Zachary Levi explains how missing out on Star-Lord landed him Shazam!

James Gunn recently went on a lengthy Twitter thread explaining why it’s so important for actors do give the best audition possible even if they don’t end up landing the role in question, dropping several names that went in to read for Guardians of the Galaxy‘s Star-Lord that he ended up working with later on down the line.

While The Suicide Squad director hasn’t collaborated with Zachary Levi in an onscreen capacity as of yet, the two have been friends for a long time, with the DCEU’s Shazam! having been pushed to the forefront of that conversation after coming highly recommended for the part.

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‘Red Notice’ draws in more viewers than the rest of Netflix’s Top 10 combined

With the absence of box office dollars as a barometer of success, Netflix needed Red Notice to post some major viewership numbers to justify an investment that ran to well over $200 million, and the mega budget action blockbuster looks to have delivered on that front, and then some.

On top of Dwayne Johnson celebrating the movie reaching 150 million subscribers, the star-studded caper became Netflix’s second most-watched original film ever after just twelve days in release, and by the time it reaches the standard 28-day cap it’ll be miles and miles ahead of the competition.

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‘Dune: Part Two’ star say the story is far from finished

One of the only major criticisms aimed at Denis Villenueve’s Dune, which was also an entirely warranted one, is that the credits started rolling just as the story was beginning to kick into high gear.

It’s infuriating when a movie ends by clearly only telling half of a story, and there were widespread concerns in the buildup to release that Part Two might not even happen should the blockbuster sci-fi epic bomb at the box office. Fortunately, it didn’t, and the sequel was officially confirmed just days after Part One hit theaters and HBO Max.

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A chilling R-rated horror movie is making waves on Disney Plus

Thanks to the advent of Disney Plus and the company’s acquisition of Fox, we now live in a world where R-rated movies can rank among the most-watched titles on the platform. What a time to be alive.

While notorious box office bomb Terminator: Dark Fate has been keeping action fans satiated after putting in a strong showing in terms of viewership, an atmospheric R-rated horror has now started a steady climb up the ranks after being lost in the shuffle as a result of the pandemic when it first came to theaters this summer.

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India vs New Zealand 2021: Shreyas Iyer-Ravindra Jadeja Stand Powers 'Second String' India to 258/4

A 113-run stand for the fifth wicket between Shreyas Iyer and Ravindra Jadeja bailed India out in a match where they were stuttering at 145/4 without their usual top three.

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Disney Plus spending $33 billion on content next year

As the streaming wars continue to heat up, the various combatants are going to continue throwing more and more money at high-profile exclusive titles to try and increase subscriber numbers and gain an advantage over the competition.

Red Notice director Rawson Marshall Thurber recently admitted that $200 million was a very conservative budgetary estimate, but that investment has been repaid by the action blockbuster becoming Netflix’s second most-watched in-house movie ever after less than two weeks, and it’s going to smash almost every conceivable viewership record.

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Netflix is getting festive with 6 Christmas movies in the Top 10

We haven’t even left November yet, but the festive takeover on streaming is well and truly underway, which it admittedly has been for a couple of weeks now.

At some point during the eleventh month of the year, a light bulb goes off in the heads of viewers all around the world, and everyone decides in unison that it’s now time to fire up the classic back catalogue of holiday favorites that have kept them entertained for years, if not decades.

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J.J. Abrams rumored to be producing new ‘Star Wars’ show, but does anyone want it?

The standing of J.J. Abrams in the eyes of Star Wars fans plummeted following the release of The Rise of Skywalker, which was a divisively lukewarm conclusion to one of cinema’s most iconic long-running stories.

Most supporters of a galaxy far, far away were happy with The Force Awakens, which relaunched the saga in suitably nostalgia-driven style, but it would be an understatement to say that the goodwill was eventually eroded. A new rumor from Giant Freakin Robot claims that the filmmaker is on his way back to Lucasfilm to oversee a Disney Plus series set after the Sequel Trilogy, but before we get into the veracity of the report, take a look at some recent Twitter opinions on Abrams and Star Wars.

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New data claims the MCU is responsible for 60% of Disney Plus signups

Disney Plus may have passed 118 million subscribers in the first two years of its existence, which is an incredible number of customers for what’s essentially a startup streaming service, but the platform isn’t without its flaws.

One of the most notable is that the Mouse House’s in-house service regularly comes under fire for a lack of original or engaging content that doesn’t hail from either Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While Disney Plus has definitely upped its game, it’s hard to think of a title from outside those two monolithic franchises that’s managed to seize the zeitgeist.

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Laura Dern shares Sam Neill hilariously struggling to promote ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’

Sam Neill has found it very easy to be hilarious on social media when he’s doing it on purpose, but his latest bout of online hilarity has unfolded entirely by accident, after it was shared with the world by his Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Dominion co-star Laura Dern.

The veteran Alan Grant is quite happy to mock his iconic role in the franchise when he’s voicing incredulity at an action figure coming packaged with detachable limbs, or a picture of his face being placed next to a toilet on a LEGO set, without even mentioning his gentle ribbing of Jeff Golblum on his birthday.

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1st Test, Day 5: Lasith Embuldeniya Powers Sri Lanka to 187-Run Win Over West Indies

Chasing a hefty target of 348, West Indies were bowled out for 160 before tea on the final day.

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Wasim Jaffer, Zaheer Khan Involved in Battle of 'Rare' Banter on Twitter

Responding to Jaffer’s tweet, Zaheer shared a screengrab of his own from a match, where he had a better batting figure than the current Odisha coach.

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MSW vs OVR Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for ECS T10 Malta Encore 2021 match, November 25, 05:00 PM IST

Check here MSW vs OVR Dream11 Team Predictions and hints for the ECS T10 Malta Encore 2021 match between Msida Warriors and Overseas. Also, check the schedule of the Msida Warriors vs Overseas match.

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‘Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City’ post-credit scene explained

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City is now out and a consensus is building that it’s a love letter to fans. Positive reviews praise director Johannes Roberts for fulfilling his promise of bringing some genuine horror, complete with a plethora of characters, monsters, and references that make the film a treat for fans of Capcom’s franchise. If you’re not a Resident Evil aficionado, though… mileage may vary.

That’s certainly the case for the credits scene, which will delight long-term fans yet alienate anyone who doesn’t know where all this is going.

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4 major new movies hit theaters and streaming today

Friday is typically the day when brand new feature films hit theaters and streaming, but seeing as Thanksgiving is almost upon us, a quartet of high-profile titles have arrived today in an effort to keep audiences occupied right through the holiday in an attempt to rustle up some extra business, whether it be box office dollars or viewership figures.

Walt Disney Animation’s Encanto is set to easily top the charts this weekend, which is to be expected given the name value of the Mouse House and the hot streak of hugely popular titles the studio has been churning out for the best part of a decade, but pretty much all genre bases have been covered.

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Fans are going nuts for the ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ prologue

Universal gifted us with a most unexpected surprise yesterday, when the five-minute prologue for Jurassic World: Dominion that originally screened this summer before IMAX showings of Fast & Furious 9 was made available online in its entirety.

Given that the concluding chapter in the trilogy and sixth overall installment in the franchise isn’t coming to theaters until June of next year, nobody was expecting the footage to drop, but fans are certainly glad that it did. As the sequel to a pair of epic blockbusters that combined to earn close to $3 billion at the box office, it would be an understatement to say that Dominion is poised to do similarly bumper business.

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Jeremy Renner says he’d happily star in an ‘Avengers’ musical

Not to go too hard on the Hawkeye references, but Jeremy Renner has many more strings to his bow than simply being a highly successful two-time Academy Award nominated actor, occasional producer and recurring star of the most successful franchise in the history of cinema.

He also dabbles in singing and songwriting, in addition to playing the guitar, keyboard and drums. So far, that’s yielded a pair of EPs and appearances on the soundtracks of North Country, Love Comes to the Executioner and The Assassination of Jess James by the Coward Robert Ford, not to mention his hilarious ditty that plays over the end credits of comedy Tag.

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Good guy Keanu Reeves brought Sandra Bullock a heartwarming gift after ‘Speed’

It’s long since become a meme at this point, but Keanu Reeves genuinely is one of the kindest people in Hollywood, and you never hear a story about the actor that’s anything less than wholesome.

Whether it’s helping a pre-fame Octavia Spencer when her car had broken down, buying brand new motorcycles for the stunt team on The Matrix sequels, helping the John Wick: Chapter 4 crew move equipment while in full costume or any other of the countless tales about his generosity, he’s just an all-round good dude.

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‘The Black Phone’ image reveals a blood-soaked Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke and Blumhouse go way back, with upcoming horror movie The Black Phone marking his ninth different film and television project with the hit factory, and it could well turn out to be their best collaboration yet.

The four-time Academy Award nominee is also reuniting with his Sinster director Scott Derrickson, and the two have previous in the genre after the film was named as the scariest of all-time in a scientific study, although it’s since been usurped by Zoom sensation Host.

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‘Shang-Chi’ stunt performer calls him the most annoying Avenger

While the bus sequence may have drawn the ire of an operator who went on a lengthy viral thread pointing out all of the mistakes and inaccuracies on display in the bruising hand-to-hand scrap, fans were fully supportive of how Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings handled the action.

Admittedly, the third act was arguably the weakest set piece of the bunch after it sidelined star Simu Liu’s natural talent for kicking ass in favor of the standard CGI overload we’ve come to expect from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but up until that point each battle was designed, shot and edited in completely different fashion to distinguish them from both each other, and the rest of the franchise’s oeuvre.

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There’s carnage on Twitter as ‘Venom’ sequel hits VOD

Even with the pandemic lurking in the background, Venom: Let There Be Carnage was always destined to become one of the biggest hits to arrive in theaters since the beginning of 2020, with the first movie gaining a fanbase that didn’t care a single iota for the lukewarm reception afforded to it by critics.

True to form, Andy Serkis’ sequel performed exactly in line with its predecessor on that front, even if Tom Hardy’s second symbiotic outing fared much better than Ruben Fleischer’s opener. A Rotten Tomatoes score of 59% was right on the threshold of being Fresh, but it was comfortably outstripped by the 84% user rating.

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India vs New Zealand 2021: Kane Williamson Betting Big on Spin Duo For Series Opener

New Zealand were hammered in Kanpur back in 2016 with Ravichandran Ashwin playing a big part and skipper Williamson knows what to expect in this part of the world.

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Lungi Ngidi Tests Positive for COVID-19, Out of ODI Series Against Netherlands

Pacer Junior Dala has been called up as Ngidi's replacement, Cricket South Africa (CSA) said in a statement.

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The internet really hopes Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are legally married

When Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder reunited for acerbic romantic comedy Destination Wedding in 2018, the two stars let slip that they may have actually been legally married for over 20 years without even realizing.

During production on Francis Ford Coppola’s sumptuous Gothic fantasy Dracula, the filmmaker brought in a genuine Romanian priest to shoot the scene where Reeves’ Jonathan Harker and Ryder’s Mina Murray make their vows, who went through the whole ceremony as he would during any other wedding.

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We’re getting the Pompeii supernatural action thriller we didn’t know we needed

The last time the city of Pompeii was the subject of a feature film, we got Paul W.S. Anderson’s historical epic that threw elements of action, romance and disaster into the mix. The end result was a turgid flop, but we can’t say that we’re not excited by the next feature set to unfold within the ruins of the Italian city.

As per Deadline, Kellie Madison has signed on to direct an untitled supernatural thriller that revolves around some kind of geothermic explosion that occurs within the ruins of Pompeii. That’s about as much information as has been provided, but it sounds like the sort of wild genre film that’s definitely worth keeping an eye on.

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Disney’s new animated movie set for a bumper opening weekend

The last time Walt Disney Animation released a movie, Raya and the Last Dragon managed to spend a whopping fourteen weeks in the domestic Top 10, even though the acclaimed adventure scored a simultaneous Disney Plus Premier Access release.

The outfit has been on a phenomenal critical and commercial hot streak for the last decade, delivering a string of massively popular titles that ranges from comic book adaptation Big Hero 6 to original story Zootopia, via Moana and the multi-billion dollar Frozen duology.

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‘Armageddon’ trends as NASA launches a rocket at an asteroid

One of the greatest things about Michael Bay’s Armageddon is the audio commentary on the home video release, thanks largely to Ben Affleck.

The actor positively tears the movie to shreds, and reveals that when he asked his director why they didn’t just train astronauts to drill instead of the other way around, which would have taken much less time and effort, he was promptly told to “shut the f*ck up”.

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Brendan Fraser rumored for ‘The Mummy 4’, but do we really want it?

When it comes to naming the most wholesome and beloved stars in the eyes of the online community, Brendan Fraser is right up there. The actor trends on a regular basis for no other reason than people absolutely love the guy, and he was even recently brought to the brink of tears after he was told that his fans continue to support him no matter what.

As fate would have it, Fraser’s career is now in the midst of a resurgence as his popularity continues to rise, and it’s not before time. The 52 year-old has Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, HBO Max’s DC blockbuster Batgirl and black comedy Brothers in the pipeline, but could he return to his most iconic role?

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KL Rahul, Mohammad Rizwan Advance in ICC Men's T20I Player Rankings

New Zealand's Martin Guptill has gained three slots to reach 10th position, scoring 152 runs against India while Rohit Sharma is 13th, gaining two places after topping the series with 159 runs.

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MTD vs OVR Dream11 Team Prediction: Check Captain, Vice-Captain, and Probable Playing XIs for ECS T10 Malta Encore 2021 match, November 24, 5:00 pm IST

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India vs New Zealand 2021: 'It's Not Always Scoring a Hundred; I Always Put Team First'-Ajinkya Rahane

India take on New Zealand in the first of the two match Test series which will begin in Kanpur on Friday.

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‘Red Notice’ is already Netflix’s 2nd most-watched movie ever

Netflix recently changed the way it measures audience data, moving away from the standard four-week metrics that count two minutes of streaming as a household having viewed a project in favor of cumulative hours watched, and it’s given a brand new insight into what really quantifies as a massive success for the platform.

One of the first casualties of the new system was Chris Hemsworth’s Extraction, which was dislodged as the most-watched in-house movie of all-time, as the bruising actioner’s 231 million total minutes saw it swap places with Sandra Bullock’s supernatural thriller Bird Box, which ascended to the throne with 281 million minutes.

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Christina Ricci starring in high concept cyberpunk sci-fi

Christina Ricci has been working solidly for over 30 years, but the actress finds herself in the midst of a mini resurgence thanks to the acclaim that’s greeted her role on Showtime series Yellowjackets, while she’s set for her biggest movie appearance in a while when The Matrix Resurrections comes to theaters and HBO Max next month.

As per Deadline, The Addams Family star is sticking with the genre for a little longer, having signed on to play a supporting part in the intriguing-sounding cyberbunk story The Dresden Sun, which is being written and directed by Michael Ryan.

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Kelsey Grammer says he’d love to play Beast again

As far as on-point casting goes, you can’t argue with Kelsey Grammer being hired to play Hank McCoy in the X-Men franchise, with the performance essentially requiring an extension of his Frasier persona, albeit with the caveat of spending hours in the makeup chair to be turned into a big, blue, furry mutant.

Despite how well-suited he was for the role, Grammer didn’t get much opportunity to make an impact as part of the superhero franchise. His screentime in both The Last Stand and Days of Future Past was limited, but he still did enough to leave an impression, even if Nicholas Hoult put his own stamp on the character as the younger version.

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