Month: September 2021

Andrew Garfield has responded once again to the ongoing rumors and reports that he will appear in Spider-Man: No Way Home, saying that is “not something I’m aware I am involved in.”

Speaking to Variety, Garfield said it doesn’t really even matter what he says on the subject because people will believe what they want to believe. “No matter what I say, I’m f**ked,” he said. Garfield acknowledged that he understands why people are excited about the idea of the multiverse bringing together his Spider-Man and Tobey Maguire’s to join Tom Holland.

“I understand why people are freaking out about the concept of that because I’m a fan as well. You can’t help but imagine scenes and moments of, ‘Oh, my God, how f**king cool would it be if they did that?'” he said. “But it’s important for me to say on the record that this is not something I’m aware I am involved in. But I know I’m not going to be able to say anything that will convince anyone that I don’t know what’s happening… It’s either going to be really disappointing for people or it’s going to be really exciting.”

People felt emboldened to believe Garfield and Maguire may be in No Way Home after the film’s first trailer introduced Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus through a rift in the multiverse that Doctor Strange created. Jamie Foxx’s Electro, another Spider-Man character from a different Spider-Man universe, is rumored to appear in No Way Home as well.

Before this, Garfield gave fans some hope that his Spider-Man may appear in No Way Home, saying people should “never say never” about the possibility of it happening. Before that, Garfield said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he hadn’t received a call about appearing in No Way Home yet. That being said, Garfield refused to give a straight answer when asked to reply “yes or no” about if he’s in the movie or not.

In other news, Holland himself recently teased that the first No Way Home trailer is only the “tip of the iceberg” in terms of what to expect. “You have no idea what else is to come. I am so excited to share more with you guys,” Holland said.

No Way Home releases in theaters on December 17. The announcement trailer crushed Avengers: Endgame’s record for most views in its first 24 hours.

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Sony will once again lay its cards on the table with a September PlayStation Showcase, kicking off Thursday, September 9 at 1 PM PT. The event will last roughly 40 minutes according to the official PlayStation Blog announcement, featuring upcoming PS5 games from both first-party and third-party studios.

PlayStation Showcase September 2021 Start Time

The PlayStation Showcase begins at 1 PM PT / 4 PM ET. The live stream, according to the PlayStation Blog post, will “include updates from PlayStation Studios and some of the industry’s most imaginative developers, for games releasing this holiday and beyond.” The blog also mentions “more updates from the studio teams featured in the Showcase” after the main show, but the teams featured have not been specified.

• 1:00 PM PT
• 3:00 PM CDT
• 4:00 PM ET
• 9:00 PM BST

How To Watch The PlayStation Showcase September 2021 Stream

In addition to the embedded stream above, the event will be broadcast on PlayStation’s official Twitch channel and at Playstation.com/Showcase.

While no official announcements have been made concerning what will be in the presentation, Sony has confirmed that the next version of PlayStation VR will not be included, saying “the next generation of VR won’t make an appearance this time. But there will still be plenty of great PS5 games from developers large and small.”

Following a leak, Netflix has released the first trailer for its start-studded disaster movie Don’t Look Up, which follows astronomers played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence trying to inform the President–and the world at large–that a comet is coming to destroy Earth. The problem is, no one believes them.

“Do you know how many ‘the-world-is-ending’ meetings we’ve had over the last two years?” Meryl Streep’s US President character says when presented with the life-changing information. Jonah Hill’s chief of staff character says, “drought, famine, hole in the ozone… it’s so boring.”

“Turns out warning mankind about a planet-killer the size of Mount Everest is an inconvenient fact to navigate,” reads a line from the movie’s description.

DiCaprio and Lawrence’s characters, Randall and Kate, set out on a media tour to try to get the word out about the Earth’s impending doom. In addition to talking to the President and Chief of Staff, Randall and Kate go on a morning show with characters played by Cate Blanchett and Tyler Perry. “With only six months until the comet makes impact, managing the 24-hour news cycle and gaining the attention of the social media obsessed public before it’s too late proves shockingly comical–what will it take to get the world to just look up?!” reads another line from the movie’s synopsis.

Don’t Look Up was written and directed by Adam McKay, who previously directed Anchorman and Step Brothers before getting into somewhat more serious fare with The Big Short and Vice. He says Don’t Look Up borrows a trope from Jaws where the mayor denies the existence of a killer shark, even though the evidence is all around him. In Don’t Look Up, people seemingly don’t want to believe the meteor is coming, even though experts say it is.

“So it’s two mid-level, very sincere astronomers who make the discovery of a lifetime, which is a killer asteroid headed toward Earth. They have to warn everyone and have to go on a media tour,” McKay said (via MovieWeb). “It’s them navigating our world. It’s them navigating their equivalent of Twitter. It’s them navigating the political landscape. It’s them navigating talk shows and how they’re perceived. I call it a dark comedy.”

The film is also about how people struggle to communicate these days thanks to the internet.

“We can’t even talk to each other anymore. We can’t even agree. So it’s about climate change, but at its root [Don’t Look Up is] about what has the internet, what have cellphones, what has the modern world done to the way we communicate,” McKay told Collider.

In addition to Lawrence, DiCaprio, Streep, Hill, Blanchett, and Perry, Don’t Look Up features Mark Rylance, Ron Perlman, Timothee Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Himesh Patel, Melanie Lynskey, Michael Chiklis, and Tomer Sisley.

Don’t Look Up will play in select theaters on December 10, 2021, before coming to Netflix on December 24.

Steve Burns, perhaps still better known simply as Steve from Blue’s Clues from your millennial childhood, has released a video to let his now-adult fans know that he never, ever forgot them since leaving the show in 2002. The emotional video is part of the Nickelodeon show’s 25th anniversary–and it is likely to provide a powerful dose of nostalgia and closure for kids who maybe didn’t even realize they never quite got over Steve’s sudden departure from that show.

“You remember how when we were younger, we used to run around and hang out with Blue and find clues and talk to Mr. Salt and freak out about the mail and do all the fun stuff?” said Burns, wearing his familiar and iconic green-striped shirt for the clip. “And then one day, I was like, ‘Oh hey, guess what? Big news, I’m leaving. Here’s my brother Joe, he’s your new best friend,’ and then I got on a bus and I left and we didn’t see each other for like a really long time? Can we just talk about that? Because I realize that was kind of abrupt.” Check out the video below to see the full heartfelt message.

While earlier this year it finally came out that a major motivator for Burns to leave the show was due to an interest in pursuing a music career (with Flaming Lips producer David Fridmann and drummer Steve Drozd​​), his heartfelt message here is solely focused on expressing gratitude for his viewers–and thanking them for still being his friend. The show never really dwelled much on the gravity of his exit.

Burns does in passing reference some shared pains his audience is also enduring (student-loan debt, for example), but for two solid minutes it’s like Steve had never left.

Disney’s second annual Hallowstream on Disney+ will be making Muppet history this year with the addition of The Muppets Haunted Mansion, the first Muppets Halloween special ever. Gonzo has to spend one night in the iconic Gracey Manor, known to Disney fans as the Haunted Mansion.

“Inspired by all four of the iconic Disney Haunted Mansion attractions located across the globe at various Disney Parks, the Muppets Haunted Mansion includes many hidden easter eggs for Disney fans and “Muppet-ized” sets,” Disney said in a press release.

From the sound of it, we’re not going to get Haunted Mansion references from just Disneyland and Walt Disney World, but also Tokyo Disney and Disneyland Paris where it is known as the Phantom Manor.

Ed Mitchell and Steve Morrell are once again returning to the music of the Muppets as the special will features three new original songs: Rest In Peace, Life Hereafter, and Tie The Knot Tango. The last of which could be a reference to the Ghost Host himself or Contance Hatchaway, the Black Widow Bride.

The Muppets Haunted Mansion will join the Lego Star Wars for its upcoming Halloween special, which is also part of Hallowstream this year, with more announcements to come.

The Muppets Haunted Mansion will air exclusively on Disney Plus, October 8.

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