Disney has certainly struggled at the box office in recent years, and it appears the push to add more content to Disney+ might be the main culprit. With reliable names likeStar Wars, Marvel, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, and their various live-action remakes, Disney movies dominated the late 2010s box office. However, following the COVID-19 pandemic, and the launch of Disney+, the studio has seen many of its movies struggle at the box office, with even some of its biggest franchises — like theMarvel Cinematic Universe,Indiana Jones, and more — struggling....

TheMortal Kombatfranchise, at least in movie form, has been dormant for nearly 20 years. But it seems like it won’t be for much longer. New Line has been planning on making a newMortal Kombatmovie for quite some time and now they have made a big step forward. The project now has a director in the form ofSimon McQuoid. Varietyis reporting that the director is in talks to helm the newMortal Kombatmovie for New Line....

Memory: The Origins of Alienis a new documentary on Ridley Scott’sAlienand it made its debut at Sundance earlier this week. One of the scenes that has been talked about from the awesome documentary by director Alexandre O. Philippe is a rather long portion that goes into the origin of the Chestburster alien, which reportedly looked a lot like a penis in the initial designs. Phillippe goes into detail about what it took to make one of the most iconic scenes in sci-fi/horror history....

The first full-length trailer forCaptive Statehas been released and it looks intense.John Goodmanand Ashton Sanders star in the gritty political sci-fi movie, which looks incredibly dark and compelling. Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) directed the movie and it takes place in Chicago, ten years after an occupation by an extraterrestrial force, but it doesn’t focus on one side of the conflict. Instead it looks at those who decide to collaborate with the aliens and those who do not....

Fox has made a put pilot commitment for a new Marvel action-adventure series, it was announced today byDavid Madden, President, Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. The Untitled Fox Marvel Project will focus on two ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive. TheX-Menseries will be produced by 20th Century Fox Television andMarvel Television, with 20th Century Fox handling physical production....

Emily Blunt and Chris Evans take the lead in the latest trailer forPain Hustlers, the Netflix crime drama that tells the tale of a high school dropout who lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical company in Central Florida, and soon finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy. Coming courtesy of the streaming giant,Pain Hustlershad its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last month, and is due to land on Netflix later this month....

When it comes to creating good, violent movies,Quentin Tarantinois the king. He has introduced the world toseveral memorable charactersthroughout his successful career, and many of them have been ruthless killers. Some of his characters, like The Bride or Django Freeman, kill for understandable reasons: The Bride is on a mission of deserved revenge, and Django is on a quest to rescue his wife from slavery. On the other hand, there are characters like Mr....

TheResident Evilgame franchise made a pretty successful transition to the big screen with the movie series led by Milla Jovovich, in box office returns if not in critical and fan acclaim. Having abandoned pretty much all of its links to the games in all but some character names and a very broad overview, theResident Evilmovies have their followers, but fans of the games still wanted more. Recently,Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon Cityattempted to reboot the movies and bring the storylines of the first two games together in a story that was full to bursting with Easter eggs but still split fans....

The Shining Girls, a novel released by South African author Lauren Beukes in 2013, was once the source of an international bidding war between publishing houses. The author, Beukes, was previously well-known in her home country because she was a freelance journalist and previously published three other books set in her native country.The Shining Girlsmarked a departurein her work, as it takes place in Chicago during the Great Depression and delves into the territory of thriller and horror....

That’s a wrap! Director Mike Flanagan has confirmed that filming onDoctor Sleep, the sequel toThe Shining, has been completed. Flanagan has been working on the sequel to Stephen King’s seminal work for the last handful of months and now, it’s off to post-production to get this highly ambitious sequel ready for horror fans all around the world to feast their eyes upon. Flanagan made the announcement on Facebook. Here’s what he had to say about it....

Sleepy Hollowreboot is happening at Paramount Pictures with rising filmmakerLindsey Beerattached to write, produce, and direct,Deadlinereports. The plot details are being kept under wraps, and it’s unknown if the project will be a feature film or television series. Todd Garner and Spencer Walken of Broken Road Productions are producing the newSleepy Hollowadaptation. So far, no one from the 1999 film, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, is involved in the reboot....

It would seem thatSquid Gameis still king at Netflix. Last month,Stranger Things 4finally arrived after a 3-year wait, and the new episodes for the popular series came with great anticipation from fans. Viewership was extremely high as fans binged those new episodes almost as quickly as they arrived. Season 4 can ultimately be considered a big success for the Netflix show, but at the end of the day,Stranger Thingswas not able to break the current record for the streamer’s most-watched series....

In just eight short days,Suicide Squadwill hit theaters nationwide, with somebox officeanalysts claiming it could make upwards of $125 million during its opening weekend. While we’ll have to wait until next Sunday to find out for sure, some intriguing new details about the comic book adaptation’s main villain have surfaced. If that wasn’t enough, we also have new photos plus a new track fromSteven Price’s score. A website dubbed Fandom has revealed a full cast list forSuicide Squad, which revealsAlan Chanoineas both a Businessman and Incubus, with the latter role finally confirmed as the main villain after much speculation....