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Chris Elliott’s Favorite Harold Ramis Memory Happened During The Groundhog Day Shoot Columbia Pictures By Jenna Busch/May 20, 2022 9:27 am EST 1993’s “Groundhog Day” is one of those films you can watch over and over again. It’s the story of a jerk of a reporter named Phil Connors (Bill Murray), who is sent to cover the Groundhog Day festival in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where Punxsutawney Phil the groundhog is taken out of his hole to see if there will be six more weeks of winter or not....

HasLab Ghostbusters Proton Pack Hasbro Pulse revealed the “Ghostbusters” proton pack in full yesterday during an exclusive online panel for their premium members, but all the details have made it online. Yes, this is technically a “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” version of the proton pack, which is why it looks a little more weathered than those seen in the original “Ghostbusters.” However, the pack does feature lights and sounds inspired by both movies....

Creepshow, Bloodlands, Slasher, And Kin Have All Been Renewed Shudder By BJ Colangelo/Feb. 10, 2022 4:26 pm EST It’s a great day to be a monster kid or a true crime fanatic because AMC Networks has announced that five of their original series have been given the go ahead for additional seasons. “Kin” season 2, “Bloodlands” season 3, “My Life Is Murder” season 3, “Creepshow” season 4, and “Slasher” season 5 will all be coming across the AMC Networks streaming services including AMC+ and Shudder....

Fairview Trailer: Welcome To Fairview, A Place Of Freedom And Punching Stuff CBS Studios By Anya Stanley/Jan. 27, 2022 10:03 pm EST When there’s no more room in Hell, the IP will walk the earth. It’s all about look-backs and revivals these days. The slasher subgenre is enjoying resurgences of its “Scream,” “Texas Chainsaw,” “Candyman,” and “Halloween” franchises, while streaming services are banking on nostalgia with the ’80s-stylized “Stranger Things” and a revival of the iconic “Unsolved Mysteries” docuseries....

J.K. Simmons-Led Sci-Fi Series Night Sky Sets May Release Date On Prime Video By BJ Colangelo/March 20, 2022 12:07 pm EST After spending the last two years mostly staring at the same four walls and continuing to carve out a perfect bottom-shaped dent in my living room couch, there are few things that sound more appealing than getting the opportunity to explore the limitless possibilities of time and space. Starring J....

Morbius Made $5.7 Million In Thursday Previews Sony Pictures Releasing By Witney Seibold/April 1, 2022 3:50 pm EST Originally slated for release in July of 2020, but delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Daniel Espinosa’s film “Morbius” was finally released in theaters today. Sony’s “Morbius” is the latest film in what was formally named the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Characters, or SPUMC, but is now called Sony’s Spider-Man Universe. In “Morbius,” Jared Leto plays the title character, a doctor who blends his own DNA with that of a vampire bat in order to cure a rare unnamed blood disease, but who ends up transforming himself into a vampire by mistake....

The Movies Warner Bros Here’s the full rundown of the 30 titles available at launch: “Bad Moon” “Black Christmas” “Carnival Of Souls” “The Cat O’ Nine Tails” “Chopping Mall” “Class Of 1984” “Communion” “The Company Of Wolves” “The Crush” “Dark Star” “Day Of The Dead” “The Exorcist III” “Forbidden World” “Galaxy Of Terror” “House On Haunted Hill” “Humanoids From The Deep” “The Last Man On Earth” “Magic” “Night Of The Demons” “Night Of The Living Dead” “Nightbreed: Director’s Cut” “Nosferatu” “Piranha (1978)” “Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part 2” “Sleepaway Camp” “The Slumber Party Massacre” “The Stepfather” “Willard” “Witchboard” “Witchery”...

Shows Like It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia You Definitely Need To Watch FX/Hulu By Audrey Fox/Feb. 2, 2022 1:21 pm EST When a group of struggling L.A. actors put together a cheaply-made pilot for what would eventually become “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” in the early 2000s, no one really expected it to go anywhere. But it has since grown to be a massive hit, breaking records as the longest-running live-action American sitcom with its 15th season in December 2021....

Superhero Bits: Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie First Look, The Flash Sets A Record & More Netflix By Ryan Scott/July 1, 2022 4:17 pm EST (Superhero Bits is a collection of stories, updates, and videos about anything and everything inspired by the comics of Marvel, DC, and more. For comic book movies, TV shows, merchandise, events, and whatever catches our eye, this is the place to find anything that falls through the cracks....

Documenting New York Columbia Pictures “Taxi Driver” was shot in New York’s notorious summer of 1975, when the city filed for bankruptcy and its crumbling economy reached a new low. This was the same time as when the infamous newspaper headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” was published in response to a rejected federal bailout, and when police and firefighters were nicknaming the place “Fear City.” Scorsese and the crew managed to catch a sanitation workers’ strike in the midst of a heatwave, too, meaning that all that dirt and grime was authentic....

The 15 Best Chris Hemsworth Movies, Ranked Marvel Studios By Scott Thomas/May 20, 2022 11:35 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Chris Hemsworth has a workout app called “Centr.” People love it. It encourages its subscribers to follow the holistic approach to nutrition, fitness, and mind-body practice that Chris Hemsworth does. It makes being Chris Hemsworth aspirational and cements the actor as a muscular goal post for better living....

The Classic Horror Movie Denis Villeneuve Thinks Is Traumatic David M. Benett / Getty Images By Witney Seibold/March 9, 2022 8:05 pm EST Denis Villeneuve and David Cronenberg have more in common than being Canadian. Both have made films about the trauma and obsession people experience in relation to car crashes (“Maelström” and “Crash,” respectively). Both are drawn to projects about people who lose themselves in an abyss of self-destructive obliteration (“Prisoners,” and, well, just about any Cronenberg movie)....

The Daily Stream: Bob’s Burgers Serves Up Offbeat, Wholesome Fun 20th Television By Valerie Ettenhofer/Feb. 4, 2022 5:30 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Show: “Bob’s Burgers” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: Bob Belcher (H. John Benjamin) runs a family-owned burger shop in a seaside town, along with his wife and kids....

The Heartfelt Movie Bob Saget Made For His Late Sister ABC By Lex Briscuso/Jan. 10, 2022 10:24 am EST The late, great Bob Saget was a man who wore many hats and wore them well: rude and raucous R-rated comedian, beloved and chaste TV sitcom dad, hilarious host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” — the list goes on. But one of his more selfless turns in the entertainment industry has gone largely unnoticed over the years, and hell, what better time than now to highlight it, right?...

The Morning Watch: The Batman Anatomy Of A Scene, Free Guy Honest Trailer & More Warner Bros. By Danielle Ryan/March 16, 2022 8:00 am EST (The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, director Matt Reeves breaks down the methods behind the madness of Robert Pattinson’s daring wingsuit escape in “The Batman....

VFX Artists React to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II & More First up, Corridor Crew brought in Adam Savage to take a look at some visual effects that aren’t computer generated over a green screen. They dig into the impressive puppetry in movies like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II” and “Little Shop of Horrors,” and they also focus on the bugs created for the original “Starship Troopers.” Savage also provides some personal expertise regarding his work on a space shuttle miniature created for “Space Cowboys....

The Trashers: Everything We Know So Far About The David Harbour-Led Drama Netflix By Kaylee Dugan/June 15, 2022 12:45 pm EST With a name like “The Trashers” you know you can’t afford not to see this film absolutely filled with light beer. Coming straight from the mind of Sundance award-winning director Cooper Raiff, the man behind “Shithouse” and the upcoming “Cha Cha Real Smooth” (which stars your favorite Architectural Digest YouTube sensation Dakota Johnson), the David Harbour-led story is a violent hockey drama based on a true story, which is a delightful combination of words....

This Is Patrick Stewart’s Favorite Episode Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Paramount By Collier Jennings/March 3, 2022 3:39 pm EST Ask any fan of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” what their favorite episode is, and you’re bound to get a different answer. From the game-changing two-parter “The Best of Both Worlds” to “The Measure of a Man,” there are no shortage of stories that cemented “The Next Generation” as a sci-fi classic....

Top Gun: Maverick Scores A Huge $19 Million In Thursday Previews Paramount By Jeremy Smith/May 27, 2022 3:12 pm EST When the Covid pandemic put the hurt on the global box office, some studios panicked and released their entire slate day-and-date via theatrical and streaming, jolting a paradigm that not only kept exhibitors in business but encouraged viewers to prioritize seeing new movies on the big screen. This placed filmmaking as we’ve known it for decades in serious jeopardy....

A League of the Their Own, updated The updated take on the beloved ’90s comedy is definitely going to be doing things a bit differently than its source material, but at this point, we don’t have much knowledge on the specifics of these characters’ journeys while building up a women’s baseball league. In July 2021, Entertainment Weekly said the series would be “taking a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the league and outside of it....