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During a time of superhero movie dominance, Top Gun: Maverick outgrossed The Batman at the box office. The long-awaited legacy sequel was a smash-hit success for Paramount, reminding audiences of the reason why they fell in love with movies. Director Joseph Kosinski has only made a small handful of films, but all of them have been made with great love and enthusiasm. That love and enthusiasm has been something the audience has consistently been able to feel in his movies....

A romantic comedy is pretty much the key to anyone’s heart. What can be more entertaining than a movie that is, at its very core, built to make you laugh and set off the butterflies in your stomach? However, constructing the perfect rom-com is not easy. With so many out there for people to watch, a memorable leading man is just as important as an engaging, funny, and heartwarming plot. With names like Mark Ruffalo, Adam Sandler, Hugh Grant, and even Tom Hanks fitting that bill, the standards for being a heartthrob in a rom-com are incredibly high....

Whether we want to believe it or not, having good actors is key to a film’s success. No matter how solid a plot or theme is, if your actors can’t perform, then the film is not likely to succeed. While some movies rely on ensemble casts like the Fast & Furious franchise, others require thousands for their cast like the fantasy epic Lord of the Rings. It’s arguable that one of the most challenging types of movies to make is one in which there is only one cast member that takes up most of the screen-time and therefore carries the entire film’s narrative....

Earlier today, The CW unveiled its 2017-2018 fall schedule, during the network’s upfront presentation in New York City. Before the upfronts, though, the network had already confirmed that the new DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning has been given a series order, but today it was confirmed that the show is being held for a mid-season debut on the network. While we will have to wait several months for this show to debut, the network debuted the first trailer during the upfronts, which you can check out below....

Around 10 years after her first MCU appearance on-screen in Iron Man 2, Scarlett Johansson finally got her solo Black Widow movie. Complete with a nod to the infamous Budapest punchline, a dive into the Red Room, and incredible fight scenes with the classic group of trained killers known as the Widows, the movie grossed $379.8 million at the box office. Although Black Widow was released at the beginning of Phase Four, after the release of the record-breaking Avengers: Endgame, which featured Natasha’s self-sacrifice, the film opened up a whole new side of the MCU....

There has been no official word on a sequel to The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. But now it seems a TV series may be crafted instead of a third movie. Troy Duffy, who wrote and directed both Boondock Saints and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, has revealed that there is interest in turning the franchise into a weekly Boondock Saints show. Here’s what the writer-director had to say below, indicating that franchise stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus would return as the McManus brothers for this small screen project....

Weekend Box Office Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail $41.1 million Taken $11.4 million Coraline $11 million He’s Just Not That Into You $8.5 million Slumdog Millionaire $8 million Friday the 13th $7.8 million Confessions of a Shopaholic $7 million Paul Blart: Mall Cop $7 million Fired Up $6 million The International $4.4 million Tyler Perry is back to his old tricks. In a move that has surprised no one, his latest theatrical dramedy Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail pulled in $41....

Its time to get excited! One of the all-time greatest drama series to ever hit television returns this summer! First, Breaking Bad: Complete Third Season Blu-ray and DVD arrive next Tuesday, June 7th. Then the long-awaited Season 4 premiere of Breaking Bad hits on July 17th. We caught up with series’ star Bryan Cranston today to talk about both Season 3 and Season 4, and he decided to drop a bombshell of a tease on us....

Buena Vista has some big plans for 2007! Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment (BVWHE) President Bob Chapek today announced BVWHE’s second wave of Blu-ray Disc® releases for 2007. Titles will include Ladder 49 (50GB) and Reign of Fire, which will be in stores on February 13, and The Prestige (50GB) which will be available day-and-date with DVD on February 20. Most Blu-ray(TM) titles from BVWHE will be available for $34.99 SRP....

Be warned, if you haven’t seen last night’s The Walking Dead mid-season finale, there will be massive SPOILERS below, so make sure to read at your own risk. If you’re a regular viewer of the show, it should come as no surprise that a pivotal character was killed, since that often happens in both the mid-season finale and season finale of any given season, but this death may be the biggest yet, and it seems the actor who is now out of a job, did not see this move coming one bit, and the actor’s father had some harsh words for showrunner Scott M....

With filming underway on a remake of the movie Road House, it’s been revealed that another Patrick Swayze classic from the past could also soon be reimagined. Fans of the late actor will know that one of Swayze’s most revered roles was as Sam Wheat in the 1990 movie Ghost. In the film, directed by Jerry Zucker, Swayze plays a murdered man whose ghost hopes to save his girlfriend (Demi Moore) with the help of a psychic (Oda Mae Brown), the only person who can hear him....

Superheroes tend to become influential quite easily. Thus, the actor who is cast as the particular superhero can either “make” the character or break it. In fact, there have been numerous occasions where the audience absolutely rejected the casting of certain superheroes. This, inadvertently, has a great effect on how the character is molded and even the future of the character. Nonetheless, with the world of Marvel and DC taking the lead in terms of superhero movies, one cannot disagree that there have been some perfect castings in the last few years....

Since the early 20th century, human beings have been trying to make sense of our fear of wild animals through cinema. On every hike, every swim at the beach, there is a singular unspoken fear that humans have gotten quite good at ignoring—that of the beast that may be hiding just out of sight. It’s a fear that pervades the subconscious mind, and like most other fears, it has taken center stage in popular media for decades....

Leave it to a western to gun down the competition… or lack thereof. 3:10 to Yuma was the easy winner this weekend, taking both the sales and rental crowns for the week ending January 13. There wasn’t a whole lot of competition for the Russell Crowe/Christian Bale western, as it outsold last week’s winner, Resident Evil: Extinction by a 4-to-1 margin. The only other semblance of competition were the new releases Dragon Wars in fourth place, Death Sentence in fifth and Sunshine in ninth place in sales....

Entertainment Weekly has just revealed the six collectable magazine covers featuring the characters of the upcoming Watchmen movie, which hits theaters nationwide on March 6. Click below to enlarge these covers, which feature Jackie Earle Haley’s Rorschach, Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s The Comedian, Billy Crudup’s Dr. Manhattan, Malin Ackerman’s Silk Spectre, Patrick Wilson’s Nite Owl and Matthew Goode’s Ozymandius. It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach....

It was a great night but it sure didn’t start off that way. After sitting through numerous awards, bad Ellen DeGeneres’ skits, and a bunch of other weird performances (that group that formed images from all the movies?), we finally got down to business with the real meat of the show: Best Picture The Departed - Thank the good lord the Academy got this right. One never knows what they are going to pick or why, but I based my pick on being a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild....

Be careful what you take a bite out of this spring. A24’s Men follows Harper (Jessie Buckley), a widow who visits the English countryside after the tragic death of her husband (Paapa Essiedu). What should be a relaxing trip turns into a nightmare as Harper is seemingly followed out of the woods by an unknown individual. Better still, every man in town looks exactly like the owner of her rental house Geoffrey (Rory Kinnear)....

Aaron Yoo talks tech, Sarah Roemer and why this movie struck a chord with the world. As the comic relief character Ronnie in the breakout hit Disturbia, Aaron Yoo put Hollywood on notice that a new funny-man had entered the ranks. In the film, he played the best friend of Kale (Shia LaBeouf). They investigate Kale’s neighbor across the street (David Morse) who they think is a serial killer. On the eve of this movie’s DVD release, Yoo sat down with us to discuss his role in the film and why he thinks audiences made Disturbia the hit that it was....

The dates and newest addition for After Dark Horrorfest III were announced today by After Dark Films’ CEO Courtney Solomon. The After Dark Horrorfest will take place January 2-9, 2009 marking its third year. The new title joining the 8 Films to Die For lineup is From Within, directed by Phedon Papamichael (Director of Photography on “3:10 to Yuma” and the upcoming “W”) and written by Brad Keene. The films stars Elizabeth Rice, Thomas Dekker, Kelly Blatz, Laura Allen, Adam Goldberg, along with Rumer Willis....

Hulu has set the official premiere date for its upcoming Animaniacs revival, as the streaming service has announced they will be bringing back Wakko, Yakko, and Dot to the small screen this winter. Hailing from Ablin Television, Warner Bros. Animation, and executive producer Steven Spielberg, the series had been in the works for quite some time as the revival was first announced in 2018. It hadn’t been clear when the anticipated reboot would be debuting on the streamer, but today’s news brings word that the new Animaniacs will begin streaming on Friday, Nov....