The Hunger Games is one of the most renowned franchises that took the world by storm. It had it all, from action and romance, to tragedy and revolution. For those who live under a rock, The Hunger Games tells the story of Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, who offers to compete in place of her sister in the televised Hunger Games, a battle-to-the-death event featuring two teens from each of the 12 Districts of Panem....
2020 was a good year for horror, with dystopia coming to life with the COVID panic and restrictions and a huge lineup of genuinely scary films making quarantine a little enjoyable. While the year delivered celebrated horror titles like The Curse of La Llorona, Extra Ordinary, His House, and The Mortuary Collection, there were a few films that escaped the radar. The Jack in the Box is one such film. The May 2020 scare show announced a sequel shortly after, and 4Digital Media has recently revealed the trailer of The Jack in the Box: Awakening....
Spoiler Warning: Jurassic World: DominionThe Jurassic World trilogy has come to an end with Jurassic World: Dominion. With a new genetics company using their technology to devastate crop populations and a thriving dinosaur black market, it seems like the world is accepting the new additions to the environment. That doesn’t mean everyone is thriving. The world is after Maisie (Isabella Sermon), the dinosaur black market is extremely active, and there are some weird insects buzzing about....
Spoiler WarningSet thousands of years before The Hobbit, the premiere, “A Shadow of the Past”, introduces the young Galadriel (Morfydd Clark). She scours Middle-earth searching for orcs and signs of Sauron after the death of her brother, Finrond. She finds a symbol in the frozen Forodwaith. The High King of the Elves, Gil-galad (Benjamin Walker), calls for an end to her quest. He grants her return passage home to the Undying Lands of Valinor....
The Mandalorian goes from sand to snow in a wildly entertaining detour. Chapter Ten, “The Passenger”, has Mando (Pedro Pascal) and Baby Yoda making a special delivery. They pick up a side job on Tatooine after an ambush by bounty hunters. What starts as essentially an intergalactic Uber ride becomes much more complicated. Our heroes dodge New Republic X-wings, crash land spectacularly, and fend off monstrous spiders. The Razor Crest takes a beating, but continues to be a resilient ship....
A TV on DVD title was the No. 1 seller last week. In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, The Office: Season Three was No. 1 on Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart. The last TV on DVD title to top the sales charts “in its first week in stores” was Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s Lost: The Complete Second Season. Paramount Home Entertainment’s Blades of Glory skated down to the No....
With the news that Disney will be bringing back Tim Allen to The Santa Clause with a new Disney+ series based on the franchise, fans have not been happy at a couple of omissions from the cast of characters returning for the series. The Santa Clauses will see Tim Allen once again reprising his role as Santa/Scott Calvin, along with Elizabeth Mitchell has his wife, and Austin Kane and Elizabeth Allen Dick as children Cal and Sandra respectively....
We sit down (or lie down) and turn on a film. We have drinks and snacks on hand, and we’re as comfortable as be. But something in the film we pick makes us restless. Maybe it’s a shot of a gorgeous mountain vista, a bustling neon city, or an ocean calm at sunrise. Whatever it is, we find ourselves dreaming of travel; perhaps we even pause the movie and begin to search the web for plane tickets....
Marvel Studios is reportedly developing a Lady Sif series for the Disney+ streaming platform. According to sources, the show will see Jaimie Alexander reprise her role, which should make Marvel Cinematic Universe devotees pretty excited. The studio is currently developing a show based on Loki, Scarlet Witch and Vision, which just signed Jac Schaffer on to direct, and a Falcon And The Winter Solider series. Additionally, there have been rumors of a Rocket and Groot series, which would be pretty cool to see along with the rest of them....
Tom Wopat, best known for his role on the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, has pleaded guilty to inappropriately touching two fellow female cast members of a theater musical he was set to star in last year. Wopat entered a guilty plea recently on two counts of “annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex.” Wopat is avoiding jail time for now but has been sentenced to a year of probation and is under the condition that he isn’t allowed any contact with his accusers....
Horror films provide a unique adrenaline rush that can’t be matched. Sometimes feeling scared is the best thrill there is. It’s the closest we can get to the danger of confrontation without actually engaging in it. It’s one of the best ways to feel alive from the safety of home. It takes a great director to tell a well-crafted and engaging story that makes the viewer genuinely afraid. A film doesn’t necessarily need to be a horror film to scare the wits out of the viewer....
If you loved reading the novel Turtles All The Way Down, you would be excited to know that the official movie adaptation of John Green’s No. 1 NY Times bestseller is officially in the works. As per Deadline, the movie has been officially taken on by New Line Cinema and is set to premiere on HBO Max. The movie will be produced by Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Issac Klausner, and Marty Bowen....
Universal Pictures has picked up the rights to the drama, Hurricane Season. The film is a post-Hurricane Katrina drama based on the upcoming documentary Walking on Dead Fish that producer Franklin Martin wrote, directed, and produced. Hurricane Season will tell the true story of the football team at East St. John High School, located just outside New Orleans. The Hollywood Reporter adds the team struggled with integrating displaced students from surrounding high school teams and tried to help rebuild their community following Katrina....
Last week, AMC’s The Walking Dead returned to San Diego Comic-Con, where they revealed the first Season 7 trailer along with the Sunday, October 23 premiere date. This footage gave us our first look at one of the new characters surfacing this fall, King Ezekiel (Khary Payton). Today we have more details about this important Kingdom leader, along with six photos featuring The King, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Morgan (Lennie James), Carol (Melissa McBride) and Jesus (Tom Payne)....
“Who are we?!?!” Share in the inspiration of this amazing story based on true events from director McG (Charlie’s Angels) this September 18, 2007 from Warner Home Video. We Are Marshall tells the inspiring story of how a small town in West Virgina coped with a devastating loss and restored their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. The exceptional cast includes Matthew McConaughey (Failure to Launch), Matthew Fox (TV’s Lost), Ian McShane (Golden Globe Award winner, Deadwood), Anthony Mackie (Million Dollar Baby), Kate Mara (Brokeback Mountain), and David Strathairn (Academy Award nominee, Good Night, and Good Luck)....
Werewolf by Night has been an undeniable success for Marvel Studios, delivering something unique and potentially far-reaching into the MCU, but one aspect that has really been celebrated is the introduction of Man-Thing. Marvel has always teased the arrival of new characters, and along with Jack Russell and Elsa Bloodstone, Man-Thing’s arrival was a thing of beauty that has had both fans and the character’s creators falling in love with the creature that goes by the unlikely name of Ted....
Werewolf By Night has seen tremendous success on Disney+ since its release on Oct. 7. The project, helmed by Michael Giacchino, is currently regarded as one of the best in Marvel’s Phase 4. However, it’s neither a television show nor a feature film. Instead, Werewolf By Night is described as a “Special Presentation” with a 50-minute runtime, the first of its kind in the MCU. Marvel Studios has seen animated shorts, multi-season shows, and theatrical films, but a special is something new for the MCU....
Relatability is a key element that many TV shows and movies try to achieve. There is a good reason why this is important. Every time a person watches a character to whom they can relate, they are able to connect to these characters and understand them. In fact, one might even go to the extent of justifying the bad decisions taken by these characters. Within this element of reliability exists the idea of struggling character....
For the first six seasons of HBO’s Game of Thrones, many fans believed that Jon Snow (Kit Harington) was actually the bastard son of the honorable Ned Stark, while others clung to a long-held fan theory, that ultimately proved to be true. The Season 6 finale revealed that Jon Snow was actually the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Ned’s sister Lyanna Stark, while the Season 7 finale confirmed that Rhaegar and Lyanna were actually married in secret, proving that Jon wasn’t a bastard after all, and that he is the one true heir to the Iron Throne, whose real name is Aegon Targaryen....
The Dark Knight is the first film in the Batman franchise’s history to be shot outside Gotham. According to Variety, this follow-up to 2005’s Batman Begins arrived in Hong Kong last week to begin filming. Even though there were complaints of low flying helicopters throughout the night, citizens quickly forgot the commotion as they gathered in droves to catch Batman in action. Even the daily news gave up-to-the-minute reports on filming....
