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'90s kids, rejoice! Our favorite blue hedgehog is once again racing his way into our hearts, with a movie set to debut in 2019. Safe to say—we're excited. Read more: Pikachu’s voice in ‘Detective Pikachu’ is seriously freaking people out As Variety reports, a live adaptation of one of the world’s favorite video game characters will be […]

Any fan of the horror genre—or slasher films in general—can attest that Halloween, specifically the first, was one of the best horror movies to ever grace the big screen. After hearing plans of bringing back John Carpenter, the film's original director, to serve as executive producer, with the addition of Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle […]

It's been a year since Get Out first hit theaters, and while it's been a minute since the edge of your seat thriller made its way into our lives, the film's director shared a few details about his original endings of the film that could have drastically changed the movie's outcome.  Read more: A ‘Get Out’ […]

[Photo by: Orion Pictures] Breaking boundaries and celebrating diversity and LGBTQ romance, Every Day is a forthcoming teen film that honors every kind of love. Read more: 14 of our favorite music videos that celebrate LGBTQ pride Based on a New York Times best-selling book by David Levithan, Every Day tells the story of 16-year-old […]

There is now an online class available that focuses on the themes of Get Out, comedian Jordan Peele's social horror that swept box offices last year. Read more: Jordan Peele named first African American writer-director to have $100 million debut with ‘Get Out’ As a quick reminder, Get Out is Peele's directing debut that focuses […]

Alvin Schwartz’ Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark has appointed new director André Øvredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Trollhunter) to helm the CBS Films adaptation after Guillermo del Toro stepped aside. Read more: Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark becoming a movie As reported last year, the macabre children's anthology written by […]

In an interview recently resurfaced from Entertainment Weekly, legendary horror filmmaker John Carpenter disses Rob Zombie, calling him a “lying piece of shit” and criticizing Zombie’s remake of his 1978 classic slasher film Halloween. “He said I was very cold to him when he told me he was going to make it. Nothing could be further […]

After essentially 26 years of the rumor mills working at full capacity, director Tim Burton has officially confirmed that there will indeed be a Beetlejuice sequel. When asked whether or not Winona Ryder would be returning for a role, he reassuringly stated, “Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah yeah, oh yeah.” If that's not […]

UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter has officially confirmed that Jared Leto is playing the Joker in Suicide Squad: “Leto will take on the Joker while Robbie will play Harley Quinn, his on-and-off girlfriend. Courtney will be Boomerang while Delevingne will play Enchantress.” Will Smith and Tom Hardy will also star in the film. ORIGINAL STORY: Warner Bros.’ […]

SLC Punk! 2: Punk's Dead will finally begin filming next month, according to a new report from The Wrap. The sequel to 1998 cult classic SLC Punk! was first announced early last year by director James Merendino, and partially funded by a successful Indiegogo campaign. Unsurprisingly, production will once again take place in the film's namesake, Salt Lake City. Since its 1998 […]

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong will make his film acting debut opposite Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester in the upcoming independent drama Like Sunday, Like Rain. Directed by Frank Whaley, the film tells “the story of a struggling musician (Meester) who becomes the guardian of a 12-year-old music prodigy one summer,” according to Deadline. Armstrong will play the […]

James Spader has been announced to play Ultron, the primary villain in Marvel's upcoming sequel to 2012's The Avengers, titled Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Ultron was first announced to appear in the film at Comic-Con, when the title was revealed, but little else is known about the plot so far. Returning director Joss Whedon has, however, revealed […]

Broadway Idiot, a documentary about a play based on an album, is set to screen in select theaters this fall. Green Day's American Idiot, the album, was first released in 2004, then later adapted into a musical by the same time, which premiered in 2009 and opened on Broadway in 2010, before hitting the road as […]