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The upcoming prequel TV show for Lord of The Rings has certainly been all the talk since its Amazon confirmed they would be at the helm. Now, news has surfaced regarding the location the company will be choosing for filming, reportedly Scotland might be choice.

According to The Daily Record, an "insider" claims that there was Amazon location scouts spotted around Dunskey Castle, Portpatrick, Callander in Perthshire and Balloch Castle Country Park near Loch Lomond. The newspaper said that these scouts didn't make themselves known and were secretive to what their motives were; "When Amazon people scouted locations, they didn't make themselves known, acted as tourists and connected straight away with local communities."

It might seem like a stretch and it very well could be, but Scotland would seem like a very good choice for Amazon's studios to begin filming as the scenery there is quite incredible. The Lord of the Rings movies Directed by Peter Jackson were filmed in New Zealand, so if this news is true it is interesting that Amazon has chosen a completely different location. It should also be noted that confidentiality agreements prevented the Scottish newspaper from confirming any of this news with Amazon. The Lord of The Rings TV show is expected to start filming this year and plans on releasing the series by 2021.

As we approach the climax for one of the most anticipated and biggest T.V shows of all-time, Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham has spoken out about the decision to leave the show at eight seasons.

If you have been keeping up with Game of Thrones you would understand the hype there is for the final season to begin airing, as that is when all us fans finally get to see an ending to the monumental battles for the throne and the survival of Westeros itself. Who will sit upon the throne? Who will be left alive after the major battles that are about to occur? and why the hell isn't HBO just mass producing Game of Thrones seasons? Liam Cunningham, who plays Davos Seaworth or 'The Onion Knight' has said in an interview that the show doesn't want to overstay their welcome in the spot light.

Cunningham spoke to IGN and said "I get asked all the time, 'What the hell are you guys thinking? You could run Game of Thrones forever.' If you want to stay cool, and the show is cool, the best way to stay cool is to not overstay your welcome." That is quite a well-thought out decision if you were to ask me, not stretching the show on further than people can manage would certainly create a much more impactful and rewarding ending. Cunningham also adds "[It] would be dishonorable to stay on longer than we should" and that even though he is happy its ending it will still be "dearly" missed, so much that he would like "Game of Thrones' Liam Cunningham" written on his tombstone.

Back in May last year, we heard about Resident Evil's Milla Jovovich being the lead role in an upcoming Monster Hunter movie. Recent news surrounding the Monster Hunter movie has teased a release date.

Jovovich starred in the popular zombie slaying movie series 'Resident Evil' who was written and directed by Paul W.S Anderson. Anderson has also taken the helm for the Monster Hunter movie who will showcase a parallel world with full of powerful monsters that are in a battle with travelers from our world. The lieutenant named Artemis who is played by Jovovich is leading the expedition and will have to fight for her life against the worlds inhabitants.

Anderson has commented on what fans should expect from the movie story wise, saying "Then eventually the parallel world ends up coming to our world. So you have the creatures from the Monster Hunter world invading our world." The new information surrounding the movie is its release date, and according to Deadline who reported that Sony Pictures said the movie is planned for release on September 4th, 2020.

90's kids would understand that The Simpson's was more than a formidable force on T.V during dinner time, and despite the show running for more 20 years now the classic T.V series is not done just yet.

The Simpson's are about to move into its 31st season and while it may be popular opinion that the more recent episodes in the later seasons may not stand up to the ones from the earlier seasons, the viewership is still quite high. According to GameSpot, each of the newer episodes that were released managed to pull in an audience of 7.5 million viewers across all platforms.

The announcement of The Simpson's being renewed for season 31 and 32 comes from the official Simpson's Twitter account. The post says "We've got some eeeeeexcellllent news... #TheSimpsons has been renewed for Seasons 31 and 32!". Deadline has reported that Fox secured the deal with the cast members of The Simpson's as they were more than happy to keep the show running and laughs coming. Side note - is that a Mr. Burns pun I spot in the Twitter post?

Many fans of Marvel, Fox and Disney have had their eyebrows raised to whether we are going to see any more R-rated movies coming out of Disney's movie conveyor belt. Recent news has suggested that Disney has no problems with future R-rated movies.

In a recent earnings call with Disney's chief, Bob Iger, questions were posed to their chairman regarding the ratings for future Disney movies and if we will be seeing new movies within the same R-rated calibre as Deadpool. Iger replied with "We do believe there is room for the Fox properties to exist without significant Disney influence over the nature of the content, meaning that we see that there is certainly popularity amongst Marvel fans for the R-rated Deadpool films, as a for instance. We're going to continue in that business, and there might be room for more of that."

Iger further explains the relationship between Marvel, Fox and Disney. He says that when a future movie is decided upon and the ratings are set that the companies will be "very carefully branding them and making sure that we're not in any way confusing the consumer with product that would be sort of either Disney product or the more traditional Marvel product." At the moment there is no known R-rated Disney produced movies in the pipeline, but with this now acceptance of a strong market for these types of films we will most likely see some in the near future.

Netflix are following up with the currently extremely hot serial killer content that has been recently released onto their platform. The streaming service has now been reported to of purchased the upcoming Ted Bundy movie 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile'.

The Hollywood Reporter has come out and said that Netflix have purchased 'Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile', a Ted Bundy movie starring actor Zac Efron for $9 million dollars. If you are unaware of who Ted Bundy is he was American's most notorious serial killer, he kidnapped, raped and murdered 30+ women and was known for his charming persona and psychological intellect. Zac Efron will be starring Ted Bundy and Lily Collins will be taking the role of Bundy's girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer.

The movie who is directed by Jeff Berlinger will be concentrating on the perspective of Bundy's girlfriend. This deal from Netflix certainly does make sense considering the streaming service recently added "Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes". That four-part documentary series which is also directed by Jeff Berlinger recently received some controversy surrounding Bundy's acclaimed 'hotness' despite his disgusting history. Check that story out here.

During the Superbowl 2019, Marvel has taken the stage to showcase two new trailers for two new upcoming movies that are about to enter the franchise.

Marvel has released the two new trailers on the Marvel Entertainment YouTube Channel, the first being the Avengers: Endgame 'Big Game' trailer. In the trailer we see a quick scenes of Tony and Nebula working together on ship repairs, Rocket at a strange beach, Black Widow shooting to kill, Ant Man out of the quantum realm, Thor in Wakanda and Captain America gearing up with his shield.

There is quite a lot to look into and speculate from the new trailer, as it seems there has been many years since the dreaded 'snap' of Avengers: Infinity War. Captain America has picked up his once renounced shield that he gave up in Civil War, so it can be assumed that the situation is clearly a serious one. An hour after the release of the Endgame trailer Marvel decided to release a new trailer for Captain Marvel as well. Below you will find the trailer embedded and the movie is planned for release on March 8th. Avengers: End Game will come to theaters on April 24th.

Disney pulled out millions of dollars advertising some of its big movies arriving this year including Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel and Toy Story 4. The new teaser for Toy Story 4 teases the return of Bo Peep, who hasn't been in the franchise since Toy Story 2 all the way back in 1999.

The new 'Big Game Ad' teaser for Toy Story 4 gives us a glimpse at what the toys have gotten themselves into this time around, with Buzz finding himself as a sideshow toy, with some fluffy characters giving him crap in the 30-second clip. We see Woody and Bo Peep together once again, with all of the original stars returning their roles including Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, as well as Annie Potts to the voice of Bo Peep.

Josh Cooley is directing Toy Story 4 hot off of co-writing the screenplay to Inside Out. There will be many more characters for the beloved toys to interact with, with some of it teased in the trailer with Buzz Lightyear.

Almost two weeks ago now we learned of the release date for the coming biopic movie for Lord of the Rings author J.R.R Tolkien. The movie has just had its first screenshots released by lead actor Nicholas Hoult.

Hoult is known for his performances in About A Boy, Warm Bodies and Mad Max: Fury Road. This time round the actor will be stepping into the shoes of famous author J.R.R Tolkien, and how Tolkien endured many hardships throughout his life-long creation of the now famously known Lord of the Rings universe.

The images have been released onto USA Today, alongside a few statements from Hoult about some major parts in the movie. According to Hoult, the 'Tolkien' movie will feature a romance part that will shine some light on Tolkiens love interest, Edith Bratt. Bratt will be played by actor Lily Collins and the movie will explore the relationship formed between the two, and how Bratt played a pivotal part in supporting Tolkien throughout his creation. The movie simply titled 'Tolkien' is scheduled for release in theaters on May 10th, 2019.

Just last week Netflix debuted a new documentary series on the anniversary of the famous serial killer Ted Bundy. The series is a short four-part documentary titled 'Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes' and since its release its had quite a strange audience response, so strange that Netflix themselves had to step in.

Director Joe Berlinger debuted the documentary and then two days later released a biopic movie of Bundy, the movie starred actor Zac Efron and was titled Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile. With two new pieces of Bundy content released to the world, the topic of Bundy's appearance - for some reason - became a huge area of discussion. Doing my own research, I searched on Twitter "Ted Bundy is hot", to my amazement I came across numerous people claiming that the appearance of Ted Bundy was attractive despite his recorded 30 murders, kidnappings and rapes.

It is unclear whether people are just saying these things to cause controversy on their Twitter accounts, as everyone knows its much easier to get a negative reaction out of someone than a positive one. Internet trolls will go to any length to anger the masses, or some people are actually genuine in finding Ted Bundy attractive. It is almost impossible to separate the two due to how outlandish the topic is. Either way, Netflix stepped into the situation with their official Twitter account saying "I've seen a lot of talk about Ted Bundy's alleged hotness and would like to gently remind everyone that there are literally THOUSANDS of hot men on the service - almost all of whom are not convicted serial murderers".

Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is not only making waves in the gaming market right now for sales, but it also is granting some amazing content idea's from content creators. Adults Swim's latest Robot Chicken episode pits the Super Smash Bros. fighters against each other in an epic Hunger Games match.

The above stop-motion video which has been released onto the Adult Swim YouTube Channel begins with Tortimer selecting names from a bowl in an Animal Crossing village for the "74th annual Smash Brothers games". Clearly this is direct reference to the Hunger Games movies/book, and just like the movie a female villager offers herself as tribute to save the life of another, in this case a terrified Puddles.

We then see the female villager speaking to Tom Nook about the Smashing Games, saying that all the participants care about is "competent edge guarding and L-cancelling", quite an accurate and clever joke if you ask me. Villager is then teleported to Hyrule Castle and begins her match. Each of the fighters that are seen throughout the battle use their respective abilities from Smash Ultimate, and as a Smash player it is quite awesome to see a very accurate and comical representation of each of the characters.

The Lord of the Rings books are some of the most well-known pieces of creative literature, that is mostly due to the universe being so in-depth that you can get lost in all of the little interconnecting stories. This amazing creation came from J.R.R Tolkien and now we are receiving a movie about his life.

The movie is simply titled 'Tolkien' and is basically a biopic of the mans life. Beginning as a young man in the heart of World War I, we will see actor Nicholas Hoult play the part of Tolkien, and how he began to be inspired with the creative thoughts of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings universe while being in the trenches in France.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the movie is also reported to touch on Tolkien's wife Edith Bratt who had significant influence in Tolkien's writings. The love story between Beren and Luthien in the book 'Beren and Luthien' is about a mortal man and immortal elf. This story is direct reference to Tolkien and Bratt, as on their joint gravestone they are referred to as Beren and Luthien. In the 'Tolkien' movie, Bratt will be played by Lily Collins. The director talking the helm will be Dome Karukoski. The Tolkien movie is expected to hit theatres on May 10th, 2019.

The launch date for Marvels next important character to take the spotlight in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost upon us, Captain Marvel is about to take the stage and Samuel L. Jackson has just confirmed she can time travel.

Samuel L. Jackson was conducting an interview with Entertainment Tonight when the actor was asked a series of questions regarding the upcoming Captain Marvel movie. One of the questions that Jackson answered was what qualities does Captain Marvel have to be the right first female-led superhero film from Marvel. Jackson answered "She's pretty much the strongest character -- in terms of someone with powers are able to do things -- in the Marvel universe. So, for Carol Danvers to be that person and for Brie to become that person, it's gonna be a dynamite thing."

Jackson continues and says "I mean, [the Avengers] are up against some really, really tough odds right now -- we saw throughout Infinity War -- so now we know that we need something that's as powerful as Thanos. And at some point, we'll find out how powerful she is and all the things that she's capable of. She's one of the few people in the Marvel universe that can time travel, so..." This is quite interesting and raises the question as to if Marvel have planned on dropping these small seeds of information right before movie launch to stir up talk. If so smart marketing, because I'm definitely intrigued as to how this will all play out in Avengers: End Game if it turns out to be true.

Marvel Studios has released a new trailer for the next addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, below you will find Captain Marvel's "Special Look" trailer.

Captain Marvel is starring female actress Brie Larson, and is planned to arrive in theaters across the globe on March 8th. The above trailer that has been released onto the Marvel Entertainment YouTube Channel showcases to us some scenes we have seen before from the first trailer that was released, and also some new never before seen scenes.

The other actors that will be present through Captain Marvel are the following; Samuel L. Jackson, Gemma Chan, Jude Law, Lee Pace, Ben Mendelsohn, Annette Bening and Djimon Hounsou. It should also be noted that Captain Marvel will be appearing in the coming Avengers: Endgame movie and will be playing a large role in the fight against Thanos.

The finale episodes of Game of Thrones' season 8 are expected sometime in April this year, and as we move closer to the premier we have news from HBO's CEO regarding the episode length and quality.

Richard Plepler, the CEO of HBO told Variety that he has seen the final episodes for the eighth seasons and despite the CGI not being fully completed he was still left thinking "I'm watching a movie." He also said that both D.B. Weiss and David Benioff completely exceeded his expectations for the final two episodes in particular, here is what Plepler had to say "They've exceeded the bar. I've watched them twice without any CGI and I'm in awe. Everybody's in for an extraordinary treat of storytelling and of magical, magical production."

The final episodes for Game of Thrones is simply going to go down in TV history. These six episodes are what viewers have been waiting for, and when the final episodes are movie length and on the very brink of movie level quality the hype can be heard across the entire breathe of Westeros. HBO will be showcasing the final six episodes sometime throughout April of this year.

Aquaman is the success story that WB has been gambling for since it started with Man of Steel in 2013, continued with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and hit out of the park with Wonder Woman.

Between now and then it hasn't been so good with the total dumpster fire that was Justice League, but WB allowed James Wan who directed Furious 7 and made an insane $1.5 billion for Universal. Wan had a vision for Aquaman that has paid off in more ways than one, with the energenic and charismatic Jason Momoa riding the wave as anyone would.

Well, the movie quickly shot past a few hundred million dollars in Chinese box office before hitting the US to open just shy of $200 million. It was only a few days ago that Aquaman was edging on $800 million and has now passed that to reach $887 million with no signs of slowing down. In comparison, the full cinema run of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice only pulled in $873 million and that had Superman and Batman in the title, in a fight, in a showdown almost to the death and it didn't hit $1 billion.

The culture hit classic 'Pokemon: The First Movie' no doubt starting the ball rolling for the slew of Pokemon movies to follow in its footsteps. Now the 1998 first anime movie is being remade in glorious CGI.

The Pokemon Company are re-releasing 'The First Movie' in CGI as apart of the 'Mewtwo Year', which is in celebration of the character making its debut and the lengthy 20 year lifespan it has created. The CGI re-release also features a much more accurate name change for the movie, changing from 'Pokemon: The First Movie' to 'Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution.'

It should be noted that Pokemon: The First Movie released back in 1998 and debuted amidst the beginning of the Pokemon trading card craze, the movie managed to pull in $232 million in box office sales and other forms of media. Unfortunately, the film is only expected to launch in Japan, but we can no doubt see the CGI re-release hitting the rest of the world. Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back Evolution is planned for release in Japan on July 12th, 2019.

Jason Momoa has been riding one of the biggest waves he's ever ridden in his life, first making a small but brief appearance as Aquaman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and then a more filled-out role in Justice League which bombed at the box office.

Aquaman was released in the US on December 21 and made hundreds of millions of dollars at the Chinese box office before its stateside release, with the domestic total about to hit $190 million. The total box office haul of Aquaman so far sits at just over $750 million, well on its way towards $800 million and with its eyes on the prize at $1 billion.

Aquaman has already made more money than the entire run of Justice League, but the US domestic box office numbers for Aquaman aren't as strong as Man of Steel, Justice League, Batman v Superman, or Wonder Woman. We have to give Aquaman it's full run before we have numbers locked in, but global box office sales have been a tsunami for WB and the still-in-trouble DCEU.

With the Witcher in full-scale production at the moment, insiders that are working along Justice League star, Henry Cavill have leaked some information regarding future seasons for the upcoming show.

The rumor is sourced by known DCEU insider, KC Walsh of Geeks WorldWide. Walsh has quite the track record for leaking information about upcoming TV shows and movies and the information that he has managed to gather for the 'Witcher' TV show is about how Netflix is overall feeling about its current production rate and quality.

According to Walsh, Netflix is reportedly "very happy with the Witcher and we could see multiple seasons greenlit before season one airs or shortly after." Walsh continues to explain that if Netflix does this then Henry Cavills schedule would be quite full for awhile, which in turn could take away from the potential of Cavill making a return as Superman. As you would expect, this is just a rumor so please take it with a grain of salt.

Stranger Things star, David Harbour goes down to the depths of hell and comes back in the form of Hellboy for a reboot. The first trailer has already been released.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly the actor gives some explanation toward what to expect in the story. Harbour says that this reboot is "not an origin story, but it's his coming to terms with where he came from. He's been Hellboy for a long time, but there's a new turn of events at the start of the film, where people start to bring up the fact that he might bring about the end of the world, and it's really the first time he's heard anything like that. The question that comes up in the movie is where does he really belong?"

The other actors that will be featured around Harbour will be Resident Evils Milla Jovovich as the Blood Queen, Ian McShane as Professor Broom, Daniel Dae Kim as Ben Daimo and Sasha Lane as Alice Monaghan. The director for the reboot is Neil Marshall and he has previously done work for HBO's Game of Thrones, Netflix's Lost in Space and movies such as Dog Soldiers and The Descent. The reboot for Hellboy is planned for release in theaters on April 12th, 2019.