Year: 2020

Hasbro Reveals Three New Star Wars Items!

Hasbro Reveals Three New Star Wars Items!

Hasbro Reveals Three New Star Wars Items!

Hasbro has announced three new Star Wars products all of which will be available exclusively on Hasbro Pulse in September, including a Vintage Collection Figure 3-Pack inspired by the The Clone Wars animated series, a Black Series Heroes of Endor Figure Set and six-inch-scale Hoth Wampa Figure. The new figures can be viewed in the gallery below!

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Star Wars: The Vintage Collection Star Wars: The Clone Wars 501st Legion Arc Troopers Figure 3-Pack

Featuring premium detail and design across multiple points of articulation inspired by Star Wars: The Clone Wars, this 3.75-inch-scale Star Wars: The Vintage Collection Star Wars: The Clone Wars 501ST Legion Arc Troopers Figure 3-Pack makes a great gift for fans and collectors. Highly poseable with realistic detail, these figures feature original Kenner branding and can be displayed in action figure and vehicle collections. Includes three figures and 15 accessories, the set will run for $50.

Star Wars: The Black Series Heroes of Endor Figure Set

Fans and collectors can imagine scenes from the Star Wars Galaxy with this premium Star Wars: The Black Series Heroes of Endor Figure Set, which includes characters including Han Solo, Princess Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker and Paploo and is inspired by the Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Fans and collectors can display this highly poseable (four fully articulated limbs per figure) figure set, featuring quality detail and deco, in their action figure and vehicle collection. This figure set also comes with a Star Wars: Return of the Jedi-inspired Speeder Bike that makes a great addition to any collection. Includes four figures, Speeder Bike and six accessories, the set will run for $110.

Star Wars: The Black Series 6-Inch-Scale Hoth Wampa Figure

Celebrate 40 years of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back with The Black Series 6-Inch-Scale Hoth Wampa Figure, featuring 1980s Kenner-inspired package design. Fans and collectors can imagine scenes from the Star Wars Galaxy with this premium figure, featuring quality detail and deco and multiple points of articulation (four fully articulated limbs). The figure offers fans and collectors a “clean” Wampa design by removing the “bloody mouth” deco featured on the previous version released in 2014, and will run for $30.

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All new three releases will be available beginning September 2020 exclusively on Hasbro Pulse for US and Canadian customers.

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CS Recommends: The Immortal Hulk, Plus Movies, Games & More!

CS Recommends: The Immortal Hulk

CS Recommends: The Immortal Hulk, Plus Movies, Games & More!

Stuck inside? Don’t know what to watch/read/play/listen to? ComingSoon.net has got you covered. In this week’s CS Recommends our staff gives you solid tips on the best media to consume during your downtime, including The Immortal Hulk and more! Check out our picks below!

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MAX EVRY’S RECOMMEND: The Immortal Hulk

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After taking a break from ongoing comics series, this is the one that sucked me right back into the Marvel world in the best way. Imagine the Hulk/Bruce Banner you know and love, but now writer Al Ewing has revolutionized the character by emphasizing the Jekyll/Hyde aspects of him. By leaning into the Devil Hulk persona, this bestselling series is the first to truly embrace the horror aspects of Hulk like never before. This includes a gruesome Hulk autopsy that truly tests the title of the series and a trip straight into hell itself. It’s much more adult territory for the superhero, far more Re-Animator than Avengers. Also, the covers by legendary Alex Ross are some of his best work. If you haven’t taken the plunge with this title yet trust me when I tell you do not hesitate, and order as much of the run as you can because you are going to literally DEVOUR it!

KYLIE HEMMERT’S RECOMMEND: Immortals

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Fans have fallen in love with Henry Cavill over the years, partly because of his stellar role as Superman/Clark Kent in the DCEU in addition to his hunky, badass portrayal of Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s The Witcher adaptation. I want to take the Cavill fangirl train back a few years, though, and remind viewers of director Tarsem Singh’s 2011 action fantasy drama Immortals, starring Cavill as Theseus who leads a star-studded cast including Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, John Hurt, and Freida Pinto. Immortals, written by Vlas Parlapanides and Charley Parlapanides, is loosely based on the Greek myths of Theseus, the Minotaur, and the Titanomachy. Besides fun performances by Cavill and co., where Immortals really shines is its action sequences that still stick out in my mind even nearly a decade later.

GRANT HERMANNS’ RECOMMEND: Portal 2

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Valve has offered gamers a number of exciting and pulse-pounding titles over the past 23 years, but one of their best is a more tranquil and mind-bending affair: Portal 2. A sequel to the 2007 puzzle-platform game, the 2011 title continues the story of heroine Chell as she navigates the Aperture Science Enrichment Center during its reconstruction to escape the maniacal GLaDOS with the help of new robot Wheatley. The original game was a fun, if short, title full of unique puzzles and challenges and Portal 2 does exactly what a sequel should in expanding its story in an intelligent and breathtaking fashion, doubling down on its dark humor, offering even more fascinating and challenging puzzles while still keeping the learning curve level for casual gamers. With the brilliant additions of Stephen Merchant and J.K. Simmons to the voice cast, this game is not only one of the best sequels of all-time but is also one of the best video game titles ever created and is a wonderfully quaint and aesthetically pleasing title to get your hands on.

MAGGIE DELA PAZ’S RECOMMEND: Hotel Del Luna

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Directed by Oh Choong-hwan from a script written by acclaimed South Korean writing duo The Hong Sisters, Hotel Del Luna revolves around a mystical and supernatural hotel which only accepts wandering ghosts as guests with the staffs catering to their every need and helping them with their unfinished business before they can truly pass on the afterlife. The titular hotel is headed by a long-time owner named Jang Man-wol, who is neither a ghost nor a human and was bound to the hotel by the deity Mago due to her mysterious past. When the time has finally come to hire a new general manager, who will handle the human affairs needed for the hotel, Man-wol has decided to collect a debt she made years ago with a man who mistakenly stole something from her. In exchange for his life and wealth, his only son must work for her after 20 years. That’s why the smart and capable Gu Chan-sung has no other choice but to become the new general manager while trying to face his fear of ghosts.

Hotel Del Luna is a 16-episode fantasy drama series which was one of last year’s highest-rated Korean dramas. I highly recommend this series because it offers a unique and charming storyline that will definitely get viewers hooked through every scene. In addition to its intriguing main storyline, each episode also features a side story centering on a different spirit that covers many different topics concerning societal problems.

What I like the most about this series is its visually stunning cinematography and high-quality sets. K-Pop superstar Lee Ji-eun, better known as IU, has yet again proven her acting prowess and has successfully led another beloved drama with Hotel Del Luna. Through her character’s fierce personality and iconic wardrobe, IU will no doubt captivate viewers with her strong and memorable performance as Jang Man-wol.

JEFF AMES’ RECOMMEND: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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One of the positives of this whole quarantine situation is the amount of time I have to go back and re-watch classic films I hadn’t seen for years. Case in point: Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, an astonishing, simple, but sprawling western epic that continues to stand as a towering cinematic achievement. Many will remember Ennio Morricone’s iconic score, and Clint Eastwood’s growling “Blondie,” but can we take a moment to appreciate just how damned good Eli Wallach is in this flick? The man delivers an intensely physical performance during which his character commits heinous crimes and tortures the film’s hero via the old walk-through-the-desert tactic, but still elicits empathy during his savage beating at the hands of Lee Van Cleef’s Angel Eyes.

Sadly, this was Eastwood’s last pairing with Leone after the two had grown tired of working with one another following A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More. Too bad. This was an amazing partnership, even if it only lasted three films.

ComingSoon.net recommends all readers comply with CDC guidelines and remain as isolated as possible during this urgent time.

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CS Video: Nia Long & Omar Epps on Netflix Thriller Fatal Affair

CS Video: Nia Long & Omar Epps on Netflix Thriller Fatal Affair

CS Video: Nia Long & Omar Epps on Netflix thriller Fatal Affair

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with producer and star Nia Long (NCIS: Los Angeles, The Banker) and star Omar Epps (This Is Us, Resurrection) to discuss their work in the latest Netflix thriller Fatal Affair, now streaming on the platform! The interview can be viewed in the player below!

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Directed by Peter Sullivan (Secret Obsession) on a script he co-wrote with Rasheeda Garner, the film centers on Ellie (Long), a successful attorney trying to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus (Stephen Bishop, Moneyball) and moving to a coastal home to be closer to their daughter who has recently gone to college. After being reunited with an old friend, David (Epps) at her job, they have a brief affair that sees him become more dangerous and unstable than she realized as she tries to keep the unfortunate incident a secret.

In addition to Long, Epps and Bishop, the cast for the film includes Aubrey Cleland, Maya Stojan (Castle, Agents of SHIELD), Carolyn Hennesy (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, General Hospital) and KJ Smith (The Family Business, Sistas).

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The three-time NAACP Image Award winner produces the film alongside Barry Barinholtz and Jeffrey Schenck, the latter of whom helped with the story alongside Sullivan, and Brian Nolan and Sullivan being attached as co-producers.

Fatal Affair is currently streaming on Netflix!

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CS Video: TV’s Frank on His 5 Favorite Quarantine Movies

CS Video: TV's Frank on His 5 Favorite Quarantine Movies

CS Video: TV’s Frank on His 5 Favorite Quarantine Movies

ComingSoon.net had the chance to ask TV’s Frank (Frank Conniff) about his five favorite quarantine movies, which you can watch now in the player below! Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff will next be seen live-streaming Glen or Glenda during a screening event taking place on July 21.

The Glen or Glenda livestream screening will take place on July 21 at 8:00 p.m. Get your tickets here!

Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event as they live-riff through Ed Wood’s 1953 classic, Glen or Glenda, with a Q&A with The Mads afterward.

This show will broadcast live via a private YouTube link that will be sent to ticket purchasers an hour prior to showtime. You can also watch directly on Eventbrite. A percentage of the proceeds from the event will benefit NAACP Empowerment Programs, who engage primarily in training, education, and advocacy at the national and local levels.

Viewers will be able to tune in from anywhere in the world. Anyone who purchases a ticket will gain access to re-watch the livestream and download it for personal viewing.

RELATED: CS Video: Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Frank Conniff on Glen or Glenda

Glen or Glenda, the legendary debut film from director Ed Wood, Jr. (the infamous visionary behind Plan 9 From Outer Space), is a hilariously confusing but gentle tale of a young “transvestite” (played by Ed himself) who must come to grips with his identity as an angora-loving cross-dresser while also struggling to find acceptance from his fiancé and society at large. Narrated by horror movie icon Bela Lugosi, and featuring heaps of unrelated stock footage, strange dream sequences and gloriously campy dialogue, Glen or Glenda, despite its many failings as a film, helped revolutionize cinema by presenting a very progressive tale championing tolerance and kindness toward gender-nonconforming people … in 1953! “Pull the string! Pull the string!”

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Rosamund Pike Makes Groundbreaking Science in Radioactive Clip

Rosamund Pike Makes Groundbreaking Science in Radioactive Clip

Rosamund Pike makes groundbreaking science in Radioactive clip

Amazon Prime Video has released a new Radioactive clip from director Marjane Satrapi’s Marie Curie biographical drama film, featuring renowned scientists Marie and Pierre Curie as they present their groundbreaking discoveries. Starring Rosamund Pike, the film will be available for streaming on Friday, July 24. Check out the video in the player below!

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From the 1870s to the modern era, Radioactive is a journey through Marie Curie’s enduring legacies – her passionate relationships, scientific breakthroughs, and the consequences that followed for her and for the world. After meeting fellow scientist Pierre Curie, the pair go on to marry and change the face of science forever by their discovery of radioactivity. The genius of the Curies’ world-changing discoveries and the ensuing Nobel Prize propels the devoted couple into the international limelight.

The film stars Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Marie Curie, Sam Riley (Maleficent, Control) as Pierre Curie, and Anya Taylor-Joy (Emma, New Mutants) as Irene Curie. It will also feature Cara Bossom, Aneurin Barnard, Simon Russell Beale, Tim Woodward, Jonathan Aris, Mirjam Novak, and Michael Gould.

Based on Lauren Redniss’ graphic novel of the same name, Radioactive is directed by Marjane Satrapi from a screenplay written by Jack Thorne. It is produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster. The film is a co-production by Working Title Films and StudioCanal in partnership with Shoebox Films.

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Marie Curie is a Polish-French physicist and chemist who was the first one to develop the theory of radioactivity, which is a term she coined. She is also best known for discovering two elements: the polonium and radium. Because of her incredible work, Curie was awarded two Nobel Prize Awards in 1903 and 1911, making her the first woman to win the award. At the age of 66, she died in 1934 due to aplastic anemia which was caused by her too much exposure from the radiation during the course of her extensive scientific research.

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Gentle Giant Ltd. Announces Two New SDCC 2020 Exclusives!

Gentle Giant Ltd. Announces Two New SDCC 2020 Exclusives!

Gentle Giant Ltd. announces two new SDCC 2020 exclusives!

San Diego’s Comic-Con@Home is almost upon us, and Gentle Giant Ltd. is launching two new, highly limited exclusive items, the all-new Star Wars Concept Bust of the original Mandalorian, Boba Fett, and the other a variant on an eagerly anticipated Marvel Animated-Style Statue – Elektra! Check out the figures in the gallery below, alongside SDCC exclusives from Diamond Select Toys!

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Before there was Boba Fett, there was the idea of Boba Fett, and designers Joe Johnston and Ralph McQuarrie’s vision of the bounty hunter retained much of its magic on the way to the screen. This 1/6 scale bust is based on their concept, and includes two alternate helmets to represent different designs. It comes packaged in a full-color box with a numbered certificate of authenticity. Limited to 500 pieces, the bust runs for $120 and is a Gentle Giant Ltd. exclusive!

Elektra celebrates the summer in her white outfit in this highly limited statue! Based on the variant cover artwork of Marvel Comics, Elektra Natchios jumps for joy, sais in hand, and stands approximately 5 inches tall. She comes packaged in a full-color box with a numbered certificate of authenticity. Limited to 250 pieces, the figure runs for $50 and is a Gentle Giant Ltd. exclusive!

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The Elektra statue is currently available to pre-order for all customers on Gentle Giant’s official website, while the Boba Fett bust opened its pre-orders for Platinum members this morning and will be open to Gold members at 9 a.m. EST tomorrow, to Silver members on Sunday and the general public on Monday.

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CS Video: Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Frank Conniff on Glen or Glenda

CS Video: Mystery Science Theater 3000's Frank Conniff on Glen or Glenda

CS Video: Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Frank Conniff on Glen or Glenda

ComingSoon.net had an opportunity to speak with Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Frank Conniff, who spoke about the upcoming Glen or Glenda livestream screening as well as his views on the “soulfulness” to filmmaker Ed Wood’s movies. You can check out the full interview in the player below!

The Glen or Glenda livestream screening will take place on July 21 at 8:00 p.m. Get your tickets here!

Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event as they live-riff through Ed Wood’s 1953 classic, Glen or Glenda, with a Q&A with The Mads afterward.

This show will broadcast live via a private YouTube link that will be sent to ticket purchasers an hour prior to showtime. You can also watch directly on Eventbrite. A percentage of the proceeds from the event will benefit NAACP Empowerment Programs, who engage primarily in training, education, and advocacy at the national and local levels.

Viewers will be able to tune in from anywhere in the world. Anyone who purchases a ticket will gain access to re-watch the livestream and download it for personal viewing.

RELATED: Mystery Science Theater 3000 Cancelled by Netflix

Glen or Glenda, the legendary debut film from director Ed Wood, Jr. (the infamous visionary behind Plan 9 From Outer Space), is a hilariously confusing but gentle tale of a young “transvestite” (played by Ed himself) who must come to grips with his identity as an angora-loving cross-dresser while also struggling to find acceptance from his fiancé and society at large. Narrated by horror movie icon Bela Lugosi, and featuring heaps of unrelated stock footage, strange dream sequences and gloriously campy dialogue, Glen or Glenda, despite its many failings as a film, helped revolutionize cinema by presenting a very progressive tale championing tolerance and kindness toward gender-nonconforming people … in 1953! “Pull the string! Pull the string!”

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Watchmen Screenwriter Reveals Plans for an Alternate Ending

Watchmen Screenwriter Reveals Plans for an Alternate Ending

Watchmen Screenwriter Reveals Plans for an Alternate Ending

Whatever you have to say about Zack Snyder’s filmmaking style, his Watchmen movie is about as faithful an adaptation that fans of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ graphic novel could have hoped for. The only major deviation from the source material was the omission of the giant squid, which Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias transported to New York in order to bring about global peace. Snyder’s film instead framed Doctor Manhattan for a series of energy reactor explosions around the world. Not surprisingly, the squid’s absence didn’t sit well with certain moviegoers. But according to co-writer David Hayter, they almost ended up with something completely different from Moore and Gibbons’ original ending (via SuperHeroHype).

Before Snyder came along, Watchmen saw several other directors come and go, including Hayter himself and Paul Greengrass. When Greengrass was attached to the film, Hayter’s script took even more liberties with the graphic novel’s conclusion. Hayter detailed these during a recent appearance on the Script Apart podcast. Apparently, this iteration of the movie would have ended with Nite Owl killing Ozymandias by ramming him with the Owlship. This stopped Veidt from completing his master plan. However, the surviving heroes would broadcast a doctored video appearing to show Doctor Manhattan attacking major cities.

Additionally, Hayter revealed that Greengrass’ film would have moved the timeframe from the 1980s to the present day.

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“We knew it was going to be very difficult to do the ending of the book,” Hayter explained. “Plus 9/11 had happened and I didn’t think we should have images of bodies in Times Square, I felt that was not appropriate. So that inspired me to say, people should just be blown to shadows, like the Hiroshima shadows that are painted in the comic book.”

Hayter also mentioned Greengrass’ successor on the project, Darren Aronofsky. Although Aronofsky’s Watchmen tenure lasted only one week, Hayter credited him with inspiring the ending we saw in Snyder’s version.

“He sent me a note which said, ‘I have a friend who is a physicist and he had an idea for the movie,” Hayter continued. “What if Doctor Manhattan is the agent of destruction.’ That just clicked into place in my brain.”

What do you think of Hayter’s original plans for the Watchmen movie? Let us know in the comments down below!

Recommended Reading: Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

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CS Interview: Brenton Thwaites on Multi-Genre Ghosts of War

CS Interview: Brenton Thwaites on Multi-Genred Ghosts of War

CS Interview: Brenton Thwaites on multi-genre Ghosts of War

ComingSoon.net got the opportunity to chat with star Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) to discuss his role in the multi-genre horror pic Ghosts of War, which is now available on digital platforms! Click here to rent or purchase Ghosts of War!

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In looking back on how he came to be a part of the film, the 30-year-old Australian star credits writer/director Eric Bress as the biggest reason for his desire to star in the film, looking back fondly at his 2004 directorial debut as a source of reference for why he trusted Bress with this story.

“He just created such a cool movie in The Butterfly Effect that I thought, ‘Wow this is going to be littered with nuanced elements, hints, to the keen eye’ and I read it and I thought these characters are so-developed on page one,” Thwaites recalled. “Thrown in, this is such a realistic world in the World War II drama aspect of the movie, I just was in right from the get-go, I wanted to know where these men would go. I love the idea that we start the movie in such a way that carries such a weight with these guys and it allows us to really understand each character and kind of where they are and emotionally where they’re sitting and how they feel about the war and that was it. The rest of the film, the horror aspect and the multi-genreness, was great, that’s something that I’ve never done before. But really it was the first few pages of opening up on this tired group of men who have been fighting in World War II for months.”

Thwaites described the bridge Bress built between the horror and World War II drama genres as “effortless,” praising the fact that in the first act of the film there are “no real massive horror hints” of a “terrible, supernatural force” set to appear later on in the film.

“We think that it’s gonna be an art piece and we assume the setup is that these guys are in Nazi territory, we know what’s coming, we’ve seen this movie before, we know from all the weapons we have and from talking that we have the capability of lighting up this house and having a great gun show,” Thwaites described. “But he kind of pulls that rug out from under us and turns the movie in a whole other direction quite effortlessly and that was one of the things that I thought was 1) really unique, but 2) was a great opportunity for these characters to only develop further and to sink further into their tiredness and their stress and kind of mental fog.”

Tapping into the exhaustion of his character and how it would spill over into the “level of power” he would have as a lieutenant was “something that I was questioning” and proved to be one of the biggest creative challenges for the Titans star.

“I obviously didn’t want to be yelling at them to drop and give me 20, but I obviously didn’t want to carry the air of someone who couldn’t control them or lead them, but it was finding that middle ground of being compassionate, of being believable as a leader and also creating that tone to where the boys look to me for guidance and direction,” Thwaites explained. “When I don’t know what to do, that’s kind of the last straw, if I don’t know what to do or where to go, that’s the end of the power and there’s confusion and little bit more anxiety of what’s going to happen because their leader doesn’t know. Working with Eric, he was leaning more towards the compassionate, more vulnerable and tired line and so was I, so that kind of worked.”

Looking at the rest of his cast members, which includes Alan Ritchson (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Skyler Astin (Zooey’s Extraordinary Playlist), Kyle Gallner (Interrogation) and Theo Rossi (Luke Cage), he found the “guys were just wonderful to work with,” looking back fondly at their time in Bulgaria on set and off.

“We all stayed in the same hotel, most of us were at a stage where we just had kids and we’re kind of entering that stage of being dads and the next stage of our careers, so we had built a rapport subconsciously already,” Thwaites related. “Then on top of that with the preparation involved of boot camps, which involved different movie-watching sessions with Eric Bress, we watched Saving Private Ryan to get an understanding of where Eric wanted to open the movie and how he wanted us to feel like and try and emulate that kind of scene of these guys traveling across the country and how tired they would be and how big a fuck up it is to the leader of the crew to say they’d gone in the wrong direction and the consequences that could have. Eating together and spending time together is some of the best preparation you can have and we did a ton of it.”

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Though just now hitting digital platforms after its DirecTV debut in June, Ghosts of War was actually shot over two years ago and marked the first time Thwaites and Ritchson worked together before going on to reunite on DC Universe’s Titans.

“Alan is such a wonderful actor, his comedic timing is some of the best I’ve ever seen and his drama chops, he commits to the moment like no one I’d ever seen,” Thwaites noted. “This is a tough movie for him, because he has all the heightened moments of this crew, a large part of the bad shit happens to him in a sense and without him committing to his moments, it would soften the moment in these scenes, so he brought a great physicality and commitment to the crew.”

Five battle-hardened American soldiers are assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. Formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, this unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy far more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.

The movie also stars Alan Ritchson (TitansTeenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesBlue Mountain State), Skylar Astin (Pitch PerfectZoey’s Extraordinary Playlist21 & Over), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy, Luke CageLowriders), Kyle Gallner (American Sniper, The Finest HoursDear White People), Billy Zane (TitanicThe PhantomDead Calm), and Shaun Toub (Iron ManCrashSnowpiercer).

Ghosts of War is written and directed by Eric Bress (The Butterfly EffectFinal Destination 2Kyle XY).

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Tom Holland Provides Potential Production Timeline for Spider-Man 3

Tom Holland Provides Potential Production Timeline for Spider-Man 3

Tom Holland provides potential production timeline for Spider-Man 3

Last April, MCU star Tom Holland revealed that he still wasn’t sure when he would get to begin filming for Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man 3. However, as production begins for Holland’s other high-profile project Uncharted, it looks like a plan has already been set for the production start of the upcoming MCU film with the 24-year-old British actor providing an update on its potential production timeline.

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In an appearance on a video posted through Dominic Holland’s Patreon, Holland confirmed that he needs to finish Uncharted first before he could go on and begin filming Spider-Man 3 which would hopefully be finished by February 2021.

“Finish Uncharted, finish Spider-Man in February next year,” Tom Holland said on his father’s Patreon (via Reddit). “Two press tours, maybe together, which should take six weeks worth of work.” 

Originally scheduled for a July 16, 2021 release, the film has now been pushed back to November 5, 2021. The untitled third installment’s previous release date was recently given to Uncharted.

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Tom Holland will return for the film as the titular wall-crawler, and it remains to be seen what villains he’ll go up against in the trilogy caper. Given the ending of Far From Home however, any number of his rogues gallery are likely eager for a fight. The third installment to the MCU’s Spider-Man films will also feature the return of Zendaya (Euphoria, Dune) as MJ. Holland’s Spider-Man is also set to appear in another Marvel Studios film per the new agreement.

Sony’s upcoming Spidey slate includes the Venom sequel, starring Tom Hardy and directed by Andy Serkis, as well as Jared Leto’s in-the-can Morbius, a Kraven the Hunter film, and a spinoff featuring Silver Sable and Black Cat. Should these films interact with the MCU and Tom Holland, it remains to be seen, but the door seems open.

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