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Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest has brought its second season to an end with the rest of the Winter 2022 anime schedule, and has announced that it will be returning with a new OVA special in the near future! The first season of the anime was such a success with fans (despite many of the issues those same fans had with its production) that it was no surprise to see the anime continuing with a new slate of episodes....

The acquisition of 20th Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company has already had a complex impact on the entertainment industry, with countless projects being greenlit or cancelled altogether in order to streamline production. One of the most heartbreaking films to fall into the latter category has been Nimona, the feature film that has been in the works at Blue Sky for multiple years, and was less than a year away from its targeted release date....

Details on Everywhere, the first game from former Rockstar North and Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies since departing the company, have emerged and it sounds ambitious. In 2016, Leslie Benzies left Rockstar Games after having served at the company for nearly 20 years. Benzies was a key figure at Rockstar Games alongside founders Sam and Dan Houser, serving as a producer and designer on many of the developer’s key games such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption....

You may not expect it if you haven’t seen the films, but the chronological timeline of the Fast & Furious franchise is more convoluted than even the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a new movie in the series coming later this month in F9 one might worry that the order to watch the movies might have been changed, but the good news is that the ninth film in the main series lands exactly where you’d expect....

Green Goblin actor Willem Dafoe has offered some more thoughts on his wild return in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The villain spoke to Variety about the big premiere day finally happening. It seems like the entire cast is just relieved for people to finally get a chance to see this movie. For the established star, he got a kick of seeing the Internet debate itself into shambles. People have been wondering where this installment will leave Peter Parker for ages now....

DLC for Hogwarts Legacy – the 2022-bound Harry Potter game – has leaked ahead of the game’s release, but it’s nothing too juicy or interesting. However, it does reveal that there will be early access to the game. The leak itself comes the way of Reddit and courtesy of a user who found some very interesting files while digging through the code of the game’s official website. Hidden within the files of the website are the following strings: Thestral Mount, Dark Arts Cosmetic Pack, Dark Arts Battle Arena, Dark Arts Garrison Hat, Steel Case, Floating Ancient Magic Wand With Box, Kelpie Robe, and 72 Hours Early Access to the game....

Impact Wrestling fans got their first hint that a fan favorite Impact star was leaving the company two weeks ago, and now there’s more mounting evidence that Josh Alexander is heading out of the company. The newest evidence comes from a post on social media by Alexander thanking the fans and saying how grateful he is for the last three years there. He also shared photos and thanked Impact for giving him the confidence that he could be a top star, so it very much seems like he is leaving....

Earlier today came the surprise announcement from Sony Pictures that their Kraven the Hunter movie was moving full steam ahead, tapping Avengers: Age of Ultron and Godzilla star Aaron Taylor-Johnson to play the Spider-Man villain in a new solo movie. Following this announcement came news that many other actors were approached as the studio attampted to get the movie of the ground, some surprising names to boot. Deadline reported Justin Kroll took to Twitter to reveal that Sony approached “everyone” including Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Adam Driver....

Marvel’s Avengers fans are blown away by a new Iron Man suit. After skimping out on special MCU and comics skins at launch and for the first few months of post-launch, developer Crystal Dynamics has been steadily remedying this by adding MCU skins and skins from various comics to the game, suggesting they are selling well. Right on cue, Crystal Dynamics – using the game’s official Twitter account – has revealed the Iron Man’s Nothing to Fear Outfit, which as you would expect, is inspired by the character’s Uru Armor that first debuted Fear Itself #7....

Netflix shared a new look at its upcoming series The Cuphead Show! on Friday during its Geeked Week festivities to present to Cuphead fans their first clip from the new show. This first clip, however, didn’t feature Cuphead nor Mugman themselves but instead featured another key character from the Cuphead game: King Dice. We also learned from the Geeked Week presentation that actor Wayne Brady will be voicing the dice-headed antagonist....

Netflix has showed off the original Cowboy Bebop cast returning for the live-action series with the Japanese dubbed trailer for the new series! Fans of the classic original anime series had been cautiously optimistic over how the series would be translated into live-action for its new adaptation with Netflix. While looks at the series shared new looks at how the anime is coming to life, there have been some major efforts to help bridge this new series with that first anime such as original director Shinichiro Watanabe and composer Yoko Kanno returning for the new effort....

Real Steel 2 might still be coming at some point and Hugh Jackman could be part of the equation. Shawn Levy is on a press tour for his new film Free Guy and spoke to Inverse about the cult classic. The director reveals he’s been in contact with his star after people began streaming the film on Netflix. Now, Real Steel wasn’t some critically beloved movie when it came out, but it gained quite a reaction among fans....

LeBron James is booting up Xbox Game Pass ahead of Space Jam: A New Legacy. The movie announced a partnership with the gaming console company earlier today as some new controllers were debuted. Warner Bros. and everyone else involved are putting on a full-court press before July 16th to make sure everyone gets out to see the long-awaited sequel. James’ family has taken much more of an interest in gaming recently....

Keanu Reeves is in SpongeBob SquarePants: Sponge on the Run, but it was a long road to get there. Everyone’s favorite actor doesn’t just do every movie, things have to appeal to him. Director Tim Hill and Patrick Star actor Bill Fagerbakke discussed how they managed to seal the deal in an interview with Yahoo! Entertainment. It turns out that the filmmaker was pretty adamant about having the Matrix star play a character named Sage....

Earlier today came some leg-pulling from Spider-Man star Tom Holland, who got the ball rolling on an ever-continuing online prank about what the title for the third Spider-Man movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe would be. According to Holland, the film’s title is “Spider-Man: Phone Home,” continuing not only the “Home” naming convention of the series but also referencing 1982’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Though that’s not the official title of the film, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin got in on the fun and tweeted about it, writing: “Been there, done that, Web-Head....

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum finally has a release date and thankfully, it’s not too far away. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is the first AAA Lord of the Rings game for consoles since the acclaimed Shadow of War. Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War received tons of acclaim for the dark and original stories they were able to tell within the Lord of the Rings universe, taking advantage of the rich lore that Tolkien had created many years ago....

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues forward into its Phase Four, there’s been a lot of anticipation and hope surrounding which characters might enter the fold. Among the ever-growing number of possibilities is Ghost Rider, who has had multiple characters hold the mantle, beginning with Johnny Blaze. While Nicolas Cage previously played the character in a set of films in 2007 and 2011, fans have expected the role to be recast in the main MCU — and The Walking Dead and Death Stranding star Norman Reedus has been a pretty popular fancast to pick him....

You may recall the bizarre story earlier this year when actor Alan Cumming offered a $10k reward for information about Tonka the Chimpanzee, his co-star in the film Buddy back in 1997. At the time, Cumming and PETA were suspicious about the whereabouts of the primate, believing that perhaps owner Tonia Haddix had been hiding him somewhere after filing a report that he had died. Now a new report from PETA reveals that was the case and that Tonka has been recovered and found alive after this entire time....

Wesley Snipes decided to show his support for Blade actor Mahershala Ali. On Twitter, a fan named Jamie Barraclough actually wished the new Daywalker luck after some recent developments in the MCU. When Snipes saw that, he said that, “He will do great.” A lot of people are absolutely right to point out how influential the original films were for comic book movies in general. In the last normal San Diego Comic-Con, Ali was announced as Blade and it sent shockwaves across social media....

Call of Duty: Vanguard’s Multiplayer mode brings back Killstreaks instead of Scorestreaks, the performance-based rewards that give players powerful new resources scaling with how many kills they get in a row. Many of these Killstreaks are familiar ones that have been around in pretty much every Call of Duty game, but given how Vanguard returns players to the World War II setting, some of the Killstreaks look a bit different this time around....