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Say hello to Star Wars’ Bad Batch in this sneak peek at The Clone Wars season 7

A clip from the season 7 premiere of Star Wars: The Clone Wars introduces a squad of clone troopers nicknamed The Bad Batch. The season will debut February 21 on Disney+.

Game of Thrones’ Tormund Giantsbane might join The Witcher season 2

Kristofer Hivju, who played Tormund Giantsbane on Game of Thrones, will reportedly join the cast of the Netflix series The Witcher for its second season,
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Here’s your first look at Woody Harrelson as Carnage in Venom 2

Tom Hardy has posted the first photo of Woody Harrelson as the psychopathic killer Cletus Kasady, aka Carnage, from Sony's upcoming film Venom 2.
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Netflix’s He-Man series recruits Mark Hamill, Lena Headey, Henry Rollins, more

Netflix has revealed the full cast list for its Masters of the Universe: Revelation animated series, and it features a long list of high-profile actors and fan-favorites.
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Netflix delivers first trailer and premiere date for Castlevania season 3

Season 3 of the Castlevania animated series on Netflix will debut March 5, and Netflix has released a trailer for the show's upcoming third season.
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He’s back! New trailer for Stranger Things season 4 confirms Hopper’s return

A trailer for Stranger Things season 4 confirms the return of David Harbour as Hawkins' police chief, Jim Hopper, who was believed to have died in season 3.
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The Witcher series adds two popular witchers to season 2 cast

Netflix has added two more cast members for season 2 of The Witcher, with Paul Bullion and Yasen Atour portraying fellow witchers Lambert and Coën, respectively. The popular characters will appear in multiple episodes of the show's second season, which premieres in 2021.
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Emilio Estevez set to triple deke again on The Mighty Ducks series for Disney+

Coach Gordon Bombay is back! Emilio Estevez will reprise his iconic role from The Mighty Ducks movies for the upcoming sequel series that will premiere on streaming service Disney+ later this year. He joins Lauren Graham and Brady Noon in the show's announced cast.
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Sony’s new Spider-Man spinoff movie is a mystery, but there are plenty of clues

Sony is keeping the identity of a Spider-Man spinoff movie hitting theaters in October 2021 a secret, but there's no shortage of hints about what it could be.
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Birds of Prey: Everything we know about Margot Robbie’s return as Harley Quinn

Warner Bros. Pictures' upcoming movie Birds of Prey brings back Suicide Squad actress Margot Robbie as the deranged Harley Quinn. It also introduces an impressive ensemble of DC Comics heroes and villains. Here's everything we know about Birds of Prey before the film hits theaters in February 2020.
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Parasite’s big night is one of the biggest Oscars surprises of all time

South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho and his film Parasite were the surprisingly big winners at an otherwise by-the-numbers Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday.
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ViacomCBS goes the HBO Max route, sets expansion plans for CBS All Access

ViacomCBS is reportedly taking a hint from WarnerMedia's HBO Max and planning an expansion -- or relaunch -- based on its CBS All Access streaming service.
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How VFX brought Leia back, gave us Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’s best battle

The visual effects team for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, one of 10 films contending for a VFX Oscar nomination this year, explains how they brought the late Carrie Fisher back as Leia for the sequel trilogy's concluding chapter, and what went into creating one of the film's most memorable battles.
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Star Trek: Picard finally cleans up the franchise’s messy timelines

Star Trek: Picard does more than bring back some of the sci-fi saga's most popular characters. It also does an impressive job cleaning up convoluted timelines.
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The Irishman’s FX team invented bleeding-edge tech to subtly de-age De Niro

Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese and a talented visual effects team led by Pablo Helman turned back the clock on Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino for the hit Netflix film The Irishman, using brand-new, hands-off technology to keep the performances pure. Here's how they dit it.
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How 1917’s single-shot style changed the game for visual effects

Director Sam Mendes' war drama 1917 chronicled a pair of soldiers' journey through enemy territory during World War II with a single-shot format that pushed its visual effects team to throw out what they knew and come up with fresh ways to create movie magic without any cuts.
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Disney+ sets premieres for new Marvel shows and The Mandalorian season 2

Disney has revealed when its highly anticipated new Marvel show The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, as well as WandaVision, will premiere on streaming service Disney+. The company also revealed when Star Wars series The Mandalorian (and Baby Yoda) will be back for season 2 and more adventures.
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How The Lion King visual effects team used VR to go inside Disney’s CG adventure

The Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor on Disney's The Lion King explains how the film's creative team and cast used virtual reality to blend modern filmmaking techniques with an old-school aesthetic in order to bring Simba's journey to life on the screen in a realistic way.
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The Star Trek: Picard TV series: Everything we know

CBS premiered its Star Trek: Picard series, featuring the return of Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, on January 23, 2020. The series explores Picard's life after Star Trek: The Next Generation and the 2009 film Star Trek: Nemesis. Here's everything we know about Star Trek: Picard so far.
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Everything coming to Apple TV+ that we know about so far

Apple is joining the streaming video environment with its own subscription video service, Apple TV+, and it already has an impressive lineup of original series and films in the works from some of Hollywood's biggest names. Here's everything we know is coming to Apple TV+ so far.
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Calm down, the Obi-Wan delays could be the best thing for the series

Delays that have put production of Disney's upcoming Obi-Wan Kenobi series on hold are making plenty of headlines, but Star Wars fans shouldn't worry about how they'll affect the show. In fact, they should be more worried about why the delays are becoming such a big deal.
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Star Trek: Picard might be CBS All Access’ last, best hope in the streaming war

Star Trek: Picard is off to a good start, but will the Star Trek spinoff series featuring Patrick Stewart as iconic USS Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard be enough to make the ViacomCBS streaming service a legitimate contender in the war for streaming audiences?
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Final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars gets epic trailer for Disney+ premiere

The seventh and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars will premiere in February on the Disney+ streaming service, and the critically acclaimed animated series now has a new, epic trailer previewing what's to come for Ahsoka, Darth Maul, and the Jedi in the show's long-awaited return.
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Everything coming to HBO Max, WarnerMedia’s streaming service

WarnerMedia joins the streaming landscape in May 2020 with HBO Max, its streaming video service that will offer a wide range of original series and films, along with an impressive lineup of recent and classic TV shows and movies. Here's everything we know that is coming to the service.
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Black Widow trailer pits Scarlett Johansson’s Avenger against new MCU villain

The latest trailer for Marvel's Black Widow movie brings Scarlett Johansson back to the screen as the Marvel Cinematic Universe's super spy for a story set before the events of Avengers: Endgame. The film features both new and familiar MCU characters, including the villain Taskmaster.
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Morbius trailer brings Jared Leto into the Spider-verse and maybe the MCU, too

The first trailer for Sony Pictures' Morbius offers an early look at Jared Leto as Marvel Comics' vampire antihero, and it also suggests a link between the upcoming film, the Spider-verse of 2018's Venom, and the much larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, courtesy of one particular character.
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Netflix dominates 2020 Oscar nominations, but surprises and snubs persist

This year's nominees for Academy Awards heavily favored streaming studio Netflix, as well as the controversial drama Joker, but plenty of surprises and disappointing snubs loomed large over the official announcement of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony's Oscar nominations.
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5 directors who could make magic with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Scott Derrickson left the director's chair on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, so who will Marvel Studios choose to fill it? These five filmmakers each offer unique appeal for expanding the Sorcerer Supreme's story and MCU in exciting ways.
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What’s next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Phase 4 and beyond

The Marvel Cinematic Universe looks a lot different after Spider-Man: Far From Home and Avengers: Endgame, but we have some clues about where it's headed now. Here's what we know so far about Phase 4 of the MCU, from rumors and speculation to confirmed facts, films, and TV shows.