A team led by Carnegie’s Scott S. Sheppard has found 20 new moons orbiting Saturn. This brings the ringed planet’s total number of moons to 82, surpassing Jupiter, which has 79.
]]>The live-action version of the animated movie Aladdin starring Will Smith as the genie hits theaters May 24. This one’s been getting a lot of press, not all of it good, mostly focusing on how weird Smith looks as the blue genie originally voiced by Robin Williams.
Brightburn, also on May 24, looks to be a horror take on the Superman origin story, or what would happen if little Clark Kent wasn’t a good kid but an evil little !@#$.
The second of the modern Godzilla movies Godzilla: King of the Monsters roars into theaters May 31 five years after the first. This time Godzilla isn’t just fighting the Mutos from Godzilla, this time he/she/it’s fighting Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah.
The oft-delayed X-Men movie Dark Phoenix is supposed to finally hit theaters June 7, though I won’t believe that until I see it. This last film in an X-Men franchise that has spanned the last 19 years sees the characters off before the team is swallowed up into the Disney/Marvel movie behemoth, the one foe who actually took the X-Men down!
A new take on Men in Black is Men in Black: International in theaters June 14. Replacing Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the lead roles are Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson as Agents “H” and “M” respectively.
19 years after the previous movie comes Shaft also June 14. Sam Jackson returns as Shaft from the 2000 movie but also the original Shaft Richard Roundtree as well as new Shaft Jessie Usher will star in the movie too.
Nine years after the final Toy Story movie was released comes a brand new Toy Story movie with Toy Story 4 on June 21. I guess Pixar was just kiddin’ when they said Toy Story 3 was going to be the last. In a brilliant move in counter-programming, a reboot of the evil-doll movie Child’s Play is also set to be released the same day Toy Story 4 is. Let’s hope that people buying tickets to these movies don’t get mixed up and go into the wrong theaters. Then again, let’s hope they do!”
Not quite a full Marvel Studios movie, but a Marvel movie none-the-less, is Spider-Man: Far From Home out July 5. This sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming from 2017 sees Spidey taking a school trip to Europe where he must face off against the evil Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) while he’s far from home. Get it!?
The Lion King is getting what’s reported to be a “live action” remake out July 19, except it’s just as animated as the 1994 original but rather than being hand-drawn this one’s being created by animators using computers.
July 26 sees the release of the latest Quentin Tarantino movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood that reportedly deals with Charles Manson murders while the even longer delayed than Dark Phoenix but still an X-Men movie The New Mutants is supposed to finally get a release August 2.
]]>Two HBO series return this Sunday. First up is the second season of the wonderful series Barry starring Bill Hader, a hit-man who wants to leave the murder business and become an actor and the final season of the Julia Louis-Dreyfus series VEEP.
Coming off of one of the biggest movie openings of all-time with Us, Jordan Peel is set to reboot The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access Monday. This will mark the third iteration of the series after the original ended in 1964.
The second season of the Marvel series Cloak & Dagger premiers tonight on Freeform.
The new Cinemax series Warrior is set to launch Friday and is based on an original concept by Bruce Lee
Two films are set to be released into theaters this week.
The horror flick Pet Sematary is the second movie to be based on the Stephen King book of the same name while Shazam! is the latest movie based on a character from DC comics.
]]>The final season of the post-apocalyptic kung-fu series Into the Badlands debuts on AMC tonight.
The second season of Knightfall about, well, knights, begins on History Monday.
Based on the movie of the same name, the comedy series What We Do in the Shadows about vampires sharing an apartment this time in New York premiers on FX today.
Already getting a one-episode limited time debut a few months ago, Hanna also based on a film of the same name, is available on Amazon Prime today.
The live-action feature film version of Dumbo directed by Tim Burton premiers in theaters Friday.