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‘Bad Santa 2’ Happening For Real This Time, Billy Bob Thornton Confirmed To Return By Angie Han/Oct. 30, 2015 5:30 am EST Here’s an early Christmas present for those of you who like your holidays razor-sharp, pitch-black, and reeking of stale booze and cigarettes. Billy Bob Thornton is officially confirmed to return for Bad Santa 2, as announced by Miramax and Broad Green Pictures. More on the Billy Bob Thornton Bad Santa 2 return after the jump....

‘Bullet Train’ Adds Sandra Bullock To An Already Impressive Cast By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 9, 2021 3:30 pm EST Sandra Bullock is the latest person to catch a ride on Bullet Train, the upcoming action movie from John Wick and Atomic Blonde filmmaker David Leitch. The pic stars Brad Pitt, and features a cast that includes Lady Gaga, Joey King, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Zazie Beetz, Michael Shannon, Logan Lerman, Masi Oka, and Andrew Koji....

‘Calvin & Hobbes’ Creator Bill Watterson Explains Why We’ll Never See A Movie Adaptation By Angie Han/Oct. 17, 2013 12:41 pm EST While Calvin and Hobbes have touched the lives of millions of people the world over, their creator Bill Watterson has historically preferred to keep to himself. But for whatever reason, he recently decided to open up to Mental Floss for a rare interview. The story, which covers everything from the rise of digital comics to that legend about his burning a box of Hobbes toys, is a must-read for anyone who grew up loving this rambunctious little boy and his tiger pal....

‘Diary Of A Future President’ Season 2 Trailer: The Future Leader Enters 7th Grade On Disney+ Series By Shania Russell/Aug. 10, 2021 8:27 am EST Diary of a Future President is serving a second term! Season 2 of the middle school coming-of-age drama was ordered last summer, and now it’s set to premiere later this month, with even more heart than the first. In case you haven’t been keeping up with Diary of a Future President, the series tells the origin story of Cuban-American future president Elena Cañero-Reed (Tess Romero) as she enters middle school....

‘Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air’ Reboot Changes Showrunner For A “Different Creative Direction” By Joshua Meyer/Aug. 4, 2021 5:48 am EST The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, the sitcom that propelled Will Smith to fame, aired its series finale on May 20, 1996, so it’s been over 25 years now since it left primetime. The show lives on in syndication and you can stream all those old reruns with their Carlton dances on HBO Max....

‘Make Mine Music’ Turns 75 Today, But It’s The Only Disney Animated Film Not Streaming On Disney+ By Josh Spiegel/April 20, 2021 9:00 am EST One of the easiest, most painless binge-watching projects you could embark upon during the pandemic is to dive into the canon of Walt Disney Animation Studios films. Sure, you could add Pixar to the list, but getting to experience the depth and breadth of mainstream animation history, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Raya and the Last Dragon, would be an effective crash course, and a mighty enjoyable one to boot thanks to the still fairly young streaming service Disney+....

‘The Old Guard’ Sequel Has A Finished Script And Will Film Next Year By Ben Pearson/July 1, 2021 10:53 am EST Director Gina Prince-Bythewood became the first Black woman to direct a big-budget Hollywood comic book movie with The Old Guard, last year’s action-heavy adaptation of writer Greg Rucka’s comic about a group of immortal warriors. Oscar winner Charlize Theron led the film’s ensemble cast, and now the actress says the sequel will begin filming early next year....

‘Watchmen’ Trailer Breakdown: “Nothing Ever Ends. It’s Only Just Begun.” The first full-length trailer for HBO’s Watchmen premiered during Comic-Con and we’ve been exploring every frame, looking for Easter eggs and hints about what the show’s mysterious plot might entail. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ twelve-issue Watchmen series is arguably the greatest comic book story ever told. The collected edition is the only graphic novel that made it onto Time magazine’s list of the 100 best novels since 1923....

A Castle For Christmas: Cary Elwes Does A Scottish Accent In Netflix’s Latest Holiday Rom-Com Netflix By Shania Russell/Nov. 4, 2021 1:32 pm EST One of the many great things about Christmas movies is their titles: “A Castle For Christmas” is indeed, exactly what you’re picturing. Brooke Shields plays a woman who journeys to Scotland to buy herself a castle … for Christmas. And à la “A Christmas Prince,” there’s no point traveling to a European country and staying in a grand, gorgeous setting if you’re not gonna fall in love too!...

Clint Eastwood’s 14 Best Roles Ranked MGM By Jeremy Herbert/Sept. 17, 2021 2:55 pm EST In “Adventures in the Screen Trade,” screenwriter William Goldman cites the Quigley poll, which asked theater owners to list the most bankable actors and actresses in the business, as proof that stardom is fleeting. The top 10 money-making stars of 1971 share only one name with the 1981 ranking: Clint Eastwood, still in second place a decade later....

Disney Reveals Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Hotel Prices, And It’s Going To Cost You A Lot Of Credits By Josh Spiegel/Aug. 4, 2021 9:20 am EST It’s been a busy week for Disney theme-park fans, first with the announcement of Disneyland’s new Annual Pass…er, Magic Key program yesterday. And now, Walt Disney World is lifting the veil, ever so slightly, on the upcoming Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser experience, with a glimpse into how the two-day experience may work for guests....

Don’t Look Up Clip: Meryl Streep Puts A Positive Spin On The End Of The World Netflix By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 27, 2021 11:40 am EST Netflix released the first teaser trailer for “Don’t Look Up” just a couple weeks ago, but thanks to their recent Tudum hype event for upcoming movies and TV shows, we have a new clip from the apocalyptic satire about a comet that is on a collision course with Earth....

Who Will Star in True Lies? Netflix Steve Howey of “Shameless,” “Reba,” and “Something Borrowed” fame will play the role originated by Schwarzenegger, with comedian Ginger Gonzaga of “The Morning After” and the upcoming “She-Hulk” set to take the reins from Jamie Lee Curtis. Omar Miller of “Ballers,” and “The Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” has been cast to play Gib, the logistics supervisor for the spies, Erica Hernandez (“Mission Unstoppable,” “Bridge and Tunnel”) will play one of Harry’s fellow operatives, and Mike O’Gorman is playing an undercover operative posing as a computer salesman....

Henry Cavill Will Take A Break From Punching Things With ‘The Rosie Project’ By Danielle Ryan/July 15, 2021 2:11 pm EST Henry Cavill is good at punching things. Really good. So good he has to c**k his fists to reload. Now, despite already having a very busy schedule that includes Chad Stahelski’s Highlander reboot and Matthew Vaughn’s spy flick Argylle, he’s signed onto a project where he gets to be more subdued....

Monty Python and the Holy Grail If movies are meant to provoke, well, only Airplane! even comes close to rivaling the sheer amount of laughs-per-minute that Monty Python and the Holy Grail provides. It’d be satisfying enough if this comedy “only” managed to be so funny on just its first few viewings. But the fact that this fever dream of a movie can make me laugh myself sick over “Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who…” as much now as it did dozens and dozens of viewings ago?...

Movie Review: Don’t Mess With The Zohan By Zach Lawrence/June 8, 2008 10:35 am EST There are no words. I have tried all day to write up some kind of decent review for this flick and I have nothing. If any one of you knows my style at all, I am very forgiving and can usually find something positive to say about any movie. I’m a movie buff and fan, I just plain love movies, so something has to be particularly special in order for me to use the word “Hate” or “One of the worst of the year”....

Paranormal Activity 4 Paramount Pictures For whatever reason, the odd-numbered Paranormal Activity films tend to represent the best in the franchise, almost as if they’re reacting to failures of their predecessor and adjusting course. No even-numbered film in the series demands a course correction quite like Paranormal Activity 4, which represents the absolute nadir of the series. It embodies every complaint everyone has ever had about the rest of the Paranormal Activity movies and amplifies them....

Simu Liu Blasts Disney CEO’s Comments On ‘Shang-Chi’ Release: “We Are Not An Experiment” By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 16, 2021 9:05 am EST Disney isn’t exactly having a great time getting along with their high-profile talent these days, are they? First came the groundbreaking news that Marvel star Scarlett Johansson would be suing the company for breach of contract, stemming from their lack of disclosure involved in making Black Widow available on streaming simultaneously with its theatrical run — despite a clause in her deal stating that Johansson would need to sign off on such a move....

The 14 Best Deaths In The Scream Series Paramount Pictures By Chad Collins/Oct. 27, 2021 11:22 pm EST The “Scream” series has had one of the most curious developments among the entire slasher subgenre. Director Wes Craven’s “Scream” released to enormous success in December 1996, perfectly blending meta-awareness with conventional slasher thrills. It was funny, it was hip, and it was scary. Less than a year later, “Scream 2” released, and the franchise showed no signs of slowing down....

The Quarantine Stream: ‘John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise’ Is True Crime Done Right By Chris Evangelista/April 28, 2021 10:00 am EST (Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.)The Series: John Wayne Gacy: Devil in DisguiseWhere You Can Stream It: PeacockThe Pitch: A docuseries focused on the crimes of John Wayne Gacy, a serial killer who murdered at least 33 young men and boys and buried most of them under his house....