Rotten Tomatoes Could Further Tighten Audience Review Guidelines Against Trolls Following the deluge of negative posts on theCaptain MarvelRotten Tomatoes user page,Rotten Tomatoestook serious measures to secure its website against malicious trolls looking to skew a movie’s audience rating. But that may have just been the beginning of Rotten Tomatoes' countermeasures against potential user sabotage. The review aggregator website is considering further changes to the Rotten Tomatoes audience review guidelines to combat trolls that have been targeting films likeCaptain Marvel, Black Panther, Ghostbusters, and evenStar Wars: Episode 9....

Sam Raimi Can Make A Dennis Lehane Adaptation Too Sam Raimihas signed on to develop and direct a big screen adaptation ofDennisLehane’sThe Given Dayfor Columbia Pictures. Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, Dennis Lehane’s long awaited eighth novel tells the story of two families – one black and one white – swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists; immigrants and ward bosses; Brahmins and “ordinary” citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power....

Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Man Down’ Sells Just One Ticket In The UK Man Down, indeed.Shia LaBeouf’s post-apocalyptic war thriller may have opened in the United States last year to negative reviews and an anemic $454,490 but that’s much better than the mere £7 thatMan Downmade in the United Kingdom on its opening weekend. That’s the equivalent one movie ticket. Though to be fair, the UK wasn’t givingMan Downmuch of a chance. According toVariety, LaBeouf’s film premiered in a single UK theater — Reel Cinema in Burnley — over the weekend, to which presumably one person bought a ticket....

Steven Spielberg Working With Microsoft On Live-Action ‘Halo’ TV Series [Updated] Microsoft is announcing the new Xbox, calledXbox One, right now, and is promoting the box as an all-in-one home entertainment solution. As part of the hardware announcement, the company has been touting new ways to interact with television, gaming, and other content. We’ve known that Xbox Live has been planning to move into some of the original TV space that Netflix has been doing, and now we know what the vehicle will be: a live-actionHaloTV series, with involvement fromSteven Spielberg....

Superhero Bits: Man Of Steel, The Avengers, Dark Knight Rises, X-Men Days Of Future Past, Iron Man 3, Guardians Of The Galaxy Where can you download a full look at theFor Your Considerationads forThe Dark Knight Rises? Has theMan of Steeltrailer been sweded? What doSupermanandBatmanthink of it? Want to see someIron Man 3toys? DidJames Gunndelete a tweet regarding casting ofGuardians of the Galaxy? Want to read, and hear,Joss WhedontalkingS.H.I.E.L.D, Avengers 2andThe Avengers?...

Superhero Bits: The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, Robot Chicken, X-Men, Batman Want to learn all about the inner workings of the webshooters inThe Amazing Spider-Man? When doesKevin FeigethinkBlack Widowwill return to the Marvel universe? Have people broken down the latestDark Knight Risestrailer? How doesThorreturn to Earth inThe Avengers? Which stars are providing their voices to the DC themedRobot Chickenepisode? Has someone created a Marvel Universe drinking game? And willMark Ruffaloreveal the details of a deleted scene fromThe Avengers?...

The Godfather Is Heading Back To Theaters In 4K Just when you thought you were out, “The Godfather” pulls you back in. It’s been almost a full half-century since Francis Ford Coppola’s mob epic, widely considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time, first came to movie theaters. After premiering in New York, “The Godfather” went into wide release in the U.S. on June 16, 2025. It’s one of the all-time greats, yet there’s a whole generation of moviegoers who never got the chance to see it on the big screen....

The Morning Watch: Making Of Spider-Man: No Way Home VFX, Nicolas Cage Replies To Fans Online & More (The Morning Watchis a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fan-made productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.) In this edition, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” visual effects supervisor Kelly Port gives an inside look at all of the incredible computer-generated imagery that made the movie come to life....

Theory: How The Marvel Cinematic Story Might Connect Through Phase 3 We’re all curious to see just what Marvel has planned for the next couple films in its current cycle, and then for the nine-film Phase Three. And we’ve resisted learning too much aboutAvengers: Age of Ultron, so we’re happily in the speculation camp with most of you. And for those who haven’t been Marvel Comics fans for a long time, the films announced this week might seem like a disparate bunch of stories....

Tobey Maguire Dishes On Potential Spider-Man 4 Delay Earlier this week, wereported onpossible production delays forSpider-Man 4which pushed the film off of its May 5th, 2011 release date, and to a potential July date instead. ThatThorwas also scheduled for that May 5th weekend probably also made that date less than ideal. Now we havesome detailsfrom the star of franchise, Tobey Maguire — who doesn’t seem too worried about any production problems....

Tom Hanks Heading Back To Space As Mattel Action Figure Major Matt Mason Tom Hanksfailed to land on the moon in the real life story ofApollo 13in 1995. But Paramount Pictures will soon have the Oscar winner spend plenty of time on the lunar surface thanks to a new feature film inspired by a classic Mattel action figure.Major Matt Masonis an astronaut action figure who was created in the 1960s when the United States was competing with the Soviet Union in the heated space race to be the first to land on the moon....

TV Bits: ‘American Horror Story’ Season 7 Tease, ‘Preacher’ Posters, BBC’s ‘War Of The Worlds’, & More In this edition of TV Bits: AMC has unveiled some new posters for the upcoming second season ofPreacher, which finally moves past the prequel storytelling in season one and enters territory fans of the comics are familiar with. I nearly gave up on season one, but now that the show has settled into a groove, I have a good feeling about season 2....

Uma Thurman To Star In AppleTV+ Kidnapping Series ‘Suspicion’ Uma Thurman(Pulp Fiction,Kill Bill) is heading to AppleTV+. The actress is set to star inSuspicion, which is not thelong-gestating remakeof the Alfred Hitchcock film, but instead is a remake of an Israeli television series calledFalse Flag. Get the details about the new “high-paced thriller” below. In a press release, AppleTV+ explains the premise of the new Uma Thurman-starring series: “Suspicion” is a high-paced thriller about the kidnapping of the son of a prominent American businesswoman, played by Uma Thurman....