Funimation and Crunchyroll Find Their Final Form and Officially Merge Under One Platform

The ultimate home for anime has arrived! Funimation and Wakanim are officially moving all their content under the Crunchyroll banner, “kicking off an exciting step in anime’s streaming evolution.” It’s been pretty incredible watching the evolution of Crunchyroll over the years as it started out as a streaming site that hosted illegal fan-subbed versions of …

John DiMaggio is Officially Coming Back as Bender in Hulu’s FUTURAMA Revival Series!

When it was first announced that Hulu was developing a Futurama revival series, the only original cast member that hadn’t signed on at the time was John DiMaggio, who provides the voice of Bender. He was negotiating for a bigger paycheck and it looks like he and the streaming service managed to work things out! …

THE NORTHMAN Viking Epic Gets New Photos and There Will Be a “Naked Swordfight on a Volcano”

The Northman looks like it’s going to be an epic Viking movie. I love stories about Vikings and we really don’t see enough of those stories told on the big screen, so I’m pretty stoked about this film. I’m also excited about it because it comes from director Robert Eggers, the guy who previously brought …

New Poster for the Upcoming HALO Series Puts the Focus on Master Chief

Paramount+ has released a new character poster for the highly-anticipated Halo series, and this one puts the focus on Master Chief, who’s played by Pablo Schreiber. This character is such a badass, and it’s exciting that we are going to get to see his story told in the form of a live-action series. The series …

Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart Origin Movie UNFROSTED Moves Forward at Netflix with a $14 Million Tax Credit

Today in weird breakfast movie news, Netflix has announced that they have been awarded an outstanding $60.3 million in state credits, far outpacing Disney ($27.2 million), Warner Bros. ($16.2 million) and Amazon ($16 million), to make several new projects. One of the most interesting is the film Unfrosted, an origin story about America’s favorite toaster …

Sam Esmail’s Series Adaptation of METROPOLIS Gets a Series Order at Apple TV+

The creator of Mr. Robot, Sam Esmail, has been developing a series adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 film Metropolis, and Apple just gave it the green light for a full series order. Esmail will write and direct the entire series. Like the original film, this series adaptation “will take place in a future society where …

Ariana DeBose Set To Play Calypso in Sony’s KRAVEN THE HUNTER Marvel Movie

Sony Pictures and director J.C. Chandor have cast Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) in the upcoming Marvel film Kraven The Hunter. She will take on the role of Calypso. It was previously rumored that Taylour Paige was going to get the role, but that obviously isn’t how the casting played out. DeBose played Anita in …

Netflix Acquires Film HELLO, GOODBYE, AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN Based on Hit YA Novel

Netflix has landed the rights to the upcoming film adaptation of Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between, based on the hit 2015 novel of the same name by Jennifer E. Smith. The film is backed by Ace Entertainment, which produced all three films in the popular Netflix film franchise To All the Boys I’ve Loved …