Disney has halted the manufacturing and selling ofFrozenBlu-rays in Japan following Pierre Taki’s drug bust from last week. Taki is a member of the pop group Denki Groove and the voice of Olaf in the Japanese-language versions of the popular Disney animated movie. Last week, he was arrested after admitting to using a little bit of cocaine near Tokyo after an anonymous tip was provided to law enforcement. If convicted, Taki, could spend up to seven years in prison....

Are you in the mood to seeScarlett Johanssonas a crime-fighting cyborg? Well, then you’re in luck because Paramount has just released thefirst trailerforGhost In The Shell. Despite some serious controversy surrounding the adaptation, mostly because the lead role in the source material was intended for an Asian actress, this footage looks to change the minds of the public and get everyone on board. This first trailer was teased by Paramount earlier in the week when they released a very brief teaser from the trailer on theirYouTubechannel....

After decades of rumor, speculation, and false-starts, a sequel toGladiatoris now coming this year, and it sounds like it will have been well worth the wait. According toDeadline, returning director Ridley Scott has caught theGladiatorlightning in a bottle all over again, with studio executives having now seen early footage from the swords-and-sandals sequel and being blown away. “Scott recently wrapped production on the sequel to his smash hit Gladiator and, according to sources, early footage has blown execs away,” the report claims....

It has been three years sinceEuphoriaSeason 2 wrapped, and it appears production on the anticipated and long-awaited Season 3 has begun. Created by Sam Levinson and based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name,Euphoriadebuted on HBO in June 2019. The show’s buzzy young cast, combined with compelling stories that looked to tackle teen romance, drama, and relationships in a way most television series avoid, made it a breakout title. HBO seemed to have found its newGame of Thrones-level sensation in an unlikely series, so the race to get more seasons out continues....

The slasher team-up of everyone’s dreams (or nightmares maybe) has come just in time for Halloween, but it’s probably not in the way anyone imagined it would be.Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Ghostface, Michael Myers, and Leatherface have all joined forces to parody, of all things, theBackstreet Boys, uniting as the Slashstreet Boys in a new video for their songI’ll Kill You That Way. For once, these killers have lots of people screaming for reasons related to delight, as opposed to pure terror, as we see in this perfectly timed music video....

Nerdy fans love interesting calculations from their favorite movie properties. Maybe you’ve wondered how many lightsabers tall you are. Or maybe otherStar Warsfans want to know how many Death Stars of liquid your swimming pool holds. Or maybe you’re a masochist and want to know what your bank account looks like when converted to “Tony Stark fortunes.” (If you’re like me, though, you’re probably already too depressed about the answer to look at that one…)...

It finally happened!Marveland Disney officially dropped the epic full-length trailer forAvengers: Infinity War. And it blew the roof off the world. Now, it has been announced that tickets are officially on sale. And with that comes the promise of a free poster with a special VIP purchase. you may see the tweet and posters below. Yes, survivors of Earth, Advance tickets on Fandango are now on sale for the year’s most anticipated movie, Marvel’sAvengers: Infinity War, only in theaters on April 27....

An argument could be made that using voiceover narration in movies is poor filmmaking, a compromise made by studios or directors that shows little regard for both audiences and fine art. After all, the power of film and television is a visual one — the screen can and should tell stories in a way that radio or literature cannot. The old adage for cinema has always been, “Show, don’t tell.”...

Last April, new details about the long-awaitedTexas Chainsaw MassacreprequelLeatherfacewere revealed, teasing the plot has quite the interesting twist. In March, it was reported that British actorSam Strikehad been cast as the title character, but it was later explained that he is actually playing one of four characters who could beLeatherface. Last week, producerChrista Campbellrevealed the first photo from this horror prequel, which hints thatLeatherfacemay actually be a young girl. Sam Strikeis joined bySam Coleman,James BloorandJessica Madsenas the four teenagers who escape from a mental institution, all of whom have an affinity for wieldingchainsaws....

As we quickly creep up on on the final days of 2016, the world continues to losebeloved celebrities, making this year one of the worst in recent memory when it comes tofamous deaths. Today, the radio world was hit hard with the news that beloved Howard Stern Wack Pack member Joseph Bassolino haddied. The man was 49. Better known asJoey Boots, Bassolino was a longtime member of the Howard Stern Show family, and one of the more popular Wack Pack members....

Was Tim Burton going to replace Johnny Depp with Tom Hanks inEdward Scissorhands? Depp certainly thought so at the time. An interview with the actor from 1999 has recently resurfaced and Depp says that he was confident that he was going to be fired from the holiday classic. Obviously,Edward Scissorhandswouldn’t be the beloved twisted classic it currently is without Depp’s quiet and fragile performance, much likeBeetlejuicewouldn’t be as great as it is without Michael Keaton....

LongtimeBatmanmovie producer Michael E. Uslan would love to see Mr. Freeze get his own supervillain origin story in the vein ofJoker, especially if the “Heart of Ice” episode ofBatman: The Animated Seriesis used for inspiration. Starting with Tim Burton’s 1989Batmanmovie with Michael Keaton in the lead role, Uslan has been serving as an executive producer for every modern movie about the caped crusader. That includes theLEGO Batmanmovies, Christopher Nolan’sThe Dark Knight, andThe Batmanwith Robert Pattinson....

Monty Hall was the original host for one of TV’s most beloved gameshows,Let’s Make a Deal, from 1963 to 1986 and then briefly again in 1991. The Los Angeles Times reports that the cheerful and friendly host passed away on Saturday morning after suffering a heart attack back in June at the age of 96. Hall had the heart attack shortly after his wife of 70 years passed away and his health had been on the decline ever since....