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The Next Cinematic Universe is…General Mills' Cereal Monsters? For years, every studio in Hollywood has wanted to cash in on the cinematic universe craze. Now that fervor has spread beyond Hollywood and reached…the cereal industry?General Mills, the food company behind ubiquitous brands like Cheerios and Cocoa Puffs, wants to launch the cinematic universe you’ve been craving all this time: a General MillsCereal Monstersuniverse. Seriously. Who are the Cereal Monsters, you ask?...

The Toy Box: Batman: The Animated Series, Marvel, Bruce Lee, The Force Awakens & More The Toy Boxis a recurring feature at/Filmthat rounds up some of the newest and coolest collectibles, decorations, gadgets and other memorabilia that you nerds might want for your shelves. This edition of The Toy Box has a great new figure for The Dark Knight fromBatman: The Animated Series, a specialMandalorianbackpack just in time for you to go back to school, a nice set ofMarvelbookends to help keep all your comics organized and more....

Theme Park Bits: Universal Horror Nights 2014 Features ‘Alien Vs. Predator,’ ‘Dracula Untold,’ ‘Face Off’ And Others Halloween is nearly upon us and the annualUniversal Studios Halloween Horror Nightshave begun to announce some of their high-end haunted mazes. Every year, famous properties get turned into interactive mazes aimed to scare park attendees both in Florida and California and this year, there will be mazes or areas based onAn American Werewolf in London, The Walking Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dracula Untold, Alien vs....

Thomas Newman Scoring ‘Skyfall’ For Sam Mendes In the struggle between franchise and friend, in this instance, the friend was triumphant. You see, though the last severalJames Bondmovies have all had different directors, those directors all employed the musical services of composer David Arnold. In fact, Arnold has been the composer for every Bond movie since 1997’sTomorrow Never Dies. However,with the now in productionSkyfall, Oscar-winnerSam Mendesis at the helm and instead of going with the franchise favorite, he’s hired his frequent collaboratorThomas Newman, who scoredAmerican Beauty, Road to Perdition,JarheadandRevolutionary Roadfor the director....

TV Bits: ‘The Walking Dead’, ‘Riverdale’, ‘Atypical’, ‘‘Kevin Can F*** Himself’, ‘Dispatches From Elsewhere’ In this edition of TV Bits: BecauseThe Walking Deadwill never die, there are spin-offs, and movies, and video games, and so on. A new spin-off series is calledThe Walking Dead: World Beyond, which is set in Nebraska ten years after the apocalypse. In the show, “the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it....

Where You’ve Seen Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Grand Inquisitor Before “Don’t cross the streams” might be sound advice in the “Ghostbusters” universe, but it no longer applies to the “Star Wars” series on Disney+. Thanks to “The Mandalorian” and “The Book of Boba Fett,” characters who were once exclusive to the animated TV shows “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and “Star Wars Rebels” have begun to make their way over into live-action. That trend will continue with “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” a series that picks up with everyone’s favorite bearded Jedi 10 years after the rise of the Galactic Empire in “Revenge of the Sith....

Win A Blu-Ray Copy Of The Bloody New Action Movie Yakuza Princess The world of low-budget martial arts movies can prove to be very rewarding if you enter it with the proper expectations. Are you cool with pulpy, frequently ridiculous narratives? Would you rather see actors put their bodies on the line instead of trying to deliver an Oscar-worthy performance? Do you value kick-ass fight scenes above all else? If you answered yes to all three, we have some good news: we’re giving away a copy of “Yakuza Princess,” one of the newest additions to the genre....

‘Avengers: Age Of Ultron’ Website Launches With Propulsive Score Sample That image above is the new(ish) update for theAvengers: Age of Ultronlogo, which comes from the film’s just-launched official site. At this point there’s not a lot to see at the new portal, but there is something to hear. The newAge of Ultronwebsite is backed by a looped track of music that provides a great indicator of the tone of the film — there’s a mechanized underpinning to the cue, which starts with a slow, moody pulse before opening up to swells of synthesizers and insistent strings....

‘Daredevil’ Cancelled By Netflix, But Might End Up On Disney+ The Marvel Netflix characters may have survived Thanos' snap, but their days on the streaming service are all but over.Daredevilhas been cancelled by Netflix after three seasons, making it the latest Marvel Netflix show to get the boot. Over the last few months, Netflix has pulled the plug onIron FistandLuke Cage, makingJessica JonesandThe Punisherthe only Marvel shows left. ButDaredevilmight return in another place, and another time....

‘Detective Pikachu’ TV Spots Show Mewtwo, Gyarados, Eevee, And More – If You Can Catch ‘Em All Can you flawlessly rap the iconic “PokeRap” that listed off all of the 150 original Pokemon? No? Me neither, thoughI used tobecause I was the coolest 1st grader in the world. But if Warner Bros. were to create a new PokeRap to include every single Pokemon that appears in theDetective PikachuTV spots, it would probably take a full hour....

‘Don’t Breathe 2’ First Look: The Blind Man Is Back This August Don’t Breathewas an incredibly well-crafted, well-directed horror-thriller that also made some…uh, let’s say,questionablechoices in its third act. Still, the film was a big hit, and there’s been talk of a sequel ever since the original film arrived in 2016. Now, some five years later, that sequel is ready.Don’t Breathe 2is set to open this summer, and before it does, we have a first look image featuringStephen Lang’s very deadly Blind Man....

‘Dumbo’ Trailer: You’ll Believe An Elephant Can Fly The last timeTim Burtonteamed up with Disney, it resulted in the hit adaptation ofAlice in Wonderland. Now he’s tackling another remake of one of the studio’s animated classic that fits perfectly with the director’s usual circus aesthetic tendencies. Dumboadapts the Disney animated classic from 1941, turning the barely one-hour circus adventure into a feature length story starringColin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Eva Greenand an adorable flying elephant with baby blue eyes....

‘Gravity’ Co-Writer Jonás Cuarón Is Directing An Untitled Chupacabra Film For Netflix Jonas Cuárón, who co-wrote the award-winningGravitywith his father Alfonso Cuárón, has been tapped to direct an untitled Netflix feature film about thechupacabra, a legendary creature in Latin and South America folklore that is known for drinking the blood of livestock, especially goats (the word “chupacabra” literally means “goat-sucker”).Chris Columbuswill be producing what appears to be a family film about the paranormal creature....