Abominablewas easily able to take the number one spot at the box office this weekend. The animated family movie took in $20.8 million domestically, which gave it a leg up on the holdover competition from last weekend. Director Jill Culton is the first woman to be credited as the main director and writer of an animated Hollywood studio project and she is definitely celebrating after the box office success over this past weekend....
Amazon Studios, known for television series such as multi-Golden Globe winner Transparent, Annie-nominated Tumble Leaf, and Mozart in the Jungle, today announced that it will begin to produce and acquire original movies for theatrical release and early window distribution on Amazon Prime Instant Video. Whereas it typically takes 39 to 52 weeks for theatrical movies to premiere on subscription video services, Amazon Original Movies will premiere on Prime Instant Video in the U....
Representation is a big topic of conversation within the entertainment industry, and it is always evolving. While the industry has made strides in the right direction, another glance shows that there is certainly more work to do. For its annualLGBTQrepresentation study, GLAAD looked at the 2023 movies released by 10 of the major studios, and sadly, only one of them received a passing grade from the organization, demonstrating that more work needs to be done....
Let me kick this off by saying that I’m a massive fan of Nickelodeon’s 90’s kid-horror anthology seriesAre You Afraid of the Dark?. I own every episode on DVD (come on Blu-ray collection!) and, yes, I can hand over some choice episode recommends (see below). And it’s armed with this love of all things The Midnight Society, that one of the upcoming horror movies that I’m looking forward to the most is Paramount’s big-budget feature film adaptation....
It’s been nearly a decade in the making, butAvatar 2is moving right along. James Cameron finally started production on the sequel to his groundbreaking, smash hit blockbuster last year. Now, we have a not-terribly-revealing, but certainly encouraging update on the status of the project from producer Jon Landau. Alita: Battle Angel, a movie that James Cameron has been working on as a producer for some time now, is coming out next month....
Avatar: Way of the Waterhas already pulled in over $17 million at the box office during domestic previews alone. The long-awaited sequel toAvatar(2009)has been in the works for over 13 years, and the numbers reflect the public’s anticipation and interest in seeing the James Cameron film, which cost over $350 million to make. The film’s international preview grosses are also relatively high, with over $50 million and an additional $18.5 million in China....
If there is a word to currently describe the upcomingBarbiemovie, it is intriguing. After officially releasing a first look atMargot Robbieas the titular character andRyan Gosling as Ken, new set photos have given another look at Robbie in costume – a pink bellbottomed costume. While theBarbiemovie has been in development for a long while, with stars like Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway having been previously attached to the film, Robbie certainly seems to look the part, but will the film really be a sweet and sugary as the images have suggested?...
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventureis one of the best movies of the 1980s, but it was almost much different, according to the original notes of creatorsEd Solomonand Chris Matheson. In honor of Keanu Reeves' birthday, Solomon shared their 1984 outline for the story, which would have had the iconic duo kidnapping Adolph Hitler instead of Napoleon. Bill and Ted were going to take their time traveling van (before they had the idea of the phonebooth) to Nazi Germany and get Hitler for their history report....
Withproduction startingsoon on Marvel’s new Phase 3 superhero adventureBlack Panther, new details have surfaced regarding the story. A new report reveals that Bay Area’s AC Transit is providing Marvel with a 1990s-era bus, which will be used in flashback scenes that show T’challa attending an America high school. The bus will be used for scenes where a young T’challa takes a bus back and forth from Saint Mary’s College High School in Berkeley, California....
Even thoughBlack Widowultimately did not end up releasing in 2020, the cast and crew of the film continue to hype the project at every opportunity. Recently Disney releasedMarvel Studios' Black Widow: The Official Movie Special Book, which details interviews with the film’s team and reveals a lot of additional information. Actor O-T Fagbenle, who is playing a new character named “Mason”, revealed some interesting facts regarding his role. “Masonis a finder for people who aren’t so affiliated with armies, like people who are part of the underworld....
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movieis squarely aimed at elementary school-age children. It’s a nonstop barrage of potty and poop jokes. Imagine if the juvenile humor spigot was attached to a firehose. It is unrelenting. But to my complete surprise, absolutely hilarious. I found myself laughing quite a bit through this film. The characters are extremely likeable with just a touch of heart. The film has a prettyendearing messageabout the value of friendship....
The first fullCatsreviews are in and they are brutal. The first trailer arrived during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which was an odd time to debut it. When the first footage began to spread, viewers were horrified with what they saw on their screens. The backlash was swift and it quickly took over the promotional narrative and did the same when a second trailer was released with updated CGI effects. As it turns out, going back in for minor redesigns was not really going to help with critics....
The 34th Annual GLAAD Media Awards were announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on the evening of Thursday, Mar. 30. A night of celebration for many in the LGBTQIA+ community; other than cursory speeches about the importance of being atransgenderally (especially in this political climate), the annual GLAAD Awards missed the mark on true allyship, snubbing much of trans-media nominated for entertainment that centered on cis queer voices....
