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Head back to Woodsboro in the Dolby Cinema poster for Scream, the fifth installment of the popular slasher movie franchise. Set to appear in theaters in January, the new movie will put Sidney Prescott in danger once again when Ghostface returns with yet another killer (or killers) under the mask to carry out a Woodsboro massacre. Who will survive? We’ll all find out next month. The official synopsis reads: “Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past....

Comic-Con has just released the full Friday schedule for this year’s festivities. You can CLICK HERE to see the full schedule of events, but we have all the film, DVD and TV events below. Friday, July 24 10:00-11:00 Batman: The Brave and The Bold Screening and Q&A Gotham takes over San Diego as Diedrich Bader (Surf’s Up), the voice of Batman, returns to Comic-Con alongside John DiMaggio (Futurama), the voice of Aquaman, and executive producer Sam Register (Teen Titans), producer James Tucker (Justice League Unlimited), producer and story editor Michael Jelenic (The Batman) and voice director Andrea Romano (Superman: Doomsday)....

Hollywood Gang Prods., Endgame Entertainment and Mongol director Sergei Bodrov are teaming up to travel with Marco Polo. The filmmakers will unite for The Silk Road: The Adventures of Marco Polo, an epic feature chronicling the controversial 13th-century Italian trader and explorer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari (300) and Endgame’s James D. Stern (The Brothers Bloom) will produce the tale, told through the eyes of Polo’s prison mate, Rustichello da Pisa....

When it comes to a Friday the 13th film, no one really roots for Jason Voorhees’ victims. Fans flock to a Friday flick to cheer on the killer and his workhorse like ways of slaughtering the poor, innocent young teens that eventually find their way onto the end of his machete. It’s a blood and guts affair that has no room for deep character development. Platinum Dunes producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are attempting to rearrange that conceit with their latest retelling of the Voorhees mythos....

Seth MacFarlane’s The Orville arrived on Hulu with a new title, but the same old Star Trek inspired goodness that made the series a Fox hit. Now under the heading of The Orville: New Horizons, the franchise is in the hands of Disney, and it seems that the changing of the show’s name was something that came directly from Chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content, Dana Walden, and was something that MacFarlane was instantly on board with....

Despite the cheery decorations and colorful lights, the winter holidays aren’t necessarily all that festive for some people. The bitter cold, the casual presence of alcohol, and the obligation to interact with family may be a little too much to handle all at once. The snowy setting of December isn’t necessarily well suited for horror films, but seeing how elevated horror has reached a wide audience in recent years, who’s to say a horror movie can’t take place during the holidays?...

You can bring home the latest thriller from director Martin Scorsese home on both DVD and Blu-ray this June. Shutter Island will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 8. We don’t have any pricing details, but it seems the standard DVD will contain no special features and you can look at the cover art for both releases below. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson and Jackie Earle Haley....

It’s fall in Smallville, and that means it’s time for the Harvest Festival. A time for the time capsule with the map to a treasure in it to be opened. A time for beauty pageants. And a time for meteor freaks to run rampant over the town. Clark and Kara are at the festival, as Clark tries to get Kara acclimated to Earth. Kara wants nothing of it, she wants to find the crystal and do her mission, but Clark tells her that he’s on it, and she should try to fit in....

Sony is exploring their Sexual Nature In a story from Variety, they report that the the studio has picked up the “U.K. DVD rights to Ed Blum’s directorial debut Scenes of a Sexual Nature, which opened last weekend in Blighty.” The film stars “Ewan McGregor, Sophie Okonedo, Tom Hardy and Catherine Tate, was shot in less than a month on a budget of just $500,000 and then self-distributed through The Really Honest Little Distribution Company, which was set up by Blum and exec producer Suran Goonatilake....

Spencer Breslin is one lucky little kid. He has just nabbed feature roles in two very high profile projects. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the kid will be seen in both the high school comedy Harold and in M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller The Happening. In Harold, Breslin plays the lead character. He is a prematurely balding freshman trying to adapt to a new high school. Cuba Gooding Junior will be appearing in the film as a janitor who befriends the poor little fellow....

Spider-Man: No Way Home easily destroyed all box office competition with an astonishing $253 million debut this weekend. The latest joint venture from Sony and Marvel Studios now has the highest opening of the pandemic and the sixth highest-grossing movie of 2021 in a weekend. Prior to No Way Home, movies struggled to reach the $100 million opening weekend, with the highest opening of the pandemic going to Sony’s Venom: Let there Be Carnage at $90 million....

Trekkies, get ready. On September 8, 2022, Star Trek Day, there is much in store for all the fans from the days of William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and all who came after him. Not only does this year mark the original series starring premiere with the episode, The Man Trap, on this day in 1966, it is also the 40th anniversary of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The celebratory event will be livestreamed on the website at starktrek....

The Doctor is in and he wants to “de-wussify” the country. With the world in a state of panic it seems that a new, bold voice is needed to help the helpless… Dr. Steve-O is here to answer that call. Every Monday at 11/10C on USA Network, Dr. Steve-O, along with his beautiful bombshell nurse, Trishelle, and fearsome but trustworthy driver, Reggie, set off in their tricked-out ambulance on a cross-country mission to “de-wussify” wimps, wussies, nerds and couch potatoes in desperate need of the doctor’s immediate attention....

The producer and star of the hit documentary talk about the film Steve Wiebe and Ed Cunningham are a part of the team that brought The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters to life. We recently interviewed the star and producer of this critically-acclaimed documentary, and here’s what they had to say. The most interesting thing about the documentary is the subject themselves, like how to find that nugget that makes the movie work....

Steven Spielberg is already considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, standing alongside the likes of Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, but with the 2022 Oscar nominations, Spielberg has found himself in an elite league all of his own. West Side Story’s nominations mean that Spielberg has now become the first director to have been acknowledged by the Academy in six different decades since his first Best Director nod for Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977....

WARNING: There are MAJOR SPOILERS for Stranger Things 4 in this story. The shocking events of Stranger Things 4 have left many fans feeling saddened about the fate of fan favorite character Eddie Munson. Played by Joseph Quinn, Eddie was someone fans had really taken to in the fourth season of the hit Netflix series. When the show debuted its final two episodes of the season this month, fans had to say goodbye to Eddie when the Metallica fan sacrifices himself to save Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo)....

IDOL OVERWHELMS RIVALS IN SECOND WEEKThe second week of Fox’s American Idolturned out to be every bit as impressive as the first week of the season, according to overnight Nielsens. The two-hour show Tuesday night averaged a 19.6 rating and a 29 share – about as much as CBS, NBC, and ABC combined. The first hour of the talent contest drew a 17.9/27, beating out CBS’s hit NCIS, which nevertheless managed to hold up reasonably well with a 10....

FEW RAT PACKS FOR RATATOUILLE Disney executives, with their marketing staff reportedly expressing frustration over the difficulty of promoting Ratatouille, were expressing confidence over the weekend that word-of-mouth will be the key to lifting business for the movie. The Pixar-produced feature, which drew mostly rave reviews on Friday, took in an estimated $47.2 million over the weekend – good by ordinary standards, but well below the grosses for Pixar’s offerings in recent years....

OSCAR TELECAST BECOMES STEWART’S SHOW Jon Stewart received generally high marks for his hosting duties at Sunday night’s Academy Awards show, certainly far better ones than he received when he last hosted the Oscars in 2006. In a ten-minute monologue at the top of the show, he let loose with a series of zingers that landed with perfect accuracy at such targets as John McCain and Vanity Fairmagazine. “Oscar is 80 this year, which makes him now automatically the front-runner for the Republican nomination,” he said at one point....

NBC SCORES ITS FIRST WIN OF SEASON Demonstrating yet again what a difference a single program can make in the ratings race, Sunday’s NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Seattle Seahawks, which attracted 27 million viewers, pushed NBC into first place. CBS had led every previous week of the current season. The victory, although razor thin (NBC drew 11.5 million viewers, just 40,000 more than CBS), was particularly impressive since NBC had essentially been out of the football game since 1998 when it refused to renew its contract with the NFL....