Krysten Ritter will reprise her role as Jessica Jones in season 2 of Daredevil: Born Again, Disney announced Tuesday at its upfronts presentations, according to Variety report from the event. The return of Ritter’s version of Jones will come nearly a decade after her most recent on-screen appearance as the character in Netflix’s The Defenders. Ritter starred as Jessica Jones, a former superhero with PTSD who starts her own detective...
A YouTube livestream event on Tuesday, featuring Andor creator/writer/showrunner Tony Gilroy and star Diego Luna, along with various stars of the series, inevitably touched on one of the entire series’ most devastating moments. One of the show’s running villains, civil servant and general catspaw Syril Karn, has a key confrontation in episode 8. Addressing the character’s storyline alongside Luna and Syril actor Kyle Soller, Gilroy revealed that the sequence’s climax...
Lionsgate first announced the John Wick spinoff Ballerina in 2017 and put it on the fast track to production in 2019. That track turned out to be very bumpy. The film was initially scheduled for release in June 2024 but got pushed back to this year. In the interim, John Wick co-director Chad Stahelski assumed control of the overall franchise and spent two weeks doing additional photography to enhance director...
Get ready for more Wasteland adventures because Prime Video’s Fallout has already been renewed for season 3. The news arrives months before the show’s December season 2 premiere, which is set to explore New Vegas. Prime Video said in a press release on Monday, that season 2 of Fallout “will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland...
Disney announced on Monday evening that it will be holding a livestream Q&A for season 2 of its Star Wars drama Andor on Tuesday, May 14, at 12 p.m. ET. The stream will be hosted on YouTube, and will center on series creator, writer, and showrunner Tony Gilroy and star Diego Luna, though other guests from the show will also be present. Here’s the embedded livestream and the description of...
This summer, Universal Pictures is stealing a page from Disney’s profitable “remake a beloved animated movie in live action” playbook with How to Train Your Dragon, which looks like a shot-for-shot redux of the 2010 film. Word out of CinemaCon 2025, where the film screened early, is that director Dean DeBlois (who also directed the original animated feature) pretty much nailed it. Which almost guarantees that in a few weeks,...
Like most movies, Marvel Studios’ superhero team-up Thunderbolts* went through a lot of drafts and a lot of development on the road to the screen. Polygon recently had a chance to talk to original Thunderbolts* screenwriter Eric Pearson about one of the biggest changes to his final draft — a character who was an important part of his version of the story, but who dies early in the final film. That’s...
Back in January, New York-based animation distributor GKIDS made the exciting announcement that it’s bringing Mamoru Hosoda’s library of anime films back to digital and home video release in America, including in 4K UHD editions. That was a fantastic relief for fans of ambitious, intelligently made anime movies. Hosoda’s latest movies, including 2021’s twisted-future “Beauty and the Beast” retelling Belle or 2018’s playful time-travel fantasy Mirai, got American theatrical and digital...
As season 2 of Andor heads toward its finale, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) once again tries to quit the rebellion, in what’s become a running theme throughout both seasons of the show. He’s tired of the risks. He’s tired of being scared. He’s tired of witnessing atrocities. He’s tired of arguing with everyone about next steps for the rebellion, from his handler Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård) to other squabbling rebel factions...
Peacemaker season 2 is coming to Max on Aug. 21, DC Studios announced Friday, and a new trailer for the best live-action DC superhero show ever made is hinting at big things to come. That includes appearances from Nathan Fillion’s Guy Gardner, Isabell Merced’s Hawkgirl, and Sean Gunn’s Maxwell Lord. Those three will be a big part of James Gunn’s new Superman movie in July, offering some connective tissue between...