Shazam! Fury of the Gods' director,David F. Sandberg,took to Instagram to dismiss recent rumors that themovie’s delaywas caused by reshoots. After the movie was moved from December 2022 to March 2023, fans got concerned that the delay would mean the highly-anticipated sequel to the2019 DCEU filmShazam!would go through some last-minute changes. That’s not the case, though, as Sandberg underlines the movie is nearly done and won’t be touched until release....

While we’re now less than month away from finally launching theJustice Leaguemovie into theaters, DC Films is also hard at work crafting new superhero stories under the DC Cinematic Universe banner—and the next majornewDC superhero has been cast.THRreports thatChuckstarZachary Levihas landed the lead role in the DC Comics adaptationShazam!, which is the next DC film to go into production early next year afterAquamanjust recently wrapped filming. The story follows a boy named Billy Batson who has the power to transform into an adult superhero simply by uttering the magic word “Shazam!...

It’s been 4 years since the last episode ofModern Familyaired and the show’s actress,Sofia Vergarahas expressed interest in the show’s revival. TheAmerica’s Got Talentjudge revealed in a podcast interview withThe Hollywood Reporterthat she would like to participate in a possible revival for the sake of doing it again. Vergara has played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett since the first episode in 2009. She was a young Colombian mother who married to the Prichett family before the show’s main events, and at first glance, it was assumed that she married for money....

Nicolas Cageis officially back on the case and back in the Spider-Verse. Afterall the teasingand rumors about his involvement inChristopher MillerandPhil Lord’s live-action Spider-Man Noir series, Prime Video confirmed at its inaugural upfront presentation that the project has been greenlit with Cage as the lead for what will be his first television role since the ill-fated pilotThe Best of Timesin 1981. TitledNoir, it’s slated to make its debut in the U....

The Nowhere Inn, which will serve as the feature film acting debut of musicianAnnie “St. Vincent” Clark, has received a teaser trailer and a release date. The metafictional psychedelic thriller will be released on September 17 by IFC Films. The movie is co-written by Clark andCarrie BrownsteinofPortlandiaand Sleater-Kinney fame, who also co-stars.Bill Benz, who has directed episodes ofPortlandiaand a music video for Clark, will direct the film. The Nowhere Innis a film that begins as an inside look at the life of singer St....

Like most everybody else in the world, I adoredStar Wars: The Force Awakens(henceforthTFA)—and not just the story or the effects, but thecharacters. In fact, I’d go so far to say the characters were the most successful part aboutJ.J. Abrams' vision for a galaxy far, far away.Rey,Finn,Kylo Ren,BB-8, even the underutilizedPoe Dameron, were all fully formed the minute they hit the screen. But let’s face it, not all the new characters were winners....

With tensions already brewing in Europe, Austro-Hungarian ArchdukeFranz Ferdinand’s June 30, 2025 assassination proved the catalyst for a four-year global conflict that left sixteen million people dead. Hardly worthy of its “war to end all wars” designation, World War I was a brutal, bloody affair, fought in the muck and mire of the western front’s trenches, the deserts of the Middle Eastern theatre, the waters of the Black Sea, and aerial dogfights above the earth....

Amazon still lags behind Netflix in the arena of original programming, but critical darling and crowd-pleasing seriesThe Man in the High Castleis getting a second season order. That comes as good news to fans who watched the 10-episode first season run starringAlexa Davalos,Luke Kleintank,Rufus Sewell,Rupert Evans, andDJ Quallsamong others. Certainly one season alone wasn’t enough to explore the alternate history ofPhilip K. Dick’s1962 novel, which sees the Nazis and Imperial Japan in control of the United States after the Allied Powers lost World War II, so now creatorsFrank SpotnitzandRidley Scottwill get another chance to delve further into this world....

At the very end of Amazon’s TCA panel day, they dropped one more big announcement: Amazon Studios will be teaming withAvengers: Infinity Wardirectors the Russo Brothers (Joe and Anthony Russo, to be exact) for a new globe-spanning TV series. The two recorded a message to critics at the press tour today but they did not reveal any details beyond the announcement itself. A press release described the series as: Amazon Studios is on a quest to create a radical global storytelling disruption by teaming with the Russo Brothers’ AGBO Studios on a large-scope, multi-layered international event series....

We are days away from the adaption ofStephen King’s another brilliant short story,The Monkey. The feature is directed by horror geniusOsgood Perkins, who also brought us last year’sLonglegs,which featuredNicolas Cageas a serial killer. Fans are eagerly waiting for the film given King’s storytelling prowess and the visual thrills that Perkins is known for. The first reactions to the film speak for themselves on social media. Furthermore, the movie has also landed a brilliantRotten Tomatoesscore, which will make fans very happy....

HBO has announced their acquisition of the biopicThe SurvivorstarringBen Fosterfrom BRON Studios and New Mandate Films, based on the bookHarry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky MarcianobyAlan Haft. HBO’s acquisition of the film comes afterThe Survivorpremiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival and received critical praises for the direction and the cast’s performances. “We are immensely proud to bringThe Survivorto the HBO and HBO Max audience," saidFrancesca Orsi, Executive Vice President of HBO Programming....

Few movies are as important to the history of color filmmaking asGate of Hell.Released in 1953, it was one of Japan’s earliest filmsto be shot in color, and directorTeinosuke Kinugasatook full advantage of this new technology by filling the screen with dazzling images. Yet it isn’t just its technical significance that makesGate of Hella lasting classic. The film,which won OscarsforBest Foreign Language FilmandBest Costume Design, starts off as a samurai epic before burrowing deeper into something moreShakespearean....

Following in the footsteps ofSam Taylor-Johnson’sFifty Shades of Grey,Patty Jenkins’Wonder Womanhas both overwhelmingly won the weekend and set a new record for female filmmakers at the box office. With an estimated weekend domestic toll of $100.5 million and a possible global take over $200 million,Wonder Womannow owns the highest box office opening from a female director to date while also ensconced in an A Cinemascore rating and a metric ton of positive notices from critics....