Less than a week after Disney+ launched, hackers wasted no time getting into users' accounts. ZDNet discovered several instances of subscribers complaining online about being locked out of their account. Thousands of accounts were hacked, customers credentials were stolen and put up for sale on the dark web. The information was either offered for free on hacking forms, or was sold for prices between $3 to $11, according to the […]
Willem Dafoe refused to open up during an interview with IndieWire in May about his experience working on “Aquaman” (IndieWire’s Eric Kohn wrote that Dafoe’s eyes “curled into slits and darkened” when asked about the superhero film), but he got a bit more honest on the topic at a recent 92Y interview while promoting “The Lighthouse.” Dafoe became an especially recognizable face in Hollywood after starring as Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man,” but the […]
The James Comey miniseries has cast Kingsley Ben-Adir to play former president Barack Obama, a spokesperson for CBS Studios confirmed to TheWrap. The series also set Brian d’Arcy James (“Spotlight”) to play former FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano; Steve Zissis (“Togetherness”) will to play former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker, and Shawn Doyle (“House of Cards”) will play the assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap. Ben-Adir’s previous roles […]
Disney+ arrived with seven chapters of the Skywalker saga, but people have started to notice something strange about the first Star Wars film, A New Hope:it has an entirely different edit than the ones fans have seen before. The change was “made by George made prior to the Disney acquisition,” a Disney representative told The Verge. The new edit, which was first spotted by the Star Wars Visual Comparisons Twitter account, features an entirely new insert […]
Acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch is a staple in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Here’s what we know about the upcoming film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and the information Cumberbatch recently shared about the sequel. How Benedict Cumberbatch became famous Cumberbatch got his start in his native U.K. in the early ’00s. He appeared in numerous theater productions, including the 2011 run of Frankenstein at the Royal National Theatre. Cumberbatch also made a splash on […]
Tickets for the new Martin Scorsese drama, The Irishman, are being listed forcrazy high prices on third party sites like StubHub. The critically acclaimed gangster movie reunites Robert De Niro with his Godfather Part II co-star, Al Pacino, and his Goodfellas and Casino co-star, Joe Pesci. The Irishman's high-profile cast also includes Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin, and Bobby Carnnavale. Scorsese surprised Hollywood by announcing his next big crime drama would release on Netflix's streaming service rather than through a traditional theatrical release. In order to be qualified for […]
The new trailer for Avengers: Endgame, which Marvel Studios released Thursday, offers a few more hints ahead of our next trip to the Marvel Cinematic Universe on April 26. Thanos may have snapped half the population to dust in Avengers: Infinity War, but that doesn't mean the fight is over ahead of Endgame. The trailer opens with a stranded-in-space Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) recording a message for his Earth-bound fiancee Pepper Potts, reminiscing about his first […]
Did you know that almost every James Bond movie is on Netflix? You'd be forgiven if you didn't; Netflix sometimes makes it hard to find what's available to stream, and the service quietly added the bulk of the film franchise to its platform in recent months (with the exception of the three most recent films starring Daniel Craig as 007 and 1983's Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery). That's 21 Bond movies to […]
Netflix gave "Roma" its most robust theatrical release so far. But it could have grossed as much as $20 million. “Roma” won three top Oscars for Netflix. Though falling short of the elusive Best Picture, those recognitions were the first for a film that received its primary distribution from a streaming platform. It also confirmed that these films can be top Oscar competitors, and further mainstreamed the idea that a movie […]
