You can bring home a Mel Brooks 80s classic in 1080p this June. Spaceballs will be released on Blu-ray on June 16. We have no pricing details as of yet, but you can take a look at the cover art and the special features below. This BD disc will also come with another disc that features the widescreen and fullscreen standard-definition version. The film stars Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga and John Candy....
Spider-Man: No Way Home has surpassed the domestic box office gross of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. With this feat, Spider-Man: No Way Home has now become the twelfth-highest grossing film of all time in the United States. Nolan’s sequel to Batman Begins earlier grabbed $534,858,444 throughout the country from its theatrical run, while No Way Home has managed to web up $536 million. Spider-Man: No Way Home has been filling up theaters, making itself a landmark film in the pandemic era, making it the only film to gross a billion dollars during worldwide pandemic-associated shutdowns, while also becoming the highest-grossing film of 2021....
Seminal horror author Stephen King has pitched his own idea for what could come next for the Predator following the release of Prey. Taking to social media, King’s idea for the iconic movie monster is to pit him against another iconic movie monster of his own creation; The Children of the Corn. While the Predator has only faced either humans or the Alien Xenomorph on screen, the character has a very different combat history on the page....
SCHIEFFER ASKED TO STAY ON AFTER COURIC ARRIVESBob Schieffer has been asked to remain on the CBS Evening Newsas a twice-a-week commentator after Katie Couric signs on to take his place as anchor in September, the Philadelphia Inquirerreported today (Monday). He currently airs a commentary every Sunday on Face the Nation. In an interview with the Inquirer,Schieffer indicated that he has not decided whether to accept the offer. “I don’t know if I have three [commentaries] a week in me....
THE TONYS MAKE A COMEBACKJust as Broadway appeared to come back to life during the past year – setting box-office records in the process – so, too, did Sunday night’s telecast of the Tony Awards. Although the 2004 and 2005 telecasts set ratings lows, Sunday’s show, which again aired over three hours of primetime, showed a 9 percent increase in the audience over the previous two years – averaging a 5....
WILD THINGS MAKES EVERYTHING GROOVY AT BOX OFFICE Where the Wild Things Arewound up with $32.7 million over the weekend – $3.1 million from IMAX locations – slightly higher than Warner Bros.’ original estimate. The big haul for the PG-rated movie helped lead the box office to one of its biggest October weekends in history. Overall, the top 12 films grossed $127.60 million, 50.54 percent more than they did during the comparable week a year ago....
i>IDOL VIEWERS SURPRISINGLY GIVE SMITHSON THE HOOK Surprising many TV columnists and bloggers who had expected Jason Castro or Brooke White to be the next contestants eliminated from American Idol, viewers instead voted out Carly Smithson, whose performance on Tuesday had received much praise from the show’s judges. On Wednesday’s telecast, which drew a 14.2 rating and a 21 share (22.62 million viewers) the judges seemed to agree that the show had become more of a popularity contest than a talent contest....
BRIDGE CREATED FROM PUBLIC TO CABLE NEWS NETS In what Broadcast & Cablemagazine described as a case of “you report, we decide,” both Fox News and CNN relied heavily on video and cell-phone reports from citizens close to the scene of the Minneapolis bridge collapse on Wednesday. CNN alone aired 96 “I-Reports” from the accident scene, the trade publication said. (It was not clear whether these aired exclusively on the cable channel or whether some aired on CNN’s website – or on both....
NIP AND TUCK(ER) MSNBC confirmed Monday that has canceled conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s talk show. David Gregory, chief White House correspondent for NBC News, will host a replacement show that will air weeknights beginning at 6:00 p.m. Carlson, meanwhile, will take on the assignment of “campaign correspondent,” covering the current presidential race. Carlson had come to MSNBC from CNN, where he once was the cohost of Crossfire. NBC had evidently hoped that he would attract conservative viewers who have made Fox News Channel their preferred destination....
CABLEVISION PAYS $650 MILLION FOR NEWSDAY New York-based Cablevision announced today (Monday) that it has acquired the Long Island newspaper Newsdayand related properties for $650 million. The announcement came just two days after Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp pulled out of the bidding, saying that the price was unrealistic. While analysts had expected shareholders to react negatively to Cablevision’s expensive acquisition, shares in the company appeared to be unaffected by the deal....
AMC’s The Walking Dead has killed off a lot of characters. An image of the cast from the first season has found its way back online and has been doctored to highlight just how many characters have bitten the dust. Out of the original cast, Norman Reedus’ Daryl Dixon is the only one left standing. The show has always prided itself on being able to kill off as many characters, even ones that the fans loved, much like HBO’s Game of Thrones....
Director Zack Snyder is currently prepping his highly-anticipated Superman adventure, which will start filming sometime this summer. Although Henry Cavill is in place as the Man of Steel, and Amy Adams will play Lois Lane, details have been scant on who the villain might be, until now. It seems the Superman’s nemesis Metallo could be the main villain in this new adventure, with Lois Lane’s father, General Sam Lane, set to play an integral part as well....
The writing team behind the Disney franchise speak They’ve created some of the most iconic characters in modern movie history - based on an amusement park ride. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio will now forever be associated with Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann - along with all the other supporting characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. In the second of the series, Dead Man’s Chest, they’ve brought in a few new characters to shake things up for our trio of heroes - mainly, Davy Jones, played by Bill Nighy and Bootstrap Bill, played by Stellan Skarsgard....
The popular superhero ska band The Aquabats are coming to The Hub this March with their very own series The Aquabats! Super Show!. We have an exciting first look at this live-action, animated weekly adventure, filled with music and comedy. Check out our exclusive promo below. From the creator of Yo Gabba Gabba! comes The Aquabats! Super Show! Battling evil with music and superhero powers unlike any seen before, The Aquabats invade their first-ever network television series!...
Knights in shining armor atop charging war horses. Imperious kings and queens dripping with jewels and wrapped in fine silks, lording over their lands from imposing stone castles. The images and characters of the Middle Ages are iconic and have long made for gripping backdrops to addicting movies and TV shows. Iconography, customs, and technology from the Middle Ages have also served as the foundation for a number of fantasy works such as Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings....
This update comes to us from the show’s developer Eric Kripke who tweets: But that’s not all to rejoice about, The Boys fans. The show’s official Twitter account also posted a new short film centered in The Boys universe which showcases what it was like being a young Homelander. The show tweets, “Could there be anything more terrifying than little Homelander?” “2:15 am. That’s a wrap on The Boys season 2....
Back in April, we reported that The Weinstein Company filled a lawsuit against Relativity Media, claiming they still held the worldwide remake rights for The Crow. Today, both companies released a statement announcing the lawsuit has been settled, and that they will both develop The Crow remake together. Here is the statement below. Bradley Cooper was originally slated to portray Eric Draven in the remake, although he left the project back in August....
It seems that two major film critics will be giving their thumbs up or down elsewhere. According to Variety, Chicago Sun-Times critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have both left their syndicated television program, At the Movies With Ebert and Roeper. Ebert said, in an email to the Associated Press, that Disney-ABC Television wanted to take the show, “in a new direction” and he won’t be associated with it." That email came a day after Roeper announced he was leaving the show....
MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY When the journalist said he loved watching the film as a teenager, Bullock quipped that he must have been the only fan of the film. In defense of Speed 2, Radcliffe also chimed in by noting that the sequel “had a kind of cult love” to it as well, even if it was critically panned. Bullock wasn’t hearing that, either. “You stumped me with the fans coming around later on [part of the question]....
In a story from Variety, Screen Gems won the bidding war for Michael Cunningham’s (The Hours) Beautiful Girl. The film will be produced by Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher via their Red Wagon banner. The script looks at a shy but smart high school girl who starts senior year six dress sizes smaller. She flirts with her handsome English lit teacher, but things take a bad turn when he becomes obsessed with her and starts to kill people who were mean to her in the past....
