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After years of delays, it seems that Boeing’s Starliner capsule is finally ready for launch at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff is scheduled for 7:34 PM PT / 10:34 PM ET–the moment Earth’s rotation will position the launchpad into alignment with the International Space Station’s (ISS) orbit. But before …

There will be a sequel to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Star Simu Liu said once again that he will reprise his superhero role, but he still can’t say when that will happen. Appearing on The Tonight Show, Liu was asked by host Jimmy Fallon about Shang-Chi …

In 2018, Maze Runner: The Death Cure wrapped up 20th Century Fox’s adaptation of James Dashner’s Maze Runner trilogy. But the next chapter in the franchise is now in development. Via The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Studios is negotiating with screenwriter Jack Paglen to write a new Maze Runner film. …

Vin Diesel’s first appearance as Richard B. Riddick in 2000’s Pitch Black helped establish him as a movie star, and led to the franchise’s first sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, in 2004. Since then, the pace of the franchise slowed down considerably, with only a single sequel, Riddick, following in …

In May 1999, George Lucas unleashed Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the first installment of the long-awaited prequel trilogy. That film also marked the first major role for Ahmed Best, who provided the voice and the motion capture performance for Jar Jar Binks, a new character who …

Before Ryan Reynolds settled on the idea to make Deadpool and Wolverine a team-up film with those two main characters, the actor pitched numerous other ideas that never got off the ground. Reynolds told Empire that one of his first ideas was to create a Rashomon-style movie about Deadpool and …

Universal and Blumhouse’s revival of the Exorcist franchise stumbled with The Exorcist: Believer in 2023, but a veteran horror director may soon help reinvigorate the next sequel. Via The Wrap, Mike Flanagan is in talks to helm The Exorcist: Deceiver, following the departure of Believer’s director and co-writer David Gordon …

With Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, this beloved, long-running sci-fi franchise has finally hit double digit movies, with the modern iteration of the series running for nearly as many films (4) as the franchise’s original run back in the 1960s and ’70s (5). While the first three movies …

Coming off the success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie early last year, which was both popular with critics and made a huge amount of money, Nintendo felt so good about how they handled that one that they greenlit a Legend of Zelda movie, to be handled by Maze Runner …

The original X-Men movies famously shied away from using the characters’ iconic superhero costumes. So for over two decades, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine couldn’t even wear his blue and yellow outfit from the comics. Deadpool and Wolverine finally gave Jackman a chance to change that, and he couldn’t be happier about …