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Hunger Games Prequel Invites Fans to Enroll in the Academy

A new Hunger Games movie is coming out, not that you’d know it from the lack of fanfare it’s elicited. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (… okay, then) is a prequel to the main series that centers on Coriolanus Snow, who I gather is the villain of the story, and his &helli...

Disney Forms AI Task Force

Disney is pursuing artificial intelligence more doggedly than many may have thought. According to a report from Reuters, the Mouse House has formed a task force to study how AI can be used in the company’s various divisions. The areas Disney seeks to implement AI range from “Walt Disney Studios ...

Wolverine and Deadpool Fight in Deadpool 3 Set Video

The Best There is at What He Does and the Merc with a Mouth are squaring off, and we’ve got a preview of the action. A few days ago, Twitter user @mcufightclub posted a video taken on the set of Deadpool 3 that shows Deadpool and Wolverine fighting in that desert area from which the …

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RUMOR: April O’Neil Toy Race-Swapped Back?

Hollywood may be playing fast and loose with its “values” again. In the new animated film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, the Turtles’ ally April O’Neil – who is traditionally a white woman, outside of one of the more recent cartoon series – is depicted as a black teenager. ...

Kevin Smith Gets Waiver to Film The 4:30 Movie

Kevin Smith has another movie on deck, and he’s going to film it during the actors’ strike. He’s not breaking union rules, though; Smith obtained a waiver from SAG-AFTRA to shoot The 4:30 Movie, which was written before the writers’ strike began and doesn’t involve a studio connected to th...

Monopoly Movie on the Way as Lionsgate Obtains EOne From Hasbro

Are you already as tired of Mattel’s Barbie spinoffs as I am? Then I have some bad news for you: Variety reports that Lionsgate purchased Entertainment One’s film and TV assets from Hasbro for around $500 million. This means movies based on various Hasbro products and games are coming to theater...