Finally, we can all rest easy knowing that two giant companies have apparently agreed that it’s okay for both of them to sell toys of characters named Bumblebee. That comes from Variety, which says Hasbro and DC Comics have settled the lawsuit that Hasbro filed last year over a DC Super Hero Girls doll called…
Life as an actor may seem exciting and glamorous, but it’s not all red carpets, Tonight Show appearances, and Oscar parties with an open bar. Sometimes you have to fight to get auditions, you wait for callbacks that never happen, and then you end up losing the role to a white guy named Chris. Despite the many…
Wes Anderson has made a movie about a wacky/sad family, a fantastic fox, and some dogs that may have been guilty of cultural appropriation, but he inexplicably has gone his entire filmmaking career without making a musical set in post-World War II France. Musicals are all artsy and artificial, the setting has the…
In Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, Topher Grace plays famous racist David Duke as a boring loser who sucks (making him not so different from the real David Duke), but for some reason, there are David Duke fans out there who aren’t particularly happy about the veracity of Grace’s performance. As reported by TMZ (via …
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David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows was all about how naked people are scary (unless you subscribe to high-minded concepts like “metaphors”), and now he’s writing a horror script based around a similarly simple fear. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mitchell is writing an full-length adaptation of Julian Terry’s…
Few people in Hollywood are having a better moment right now than Tessa Thompson. Westworld, Thor: Ragnarok, Creed, Sorry To Bother You—odds are decent that, if something’s popular or getting serious critical buzz right now, Thompson’s in there somewhere, elevating the material. And now, we’re happy to report that …
Back in the day, before internet pranks involved ruining someone’s life or tricking them into watching a cheesy music video, we all got our kicks with jump scare videos. It was a simple gag: You tell someone to find the secret object hidden in a “photo,” and after a minute or so of silence, a scary face would appear…
Having acquired a healthy stash of Hollywood capital after the smash success of his Oscar-winning horror satire Get Out—and the enthusiastic critical reception to Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, produced by his company Monkeypaw Productions—Jordan Peele has refused to be even remotely shy about spending it. Earlier today, …
Back in May, we reported that Sylvester Stallone was (maybe) working on a Rambo revival that would see John Rambo mowing down a Mexican cartel after the daughter of one of his friends gets kidnapped. That followed rumors that have been swirling for about a decade, including one about a full reboot called New Blood …
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The rise and decline of MoviePass has been the stuff of moving pictures: A brash upstart shifts the paradigm and sets hearts aflutter before quickly learning it can’t take on City Hall, i.e., theater chains. After a montage of past-due notices and shots of executives at Helios & Matheson, MoviePass’ parent company,…
In an outcome that’s both surprising (considering the plop with which it landed with critics) and not surprising at all (because it’s Jason Statham and a giant fucking shark), The Meg was the No. 1 movie in America last weekend. By quite a bit, too—the film outperformed expectations with a megalodon-sized $44.5…
Note: This article contains plot points of BlacKkKlansman.
Recently, when we reported that Ben Affleck and Fox had picked up the rights to the McDonald’s Monopoly scam story that Jeff Maysh wrote about for The Daily Beast, we noted that it must’ve involved a “really fast and really intense bidding war” since Affleck and Fox had snatched up the rights just a few days after the…
James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks and a longtime friend of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, has recorded a bluesy folk song with his band JD & The Straight Shot about Weinstein’s fall. The song is called “I Should’ve Known,” but according to The New York Daily News (via Vulture), Dolan says it’s not…
Remember when you first saw Jared Leto’s take on the Joker for the Suicide Squad movie? Remember the way the unhinged madness of his various “ha ha ha” tattoos sent a chill down your spine? His was the very face of chaos, a man who had looked into the black void of society and come out laughing on the other side. Now,…
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If we had to sit here and list all the ways, subtle and overt, that the working world is systemically titled against women, we’d be here all day. (But just to do a dab of due diligence: Unequal pay, sexual harassment, constantly getting talked over, double standards…It’s an unpleasantly unceasing list.) One of the…
It’s been a minute since we’d heard anything major about the upcoming fourth movie in the rebooted Star Trek franchise. (To be clear, we’re talking here about the one that’s reportedly being directed by S.J. Clarkson, not that bizarre Quentin Tarantino version that’s also in the works.) The assumption, though, was…
