As another big Hollywood merger looms, we could see more multi-platform franchises in the near future. Once Viacom – which owns Paramount – and CBS are one, all elements of Star Trek will be owned by one mega-corporation, meaning there will be no more rules about which characters can be used whe...
Read MoreThis past week has seen a lot of hand-wringing over the upcoming Blumhouse horror/action/survival movie The Hunt. On the surface, director Craig Zobel’s film about wealthy elites who hunt the poor for sport doesn’t seem particularly controversial, or even overly original (check out the Jean-Clau...
Read MoreOne of the most talked-about aspects of the entertainment industry in the last few years has been its increasing politicization, with a heavily leftward bent. This isn’t the first time it’s happened (the great John Nolte covered the modern history of Hollywood temper tantrums in a great piece fr...
Read MoreI think the best thing I can say for Hobbs & Shaw, the spinoff of the tried and true (in terms of box office, anyway) Fast and Furious movies, is that you probably already know whether or not you’ll like it. If Jason Statham and the Rock pounding bad guys into the dirt for two …
Before Matt Reeves took command of Gotham City’s future, Ben Affleck was working on a Batman movie for the DCEU with the version of the Dark Knight he played in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League returning to the screen. While the details of Affleck’s Batman film have been spa...
Read MoreGet ready to laugh at the living dead again, as Sony has released the Zombieland 2: Double Tap trailer. The sequel to the ten-year-old horror/action/comedy Zombieland, Zombieland 2: Double Tap finds the survivors of the zombie apocalypse continuing to traverse the depopulated United States, fighting...
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