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As people across the globe collectively suffer as a result of the cost-of-living crisis, many will be looking to their bank statements for assistance in whittling down inessential expenditures. Perhaps now is the time to cancel your subscription to the Star Trek T-Shirt Club, or the SpongeBob-themed Bikini Bottom Box (yes, both are real). 2022 has been an abjectly bad year for Netflix so far, having lost over 200,000 subscribers, with a reported two million more set to follow suit in the wake of subscription price increases for the streaming service....

The offbeat and wonderfully weird Nicolas Cage is one of Hollywood’s greatest acting chameleons, taking on every genre and character with unique zest. Having appeared in countless memorable and eccentric pictures, Cage has created an enduring and respected cinema legacy, never being afraid to tackle any role, storyline and film style regardless how outlandish it may be. Though he has deservedly developed a reputation for being an eccentric action movie star, the esteemed actor has also starred in a slew of hilarious and entertaining comedies, with his first major leading role being in the 1983 rom-com Valley Girl....

The Conners will address the 2020 Presidential election in an episode that will air before November 3rd. The hit ABC sitcom rushed into production once they knew they’d be able to address the polarization of America in a timely matter. Additionally, it would not be the Conner family without some kind of Halloween special, and luckily we have one to look forward to this year. The Roseanne Halloween episodes were often the ones that fans looked forward to the most....

Director Scott Sanders took an 11-year hiatus between his feature film debut Thick as Thieves and last year’s blaxploitation film Black Dynamite, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 16, and I hope we don’t have to wait that long for his next film, because it sounds simply incredible. I had the chance to speak with Sanders over the phone about the new Black Dynamite DVD, but we also spoke about a new film project he’s currently writing… about Jamaican zombies....

As part of a multi-tiered programming, digital and marketing campaign custom-designed for the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, Showtime announced the launch of Dexter Game On (DexterGameOn.com), an interactive promotional game that will take place simultaneously at San Diego Comic-Con and in five other major cities across the U.S. from Wednesday, July 21 to Sunday, July 25. Showtime has worked with SCVNGR - an iPhone and Android-based application that is all about going places, doing challenges and earning points - to build Dexter-themed challenges for the game....

The Weinstein Company has released the second trailer for Bully, which opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters March 30. Click on the video player below for a look at this upcoming documentary, which was previously known as The Bully Project. You can also read The Weinstein Company’s press release announcing they will appeal the R rating which was handed out by the MPAA. The Weinstein Company announced today plans to appeal the MPAA’s decision to assign an “R” rating to its forthcoming documentary Bully, an urgent and intimate look at America’s bullying crisis by award-winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch....

The new movie will pick up just a few months after the ending of the last film, which featured Brian (Walker) and Mia (Brewster) breaking Dom (Diesel) out of police custody. The trio, are now hiding in Rio and resurface when an opportunity arises to clear their names. But in order to pull of the job, they will need to put together an all-star team of drivers, which include many familiar faces from the previous films....

Shout! for MST3K on DVD! The cult distributor Shout! Factory has found the perfect addition to their library, securing worldwide home entertainment and digital download rights to Mystery Science Theater 3000. The deal gives Shout! Factory rights to all 11 seasons and 198 episodes of the cult classic show, and many episodes have yet to be released on DVD yet. “Mystery Science Theater 3000 is a true cult classic series,” said Garson Foos, president of Shout!...

The internet went absolutely nuts earlier this week when a teaser and a behind-the-scenes promo for the in-development Tales From the Crypt reboot surfaced online. The videos weren’t actually released by TNT, but they appeared to be genuine and were very encouraging for those looking forward to the return of the horror anthology series. Unfortunately, it looks like the series is still on hold and may not be as far along as those recently revealed videos lead us to believe....

Sigourney Weaver created a fan-favorite character with her appearance as Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar. Unfortunately, she wouldn’t make it through the 2009 film as she died from a gunshot wound by Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) near the end of the movie. However, director James Cameron wouldn’t pass on the opportunity to bring her back, as Weaver is set to play Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri’s (Zoe Saldana) daughter....

What happens when two Christmas gifts from the well-known jewelry store Tiffany’s get swapped? A new Prime Video holiday film will show us. Something from Tiffany’s follows Rachel (Zoey Deutch) and Ethan (Kendrick Sampson) as they work through the aftermath of a gift mix-up and maybe even find true love in the process. Deadline exclusively revealed in November 2021 that Deutch was set to star in the film. The actress also signed on to the project as an executive producer....

Sony Pictures Classics announced that it has acquired North American rights to Steep, which had its world premiere in the Spotlight Section of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Steep traces the sport of Extreme Skiing from its beginnings in the mountains high above Chamonix, France to the aerial acrobatics and death-defying descents performed by the current generation of Big Mountain Skiers. The film merges rarely seen images of the sport’s beginnings with magnificent original footage of the sport today, including BASE-jumping with skis off cliffs in the remote backcountry of British Columbia and Alaska, skiers overtaken by an avalanche in Iceland; and descents in the mountains of France so dangerous they will never be repeated....

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer will perform live, as both Spinal Tap and The Folksmen, when they headline Concert for a Cause, this Monday, August 27th 8.p.m. at Avalon in Hollywood to raise funds to battle multiple myeloma, with proceeds benefiting the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF). Tickets are still on sale for the rare reunion of the trio, who will perform as the fictitious bands made famous in 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap and 2003’s A Mighty Wind (directed by Christopher Guest for which Guest, McKean and Eugene Levy won a Grammy Award for the title track)....

George Orwell’s dystopian classic, 1984, was released 73-years ago and has been a permanent fixture in curricula across the world ever since. The shocking, albeit fictionalized account of a despotic regime in Oceania brought the idea of an almost post-apocalyptic totalitarian state to life, gripping classrooms, while concomitantly serving as a warning against dictatorships. 59-years after Orwell penned the final line “He loved Big Brother,” and what was to become a literary masterstroke, a man sat in his office in Seoul finalizing the script of his own modern dystopian nightmare: Squid Game....

Let’s face it, not everyone in the galaxy can or wants to be a Jedi — that’s part of what makes them special. While our attention is turned toward Star Wars movies and their major players, like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, there are countless other characters on many other worlds making a difference in their small part of the galaxy. We love Star Wars for its epic stories and range of characters, but we don’t always get to take the time to stop and appreciate some of those smaller roles....

At this point in his career, Steven Spielberg is regarded as one of the greatest, if not the greatest director of all time. Since his start in the 1970s, he’s directed so many amazing films that it’s hard to keep count, with multiple incredible showings in each decade, for many differing genres. The 70s had Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The 90s had Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List in the same year!...

WILL SAG CALL OFF STRIKE VOTE? The Unite for Strength faction of the Screen Actors Guild has “expressed concerns” to the union’s leaders about going ahead with a strike authorization vote next month, Daily Varietyreported today (Wednesday). In an interview with the trade publication, UFS spokesman Ned Vaughn took note of the growing number of high-profile union members who had been urging a “no” vote on the strike referendum. “We felt that in light of what’s been happening that it would have been reckless for the national board to proceed without having the chance to reconsider,” Vaughn said....

i>YUMA ARRIVES; CARRIES A LOT OF FREIGHT Lionsgate’s 3:10 to Yuma arrived at the box office on schedule over the weekend, taking in about what analysts thought it would – $14 million. But the film, which reportedly had cost $50 million to produce and another $30 million to market and distribute, seemed already to be out of steam. Studio reports indicated that the film appealed mostly to an older audience, and while reviews were mostly positive, exit comments were only so-so....

MEGAPLEXES EMPTY; ART HOUSES PACKED Theaters showing mainstream movie fare were mostly empty over the weekend, a traditionally slow period at the box office. On the other hand, those showing art-house fare were doing a land-office business. The Jodie Foster vigilante flick The Brave One was the top earner with an estimated $14 million in 2,755 theaters, or about $5,100 per theater. By contrast, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises took in $553,000 in 15 theaters, or an average of nearly $37,000 per theater....

OBAMA A BIGGER DRAW THAN FOX DRAMA After being saved two weeks ago by the new one-time-only judges’ vote that overrules the audience’s, Matt Giraud was eliminated from the American Idolcompetition Wednesday night. The talent contest attracted 21.85 million viewers and set the stage for Fox’s 9:00 p.m. drama Lie to Me to win its time period with 7.88 million viewers. However, the win came against competition from President Obama’s “100th Day” press conference, which attracted 18....