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There are many things that DC Comics fans are longing for, but a third Injustice video game is definitely on that list. It's something we've been discussing since completing Injustice 2 and, with that having come out in 2017, it's been some time indeed.

With that in mind, let's do some more theorizing, this time about which characters could appear in Injustice 3 if it happens. To be honest, there are so many DC characters that haven't been used in the Injustice games that it would be impossible to list them all, so let's look at some of the ones that I want to see the most and the ones that fans have been clamoring over for years. 

Magical characters

Let's begin by talking about the magical characters of the DC Universe, because most of them haven't received much attention in these games. While characters like Swamp Thing and Shazam were playable characters in the previous games,...

The latest film from writer/director Jeff Nichols, the superlative narrative adaptation of a book of photos by photographer Danny Lyon titled The Bikeriders, proves to be one of the modern equivalent of iconic films such as The Wild One (1953) or Easy Rider (1969).

The film is told from the point of view of Kathy (Jodie Comer) via an ongoing interview conducted by a photo-journalist named Danny (Mike Faist) – upon whose book the film is based. Kathy’s story begins with her meeting Benny (Austin Butler) when he, and the rest of his motorcycle “club,” stop by her local bar for a drink. Immediately taken with Danny, Kathy joins him, and the club – known as the Vandals – on their quest for independence and freedom. The leader of the Vandals, Johnny (Tom Hardy), looks upon Danny as his successor. But, as the club evolves around them – much like the culture of the...

(L to R) Jodie Comer as Kathy and Austin Butler as Benny in director Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, a Focus Features release. Credit: Kyle Kaplan/Focus Features. © 2024 Focus Features. All Rights Reserved. The Bikeriders may be a work of fiction, but it’s set in a world that’s very real. It’s based on a real-life outlaw motorcycle gang that, over time, expands into criminal activities. Jodie Comer and Austin Butler head up the ensemble cast as a couple who are both members of the gang. And though their characters can sometimes be ruthless, Comer said that Butler’s demeanor was exactly the opposite. (Click on the media bar below to hear Jodie Comer) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Jodie_-Comer_The_Bikeriders_Austin_Butler_.mp3

The Bikeriders opens in theaters this Friday.

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(L to R) Tom Hardy as Johnny and Austin Butler as Benny in director Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders, a Focus Features release. Credit: Kyle Kaplan/Focus Features. © 2024 Focus Features. All Rights Reserved. Austin Butler, riding high on recent successes, takes on a new role in The Bikeriders alongside the notoriously intense Tom Hardy. But behind the scenes, Butler discovered a side of Hardy few get to see. Turns out, the tough guy is quite the jokester! (Click on the media bar bellow to hear Austin Butler) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Austin_Butler_The-Bikeriders-Opens-_Tom_Hardy_.mp3

The unexpected friendship forged on set translates to a compelling on-screen dynamic in The Bikeriders. Don’t miss this unlikely duo when the film hits theaters on June 21st.

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For Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders’ long road trip began with a handful of photographs. Among them in grainy black and white was a lone figure, captured in blurred motion and with his head turned away as he zoomed across the Ohio River. The only clear details were the leathered texture of his jacket and the gleam flashing off his Harley’s steel. When discovering this image and many like it in 2003, Nichols was in no way a motorcycle connoisseur. To this day, big bikes terrify him. But he instantly knew how the pictures—taken by New Journalism legend Danny Lyon between 1963 and 1967—made him feel. And he needed to express that sensation onscreen.

“Photographs can lie to us,” Nichols says 21 years later on a sunny Texan morning. “They’re very romantic,...

Check out the brand new trailer for director Jeff Nichols’s The Bikeriders, in theaters June 21.

The film stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist with Norman Reedus.

The Bikeriders follows the rise of a midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group’s unique way of life.

Nichols and Shannon worked together on the terrific, but overlooked sci-fi film Midnight Special. Read the review here and check out our list of the 5 reasons we thought the 2016 film was one of the best of the year.

For his new film, the director has once again assembled what has come to be known as his “film family” for the shoot, a core group of behind-the-scenes talent, many...

Austin Butler is going from blades to bikes as he goes from Dune: Part Two to the upcoming period drama, The Bikeriders. Butler revealed that his immediate start on The Bikeriders meant that he couldn’t shave his hair for Dune 2 as time was not allotted to have his hair grow back, so he’s actually wearing a prosthetic bald cap. He got to keep his blonde locks and Focus Features has now released the new trailer for The Bikeriders, which Butler stars in with Tom Hardy.

If you recall, The Bikeriders was originally set for a fall 2023 release via Disney’s Searchlight. The studio ended up selling the film (in an unusual move) to Focus, who decided to set it up as summer counter programming. This might have been a smart move as Butler is sure to come off Dune: Part Two an even bigger star than he was a few months ago.

Jeff Nichols brings pure Americana to the Telluride Film Festival with his luscious period drama “The Bikeriders,” which feels like the distant older cousin of “The Outsiders.” It stands as his single best directorial outing, and in tow are a trio of invigorating performances from Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy, all putting their stamp on an awards season that will be undoubtedly competitive.

Based on the 1968 photo and interview book by Danny Lyon, “The Bikeriders” tells a fictional story inspired by a Midwestern motorcycle club, seen through its members’ lives over a decade.

Read: Variety’s Awards Circuit for the latest Oscars predictions in all categories.

Nichols, who writes and directs, has carved out a special lane of talented American filmmakers who are able to wrangle honest and moving performances from the likes of Michael Shannon (“Take Shelter”) and Matthew McConaughey (“Mud”). He does it once again with his actors including Butler,...

Contains spoilers for Pieces of Her episodes one to four

Netflix’s thriller Pieces of Her is based on a novel by the aptly named best selling author Karin Slaughter. Though it’s set in America, the whole of the series was shot in Australia with the majority of filming taking place in 2021, and many of the cast are Antipodeans and Brits as well as Americans.

It’s a twisty tale of a mother who carries out an act of bravery which suddenly exposes her to a world she had long since left behind, and a daughter who discovers she really doesn’t know her mum at all. Pay attention! But in case you’re distracted by the niggling sense of ‘where do a recognise them from?’ we’re here to remind you.

Pieces of Her. Toni Collette as Laura Oliver in episode 105 of Pieces of Her. Cr. Mark Rogers...

From the director of Narc, The Grey, A-team and the recent Boss Level (Hulu), Joe Carnahan, comes his latest film Copshop.

Tearing through the Nevada desert in a bullet-ridden Crown Vic, wily con artist Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) hatches a desperate plan to hide out from lethal hitman Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler): He sucker-punches rookie officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) to get himself arrested and locked up in a small-town police station. Jail can’t protect Murretto for long, and Viddick schemes his own way into detention, biding his time in a nearby cell until he can complete his mission. When the arrival of a competing assassin (Toby Huss) ignites all-out mayhem, mounting threats force Viddick to get creative if he wants to finish the job and escape the explosive situation.

Grillo and Butler are having way too much fun in this first trailer. Check it out now.

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Again and again throughout Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad, the Oscar-winning Moonlight director will pause the story to present a tableau of his huge cast of black characters. These shots are stunning in their composition, as if Jenkins and cinematographer James Laxton are painting an entirely different vision of American history than the one you most commonly find in textbooks and on museum walls. It’s an appropriate touch for a story that weaves in agonizingly real details from our horrible past...

© 2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Photo Credit: Kyle Kaplan (L-r) Alexandra Shipp as Sasha, Jesse Usher as John “Jj” Shaft, Samuel Jackson as John Shaft and Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, Sr. in New Line Cinema’s action comedy “Shaft,” a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

Warner Bros. Pictures has released two photos from the upcoming movie Shaft.

New Line Cinema’s action comedy is the next chapter in the film franchise featuring the coolest private eye on any New York City block. Shaft is set for release on June 14, 2019

Tim Story (the “Ride Along” and “Think Like a Man” franchises) directs this all-new take on a legend, starring Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Regina Hall, Alexandra Shipp, Matt Lauria, Titus Welliver, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, and Richard Roundtree, the original John Shaft.

Jj, aka John Shaft Jr. (Usher), may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT,...

Innocence is a slippery concept: We're never conscious of possessing it, only of having lost it. That's the conceit behind writer-director Jennifer Fox's extraordinary cinematic memoir The Tale (which begins airing May 26th on HBO) – a raw, personal chronicle of the sexual abuse she sustained as a child in the 1970s. More radically, however, is how this tough-to-watch, formally daring look back (starring Laura Dern as the filmmaker's screen avatar) simultaneously details the process through which she came to recognize her experience as abuse – an epiphany arrived at gradually,...

Laura Dern and Isabel Nelisse in The Tale - An investigation into one woman's memory as she’s forced to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. Photo: Kyle Kaplan The line-up for the Sundance Film Festival: London 2018 has been announced. Taking place from May 31 to June 3 at Picturehouse Central, it will include 12 features, with seven of them directed by women.

The festival will open with Jennifer Fox's autobiographical examination of childhood sexual abuse, The Tale, and close with Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, which tells the story of a dad and daughter who have been living off the grid.

Other titles include the winner of the Us Competition Grand Jury Prize, coming-of-age tale The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a girl forced into a gay conversion therapy centre and Idris Elba's directorial debut Yardie,...

Cartoon Network is bringing its new animated series The Problem Solverz to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time this year. Series creator and voice actor Ben Jones is joined by voice actor Kyle Kaplan to discuss the future of the show, which airs on Monday nights on the Cartoon Network. Check out our exclusive interviews below!

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Comic-Con 2011 Movie Panels: Friday Schedule

11:00-12:00 Paramount: The Adventures of Tin-Tin — Tba Hall H

12:15-1:15 Relativity Media: Raven and Haywire— Two fantastic films from Relativity Media debut in this Hall H presentation. Hall H

Raven — The film is a gritty thriller in which Edgar Allan Poe joins forces with a young Baltimore detective to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis for a string of brutal murders. Ravenstars John Cusack as Edgar Allan Poe, Luke Evans, and Alice Eve and is directed by James McTeigue.

Haywire — An electrifying tale of espionage and betrayal. A female covert ops specialist who works in the deadly world of international operatives strikes back after discovering she’s been double-crossed by someone close to her in the agency. Mixed martial arts superstar Gina Carano makes her feature film — and Comic-Con — debut,...

It seems like San Diego Comic-Con 2011 is right around the corner, and it's going to be one hell of a glorious weekend of geek awesomeness. Comic-Con International has unleashed the full schedule for Friday July 22nd, once again we have a full day of fun and excitement. There's so much I want to see here, including The Amazing Spider-Man, The Walking Dead, Total Recal, Batman: Year One, Locke & Key, Haywire, Raven and more!

I've gone through the list and put exclamation points next to all of the events that we want to cover. Let us know what panels and events you would like to know about and we will try and get them covered for you! If you are actually going to be at the con, what will you be checking out?

GeekTyrant will once again be at Comic-Con in full force this year, bringing you the best maximum super rad coverage.

First peek at HBO's werewolves, Cory Monteith on Ellen, Bret Easton Ellis speaks, the actor behind United States of Tara's Lionel, and ABC Family is having a coming out party.

James Frain as Franklin Mott on True Blood

We know that on True Blood, the Vampire King of Mississippi takes in a gay prosititute, Tony, played by 90210's Michael Stegers. But what we didn't know is that it might be spurred because his boyfriend of 700 years, Talbott made out with either Sam, Bill, Eric or Jason in the first episode. Which of these presumed straight characters do we want to see Talbott mack on?

Which True Blood hottie do you want Talbott making out with?online surveys

We add werewolves as an additional supernatural species in this upcoming season of True Blood. Even with a smaller budget, they look better than Twilight werewolves to me.

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The executive producer of ABC Family's 10 Things I Hate About You has confirmed that the TV show has been cancelled after two seasons. How quickly things can change.

Based on the film of the same name that starred Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Heath Ledger, 10 Things I Hate About You revolves around two very different high school sisters and their friends and partners. The series features the talents of Lindsey Shaw, Meaghan Jette Martin, Ethan Peck, Nicholas Braun, Dana Davis, Larry Miller, Kyle Kaplan, Ally Maki, Chris Zylka, Jolene Purdy, Allie Gonino, and Suzy Nakamura.

The series got off to a great start in July 2009 and ABC Family touted it as the cable channel's biggest comedy debut to date. It attracted 1.6 million viewers and 734,000 in the coveted 18-49 demo. The news got even better by week four as the...

1. The show tries to stay true to the original movie, and mostly succeeds.

2. Lindsey Shaw was attractive until I discovered she was from Nebraska.

3. There are times I actually did laugh, which is surprising considering I’m not the demographic.

4. However, the pop culture references do get to be a little much.

5. Meaghan Martin is still underage, and still more attractive than Lindsey Shaw only because she’s not from Nebraska.

6. Ethan Peck should have taken acting lessons from grandpa Gregory, and the only I reason I know those two are related is because Wikipedia says so.

7. Kyle Kaplan has some talent, he just needs to hone his timing.

8. Michael Braun is decent, but never quite recaptures that lovable ’80’s doofus.

9. Fans of the movie will be pleased with this adaptation, and everyone else might be pleasantly surprised with it.

10. Seriously, Lindsey Shaw was attractive until I discovered she was from Nebraska.

The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You was one of a popular spate of teen films that hit theaters right before the new millennium and now, 10 years later, the film is getting new life on the small screen. ABC Family will be premiering the TV version of 10 Things I Hate About You on Tuesday, July 7 at 8 Pm Et and I was recently given the opportunity to visit the set and chat with the cast of this new series. Before the other reporters and I headed out to Santa Clarita Studios, we met at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood to have breakfast with one of the cast members who wasn't filming that day, Ethan Peck, who plays the mysterious Patrick Verona, a character which the late Heath Ledger portrayed in what turned out to be his breakthrough role. Here's what Peck had to say during our chat.

Ethan Peck - Patrick...

ABC Family has assembled the main cast of its high school comedy pilot "10 Things I Hate About You," an adaptation of the 1999 feature that in turn was based on William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."

Ethan Peck (grandson of Gregory Peck), Lindsey Shaw, Meaghan Jette Martin, Kyle Kaplan and Nicholas Braun have been tapped to star in the pilot, which revolves around two sisters -- strong-willed feminist Kat (Shaw) and social butterfly Bianca (Martin) -- facing the challenges of starting at a new high school.

Braun will play schoolmate Cameron, who is smitten with Bianca. Kaplan, repped by Greene & Associates and manager Michael Abrams, will play his friend Michael. Peck will play the dark and mysterious Patrick, a student who intrigues and bothers Kat from a distance.

In the movie, Kat and Patrick were played by Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger in his breakthrough performance. Michael was played by David Krumholtz.