EXCLUSIVE: Disney/Pixar’s family film Onward has been banned in multiple Middle East markets due to the film’s minor reference to a lesbian relationship. In the movie, about two teenage elf brothers in a mythical world who embark on a quest for magic, there is a passing reference to an LGBTQ relationship between two secondary characters.
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Avengers: Endgame might have arrived in theaters nearly a year ago, but the conversation around the Russo Brothers’ massive blockbuster hasn’t slowed down much. The pair of directors crafted a dense movie through the MCU’s timeline, featuring every hero in the shared universe. This includes Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel, who had only recently made her
James Marsden, set to play protagonist Stu Redman in the new Stephen King‘s The Stand TV miniseries, compares it to the real life Coronavirus outbreak. Pop culture history is full of movies and TV shows that depict some kind of fast-acting sickness that manages to easily spread out among the human population. Sometimes this malady
Sony’s Tom Hanks World War II movie Greyhound is jumping from its May 8 weekend to June 12, as a means to tee off before Father’s Day weekend which is during the weekend of June 19-21. I hear the pic’s rescheduling has nothing to do with coronavirus fears which are weighing on many distribs’ minds, rather
Then there’s the fact that Bella ends up pregnant by her deceased partner Edward in the first place. And vampires in this universe not only exist, they are sparkly. It’s all weird, and I’m not saying that in a way that I feel people shouldn’t be into the weirdness. Heck, if Robert Pattinson got his
In an interview with Netflix’s Behind the Scenes podcast, the composers for The Witcher revealed which covers of the show’s mega hit ear worm “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher” were their favorites. The show as a whole has been incredibly popular, but the song has been the surprise standout element and has taken on a life of its
Dreamworks Animation’s Trolls World Tour is going where No Time to Die vacated: April 10. Originally the DWA pic, released via Universal, was to go April 17. This is the first major studio move in the wake of MGM/Eon/Universal moving the global day and date release of the 25th 007 pic this morning, which Deadline exclusively broke. It also
Why Didn’t Ariel Care That Prince Eric Ate Sea Creatures? After Prince Eric finds Ariel and takes her to his home, the servants bathe, clothe, and invite Ariel to a fancy dinner. The dinner consists of stuffed crab. Sebastian (Samuel E. Wright) nearly becomes part of the meal, but he escapes with Ariel’s help. She
2015’s Inside Out is now considered by many to be one of the best Pixar films ever. Although it was a kids’ film, there was quite an emotional depth to Inside Out that took it leaps and bounds beyond most animated movies. Any parent that decided to take their kids to the theatres was likely surprised by the complex
Despite the swelling panic about the coronavirus, the global business for Disney/Pixar’s elf fantasy feature Onward should turn out to be solid. To date, there aren’t any theaters closed in the U.S. (nor do sources expect any in the near future), certainly not in a grave way like China’s which has seen its nationwide exhibition
3. The Cabin In The Woods (2011) Before teaming up with director Drew Goddard on Bad Times at the El Royale and Joss Whedon for the first two Avengers movies, a young Chris Hemsworth starred in that duo’s brilliant deconstruction of the horror genre. While Scream, the 1996 slasher revival from director Wes Craven, followed
An upcoming fan-created movie titled Batman: Dying is Easy will pit the Dark Knight and the Joker against each other for an epic match-up. From Bat in the Sun productions – the same group of filmmakers behind Super Power Beat Down!, Batman vs Darth Vader, Predator vs Wolverine, and Spider-Man vs Darth Maul, their latest project
Broadway box office was down 11% last week, but don’t jump to any coronavirus conclusions: Attendance was down a small 3%, and the slide in receipts can be chalked up at least in part to theater-going children. With more than a dozen productions participating in the annual Kids Night On Broadway – children free with
Artemis Fowl was a popular book series that got its start nearly 20 years ago. Now Disney is bringing the story to the screen, and we now have the film’s first trailer, more than a year after the first teaser was released. It basically looks like kid-James Bond with magic, which is hardly the worst
Players of Halo: Combat Evolved will soon be able to choose between sounds from the game’s updated anniversary edition and the retro sounds gamers remember from the original. Released in 2001 for Microsoft‘s first Xbox console, Halo: Combat Evolved not only re-framed the way developers approached first person shooter combat but also became a staple franchise of the Xbox
Impractical Jokers: The Movie isn’t pranking us when it comes to their box office performance. After having a stellar opening last week, the big-screen adaptation of WarnerMedia’s truTV prank show expanded from 357 to nearly 1,800 theaters and earned an estimated $3,545,000, to bring its cume to $6.6 million. The movie has now cracked the top
There are two answers to this particular question, and they’re both rather interesting. The simpler answer is that we’ll probably see them in Sonic The Hedgehog 2, as that film will probably want to go off world to explore more of those safe zones Sonic had earmarked for potential escapes. Since Robotnik is in one
Diablo 3 is a game where skills are what get things done when facing enemies. Each class has a very exhaustive list of skills both passive and active. Each class can have up to six active skills slotted at the same time and four passive ones. The combinations for each can be endless for each
Refresh for updates … As the coronavirus continues to spread, now affecting nearly 60 countries spanning six continents, more events are being canceled or postponed amid travel restrictions and increasing health warnings. As of Friday, the virus had sickened more than 83,000 people worldwide — including 62 people across six states, per the CDC —
While Yonson An didn’t give us any details, the fact that he was aware of how the music was being used, could mean it will have a more prominent role than simply being in the soundtrack. Since the score likely wasn’t being worked on while filming was still taking place, and thus the actor would
Captain America is back, with a different man holding the shield in a new The Falcon and the Winter Soldier set photo. In last year’s Avengers: Endgame, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) retired as Captain America, passing on the shield to Sam Wilson aka Falcon (Anthony Mackie). As Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicks off this year,
Universal–Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man made its first appearance last night at 7PM shows nationwide with $1.65M, an an amount of cash that’s near both studios’ previous collaborations, Get Out ($1.8M Thursday) and Split ($2M). Both 2017 titles overperformed their $20M-predicted tracking at the time, with Split posting a $40M start, and Get Out taking $33.3M. Invisible Man, directed and written by Leigh
John Cena Has Granted The Most “Wishes” Through The Make-A-Wish Program You may think that 16 world title reigns are the most impressive accomplishments from John Cena’s career, but those pale in comparison to what the wrestler/actor/humanitarian has done outside the ring. Throughout his career, Cena has been a strong advocate of the Make-A-Wish Program,
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is the second game in the Kingdom Under Fire series, an obscure set of strategy RPGs from the early 2000s. The Crusaders in particular released for the original Xbox console in 2004. The franchise is most notable for the release of Kingdom Under Fire II in 2019, after a stunning 11-year development period. Now, developer Blueside has released
John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part II, the sequel to his surprise 2018 Paramount-Platinum Dunes $341M-global grossing genre hit A Quiet Place, arrived on tracking this morning with a projected opening of $60M. The sequel hits theaters on March 20, and is on track to beat the first film’s $50.2M domestic opening. A Quiet Place Part
Plus, his range is enormous. Hemsworth can do humor, he can do serious, he can do somber, he can do whatever, and often all in the same scene. It’s hard to pick a best Chris Hemsworth moment since there are so many, but we’re going to go with his “I’m still worthy!” scene in Endgame,
Whenever a new console or piece of tech is announced in gaming, there are a lot of technical terms that get thrown around with little to no explanation of what they actually mean. Chief among those in recent years is Teraflops, a term that continuously appears, trying to highlight the power of new consoles, like
“The impact in 2020 from Corvid-19 (coronavirus) on the motion picture business cannot be overstated,” a finance source recently told us. That’s as the closure of cinemas in China alone is approaching a loss of $2B to the global box office, while the disease has now seen spikes in Korea and Italy. What looked in
The process to create these sequences was quite a memorable one for star Elisabeth Moss, whom I got to speak with about the movie earlier this month during the Los Angeles press day for The Invisible Man. Interviewing both the actress and the film’s writer/director, one subject I asked about was the process required to
Colin Trevorrow has confirmed the official title for Jurassic World 3 – Jurassic World: Dominion – as filming starts. Five years after he brought the Jurassic Park franchise back to life with Jurassic World, Trevorrow is returning at the helm for the third and final entry in his sequel trilogy. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard will