Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio have been elected to present Martin Scorsese with the Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will be telecast on NBC this January 17th. Here is the official press release: Golden Globe winners Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio will present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Martin Scorsese at The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 17....
Disney has made it clear that they are planning on bringing as many of their animated classics to life in new live-action adaptations, whether on the big screen like The Lion King, Beauty and The Beast or the upcoming The Little Mermaid, or as a Disney+ exclusive such as Lady and The Tramp. Now Deadline has reported that 1970 movie The Aristocats is the latest movie to be added to Disney’s ever-growing list of remakes, and will be scripted by Peter Rabbit 2 scribe Will Gluck and Keith Bunin, who was responsible for the Pixar hit Onward....
On February 25th, 2022, the Florida House of Representatives passed the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which is currently on the agenda for the Florida Senate for Monday. If it passes there, it will land on Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk. Disney fans, who know about the company’s cultural power and how lawmakers can use transphobic stories to make law, called on the company to take a stand. But The Walt Disney Company, on Friday, March 4th, 2022, responded to these calls for action over the Florida House of Representatives’ passage of a “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would limit what classrooms can teach about sexual orientation and gender, by sidestepping the issue, per The Wrap....
As announced, director Ridley Scott will be holding a Q&A this Saturday, March 17th, after he debuts an all-new feature length trailer for his upcoming sci-fi thriller Prometheus. A very short teaser for this trailer has been launched on Yahoo! Movies UK site, and it offers a few very quick snippets of never-before-seen footage from the film, including one quick fight sequence between an unknown adversary and the crew of the Prometheus....
I had the privelege of attending a wonderful Emmy showcase event for Battlestar Galactica on Thursday night in Hollywood, where producers Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and stars Mary McConnell and Edward James Olmos talked about this riveting series, but they talked about much more than that. Olmos, who starred as Admiral William Adama on Battlestar Galactica, also directed the upcoming TV movie, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, and he was certainly excited about the new TV movie....
It’s been almost a month since season 3 of Emily in Paris dropped on Netflix. The hit love triangle show has somehow remained popular despite negative reviews from critics. Perhaps it’s the easy-to-follow storyline and the lovable characters, or maybe it’s the unique fashion. Over the three seasons, Emily in Paris’ fashion has gone from something anyone would wear to something you would find Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City wearing....
“I can make a scarier movie than this!” You know you’ve said it. Now’s your chance to prove it! Enter Chiller’s “Dare To Direct” Short Film Contest. Here’s how it works. Make a horror movie between five and eight minutes long. Once it’s been submitted and uploaded to the Chiller Web site, visitors can cast their votes and choose finalists. It’s that simple! A top Hollywood producer will pick a winner in each of three categories: Best Picture, Creepiest Character and Scariest Special Effects....
After almost three years of waiting, Euphoria returned for its second season in January 2022. HBO’s critically acclaimed teen drama – with a first season that aired in 2019 – quickly became an audience favorite, so it’s not surprising that Euphoria’s second season was welcomed with a larger audience rating. Viewers were anxious to accompany Zendaya’s Rue as she struggles with addiction in the middle of a tumultuous high school....
When it comes to classic horror, there are perhaps no two characters more genre-defining than Halloween’s Michael Myers and Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees. Michael Myers, clad in a white mask nicknamed “The Shape,” moves in silence as he approaches his victims, murdering them with a callousness that only a stone-hearted killer can possess. Jason Voorhees, donning a muddied-up hockey mask, acts similarly, preying upon innocent victims and killing them in cold blood....
The Stream Team (Kara Hayward, Jack Donnelly, Lydia Hearst, Abigail Breslin) crosses paths with a cabal of bloodsucking vampires and a man hellbent on revenge in Slayers, an original take on the genre, geared towards Generation Z. The team has over a hundred million followers, attracting the billionaire Beverly Rektor (Malin Akerman) and company, inviting them on a vacation at her compound. It’s not long after arriving that they discover their true vampiric identities, and that the vampires are being hunted by Elliot Jones (Thomas Jane) as he tries to avenge the death of his daughter....
In Best Worst Movie, Michael Stephenson makes his directorial debut by exploring one of the worst and most critically panned movies ever made, Troll 2, which he starred in twenty years ago as a child. In 1989, Italian director, Claudio Fragrasso cast small-town dentist Dr. George Hardy and a group of unwitting Utah actors in the ultra-low budget horror film, Troll 2. Soon after its disastrous release, Dr. Hardy retired from his short-lived acting career and returned to dentistry in his hometown of Alabama, unaware of the legions of fans that would one day recognize him as a cult movie luminary....
IMAX Corporation and Universal Pictures announced today that Fast Five will be released in the immersive IMAX format on Friday, April 29th. In this fifth installment, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker lead a reunion of returning all-stars from every chapter of the explosive franchise built on speed. The film will open on 245 IMAX screens domestically, simultaneous with its North American wide release. The film will also open on at least 10 IMAX screens internationally in the weeks to come....
When Final Destination 3 arrives on DVD on July 25, DVD watchers are going to have to chance to watch the film in a much different way than they ever have before. Like a Choose Your Own Adventure Book, it appears they will be able to control the fate of the film’s characters. In a story from Variety, New Line Home Entertainment is putting together an interactive Thrill Ride edition of Final Destination 3....
Original Firestarter star and former child actress Drew Barrymore has torched The Razzies for its decision to nominate 12-year-old actress Ryan Kiera Armstrong for her performance in last year’s remake of the Stephen King story. Appearing on CBS’s Talk of the Table, Barrymore took aim at the ‘worst of’ awards saying that putting such a young star as Armstrong in the firing line made her “blood boil” and warned the Razzies not to make such a mistake again....
Smallville is coming back to the airwaves on January 31, 2008 with episode 7.10 Persona. But as much as fans are anticipating that episode, which features the return of James Marsters as Braniac, they’re even more eager for the following episode, Siren, which will bring Justin Hartley back as Green Arrow/Oliver Queen and introduce the character of Black Canary to the Smallville universe. And now, thanks to Entertainment News International we have the official plot description from the CW, as well as pictures of the new heroine....
The Good This film should be Exhibit A about why people love science fiction. The Bad Amidst all these extras there’s no commentary track? Forbidden Planet is a highly interesting science fiction film in that it deals with the human race being advanced enough to have people live on other planets. The story is both simple and compelling. Dr. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his team are sent to a suddenly quiet planet that has been populated with scientists from Earth....
Fox has picked up the film rights to How to Talk to Girls, a cute 46-page self-help project written by Alex Greven, a 9-year old in the fourth grade. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Greven attends school in Castle Rock, Colorado, and wrote How to Talk to Girls as a handwritten, $3 pamphlet sold at his school book fair; he wrote it after he noticed his peers were having some trouble talking to the ladies, though the book is geared for all ages....
The Good David Janssen is great as a man on the run who always helps people out. The Bad No Extras. Also, this isn’t even a full season and the episodes have been edited and the music changed. The Fugitive: First Season, Vol. 1 finds Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) being escorted to death row by Lt. Philip Gerard. (He is being charged with the murder of his wife; a crime he didn’t commit....
FX has ordered six episodes of an all-new animated half-hour sitcom from creator Adam Reed tentatively titled Archer. The series will feature the voice talents of Jon Benjamin, Chris Parnell, Aisha Tyler, Judy Greer and Jessica Walter, and will revolve around an international spy agency. Nick Grad, Executive Vice President, Original Programming, FX, announced that the series would debut in the fall. Archer is set within ISIS, an international spy agency, where global crises are merely opportunities for its highly trained employees to confuse, undermine, betray and royally screw each other....
Charlize Theron is a Hollywood A-lister who’s starred in dozens of films of all genres over the past two and a half decades. From Monster to Mad Max: Road Fury, Theron is not afraid to take on challenging roles and transform herself accordingly in order to match the characters she portrays. She’s an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winner with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The South African actress and producer has starred alongside many of the biggest names in the movie industry....
