After Rob Zombie finished up on his most recent movie, 3 From Hell, the director has yet to attach himself to another project; horror remakes seem to be the current trend for the genre, and there are some that could use Zombie’s unique aesthetic vision to reach their true potential. Though Zombie tends to leave a little
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Broadway settled into its new winter clothes last week, with recent arrivals My Name Is Lucy Barton, Grand Horizons and A Soldier’s Play padding the roster as Oklahoma! and Slave Play joined the raft of recent post-holiday departures. In all, the 27 productions (two fewer than the previous week) grossed $30,443,388 for the week ending
While not necessarily as impressive as HBO Max’s lineup, NBCUniversal has a decent amount in store for Peacock. Besides the Harry Potter franchise, the competing streaming service will have old favorites like The Office and Parks and Recreation; new revivals for Saved By the Bell, Battlestar Galactica and Punky Brewster; a new comedy from Tina
Fallout 4 provides a vast amount of side quests and collectibles on top of an engaging story and responsive first-person shooting combat. The game allows for an almost endless amount of exploration and side quests to engage in. Fans of the Fallout franchise will be right at home in the nuclear-devastated streets of Boston, with a huge
Oscar nominations continue to make a difference at the box office, and the box office continues to be important to Oscar contenders. At a time when prestigious, financially risky award bets are often destined to Netflix, nothing beats having that extra exhilaration from great ticket sales, as studios vie to raise the profiles of their
Jared Harris’ character is described as Morbius’ mentor, and the trailer shows him saying he’s known Michael Morbius since he was a boy. He knows Morbius has a gift and always has. Flashback footage in the trailer seems to show Harris’ character protecting young Michael, who would grow up to be a scientist who tries
Sid Haig and Rob Zombie are long-time collaborators who have worked together on multiple projects successfully; Haig was meant to be a featured player in The Lords of Salem, but ended up with his role cut down significantly in the final product. Zombie’s 2012 tale of witchcraft, The Lords of Salem, is sometimes considered to be one
Refresh for latest…: Seventeen years after the release of Bad Boys II, Sony’s Bad Boys For Life dominated domestic, overseas and global turnstiles in its debut, and will cross $100M worldwide when including the domestic four-day weekend. At the international box office, the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence cop flick set a new franchise record launch of
But at least these fans still care. Just like the angry fans after Star Wars: The Last Jedi cared. And the fans upset after The Phantom Menace cared. And the fans who never liked the Ewoks cared! It all shows that, however you feel now, the Star Wars saga did one thing very right —
Only four seasons removed from the last time he won Survivor, Wendell Holland is out to prove he can do it against the best the game has to offer. The Ghost Island champion, who secured the title of Sole Survivor by virtue of the show’s first and only tiebreaker, is aiming for a more resounding victory in
Streaming and other leisure-time enticements appeared to take a bite out of movie ticket sales in 2019, with total admissions declining nearly 5% to 1.244 billion, according to the National Association of Theater Owners. Although the 2019 tally was slightly higher than the 1.236 billion recorded in 2017, the totals for both 2017 and 2019
Last year, Marvel Studios made history by making its first movie starring a female lead in Captain Marvel. The blockbuster starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson was a huge hit among fans as the movie introduced the hero behind the backdrop of Los Angeles in the ‘90s. But, ahead of the film’s release, the superhero flick wasn’t
Now that Morbius has been confirmed to exist within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with connections to the current Spider-Man universe, a new fan theory suggests Morbius was hidden in Spider-Man: Homecoming. Sony’s Marvel Universe, which began in 2018 with Venom, continues its course, and its next film is Morbius, directed by Daniel Espinosa and with
Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, a sequel 17 years in the waiting, previewed at 3,154 theaters last night making a great $6.36M. That amount for the R-rated film is bigger than American Sniper‘s $5.3M preview, which turned out to be the record opener over the 2015 MLK holiday with a 4-day of $107.2M. Sony is seeing a $38M
This time, Zendaya is the victim here. The talented actress debuted as MJ in the 2017 movie alongside Tom Holland and recently reprised her role in Spider-Man: Far From Home last summer summer. The 23-year-old actress recently dazzled the red carpet at Sunday night’s Critic Choice Awards with this beautiful Tom Ford getup. Check it
This article contains spoilers for Black Widow Prelude #1. Marvel has finally revealed how Black Widow escaped after the events of Captain America: Civil War. The passing of the Sokovia Accords placed Natasha Romanoff in a difficult place. She believed in the Avengers – perhaps more than even Tony Stark or Steve Rogers – but she swiftly realized
Warner Bros. DC movie Bird of Prey hit tracking this morning with a range of $49M-$55M, the average being $52M when it opens on Feb. 7, that weekend’s only wide release. All exhibitors look to Birds of Prey as it’s arguably the only franchise film for the month of February. The film is really hot right now
He’s not getting ahead of himself just yet. When John Krasinski wrote the first Quiet Place movie with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, there were no plans for the story to continue beyond that installment. But once the demand for it came, Krasinski began working on the sequel. As he told Total Film Magazine, he
HBO Max has officially greenlit Adam McKay’s climate terror anthology series titled The Uninhabitable Earth. McKay’s work, both in the realm of comedy and drama, has been a favorite amongst audiences for years. Not only did he write and direct Oscar-nominated films like The Big Short and Vice, but he’s also one of the executive producers for HBO’s award-winning series Succession, which is currently in production
After Will Smith notched the biggest-grossing film of his career with last summer’s $1 billion hit Aladdin, can he keep the box office heat wave going with Martin Lawrence in reviving their Bad Boys franchise? The third film, Bad Boys for Life, finally arrives over MLK weekend 13 years after the second movie, with a projected take
There you have it. It’s as simple as that. She’s the daughter of Albert R. Broccoli, who first began adapting Ian Fleming’s James Bond character in the ‘60s with Dr. No. Following Albert’s death in 1996, Barbara has taken over control of the franchise with her half-brother Michael G. Wilson. It’s certainly enough authority to
The Wizardry series of role-playing games has been around since the early ’80s, and has been credited as a major influence on the genre as a whole. It has been contended that RPG greats like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest can trace their roots of influence back to the very first Wizardry game. While the main Wizardry series has been dormant
EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sister and Hair Love repped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday. Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last seven consecutive Animated
It sounds like the conversation changed his perspective on things. He felt it was time to prove himself and make some modifications to his lifestyle. The plane was taking him to Romania, where he’d film Cold Mountain with Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger and Natalie Portman. He explained on the podcast that if you
Disney+ original series The Mandalorian was the most popular streaming show in the US in December 2019, beating even Netflix’s The Witcher. The streaming industry is getting increasingly competitive, with new services such as Disney+ and Apple TV attempting to carve their own niche in popular culture. The last few months have seen both Disney+ and Netflix
Broadway’s winter thinning continued last week, with a trimmer roster and lower ticket prices sending total box office on a 28% drop from the previous week to $31.1 million. Attendance for the 29-show lineup was 259,101, a drop of 18% from the previous week’s 36-show list. Most productions reported box office dips for the week
However, the basic plot of a story involving a big creature wreaking havoc on a human populace is something that definitely overlaps, with Cloverfield being the tried and tested brand name out of these two projects. So for the sake of improving the odds of this film’s box office performance, it would have been an
Vampires have existed in various folklore for hundreds of years, but it’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, written in 1987 that has given us our most comprehensive concept of the vampire archetype. From fearing the sign of the cross to avoiding sunlight, the tropes that Stoker used to create the character of Count Dracula have informed every piece of
Refresh for latest…: Sam Mendes’ 1917 takes the worldwide crown this weekend with $56.4M. The Golden Globe Best Picture (Drama) winner from DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal was tops domestically and added $19.92M at the international box office from 30 Amblin and Universal markets. The global total through Sunday brings the estimated worldwide cume to $60.4M. The one-shot movie
15 minutes ago Once you come to love a star in a role, it’s hard to imagine anyone else playing that character. But it’s fun to hear about the castings that almost happened. Star Wars: The Force Awakens launched the final act in the Skywalker Saga with Rey as the central character. Daisy Ridley ended