The Resident Evil franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2021 and it’s shaping to be the biggest year to date for fans. The awesome Resident Evil Village has provided a cool new entry in the mainline series, but we’re also getting shows about New Raccoon City and Albert Wesker’s children, a live-action adaptation of the first two games in the form of Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City and Netflix’s CGI Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness.

This episodic effort will star Resident Evil 2 heroes Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield in a story set between Resident Evil 4 and 5. The official synopsis says we’ll see the White House targeted by B.O.W.s, which will lead into a tale that unearths secrets from the series’ past. And, of course, along the way there’ll be all manner of undead horrors and gooey biological monstrosities.

Netflix and Capcom have pointed out that this will be in canon with the games, which makes it required watching for anyone caught up in Resident Evil’s tangled web of evil pharmaceutical companies, flamboyant villains and bizarre locations. And now, we have a look at the opening scene (up above), which shows a helicopter crash and soldiers disobeying orders to rescue their comrades.

The quality of the CGI is impressive and the action well shot, but let’s be honest here, there’s absolutely nothing in this clip that says Resident Evil. Presumably, the situation these soldiers are in is more fantastical than it initially appears, but this could be a generic trailer for a Call of Duty or Battlefield game.

Then again, the franchise has appeared in many forms over the years and (despite there being no monsters), this does resemble Chris Redfield’s campaign in Resident Evil 6 (though fans will know that isn’t exactly a good omen). Oh well, I’m sure the tone will shift for the better once Leon and Claire show up.

Fortunately, we don’t have long to wait, as Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness will premiere on Netflix in less than a month, on July 8th.

Bruce Willis is back in dark crime thriller Midnight in the Switchgrass, continuing the Die Hard legend’s prolific streak of VOD movies released over the past year. In fact, this one is his fifth to come out in the last 12 months.

In this case, Willis is paired up with Megan Fox, as the duo play two detectives on the hunt for a brutal serial killer in rural Texas. The new trailer for the upcoming film debuted online today and as you can see, it’s clearly more Fox’s show than it is Willis’, with the former Transformers actress being called on to carry the gritty drama while Bruce pretty much just does his thing.

Fox plays Rebecca Lombardi, an FBI agent who goes undercover in order to lure out those responsible for a sex trafficking ring. However, when she’s abducted by her target, her partner Karl Helter (Willis) and Texas Ranger Byron Crawford (Emile Hirsch) have just hours to save her.

The cast also includes Aquaman‘s Michael Beach, Lukas Haas (First Man), rapper Machine Gun Kelly – Fox’s partner, credited under his real name, Colson Baker – and Sistine Stallone, daughter of Willis’ good pal Sylvester. Midnight in the Switchgrass is based on the true story of Texas’ most notorious serial killer and is directed by Randall Emmett (producer of The Irishman). And you can look out for it when it reaches VOD in about six weeks’ time, on July 23rd.

After that, Bruce Willis will continue to churn out even more straight-to-digital films, with the likes of sci-fi Soul Assassin, thriller Killing Field and actioner A Day To Die due in 2022. Of course, at this point, fans know what they’re getting with the actor’s current output, but maybe Midnight in the Switchgrass will end up packing more of a punch than most of his recent projects.

25 years after Michael Jordan shot hoops with Bugs Bunny, the Tune Squad is back to team up with LeBron James this time for Space Jam: A New Legacy – and it promises to be one of the biggest movies of the year. It’s certainly been one of the most-discussed, with the sequel frequently trending on social media for reasons both good and bad. And it’s about to break the internet again with this latest trailer, which teases more crossover mayhem.

The unique USP of New Legacy is that, on top of having the Looney Tunes interact with the basketball legend, it will also dive into the wider Warner Bros. multiverse and feature cameos from numerous legendary characters from WB’s back catalog. See if you can spot any we haven’t seen before in previous trailers in this new promo, which you can catch in the player above.

With a movie like this, plot really isn’t what you’re watching for, but the synopsis teases that when they’re trapped in virtual reality the Serververse by an evil A.I. named Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), the only way James can save his son Dom (Cedric Joe) is by leading Bugs, Daffy and company to victory in a basketball match against the Goon Squad, virtual avatars of other basketball stars like Klay Thompson, Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard.

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While the reaction to what we’ve seen of the movie so far has been pretty positive, the whole ‘Pepé Le Pew getting cancelled‘ debacle has overshadowed some of the hype somewhat, as has the mixed reception to Zendaya being cast as Lola Bunny, with some fans feeling the MCU actress’ voice doesn’t fit the character.

Still, we’re fully expecting Space Jam: A New Legacy to make a big impact when it finally debuts in theaters and on HBO Max – for 30 days – in just over a month’s time on July 16th.

After 30 years, The Sandman is finally coming to the screen. Various adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s mythical DC universe have been attempted over the years, but nothing ever came of it… Until Netflix stepped in. Now production is underway on a big-budget TV series based on the bestselling comics. And the streaming giant has celebrated the incoming show with this new featurette that dives behind the scenes.

The two-minute promo follows Gaiman as he’s shown the expansive sets created for the series for the first time, as well as including a few words from two of its stars – Tom Sturridge, who’s playing the Sandman himself, Morpheus, and Gwendoline Christie, a gender-flipped Lucifer. “This is Sandman being made by people who love Sandman for people who love Sandman,” Gaiman says in the featurette. “I cannot wait for people to see this.”

Fans are sure to explode with excitement at this teaser, which – while it doesn’t reveal the cast in action – does reveal a few key sets and props. For instance, Dream’s gasmask, a model of his faithful companion Matthew the Raven and a glimpse at Morpheus’ lair in The Dreaming. As Gaiman sums up for anyone unfamiliar with the source material, The Dreaming is the realm of fantasy and imagination that Morpheus rules over.

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Though they aren’t included in this trailer, The Sandman is set to star a packed ensemble cast bringing to life the many iconic characters from the comics. Kirby Howell-Baptiste is Dream’s sister Death, Mason Alexander Park is their non-binary sibling Desire, Boyd Holbrook is nightmare creature The Corinthian and Jenna Coleman is Johanna Constantine, John’s ancestor who will be taking his role in the adaptation. Charles Dance, Asim Chaudry and Stephen Fry are also on board.

Now that this featurette is here, hopefully Netflix will serve up some further teases – like a look at Sturridge in his full Dream garb – pretty soon. The Sandman has yet to be given a release date.

Marvel fans can’t wait for Loki to premiere next week, particularly because there’s been a lot of hope that the Disney Plus series will explore elements of the God of Mischief that haven’t been explored in the MCU before now. Chief among them, Loki’s various other forms, including his female self. And it seems like we can finally rest assured that Lady Loki will end up appearing, as a new promo for the show confirms that the Asgardian trickster is gender-fluid.

The official Loki Twitter account shared a short teaser this Sunday, which opens with a familiar clip of Tom Hiddleston’s antihero and Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius M. Mobius before offering a glimpse at the Time Variance Authority’s file on Loki. If you pause and zoom in on it, you can see a breakdown of his stats. Many of them, including age and ethnicity, are unknown, but next to “Sex” it clearly reads “Fluid.”

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This is a pretty big deal for a couple of reasons. As said above, it heavily implies that Lady Loki is coming. British actress Sophia Di Martino’s role in the series has been the subject of much scrutiny, with it widely believed that she could be playing the female Loki. And this new promo only adds more fuel to that rumor.

Moreover, though, this confirmation of his gender-fluidity actually makes Thor’s brother the MCU’s very first leading character to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. Obviously, this should have already happened long ago, but at least we know there are many more on the way after this. Including Brian Tyree Henry’s Phastos in Eternals, Xochitl Gomez’s Miss America in Doctor Strange 2 and Valkyrie in Thor: Love and Thunder.

Don’t miss Loki when it debuts the first of its six episodes on Disney Plus this Wednesday – not Friday – June 9th.

With Black Widow, Eternals and Spider-Man: No Way Home mostly gaining all the attention, the fact that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is also coming this year is being unfairly overlooked to some extent. From what we saw in the first trailer, the martial arts-themed Marvel movie promises to be an awesome ride, and this scrap of new footage further teases the epic action that awaits us.

MCU fans have noted that some theaters have begun showing an updated promo as of this weekend, which includes an extended glimpse at one of the film’s thrilling fight sequences. Specifically, it’s from a scene that appears to be a flashback to Simu Liu’s hero’s training in his youth.

Twitter account @ShangChiBr shared a recording of the moment in question on social media and you can check it out via the tweet below:

Uma nova cena de #ShangChi está sendo exibida nos cinemas. pic.twitter.com/uhpYaCUxnp

— Shang-Chi Brasil (@ShangChiBR) June 6, 2021

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We already got a look at this flashback fight in the original trailer, but there are a few extra shots slid into this clip that better demonstrate how good Shang-Chi is in combat. After all, he’s not the son of the Mandarin for nothing.

Yes, the iconic supervillain is finally making his MCU debut in this movie, as played by Tony Leung. The familial connection to Shang-Chi is an innovation for the screen, though, as is the reimagining of the titular mystical rings that grant him his powers as arm bands instead of hand jewelry – maybe to better differentiate them from the Infinity Gauntlet.

When the film begins, Shang-Chi has managed to escape his father and lives an ordinary life in San Francisco, having befriended Awkwafina’s quirky Katy. However, the kung-fu master must confront his past when he’s once again drawn back into the world of the sinister Ten Rings organization.

Slotting in between Black Widow in July and Eternals in November, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings hits theaters on September 3rd.

We’ve now got only a handful of days to go before Loki finally debuts on Disney Plus. Yesterday, Marvel Studios Legends dropped a new episode on the platform, which recapped the Asgardian trickster’s MCU journey so far, including his death in Avengers: Infinity War and subsequent return in Avengers: Endgame. If you’ll recall, Loki memorably stole the Tesseract in an alternate 2012 and disappeared, but where did he go next?

Well, this new promo for the incoming series teases the answer. As you can see above, it recaps Loki’s escape from Avengers custody in Endgame before showing the Time Variance Authority forces tracking him down to some kind of desert. It’s unclear exactly where this is or why Loki retreated there after he nabbed the Space Stone, but it doesn’t look like his freedom lasted long, as he’s swiftly bested in combat by Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) and taken to TVA HQ.

As we’ve seen in previous trailers, Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius then enlists the antihero to work for the TVA – against the advice of Judge Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) – and help them fix some dangerous alterations to the timeline. What’s more, this promo teases the secret mastermind behind these changes. One brief shot depicts a shadowy figure sitting in front of a bank of computer screens. Anyone have any theories on who this mystery villain could be? Kang, is that you?

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Showrunner Michael Waldron has previously promised that Loki will have “wide-reaching ramifications across the MCU.” It’s unclear what they’ll be, but we’re pretty confident that this isn’t a one-off event show like WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as it’s believed that Loki could run for a few seasons – maybe three in total. After all, the misadventures the God of Mischief gets into as he’s let loose across time can definitely fuel an ongoing series.

Loki premieres on Disney Plus on Wednesday, June 9th.

Netflix have been making a concerted effort to increase the amount of in-house animated movies coming to the library, something that’s worked out pretty well over the last month based on the success of The Mitchells vs. the Machines, which did admittedly cost the streaming service $110 million to acquire from Sony. However, the platform has never dealt with any 2D effort quite as bonkers as America: The Motion Picture.

In the broadest strokes, it could be described as the bastard animated love child of Mel Gibson’s The Patriot, The Avengers and The Expendables, which is fitting when Dave Callaham is the credited writer, with the scribe responsible for penning the first outing for Sylvester Stallone’s aging band of action heroes.

An insane spin on the American Revolution, Channing Tatum voices a foul-mouthed and chainsaw-wielding George Washington, who assembles a crack team of the nation’s heroes to battle the nefarious forces of Simon Pegg’s King James and Andy Samberg’s Benedict Arnold. The crew contains the hard-drinking Sam Adams, famed scientist Thomas Edison, Paul Revere and Geronimo, while Abraham Lincoln will of course appear as well, as played by Will Forte.

The ensemble includes Judy Greer, Bobby Moynihan, Olivia Munn, Jason Mantzoukas and more, while Archer executive producer Matt Thompson will make his feature directorial debut, with Tatum also producing alongside Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who are no strangers to irreverent animation given their prior credits on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The LEGO Movie and The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

In short, America: The Motion Picture is shaping up to be an absolute blast, and there’s not long left until the revisionist animation explodes onto Netflix on June 30th.

Nobody goes to see a Fast & Furious movie expecting a hard-hitting character piece punctuated by a gritty sense of realism once the action inevitably takes to the streets. No, the people want absolute nonsense of the most preposterously entertaining kind, and that’s what made the franchise so universally popular after it reinvented itself a decade ago from a string of mid-budget action thrillers to $200 million blockbuster behemoths.

Very little makes sense in the world of The Fast Saga, and the filmmakers know that full well, yet continue to lean even further into it for the sake of our enjoyment. Indeed, action on an epic scale is clearly a global language when you consider F9 has made more than $230 million at the international box office in just over a week, and it’s coming to domestic screens in 23 days.

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As the final marketing push begins, a new clip has now arrived that sums up Fast & Furious in all of its unhinged brilliance. Vin Diesel’s Dom and Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty are being shot at by a helicopter, so they naturally decide to drive straight off a cliff and fortuitously hinge the front wheel in the process, which swings them right the way around the face of a mountain to the other side, where their vehicle rolls about a dozen times before coming to a stop the right way up, and not a hair is out of place on Letty’s head.

It’s the sort of absolute disregard for physics and gravity that fans of the franchise fell in love with a long time ago, and if they’re giving this clip away for free, then you can guarantee that Fast & Furious 9 as a whole is ten times as crazy.

In just over six months, the fourth installment in The Matrix franchise will arrive simultaneously on the big screen and HBO Max, but details surrounding the return of the beloved sci-fi series for the first time in eighteen years remain so tightly guarded that we don’t even know what the movie is called yet.

There were various rumors flying around that it would come bearing the subtitle Resurrections, or it would drop the prefix entirely and simply be known as Matrix, but in a rare move from any studio, Warner Bros. reached out to one of the outlets reporting on the story and issued a rebuttal in January of the this year to outline that the fourth adventure for Keanu Reeves’ Neo hasn’t settled on an official title.

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They’ll have to come up with one soon, though, because you’d imagine it won’t be too long before we see the first trailer for The Matrix 4, and attaching it to one of the company’s upcoming tentpole releases like August’s The Suicide Squad or October’s Dune is looking like the most realistic option. Until that day comes, however, we’ll have to make do with fan trailers like the one you can see above, which does a solid job of imagining how Neo would find himself drawn back into the world almost two decades later.

Sadly, we didn’t get to have The Matrix 4 and John Wick: Chapter 4 debut on Keanu Reeves Day, but post-production on the former has been underway for quite a while now after cameras stopped rolling last November, so director Lana Wachowski and editor Joseph Jett Sally must be fairly far along when it comes to putting the pieces together.