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Despite many Jewish people being employed in Hollywood, it is hard to find many overtly Jewish comedies these days. For what reason this occurs, we may never know, but as if to compensate for that void, there have been a few brilliant Jewish comedies over the years. These comedies are canonically Jewish because the characters, themes, and stories all tie into the Jewish experience, existence, and narrative in some way. This does not mean in any way that gentiles or non-Jews can’t enjoy these films; they’re made for everyone to teach and understand the Jewish experience....

Universal Pictures’ failed Dark Universe had the potential to bring some of their most iconic movie monsters into the modern day, but following the travesty of the Tom Cruise-led The Mummy in 2017, all thoughts of a straight-up shared monster universe were dropped and the unexpected success of 2020’s reimagining of The Invisible Man has instead led to a line-up of similar stand-alone outings for the horror icons of the 1930s and 1940s....

The first trailer has been released from The Chicago 8, writer-director Pinchas Perry’s drama based on the true story of eight Vietnam war protesters who stood trial for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This first look at the upcoming docudrama focuses on Orlando Jones as Bobby Seale, the Black Panther Party founder who was one of the defendants in this historic trial. Take a look at the first footage from this period drama, based on actual courtroom transcripts, then check out The Chicago 8, releasing exclusively on VOD formats September 4th....

Actor Robert Forster discusses his breakthrough role in Jackie Brown, working with Quentin Tarantino, Alcatraz, and much more. Most people familiar with director Quentin Tarantino’s work know he has a penchant for reviving the careers of actors he admires. John Travolta was coming off Look Who’s Talking Now before Pulp Fiction put him in the spotlight again, David Carradine started getting a lot more movie work after Kill Bill Vol. 1, and stuntwoman-turned-actress Zoe Bell made a name for herself in Death Proof....

Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion’s 25th anniversary is this April and Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino, the stars of the film, had their own reunion on stage Sunday night at the 2022 annual Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kudrow and Sorvino appeared on stage wearing matching pink and blue pantsuits similar to the colors their characters wore in the film. The pair presented the award for Outstanding Comedy Series Ensemble together....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer are creating an action-adventure reality show pilot for TNT that challenges contestants to escape from big-screen-inspired situations. In The Great Escape, ordinary people are put in cinema-inspired settings, challenging them to find a way out using everyday ingenuity. Each week, teams are dropped off blindfolded in a different extreme environment – lost in the desert, trapped in the mountains, locked in a prison, marooned on an island....

A huge bombshell exploded throughout the TV landscape a few days ago, when it was revealed that a Roseanne reboot is in the works, with ABC, Netflix and others engaged in a bidding war for the project. The show is being eyed as an eight-episode revival series, with Roseanne Barr, John Goodman and Sara Gilbert set to return, and the rest of the original cast eyed to reprise their roles. Over the weekend, Roseanne Barr herself took to social media to address the reboot, revealing that she has already written some pivotal scenes for this new take on the iconic series....

Ryan Reynolds has provided a promising update on the progression of Deadpool 3. While the actor was not able to offer too much in the way of information about the highly anticipated Marvel sequel, he did assure fans that everything is moving forward as it should, with the actor hoping that some official news will hit the web soon. “Plugging away. Can’t really comment on that, but hopefully soon though,” Ryan Reynolds said when asked for an update on the Deadpool threequel....

Variety reports that Haim Saban’s newly formed Saban Brands company has gotten the rights to the Power Rangers back from Disney. This is the franchise that built Saban’s fortune in the mid-1990s. Saban has put together a deal with Nickelodeon for 20 new Power Rangers episodes. The library of some 700 older segments will start airing on cable channel Nicktoons later this year. Financial terms of the deal were not offered, but it’s believed that the property commanded a price tag in the nine-figure range....

Comedy titles lend themselves to DVD because actors tend to try a joke a few different ways. According to director David Zucker the DVD of Scary Movie 4 will be no exception. In a story from Home Media Retailing, Zucker lists out a couple of scenes he thinks might end up on the DVD. One of those is an extra scene with Michael Madsen who spoofed the Tim Robbins’ shut-in in last summers hit War of the Worlds....

Ghostface stalks again in just over a year from now. Per Deadline, Paramount had just set the official release dates for two big feature films currently in the works. Spyglass Media’s next Scream sequel, which we’ll simply refer to as Scream 6 for now, has been given a premiere date of March 31, 2023. This will be followed by a Bob Marley biopic that’s also in development with Kingsley Ben-Adir in the role, coming to theaters on Jan....

Longtime fans of Sex and the City might be getting good news from HBOMax very soon as rumors swirl that the streaming service could be ready to announce a second season of And Just Like That…, a reboot of the long running HBO series. And while original series star Kim Cattrall had originally refused to return for the reboot, executive producers Sarah Jessica Parker and Michael Patrick King are leaving the door open for Cattrall to reprise her role of Samantha Jones in a second and subsequent season....

Being any type of public servant means coming into contact with all sorts of people. Teachers meet students with young minds eager to learn. Restaurant servers feed hungry patrons. In Steve Carell’s case, he plays Alan Strauss, a psychotherapist in The Patient who naturally has patients in need of therapy – one in need of deep, deep therapy as seen in the newly unveiled FX trailer for its upcoming 10-episode series The Patient....

Netflix’s smashing hit series Stranger Things has been breaking all types of records on the streaming platform, especially after the release of its highly anticipated fourth season earlier this summer. From crushing the record of the largest opening weekend for an English-language show, previously held by Bridgerton season two, to, per Forbes, garnering 5.14 billion minutes of viewership in its massive debut, the Netflix original series is already en route to creating unprecedented global buzz....

Netflix dropped their trailer for the fourth season of Stranger Things this morning, bringing a lot of talking points, including the first look at horror icon Robert Englund in his role as Victor Creel. The three-minute-plus trailer returned fans of the sci-fi horror series to the town of Hawkins, the wilds of Russia and the terror of the Upside-Down and set the scene for the arrival of all-new monsters and challenges for Eleven, Hopper and the rest of the Stranger Things gang....

TRAFFIC SLOWS FOR RUSH HOUR 3 Ordinarily a film that grosses $49.1 million in its opening weekend is considered a probable moneymsker, but some box-office analysts are suggesting that the results for Rush Hour 3 are not only disappointing but probably point to an inevitable loss for Time Warner-owned New Line. They point out that the film cost more than $100 million (some suggest it cost as much as $150 million) to make and that as much as 40 percent of the gross has been promised to the two stars and the director – including 20 percent that will go to Chris Tucker, 15 percent to Jackie Chan and 5 percent to director Brett Ratner....

WAS FINKE HOAXED? WGA negotiators have branded as a hoax a report that some A-list screenwriters are banding together to urge the guild to accept the contract provisions of any deal to be negotiated between the Directors Guild and the studios. The report appeared Wednesday on Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Today blog. However, on the WGA’s WriterAction message board Thursday, John Auerbach, a member of the writers’ negotiating committee, quoted a fellow negotiator as saying that Finke’s report “was based on a prank played by a writer....

VIVA CHE (JUST WHEN IT SEEMED DEAD) Nearly four months after it was screened at the Cannes Festival to widespread critical acclaim and a best-actor award for its star, Steven Soderbergh’s Chehas finally landed a distributor. IFC Films said that it had secured distribution rights to the movie about Argentine/Cuban rebel Che Guevara and would screen it in Los Angeles and New York before the end of the year in order to qualify for the Oscars....

PERRY NOT LIKELY TO “DO BAD” Tyler Perry is expected to dominate the box office again this weekend with hisI Can Do Bad All by Myself. Like Perry’s previous films, this one was not screened for critics, but they and other industry forecasters don’t expect it to do badly at all. Several suggest it could come close to equaling Perry’s biggest success,Madea Goes to Jail, which earned $41 million last February....

WOODRUFF RETURNS TO IRAQ Former ABC World Newsco-anchor Bob Woodruff, who suffered critical brain injuries when the MT-LB he was riding in was struck by a roadside bomb in Iraqin 2006, has returned to the war zone for a series of reports that will focus on the treatment of U.S. soldiers injured in combat there. Woodruff is among a group of journalists who are accompanying Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the war-ravaged country....