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Dragon Ball Z was the first anime series that many people remember watching, which led to it becoming an important part of their upbringing. Dragon Ball Z was similar to Pokémon in that it became popular around the time when the Internet was becoming more commonplace, which led to the show earning a huge fandom online. The sporadic release date of the original English dub of the Dragon Ball Z anime, combined with some less than trustworthy translations of the material that was available in Japan meant that a lot of false information about the series was released online....

Dwayne Johnson has released plot details for his upcoming live-action movie adaptation of the video game Rampage. Formerly known as solely as the wrestling superstar The Rock in the WWE, Johnson started making the slow transition to movies with acting debut in 2002 debut as The Scorpion King in The Mummy Returns. In the fifteen years since he’s become a blockbuster powerhouse, best seen in his complete rejuvenation of the Fast and Furious franchise, with a spinoff for his character, Hobbs, now planned....

In a press release from Apple, the Cupertino company announced its kids’ education changemakers initiative for Apple TV+. Joining acclaimed education leaders and creative storytellers together, this project aims to create inspiring Apple Original series for kids. The streaming service currently offers a range of series for kids such as “Stillwater,” “Doug Unplugs,” and “El Deafo.” “Stillwater” is a Peabody and Daytime Emmy Award-winning series created with author and CEO Mallika Chopra....

Ethan Hawke will re-team with Blumhouse for The Good Lord Bird, a limited TV series about famed abolitionist John Brown. The news comes as Blumhouse has been making a major push to expand their brand into television. Recently, the company entered into a deal with NBC to produce the horror series Cul-de-Sac as part of a possible plan to launch a Blumhouse Presents franchise on the network. Blumhouse’s other TV projects include an adaptation of their horror series The Purge, as well as the prestige miniseries Sharp Objects, set to air on HBO with Amy Adams in the lead....

Impressive fan art swaps the leading men behind Marvel and DC’s respective billionaire heroes, with Ben Affleck becoming Iron Man and Robert Downey Jr.’s take on Batman. Affleck and Downey both appear to be nearing the end of their superhero careers, but for very different reasons. Both have tackled larger than life characters, but some new art imagines how they’d look in each other’s roles. Downey has been the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a decade, thanks to him launching the franchise in 2008 with Iron Man....

Universal’s Fast & Furious spinoff concerning Luke Hobbs (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) has been pushed back slightly. It’s almost impossible to imagine that Universal ever dreamed that its modestly budgeted - for a major studio movie - action flick The Fast and the Furious would take off the way it has, spawning a franchise currently comprised of eight films. Made for only $38 million, the summer 2001 release hauled in over $200 million worldwide....

Discovery Channel’s Fast N’ Loud follows Richard Rawlings’ Dallas-based Gas Monkey Garage making profits from purchasing run-down cars and restoring them with new custom designs which – thanks to the skills of the mechanic Aaron Kaufmann – give the cars a new lease on life. Fast N’ Loud was an instant hit with fans when it premiered on Discovery Channel in June 2012. Several unique aspects of the show, such as the relatable struggles of a small business challenged to create beautifully restored cars, explain its popularity....

One week after the sixth season finale of The Walking Dead, we will be jumping on board with the second season of its prequel series. The last time that we saw the characters in Fear the Walking Dead they were headed for new shelter on the California coast, but we have since discovered that a group of the mixed family survivalists will soon be leaving the shore and taking to the high seas in an attempt to escape the flesh-eating zombies....

The latest macOS Ventura 13.1 beta makes a useful enhancement to the Find My app. With this update, you can now use the Find My app on your Mac to ping nearby accessories for the first time. This behavior was previously only available in the Find My apps on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The ability to ping an accessory with a sound is available on AirTag and a handful of different third-party accessories....

In Ubisoft’s video game franchise Assassin’s Creed, people have come up with a very unique way to get in touch with their roots: hooking themselves up to a machine called the Animus, which unlocks genetic memory and allows the user to experience the memories of their ancestors. Now this concept is coming to the big screen, courtesy of New Regency and Ubisoft Motion Pictures, as Michael Fassbender takes on the dual roles of Death Row inmate Callum Lynch and his 15th century relative, an Assassin called Aguilar de Nerha....

Chris Hemsworth stands (nearly) shirtless in the rain in the first look image for Drew Goddard’s 1960s noir thriller, Bad Times at the El Royale. Goddard made his name writing and producing TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and LOST before he made the jump to directing films with 2012’s The Cabin in the Woods. Hemsworth actually starred in Goddard’s cult hit horror/comedy before he began playing the God of Thunder in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; however, Cabin in the Woods didn’t open in theaters until a year after the first Thor movie, as a result of MGM’s bankruptcy in 2010....

These days, it seems like studios can make a film based on anything. The cinematic landscape is full of adaptations of novels, comic books, short stories, and even video games. Recently, however, a new trend is emerging. In an attempt to capitalize on recognizable brand names, executives have started to look at source material that doesn’t have a clear narrative through line (and hence, is difficult to craft a feature film around)....

Warning: SPOILERS for Game of Thrones season 7 and A Song of Ice And Fire ahead! - Last week’s episode of Game of Thrones featured Jon Snow leading a ragtag group of men north of The Wall. The gang was something of a who’s who’s of Westeros’ toughest survivors, with each of them having avoided certain doom on more than one occasion. However, of these hardy heroes only two have actually beaten death itself: Beric Dondarrion and Jon Snow....

Sylvia Hoeks is in talks to join Sony’s adaptation of the Swedish crime novel The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Back in 2011, David Fincher directed the American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, with Rooney Mara as hacker Lisbeth Salander and Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Although there were plans to adapt the next two novels in Larsson’s trilogy, the studio finally decided to move forward with an adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the fourth book of the series, written by David Lagercrantz....

Star Wars: The Last Jedi star Mark Hamill is teasing the film will keep fans guessing with the different directions the story goes in. If there was one common criticism about The Force Awakens, it’s that the film was perhaps a little too devoted to recapturing the magic of the original trilogy, liberally borrowing exact plot points from A New Hope. While there was enough new content to set the stage for an exciting future, the parallels were clear to many viewers, and the hope is Episode VIII won’t simply remake The Empire Strikes Back....

Han Solo was killed by his own son, Kylo Ren, and the seeds for that fateful encounter were sowed when Ben was still a baby. By the time the sequel trilogy begins, Ben has already turned to the dark side, shattering his family in his pursuit of becoming the galaxy’s ultimate evil. Bits and pieces of his past are alluded to in dialogue and flashback sequences, but the films simply don’t have the time to offer highly detailed explanations of Ben’s youth....

When you really stop to think about it, the Dragon Ball series does not make sense. Whether you look at the power scaling of the characters or even some of the backstories for them, they hardly ever truly add up. Budgets and translation errors have been a part of the series since the beginning. Christopher Sabat, the American voice actor for Vegeta and Piccolo - as well as a myriad of other characters in the series - and producer for the voice talent in America, has stated on several occasions that secrets are kept from the crew working on the show in an effort to prevent inevitable internet leaks....

Spider-Man trilogy veteran Elizabeth Banks went on Twitter and threw some brutal shade at Tom Hardy’s Venom. In comic books, the evil alien symbiote Venom first merged with Spider-Man back in 1988, essentially turning Spidey into an evil twin type villain. The character later made his movie debut in Spider-Man 3 when he merged with host Eddie Brock, played by Topher Grace. Now, Venom gets his own movie starring Hardy as Eddie Brock, with Spider-Man likely nowhere to be seen (unless Peter Parker gets a surprise cameo)....

Captain America: Civil War is just around the corner for U.S. audiences (even though it’s been out a week in the U.K. and in other countries) and anticipation couldn’t be greater for Joe and Anthony Russo’s latest Marvel outing. The film’s nearly matched its $250 million budget at the global box office already, and that’s before being unleashed on American, Chinese, and Indian audiences. What’s more, Civil War looks set to challenge for the crown as the biggest-grossing Marvel movie to date, potentially beating the likes of The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron that made $1....

A new official, full-on look at Emily Blunt as the titular magical nanny in Mary Poppins Returns has arrived. And out of the many, many reimaginings, sequels, and reboots that Walt Disney Studios has done in connection to some of their more beloved titles over the years, the studio’s planned long gap sequel to the Academy Award-winning 1964 classic film adaptation stands out as one of their riskiest ventures yet. Over fifty years since the first film hit theaters, though, Disney is indeed planning on bringing the world’s greatest Nanny back to life on the big screen again, this time set several decades after the events of the first film, with an entirely new cast and crew attached to it....