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Apple TV+ revealed the trailer for the second season of the beloved animated kids and family series “Eva the Owlet,” premiering globally on Friday, January 24, 2025. Based on the New York Times bestselling Scholastic book series “Owl Diaries” by award-winning author Rebecca Elliott, the charming show invites kids and families to return to the whimsical woodland world of Treetopington alongside Eva and her friends...

Know that when celebrated astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson nitpicks the bad science commonly encountered in mainstream Hollywood blockbusters, he's not trying to spoil anyone's fun. He's just being a nerd, and I think we can all respect that. Case in point: Tyson infamously complained to director James Cameron that, in "Titanic," he got the night sky wrong. Tyson knew what the constellations looked like in the North Atlantic on that fateful April night in 1912, and suggested that Cameron, using digital trickery, rework the skies to match. Cameron, also being a nerd, obliged. On social media, Tyson declared that "Armageddon" "violated more laws of physics (per minute) than any other film in the universe." That honor, he said, once belonged to Disney's 1979 dud "The Black Hole." Quite unfortunately, "Moonfall" came along and blew both out of the water. "That's what I thought until I saw 'Moonfall,' he said on "Jess Cagle," before just breaking down in snickers. Tyson loves "The Martian," as it actually explores real physics and practical space travel concerns. Tyson also listed Robert Zemeckis' time-travel thriller "Back to the Future" as one of the best sci-fi movies of all time ... just because it's entertaining and well-written...

Fear Street: Prom Queen now has an official age rating, and it continues a trend for the Netflix horror movies. Based on the book by author R. L. Stine, the fourth installment in the Fear Street franchise takes place in 1988, chronicling a Prom Queen competition at Shadyside High School in which participants begin to disappear after the emergence of an unusual nominee. Though no Fear Street: Prom Queen trailer has been released just yet, the movie, which hails from director Matt Palmer, is confirmed to release on the streaming service at some point in 2025. As the wait continues for a trailer, FilmRatings.com now confirms that the MPA has given Fear Street: Prom Queen an R rating for "strong bloody violence and gore, teen drug use, language and some sexual references." All other installments in the franchise have also carried R ratings, and all for similar reasons, though there is some variation between films....

Rampage is set to make the jump to Prime Video later this month. Hitting theaters only three months before Skyscraper, Rampage hails from director Brad Peyton and is based on the 1986 video game of the same name. The movie features Johnson starring as Davis Okoye, a primatologist who must leap into action to stop three pathogen-infected animals from destroying Chicago. Rampage, which also stars Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Jack Quaid, earned mixed reviews from critics but was ultimately a box office success, making a profit on top of its $120 million budget. Rampage is now expected to make its debut on Prime Video on January 26, 2025, after previously being available to stream on Netflix and Max. The Johnson action blockbuster is one of a number of titles set to land on the streamer in the second half of the month, including Jurassic World (Jan. 16), Blink Twice (Jan. 21), Friday Night Lights (Jan. 31), Knocked Up (Jan. 31), and Scarface (Jan. 31). Rampage marks Johnson's second major video game adaptation after Doom (2005)...

Zack Snyder's 300, adapted from Frank Miller's comic book of the same name, depicts the brutal battle between the 300 Spartan soldiers and the entire Persian army at the Battle of Thermopylae. Sometimes, life imitates art, as the cast and stunt team on 300 underwent a similar battle to even get the movie made. The film stars Gerard Butler as King Leonidas, the leader of the 300 Spartans, all of whom gave their lives fighting the Persians (we would say "spoilers," but it's real history). While Butler and his cast mates didn't go that far on set, there were certainly some war wounds left behind. Butler recalled the painstaking injuries himself and his cast mates received while filming 300. It turns out, giving hundreds of actors and extras sharp and pointy swords isn't always the best idea. "I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital," the actor began. Butler didn't say which of his old co-stars, which included Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West, and Michael Fassbender, received the worst injury...

Sony Pictures Classics has set a release date of Feb. 14 for Becoming Led Zeppelin on 1000 screens. This is after the exclusive Feb. 7, 2025 Imax one night only early screenings in 18 markets. Watch new trailer above. PREVIOUS: Sony Pictures Classics will open the docu-concert movie Becoming Led Zeppelin exclusively in Imax on February 7. You can watch the trailer above. Ahead of the release, Imax theaters will hold early-access screenings in 18 markets starting February 5. Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of the iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Including psychedelic, never-before-seen performance footage, performances and music, Bernard MacMahon’s docu explores the band’s creative, musical and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group...