No, no, no, you're not in some fugue state where you've turned into a younger, tanner man while rotting in a jail cell for murder, you read that right: master director/nightmare creator David Lynch is finally getting an Oscar! While he was nominated four times prior for his work on The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, and Mulholland Drive (where he 100% should have won...maybe), Lynch has never actually held the statuette in his hand. Thankfully, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has seen the error of their ways.
It has been a decade since a Friday the 13th film has graced the silver screen with its particular brand of slasher nuance. That 2009 reboot of the franchise, while not awful, didn't exactly do gangbusters at the box office. There was an attempt in 2018 to make the 13th effort in Jason's filmography, but that try was ultimately derailed by the ongoing lawsuit between Sean S. Cunningham, director of the first movie, and Victor Miller, writer of the original entry. Last fall, courts granted ownership rights to Miller. Now, Cunningham is filing an appeal to that ruling.
In news that should not be too surprising to anyone who has been alive this year, Avengers: Endgame has made a bunch of money. So much money, in fact, that the film has now become the second movie to cross the $800 million threshold as far as domestic box office goes, standing tall at $803.63 million. The only other film still above Iron Man's swan song is that other installment in a long-running series, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which grossed a disgusting $937 million domestically alone. The Marvel finale has also grossed around $2.7 billion worldwide.Â
From stoic Jedi masters to slightly more emotive men who find and kill people, Liam Neeson has a trend of playing slick dispatchers of pain. And now, after news broke of his casting in the upcoming prequel Kingsman: The Great Game, this career trend looks set to continue. The prequel is currently pencilled in for a February 2020 release, and the cast is already stacked aside from Qui-Gon Jinn himself.
Someone once told Sarah Connor, way back in 1984, that a storm was coming. Now, for the sake of humanity, our action hero must grab her umbrella (see: rocket launcher) to fight pesky robots in the upcoming quasi-reboot Terminator: Dark Fate. Up until recently, the promotion machine hadn't really started turning, but as of late, the folks at Paramount Pictures have been cranking up the heat.
Gotta go fast? More like, gotta slow the heck down! Amirite? All jokes aside, it looks like Jeff Fowler's film adaptation of Sonic the Hedgehog, already mired in controversy, just took another backwards step. Due to the massive outpouring of criticism and the fact that, in reality, it does take an extremely long time to completely change the model of your main computer-generated character, Paramount has made the decision to push the movie's release date back three months, from November 8 to February 14.
While other reports of the production of Bond 25 may sound tumultuous, MGM and company are at least trying to be progressive when it comes to handling the sex scenes in the upcoming action-adventure film. There are reports from the set of the still-in-the-works picture that an intimacy coordinator was hired to make sure the actors and actresses, mainly Daniel Craig and Ana De Armas, felt safe and comfortable during the filming of the requisite love making scenes.
Boo! Ahh! Did I spook ya? Sorry, I thought most people around here weren't afraid of no ghost. The Ghostbusters certainly weren't! Or, uh, aren't? I guess those parapsychologists are back with a vengeance. There's that sequel/reboot thing that Jason Reitman's making, which is supposedly going to feature kids and stuff, but now one of the OGs (Original Ghostbusters) himself, wacky old Dan Aykroyd, just shared some exciting news: more spectral smackdowns are on the way.
Man, that Bucky Barnes guy has been through a lot, hasn't he? He fought in World War II, got a sick metal arm, killed a few Starks...not a bad resume, huh? Well, he's far from finished, according to Sebastian Stan, the man under the Alice Cooper hairdo. Disney's new streaming service, Disney Plus, is going to be debuting at some point in the near future here, and one of the slated programs coming to the new platform is Falcon and Winter Soldier. It won't just be the duo kicking ass, however.
Milla Jovovich may currently be playing a queen in the box office bomb Hellboy, but she's raising hell, boy, on Instagram in protest of the new smattering of grotesquely restrictive abortion laws recently passed in the southern United States. In a bid to bring awareness to why abortions are a medically necessary procedure that women need easy, uncomplicated access to, the actress detailed her own terrifying experience from a few years ago.
