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eter Cullen is forever the voice of Optimus Prime, and in recent interviews with producers of the upcoming Transformers: Rise of The Beasts it has been made very clear that as long as Cullen wants to provide the voice for the leader of the Autobots, then they are more than happy to have him. Now the legendary 80 year old has joined forces with the meditation app Calm to narrate a brand new Sleep Story called History of the Transformers, which explains how the intergalactic conflict between the Autobots and the Decepticons started, and is told, via Cullen, in the soothing yet powerful voice of Optimus Prime....

March 13 is going to be a special day on DVD. Vivendi Visual Entertainment and Ignatius Press present the feature-length film on the life of Pope John Paul II available on DVD March 13, 2007, just in time for the Easter holiday. The popular pontiff who passed away two years ago on Easter Sunday, is in the process of being canonized a saint. Academy Award winner Jon Voight delivers a powerful performance that captures the beloved pope’s “mix of majesty and humility, humor and steel” (USA Today)....

Director and The Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer has teased the potential for a sequel to the Andy Samberg-fronted mockumentary, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. The comedy, which finds Samberg as struggling pop icon Conner4Real, has garnered something of a cult following over the years, with many wondering whether we will see Popstar 2. Speaking with Variety, Schaffer addressed the idea of a follow-up, and potentially even gives Popstar 2 a title unintentionally…...

The new Predator movie has arrived on Hulu, introducing a new nemesis for the Predator in the form of Amber Midthunder. In Prey, the fifth installment of the Predator movie series, Midthunder stars as Naru, a Comanche woman in 1719 who becomes one of the Predator’s first human targets. It’s clear from the social media response following the film’s release on Hulu that people by and large are very much enjoying Midthunder’s introduction into the franchise with her performance as Naru....

Editor Sally Menke, who received Academy Award nominations for her work on Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds, was found dead early this morning at the age of 56. The Los Angeles Times reports that the editor went jogging near L.A.’s Griffith park yesterday morning, and the police were alerted when she never returned home. Her car was found in a Griffith Park parking lot and searchers discovered her body at the bottom of a ravine in Beachwood Canyon....

PBS President and CEO Paula A. Kerger announced today at the PBS portion of the Television Critic’s Association Press Tour that a new Civil War historical drama, shot in Virginia, will join the PBS Sunday night drama lineup. The first season of six episodes is slated for a winter 2016 premiere. Based on true stories, the new drama follows two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the Civil War. Mary Phinney, a staunch New England abolitionist, and Emma Green, a willful young Confederate belle, collide at Mansion House, the Green family’s luxury hotel that has been taken over and transformed into a Union Army Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia, the longest-occupied Confederate city of the war....

Universal Pictures has released a brand new international trailer for the upcoming comedy sequel Little Fockers, which will be released in theaters nationwide on December 22. Click on the video player below for this brand new French trailer for the film, which stars Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro: The test of wills between Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) and Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) escalates to new heights of comedy in the third installment of the blockbuster series – Little Fockers....

Logan Paul is back on YouTube with his first vlog since he showed a dead body hanging from a tree in Japan’s Suicide Forest and receiving an instant, explosive backlash from all over the world. The video was taken down by Paul, before the Google-owned company severed business ties, starting with taking him out of their preferred advertising and then later dropping him from YouTube Red original programming. The new video, entitled Suicide: Be Here Tomorrow, is a look into the last three weeks of damage control that Logan Paul has attempted....

Starz Chief Executive Officer, Chris Albrecht, announced a 10-episode, second season order for the upcoming Starz Original series, Magic City, ahead of its April 6 worldwide premiere at 10PM ET/PT. Magic City is a stylish, cinematic drama created and executive produced by Mitch Glazer (The Recruit, Scrooged), starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, Grey’s Anatomy, The Possession), Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Max Payne) and Danny Huston (The Kingdom, Children of Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine)....

We may not have seen the end of Manifest after all. Last month, fans of the mind-bending drama series were shocked when NBC canceled Manifest after three seasons, leaving the show to end abruptly on a cliffhanger. Because its first two seasons had been so popular on Netflix, there was hope that the streamer would save Manifest by picking it up for its fourth season, but they reportedly passed as well, almost spelling certain doom for the show....

For the first time ever, Marvel Comics is opening its comic book vault to the masses and making its legendary Super Hero adventures available in one location with the launch of its online subscription service Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited. Curated by Marvel editors, this ultimate digital comic Internet destination allows unparalleled access to thousands of titles from Marvel’s historic comic book archives - from the first issues of Amazing Spider-Man, The X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and other favorites, to unforgettable recent storylines, mini-series and special issues....

With just a few months left until the first two episodes of Inhumans debuts in IMAX theaters September 1, we haven’t seen much from the series, except for an Inhumans teaser that had the Roayl Family in turmoil. Today we get a new banner from director Roel Reine, which reveals our first look at the Inhumans homeland of Atillan. Marvel and ABC have also unveiled a new poster, while announcing that the series will premiere on September 29, following the exclusive IMAX theatrical run....

The crossover between the MCU and Sony’s Spider-man-based universe of villains has been a brief and unstable thing so far. While it has included some good things – Spider-Man: No Way Home – and the not so good – Morbius’ post-credits scenes – it is clear that the deal between Marvel Studios and Sony is not currently working out in Sony’s favor, as while the Venom movies have done well at the box office, other films are not pulling in the same level of interested....

Love, light, and romance are harmonious elements, when found in conjunction, lend to the idea of greater possibilities. For those looking ahead, especially during this time of year, the coupling of these ideas calls out to their inner romantic. And nothing speaks to the spirit and soul of these concepts like romantic comedies. There are plenty of theories as to why romantic comedies are so popular. However, it’s not a far reach to believe that the sole rationale is that they remind us that anything can happen when love is involved....

The Good This fun show looks pristine in this 5 disc release. The Bad Colored episode images on the packaging of a black and white show is a tad misleading. Not enough extras. McHale’s Navy: Season One stars Ernest Borgnine as Lt. Commander McHale. As the Skipper of Torpedo Boat #73, McHale runs anything but a tight ship. It’s not that he and his men are screw ups or unpatriotic, it’s just that the Navy has a lot of rules and McHale and his men love to bend them a little....

Actress and comedian Melanie Lynskey was body-shamed on the set of 2000’s Coyote Ugly. In an interview about the upcoming season of Yellowjackets, Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Juliette Lewis, and Christina Ricci spoke with the Hollywood Reporter about surviving Hollywood as an actress—and that’s when Coyote Ugly came up. Lynskey has never shied away from calling out Hollywood for the body shaming that she experiences on movie and television sets, so it’s no surprise she’s calling out the Coyote Ugly crew for its treatment of the actresses....

Although he almost lost out on the role of Marty McFly to Eric Stoltz, Michael J. Fox became an instant cinematic icon when he appeared on screen as the time-traveller in Back to the Future in 1985. However, it is only now that the actor has come to realize just why the movie has such a huge following and has endured over almost four decades. When it comes to the influence the franchise has had over those years, the three films have contributed to pop culture as the inspiration for animated series Rick and Morty, the real versions of self-lacing boots and hoverboards, but unfortunately not yet flying cars or Jaws 19....

First Lady Michelle Obama will appear as a guest for a second time on The Colbert Report on Wednesday, April 11 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT, her first appearance since entering the White House. Mrs. Obama will mark the one-year anniversary of her Joining Forces initiative to recognize, honor and support veterans and military families. The initiative aims to educate, challenge and spark action from all sectors of society to ensure that military families have the support they have earned....

We probably won’t be getting a casting announcement for the next James Bond in the immediate future, leaving up to the fans to continue their speculation as to who will be the next actor to suit up as 007. One name that has sometimes come up as a possibility is Miles Teller who recently impressed with his role in the hit film Top Gun: Maverick, which continues to build up record-setting profits in theaters....

“Who is he? What is he? Where did he come from?” So begins Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgen’s new avant-garde documentary about legendary musician David Bowie. The quote comes from a 1974 episode of The Dick Cavett Show on which Bowie performed, perfectly capturing the originality, unconventionality, and mystery of both Bowie’s persona and Moonage Daydream. There have been numerous made-for-TV documentaries about him in the past, but until now, there have been few other artistically minded documentaries on the man Rolling Stone declared “the greatest rock star ever....