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Unlike Chris Pratt’s Mario voice, Seth Rogen’s portrayal of Donkey Kong in the upcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie has seemingly been met with approval from most fans after being debuted in a new teaser for the animated film. While the initial storm over Pratt’s casting as Mario has finally started to become nothing more than a little background noise, the new trailer has brought mostly praise for Seth Rogen’s Donkey Kong, with one notable exception....

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is rocketing to number one in the box office chart for the weekend on its domestic release and is expected to end the weekend on upward of $67 million. The sequel to Sonic’s first big screen outing, which provided one of the last hit movies to be released before the Covid pandemic closed down many of the world’s cinemas, has become one of the few movies to have been released recently that has managed to open with a bigger weekend than its pre-pandemic predecessor....

Fandango announced that new ticketing records were broken by Spider-Man 3, which enjoyed a projected $148 million domestic opening weekend at the box office. Spider-Man 3 now ranks as Fandango’s daily ticket-sales record-holder. The previous daily record-holder was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, then Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Spider-Man 3 is making history across the board:...

Just last week, a new poster for Star Wars Rebels Season 4 was released and now the synopses for the first 6 episodes has been revealed, which will show the Ghost crew’s final battles up against Grand Admiral Thrawn and his forces. The wildly popular animated series will have Season 4 take place during the time period between Revenge of the Sith and Rogue One/A New Hope. Season 4 will be the final season of the popular series, so it will also resolve a few loose plot threads that fans have wondered about through the previous three seasons....

Summit Entertainment has acquired the rights to the 2008 non-fiction book Storming Las Vegas, with Antoine Fuqua attached to direct the adaptation. The book, written by John Huddy, chronicles the story of Jose Vigoa, a Cuban-born commando who set off on a 16-month crime spree against Las Vegas casinos in the 1990s, when the city was trying to rid itself of its crime-laden image. The criminal was also going up against a longtime veteran of the Las Vegas police department, who had the double-edged task of tracking Vigoa down, and keeping this crime spree out of the newspapers....

Stranger Things has continued its record-breaking run on Netflix by bringing the previous seasons of the show back into the top 10 of Netflix’s most-watched programs. Following a huge opening for season 4, Stranger Things has continued to rack up hours of viewing time and is well on the way to being the most-watched show on Netflix ever. While those who binge-watched the first seven episodes of the season in one go, the wait is now on for the final two episodes arriving on July 1, and that has given plenty of people an incentive to revisit previous seasons of the show....

BOX OFFICE TUMBLES If movie fans were not sitting at home watching the Oscars on television Sunday, they were not going out to the movies, either. Movie attendance on Sunday was even lower than studios had expected, with the top film, Sony’s Vantage Point, winding up with more than $1 million below expectations on the final day of the weekend. The movie’s weekend gross came to $22.87 million. The real shocker was that last week’s winner, Fox’s Jumper, jumped to third place, beaten out by the third week of Paramount’s The Spiderwick Chronicles....

A REVOLT AT REVOLUTION? MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY ICY COLD OUTSIDE, BUT BOX OFFICE IS HOT Snow and sleet in wide areas of the country did not deter moviegoers as they packed theaters for a second weekend – most of them to see Warner Bros.’ 300.The comic-book-like retelling of the ancient battle of Thermopylae captured $32.9 million at the box office, significantly above the $31.2 million that the studio had estimated on Sunday that it would bring in....

ADVERTISERS WELCOME TV’S MOVE TO THE WEBAdvertisers have responded favorably to efforts by the major broadcast networks to migrate their programming to the Internet, despite the fact that each network is employing a different model to do so. In an interview with the Los Angeles Timesfollowing Thursday’s debut of CBS’s Innertube website, Stacey Lynn Koerner of Interpublic Media said, “They are throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks. … That’s the beauty and the frustration of the times that we live in: It’s not one-size-fits-all anymore....

LATE NIGHT GOES LIVE The late-night talk shows are due to resume live competition tonight (Wednesday), with David Letterman expected to take over as the ratings leader. Letterman’s company, Worldwide Pants, negotiated a separate deal with the Writers Guild of America last week, which will allow him to return to the air with a full complement of writers. Leno will return sans writers, since his program is produced by NBC, a struck company....

French distributor Studiocanal on Wednesday unveiled a list of 20 titles it plans to release in the high-definition DVD format later this year – a move that industry observers see as a significant push into the next generation of home video. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the mixed bag of 20 titles from a total of 30 planned HD-DVD releases includes such classics as The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, Terminator 2 and The Graduate as well as more recent hits like Million Dollar Baby, The Pianist, Mulholland Drive and Traffic....

Fans of the CW Network’s Winchester Brothers may have another season to look forward to. Entertainment Weekly’s Ausiello Files is reporting that Supernatural may have another season left in it, according to CW Network president Dawn Ostroff. Ostroff also points to the ratings success of the show, which has been growing even in its fifth year. “I think he’s in that state of mind,” she says. “I had lunch with Eric the other day and he’s really excited about the show right now....

Sylvester Stallone has always been a fan of Demolition Man. While the critical response was a bit mixed when the sci-fi action film was released in 1993, Demolition Man has maintained a cult following over the years and is looked back at fondly by many of Stallone’s fans as one of his best films. It’s an appreciation that’s shared by the actor himself. On Instagram, Stallone shared an image describing Demolition Man....

The Amazing Spider-Man doesn’t swing into theaters until July 3, but a new Mega Blocks toy set has revealed an intriguing plot detail for this upcoming superhero reboot. Take a look at this Mega Blocks set entitled “Oscorp Tower FX Battle” in the photo below, and then read on for more The Amazing Spider-Man story details. One of the figures included in this set is “SWAT Lizard,” which seems to confirm a rumor from back in February that Rhys Ifans’ villain the Lizard will be turning an entire SWAT team into reptile creatures not unlike himself....

With the month of August just days away, Peacock has released their highly-anticipated list of new content making its way to the popular platform. Kevin Bacon is returning to his horror roots after having previously appeared in the iconic 1980 slasher Friday the 13th, with the actor portraying an unhinged conversion camp leader in the Blumhouse original film They/Them. The horror movie has been setting the internet ablaze with its approach to the gory genre, and Bacon’s performance has been garnering rave reviews....

Uncompromisingly wacky and the personification of “weird,” Al Yankovic has been making comedic song parodies of famous pop culture hits since the 1980s, and now being in his 60s and still announcing new tour dates, the musician hasn’t slowed down one bit. Despite a good chunk of his hits being to the beat and melodies of existing songs, Weird Al has demonstrated a unique voice in not only musical comedy, but in skillful lyric writing as well, in some cases matching, or arguably surpassing the original songwriter’s performance....

Cinemax has picked up the ten-episode drama series Outcast, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming. Created and executive produced by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) and Chris Black and produced for Cinemax by Fox International Channels (FIC), the show will also be executive produced by David Alpert of Circle of Confusion, Sharon Tal Yguado of FIC and Sue Naegle. Here’s what Michael Lombardo had to say in a statement....

The Good It’s Rocky hought they might have jazzed things up for this Blu-ray D release.Rocky: The Undisputed Collection gives viewers all 6 movies in this series on 7 Blu-ray discs. While at times it seems like things get a little hard to believe for this pug from Philadelphia, Rocky’s can do attitude is what makes this series work. No matter who the opponent, no matter what the odds, no matter how much the script defies logic, our hero meets every challenge at the gate and always finds a way to come out on top....

The season premiere of the second season of Russian Doll has officially been announced by Netflix. The Emmy-winning comedy-drama series created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland will return this spring. The series stars Lyonne as Nadia, a software engineer who lives in New York City and is stuck in a time loop that continues reliving her 36th birthday. She dies repeatedly, always restarting at the same moment at her birthday party as she tries to figure out what is happening to her....

Seth Green has it made when it comes to living the dream life for any geek. Not only has he had wild success with Robot Chicken, but he has a hit comic book with Top Cow Entertainment in the form of The Freshmen, and according to MTV, the next installment of that comic may come in film form. At Comic-Con, Green said that the third part of the story may not be a comic at all:...