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A fan theory about the MCU version of Asgard could create a connection between Thor's lost home world and a major Phase 4 setting. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings was an interesting addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, introducing audiences to a slew of new characters with very few concrete connections to previous heroes. The film quietly teased a lot of mysteries surrounding the powers and elements inherent to realms like Ta Lo and weapons like the Ten Rings, mysteries that have remained unsolved at the time of this writing regarding their origins and connections to the rest of the universe. But some clever fan theories might offer some unique explanations. One theory, in particular, suggests that while Ta Lo didn't debut until Phase Four of the MCU, its world may have debuted far earlier. From Reddit user Subject89P13_, it suggests that Ta Lo might actually be located in the realm of Vanaheim -- one of the Nine Realms connected to Asgard. It's an interesti

Ahsoka showed the cracks in the New Republic once again. But it may also prove how the government Mon Mothma made could lead to her downfall. Star Wars' most important battles were, for the most part, fought during the Galactic Civil War. But of the many battlefields, one that was never discussed was the political realm. As the Rebels took the fight to the Empire, Senator Mon Mothma played both sides as she tried to make a difference on the political spectrum while playing multiple angles behind the scenes. But as Ahsoka showed, even a hero like Mothma wasn't immune to the faults of the New Republic that were born after the Empire. Mothma is one of Star Wars' most complex characters, as her early years showed her as a fighter who couldn't stand the injustice of the Empire and the atrocities that resulted from its reign. But once the Empire was defeated, the New Republic grew to become so against conflict and villainy that they left themselves open to attack from splinte

Rapper Travis Scott expresses interest in scoring the eagerly-awaited Marvel Cinematic Universe do-over of the Blade franchise. Travis Scott recently put himself forward for the currently vacant composer role on Marvel Studios' upcoming Blade reboot. Rapper, singer/songwriter, and producer Scott expressed interest in overseeing Blade's score in a post on X. "Woke up thinking I would love to do the soundtrack to Blade," he wrote. Scott is certainly no stranger to film productions, having starred in, and developed music for, 2021's Gully. The musician also signed a movie development deal with independent studio A24 in August 2021. That said, there's no indication that Scott and Marvel Studios have actually discussed the possibility of him contributing to Blade's soundtrack at this stage. It's also worth noting that even if Scott were to land the Blade gig, it's unlikely he'd be working on the project any time soon. The reboot, which will mark the

Ahsoka star Diana Lee Inosanto explains how filming The Mandalorian prepared her for the spinoff series' grueling fight scenes and choreography. Speaking about preparing for her starring role in Ahsoka, actor Diana Lee Inosanto explained how shooting The Mandalorian first was incredibly beneficial. When asked about how she trained for the fight sequences in Ahsoka on the Dagobah Dispatch podcast, Inosanto explained how taxing they can be. "We had about 17 hours to kick out that fight scene between Rosario and me [in The Mandalorian]. Whereas this time around, we had days at it. Let’s just say that," the actor said. "There were days at it for that fight scene. It’s a long, involved fight scene. It’s pretty intense. There’s so much action involved in this. I don’t want to say too much, but there are some incredible moments between all of us… A lot of what I did in The Mandalorian served me well in Ahsoka." Introduced in The Mandalorian Season 2, Inosanto plays the

Scooby-Doo has more than earned its status as one of the greatest kids franchises. In the 1990s, the franchise was revitalized for a new generation. Since 1969, Scooby-Doo has been one of the most enduring, successful and treasured Saturday morning cartoons in TV and film history. With dozens of movies and thirteen cartoon series, it's one of the best examples of a classic franchise being handed down between generations of fans. While it has undergone many incarnations and styles, the 1990s saw the greatest revitalization of the franchise since it started. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? premiered in September 1969 with its pilot episode, "What A Knight For A Night." Hanna-Barbera gave younger audiences something fresh in the Saturday morning cartoon genre: a horror show. Of course, this wasn't in any way graphic or violent, but it was on par with the kinds of horror films that were popular in the decades prior, such as the movies of Vincent Price. The franchise has since

One day after it was revealed that Steve Harwell was in hospice care, it was announced that the former Smash Mouth singer passed away. Singer Steve Harwell, best known as a co-founder and original singer for the band Smash Mouth, has passed away. On Sunday, it was publicly announced that Harwell had entered hospice care. His manager confirmed that the singer was in the final stages of liver failure and had been given roughly a week to live. A day later, it was reported that Harwell died on Monday morning at his Boise, Idaho home, and it's noted that he died "peacefully and comfortably" while surrounded by family and friends. He was 56 years old. Harwell is very well known for serving as the lead singer for Smash Mouth from its inception in 1994 until his retirement two years ago. The group's most popular song is likely "All Star," made even more famous with its inclusion in the movie Shrek along with Mystery Men. The group's cover of The Monkees' &qu

Supergirl and the Martian Manhunter go to Hell to face off against the monstrous Doomsday but find one thing lacking in their endeavor: Hope. Superman is known for bringing hope to the DC universe. Whether it is helping a calamity-stricken town on Earth or inspiring an entire enslaved race on Warworld, Superman is there to help. But if there is anything that strikes fear in him, it is Doomsday. The monstrous being is one of insatiable bloodlust, responsible for one of the Man of Steel's most deadly encounters. Doomsday recently tried to resurrect himself during the Lazarus Planet crossover. He was stopped and sent to Hell by the Martian Manhunter (along with an unfortunate but ultimately heroic empath named Raphael Arce). Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #1, written by Dan Watters with artwork from Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Max Raynor, Adriano Lucas, and Andrew Dalhouse and lettering from Dave Sharpe, prepares Hell for another round of this face-off. Action Comics Presen

The Haunted Mansion has seemingly caused divisions between audiences and critics, but it's fair to say its greatest flaw is also its best feature. Haunted Mansion represents Disney's latest attempt to take a ride from its parks and adapt it to the big screen. While Pirates of the Caribbean has been a major success, Jungle Cruise failed to capture the imagination of audiences, and financially, Haunted Mansion is following suit. While the narrative is a strong one, and Disney fans have a lot of love for the original park attraction, somehow, that enthusiasm hasn't fully been translated to the box office numbers. A huge reason for Haunted Mansion's lack of attention is linked to Hollywood's obsession with dropping Halloween movies outside of the Fall season. However, there is another divisive factor that should be taken into account when analyzing Haunted Mansion's performance. Hardcore fans are truly responding to the adaptation, while mainstream audiences aren

The third episode of Ahsoka featured a subtle nod to a group of Jedi whom Star Wars fans have dubbed Yoda's "Disaster Lineage." So, who are they? With its third episode, Ahsoka has given audiences a first look at Sabine Wren's Jedi training. The latest Star Wars series to come to Disney+ revealed that at some point after the end of Star Wars Rebels, Ahsoka Tano reunited with Sabine and took her on as a Padawan learner. Sabine has yet to demonstrate any capability in using the Force. Although Ahsoka has told her that the Force resides in all living things and that with adequate training and focus, anyone can wield it, Sabine is still struggling to master any Jedi abilities, owing in part to her more headstrong Mandalorian background. While Ahsoka remains committed to Sabine's Jedi training, the lightsaber architect droid Professor Huyang has shown less confidence in Ahsoka's new student. Ahsoka, Episode 3, "Time to Fly," saw Ahsoka disappointed to lea

The Wild Magic Sorcerer is D&D 5e's most chaotic subclass, but it can still be optimized for maximum impact in and out of combat. The sorcerer is an inherently chaotic Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition class. In the lore, sorcerers develop magic by accident of birth or through some innate change to their being rather than through worship or study. The D&D 5e Wild Magic Sorcerous Origin doubles down on this chaos by infusing utter randomness into almost every ability. A Wild Magic sorcerer's abilities in D&D 5e hinge on a d100 roll with 50 different potential effects, which has a chance to happen every time they cast a spell. This inherent randomness makes the class deliberately hard to optimize. Nonetheless, players can take a few steps to make an effective Wild Magic sorcerer build in D&D 5e. Perks Of A Wild Magic Sorcerer Build The Wild Magic sorcerer inherently appeals to D&D 5e players who enjoy randomness. Its unpredictability makes it challenging to

Voice actor Junya Enoki, who plays series protagonist Yuji Itadori in the Jujutsu Kaisen anime, announces he was diagnosed with COVID-19. Voice actor Junya Enoki, who is best known for his role as Yuji Itadori in the hit shonen anime series Jujutsu Kaisen, tested positive for COVID-19. Enoki's affiliated talent management agency, Atomic Monkey, announced that the voice actor was diagnosed with the notorious respiratory virus. Enoki reportedly sought out medical assistance when he began to feel unwell sometime before Sept. 1. A PCR test was conducted shortly after, and the results confirmed he had contracted COVID, though Atomic Monkey notably did not reveal the severity of the voice actor's symptoms. The agency additionally reported Enoki will be stepping back from his work to focus on his health for the foreseeable future and will remain in the care of medical professionals while he recuperates. The agency also stated Enoki will no longer attend two scheduled events due to his

The Equalizer 3's Antoine Fuqua says audiences should consider Denzel Washington's Robert McCall a good man despite the brutality of his methods. The Equalizer 3 director Antoine Fuqua recently weighed in on whether protagonist Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) should be considered a hero, given his violent actions throughout the franchise. Fuqua insisted that McCall ultimately belongs on the side of the angels in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "Yeah, [McCall's] a good man," he said. "It took him a while to get there, but he is a good man... The end justifies the means. He did it for the right reasons." Fuqua is presumably alluding to the various people who benefited from McCall's brutal form of justice across the three Equalizer installments, such as Ralphie (Johnny Skourtis) and Alina/Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), although the director also made it clear that he never intended to include these characters in the trilogy's final chapter.

Star Wars: Rebels introduced a strange new character with a mysterious connection to the Force--and Ahsoka needs to bring him back. Ahsoka has finally begun premiering on Disney+, giving audiences a new taste of what's to come in the future of the Star Wars franchise. The new limited series follows the former Jedi Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she teams up with the main cast of Star Wars: Rebels, including General Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) to combat a rising threat in the galaxy. The series also promises to reintroduce Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi)--drawing even more connections between itself and Rebels. Ahsoka is a spiritual sequel to Star Wars: Rebels, bringing back many of the same characters, locations, and storylines from the animated series. The new Disney+ show directly seeks to answer the questions left behind by Rebels' shocking series finale, keeping the two Star Wars serie

Simon Kinberg opens up about how he planned to tackle the script for James Mangold's unrealized Star Wars spinoff headlined by Boba Fett. Former Star Wars screenwriter Simon Kinberg recently discussed the pitch for Logan director James Mangold's unmade R-rated Boba Fett movie. Kinberg, who co-created Star Wars Rebels and served as a consultant on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, touched on Mangold's unrealized Boba Fett spinoff in an interview with Polygon. Asked about rumors that the project would've taken the Star Wars franchise in a more hard sci-fi direction, Kinberg indicated that this was indeed the case. "I mean, it's all pretty sci-fi, but I think 'hard' is the right word," he said. "Tonally like Logan. On the edge of R-rated, though I don't think you'd have a Star Wars movie that could be R-rated." Kinberg's comments track with recent remarks by Mangold, who described his abandoned Boba F

Morgan Elsbeth stole equipment to build the Eye of Sion, but the third episode of Ahsoka hints not all of it went to the megastructure. The Eye of Sion is a huge capital ship in Ahsoka, one that takes the form of a hyperspace docking ring from the days of the Jedi. It requires an immense amount of materials to be built, and it of course needs several hyperdrives to get to the new galaxy, Peridea. Morgan Elsbeth managed to steal these hyperdrives from right under the New Republic's nose, using Imperial loyalists working at the Corellian Shipyards to take nine hyperdrives that were broken down from Imperial Super Star Destroyers (SSD). But the third episode of Ahsoka reveals that only seven of these nine hyperdrives were used in the construction of the Eye of Sion, three on each side and one on the bottom. Two SSD hyperdrives have been left out of the behemoth's construction, kept in reserve for something else. The true purpose of these spare hyperdrives will likely be revealed l

Bottoms director Emma Seligman reveals how sports legend Marshawn Lynch saw his role as a chance for redemption, portraying the eccentric Mr. G. Marshawn Lynch was thinking of his past alongside Bottoms' young up-and-comers, portraying "out of pocket" teacher Mr. G to right a historic wrong. Via GQ, Bottoms director Emma Seligman revealed that Lynch's appeal was just being himself, recalling the time she pitched the film to him. "You’re so unique and hilarious and it would be so f****** cool to have you in this movie and bring an audience that otherwise wouldn’t see it!" she says. "I just think you’d be really funny in it and play off these girls really well!'” Seligman previously described the difficulties in cutting through to Bottoms' target audience. While Lynch was a challenge to convince, there was personal motivation on his behalf to take up the role. "He still thought I was crazy—or not that he thought I was crazy, he just didn’t un

The Equalizer 3 director Antoine Fuqua spills the beans on Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning's relationship and how they reunited for the movie. The Equalizer 3 director Antoine Fuqua opens up about how Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning reunited for another action-packed movie. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Fuqua was asked about who set up Fanning and Washington’s on-screen reunion in The Equalizer 3. The director responded, “It came from Dakota’s manager. She called Todd Black, the producer, and then Todd called me. So I had a meeting with Dakota, l loved her, and then I called Denzel to see how he felt. And he loved her, he loved the idea, and that’s how it all came about. It was exciting to see them come together.” The pair starred together in the late Tony Scott's Man on Fire in 2004. The Equalizer 3 makes Fuqua tied with Scott for the most collaborations with Washington at five movies. Fuqua also opened up about the chemistry between Fanning and Washin

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon producer Greg Nicotero reveals the original location and story for the upcoming spinoff. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon producer Greg Nicotero confirmed that the upcoming Norman Reedus spinoff wasn’t originally going to take place outside the U.S. In an interview with EW, Nicotero opened up about the initial plans for the Daryl Dixon series, revealing that The Walking Dead spinoff would have originally featured the fan-favorite character traveling to the Midwest. "It was going to be Daryl going across the country like through New Mexico or the Midwest," he said. "And it was kind of like a Then Came Bronson or The Fugitive or Kung Fu — a stranger in a strange land. In every episode, he would come in contact with people that would change his life, and he would change their life. And that was where this whole show stemmed from. It was something that Norman was super passionate about." Following the series finale of The Walking Dead last Nov

Netflix doesn't have a great track record with anime adaptations, but it had enough faith in One Piece to set up an epic second season. One Piece is one of the most expansive stories ever, spanning over 1,000 manga chapters and 1,000 anime episodes. But when Netflix began its journey to adapt Eiichiro Oda's epic tale, there was no way it was going to fit even a fraction of what the series' first saga, the East Blue Saga, covered. That led to some things being cut, but despite having to trim down the material, One Piece still took time to prepare for another outing. After defeating Arlong and freeing Coco Village, the Straw Hats ran into trouble when Vice Admiral Garp and his band of Marines showed up to arrest them. He was really after his grandson, Luffy, who he didn't believe was ready to head out to the Grand Line in search of the One Piece. But Luffy proved in a battle with Garp that he wasn't going to back down from him or anyone else he might meet along the wa

Saw X helmer Kevin Greutert shared his thoughts on a potential Saw 11 and beyond. While Saw X will likely not be getting a direct sequel, the director of the tenth installment of the Saw series still believes the popular horror franchise will continue. Set to hit theaters on Sept. 29, Saw X goes back to the roots of the franchise, as it's a prequel set in between the first and second movies. That allowed for Tobin Bell to return once again as John "Jigsaw" Kramer. It also essentially makes Saw II serve as the follow-up to Saw X, and for director Kevin Greutert, that also makes it unnecessary for his new film to get a sequel. Speaking with SFX Magazine (per GamesRadar), Greutert explained how Saw X is a standalone film with no "obvious" idea for a sequel, but if the film makes money, the movie series will still likely continue on. "There’s no obvious new direction to go after this film. But I think there probably will be more Saw movies, particularly if this