In a video posted on Twitter late last night, actor John Cusack can be seen getting harassed and even attacked by police officers simply for watching and filming the ongoing civil unrest in Chicago. Cusack is one of several celebrities who've participated in the nationwide protests that began earlier this week in response to the death of George Floyd, and the institutionalized racism which caused it.
You know the drill at this point. The coronavirus has shut down production and distribution of original content worldwide, which includes those that are financed by Netflix. Fortunately for the streamer, however, its business model allows the company to scavenge all of entertainment history for undiscovered gems and present them to the quarantined masses. In fact, quite a few interesting titles hit the platform this week, and here's the best of what arrived over the past few days.
In a recent discussion, a group of financial analysts argued that Disney might cancel the theatrical release of Mulan if cinemas fail to open nationwide.
Whether you love him so much you feature him in memes, or hate him for all the memes he's been featured in, there's no denying that The Mandalorian owes much of its popularity to the adorable design of Baby Yoda.
According to Grace Randolph, there's a solid chance we may never get to see another live-action Harley Quinn movie again. In a Tweet, the popular YouTuber and veteran leaker reported that sources close to her had informed there are no talks going on at Warner Bros. for future films revolving around the Clown Princess of Crime.
Sick and tired of waiting for news regarding the Harry Potter RPG whose gameplay footage was seemingly leaked over two years ago, members of the r/HarryPotterGame subreddit took to scanning every bit of information available on rumored developer Avalanche Software's website, and lost it when one of them discovered what appears to be a Harry Potter book stashed away underneath one of the employers' desks.
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, not to be confused with the new Fox drama series about the creation of a Christian television network Filthy Rich, is a docuseries about the life, death and afterlife of Jeffrey Epstein that premiered on Netflix earlier this week. Given the highly topical subject matter, it was only to be expected that the show would elicit some strong emotions from viewers, and elicit strong emotions it did.
According to sources close to WGTC - the same ones who told us that Percy Jackson is being rebooted as a streaming series and Ahsoka Tano will be in The Mandalorian season 2, both of which we now know to be correct - Netflix is setting up their upcoming live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender to be the streamer's equivalent of HBO's Game of Thrones.
It's a good time to be alive for fans of DC comics. Roughly a week ago, it was announced that the fabled Snyder Cut, an extended version of 2017's Justice League, was coming to HBO Max next year. As if this bit of news wasn't thrilling enough on its own, last night we learned that actor Henry Cavill would reprise his role as Superman - and the Twitter community couldn't be happier about it.
