It’s taken 28 years, but the Macaulay Culkin-headlined Christmas classic Home Alone has finally been dethroned as the highest-grossing holiday movie of all time by Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s Dr. Seuss adaptation The Grinch. The animated movie has grossed $500.6 million at the worldwide box office, which – not accounting for inflation – puts it […]
Breaking Bad mobile game will allow you to run your own meth empire
FTX Games has announced the upcoming release of Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements, a free-to-play mobile game from developer Plamee (Narcos: Cartel Wars), which will allow players to build and run their very own meth empire. As per Variety, Criminal Elements will see players assuming the role of an “associate” of Walt and Jesse and experiencing […]
Watch Stan Lee’s final animated cameo in Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest
It’ll be a bittersweet moment for Marvel fans tonight with Disney XD airing the latest episode of Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest, ‘T’Chanda’, which features the final appearance in animation from the late, great Stan Lee. And, rather fittingly, his role sees his character – an Army general – delivering a powerful speech about hate […]
New Line rebooting the Final Destination franchise
New Line Cinema has announced that it is set to reboot the Final Destination franchise with a “reimagining” from Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the writers behind four of the Saw sequels and the upcoming Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The first Final Destination was released back in 2000, and followed a group […]
Early Captain Marvel box office projections suggest $160 million domestic opening weekend
In less than two months, Marvel will kick off the 2019 superhero season with the release of Captain Marvel, the MCU’s first female-fronted superhero blockbuster, and according to early tracking estimates the studio looks set to have another huge box office hit on its hands. According to Box Office Pro, estimates are pointing towards a […]
Rainn Wilson, Mena Suvari, Fionn Whitehead and Jack Dylan Grazer cast in Don’t Tell a Soul
Rainn Wilson (The Meg), Mena Suvari (American Woman), Fionn Whitehead (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) and Jack Dylan Grazer (It) have been cast in the indie thriller Don’t Tell a Soul. According to Deadline, the film will follow “two young thieving brothers (Whitehead, Grazer), with a cancer-stricken mother at home (Suvari), who match wits with a security […]
Aladdin is getting the mockbuster treatment from The Asylum
Indie studio The Asylum, the company behind mockbusters such as Transmorphers, Atlantic Rim, Independents’ Day, Tomb Invader and Snakes on a Train, is kicking off production on its own version of Aladdin. The movie, which will presumably be timed to coincide with the release of Disney’s live-action remake, will be based upon the original public […]
Supernatural horror Hunter gets a poster and trailer
Random Media has announced that it has acquired the rights to the supernatural horror Hunter, and has unveiled a poster and trailer for the film ahead of its release next month; check them out here… Directed by David Tarleton, and written by Jason Kellerman, ‘HUNTER’, is the story of Hunter (Jason Kellerman), who, after the deaths of his mother […]
Sam Raimi to produce feature adaptation of horror short Behind
Sam Raimi’s Ghosthouse Pictures is teaming with Lionsgate for Behind, a female-fronted horror which is based upon the award-winning short of the same name from filmmaker Angel Gomez. Behind follows “a woman going through a divorce who fears she may lose her baby daughter and, when a mysterious lady at a party tells her that […]
John Green adaptation Turtles All the Way Down finds a director
Fox 2000 has enlisted actress and filmmaker Hannah Marks (After Everything) to direct Turtles All the Way Down, the latest feature film adaptation from YA author John Green (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars). The film has been scripted by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker and will follow Aza, “a 16-year-old girl with OCD […]
