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Venom: The Last Dance debuted a new trailer on Thursday, and one of its key characters was Knull — the eldritch god of darkness who created the alien symbiotes. Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, two of the creators who helped bring Knull to life, were among those taken offguard by his inclusion, and immediately took…Read more

Venom: The Last Dance may be weeks away, but there’s an awful lot we don’t know about the third entry in this Marvel series. Thanks to the final trailer, we’ve only just learned that the symbiote god Knull is being introduced in the sequel as the film’s villain. That still leaves many other questions. Is…Read more

If you're not one of the many, many people who saw Inside Out 2 in theaters, making it the highest-grossing animated film of all time, good news: you'll get your chance to stream it on Disney+ pretty soon. Disney announced on Thursday that Inside Out 2 will make its streaming debut on Disney+ on September…Read more

We’re living in a renaissance for animated films based on toys and comics that manage to both dazzle and dig deeper. The Spider-Verse films and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem recently reinvigorated their respective heroes with both visual and narrative panache that was pitched at (and landed with) longtime fans and newcomers alike. In…Read more

Michael B. Jordan has reportedly been tapped to direct and star in Amazon MGM Studios’ The Thomas Crown Affair. Details on Jordan’s second directing gig come from Deadline, which says he picked up the job following the announcement that he would appear on screen in 2016. The Black Panther and Creed actor will also produce…Read more

Gandalf actor Ian McKellen doesn't like the idea of anyone else playing the iconic wizard in the upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, and has revealed he's expecting a script in 2025. McKellen said on This Morning that he was eager to return to The Lord of the Rings after portraying Gandalf…Read more

Disney subsidiary Lucasfilm is being sued over its recreation of Grand Moff Tarkin actor Peter Cushing's image in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As reported by The Times, a friend of Cushing has alleged Disney did not have permission to recreate the actor's image with special effects for Rogue One. Disney tried and failed…Read more

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse series producer Christopher Miller has swung in to squash rumors suggesting Sony recently scrapped much of its work on Beyond the Spider-Verse. Gossip started following a report posted via Jeff Sneider’s The InSneider website. According to its sources, most of the work made on the project was scrapped for "creative reasons"…Read more

You’ve heard of cringe comedy, but what about cringe horror? That might be the best way to describe the original Speak No Evil, a harrowingly uncomfortable Danish thriller that hit theaters and Shudder back in 2022, promptly doing for weekend getaways what Jaws did for the beach. Written and directed by Christian Tafdrup, the film…Read more

Heretic opens in theaters Friday, November 15. This review is based on a screening at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods made a name for themselves with a horror movie as laconic as its scared-silent characters: The average TV commercial has more dialogue than A Quiet Place, whose pages of…Read more