Friends and co-stars celebrate the late, great Howard Hesseman

Comedy and improv legend Howard Hesseman passed away this weekend due to complications following colon surgery performed last year. Social media is already filling with posts of fond remembrances of Hesseman, including touching ones from fellow co-stars and colleagues.

Hesseman, best remembered by his two classic television roles as Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and inspiring teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class, had a long list of supporting roles in film as well as strong ties to the improv and sketch community dating back to the 1960s. The many who have come forward to mourn his loss as well as celebrate his life paint a picture of an entertainer well-loved by his community.

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‘It Takes Two’ game developers in talks to adapt game for TV/film

It Takes Two took many, primarily those who didn’t play it, by surprise when it won Game of the Year at the 2021 Game Awards. Well, another shocker is coming their way because the EA Steam game is getting a TV/film adaptation, according to Variety.

The publication spoke with Hazelight, the video game studio that developed the game, and dj2, the movie studio interested in the game’s TV adaption.

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Why does Harry drop the Resurrection Stone in ‘Deathly Hallows?’

When it comes to the trillion mysteries stored within the magical world of Harry Potter, almost all have been answered in the novels and films or else solved by its renowned author, J.K. Rowling. That said, there are still some questions that have maintained their secret status such that even the cinematic adaptations of the books didn’t try to solve them. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest baffling questions of all time centers around why on earth Harry dropped the Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest.

The event takes place towards the end of the last book and film in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, where Harry decides to sacrifice himself to kill Voldemort’s Horcrux inside him and save everyone’s lives. While walking through the Forbidden Forest (on his way to the Dark Lord), Harry cracks Dumbeldore’s code for unsealing the Golden Snitch and manages to get the Resurrection Stone stored inside it. 

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Rachel Zegler says her ‘Snow White’ critics need to be loved

Rachel Zegler has decided not to fight fire with fire when it comes to those criticizing her casting in Disney’s upcoming Snow White remake, as the West Side Story star says these people need to be “loved in the right direction.” Following her Golden Globe-winning performance in Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed musical, Zegler is set to be a regular on our screens from now on, with two major roles already lined up.

In addition to a part in upcoming DC sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Zegler has snagged the title role in Disney’s next big live-action reimagining, which will bring the studio’s very first picture into the 2020s. To do that, Disney elected to cast its first-ever Latina princess. Unfortunately, as is frustratingly inevitable in cases like this one, some folks online got very angry over Zegler’s hiring.

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A dismal psychological thriller with unlikely origins snaps on Netflix

Having built himself a billion-dollar empire, there’s absolutely no doubt that Tyler Perry is one of the most successful filmmakers in the industry, even if the overwhelming majority of his movies tend to be panned by critics.

For the most part, the multi-hyphenate filmmaker sticks to what he knows best; namely, either broad comedies or family dramas boasting talented ensembles, although the terrifying specter of Madea can almost always lurking around the next corner, regardless of what he’s cooking up.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda figured out Andrew Garfield was in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’

The spoliers in Spider-Man: No Way Home were perhaps Marvel Studios’ worst kept secret, what with details about the film’s script leaking months before it made to the theaters. One such revelation was Andrew Garfield’s presence in the MCU film. But while the actor deserves an Oscar just for how vehemently he denied his involvement leading up to the film’s release, he failed to maintain his savvy conversation tactics with Lin-Manuel Miranda who figured out that he was making a comeback as the webbed slinger months before Spider-Man 3’s theatrical debut. 

While rumors of Andrew Garfield’s involvement in the film were swirling in 2021, the actor was busy shooting for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s biographical music drama, Tick, Tick… Boom! Thus, the day it leaked for the first time that he has also joined Spider-Man: No Way Home as the Peter Parker from an alternate universe, the Silence star was filming with the director. Though Garfield had been expertly sidestepped the questions of the media, when Miranda asked him, he failed to maintain his cool-as-a-cucumber status. 

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The Daily Wire’s controversial first movie is a multi-platform streaming hit

On a surface level, there’s really no need for conservative news website and media conglomerate The Daily Wire to get into the movie business, but they’re doing it anyway, whether you like it or not.

The outfit’s first original feature film Shut In is releasing next month, with Gina Carano’s Terror on the Prairie next up, but the first film to be distributed by The Daily Wire was Kyle Rankin’s Run Hide Fight, which came and went without much fanfare at all in January of last year.

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The Internet debates who nailed their villainous performances

Much like any number of lists available online, Redditors often have to get all in on the big questions. And the small ones. Really, any question and you can bet Redditors have an extensive thread concerning it.

Yesterday the question was posed that almost instantly spawned thousands of responses, as the entirety of the internet declared which evil camp they were in. The eloquently worded question was, “Which actor managed to nail being the ‘Bad Guy’?”.

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Hilarious viral tweet pokes fun at relentless ‘Doctor Strange 2’ rumors

From Robert Downey Jr. reprising his role as an alternate version of Tony Stark, to a wishful list of character cameos that pretty much take up cinema’s entire superhero back catalogue, we’ve heard a lot of crazy rumors about Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness over the past few weeks, especially now that fans are finally getting over the hype for Spider-Man: No Way Home.

That being said, a lot of folks might just be setting themselves up for disappointment. Granted, now that Marvel has the rights to many of its superheroes like the X-Men, we know we’re getting mutants and the Fantastic Four sooner rather than later.

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‘Spider-Verse’ producers address potential Tom Holland and Zendaya cameos

Based on the critical and commercial response to Spider-Man: No Way Home, audiences clearly can’t get enough of seeing Tom Holland and Zendaya lend their talents to a multiversal web-slinging blockbuster, and there just so happens to be another two of them on the way.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and its sequel are coming to theaters between now and the end of 2023, looking to raise a bar that was set very high by the Academy Award-winning and acclaimed first installment. All of the stops will need to be pulled out, then, but can we expect the live-action Peter Parker and MJ to swing by?

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One of last year’s finest hidden gems slices through the streaming charts

Due to the onset of the pandemic, the VOD market has been flooded by more titles than ever before, as studios and production companies fled from the big screen in their droves. One of the downsides is that plenty of fantastic features may have slipped under the radar, and we can definitely count Till Death among them.

The action/thriller/horror/home invasion hybrid was released digitally in July of last year, before making its way to Netflix a couple of months later, but the movie doesn’t get anywhere near as much praise as it should, despite holding an impressive 89% Rotten Tomatoes score.

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Local business owner describes ‘Batgirl’ shoot as ‘a shambles’

DC fans have been loving the glimpses we’ve been getting at the upcoming Batgirl movie as it films in Glasgow, Scotland, but apparently the Warner Bros. production is proving to be a nuisance for the locals.

The shoot for the comic book blockbuster, which is headed for release on HBO Max, has been labelled a “shambles” by angry business owners, whose earnings have tanked due to the Hollywood project keeping away potential customers.

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‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ closing in on ‘Avatar’ at the domestic box office

This weekend is a bit of a dead zone at the domestic box office, with precisely no new wide releases arriving in theaters, although we get a double dose of potential smash hits this coming Friday when Roland Emmerich’s disaster epic Moonfall and gross-out comedy sequel Jackass Forever both arrive.

As a result, Spider-Man: No Way Home is set to spend a second consecutive week at the summit, and sixth out of seven frames, even if we’re looking at the lowest-grossing cumulative weekend since the end of September.

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Adam Sandler’s latest terrible Netflix movie is inevitably a global smash hit

Adam Sandler has proven himself as arguably the single biggest draw on Netflix, with subscribers spending literally billions of hours streaming the actor’s vast back catalogue of comedies, even if the vast majority of them tend to be derided by critics.

That even extends to projects where he isn’t required to appear on camera, with Happy Madison efforts Father of the Year and The Wrong Missy still doing big numbers for the platform, even if the company’s founder and CEO was restricted to being a producer only.

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Jared Leto responds to criticism of his ‘House of Gucci’ performance

Ridley Scott’s biographical drama House of Gucci has garnered much appreciation for the performances of Lady Gaga as Patricia Reggiani and Adam Driver as Maurizio Gucci, presenting the chaotic history of the renowned fashion brand. However, when it comes to Jared Leto’s businessman and designer Paolo Gucci, there have been many criticisms aimed at his ridiculous portrayal of the character. And now, Leto has finally broken his silence and responded to the negative reviews about his performance in the film. 

In the film, Jared Leto portrays as an extremely talentless member of the family who was never taken seriously by anyone. His character, who briefly got the chance to helm the Gucci fashion house, takes another hit when Gaga’s Patrizia tricks Paolo into betraying his father Aldo (Al Pacino) by getting him arrested for tax invasion in exchange for fulfilling his life-long dream of designing his own line of clothing. Soon, Patrizia double-crosses the black sheep of the family, leaving him to live the rest of his days in poverty. 

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Chris Hemsworth looks ready to burst in ‘Extraction 2’ workout photo

Chris Hemsworth is beloved around the world for playing Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now that the latest entry in the franchise ⏤ Thor: Love and Thunder ⏤ has wrapped filming, he can start to focus on his other projects.

He’s currently readying himself for the sequel to the 2020 Netflix original Extraction, a film that saw him play a mercenary named Tyler Rake who is tasked with recovering the kidnapped son of an imprisoned crime lord. In a new post on Instagram, Hemsworth markets Centr, his training program, and highlights his workout progress for his role in Extraction 2 in the best way possible.

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Ryan Reynolds takes another hilarious shot at ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’

In between filming huge projects like Red Notice and Deadpool 3, Ryan Reynolds is enjoying his favorite hobby: Dragging 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

He’s made an art form out of skewering the film in the years since it debuted. The film was a massive disappointment to fans of the Merc with a Mouth, utterly butchering the character fans had come to know in comics. Reynolds agreed to do the film despite knowing, even as it was being filmed, that the character would be a bust. Due to this, he has delighted in crucifying the film whenever the opportunity arises.

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Here’s why J.K. Simmons was reluctant to take ‘Being the Ricardos’ role

J.K. Simmons teaming up with Aaron Sorkin should be a no-brainer, right? Yet, writer/director Sorkin had to convince the Academy Award-winning actor to join the cast of his latest film.

Being the Ricardos is Sorkin’s third feature film as a director and 10th as a writer. Much like most of his biopics, Being the Ricardos tells a snapshot of I Love Lucy stars and real-life married couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz during the course of one contentious week of their lives.

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Benedict Cumberbatch admits his controversial ‘Zoolander 2’ character was a mistake

While 2001’s Zoolander was one of the biggest comedy movies of the decade, its belated sequel Zoolander 2 sunk without a trace when it arrived in 2016. One of the only reasons anyone really paid it any attention was the controversy that swirled around Benedict Cumberbatch’s cameo in the film. The Doctor Strange star played All, a non-binary fashion model, a character many thought was offensively outdated.

Speaking in conversation with his Zoolander 2 co-star Penelope Cruz as part of Variety’s Actors on Actors interview series, Cumberbatch opened up his regrets over the role. The British actor admitted that the part shouldn’t have gone to a cisgender person such as himself, and his decision to accept the gig “backfired” on him, although he attempted to explain how he had felt the joke wasn’t on his character but those that mocked them.

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The 7 best horror comedy films

Good comedy is very similar to good horror. It’s all about the unexpected, the timing, and the build-up followed by a shocking climax. However, while one seeks to make you laugh, the other is there to inspire fear, and while the fusion is an uncommon one, the few that exist have yielded great results.

As the horror genre has evolved, horror comedies have become more relevant, and here are some of the best that modern cinema has to offer.

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A serial killer thriller saved by a career-best performance stalks the Netflix charts

There’s been a very bizarre and slightly unsettling infatuation with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy unfolding across the film and television sphere recently, with no less than five projects revolving around his crimes having arrived since the beginning of 2019 alone.

Netflix’s Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes was followed by Amazon’s own docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer, while Chad Michael Murray played the role in last year’s American Boogeyman, which was released less than two weeks before Luke Kirby inhabited the notorious murderer in No Man of God.

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An Amber Heard movie that ended in 4 lawsuits and a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score finally succeeds on streaming

As you may have noticed, Amber Heard is a rather polarizing figure among the general public, thanks to her long-running and bitter legal battles opposite ex-husband Johnny Depp.

In front of the camera, the actress has been maintaining a relatively low profile, with forgotten drama Gully and CBS’ Stephen King adaptation The Stand the only projects she’s shot on either side of comic book blockbuster Aquaman and upcoming sequel The Lost Kingdom. However, the curious case of London Fields is definitely something worth mentioning.

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Watch: Halle Berry, Patrick Wilson, and John Bradley take on the moon in new ‘Moonfall’ clip

There may be no up or down in space, but the moon is definitely falling in Moonfall. A new clip provided to Collider features the film’s trio of protagonists flying through a collapsing moon on its way to Earth in a scene reminiscent of iconic asteroid field maneuvers in sci-fi classics.

If you haven’t heard of Moonfall, the title is pretty self-explanatory: the moon is falling, and astronaut Brian Harper (Patrick Wilson), former astronaut Jocinda “Jo” Flower (Halle Berry), and conspiracy theorist K. C. Houseman (John Bradley) departs the Earth to stop it — somehow. The mission seems doomed to fail, but everything is not as it seems. Think Armageddon, but bigger and faster. 

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Keanu Reeves continues to come under fire in China

In the United States, and most other countries, Keanu Reeves is one of the most beloved, and unproblematic celebs, but China is a different story.

We reported that Reeves was chosen for the Tibet House U.S Benefit Concert on March 3. Well, Chinese nationalists did not appreciate this. The annual event raises money to help protect Tibetan culture. But in the eyes of the Chinese government,

this is a political attack. Multiple movies have been banned due to their mention and representation of Tibet.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan’s bizarre blockbuster finds Netflix success

Once upon a time, the notion of watching Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jackie Chan facing off in a big budget blockbuster would be the stuff dreams are made of, but their eventual onscreen confrontation couldn’t have happened under more bizarre circumstances.

At various points, the lavish fantasy epic boasting both action titans went by the title of Viy 2: Journey to China, Journey to China: The Mystery of Iron Mask, The Mystery of Dragon Seal and just The Dragon Seal, during which time it was delayed by a year prior to arriving in the summer of 2019, before subsequently bombing at the box office after limping to a haul of less than $9 million.

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