Candyman was actually one of the last holdouts on Universal’s upcoming slate. Tentpoles such as F9: The Fast and Furious Saga, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Sing 2 have been moved to later this year, next year or TBA, while this month’s Trolls World Tour is still meeting its April 10 release date, only on demand. Other major spring and summer releases that have been shifted into the future include Black Widow, Mulan, Wonder Woman 1984, Top Gun: Maverick, No Time to Die, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Morbius....

Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions have conjured a new Candyman manifestation. Nia DaCosta (Little Woods) directed the film off a screenplay by Peele and Win Rosenfeld. The film is a “spiritual sequel” that “returns to the neighborhood where the legend began: the now-gentrified section of Chicago where the Cabrini-Green housing projects once stood.” The project arose after the rights—originally held by the now-defunct PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and distributed by Tri-Star—recently became available....

The latest buzzy drama from the BBC is Chloe, from creator Alice Seabright, a deliciously twisty six-parter which sees a young woman in Bristol become obsessed with a woman she follows on Instagram and insinuate herself into that woman’s social circle after she is found dead. Only it’s not as simple as that… Over the course of the series Chloe messes with our perceptions of who is doing what, and why, as our protagonist Becky Green – ostensibly a con woman, turns out to have more complicated motivations at heart....

“In 1993 Johnny Carson gave me the best advice of my career: ‘As soon as possible, get to a streaming platform,’” O’Brien said in a statement. “I’m thrilled that I get to continue doing whatever the hell it is I do on HBO Max, and I look forward to a free subscription.” At first glance, this appears to be bittersweet news. O’Brien has been a late night talk show staple for decades....

Of course, one’s first reaction is to scoff: surely there is no chance of the Moon being untethered from its orbit and dropping onto the Earth, by either natural or artificial means. But that’s where Mika McKinnon comes in. A geophysicist and disaster researcher who has been providing science consultation for over a decade, she was one of a team of science advisers on Moonfall, specializing in giving even the most seemingly outlandish propositions a sturdy underpinning in real-life science....

Oh yeah, and at some point in the future, the plucky, if slightly deranged, upstart you’ve been rooting for the whole time is going to become a puppy murderer. But shhhh, try not to think about that too much. While Cruella was generally well received, there’s a definite disconnect between the Cruella de Vil we get at the end of the movie and the fur-crazed demon we meet in 101 Dalmatians, and now that news has arrived that Disney is already working on a Cruella 2, consideration is no doubt being put into how that gap might be bridged....

When night time rolls in, the graphics take on a more seedy vibe. Without natural light, the world becomes drenched in the neon of cityscape where corporations have run amok. Walking down the same street feels a lot less safe, as you catch reflections from the corner of your eyes. The world still feels alive, only now it’s alive with the persistent threat of danger. Night City Like You’ve Never Seen It Before Of course, part of the reason why Night City looks so distractingly beautiful is the hardware I’m viewing it on....

With a big, beating heart and a surprising amount of insight, Netflix’s series Dash & Lily is here to remind us of the world outside and the magical feeling of falling in love in the “before-time.” Based on the young adult book series Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares from Rachel Cohn and David Levithan (who wrote Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist) Dash & Lily continues in the proud tradition of Netflix romcoms and Netflix holiday fare of small-scale stories with warmth....

It was easy wasn’t it? It went down smooth as butter, the idea that Tom killed his family. One shot of David Tennant fastidiously cleaning his fingernails plus a few dead-eyed looks to camera and we’d got Tom’s number; he’s an abusive control freak who’d as likely murder his children as look at you. Oh, the brass neck of him. See the way Tom pushed Jess’ head against the door during sex?...

Snyder finally got to finish Justice League the way he wanted to, and while fans and critics alike can argue in good faith about the merits of the film itself, it’s clear that this version of it—unlike the truncated 2017 theatrical release—is the movie that Snyder set out to make. It also concluded his and wife/producer Deborah Snyder’s involvement with Warner Bros.’ DC movies. Yet you can go on social media right now and if you look up the hashtag “#RestoreTheSnyderverse,” you’ll find fans clamoring for WB to let Snyder continue his story with a second Justice League film and perhaps more....

Demon Slayer just completed Season 2, which consisted of seven episodes covering the Mugen Train Arc and 11 episodes adapting the Entertainment District Arc. Since the first half of the season repackaged material from the Demon Slayer: Mugen Train film, the hype didn’t really kick off until Episode 8, when Tanjiro Kamado and his allies venture into Yoshiwara, Tokyo’s red-light district, to hunt a demon. Or, as we eventually learned, a pair of demons....

Dickinson season 2 will premiere on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 on Apple TV+. Per Apple’s usual release strategy, the first three episodes will be made available on the day of release and new episodes will follow every Friday. Here is that first look teaser. It would appear that Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) and her friends have gathered for a spiritual summoning ceremony. The young poet wants to know if she should seek fame....

When we last saw Diggle in the series finale of Arrow, he found a box containing an object that emitted a glowing green light. Despite being the end of the show, this teased his potential recruitment by the Guardians of the Universe, opening up the possibility for Diggle’s transformation into the Green Lantern of the Arrowverse. Since then, the character has appeared on Batwoman—still normal—and will soon be making his way to Metropolis, Smallville, and Central City....

Also in the wind is the possibility that Marvel’s Black Widow, which has been removed from the theatrical release schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic, might end up streaming on Disney+. As it stands, this is pretty unlikely – a Marvel source told Variety that “pushing Black Widow affects nothing on the MCU timeline.” Given that info, it doesn’t feel like the studio would be in a rush to forgo a cinema release for its Black Widow solo film and make the film available to stream, even at an eye-wateringly high rental price via other streaming providers....

McGregor won’t be the only returning Prequel Trilogy star on the series. Hayden Christensen will also appear in Obi-Wan Kenobi, presumably as Darth Vader, although there’s always the possibility he’ll show up in a flashback or in a dream sequence instead. But even Christensen’s return isn’t quite as notable as Joel Edgerton and Bonnie Piesse reprising their roles as Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, especially since it sets up the appearance of another MAJOR character....

Family is a core part of DuckTales. It always has been and always will be. That subject can go a lot of different ways. Some people adore their family, some people hate them. DuckTales has given us several different views of different families but generally it skews to family being a good thing, however you find it. The McDuck family in particular, for all its flaws, usually comes out pretty warm and fuzzy at the end of the day....

As players explore the Lands Between, they can team up to conquer various challenges and bosses. Conversely, competitive players can follow another Soulsborne tradition and invade other gamers’ worlds and attack hosts as they please. In other words, Dark Souls veterans should find Elden Ring’s multiplayer system very familiar, but the game alters co-op enough to require a handy guide. Here’s everything you need to know about the game’s co-op system:...

Fear the Walking Dead season 6 delivered its first big reveal of the season at the very end of “Alaska.” After months of searching for his long lost wife, Dwight finally reunited with Sherry (Christine Evangelista) in a surprising manner, connecting via walkie basically out of nowhere. Whatever you might think of the way the reunion was executed — I found the matter-of-fact way Dwight ran into Sherry to be a bit underwhelming — this cliffhanger ending marks a major milestone in Dwight’s story of love lost....

While there are so many things we want to know about that game, few mysteries are more pressing or fascinating than the meaning of the Rebirth name. After all, creative director Tetsuya Nomura has already stated that there is some kind of significance to the game’s name that he can’t wait to share. So while it might be quite some time before we all understand the full, official meaning of the Rebirth name (the game isn’t scheduled to be released until “next winter”), that doesn’t mean that we can’t spend a little time speculating about what Rebirth means and why that title is so potentially significant....

The U.S. is not the center of the universe (contrary to some Americans’ belief), but it is the world’s largest exporter of popular culture and has been for a while. While the U.K. and Japan (and, more recently, Korea) are recognized as other cultural exporters on the global stage, American film franchises like the MCU remain the biggest stories in the world. If America’s “soft power” is to be effectively challenged, it’s probably going to come not simply from the rise of other countries’ entertainment industries, but from U....