Tag: Adaptation

  • TRAILER: Arcane Season 2 (2024)

    TRAILER: Arcane Season 2 (2024)

    Today, Netflix dropped the first full trailer for Arcane season 2. This follows a couple of short teasers and news that GKids will release season 1 for purchase. The trailer also informs us that this will be the final season, but that doesn’t mean League of Legends is done with Netflix. Check it out here:…

  • Roku Acquires Spiderwick Chronicles TV Series

    Roku Acquires Spiderwick Chronicles TV Series

    After news of Disney+ dropping their adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles, Roku has acquired the series. Based on the book series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, the series will run for eight episodes in early 2024. The Spiderwick Chronicles is the story of the Grace family, who move from New York to Michigan, finding a…

  • New Miyazaki Film Featured at NYFF

    New Miyazaki Film Featured at NYFF

    Hayao Miyazaki‘s new anime film, The Boy and the Heron/How Do You Live has been selected to screen at 2023’s New York Film Festival for its American premiere. The latest Studio Ghibli release follows in the footsteps of Miyazaki’s last feature-length film, The Wind Rises, from a decade ago. Named after the 1937 Japanese novel…

  • REVIEW: Haunted Mansion (2023)

    REVIEW: Haunted Mansion (2023)

    I saw Haunted Mansion this weekend. Coming out a week after “Barbenheimer,” I didn’t expect anything from this film, and I don’t think anyone else did, either. Pirates of the Caribbean notwithstanding, Disney’s theme park adaptations don’t tend to do well financially or critically. Besides, they already did a Haunted Mansion movie once before, and it was not…

  • Netflix Teases Live-Action Avatar

    Netflix Teases Live-Action Avatar

    Netflix has revealed the first images of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender main cast in character. Check out the first look at Aang (Gordon Cormier), Katara (Kiawentiio), Sokka (Ian Ousley), and Zuko (Dallas Liu) in live-action here: And here’s the first teaser for the series: The teaser is basically pointless. We already know what the insignias…

  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Helm an Amazon Tomb Raider TV Series

    Phoebe Waller-Bridge to Helm an Amazon Tomb Raider TV Series

    Many modern-day filmmakers and creatives can be characterized as franchise destroyers, creative cancer, or utter frauds, such as anyone out of Bad Reboot. However, few individuals are more deserving of these titles than Phoebe Waller-Bridge, destroyer of James Bond and the soon-to-be destroyer of Indiana Jones and Doctor Who. Now, she has turned her fearsome gaze upon Tomb Raider. This…