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The following contains spoilers for The Franchise season 1 episode 1, “Scene 31A: Tecto Meets Eye,” now streaming on MaxThe Franchise’sfirst episode has already highlighted the harsh reality of blockbuster filmmaking. The series is focused on the cast and crew of a fictional superhero film trying to balance their own egos, ambitions, and anxieties with their work. Making things significantly more difficult is the presence of studio interference in the form of Pat, a rep who casually upends a major aspect of the production....

Barbiedirector Greta Gerwig will helm the upcomingChronicles of Narniaremake, and Henry Cavill has proved his readiness to feature in it. Netflix will distributeGerwig’sNarniaremakeafter the 2000s movie series ground to a halt afterThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Walt Disney and Walden Media joined forces to make the first two movies, but Disney quit afterPrince Caspian’sbox office disappointment, leaving the third movie an even smaller affair, and the remaining books unadapted....

FromStar Trek: The Next GenerationtoStar Trek: Picard,Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has had an impressive Starfleet career, but he remained a captain for a long time in theStar Trekfranchise. When viewers firstmeet Captain Picard inTNG’spremiere, he had just taken over command of the USS Enterprise-D. The newest iteration of the Enterprise served as the flagship of the United Federation of Planets, making its captain one of Starfleet’s most prestigious positions. Jean-Luc Picard was more than up to the task, partly because he had already been captain of a starship for 22 years....

James Bondactor Jeffrey Wright compares his new spy series to the 007 franchise.The Oscar-nominated actor made his debut asCIA agent Felix Leiterin 2006’sCasino Royalealongside Daniel Craig’s titular Agent 007 and has since starred in two other films in the franchise. While theactor is one of the many actors to portray the often-thankless part, many consider his version of Felix one of the best in the franchise. He also broke the record for playing the character three times....

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteousincludes avariety of romance options, but some of your choices might not seem obvious right away. This is particularly the case for characters who join your party later in the game, such as Queen Galfrey and Arueshalae, both of whom are available for romancing as a male or female commander. Arueshalae might be one of the hardest romance options, sinceyou can basically fail the romance if you pick the wrong option, so you want to be careful on her path....

Although9-1-1seems poised to kill off its first main character, I’m convinced Bobby’s upcoming funeral scene is nothing more than a plot twist in the making. Peter Krause’s Captain Robert “Bobby” Nash has been a pivotal part of the fictional LAFD station 118 since the series began, overseeing the main ensemble during9-1-1’s most intense disasters. Shockingly, the leader seems destined to meet his end sometime this year. 9-1-1has avoided main character deathssince its 2018 debut, butnew set photos clearly show an imminent funeral for Bobby....

TheI Know What You Did Last Summerreboot loses a lead actor as a keyRiverdalestar drops out. Released in 1997, the original slasher classic follows four friends who are hunted by a hook-wielding killer after a tragic accident. Following two sequels, anI Know What You Did Last Summerrebootis confirmed to be in the works from director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson. Madelyn Cline, Camila Mendes, Sarah Pidgeon, Tyriq Withers, and Jonah Hauer-King were previously reported to comprise the main cast, with original stars Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr....

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along. I reckon adapting Tommy Maximoff’s new origin story for theMCUafterAgatha All Alongteased his return would be the perfect story for Marvel Studios' speculatedYoung Avengersproject. Three years after 2021’sWandaVisionended with the apparent deaths of Wanda Maximoff and Vision’s magically-created twins, Billy and Tommy, I was thrilled to see the former make his triumphant return to the MCU.Agatha All Alongepisode 6 confirmed that Joe Locke’s “Teen” is in factBilly Maximoff’s soul in the body of William Kaplan, which made me hopeful that his brother would also return....

James Gunn opens up about which of the announcedDC Universeprojects has been challenging to finalize. Following their initial announcement in January 2023, severalmovies and TV shows from the DCU’s Chapter 1: “Gods and Monsters” slatehave gone forward. However, while some have been produced and others are being filmed, a handful have remained in limbo, which includesThe Authoritymovie from DC Studios. It turns out that there is a crucial reason why updates onThe Authorityhave been extremely limited....

John Wayne and John Ford’s careers in the cinema industry were intertwined from the moment that Ford got Wayne his first role in 1926 until their 1963 collaborationDonovan’s Reef. This final outing for Wayne on one ofJohn Ford’s moviesets was a strange way to end their four-decade partnership, considering that they’d worked together on some of the greatest Westerns and war movies of the mid-20th century. A year after Ford directed the Duke in his gunslinging classicThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, however, the pair worked together one last time on this low-key comedy....

Read update The director of the four mainJohn Wickmovies has revealed which of them is his favorite. The franchise kicked off in 2014 with the action movie of the same name. Although the Keanu Reeves-led release hinted at a broader universe with an interconnected network of assassins and constantly shifting alliances, it largely spun a pulse-pounding gun fu adventure from one simple premise, that being the titular former assassin seeking revenge for the murder of his dog, a present from his late wife, and the theft of his car....

It Ends With Usdirector and star Justin Baldoni’s lawyer confirms that the actor plans to sue co-star Blake Lively and others for alleging that Baldoni sexually harassed Lively and orchestrated a smear campaign against the actor during the film’s promotion. Baldoni and his legal team have already fileda libel lawsuit against theNew York Timesfor a story that contained selected texts and emails that supported the allegation, published a day after Lively filed a sexual harassment complaint against Baldoni with the California Civil Rights Department....

Netflix’s 2024 biopicMariafeatures a strong cast led by Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie.Jolie, best known for her roles in filmssuch asMaleficent,Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, andGirl, Interrupted,returns in her first feature film since Marvel’s 2021 action blockbusterEternals. Jolie has also directed several films, such asFirst They Killed My Fathers(2017) andUnbroken(2014). Jolie took a break from acting from 2021’sEternalsuntil 2024’sMariato focus on spending more time with her six kids, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne....