In an unexpected turn of events, A Minecraft Movie has broken the opening weekend box office record for a video game adaptation, surpassing the mark set by The Super Mario Bros. Movie during the same timeframe two years ago. Ringing in at an estimated $157 million domestically, Minecraft bested Mario‘s $146.3 million outing in April 2023. Additionally, A Minecraft Movie exceeded even the most lofty expectations, with most outlets estimating its box office returns from this past weekend to score less than $100 million. This begs the question, what does A Minecraft Movie‘s unprecedented success mean for the industry moving…

In the latest trailer for Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, high-level military and intelligence officials discuss the threat of the rogue AI the Entity, the various disasters happening around the world, and the need for Ethan Hunt to bring peace. More importantly, it contains footage of Hunt dangling from a biplane. And that’s the reason we’re really watching, to see Tom Cruise put himself into mortal danger. What began as a star-driven continuation of a well-liked, if not particularly well-remembered television series has transformed into a celebration of old-school filmmaking with spectacular stunts. That’s an interesting development for the…

Plane crashes! Terrorists! Gun fights! That sort of stuff appears all the time in trailers for summer action movies. But it’s a little different when the movie in question is The Phoenician Scheme, written and directed by Wes Anderson. Anderson is best known for impeccably-designed comedies about incredibly privileged and incredibly talented people going on emotional journeys, movies such as The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel. To be sure, The Phoenician Scheme has all of the hallmarks of an Anderson movie. Yellow Futura font? Check. Wide-angle shots of characters standing in a straight line? Check. Actors from previous…

“What do you think?” asks a drunk and sickly Doc Holliday, staring down Johnny Ringo, a man rumored to be the fastest gunslinger in the West. “Should I hate him?” When Holliday poses that question, a shiver runs through everyone in the saloon. After all, the confrontation occurs in Tombstone, a 1993 Western about an infamous gunfight, and from the very first scene, director George P. Cosmatos starts beating the drum, moving retired lawman Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and brutal outlaw Curly Bill (Powers Boothe) toward their inevitable, bloody confrontation. So when Ringo (Michael Biehn) begins to challenge Doc in…

CinemaCon, the largest and most important gathering for the worldwide movie theater and exhibition industry, just concluded its nearly week-long festivities in Las Vegas. In that Nevada oasis there were exclusive Hollywood presentations which debuted a slate of upcoming films, premieres and surprise feature screenings, stars, producers, and directors—all there to celebrate the moviegoing experience. CinemaCon offered on-stage reveals, sizzle reels, and extended footage exclusively shown to CinemaCon goers. Among the highlights, attendees got first looks and extended footage reveals of James Gunn’s Superman, a behind-the-scenes look at Masters of the Universe, an eerie M3GAN 2.0 performance, hilarious Thunderbolts* footage,…

“You gotta listen to the way people talk,” the teenage John Connor instructs the futuristic murder robot sent to protect him. Rejecting words like “affirmative,” this Connor kid instead points the T-800 to “no problemo” and “hasta la vista, baby.” But with its heavy use of Britney Spears’ “Oops!… I Did It Again,” the M3GAN 2.0 trailer insists that its very own killer robot needs no such teaching. The flashy teaser is all verve and attitude, turning the dance sequence from the first movie that became a viral sensation into the dominant tone. Nonetheless, M3GAN 2.0 appears to follow Terminator…

A Minecraft Movie has arrived bringing the Overworld to the moviegoing masses. The family friendly romp follows siblings Henry (Sebastian Hansen) and Natalie (Emma Myers) and their animal-loving realtor Dawn (Danielle Brooks). and the video-game-obsessive Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa) as they’re sucked into the magical mines of the Overworld and into an adventure that they’ll never forget. For here they will meet the legend they call… Steve (Jack Black). We chatted to the cast and creators of the film at an awesome event in Los Angeles that threw us directly into the mines, the vegetable gardens, and the…

We’ve seen the MCU Spider-Man have his One More Day. Now it’s time for his Brand New Day. If those phrases mean nothing to you, it’s probably because you know Spidey mostly from the movies, particularly of the MCU variety and starring Tom Holland. Most of the time, that’s totally fine. The MCU is its own universe with its own history and characters, divorced from the comics. The Spider-Man movies demonstrate this, as they exist in a world in which Peter Parker’s primary love interest is Michelle Jones instead of Mary Jane Watson, his best friend is Ned Leeds (a…

Before he was an Oscar winner, and long before he dreamed of being an “Asian girl” on The White Lotus, Sam Rockwell introduced himself to millions by pushing cigarettes on children. … Or at least that is how only his second speaking role in a feature film went during Gen X and Millennial touchstone, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In a sequence which would live rent-free in the imagination of millions of arcade and karate-loving ‘90s kids, Rockwell acts as grand ambassador for the Foot Clan, a literal army of faceless, fumbling ninjas who work at the behest of the Shredder,…

You say you want a revolution? Well, at a Cinema Con event that featured multiple Spider-Men, Prowlers, and superheroes of various mediums, it was striking that the mic drop moment came not from a webslinger or one of his countless variants; it arrived by way of the cast reveal of a “four-film cinematic event;” it came from the Beatles. “Together, all four films will tell the story of the greatest band in history,” director Sam Mendes said at the Las Vegas event (via EW). Meanwhile Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman added that this would be “the first bingeable theatrical experience.”…

Tommy Callahan sucks as a salesman. So much so that midway through 1995’s Tommy Boy, Tommy and his unwilling sales partner Richard take a break at a diner to drown their miseries in terrible food. Richard orders a shrimp cocktail, but when Tommy requests chicken wings, the waitress shuts him down because the kitchen is closed. What follows is an incredible combination of self-loathing and obnoxious ranting. Comparing himself to a circus boy who inadvertently smothers his beloved pet, and Lenny from Of Mice and Men, Tommy picks up a bread roll that he initially strokes, but soon enough is…

Every good stuntman knows that getting knocked down is part of the job. Every time you hit the dirt, you’ve just got to get back up and keep going. With that in mind, it’s not too surprising that stuntman Cliff Booth would return for a sequel to Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood. What is surprising, however, is how the sequel will come to be. According to Deadline, the makeshift sequel—which initially began as a screenplay for Tarantino’s self-proclaimed final film, which at the time was titled The Film Critic—is alive once more after the Pulp Fiction director…

After the massive success of their supernatural teen Talk to Me, it was no surprise when YouTube powerhouses RackaRacka, also known as Danny and Micheal Philippou, were picked up to direct a new Street Fighter movie. Rising to prominence with their gory and gratuitous action and horror videos before moving into studio filmmaking, it seemed like a perfect creative fit, so it was with disappointment that fans learned last year that they were no longer connected to the video game adaptation. Now after a recent event promoting the twins’ newest film, Bring Her Back in LA, Micheal and Danny spoke…

Danny and Michael Philippou were already well known in the YouTube community when they took Hollywood by storm with their A24 horror hit, Talk to Me. That haunting supernatural horror explored grief and loss through the lens of a wild party game, which saw teens take turns being possessed by a strange artifact.  During the trailer launch for and sneak peak of their follow-up, Bring Her Back—a film that follows foster kids Andy (Billy Barratt) and Piper (Sora Wong) as they are taken in by an eccentric and possibly dangerous woman (Sally Hawkins)—the pair shared that just like their massively…

Sony‘s presentation at Cinema Con came with good news and bad news. Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, the third entry in the incredible animated trilogy, will not hit theaters until June 4, 2027, which is bad news (unless you’re one of the overworked animators). However, the good news is that we’ve got our first looks at the movie, and they are amazing. It appears that Beyond the Spider-Verse will continue the standard set by the first two films, creating dazzling worlds unlike anything seen in comics or movies. The even better news is for fans of the Prowler, a minor villain…

Marvel made waves yesterday with their five-and-a-half-hour-long announcement video where they very, very slowly revealed the actors involved in 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday. They listed 27 performers, which crazily enough doesn’t compare to the near-40 actors who were announced ahead of Avengers: Infinity War. Still, there are some interesting surprises there with the names. We see for example which characters survive Thunderbolts*, including Lewis Pullman, who many believe is playing Sentry. Tom Hiddleston’s Loki, aka the current load-bearing god of the multiverse, will also be there. Even Channing Tatum’s Gambit is going to return and finally make a name for himself.…

This article contains Death of a Unicorn spoilers. “You know what? We really must put more stock in art history.” This is a moral truth that should be repeated. It also, perhaps, is a thought that flashed through the mind of Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant) right before a unicorn’s horn also smashed into that soft, squishy gray matter. It might have similarly been in the back recesses of Belinda Leopold’s (Téa Leoni) head while another unicorn opened her belly. They were both warned earlier in their movie by art history student Ridley Kintner (Jenna Ortega) that ancient masterworks tell…

Someone once said the waiting of a thing makes for such sweet sorrow. Sure, but it can also be the source of all anxiety, horror, and unrelenting dread, as proven in Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s Warfare. That is until the titular fire and thunder, shock and awe, descends. Then comes the high-pitched screaming and a different type of waiting. Such is Mendoza’s brutal estimation of his time in Iraq during a film with its face so buried in the dirt that you might feel the bullet casings singe your hair. But that comes later, after a deep breath and…

“Armageddon.” That word, spoken by political officer Putin in the 1990 adaptation of Tom Clancy‘s The Hunt for Red October, is weighted with meaning. It’s not just that The Hunt for Red October is a Cold War thriller about the Russian and American Navies racing to find the titular nuclear sub, a conflict that might set off World War III. It’s that the delivery of the word completely changes the movie. Up until that point, Putin (Peter Firth) and the other Russian characters—most notably, Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) and his second officer Vasily Borodin (Sam Neill)—have been speaking Russian.…

To me! My… folding chairs?! Marvel raised a lot of questions yesterday when they chose to announce the cast of its much-anticipated Avengers: Doomsday via a five and a half hour video posted to social media, in which the camera moves every 12 minutes or so to reveal a new chair with a star’s name on the back. But the biggest questions might be around names such as Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Alan Cumming, and James Marsden. These names all belong to stars of the Fox X-Men movies from the 2000s, films made outside of Disney’s influence and before the…