Star Wars Bits: The Animated Princess Leia Has Been Recast, Ewan McGregor Might Be Returning, And Rumors About A Whole New World For Episode IX In this edition of Star Wars Bits: Now that we are less than 12 months away from the release ofStar Wars: Episode IXit can mean only one thing: rumors are officially go.Making Star Warshas a great report for those of us who enjoy picking apart every whisper and some of the most interesting things that they mention include the possibility of a Red Stormtrooper being introduced, as well as information about possible new locations including a “Jungle World”, and even more talk about the Knights of Ren....

Streaming Bits: Troma Entertainment, Amazon Instant, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, BBC iPlayer Streaming content is all the rage this days and there’s plenty of tasty news about it today. After the jump read about the following: Sometimes you just want to watch a dumb, gory, horror movie andTroma Entertainmenthas always been more than happy to oblige. For decades the independent production and distrubtion company has been responsible for hundreds and hundreds of films, most of which you haven’t heard of....

Succession Season 3 - Everything We Know So Far (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) “Succession,” the popular HBO show about the rich family you love to hate, is set to come back for a third season. Read on for details on when and where you can watch the Roys destroy anyone and everyone in their path, including fellow family members....

Superhero Bits: Thor The Dark World, Kick-Ass 2, Iron Man 3, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises Who are the most popularMarvelcharacters on social media? WhichStar Trekactress has been cast inThor: The Dark World? Want to read details on a newIron Man 3action scene? How was the cosplay atWizard Worldin Chicago? How doesMarvelkeep ahead ofDCin the movie realm? Is it actually possible forBatmanto fly, and land, inChristopher Nolan’s universe? Read about all of this and more in today’s Superhero Bits....

The Changeling Will Let LaKeith Stanfield Navigate A Modern Horror Fairy Tale On Apple TV+ “The Changeling,” a series based on the award-winning novel by Victor LaValle, is heading to Apple TV+. The story follows Apollo Kagwa, a New York City antiquarian book dealer and a father whose wife comes to believe their baby boy has been stolen and replaced with an inhuman doppelganger. LaKeith Stanfield (“Sorry to Bother You,” “Judas and the Black Messiah”) is already attached to star in the project, undoubtedly as the protagonist, Apollo....

The Friday The 13th Accident That Left A Cast Member Blind For Months “Friday the 13th” is one of the biggest horror franchises in the world. The original 1980 film famously drew inspiration from filmmaker John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” and focused on a group of clueless, lascivious camp counselors who are picked off one-by-one by a mysterious killer. And back in the ’80s, making scary movies before the slasher genre was fully established was not easy, and the bloody sequences in “Friday the 13th” were inventive for its time, including one death featuring a series of precisely shot arrows....

The Marvel Comics Character You Missed In Hawkeye Episode 4 If you’ve seen the latest episode of"Hawkeye"on Disney+, you’re likely raving about thatwild cameo on the rooftop. I won’t spoil it here, but a familiar face finally makes their highly-anticipated return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe to catch up with Clint Barton. However, there was also another appearance by someone else from the Avenging Archer’s past that some fans may have missed....

The NSFW Inspiration Behind Snow White’s Lost Soup Sequence By 1937, the Walt Disney animation studio had already established itself as a power player in the medium. The studio had already won five Academy Awards for its short films — “Flowers and Trees” in ‘31/‘32, “The Three Little Pigs” in ‘32/‘33, “The Tortoise and the Hare” in ‘33/‘34, “The Orphan Kittens” in 1935, and “The Country Cousins” in 1936 — and was about to release its very first feature-length animated film, a coup in terms of the studio’s creative output....

The Original ‘Rocky III’ Idea Had The Italian Stallion Hanging Out With The Pope Rocky IIIsawSylvester Stallone’s persistent pugilist stepping into the ring to battleMr. T, but according to Stallone, there was an even crazier idea for the film at first. In an old interview, Stallone revealed his originalRocky IIIidea had a half-blind Rocky Balboa duking it out in Roman Coliseum, with the Pope himself in the audience. It’s hard to believe now, withCreed IIabout to punch its way into theaters, but at one point, Sylvester Stallone wantedRocky IIIto be the final adventure of Rocky Balboa....

The Staircase First Look: The Infuriating True Crime Story Becomes An HBO Max Series Remember that one summer when we all got obsessed with the bizarre, mostly-a-decade-old true crime docuseries “The Staircase”? Remember how the stranger-than-fiction story kept evolving even after it aired, with the emergence of truly unbelievable stuff likeThe Owl Theoryand the director’srevelationthat a series editor was allegedly romantically involved with the subject? Well, get ready to experience that endlessly surreal feeling all over again, because a dramatic adaptation of “The Staircase,” directed by Antonio Campos andLeigh Janiak, is headed to HBO Max....

The True Story That Inspired Dog Day Afternoon Village Voice columnist Arthur Bell covered plenty of LBGTQ+ issues during his time with the paper, and sensational stories had a way of finding him. On June 06, 2025, he received a tip-off that two homosexuals were holding up a bank. Sniffing out the story, Bell phoned the branch and ended up in a farcical exchange that went like this (viaVillage Voice):...

Theater Chain Cinemark Bounces Back With First Profitable Quarter Of The Pandemic Some good news for the movie business today: one of North America’s largest theater chains delivered a solid earnings report. Cinemark, which is third in line behind AMC and Regal in terms of theater chains, has posted its first profitable quarter since the pandemic began, according to its recent earnings report. The report covered the fourth quarter of 2021, and the numbers were good, which is a damn good sign for the industry overall....

Theme Park Bits: ‘The Shining’ Haunted House, Universal’s New VR Patent, And The Hall Of Presidents Controversy In this edition of Theme Park Bits: It’s no secret that Disney has been struggling behind-the-scenes with theirHall of Presidentsattraction and how they should handle the election of Donald Trump. Traditionally, each election adds a new audio-animatronic President to the show’s line-up, with the sitting Commander-in-Chief allowed a brief speech to the audience. However, no modern President has proven as controversial as Trump, leading the risk-averse Disney to hem and haw with the update....