Voice actorJohn DiMaggio, who brought the alcoholic robot Bender to life in everyFuturamaepisode, won’t be back for therecently announced series revival. According to a statement published by DiMaggio on Twitter, the reason is that Hulu refused to negotiate proper payment for all returning cast members. Last week, Hulu announced the beloved sci-fi animated sitcomFuturamawould be back for a new 20-episode season, with original co-creatorsMatt GroeningandDavid X. Coheninvolved in the revival. The revival is also bringing back most of the leading voice cast, includingBilly Westas the voice of pizza boy Fry,Katey Sagalas the one-eyed badass Leela,Tress MacNeille,Maurice LaMarche,Lauren Tom,Phil LaMarr, andDavid Herman....

Guillermo del Toromay have won his first Oscar(s) forThe Shape of Water, but I’m of the opinion that his best work still lies ahead of him, and it might just be in the medium of animation. One studio that’s betting big on this prediction is DreamWorks Animation, a production house that’s been in the GDT businesssince at least 2010when their partnership included development of feature films and TV series. The deal lead to del Toro acting as creative consultant forKung Fu Panda 2andMegamindwith executive producer credits onRise of the Guardians,Puss in Boots,andKung Fu Panda 3....

Guillermo Del ToromadeOscarshistory tonight, as he became the first person in the awards' history to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Animated Feature. His adaption ofPinnochiotook home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature during the95th Academy Awards ceremony, allowing the Mexican filmmaker to get to a place where no other director has been before. During his acceptance speech, Del Toro mentioned the following: “Animation is cinema....

On the NBC seriesHeroes Reborn, a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas left the city decimated and those with extraordinary abilities, known as EVOs, were blamed for the event, leading them to go into hiding or on the run. As two of the people deeply and tragically affected by what happened in Odessa, Luke (Zachary Levi) and Joanne Collins (Judi Shekoni) have spent the last year seeking vengeance, even though it may actually be what ultimately tears them apart....

While fans were busy waiting to hear if and when there would be a new season ofLouie, creator/writer/director/starLouis C.K.pulled a fast one on us and dropped a brand new series on the internet, without so much as a single pre-release heads up. The result,Horace and Pete, was a new comedy-drama series released exclusively on the internet, and starred C.K. andSteve Buscemias the title characters, owners of a bar called Horace and Pete’s....

Questions abound in a trailer for Netflix’s soon-to-be-released limited series,Inventing Anna. Based on a true story, the series follows a white collar criminal who posed as a German heiress and fooled countless high brow New Yorkers while funneling money that wasn’t hers from the bank. While the party girl turned prisoner is awaiting trial, she’s interviewed by a reporter who seeks to unravel the web of lies surrounding the mysterious self-proclaimed socialite....

Last Wednesday,Lokidebuted its season finale, which thoroughly shocked fans with its surprise twist and frustratingly exciting cliffhanger. In order to celebrate the ending of the acclaimed first season, Marvel Studios released the final character poster for its “villain” that Loki and Sylvie take on —He Who Remains. UnlikeWandaVisionorThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier,Loki’s reveal launched more questions than answers, and ended on a very ambiguous cliffhanger (thank godthere’s a second season coming)....

With directorOl Parker’sTicket to Paradisenow playing in theaters, a few days ago I got to sit down withKaitlyn DeverandMaxime Bouttierto talk about their new romantic comedy. In the film,Julia RobertsandGeorge Clooneyplay a divorced couple who agree to put aside their differences to stop their lovestruck daughter (Dever) from marrying someone she just met (Bouttier). As you might expect, things do not go according to plan. During the interview, Dever and Bouttier talked about what they took away from working with Clooney and Roberts, why they were in awe watching them perform the beer pong and dancing scene, which of their friends and family were the most excited they were in a film with Julia and George, and what someone should watch if they’ve never seen their work....

For the better part of the last decade, Marvel Studios has been building their cinematic universe. Through solo films, crossovers and team-ups, we’ve followed the Avengers and their ilk on their journeys, watching the characters grow and evolve along the way. WithCaptain America: Civil War, much of that set-up comes to a head in a superhero showdown that pits two of their franchise headliners –Chris Evans' Captain America andRobertDowney Jr.’s Iron Man – against each other in a battle that is both ideological and strikingly personal....

Period piece or not,Lily Jamesis a talented actress but she’s certainly made a name for herself tackling challenging prose and donning elaborate dresses thanks toDownton AbbeyandCinderella. Now, however, she’s adding something else to the equation - daggers. James leadsBurr Steers’ big screen adaptation ofPride and Prejudice and Zombiesas Elizabeth Bennet. Similar toJane Austen’s novel, Elizabeth is one of five sisters living in 19th century England, feeling the pressure to find and marry an eligible bachelor....

The new year is here, which means the very first premiere Friday of 2023 is upon us with the arrival of Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster’sM3GAN. Fromthe first trailer drop– nay,the first mentionof producerJames Wan’s involvement – fans have been anxiously anticipating the new AI horror’s debut. WhetherM3GANwill be a new genre icon is still yet to be determined, but the camp is undeniable, and according to Wan, she may already be looking at her very own sequel....

The Snowmanmay have just landed one of the hottest actors in Hollywood inMichael Fassbender. New reports have theX-Men: Apocalypsestar in talks to join theTomas Aflredson-directed adaptation ofJo Nesbø’sNorwegian crime novel. The thriller is the seventh in Nesbø’s book series that centers on Detective Harry Hole (not a typo), described as brilliant, driven, and unorthodox, serving as a classic “loose cannon” cop character.The Snowmanfinds Hole investigating the disappearance of a young boy’s mother....

History is horror inTed Geoghegan’sMohawk; a brutal, angry revenge thriller that takes a familiar format in new directions while wearing its wounded, political heart on its sleeve. Far removed from the domestic depression and supernatural terrors of Geoghegan’s impressive directorial debutWe Are Still Here,Mohawktakes us to the woods of New York during the war of 1812, where the wartime violence boils over in a cavalcade of atrocities. The film starsKaniehtiio Hornas Oak, the daughter of a Mohawk tribe leader engaged in a polyamorous relationship with two men; her fellow tribesman Calvin Two Rivers (Justin Rain) and a British arms dealer sympathetic to the Native American plight, Joshua Pinsmail (Eamon Farren)....