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Disney Pixar has surprised us with a newly released short film revolving around the ups and down of a mother and son relationship.

The above short film is titled "Bao" and is directed by Domee Shi. From the video we get visual representations of the hardships of being a mother and watching her son grow up. Bao, which is the mother in this story, gets another shot at motherhood when magically one of her dumplings becomes alive. Instantly emotionally attached, Bao watches the little dumpling quickly grow up while at the same time protecting it as best she can from the threats of the outside world.

Eventually, Bao is forced to face the realization that her little dumpling cannot be little forever, and just like any mother and son relationship the mother must realize that the son has to grow up and live his own life. A tragic turn of events happens when Bao is confronted by the moment of "letting go" of her dumpling and decides to eat him instead, throwing her into pit of regret and remorse. Bao is then greeted by her human son who seems to be regretful of the way he previously treated his mother (the dumpling is a complete metaphor to the human son), he then makes an effort to mend the relationship between the two.

From the director of the legendary Lord of the Rings movies, Peter Jackson's most recent project titled Mortal Engines could be a catastrophic failure, with expectations of the movie losing upwards of $100 million.

Mortal Engines which is based on the novel by Philip Reeve's has released in North America and has only managed to rake in a minuscule $7.5 million. Variety has reported that the sales expectations for the movie have projected an upwards loss of $100 million, some projections even reaching in the higher regions of $125 million. On a global scale, Mortal Engines has only made a total of $42 million so far, while having a budget of $100 million with tens of millions spent of marketing.

It may have been the wrong time-frame to release the film, as at the moment the movie is competing against other big titles such as; "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" and Clint Eastwood's new thriller "The Mule". According to Jeff Bock, an analyst for Exhibitor Relations, "This is a true Christmas disaster and a lump of coal for Universal, they took a big swing, and they struck out." Even though Mortal Engines has already been shown in Russia, the U.K., Australia, and Korea there still could be hope for the movie, as it has yet to open in the China marketplace which is a prominent factor in box office sales.

Most Lord of the Rings fans know that Peter Jackson was the brainchild behind the phenomenal movies, and some fans were curious towards if Jackson was going to assist Amazon on their Lord of the Rings TV show creation.

At the moment Jackson has been working on Phillip Reeve's book series movie 'Mortal Engines' so he has hasn't really had any time to address what the go is with Amazon and their Lord of the Rings TV show. However, Jackson told Metro.co.uk that despite not knowing anything about the show at the current moment, he is excited to help in anyway that he can on the series.

Jackson said "I don't have thoughts on it because I haven't seen [anything], I think they're going to send us some scripts to see if we can help them along." Jackson also added that due to his busy schedule with Mortal Engines he couldn't of gotten to involved, but regardless "I wish them all the best and if we can help them we certainly will try." It has been speculated that the first season for Amazon's take on Tolkiens universe will be surrounding a Young Aragorn, more on that story here.

Just two days ago, Marvel Studios finally released the first trailer to next years upcoming Avengers 4. The trailer received a lot of traction and has now been deemed the "most viewed trailer in history" with a gargantuan 289 million views in just 24 hours.

The announcement comes from the Marvel Studios official Twitter and has used the metric of measuring all of Marvel's channels and totaling all of the views. To give a comparison, the Avengers: Infinity War trailer scored a huge 230 million views just over the course of its first 24 hours of release, and the newly released Lion King trailer managed 224.6 million views.

Diving into what the trailer shows us now, just as expected Marvel have left us with a plethora of questions to be answered. After the last moments of Infinity War and the epic cliff hanger that everyone has been left on, we ask ourselves what will the Avengers do and how much time has passed since the dreaded snap. We see Scott Lang or Ant Man at the end of the trailer, if you have seen Ant Man and the Wasp we know that Lang was trapped in the quantum realm or at least we assumed so. It appears he has survived the snap and has returned to help. We also see an angry and now violent Hawkeye which is now converted into the new hero Ronin.

Disney is on a roll right now with the first teaser to The Lion King dropping a couple of days ago, and now it's rumored that the first trailer to Avengers 4 will drop in the next 24 hours.

The first Avengers 4 trailer was rumored to have meant to drop on Black Friday, but it didn't obviously. Avengers 4's first teaser or trailer is meant to drop on November 28, which would surely light up the internet and all cinema and MCU fans. Collider will be hosting a special screening of Avengers: Infinity War and an extended Q&A with directors in the Russo Brothers.

This special screening and Q&A session with the Avengers 4 directors will take place at ArcLight Hollywood in the Cinerama Dome on Wednesday at 6:30pm, and it's totally free. The cinema can host 850 people, so it will be a first-in situation. Since the Russo Brothers will be in attendance and the internet is hot with rumors of Disney and Marvel dropping an Avengers 4 trailer, they'll be hit with millions of questions of "when will the Avengers 4 trailer drop" questions.

Game of Thrones will be getting its final season next April and as we move closer to the release of the first episode we are starting to learn about each episodes runtime.

In a recent Reddit AMA, David Nutter, director of half of the final Game of Thrones episodes and the man behind the slaughter of the Red Wedding, answered a few questions regarding the coming season. One of the questions was regarding the episodes within Season 8 and their runtime, according to Nutter "Season 8 episodes will all I think be longer than 60 minutes. They'll be dancing around the bigger numbers, I know that for sure."

Being a massive Game of Thrones fan this is to be completely expected, we already knew last year that we were looking at almost movie-long episodes as we were riding on the cusp of that from last seasons episodes. The final season of Game of Thrones is going to be one of the biggest finales TV has ever seen, so hearing that each of the episodes are around 1hr+ is a great sign for fans, because we are going to want as much Game of Thrones as possible before it departs from the big screen.

The first trailer for the Pokemon Detective Pikachu movie has been released onto the Warner Bros. YouTube Channel and from it can see star, Ryan Reynolds hanging up the Deadpool costume to step into the shoes of furry cheeky detective.

The trailer showcases to fans what a world would be like if Pokemon were real and lived in harmony with humans. We are introduced to 21-year old Tim who is looking for his missing dad when he encounters a Pikachu, the catch is that Tim is the only one who can hear Pikachu talk.

Pokemon Detective Pikachu is based off the Nintendo 3DS game that has the exact same title, the game featured a world where Pokemon solved crimes instead of traditionally battling eachother with humans. It truly is quite strange to see Pokemon in the realworld, I personally forgot that if Pokemon were real they would definitely be as hairy as what we see in the above trailer. It should be noted that Pikachu is played by none other than Ryan Reynolds and is accompanied by Justice Smith (Tim) from Jurassic Kingdom: Fallen World. Detective Pikachu will be arriving in theaters May 9th, 2019.

Disney CEO and Chairman, Bob Iger has revealed through a live audio webcast that Disney has chosen to name their upcoming consumer streaming service Disney+. The service will feature some brand new shows such as a new Star Wars series and a Loki series.

The announcement has also been featured on The Walt Disney company wesbite through a blog post. According to the blog post, Iger announced that Lucasfilm currently has in the works a "Star Wars Live-action sereis" that will begin production next year. The series will be based around the Rebel spy Cassian Andor and will follow the "formative years of the Rebellion and prior to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story."

Star Wars won't be the only franchise getting some love on Disney's new platform, Loki, one of Marvel's fan favorite characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe will also be receiving his very own series. Loki will be played by none other than Tom Hiddleston. Disney also plan on expanding some universes of other shows, such as; Disney & Pixar's Monsters Inc, Disney Channel's High School Musical and more. Disney plan on releasing Disney+ to the public sometime in late 2019, for more information visit the official Disney blog post here.

Overnight, Netflix revealed to excited fans the first on set glimpse of Henry Cavill, who is playing the main role of Geralt in the upcoming Witcher TV series.

The reveal came in the form of quick 30 second video that showcased Cavill walking up to the camera in his full costume. We can see from the video that Cavill has adopted a silvery white wig and also is wearing some makeup to bring out Geralts strong cheekbones. Cavill appears in a classic leather tunic and proceeds to drink a potion, we can also notice an adaption of colored contact lenses, these are of course to acquire the effect of Geralts cat-like eyes.

It is hard not to notice, but Cavill does not have a beard in this video. Many fans have commented within the Netflix post saying that Geralt or Cavill needs to develop a beard for this role. It should be noted, as much as a beard would look good on Cavill the Netflix adaptation series is based off the novels written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. Throughout those novels Geralt mentions that he does not like having a beard and much prefers a clean shaven face. Within the entirety of this post you will find an excerpt from the novel 'The Time of Contempt' where Geralt is talking to his close friend Dandelion regarding his beard.

Probably two of the most important characters in The Witcher series have got to be Yennefer and Ciri. As Witcher fans prepare themselves for Netflix's rendition of The Witcher universe through a TV show, writer Lauren S. Hissrich has revealed the actors casted for both roles.

We have been hearing about The Witcher TV show for quite some time now, to give a little bit of a road map from where we started; I reported on the pilot script being finished back at the end of February. Then the first 8 episodes were completed and announced via Twitter from head writer Hissrich. Then Superman himself, Henry Cavill announced he wanted to play the role as Geralt in the new show, the following month he was signed in to be taking the role as The White Wolf.

Moving onto current events now, Freya Allan who starred in The War of the Worlds and Into the Badlands will be taking the pivotal role as Ciri. Anya Chalotra from The ABC Murders and Wanderlust will be putting on her soccers robe as she will be playing Yennefer. For those that don't know, Ciri is the princess of Cintra and a daughter in both Yennefer's and Geralt's eyes. To complete the rest of the roles, we have Jodhi May from Game of Thrones as Queen Calanthe and Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson from Fortitude as her husband. For further information regarding The Witcher TV show, refer to the full interview with lead writer Hissrich here.

Mega Man fans are going to be over the moon to know that they favorite blue hero is coming to the big screen in the form of a live action movie.

In a recent press release from Capcom, the upcoming movie titled MEGA MAN is going to be written and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish, Paranormal Activity 3). 20th Century Fox has also stepped up to the plate and of course Capcom will also be heavily involved within its creation.

According to the press release, Capcom has said that they plan to "appeal to a diverse audience, including not only game players but action movie fans as well, with an adaptation that maintains the world of the Mega Man games, while incorporating the grand production and entertainment value that Hollywood movies are known for." We will be sure to update you with more information as its released.

It is Spider-Man everything recently, as fans of the web head fly through the concrete jungle of New York in Insomniac's Spider-Man PS4 title, movie goers might be taking a fancy towards Sony's latest Spider-Man related trailer release.

From the above trailer we are introduced into a animated world where each of the studios' previous Spider-Man movies have been connected into one. The web of storylines have come together with different Spider-hero's from other universes have come together, we can spot Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker all making their way to the big screen to save each of other.

Also spotted in the trailer is some classic Spider-Man villains, we get very brief looks at Kingpin, Green Goblin and also Scorpion. Sony has planned for the release of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse close to Christmas, December 13th to be exact.

I can't believe I'm typing this, but Russian trolls and bots are being blamed for the highly debated Star Wars: The Last Jedi. In a new academic paper by researcher Morten Bay titled 'Weaponizing The Haters: The Last Jedi and the strategic politicization of pop culture through social media manipulation' he looks into the reception of The Last Jedi, and stamps a big 'IT WAS RUSSIA' stamp on it.

Bay said that the negative reception of The Last Jedi might not be because it was one in a string of rushed Star Wars movies, and instead his paper "finds evidence of deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments".

He continues: "The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society. Persuading voters of this narrative remains a strategic goal for the U.S. alt-right movement, as well as the Russian Federation".

Well known around the planet as the man who couldn't play a better Deadpool if he tried, Ryan Reynolds will soon be taking on another role. This time around though he will be hanging up the Deadpool costume and diving into the position of an non-playable-character or NPC who realizes he is in a video game.

According to the recent announcement, the movie is a sci-fi action-comedy and is being organized by 20th Century Fox. The current plans are that Reynolds is meant to be starring in the film which will be directed by none other than Shawn Levy. Levy is known for directing other 20th century titles such as Night at the Museum and also being a executive producer of the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things.

Writing wise, reports have said that the movie which is titled 'Free Guy' is going to be written by Matt Lieberman. Lieberman will be bringing to life Reynolds' character who has become sentient in the game that he is trapped in, he realizes that his creators are eventually going to be shutting down his game and in turn his world so he sets out to stop them.

News has surfaced regarding an animated series being in development at Netflix, IGN and Variety have reported that officials from both companies are in the "final talks" about the show.

BOOM! Studios Co-founder and writer Andrew Cosby has taken to his Twitter with a now deleted tweet to confirm his involvement in a new Diablo animated TV series project with Activision Blizzard and Netflix. The tweet has now been removed but luckily someone managed to grab a screenshot of it before it was removed, it reads as follows "I guess I can confirm I am indeed in final talks to write and show-run the new Diablo animated series for Activision and Netflix. It's very exciting and I hope to the High Heavens it all works out."

IGN reached out to Netflix for a comment on the matter and Netflix responded with "no comment", the reaction of both Activision Blizzard and Netflix showcases that the deal isn't at 100% completion as of yet, but I'd say it is most likely going to happen sometime soon. Video game fans may have already noticed the animated Castlevania TV series that is on Netflix, the success of that show may have sparked an idea with the universe of Diablo and the already very loyal fan base that follow it. In other news about Diablo, the Diablo III Eternal Collection is on the way to the Nintendo Switch, check that story out here if you happened to miss it.

I woke up this morning to some distressing news: Henry Cavill, the actor who has played Superman in the recent string of DC movies, is out. Warner Bros. has reportedly cut him out from future DC Universe projects in favor of making Supergirl movies.

Cavill played Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman in Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the recent mess, Justice League. Cavill was reportedly ready to make a cameo as Superman in Shazam! next year, which is being led by Chuck star Zachary Levi and will hit April 5... but, that's reportedly not happening.

WB has shifted focus to Supergirl, something that will be an origin story with a teenage superhero - something that will not require Cavill at his age to play Superman, as Kal-El would be an infant at this time. It's not just that, because WB hasn't penciled in a Superman movie for the next few years at least with Hollywood Reporter's studio source saying: "Superman is like James Bond, and after a certain run you have to look at new actors".

All Witcher fans are excited about the upcoming Netflix series being on the way, many people have tried to pick the actor to play the complicated Geralt but at the moment there has been no castings made. Henry Cavill, Superman himself has spoken out about the role, saying he would love to play the character.

In a recent interview with IGN for Cavill's Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Cavill was asked what video games he has been playing lately, the actor replied with "The Witcher 3. I just replayed all the way through. Love that game. Really good game." When asked a the follow up question regarding if he was interested in picking up the role as Geralt in the upcoming Netflix adaptation of The Witcher, he responded with: "Absolutely. Yeah, that would be an amazing role."

For those that didn't know, Netflix are putting together a Witcher T.V show. The first season will have 8 episodes and the script will be sourced from the original series of fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski's, as well as the video games by CD Projekt RED. Currently the script for the pilot has been written by Lauren S. Hissrich but no actors have been casted for the main role as Geralt. Could it be possible that we see Superman hang up the symbol of hope and take the Trail of Grasses?

I still remember growing up as a kid and my Dad being an avid Star Trek fan, and a huge fan of Patrick Stewart playing Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Well, Picard is coming back to the franchise which is huge news.

CBS has announced a new All Access series that will continue the story of Captain Picard, with Discovery co-creator Alex Kurtzman looking over the show with the help of other veterans from All Access' Star Trek show. We have no idea what it'll be about, when it'll arrive, or anything - but the news of Patrick Stewart returning to the role of Picard is big enough on its own.

Stewart took to his personal Twitter account to announce the news, and release a statement. In his tweet, he said: "It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Read my full statement in the photo".

The writers for Amazon's next massive T.V project 'The Lord of the Rings' have been revealed, announcing Star Trek 4 writers Patrick McKay and JD Payne, as they have been appointed to tackle the gargantuan project

It has been reported that both JD Payne and Patrick McKay have no previous writing experience, but to calm your shock neither did Game of Thrones writers D.B. Weiss and David Benioff. Amazon must have a lot of faith in both of these writers, as this The Lord of The Rings TV show is going to be the most expensive series ever made, coming in at a massive $1 billion. The writers have come forward and given statements on how excited they are to work on Amazon's project, here is what they had to say: "We feel like Frodo, setting out from the Shire, with a great responsibility in our care--it is the beginning of the adventure of a lifetime."

For those that aren't caught up with the news surrounding The Lord of The Rings T.V show, the series is set before the trilogy of movies directed by Peter Jackson. Amazon will be bringing to life the world before Frodo and the ring, examples of the numerous avenues that Amazon could take are: explaining the Numenoreans and the Duneadine with the founding of Gondor/Arnor, the forging of the great rings of power, or they could even take it way back to first age with Morgoth from Tolkein's The Silmarillion. It should also be noted that Amazon has partnered with the Tolkien Estate, HarperCollins and New Line Cinema. Having the Tolkien Estate involved within the production of the show should provide a solid back-bone for the rich lore found everywhere throughout Tolkeins Legendarium.

Netflix has taken to their social media outlets to release a brand new blood-stained trailer for the highly anticipated Castlevania series. The trailer teases the second season to be released this October.

The Castlevania series that was released onto Netflix last year in July is based off the very popular and also very old video game series Castlevania. The first title was released back in 1986 on the Nintendo Entertainment System and since then the there has been numerous game releases, so many that Castlevania is now one of Konami's staple franchises.

The audience response from the first season of the T.V show was quite positive, the animations were slick, the voice acting accurate and the characters are as brutal as you would hope. The only problems that could be found with the first season of the show is the length, season one only came in with 4 episodes which caused fans to feel prematurely cut off from the story. Castlevania season 2 will not have this problem as it has been reported that the second season will be 8 episodes in length, this decision should hopefully subside everyones pain from the first season.