CM Punk Posts Picture of Original WrestleMania 30 Card

Former WWE Superstar CM Punk recently shared an image of what WrestleMania 30 -- which took place April 6, 2014 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans -- was supposed to look like, as of January 20 that year, before Punk quit the company in the beginning of February.

Punk, who recently returned to the WWE fold in a peripheral manner (as a Fox employee working for WWE Backstage on FS1), took to Instagram and posted the following in his Stories...

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Rise of Skywalker Star Hopes There’s a Director’s Cut

Lost, LOTR, and Star: Wars Rise of Skywalker star Dominic Monaghan recently spoke about all the extra footage J.J. Abrams shot for Episode IX that didn't make it into the film, noting that he wishes fans can one day see the sidelined scenes.

In an interview with THR, Monaghan said “Like a lot of Star Wars fans, I’m hoping there will be a director’s cut so we’ll get to see more and more of the stuff that was filmed."

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Amazon’s Hunters Release Date and Trailer Revealed

Amazon Prime Video has announced that its Nazi-hunting conspiracy thriller Hunters, starring Al Pacino and executive produced by Jordan Peele, will premiere on February 21, 2020.

Hunters also received a new trailer, which you can see in the video below or on top of the page, and it previews the story of a diverse band of Nazi hunters who live in New York City in 1977. After discovering that high-ranking Nazi officials are living amongst us, they must stop their plan to "create a Fourth Reich in the U.S."

Alongside Pacino, Hunters stars Logan Lerman, Jerrika Hinton, Josh Radnor, Kate Mulvany, Tiffany Boone, Greg Austin, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Carol Kane, Saul Rubinek, Dylan Baker and Lena Olin.

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Here’s Why Disney Plus Is Losing Pirates of the Caribbean and Home Alone

Reports are coming out that Disney+, the company’s video streaming service, is starting to lose some films in its library including Pirates of the Caribbean and Home Alone.

The company confirmed that a small number of titles are leaving Disney+ temporarily due to existing legacy deals. But these titles will return once the deals expire and Disney can once again host those films.

Here’s a list of movies currently unavailable on Disney+ according to ScreenCrush:

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Star Wars: How J.J. Abrams Convinced [Spoiler] to Return

Warning: this article contains major spoilers for Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker!

Amid all the big surprises in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, perhaps none is more welcome or unexpected than the return of Harrison Ford as Han Solo. Even more surprising, it turns out director J.J. Abrams didn't have to work very hard to convince the notoriously Star Wars-wary Ford to reprise that iconic role one last time.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Abrams revealed all it took was a simple phone call. "Well, I called him and I said, ‘We want to have a scene in the film between Kylo Ren and his father, would you do it?’ And he said, ‘Okay.’”

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Arrow Spinoff: Canaries Backdoor Pilot Description Revealed

With the CW's Arrow entering its final few episodes, the Queen family still has a lot to offer Star City — and so do the Canaries. The CW has revealed the description for the Arrow penultimate episode, which will serve as a backdoor pilot for the new Canaries spinoff series.

Reported by Deadline, the Canaries backdoor pilot, titled "Green Arrow and the Canaries," will feature Katherine McNamara's Mia Smoke and will be set in Star City in the year 2040. Airing on the CW on January 21, Mia's life will be interrupted by Katie Cassidy's Laurel Lance and Juliana Harkavy's Dinah Drake, who need Mia's help tracking down a kidnapping victim.

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James Gunn Purportedly Confirms He Passed on Directing Superman Movie

Apparently, James Gunn has confirmed that he passed on directing a new Superman movie for Warner Bros. in favor of taking on The Suicide Squad.

This information should be taken with a grain of salt because it was revealed in a now-deleted Instagram story that was screen-captured and posted on reddit. The post (via Newsarama) allegedly written by Gunn read: "As has been reported many times, DC offered me whatever film I wanted to do, including some sort of Superman movie (not specifically Man of Steel 2 as I've seen reported). I chose The Suicide Squad because it's one of my favorite properties in the world. It's the story I wanted to tell more than any other."

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The Rise of Skywalker Has Deleted Scenes Explaining How Palpatine Survived

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker leaves fans with some lingering questions, including a few that can only be answered if you pick up the recently released Visual Dictionary. But when it comes to one of the movie's biggest mysteries - how Emperor Palpatine survived the events of Return of the Jedi - the answer is locked away in deleted footage.

In an interview with HuffPost (via CBR), editor Maryanne Brandon reveals Episode IX was originally supposed to have shed more light on Palpatine's return. But ultimately, the scenes dealing with the hows and whys of Palpatine's return were trimmed in order to prevent fans from being bombarded with exposition.

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