Enlarge / John Cena shows he has some dramatic chops as well as comedic timing in Peacemaker. (credit: HBO Max) We had our doubts about Peacemaker, the HBO Max spinoff series based on John Cena’s character from 2021’s The Suicide Squad. But I’m happy to report that those doubts were entirely unfounded. Series creator James Gunn has […]
Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi star as Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard, respectively, in HBO Max’s new comedy series, Our Flag Means Death. HBO Max has released the full official trailer for Our Flag Means Death, the streaming platform’s new period comedy, featuring Taika Waititi’s hilariously deadpan portrayal of the infamous 18th-century pirate Blackbeard. As I’ve written […]
The first teaser trailer for Amazon’s new original series Lord of the Rings: The Rings associated with Power is here. The Super Bowl brought us our 1st eye-popping teaser for Lord of the Bands: The Rings of Power , Amazon Studio’s prequel fantasy series. Until late last week, Amazon had kept pretty much every detail […]
Benedict Cumberbatch travels across realities in the forthcoming film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness\ . Marvel Studios dropped a spectacularly psychedelic new trailer for the particular upcoming Doctor Strange within the Multiverse of Madness just as the Super Bowl was getting underway. (Some spoilers for prior installments in the MCEU below. ) As […]
Jordan Peele is out to re-imagine the summer movie with his new horror film Nope , coming to theaters July 22. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, when Hollywood traditionally drops several high-profile trailers for upcoming major films and TV series. This year, the marketing frenzy kicks off with the first trailer for Jordan Peele’s forthcoming horror […]
Enlarge / Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen (supposedly) star as Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, respectively, in The Book of Boba Fett . (credit: Disney+) When The Book of Boba Fett was still in production, creator Jon Favreau jokingly dubbed the spinoff series ” The Mandalorian season 2. 5. ” It turns out that wasn’t really […]
Enlarge / Ewan MacGregor stars in the hotly anticipated spinoff series Obi-Wan Kenobi, debuting on Disney+ on May 25, 2022. (credit: Disney+) Disney+ has dropped new poster art and announced a release date for its highly anticipated Star Wars spinoff series Obi-Wan Kenobi. The first episode will drop on the streaming platform on May 25, […]
Chris Evans voices a young Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s forthcoming Lightyear. We have a shiny new trailer for Lightyear, the latest animated feature from Pixar. It’s a spinoff from the studio’s hugely successful Toy Story franchise, with Chris Evans replacing Tim Allen as the voice of titular protagonist Buzz Lightyear. (The character’s name honors Apollo […]
Amanda Seyfried stars as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s new original series, The Dropout. Regular Ars readers have no doubt been following our ongoing coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial. The disgraced Theranos founder’s meteoric rise and equally rapid fall has already been the subject of a 2018 nonfiction book and the HBO documentary […]
The Orville: New Horizons returns, after a nearly three-year hiatus, to its new home on Hulu. We’re unabashed fans of The Orville here at Ars Technica, and like everyone else, we’ve keenly felt the absence of the series following its explosive S2 finale way back in April 2019. We thought we were getting a third […]