Monthly Archives: July 2018

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Avengers: Infinity War Deleted Scenes Breakdown

Avengers: Infinity War is now available on Digital HD, a home release which includes four deleted scenes among its bonus content. There’s really one truly never-before-seen scene, however, with the other three being extended versions of scenes that ended up in the theatrical release.

Let's go through what happens in each of those four scenes. Spoilers ahead, obviously ...

Running one-minute and twenty-three seconds, this early scene includes a cameo by Iron Man director Jon Favreau, reprising his role as Tony Stark’s harried security chief-flunky-pal Happy Hogan. The scene retains the larger exchange between Tony and his fiancee Pepper Potts in the park talking about Tony’s dream where they had a child named Morgan. The theatrical version of the scene ends with a portal opening and the arrival of Doctor Strange and then Bruce Banner.

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Avengers: Infinity War Deleted Scenes Breakdown

Avengers: Infinity War is now available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD, and four deleted scenes can be found among the bonus content. There’s really one truly never-before-seen scene, however, with the other three being extended versions of scenes that ended up in the theatrical release.

Let's go through what happens in each of those four scenes. Spoilers ahead, obviously ...

Running one-minute and twenty-three seconds, this early scene includes a cameo by Iron Man director Jon Favreau, reprising his role as Tony Stark’s harried security chief-flunky-pal Happy Hogan. The scene retains the larger exchange between Tony and his fiancee Pepper Potts in the park talking about Tony’s dream where they had a child named Morgan. The theatrical version of the scene ends with a portal opening and the arrival of Doctor Strange and then Bruce Banner.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – What to Expect from the New Season

Thursday, July 20 will be a day long remembered for Star Wars fans. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, during the tenth anniversary Clone Wars panel, producer Dave Filoni calmly told a room full of breathless fans that he had a present. As the lights dimmed, those in the room became cautiously enraptured as we were treated to the voice of Captain Rex (voiced by Dee Bradley-Baker), and suddenly the hashtag appeared… #CloneWarsSaved! The atmosphere was electric, and fans roared with excitement, tears, and unabashed jubilation as the all new trailer debuted.

The twelve-episode season will presumably pick up where the series ended in March of 2014, and will run on the upcoming Disney streaming service. And for fans of the Emmy-award winning show, who have lamented its cancelation for years, there is cause for speculation in addition to celebration. What are we going to see? There are a number of threads left out there in the galaxy far, far away that deserve to be untangled, so let’s explore a few.

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Riot Explained: Who Is the Marvel Villain in the Venom Movie?

The latest trailer for Sony's Venom movie offers a much better idea of both the general tone of the movie and its storyline. Not only that, it seems to confirm that Riz Ahmed's Carlton Drake will transform into Riot, one of many symbiote villains from the Marvel Universe. (And no, that is not Carnage in the trailer!)

While even casual Marvel fans are probably familiar with Venom at this point, Riot is a much more obscure Marvel character. Here's everything you need to know about Riot and how the movie is drawing from Marvel's comic book universe.

Riot Explained: The Basics

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Riot Explained: Who Is the Marvel Villain in the Venom Movie?

The latest trailer for Sony's Venom movie offers a much better idea of both the general tone of the movie and its storyline. Not only that, it seems to confirm that Riz Ahmed's Carlton Drake will transform into Riot, one of many symbiote villains from the Marvel Universe. (And no, that is not Carnage in the trailer!)

While even casual Marvel fans are probably familiar with Venom at this point, Riot is a much more obscure Marvel character. Here's everything you need to know about Riot and how the movie is drawing from Marvel's comic book universe.

Riot Explained: The Basics

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Glass is the Third Act We Always Wanted for Unbreakable

Warning: Spoilers for Unbreakable and Split follow...

Long before the MCU, and even before Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film, M. Night Shyamalan followed up his massive breakout hit The Sixth Sense with a really solid take on the old "what if superheroes were real?" story.

Unbreakable, starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, didn't reach the heights of Sixth Sense but in looking back, fans still herald it as one of the writer/director's best and most satisfying projects. The way the story unfolded definitely seemed to set up "adventures to come," though it also managed to stand very well on its own, as an isolated island work, without franchise goals. You could certainly imagine Willis' David Dunn continuing his work as Philadelphia's super strong rain-poncho'd vigilante while Jackson's Elijah "Mr. Glass" Price rotted away in a psychiatric care facility...and that was enough for most.

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Kick-Ass 2 Director, Blumhouse Team Up For Fantasy Island Movie

Blumhouse and Sony Pictures are teaming up for a feature film of the long-running ABC show Fantasy Island with Jeff Wadlow directing, according to Deadline.

Sony will control the rights to the Aaron Spelling TV series that ran from 1977-1984 with Blumhouse co-financing the film.

Although the original series is known for coming off cheesy, Fantasy Island often dealt with dark themes and the supernatural as visitors went to the island to live out their fantasies. It ran for seven seasons, completing a total of 152 episodes.

Wadlow, known for Kick-Ass 2 recently teamed with Blumhouse on Truth or Dare which grossed $100 million worldwide, having only a $5 million budget. Wadlow will be writing Fantasy Island with his Truth or Dare co-writers, Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs.

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Kick-Ass 2 Director, Blumhouse Team Up For Fantasy Island Movie

Blumhouse and Sony Pictures are teaming up for a feature film of the long-running ABC show Fantasy Island with Jeff Wadlow directing, according to Deadline.

Sony will control the rights to the Aaron Spelling TV series that ran from 1977-1984 with Blumhouse co-financing the film.

Although the original series is known for coming off cheesy, Fantasy Island often dealt with dark themes and the supernatural as visitors went to the island to live out their fantasies. It ran for seven seasons, completing a total of 152 episodes.

Wadlow, known for Kick-Ass 2 recently teamed with Blumhouse on Truth or Dare which grossed $100 million worldwide, having only a $5 million budget. Wadlow will be writing Fantasy Island with his Truth or Dare co-writers, Chris Roach and Jillian Jacobs.

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Venom Movie’s Comic Book Influences Explained

It's safe to say Spider-Man fans have had a fairly mixed reaction to Sony's upcoming Venom movie so far. On the one hand, it's great to see Eddie Brock being given another chance on the big screen. On the other, lots of questions remain about a Spider-Man universe character getting a movie... without Spider-Man.

Still, the movie is definitely drawing inspiration from the source material. The film's director, Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), has said that it's based mainly on two different comics arcs: Lethal Protector and Planet of the Symbiotes. So let's breakdown how this new Venom movie looks to be adapting Marvel's comics and those stories specifically...

Eddie Brock's Origins

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First Look at Netflix’s Shapeshifter Drama The Innocents

Teenagers go through a lot of changes, but Netflix's new supernatural series The Innocents is taking those growing pains to another level. The show follows two star-crossed high-schoolers, Harry (Percelle Ascott) and June (Sorcha Groundsell), who run away from their overprotective families to start a new life together, only to discover that June has the power to shapeshift. Unfortunately for them, it's not quite as cool or useful as the X-Men would have us believe - instead, it's a painful, confusing, and traumatic ordeal, and one of many discoveries that June will make about who she is and where she comes from.

Netflix revealed a first look behind the scenes of the atmospheric new drama series over the weekend, which you can check out below.

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