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Spider-Man: No Way Home brought a new wave of attention to the Spider-Man movies of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, and with Sam Raimi directing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, he has been speaking candidly about man aspects of his time working on the original big-screen outings of Marvel’s web-slinging hero. In an oral history with Variety, Raimi and writer David Koepp recalled the backlash from fans regarding Maguire’s version of Spider-Man having “organic” web-shooters....

We now know when we’ll see the return of Saved by the Bell, as NBCUniversal has announced that the reboot series will premiere on the Peacock streaming service on Nov. 25. The reveal was made with a new teaser video, depicting a literal peacock strutting through the halls of Bayside High. An updated version of the classic theme song can also be heard playing as the reboot’s premiere date is revealed....

Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz says he will not be continuing with the series, throwing a major, likely fatal, monkey wrench into attempts to keep the Emmy-winning laffer alive for a fourth season. Variety reports series producers 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine Television had agreed on a deal to move Arrested, previously on Fox, to Showtime, assuming Hurwitz was willing to come back. In the end, however, a mix of creative and financial concerns has prompted Hurwitz to move on....

We are now less than a month away from Spider-Man: No Way Home making its long-awaited debut in theaters, when all of those rumors, questions and theories will be finally laid to rest in one spectacular action blockbuster, that we now believe will have a run time of 2 hours and 28 minutes thanks to a tweet by BSL. While there has been speculation over just how long the movie’s run time would be - with high estimates previously suggesting a bum-numbing 2 hours and 47 minutes was on the cards - it now seems that while still being the longest Spider-Man movie in the web-slinger’s big screen history, it will fall in line as the fourth-longest MCU picture, behind Avengers: Endgame, Eternals and Avengers: Infinity War....

I recently had the chance to speak with the fantastic actor Stephen Lang for his new independent movie White Irish Drinkers, which arrives in theaters March 25. I also had to ask the actor about his involvement in the highly-anticipated sequel, Avatar 2. While he couldn’t say much, the actor did meet with director James Cameron recently. Stephen Lang is also starring in the highly-anticipated Fox series Terra Nova, which will premiere this fall....

AP TO BOYCOTT FOX’S FALL PRESENTATIONS In an unprecedented clash between two media organizations, the Associated Press has informed Fox television that it will not cover its press tour events in Pasadena next week, including the presentation by the network’s cable sibling, FX. As reported by Broadcasting & Cable, the wire service had objected to Fox’s decision to bar news organizations from taking photographs during the sessions and instead use photos provided by Fox itself....

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY – THIS YEAR’S MOVIE SENSATION? Driven by strong word-of-mouth, sterling early reviews, and people willing to drive hundreds of miles to see it, the $15,000 Paranormal Activityis likely to become the year’s most striking box-office success story, the Los Angeles Times indicated today (Thursday), citing one theater owner who said that he hadn’t seen audiences so “feverish” about a movie since The Dark Knight. Another theater owner called it “an event unto itself....

NIGHTLINE BEATS TONIGHT & LATE NIGHT AGAIN A year ago at this time, there was much speculation about the possibility that ABC would make a play to land Jay Leno after he left the Tonightshow to compete against Conan O’Brien and David Letterman. According to the rumors, the network was preparing to spend big bucks for Leno in order to move into the lead in the late-night time period. Suddenly, however, the network has discovered that it didn’t need to spend anything at all to become No....

THE AWARDS SHOW NO ONE WATCHES Broadway’s Tony Awards remained a flop on TV with CBS’s telecast of the Broadway awards telecast averaging a 4.9 rating and an 8 share, not much better than the 4.5/7 in 2005, the lowest-rated Tonys in history. Sunday night’s result was down a tad from the 5.0/8 of last year’s show. (A revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific won seven awards, while the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama August: Osage Countywon five....

NBA WINS, BUT IT’S NO SLAM DUNK The first game of the NBA Finals dominated primetime TV viewing on Thursday, with the ABC telecast attracting an average of 10.47 million viewers between 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., peaking in the second half hour with 11.03 million viewers. The figures, however, were well below the comparable night a year ago when the network drew 13.38 million viewers for the first night of the NBA finals – 22 percent greater than this year’s figures....

A new music biopic about Sublime is now in the works. The rock band, which rose to fame during the 1990s, will reportedly be the subject of a new feature film from Sony Pictures. Per Deadline, Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games) is also on board to direct. Chris Mundy (Ozark) is penning the screenplay. The film is a collaboration between Sony’s 3000 Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, about:blank, Dave Kaplan, and Peter Paterno....

Empire Online caught up with Superman Returns star Brandon Routh, who gave some tidbits about the upcoming sequel: …and Routh commented on rumors that General Zod (from Superman II) will appear in the film: “In the first one, the obstacle was Superman’s love for Lois and his son, and Luthor using that against him. I just know that in the next film there will be a lot of action and I’m gonna get to fight something, or someone....

It seems the Wachowski Brothers are planning to wow us all with some new innovative camera work in their upcoming big screen adaptation of Speed Racer. According to Frosty over at Collider, the Wachowski’s are planning to shoot the film so that everything in the frame is in focus, just like a cartoon would be. Susan Sarandon spilled a little bit about the new camera that is being used on the set, and exactly what the Wachowski’s are doing with it....

On April 24 prepare to laugh as Code Name: The Cleaner comes to DVD! To celebrate this release we are giving away copies of it! Winner’s Receive: Code Name: The Cleaner DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: In a hysterical case of mistaken identity, the “Original King of Comedy,” Cedric the Entertainer (Barbershop), finds himself in a unusually messy situation in this action comedy Code Name: The Cleaner. Jake, a mild-mannered janitor, gets in over his head when he is duped into believing that he is an undercover agent who subconsciously holds a key piece of information that could expose an arms conspiracy involving the CIA and FBI....

Many theories have been bantered about concerning the death of Princess Diana, ten years ago this month. The Lifetime Original Movie, The Murder of Princess Diana, delves into the heart of her death in this fictional story based on the horrendous car crash that took the life of Diana. American journalist Rachel Visco (Jennifer Morrison) has a tip that something big is about to happen. While she doesn’t cover celebrity stories, she is interested in Diana’s efforts to ban land mines....

Slasher films elevate the horror genre by about one hundred notches. The kills are gorier, the dialogue is campier, and the story often borders on inconceivable when compared to classic or elevated horror. This formula has been a double-edged sword for this type of horror; some fans love these films while others criticize everything about them. 2016’s Terrifier is considered a fun-to-watch slasher, but isn’t a cult classic by any means....

Thor: Love and Thunder brings Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie back to the MCU for the first time since Avengers: Endgame in 2019. Since we last saw the Queen of New Asgard, it looks like she has been acquiring some new comic-accurate powers that will be seen in full effect in the fourth Thor movie of the MCU. Valkyrie has been a fan favorite since her first appearance in Thor: Ragnarok, and it is no surprise to see her back alongside Chris Hemsworth’s Thor in the latest installment from director Taika Waititi....

A whole host of new images and a release date for Netflix’s upcoming time-travel adventure, The Adam Project, have now been released. Starring Ryan Reynolds and directed by Shawn Levy, The Adam Project will beam onto the streaming platform on March 11, with the handful of images giving us our best look yet at the sci-fi family drama to come. Released by Vanity Fair and shared by Netflix Film, these latest images from The Adam Project show-off Ryan Reynolds as the titular Adam alongside an all-star supporting cast, which includes Jennifer Garner as Adam’s mother and Mark Ruffalo as Adam’s father, as well as Zoe Saldana, Catherine Keener and Alex Mallari Jr....

Christina Ricci has just joined Tim Burton’s reboot of The Addams Family. Back in the 1991 movie adaptation of the kooky family, Ricci starred as Wednesday Addams, one of the two children of the titular Addamses. After reprising the role once for the 1993 sequel Addams Family Values, Ricci will mark her return to the Addams Family franchise with her new casting in Wednesday, Burton’s reimagining that’s currently in the works at Netflix....

Comedy is a hard thing to nail down. Certain topics and punchlines can be funny for some people while they just as easily be boring or even offensive to others. Even so, you can’t help but want something fun to laugh along with sometimes and comedy movies are right there for you. But what if you’ve already watched a lot of Hollywood, triple-A comedies? Canadian comedy movies are also hilarious even if they don’t have the same budget as Hollywood does....