TV, Movies & Home Theatre - Page 7

Foundation, one of Apple TV+'s most popular sci-fi shows, currently has its first two seasons available to watch on the streaming service. But work on the third season is starting to experience issues with a new report noting that there is confusion over its showrunner while there are also worries over the budget related to the show.

According to a Hollywood Report report, co-creator David S. Goyer is stepping back from his showrunner duties and instead, it will be down to executive producer Bill Bost to move to Prague to oversee filming. Prague is where the third season of the show is being shot.

The same report says that Goyer and executives at the show's production company, Skydance, had clashed over the budget for the third season. Streamers, including moneybags Apple, are thought to be tightening their belts in an attempt to make sure that they aren't overspending.

WB Discovery CEO David Zaslav sees multi-subscription bundles as the future of streaming services.

Now that the Warner Bros. and Discovery merger is complete and that Max is a profitable subscription, one of the key parts of streaming growth could lie in cross-service bundling options. Streaming allowed the world's disparate content creators, providers, and labels to fragment the market and monetize their TV shows and movies on a wholly-controlled platform. The results led to the downfall of cable TV as consumers shifted towards streaming.

But now the future of streaming could look a lot cable TV, at least that's what WBD CEO David Zaslav believes. In a recent Q4 earnings call with investors and analysts, Zaslav said some interesting things about subscription service bundles, and hints that WBD might be able to broker more favorable deals with other content providers.

Fans of Major League Soccer can start to get excited - the 2024 MLS season is upon us, and those who subscribe to MLS Season Pass on Apple TV have plenty to look forward to. Apple has today confirmed that the season kicks off later today with a standalone match between Lionel Messi's Inter Miami and Real Salt Lake with four more games streaming at the weekend.

This is the second MLS Season Pass, part of a ten-year deal that Apple signed for a cool $2.5 billion. The deal means that the Apple TV app is the only place to stream the MLS season including its growing roster of high-profile, big-name players including Messi.

Apple confirmed that the match will air at 8 p.m. ET on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV. The streamer's prematch coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. ET with a special 90-minute edition of MLS Countdown/MLS La Previa. After that, the following Matchday 1 games will be available to stream for free on MLS Season Pass.

Marvel has taken to its socials to announce the cast for the highly anticipated Fantastic Four reboot film in what could be one of the strangest ways it could.

Marvel knows just how to tug on fans' heartstrings, taking to the official Marvel X account to post a Valentine's Day card with the caption reading "Happy Valentine's Day from Marvel's First Family! Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby. Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn are The Fantastic Four."

The card depicts all four actors in their respective roles enjoying each other's company with Pascal as Marvel's Mr Fantastic Reed Richards, Kirby as Susan Storm Richards a.k.a the Invisible Woman, Moss-Bachrach as Benjamin Grim, a.k.a The Thing, and finally Quinn as The Human Torch. Also included in the picture is a robot H.E.R.B.IE, built by Mr Fantastic.

"It's not just a signal. That's a call for war." This year's Superbowl has given us a fresh look at Warner Bros and Legendary's new Godzilla King Kong crossover movie Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, showing off our favorite titans in a whirl of bright, colorful action.

The sequel to the kickass 2021 showdown Godzilla vs Kong, the New Empire is once again directed by filmmaker Adam Wingard and is set to blast into theatres towards the end of next month. The new trailer gave some potential answers to questions fans were left with after the initial teaser, such as what's going on with Kong's new power glove?

It seems our big monkey friend may be injured during an altercation with what "appears" to be the main antagonist of the film, a giant red ape but is this massive chimpanzee just a diversion? Possibly hiding the film's real threat of a "Colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world."

Deadpool 3 has been in the works for a while now, but now we have the official trailer and a new name: Deadpool & Wolverine; check it out:

Deadpool & Wolverine has returning characters and new ones, with Ryan Reynolds back as the titular Deadpool, aka Wade Wilson. Deadpool's own Task Force X members are back, even though they all met their fate in Deadpool 2, so we have some time travel at play here, as shown with Deadpool's time-travel shenanigans at the end of Deadpool 2.

There are some beautiful throwback scenes in the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer, where TVA agents surround Deadpool. Then he throws a hand up, telling them to wait, just like the highway scene in the original Deadpool when he quips about why he wears a red suit (because bad guys can't see him bleed).

Sony-owned streaming service Funimation will be merged with Crunchyroll, which Sony bought back in 2021, and while Funimation stated that digital copy purchases of its content would be available "forever," that doesn't seem to be the case due to terms of condition stipulations.

Subscribers of Funimation were informed by the streaming service for many years that digital copy purchases of content on its website would be available to the buyer "forever." However, a new announcement from Funimation that it's ending its service and merging with Crunchyroll has brought to light that "forever" means something different in the eyes of the streaming service.

Firstly, Funimation provided users with the option of purchasing strictly digital copies of content, or physical media that contained a digital code that would enable the user to stream that content "forever". However, Funimation's announcement reads that Crunchyroll "does not currently support Funimation Digital copies, which means that access to previously available digital copies will not be supported."

Musk has previously offered to fund suits for X users who "were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something," former Star Wars actor Gina Carano is taking him up on that offer.

It has been three years since Disney cut ties with The Mandalorian actor Gina Carano, and now the actor is filing a lawsuit against the company with help from Elon Musk. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Carano is suing Disney for discrimination and wrongful termination after she was fired following antisemitic posts on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram.

The 2014 war film Fury, directed by David Ayer and starring Brad Pitt, has made its way on Netflix's Global Top 10 chart this week with over 3.3 million total views.

The film follows a five-man American tank crew who are tasked with going behind enemy lines to complete a dangerous mission in Nazi Germany during the final weeks of World War 2. Brad Pitt's character leads the team as a rough, tough, and battle-hardened tank commander, Don "Wardaddy" Collier; he stars alongside Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Benthal, Jason Isaacs, and Scott Eastwood.

As of this year, the film is a decade old and is still finding new success on the streaming site Netflix. Between January 29 and February 6 of this year, Fury has been watched a total of 3.3 million times; that's a whopping 7.3 million hours! It ranked ninth in Netflix's Global Top 10 for the week, just ahead of Dennis Quaid's sports film The Hill, which is in its second week of the Top 10.

Donald Glover has shared news about the highly anticipated Community movie, stating the script of the film has been completed.

During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Donald Glover was asked if he knew much about the upcoming Community film, which has had little information and has been fading in and out of Hollywood consciousness for years now.

Official updates have been like sprinkled breadcrumbs, but Glover confirmed the cast just has to contend with scheduling conflicts now and that he is definitely "all in" on the project if they can make it work.

Although its hype days may be over, the intruder game Among Us is still widely popular, and CBS Studios has just released a first-look teaser image for its upcoming animated series based on the game.

The series will be a collaboration between CBS Eye Animation Productions and Among Us creators Innersloth. The Among Us official social media accounts shared the new teaser spanning all platforms, offering a small glimpse into the new adaptation. The image shows the cafeteria from the original Among Us map, the Skeld, with what looks to be a ruined crew pizza party, including balloons and a hanging banner splashed with blood reading "We're Dead."

The series was first announced in June of 2023 with the developer on board for the project and storyboard artist Owen Dennis, who, as per his deal with CBS, will spearhead the project as its creator and executive producer. This new adaptation will mirror the game's original premise: crew members will face the challenge of trying to sniff out who among them is not who they seem while said shapeshifter wreaks havoc among the spaceship and crew.

Apple's reportedly hard at work on a new kind of operating system that could be used to power future smart home accessories with references to an unconfirmed homeOS software found in the first tvOS 17.4 beta.

This isn't the first time that we have heard that Apple has an interest in something called homeOS, but this is our clearest indication yet that it will be part of the company's future software roadmap and could potentially replace some of the software already in use. As an example, the tvOS beta software that included the references could potentially be replaced by a future homeOS software release. The same goes for the HomePod software that powers Apple's smart speakers.

The references found inside tvOS 17.4 were first reported by MacRumors, but details on what the software will do and which devices it could power are unclear right now. However, 2021 job listings by Apple previously mentioned that successful applicants would be working on homeOS software before references to the software were later removed. There has been no sign of the homeOS name since then and its appearance in the tvOS 17,4 beta software could suggest that Apple is now closer to making it a reality than ever.

Duncan Jones, director of the sci-fi film Moon, has long planned a movie adaptation of the sci-fi war comic series Rogue Trooper and, according to reports, has completed principal photography.

Little was known about the adaptation since its first tease was posted to Jones' Twitter back in 2018. The only information we had was it was to be written and directed by Jones. Now, for the first time in years, we have fresh information; according to a report from Variety, the feature film will be entirely CGI-animation created with Unreal Engine 5. Announced cast members include Mission: Impossible's Aneurin Barnard, Agent Carters Hayley Atwell, and Slow Horses' Jack Lowden.

The film will be based on a strip of the same name from the British anthology comic book series 2000 AD. The Rogue Trooper tells the story of 19, a pale-blue-skinned super-soldier fighting a brutal and relentless future war. 19 is the sole survivor of a horrific attack and must continue to fight to uncover the truth of who sold out himself and his comrades. Not alone in his fight, he is joined by the three minds of his killed squad, whose personalities are digitally preserved within his gun, helmet, and rucksack.

Break-out star from HBO's House of the Dragon, Milly Alcock, has been cast as Supergirl for the highly anticipated DCU reboot film, as confirmed by James Gunn this morning via his personal Instagram.

The new DCU universe has found its Supergirl in Milly Alcock; the Australian-born actress is most known for her incredible performance as the young Rhaenyra Targaryen in the first season of HBO's Game of Thrones spin-off series House of the Dragon, for which she won wide acclaim. Alcock is now set to head her own film, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, based on the DC comics run by Tom King and Bilquis Evely.

James Gunn took to Instagram this morning to share a snippet of an article announcing the young actress's entry to his DCU new universe, stating, "This is accurate. Milly is a fantastically talented young actor, and I'm incredibly excited about her being a part of the DCU. Yes, I first became aware of her in House of the Dragon, but I was blown away by her varied auditions and screen tests for Supergirl. She embodies Kara as envisioned by Tom King and Bilquis Evely."

When you think of popular Apple TV+ shows we can be sure that Severance is towards the top of most lists. Its first season was a hugely popular release for Apple TV+ viewers and the way it ended left people particularly keen to see what would happen in season 2. But production of that season has been a problem for Apple and its partners, but things now appear to be back on track.

One of the problems that caused problems was the writer's strike that delayed production in a big way, but with that now done and dusted we already know that production is underway - and now we appear to have been given another hint that things are progressing pretty well.

Apple TV+ shared a post to X, the social network that was previously known as Twitter, which showed Adam Scott's Mark S. character running along one of those familiar white hallways. The alt-text for the image shared details that the large camera on-screen confirms that Severance season 2 is in production.

If you're a Major League Soccer fan you now have a new season to look forward to with the 2024 Major League Soccer kicking off on February 29. Those who want to watch the games can do so thanks to Apple's Major League Soccer Season Pass, a subscription that covers more than 100 countries and regions and includes coverage of the Leagues Cup, MLS All-Store game, and the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs games as well as the 2024 season itself.

Apple confirmed that it is ready to get started on the second of its ten-year contract with the MLS and will launch a first-of-its-kind whip-around show for Spanish-speaking viewers. This is in addition to the existing shows and coverage that proved popular during the 2023 season.

"The first year of our partnership with Major League Soccer exceeded expectations and brought MLS to more fans than ever before," said Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Services. "We look forward to building upon that momentum, celebrating Messi's first full season with the league, and delivering MLS fans the best experience possible."

Amazon Prime Video, the streaming subscription service, is getting adverts as of today.

Amazon first announced that this was happening back in September 2023, but the actual day the new rules for Prime Video subscribers kick in is today, January 29.

If you don't want your viewing to be interrupted with advertising, then you'll have to sign up to pay a little bit more for an ad-free streaming experience.

Current box office projections for the upcoming Marvel Superhero movie Madame Web, led by Dakota Johnson, hint at the worst opening weekend yet for a Sony Spider-Man Universe film.

According to long-range box office tracking, it appears that audiences are just not interested in Sony's latest Spider-Man spinoff film. According to Boxoffice Pro, Sony's upcoming spider superhero team-up movie is currently tracking to earn between $25 million and $35 million on its opening weekend, which, if true and the film does fall in between that range, would mark the lowest opening weekend yet for Sony's SSU (Sony's Spider-Man Universe).

Sony's vampire flick Morbius currently has the worst SSU opening weekend, sitting at a sad $39 million, followed by Venom at $80 million and the sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage at $90 million. Even if, by a miracle, Madame Web manages to sling its way to the higher-end of its tracking, its opening would still be lower than Disney's latest bomb, The Marvels, which premiered with an opening weekend of $46 million.

Surprise Box Office Rom-Com hit Anyone But You has breathed new life into the genre and broken a nearly decade-long record.

The success of the film is impressive considering the saturated market and dominance of streaming platforms; of course, the film's two extremely attractive leads, Sydney Sweeny and Glen Powell, may have also helped its success. The film may have also helped to re-ignite audiences' interest in the romantic comedy genre.

Anyone But You has had the vast majority of the world in a chokehold since its release on December 22, 2023, and although receiving mixed reviews from critics and audiences, the film has become the most profitable film of January 2024.

Although 2023's Barbie made history and has received eight Oscar nominations, some of the cast feel as though the film has been snubbed at this year's upcoming Oscars.

Ryan Gosling has spoken out about his disappointment that director Greta Gerwig and co-star Margot Robbie have not been nominated in their respective categories at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards. Gosling was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Ken in the film, as well as co-star America Ferrera, who received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, but this has led many to criticize the nominations for seemingly snubbing the film's two biggest creatives.

Gosling, who said he was "extremely honored to be nominated," also shared his disappointment in the nominations, saying -