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A Nightmare On Elm Street Vs Friday The 13th – The Greatest Horror Franchise Ever [Round 14] Warner Bros. By SlashFilm Staff/Oct. 28, 2021 2:02 pm EST Welcome to the Tournament of Terrors, a /Film bracket where we argue about the greatest horror franchise of all time, and you, the readers, get to decide the winners. The rules are simple: two iconic horror movie series enter the ring, each represented by a /Film writer ready to champion them....

ABC Passes On ‘Thirtysomething’ Reboot, Dracula Series ‘The Brides’ By Chris Evangelista/June 30, 2020 3:30 pm EST Bad news for everyone out there jonesing for that thirtysomething reboot: it ain’t happenin’. ABC has passed on the series, which was described as a sequel, along with another high-profile series: The Brides, a retelling of Dracula from Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Also not moving forward: Valley Trash, a comedy starring Jason Lee....

Dexter: New Blood Showrunner Thinks Original Series ‘Lost Its Way’ Showtime By Joshua Meyer/Nov. 2, 2021 10:48 am EST Is there still an audience for “Dexter,” the show about the serial killer who preys on other serial killers? Showtime is about to find out this Sunday when it begins airing “Dexter: New Blood,” a revival of the popular Michael C. Hall-led series, which ran for eight seasons from 2006 to 2013 before petering out in a finale that disappointed many longtime viewers....

Every Alfonso Cuaron Movie Ranked From Worst To Best Warner Bros. By Billie Gagné-LeBel/Sept. 14, 2021 1:58 pm EST Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón has managed to carve himself a place among Hollywood’s all-star directors with movies such as “A Little Princess,” “Children of Men,” and “Roma”. He made history multiple times at the Academy Awards with his movies: He was the first Mexico-born director to win best director for his sci-fi epic “Gravity” in 2014, and he won Mexico its first best foreign language film Oscar, as well as another best director trophy, for his intimate memoir “Roma” in 2019....

Every Live-Action Cowboy Bebop Character Ranked Worst To Best Netflix By Billie Gagné-LeBel/Dec. 2, 2021 8:10 pm EST Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the classic ’90s anime “Cowboy Bebop” has been awaited with much excitement and speculation ever since the streaming network announced it back in 2018. Hollywood’s track record with live-action remakes of Japanese anime has historically been disastrous, and expectations were high for this one, which came out on November 19, 2021....

Harry Potter: Return To Hogwarts Teaser Gets The Wizards Back Together For 20th Anniversary Reunion Warner Bros. Pictures By Lex Briscuso/Dec. 6, 2021 12:32 pm EST We’re going back to Hogwarts, again. HBO Max saw a ton of success with their “Friends” reunion special earlier this year, so they’re trying their hand at bringing the “Harry Potter” cast back together for a 20th anniversary special on New Year’s Day. The streamer released the first teaser trailer for the event — and it doesn’t give us too much, to be fair....

James Gunn Almost Cast Taika Waititi In An Entirely Different ‘The Suicide Squad’ Role By Vanessa Armstrong/Aug. 6, 2021 10:34 am EST Writer and director Taika Waititi is one of the many big names in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. While we’ve known Waititi has been in the film for awhile, we didn’t know what role he was playing exactly. Those who’ve seen the movie now know the small but heartfelt part Waititi plays....

LOL: The Onion Reports “Michael Bay Signs $50M Deal To F**k Up Thundercats” By Peter Sciretta/April 13, 2009 10:47 am EST The Onion has published a funny fake news article announcing Michael Bay’s “landmark $50 million agreement” to “monumentally f*** up” a big screen live-action adaptation of ThunderCats. The article quotes Bay as saying “I couldn’t be more excited to completely f*** this up.” “I’ll use every directorial tool I have to suck the very life and charm out of this beloved cartoon,” added Bay, claiming that the film could turn out to be the most colossal piece of shit he’s ever worked on....

Magnolia Pictures Will Distribute James McAvoy’s ‘Filth’ In The U.S. By Angie Han/Nov. 26, 2013 5:00 pm EST After taking the U.K. by storm earlier this fall, Jon S. Baird’s Filth is set to come to our shore next year. Magnolia Pictures has just acquired the North American distribution rights to the twisted Irvine Welsh adaptation, which stars James McAvoy as what may just be the worst cop in movie history....

Renfield Adds Awkwafina Alongside Nicholas Hoult And Nicolas Cage Marvel Studios By Jeremy Mathai/Dec. 1, 2021 3:55 pm EST The film project that is rapidly developing into the casting tour-de-force of the year continues to add new and unexpected choices, some of which could be considered to be completely out of left field. First, the upcoming Dracula-related film “Renfield” added Nicholas Hoult to its cast as the eponymous, simpering, bug-eating vampire sidekick/henchman, and all the Hoult admirers among us saw that it was good....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer Breakdown: Villains Of The Multiverse, Assemble! Sony Pictures By Ryan Scott/Nov. 17, 2021 12:48 pm EST As was promised and hyped up a great deal by the folks at Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, we got a new trailer for “Spider-Man: No Way Home” recently. Droves of fans turned up to an event in Los Angeles to watch the trailer premiere in a packed theater with Tom Holland in attendance....

Superhero Bits: ‘M.O.D.O.K.’ Episode Titles Revealed, Sam Raimi Loves ‘Spider-Man’ Memes & More By Ethan Anderton/April 1, 2021 6:00 pm EST Who are the latest additions to Ava DuVernay’s DC Comics series Naomi at The CW? What is the name of Nightwing’s new puppy? Which comics are the episodes of M.O.D.O.K. referencing in the first season? What does Sam Raimi think of memes inspired by his Spider-Man movies? Want to see the full pilot for the Birdgirl series on Adult Swim?...

Superhero Bits: Andrew Garfield Debunks Leaked Spider-Man Photo, Batman: Year One Comes To 4K & More Hot Toys By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 14, 2021 3:44 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

The 15 Best ’90s Horror Movies Ranked Dimension Films By Layla Halfhill/Sept. 28, 2021 7:21 pm EST The ’90s was a fascinating decade in which Furbies, Beanie Babies, and Tamagotchi’s ruled toy stores, “Friends” dominated TV, Nirvana took over the radio, and people were dancing willy-nilly to the Macarena. Technological advances were shaking up society, with the advancement of the World Wide Web culminating in the launch of a little site called Google in 1998....

The Batman Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Warner Bros. The Batman is headed to theaters on March 4, 2022. It was initially set to open this year, but delays due to COVID-19 changed that. The 2022 release date will also keep the film from being part of Warner Bros.’ current method of simultaneously releasing all their 2021 titles in theaters and on HBO Max on the same day....

The Coen Brothers Consider This Their Worst Movie Circle Films By Witney Seibold/Dec. 1, 2021 11:33 am EST Starting with their feature film debut in 1984, Joel and Ethan Coen have been power players in the world of American indie cinema. Throughout the late ’80s and the whole of the ’90s, the filmmakers put out a ling string of critically revered and Award-winning films. Their 1996 film “Fargo” still tops lists of the best films of its decade, “Barton Fink” has been called one of the best films ever made about screenwriting, and both 1986’s “Raising Arizona” and 1998’s “The Big Lebowski” are still on regular rotation at midnight movie houses....

Why It’s Essential Viewing https://img.yts.mx/assets/images/movies/cronos_1993/large-screenshot3.jpg The ever-popular nature of the vampire subgenre means these bloodsucking tales are a dime a dozen, but in the middle of that sea of blood lies a number of tales that somehow manage to find original spins on the material. “Cronos” is absolutely among the latter, with an intriguing and unusual vampiric origin story that brings novelty, family endangerment, and faith to the subgenre before “Midnight Mass” made it cool....

The Morning Watch: Pee-Wee Herman Takes Over ‘Jurassic Park’, Why ‘The OC’ Is Great & More By Ethan Anderton/Jan. 28, 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, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, find out what Jurassic Park would be like if all the dinosaurs were replaced by none other than Pee-wee Herman....

Tick, Tick… BOOM! Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda Turns An Artist’s Lament Into A Joyous Love Letter Netflix By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 12, 2021 10:26 am EST You might not know his name, but you’ve heard his music. Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” shaped the modern Broadway scene, popularizing the rock musical and becoming one of the longest-running shows on Broadway — something that Larson never got to see, having died at the young age of 35 on the day of the show’s first Off-Broadway preview performance....

VOTD: 150 Movie Lines & Catch-Phrases By Germain Lussier/March 4, 2011 5:00 pm EST Movie quotes are the currency by which we pay respect to our favorite films. We grab them out of our pockets at the most appropriate, or inappropriate, times, adding our love of a movie to an advancing conversation. Sometimes these quotes are insignificant lines you and your friends hold near to your hearts but, most of the time, these lines are the ones we all know and love....