Some movies are movies. Other movies are cocoa. “A Merry Little Ex-Mas” is the latter. It’s small town, big family, red and green sweater, pick your own Christmas tree, bake your own scones, make your own ornaments, 18 marshmallows in…
Sabrina Carpenter will star in and produce an untitled musical film inspired by Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” for Universal Pictures. Lorene Scafaria (“Succession,” “Hustlers”) will write and direct the project.Plot details are kept secret. Carpenter will produce. Marc Platt…
Before checking out the 2025 version, it might be worth going back to watch the 1987 adaptation of “The running man.” The original adaptation of Stephen King’s novel – written under his short-lived Richard Bachman pseudonym – starred Arnold Schwarzenegger…
Amazon MGM has secured film rights to “The Last Letter,” a romance novel from best-selling author Rebecca Yarros with Anna Klassen in talks to adapt the script. “The Last Letter” was published in 2019 and follows Beckett Gentry, an army…
Ariana Grande had her “Wicked” co-star in stitches after doing a perfect impression of the latter’s “Saturday Night Live” boss, Lorne Michaels. The pop star, who plays Glinda opposite Yang’s Pfannee in “Wicked: For Good,” broached the subject of Michaels…
In 2011 I watched the Oscars (there used to be one event) and when mentioning Melissa Leo’s nomination, they said, “Not since Sally Kirkland has an actress taken out her own ads for her awards campaign.” My friend Sally was…
Florence Pugh has no plans to return to roles like “Midsummer” because of how bad her mental health became while filming Ari Aster’s horror thriller. While guesting on “The Louis Theroux Podcast,” Pugh explained that she abused her mental health…
What happens when a casual playdate for your kids ends up being crashed by hitmen? Ideally, it is something no one actually know, but that’s what Kevin James and Alan Ritchson find out in “Playdate.” Released worldwide this week, the…
Whether you believe it or not, there are a lot of scary things in the Bible. It has beheadings, monsters, demonic possessions, natural disasters, the apocalypse…I could go on. The point is, if you want to make a horror film…
More than 30 years after it first hit theaters and changed animation forever, “Toy Story” is back for its fifth installment next summer, and it’ll be about something Woody and Buzz never dreamed could make them obsolete back in the…
