'Sausage Party' Allegedly Forced Animators To Work Overtime For Free, Refused To Credit Artists

‘Sausage Party’ Allegedly Forced Animators To Work Overtime For Free, Refused To Credit Artists In a summer marked by one cinematic disappointment after another,Greg TiernanandConrad Vernon’sSausage Partyhas emerged as a rare success story: a truly original feature that got great reviewsandgreat box office. Even more impressively,Sausage Partymanaged all that on a reported budget of under $20 million. For comparison, Pixar’s latest release,Finding Dory, cost around $200 million to make. But alas, that win may have come at an unfair cost to many of the people who worked on it....

July 23, 2025 · 4 min · 814 words · Barbara Jenkins

'She's Gotta Have It' Trailer: Spike Lee Revamps His Debut Feature As A Netflix Series

‘She’s Gotta Have It’ Trailer: Spike Lee Revamps His Debut Feature As A Netflix Series She’s Gotta Have Itis being touted as a “modern update” of visionary directorSpike Lee’s breakthrough movie, but it feels like less of an update than a story that was always suited for modern, millennial times. The 10-episode Netflix series remakesLee’s debut feature film, which was originally shot over the course of 10 days in a hot summer in 1986....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 464 words · Rebecca Sawyer

'Solo: A Star Wars Story' And 'Wreck-It Ralph 2' Synopses Released

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ And ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2’ Synopses Released Disney has released their 2018 preview kit and much of what it contains won’t be new to movie fans who regularly peruse the internet. However, the two synopses provided forSolo: A Star Wars StoryandRalph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2are new and offer some insight into each movie’s story. You can check them out below. While theSolosynopsis isn’t particularly detailed, it’s noteworthy because it’s the first official piece ofanythingwe’ve seen from this production in a long time....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Jamie Hoover

'Solo: A Star Wars Story': What Did You Think?

‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’: What Did You Think? After an infamously troubled production,Solo: A Star Wars Storyis here. The overall critical opinion? It’s good, not great. But we want to hear from you. Did you love it? Did you hate it? Did you spend the whole time wishing they had just made a Lando movie instead? Tell us yourSoloreactions below. It’s time for yet anotherStar Warsmovie to blow up the box office....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 597 words · Nancy Elliott

'Star Wars: Light Of The Jedi' Excerpt Teases The Galaxy-Wide Disaster In 'The High Republic'

‘Star Wars: Light Of The Jedi’ Excerpt Teases The Galaxy-Wide Disaster In ‘The High Republic’ We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A new era ofStar Warsstories is on the way with the Lucasfilm publishing initiative known asStar Wars: The High Republic. The first book,Star Wars: Light of the JedibyCharles Soule, isslated to arrive in January 2021after being pushed back from an initial release later this year. But fans can get a taste of the new story, beginning 200 years before the events of The Skywalker Saga, thanks to a recently released excerpt that establishes the world and teases the impending galaxy-wide disaster at the center of the story....

July 23, 2025 · 5 min · 870 words · Wendy Moore

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' 4DX Screenings In Japan Allow Viewers To Choose Light Or Dark Side Versions

‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ 4DX Screenings In Japan Allow Viewers To Choose Light Or Dark Side Versions Rian Johnson’sStar Wars: The Last Jedi, the highest-grossing movie of 2017 in the United States, was recentlypulled from Chinese theatersdue to its catastrophic second-weekend drop of 92% at box office. But even without much help from the ever-important Chinese market, the film is still performing very well internationally, grossing about $80 million more overseas than it has stateside....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 463 words · Victoria Chapman

'Strange Brew' And 'SCTV' Hosers Bob & Doug McKenzie Immortalized As Statues In Edmonton, Canada

‘Strange Brew’ And ‘SCTV’ Hosers Bob & Doug McKenzie Immortalized As Statues In Edmonton, Canada Canada is known for giving us maple syrup and Ryan Reynolds, not to mention their undying love for hockey and inexplicably endless politeness. But when I think of Canada, there are two lovable hosers that come to mind, and that’s beer-chugging, hockey-loving brothersBob and Doug McKenzie, played byDave ThomasandRick Moranisin both the Canadian sketch comedy seriesSCTV(or Second City Television) and the cult classic comedy feature filmStrange Brew....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 395 words · Joshua Wallace

'Supergirl' And 'Into The Badlands' Receive Second Seasons

‘Supergirl’ And ‘Into The Badlands’ Receive Second Seasons The television landscape is a harsh landscape littered with broken dreams and the bodies of cancelled shows. Sure, we’re living through a TV golden age where it’s literally impossible to keep up with everything that is worth your time, but that doesn’t make the whole industry any less forgiving. There’s almost too much good stuff out there – a show that doesn’t strike a chord with audiences feels doomed....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 333 words · Bailey Marks

'True Detective' Parody By 'Community's' Joel McCale And Jim Rash

‘True Detective’ Parody By ‘Community’s’ Joel McCale And Jim Rash TheTrue Detectivefinale airs this weekend and fans everywhere are on pins and needles waiting to see where creatorNic Pizzolattoand directorCary Joji Fukunagawill take us in the last hour. After the debut episode, the show quickly reached critical mass. ATrue Detectiveparody here, a theory there, the Season Two meme is still everywhere, and debates have raged since day one. Now, even celebrities are getting into the fun....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 301 words · Mr. Nathaniel Saunders MD

'True Detective' Season 3 Recruits 'Batman V Superman' Actor Scoot McNairy

‘True Detective’ Season 3 Recruits ‘Batman V Superman’ Actor Scoot McNairy The third season of HBO’sTrue Detectivehas added another solid character actor to its ranks. A new report says thatScoot McNairy, a modern “that guy” who you’ve likely seen in a dozen things over the past few years, has joined Oscar-winnerMahershala Ali,SelmastarCarmen Ejogo, and e-cigarette salesmanStephen Dorfffor the newest season of the divisive crime drama. Read more about the latestTrue Detectiveseason 3 cast addition below....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 379 words · Melinda Sanchez

'Us' Twist Ending Explained By Director Jordan Peele

‘Us’ Twist Ending Explained By Director Jordan Peele You’ve seenUsby now, right? It’s been out for a couple of weeks, and people can’t stop talking about all its twists and turns. Still, if you’ve yet to seeJordan Peele’s mind-bending horror film, and havealsomanaged to avoid spoilers up until now, you might want to turn back this instance. For everyone else, continue on to hear Peele’s own thoughts on why theUsending had to happen the way it did....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 504 words · Anthony Johnson

Beast Trailer: It's Idris Elba Vs. A Man-Eating Lion

Beast Trailer: It’s Idris Elba Vs. A Man-Eating Lion First there was “Jaws,” the Steven Spielberg classic that scared the pants off countless moviegoers (and beach-goers!) and singlehandedly turned great whites into the stuff of nightmares for an entire generation. Then, there was “Jurassic Park,” which managed to override all of our scientifically-based notions about dinosaurs to that point (I hate to break it to any readers here, but there’s no proof that T-Rex vision was based on movement, dilophosaurus were capable of spitting venom, or that velociraptors were six-foot-tall killing machines....

July 23, 2025 · 3 min · 558 words · Jesus Gonzalez

Benicio Del Toro Not In 'Star Trek' Sequel After All? Khan Still Rumored As Villain

Benicio Del Toro Not In ‘Star Trek’ Sequel After All? Khan Still Rumored As Villain Here’s the downside to trying to develop a highly-anticipated movie in secret, as practiced byJ.J. Abrams: rumors will always poke holes whatever shroud producers, directors and studios attempt to draw around a film. For the last few weeks we’ve been under the impression thatBenicio Del Torowould be intheStar Treksequel that Abrams is prepping right now, and the persistent speculation has been that he would play Khan....

July 23, 2025 · 2 min · 309 words · Peggy Cuevas