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IMDb Releases Trivia Game For iPhone And iPod Touch If you’re the kind of person who constantly exhausts your friends and family by spouting fun facts any time a movie comes up in conversation — and if you’re reading this site, there’s a decent chance you are — IMDb’s got a new product just for you. The movie reference website has just launched a free game for iPhone and iPod Touch that asks players to answer trivia questions about films, television, and celebrities from the past several decades....

Insane Studio Accounting: Warner Bros Claims $167 Million Loss Over Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix TheTwilightganghas it right: if you’re going to be earning a percentage of a film’s profits, verify it’s from the theatrical gross, and not the net profits. Certain members of the cast and crew ofHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixhaven’t been so lucky though, as a leaked accounting statement from Warner Bros....

Jerry Bruckheimer And The Rock Producing ’80s Wrestling Drama For NBC Real wrestling fans know anyone hoping to make a television show based on the professional wrestling boom of the 1980s will be hard pressed to beatHulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling. The Saturday morning cartoon series featured Hogan and some of the World Wrestling Federation’s other good guys battling Rowdy Roddy Piper and a team of bad guys. And while it might seem like I’m joking, it was the first thing I – and many other wrestling fans – will think of when they hear the news that super-prodcuerJerry Bruckheimerhas teamed up with former wrestling superstarDwayne “The Rock” Johnsonto produce a pilot based on professional wrestling in the 1980s for NBC....

Kevin Feige Compares ‘Black Widow’ Movie To ‘Better Call Saul’ If you sawAvengers: Endgame– and I know you totally did – you might have come away wondering how Marvel is going to move ahead with theirBlack Widowmovie. The answer seems obvious: prequel time, baby! And in case there was ever any doubt, Marvel Studios PresidentKevin Feigerecently spoke about the upcoming film, and compared it to another high-profile prequel:Better Call Saul....

Kevin Smith’s ‘Red State’ Tour Kicks Off With 10th Best Per-Theater Average Of All Time You may recall that loquacious filmmakerKevin Smithannoyed a lot of people (and amused a lot of other people) at this year’s Sundance, when he held an auction of his new horror filmRed Stateonly to sell it to himself for $20. Smith announced at the time that he planned to embark on a cross-country preview screening tour this spring in order to promote the film, and predicted that he would be able to make back about half of the film’s $4 million budget by its October 19 release date....

Knives Out 2 Will Have A Theatrical Release Alongside Its Netflix Debut If there’s a case that resembles a donut holeinsideanother donut hole and another donut withinthathole … hold up, I think I lost where I was going with this. My point is, you can count on our new favorite private detective, Benoit Blanc, to show up and figure out the mystery that nobody else could whenever the circumstance arises. Circumstances are definitely arising today, one might say, as reports have just come down revealing when we’ll finally be able to watch Daniel Craig return to lead the highly-anticipated “Knives Out” sequel....

Leatherface And His Favorite Toy Return In First Look At Texas Chainsaw Massacre Leatherface is back, and he’s ready to remind us all that the saw is family with the upcoming “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” This isn’t yet another remake, either. Instead, this new film, which is headed straight to Netflix early next year, is meant to be a direct sequel to the original film, and will introduce us to an older Leatherface....

Legendary’s Latest Acquisition, ‘Spectral,’ Is Like A Gritty ‘Ghostbusters’ As the script forGhostbusters3 gathers dust on Bill Murray’s desk, another writer is taking the idea and running in a whole other direction.Legendary Pictures, the company who is producingThe Dark Knight Rises, Man of SteelandPacific Rim, has just purchased a project by writerIan FriedcalledSpectral. The idea of the film is described as a more realistic, gritty and action-packedGhostbustersas a group of special ops soldiers are specially trained to battle and capture evil ghosts in Manhattan....

Let’s Talk About Sam Raimi’s Most Underrated Movie We need to talk aboutSam Raimi’s most criminally underrated film: the 2000 supernatural thriller, “The Gift.” Raimi has churned outa wide range of moviesacross genres, and some of his films, despite dismal box office performances, have garnered acclaim over the course of time, such as his revisionist Western, “The Quick and the Dead.” “The Gift” has been forgotten, however, and it should not be....

Licorice Pizza Trailer Breakdown: Meet Your LA Summer Mood Board Paul Thomas Anderson has blessed us with anotherfun LA rompwhich will undoubtedly slide its way onto everyone’s Summer 2023 mood board. Not to get into it before we get into it, but mark my words, you’re going to find so many “You’ve come a long way, baby” DIY t-shirts on Depop. Anyway, the adorably named “Licorice Pizza” stars Cooper Hoffman (son of Phillip Seymour!...

LOL: Watch The ‘A Star Is Born’ Trailer Again, This Time With Kermit The Frog And Miss Piggy If you’re seeing a lot of movies in theaters, then there’s a good chance that you’ve alreadywatched the same trailerforA Star Is Borndozens of times by now. Either that or you’re starting to see two different shorter trailers before movies that play out like clips with mini trailers attached to them. No matter which you’ve seen, we promise that you haven’t seen the best version yet....

Mark Wahlberg Still Considering Michael Bay’s ‘Pain And Gain’, Talks ‘The Fighter 2’ And ‘Entourage’ AlthoughMark Wahlbergis the kind of A-list star that’s constantly in the public eye, he actually hasn’t appeared in a movie since 2010’sThe Fighter. Next week’sContrabandmarks the end of that streak, however, and it looks like Wahberg will be returning to his usual busy ways after that. The actor has already finished shooting this summer’sTed, is currently filming Allen Hughes’Broken City, and hasGood Time Gangand2 Gunson his upcoming slate as well....

MTV’s ‘Teen Wolf’ Trailer - Now With More Shirtlessness This supernatural teen drama trend just isn’t going away, is it? Some days it seems like every other new film or series in the works is about blandly attractive young people struggling to deal with scary/sexy monsters while keeping up with their algebra homework. One such show is MTV’s upcoming seriesTeen Wolf, a supposed remake of the 1980s comedy starring Michael J....