Adam Sandler reveals that he would be willing to star in a follow-up to Murder Mystery 2 if he gets to star opposite one of his favorite people in the world.
According to Entertainment Tonight, the actor shared he would gladly appear in another installment if he could star opposite his buddy Shaqille O’Neal.
Chris Pratt has discussed how he landed on the right voice for Mario ahead of his starring role in the upcoming video game adaptation, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Pratt, who voices the Nintendo plumber opposite Charlie Day’s Luigi, spoke of the character in an interview with Collider, during which he said Mario’s voice developed not from “big, wide choices,” but out of “slightly nuanced…differences.”
“I don’t know that I had big, wide choices that were all that different than what ended up,” Pratt said. “It was a little bit more, you know, slightly nuanced, the differences.” The actor revealed that he “tried a few different things” across “three or four [recording] sessions” before landing on what exactly Mario’s voice would sound like, which many have suggested is no different from Pratt’s own voice.
If one particular scene in Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers has taught us anything, it’s that if you ask for Seth Rogen, you get Seth Rogen. The incoming, highly anticipated Super Mario Bros. Movie did indeed ask for Seth Rogen, and the actor’s non-existent range isn’t even the most controversial part of the voice cast.
Nevertheless, the actor’s one-note game in the realm of voice acting is a pin that he wears with pride. In an interview with ComicBook, the Invincible producer claimed that he made himself very clear when he was approached for the role of Donkey Kong, but also noted that his limited range actually fed into the character’s minimal characterization quite nicely.
John Wick: Chapter 4 is the biggest movie around right now, managing to kill off the competition of DC’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods with a swift bullet to the head at the box office. It’s ironic, then, that it’s success is leading fans to wonder if the action fourquel’s director could hop over to DC’s eternal rival, the MCU, to helm a long-awaited dream project: a big-screen solo outing for Marvel’s own unstoppable badass with a taste for brutal justice.
As pitched by Redditor u/alanjinqq, John Wick director Chad Stahelski could be the perfect pick to helm a Daredevil film, should Marvel Studios ever feel the need to make one. The fan pointed out that there’s a lot of similar DNA to DD in Chapter 4, with Donnie Yen’s character recalling the Man Without Fear and Scott Adkins’ villain definitely reminiscent of the Kingpin. In addition, Stahelski’s gift for creating compelling action would be a boon to a Matt Murdock movie.
The world of horror would have been a significantly darker one (and not in a good way) without the contributions of the late, great Wes Craven. Indeed, with the Scream franchise still going strong as recently as a few weeks ago and A Nightmare on Elm Street still steadfast in its place among the horror greats, there’s no detracting from the world of Craven.
We only wish that A Nightmare on Elm Street had managed to find its franchise feet just as well as Scream has. Where the latter hardly has any misfires across its six films, the former has had a much rockier lifespan. For every Dream Warriors and New Nightmare, there’s a 2010 reboot or The Final Nightmare.
Air has snuck up on us surprisingly quickly, with the sports biopic set to dribble into theaters in just over a week from now. It won’t be an easy box office campaign, given its competition with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, but those who were lucky enough to catch it at South by Southwest earlier this year can almost certainly confirm that this won’t be one to miss.
Boasting an eye-catching ensemble featuring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Marlon Wayans, Chris Tucker, and Viola Davis, Air tells the story of Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), a shoe salesman working for Nike who hopes to take the company to the next level with a brand new sneaker design, and his number one choice for a business deal is a rookie by the name of Michael Jordan.
Ask any frequent moviegoer, and there’s a good-to-fair chance you’ll hear a complaint about how no one is original anymore, and with the modern-day swarm of revisited IPs and powerhouse franchise films, one may be forgiven for believing this. All that’s left now is to tell them in brand-new ways.
Enter Renfield, the latest film to throw itself onto history’s long list of Dracula stories, seeking to do exactly that; take some of fiction’s most highly-regarded monsters and bake them into a fresh reinvention of the tale. A task that, by the looks of the various trailers, is met with exciting, gore-soaked success.
Just when Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania finally had something going for it, Makoto Shinkai had to come swooping in and steal it away with surprisingly marked overkill.
Indeed, the anime filmmaker’s recent hot streak, which currently boasts the likes of such powerhouse features as Your Name and Weathering with You, has continued with Suzume, which just snagged the distinction of having the highest-grossing opening weekend at the Chinese box office outside of the Chinese New Year holiday.
Chris Pratt’s kid adores Mario just like any other children his age, and the aor has confirmed that lending his voice to the character in The Super Mario Bros. Movie has officially made him a “cool dad.”
In an interview with ET Online, Pratt and Charlie Day spoke about their roles as onscreen brothers Mario and Luigi. The pair admitted that both of their kids were big fans of Nintendo and all things Mario, so their involvement in the film has earned them some cool points. Pratt’s kid, Jack, whom he shares with ex-wife Anna Faris, is a dedicated Super Smash Bros player, although he admits that his son prefers Luigi over Mario.
There’s no harm in getting a kick out of unabashed cinematic trash, and one of the newest crazes on the block is to turn steamy romance novels – particularly those that originated on Wattpad – into feature films. It’s a formula that definitely works, with Perfect Addiction the latest to arrive in a blaze of steamy glory.
Per FlixPatrol, the adaptation of Claudia Tan’s book has taken only 24 hours to conquer the Prime Video charts, debuting as the number one most-watched movie on the platform’s global charts by way of nestling comfortably in a Top 10 spot in 81 countries, where it’s knocked out the competition to secure the summit in 32 of them.
The world of comic book films is going through quite the tumultuous time; Marvel Studios is currently contending with quite a bit of drama following the departure of Victoria Alonso, who previously served as the studio’s President of Physical, Post Production, VFX and Animation, but it still can’t quite match the laundry list of conflicts in DC’s cinematic endeavors.
Whether it’s Henry Cavill’s exit, the SnyderVerse fans scoffing at anything and everything outside of it, or the simple fact that not many good movies have come out of the DC Extended Universe, there’s been no shortage of struggle for the company’s efforts; a struggle that will hopefully be no more once James Gunn’s DCU kicks into high gear.
It’s been five long years since Deadpool 2, but the Merc with the Mouth is finally about to enter the MCU with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in Deadpool 3. The shoot is scheduled to begin in May, with the film itself set to release in September 2024.
Not much else is known about the project, though the rumor mill went into overdrive this week when reliable insider Jeff Sneider teased that it’s going to heavily tie into the events of Loki. That show centers on the Time Variance Authority (TVA), an organisation devoted to wrangling the branching timelines and preventing existence from collapsing into chaos.
Get your tissues out folks, because this one is a tearjerker. Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has just released his memoir Did I Ever Tell You This about his time in the movie industry, taking us through his long career, the friends he made along the way, and his personal struggles – including his recent battle with stage three blood cancer (which he thankfully seems to have beaten).
One of the most heart-wrenching revelations (via Deadline) centers on the much-missed Robin Williams, who took his own life at the age of 63 in 2014 while suffering from debilitating Lewy body dementia that made it impossible to perform as he once did.
Self-awareness can often be a double-edged sword for any big budget action-packed blockbuster, because leaning too far into winking at the audience can often come across as outright smugness. However, in the case of 2010’s underwhelming Knight and Day, the movie seemed to take for granted that the audience would be in on the joke.
The aftermath of the globetrotting espionage epic’s release was nothing if not fascinating, because it ended up being criticized for many of the same things people loved about the light-hearted caper. The plot jumps around with reckless abandon in almost nonsensical fashion, but that’s kind of the point when it’s a borderline parody of both the genre at large and star Tom Cruise’s reputation.
It’s a new day, and the internet has found a new way to hate on Shazam! Fury of the Gods. The DC sequel has borne the brunt of social’s media scorn since it entered theaters a week ago, which feels like overkill given that the Zachary Levi vehicle has also had to endure the embarrassment of flopping hard at the box office too. But, hey, apparently there’s nothing folks on Twitter love more than kicking a movie when it’s down as Shazam! 2 is coming under fire all over again thanks to a controversial joke.
The most talked-about scene in Fury of the Gods has to be Wonder Woman’s cameo, with Gal Gadot herself returning as the Amazonian princess. This would’ve been an epic surprise, if Warner Bros. hadn’t completely given the game away in the marketing, much to the chagrin of director David F. Sandberg. That’s not the only gripe that fans have with the sequence, though, as an exchange between Levi’s Billy Batson and Gadot’s Diana Prince is getting blasted for being “uncomfortable.”
Social media’s unwieldy insider culture has gotten so bloated that we’ve officially reached a point where James Gunn can actively debunk a rumor about Superman: Legacy, only for someone to fire back and try to debunk that which was just debunked.
It’s Inception-level stuff on the Twittersphere, but it shouldn’t come as a shock that the Guardians of the Galaxy director’s longtime arch-nemesis Grace Randolph was involved. The Beyond the Trailer host has a long and tenuous association with the current co-CEO of DC Studios, who even went so far as to annihilate her for “spouting bullsh*t” when alleged scoops regarding Gunn’s projects were being perpetrated.
The DC Universe has more drama than the Real Housewives, but for fans patiently waiting for their favorite comics to receive worthwhile adaptations, all this smoke and mirrors is starting to become boring. After Shazam! Fury of the Gods failed to perform at the box office, star Zachary Levi is switching promo strategies and going after The Rock instead. While, of course, the whole debacle got people talking, most are just fed up with the behind-the-scenes tension, especially when the results have been so obviously mediocre.
Levi seemingly took a jab at Dwayne Johnson on Tuesday by sharing a report that claimed the latter blocked a cameo from the former in his star-vehicle movie Black Adam and kept characters from that same movie from showing up in Fury of the Gods. In the DC world, Shazam and Black Adam are famous adversaries, but Johnson was only ever interested in a face-off against Henry Cavill’s Superman.
In a world where the master of illusions and king of drones Quentin Beck aka Mysterio left his battle against Peter Parker victorious and successfully fooled the world into believing he was the true successor to Iron Man, what would happen if an Avengers-level threat emerged?
That is the question fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe are debating on Reddit, thus effectively coming up with an entirely new episode of What If…? — should Disney wish to take on the challenge.
MCU fans have stumbled upon the ideal director to realize their vision for a new film adaptation of The Punisher. However, it’s unlikely to materialize.
A fan suggested a fascinating candidate for a reboot of The Punisher in r/MarvelStudios: neo-noir filmmaker S. Craig Zahler.
The evolution of the John Wick franchise has been fascinating to trace from its origins as a low budget and glorified B-movie that looked like just another run-of-the-mill Keanu Reeves shoot ’em up, to a full-blown cinematic universe that’s got both a prequel TV series and a feature-length spinoff on the way. Expansion almost always leads to the law of diminishing returns, though, but that most definitely isn’t the case with the spectacular Chapter 4.
While the saga has been rightly commended for rewriting the rulebook for how action sequences should be choreographed, lit, and shot, another of John Wick‘s most widely-praised elements is the intricately-knotted and tightly woven mythology of the assassin underworld. “Lore” is a word that makes many people shudder, but if you’re seeking the next evolution in the ongoing arc of the title hero, then expect there to be just as much exposition as there is ass-kicking. Spoiler; there’s no shortage of both.
Although its very rare to see the stars of a DCU blockbuster and the fandom in unanimous agreement on anything, the mutual disdain between Zachary Levi and supporters of the SnyderVerse is like a warm, comforting blanket of shared hatred.
The actor hasn’t been shy in criticizing the vocal subset who try and torpedo anything DC-related that doesn’t revolve around Zack Snyder being brought back to finish the mythology left abandoned in the wake of Warner Bros.’ countless corporate reshuffles, but his most recent comments came at a fairly inopportune moment.
Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler go together like cheese and chocolate, which is to say that the combo has probably happened enough to warrant a consensus, but the jury still seems to be out.
That’s just regarding the critics, though. As far as Barrymore is concerned, her chemistry with the Uncut Gems star is a golden ticket to a good time, and it sounds like she and the Sandman are all but ready to tackle their next project together.
For many fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s a steadfast fact that nothing will ever be able to top the era of the original Avengers.
From Tony and Cap holding our hands throughout the Infinity Saga, to the belly laughs that Thor treated gave us, to watching the ever-dynamic arcs of Bruce and Clint continue to unfold in the wake of Nat’s devastating demise, there’s just nothing to fill the Avengers-sized hole in those particular hearts.
Some Star Wars diehards seem to have fallen under a mesmerizing spell of nostalgia regarding which film they believe is the high point of the entire franchise.
A fan took to the r/StarWars subreddit to silence critics with a detailed argument as to why The Phantom Menace is the most on-brand film in a galaxy far, far away.
Strangely enough, even though we’re barely even towards the back-end of March, Netflix has already released two original movies called Noise this year, as well as Noah Baumbach’s White Noise. While the first didn’t make much of a splash when it debuted in January, this weekend’s debuting Belgian thriller has been sent soaring straight to the top of the charts.
Per FlixPatrol, director Steffen Geypens’ psychological chiller has been uncovering secrets all over the world to take up residency in the Top 10 most-watched list in 56 countries around the world. That’s good enough to place it as the fifth most-watched feature on a global level, underlining for the millionth time that Netflix plus intense genre films equals immediate success.
