Zendaya Fans Launch Challengers To A $15 Million Box Office Debut

“Challengers” and “Dune: Part Two” have something in common besides Zendaya: both movies were originally supposed to release in the latter half of 2023, but were delayed in response to the actors strike. Those two commonalities aren’t disconnected, but speak to Zendaya’s growing star power, since the strike would have meant her absence from the […]

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Challengers’ Sexy Hotel Scene Answered An Important Question For The Film

The scene illuminates so much about these three characters and their individual relationships to one other, making clear that this triangle functions best when each component is drawn to the other two, sometimes in ways that are so primal they don’t even know how to verbalize them. Kuritzkes continued: “The question then became how to […]

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Deadpool & Wolverine Trailer Teases The Return Of More Forgotten Marvel Mutants

On Deathstrike’s right is Azazel, another “X-Men” villain but a less beloved one. Introduced during Chuck Austen’s, shall we say, unpopular run on “Uncanny X-Men,” Azazel is (or was, since it has since been retconned) the father of Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler. Like his son, Azazel is a teleporting mutant with a prehensile tail. While Kurt has […]

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Alan Ritchson Steals A Fun, Forgettable Movie

In the early going, the plot follows the familiar (if well-worn) playbook of “The Magnificent Seven” and countless other getting-the-team-together adventures. As German U-boats wreak havoc throughout the Atlantic Ocean, preventing the United States from entering the war in earnest and all but ensuring a resounding European surrender to fascism, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill […]

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1960’s The Magnificent Seven Faced A Tight Deadline That Could Have Killed The Movie

The major headache for Sturges here had, at least initially, nothing to do with Brynner and McQueen. It was the other five members of the titular team that was a problem, primarily because he had yet to cast them. This is where the strike threatened to shut down “The Magnificent Seven.” As actor Robert Vaughn […]

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Abigail Suggests Vampires Are No Longer Good Box Office Bets

The larger lesson for Hollywood here is that vampire movies just aren’t clicking with the moviegoing masses, and they frankly haven’t been for some time. “Twilight” becoming a $3.3 billion franchise is very much the exception, not the rule. For whatever reason, vampires as out-and-out horror fodder just aren’t bringing out audiences in meaningful numbers. […]

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The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives! Is The Perfect New Comic For Horror Movie Fans

Watters, Roberts, and Stewart set that atmosphere from the first page of “The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!” Kate awakens from a dream of herself drowning. Some might say drowning is the most peaceful way to die, the narration suggests, a slow evaporation of life — as Kate sinks further, she realizes how wrong […]

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Blink Twice Trailer Reveals Zoë Kravitz’s Directorial Debut (& Everyone Is Dead)

Is 2024 the year of original thrillers that reveal the dark side of middle-aged heartthrobs? First, we got a small taste of Josh Hartnett as a Dad Joke-cracking (presumed) serial killer in the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap,” and now the “Blink Twice” promo offers a sneak peek at Tatum as a bearded tech-bro […]

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No Way Home Action Figure Line Is Almost Perfect

Of course, it wouldn’t be a “Spider-Man: No Way Home” toy line without the webslingers, and that means all three of them. Even though a previous three-pack included the trio of different Spider-Men, this is the first time they’ve all had their own unmasked face sculpt. That means we finally get outstanding likenesses of Tobey Maguire […]

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