Home Alone’s Kevin McAllister will never be lost again — at least not in Hollywood. The film’s iconic star, Macaulay Culkin, was honored with his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. The ceremony included appearances from Culkin’s Party Monster co-star Natasha Lyonne and Catherine O’Hara, who played Kevin’s somewhat forgetful mom in the … Read more
Suicide Squad director David Ayer defended DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn from DC fans on X, who are speculating Gunn’s stance on the director’s cut of the 2016 superhero movie. He expressed his excitement for Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, while also praising him for leading one of the hardest superhero franchises. “I absolutely can’t wait to … Read more
Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter is developing an adaptation of A Murder in Hollywood about Lana Turner’s deadly mob love affair. According to Deadline, Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter is developing a feature-film adaptation of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown’s Most Shocking Crime, which deals with the “deadly love affair between … Read more
The Creator director Gareth Edwards explains why he took a nearly seven-year break after Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Gareth Edwards first made a splash with Monsters, a sci-fi horror movie which was made for less than $500,000. He quickly made the leap to much bigger budgets with Godzilla and Rogue One: A Star … Read more
Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman says the industry tends to push “idiosyncratic” people like him to the side. Believe it or not, Charlie Kaufman has been in the business for 40 years, so the guy has seen a lot. As it turns out, he is far from pleased with how the industry has developed since the … Read more
After Barbie grossed over $1 billion, Hollywood was quick to greenlight dozens of toy-based movies, but is it taking the wrong lesson? Barbie has grossed over $1 billion worldwide and Hollywood is definitely taking notice, but is it taking the wrong lesson from the movie’s success? It didn’t take long for Mattel to announce that … Read more
“Sky Captain” was not a financial success. “Rogue One” was enormously so. “Rogue One”’s use of reanimation and de-aging was made with nostalgia, not memory, as its primary goal. The poisonous twin of memory is nostalgia. Memory can be beautiful, but it can remember flaws, the hard things, the mistakes that shouldn’t be forgotten. It … Read more
The comedy world is reeling from the shocking news that Paul Reubens — beloved by generations of fans as the man who created and starred as Pee-wee Herman in films, television series, stage plays, and comedy specials — has died after a long but very private battle with cancer. Reubens was only 70 years old. … Read more
Forget the writer’s strike or the latest actor’s strike, Hollywood faces a bigger problem: two-parters. Every other movie this year abruptly ends in the middle of a scene, forcing audiences to wait another year or two for the conclusion. It’s a frustrating tactic designed to extract more money from our pockets. Fast X started the … Read more
Recent releases “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” perfectly demonstrate Hip-Hop’s enormous artistic impact as a cultural influencer and cinematic game-changer. Both movies are heavily punctuated by the culture, but neither is a straightforward Hip-Hop movie. “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” seems solely to exist in its 1994 setting to allow … Read more