Guillermo del Toro movies are particularly well-suited to spawning super cool merch, whether it’s a controversial The Shape Of Water dildo or Pacific Rim action figures that are cooler than the movie they were in, but now Guillermo del Toro himself is getting some cool merch. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, toy…
Among the countless striking visuals in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey—the towering monolith, the space ballet, the staring red light of the HAL 9000—there are few as baffling as the “star baby” that pops up in the movie’s closing moments. Goggle-eyed, mysterious, and full of strange…
We’ll be honest: When we first heard the phrase “Live-action CGI Winnie The Pooh sequel” floating around the pop culture ecosystem, we cringed a bit. In a world where CGI version of The Smurfs and Alvin And The Chipmunks are hiding everywhere, just waiting to force you to listen to them rap, the idea of A.A. Milne’s…
In a lawsuit notable mostly for once again allowing us to use the rich, evocative phrase “puppet jizz” in a headline, Variety reports that Sesame Workshop—the company that produces and owns the rights to Sesame Street—is suing Melissa McCarthy’s new R-rated comedy The Happytime Murders over its advertising campaign.…
As promised, this morning disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to the NYPD, who formally arrested him on charges of rape, committing a criminal sex act, sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct, as CNN reports. Weinstein cracked a strained smile for the photographers gathered outside as he was led…
Confirming a few years’ worth of hints, rumors, and even the occasional outright statement, BBC News reports tonight that Danny Boyle has been officially confirmed as the director of the next Daniel Craig-starring James Bond movie.
Welcome back to Trailer Happy Hour, where you can walk right in, sit right down, and baby, let your TV and movie teasers and promos hang down. Today, we’ve got Jean-Claude Van Damme fighting people in a submarine, Mr. Rogers doing whatever’s pretty much the exact opposite of that, and a double dose of Jake Gyllenhaal,…
As a clear indicator of just how much investors want streaming to continue on as a viable content consumption option, Netflix’s stock value has spent the week steadily growing and growing until it crossed an important milestone today by briefly becoming more valuable than Disney—the same Disney that owns all of the…
Fulfilling the dreams of upper-tier Star Wars dorks everywhere (plus, presumably, nerdcore rapper MC Chris), THR reports today that Logan’s James Mangold has signed on to direct a standalone Star Wars story focused on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
[The following contains spoilers for some celebrity cameos in Deadpool 2, as implied by the headline.]
Revealing that the word “Genesis” wasn’t the only thing having a hard time on the set of 2015's Terminator Genisys, star Emilia Clarke opened up this week about her unhappy time on the quickly forgotten sequel. Clarke—who’s presumably having more movie-franchise-star fun promoting the upcoming Solo—said that pretty…
According to Deadline, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will surrender to the NYPD tomorrow, with sex crime and financial fraud-related charges expected to be filed at some point on Friday. This comes just a day after we reported that federal investigators had begun looking into the allegations against Weinstein…
At the beginning of May, we reported that Lifetime was developing two projects about R. Kelly and the allegations that he keeps women in some kind of sex cult where they can’t do anything—including going outside or using the bathroom—without his permission. Lifetime’s projects are a documentary series and a…
In an extensive CNN report, eight women allege Morgan Freeman sexually harassed them. The outlet’s investigation included 16 people total, including witnesses to Freeman’s reported conduct; together, they describe “a pattern of inappropriate behavior by Freeman on set” and in promoting his projects and production…
The end of Game Of Thrones is in sight, even if it won’t come for another year, but that doesn’t mean we’re facing a shortage of George R.R. Martin content. He has Syfy’s adaptation of Nightflyers and that book he’s supposed to be working on, and now Deadline is reporting that an adaptation of his kid-friendly short…
According to The Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including whether or not he ever “lured or induced any women to travel across state lines for the purpose of committing a sex crime.” If the investigators determine that…
LeBron James and Channing Tatum are the sort of guys who seem really good at a lot of things and at least medium-good at literally everything else, and now they’re going to combine their powers to make Public Enemy, a new action-comedy film from New Line and their respective production companies (SpringHill…
Show Dogs is a family comedy film in which an NYPD Rottweiler must go undercover at a dog show in order to get into wacky hijinks and set up jokes about dabbing or whatever, but some parents are getting offended by more than just the movie’s banality. That’s because Show Dogs has a scene in which lead dog Max—voiced…
Stretching his acting talents to their limits, famously handsome person Idris Elba is gearing up to portray one of literature’s most well-established uggos. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the British actor has signed on to star in Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, even though the Victor Hugo…
As its plan to release 1,000 original movies and tv series by the end of 2018 reaches the halfway point, Netflix’s June offerings are, as they have been for a while now, heavy on the original content. There’s some good stuff in there, too: OG true-crime phenomenon The Staircase debuts new episodes on June 8, and…
