would react to the design. Naka also expresses his concerns with too much bad word of mouth, saying that it could potentially hurt the Sonic The Hedgehog's intellectual property. In my opinion, I would say that the design for Sonic needs to be changed and also I wouldn't be surprised if the 'leaked images' were leaked on purpose to gauge the communities response. This type of 'trial by fire' actions are typical from large companies that are unsure of which direction to take, or to just purely increase hype.

The day is almost here folks, the final season to Game of Thrones is almost upon us, and today we have been blessed with its official trailer.

The trailer is red hot right now viewer-ship wise, it has made it to YouTube's #5 spot on trending and passing an already a staggering 10 million views just within the last 12 hours of release. The trailer begins with a panicked Ayra that is running from an unknown something or someone. We then see the Golden Company arriving at Kings Landing, then the trailer skips to the unsullied marching towards Winterfell with Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen.

The latter half of the trailer we see what appears to be the battle for Winterfell with Jamie Lanister yelling on a fire coated battlefield and then a snap to Jon Snow and some other soldiers making a retreat somewhere. It is likely that the battle of Winterfell will be within the first couple of episodes of Game of Thrones' season 8, so many of the mysteries surrounding the trailer will be uncovered very soon. The final season for Game of Thrones begins on April 14th.

Back in December, there was a teaser from the producers of 'The Fast And The Furious' for a live-action Sonic movie. The movie titled 'Sonic The Hedgehog' has quite an odd looking Sonic...

At the start of December, we saw the teaser video that only showcased the silhouette of Sonic but that video did raise some eyebrows to size of Sonic's legs and overall odd-looking appearance. Looking at Sonic in live-action is very strange, and especially in the different images of him in the second image that appears in the entirety of this post. The second image showcases Sonic in a variety of different poses, and also is described as a character that is "Chill & Likable" and also is "Mischievous but not Malicious".

I will have to see a proper trailer for the upcoming movie before I make any full opinions on the design, as there isn't a trailer this could not be the final design of Sonic either. The live-action movie is planned for release sometime in November, as more information is released I will be sure to update you.

WB and DC went into the end of 2018 with the absolutely phenomenal success of Aquaman, making over $1.1 billion globally. Now we have the next movie in the DC slate with Shazam right around the corner on April 5, with the latest trailer released just minutes ago.

Chuck star Zachary Levi was born for the role of Shazam, utterly dissolving into his role like Ryan Reynolds did with Deadpool. The new Shazam trailer shows us that we can expect a movie filled with excitement, joy, and action - with what seems like a beautiful blend of Superman: The Movie and the Tom Hanks led Big. The new trailer features a bit where Shazam picks up a Batman figure and says 'I'm Batman. Get him, Batman!' with Batman and Superman toys in the background.

The big bad in Shazam is Dr. Thaddeus Sivana, which in the comics was nearly at a point where he was the one to receive the powers Shazam receives. We don't know exactly what to expect in terms of how they'll approach both characters, good and bad, but there is a big family focus on Shazam which I think will really open it up compared to previous DC and Marvel movies.

The first movie in the Pokemon movie franchise has been recreated in gorgeous CGI. The movie which is planned to release quite soon has received a new teaser trailer.

Two brand new teaser trailers have been released onto the official Pokemon YouTube Channel. The first is a 30 second teaser trailer showing Ash, Misty, Brock, Pikachu and a bunch of other Pokemon in glorious CGI. It is quite strange to see originally anime characters rendered in cartoony 3D, I'm not quite sure if I like it or not.

At the moment 'Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution' is planned for release in theaters in Japan on July 12th, 2019. Unfortunately there has been no mention of a release in the West, but judging by the popularity Pokemon has over in the West we should see a re-release of the movie dubbed for Western theatres. Well, hopefully we will as I'm sure many Western Pokemon fans would be disappointed if we didn't. Check out the first trailer for 'Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution' here.

Being apart of the long line of deaths throughout Game of Thrones is simply being apart of television history. While Game of Thrones' writer, George R.R Martin sees absolutely no problem in ending the lives of our favorite characters abruptly, he doesn't want the same treatment for himself.

The Game of Thrones writer, George R.R Martin has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that despite his massive hand in how HBO's hit show is played out he would not want to appear in the shows final season. The writer actually said that he has already declined a cameo role that would somewhere in one of the final six episodes.

Here is what Martin said; "David and Dan invited me to a cameo in one of the final episodes, which I was tempted to do, but I didn't think just for the sake of a cameo I could take the time to return to Belfast." Instead of returning to the shooting grounds of North Ireland's Belfast, Martin has decided to throw his concentration onto the next book in the Game of Thrones series, The Winds of Winter. Funnily enough, Martin has appeared in a cameo role in Game of Thrones before, it was the original pilot that was eventually cut from the show.

Following up on yesterdays teaser for a brand new trailer to the upcoming Pokemon Detective Pikachu live-action movie, we have a fresh trailer from Warner Bros. that encumbers a Mewtwo shaped twist.

For those who haven't been following the upcoming Pokemon Detective Pikachu movie, the movie is based around 21-year old Tim who is attempting to uncover the mystery of his missing father. Tim's investigation is aided by none other than the Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds. Tim is the only person who can hear Pokemon talk, and after getting over the fact that he is listening to a caffeine-addicted Pikachu tell him that he is the greatest detective, he decides to team-up with him to find his father.

From the new trailer, we get an awesome display of some classic Pokemon. We see the likes of; Ludicolo, Snorlax, Lickitung, Growlithe, Machamp, Psyduck, Charizard, Blastoise, Gengars, Greninjas, Eevee, Cubone, Aipom and of course Mewtwo. I'd like to harp on the fact that Mewtwo was revealed right at the end of the trailer and was followed by Pikachu saying "That's a twist! That's very twisty!", which could suggest that that Mewtwo might also be a villain? Who knows at this point, what we do know for sure though is that each of the Pokemon seen in this trailer look visually fantastic. Pokemon Detective Pikachu is planned to hit theatres around the world on May 10th, 2019.

Ryan Reynolds set a goal to not disappoint any Pokemon fans with his upcoming release of Detective Pikachu, to ensure the best chances for a lack of disappointment Reynolds literally became Pikachu for an entire year.

Reynolds has taken to his own personal YouTube Channel to release a "Outside the Actors Studio" video that reveals his motivation towards taking the lead role of Detective Pikachu. Reynolds describes the first time that he got the news that he received the role of Pikachu, he says that he was driving to get his kids from school but didn't go and pick them up due to the fact that Pikachu wouldn't know who those kids were so neither did he (a joke of course).

Reynolds describes that he "vanishes" into his roles, which can also be interpreted as method acting. Reynolds says that he purposefully vanished into the world of Pokemon and gave examples of how he did so. "I read about them, I lived at his height, I tried to loose 182 pounds to match his weight until doctors intervened." The Pokemon: Detective Pikachu Twitter account also released a short video teasing that there will be a brand new trailer tomorrow, so stay tuned for that one. If you happened to miss the first trailer, check it out here. There is also a "big" trailer that was released, more on that here.

Back at the beginning of November, we first heard about the upcoming Pokemon Detective Pikachu movie scheduled to hit theatres around the world on May 10th. Now, Warner Bros. has released a new teaser for the movie and it showcases some never before seen Pokemon.

If you are unaware that their is live-action Pokemon movie currently in the works then here is some background on what you will be seeing. The Warner Bros. published movie will be following the story of 21-year old Tim who is looking for his missing dad when he encounters a Pikachu that can talk. Funnily enough, Tim is the only one who can hear Pokemon talk and after some quick bonding, Pikachu and Tim decide to team up to solve the missing persons case.

Warner Bros. has teased the release of Pokemon Detective Pikachu with a newly released trailer that can be seen above. From the trailer we can some great examples how certain Pokemon will be looking like if they were in real life, examples include - Bulbasaur and Mr. Mime. I can truly say that the CGI team that has worked on both the Pokmeon mentioned above have done some amazing work, as both Mr. Mime and Bulbasaur look absolutely fantastic on screen. I have provided screenshots in the entirety of this post for Mr. Mime and Bulbasaur.

In a recently reported article from Bloomberg, Apple has reportedly been contacting celebrities to attend the unveiling of their brand new video streaming platform scheduled for March 25th.

Apple are about to jump into the pool of video streaming with a planned platform scheduled to be unveiled to customers on March 25th. The platform will be Apple's very own 'Netflix' in a way and will compete against similar platforms such as Amazon's 'Prime Video', Stan or Netflix themselves. According to sources talking to Bloomberg, Apple has looked for support in the service by the following celebrities attending their premier; "Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner and director JJ Abrams".

It can be assumed that on Apple's new platform will be movies and T.V shows that are specifically funded or purchased by Apple. Apple will also most-likely combine other services such as Apple Music, Apple TV and their news app into one big monthly service for customers, making for a much more uniform purchasing option that can offer a range of different features for Apple users. A more simpler way to think about it would be that Apple's monthly bundle would be very similar to that of Amazon's 'prime' program. Apple will be showcasing deal for their coming streaming service on March 25th.

We all know how Keanu Reeves killed it in The Matrix, he was born for the role... but did you know he wasn't the first choice of The Wachowski bros at the time. I've known this for a while and whenever conversation steers to movie trivia, or The Matrix trivia, I pull this out. Now, Smith himself has talked about it on his vlog.

Will talks about coming off of massive hits in Independence Day and Men in Black, after which he was approached by the Wachowskis about The Matrix. Their pitch to him made him steer clear of it, opting to star in Wild Wild West at the time, and we know how that ended up. I do love that he says Keanu killed it as Neo and Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, where he says the races would've been switched if he took the starring role of Neo as Val Kilmer would've most likely been Morpheus.

Can you imagine that? Val Kilmer as Morpheus? Yeah, I can't either.

Lord of the Rings fans are all-eyes on the upcoming biopic movie titled 'Tolkien' starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins. Today we have gotten a quick tease of upcoming movie that is planned to release on May 10th.

The first official trailer has been released onto the FoxSearchlight YouTube Channel and begins with a young Tolkien in his room falling into his imagination. We then see progression into Tolkien's life as he finds some friends despite him being an orphan and really struggling throughout his childhood to connect with people.

The trailer then jumps to Tolkien in the trenches of World War I where it is said that the hardships within the trenches inspired many aspects of his Legendarium. Not only was it the brutalities in the trenches that contributed to the masterpiece we know today, but it was also Tolkiens romance with Edith Bratt who is played by Lily Collins. The relationship between the writer and his spouse inspired the story of Beren and Luthien, which then inspired Peter Jackson's Aragorn and Arwen love story. Tolkien is actually buried with his lover in the same gravestone under the names 'Beren and Arwen'. Tolkien is expected to hit theatres worldwide on May 10th.