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After just one season, Arnold Schwarzenegger is “terminating” himself from NBC’s hit reality series Celebrity Apprentice. The A-list action icon replaced Donald Trump, who, before he became the 45th President of the United States, was essentially fired from NBC after making derogatory statements about immigrants. Arnold Schwarzenegger revealed that he won’t be coming back next season, because of all the anti-Trump protests that swirled around the show. A report surfaced yesterday that Celebrity Apprentice has lost half of its sponsors for next season, due to a campaign called #GrabYourWallet, which has tried to get the show’s 12 sponsors to leave the show, since, despite being removed from the show, Donald Trump still remains an executive producer....

The film reached the impressive tally in an equally-impressive 32 days, shattering the 45-day mark set by The Dark Knight in the summer of 2008. Avatar’s Friday-Sunday tally of $41.3 million set a record for the highest fifth-weekend gross and the film’s estimated $54.6 million gross over the four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend broke the MLK Weekend record, previously held by Cloverfield, which grossed $46.1 million over the four-day frame....

Spoiler Warning Actor and filmmaker Zach Cregger’s bonkers horror film Barbarian has been a sleeper hit at the box office, and fans are already calling for a follow-up movie. Barbarian follows a young woman (Georgina Campbell) who rents an Airbnb only to find that it’s double booked, with a strange man (Bill Skarsgård) already there. What follows are darkly comic and gory twists and turns, some of which are so absurd that viewers are comparing Barbarian to James Wan’s 2021 hit, Malignant....

More details are coming in about the secret Batman Beyond movie that was in the works at DCU. Just recently, new rumors have emerged about the film, which was planned to serve as both an adaptation of the animated series Batman Beyond as well as an offshoot of The Flash. Michael Keaton would return as an older Bruce Wayne to mentor a younger Dark Knight with the screenplay coming from Christina Hodson (The Flash, Batgirl)....

Aaron Sorkin’s biopic Being the Ricardos, which chronicles a week in the life of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, was announced, fans of the trailblazing couple and devoted watchers and re-watchers of the beloved TV show I Love Lucy, all had unswayable opinions of who might be able to fill the shoes of the tremendous icons. As casting began, the critics simultaneously chimed in. With every role being announced, all the way to the trailer being revealed, the criticism persisted....

Benedict Cumberbatch is an old hand at keeping Marvel secrets, having once seemingly been appointed as a ward over Tom Holland to ensure the Spider-Man actor didn’t accidentally drop any spoilers. When it comes to Spider-Man: No Way Home, the pair have been doing a number of interviews in the run up to the movie’s release in a couple of weeks and of course everyone wants to ask very in depth questions about the events of the film and its impact on the MCU’s future....

Japanese cinema has maintained a distinctive identity throughout its 100-year-old history, offering the world with unique genres and some of the most influential filmmakers of all time. The impact of Japanese filmmaking sensibilities can be seen in some of the most iconic Hollywood treasures, from classic Westerns like A Fistful of Dollars to the Star Wars franchise. Around the turn of the new millennium, Japanese filmmakers were going through a major creative period, and had started making a name for themselves in the global arena....

Lee Min Ho is a renowned Hallyu star who is not only a favorite of Korean watchers but also of fans from all around the world. The South Korean actor, model, creative director, and singer is truly a house of many talents. He was the first ever Korean celebrity who got to get a wax figure made at the highly famous Madame Tussauds, proving yet again how respected and loved Min Ho is in the industry....

Jon Favreau is one of the most versatile and famous directors in Hollywood. However, his early days in the industry were quite far from the director’s role: he started as a stand-up comedian and, later on, took some small roles in films. His debut as an actor came with Rudy, a film in which he worked alongside Vince Vaughn, and later played a few more parts in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and Batman Forever....

A city that beckons many to dream of the ultimate romance. A crowded city, always bustling, with towering skyscrapers that beg us to dream — maybe there’s someone in this big mess for us. New York City invites cinema to create stories larger than us, but ones we also find hopeful and sad. It’s a place that has gotten the love story treatment repeatedly from the films of Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Paul Mazursky, Billy Wilder, and Noah Baumbach....

For almost as long as the concept of science fiction has existed, the genre has flirted, to varying degress of success with the world of horror. Some of the earliest and most well-known examples include Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein which have been adapted multiple times for the big screen. In fact, some of the most highly regarded and successful movies of all time fall into the sci-fi horror genre....

Real Time host Bill Maher is not a fan of No Time to Die. Never one to shy away from controversy, Maher made it clear how much he resents the creative direction James Bond has gone in with the latest installment of the long-running action movie series. In particular, he’s not so happy with how Bond is not quite as promiscuous as he used to be in previous movies when played by different actors....

When Betty White died on the last day of 2021, she left behind an indelible mark on everyone. Whether they knew her personally or not, it seems like everyone felt the pain of Ms. White’s passing. She was so much a part of our culture that we all felt her loss. For fans of The Golden Girls, it is truly the end of an era, however. White was the last of the four main cast members left alive....

The week of July 14th through July 13th, 2007 Boos! and Whoop-doos! Bacon? Whoop-Doo! Kevin Bacon kicks serious ass in the new Death Sentence trailer. Whoop-doo! I don’t care if this is directed by James Wan, the guy who made the deliriously incompetent thrillers Saw and Dead Silence. I don’t care if it’s a direct rip-off of Charley Bronson’s Death Wish. This is hands-down the coolest three-minute stretch of celluloid that’s been unleashed in theaters this year....

Weekend Box Office Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $42.5 million Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $42.5 million Public Enemies $26.1 million The Proposal $12.7 million The Hangover $10.4 million Up $6.5 million My Sister’s Keeper $5.2 million The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 $2.5 million Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian $2.1 million Year One $2.1 million It was the squirrel versus the giant robot this holiday weekend as both Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen went head to head, tying for first place with $42....

Weekend Box Office WALL-E $62.5 million Wanted $51.1 million Get Smart $20 million Kung Fu Panda $11.7 million The Incredible Hulk $9.2 million The Love Guru $5.4 million Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull $5 million The Happening $3.8 million Sex and the City: The Movie $3.7 million You Don’t Mess with the Zohan $3.2 million It was Disney & Pixar’s latest CGI animated tale about a lonely robot that took the number one position on the box office chart this weekend....

Brooklyn Nine-Nine will officially come to an end with the long-delayed and shortened season 8. The popular sitcom originally aired on Fox for its first five seasons before getting canceled and then revived by NBC. Fans of the show started petitions and an online campaign to save it, which worked out really well. The cast and crew were amazed by the faith of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine fan community. However, it is now time to officially say goodbye again....

In a story from Risky Business Blog, action icon Bruce Willis, who recently turned 54, is currently eyeing the starring role in Red, a WildStorm/DC Comic. Summit Entertainment will be making the film. Red sees Willis as an ex-black-ops agent who comes back into action when a high-tech assassin comes after him and the woman he loves. Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian are producing. Writing the screenplay are Erich and Jon Hoeber....

If you’re quicker than most to the theater, you’ll be guaranteed the bragging rights of, “I saw it first!” According to Michael Bay’s website, the director is planning to screen Transformers a day in advance of its official release date. Moviegoers around the country will get a special sneak preview of the film on July 2nd. They can then run back outside and wait for it’s official run date of July 3rd....

Good filmmakers are rare to find. Great ones are rarer. But legendary filmmakers are deemed God’s gifts to mankind. A filmmaker attains the status of a legend over years of toiling and tweaking, developing a distinct style as well as always reinventing the status quo, finding and experimenting with new modes of storytelling. While we remember our favorite directors for their classics, some of their other films tend to take a back seat in the process....