No history of troubled big-budget movies is complete without the story of 1979’s Caligula, which was commissioned by Penthouse Magazine as an attempt to combine serious adult filmmaking with seriously adult sex scenes. In the end, both its director (Tinto Brass) and its writer (Gore Vidal) demanded their names be taken off the film, after Penthouse’s Bob Guccione inserted … Read more
“Ultraman: Rising” is what the old-time studio bosses used to call “an audience picture”–meaning you get a lot more out of it if you see it with an audience. Especially the audience for which it was designed: in this case, young children who like watching baby creatures act like misbehaving baby humans, and adults who game for a … Read more
Middle-earth fans: It is time to go back to the Shire. The Lord of the Rings is returning to theaters. Fathom Events is bringing Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy back to theaters later this summer. The remastered and extended editions of the films will be the ones that will be screening in theaters, with The Fellowship … Read more
A Shrek is back in the weekend box-office charts. What year is this?!? Last I looked, it is still 2024. But in mid-April 2024, one of the ten most popular movies in theaters was Shrek 2, the second of four bizarrely popular Shrek animated movies from DreamWorks. This movie first debuted in theaters in 2004, making 2024 its … Read more
The Mummy starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz is somehow 25 years old (ugh) and it is returning to theaters to celebrate this big anniversary (yay). The action-filled reboot of the classic Universal Monsters franchise debuted in theaters in 1999 and became a surprise hit. It cemented Fraser’s status as a Hollywood leading man and was … Read more
All nine Star Wars Episodes are returning to theaters — together — for one epic marathon. This year in honor of Star Wars Day (AKA May the 4th), the nine films in the “Skywalker Saga” of Star Wars will play in movie theaters. The films will be shown in chronological order — meaning they’ll start with the first prequel, The Phantom … Read more
Every single Sony live-action Spider-Man film — including the adventures of Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland — are returning to movie theaters this spring. That includes eight titles spanning 20 years of comic-book movie history. All of these Spider-Man movies are available on a variety of formats. You can get DVDs or Blu-rays, and they … Read more
The Cat in the Hat is becoming a new movie — this one animated. Warner Bros. announced today they were remaking the classic Dr. Seuss children’s story, this time as a big-budget animated movie. Bill Hader will voice the title character; the cast of the film also includes Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang, Doctor Strange … Read more
Stephen King fans hoping to see the new Salem’s Lot film on a big screen better hope they own a large television. The movie, which was first announced way back in 2019 and has remained unreleased until now, is going to bypass theaters entirely and go straight to streaming. King’s seminal vampire book has been adapted once before, as … Read more
There was something surreal about watching John Cena shuffle across the stage with nothing but an oversized envelope covering his junk, and it wasn’t just the fact that a dude with more muscles than an anatomy dummy was standing buck naked in front a billion people. It was the sounds of the laughs he was getting. … Read more