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Earthworm Jim Animated Series Will Bring Back The ’90s Favorite Interplay Entertainment By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 23, 2021 2:05 pm EST Jim was just a dirt-eating length of worm-flesh, but then he became one of the world’s weirdest superheroes. ’90s kids likely remember Saturday mornings spent bouncing along to the ridiculously catchy theme-song for “Earthworm Jim,” a cartoon about an earthworm who becomes a superhero when a hi-tech super-suit falls from the sky....

Encanto, Ghostbusters, Eternals Cross Minor Milestones In Quiet Weekend At The Box Office Disney By Ryan Scott/Dec. 6, 2021 11:49 am EST Well, that was one of the most uneventful weekends at the box office in some time. Unless you were someone who was particularly excited to see “Christmas With the Chosen: The Messengers,” which cracked the top five with $4.1 million this weekend, it was pretty quiet, serving as something of a calm before the end-of-the-year storm....

Rosamund Pike Feels ‘Partly To Blame’ For The Failure Of The Doom Film Universal Pictures By Danielle Ryan/Nov. 16, 2021 8:22 pm EST “Gone Girl” and “The Wheel of Time” star Rosamund Pike has been in a lot of different movies and TV shows over the years, but there’s one big regret: the 2005 video game adaptation “Doom.” The movie was panned by critics and audiences alike, and Pike apparently feels that she’s partially to blame....

Star Wars Bits: The Book Of Boba Fett, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales, And More! By Adam Frazier/Oct. 1, 2021 9:28 am EST In this edition of Star Wars Bits: “The Book of Boba Fett” Poster & Premiere Date “Star Wars: The Bad Batch” Season 2 in Production “The Mandalorian” Season 2 ILM Sizzle Reel “The Mandalorian” New Funko Pop! Bobbleheads “LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales” Poster And more!...

The Daily Stream: Skip This Article, Because Kill List Is Best Seen Knowing As Little As Possible Film4 Productions By Kaylee Dugan/Dec. 3, 2021 3:17 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Movie: “Kill List” Where You Can Stream It: Shudder The Pitch: If you’ve never heard of this movie, that’s for the better....

The Daily Stream: Steven Soderbergh Dives Inside The Mind In ‘The Limey’ By Jeremy Mathai/Aug. 13, 2021 1:01 pm EST Set to the strains of “The Seeker” by The Who (see what Soderbergh did there?), the movie starts unassumingly enough with Wilson arriving in Los Angeles and getting himself settled in for what promises to be a dark and obsessive quest. From his accent to his age to his appearance, he is woefully out of place everywhere he goes....

The Huge Box Office For Halloween Kills Seemingly Says A Lot About Peacock Universal Pictures By Ryan Scott/Oct. 19, 2021 2:14 pm EST “Halloween Kills,” after being delayed for a full year, finally made its way to theaters over the weekend, taking in a killer $50 million. It’s the best start for a horror movie of any kind in the pandemic era, and also the best start for a movie getting a hybrid release, meaning that it launched both in theaters and on streaming....

Why The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Was Canceled — Here’s What We Know Netflix By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 15, 2021 8:33 am EST After the rousing success of The CW’s “Riverdale,” and its subsequent fanbase growth once the seasons popped up on Netflix, fans were elated at the announcement of the Netflix original series, “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” Inspired by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s popular comic book series of the same name (which itself is a spin-off of Aguirre-Sacasa’s “Afterlife with Archie” series), the Netflix series is broken up into parts, and Netflix canceled the show after only four parts....

‘Bird Box’ Review: Frequently Terrifying, But Frustratingly Derivative By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 13, 2018 7:00 am EST “It’s going to be rough,” Malorie says at the start of Bird Box. She’s looking right into the camera when she says this, and it’s as if she’s speaking directly to us – warning us that what we’re about to see is particularly unpleasant. It immediately sets the stage for Susanne Bier’s frequently terrifying horror film, but it also doubles as a warning about the moviemaking itself – what you’re about to see isn’t going to unfold as smoothly as it should....

‘Girls5Eva’ Season 2 Is Heading To Peacock For More Glitter And Glam And Girl Power By Marisa Mirabal/June 14, 2021 7:03 pm EST In true pop star fashion, Girls5Eva announced on YouYube that the hit Peacock comedy is no longer just a one-hit-wonder. Sara Bareilles, Busy Philipps, Paula Pell, and Renée Elise Goldsberry are all back on stage (er, screen) for season 2 as Girls5Eva, because this reunited girl group is going to be famous forever....

‘Jeopardy!’ Picks Two New Permanent Hosts, And They’re The Most Boring Choices Possible By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2021 9:53 am EST Jeopardy! just hasn’t felt the same since longtime host Alex Trebek passed away last year. After taking a break to figure out the future of the series, the quiz show ran through a series of guests hosts, including former champion Ken Jennings and fan favorite LeVar Burton, as a trial run to see who might be the best choice to step up to the podium....

‘Snake Eyes’ Ending Explained: What Is The Future For ‘G.I. Joe’ And Storm Shadow? By Hoai-Tran Bui/July 23, 2021 1:15 pm EST Snake Eyes hits theaters this weekend, and as much as it seemingly tries to separate itself from the G.I. Joe franchise, it can’t. It’s in the title, after all: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. So how does the Henry Golding-starring prequel movie lay some groundwork for everyone’s second-favorite action franchise based on Hasbro toys?...

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Breakdown: The Details And History That Enrich “Infested” By Bryan Young/July 23, 2021 7:20 am EST This article contains major spoilers for the latest episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. After returning to Ord Mantell from another mission for Cid, the Bad Batch find that Cid is no longer in control of her place. Instead, there’s a Devaronian named Roland Durand of the Durand crime family, new to the Star Wars canon (which immediately makes this episode of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, titled “Infested,” a worthwhile endeavor)....

‘Why Don’t You Play In Hell’ Trailer: Young Filmmakers Caught In An Odd, Bloody Battle By Russ Fischer/Oct. 14, 2014 6:30 am EST It’s easy enough to describe the story in Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play in Hell — a skin-of-the-teeth filmmaking group calling itself the F*** Bombers gets involved in a yakuza rivalry, and is given the opportunity to make the ultimate gangster movie by filming the collision between two gangs....

Casting Notes: Farmiga And Caan Go To Buffalo; New Gigs For Anne Heche And Jessica Biel By Russ Fischer/Oct. 29, 2009 8:30 am EST Some decent casting notes cropped up in the trade breaks last night, and because I’m just this sort of nice guy I’m about to round up the best for you. First involves James Caan and Vera Farmiga, who’ve just joined Keanu Reeves in Henry’s Crime. The film, you may remember, is written by Anvil!...

Cool Stuff: Hasbro Unveils ‘Star Wars Expanded Universe’ Black Series Action Figures By Ethan Anderton/March 18, 2021 3:00 pm EST When Lucasfilm was bought by Disney, they reset Star Wars canon outside of the major movies and TV shows and turned the various stories of the Star Wars Expanded Universe into Legends. But fans still hold many of the comics and books from the Expanded Universe in high esteem, and Hasbro will start paying tribute to them this year with a new line of Black Series action figures in honor of Lucasfilm’s 50th anniversary....

Jack Buena Vista Pictures Most of Francis Ford Coppola’s films, even if they’re flawed in some way, usually have some redeeming qualities that make them worth watching. Not so with “Jack” — it’s pretty much a misfire on every conceivable front. That’s a shame, because it would be amazing to have a collaboration between Coppola and Robin Williams where both artists, with their considerable creative gifts, are firing on all cylinders....

Everything We Know About Netflix’s Live-Action Resident Evil So Far Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Nov. 29, 2021 1:05 pm EST “Resident Evil,” seemingly against the odds, has been a big staple in the pop culture landscape for well over two decades now. Beginning with the classic Capcom video game series, this take on the zombie genre (which evolved into something far grander) has become a true multimedia behemoth. Popular video games, a massive movie franchise, merchandise, animated projects, and now: a live-action series in the works for Netflix, the king of the streaming game....

First Cow’s ending explained A24 It’s at this moment where some of the parallels between First Cow and the classic Western begin to fade. The genre conventions derive largely from how the hero positions himself with and faces off against a clearly defined villain, a figure which Reichardt’s film lacks. Perhaps it’s Factor, perhaps it’s nascent capitalism, perhaps it’s just an overarching mindset among the manifest destined. Either way, the hopes of Cookie and King-Lu to achieve what the typical Western hero achieves at the end of the story – full integration into society – dissipate when their dairy heist gets busted late one night....

Hulu’s Next NY Times Documentary Is About The Janet Jackson Super Bowl Scandal Frank Micelotta/Getty Images By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 3, 2021 12:22 pm EST Back in 2004, the Super Bowl halftime show shocked audiences when Justin Timberlake ripped open half of Janet Jackson’s top to expose the singer’s breast and a large piece of nipple jewelry for 9/16ths of a second. It was a moment that made pop culture history, put the term “wardrobe malfunction” into common vernacular, and sent certain sects of the population into an uproar....