Author: Mary Anne Butler

Mary Anne Butler (Mab) got her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine as a teenager. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (News Editor), Nerdbot (as Editor-In-Chief), and now [Bad]Influencers, where she is Editor-in-Chief. Over the past 15 years, she’s built a well-known reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band. She also produces award-winning immersive events, including Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis.

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HEY EARPERS! I bet you thought your time had come and gone, right? It’s been since 2021 when “Wynonna Earp” left the air, but we have some VERY good news for you. Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna), Tim Rozon (Doc Holliday), Dom Provost-Chalkley (Waverly Earp), and Katherine Barrell (Nicole Haught) are all returning for a special! Series creator Emily Andras wrote the script, and Paolo Barzman (who helmed MANY episodes of the SYFY series) will direct! “Doc and Wynonna have been on an adventure, and Waverly and Nicole have been at home in Purgatory, doing their thing,” Andras said to Vanity Fair, who first broke the news. “I think it’s…

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Everyone, literally everyone: Hey Academy, can we get a stunts category for the Oscars? Finally? Remember “Mad Max: Fury Road’s” excellence and it’s precedent-setting work? Remember how that would’ve been the perfect time to include it? How about all the “John Wick” films? Hell, even the various Marvel Studios projects have some pretty great stunts! The Academy: Best we can do is Casting. For the first time since 2001, the Academy is adding a brand new category to their competitive roster. This is the first new one since Best Animated Feature Film. With this addition, and theoretically no further cuts,…

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If you’re a fan of Paramount’s “Sonic the Hedgehog” live-action hybrid movies, you’ll probably be excited for the upcoming spinoff series, “Knuckles.” Starring Idris Elba as the red Echidna and Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Tails, we don’t actually know who’s voicing Sonic. Kinda weird. Jeff Fowler, who directed the first two “Sonic” films, will helm the series. The new live-action series will follow Knuckles (Elba) on a hilarious and action-packed journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Wade (Adam Pally) as his protégé and teach him the ways of the Echidna warrior. The series takes place between the films “SONIC…

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In a move Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger calls the House of Mouse’s “biggest foray into the game space ever,” Epic Games is about to get one hell of an investment. We’re talking to the tune of $1.5 billion for the makers of “Fortnite.” “We’ve entered into a strategic relationship with Epic Games, the maker of ‘Fortnite’ to not only invest in the company — [Disney] took a minority stake of $1.5 billion investment — but we’re also creating a huge Disney universe that will be for gaming and for play and for watching and even for shopping for…

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Ahead of today’s quarterly earnings call for Disney shareholders, CEO Bob Iger did what he does best, and announced some plans for the House of Mouse. While visiting CNBC, Iger dropped a pretty big piece of news.Chief among these (that we weren’t expecting) was news of that animated “Moana” spinoff series on Disney+ getting changed to a sequel feature film. “Moana remains an incredibly popular franchise,” Iger said. “And we can’t wait to give you more of Moana and Maui when Moana 2 comes to theaters this November.”Directed by Dave Derrick Jr. with music by Grammy® winners Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear,…

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It’s pretty great so see a performer who really enjoys their work. Even better is when it’s someone like Ewan McGregor, who OBVIOUSLY loves his character from a little independent film series called “Star Wars.” Obviously McGregor didn’t join the galaxy far, far away until the divisive prequels, debuting as the Jedi Master in “Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace.” But since then, 25 FREAKING YEARS AGO, he’s been able to revisit the part in Disney+’s series, “Obi Wan Kenobi.”And you know what? He, like many of us, WANTS MORE. Originally billed as a “limited series,” the project was…

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The first trailer for the prequel to John Krasinski’s “A Quiet Place” finally has a trailer. Starring Lupita Nyong’O, Djimon Hounsou, Joseph Quinn, Dennis O’Hare, and Alex Wolf, the trailer shows what happened on day 1 of the alien invasion we see the results of in the other two films. Michael Sarnoski directs from a script he wrote with Krasinski, and Bryan Woods. The story has been a closely guarded secret, so we don’t really expect any big plot points to be released ahead of the premiere. “A Quiet Place: Day One” hits theaters June 28th, 2024. You can check…

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We need to take a minute to ask, out loud, what the absolute hell. Actress Gina Carano, who was fired from “Star Wars” spinoff series “The Mandalorian,” is filing suit against Disney and Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination. It’s worth noting that the Walt Disney Company is located in both California and Florida, two “at will employment” states, which means they do not need to publicly disclose the reason for firing an employee. Carano has maintained she was fired for voicing her conservative political views, when in fact, it was due to her reposting/uploading multiple videos and messages from…

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