Veteran actor and B-movie legend Bruce Campbell has appeared in dozens of movies and shows over the years, and his fans will all have their own personal favorite characters that he’s played. It’s probably safe to say that Ash Williams of The Evil Dead and its sequels would be near the top of most fans’ lists, as it’s a character that he had played many times at different stages of his career....
Trying to drum up some favorable publicity for their asinine board game adaptation Candy Land, Kung Fu Panda 2 screenwriting partners Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel are likening this colossal epic to the world of The Lord of the Rings. Candy Land, which doesn’t have any particular backstory or rules of play, is ripe for reinvention and open to a world of ideas. Here is what Glenn Berger and Jonathan Aibel had to say about turning this preschool set game into a J....
Rachael Leigh Cook, Stephen Root, Grace Zabriskie, Amy Ryan, Eddie Jemison, Lucy Davis, and Michael Leydon Campbell have signed on to star in Craig Carlisle’s romantic comedy Bob Funk. The feature is being produced by Unified Pictures. Bob Funk revolves around the sardonic, quick witted and politically incorrect title character, limned by Campbell, who is on the tail end of a three year slump professionally and personally and must get his life back together, quit drinking and visit a therapist regularly if he intends on saving his job as a sales executive for a futon company owned by his mother....
Gold Rush begins as thirteen armored trucks laden with gold head off into the darkness, their caches are about to be hidden somewhere in America. Twelve of these trucks contain $100,000 in solid gold and the thirteenth, $1 million dollars in solid gold. Together, over $2 million in solid gold is up for grabs. But this is not a television show; this is a real-life cross platform media event where each week new clues will be found within CBS television programs, sponsor commercials, AOL....
We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming home video release Cedar Rapids, which hits the shelves on Blu-ray and DVD on June 21. Click on the video player below for a scene where Ed Helms is pressured by John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, and Isiah Whitlock Jr. to drink his first shot. Cedar Rapids features an all-star cast including Ed Helms (The Hangover), John C. Reilly (Step Brothers), Anne Heche (TV’s Hung), and Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver (Avatar)....
Sleepy Hollow reboot is happening at Paramount Pictures with rising filmmaker Lindsey Beer attached to write, produce, and direct, Deadline reports. The plot details are being kept under wraps, and it’s unknown if the project will be a feature film or television series. Todd Garner and Spencer Walken of Broken Road Productions are producing the new Sleepy Hollow adaptation. So far, no one from the 1999 film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, is involved in the reboot....
Horror is an endless genre. Like science fiction, a surplus of ideas run through our minds like the final girl runs from a slasher. Fears are ideas that take the form of evil machinations. They turn the imagination into an unthinkable, gnarled mess. The mind becomes a torrid hotbed for tumultuous terrors. Hesitation does the thinkers in, scares them straight and stiff as dead wood. Awareness helps them stay alive, long enough to get that running start....
Ridley Scott is known for a lot of things. He’s the director of horror and sci-fi classic Alien, as well as the Oscar-winning director behind films like Thelma and Louise, Gladiator, and Blade Runner. When you have a filmography like his, it’s hard to call anything that he does underrated or underrepresented. Even still, the film industry moves so fast, and with such fervor, that some of the work from even the most celebrated of directors will get passed by....
It is fall once again. That means a great many things, but what it really means is a whole lot of new TV episodes to watch. We are in what many call a television renaissance and that is all good and well, but there is still nothing quite like a great animated show. In the current TV landscape, there is plenty of great animated shows to watch this fall as well....
Known for his work as an actor in hits like Big, Apollo 13 and Sully, Tom Hanks is a Hollywood icon who is known for taking on some of the most challenging roles. His most recent conquest is playing the main character, Ove, in the upcoming English remake of A Man Called Ove. Originally a Swedish adaptation of the novel of the same name, A Man Called Ove revolves around an old retiree named Ove, whose only joys in life are enforcing block rules and visiting his late wife’s grave....
We reported a few weeks ago that John Cho and Kal Penn will reprise their stoner characters for a third, Christmas-themed film and now some new details on the story have emerged. Vulture has gotten their talons on the new script for A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas and below is an excerpt from their script review which lays out the plot. CLICK HERE to read the site’s full piece, but beware of some spoilers contained within....
Aussie actress Abbie Cornish has replaced Natalie Portman, who departed in May because of scheduling difficulties, in the latest adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte classic, Wuthering Heights. Michael Fassbender is attached to play the iconic role of Heathcliff. According to Variety, U.K.-based Ecosse Films is seeking a new director after John Maybury ankled after creative disagreements over the script, and hopes to make an announcement in the coming weeks. Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, is a tempestuous love story about obsessive passion across the class divide, set on the Yorkshire Moors....
Whether he is creating an independent film or a multi-million-dollar Netflix original series, Mike Flanagan has consistently demonstrated an ability to develop terrifyingly compelling stories that leave audiences in awe. Flanagan has become somewhat of a horror directing and writing legend, with the numerous amounts of successful projects he’s put out throughout his career — which only seems to be getting better and better. Somehow, he can always make viewers feel connected and invested in the characters of every movie and TV show he’s part of....
The American Horror Story season 10 cast has been announced. Series creator Ryan Murphy announced the news in a video posted to his Instagram, which is set to Orville Peck’s “Dead of Night.” Macaulay Culkin seems to be getting the most attention since it was just revealed that he is taking on a mystery role in the hit FX series. Culkin most-recently appeared on an episode of Hulu’s Dollface, opposite his real-life girlfriend, Brenda Song....
Award-winning producer Ryan Murphy today revealed the title of the new chapter of American Horror Story, American Horror Story: Asylum. Set in 1964, American Horror Story: Asylum stars Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto, James Cromwell, and Joseph Fiennes. Principal photography on the new minseries began on July 17 and it premieres on FX in October. The first installment of American Horror Story, which concluded last fall, earned 17 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, tying for the most of any program this year and setting a record for the most Emmy nominations for a miniseries in basic cable history....
In celebration of the series’ momentous 10th anniversary and in an effort to give tens of thousands of hopefuls the opportunity to audition, American Idol will host auditions in Los Angeles beginning Wednesday, Sept. 22. The 10th season of American Idol premieres January 2011 on FOX. “This summer we have had an exceptional turnout - both in the number of people auditioning and the level of their talent,” said American Idol executive producer Ken Warwick....
Dear MovieWeb Readers, Hi there my fellow MovieWebHeads. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve last written one of these Open Letters, and there are reasons aplenty for that. I suppose the first and foremost reason that I stopped writing this column is because I couldn’t start writing anymore. I had hit a rut and had no clue about what to write about anymore or who to write to. Laziness was also a factor, but at the same time being very busy was as well....
According to a Polish distributor who is helping finance The Good, the Bad, the Weird director Jee-woon Kim’s next film Last Stand, Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined the upcoming action thriller as a Sheriff. It will be the first live action role for the former California Governor since leaving office at the beginning of this year. While it has already been announced that the animated television series The Governator will be Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first voice acting gig, Last Stand will mark the action icon’s first turn back in front of a camera in over eight years....
A newly released poster for Avatar: The Way of Water further teases the return of the big, blue cat-people, the Na’vi. Released via social media, the poster puts the focus on what appears to be one of Jake and Neytiri’s children, with Avatar: The Way of Water centering on the familiar heroes and their new family, as well as exploring the underwater world of Pandora. A trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water was finally released yesterday after a whole lot of waiting and an abundance of patience....
Avatar: Way of the Water is projected to bring in $250 million at domestic box offices by Sunday. The James Cameron film has been doing well at the box office this weekend. The film’s domestic earnings have so far reached $217 million. It is the film’s second weekend in movie theaters, and with the holiday weekend here, Avatar is at the top of the list for box office grosses. However, compared to the first film grosses, this second weekend represents a sharp drop in total earnings, with a projected 59% drop from last weekend....
