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25 Best Pixar Movie Characters From 1995 to 2009, Pixar released one sequel to a previous film: Toy Story 2, made in the shaky early days of the company’s relationship with Disney, and originally planned as a straight-to-video production. From 2010 on, Pixar has released seven different sequels or prequels, and extending franchises has become as much, it not more, a part of the company’s creative DNA as coming up with original stories. Fortunately, most of these continuation films have been good to very good — even if few of...

Netflix has shared the first full trailer for their Masters of the Universe: Revelation, director Kevin Smith’s reboot of the beloved animated series. The five-episode first part of the series premieres on the streaming service on July 23rd. Masters of the Universe: Revelation picks up after the original animated series — He-Man and the Masters of the Universe — left off following the “cataclysmic battle between He-Man and Skeletor,” Netflix said. Smith serves as showrunner and executive producer on the reboot, which features a voice cast that includes Mark Hamill...

HBO announced Friday that the Golden Globes-nominated series Lovecraft Country would not return to the network for a second season. “We will not be moving forward with a second season of Lovecraft Country,” HBO said in a statement to Deadline. “We are grateful for the dedication and artistry of the gifted cast and crew, and to Misha Green, who crafted this groundbreaking series. And to the fans, thank you for joining us on this journey.” The 10-episode first season of the acclaimed series produced by J.J. Abrams and Jordan Peele —...

FOX Network Series 2nd CHANCE SAVES LIVES Is Set to Debut This Fall The powerful new show seeks to give voice to struggling, under-privileged, and at-risk Individuals, break down barriers, provide relatability, and transform lives!  — Plugstar Entertainment is pleased to announce that new television series, 2 nd CHANCE SAVES LIVES, will join FOX Network’s primetime lineup this fall. Created and produced by Paul and Tiffany Nutall, the married co-founders of 2 nd Chance TV Shows and Production, the talk show’s mission will be the same as its namesake organization:...

Apple TV+ has released a new teaser for Foundation, it’s upcoming sci-fi series based on the books by Isaac Asimov. The first three episodes of the 10-episode season will arrive September 24th on the streaming platform, with new episodes arriving weekly every Friday. Set in a futuristic galactic empire, Foundation tells the story of Dr. Hari Seldon (Jared Harris), who predicts the fall of the Empire and takes a band of followers to establish a new society at the edge of the galaxy, christening it The Foundation. The ruling Cleons, a...

A review of this week’s Loki on Disney+, “The Nexus Event,” coming up — just as soon as a prince tells me how the real world works… And that, folks, is what all that setup was for. The first two episodes of Loki at times seemed to be straining mightily under the weight of the exposition Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston were asked to deliver about how the TVA works, what happens to variants, how this Loki is different from the one who died in Infinity War, etc., etc., etc. Last week’s episode,...

As resort manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) prepares to greet the latest VIPs at the Hawaiian hotel that gives the HBO miniseries The White Lotus its title, he explains to a new employee, “You don’t want to be too specific, as a presence, as an identity. You want to be more generic.” This is advice the show’s creator, Mike White, has been able to follow at certain points in his career, as the writer of broadly commercial films like School of Rock. That’s an excellent movie, but one where you could...

James Corden has stated that The Late Late Show‘s recurring “Spill Your Guts” segment will be changed due to online backlash. “Our show is a show about joy and light and love. We don’t want to make a show that will upset anybody,” Corden said on a recent episode of The Howard Stern Show. The recurring bit, which has run sporadically on the show for several years, involves the CBS talk-show host asking his celebrity guests to answer personal questions or else eat “disgusting foods.” Critics of “Spill Your Guts” have...

Jackie Collins epitomizes one of the 20th century’s favorite types of star: the celebrity novelist who gets rich and famous writing scandalous best-sellers about fictionalized scandalous celebrities. She rode in from England to Hollywood to take up her throne as the queen of the delectably trashy sex-and-shopping paperbacks, peaking in the Eighties, right around the time her real-life big sister Joan Collins starred in the prime-time soap Dynasty. Jackie turned herself into a wildly successful one-woman factory for fantasies with nuanced titles like The Bitch and The Stud. Yet she...

Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Another week, another chapter of Marvel TV’s most elusive God of Mischief, Loki, now streaming on Disney+. Tom Hiddleston‘s titular villain takes the cake in whatever MCU movie he graces the screen for, this time as a slightly different Loki than the Loki we’ve known before. We’re halfway through the show’s run, but you might still be a little confused...

Conan O’Brien closed out his late-night run with a sweet reflection on how he’s tried to build a career out of blending smart with stupid on the final episode of Conan Thursday, June 24th. “I have devoted all of my adult life to pursuing this strange, phantom intersection between smart and stupid,” O’Brien said at the end of a farewell address. “And there’s a lot of people that believe the two cannot coexist, but God, I will tell you, it is something that I believe religiously. I think when smart...

John Langley, the reality television pioneer who created the long-running television series Cops, has died at the age of 78. The producer died of an apparent heart attack in Baja, Mexico, Langley’s reps confirmed to Variety. Deadline adds that, at the time of the heart attack, Langley was competing in an off-road car race. Considered one of the founding programs of the reality TV genre, Cops ran for 32 seasons, including a run on Fox from 1989 to 2013. Langley first had the idea to bring a cinema verite-style to...

Will 2021 be known as the year TV binges went bust? Halfway through the year in television, the majority of the best, most talked-about shows haven’t been the ones that just dropped all of their episodes on a Friday, but ones that conjured up the old TV pleasure of getting one installment per week, or maybe two. Some of this reflected a resurgence from traditional linear cable channels like HBO, but a lot was simply the fact that the newer streaming services seem more willing to experiment with release models:...