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Ever since Tom Holland’s 2021 film, Spider-Man: No Way Home came out, fans have been waiting for an update on the highly anticipated film, Spider-Man 4. While John Watts has been at the helm of the franchise so far, it looks like the reins could be passed on to another well-known filmmaker.

Tom Holland in Spider-Man: No Way Home | Credits: Marvel/Sony Entertainment

The upcoming Spider-Man 4, starring the British actor, has been generating buzz with its latest updates, suggesting it could share surprising similarities with the highly anticipated live-action Naruto film like its director: Destin Daniel Cretton.

Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 4 and Naruto could share more than a director

According to reports from The Hollywood Reporter, it was revealed that Tom Holland’s Spider-Man 4 could have a new potential director at the helm, Destin Daniel Cretton. With the newly chosen director having proved to be a hit with Marvel fans since...

What to Expect for Star Wars at This Year’s D23: New Trilogies, Movies, and Series Updates - Main Image

Now that The Acolyte’s Season 1 is over, Star Wars fans are still in for a treat this upcoming D23, with rumors about brand-new Star Wars content in the pipeline.

D23 is Disney’s official fan club, popularly known for its fan events and expo. At these events, fans can get sneak peeks of upcoming media and content from different Disney franchises.

Fortunately for Star Wars fans, the Force has always been with them with the following speculated Star Wars media.

New Mainline Trilogy

It has been almost five years since the premiere of Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker. Lucasfilm may have been cooking something great featuring the iconic Rey Skywalker as a protagonist in the upcoming Star Wars saga movies.

Earlier this year, film journalist Jeff Sneider...

The recent statements by Jon Voight criticizing his daughter Angelina Jolie’s support for Palestine have sparked controversy. Voight, in an interview with Variety, suggested that Jolie has been influenced by antisemitic individuals and has been exposed to propaganda, asserting that her involvement with the United Nations has skewed her perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Voight expressed concern over Jolie’s views, stating that she might be ignorant of the real stakes involved due to her connections with the U.N.

Jolie, who has a long history of humanitarian work, particularly with the U.N. Refugee Agency (Unhcr), shared her support for Palestinians on Instagram, calling for an end to genocide and emphasizing humanity. Voight’s comments reflect a significant disagreement with his daughter over this sensitive political issue.

Angelina Jolie’s next acting role is in Pablo Larraín’s biopic of Maria Callas, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival,...

With Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and the awesome might of Mother Nature out in front of the marketing for Twisters, many may not know about the additional treats swirling in Lee Isaac Chung’s legacy sequel to the original 1996 hit. Among Powell’s group of YouTube-streaming weather junkies are Brandon Perera, Katy O’Brien, Sasha Lane and, most exciting to music fans of the aughts and 2010s, Tunde Adebimpe, best known as the frontman for TV on the Radio. Adebimpe plays a technobabble-spewing weather weenie named Dexter, and while he doesn’t get tons of screen time, he kind of steals every scene he’s in.

Adebimpe, of course, is no newcomer to film, having starred in the 2001 indie Jump Tomorrow (based on a short completed at NYU) before his band made its first recordings. He also appeared in Jonathan Demme’s 2008 winner Rachel Getting Married (he was the guy Rachel was getting married to!

Andy Muschietti's recent superhero flick "The Flash" hoped to lure in audiences with a sprawling story that spans several parallel universes. It was the same approach taken by John Watts in "Spider-Man: No Way Home" and Sam Raimi in "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," in that all three films assembled multiple versions of certain superhero characters culled from various extant movie franchises. "The Flash" contains the Ben Affleck version of Batman as he appeared in Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," as well as the Michael Keaton version of Batman as he appeared in Tim Burton's 1989 film called merely "Batman." The Flash, he finds, can run so fast that he can travel into alternate timelines. 

In the film's climactic final scenes, the Flash -- having time-traveled too much -- unwittingly causes the fabric of reality to rip, allowing cameo appearances from a dozen...

With The Flash, Blue Beetle, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the dysfunctional DC Universe is being primed for a course correction. God and James Gunn willing, something cohesive and maybe fun might even come to pass. Right now, we’ll have to settle for The Flash, which revels in the last 30 years of DC Comics on film, well, flashing before our eyes. But instead of a raucous celebration, it feels like a muted parade of regrets.

It’s a damn shame, because when Andy Muschietti’s film isn’t trying to tie a big sloppy bow on the Dcu, it’s an example of the franchise’s output at its best. That is, a thoughtful, character-focused story that, despite its propensity toward fan service, stands up just fine on its own as a YA time travel/alternate universe story where the fact of Barry Allen being the Flash makes...

Going to Disneyland may be a perfectly acceptable way for football players to celebrate a big win, but eyebrows raise when film directors say the same thing. At least that’s a takeaway from the internet’s response to the news that Everything Everywhere All at Once directors Daniels are following their Oscar triumph by working for Disney. The filmmaking duo, consisting of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this week announced that they would be directing an episode of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, the upcoming series starring Jude Law and created by Spider-Man: No Way Home director John Watts.

The internet responded exactly how you’d expect the internet to respond. Sure, there were some people very excited about the duo bringing their imaginative approach to a Star Wars series about which we know very little. But many others expressed dismay over Daniels’ decision. We don’t want to call...

Sony Pictures has reached a deal with Disney for Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige to produce a third “Spider-Man” film with the studio, it announced on Friday morning.

“I am thrilled that Spidey’s journey in the MCU will continue, and I and all of us at Marvel Studios are very excited that we get to keep working on it,” Feige said in a statement. “Spider-Man is a powerful icon and hero whose story crosses all ages and audiences around the globe. He also happens to be the only hero with the superpower to cross cinematic universes, so as Sony continues to develop their own Spidey-verse you never know what surprises the future might hold.”

In August, the Sony and Marvel partnership, which has resulted in the $880.2 million-grossing “Spider-Man: Homecoming” film and the $1.1 billion “Spider-Man: Far From Home,...

The latest McU smash-hit, Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), features one of the strangest villains in the wallcrawler’s rogues’ gallery. When it comes to movies based on comic books, the outfit a character like Mysterio wears is not supposed to work on-screen. On the printed pages of comics, the outfits can be impractical and outlandish, and nothing is more of those things than the villain’s fishbowl helmet, lavender cape fastened with giant eyes, and green, scaly tights. Still, costume designer for the film, Anna B. Sheppard, met the challenge of making a fantastic look for Jake Gyllenhaal’s villain. Instead of running away from the crazy roots of the character, she leaned into it, and embraced its otherworldly oddities.

Trailer screencap of Mysterio’s (Jake Gyllenhaal) classic ‘smoke’ helmet, as featured in Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Comic book movie costumes are not supposed to be this fun:

At the...

Jake Gyllenhaal surprised and delighted fans when he joined Instagram and promptly revealed he had a starring role in the upcoming Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Gyllenhaal, 37, confirmed he was playing the classic Marvel villain Mysterio when shared a video of himself on Instagram Wednesday in which he held up an The Amazing Spider-Man comic book titled The Return of the Man Called Mysterio!

“Woah,” the actor says. “What the f—!”

He cheekily wrote in the caption, “I just realized I’m not playing Spider-Man.”

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Apple Watts joined the cast of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood in Season 5 and has clearly become the breakout star. Much of her success this season is due to Apple’s backstory, a tale of growing up in foster care and making a living as a stripper before turning to music. As Apple works her way into the music business after overcoming such incredible odds, she is also working on her relationship with her father, John Watts. Apple didn’t know her dad growing up and only found him later in life when they were both adults. Though John Watts wasn’t […]

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In our further coverage of the 2011 Eyegore Awards held this past Friday, September 23rd, at the Globe Theater at Universal Studios in Hollywood, California (see our report of the award ceremony itself here, courtesy of our own Heather Wixson), this writer hit the event as well and brought back some ocular candy from the carpet as well as interviews with a few of the night’s principals from the same.

Paying respect to some of horror’s most venerated players and notable newcomers, the event was hosted (as it has been in years past) by The Lost Boys co-star Corey Feldman (who arrived with two blondes and attired in a hybrid glam/matador get-up) and attended by celebrity presenters Thomas Jane (The Mist), filmmaker and musician Rob Zombie, James Gunn (Slither, Super), Calico Cooper (daughter of shock-rocker Alice Cooper) and Frozen and Hatchet director Adam Green.

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Director, actor, writer and producer Eli Roth ('Cabin Fever', 'Hostel', 'The Funhouse 3D') is getting behind a new flick from director John Watts. The new feature 'Clown' is based on a faux trailer that Watts himself put together. And of course after his 'Grindhouse' experience we all know Roth loves his faux trailers, having already signed on to develop his horror teaser 'Thanksgiving' (featured between Quentin Tarantino's 'Death Proof' and Robert Rodriquez's 'Planet Terror') into a full-length movie. Incredibally Watts decided to namedrop Roth into the fake trailer (with a little 'master of horror' compliment) and this has certainly worked in his favour. You can check out the original trailer below....

As a director he still seems to be at work on his FX extravaganza Endangered Species. But with his producing hat on, Eli Roth has just scored two new projects in the form of Clown and Aftershock, in a deal with new production company Vertebra Films.Clown, which will grow Machete-style from a grindhouse-y fake trailer, involves a doting father who dresses up to entertain his son's birthday guests, but then finds that, alien-Venom-symbiote-like, the pom-poms and baggy trousers and big shoes are an evil entity that he can't remove. First-timers Christopher Ford and John Watts put the trailer together prominently using Roth's name. They were afraid he'd sue, so must be rather pleased that he gave them a job instead. Ford wrote and Watts will direct.Aftershock meanwhile is a violent thriller set in the aftermath of this year's Chilean earthquake. Roth will co-write this one with Guillermo Amoedo and Nicolas Lopez.