The next feature outing in the Star Wars franchise will be a new installment directed by Game of Thrones executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, Disney CEO Bob Iger has confirmed. The company boss ended his appearance at an investor comment in New York with updates about the Star Wars universe. The entry by…

Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Christine McCarthy took on a range of topics during the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts Wednesday after the company reported strong results. Among the notable takeaways from the call were Iger asserting a cautious approach to Hulu — of which…

The new (and unusual) trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home that was released Monday offered the first glimpse of a Marvel superhero since the momentous events of Avengers: Endgame and the result is the biggest digital launch in the history of Sony Pictures Entertainment: 135.2 million views in 24 hours. The Columbia P…

2ND SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru after 8:14AM post: With an estimated $2,188.7M global through Sunday, Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame has sailed past Titanic to become the No. 2 movie ever worldwide. The same goes for overseas where Endgame is also now No. 2 with a running cume of $1.569B. That’s after grossing a…

George R.R. Martin, the creator of Game of Thrones, said on his official blog today that work is proceeding “nicely” on three GoT-based series at HBO. But Martin cautioned against believing rumors about the shows. “Oh, and speaking of television, don't believe everything you read.   Internet reports are notoriously…

Refresh for updates… Hollywood and the rest of the galaxy are remembering Peter Mayhew, the original Chewbacca actor who died Tuesday at 74. He was best known for playing iconic hairy Wookiee in the 1977-83 Star Wars trilogy, and two other films in the historic franchise. Here is a sampling of tributes to the man…

Today we have the first photo from the set of Morbius, courtesy of Tyrese Gibson. Check out the shot of him with director Daniel Espinosa below. Jared Leto stars in the Spider-Man Universe spinoff based on the Marvel Comics antihero Morbius the Living Vampire. The Oscar winner and Suicide Squad alum plays Dr. Michael…

Less than a week before Matt and Ross Duffer are set to go to trial in a case about whether they lifted the notion for their Netflix series Stranger Things off another filmmaker, lawyers for both sides in the dispute were in court Thursday to limit the scope of what the jury will and will not be able to see and…

Among the more intriguing announcements last October at New York Comic Con was the unveiling of the H1 Universe, the first foray into superhero comics by Humanoids, the venerable publishing brand associated with Métal Hurlant (which reached American readers as Heavy Metal and inspired the namesake 1981 animated…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Gotham series finale. "I just think the DC Universe is so incredibly deep and vivid, and I'm a big fan of it all," says Gotham executive producer Danny Cannon of the world that spawned the inspiration for the Fox series that came to a Dark Knight conclusion…

Brains will be served Brazilian-style soon, as Netflix has announced its first Brazilian zombie show, Reality Z. Based on the British production Dead Set, created by Charlie Brooker, the series was adapted by Brazilian director, screenwriter and executive producer Cláudio Torres with Conspiração's production. The show…

At the end of a 12-minute conversation at the Time 100 Summit that glided past the most conspicuous issue in his career — the fate of Empire in the wake of the Jussie Smollett case — Lee Daniels offered a few new details about Superbitch. That memorably titled project is also known as the Daniels-shepherded gay superhe…