Month: April 2024

The Mountain Goats have announced they’re reissuing The Coroner’s Gambit, their long out-of-print 2000 album. The classic LP will be released on “kandy korn” colored vinyl, CD, and—for the first time ever—cassette. All versions will be released on June 28 via Merge and feature new liner notes written by singer-guitarist John Darnielle. On the Mountain
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Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering
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Dax Shepard caught Kristen Bell in the good place.  The Armchair Expert host shared a funny video of him FaceTiming the Frozen star after she was given Nitrous Oxide—also known as laughing gas—during a visit to her dermatologist’s office. explaining that he had to show people his wife’s reaction to the drug because she was “so gassed.” In a clip posted to his Instagram April 26, Dax explained that he
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As we eagerly await the cinematic offerings of the 2024 movie schedule, one title set for release in 2025 has captured our imagination: Tron: Ares. The third installment in the Disney franchise, featuring Jared Leto and a returning Jeff Bridges, is rapidly materializing into something tangible and thrilling. In an exclusive insight into the world
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Warning: SPOILERS for Challengers are in play. If you haven’t seen this sporting drama just yet, you’ve been warned.  There is a lot to talk about when it comes to director Luca Guadagnino’s white hot personal drama Challengers. With the trio of Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist consistently serving twist, betrayals and revealing flashbacks
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Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering
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Movies scores add so much to films it’s hard to overstate just how important they are. Music can completely change the mood of a movie, or a scene, in ways that little else can. Most movie scores follow a tried and true formula and while we would never discount the importance of such scores, the
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UPDATE: Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 4 has topped the half-century mark globally, now with $503.5M worldwide. Of that, $318.5M is from the international box office. Passing $500M makes KFP4, directed by Mike Mitchell (and co-directed by Stephanie Ma Stine), only the fourth animated title to the benchmark since 2020, joining Illumination’s The Super Mario
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Chucky holds a special place in the history of cinematic slashers. He is not a stoic monster like Michael Myers or married to a signature weapon like Leatherface, Freddy Krueger or Jason Voorhees. He is a psychopath who sees slaughter as an art form and a creative outlet. Charles Lee Ray may have been known
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If you’re of a certain age, then you probably grew up with Shrek. It’s for that reason that a lot of people will tell you that he is the best character to ever come out of DreamWorks Animation. But, I highly disagree. Because when it comes to Shrek and Kung Fu Panda, I’m picking the
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