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Impressed with the continued popularity of Cobra Kai after the premiere of Season 2, YouTube has officially ordered a third season of the series. Written and executive produced by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the series serves as a sequel to the original Karate Kid movie trilogy, bringing back stars Ralph Macchio and William Zabka. After several decades, the feud between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence remains tense, but now viewers can see the story from Johnny’s perspective as well when he reopens the Cobra Kai karate dojo....

For anyone who doesn’t keep up with recent popular literature, Colleen Hoover is currently one of the best-selling authors in the market, particularly since a viewership surge in 2022 turned her into a BookTok sensation along with her landmark novel It Ends With Us. The movie was optioned for film back in 2019, and since then, details on the production have been kept largely under wraps. However, per a report from Collider, Hoover took to her TikTok and made the official casting announcement for the film’s two lead stars....

Yesterday at Comic-Con International 2008 we “sort of” got director McG to reveal some details about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s possible CGI involvement (Here’s a theory: Arnold’s face CGI’d over Austrian body builder Roland Kickinger’s body, anyone?) in the fourth Terminator installment, Terminator Salvation. As well, the rest of the cast revealed some details about their individual characters in the film. In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators....

There’s a strange trend on TV this season. Men in Trees, Smith, Studio 60 are three new shows which have featured lead characters as smokers. Smoking became a TV taboo a few years ago after the tobacco companies lost their lawsuits and cigarette ads became a thing of the past on tv and on billboards. The feeling was that it was important not to reinforce smoking as cool, especially on TV, where any kid could watch and be influenced....

D3Publisher (D3P), a publisher and developer of interactive entertainment software, together with its parent D3, Inc., today announced a worldwide publishing agreement with Imagi Studios for videogames based on the new animated adventure film, Astro Boy. The games are scheduled to be released for console and handheld systems in late 2009 to coincide the worldwide release of the movie in October 2009. “The rich history and endearing story of Astro Boy appeals to fans around the globe and translates exceptionally well to the interactive space,” said Yoji Takenaka, president and chief executive officer, North America and Europe, D3P....

A feature film adaptation is in the works for Danny and the Dinosaur. THR reports that Legendary Entertainment has just acquired the film rights to the classic kids’ book series by Syd Hoff, spawning with the original Danny and the Dinosaur picture book in 1958. HarperCollins Productions’ Caroline Fraser is producing the feature film adaptation. No director, writer, or cast members have yet been attached. As of this time, it’s unclear if the plan for the Danny and the Dinosaur movie is to be live-action or animation, as that’s not specified in the new report....

According to Wired, Netflix relies on a viewership over cost model when deciding what shows to keep or cancel. Essentially, Netflix executives look at the numbers that matter, even if it means putting profit ahead of dedicated fan bases. Back in 2018, one of the many cancellations by Netflix was the much beloved series Daredevil starring Charlie Cox. The series on Netflix seemingly signaled that the stars had aligned for the fan-favorite comic book character to be re-introduced into the MCU — until it was canceled to fans’, and Cox’s, dismay....

According to Variety, the first slate of films under a recent co-production deal between Image Entertainment and Dark Horse Indie includes projects helmed by John Landis and cult favorite Bruce Campbell and another starring Tom Sizemore and Edward James Olmos and another from Harlan Ellison. Image and Dark Horse have seven films in various stages of production for either theatrical or DVD distribution and five others in development. Landis will direct Gone, a haunted house tale set to begin lensing in June....

Veteran actor David Schramm has died, and with his death, the world has been left a little less funny. With a career spanning 40 years with a wide variety of roles on the stage and on the screen, Schramm is particularly known for his starring role as Roy Biggins on the ’90s comedy series Wings. Though an official cause of death has not yet been revealed, The Acting Company’s Margot Harley announced on Sunday that the actor has passed away....

You can enjoy the exploits of your favorite Miami blood-splatter expert in 1080p this May. Dexter: The Complete Second Season will be released on Blu-ray on May 5. The first season of this hit Showtime series was released on Blu-ray last month. We have no pricing details, cover art as of yet, but we’ll surely keep you updated on this new release. The series stas Michael C. Hall, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter and David Zayas....

Enchanted charmed its way onto the big screen in 2007, and its success warranted that the fantasy musical received its own sequel, titled Disenchanted. The film was a hybrid of traditional animation and live-action, and the multimedia feature film permitted Disney to take a step forward in experimenting with how they presented royalty-inspired stories. Enchanted had the ability to honor Disney’s most popular princesses while executing an entertaining satire of its own tropes....

Following the release of Solo: A Star Wars Story, there seemed to be a change at Lucasfilm that saw a number of future projects being put on the backburner or being scrapped entirely. One project that seemed to be in uncertain territory was an Obi-Wan Kenobi movie that would have followed solo and brought Ewan McGregor back to Star Wars as the Jedi master. Now of course we are getting ready to see McGregor and Hayden Christensen in the series Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy has revealed how the launch of Disney+ played a big part in the project’s transition from movie to series....

New Walt Disney chief Rich Ross has put the breaks on production for the romantic comedy Wedding Banned, which has Robin Williams, Anna Faris and Diane Keaton attached to star. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio has put the project into turnaround, and the production company, Mandevile Films, is free to shop it around town. Wedding Banned revolves around a long-divorced couple (Williams and Keaton) who kidnap their daughter (Faris) on her wedding day to prevent her from making the same mistakes they did....

Disney have revealed the first teaser trailer for their highly anticipated live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, which stars Halle Bailey in the lead role as Ariel. Premiering as part of Disney’s D23 Expo, the teaser trailer takes us on a journey through the ocean with Ariel and gives not only a first look at Halle Bailey’s little mermaid but lets us hear the kind of vocal gymnastics the actress will be bringing to the role....

Hivemind today announced a new partnership with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., the proprietors of EC Comics, for a number of film and television projects based on the hugely influential, and often controversial, comic book publisher’s groundbreaking legacy and library. One of the first endeavors of the partnership will be Weird Fantasy, a new television show inspired by the shocking and subversive sci-fi/fantasy series that collided visionary genre storytelling with socially conscious themes of racial and gender equality, anti-war advocacy, nuclear disarmament and ecological preservation to create some of the most impactful and hotly debated comic book stories ever produced....

In a story from CHUD it seems that talk of Pixar making an Ant-Man movie are somewhat premature. It looks like Entertainment Weekly ran with this idea while covering the recent Disney/Marvel deal. Something about this didn’t sit well with the people at CHUD so they dropped would-be Ant-Man director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) an email, and this is what he said regarding his involvement: “I am still attached to Ant-Man and indeed am still working on a second draft with Joe Cornish....

The mystery surrounding Eleven’s disappearance at the end of Stranger Things is becoming a little less mysterious. We learned last month that Millie Bobby Brown was returning in Stranger Things Season 2 thanks to a bidding war between hollywood reps. Now we have word that the actress will return as a series lead. There had been some speculation that Eleven wouldn’t be returning in Stranger Things Season 2 for at least the first couple of episodes, appearing as a surprise midway through these new episodes....

Although the series is coming to a close, you can still relive a widely-popular NBC series on DVD this coming March. ER The Complete Tenth Season will be released on DVD on March 3. This six-disc set will contain all 22 episodes of the season and the set will be priced at $49.98 SRP. Also on that day, a Seasons 1-10 Gift Pack will be available for the whopping price of $467....

In the 2010s, global cinema truly began to get the (arguably overdue) attention it deserved in North America. While subtitled films seemed to be reserved only for film festivals like Cannes and Berlin, the rise of streaming platforms allowed these films to be accessible globally for the first time. Hollywood was no stranger to cross-over before this; the 1970s martial arts craze largely came from Hong Kong, while an increase of South Asian diaspora communities in the West drove up demand for Bollywood and South Asian films....

Gerard Butler looks to survive on a war-torn island after a brutal crash in the upcoming film Plane. Most people think a crash landing in a commercial aircraft would be quite traumatic, but the adventure is just beginning for Butler’s character, Brodie Torrance, who finds himself trapped on a dangerous island with an accused murderer as his only assistance. There should be plenty of action in Plane, as the nightmares never end for Torrance and Louis Gaspare (Mike Colter)....