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For the first time, Godzilla will have a dedicated booth at the San Diego Comic-Con. The iconic kaiju is celebrating his 65th anniversary this year. His most recent cinematic adventure, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, released last month. Godzilla has starred in 35 movies over the course of his 65 year career. Although he was not the first giant monster, Godzilla has remained the most endearing. While King Kong has starred in under 10 movies, Godzilla keeps coming back for more....

Ron Howard and company held a wrap party for Young Han Solo over the weekend, even though the Star Wars anthology film has not officially wrapped shooting. Howard took over the reins as Young Han Solo director from the dismissed Phil Lord and Christopher Miller back in late June, and has now been cranking out footage - and sending out spoiler-free teasers from the set - for over three months....

Warning: SPOILERS For Batman: Prelude to the Wedding Harley Quinn vs. The Joker Harley Quinn and The Joker are a textbook example of an unhealthy and abusive relationship. Typically though the abuse has only traveled one way from Mister J to Harleen. Harley Quinn has always been the victim. However, in the latest issue of Batman’s Prelude to the Wedding series finally has Harley get a little a revenge on her puddin'....

Apple has written a letter arguing that the change it has offered in the Dutch App Store complies with the law, despite that fact that the antitrust regulator has rejected the proposal as ‘not serious.’ The latest development follows the European Union suggesting that Apple was happy to pay fines rather than properly comply with antitrust rules … Background We’ve previously explained the background to the dispute: No sign of Apple compromise on Dutch App Store change Despite the Dutch regulator rejecting Apple’s proposed change, Reuters reports that Apple has written a letter claiming that the company has complied with the law, and should not be subjected to further fines....

In an update today, Meta is introducing new ways to organize and quickly access Facebook Groups. These features help admins and members stay on top of their community engagements. Meta has introduced channels, which are “focused spaces for people to connect in smaller, more casual settings within their communities.” The new features include a sidebar to access your favorite Facebook groups more quickly. The sidebar will list your groups as well as the latest activity within them that you haven’t seen yet....

Facebook on Tuesday announced a new feature that will enhance the experience for group users. Facebook group owners will be able to designate members as “Group Experts,” who will have a badge to indicate high expertise in the group’s topic. As reported by The Verge, the “Group Expert” badge will appear on posts, comments, and also in the Q&A section. Experts can be invited by the group owner or also by the administrators, and the invited user needs to accept the nomination to get the badge....

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is the latest entry in the Wizarding World cinematic universe, and focuses on a time long before The Boy Who Lived. Before there was Harry and before there was Voldemort, there was Gellert Grindelwald. Considered by many to be the most powerful and evil sorcerer in history, Grindelwald stood for many of the same ideals that Voldemort did. In his crusade for “the greater good,” Grindelwald moved forward with a path of violence and bloodshed while trying to achieve supremacy over others....

As AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead heads into season 4, Lennie James promises that the next series will expand the story of Morgan Jones. Fans know that James is the long-awaited crossover character and will depart The Walking Dead to join the prequel show. The network hyped the reveal that one of the characters from the main show would be entering the world of its younger brother, however, many were left shocked to find out that Morgan would be leaving Walking Dead and heading to Texas....

The popular news aggregator Flipboard is now rolling out changes to its newsfeed. Starting today, users will be able to customize and choose which topics are shown in the app’s “For You” section, which will let them see more of the content they want. According to Flipboard, the idea is to prevent users from having to deal with what the company calls “doomscrolling,” which is a term used to describe situations in which people find themselves continuously scrolling over bad news....

Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 introduced a spy theme to Battle Island. With new POIs being bases of operations for both team Ghost and team Shadow, new henchmen and boss NPCs being added to the game, and silenced weapons and disguises taking center stage in this season’s meta. Living the life of a spy has changed the way players play Fortnite, and has changed the map as well. While four of the five new POIs are on the outer rim of the map-making their impact on the game a little lackluster, there are plenty of minor changes around the map that carry the spy theme across the island....

Netflix rolls out a brand new trailer for Fuller House, in light of the upcoming release of its fourth season. The sequel series to the popular sitcom from the 1980s and 1990s, Full House, the iconic Tanner family home remains the setting of the show when Danny Tanner’s (Bob Saget) first-born, DJ (Candace Cameron Bure) moves back in with her three kids. Newly widowed, her sister Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and best friend, Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) come live with her as they help raise her boys - similar to what Jesse (John Stamos) and Joey (Dave Coulier) did with her father....

George Clooney partners with Netflix to star in and direct a post-apocalyptic film adapted from the acclaimed novel, Good Morning, Midnight. Penned by Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight received critical acclaim as one of the best novels of 2016. Focusing on the concept of searching for life’s meaning at the edge of civilization, the haunting debut novel will be brought to life by the Oscar winner’s first endeavor with the streaming giant....

Ever since the full trailer for Paul Feig’s upcoming all-female Ghostbusters reboot debuted online, strong opinions both for and against its sense of humor and presentation have been flying furiously back and forth. However, it appears that those who did like the Ghostbusters trailer have been mostly drowned out, at least if simple populist metrics like “likes” and “dislikes” are to be trusted. According to the latest available numbers as reported by ScreenCrush, the Ghostbusters reboot trailer is the most disliked trailer in the history of YouTube....

If The Gifted star Emma Dumont gets her wish, a Polaris and Jessica Jones team-up could be in our future. Aside from the recent blemish of Inhumans and the less than stellar reception to Iron Fist, the TV side of the MCU has been doing well for years. Like the films, they’ve managed to honor and update the source material and present some amazing Marvel shows. But the smaller X-Men corner of the TV universe is just getting started....

Glass concludes Shyamalan’s superhero movie trilogy in a manner that manages to be absorbing, frustrating, and bewildering at the same time. M. Night Shyamalan has certainly had his fair share of ups and downs since his early career triumphs on The Sixth Sense and, to a lesser degree, Unbreakable. Now, two years after the writer/director delivered Split - a secret followup to Unbreakable and his most widely celebrated movie in a long time - he’s back with Glass, a project that brings the characters of Unbreakable and Split together in an all-new thriller about superheroes in the real world....

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is projected to win the box office during its opening weekend, but it may end up with the lowest debut in the MonsterVerse franchise. Legendary’s shared universe combines the famous characters Godzilla and King Kong, and has been pretty successful in the early going. 2014’s Godzilla took home $529.1 million worldwide, while 2017’s Kong: Skull Island made $566.7 million. Both performed modestly domestically, but their global totals encouraged WB to pursue further installments....

Warning: SPOILERS through Green Arrow #42. The seventh season of Arrow seems ready to bring the concept of the cancelled Green Arrow movie Supermax to life on the small screen. Meanwhile, the monthly Green Arrow comic is tackling an entirely different sort of story involving prisons - one that Arrow seems unlikely to address. Green Arrow #41 saw The Emerald Archer running an escort mission on behalf of the Justice League, accompanying the convoy transporting a metahuman known as The Parasite to his day in court....

In an exclusive interview, Greg Sestero revealed he’s down to play Batman to Tommy Wiseau’s Joker. When the two first co-starred in cult sensation The Room – which Wiseau also wrote, produced and directed - back in 2003, they had no way of knowing how the film would impact their life’s. The movie was intended to be a dark drama about love and betrayal, but thanks to some outlandish creative choices made during production, it plays much more like a comedy - and a really entertaining one....

A couple of days ago, we saw video footage of a helicopter rescue of the occupants of a car that went off the road and plunged to the bottom of a ravine. The occupants were rescued thanks to a combination of Crash Detection and Emergency SOS via satellite on an iPhone 14. More video has now been posted, and it shows just how incredibly lucky the pair was to survive …...

Gather ‘round familia, it’s that time of year again. With Hobbs & Shaw hitting theaters this summer, it’s a good time to take a look back at the strange journey these movies have taken. From robbing trucks to fighting submarines, the Fast crew has dealt with a lot, and no two of their collective adventures are the same. In fact, the series runs the full gamut of franchise filmmaking, going from trashy teen movies to some of the most popular films on planet earth....