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Netflix wants to make a sequel to Leo already. Go behind the scenes on Ghosbusters: The Frozen Empire. Plus, Wolf Pack will howl no more at Paramount. Spoilers, away!'We’re Gonna Drop a Bomb' | David Harbour on ThunderboltsThunderboltsTHR reports that Marvel is close to tapping Top Gun: Maverick’s Lewis Pullman to replace Steven Yeun as a key role in Thunderbolts. Leo 2During a recent interview with The Wrap, co-chief executive officer of Netflix Ted Sarandos revealed the streamer is “kicking around” the idea of a sequel…

Louis-Dreyfus plays the mother of a terminally ill girl (Lola Petticrew) as the two navigate life and death Death has taken many forms in media over the decades — from a Norm MacDonald-voiced Grim Reaper in Family Guy to an anthropologically-minded Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black — but no depiction is quite like in Tuesday. For the first trailer of the upcoming film, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has the ominous fate appear in the form of a shape-shifting, gravelly-voiced talking parrot. “Madam, you need…

It won't be the first time that A24 will get international audiences sobbing with a heartfelt mother-daughter bond. The studio that brought cinemagoers hits like Lady Bird, Moonlight, Eighth Grade, Hereditary and more, has released the first Tuesday trailer. As the debuting director, writer Daina O Pusic helms the upcoming profoundly meaningful film about family, love and loss. Sparking the project with a light unlike another, the Veep actress will be leading the movie as a loving mother coming to terms with the…

Had you told us at the beginning of 2023 that an internet joke about summer-movie counterprogramming would give birth to a major pop-cultural phenomenon; that both a lo-fi Canadian horror flick and a $200 million epic from the greatest living American filmmaker would provide twin poles of cinematic ingenuity; that Marvel Studios would run into what’s possibly its own endgame in terms of keeping its successful cinematic universe afloat; that dual strikes from both the WGA and the Screen Actors Guild…

Steven Yeun in Nope, now to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Image: UniversalHow do you make Marvel’s next mega team-up movie that ends a phase even more exciting? Adding Steven Yeun sure works. The Oscar-nominated star who rose to fame playing Glenn on The Walking Dead (and was recently seen in Jordan Peele’s Nope) is joining Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts in a mystery role.According to Deadline, which broke the story, the role “is not only significant to this film but could also play a role going forward in future films of…

Screenshot: Hajime Isayama, Kodansha/FunimationWe have more indie horror movie trailers and news than you can brandish a machete at. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania explains how Scott and the others can talk to the creatures of the Quantum Realm, and it’s gross. And the Animaniacs gear up for one final season. All that and more—spoilers, ho!O’DessaDeadline reports Sadie Sink is attached to star in O’Dessa, a post-apocalyptic rock opera “with original songs written and produced by Jasper and Jason Binnick” from Patti…

Val talking to US Agent on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.Image: Marvel StudiosThe first three phases of the Marvel Cinematic Universe had Nick Fury. The next three, at least, have Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine. Played by seven-time Emmy award-winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the shady character has popped up several times so far, and in her upcoming Marvel movie, Thunderbolts, the Seinfeld and Veep star wants to take things up a notch. She wants to hit somebody.“I actually pitched it,” Louis-Dreyfus told…

Image: Marvel StudiosArguably the biggest surprise in all of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, one that’s so secret even Shuri herself doesn’t speak of it, is that she sees her cousin, the evil Erik Killmonger, and not her mother or brother when she enters the Ancestral Plane. We asked director Ryan Coogler about this and will have his answer next week, but it’s obviously a complex choice with its answer weaved deep into Shuri’s journey.Shuri is practical. That she wasn’t able to science her way to saving her brother has…

Image: Marvel StudiosBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever has finally arrived, and to say that Marvel’s latest—the sequel to 2018’s smash hit Black Panther, which won three Oscars—at was highly, highly anticipated is putting it rather mildly. io9’s Germain Lussier and Cheryl Eddy and Gizmodo’s David Ewalt sat down to discuss the MCU’s return to Wakanda, the movie’s new and familiar characters, and how it dealt with the loss of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman.Image: Marvel StudiosDavid Ewalt: So I literally just got back…

More than midway through Onward — the latest animated movie from Disney-owned Pixar — one of the film's two lead characters, Barley Lightfoot (Chris Pratt), bids a teary-eyed adieu to his purple van. The van is really special to Barley. It has a custom unicorn decal on its side. It only starts if the key is in the ignition's “sweet spot”. And it has a name: Guinevere. But Barley must send Guinevere to its death. The way Onward sets up the send-off — from Barley saluting the vehicle as it rides off into the sunset to how…