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Not the way it worked out 20th Century Studios And that was that. Trank boarded the reboot with a longtime “X-Men” producer in his corner to go along with a fresh take on one of the biggest comic book properties out there. Unfortunately, the movie we got only brought out shades of what Trank had in mind. Admittedly, I write this with only foggy memories of the film many of us saw and were puzzled by in the summer of 2015....

Moon Knight Episode 3 Has Us Scrambling Around Egypt For Yet Another MacGuffin Marvel/Disney+ By Vanessa Armstrong/April 13, 2022 4:00 am EST We’re in Egypt! Ammit’s tomb has got to be close, right? It’s not if you’re Marc/Steven, sadly. After losing the scarab MacGuffin, the avatar of Khonshu has to scramble around Cairo trying to find another MacGuffin to lead time to the tomb. This is a rambling episode — and an episode that also channels “Indiana Jones” and 1999’s “The Mummy” hard....

Netflix May Be Introducing An Ad-Supported Tier As Soon As This Year Netflix By Danielle Ryan/May 10, 2022 1:33 pm EST Netflix hasn’t been doing so hot lately. The streaming service recently lost $54 billion overnight and is being sued by their shareholders for misleading them about company growth. In response, there have been a number of attempts to staunch the hemorrhaging viewership numbers and costs, including a crackdown on password sharing that they had been threatening for years and floating the idea of a lower-cost subscription tier with ads, similar to plans at Hulu and HBO Max....

Peacock’s Comedy-Thriller Series The Resort Has Good Taste, Adds Nick Offerman NBC By Jenna Busch/March 8, 2022 5:16 pm EST Peacock has a new and very strange show coming out called “The Resort,” and the casting people are clearly brilliant. Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation,” “Pam & Tommy”) is set to join the slew of previously announced cast members. I’m sure you already love him, but I’d like to remind you that his cameo as a woodworker in “The Good Place” made an already wonderful series finale just that much better....

Ridley Scott Was Supposed To Design Doctor Who’s Most Infamous Aliens BBC By Ryan Scott/April 12, 2022 8:26 am EST “Doctor Who” is one of the most enduring and legendary names in all of sci-fi. Few franchises of any kind can say that they’ve had the staying power that this show has had across multiple generations and multiple decades now. The tale of the time-traveling Doctor in his many forms and his many various companions does, itself, manage to transcend time....

“I didn’t want to do ‘Godzilla’” TriStar Pictures Any aspiring filmmaker would be lucky to enjoy the career that Roland Emmerich has had. He’s been responsible for eye-popping visuals that stand the test of time decades later, he’s retained control and ownership over his own work (“I own 50 percent of this film,” he says about “Moonfall” later in the interview), and now he gets to sit back and speak his mind about anything he wants while promoting his next disaster movie....

Hoban Wash — Serenity Universal Pictures Joss Whedon is a cult-fave creator with big plans and a tendency to get his projects cut off at the knees. It still sucked for his fans to fall in love with “Firefly” only to watch it die in less than a season. Dedicated fanbase action built enough momentum to greenlight “Serenity,” the only feature film in this truncated franchise. “Serenity” brings back the crew for one last ride to help River, the eerie girl with some big secrets....

See The Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers Jar Jar Binks Cameo That Almost Happened Lucasfilm By Sandy Schaefer/June 6, 2022 1:29 pm EST In a movie filled to the brim with jokes playfully poking fun at the animation industry, few gags stand out quite as much as Ugly Sonic’s cameo in “Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers.” Even for those who somehow managed to avoid the ruckus that Paramount caused online when it dropped the first “Sonic the Hedgehog” trailer back in 2019 (with Sonic’s original “photo-real” design), the mere sight of the character — complete with tiny human teeth that would make David Cronenberg say, “That’s a bit much, guys,” — is bound to get some kind of reaction, and not the positive, life-affirming kind, either....

Art Box Max Evry The black and white Ben-Day dots aesthetic on the front of the box helps set the mood for the piece, giving you a taste of the statue without giving away the whole enchilada. Meanwhile, the back of the art box features graphics depicting Gotham City and the stylized Bat-Signal above. It gives the whole thing a noir edge, which is very in keeping with what’s inside....

South Park Season 25 Release Date Set At Comedy Central South Park Studios By Joshua Meyer/Jan. 17, 2022 1:38 pm EST Another year, another season of “South Park.” The Comedy Central series will celebrate its silver anniversary this August, which means that it’s been going for almost a full quarter-century now. At this point, the only things guaranteed to survive the nuclear apocalypse are cockroaches and long-running animated sitcoms like “The Simpsons” and “South Park....

The Catwoman Storyline The Batman Borrows Straight From The Comics Warner Bros. Pictures By Lyvie Scott/March 5, 2022 10:33 am EST Warning: spoilers follow for “The Batman.” In the world of comic book adaptations, very few rely on just one source of inspiration. After all, many of the most iconic heroes have adventures that span decades. This truth couldn’t apply better to our favorite late-night vigilante, Batman, who first debuted in 1939 — and Catwoman, who emerged soon after....

The Cowboy Bebop Episode That Was Pulled From American TV After 9/11 Sunrise By Anya Stanley/Dec. 29, 2021 8:58 am EST Hajime Yatate/Sunrise’s animated “Cowboy Bebop” series’ first episode aired in America on September 2, 2001, on Cartoon Network, where it introduced a new crop of western viewers to anime in the early aughts. The neo-noir space Western concerns itself with the exploits of the exiled hitman Spike Spiegel, former cop Jet Black, and con woman Faye Valentine....

The Cuphead Show Is Already Getting A Second Season Full Of Soul Collecting At Netflix Netflix By Rafael Motamayor/March 2, 2022 8:43 pm EST Rejoice, animation fans! “The Cuphead Show” is coming back for season 2! Netflix made the announcement via its Geeked Twitter account, also revealing a summer release date for the sophomore season of the cartoon. The creators of the show have spoken before about having a 36 episode order, but now it is Netflix official....

The Mighty Ducks Cast’s Age Created Some Problems During Production Disney By Christian Gainey/April 15, 2022 3:30 pm EST It was pretty sweet to be a kid in the ’90s. “The Sandlot,” “Little Giants,” “All That,” so many movies and tv shows were geared toward us ’80s babies, and a lot of it has stood the test of time. One of the classics of that era is “The Mighty Ducks,” a film that introduced this South Carolina girl to hockey and Charlie Conway....

These 6 Superhero Shows Are The Cure For The Common Comic Book Movie Prime Video By Danielle Ryan/June 15, 2022 9:00 am EST When I wrote “Thank Goodness for TV Superheroes” in February of 2020, I had no idea just how important those shows could possibly become. The pandemic was still a specter looming on the horizon, and we all had more than ample entertainment options to choose from. After the pandemic slowed down and stopped productions, those options became more limited, and the already dwindling mid-budget movies of the past became even more of a rarity....

Adrian Toomes/Vulture Sony Pictures Who could forget the time that Spider-Man went up against Batman? No, this wasn’t some Marvel vs DC crossover extravaganza, but the fun meta aspect of Tom Holland’s Spidey going up against Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes in “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” It almost feels quaint to look back and realize that the Web-Head’s first standalone entry in the MCU was by far its most street-level story yet, pitting Peter Parker against the blue collar Vulture who was attempting to steal Tony Stark technology from the hands of the irresponsibly rich and famous to put such powerful items in the control of the little guy....

7 Days Trailer: A Pandemic Rom-Com From The Duplass Brothers Cinedigm By Ben F. Silverio/March 7, 2022 9:45 am EST Dating during an ongoing pandemic is hard. Well, dating has its difficulties in general, especially in this modern era that includes endless swiping on apps and filling out profiles like they’re job applications. But when you add the complications of coronavirus on top of all that, the chances of finding a significant other drop considerably....

Paws Universal Pictures Reader, to be transparent with you, there were one or two Heath Ledger films I had never seen before assembling this list. “Two Hands” (which we’ll discuss later) is one of them. “Paws,” an Australian family comedy about talking dogs that features the vocal talents of Billy Connelly and a man getting killed in a stairwell, is the other. “A man getting killed in a stairwell” isn’t the most violent or strangest thing that happens in “Paws....

Casting Paul Newman In The Sting Wasn’t As Obvious A Choice As It Seems Universal Pictures By Joshua Meyer/April 2, 2022 11:33 am EST “The Sting” is a classic film that beat out both “American Graffiti” and “The Exorcist” at the Academy Awards for Best Picture of 1973. However, even though stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford had led another bona fide classic, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” for the same director (George Roy Hill), pairing them together again for “The Sting” wasn’t necessarily a given from the outset....

Crimson Peak Deserved Better Universal Pictures By Shae Sennett/May 5, 2022 11:22 am EST Fans of Tom Hiddleston know him as Loki from the “Thor” movies and his titular television series, but how many people know about his role in the 2015 film “Crimson Peak”? The genre-bending movie features an outstanding cast led by award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. It incorporates the bone-chilling yet whimsical horror of “Pan’s Labyrinth” with the perverse yet sentimental romance of “The Shape of Water....