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Magnum P.I., Chuck Lorre’s B Positive And United States Of Al Among CBS Cancellations CBS By Valerie Ettenhofer/May 13, 2022 2:55 pm EST As linear TV networks gear up for a new slate of shows arriving this fall, the powers-that-be are also taking stock of the current lineup. That means cancellations and lots of them. The same day that the CW ended seven shows in one fell swoop, another Paramount-owned network, CBS, has also announced a whole slew of axed shows....

Netflix Shareholders Sue The Streamer For Misleading Investors About Company Growth Netflix By BJ Colangelo/May 4, 2022 7:00 pm EST Remember the character Eugene on “Hey Arnold!” who always had a positive outlook but spent nearly every episode having to endure the worst luck imaginable? That’s, uh … that’s kind of how Netflix is looking these days. Just two weeks ago, we reported on the streaming giant’s loss of $54 billion in value overnight after failing to meet its subscriber growth numbers for the first time, which led to a number of high-profile company changes, show cancellations, and the destruction of their in-house editorial team, Tudum....

Peacemaker’s Rockin’ Hair Metal Soundtrack Represents More Than Just Killer Tunes HBO Max By BJ Colangelo/Jan. 14, 2022 8:46 am EST I like my women how I like my supervillains: strong, foul-mouthed, and super into hair-metal. Fortunately, this means that I have a new favorite super anti-hero in the form of John Cena’s “Peacemaker.” The bloody, violent spin-off from James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” centers on the breakout titular character, a hero-ish vigilante who strives for peace at any cost and typically to a fault....

Smallville Had A Major Hand In Shaping Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy The CW By Mike Williams/May 18, 2022 11:44 am EST While the fandoms for Marvel and DC properties tend to be hunkered down in their own forts, lobbing stones at one another, Hollywood is less stringent. Production crews often hop between both brands, jumping from a Marvel television show to a DC movie, or vice versa. A job is a job, and many production staff aren’t wholly tied to any one fandom....

The Akira Connection You Might Have Missed In Uncut Gems A24 By Andrew Housman/March 8, 2022 3:47 pm EST Josh and Benny Safdie’s “Uncut Gems” captures a strange sort of anxiety, the type of nervousness that arrives when everything is feeling generally comfortable. That’s probably because the film follows the gambling addiction of Howard Ratner, played by Adam Sandler, whose debts continuously undercut any successful bets he wins. The soundtrack — a dreamy yet agitated collage of distorted synths, frantic drum pads, and eerily artificial-sounding choir voices — captures that ever-present underlying dread....

The Best Anime Of The Winter 2022 Season Crunchyroll By Rafael Motamayor AND Adam Wescott/March 31, 2022 1:00 pm EST (Welcome to I Didn’t Know What Seasonal Anime to Watch, So I Asked /Film for Help and They Gave Me a List, a semi-regular column dedicated to helping choose what anime shows to watch each season.) More anime is being made today than ever before. In fact, there’s a strong argument to be made that too much anime is being made at the moment!...

The Butterfly Effect’s Original Ending Was Ridiculously Grim New Line Cinema By Witney Seibold/Dec. 15, 2021 3:57 pm EST The phrase “the butterfly effect” stems from the tenets of Chaos Theory, which we all think we know about because we saw “Jurassic Park.” It is, as with all things pertaining to mathematical theory, far more complex than a charming grin from Jeff Goldblum. Actual chaos theory states that seemingly complex and chaotic arrangements of numbers will eventually reveal themselves to be discreetly patterned, and how small, seemingly random changes early in a mathematical structure can lead to larger, more dramatic changes much further along in the same structure....

The New Zac Efron Wrestling Movie Is Based On A Tragic True Story Universal Pictures By BJ Colangelo/June 17, 2022 3:39 pm EST It was announced Thursday that Sean Durkin, the mind behind films like “Martha Marcy May Marlene” and “The Nest,” was working with A24 on his next film, “The Iron Claw.” The film gets its name from the nickname and trademark move of professional wrestler Fritz Von Erich, a 23-time world champion and the patriarch of the legendary Von Erich family of wrestlers....

The Star Of Pixar’s Up Never Intended To Audition Disney / Pixar By Witney Seibold/July 1, 2022 5:35 pm EST Pete Docter’s 2009 animated film “Up” is perhaps one of the more unusual in Pixar’s history. After a heartbreaking opening sequence that details an entire romance between a man and a woman — one that incorporates their meeting, their courtship, their marrying, their stymied efforts of having children, their connubial bliss in a shared business, a devastating illness, and a funeral — “Up” settles down into the sad final years of an old man named Carl (Ed Asner) as he adjusts to life alone....

By Jenna Busch/Dec. 21, 2021 7:02 pm EST It’s looking like the show that has been touted as the next “Game of Thrones” is off to a great start. The series reportedly had 1.16 billion viewing minutes in the first week of release, which knocked “Hunters” down. Interestingly enough, the site reports that there is an older audience profile. 65% of viewers are in the 35-64 age range. As someone who read the books when they came out back in the 1990s, that makes total sense....

Todd Phillips Reveals The Working Title For Joker 2, Joaquin Phoenix’s Interest Confirmed Warner Bros. Pictures By Erin Brady/June 7, 2022 8:19 pm EST It lives! The long-rumored sequel to Todd Phillips’ 2019 film “Joker” is currently in development. Phillips shared a series of photos on his Instagram account, showing the red script cover adorned with the working title, “Joker: Folie à Deux.” The second photo he shared was of “Joker” star Joaquin Phoenix seemingly reading the script....

Turning Red Is Pixar’s First Feature With An All-Female Leadership Team Pixar By Joshua Meyer/Feb. 7, 2022 10:55 am EST With “Turning Red,” Pixar is delivering its first animated film with a creative team led by women. The movie is helmed by Domee Shi, who wrote and directed the short film “Bao” and contributed as a story artist to “Inside Out” and “Toy Story 4,” among other Pixar films. Julia Cho serves as co-writer, while Lindsey Collins is the producer....

Why Joss Whedon’s Original Endings For Alien: Resurrection Never Made The Cut By Joshua Meyer/March 2, 2022 10:54 am EST In “Alien Resurrection,” we do get a view of Earth at the end, as Ellen Ripley’s clone (Sigourney Weaver), the synthetic being Call (Winona Ryder), and the other surviving crew members of the Betty ship enter the planet’s atmosphere. The ship flies in over the clouds and Call asks Ripley, “What happens now?...

Zootopia+ Review: A Fun If Redundant Expansion Of The Oscar-Winning Film [Annecy 2022] Disney By Rafael Motamayor/June 17, 2022 7:00 pm EST For the first time in its almost 100-year-old history, Walt Disney Animation Studios is entering the realm of television. Gone are the days when a TV-focused studio would produce lesser versions of the movie characters, where every popular Disney movie got a spin-off show, now it is the main studio doing the work in feature-like quality....

Killer Klowns from Outer Space Trans World Entertainment The original TV mini-series of Stephen King’s “It” is often blamed for giving a generation an irrational fear of clowns. However, I’d posit that “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” is far guiltier of generating coulrophobes. “It” only features a single grease-painted ghoul, whereas “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” has a whole host of rampaging, red-nosed recidivists. Encountering a strange tent on the site of a fallen comet, two teenagers realize that the town has been invaded by aliens who resemble circus clowns....

Al/Paper Boi - communication issues and culture shock FX Al spends the majority of the episode getting closer to Fernando. At first, he is impressed by the billionaire’s lifestyle and willingness to protect it; however, things turn sour pretty quickly. The two play a poker game with some of Fernando’s friends, during which Fernando reveals that he was once visited by the ghost of a naked, soaking wet Black man. He goes on to explain that he and the ghost shared a sort of “deep connection” that resulted in him being covered in the ghost’s ectoplasm....

Best 15 Video Games Based On Movie Franchises, Ranked SEGA By David Court/March 1, 2022 2:36 pm EST Whilst researching and writing my previous feature on the best video game adaptations of movies, I restricted myself to only include films directly based on specific films. However, I was reminded of the embarrassment of riches amongst games based on franchises –- either films set in the same universe, or in many cases pseudo-sequels or prequels that never saw a movie screen, but whose storylines did manage to hit consoles or home computers....

Cary Elwes And Corey Stoll Board Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Netfix By Valerie Ettenhofer/April 8, 2022 5:34 pm EST Zack Snyder’s space-set epic is rounding out its cast: “Rebel Moon” has added Cary Elwes, Corey Stoll, Michiel Huisman, and Alfonso Herrera to its growing ensemble, per The Hollywood Reporter. The “Justice League” director’s project is reportedly a massive one for Netflix, with the filmmaker telling BroBible last fall that he wants “Rebel Moon” to be made “on a scale that is, frankly, as big as you can make a movie....

Dylan O’Brien Reveals Why He’s Not In The Teen Wolf Movie: ‘It Was A Difficult Decision’ MTV By Valerie Ettenhofer/March 10, 2022 2:45 pm EST When news first broke about Paramount’s new “Teen Wolf” movie, the response among erstwhile fans (at least the many I know) seemed less giddy and more groaning. For one thing, the MTV series had only been off the air for four years, a short window of time for a revival even in these sequel-heavy times....

Everything We Know About The Red Notice Sequels So Far Netflix By Ryan Leston/Feb. 3, 2022 12:47 pm EST Netflix action flick “Red Notice” may not have impressed the critics, but audiences have gone wild for the gaudy adventure starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot. Smart-mouthing their way through a middling script, Johnson and Reynolds turn on the charm for a buddy-heist movie that tries a bit too hard....