The Penguin is a Scarface story of Oswald’s rise to power

The Penguin showrunner Lauren LeFranc says the HBO series is a Scarface story of Oswald’s rise to power in Gotham City. Colin Farrell damn near stole the show in The Batman, disappearing beneath layers of incredibly convincing prosthetics to play Oswald Cobblepot, aka The Penguin. While we await The Batman Part II, we will be … Read more

Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin developing new movie

Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is developing a new movie with Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, and New Line for a 2026 release. Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin is set to write and direct a new movie for Atomic Monster, Blumhouse, and New Line, marking the first collaboration between the merged companies and Warner Bros. … Read more

George Lucas partly sold Lucasfilm due to the rise of Netflix

George Lucas said that the rise of streaming services helped nudge him in the direction of selling Lucasfilm to Disney. When George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 for more than $4 billion, it marked a major turning point in the movie industry. But, as Lucas himself says, some game-changing transitions within the business … Read more

O.J. Simpson Dies: The Rise & Fall of A Superstar | Tributes

On June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally murdered outside her home. O.J., who had a history of domestic violence against both Marguerite and Nicole, including police being called to their residences, was pursued by the L.A. police as a suspect. Rather than report to the police, on June 17, he … Read more

‘Descendants’ Returns With First ‘Rise of Red’ Trailer

For the first time in five years, there’s a new Descendants movie. The hugely popular series of Disney Channel musical movies about the children of famous Disney villains hasn’t had a full-fledged film since 2019’s Descendants 3. Now the franchise is back with The Rise of Red, which Disney is billing as “the next installment in the mega-hit Descendants franchise.” The new … Read more

Rise of the Ronin Wastes Interesting Setting with Clunky Gameplay | Video Games

From the team who made the excellent “Nioh” over at Team Ninja, “Rise of the Ronin” opens with immense promise. You start as a pair of “Blade Twins,” samurais of the Veiled Edge who are off on an assassination mission that, of course, serves as a tutorial on the gameplay, which allows for dual melee … Read more

Evil Dead Rise director Lee Cronin signs first-look deal with New Line Cinema

Evil Dead Rise writer/director Lee Cronin has secured a deal to make more genre projects for New Line Cinema Sam Raimi was so impressed by Lee Cronin’s feature directorial debut, the 2019 horror film The Hole in the Ground, that he not only hired Cronin to contribute to his short-lived anthology series 50 States of … Read more

Zack Snyder thanks his dedicated fanbase for Rebel Moon’s rise to becoming the ‘No. 1 Movie in the World’

Zack Snyder celebrates Rebel Moon’s success by thanking his loyal fanbase for making his new film the ‘No. 1 Movie in the World.’ Few filmmakers experience fan loyalty like Zack Snyder. Regardless of quality, people show up in droves to indulge in his latest projects and shower him with support in the face of negative … Read more

Episode 19 of 80s Horror Memories Remembers The Rise Of TV Horror Anthologies

The latest episode of the 80s Horror Memories docu-series looks back at the Rise of TV Horror Anthologies CHECK OUT ALL OUR EPISODES OF ’80s HORROR MEMORIES HERE! JoBlo.com recently launched a new weekly documentary series called 80s Horror Memories, and the first five episodes of the series were all dedicated to films that were released … Read more