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The Pokémon anime is rather unique for reinventing itself every few years, a trend which helped to give the series such incredible longevity. These changes involved not only new characters and a new setting, but a revamp for Ash as well, changing his appearance and, to some extent, his personality as well.

Fans have endlessly debated which versions of Ash are the best, and they often align with which series have the best writing in general. To rank these different versions of Ash Ketchum, several factors are being considered, such as his design and appearance, his likability, and his performance in battle. This will hopefully reflect the different criteria by which fans have judged these iterations over the years, and provide a single combined ranking that accommodates all of them.

Unova Ash Pokémon: Black and White

In last place is the version of Ash seen in the Black and White anime series.

George Folsey Jr., the film editor and producer who collaborated with director John Landis on such films as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Coming to America and An American Werewolf in London, has died. He was 85.

Folsey died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his son, fellow film editor Ryan Folsey (Cabin Fever, Renfield), told The Hollywood Reporter.

His father was George J. Folsey, the famed 13-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer whose credits included The Cocoanuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930), Thousands Cheer (1944), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Clock (1945), Green Dolphin Street (1947), Adam’s Rib (1949), Million Dollar Mermaid (1953), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) and Forbidden Planet (1956).

George Folsey Jr. also edited Shawn Levy’s Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and The Pink Panther (2006) and Eli Roth’s Hostel (2005) and Hostel: Part II (2007).

After cutting Landis’ directorial debut, Schlock (1973), Folsey edited the Landis-helmed The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), Animal House (1978), The Blues Brothers (1980) and Coming to America (1988), which he also produced.

Classic rock manages to find its way into many genres. For example, Mariah Carey’s “Joy to the World” includes a heavy dose of a classic rock song from the 1970s. It’s pretty easy to understand why Carey made this decision. Interestingly, a member of the band behind the original tune did something similar.

Mariah Carey’s ‘Joy to the World’ combines a religious song with rock ‘n’ roll nonsense

A good Christmas album should include a mix of the new and the old. Carey’s Merry Christmas is most famous for the original composition “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” However, it also includes covers of standards like “Silent Night,” “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” First-time listeners might be surprised that Merry Christmas is pretty religious for a pop Christmas album, especially considering Carey’s big Christmas hit is entirely secular.

With the official announcement of new sets for the Pokmon Trading Card Game, the upcoming releases could be hinting at the next Pokmon remakes. Starting with FireRed and LeafGreen in the third generation of the franchise, Pokmon games have semi-regularly received remakes of older games, often bringing them up to date with the series' more modern mechanics, features, and visuals. As fans wait for the release of Pokmon Legends: Z-a, newly announced Tcg sets could be pointing toward upcoming remakes of the fifth generation as well.

As posted on PokBeach, two new Unova-themed Tcg sets, Black Bolt and White Flare, will be released on June 6, 2025, in Japan, potentially hinting at the planned release date for remakes of the Unova region games as well. While there haven't been any official confirmations or announcements of upcoming Pokmon console games aside from Legends: Z-a, Pokmon media and merchandise, including the Tcg, is usually...

Interior Chinatown's protagonist feels like he's a background character in someone else's story, which is exactly the premise of the new crime comedy series. Adapted from Charles Yu's 2020 novel of the same name, the show premiered November 19 on Hulu and centers Willis Wu (Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang), a background actor playing out Asian American cliches in the police procedural Black and White. The "Generic Asian Man" gets a chance to level up, however, when he witnesses an abduction outside his uncle's restaurant, Golden Palace.

Every episode of Interior Chinatown intersects with the world of Willis' fictional cop show, which is led by Detective Sarah Green (Lisa Gilroy) and Detective Miles Turner (Sullivan Jones) and is as cookie-cutter as TV gets. But Black and White gets upended as well when Detective Lana Lee (Agents of Shield's Chloe Bennet) is brought in to deal with crime in Chinatown and...

In Hulu’s “Interior Chinatown,” Jimmy O. Yang stars as Willis Wu, a “generic Asian man” stuck in the background of police procedural show, whose luck begins to shift when he breaks into a leading role — a trajectory that resonated heavily with the actor.

“I felt that often in my life, especially when I first started as an actor,” Yang told TheWrap of the “almost invisible forces” holding Willis on the sidelines. “I was a background actor. I was Chinese teenager No. 1 in ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ a show that Chloe [Bennet] was the star in, actually.”

Like Willis, Yang explained he “snuck [his] way into being tech guy,” which he explains is “exactly what Willis has done in the book and in the show” as he secretly works with Detective Lana Lee (Bennet) to solve a string of crimes in Chinatown that could be related to the disappearance of his brother.

Interior Chinatown is a brand new series that has made its debut on Hulu, fresh from Charles Yu's 2020 novel of the same name. The comedy crime series centers on Willis Wu (Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang), a waiter and aspiring actor whose biggest break thus far involves playing into Asian American stereotypes on a cop show called Black and White. He longs for a more interesting life, and the universe answers by letting him witness an abduction and getting him involved in a real-life investigation.

Chloe Bennet plays Willis' coworker Fatty Choi, who goes to the other extreme rather than ambition and adventure, he craves contentment and the quotidian.

Related Interior Chinatown Review: Hulu's Surreal Series Is A Bitingly Meta Take On Asian-American Representation

Charles Yu's Interior Chinatown is a wonderfully mind-bending exploration of Asian-American representation in Hollywood.

ScreenRant interviewed Bennet and Chieng about Interior Chinatown's themes and...

General Hospital (Gh) spoilers and rumors reveal Tj Ashford (Tajh Bellow) and Molly Lansing-Davis (Kristen Vaganos) are tested as they disagree over Ric Lansing’s (Rick Hearst) support for Heather Webber (Alley Mills).

Already grappling with their recent heartbreak, can this couple endure the strain; and how will Molly cope when she faces the devastating loss of her oldest sister, adding to her sorrow?

General Hospital Spoilers – Another Attacking Bombshell To ‘Tolly’

Just when it seemed like Tj and Molly were on the verge of reconnecting, Gh throws us another emotional twist!

These two have faced so much turmoil recently, and honestly, it’s starting to take a toll that has fans genuinely concerned about what lies ahead for them. Remember that brief moment when they appeared to be in perfect harmony?

They had both come to grips with the heartbreaking reality of their loss – acknowledging that while Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi) was involved,...

Hulu has debuted the trailer and key art for Interior Chinatown. The limited series is executive produced by Taika Waititi (who also directed the pilot) and creator and showrunner Charles Yu. All ten episodes of the series launch on November 19, 2024.

Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black & White.”

Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown, and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

The Interior Chinatown cast includes Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Lisa Gilroy,...

Long-time Pokmon players likely know that there are a lot of unofficial Pokmon titles that are just as good as their official counterparts. These fan-made games are referred to as Rom hacks and are created by players accessing the Read-Only Memory (Rom) of an original game and making changes to it. Some Rom hacks are as simple as quality-of-life updates to improve on annoying aspects of an existing game, while others completely redesign the games story and style of play.

Rom hacks for Pokmon games have been around for ages at this point, meaning there is an overwhelming number of them to choose from. Some will likely appeal to certain players' niche interests but fail to gain widespread popularity. However, some of the better Rom hacks have become widely accepted as the best of their kind, with some players even preferring them to even the best Pokmon games.

Pokmon Scorched...

The biggest Game Freak leak of all time has revealed an incredible amount of information about Pokmon games online. Game Freak has acknowledged that the hack happened and, while it's always good to take leaks with a grain of salt, there's a high probability that the information obtained through these leaks is valid. It's important to note that personal information was also leaked, but the leakers appear to be working to keep that private to protect the individuals; only Pokmon-related content is being shared publicly.

CentroLeaks is revealing never-before-seen information about Pokmon games from the leak on X (formerly Twitter), like abandoned Pokmon designs, scrapped game mechanics, unused music and other assets, and a lot of lore. The leak is a peek behind the curtain, allowing fans a chance to see everything that goes into the making of the games, including what never makes it beyond the development stage.

Pokmon...

Anime fans will want to pour a tall cup of coffee heading into the New Year to celebrate in the most ghoulish way possible when the Tokyo Ghoul 10th Anniversary Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set releases on December 31, 2024 from Crunchyroll.

For the first time ever, this anniversary collection will contain all seasons of the popular Tokyo Ghoul series in one complete box set, including every episode of Tokyo Ghoul, Tokyo Ghoul √A, and Tokyo Ghoul:re. The art outside the box is newly commissioned artwork from the animation studio Pierrot that features the main character Kaneki and visual references to the fan-favorite opening song “Unravel” by Tk from Ling Toshite Sigure. Special features will include select episode audio and video commentaries, the “Jack” and “Pinto” OVAs, the “Kaneki in Black and White” featurette with the English dub cast and crew that discusses questions and themes of the anime, and more.

One...

The Pokmon Trading Card Game may be gearing up to return to the past if some new trademarks are to be believed. When it comes to the ever-popular tabletop game, The Pokmon Company usually does a decent amount of brand synergy by syncing set releases with recently launched video games, new seasons of the anime, or animated movies. With that in mind, it's undoubtedly odd that the publisher is seemingly looking back at one of the franchise's most beloved chapters rather than preparing for a future release.

Over on X (formerly Twitter), journalist and insider Joe Merrick reported that The Pokmon Company recently filed trademarks for two products: Black Volt and White Flare.

Well I'm going to get ahead of this because I know how this will goTwo very likely Tcg trademarks just surfaced: Black Volt and White Flare, coming the same time as the Paradise Dragona trademarkYou'll all take this sanely,...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Beabadoobee finds bliss in Malibu, Latto keeps it old school, and J Balvin enlists Feid for a supercharged reggaeton track. Plus, new music from Finneas, Zedd and Remi Wolf, Addison Rae and Katy Perry.

Beabadoobee, “Beaches” (YouTube)

Latto, “S/O to Me” (YouTube)

J Balvin, Feid, “Doblexxó” (YouTube)

Finneas, “For Cryin’ Out Loud!” (YouTube)

Zedd feat. Remi Wolf, “Lucky” (YouTube)

Addison Rae, “Diet Pepsi” (YouTube)

Katy Perry,...

Hulu has announced that Interior Chinatown will launch on the streaming service on Tuesday, November 19, 2024. All ten episodes of the series will be available on that day.

Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black & White.”

Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables and dreaming about a whole world beyond Chinatown.

When he inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, his family’s buried history, and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.

The Interior Chinatown cast includes Jimmy O. Yang, Ronny Chieng, Chloe Bennet, Lisa Gilroy, Sullivan Jones, Archie Kao, and Diana Lin.

Series creator Charles Yu serves as executive producer, along with Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore for Rideback; Jeff Skoll,...

Pokmon regions are inspired by real-world locations, including geography, culture, and history. Australia is one of the strongest potential candidates for inspiring the next Pokmon generation. An Australian-based region could fix the lack of ice types, re-introduce in-game seasons and bring back the wild area.

Generation 9 of Pokmon is coming to a close, and the doors to speculation have been cracked wide open as fans patiently await an announcement for Gen 10 Pokmon. The community has been theorizing what the next generation of the monster-catching monolith will look like, and fans are having fun discussing what country the future generation will draw inspiration from, following Pokmon Scarlet and Violet.

The last region included in Gen 9 fixed its gaze on Spain and Portugal for inspiration, widely incorporating elements of geography and culture into the fictional world. There have been plenty of suggestions and theories as to where the next region will take trainers,...

If you’ve ever found yourself missing the old-school Disney cartoons but feeling like you’ve outgrown the mouse’s magic, there’s a game that might just reignite that spark for you—especially if you’re into gritty, noir-style adventures.

There’s a refreshing breeze blowing in from the Triple-i Initiative showcase. Aside from a whiff of the new Palworld update, it’s carrying the funky tunes of Mouse, a game that’s breaking molds.

Disney-Inspired Indie Fps Mouse Is a Visual Spectacle

Mouse is an upcoming indie shooter that takes heavy inspiration from Disney’s old cartoons.

Developed by the brilliant minds at Fumi Games and published by PlaySide Publishing, the game isn’t just another run-of-the-mill shooter; it’s a love letter to the golden age of cartoons, with a gritty, jazz-infused twist.

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Not many people remember Austin Butler’s Derek Hanson opposite Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana. Still, people must live under a rock if they missed his portrayal of the legendary rock and roll singer and actor Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

Butler’s performance in the movie was praised by the critics and audience and earned him nominations for Best Actor awards, including the Academy Award. He ended up winning the BAFTA and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

As if this was not enough to prove his proficiency as an actor, he has now played the role of the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune 2. To everyone’s utmost surprise, he recently revealed that he improvised one of the most shocking scenes in the movie.

Austin Butler in Elvis Austin Butler Improvised an Unexpected Scene in Dune 2

Dune 2 is the long-awaited sequel of the 2021 movie Dune,...

Austin Butler shined in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi adventure Dune: Part Two with his spectacular performance opposite Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Ferguson. However, his immaculate performance was not born out of thin air. The actor had undergone a horrendous training process for the movie.

Austin Butler toned down his method acting process for Dune: Part Two

Michael Mann recently confirmed the sequel to his 1995 classic Heat starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and Butler is in the mix to be featured in the upcoming movie. While Adam Driver could be Mann’s preferred cast in the movie, no one has been confirmed as of writing the piece.

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Austin Butler is heavily rumored to play Val Kilmer’s character Chris Shiherlis in Michael Mann’s Heat 2.

Launch of Surat Diamond Bourse (Sdb) has catapulted it to a unique position as being the World’s largest office building surpassing Pentagon. If we remember, in most of the Hollywood movies Pentagon building invariably featured as a backdrop or a location for the films which catapulted this building to a place of eminence around the world. With the launch of Sdb, one hopes that Sdb henceforth holds fort in all the forms of cinematic exposition, be it cinema, Ott or serials from India and make it a must visit itinerary for travellers in the near future.

Spectacle of screen entices when it uses the locations which are larger than life to weave a story around it the location could be static, like iconic architectural structures that includes in Indian case, Taj Mahal (which has been used number of times as the title of a film or a serial), Humayun Tomb,...

The next Pokémon remakes are assumed to be the Generation 5 games, Black and White. However, Pokémon Emerald deserves a remake, even if the series has abandoned its third versions. There is precedent for self-contained remakes, like Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, and Emerald's sprite artwork provides an opportunity for a completely new remake style.

Although Pokémon Black and White seem like prime candidates for the next remakes in the Pokémon franchise, there's one classic game that could use the remake treatment first - Pokémon Emerald. Despite the fact that the series has essentially abandoned the idea of releasing third, more definitive versions of each generation's games, replacing them with Dlc expansions, there are still plenty of ideas from the original Pokémon Emerald on the Game Boy Advance that would get a better chance to shine in an all-new remake. And, while remakes of the third generation already...

Warning: contains spoilers for Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #3!Harley Quinn has a new costume, and it proves she is stealing a classic Justice League hero’s life. DC’s anthology series Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder features exciting stories starring the Maid of Mischief, and in one such tale Harley accidentally stumbles into the life of a surprise Silver Age hero with ties to the Justice League.

“Deeply Strange Adventures” by Gail Simone, David Baldeón, and Ferran Delgado in Harley Quinn: Black + White + Redder #3 opens with Adam Strange awaiting a Zeta Beam, which will transport him to his adopted homeworld of Rann. Harley Quinn happens to be nearby, and the Zeta Beam hits her instead. Whisked away to Rann, Harley first shares a kiss with Alanna, Adam’s wife, who blindly assumes the Beam brought Adam.

Realizing that she got Harley instead, Alanna drafts her to help fight the Junkers,...

Mumbai, Sep 6 (Ians) Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has become the third global icon to interact with Aaj Tak’s AI anchor Sana after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice Chairman and President of Microsoft Brad Smith.

After winning hearts of millions of fans across the globe, Shah Rukh Khan created a flutter in the heart of an AI anchor too. India’s first, AI anchor on social media, Sana during an interaction with Shahrukh Khan said: “Aapka charm dekhkar mere AI dil mein bhi kuch kuch hota hai.”

With this, Sana has interviewed the most renowned global Icons including Prime Minister Modi, Microsoft Vice Chairman and President, Brad Smith amongst others.

Launched in March 2023, Sana is Aaj Tak and India’s first AI anchor. She has a daily appearance on prime time and award-winning programme Black and White apart from providing weather updates, astrology and fact checking programmes for the channel.

The Black and White era of the Pokémon anime didn't go far enough in its attempt to reboot the franchise, and fans felt that Ash's character development was hindered as a result. Pokémon Horizons successfully rebooted the anime by introducing new protagonists, a more overarching story, and recurring adult characters, allowing for a fresh start and appealing to different audiences. Letting go of Ash has allowed Pokémon to embrace new ideas and bring a refreshing change to the franchise, benefiting both the series and its fans.

The Pokémon anime has been through many different eras over the course of its 25-year-long existence, some better received than others. One of the most controversial eras of the Pokémon anime among many fans is the Black and White era, the anime associated with the Unova region and the generation 5 Pokémon games. Black and White represented something of a reboot of the entire franchise,...

Pokémon's Ash Ketchum has collected dozens of badges over his career across six different regions, but there are two gym badges from the Unova region that Ash never had a chance to earn. Typically, Ash earns the eight badges available in the same generation's games, and while he's earned some unofficial badges here and there, he has always ended his time in a region with all eight of the canonical badges.

The Unova region is a bit special, in that it featured in not only Pokémon Black and White, but also in its sequels, Black 2 and White 2. While other regions have featured in remakes or enhanced versions (such as Platinum), none of them have ever had a direct sequel set a certain number of years later. That means that fans got a glimpse at two different states of the Pokémon League in Unova, and over that time some Black...

When a new generation of Pokémon is on the way, it's a natural marketing move to debut a few species early that are sure to be fan-favorites. While sometimes these new Pokémon appear in spinoff games or other media, the most common place for a brand new, never-before-seen Pokémon to make its pre-release debut is the anime. This helps build excitement among the most dedicated fans and even gets people who might not otherwise watch the Pokémon anime to tune in, if only to see a new Pokémon for the first time.

Sometimes these new Pokémon are a major feature of an episode or movie, or even become recurring characters across multiple episodes. Other times, it's a simple cameo, teasing that the vast world of Pokémon still has plenty of surprises in it. The entries on this list are ranked primarily by how significant their appearance is, but what makes...

There are many episodes of the Pokémon anime that have never aired in the US, but there are only a handful of episodes that have never aired anywhere--even Japan. Now, the script for two such lost episodes has been made public, giving fans their first glimpse at the showdown that could've been between two of Pokémon's evil Teams.

At the beginning of the Black and White era of the anime, the series began building up to a confrontation between Team Rocket, making their first moves into the Unova region, and Team Plasma, the established force in the region. Team Rocket was "rebooted" a bit, giving Jessie and James dark uniforms and a more competent, professional air. The two teams were poised to clash at last in the 23 and 24th episodes of the series... but then the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake struck, causing massive damage across Japan and delaying the airing of the Pokémon episodes.

Any potential remakes of Pokémon Black and White would do well to learn from what is perhaps Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s own greatest mistake. Pokémon Black and White are the principal titles of Generation 5, following on from Gen 4’s Diamond and Pearl. As such, they are the most likely candidates for the next Pokémon remakes to be produced.

When they were first released, Pokémon Black and White were hated by many fans, although critical reception was quite positive. Reasons for this included the fact that Black and White’s regional Pokédex was entirely composed of new species (excluding post-game content). What’s more, some of the new designs, such as the Vanillite line, were touted as unoriginal. On the other hand, the actual plot of Pokémon Black and White was greatly praised. The games notably also included the first animated Pokémon battle sprites, although the paper doll-like...

Batman is often accused of seeing the world in black and white, so it’s fitting that a recent cosplay would take that to the extreme. Cosplay artist Superior Mike 3D recently shared a remarkable piece that looks like it could have stepped off of the printed page.

Shared via Instagram, Superior Mike 3D's Batman cosplay uses the Batsuit found in the Arkham games as a starting point, utilizing the armored, hi-tech look as opposed to the Dark Knight’s traditional comic book outfit.

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But through some stunning paint work, Mike is able to give his Bat-armor a graphic look that recreates the stark chiaroscuro of black and white comics like Frank Miller’s Sin City, making his Batman look like he just stepped off the comic book page.

Related: Batman and Mr. Freeze Face-Off...

As Hollywood events return to full force in New York and Los Angeles amid the coronavirus pandemic, here’s a look at the week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings, including Colin in Black and White, Spencer, Last Night in Soho and The Shrink Next Door.

Love Life season two premiere

Paul Feig unveiled the second season of his HBO Max anthology series at a Tribeca Fall Preview event on Sunday, in which William Jackson Harper takes over as the main character of the show from Anna Kendrick. “This main character is from such a different walk of life; it’s such a different lens, but it still has that inherent relatability,” Kendrick, who is staying on this season as guest star and executive producer, told THR on the red carpet. “There’s so many moments of the season that just make me go like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been exactly there,...

She was photographed by Warhol, and Dalí wanted to paint her; the first films she made were Death in Venice and Cabaret. So why did she walk away?

Most people, says Marisa Berenson, “tend to live in my past. Which is fine.” She smiles, well aware of the fascination. “But I tend to live in the present and in the future.” A 2001 profile of the model/actor in the New York Times described her as a “Zelig of the zeitgeist … popping up in the right place at the right time”. And there is certainly something magical about her life and the people who have passed through it. As a child (she is now 72) she was taught to dance by Gene Kelly. Greta Garbo came to her parents’ parties; Salvador Dalí – a friend of her grandmother, the designer Elsa Schiaparelli – wanted to paint her. The legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland pushed...

Country Radio Seminar (Crs) isn’t usually the kind of place for grand statements — if anything, the annual gathering of country radio programmers in Nashville is a time when artists play it safe in hopes of scoring some eventual airtime. You strum your single, you crack a joke. You offend no one. But, once in a while, a moment happens.

Two years ago, it wasn’t an up-and-coming indie voice that broke the usual mold for how things are supposed to go at Crs. It was Vince Gill, one of...

A comiXology Originals digital comic book series, Ask for Mercy Season Two: The Heart of the Earth takes readers into the Black Hills circa 1876, where Sitting Bull receives a premonition that could forever alter the course of history, and ahead of the second issue's release, we've been provided with exclusive preview pages to share with Daily Dead readers.

Written by Richard Starkings with artwork by Abigail Jill Harding, Ask for Mercy Season Two: The Heart of the Earth #2 (of 5) will be released on August 28th. You can check out official details and exclusive preview pages from the second issue below, and visit comiXology Originals' online for more information!

"The Center Of Everything That Is

Five issues by creators Richard Starkings (writer) and Abigail Jill Harding (artist). Kasa takes Mercy, Ratmir and Budgie into the Black Hills of North America, 1876 where the course of history is at stake!

Summoned by Lakota shaman,...

Luchshe, chem lyudi (Better Than People) will become the first Russian TV series released worldwide under the "Netflix Originals" banner.

The 16-episode series will be available on Netflix worldwide, except for Russia and China, and translated into 25 languages.

"The "Netflix Original" banner means large-scale promo activities, thanks to which, we believe, the Russian content will be watched by millions of viewers worldwide," Eduard Iloyan, general producer of Yellow, Black and White (the series' production company) and the founder of online video service Start, was quoted as saying by Russian business daily Kommersant.

The sci-fi series, which is ...

On October 22, after reading Glenn Whipp’s incendiary James Toback investigation in the La Times, Becky Wahlstrom scoured her journals. A veteran actress whose credits include “Joan of Arcadia” and “Mad Men,” she was 23 when she wrote a seven-and-a-half page entry on August 13, 1998 that described meeting Toback at the Beverly Hills Hotel for approximately five hours the night before.

Ostensibly, it was an audition for his film “Black and White”; Toback requested the meeting after seeing her deliver two lines in Don Roos’ “The Opposite of Sex.” She went to the audition without sides; she loved the idea that Toback liked to build his roles around his actors, a philosophy she embraced while studying at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Chicago.

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At the hotel, she met Toback in...

Paul Bullock Aug 3, 2017

You may have seen Jurassic Park a dozen times, but there loads of details that are easy to miss. Details like these...

Last week, visual effects artist Todd Vaziri took to Twitter to shatter the illusions of Jurassic Park fans everywhere. "When people watch this 24-year old mega-blockbuster," he tweeted, "they point and laugh at the totally obvious disappearing raptor on each viewing, ya?"

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What, Todd? The what!?

Alongside this tweet, Vaziri also posted a slowed down Gif of the moment in question and - yep - there it is. During the final set piece, in which the T-Rex (somehow silently) stomps into the Visitor's Centre and gobbles up the Velociraptors, one of the Raptors disappears. Not eaten by the Rex, just gone. One frame, she's there, the next she's not, the following one she's there again.

Comic-Con International has announced the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for 2015. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, highlight the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from companies big and small, in print and on line. The awards will be given out during a gala ceremony on Friday, July 10 during Comic-Con International: San Diego.

Best Short Story

“Beginning’s End,” by Rina Ayuyang, muthamagazine.com

“Corpse on the Imjin!” by Peter Kuper, in Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World (Simon & Schuster)

“,” by Lee Bermejo, in Batman Black and White #3 (DC)

“,” by Max Landis & Jock, in Adventures of Superman #14 (DC)

“When the Darkness Presses,” by Emily Carroll, http://emcarroll.com/comics/darkness/

Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)

Astro City #16: “Wish I May” by Kurt Busiek & Brent Anderson (Vertigo/DC)

Beasts of Burden: Hunters and Gatherers, by Evan Dorkin...

Believe it or not, but Albuquerque, New Mexico’s essential Experiments in Cinema is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Masterminded by the indomitable Bryan Konefsky, EiC v. 10.T.36 features a massive lineup of experimental films and special programs on April 15-19.

The special programs this year include a retrospective of the films by British media artist Julia Dogra-Brazell; EiC’s annual Regional Youth Outreach program, featuring films by young local filmmakers presented at a free screening; a presentation of 1990s Argentine videos; work by Artist in Residence Caryn Cline; and the results of a filmmaking workshop led by Kerry Laitala.

Some films screening during the regular programs to look out for include the World Premiere of the new analog/digital hybrid from Christine Lucy Latimer, Physics and Metaphysics in Modern Photography; a new “erased” film by Salise Hughes, Lucky; Jen Proctor‘s Troubling Your Horizons, which requires audience participation...

Robert Redford movies: TCM shows 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Sting' They don't make movie stars like they used to, back in the days of Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, and Harry Cohn. That's what nostalgists have been bitching about for the last four or five decades; never mind the fact that movie stars have remained as big as ever despite the demise of the old studio system and the spectacular rise of television more than sixty years ago. This month of January 2015, Turner Classic Movies will be honoring one such post-studio era superstar: Robert Redford. Beginning this Monday evening, January 6, TCM will be presenting 15 Robert Redford movies. Tonight's entries include Redford's two biggest blockbusters, both directed by George Roy Hill and co-starring Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which turned Redford, already in his early 30s, into a major film star to rival Rudolph Valentino,...

Mike Binder's Black or White is getting a little Oscar run starting today, but it won't be hitting a larger number of theaters until January 23 next year, and then expanding wide a week later on January 30. Relativity is hoping for some kind of Oscar love for the pic, but considering the chasm of mixed opinions on the film I'm not expecting it to gain much attention if any. I have a screener here, but given the negative review from friend of the site, Kevin Jagernauth, over at The Playlist I hesitate to even hit play. Then again, I also trust Jeff Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere when it comes to his opinions on movies and he loved it... What's thatc Maybe I should just watch it for myself you're rushing off to the comments to hammer away on your keyboardc Okay, I probably will, after all, I really liked Binder's under-appreciated Reign Over Me.

On the latest episode of Smodcast, writer/director Kevin Smith offered up a significant Clerks III update. One bit of news was that Smith’s podcast guest, Jeff Anderson, will return to play Randal in the film. The pair also discussed the entire trilogy. Anderson talked about his thoughts upon reading the script, Smith discussed the eventual […]

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It’s white-knuckle time for the Napa Valley Film Festival’s organizers, filmmakers and fans, with a key venue and two hotels still fixing earthquake damage ahead of the Nov. 12 opening night. The post-quake craziness comes just as the four-year-old event is getting traction in Hollywood for its Oscar Season-adjacent timing, with companies setting encore screenings and star appearances, to tout awards contenders from earlier in the year.

The festival bills itself a mix of film, food and, of course, wine, with its own wine director pouring bottles from 150 of the region’s best-regarded vineyards. A recent Los Angeles event spotlighting the festival featured The Weinstein Co. President David Glasser, who said his company will use it to push awareness of several TWC awards contenders. Among those projects: The Imitation Game, with festival appearances scheduled for director Morten Tyldum and cast members for the biopic about martyred cryptography pioneer Alan Turing.

So on Monday, I watched the Gotham series premiere with about 8 million of my friends. I started writing a column about the show and what it says (accidentally and/or purposefully) about the role of Batman in pop culture right now. But working on that column got me thinking more generally about Batman: A character who has been around for 75 years, a figure in my cultural consciousness since before my memory begins. The next thing I knew, I was making a list of my favorite Batman things–the movies, the TV shows, the vividly recalled comic book story arcs and standalone issues,...

The 2014 Oscar clock is running out for powerful, but still unsold, festival showpieces starring Jennifers Aniston and Connelly, as well as Kevin Costner and Richard Gere.

Several unspoken-for films came into this year’s Toronto International Film Festival determined not only to find a distributor, but to set a 2014 release date. In the case of Still Alice, the touching drama of a woman’s descent into early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, that plan worked spectacularly well. It had a stirring world-premiere screening on Sept. 8 in a less-visible afternoon slot at Tiff and quickly sparked Oscar buzz for star Julianne Moore, a four-time nominee who has never won.

Sony Pictures Classics presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard quickly recognized the kind of role that has Oscar written all over it, and two days later the picture sold to Spc (which, despite having its largest slate of Oscar hopefuls ever, still had an...

Kevin Costner came into the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday for the world premiere of his powerful new drama, Black And White, a stirring story dealing with our racial divide, but mostly a riveting human tale from writer/director Mike Binder. It’s unflinchingly honest and contains a crackerjack courtroom scene that’s priceless. In that scene, Costner delivers perhaps the best performance of his career, or at least since the period of his career circa Field Of Dreams. It played to a packed house yesterday at Roy Thomson Hall and won a strong ovation from the crowd.

Costner told me that even the though the hard-hitting film is not a comedy, the audience responded with laughs in just the right places and really seemed to be moved by what they saw on screen.

That said, the film is still looking for a domestic distributor and the star, who...

As we look in the rearview mirror of the summer blockbusters, September heralds the start of the fall movie season. Filled with Hollywood heavyweights and A-listers, here’s our Big list of the most anticipated movies coming to cinemas this autumn and during the holidays.

Our exhaustive list includes films that are playing at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival as well the ones that already have a theatrical release date. With the awards season on the horizon, we also added a few bonus films at the end to keep your eye out for in the months ahead.

Pull up a chair, grab a pen and paper and get ready for Wamg’s Guide to the 100+ Films This Fall And Holiday Season.

We kick it off with what’s showing in Toronto at the film festival that runs September 4 – 14.

Maps To The Stars – September 2014 – Toronto International Film Festival; UK & Ireland September...

"The Giver" is the latest dystopian thriller to follow an attractive teen who must fight against the totalitarian authority of misguided adults. And if that sounds like every other post-apocalyptic young adult film ever, keep in mind that at least "The Giver" came out a decade or two before such recent Ya offerings as "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent." Directed by Phillip Noyce (his first feature since 2010's Angelina Jolie thriller "Salt") and starring an impressive cast (producer Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard, and a nearly unrecognizable Taylor Swift).

Based on Lois Lowry's best seller, "The Giver" focuses on a utopian community where there's no discrimination, war, pain, or hate but also no love, emotion, art, or joy. The goal is "Sameness." On the day when all 16-year-olds receive their permanent job assignment, Jonas (Aussie newcomer Brenton Thwaites) is selected to inherit the role of Receiver of Memory,...

Jeff Bridges shares some of his wisdom with a young boy, changing the way he sees the world around in the trailer for The Giver. The Giver is based on a best selling sci-fi novel written by Lois Lowry and published in 1993. It’s about a seemingly perfect world that has eliminated pain and suffering. […]

Read The Trailer for “The Giver” Shows a Black and White Dystopian World on Filmonic.

We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes details on zombie-themed charities working to fight Cancer, DVD release details for Raze, first details on Autumn Moon and The Infected, and much more:

The Walking Hope Charity Details: “Do you Relay like I do? Are you a supporter of Relay for Life and the American Cancer Society? Are you a fan of the AMC Show “The Walking Dead?” Yes…Yes…and Yes!! This shirt is for you! All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society via Rfl!

The Walking Hope has broad support of fans and cast and crew of the show like Melissa Mcbride, Norman Reedus, Addy Miller, Kyla Kenedy, Jon Bernthal, Steven Yeun, Emily Kinney, Lauren Cohan, Brighton Sharbino, Chad Coleman and more!

Each year, millions of people in 21 countries take place in Relay For Life events.

In Draft Day, on the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver Jr. (Kevin Costner) has the opportunity to rebuild his team when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he’s willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL. Recently, Wamg sat down with Kevin Costner in a press conference where he spoke to members of the media about his new role in Draft Day, Field Of Dreams, and how affected he was by Rock Hudson in Giant. Check it out below!

There’s a line in the movie where you say, “What do you want?!” Is this a direct reference to Field Of Dreams where you at one point said, “What do you want?...