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Apple keeps it positive with Ted Lasso season 2 premiere date and trailer

Apple will bring its heartwarming, critically acclaimed series Ted Lasso back to Apple TV+ on July 23, and has a new season 2 trailer to accompany the news.
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Apple’s Podcasts+ subscription service makes debut at Spring Loaded event

During its Spring Loaded event, Apple announced the new, subscription-based Podcasts+ service with exclusive shows and a redesigned app for podcasts.
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How visual effects made Mulan’s battles bigger and its hero fly higher

Disney's Mulan has epic battles, spectacular choreography, and beautiful sets, and they all benefited from the work of its talented visual effects team.
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Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings gets its first trailer

Marvel Studios has released the first teaser trailer for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the upcoming martial arts adventure starring Simu Liu.
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Highlights and Easter eggs from episode 5

The saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Here are some of the highlights from episode 5 of the series.
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Highlights and Easter eggs from episode 4

The saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Here are some of the highlights from episode 4 of the series.
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How visual effects made battles bigger and Hulk smarter in Avengers: Endgame

Avengers: Endgame brought Marvel's Infinity Saga to an end and delivered some of the most spectacular moments in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film's visual effects supervisor, Dan DeLeeuw, explains how VFX brought some of the film's most memorable scenes (and characters) to life.
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The Irishman’s FX team invented bleeding-edge tech to subtly de-age De Niro

Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese and a talented visual effects team led by Pablo Helman turned back the clock on Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino for the hit Netflix film The Irishman, using brand-new, hands-off technology to keep the performances pure. Here's how they dit it.
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Highlights and Easter eggs from episode 3

The saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Here are some of the highlights from episode 3 of the series.
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NASA ponders ways to grow a garden on Mars mission

Is a space garden the best way to keep astronauts fed on a five-year mission to Mars?
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Mars Rover arrives at Endeavor Crater after three-year journey

Three-month mission reaches its seventh year as NASA rover continues the search for water on Mars.
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Godzilla vs. Kong review: It’s everything it promises and then some

By keeping it simple and focusing on the movie fans want to see, Godzilla vs. Kong lives up to the hype and delivers plenty of exciting moments.
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How WandaVision’s visual effects gave TV magic a Marvel makeover

WandaVision brought the Marvel Cinematic Universe back to the screen in a big way, and used some impressive visual effects to cast a sitcom-inspired spell.
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The Suicide Squad gets a crazy, bloody new trailer with a monstrous surprise

James Gunn's The Suicide Squad looks like nothing we've seen from the DC Extended Universe so far, and the latest trailer delivers a kaiju-sized surprise.
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Highlights and Easter eggs from Episode 2

The saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Here are some of the highlights from episode 2 of the series.
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Amazon’s Invincible: How family drama and super-violence make it something special

The cast of Invincible, Amazon Studios' animated series, explains how the adaptation blends family drama and super-powered action to create something special.
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It’s official: Marvel’s Black Widow movie will debut on Disney+ and in theaters

Marvel's Black Widow movie will premiere on Disney+ streaming service in July, the same day it hits theaters, via Disney's additional Premier Access fee.
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How visual effects gave Zack Snyder’s Justice League villains a do-over

Giving the villains of Zack Snyder's Justice League a new look wasn't easy. Weta Digital explains how the superhero do-over was made possible.
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: Highlights and Easter eggs from Episode 1

The saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Here are some of the highlights from the series' Disney+ premiere.
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Everything we know about the Disney+ series

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series will bring more of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to Disney+ on March 19. Here's everything we know about it so far.
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League review: A bigger, better superhero do-over

Zack Snyder's Justice League delivers more than just a new cut of the 2017 film, and manages to be a bigger, better movie overall.
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Streaming movies dominate Oscar nominations in Hollywood’s pandemic year

Netflix, Amazon Studios, and other streaming services dominated the list of Academy Award nominees after a year shaped by pandemic-fueled theater closures.
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: What you need to know before watching

Wondering if you know enough about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to enjoy The Falcon and the Winter Soldier? Here's the recap you're looking for.
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WandaVision season finale: What we learned and what we still want to know

WandaVision's season finale wrapped things up, but still left us with plenty of questions. Here's what we know and what we're still wondering about.

Raya and the Last Dragon review: Martial arts and fantasy merged beautifully

Disney's animation studio does it again with Raya and the Last Dragon, a beautiful, action-packed adventure with something for all ages.
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Coming 2 America review: Eddie Murphy punches a fun but tamer return ticket

Coming 2 America brings Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall back for another silly adventure, but the nostalgia-fueled Amazon comedy pulls a few too many punches.
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How the Welcome to Chechnya documentary found security in face-swapping VFX

The documentary Welcome to Chechnya made creative use of face-swapping visual effects to protect victims of the Russian republic's antigay purge.
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How Mank used visual effects to turn back the clock on Hollywood

David Fincher's Mank takes audiences back in time to 1930s Hollywood, and made innovative use of visual effects to bring the story to life in the Netflix film.
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Netflix dominates 2020 Oscar nominations, but surprises and snubs persist

This year's nominees for Academy Awards heavily favored streaming studio Netflix, as well as the controversial drama Joker, but plenty of surprises and disappointing snubs loomed large over the official announcement of the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony's Oscar nominations.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home is the third movie’s title, set for Christmas 2021

The third film in Sony Pictures' rebooted Spider-Man franchise starring Tom Holland finally has an official title, as well as a Christmas 2021 release date.
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The Best 2021 Super Bowl trailers

The Super Bowl brings the premiere of new movie and TV trailers that can be just as exciting as the game. Here are all of this year's best trailers.
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Everything we know about the Snyder Cut

After years of campaigning for Warner Bros. Pictures to release a director's cut of 2017 superhero flop Justice League, fans are finally getting their wish.
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How Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon overcame production problems in a pandemic

The creators of Disney's Raya and the Last Dragon discuss their animated tale about a lone warrior trying to unite the world by resurrecting an ancient dragon.
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Ferda! Letterkenny’s Reilly and Squirrely Dan on streaming success, Canadian slang

Canada has given Hulu a hit with Letterkenny, the series about life in a rural Ontario town that is the latest comedy sensation to go global via streaming.
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WandaVision review: Marvel channels Lost for wonderfully weird Disney+ series

The MCU returns in WandaVision, the new Disney+ series that offers up plenty of mysteries as it follows the too-perfect lives of two former Avengers.
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WandaVision: What you should know before watching Marvel’s new series on Disney+

Wondering whether you know enough about the Marvel Cinematic Universe to enjoy WandaVision? Here's the recap you need to make the most of the Disney+ series.
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From Black Widow to WandaVision, here’s every Marvel show and movie coming your way

The Marvel Cinematic Universe may have finished Phase Three, but if you're hungry for more superhero action, here's every upcoming project to look forward to.
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Wonder Woman 1984 review: A superhero epic crammed into a time capsule

The sequel to Wonder Woman goes all-in on spectacle with some compelling new characters, but Wonder Woman 1984 tries a little too hard to surpass the original.