Elizabeth Perez 
Get ready to sing and dance (and scream) as a Paranormal Activity stage play is in the early stages of development. According to THR, the Paranormal Activity franchise is set to become a stage play. I can’t say I saw that one coming. Simon Friend, who commissioned the Life of Pi stage play, picked up … Read more
Mamma Mia! and its sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again were extremely successful pretty much everywhere. They were also apparently tons of fun to make. Maybe that’s why Meryl Streep would love to come back to the franchise if it were at all possible — despite the fact that her character technically died between the first … Read more
From this unusual starting point, Michel Franco (“Sundown”) weaves a tale of a unique relationship. Sylvia knows how to care for people as a worker at a public home, but she co-exists with her trauma in a way that has led to addiction in the past. She alternates work, AA meetings, and caring for her … Read more
Saladin K. Patterson’s reboot of The Wonder Years will not be returning for a third season on ABC. As broken by Deadline, ABC has opted to pull the plug on The Wonder Years after two seasons. The Disney-owned network may have foreshadowed this development when it pushed The Wonder Years Season 2’s premiere from midseason … Read more
Ahsoka showrunner Dave Filoni explains why Lars Mikkelsen had to play Grand Admiral Thrawn in the live-action Star Wars series. Grand Admiral Thrawn has captured the imagination of Star Wars fans since his introduction in Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire trilogy over thirty years ago. Even when Disney declared that much of the Star … Read more
When we separate successful movies from failures, we look at a few key factors. Sometimes the movie just isn’t very good. Sometimes it was a critical bomb but a hit with the everyman. Sometimes the box office take is enough to say whether a movie was worth its own budget. Plenty of cinema’s great classics … Read more
Atom Egoyan is one of Canada’s proudest filmmakers, although his latter-day work has not earned nearly the same international attention as his earlier hits like “Exotica’” and “The Sweet Hereafter.” Nevertheless, loyal fans were excited to see him team up again with Amanda Seyfried, the star of his 2009 film “Chloe.” Written and directed by … Read more
Ashton Kutcher has stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Thorn, an organization that fights child sex abuse that he co-founded in 2012. Kutcher cites character letters as reason for resignation In a letter posted to the organization’s official website, Kutcher cited the character letters that he and wife Mila Kunis sent in for … Read more
Sylvester Stallone says he’s done with Rambo at the Toronto International Film Festival and wishes he’d directed Cobra himself. While chatting with audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival this afternoon, Sylvester Stallone said that he’s done with John Rambo. Our own Chris Bumbray was in attendance when Sylvester Stallone mentioned the state of the … Read more
This week’s episode of Star Wars: Ahsoka featured the full return of Anakin Skywalker, but it might have raised as many questions as it answered. Was this really Anakin’s Force Ghost? Was it a vision or hallucination? Could we see Anakin Skywalker again? Why did he start as Anakin and then become Darth Vader? Like we … Read more