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When it comes to the Tron franchise, time knows no bounds. Tron: Ares has been in development for over a decade, and fans have been waiting anxiously for news about on it to drop. Last month, we finally got an update thanks to Jared Leto revealing the first look at the third installment, and fans went wild. If that wasn’t enough, now one cast member is proving to be just as excited as the fans are. However, they jokingly avoided spoilers while hyping up the flick and its starsAt the Road House premiere in New York City…

For my money, one of the best sci-fi movie franchises in existence is Disney’s Tron. At once ahead of the curve, but also on the bleeding edge of today, the series explores the relationship between technology and humanity. Tron: Ares is about to do that once again, with Jared Leto’s titular Program representing a first contact scenario between the otuside world and The Grid. As if that wasn’t a strong enough connection between the upcoming Disney movie and the world it hails from, a pretty sizable Easter egg is already…

Photo: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Disney (Getty Images), Image: Marvel, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Twitter/Warner Bros, Warner Bros., Disney, DisneyEvil! This week there’s a lot of it, whether it’s seeming confirmation as to just who Emma Corrin will play in Deadpool and Wolverine, or Star Wars subtly and not so subtly reminding us that the Jedi Order really did go off the rails with all that systemic rot. Also evil: the way Bill Skarsgård looks in the new Crow reboot? Maybe! Check out all this evil, and some good, in…

After almost 15 years of development hell, the third Tron movie is finally in production. Star Jared Leto made the news official by dropping the first image of his character, Ares, for the 2025 release called Tron: Ares.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoThe image is striking and, if you’re a Tron fan, very intriguing. For example, we’ve never seen red on the Grid before. Blue? Yes. Yellow? Yes. But never red. Plus data discs are called that because they’re discs—and the one Ares is holding is a different…

It’s time to go back to the grid. Finally. Jared Leto took to his social media on Thursday to reveal our first look at the third Tron film, Tron: Ares, along with a release window of 2025.Sony's Morbius is a Messy VoidThe image reveals a red-suited character with a triangle-shaped data disc, both radical departures from the previous two films. Plus, while “Tron: Ares” was long the title people were using for the film, it had not yet become official. Now it is. Here’s the image and teaser...So, from this image it seems…

Image: DisneyNow that we’re a few weeks into 2024 and the Hollywood strikes are in the rearview, the upcoming Tron: Ares has just started filming. Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023Director Joachim Rønning posted on Instagram the film wrapped its first week of production on Friday. The original start date was mid-August 2023, but the aforementioned strikes set things back, much to the filmmaker’s ire. At the time, he called them “extremely frustrating,” not helped by the fact that 150…

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Yesterday was a big day for actors and writers, as well as anyone—like us—who covers the entertainment industry as SAG-AFTRA officially joined the WGA on the picket lines for the first time in 60 years. From AI reveals to Fran Drescher’s pretty great, off-the-cuff speech about the labor problems facing actors in Hollywood, all eyes were on LA yesterday. We’ll be figuring out what this means for San Diego Comic-Con soon, but until then, remember spoilers... Fran Fine would never, ever cross a picket line.Who Should Play…

Good morning SAG-AFTRA! How are you feeling? Strike-ready? Us too. Besides the news that SAG-AFTRA is very likely to go on strike alongside the WGA as the AMPTP refuses to bargain in good faith, we’ve got updates from Mission: Impossible, a peek at the Godzilla design to be used in Minus One, and a rumor about Black Bolt. Spoilers, to the picket lines!Finding Uhura’s Confidence in Strange New Worlds | io9 InterviewMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 2During a recent interview with Variety, Christopher McQuarrie…

Photo: Jerod Harris (Getty Images), Walt Disney Pictures (Getty Images)The long-in-development third installment of the Tron franchise is set to shoot this August—if the SAG strike doesn’t happen—and it’s just added a new star to its cast.Sony's Morbius is a Messy VoidEvan Peters (whose credits include Quicksilver in the X-Men films, multiple seasons of American Horror Story, and Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) will appear opposite the previously cast Jared Leto in Tron: Ares. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed…