The movie sequel has become Hollywood’s bread and butter. When a movie catches the public’s attention and brings in money, studios have ample reason to try to head back to the well, and that continues to be the case in2024. While this approach does not always work out, with sometruly terrible sequels, it is still considered normal practice within an industry always looking to turn a profit and find the next big franchise....
Despite the extensive marketing campaign and high fan anticipation,The Flashstruggled at the box office for the entirety of its run, gaining such little cash that the DC project would’ve been less financially damaging than if the movie had simply been scrapped by Warner Brothers altogether. After all, it ended its run in theaters, having earned just over $270 million dollars against a reported $220 million budget. When you factor in the, no doubt, extortionately expensive cost of marketing, the film’s losses are estimated to be somewhere in the region of $200 million, making it one of the biggest box-office bombs in cinema history....
Heading into the weekend, most box office prognosticators predicted that Universal’sThe Mummy rebootwouldn’t be able to best the hit superhero movieWonder Woman, which turned out to be true.The Mummydebuted in second place with an estimated $32.2 million, which was below many box office projections that had put the movie at over a $40 million debut. While the movie is certainly struggling domestically, that is surely not the case overseas, where the movie has already made back its sizable $125 million budget after just one weekend....
Spoilers for The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live Episode 2 Ahead WhileGame of Thronesis largely credited for the trend ofkilling off a main characterwith its shocking first-season death of Ned Stark,The Walking Deadwas doing that long before. Based on stories written in the Robert Kirkman comics of the same name,The Walking Dead’sfirst surprising main character death came with Shane (Jon Bernthal), though it took two seasons to get there....
Pondering and questioning our existence is part of the human experience. We can’t make sense of a lot of the strange occurrences that happen to us. Thank God we have art or in this specific case, cinema, to help us through it. We may not get all the answers from the films on this list. But we can find comfort in knowing other people have the same questions we do about life....
The return ofTim Rothto the MCU inShe-Hulk: Attorney at Lawset up a reunion between Emil Blonsky and Bruce Banner, but the actor has cast doubt over whether scenes filmed involving the two characters have made it into the final cut of the show. Of course, the last time the two characters met on screen was in 2008’sThe Incredible Hulk, when Edward Norton was playing the title role, so this would be the first time Roth andMark Ruffalohad shared screen time as their super-powered counterparts....
TheSaved by the Bell reboot trailerarrived earlier this week, but Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tiffani Thiessen were nowhere to be found. Original series stars Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley were featured prominently in the footage. Fans of the original show were left wondering where Zack Morris and Kelly Kapowski could be hiding out. As it turns out, Gosselaar has a pretty good explanation as to why he and Thiessen were not shown in the first look at the reboot....
Don’t considerWill Smithto be fully canceled just yet. While the actor certainly received an immense amount of backlash following that controversial incident that happened at the Academy Awards in March, his acting career hasn’t gone entirely off the rails, as there will still be upcoming content he’ll be featured in. He’s set to star in the upcoming Apple TV+ movieEmancipation, and while that film was originally set to arrive this fall, it has been pushed back to 2023 with an exact date yet to be announced, perVariety....
While we’ve sporadically received casting announcements for Fox’s upcomingX-Men TV show, we’re finally seeing everyone gathered at the table read this morning, thanks to producer Lauren Shuler Donner, who has been with the franchise since its start in 2000. This drama series will directly tie into the X-Men movie universe. And it will be titled Gifted. Says Donner onTwitter. “Cast reading of “Gifted” #Gifted” Best known for his work on Burn Notice, Matt Nix is the showrunner on Gifted....
The days of the Dutton Ranch are sadly numbered. The second half ofYellowstoneseason five has been a long time coming thanks to a number of issues which have snowballed to keep the one-time Paramount Network show from seeing the light of day again. The controversy surrounding Kevin Costner’s departure was the first problem to delay the show’s return, and actor Luke Grimes doesn’t have much good news to offer fans in the way of an update....
The past year has seen some unexpected surprises emerge from the world of DC. With the announcement that the franchise will be leaning into the idea of a multiverse, as well as the confirmation that both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton will be reprising the role ofBatmanin the upcomingFlashmovie,Supermanfans have now taken to social media to ask Warner Bros to do the right thing and bring Henry Cavill back as the Man of Steel with #HenryCavillSuperman now trending....
Note: This article contains spoilers forThe Substance. The Substance, directed by Coralie Fargeat, tears into the sexist expectations of the entertainment industry, specifically Hollywood, while delivering a terrifyingly nasty body-horror experience. It surprised absolutely no one, then, when its two starsDemi MooreandMargaret Qualleypaid homage to the movie while presenting an award at last night’sGolden Globes. The Golden Globes are a glitzy, booze, and food-filled night celebrating the best of last year’s film and TV offerings....
Wickedreleases this week with some very high expectations and, surprisingly for some, it is managing to exceed them all afterlanding a gravity-defying 96% Tomatometer score from critics and almost perfect 99% from audiences onRotten Tomatoes.Musical movies, whether based on existing stage shows or an original, have often struggled to capture the hearts of modern movie critics. While recent adaptations such as the big screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’sCatsmade many studios and filmmakers never want to touch another musical again,Wickedis now changing that completely....
