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Some years have been much stronger than others when it comes to great movie releases. While some years are lucky to have two-to-three great films released, others seem to have masterpieces churned out practically every other week. What years would those be, you may ask? They’re listed below. Here are the strongest years in movie history. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY 9 2012 Sony Pictures 2012 was a year that seemed to have a great film in almost every single genre....

Last month, we reported that Summit Entertainment’s new parent company Lionsgate is eager to make another movie in the The Twilight Saga, if author Stephenie Meyer were to write another book. Actor Robert Pattinson revealed at the Berlin Film Festival that he will likely be too old to reprise his Edward Cullen role, if another movie should happen. The 25-year-old Robert Pattinson stars in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, the final installment of the vampire series, which hits theaters nationwide November 16....

Nu Image/Millennium Films is pleased to announce the return of Red Sonja to the big screen. The film will star Rose McGowan as the mythical flame-haired comic-book vixen with a sword, Red Sonja. The film is presented by Robert Rodriguez and will be directed by Douglas Aarniokoski. The producers are Rodriguez, Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Joe Gatta and George Furla. The film’s executive producers are Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Luke Lieberman and Nick Barrucci....

Darkman has always been one of those movies that never quite gained the credit it deserved. Having become something of a cult classic, the Sam Raimi movie has always been touted by its fans as a film that needs another sequel. Recently the movie’s lead, Liam Neeson, commented that he would be willing to consider returning to the role. However, it seemed at the time that he could be jokingly saying it without expecting a sequel to happen....

According to Variety Sam Raimi just signed on to direct Warcraft. This is a live action version of the popular video game franchise World of Warcraft. Legendary Pictures and the game’s publisher Blizzard Entertainment are currently getting the production off the ground. Warner Bros. will be co-financing and distributing the film. Charles Roven (The Dark Knight) will also be on board as a producer. Raimi will be overseeing Warcraft in its development stages....

Actress Sandra Vergara discusses playing Ginger in Fright Night Actress Sandra Vergara has spent the past few years working her way up the Hollywood ladder through guest-starring appearances on shows like Nip/Tuck and CSI: Miami. This year, the Colombian beauty (and cousin of Sofía Vergara) starred in Fright Night as Ginger, the girlfriend of David Tennant’s Peter Vincent. I recently had the chance to speak with Sandra Vergara about her experience working on Fright Night, which arrives on 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD December 13....

Late actor Dustin Diamond never got the chance to join his old co-stars for a special appearance in the Saved by the Bell reboot series. Though Diamond had appeared in every episode of the original Saved by the Bell along with its two spinoffs, he was not included in the first season of the Peacock reboot. His absence was significant as nearly every other original cast member had appeared in some capacity....

Casting is underway on The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, a Dwayne Johnson-less sequel to the The Mummy Returns spin-off, according to Moviehole.net. Produced by Patti Jackson and Lisa Gooding, and directed by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander), the film will tell the backstory of the Polynesian warrior and his relationship with long time love Layla. The film, set to start shooting in South Africa on October 1, is on the lookout for an actor to fill the Rock’s shoes....

The Good All the cast give interesting performances. The Bad Somewhere along the line I got sort of confused. Shadowboxer is one of those films that I didn’t know how to take. It has independent sensibility in that is casts Mikey and Rose (Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Helen Mirren respectively) as two assassins who decide they can’t do a job when they realize that the person they are going after is pregnant....

The slasher genre has always been rather ’low culture,’ but by the mid-2000s and beyond, it was practically considered to be the dumb, inbred cousin of so-called ’elevated horror movies.’ People became more interested in original, more psychological, and twisted films like The Descent and Hereditary, rather than Children of the Corn: Genesis or Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort. It says something that the most acclaimed slasher films of the 2010s are those which fundamentally parody the genre itself (The Final Girls, Cabin in the Woods, Tucker and Dale vs....

Yet another movie is being reimagined for the small screen. It’s come to light that NBC is turning St. Elmo’s Fire into a TV show. The 1985 coming-of-age flick is being adapted by Josh Berman, creator of Drop Dead Diva. Moves like this have become common practice in Hollywood as of late, as networks are struggling to maintain an audience as viewers’ attention is being pulled in a million different directions....

There won’t be a fourth season of Stargirl on The CW, as the series was just recently canceled. The news came as the cast and crew were getting near the end of filming on season 3, and with the final episodes wrapping up, star Brec Bassinger has opened up on what the experience was like. Speaking about the cancelation in an interview with The Wayne Ayers Podcast (per TVLine), Bassinger reveals that she’s actually known about the fate of Stargirl since May, though it had been a rough few months leading up to that point amid conflicting talks about a renewal....

UPDATE: The True Hollywood Reporter ran a story earlier today about Peter Jackson taking over directorial duties on the first installment of Tintin, a film that was to supposed to be helmed by Steven Spielberg. That information has now been proven false. In a follow-up story, Spielberg has corrected the news, which originally came from Brussels’ Herge Studios, home to Tintin. He says that he remains committed to directing this first film in a proposed trilogy....

Steven Spielberg has had a pretty tumultuous relationship with streaming platforms. Having been a constant voice in support of theatrical exhibition, the legendary director has come to have a personal contradiction with his opinions on streaming exclusives and box office hits. In a new interview with the New York Times, Spielberg took a shot at the handling of movies during the Covid pandemic by one studio in particular. Steven Spielberg caused a little tension in the movie world back in 2019 by suggesting that movies released in cinemas and on streaming platforms simultaneously should not be considered for Academy Awards....

Aside from the readily apparent similarities between Vecna and A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger, such the burnt and decayed face, the razor-sharp claws, and the fact that both stalk their victims in their dreams, Stranger Things took more inspiration from Krueger than what is immediately apparent on the surface. From a horrific backstory to how they stalk their prey and the victims they target, these are all shining examples of how the showrunners of Stranger Things took inspiration from the dream invader of Elm Street to create Vecna/Henry/One....

One Stranger Things star was celebrating the release of Season 2 on Netflix perhaps a little too hard this past week. Actor Charlie Heaton, who plays Will’s protective older brother Jonathan, was detained at LAX and denied entry into the U.S. after cocaine was found to be in his possession. Jaime Ruiz, branch chief of strategic media engagement for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, had this to say about the incident....

WINTER OLYMPICS SALES HEAT UPAlthough earlier reports had indicated that NBC was experiencing slow ad sales for the 2006 Winter Olympics, the network said over the weekend that it had already sold $800 million worth of spots, representing 90 percent of its total “avails.” The figure for the Torino event already has surpassed the $740 million total earned by the network for the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City. The current total was no doubt swollen by the network’s decision to expand coverage....

CRITIC BREAKS EMBARGO, REVIEWS DREAMGIRLS Jack Mathews, the New York Daily Newscritic who has sometimes steamed studio executives by breaking the usual day-of-release embargo on movies – he did so in 1999 with Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace and again in 2003 with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – has become the first major newspaper critic to review Dreamgirls (presumably because the film premiered in New York on Monday)....

BOX OFFICE SMELLS A RAT Fox’s Live Free or Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis, took in $9.1 million when it premiered on Wednesday – good, but hardly overwhelming – leading box-office analysts to predict that the stand-out movie this weekend will be the new Disney cartoon starring a rodent whose name is Remy, not Mickey. There is wide disagreement among them about how much Ratatouilleis likely to earn, with many expecting it to be the lowest-grossing movie for a Pixar movie ever, falling below last year’s Cars, which debuted with $60....

WRITERS MADE MILLIONS FOR LAST-MINUTE SCRIPTS, SAYS WSJ In the run-up to the strike by the Writers Guild of America last week, screenwriters rushed completion of dozens of scripts and turned them in to studio executives, receiving in return tens of millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journalreported today (Wednesday). According to the newspaper, which cited people familiar with the matter, the studios promptly cut checks to the writers, with Universal Pictures alone paying out more than $10 million to writers who delivered some 40 scripts....