Christmas and New Year’s Eve are just around the corner, which means many are looking back at the year that was and reflecting upon it, before starting another trip around the sun. By many standards, 2016 was not a great year, especially considering how many entertainment icons we lost, such asPrince,David Bowie,Muhammad Ali,Gene Wilderand countless others. Still, it was a great year by movie standards, with a number of iconic characters returning, or being introduced to, the big screen....

Anthony Michael Hallstars in the new movieTrigger Warningthat’s set to hit Netflix on July 19, 2025, but long before thathe appeared in the seminal 1985 John Hughes classicThe Breakfast Clubas the socially awkward Brian Johnson. In this day and age ofremakes, reboots, and reimaginings, the 56-year-old star says that perhapsthe time is right for a remake of the iconic film, which also starred Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, and Molly Ringwald....

The internet is not too happy withBen Affleck. On social media, the actor has come under fire for remarks made during a new interview onThe Howard Stern Show. During the interview, Affleck opened up on his marriage to Jennifer Garner, telling Stern he’d “probably still be drinking” if they hadn’t split up in 2015. The actor added that his struggles with alcoholism stemmed, in part, from the unhappiness felt during the marriage....

Critically speaking,Jason Bourne, the latest in theBourneseries from directorPaul GreengrassandMatt Damon, wasn’t a big success. But in Hollywood, money talks and the movie definitely made money, so there is absolutely potential for a sequel. According to producerFrank Marshall, if they can manage to crack a story worth telling, a sequel toJason Bourneis very much in the cards. Speaking withYahoo Movies,Frank Marshallseemed very optimistic about the possibility of a sequel toJason Bourne....

Recently, renowned filmmakersCharlie Kaufman, Boots Riley, and Ed Solomon joined aWord by Wordsession, which is a Zoom workshop for up-and-coming screenwriters, and offered advice on Hollywood business and screenwriting. Hosted by The Black List, the writer-directors shared their experiences as aspiring writers and thoughts on the industry (viaTHR). Kaufman is known for his directing and writing onBeing John Malkovich,Adaptation,Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,Synecdoche, New York, andI’m Thinking of Ending Things....

Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has already been quite good so far, but the main attractions are still on the horizon, with bothAvengers: Infinity Warand the untitledAvengers 4set to bring Thanos into the fold and unite a whole lot of superheroes on screen together. The movies are bothfilming back-to-back right nowand, given the size of the cast, they can’t get everyone there at the same time. So, even though the movie has been filming for a couple of months now,Chris Evanshas yet to start shooting his Captain America scenes yet....

Clerks 3is happening, promises director Kevin Smith. The filmmaker made his way to San Diego Comic-Con this year to promote his latest movie,Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, which officially sees him return to the View Askew universe he launched back in 1994 with Clerks. We’ve been waiting for more than a decade for the final entry in the trilogy and Smith is newly determined to make it happen, confirming he’s going to write a new script for the long-awaited sequel....

During The CW’s TCA winter tour presentation today, the network announced that the iconic DC Comics character John Constantine will return in a new animated web series on the network’s online platform CW Seed. TheConstantineanimated series will bring backMatt Ryanto voice the title character.Matt Ryanstarred as John Constantine in NBC’s short-livedConstantineTV series, and after that show was canceled, he moved on to reprise his beloved character in an guest-starring spot on anArrowSeason 4 episode....

DC has finally released a ton of new details regarding their upcoming streaming service.DC Universewas initially announced last year, though at the time it wasn’t given a name, but promised to be the new digital home for all things DC. In the company’s announcement, it appears as though they’re really trying to live up to the promise. DC Universe will include original live-action and animated series, classic TV series and films, a curated selection of digital comic books, breaking news, an expansive DC-centric encyclopedia, and access to exclusive merchandise....

Deadpooljust dropped its big second trailer this past week, showing off the footage on Christmas as part of a viral holiday campaign. During this so-called 12 Days ofDeadpool, we got a cool poster teasing Wade Wilson’s impending Empire Magazine cover. Now, starRyan Reynoldshas arrived with an informercial selling the entirety of this issue to the masses. The star, dressed in his iconicDeadpoolcostume, had this to say about the issue. “Are you considering buying this month’s Empire?...

Three years after the hit Disney animated filmBig Hero 6hit theaters, these iconic characters will return in the upcoming Disney XDanimated TV seriesof the same name. Today we have the first teaser for this new show, which shows the return of Baymax, kind of. This video features Baymax’s face on a cookie, which gets eaten away to reveal the show’s logo. The network hasn’t announced when the show will premiere, but perhaps that announcement will come soon, now that this teaser has been released....

The first trailer for theDownton Abbeymovie teases the reunion that fans have been waiting for. Plans for the big screen adaptation were first announced in July of this year with production starting the following month. An idea for a movie had been talked about as far back as 2016, which was right when the massively popular TV series ended. Production wrapped in November, and we now have our first, albeit, brief look at the movie....

Art, like gender, can be extremely fluid: able to be interpreted in vastly different ways by people of all ideological persuasions.The Matrixfranchise is one of the best-known examples of this, thanks to both its immense popularity and rich theoretical subtext. Between books of philosophy and feature-length documentaries, not to mention thousands of videos and essays by fans and critics, the film series from the Wachowski sisters has provoked a range of reactions....