No One Wants To Own Up To Racism In Transformers By Russ Fischer/June 25, 2009 1:43 pm EST Given how many people worked on the creative angle of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I’m amazed and not a little bit shocked that the movie hit screens with two of the most offensive, stereotypically black characters I’ve seen in a studio film since Mickey Rooney donned buck teeth to play a Japanese character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
POTD: ‘Family Guy’ Bar The Drunken Clam Comes To Life In Dallas By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 10, 2019 6:00 am EST Last summer, folks attending San Diego Comic-Con were lucky enough to check out a Taco Bell modeled after the futuristic, last-remaining chain restaurant from Demolition Man. This year, people in Dallas can step into the animated world of Family Guy by throwing back a Pawtucket Patriot Ale at the signature Quahog bar The Drunken Clam....
The 3D ‘Star Wars’ Conversions Could End After ‘The Phantom Menace’ By Germain Lussier/June 15, 2011 3:00 pm EST Well fans, Lucasfilm might have heard you. According to a recent interview, Star Wars producer Rick McCallum suggested if The Phantom Menace 3D doesn’t live up to box office expectations, they might not release anymore Star Wars films in 3D. We explore the pluses, and minus, of that after the jump....
The Chilling True Story Behind The Amityville Horror MGM By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 9, 2021 4:02 pm EST It is perhaps the most famous haunted house in American history: 112 Ocean Avenue, a Dutch Colonial house situated in Amityville, Long Island. In 1974, a young man named Ronald DeFeo Jr. shot and killed six members of his family. A year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into the house — only to flee after 28 days, claiming the house was haunted....
The Morning Watch: A History Of Product Placement In Movies & TV, ‘Fast And Furious’ Franchise Recap & More By Ethan Anderton/June 21, 2021 5:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows....
The One Scene In The Evil Dead Sam Raimi Regrets The Most New Line Cinema By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 15, 2021 10:56 am EST (Trigger Warning/Content Warning: Discussions of Graphic Sexual Assault.) Sam Raimi’s “The Evil Dead” is a beloved and iconic horror film spawning three films, a reboot, comic books, video games, a stage musical, and a continuation television series. For over 40 years, “The Evil Dead” has remained one of the most universally praised films in horror history, but the film is and has always been far from perfect....
VOTD: Moving ‘Jeopardy!’ LEGO Set Brings The Greatest Of All Time Tournament To Life By Ethan Anderton/March 5, 2021 6:00 am EST Even though Alex Trebek left us last year, the legendary game show Jeopardy! continues. Ken Jennings acted as guest host when new episodes began earlier this year, and now the baton has been passed to executive producer Mike Richards, with several more guests hosts lined up for the foreseeable future....
Werner Herzog Is Getting A Star Wars Action Figure, And He Would Like To See The Baby Lucasfilm By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 29, 2021 5:38 pm EST Action figure collecting is a complicated profession. Most of the “Star Wars” figures out there are variations on the same characters alongside endless versions of Stormtroopers and Clone Troopers. But every now and then, there’s an entirely new action figure that we never thought we’d see on shelves....
‘Home Sweet Home Alone’: Release Date, Cast And More By Ben Pearson/Aug. 19, 2021 12:10 pm EST (Welcome to …And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Did you know there have already been five Home Alone movies? Sure, some of them have been direct-to-video, but still: that’s the sign of a company realizing a property has name recognition and doing whatever it can to capitalize on that....
‘Paranormal Activity’ Sequel And New ‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel Headed Straight To Paramount+ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 24, 2021 3:30 pm EST The upcoming Paranormal Activity movie is headed right to Paramount+ – and it has company. A new Pet Sematary film, which will serve as a prequel to the 2019 adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic, is headed to the nascent streaming service as well. The news comes as part of Paramount’s plan to overhaul their release strategy as the theatrical experience is called more into question as streaming becomes dominant....
‘Pokemon’ Live-Action Series In The Works At Netflix From ‘Lucifer’ Co-Showrunner By Jeremy Mathai/July 26, 2021 11:03 am EST “Very twisty,” as a certain inquisitive Pikachu would say. It wasn’t that long ago that Hollywood finally got in on the Pokemon phenomenon with Detective Pikachu, and now it’s Netflix’s turn. The streaming giant is gearing up for an original Pokemon live action series that’s described, fittingly, as “akin” to the Ryan Reynolds and Justice Smith-starring film that released to much fanfare (and memes) in 2019....
‘She Said’ Will Let Carey Mulligan And Zoe Kazan Take Down Harvey Weinstein By Ben Pearson/June 7, 2021 1:01 pm EST The Harvey Weinstein scandal sent shockwaves through Hollywood when The New York Times broke the story in 2017 – not necessarily because of the sexual nature of the crimes Weinstein allegedly committed, but because a high-powered producer was actually being forced to suffer consequences in an industry that often looked the other way....
‘Stranger Things’ Spin-Offs Might Be In The Cards By Ben Pearson/Aug. 6, 2021 2:39 pm EST For years, Stranger Things creators/showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer have said that they envisioned the show lasting for four or five seasons. While we still don’t have confirmation on how long the Netflix phenomenon will ultimately last, the show’s final season may not be the actual end of the Stranger Things universe. Executive producer Shawn Levy has revealed that there’s a chance we could end up seeing one or more Stranger Things spin-offs....
‘Street Fighter’ Honest Trailer: Raul Julia Has More Charisma In His Cape Than The Entire Cast By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 24, 2021 6:00 am EST Since there’s a new version of Mortal Kombat coming to the big screen this spring, there’s no better time to look back at the first attempt to turn a one-on-one fighting video game into a big screen blockbuster. Street Fighter arrived a year after Super Mario Bros....
The Witcher Nightmare of the Wolf Trailer This anime prequel film revolves around Vesemir, a Witcher who would eventually become a father figure to young Geralt after his mother sent him to the School of the Wolf. The major conflict appears to stem from the belief that Witchers are conspiring to stage attacks from all manner of fantastical creatures that (conveniently) only they can stop. A line later in the trailer hints at the precarious position of Witchers, as fending off these beasts has been the only thing stopping the people from going after the Witchers themselves....
‘Three Men And A Baby’ Remake Hires ‘Brockmire’ Director Mo Marable By Ben Pearson/Jan. 29, 2021 1:30 pm EST Disney turned on the Content Spigot and unleashed a torrential flow of announcements during its Investor Day presentation at the end of last year. One of the seemingly endless number of projects that were confirmed was a remake of the 1987 comedy Three Men and a Baby. Zac Efron has been attached to star for a few months, and now word has come out that the company has hired a director for the project: Mo Marable, who’s name you might recognize from the opening credits of shows like IFC’s Brockmire or Hulu’s Woke....
18% Of Horror Fans We Polled Think This Classic Movie Should Never Be Remade Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/Sept. 9, 2021 10:23 am EST Horror fans can be a surprisingly precious bunch, considering remakes of their favorite films to be some kind of unholy abomination. We asked a bunch of horror fans (635 of them in the United States, to be precise) which horror movie should never be remade. We gave them some of the classics to choose from and asked them which horror remake would be truly abhorrent....
FX Orders Mysterious Science Fiction Series ‘Class Of 09’ With Brian Tyree Henry And Kate Mara By Hoai-Tran Bui/June 22, 2021 1:59 pm EST FX has ordered a mysterious new limited sci-fi series that is set to star Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara and hails from writer Tom Rob Smith and the team behind the network’s ‘American Crime Story franchise. Titled Class of ‘09, the FX limited series comes with very few details, apart from it being a legal thriller that features the use of artificial intelligence....
The Ending Hinged On A Hug Columbia Pictures Bob Gunton is probably best known for playing the villainous Warden Norton in Frank Darabont’s “The Shawshank Redemption,” but he’s surely popped up in your favorite film and TV over the years. He’s a “That Guy” actor. You know his face and recognize him when he pops up, which makes it all the more ironic that his contribution to “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is unrecognizable....
Interview: Martin Starr On His Amazing New Show Party Down, A Freaks And Geeks Reunion, And Having An “Iconic C**k” By Hunter Stephenson/May 1, 2009 11:24 am EST It was under the guidance of Paul Feig and Judd Apatow—as the lanky, bespectacled and beloved teenager Bill Haverchuck on Freaks and Geeks—that Starr set this precocious M.O. in motion. And it’s a personal belief that had Freaks not been brutally axed in ‘00 during its lone season, Haverchuck would have gone on to land a bevy of moist females....
