Frozen Empire (Finally) Crossed A Major Box Office Milestone

While director Ivan Reitman’s original 1984 classic “Ghostbusters” ($295 million worldwide) remains one of the most beloved mainstream comedy hits in history, that film was more of an exception rather than a rule, at least as it relates to the rest of the franchise. Pretty much every other entry has topped out just north of […]

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Up’s Opening Montage Went Through Multiple Last-Minute Changes

“We overwrote that opening like crazy,” director Pete Docter told The Ringer in 2022. “I would guess we had 30 to 40 minutes of material that we slowly whittled down.” Some of that whittling included cutting out dialogue that was originally slated to appear in that scene, but eventually, they realized they could rely solely on […]

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Kinds of Kindness Trailer Gets Weird With Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons

While “Poor Things” was set in an alternative Victorian world, “Kinds of Kindness” is “set in a non-specific place, one that is sort of removed from our own,” according to producer Ed Guiney. Lanthimos has played around in that kind of space before, with “The Lobster” being set in a somewhat dystopian world where single […]

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Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist Movie Won’t Be A Sequel to Believer

If most other filmmakers promised a “fresh, bold” take on a horror classic, I’d be skeptical. However, Flanagan has a proven track record both with honoring what has gone before and adding enough original ideas to an old story to make it interesting again. His adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Shining” sequel, “Doctor Sleep,” was […]

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The Umbrella Academy Season 4 Trailer Teases The End Of The Netflix Series

If you didn’t tune into season 3, ignore this paragraph because I’m gonna spoil the heck out of it. Ben Hargreeves was introduced as the deceased sibling in season 1, but appeared to Klaus as a ghost. In season 3, the Umbrella Academy ended up in an alternate timeline where their father Reginald started the […]

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DC’s Green Lanterns TV Show Writers Include Damon Lindelof and Tom King

This announcement came in response to Mundy and other “Lanterns” writers being revealed via the show’s listing on their official Writers Guild of America pages. Referred to by Gunn as “a crack team of writers,” they include Justin H. Britt-Gibson (“The Strain”), Breannah Gibson (an executive story editor on “The Penguin,” another upcoming DC series), and Vanessa Baden […]

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Furiosa Director George Miller on Returning to the Mad Max Wasteland

I wanted to start by asking you about your opinions on myth-making, because I know that you and writer Terry Hayes worked on “Mad Max 2” to create a myth out of that movie while you were making it. And you made a wonderful film, “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” just before “Furiosa.” Did making […]

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