We have no one to blame but ourselves. After racking up nearly $4 billion dollars in global receipts over four films, Transformers 5, 6, and 7 will hit theaters over consecutive summers in 2017, 2018, and 2019. This, despite the near universal disdain among critics and moviegoers alike that these chaotic mind-numbing extravaganzas are the epitome of what's [...]
Brace yourselves: we're about to get an onslaught of R-rated superhero movies. More than doubling the highest weekend projections of $70 million, the "adults-only" (yeah, right) superhero action-flick Deadpool took in $150 million over the 4-day President's Day weekend (with a Valentine's holiday boost). Heavy on graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content (verbal and visual), [...]
Okay, so it's not really anything different than what we saw at the end of The Force Awakens, but watching this behind-the-scenes footage of writer/director Rian Johnson continuing the saga is a perfect litmus test for just how much of a Star Wars geek you are. Apparently I'm an even bigger nerd than I thought, because even [...]
It has begun. During an official call about Walt Disney's Quarterly Earnings Report (which were through the roof, surprise surprise, at a record $2.9 billion), CEO Bob Iger announced that cameras had begun to roll on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII. Here's the official statement, with an intriguing bit at the end: “There is no better [...]
First James Cameron blinked. Now so has Steven Spielberg. When Disney announced in January that Star Wars: Episode VIII was delayed from a May 2017 release date to December 18, 2017, it set the stage for a showdown of unprecedented proportions. Not only would it go head-to-head with Spielberg's own sci-fi blockbuster Ready Player One, but a [...]
It was expected, but it's still mind-boggling. Not even two months into its release, Star Wars: The Force Awakens crossed the once unimaginable $900 million threshold at the domestic box office over the weekend. Finishing Sunday with a $906 million North American total, the unstoppable blockbuster has far surpassed the previous $760.5 million benchmark set by [...]
Alejandro G. Iñárritu just made movie awards history. He may do it again at the Academy Awards this year, which will be fueled by the most unpredictable Best Picture race in at least a generation - maybe more. For the first time ever in the 68 years of the Directors Guild of America awards, Iñárritu became the only back-to-back winner of the DGA's top Best [...]
The Dude will not abide again. Shooting down hopes of Lebowski fans everywhere, the Coen Brothers recently told Variety they'll never make a sequel to The Big Lebowski, despite Ethan Coen's acknowledgment that "there’s a huge groundswell of demand for it." Pouring salt into the wound, Ethan and brother Joel also balk at making a [...]
The 2015 Oscar race has shifted yet again. By winning the Best Cast Award at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Spotlight has regained the awards season edge. As an early favorite last fall along with the period drama Carol, Spotlight saw its front-runner status slide when Mad Max: Fury Road began to rack up critics citations and [...]
The Ingalls Family is coming to a theater near you. After being put into turnaround by Sony, Paramount Studios picked up the feature adaptation to the beloved books by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her family life in the 1880s American Midwest. With a script by Abi Morgan (whose recent screenplays for Suffragette and The Iron Lady centered around strong female [...]
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