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‘Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story’ Trailer Looks At The History Of The Wild Nickelodeon Cartoon By Ethan Anderton/July 29, 2020 4:00 pm EST Ren & Stimpy was a groundbreaking cartoon from Nickelodeon that helped put the kids cable network on the map. But when you look back at the animated series created by John Kricfalusi, you’re left wondering how this was something kids were ever allowed to watch at all....

By Chris Evangelista/Oct. 29, 2020 4:30 pm EST Hell House LLC Director’s Cut The first Hell House LLC is a lot of fun. While it’s an obviously low-budgeted affair, writer-director Stephen Cognetti managed to exploit the premise for all it was worth and concoct some genuinely creepy moments (the same can’t be said for the two sequels that followed, which are, well…bad). In Hell House LLC, a group of friends opens up a Halloween haunt in the abandoned Abaddon Hotel in upstate New York....

‘Knives And Skin’ Trailer: A Missing Girl Sends A Town Down A Neon-Soaked Paranoid Spiral By Hoai-Tran Bui/Nov. 16, 2019 2:00 pm EST Knives and Skin became a cult film festival darling this year, building up buzz for its neon-drenched missing girl mystery at Berlinale, the Tribeca Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, and AFI Fest. Now Jennifer Reeder’s Lynchian thriller is making its way to theaters and VOD this December. Watch the Knives and Skin trailer below....

‘Legends Of The Hidden Temple’ Revival Is Coming To Quibi – And This Time, It’s For Adults By Ben Pearson/Dec. 16, 2019 4:30 pm EST One of these days, we’re all going to have to face reality and come to grips with the fact that Quibi is a real, actual thing and not just an elaborate joke. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s mobile-only platform, which will distribute “quick bites” of entertainment in episodic chunks that don’t run longer than ten minutes each, already has the support of every major Hollywood studio, but now might have the support of ’90s kids who grew up watching Nickelodeon....

‘Mulan’ Q&A: Director Niki Caro And Star Liu Yifei On The $200 Million Budget, Restrictions Of The Disney Brand, And More By Ben Pearson/March 10, 2020 11:00 am EST Disney’s new version of Mulan features plenty of familiar beats from the 1998 animated film, but unlike the myriad of practically shot-for-shot remakes the studio has produced over the past few years, this one feels like it has an identity of its own....

‘Onward’ Had The Lowest Box Office Opening For A Pixar Film Since 2015’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 9, 2020 9:30 am EST Onward took the top spot at the box office this weekend with a $40 million domestic haul, far out-performing fellow newcomer The Way Back ($8.5 million) and other top-charting films like The Invisible Man ($15.5 million) and Sonic the Hedgehog ($8 million). Yet Pixar and industry insiders are considering the animated fantasy-adventure film to be a disappointment....

‘PEN15’ Season 2 Will Be Split Into Two Parts; Watch The New Teaser Trailer By Ben Pearson/July 8, 2020 3:30 pm EST One of Hulu’s best original shows is coming back this fall – and then again next year. PEN15, the hilarious series which features 30-something actresses Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine playing 13-year-old versions of themselves in junior high school opposite actual 13-year-olds, is returning for its second season later this year....

‘Saturday Night Live’ Debuts First Look At Jim Carrey As Joe Biden, And It’s Kinda Weird By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 2, 2020 9:30 am EST Saturday Night Live is back this weekend with the 46th season premiere. After spending the last three episodes of the 45th season in quarantine and producing sketches remotely, the cast and crew are back in Studio 8H, and for at least the first month of the new season, they’ll have a big star playing around with them....

‘Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker’ Forces Rose Tico Into The Background And That’s A Major Mistake By Josh Spiegel/Dec. 23, 2019 12:00 pm EST Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker arrived in theaters this past weekend with what can be charitably defined as an impossible set of expectations. No matter who wrote and directed the film, this latest chapter was always going to be the concluding chapter in both a new trilogy of Star Wars films, and the concluding entry in a 40-plus year franchise of nine connected stories....

‘Tenet’ Teaser Is Now In Theaters (But You Can’t See It Online Yet) By Chris Evangelista/Aug. 2, 2019 6:47 am EST Christopher Nolan loves to both wear vests and play things close to them. While I wouldn’t consider him a “mystery box” guy like J.J. Abrams – he doesn’t really dabble in twists – he is concerned with preserving the theatrical experience. In Nolan’s mind, the less you know going into a movie, the better it will be....

‘The Batman’ Gets Delayed To 2022 As Warner Bros. Reshuffles Release Calendar By Hoai-Tran Bui/Oct. 6, 2020 7:00 am EST Shortly after it was reported that Dune would get pushed back by nearly a year, Warner Bros. has significantly reshuffled its film release calendar for the next two years. The biggest major delay is The Batman, which moves from October 2021 to March 2022. Several other comic book movies are following in The Batman’s steps, with The Flash and Shazam 2 getting pushed back several months, while Black Adam has been taken off the release calendar entirely....

‘Transformers: War For Cybertron - Earthrise’ Trailer Brings A New Faction To The War By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 28, 2020 11:30 am EST While Paramount Pictures is currently working on an animated Transformers prequel focusing on Cybertron and the origins of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, Netflix’s war for Cybertron is already unfolding in animated form. Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege found the battle between Autobots and Decepticons on the verge of ending as Megatron attempted to use the Allspark to reformat all Autobots in order to unify Cybertron as he sees fit....

By Ben Pearson/Aug. 19, 2019 5:30 pm EST Technology is not quite advanced enough for there to be a real-life theme park like the one depicted in HBO’s Westworld – at least, not yet. So the next best thing would be to step into a virtual reality version of the show’s park, and starting tomorrow, that experience will become a reality. Get the details about Westworld Awakening, a new Westworld VR game from HBO and Survios....

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Early Buzz: Patty Jenkins And Gal Gadot Deliver The Aspirational Blockbuster We Need By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 5, 2020 12:00 pm EST Wonder Woman 1984 will be released in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously on Christmas Day. But the first round of press screenings happened just before the weekend, and the initial wave of social media reactions has already hit the web. Thankfully, it sounds like director Patty Jenkins has knocked Wonder Woman 1984 out of the park with superhero spectacle that brings some much needed movie magic and positivity that we can all use after this terrible year....

‘Wonder Woman 3’ Will Be A Contemporary Story With The Door Open For A Cheetah Return, Patty Jenkins Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/Dec. 29, 2020 9:00 am EST Spoilers for Wonder Woman 1984 follow. In an interview with Den of Geek, Patty Jenkins confirmed that she purposefully left the fate of Barbara Minerva ambiguous at the end of Wonder Woman 1984 in order to leave the door open for a Cheetah return in the next (and likely final) chapter in Diana Prince’s story:...

A ‘Solo’ Sequel Is Unlikely To Happen At Disney+, Writer Jon Kasdan Says By Hoai-Tran Bui/April 1, 2020 9:30 am EST When Disney+ launched, it seemed like it could provide infinite possibilities for Disney-owned properties to expand beyond what could be seen on the big screen. Perhaps even for films whose box office performance didn’t do well enough for them to warrant an expensive big-budget sequel. With Rogue One’s Cassian Andor getting a Disney+ series, there’s buzz about who could be next to get the Disney+ treatment....

AMC Theatres Reopening Delayed, Will Now Open On July 30 By Chris Evangelista/June 29, 2020 12:30 pm EST Here we go again. AMC Theatres were planning on reopening on July 15, in time for the big release of Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. Then Tenet moved its release date (twice). And so did Disney’s Mulan. Which means there are no big blockbusters lined-up for July now. As a result, AMC has pushed its reopening date to July 30....

By Ethan Anderton/Oct. 20, 2020 10:30 am EST This week brings the debut of Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the sequel to the hit comedy mockumentary from 2006 starring Sacha Baron Cohen. That means “Borat” himself is making the publicity rounds to promote the streaming premiere of what promises to be a raucously hilarious follow-up that makes a mockery of our current political and social climate in the age of coronavirus and the disease that is Donald Trump’s presidency....

Exclusive: ‘Hereditary’ Screening At Ebertfest With Alex Wolff In Attendance By Chris Evangelista/March 5, 2020 9:00 am EST Hereditary, Ari Aster’s acclaimed story of a few characters who really lose their heads, is headed the 22nd Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, aka Ebertfest. Ebertfest will screen Hereditary with co-star Alex Wolff in attendance. The actor will participate in a post-screening Q&A and will also be presented with Roger Ebert’s “Golden Thumb Award....

HBO Max May Pay $1.5 Billion To Stream All Of ‘Big Bang Theory’ And ‘Two And A Half Men’, ‘Seinfeld’ Could Be Next By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 13, 2019 9:30 am EST The streaming wars are heating up as a few different media companies prepare to launch their own streaming services over the next year. While Disney+ will be first out of the gate this fall, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max won’t be far behind, and they’re throwing around all sorts of money to ensure they get as many subscriptions as possible....