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Netflix By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 16, 2022 12:21 pm EST Kitao Sakurai, director of the hidden camera Netflix comedy, “Bad Trip,” is set to helm “72 Hours” for Sony Pictures, according to Deadline. “Cobra Kai” creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald are reportedly working on the film, with Hurwitz and Schlossberg having written the original screenplay, with rewrites by Nicolas Thomas. Although plot details for “72 Hours” are virtually non-existent at this point, the film is already attracting loads of attention due to the massive popularity of “Bad Trip” and “Cobra Kai....

Big Budget Horror Movies That Absolutely Flopped (Even Though Some Were Good) Universal By SlashFilm Staff/Feb. 7, 2022 2:48 pm EST Horror cinema is the domain of the low budget. Universal Studios built blockbusters out of B-movies with releases like “Frankenstein” and “Dracula.” Filmmakers like John Carpenter and George Romero became legends after rubbing pennies together and creating gold. Modern production companies like Blumhouse have built entire business models around making horror movies on such shoestring budgets that they simply have to turn a profit....

Cobra Kai Season 4 Soundtracks Go On Sale Tomorrow Netflix By Jenna Busch/Jan. 6, 2022 2:29 pm EST “Cobra Kai” season 4 is out on Netflix, and fans of the series know how amazing the music is. Now you can listen to it all the time to psych yourself up for whatever the equivalent of the All Valley Karate Tournament is for you. For me, that’s getting out of bed, but I somehow doubt you’re judging me that much....

Ewan McGregor’s Connection To Star Wars Runs Deeper Than You Think Disney+ By Jenna Busch/March 11, 2022 9:41 am EST If you’re a big “Star Wars” fan who loves trivia, you might already know this information, but Ewan McGregor has a deeper connection to the franchise than you think. He played the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel films, voiced the character in two of the sequel films, and two episodes of the micro-series “Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures” on StarWarsKids....

Feast Your Eyes On New Images From Obi-Wan Kenobi Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/April 25, 2022 11:12 am EST Well, hello there. Here’s a sentence that many “Star Wars” obsessives of a certain age never would’ve thought they’d live to see: it’s a great time to be a fan of the prequel trilogy. Once maligned and mocked as the absolute nadir of cinema, a new generation led by (at the time) impressionable kids have grown up to pretty much singlehandedly rehabilitate director George Lucas’ undeniably ambitious dream of exploring the tragic origins of a young Anakin Skywalker and the cruel twist of fate that led him down the path of becoming the fearsome Darth Vader....

Firestarter Used A John Carpenter Classic As A Starting Point For Its Score Universal Pictures By Kaylee Dugan/May 16, 2022 9:34 pm EST Hollywood has gone through so many Stephen King films that it’s circling back to remake King movies that have already been adapted for the silver screen (see “It” and also “Pet Sematary”), but can you blame them? The man knows how to craft a terrifying story. The most recent King remake to hit theaters is “Firestarter,” which is helmed this time around by director Keith Thomas (“The Vigil”) and comes from the folks at Universal and Blumhouse....

‘Crawlspace is sort of Home Alone meets Die Hard’ Paramount Pictures In your own words, can you tell us what people can expect from “Crawlspace?” Well, “Crawlspace” is sort of “Home Alone” meets “Die Hard” underneath a cabin in the woods. It’s the story of a plumber who goes to do a job at a remote location. He witnesses a murder, and the murderers witness him witness the murder and set about trying to bring about his early demise....

Golden Memories (Lays) Reunited and it feels so good! Paul Rudd and Seth Rogen, former “Freaks and Geeks” and “Knocked Up” co-stars, have joined together to sell the world on potato chips. This commercial is the gift that keeps on giving — even before we could see it for ourselves, Rudd and Rogen were out promoting it and, in the process, making an enemy of the Academy for our entertainment. The commercial itself sees the duo chomping away at chips, sharing their memories, and even celebrating some nuptials....

How Severance Created A Warped Workplace For A Founder God [Interview] Apple TV+ By Vanessa Armstrong/April 6, 2022 11:56 am EST “Severance” is an amazing show in almost every respect, and one of those ways is the jarring look and feel of the severed floor where Mark S. (Adam Scott) and his fellow MDR employees spend their entire existence. For the show’s production designer Jeremy Hindle, that claustrophobic-yet-expansive aesthetic was intentional, a way to show that the severed employees were being observed without having surveillance cameras front and center....

James Wan’s Tech Thriller M3GAN Continues A Horror Tradition Of Knee-High Friends To The End Miramax Films By Anya Stanley/Jan. 19, 2022 9:59 pm EST From the director of “Housebound” and the screenwriter of “Malignant” comes a new horror feature on the perils of artificial intelligence. Starring Allison Williams of “Get Out” and “The Perfection” and Ronny Chieng of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” “M3GAN” is helmed by Gerard Johnstone from a script by Akela Cooper (who previously penned “Hell Fest” and the “Luke Cage” series) based on a story developed with James Wan....

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Had The Best-Ever Opening Weekend For A Video Game Movie Paramount Pictures By Jeremy Mathai/April 11, 2022 12:39 pm EST Many a filmmaker in recent years has thought themselves to be the one who would finally, against all odds (as much as $100+ million blockbusters could possibly be an underdog, at least), break the dreaded video game curse. Quality films that have reached a positive consensus among both fans and critics have proven to be an elusive target for this particular breed of adaptation, to put it mildly....

Star Trek: Picard Season 2 Will Answer The ‘Personal Mysteries’ Of Jean-Luc Picard Paramount+ By Jenna Busch/Jan. 28, 2022 9:04 am EST “Star Trek: Picard” recently got a trailer for its second season, and it’s letting us see the road not taken. The gang is sent by Q (John De Lancie) to the year 2024 when a pivotal choice is made. They get a chance to see what their lives would have been if this small thing was different....

The 14 Best Horror Movie Performances That Should Have Won Oscars Universal Pictures By Chad Collins/March 8, 2022 10:41 am EST The idea that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences routinely ignores the exceptional work being done in the horror genre is more than just anecdotal. During the entirety of its existence, only six horror movies have been nominated for the ceremony’s top honor, with only one, Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” winning....

The Adam Project Spoiler Review: Scramblin’ Towards Amblin Netflix By Witney Seibold/March 14, 2022 9:00 am EST Spoilers for “The Adam Project” follow. For a non-spoiler review of “The Adam Project,” head over here. Ryan Reynolds occupies a strange place in stardom. Reynolds is handsome, talented, incredibly funny, and possessed of that ineffable “it” star quality so important to being a movie star, and yet — with notable exceptions — his individual films aren’t particularly beloved....

The Batman Featurette Contains New Footage, A Familiar Villain, And A Weird Promotional Tie-In Warner Bros. By Jeremy Mathai/Feb. 18, 2022 4:27 pm EST Every “Batman” movie comes with a certain set of non-negotiable expectations: kickass Bat costume, an actor with a strong chin, all the usual supporting cast of comic book characters and classic members of his rogues’ gallery, and … Little Caesar’s pizza tie-ins? Look, I realize that superhero movies and overt commercialization go together like peanut butter and jelly — that’s just the way it is and always will be, especially for a hero who adds the “Bat” branding to every item he uses....

Why it’s essential viewing Toei Company Maybe you haven’t heard, but it’s a nightmarish time to possess a uterus in the United States. The Supreme Court is looking to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending abortion protections nationwide and sending reproductive rights back to a more draconian era. The frequent discussions around abortion led me to thinking about the way its been depicted in movies, from the bittersweet scene in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” to the extremely graphic depiction in “Enter the Void....

The Lesson Obi-Wan Kenobi Borrows From Star Wars: The Last Jedi Lucasfilm By Jeremy Mathai/June 15, 2022 12:30 pm EST This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” The penultimate episode of “Obi-Wan Kenobi” has already stirred up quite a bit of buzz with its opening flashback of a younger Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) and Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) during the prequel era of “Star Wars,” and rightfully so....

The Real Life Inspiration Behind Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain Paramount Pictures By Lee Adams/Feb. 7, 2022 5:20 pm EST I never thought I’d say this about a Michael Bay movie, but “Pain & Gain” is a modern masterpiece. While “The Rock” and “Armageddon” have found their way into Criterion’s hallowed collection, this toxic crime caper is the pugnacious director’s masterwork, a rambunctious distillation of everything right and wrong with the blockbuster auteur’s career to date....

The Sad Real-Life Story Behind All About Eve Everett Collection By Lyvie Scott/Feb. 7, 2022 12:11 pm EST Few films have managed to match the scathing wit — or the critical acclaim — of the catty backstage drama “All About Eve.” The film follows veteran Broadway star Margo Channing and Eve, the die-hard fan hellbent on surpassing her in nearly every facet of her life. Despite the film’s biting study of feminine ambition, “All About Eve” manages to portray each of its female characters with objectivity and dignity....

Speed dating Paramount Ryan continued to discuss the sudden Seven/Chakotay relationship and how she thought it wouldn’t go anywhere during the filming of the episode “Natural Law”, which left the pair stranded on an alien planet. “We specifically asked the producers — Robert and I — ‘Now, are we going to play this? Is this going to go somewhere? Because, obviously, we’d need to carry something over from…’ And they said, ‘No, no, no, no!...