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New Moon Knight training video teases MCU series’ fighting sequencesOscar Isaac’s production company Mad Gene Media has released a new Moon Knight training video for Marvel Studios’ upcoming MCU series. The video features the Golden Globe-winning actor as he continues to learn the Marvel character’s brutal fighting style. In addition, it looks like pre-production on the upcoming Disney+ series is in the final stages of completion as Isaac and Ethan Hawke have already been spotted together in Budapest, Hungary. The acclaimed actors were seen in a recent photo posted by a fan. Check out the video and photo below!Oscar Isaac e Ethan Hawke foram fotografados ontem em Budapeste, local das gravações de #MoonKnight. pic.twitter.com/v1Rqog6Dr3— Marvel News (@BRMarvelNews) April 10, 2021RELATED: Jon Watts to Helm New Fantastic Four at Marvel Studios!The Moon Knight series will be led by Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac has joined the project to portray the titular role of Marc Spector. Isaac previously starred in Fox’s X-Men: Apocalypse as well as in Sony’s Oscar-wining animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.Joining him is Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke as the villain. Hawke previously revealed that the reason he accepted to become part of the high-profile project was due to the opportunity of being able to work with Isaac.The MCU series is being written and developed by The Umbrella Academy‘s Jeremy Slater with episodes set to be directed by Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab and Synchronic duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.The project was officially announced by Marvel’s chief creative officer Kevin Feige last year along with two other MCU shows, Ms. Marvel and She-Hulk. This marks the iconic superheroes’ live-action debut, and all are expected to be featured in future MCU films.RELATED: Disney+ Unveils First Trailer for Marvel Animated Series What If…?Created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin in 1975 for “Werewolf by Night” #32, Moon Knight is the alter ego of Marc Spector, a Jewish-American rabbi’s son who grew up to become a heavyweight boxer and then a U.S. Marine.Pick up a copy of the comics here!Spector is a mercenary with numerous alter egos such as cabbie Jake Lockley and millionaire playboy Steven Grant in order to better fight the criminal underworld. Later in the comics he was established as a conduit for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu after being left for dead on a mission in Egypt. Most recently, he was a consultant who dresses in all-white and goes by the name Mr. Knight.

Warner Bros. Pictures’ DC Extended Universe continues to extend as Black Adam filming has officially begun! Star Dwayne Johnson took to Instagram to post the first set photo which you can check out in our gallery, along with a statement which you can read below!“History in the making, extremely excited and what a humbling moment to share with you,” Johnson stated. “Officially kicking off DAY 1 of filming our BLACK ADAM Our Director and maestro, Jaume Collet-Serra. Our Academy Award nominee (Joker), Director of Photography, Lawrence Sher. We have an all star production crew – incredibly talented, galvanized, committed and focused to raise the bar and deliver something SPECIAL for the world. This one is an honor.”RELATED: WB Taps Godzilla vs. Kong Director Adam Wingard for ThunderCats!Black Adam will be led by Dwayne Johnson, who has been attached to play the titular anti-hero for over a decade now. It will be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows), who worked with Johnson on Disney’s upcoming Jungle Cruise, from a screenplay written by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshiryani.The film will also feature the live-action film introduction of the Justice Society of America, whose members will be portrayed by Pierce Brosnan (The Foreigner) as Doctor Fate, Noah Centineo (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before) as Atom Smasher, Quintessa Swindell (Trinkets) as Cyclone and Aldis Hodge (One Night in Miami) as Hawkman. The film will also feature Sarah Shahi (City on a Hill), Marwan Kenzari (Aladdin) and Bodhi Sabongui (Legends of Tomorrow) though their roles are currently being kept under wraps for now.The antihero was originally slated to make his highly-anticipated debut in 2019’s Shazam!, though the studio elected to split the characters off into individual films to allow them breathing room and proper development. Instead, they opted to tease the character with Djimon Hounsou’s original wizard Shazam narrating his origin story to Billy Batson.RELATED: WB Cancels James Wan’s The Trench & Ava DuVernay’s New GodsBased on the DC Comics character created by Otto Binder and C.C. Beck, the film is being produced by Johnson and FlynnPicturesCo’s Beau Flynn alongside Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia of Seven Bucks Productions, while Scott Sheldon will be overseeing the project for FlynnPictureCo.Originally scheduled for December 2021 release, Black Adam has recently been pushed back to July 29, 2022.Is that a Greek column behind the clapboard in the photo? That would be on-brand for the franchise. Let us know what you think in the comments below!

(PHOTO: Cartoon Network)Tom Kenny to reprise narrator role in The CW’s PowerpuffOriginal cast member of The Powerpuff Girls animated series Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants) will be reprising his role of the Narrator in the live-action CW series Powerpuff. Kenny lent his voice to many roles of the original animated show’s run including the Mayor and Snake. Per Deadline, Robyn Lively also joins the cast as Sara Bellum, the warm and witty career woman who was always a friend to the Powerpuff Girls, remaining close to them since they were crime-fighting kids. Sara was originally voiced by Jennifer Martin in the original series. Kenny and Bellum join recently announced cast members Donald Faison as Professor Utonium and Nicholas Podanny as Mojo Jojo Jr.The Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body) penned/executive produced live-action series is co-written and executive produced by Heather Regnier (iZombie). The pilot for Powerpuff has begun shooting with Maggie Kiley serving as the director. The series sees the trio grown up as disillusioned twentysomethings who resent having spent their entire childhood fighting crime and struggling to reunite as the world needs them more than ever.RELATED: The CW’s Powerpuff Girls pilot adds Nicholas Podany as Mojo Jojo’s sonAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D. alum Chloe Bennet and Dove Cameron (Descendants) along with Yana Perrault will lead the show as Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, respectively. The project will be executive produced by Greg Berlanti (Arrowverse), Sarah Schechter and David Madden via Berlanti Productions with Warner Bros. Television set to produce the project.The Powerpuff Girls aired on Cartoon Network in 1998 and was created by Craig McCracken. The original series centered on Professor Utonium as, in an attempt to create the perfect little girl, ends up creating the titular trio Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup from the dangerous combination of sugar, spice, everything nice and the mysterious Chemical X. The series received rave reviews over the course of six seasons and released a theatrical movie in 2002, which was considered a modest critical and commercial success.Powerpuff

Godzilla vs. Kong stays atop the domestic box officeAccording to Deadline, Adam Wingard’s epic Godzilla vs. Kong has once again dominated the domestic box with another $13.3M in its second frame, bringing in its total to $69.5M. While the week-to-week -58% drop was big, it resembles the pre-pandemic norm for a large-scale pic like this and is actually a decent hold all things considered.Internationally, the monster extravaganza collected another $24.1M (-66%) to bring its offshore total to $288.3M and worldwide gross to a massive $357.8M. Again, consider that GvK has already stomped past Tenet’s total domestic cume in just two weeks to earn the title of “biggest movie in the pandemic era” and will easily surpass Nolan’s flick international in the next week or so.RELATED: CS Video: Godzilla vs Kong’s Adam Wingard Talks Mechagodzilla!GvK has also enjoyed plenty of success on the IMAX format where it has totaled $26.8M, or 9% of its total.In other words, the MonsterVerse is alive and well.Elsewhere, Nobody remained in the No. 2 spot with another $2.65M to bring its total to $15.6M and $28.7M worldwide, while newcomers Voyagers and Vakeel Saab failed to make much of a mark in limited release. The former brought in $1.35M from 1,972 theaters whilst the latter scored $411K from 290 locations.RELATED: Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick & Mission: Impossible Sequels DelayedFinally, the R-rated reboot of Mortal Kombat opened in 17 offshore locations and grossed $10.7M from 4,596 screens. Per the report, Russia led the way with $6.1M, enough to make the action pic the largest pandemic opening in the area with totals eclipsing even pre-pandemic numbers. Mortal Kombat opens domestically in theaters and HBO Max on April 23.TOP 10 DOMESTIC1.) Godzilla vs. Kong (WB/Leg) 3,084 theaters (+20)/Fri $3.88M/Sat $6.1M/Sun $3.3M/3-day $13.3M (-58%)/Total: $69.5M/Wk 22.) Nobody (Uni) 2,400 theaters (-167) Fri $750K/Sat $1.15M/Sun $750K/3-day: $2.65M (-12%)/Total $15.6M/Wk 33.) The Unholy (Sony) 1,850 theaters //Fri $700K/Sat $1.03M/Sun $670K/$2.4M (-23%)/Total: $6.7M/Wk 24.) Raya and the Last Dragon (Dis) 1,941 theaters (-90), Fri $550K/Sat $975K/Sun $615k/ 3-day: $2.14M (-5%), Total: $35.2M/Wk 65.) Voyagers (LG/AGC) 1,972 theaters Fri $515K/Sat $528K/Sun $307K/3-day: $1.35M/Wk 16.) Tom & Jerry (WB) 1,826 theaters (-447), 3-day: $1.11M (-17%)/Total: $41.1M/Wk 77.) The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (Atlas) 900 theaters (+260) 3-day $597K (+9%)/Total: $1.3M/Wk 28.) The Courier (RSA) 1,007 theaters (-315),/Fri $133,5K/Sat $189K/Sun $113,6K/3-day: $436,5K (-12%)/Total: $4.9M/Wk 49.) Vakeel Saab (Ind) 290 theaters/3-day: $411,5K/Wk 110.) Chaos Walking (Lionsgate) 1,300 theaters (-305), Fri $83K/Sat $117K/Sun $65K/3-day: $265K (-28%)/Total: $12.67M/Wk 6

Watched at Home: Top streaming films for the week of April 3We’ve got a three-horse race going in DEG’s Watched at Home Top 20 list!Last week, the Tom Hanks drama took the crown, but now Wonder Woman 1984, which has spent the last several weeks in the No. 2 spot, has finally take the top spot. Both films have swapped places with The Croods: A New Age, which continues to linger in the Top 3 each week, proving just how much people appreciate family entertainment during this particular time.RELATED: CS Video: Godzilla vs Kong’s Adam Wingard Talks Mechagodzilla!Don’t cry too much for Hanks, though. News of the World landed at No. 2, which is actually quite astounding considering it was hanging around the bottom half of the Top 10 for a few weeks there.Elsewhere, due to the Easter holiday, viewers tuned in for Cecil B. DeMille’s classic The Ten Commandments, though, oddly enough, didn’t view Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ or William Wyler’s Ben-Hur enough to vaunt them into the Top 20.RELATED: Wonder Woman 1984 Dominates Vudu & FandangoNOW ChartsAlso, thanks to the enormous success of Godzilla vs. Kong, the list also featured an appearances by Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Who knows, maybe viewers will finally warm to Michael Dougherty’s epic monster extravaganza.1. Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros.)2. News of the World (Universal)3. The Croods: A New Age (Universal)4. Monster Hunter (Sony Pictures)5. Soul (Disney)6. Promising Young Woman (Universal)7. Girl in the Basement (A+E)8. Greenland (Universal/STX)9. Harry Potter: Complete 8-film Coll. (Warner Bros.)10. The Ten Commandments (Paramount)11. Wrong Turn: The Foundation (Lionsgate)12. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Warner Bros.)13. Yellowstone: S3 (Paramount)14. Yellowstone: S1 (Paramount)15. Tenet (Warner Bros.)16. Let Him Go (Universal)17. The Vault (Lionsgate)18. Yellowstone: S2 (Paramount)19. Fatale (Lionsgate)20. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Warner Bros.)