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Three Batmen, One Weekend, and a Lego Joker Nobody Talks About (opens the original)
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Batman Day lands on September 19, and Warner Bros. is putting three Batman movies back on big screens for the weekend. Tim Burton's Batman, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and The LEGO Batman Movie are all screening at Regal, AMC, and Cinemark. I go through all three and make the case for each one. Michael Keaton's 1989 Batman is the live action version everything after it got measured against. Mask of the Phantasm came out of Batman: The Animated Series with Kevin Conroy in the cowl, and it carri
The Spider-Man Director Wants a Cop Show (opens the original)
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Paramount is developing a Hawaii Five-O movie with Destin Daniel Cretton attached to direct and Bad Boys for Life writer Chris Bremner on the script. Cretton grew up on Maui and is coming off Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which means he can pick almost any job he wants right now. The project is in the packaging phase, so nothing is closed and no cast or date exists yet. Paramount gets the first swing because CBS made both the 1968 original and the 2010 remake, and the studio has been promising a 30
He Tested for Cyclops and Got Wings Instead (opens the original)
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Gen V's Asa Germann is joining Marvel's X-Men as Angel after screen testing for Cyclops. The new mutants probably sit out Avengers: Doomsday, but Sadie Sink, Kit Connor, and Inde Navarrette are strong bets for Secret Wars. Asa Germann tested for Cyclops before Kit Connor landed the part, and Marvel offered him Warren Worthington III instead. His run as Sam Riordan on Gen V showed he can play a psychologically broken hero, which sets him up well if the MCU gets to Angel's Archangel storyline with
South Park Changes Name to South America Over the Lake Ontario Maps Fight (opens the original)
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South Park won Outstanding Animated Program at the Creative Arts Emmys for "Sermon on the 'Mount," its first win in that category since 2013. Two days later, Trey Parker and Matt Stone renamed the show South America. The Emmy went to the season 27 premiere, the episode that put a cartoon Trump in bed with Satan and took shots at Paramount along the way. The show's accounts followed the win with an image of Trump holding the trophy and the line "You finally got your Emmy," a callback to The Appre
Netflix Is Making a Live-Action Ravenloft Series (opens the original)
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Netflix is developing a live-action Dungeons and Dragons series called Ravenloft, built as an origin story for Strahd von Zarovich. Alfonso Cuarón is producing and John August is writing. Strahd is the vampire Darklord at the center of D&D's gothic horror setting, and the show tracks how he became one of the game's most notorious villains rather than starting with him already there. Cuarón's credits include Gravity, Children of Men, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. August wrote Big
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