The Final Trailer for Rings of Power is here...

The Rings of Power

Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung by the finest of threads, and the greatest villain that ever flowed from Tolkien’s pen threatened to cover all the world in darkness. Beginning in a time of relative peace, the series follows an ensemble cast of characters, both familiar and new, as they confront the long-feared re-emergence of evil to Middle-earth. From the darkest depths of the Misty Mountains, to the majestic forests of the elf-capital of Lindon, to the breathtaking island kingdom of Númenor, to the furthest reaches of the map, these kingdoms and characters will carve out legacies that live on long after they are gone.

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Join us in Middle-earth on September 2.

Rings of Power Trailer gets DESTROYED with Hilarious Comments!

 

When Galadriel pulled out her lightsaber and said, "Wakanda forever" sent shivers up my spine. Tolkien couldn't have written anything better

- V. Lighting

When Gollum dropped the ring and said his trademark, "Did I do that?" while pushing in his glasses and snapping his suspenders, it brought tears to my eyes.. so faithfully adapted from Tolkien's writings.

- fiveironbrad

When Galadriel stood face to face with the Balrog watching it twirl it's sword and whip around with jaw-dropping skill and dexterity and then she pulls the revolver from her hip and shoots it before turning nonchalantly away.... Just cinematic gold and so true to Tolkiens vision! Extraordinary!

- Mr Agincourt

My favourite scene was when Galadriel and Elrond were talking about Cheesburgers in France, threatend some guys and retreved the MacGuffin. And I especially loved it, when Galadriel quoted Ezekiel 25:17 and then they shot those wannebe gansters.

- MurphysLawBroker

I loved it when Elrond asks her “What is your last name?” And she turns around with a grin, replying “Skywalker. Galadriel Skywalker.”

- Major Gear

I'm so proud that the creators truly know the original Tolkien lore, the moment when Sauron sank the Titanic was a cathartic moment indeed. Literal chills.

- Teuton89

When the young Anakin dons his ring, charges into battle and proudly exclaims, "Now THIS is ring crafting!" I was overwhelmed with emotion

- Fattiger

Absolutely loved it when the five rings of the Olympics were revealed as the Rings of Power and the War was decided through peaceful athletic contest. I almost cried when Sauron won the sailboat race and Elrond dominated in table tennis. So classic Tolkien.

- 44holmez

When Galadriel said with a dramatic pause "And I ... am all the Jedi", it was just perfection. 

- George was right 

Animated Short Film: "The Naked King"

The Naked King -What a Beautiful Life-

One day, a devil jealous of the human world and society, falls from the sky and is rescued by a kind human.

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A Story of Love, Loss, and Grief...

A little girl waves good-bye to her parents as she goes to school. Later that day, there is a report of an Active Shooter at the school. The parents receive a text message from their daughter:

If anything happens i love you

 

It is the last message they would ever receive.

 

This animated short film is Recommended Viewing. It runs 12 minutes long but delivers a powerful message about love and loss. At the 93rd Academy Awards, it received the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It is currently streaming on NETFLIX.

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Two parents begin to grow separated from one another following the death of their preteen daughter. Though they refuse to speak to one another in person, both parents are watched over by shadows expressing their true emotions. While the father goes outside, the mother thinks about entering her daughter's old bedroom, though she stops herself due to overpowering grief and sadness.

While doing laundry, the mother begins to cry after realizing she has washed her daughter's shirt. She sits near the washing machine, causing a soccer ball to fall down and open her daughter's bedroom, which also rolls onto a record player, playing the song "1950". The mother decides to enter the room, where she later reunites with her husband. While "1950" continues to play in the background, a shadow representing their daughter pops out of the record player, and the parents begin to remember events in their daughter's life.

In a series of flashbacks, the parents see their daughter grow up: developing a love for soccer, celebrating her 10th birthday, and experiencing her first kiss. In the final flashback, the daughter leaves her parents to attend school. Knowing what is about to happen, the shadows of the parents attempt to stop her from entering the premises, but, this being a memory, they fail. Inside the school, the daughter is shot and killed during a school shooting, with her final text to her parents being "If anything happens I love you".

As the shadows of the parents grow apart, the shadow of the daughter brings them together, forcing the real parents to see the good memories they were able to experience with their daughter when she was alive. In the present, the parents hug, and the daughter's shadow becomes a bright light in between the shadows of her grieving parents. 

PRODUCTION:
According to writers Will McCormack and Michael Govier, who became friends at an acting school, the initial idea for the film came from a meeting between the two at Griffith Park, where Govier thought about making a film where shadows represented emotions people couldn't reach. McCormack agreed, opining it is a "powerful" premise. The goal of the film was to show "the grief that still lingers on in the community, even though maybe the news cycle has left them, and what that grief looks like." To direct the film, the pair met with several parents who had lost their children to school shootings and gun violence in the United States, aware of the sensitive subject matter. The pair also worked closely with Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action, allowing the organizations to share their own feedback on the film's script and amplify its overall theme.

From the very beginning it was always going to be an animated film. We just thought a live-action version of this would be way too intense. We thought animation was the perfect gateway to have these deep conversations about loss and grief.

— Govier on deciding to expand the project into an animated film

To bring out their self-funded idea as an animated film, the pair first met with producer Maryann Garger. Soon after, If Anything Happens I Love You began production in late 2018, with animation taking place from April 2019 to the December of that same year. In total, twenty-eight people worked on the short film, including Youngran Nho, Haein Michelle Heo, and Julia Gomes Rodrigues, who used TVPaint Animation to animate the project. Production concluded in February 2020. To address the importance of diversity and representation in animation, the short was animated, composed, and lead-produced by an all-female crew.

The film was produced by Govier, who wrote the 12-page script for the short film with McCormack in a year. Shortly after, Nho was hired while she was attending the California Institute of the Arts to work as an animator and artistic director on the short, having been recommended by professor Maija Burnett, using the black-and-white palette from the Academy Award-winning short film Father and Daughter as inspiration. According to Nho, the film's background consisted of watercolor on paper to make the story feel "raw" and "unfinished," mentioning that the film attempted to have minimum color in its background to match the "emptiness that fills [the] grieving parents."

According to McCormack and Govier, the pair wanted to tell a story through anthropomorphic shadows, and as a result, multiple sequences were not drawn with "full technicolor" as they wanted to "illustrate and explore grief" in the short film. To keep in touch with Nho and the rest of the crew, McCormack and Govier used the software Slack to communicate, "critiquing and confirming each other's work in real-time."

Most of the film's score was composed by Lindsay Marcus, with the "Beautiful Dreamer" sequence of the film being arranged and performed by the Inner-City Youth Orchestra of LA run by Charles Dickerson. In an interview for Animation Scoop, McCormack revealed that the song "1950" was chosen for the film because the pair were listening to it while searching for music for the short. Also produced by Gary Gilbert and Gerald Chamales, the film was edited by Peter Ettinger on Adobe Premiere Pro.

The next chapter in the Mortal Kombat saga...

Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind

The Storm is Coming. Enjoy this exclusive first look.

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Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind is an upcoming 2022 American direct-to-video adult animated martial arts film, produced and directed by Rick Morales from a screenplay by Jeremy Adams, based on the Mortal Kombat franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias, while serving as the third installment of the Legends subline and a direct sequel to Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms.

What's this about She-Hulk?

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Jennifer Walters has a complicated life as a single, 30-something attorney

who also happens to be a green 6-foot-7-inch super-powered hulk.

Here's that cringe moment when Jennifer complains to Bruce Banner (Hulk) about how hard it is to be a woman and that she is "great at controlling her anger" (better than him) because all her adult life she has undergone humiliating catcalls and incompetent men talking down to her about her own job.

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Well, it turns out some fans didn't take too kindly to Jen's complaints:

Not to get all nerdy, but what makes this monologue even worse is that Bruce Banner has faced astronomically more hardship than She-Hulk could even imagine. His mind was broken to pieces by a physically abusive father who literally beat Bruce's mother to death RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. He also tried to kill himself but the Hulk would not allow him to, forcing him to continue living through the horrors of being the Hulk and constantly being on the run from the entire U.S. military. He's also suffered innumerable losses, either as an Avenger or in his own personal life. But sure, Jennifer Walters gets catcalled on the street. Boo hoo       

- Jakurz

“Self-pity is her super power.” Finally a superhero that everyone can identify with.     

- Jeff Stumpf

I can't believe any writers really thought that the daily life of a woman is actually greater rage inducing than losing the one you love, being trapped inside a monster you can't control, being shot into space against your will, being enslaved, being defeated by the person about to genocide half the galaxy, and being Mark Ruffalo.      

- SuperEdo07

 

The show follows the typical woke pattern: In order to prop up their woke heroes, all previous heroes (their mentors) who actually earned their battle-scars and have proven themselves worthy over the years (like the Hulk), must now be brought down and humiliated because woke is of course SUPERIOR even though they have done NOTHING to earn it. Here we see Bruce Banner in his Hulk form telling Jennifer Walters that her blood was able to heal his arm (the one damaged during the SNAP with Thanos). Jen's response is snippy: "Oh, because I'm better than you?"

▶ Watch the Clip Below. Let the Humiliation Commence!

This character is so unlikable, it makes the entire show unbearable.

 

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law currently garners an

Audience Score of 64% on RottenTomatoes.com at the time of this post.

 

 

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Sandman Surprise Bonus Episode Drops On Netflix

The Sandman Surprise Bonus Episode

Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.

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A special bonus episode has just been added to the Netflix series. This new episode contains 2 stories: "Dream of a Thousand Cats" (which is cgi animated) and "Calliope."

THIS GAME IS SCARY REALISTIC

HOUSE OF ASHES (PS5)

Deep underground, something evil has awakened.

Descend into the underworld of Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, also known simply as House of Ashes, is a 2021 interactive drama and survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is the third installment in The Dark Pictures Anthology, after Man of Medan and Little Hope.

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During the invasion of Iraq in May 2003, USAF Lt. Col. Eric King arrives at Camp Slayer in Baghdad to debrief a team of Force Recon Marines, who are led by CIA officer and Eric's distant wife Rachel King, about a mission to raid a village in the Arabian Desert. Eric believes he has found a facility underneath the village that stores Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons. The team includes Rachel's lover Sgt. Nick Kay and Nick's squad leader 1st Lt. Jason Kolchek. Other minor characters on the team are Cpl. Nathan Merwin, LCpl. José "Joey" Gomez, and Eric's assistant Dr. Clarice Stokes. Meanwhile, Iraqi Republican Guard soldier Lt. Salim Othman returns home and searches for his son Zain, carrying a birthday gift for him, but his commanding officer Cpt. Dar Basri forces Salim to intercept the raid led by Eric. Salim's squad ambushes the US troops when they arrive but several sinkholes plunge everybody into the ancient Akkadian temple, which is now buried beneath the sand.

There... in the darkness, true Evil has awakened...

Obi-Wan Kenobi: Luke Was SWITCHED for Leia

Oops. Ewan McGregor spilled the beans.

Luke was SUPPOSED to the focus of the Disney Plus Obi-Wan Kenobi series instead of Leia. Because of COURSE he was. That's the ONLY thing that makes sense and doesn't break canon. Kenobi was such a missed opportunity for something deeper, and more interesting.

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Kenobi Star Ewan MacGregor let it slip out at a Fan Expo in Boston that the TV show was supposed to star Obi-Wan Kenobi...and LUKE SKYWALKER! Kennedy derailed that, stuck it to Luke yet again, made him a nobody and elevated LEIA in his place! Here's what MacGregor said about this horrible decision, and our reaction to this idiotic decision! KK has more than doubled down in her effort to raze Star Wars and Indiana Jones. She has quadruple downed on her efforts to bring down Lucasfilms. Should we really be surprised at this point?

C2E2 2022 Walkthrough

Experience First Person POV the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo 2022!

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At World's End, One Can Find a New Beginning...

V  E  S  P  E  R
Opening in theaters and VOD on September 30

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.

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Directors: Kristina Buozyte & Bruno Samper

Starring: Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake & Edmund Dehn

Out of Work? Get a Cat, er... Puppy.

Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space

Nine years after the first posting of Natasha Allegri’s Bee and Puppycat short on Cartoon Hangover, the debut of the long-awaited “Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space” will be available on Netflix on September 6th, 2022!

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Do a 'Die-Hard!' The Rick and Morty Way!

Rick and Morty: Season 6 Trailer
Check out the new Rick and Morty Season 6 Trailer starring Justin Roiland!

Mad scientist Rick Sanchez moves in with his daughter's family after disappearing for 20 years and involves them in his wacky adventures in this animated comedy.

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Coming Sunday, September 4, 2022.

Ms. Marvel Pitch Meeting

Step inside the pitch meeting that led to Ms Marvel!

Marvel has been going full throttle with their content output in Phase 4. With show after show after show hitting Disney Plus in the past year, some people are saying that superhero fatigue may finally be setting in. So putting out a new series about a character people aren’t super familiar with, starring a newcomer actress was always going to be a challenge, no matter how well-reviewed the show was.

Ms Marvel does raise some questions though. Like does every single teenager boy have a crush on Kamala? Why is this Damage Control department so bad at their jobs? Does everybody just have elaborate exposition presentations ready to go? What’s up with the sudden time travel? How long did those kids have to rig up the entire school Home Alone style?

To answer all these questions and more, step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to Ms Marvel! It’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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All Girl Rock Band Music Video...

S C A N D A L

Music video by SCANDAL (JP) performing Shojo S. (C) 2009 Epic Records Japan, a division of Sony Music Labels Inc.

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Anime Viewing Schedule for August 13, 2022

 A N I M A T R I X   N E T W O R K
Saturday, August 13, 2022

Fountaindale Public Library

VIEWING SCHEDULE

          11:10 - 12:05   Made in Abyss: Season 2 Eps 1-2

          12:05 - 12:55   Ghost in the Shell: SAC Season 2 Eps 3-4

          12:55 - 1:30     Club Meeting

          1:30 - 2:20       Lycoris Recoil 3-4

          2:20 - 3:10       Attack on Titan: Final Season Pt 2 11-12 
          3:10 - 4:40       The Orbital Children Eps 1-3

"I'm not being Cancelled without a Fight!"

 

Fountaindale Public Library
300 W. Briarcliff Road
Bolingbrook, IL 60440 

Board Room, Second Floor 

 

From 11:10 AM to 5:00 PM

All anime presented are fan-subtitled unless otherwise noted.

 

Don't miss the exciting anime series: Lycoris Recoil and Heike Monogatari

* ANIME DESCRIPTIONS ARE BELOW *

A Lord of the Rings short animated film

The Fellowship of the Ring Animated

This is an unofficial fan film, characters and setting rights are owned by Middle-Earth Enterprises. Based on characters and story created by JRR Tolkien. Here's Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn, Boromir, Legolas, Gimli, Sam, Merry and Pippin in the first part of the epic story that will change all their lives. Tolkien's work is so great, it's daunting to adapt!

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Olivia Newton-John Dead at 73

Olivia Newton-John

(September 26, 1948 - August 8, 2022)

Dame Olivia Newton-John has died. She was 73. The iconic performer's family confirmed her death via her Instagram account, revealing she died at home in Southern California on Monday. Olivia is known best for her role as Sandy in the classic film 'Grease,' as well as her musical endeavors, including hits like 'Physical' and 'I Honestly Love You.'

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Official Trailer for 'Drifting Home'

D R I F T I N G   H O M E

The third feature-length anime film from Studio Colorido, known for “Penguin Highway,” which was nominated for Best Animation at the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize, and “A Whisker Away.” Sixth-graders Kosuke and Natsume grew up in the same apartment building as childhood friends. During summer break, while playing in the apartment building that is set to be demolished, they find themselves caught in a strange phenomenon. All they can see around them is a vast sea. Will Kosuke and the others make it back to their world? A journey of farewells in summer has just begun. The Netflix Film "Drifting Home" starts streaming worldwide from Friday, September 16, 2022!

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Studio Trigger's 'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners'

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a 10-episode original anime by CDPR

and Studio Trigger, debuts only on Netflix this September.

The series tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in Night City — a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he stays alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

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CD PROJEKT RED, the company behind the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, is producing the series with Rafał Jaki (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher: Ronin) as Showrunner and Executive Producer, with Satoru Homma, Bartosz Sztybor and Saya Elder serving as producers. The team at CD PROJEKT RED has been working on this new series since 2018. Acclaimed Japan-based animation company, Studio Trigger, will serve as the animation studio on the series and bring the world of Cyberpunk to life with their signature, vibrant style. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designer and animation director Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (GRIDMAN UNIVERSE series, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: Visions ‘The Elder’). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

Next Club Meeting is August 13, 2022

A N I M A T R I X   N E T W O R K  

"I hear somebody's movie got CANCELLED. Ha,ha! That poor schlep!"

  M O N T H L Y   M E E T I N G

Fountaindale Public Library

300 W. Briarcliff Road

Bolingbrook, IL  60440

Board Room (2nd Floor)

Saturday, August 13, 2022

11:15 AM - 5:00 PM

 

We will be in the BOARD ROOM on the Second Floor.

 
Hope to see everyone there!

 

A Viewing Schedule will be posted soon.

 

Hope to see you all there!

(Click below for maps)

WB Announces 10 Year Plan for the DC Universe

Warner Brothers Announces 10 Year Plan

To Fix DC Universe

Warner Brothers Discovery Investor Day Meeting Revealed lot of new information of HBO Max and the DC Universe. Here CEO David Zaslav announced a 10 year plan for the DCEU. no specific details on the plan but we already see it in action with batgirl cancelled & changes being made to Shazam 2 Black Adam The Flash Movie & More.

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Irredeemable: Batgirl Movie Gets Canned

BATGIRL CANCELLED
Warner Bros confirms film starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, 

Michael Keaton, JK Simmons and Brendan Fraser won’t ever be released...

[Source: Guardian] The previously announced Batgirl film starring In the Heights actor Leslie Grace, Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser will not be released at all, Warner Bros Discovery has unexpectedly announced, despite shooting already being completed and the film being in post-production.

Directed by Ms Marvel directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the film was initially greenlit in 2021 as part of a wider move at Warner Bros to create feature films specifically for the streaming service HBO Max. But the studio confirmed on Tuesday that the film would never get any release, either theatrically or on HBO Max.

It declined to provide further comment.

Batgirl was to have Keaton reprise his role as Batman, alongside Grace as the titular hero Barbara Gordon, JK Simmons as Barbara’s father, Commissioner Gordon, and Fraser as the villain Firefly.

The Hollywood Reporter said Batgirl’s budget was a factor in the decision, having risen to nearly $90m (£74.1m, A$130m) due to costs relating to it being shot during the Covid-19 pandemic. While the budget is lower than the average DC superhero film, it was reportedly decided that it did not have the “spectacle that audiences have come to expect from DC fare” and would not recoup its losses from being released.

However, the New York Post, which broke the story on Tuesday, cited an unnamed source who said the budget had actually exceeded $100m and that the film had performed so poorly during early test screenings that Warner Bros decided to cut its losses.

“They think an unspeakable Batgirl is going to be irredeemable,” the source told the New York Post.

The decision means the film ranks among the most expensive cancelled cinematic projects ever.

The move comes amid a change in leadership since Warner Bros merged with Discovery in May 2021. Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav, who recently oversaw swingeing cuts at CNN including shutting down its $300m streaming service CNN+ one month after it launched, is reportedly prioritising cost-cutting and refocusing the studio on theatrical films over streaming projects.

Writing in Variety, Adam B Vary and Brent Lang noted that the decision to cancel Batgirl entirely would allow the studio to “take a tax write-down”, citing sources who said it was “seen internally as the most financially sound way to recoup the costs (at least, on an accountant’s ledger)”.

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Several shows including Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, The Last OG and Chad have been cancelled since the Warner Bros Discovery merger, while a DC Comics film of The Wonder Twins that was in development has also been canned.

Everything You Should Know About 'The Sandman'

T H E   S A N D M A N

An adaptation of "The Sandman" has been a long time coming, and we've got you covered with everything you need to know! For this video, we’re going over what to expect from Netflix’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic book series.

 

There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and sleep — a place called the Dreaming, where The Sandman, Master of Dreams (Tom Sturridge), gives shape to all of our deepest fears and fantasies. But when Dream is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for a century, his absence sets off a series of events that will change both the dreaming and waking worlds forever. To restore order, Dream must journey across different worlds and timelines to mend the mistakes he's made during his vast existence, revisiting old friends and foes, and meeting new entities — both cosmic and human — along the way.

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ANDOR Trailer is here!

STAR WARS: ANDOR

Disney+'s upcoming original series, 'Andor,' explores a new perspective from the 'Star Wars' galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor's (Diego Luna) journey. Genevieve O'Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård and Fiona Shaw also star, and Forest Whitaker reprises his role of Saw Gerrera. The series takes place prior to the events of 'Rogue One' and launches Sept. 21, exclusively on Disney+, with the first three episodes.

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Nichelle Nichols of ‘Star Trek’, Dead at 89

Nichelle Nichols

(December 28, 1932 - July 30, 2022)

Iconic ‘Star Trek’ Actress, Dead at 89

Nichelle Nichols has died. She was 89. The actress became an icon for groundbreaking performances across TV and film as Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series, and its film sequels. Nichols' portrayal of Uhura was ground-breaking for African American actresses on American television.  In addition to her prolific career, Nichelle was a devoted civil rights activist. She also became a passionate advocate for NASA as 'Star Trek' became a pop culture phenomenon around the world.

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