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Disney's Canceled Princess Project Is Too Promising To Not Become A Movie

Disney planned to add an exciting princess project to its catalog, and despite its cancelation, it's too promising to not become a movie. Disney has been producing princess movies since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, and the studio has changed its approach to its heroines over time. Disney planned to bring them all together for an animated short called Princess Academy, which would have been a huge deal for the studio. Sadly, despite such a promising premise, the project never came to...
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Was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Tanya In The Original Dexter Show? Prequel Character Explained

Following her lead role in the short-lived Paramount+ show Wolf Pack, Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to make an appearance in Dexter: Original Sin (as confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con). It's been announced that the actress of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame will play Tanya Martin, a character with a significant connection to Dexter Morgan. The Dexter prequel is set in 1991 in the city of Miami, Florida. The prequel, set 15 years before the original show began in 2006, brings back some of Dexter's mo...
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Billy Burke’s Fire Country Role Is A Great Follow-Up To This 20-Year-Old John Travolta Disaster Movie

Billy Burke has starred in the drama Fire Country since 2022, a firefighter show that feels like a natural progression of his smaller role in an old John Travolta movie. Fire Country stars Max Thieriot as Bode Donovan, a young convict who takes part in a release program where he becomes a firefighter and gets called onto an assignment in his hometown. His father, Vince Leone (Billy Burke), is important to the story because he's the Battalion Chief, a role in which Billy Burke has brought his exp...
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Denzel Washington's 81% RT Classic Would Have Been Very Different If 1 Cast Replacement Didn't Happen

Denzel Washington's critically acclaimed American Gangster, with a score of 81 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, featured a star-studded cast, but a key actor swap changed the movie's dynamic entirely. In the 2007 thriller with an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes, Washington played a renowned drug lord, Frank Lucas, who was targeted by smaller gangs for his monopoly on the drug trade. Trying to catch him for his crimes was a detective named Richie Roberts. In the movie, Detective Roberts was played by Rus...
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This Action Show With 93% On Rotten Tomatoes Is Perfect To Watch While Waiting For Mortal Kombat 2

The wait for Mortal Kombat 2 feels long, but this action show starring one of the movie's lead actors is perfect to watch in the meantime. The upcoming Mortal Kombat sequel will see the return of many familiar faces, including martial artist and actor Joe Taslim, who played Sub-Zero in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot. Taslim also stars in a highly-rated action series on Netflix, which boasts a 93% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. In the upcoming Mortal Kombat 2, Taslim will likely play a new versi...
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Russell Crowe's New $18M War Movie Ties An Incredible Career Record With His 27-Year-Old Kevin Spacey Crime Classic

Russell Crowe has starred in his fair share of thrillers, with his 2024 war movie, Land Of Bad, sharing a surprising connection with one of his best-known projects in the genre. Russell Crowe leads Land Of Bad's cast as Reaper, a drone pilot tasked with guiding a new member, Sergeant JJ Kinney (Liam Hemsworth), to safety after their field mission in the Philippines goes wrong. William Eubank directed the film, which has been rated highly by audiences since its release in February. It's this popu...
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Heat 2 Is Easily Michael Mann's Most Exciting Movie 20 Years After $220 Million Hit

Michael Mann's 1995 crime thriller Heat looks set to receive an exciting sequel in the form of Heat 2. For now though, little is known regarding Heat 2's story and cast. Breaking his silence on casting rumors, Austin Butler refrained from confirming a Heat 2 role in 2023, despite the reports making viewers more excited about the Heat sequel. Heat is about thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) and his attempt to complete one more heist before retirement while under a surveillance operation led by...
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Cheech Marin’s The Long Game Role Is A Great Follow-Up To His Iconic 28-Year-Old Kevin Costner Movie

Known for a number of comedy movies made with Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin had a memorable part to play in The Long Game. Receiving significant praise from critics, The Long Game is about five Mexican American golfers in the 1950s who attempt to build a golf course in the South Texan desert and are advised by Cheech Marin's Pollo on the discrimination they face when doing it. The plot featured in The Long Game is based on a true story. Interestingly, The Long Game is not Marin's first golf movie. 2...
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James McAvoy's Upcoming Horror Remake Makes Even Less Sense After New Update

This article contains spoilers for Speak No Evil (2022). James McAvoy will star in a horror movie remake of Speak No Evil, which will be toned down compared to the original. Directed by Christian Tafdrup, the original is a Danish horror that follows a Danish couple, Bjorn and Louise, who befriend a Dutch couple, Karin and Patrick, on vacation and get invited to their house, only to find themselves trapped in a house of horrors. The 2024 remake follows a similar story: an American family befriend...
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What Is JTAC? Liam Hemsworth's Land Of Bad Character Explained

Liam Hemsworth starred in Land Of Bad this year, a military action film that he leads alongside Russell Crowe. On a special operations mission in the Philippines, Reaper (Russell Crowe) has to guide rookie sergeant JJ Kinney (Liam Hemsworth) to safety using his drone after the rescue mission of a CIA agent goes wrong. Land of Bad has a versatile cast and story. Each character in the movie has a distinctive job on the military team, the most important being Eddie Grimm, or 'Reaper', an Air Force...
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The Future Of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Apple TV+ Show Sets Up An Even More Shocking Story

This article contains spoilers for the Presumed Innocent TV show, novel, and movie.Jake Gyllenhaal's Apple TV+ thriller Presumed Innocent has been a success for the streaming service, with the show potentially setting up an even more exciting season 2. The series tells the story of prosecutor Rusty Sabich, (Jake Gyllenhaal) as he becomes the main suspect in a Chicago murder case. Apple TV+ confirmed the Presumed Innocent season 2 renewal after positive reviews and ratings success, with the show...
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This 22-Year-Old Sci-Fi Movie Still Holds A Wild Mel Gibson Box Office Record

Though not the most famous entry in his filmography, a 1990s science fiction movie achieved a stunning box office record for Mel Gibson. Gibson has a career that spans over four decades, and his first accredited acting role was in Summer City as Scollop. In the late eighties and nineties, he became a household name with roles in the Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart, and Ransom, and these movies dominated the box office when they were released and generated interest in Mel Gibson's film career. A...
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Netflix’s New Superhero Show With 100% On RT Is A Reminder To Watch This Sci-Fi That Ended 10 Years Ago

British original sci-fi series Supacell has proven popular on Netflix since its release, reminding viewers to watch another acclaimed show following its success. The cast and characters in Supacell are a group of South Londoners who suddenly develop superpowers. It was directed by rapper and screenwriter Rapman, known for his work on 2019's Blue Story and his three-part short series, Shiro's Story, which gave him widespread recognition across the UK. While his previous projects didn't feature ch...
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One Piece Season 2 Reveal All But Confirms Luffy's Dad In Live-Action

One Piece, the live-action Netflix adaptation, is in the early stages of its season 2 development. Season 1 premiered on Netflix in August 2023 and follows Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and his group of the Straw Hat Pirates on a quest across the ocean to find the One Piece treasure. The live-action adaptation became a hit for Netflix, and is based on the manga and anime by Eiichiro Oda, and features characters from the series, including Luffy's mysterious father, Monkey D. Dragon, who has yet t...
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1That '90s Show Season 2 Line Ironically Calls Back To A 22-Year-Old Eric & Donna Fight

​​That '90s Show is known for That '70s Show Easter Eggs and references throughout season 1 and season 2. Considering That '70s Show and That '90s Show are set 20 years apart, it does make sense that there are many callbacks to the original show, particularly to Eric (Topher Grace) and Donna Forman (Lauren Prepon) as their daughter Leia (Callie Haverda) is the leading character in That '90s Show. While the main love story of That '70s Show was between Jackie Burkhart (Mila Kunis) and Michael Kel...
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How Old Is Shoresy In Letterkenny's Spinoff?

By the time Shoresy premiered in 2022, viewers of Letterkenny were familiar with the cast of Shoresy and the actors, including the main character, Shoresy (Jared Keeso), yet Shoresy's age in the spinoff is never entirely clear. In Letterkenny, Shoresy isn't the main character, even though he has the same crude and blunt personality as he does in Shoresy. There is an air of mystery around him, with little discussion about what Shoresy's first name is, or how old he is. There are some contextual c...
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Netflix's Hit Returning Sitcom Is A Great Reminder To Watch This 32-Year-Old Rom-Com

A major cameo in That 90s Show season 2 part 1 serves as a reminder to watch a classic rom-com from 1992. Serving as a sequel series to That '70s Show, That '90s Show has proven to be a success on Netflix, with much of its popularity likely being driven by its predecessor. It features Leia Forman, the daughter of That '70s Show original Donna Pinciotti, as she visits her grandparents over the summer, Kitty and Red Forman, and meets a new group of teenagers. The popular sitcom already features ma...
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Why Suits Season 9 Only Has 10 Episodes Instead Of 16

Suits had a steady 9-season run on the USA Network until it concluded in 2019, but some longtime viewers of the show were not happy with its short final season. Be that as it may, Suits became one of the network's most successful shows, and is considered one of the best law shows and legal dramas ever. It follows untrained lawyer Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who becomes a lawyer without finishing school through his photographic memory. Thanks to its popularity, a short-lived spin-off series, Pe...