What caused Frank Darabont to depart The Walking Dead after a single season? Long before stepping into the zombie apocalypse with The Walking Dead, Frank Darabont made his name in the cinematic realm with 1994’s Stephen King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption. While the story of Andy Dufresne failed to set the box office alight upon release, the film was
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Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine aren’t exactly the first characters one thinks of to spread joy. That doesn’t mean that the actors who played these iconic villains are bad people. Ian McDiarmid and Hayden Christensen decided to make a surprise visit to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City Thursday morning, shocking some star-struck patients
2 hours ago TIFF is in full effect, with plenty of exciting projects making their debut during the 2019 international festival. The fest is an opportunity to debut plenty of Oscar hopeful projects, hoping to make an impact during the upcoming Awards Season. Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s The Friend might be one of those projects, as it
The original Avengers have a pretty strong bond. Hawkeye actor Jeremy Renner revealed on social media that he misses his co-stars after the worldwide promotional campaign for Avengers: Endgame wrapped earlier this year. Renner, along with Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., and Mark Ruffalo have been a team for a long
Here’s every song that can be found on The Hate U Give’s soundtrack album. The Hate U Give is a 2018 drama based off the acclaimed young adult novel of the same name by author Angie Thomas. The story follows Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg, The Hunger Games), a girl from a predominantly black neighborhood called Garden Heights,
6 minutes ago There really was no way for a film adaptation of IT to not be a massive undertaking. The Stephen King novel is some 1,100 pages long and it essentially tells two separate stories, with the same group of characters doing battle with a supernatural force twice, decades apart. With IT Chapter Two
IT Chapter Two has arrived in theaters and those who have seen the sequel know there is much to discuss. Virtually any sequel has some level of expectations placed upon it, but this is truly about as big as things get. While we’ll surely be debating the degree to which director Andy Muschietti and writer
Fans of Ghost Rider have had different versions of the Spirit of Vengeance over the years, but as good as reboots and refreshes can be… there’s something to be said for the classics. Which is why both Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch are finally returning in a comic series of their own, beginning in October’s Ghost Rider
9 hours ago It’s been a little over two weeks since the news broke that Disney and Sony’s Spider-Man partnership dissolved due to financial disagreements, and it remains a popular topic in the entertainment sphere. Given how much Spider-Man has thrived in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s been talk about if the two studios could
Hotshot venture capitalist Joel has a multimillion-dollar deal go up in smoke, and he and his actress wife Jessica are forced to move in with her parents and start from scratch. At the lowest and most desperate moment in his life, Joel meets old friend Nicolaus and his business partner Lester, who are seeking investors
Game of Thrones‘ White Walkers were set up to be the major villains of the story, and their motivations were finally explained in season 8, but George R.R. Martin likely has some very different plans for them in the books. Martin still has two A Song of Ice and Fire novels to write, with Game
7 minutes ago SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for IT Chapter Two. If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk. Andy Muschietti’s IT Chapter Two is first and foremost a loving and faithful adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, consistently bringing to life some of the best moments from
Sony Chief Tony Vinciquerra has confirmed the studio’s plans to integrate Spider-Man into the world of Venom and other characters. Vinciquerra believes the studio will be “just fine” after shifting away from Marvel Studios a few weeks ago. The topic of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been huge and upsetting
Almost two years after the release of Star Wars Battlefront 2, it would be natural to assume that Star Wars Battlefront 3 was at least in the planning stages, but according to one developer, that’s not the case. There was a two-year gap between the first and second Star Wars Battlefront games from developer Dice,
6 minutes ago Andy Muschietti’s 2017 Stephen King adaptation IT is the biggest horror movie of all time at the box office, with $700.3 million worldwide, a figure that is usually reserved for four-quadrant, PG-13 blockbusters, not R-rated horror films. The first film’s incredible performance obviously bodes well for the prospects of the sequel, IT
A24 has released the first trailer for Waves. This is the latest from writer/director Trey Edward Shults, who last gave us the atmospheric horror flick It Comes At Night in 2017. This looks to be a massive departure for Shults, as this is a straight-up human drama with a cast led by Sterling K. Brown
What’s the deeper meaning behind Breaking Bad‘s season 3 episode, “Fly”? The tenth episode of season 3 only featured two characters, Walter White and Jesse Pinkman (Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul). Some Breaking Bad viewers criticized the episode for being too slow while lacking any plot development while others, including many critics, praised the episode.
1 hour ago Author Stephen King’s contributions to the horror genre are monumental and myriad, but perhaps none is so iconic and firmly ingrained in pop culture as his 1986 tome IT. First adapted into a cheap, albeit fondly remembered, if only for Tim Curry’s performance, TV mini-series in 1990, King’s epic finally received the