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Image via Warner Bros. Pictures This year’s CinemaCon gave audiences a glimpse of something beyond their purest imagination with a first-look preview of Wonka. Movie fans were treated to a magical preview filled with music, magic, and the charm that made this Roald Dahl character memorable. Variety reported that CinemaCon screened an exclusive extended trailer for the upcoming film, which gave audiences their first glimpse of Timothee Chalamet‘s Willy Wonka. In the trailer, the character spins around a light…

Image via Marvel Studios Warning: this article contains massive spoilers for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Marvel Studios has opened up to using comic books as reference for their characters — it is based on Marvel Comics, after all. However, it seems like someone in the writers’ room may have watched too much Star Wars when working on the script for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Is M.O.D.O.K. the MCU’s one-off Darth Vader? Reddit user u/TrpTrp26 noticed similarities when it came to the backstory on…

This story contains spoilers for Episode 7 of HBO’s “The Last of Us” and corresponding moments from Naughty Dog’s 2014 “Left Behind” video game. In the brutal post-apocalyptic world of “The Last of Us,” everybody is scarred by loss. The HBO drama launched with the image of Joel’s (Pedro Pascal) daughter getting killed during the chaos of a mutant fungal outbreak that transforms humans into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. Sunday’s seventh episode finally details the love and loss that Ellie (Bella Ramsey) lived through…

Photo via Warner Bros. Will DC’s latest superhero movie turn out to be yet another embarrassment at the box office? What does The Flash have in common with this 2022 blockbuster that may prove it’s worth all its hype? And finally, are the writers of Joker: Folie a Deux really going to change this key part of Harley Quinn’s identity for her new “origin?” Shazam! Fury of the Gods may have a lower opening weekend than Black Adam Photo via Warner Bros. According to the analysts, it doesn’t look like Shazam: Fury of…

With Overwatch 2's third season just around the corner, Blizzard is ready to reveal the game's newest, and chilliest, map: Antarctic Peninsula. This icy addition is Overwatch 2's first map solely designed for Control, a game mode first introduced in the original Overwatch that sees two teams of five square up against each other as they attempt to maintain control of a location for a set period of time.Though this mode is an Overwatch staple--and fans of Mei's Snowball Offensive might find the arctic…

Batman has had his share of iconic fights, with Superman, Bane, Ra’s al Ghul, and even Darkseid. But ask a comic shop employee to finish the sentence “Remember that time that Batman punched…” and nine out of 10 times they’ll say “...Guy Gardner.” This will not make sense to anyone else, because most people who’ve never been inside a comic book shop (and decent number of those who have) have no idea who Guy Gardner even is. But the time Batman punched Guy Gardner is something that Batman has never done again. Batman…

Proving that no blockbuster is ever truly safe from spoilers leaking ahead of time, Barry Keoghan’s presence as the Joker in The Batman was revealed online long before the atmospheric reboot made its way to theaters, but that didn’t make the actor’s brief guest spot any less impactful. While there were many who criticized Matt Reeves for shoehorning in the Clown Prince of Crime in Robert Pattinson’s very first outing under the cape and cowl, it’s not as if the Dark Knight’s arch-nemesis was a major player in the story.…

ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence program captivating Silicon Valley with its sophisticated prose, had its origin three years ago, when technology investor Sam Altman became chief executive of the chatbot’s developer, OpenAI.Mr. Altman decided at that time to move the OpenAI research lab away from its nonprofit roots and turn to a new strategy, as it raced to build software that could fully mirror the intelligence and capabilities of humans—what AI researchers call “artificial general…

We got a call on the first day of my ride-alongs.It was on this very normal suburban street.When I exited the car and walked up,I could hear agonizing crying from down the street.When I approached, I kind of came across thisreally incredibly heartbreaking scene ofa family in mourning for their son,who had just overdosed.It really was one of the harder photos I've ever taken.The family eventually reached out to meand invited me to the funeral.I felt really honored to be there.Everyone had a story to tell about personal…

If someone had, like, a very vivid dreamthat something was gonna go terribly wrong,a plane crash, an avalanche, a death,how would you convey that information?I was reading these books of propheciesand premonitions, these collections that tell youkind of creepy stories of, you know,a girl says I'm gonna die at four o'clock next Tuesdayand then sits in the chairand dies at four o'clock next Tuesday.And I kept coming across little mentionsof this thing called the British Premonitions Bureau,an experiment in the 1960s to…