If the name Jharrel Jerome sounds vaguely familiar, it should. The 27-year-old actor made his debut in Barry Jenkins‘ drama film “Moonlight” (2016), and his career has been on an upward trajectory ever since. Following that performance, he appeared in Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries “When They See Us” (2019) and Boots Riley’s limited series “I’m a Virgo” (2023).  The rising star’s next role is “Unstoppable,” an underdog sports drama that had its world premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival in September (read our review).

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Don Cheadle is one of the longest-running veterans of the MCU. First appearing all the way back in “Iron Man 2,” Cheadle’s Rhodey has been one of the foundational stars of the cinematic universe. That’s why it wasn’t shocking to see Marvel Studios wanting to give him his own thing with “Armor Wars.” However, since it was announced that “Armor Wars” was being changed from a TV series to a feature film, we haven’t heard much about the development of the project.

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Sports biopics are only as good as their subjects, and “Unstoppable” has a doozy—Anthony Robles, who, despite being born with one leg, went on to win the 2011 NCAA national wrestling championship as a senior at Arizona State University in the 125-pound weight class. It is a remarkable story and now receives an extremely traditional, by-the-numbers big-screen movie treatment in “Unstoppable” that nevertheless boasts existing scenes of wrestling and a bevy of committed stars around lead Jharrel Jerome.

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Just one look at the cast, and you can see why there’s a lot of hype surrounding the Peacock original series, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist.” Some of the best actors working today are showing up in Kevin Hart’s new show.

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As seen in the trailer, “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” tells the true story of one of the most brazen criminal heists ever to happen in the U.S.

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The sixth and final episode of “Secret Invasion” premiered on Disney+ this week, and the critical response was …not good at all. In fact, the show’s last episode is the worst-reviewed MCU project ever, with a 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics and fans alike have had qualms with the show, like its slow start and lifeless plot. And that poor reception likely has Marvel Studios on alert as it continues to adjust its release schedule for future projects.

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Spoilers if you haven’t seen Marvel’s “Secret Invasion” series yet, because this new mid-season trailer pulls out a lot of the stops and reveals a lot of the spoilers the series has featured so far. So, spoilers, yes? You’ve been warned.

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OK, “Secret Invasion” has been a bit hit and miss so far, with critics on the fence at best (including our review), but the series has had at least two significant things happen in it so far, and both have been unveiled in this new mid-season trailer.

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Who do you trust? Tonight, during ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, the trailer for Marvel Studios’ espionage thriller “Secret Invasion” debuted. The original series premieres on June 21, exclusively on Disney+.

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In Marvel Studios’ new series “Secret Invasion,” set in the present-day MCU, Nick Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls.

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Right now, we’re on the verge of seeing if the recently released “Elvis” film will take home any Oscars gold. Then later this year, we’re expecting Sofia Coppola’s “Priscilla” to give us a different perspective on the King of Rock and Roll. But sandwiched in between those two prestige projects is the ridiculous, over-the-top animated series, “Agent Elvis.”

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As seen in the trailer for “Agent Elvis,” the animated series follows Elvis Presley (Matthew McConaughey) as he gets recruited to be an international spy and do all sorts of killing.

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While Marvel Studios is a collective of passionate producers and executives, studio head Kevin Feige inevitably becomes the face of its many successes. However, there are many high-level executives of production and development, like Nate Moore, a producer on the “Captain America” and “Black Panther” franchises, that have been integral lieutenants to the company. Moore is part of what is known as The Parliament at Marvel, the elite group of execs who are ultimately responsible for all the big decisions alongside Feige.

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There’s been a shake-up in the Marvel Universe, but all things considered, it’s a pretty great one for Don Cheadle. The actor’s Marvel/Disney+ series, “Armor Wars,” is changing and is now being developed as a feature film. It’s hard to see that as anything else as an upgrade if your Don Cheadle or Cheadle’s reps. Marvel’s Disney+ series was supposed to be for supporting characters that didn’t really get their due and might be better suited to a character-driven limited series format.

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Man, the 20th century really thought it was something, didn’t it? Thankfully, in the middle of the 1980s, just when Western (read: American) culture was fully losing the run of itself in a frenzy of gum-snapping consumerism and prescription narcotics, Don DeLillo‘s “White Noise” appeared — you might almost say manifested — as a mischievous, mindbending 326-page reminder to the century that it wasn’t, in fact, all that.

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For too long, writer/director Carl Franklin’s neo-noir “Devil in a Blue Dress” existed as a little-known gem. Then two Blu-ray releases through Twilight Time and Kino brought the film to a new generation of cinephiles. Now, it’s finally been added to Criterion Collection as a Blu-ray and 4K release replete with illuminating supplementals. 

Why did a film starring a peak level of hotness, Denzel Washington, initially struggle to gain an audience?

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Marvel Studios was anything but stingy with this year’s Comic-Con footage. New trailers for “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” and, most importantly, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” were released online in a matter of minutes, allowing fans around the world to join in the celebration of all things Phase 4. But Comic-Con was also home to several exclusive trailers for Marvel’s upcoming slate of shows and movies, including the much-anticipated “Secret Invasion,” the Disney+ show that potentially sets the stage for a full-fledged alien invasion of Earth.

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While Apple TV+ still has an uphill battle to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+ for subscription numbers and viewership, they keep attracting high-profile projects. Many creatives are gravitating towards the streaming service, and a new show focusing on The Black Panthers only highlights this.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that “Moonlight” actor Andre Holland (“The Knick,” “Castle Rock“) is in talks to play Huey P.

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Samuel L. Jackson is one of the OG Marvel Cinematic Universe folks, appearing as Nick Fury for the first time in the post-credits stinger for “Iron Man” and introducing the concept of the Avengers. From there, he’s been in a number of MCU films, but he has yet to get the chance to headline his own project. That all changes with “Secret Invasion.” But that doesn’t mean he’s the only returning character who will be showing up in the Disney+ series.

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Steven Soderbergh is definitely the type of filmmaker who likes to work with people more than once. And there might not be an actor he has teamed up with more than Don Cheadle. So, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise the duo are reuniting to produce a new HBO Max series, “The Other Hamilton.”

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According to Variety, Steven Soderbergh and Don Cheadle will produce “The Other Hamilton,” which tells the story of one of the first Black millionaire.

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Marvel Studios has long toyed with the idea of solo movies for supporting characters, but most of those ideas migrated to limited series for television on Disney+. “Hawkeye” is one of those coming in November, and another one announced in December is “Armor Wars,” a vehicle for Don Cheadle’s War Machine character. In the classic “Iron Man” storyline from the comic books, Tony Stark’s technology falls into the hands of some really nasty people leading to him tracking down multiple armored villains (Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man are good candidates).

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1996 was a weird time, man. The omnipresent nature of corporations and big business seems almost suffocating in 2021, but 25 years ago, Warner Bros. boldly decided that it didn’t need anything more than a couple of hot brands to sell a movie, jamming Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny together in “Space Jam.” Turns out the studio was right, too, and despite a threadbare plot and a star that couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag, the film tripled its budget and paved the way for a merchandising bonanza that almost certainly dusted the box office take.

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Easing back into moviemaking after the months-long covid shutdown seems like a mighty stressful proposition, and from the looks of the cast and crew credits for “No Sudden Move,” Steven Soderbergh decided to alleviate that stress by surrounding himself with people he knew. It’s a picture chock full of reunions: with his frequent star Don Cheadle, with Cheadle’s “Traffic” co-star Benicio del Toro, with Amy Seimetz (of the “Girlfriend Experience” TV adaptation), with Bill Duke of “High Flying Bird”; even Brendan Fraser was previously directed by Soderbergh, on a wonderful episode of the long-forgotten Showtime anthology series “Fallen Angels.” The script is by Ed Solomon, who penned the director’s HBO series “Mosaic”; the music is by his regular collaborator David Holmes; the producer is Casey Silver, who, as head of Universal Pictures, offered Soderbergh the picture that saved his career, “Out of Sight.” (And, of course, he’s again working with director of photography Peter Andrews and editor Mary Ann Bernard, wink wink.)

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Moreover, he’s revisiting his favorite genre, the crime picture.

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What would you do if your son gets kidnapped? Would you go on a “Taken”-style revenge mission, murdering anyone in your path? Or maybe you’ll do a “John Wick”-style revenge mission where you, once again, murder anyone in your path? Well, if you’re LeBron James, you avenge the kidnapping of your son by teaming up with cartoon characters to play a game of basketball against the criminal who has your child.

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As his fans will attest, Steven Soderbergh is a filmmaking machine. Since his return from “retirement” in 2016, the director immediately resumed his torrid production rate. Starting with 2017’s “Logan Lucky,” Soderbergh has made five films in the last five years, including 2018’s “Unsane” and “Let Them All Talk” for HBO Max last December. On top of that, he also made an experimental TV show for HBO, “Mosaic,” that came out in two forms: a six-episode limited series and a mobile app where viewers interacted with the plot’s trajectory.

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Cat’s out of the bag. Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming 1950-set crime thriller, “No Sudden Move,” will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. The film, written by Ed Solomon (Soderbergh’s “Mosaic“), will debut as the Centerpiece Gala picture at this year’s festival, set to run June 9-20, as it celebrates its 20th anniversary. The film will make its public premiere, shortly thereafter, expected on HBO Max July 1 (Solomon’s had this info public on his Twitter page for weeks, FYI).

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“Black Monday” may not be the buzziest show on television, but with a cast like Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells (“Girls,” “The Boys in the Band“), Regina Hall (“Support the Girls,” “Girls Trip“), Paul Scheer (“Veep”), Michael James Scott and Eugene Cordero, the Showtime series is proving all you need to survive in TV is have a dedicated audience.

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It was an Oscars ceremony unlike any other, but even the stripped-down version of the 2021 Academy Awards had its share of highlights and lowlights. Here’s our list of the best (and worst) moments – and yes, Daniel Kaluuya talking about his parents having sex made the list. How could it not?

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Anyways, let’s start things off with the only Oscar topic anyone will want to talk about for the next few days.

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For kids in the nineties, “Space Jam” was an event. In 1996, Michael Jordan was a global icon, and the Looney Tunes were still a cartoon staple for kids around the world. Sure, the lens of nostalgia makes it easy to forget that the movie, like Jordan’s acting, isn’t that great, but everyone under the age of 14 wanted to see “Space Jam” the summer it came out.

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Twenty-five years later, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” looks to make the same summer splash with audiences.

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