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According to The Hollywood Reporter, There might have been something for everyone at the movies this Columbus Day weekend, but not even a G-rated film with beloved clay-animated characters could topple last year’s impressive boxoffice grosses for the comparable frame. DreamWorks Animation’s release of Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit gave it its best shot, earning an estimated $16.1 million for the three-day frame. 20th Century Fox’s In Her Shoes played solidly for a film that primarily drew a female audience with a roughly $10 million opening, and Sony Pictures’ The Gospel scored brilliantly within its primarily black-female demographic....

There’s still hope for Wedding Crashers 2. Released in 2005, the original Wedding Crashers starred Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as a pair of divorce mediators who “crash” weddings looking for new women to meet. The R-rated comedy was a big success at the box office, prompting interest in a sequel, but while there have been rumors and rumblings of a sequel for many years, Wedding Crashers 2 has yet to come to fruition....

Tim Burton’s Wednesday, based on the subversive cartoon strip The Addams Family by Charles Addams, is a smash hit. Jenna Ortega’s rendition of Wednesday Addams has not only impressed lifetime fans of the character but drawn in a massive new fan base. Ortega’s sinfully ghoulish Rave’N dance has taken over the internet, and the ’80s jam “Goo Goo Muck” by The Cramps is back on the charts everywhere. Season one of Wednesday now holds the record for the most hours viewed in a week for any English-language TV show on Netflix with a record-breaking 341....

Blade star Wesley Snipes has revealed his interest in joining the Star Wars franchise. The actor, who is best known for playing Marvel’s vampire hunter along with various other action her roles, detailed his awe at seeing the first Star Wars movie back in the ‘70s while speaking with Comicbook.com, stating that the wide world of Star Wars would be “fun” to be a part of. Snipes remains a fan-favorite among comic book and action movie fans, and no doubt many would love to see him added to one of the many Star Wars projects currently on the horizon....

Action star Wesley Snipes has revealed that he wrote two different scripts for a potential Blade 4, which have now been reworked into other projects. In an interview with Comicbook.com, Snipes revealed that both ideas would have fit nicely into the world of the Daywalker, but now that Marvel Studios has rebooted the franchise and will add the character to the MCU, Snipes and his team will instead rework them....

Mockumentaries are an ever-popular genre in TV thanks to recent successes like Abbott Elementary and What We Do in The Shadows. Mixing documentary realism with broader character comedy, mockumentaries have the ability to instantly sell an audience on its premise, and its world. “Any Given Saturday Afternoon”, the seventh episode of the third season of the IFC mockumentary series Documentary Now! takes the best of the mockumentary format and imbues it with a surprisingly compelling cast of characters, living in hilarious neo-realist settings....

Star Trek’s 1970s reboot is a famous example of development hell, with a film first being greenlit in 1975 before having its script rejected. A second script was commissioned in 1976 before the entire project was canceled by a studio wary about whether cinema audiences would go to watch a blockbuster sci-fi film so soon after the release of Star Wars. This was at a time when science fiction was nowhere near as ubiquitous on film as it is now....

Ever since Universal Pictures dropped the multi-platform project The Dark Tower, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer have been seeking out a new home for this sprawling Stephen King adaptation. The original plan, when the project was at Universal, was to have a TV series run between The Dark Tower movie trilogy, although the budget proved to be too much for Universal and NBC to handle. Producer Brian Grazer recently revealed that HBO is coming on board to produce the TV portion of this epic adaptation....

A few weeks ago, we reported that Universal’s sprawling, multi-platform adaptation of The Dark Tower is being delayed for a February 2012 production start. We also reported at the end of April that Javier Bardem had finally signed his deal to star as Roland Deschain, although it seems that is not the case. Director Ron Howard recently spoke about The Dark Tower’s delay, and indicates that Javier Bardem is not officially Roland Deschain just yet....

According to Variety, producers Lawrence Bender and Karen Barber have signed a two-pic deal with Nickelodeon Movies to bring Jeff Stone’s adventure book series The Five Ancestors to the bigscreen. The deal marks Bender’s first foray into the family film market after making a name for himself working with cult director Quentin Tarantino. “This important alliance with Lawrence re-emphasizes Nick Movies’ commitment to deliver groundbreaking, edgy fare into the family marketplace,” said Nick Movies senior VP Julia Pistor....

The final season of The Flash is upon us, and a lot is riding on it. Not only is it the last season of one of The CW’s most popular shows, but it is also the final season of the Arrowverse as a whole. With that in mind, here are a few things that we hope to see in the last season of The Flash, as well as some fan theories....

A brand new trailer for The Gifted season 2 has made its way online. The trailers helps to set up the battler coming our way between The Mutant Underground and The Inner Circle. This show features a scrappy group that isn’t nearly as organized as the X-Men that moviegoers may be used to. Though, the themes of division and a marginalized group looking for acceptance, as well as corruption of power, are still quite prevalent....

Apple spent many years, along with various trial and errors, to make Apple TV+ what it is today. Way back in September 2006, Apple first announced the “iTV” box, which was later renamed as AppleTV. The iTV box was for in-home and streaming use of local iTunes content to a TV. Then, in January 2007, the anticipated AppleTV set launched. Later, software updates unhooked it from iTunes and gave customers the ability to stream and purchase iTunes films and TV shows directly on the device....

Universal Pictures is lining up yet another Robert Ludlum adaptation, hiring screenwriter John Hlavin to write The Janson Directive. The novel, which was published a year after Robert Ludlum’s death in 2001, centers on Paul Janson, a former Navy SEAL and spy for the government agency Consular Operations. Now he makes his living as a security consultant, and takes on a job to rescue a prominent civilian. Things go south when Janson is targeted for assassination, and he follows the clues which uncover a massive conspiracy....

TNT continued its ratings hot streak last night with the premiere of the action-adventure series The Last Ship and the return of the epic alien-invasion drama Falling Skies. The Last Ship launched with a total of 7.4 million viewers in Live + Same Day delivery for its 9 p.m. premiere and 11 p.m. encore, while Falling Skies landed a total of 4.7 million viewers for its 10 p.m. season premiere and midnight encore....

MoviePass Inc. announced today it will enable film enthusiasts across the country the ability to attend unlimited movies for a fixed monthly fee to encourage greater attendance at theaters. Users will be able to subscribe to the monthly service at www.moviepass.com The MoviePass service will be available nationwide as an invitation only Limited Private Beta. Charter subscribers will be able to extend invitations to friends and family. MoviePass will be using Hollywood Movie Money’s system to access the 36,000-plus screens in their theater network....

Fans of Steve Carell are going to get a huge jolt of comedy on September 12 as The Office: Season Two comes to DVD! Synopsis It’s time to clock in for Season Two of “The Office,” the comically honest look at the world of white-collar employment. Steve Carell (“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) won a Golden Globe® for his role as Michael Scott, the sometimes pathetic but always hilarious regional manager of the Dunder-Mifflin paper supply company....

The subject of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’s adaptation of Tolkien lore has been something that has been hotly debated since the series premiered on Prime Video. Among the numerous changes made to the history of Middle Earth, the three Elven Rings being the first of the titular bands to be forged was something that the production needed to do in order to better fit the overall story they are planning on telling across their multiple seasons....

Netflix has a knack for expanding its library in every genre, especially real-life inspiring stories, which have stacked up inside this world’s largest streaming service. The Swimmers is an upcoming Netflix film based on the true story of swimming sisters Yusra and Sarah Mardini, who fled from war-torn Syria to compete in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Co-written and directed by Sally El Hosaini (winner of a BAFTA award), credited for films on My Brother the Devil, Babylon, and The Fifth Bowl, the film was announced in April 2021....

When Bob Iger took over The Walt Disney Company in 2005, he acquired several titles that would be made into franchises. The first expanded universe would begin in 2008 with Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man. Phase One of the MCU would introduce other heroes like Black Widow, The Incredible Hulk, Hawkeye, Captain America, and Thor. The initial phase also introduced oganizations like S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra to audiences....