Why ‘Grindhouse’ Failed, According To Quentin Tarantino Grindhouse, a big double-feature fromRobert RodriguezandQuentin Tarantinocomplete with fake trailers fromEdgar Wright,Rob Zombie, andEli Roth, arrived in 2007, and promptly bombed. Despite the hype, and the prospect of seeing to rebel auteurs like Rodriguez and Tarantino join forces, audiences just didn’t seem to give a damn, and the release only took in $25.4 million against a reported $53–67 million budget. So what happened? Looking back on the experience now, Quentin Tarantino says he and Rodriguez misjudged the movie-going public’s interest in such an experiment....

‘Aladdin’ Review: A Well-Meaning But Hollow Remake Of A Classic At a crucial juncture in the new live-actionAladdin, our eponymous hero is in the puffed-up guise of a fancy prince, supposedly encountering the comely Princess Jasmine for the first time. In reality, though, they’ve met before even as Aladdin is trying to pretend otherwise. In this moment, Aladdin is hopelessly tongue-tied, desperate to please but failing at just about every moment, valiant effort aside....

‘Beautiful Creatures’ Trailer: Alden Ehrenreich And Alice Englert Aim To Be The New Edward And Bella Speculation over which YA property would become the nextTwilighthas been swirling for some time now — since the first film hit theaters in 2008, really. But with the beloved vampire series finally poised to come to a close this fall, the timing is now more ripe than ever for some other pair of star-crossed paranormal teenager lovers to swoop in and take Edward and Bella’s place....

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Trailer: Ryan Gosling And Harrison Ford Can’t Outrun The Truth The newestBlade Runner 2049trailer is out, and it reveals more than we’ve seen yet. The trailer hit the internet after it premiered onGood Morning America, and this is certainly a good morning for us. Not only do we see more of the rich, neon-lit world brought to life by famed cinematographerRoger Deakins, we also get more insight into Officer K’s (Ryan Gosling) mission, and how it leads him to dragHarrison Ford’s former android-hunting police officer Rick Deckard out of hiding....

‘Scenes From A Marriage’ Will Reunite Jessica Chastain With Oscar Isaac After Michelle Williams Drops Out Over this past summer, HBO slateda new limited series adaptationof Ingmar Bergman’s miniseriesScenes From a Marriage. The project hadOscar IsaacandMichelle Williamson board to star in the examination of love, hatred, desire, monogamy, marriage and divorce through the lens of a contemporary American couple. But scheduling conflicts have kept Williams from being able to stay on board, and nowJessica Chastainis stepping up to take the second lead role instead....

‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Premiere Episode Title Revealed, But What Does It Mean? As if there was any doubt it was happening,Stranger Thingsseason four was announced at the end of September. The short teaser hinted at a departure from Hawkins, Indiana, but the Upside Down was still very much very much present. Now, thanks to the recent Stranger Things Day celebrations on November 6 (the day on which Will Byers disappeared in the first season of the Netflix series), we know what the title of theStranger Thingsseason 4 premiere episode will be....

‘Surviving Death’ Trailer: Netflix Series Explores What Happens After We Die Not content with exploring what happens when a woman named Emily visits Paris or what happens when a queen has a gambit, Netflix is setting its sights on a topic that is far more existential: what happens after we die? In contrast to my goofy introductory paragraph,Surviving Death, a new six-episode series coming to the streamer this week, is a deadly serious show that looks to engage with one of mankind’s biggest questions through research and first-hand accounts with people who have died and come back to life....

‘The Alienist’ Trailer: Daniel Brühl Finally Gets To Play A Hero Alongside Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans After years of playing Nazis and superhero villains,Daniel Brühlhas finally landed a role that every young male protagonist can aspire to: the gifted criminal profiler. But this time, it’s in the 19th century! The Alienistlooks like the detective procedural got a gaslamp-lit makeover, with stars Brühl,Luke Evans, andDakota Fanningteaming up to work as early criminal profilers in 1896, attempting to get into the mind of one of New York City’s first serial killers before they hunt him down....

‘The Fate Of The Furious’ Review Round-Up: It’s Either The Best Or The Worst One Yet Even though blockbuster season doesn’t technically kick off until May with the release ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Universal is shifting things into gear a little early with the release ofThe Fate of the Furiousthis weekend. It’s the eighth installment of the franchise that began all the way back in 2001, and it’s still unbelievable to me that the franchise has come this far....

‘The Good Dinosaur’ Voice Cast And Details Revealed Today Disney and Pixar are announcing details for the filmThe Good Dinosaur, from which we’ve previously seen only concept art. Footage was shown today, which Peterdescribedas “very beautiful, not very cartoony, almost like a segment fromFantasia.” The story is described as the biggest “what if?” ever — what if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed Earth entirely? The primary cast was also announced....

‘The Price Is Right’ Is Getting A Whole Channel On Pluto TV With Classic Bob Barker Episodes The Price Is Rightis one of the most beloved long-running game shows in TV history. The series began back in 1956 with a much different format than the one today’s audiences are used to seeing. But the most famous version ofThe Price Is Rightbegan in 1972 with hostBob Barker, and starting today, the free TV streaming service Pluto TV is offering an entire channel dedicated to The Price Is Right episodes hosted by Happy Gilmore’s most formidable opponent....

‘TRON Legacy’ Director Talks About The Possibility Of ‘TRON 3’ Ever Coming Together At Disney Even though the reception toTRON Legacywas mixed, there’s still a vocal contingent of fans who want to return to the grid with yet another sequel in the Disney sci-fi franchise. Even though development on a third movie has been stagnant, we recently learned there was aTRONseries in development for Disney+, but it wasscrapped before it was ever announced....

Anthony And Joe Russo Directing ‘Captain America 3’ Captain America: The Winter Soldierwon’t open for another several weeks, and aCaptain America 3hasn’t even been greenlit. Nevertheless, as the Winter Soldier release approaches, Marvel Studios is feeling confident enough that they’re getting the plans in place for the patriotic hero’s next solo outing. A new report indicates thatAnthonyandJoe Russowill return to direct the third installment, and that the pair are already working on the story....