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‘Double Dare’ Reboot Brings In A YouTube Star To Host, But Marc Summers Is Coming Back Too By Ethan Anderton/May 23, 2018 5:00 pm EST Last month, we found out Nickelodeon was bringing back their beloved game show Double Dare. The game show and several varying iterations that followed it focused on two teams competing to win prizes by answering trivia questions and partaking in super messy physical challenges. The new show will very much have the same format, but it will have a new host that Nickelodeon is bringing in from YouTube stardom....

‘Father Figures’ Trailer: Ed Helms & Owen Wilson Go Looking For Their Real Dad By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 29, 2017 6:30 am EST Daddy’s Home 2 will already be bringing some fatherly love to the holidays in November, but just before Christmas, another comedy about fathers and sons will be arriving in theaters.Father Figures (formerly known as Bastards) is the long-delayed comedy starring Owen Wilson and Ed Helms as two brothers who learn that everything they’ve been told about their father was a lie....

‘Justice League’ Projected To Lose Warner Bros. $50-100 Million By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 21, 2017 12:00 pm EST Rather than heralding a new Age of Heroes for Warner Bros., it looks like Justice League has only brought doom to the studio’s bank accounts. The superhero ensemble is projected to lose Warner Bros. up to $50-100 million, based on estimates of the Justice League’s costly production and marketing budget, and its meager box office performance on opening weekend....

‘Kidnap’ Trailer: Halle Berry Puts On Her Best Liam Neeson By Jacob Hall/Aug. 22, 2016 12:30 pm EST I don’t know about you people, but I’m ready for the Halle Berry career renaissance. I think that we, as a symbolic nation of movie fans, are ready to completely forget about the likes of Catwoman and Die Another Day and Gothika and Things We Lost in the Fire and embrace a second wind....

‘Lord Of The Rings’ TV Series Reportedly Set To Follow Young Aragorn By Chris Evangelista/May 16, 2018 3:00 pm EST Let’s discuss whats available and how this opens up Tolkien’s Legendarium. A thread. #Tolkien /1 pic.twitter.com/mfbkf4jyX6 — TheOneRing.net (@theoneringnet) May 16, 2018 It’s worth noting that the rumor specifically states that the first season is going to center on Aragorn. Could this imply the additional seasons will focus on different characters?...

‘Slender Man’ Trailer: The Internet Myth Comes To Life By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 3, 2018 6:02 am EST Slender Man, the creepy, well-dressed supernatural creature who originated as a creepypasta meme, has taken on a life of his own since his original 2009 incarnation. The character has found its way into the public consciousness, and even inspired a real-life attempted murder. Now the murderous ghoul is getting his own movie, Slender Man, and the first Slender Man trailer has arrived to give everyone the creeps....

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Trailer Confirmed For Monday Night Football, Tickets On Sale Afterwards By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 8, 2017 6:45 am EST Rumors have been swirling for a couple weeks now that a new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi would be debuting this week, and now we finally have confirmation from Lucasfilm. The new Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer will officially debut during ESPN’s Monday Night Football on October 9....

‘Supergirl’ Producer Says Hiatus Was No Big Deal, Offers ‘Titans’ Update [TCA 2018] By Fred Topel/Jan. 12, 2018 2:30 pm EST Earlier this week, TV Line reported that Supergirl would air four episodes from January 15 through February 5, then take a hiatus while Legends of Tomorrow takes the timeslot on February 12. Supergirl would then return April 16 and air through June 18. The CW president Mark Pedowitz told TV Line that the production delay had nothing to do with producer Andrew Kreisberg being fired for sexual harassment....

A ‘Hocus Pocus’ Book Will Give You The Magical Sequel You’ve Been Waiting For By Hoai-Tran Bui/Jan. 31, 2018 3:30 pm EST Maybe magic exists after all. A feature film sequel to Disney’s beloved 1993 fantasy-comedy is all but dead, but the highly-demanded Hocus Pocus sequel will get resurrected in literary form. An all-new Hocus Pocus book, to be released on the film’s 25th anniversary, will feature a retelling of the classic Halloween movie as well as a sequel that takes place decades later with a new generation of Salem teens, inlcuding Max and Allison’s 17-year-old daughter, Poppy....

Bill Murray Is Opening A ‘Caddyshack’ Bar In His Old Stomping Grounds By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 22, 2016 3:00 pm EST Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the owner of a new restaurant in Chicago. When Bill Murray had a bit part in the golf comedy Caddyshack, he was just beginning what would become one of the most illustrious comedy careers of all time. Now he’s bringing a new restaurant to the Midwest inspired by the 1980 comedy that not only turned him into the most memorable groundskeeper on the big screen, but was also co-written by his brother Brian Doyle Murray along with Ghostbusters scribe Harold Ramis and National Lampoon writer Douglas Kenney....

Interview: Kevin Feige & Amy Pascal Talk ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ By Peter Sciretta/July 7, 2017 10:30 am EST

LEGO’s ‘Billion Brick Race’ Lands ‘The Book Of Life’ Director Jorge Gutierrez By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 3, 2017 9:00 am EST In the wake of the success of The LEGO Movie, the folks at Warner Bros. Pictures decided to go crazy for building brick movies by scheduling a sequel to the imaginative hit, as well as spin-offs in the form of The LEGO Batman Movie and The LEGO Ninjago Movie. But there’s one more LEGO movie in development that you might have forgotten about....

Scott Derrickson Would Love To Make A Visceral ‘Doctor Strange’ Sequel In The Vein Of ‘The Dark Knight’ By Jack Giroux/Oct. 25, 2016 7:00 am EST Doctor Strange comes out in less than two weeks now, but the early buzz is already remarkably high for director Scott Derrickson’s Marvel movie. Critics are embracing the origin story, which shares a few things in common with the likes of Batman Begins, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Iron Man....

Star Wars: The Force Awakens Collector’s Edition Will Include More Deleted Scenes, Audio Commentary And More By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 10, 2016 1:03 pm EST Disney has announced that they will finally be releasing a 3D version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens alongside a real collector’s edition of the movie on home video. I know that many of you don’t care about 3D home releases, but you may still be interested in this release because of the additional special features....

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Will Adapt World War II Drama ‘Daughters Of The Resistance’ By Chris Evangelista/Feb. 11, 2018 10:00 am EST Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners have optioned the rights to Daughters of the Resistance, a book proposal about female resistance fighters who fought against the Nazis in World War II. The book isn’t due out till 2020, but the subject matter was more than enough to catch the eye of Spielberg and company....

The ‘Blair Witch’ Viral Marketing Has Begun With A Creepy New Video By Jacob Hall/Sept. 2, 2016 10:30 am EST 17 years later, The Blair Witch Project isn’t just one of the most influential horror movies of all time – it’s a great film, a “found footage” movie that actually feels like an actual lost document. Unlike its often too stylized successors, it’s easy to understand why the original could actually inspire many viewers at the time to wonder if what they were watching was actually real....

The Oscars 2018 Honest Trailer: The Best Picture Nominees Get Skewered By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 28, 2018 6:00 am EST This weekend brings the 90th Academy Awards to ABC to honor achievements in filmmaking from the previous year. The awards ceremony will broadcast live on Sunday, March 4 at 8pm ET/5pm PT with Hollywood’s finest glad-handing each other and kissing all the asses. Therefore it only makes sense that the Best Picture nominees get knocked down a few pegs beforehand....

VOTD: ‘Akira’ Gets A Stylish Computer Animated Makeover By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 11, 2016 6:00 am EST Even those who aren’t all that familiar with manga or anime have heard about Akira. Either they’ve seen some of the iconic shots from the movie or they’ve heard about Warner Bros. Pictures trying desperately to turn it into a live-action movie. Now two Akira fans have given the beloved story by Katsuhiro Otomo a computer animated makeover by taking excerpts from the film and recreating them in 3D....

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Trailer: Rami Malek Will Rock You As Freddie Mercury By Hoai-Tran Bui/May 15, 2018 6:24 am EST It’s been a long and hard journey for Bohemian Rhapsody, but as they say, the show must go on. No person better embodies the lyrics to one of Queen’s final songs as a band than Freddie Mercury, the glamorous, tragic figure at the center of this biopic that’s played here by Rami Malek....

‘Borg/McEnroe’ Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Takes A Swing At A Tennis Movie By Ben Pearson/May 21, 2017 9:00 am EST It’s unlikely that George R.R. Martin was inspired to write his A Song of Ice and Fire novels by watching tennis legends Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe face off on the court, but considering the players’ nicknames were Ice and Fire, it wouldn’t be entirely ridiculous. (Mostly ridiculous? Yes.) The Swedish Borg was “Ice,” cool, calm and collected; McEnroe, a notoriously hot-headed New Yorker, was “Fire....