In today’s episode of ⁠Bingeworthy⁠, our TV and streaming podcast, host Mike DeAngelo dives back into the mystery of Apple TV+’s latest mystery series, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” The show follows multiple characters in different eras on a twist-filled journey to uncover the mysteries of the organization at the center of the MonsterVerse films. The show stars Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, and many more.

Continue reading ‘Monarch’: Kurt Russell & Wyatt Russell Discuss The MonsterVerse Series, Marvel, John Carpenter & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] at The Playlist.

The speculation is always churning around the Marvel Universe and it didn’t help there was a lot of crossover misinformation about the upcoming “Thunderbolts” movie and “Captain America: Brave New World” earlier this year and last.

Last night the trades didn’t help, with Deadline accidentally claiming that Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes/Winter Solider was in “Captain America 4,” outlets covering it and then the trade quickly deleting the information.

Continue reading Wyatt Russell Says Daniel Brühl & Harrison Ford Aren’t In Marvel’s ‘Thunderbolts,’ But Hasn’t Read An Updated Script Yet at The Playlist.

Created by Chris Black (“Severance”) and Matt Fraction (“Hawkeye”), the limited series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” is an intelligent extension of the blockbusters-sized big-screen franchise where it came from. At the heart of Legendary’s Monsterverse are monsters, sure, but a mystery rooted in human complication. And ‘Legacy of Monsters’ is wise enough to lean into the human-scale dramas behind those legacies, those mysteries, and what compelled them to take shape.

Continue reading ‘Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters’ Mid-Season Trailer Mixes Humanity, Monsters & Mystery at The Playlist.

After a shaky 2023, Marvel Studios finds itself in unfamiliar territory: looking like a vulnerable enterprise instead of an unstoppable entertainment juggernaut. But despite creative overhauls and several release schedule changes for projects in Phases 5 & 6, the MCU machine keeps turning. No previously announced projects have been cancelled (yet), only pushed back to later release dates. And that includes “Thunderbolts,” the ensemble film that arrives after “Captain America: Brave New World” in 2025.

Continue reading ‘Thunderbolts’: Wyatt Russell Promises That Upcoming Blockbuster Isn’t “A Straightforward Marvel Movie As You’ve Seen In The Past” at The Playlist.

“No running. No diving. No lifeguard on duty. No swimming after dark.” That’s the tagline of Atomic Monster and Blumhouse’s new horror, a super new supernatural thriller, “Night Swim,” that’s based entirely on swimming at night in your own swimming pool.

READ MORE: The 25 Most Anticipated Horror Films Of 2023

It sounds a little small-scale and self-contained, and well, it kind of is. 

Continue reading ‘Night Swim’ Trailer: Blumhouse’s New Horror Stars Wyatt Russell & Kerry Condon at The Playlist.

Buckle up, Apple TV+ subscribers: Legendary‘s MonsterVerse hits the streamer later this month with “Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters.” And advance word on the series is, well, as buzzy as possible. With its cast, scale, and (of course) its kaiju, “Legacy Of Monsters” looks like one of 2023’s last must-watch TV series.

READ MORE: ‘Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters’ Review: A Mix Of Epic Scale & Human Drama Gets Franchise TV Right

Don’t believe the hype?

Continue reading ‘Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters’ Inside Look Trailer: Go Behind The Scenes Of The MonsterVerse Series, Premiering On Apple TV+ On November 19 at The Playlist.

If non-starter franchise TV isn’t at a nadir, all one needs to do is look at the recent Marvel TV reckoning—the Studio finally coming to terms with the fact that they have to tell television in a TV format using experienced TV people and changing creative course—to understand that it’s in trouble creatively. Both Marvel and Lucasfilm (“Star Wars”) have fumbled around and squandered their I.P. on television, wasting an opportunity to tell stories about lesser but still-beloved characters and mainly crafting shallow episodic building blocks to other pieces of I.P.

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What’s next for the Legendary’s Monsterverse? Apple TV+ brings the next chapter of this popular property to life with “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” The series picks up after the events that saw Godzilla and the Titans destroy San Francisco; now, there are major questions about the organization behind it all — Monarch (and it’s a fascinating choice to set it after the events of the first film and not deeper into the canon). Before ‘Legacy,’ the franchise had big screen outings with 2014’s “Godzilla,” 2017’s “Kong: Skull Island,” 2019’s “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” and 2021’s “Godzilla vs.

Continue reading ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Trailer: The World Is On Fire In Apple TV+’s November-Set Monsterverse Series at The Playlist.

Love it or hate it, Blumhouse continues to do what it does best: make lean, low/mid-budget genre films that help the studio fund its more prestigious fare. And while the quality of these movies varies, there’s certain charm to these B-movies, with Jason Blum more often than not giving young directors a chance to have more creative freedom than they’d get at a larger studio.

READ MORE: Jason Blum On ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ Release Date Change: “We Bowed Our Heads To Taylor Swift”

So where will “Night Swim” fall on the Blumhouse B-movie spectrum?

Continue reading ‘Night Swim’ Trailer: Wyatt Russell & Kerry Condon Star In Blumhouse’s Supernatural Thriller On January 5, 2024 at The Playlist.

What happens after humanity discovers monsters? The Apple TV+ series “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” follows the events after legendary creature Godzilla and the Titans wreak havoc. A city destroyed, many are searching for answers; two siblings begin unraveling what’s really behind Monarch — an organization whose motives remain mysterious. This project represents yet another chapter in Legendary Entertainment’s Monsterverse, the expansive universe includes a host of famous monsters such as King Kong and Godzilla.

Continue reading ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ Trailer: Apple’s New Monsterverse Series Roars To Life Nov 17 at The Playlist.

Wondering what’s up with Apple TV+’s Monsterverse spin-off from Legendary and Warner Bros’ feature films featuring Godzilla and Kong? Wait no longer; we finally have answers. Today, Apple TV+ announced the title of its highly anticipated sci-fi drama based on Legendary’s Monsterverse as “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” Additionally, the streamer unveiled the first images from the 10-episode series starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, Ren Watabe, Mari Yamamoto, Anders Holm, Joe Tippett, and Elisa Lasowski.

Continue reading ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’: Apple TV+’s Monsterverse Series Gets First Look & New Title at The Playlist.

Phase 5 of the MCU starts Friday with “Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania.” But five more movies come after “Quantumania” (and seven Disney+ shows, for now), with “Thunderbolts” being one of the most hotly anticipated.  Jake Schreier‘s film sees a whole bunch of Marvel characters connected to Captain America, like Sebastian Stan‘s Bucky Barnes and Florence Pugh‘s Yelena Boleva, team up under the tutelage of Harrison Ford‘s Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross.  

Continue reading  David Harbour Talks About His Anticipation For ‘Thunderbolts,’ & “Idiot” Red Guardian’s Obsession With Captain America at The Playlist.

Disney’s D23 Expo is in full swing, and during today’s Marvel panel, they revealed the main team and cast of their upcoming “Thunderbolts” movie, due in 2024. Directed by Jake Schreier, “Thunderbolts” is expected to be a team in place of the Avengers. With no organized superhero team on Earth, the government takes matters into its own hands and creates its own super-power team.

READ MORE: ‘Thunderbolts’: Marvel Sets Its Anti-Heroes Team Film For Summer 2024

At D23, Marvel chief Kevin Feige announced the team includes the previously revealed Florence Pugh, who plays Yelena, the new Black Widow; Sebastian Stan as Buck Barnes the Winder Soldier; David Harbour as the Red Guardian, Wyatt Russell as U.S.

Continue reading ‘Thunderbolts’: Marvel Anti-Heroes Cast Includes Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan & More [D23] at The Playlist.

Following the success of last year’s “Godzilla vs. Kong”— earning $470 million during the heat of the pandemic— Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise seems to be at full health. “Godzilla Vs. Kong,” director Adam Wingard is set to return to direct a follow-up film coming to theaters in 2024 with Dan Stevens (“The Guest”) as one of the leads and a live-action spinoff series at Apple TV+ that is about to begin shooting soon.

Continue reading ‘Godzilla & The Titans’: Kurt & Wyatt Russell Join Apple’s Monsterverse Series at The Playlist.

In today’s episode of Bingeworthy, our TV and streaming podcast, co-host Mike DeAngelo dives back into “Under the Banner of Heaven.” The show follows a devout Mormon detective Jeb Pyre (played by Andrew Garfield) whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS Mormon fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. There’s a terrific supporting cast involved too, including Gil Birmingham, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Chloe Pirrie, Adelaide Clemens, Rory Culkin, and more.

Continue reading ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’: Wyatt Russell Talks About His Darkest Role Yet, Returning To The MCU & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] at The Playlist.

FX/Hulu’s big play for Emmy glory in this incredibly crowded season is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s excellent 2003 book “Under the Banner of Heaven,” a historical analysis of the history of Mormonism in this country framed alongside a dissection of a brutal murder case from 1984 in the state of Utah. While the book had the context of the history of the origin of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and how it got twisted into the mindset of the fundamentalist sect of Mormonism that pushed Ron and Dan Lafferty to commit brutal murder, the show feels at the beginning like it wants badly to be more “True Detective” and less Ken Burns, improving in the third and fourth episodes as it becomes more about a broken community than a specific murder.

Continue reading ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’ Review: Andrew Garfield & Daisy Edgar-Jones Star In Dustin Lance Black’s Mormon Detective Thriller at The Playlist.

It’s undeniable, Andrew Garfield is having a serious moment. Coming off an Oscar nomination for “tick, tick…BOOM!” and his appearance in “Spider-Man: No Way Home”— a part so beloved people are demanding that the actor get to finish out his ‘Spider-Man’ trilogy and or join Sony’s Spiderverse—Garfield feels like he’s bigger than ever these days. And so thus the timing is pretty sweet for “Under The Banner Of Heaven,” a new FX limited series about a murder based on a popular, true-crime best-seller.

Continue reading ‘Under The Banner Of Heaven’ Trailer: Andrew Garfield & Daisy Edgar-Jones Star In A New Faith-Based Thriller Series Coming In April at The Playlist.

Marvel Studios is expanding their entertainment operations tenfold as they’re now producing both television and film projects, which means the studio juggles many different castings all at once. 

READ MORE: ‘Captain America 4’ Movie In The Works With ‘Falcon & Winter Soldier’ Showrunner Malcolm Spellman

When it was announced that former Captain America candidate Wyatt Russell would be taking the part of John Walker, aka U.S. Agent, in the Disney+ series “The Falcon & The Winter Soldier,” it seemed like a good fit.

Continue reading Wyatt Russell Says James Gunn Encouraged Him To Take The ‘The Falcon & The Winter Soldier’ Part When He Was Asked His Advice at The Playlist.

Everyone is hiding something in “The Woman in the Window.” Unfortunately, the challenge here isn’t so much deciphering the film’s array of generously signposted secrets but, instead, finding reasons to care about them in the first place. In that regard, versatile British director Joe Wright’s visually stylish, but ultimately sluggish thriller commits perhaps the most cardinal genre sin of them all. Somewhere amid suspicious neighbors who might have killed someone, stormy New York City nights, and one too many instances of pill-popping and heavy-drinking, it forgets to have fun, aggressively molding its “Gone Girl” echoes into a contemporary “Rear Window” template (if that much isn’t already evident by the title).

Continue reading ‘Woman In The Window’: Amy Adams Fails To Awaken This Sleepy, Predictable Mystery Thriller [Review] at The Playlist.

“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” has ended its six-episode run, crowning a new Captain America and drastically changing the status quo for a number of characters. And in a new episode of The Playlist Podcast, we’re finally discussing “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.”

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If you somehow avoided the Marvel Studios marketing machine, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” picks up from the events of 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame.” In that film, Steve Rogers retires as Captain America and passes the shield to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie), aka Falcon.

Continue reading ‘The Falcon & The Winter Soldier’: A New Captain America Takes Flight [The Playlist Podcast] at The Playlist.

Maybe Marvel is going for the “Game of Thrones” approach, or arguably the one of a lot of prestige TV: the penultimate episode is full of all the good stuff, and the finale is often a kind of denouement. Sure, both “WandaVision” and “The Falcon And The Winter Soldier” tried to have it both ways— a big action-packed finale with a lot of tying up loose ends, letting storylines end, and then, of course, teasing the future of the MCU.

Continue reading ‘The Falcon & The Winter Solider’ Finale: The Power Broker Reveal Is Actually This Safe Episode’s Most Complex Choice [Review] at The Playlist.

Wyatt Russell might be new to the Marvel Studios interview game, but he’s already a pro. Obviously, when you have such a polarizing character, such as John Walker, aka New Captain America, in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” people are going to hit him hard about spoilers and pray that Russell slips up and spills the beans about what happens at the end. And though he’s not willing to tell outright lies as Paul Bettany did in the promotion of “WandaVision,” it appears Russell is the king of coy when asked the big question about whether or not Chris Evans, aka Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, is going to show up at all.

Continue reading Wyatt Russell Coyly Deflects The Chris Evans Cameo In ‘Falcon’ Question: “You Just Gotta Wait” at The Playlist.

Spoilers for the first four episodes of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”

Four episodes in, and it’s clear that “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” is building to one hell of a fight between Sam Wilson, aka Falcon, Bucky Barnes, aka Winter Soldier, and John Walker, aka the new Captain America. And that’s exactly what is teased in the new trailer for the final two episodes of the series.

Continue reading ‘Falcon & Winter Solider’ Mid-Season Trailer: Sam & Bucky Prepare For The Final Fight For The Shield at The Playlist.

Though the discourse surrounding superhero films/TV shows over the past week seemed to revolve around Zack Snyder and his new cut of “Justice League,” we mustn’t forget that the Marvel Studios train is continuing to run on time and with high quality over at Disney+ with the first episode of “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” And if you’ve seen that episode, you know that the ending of the show offered quite the cliffhanger.

Continue reading ‘Falcon & Winter Soldier’: Wyatt Russell Teases The “Gnarly” Difference Between His Character And Steve Rogers at The Playlist.

John Carpenter films are very much products of their eras and products of one incredibly unique filmmaker. That’s largely why remakes haven’t been so successful in the past. (One look at the remakes of “The Thing” and Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” will prove that.) But that doesn’t mean Hollywood is going to let those properties sit on the shelf gathering dust. Silly movie fan.

Continue reading ‘Escape From New York’ Remake Filmmaker Has The “Obvious” Star In Mind—Wyatt Russell at The Playlist.