More awful news continues to roll in as actress and Gemini Award winner Shirley Douglas has passed away at the age of 86. The news was revealed by her son, actor Kiefer Sutherland, with a heartbreaking post on his Twitter account. “Early this morning, my mother, Shirley Douglas, passed away due to complications surrounding pneumonia,”
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If Marvel Studios and Disney had their way, Dave Bautista might not have been cast as Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy. In the wake of the astounding success of 2012’s The Avengers, Marvel Studios was seen as untouchable. To this day, a new MCU film is seen as a veritable license to
5. Barty Crouch Jr. I will admit, being sent to Azkaban before your twentieth birthday by your own father would fill even the purest wizard with rage, but given the influential and highly respected family he comes from, Bartemius “Barty” Crouch Jr. has no excuse for the crimes that earned him his conviction, which he
Star Trek fans are celebrating “First Contact Day” online, acknowledging the fictional date in the future when humans first make contact with alien life. According to Star Trek lore, Zefram Cochrane made Earth’s first warp flight on April 5, 2063, capturing the attention of a Vulcan survey ship; the Vulcans proceeded to follow him to
Here’s Person Of Interest‘s villainous Samaritan A.I. explained. Person Of Interest is a thriller series created by Jonathan Nolan. Before the show, Nolan frequently collaborated with his filmmaker brother Christopher Nolan on screenplays. He penned the short story that inspired Memento, and the duo worked together on Interstellar and the final two entries in the
On Facebook, he delved in even deeper with a longer thank you message to fans. The post’s accompanying photo showed him wearing a medical mask and gloves and throwing up a peace sign. Though he didn’t go into detail, he did hint that he has suffered losses during the pandemic, but he also stressed the
Freddy Krueger actor and horror icon Robert Englund wants everyone to wear gloves in a new PSA. Most of the world has to remain indoors for the foreseeable future, but there are times when it’s okay to leave the house. One of those times is to go to the grocery store and Englund wants everybody
Disney has overhauled its entire release slate in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and here’s the reasoning behind their release date changes. As those reading this are no doubt aware, the COVID-19 outbreak has dominated the entertainment news cycle (and news in general) in the U.S. for the past few weeks. Theaters across the
Now, that would certainly be an interesting way to approach handle the iconic talking dog and his best pal on the big screen, and James Gunn seems open to doing it. Funny enough, based on what we know about Gunn’s willingness to try bold storytelling techniques, it wouldn’t be shocking at all if he actually
Louis C.K. believes that the world needs to laugh right now. That’s why he just surprise dropped a new comedy special on his website, which is his first since 2017. The controversial comedian has been quietly going out and doing small gigs over the years in an effort to put himself back out there. Much
Video has surfaced of actor Kevin Durand in costume as Floronic Man for the canceled second season of DC Universe’s critically acclaimed series, Swamp Thing. Despite successful shows like Titans and Doom Patrol, the DC Universe app earned significant ire among fans for its unceremonious cancellation of Swamp Thing. A sci-fi bayou horror tale about a man
Life (2017) What’s It About: The 2017 science fiction thriller Life follows a group of astronauts played by Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, and Jake Gyllenhaal, after they discover the first trace of life on Mars. When they bring the found organism onboard the International Space Station, however, things take a turn for the worst as
The Jurassic Park franchise has at least more installment in store for us. Jurassic World 3, officially titled Jurassic World: Dominion, is currently in the works and will round out the current trilogy that kicked off in 2015. While many details remain mysterious about the sequel, what we know for sure is it will be
Warning: SPOILERS for Venom #24 The Venom symbiote has a brand new host in the pages of Marvel Comics, and this new partnership is unlike any seen before. Not only has the alien being forged a link with Eddie Brock’s biological son Dylan… but the pair have now learned to create a whole new kind of Venom
The funniest thing about all of this is that even without a Butthole Cut, Cats is easily one of the weirdest movies out there. Though it’s been out in the world for less than half a year, it’s already become a bit of a cult classic, a once in a lifetime, so-bad-it’s-actually-still-just-really-really-bad-but-we-can’t-stop-watching-it movie event. If
The legend of the Snyder Cut has now taken on mythic proportions. Passionate Snyder fans are unwilling to let the matter rest until Warner Bros. finances a reshoot of Justice League under the filmmaker’s directions, and Snyder himself continues to add fuel to the flames, most recently with a picture teasing the reveal of the
There are a few major Eternals characters who are currently missing from the upcoming Marvel movie. Directed by Chloe Zhao, Eternals is the second movie on Marvel’s Phase 4 slate and is scheduled to be released in November 2020 (unless its delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak). The cosmic epic, which is expected to span
Epic Universe There’s a lot that isn’t happening right now on the theme park front, and for obvious reasons, but interestingly, the biggest current project of them all is reportedly still moving forward. Universal Orlando’s fourth gate, Epic Universe, is, according to the company, still moving forward. Universal states that all appropriate protocols are being