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Normally, we expect to see big things happening in the world of Star Wars in early May, as May the Fourth is the somewhat official Star Wars Day, but when it comes to Disney+, the big day is April 2, as a bunch of Star Wars content is set to drop, including several pieces of cult content. However, that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what's coming to Disney+ in April....

The video game genre is still one that seems to get little respect in Hollywood. While studios are certainly willing to adapt popular games into films, the translation rarely feels entirely true to the source material. The right names and characters may appear, but frequently you get the feeling that the filmmakers don't really love the games the movie is based on, and feel that a lot will need to be changed for it all to "work" as a movie. But the director of the new Mortal Kombat movie hopes...

Oh yeah, and we’ll take Mary-Elizabeth Winstead’s Huntress too! By the end of Birds of Prey, Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya and had formed a girl gang crime fighting groupm and I bet it’s still alive and kicking even if Harley Quinn and Cassandra Cain ditched the ladies. As another Twitter user said using the trending hashtag:...

Now we come to Black Adam, which was previously supposed to drop this December, but was undated back in October 2020 amidst various other DC movies having their release dates changed. Now the plan is for Black Adam to open on July 29, 2022, which means it will go head-to-head with Indiana Jones 5. While I’m curious to see which of these highly-anticipated movies would perform better better at the box office, I suspect one of them will end moving yet again, and with Black Adam about to begin production...

Pixar’s two latest projects, Soul and Luca, will not get the chance at a wide theatrical release, even as more theaters are opening up in anticipation for the movie industry’s first summer box office season in two years. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s former editorial director Matthew Belloni, Pixar employees are discouraged by Disney’s strategy:...

The road to Warner Bros. and DC’s Black Adam film has been a long one, to say the least. However, after years of remaining in development, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s powerful antihero is finally making his way to the big screen and even recently secured a new date. At this point, we’ve only seen The Rock’s Black Adam look through concept art, but it’s still been more than enough to get fans hyped up for the character’s DC Extended Universe debut. Of course, The Rock is just as, if not...

As he explained, he was riding on a high after finishing work on Godzilla vs. Kong (a movie he says the studio "loves"), and it was at that time that he learned a big screen version of Thundercats was being developed by people with whom he previously worked. Wingard decided to take a shot at landing the gig, and they have given him the opportunity. He said,...

It's rare for a Broadway show to become such a hit that it becomes a cultural phenomenon, and yet, that's just what happened with Lin-manuel Miranda's Hamilton. The show was a unique blend of American history and hip hop music and even if you never saw the show on the stage, you likely knew a lot about it and became a big fan of the music. For most the show's success likely came as a surprise, but Leslie Odom Jr., who would go on to win a Tony Award for...

CinemaBlend participates in affiliate programs with various companies. We may earn a commission when you click on or make purchases via links.Once upon a time, Shrek made history as the first recipient of the Best Animated Feature Oscar. I was recently reminded of this by the 2021 Academy Award nominations reveal. This year marks the 20th anniversary of Dreamworks’ hit adaptation of William Steig’s book about an ogre, voiced by Mike Myers, who unexpectedly becomes the hero of his own romantic fairy tale adventure. That being said, I cannot think...

The Acting, Particularly Michelle Pfeiffer and Jennifer Lawrence, Is Top NotchOkay, first off, mother! may have been the movie that ruined Jennifer Lawrence’s career. Or at the very least, put it on hold. Before mother!, Jennifer Lawrence was literally the girl on fire. But after mother!, she decided to take a pretty long hiatus from the limelight. But why? Well, it’s definitely not because of her performance, since it’s impeccable in this movie. In fact, it’s probably the best she’s done since Silver Linings Playbook, especially since she’s supposed to...

When you win an Oscar, you instantly become the talk of the town, and that’s what happened to Gwyneth Paltrow, for better and for worse, when she nabbed the prize in 1999. She said she felt like she needed to just hide out at her parents house, and she apparently did for three weeks. Her mother is Blythe Danner, who is also an award-winning actress, and her father was director/producer Bruce Paltrow, who died in 2002 due to complications from cancer....

IT Chapter Two – Shopkeeper (2019)Finally we have the most recent Stephen King appearance/cameo, and it also happens to be one of his best. Derry, Maine is a place with no shortage of weirdos, and the author plays a great one in IT Chapter Two, where he is featured as the proprietor of the Second Hand Rose pawn shop. When James McAvoy’s Bill Denbrough comes in after seeing his old bicycle, Silver, in the window, King’s character does nothing but give the famous writer grief – first by hiking up...

A good gauge of a great rom-com is the cast having fun on set, and according to Joel McHale, he had a great time translating the “batshit” script for BenDavid Grabinski’s vision. The movie has a bizzare air about it that hinges close to horror territory, which must have been fun to play around with on set....

In Enchanted James Marsden plays Prince Edward, who chases after Amy Adams' Giselle and finds himself in the real world, a place that really confuses him. Idina Menzel played Nancy Tremaine, who starts out the movie as the girlfriend of Patrick Dempsey's Robert, but ends up running off with Prince Edward. So, in the end, while some relationships don't work out, everybody ends up more or less happy.Disenchanted will arrive exclusively on Disney+. You can use this link to sign up for the streaming service....