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Anime has taken the world by storm in recent years, with fans of all ages and backgrounds flocking to watch their favorite series and characters come to life on screen. From action-packed adventures and epic fantasy stories, to heartwarming romance and gut-wrenching drama, anime has something for everyone. But for some people, the idea of watching anime is just not their cup of tea. Maybe they’ve never been interested in the genre, or perhaps they’ve only watched a few series and didn’t enjoy them....

Beginning Sunday, viewers across the nation can witness the origins of one of the year’s most anticipated movies, when Twentieth Century Fox debuts an exclusive, three-part reveal of X-Men Origins: Wolverine on Fox. For this unprecedented promotional event - which is too big for one night - the studio has created three special 60-second spots, one leading into the next, and which together form a narrative. The first spot airs this Sunday (February 15) on Family Guy, the second on Monday (Feb....

Aspiring filmmakers consider the horror genre as a perfect way to jump-start their careers, even without a big budget. Horror movies, after all, focus on suspense, emotions, and fear, regardless of if the antagonist is a creepy doll or if it is a mythological creature. Sometimes just a single location and dark lighting are good for a tight budget, too. Take, for example, the box office hit, Paranormal Activity. This 2007 film had a budget of $15,000 but earned more than $193 million, making it the most profitable film ever....

In a new interview, two senior-level ABC executives say they admit to having second thoughts about firing Roseanne Barr. Barr was famously let go from ABC after posting a racist tweet about Barack Obama’s former aide Valerie Jarret, claiming that she looked like “Muslim Brotherhood,” mixed with “Planet of the Apes.” Barr quickly apologized for the tweet and blamed her actions on the sleeping medication Ambien, but ABC had already made up their decision and canceled the Roseanne revival series....

Alexander Skarsgård is a Swedish actor who is part of a family of actors — which includes father Stellan and brothers Bill, Gustaf, Valter, and Sam — that has taken Hollywood by storm. Skargård’s acting credentials are varied and showcase his range as an actor. He commands each role he plays and can adapt easily to any character and medium. Skarsgård developed a name for himself in Sweden before rising to international acclaim, thanks to his starring role in HBO’s True Blood....

Here are those lengthy Game of Thrones Season 8 episodes that were previously teased. Fans are only going to get six episodes for the final season of the hit HBO show, but we’re looking at 432 minutes worth of action. The final season is only 8 minutes shorter than Season 7, which had seven episodes. This is going to be an epic sendoff and after looking at the runtimes for the first two episodes, fans were left wondering where those “feature-length” ideas came from....

Madison Montgomery (Emma Roberts) tells Mallory (Billie Lourd), “Bad news bitch: You’re back from the dead!” Also, we learn the pre-Apocalypse purpose of Outpost Three in American Horror Story: Apocalypse Episode 4: Could It be… Satan? Contrary to what I theorized at the end of my last recap, the artificial human Ms. Mead (Kathy Bates) does not embody the essence of Constance Langdon (Jessica Lange) from Murder House-which is interesting. We learn that, as a teen, antichrist Michael Langdon (Cory Fern) was raised by the real-life Mrs....

An American Haunting is one of those films, regardless of genre, that actually had potential, but somewhere along the assembly line, went awry — horribly, irrevocably awry. It had many of the proper ingredients to make a ripe horror film: a fine cast, led by Donald Sutherland and Sissy Spacek, and fertile source material upon which to draw from. As Haunting hawks in its promotional campaign ad nauseum, the film is based on true events, “the only case in U....

Anger Management, the sitcom starring Charlie Sheen and created by Executive Producer Bruce Helford, has received a 90-episode order from FX, it was announced today by Chuck Saftler, Executive Vice President of FX Networks. As part of its original deal, if Anger Management met a designated average ratings threshold over the airing of eight of the first ten episodes of the series, then it would trigger an automatic, additional 90-episode order from the network....

Sad moments are one of the top reasons everyone loves anime. People get attached to characters and see them stumble in idealized sacrifices and struggles. Research shows that we form emotional attachments to fictional characters through parasocial relationships. We feel a stronger connection to stories with characters with deep sadness, conflicting morals, and other sources of tragedy. Some of the greatest heartbreaking moments in anime follow this formula. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY...

Emmy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Academy Award nominee for Up in the Air, The Departed), Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland), Olivia Cooke (The Quiet Ones) and Nestor Carbonell (Lost, The Dark Knight Rises) will check in to Comic-Con 2014 with a Bates Motel panel presentation on Friday, July 25 from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in Room 6A. The series stars will join executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) for a thought provoking panel discussion about the critically acclaimed drama at San Diego’s Comic-Con....

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah were met with blindsiding news in August that their dream debut into the DC Universe, Batgirl, would be cut short. It was scrapped in an attempt to mitigate costs under the new Warner Bros. Discovery merger by CEO and President David Zaslav. This jarring development rocked the film industry as the highly anticipated 90 million dollar movie had just wrapped up principal shooting and begun postproduction when the news broke....

Benedict Cumberbatch (Star Trek 2) is in negotiations to join the cast of August: Osage County, director John Wells’ adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tracy Letts. The story centers on the dysfunctional Weston family and the daughters who have gone their separate ways, until a crisis brings them back to their Midwestern home. Meryl Streep stars as the mother Violet Weston, with Julia Roberts and Margo Martindale playing her daughters, Barbara and Mattie Fay....

Adapting books to film is a fascinating bridge between two artistic mediums, a popular way of gaining readership and introducing relatively unknown authors to a larger audience. It is also an easy way for film productions to write successful screenplays efficiently and potentially expand those universes bound in paperback. Whatever the case, readers love to see Hollywood adaptations of classic stories come to life and pick them apart to compare them....

Be warned, MAJOR SPOILERS for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to follow… The latest poster for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever finally reveals the identity of the new Black Panther. After months and months of speculation, the poster confirms that, yes, it is Letitia Wright’s Shuri who dons the vibranium suit and becomes the new protector of Wakanda, following in the footsteps of her dearly departed brother, Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa. You can check out the poster below courtesy of Twitter....

Edward Zwick’s films always strike a good chord with me because of their incredible emotional impact. The Last Samurai left such a grand impact on me that I was in tears at its incredible and emotional climax. Blood Diamond does the same thing by establishing strong central characters with a clear objective that makes the film gripping and tense. The story revolves around Solomon Vendi (Djimon Hounsou) a local fisherman whose village is raided by local militia who are at civil war over the control over the diamond fields....

It hasn’t even been a year yet and Blu-ray is already changing it’s players. In a story from Video Business, “the Blu-ray Disc Assn. has mandated that all hardware streeting after” October 31 “must be able to play back picture-in-picture video, as driven by BD Java interactive technology.” Currently, a lot of the “players on shelves now can handle BD Java, but to varying degrees. Few Blu-ray players include picture-in-picture capability, for instance, not even the PlayStation 3....

As prices on Blu-ray players come down, HD-DVD players suddenly aren’t looking as inexpensive. According to Video Business, the “sales gap” between “HD-DVD players and Blu-ray Disc players” appears to be getting closer “as the two formats have come closer in price.” It seems that at such stores as “Ultimate Electronics and Abt Electronics, Toshiba’s second-generation players are still the best-selling individual models, but collectively, Blu-ray players have been outselling HD-DVD Toshiba models in recent weeks....

Evening. I’m back after a month long tour through Europe with the punk square dance outfit Ma Bilical and The Chords. Each and every night was an alcohol-fueled rager that hit my skin like an A-Bomb. You wouldn’t know it to look at them, but senior citizens are starting to get pretty funky. I think I saw one too many grandmas with a nose piercing and extensive body art. What a bunch of radicals....

Weekend Box Office: Yes Man $18.1 million Seven Pounds $16 million The Tale of Despereaux $10.5 The Day the Earth Stood Still $10. 1million Four Christmases $7.7 million Twilight $5.2 million Bolt $4.2 million Slumdog Millionaire $3.1 million Australia $2.3 million Quantum of Solace $ $2.1 million The Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man had audiences saying “Yes!” this weekend, as the film opened at number one on the box office charts with $18....