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When we think of monsters on this channel, most of the time its from a fictional, mythical, or legendary monster like the Mummy, Wolfman, Dracula, or Frankenstein’s Monster. On this specific show, however, a Monster can take on a whole new meaning. I joke that half of these episodes will be about reportedly true possessions and while that will probably hold fast, there is another type of monster we have discussed a few times. The guy that loosely inspired the Scream killings, Henry from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and today’s subject Aileen Wuornos. The movie made about her is literally called Monster and put director Patty Jenkins and star Charlize Theron, at least in terms of her being seen as an A list actor who can actually act, on the map. It’s a straightforward telling of a murderer that of course adds nuance and even...

The episode of Revisited covering Idle Hands was Written by Emilie Black, Narrated by Niki Minter, and Edited by Ric Solomon, Produced by Tyler Nichols and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

1999, Y2K was pending, some folks were freaking out about it while most teens couldn’t be bothered. Things that stressed our parents didn’t worry us one bit and things we stressed about they found silly. Escape was found, as before and as still is, in horror movies. That year saw a few big releases, some great fun ones like eXistenZ, Deep Blue Sea, and Lake Placid, some that were meant to be great like Virus, The Haunting and The Astronaut’s Wife, and a whole lot of middle of the road titles like The Bone Collector, Resurrection, and From Dusk Till Dawn 2. The world was covered in the ooey, gooey goodness of horror and its special effects.

Cole Sprouse began acting when he was 6 months old and has been in the public eye ever since. While his roles came with some hefty paychecks, Sprouse also gave up a lot. Now, Sprouse is saying that he “pretty much lost everything” he made from his early roles because of his mom.

Cole Sprouse’s early career

Cole Sprouse entered the world of acting alongside his identical twin brother, Dylan. The two shared almost all of their roles.

According to IMDb, the actor, with his brother, portrayed Patrick Kelly on the television series Grace Under Fire from 1993 to 1998. Soon after that, they appeared on the big screen with Adam Sandler in the hit movie Big Daddy.

Fans will definitely recognize Sprouse as Ben Geller, the son of Ross and his ex-wife Carol on Friends, another role that was shared with his twin. They also had a part in the movie The Astronaut’s Wife.

Following several network cancelations and subsequent announcements that the canceled shows would be dropped from HBO Max, Warner Bros. Discovery has signed a content deal with Roku and Tubi to house its new, free, ad-supported channels. Tubi, owned by Fox, will add over 225 ad-supported video-on-demand channels from Warner Bros. Discovery and 14 free ad-supported streaming television (Fast), including three brand-named channels, WB TV Reality, WB TV Series and WB TV Family made to house popular series such as Westworld, The Nevers, The Bachelor, Raised By Wolves, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Cake Boss, Say Yes to the Dress, F-Boy Island, among others. Additional AVOD and Fast channel content on Tubi will include films such as The Astronaut’s Wife, For Your Consideration, and Lord of the Flies. Roku made a similar deal and is sated to create branded channels for a few of the aforementioned shows as well. Both services tout housing about...

Johnny Depp broke into Hollywood by appearing in popular films like "Platoon," and "Nightmare on Elm Street," but he became a star in 1987 when he portrayed Officer Tom Hanson in "21 Jump Street." Uncomfortable with the idea of being a teen magazine pinup, Depp spent the next few decades accepting roles in films that were outside of the mainstream, like, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," "The Ninth Gate," and "The Astronaut's Wife." Depp stepped back into the spotlight in 2003 when he accepted the role of Jack Sparrow in Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl."

In the beginning, Disney executives were skeptical about Depp's staggering, slurring portrayal of Sparrow, but audiences fell in love with the character. Eventually, his audacious and unpredictable behavior became the main focus of the films, but that is not what the original director ever intended. In a 2012 interview with IGN, director Gore Verbinski...

The long, five-year wait is finally over: Kendrick Lamar has dropped new album, Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. The 18-song set record is the follow-up to 2017’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Damn. and marks the rapper’s final LP for his longtime label, Top Dawg Entertainment.

Spread over two discs, the rapper’s fifth studio album boasts appearances from a wide variety of collaborators — including Portishead’s Beth Gibbons, R&b singer Summer Walker, singer-songwriter Sampha, Baby Keem, Ghostface Killah, Kodak Black and Thundercat. It also features writing and production contributions from Pharrell,...

Fresh from his Netflix success with “Ride or Die”, a film that everyone seems to have seen for different reasons, Ryuichi Hiroki continues his exploration of the concept of crime and punishment in a completely different setting, the closed community of a small fictional island.

“Noise” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival

The story is adapted from the homonymous manga by Tetsuya Tsutsui and begins with a middle-aged local driving a stranger around the island, before the latter strangles him for no apparent reason. A bit later, the stranger ends up in the property of Keita Izumi, the “star of the island”, since his black figs are about to feature on a TV program that also comes with a big government grant that will help the declining economy of the area. The first interaction ends up without any happenings, but soon Keita’s daughter disappears. The aggravated father...

From the director’s statement regarding the film: “Last year I lost one of my closest friends. Kuriki Nobukazu, who was a well-known mountain climber, died during his 8th attempt to climb Mount Everest. My first encounter with Mr. Kuriki was the premiere of Noise, the first feature film I directed. He praised my first feature film, and since then we often met and talked. We decided to make a documentary film of Mr. Kuriki attempting to climb Everest.

For the filming I went to Everest with my Dp (Director of Photography) Kishi Kentaro, but on May 21st, 2018, Kuriki Nobukazu died during his descent after deciding to abandon his attempt to continue climbing due to illness. I also came down with altitude sickness and had to be taken to the hospital via an air ambulance.

I’m still not sure if I can accept my friend’s death by making this film,...

When teen couple, Sam and Jackie, accidentally stumble upon a ghoulish party on Halloween night, they’re challenged by the devilish Johnny to a supernatural drag race. This is the premise behind Boneyard Racers, a horror-inspired fantasy short which has won or been nominated for dozens of awards the world over. Starring Thomas Kassian (Noise, Hot …

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Projects to receive funding include Tim Mielants’ Second World War drama ’Will’

Koen Mortier and Tim Mielants are among the Flemish directors to receive support for their new film projects in the latest round of investments made by Screen Flanders, which were announced today (Jan 17).

Mortier, the director of cult hit Ex-Drummer, is to receive €50,000 for his new feature Skunk, about a dysfunctional family scarred by alcohol, sex and violence. Their life is seen through the eyes of a young hero, Liam, a neglected teenager.

Mortier will again be working with leading Flemish cinematographer Nicolas Karakatsanis, whose US credits include Cruella and I,...

One of the first films I ever covered in my career was The Signal (2007), which was co-directed by David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry, so it’s been a real pleasure to follow this trio’s career paths over the last 13 or so years. And Gentry’s latest directorial endeavor, Broadcast Signal Intrusion, celebrated its world premiere earlier this week as part of the 2021 edition of the SXSW Film Festival.

Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Gentry about his involvement with Broadcast Signal Intrusion, infusing this fictional story with real-world elements, utilizing the year 1999 as the backdrop for this paranoia-fueled tech thriller, his experiences collaborating with the film’s star Harry Shum Jr., and more.

Great to speak with you again, Jacob. I know this is based on a real occurrence that happened in Chicago in the late '80s, which is where I grew up.

Laura Mvula has released a new song, “Church Girl,” from her upcoming album, Pink Noise, which is set to arrive July 2nd via Atlantic Records.

“Church Girl” boasts a big, glossy beat that feels taken straight from the Eighties, and it finds Mvula confronting the doubts that came after the acclaim that accompanied her first two albums didn’t necessarily materialize into serious success. “How can you dance with the devil on your back?” Mvula belts during the punchy chorus, “How can you move?/Caught up in a picture-perfect/That will never last.

Under the slogan “Film Goes On,” the Jeonju International Film Festival sets off to prepare for this year’s festival on April 49, unveiling four Jeonju Cinema Project titles for this year. Jeonju Cinema Project is revealed before any other sections of the 22nd edition.

Jeonju Cinema Project is a significant section of Jeonju Iff, which provides production support for creative and experimental features and documentary films. Completed projects are world premiered at Jeonju Iff each year. For this year, two Korean and two international films were selected as Jeonju Cinema Project titles: The Man with High Hopes directed by Min Hwan-ki, Hug directed by Im Heung-soon, Outside Noise directed by Ted Fendt, and A Flower In the Mouth directed by Éric Baudelaire.

Min Hwan-ki’s The Man with High Hopes is a documentary film about the late Korean politician Roh Hoe-chan, who devoted his life to social justice. The film...

Don DeLillo’s rarely been adapted for film and Noah Baumbach’s never adapted a novel*. Does that make them certain bedfellows? Well, no, probably not even a little bit—different fixations, ways of weighing the world, and, I think most crucially, senses of humor. Which could be just the stuff for a worthwhile moment in time and good reason Baumbach is, confirming rumors we heard in recent months, adapting DeLillo’s seminal novel White Noise. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig will star, Netflix produces, and per a Production Weekly listing (filtered via Jason Osia on Twitter), shooting commences in June.

A campus satire / oddball marriage comedy / horror story about industrialization, White Noise concerns Jack Gladney (that’ll be Driver), professor of Hitler studies at the university referred to only as (again: campus satire) The-College-on-the-Hill. His life as teacher of Hitler, husband to Babette (Gerwig), and father to four children...

EntertainmentNetflix has announced that they will be releasing new, unseen films every week in 2021.Tnm StaffPIXABAYOn Tuesday, Netflix announced that it will release a whopping 71 movies through the course of the year. The lineup has movies starring A-list actors like Leonardo Dicapirio, Gal Gadot, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson and more. Netflix has promised its users new films released every week. Among them is Red Notice starring Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds; Don’t Look Up, a political satire disaster film featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence; and the zombie apocalypse film Army of the Dead. After his hit movie Extraction, Chris Hemsworth’s upcoming sci-fi thriller Escape From Spiderhead is also a part of the line-up. The teen romance novel adaptationsTo All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Kissing Booth will have their third instalments releasing this year as well, with To All the Boys: Always and Forever,...

One teenager’s collision course with an unavoidable fate highlights the Hulu original “The Ultimate Playlist of Noise.” The film revolves around a high school senior whose world is turned upside down by a serious diagnosis. What unfolds afterward is a quest to create something lasting, ultimately finding meaning in the very things he took for granted.

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Directed by Bennett Lasseter and written by Mitchell Winkie, ‘Noise’ is yet another addition to the growing list of originals for the service.

Continue reading ‘The Ultimate Playlist Of Noise’ Trailer: An Ailing Teen Creates His Bucklist Playlist In Hulu’s YA Film at The Playlist.

In the first trailer for “Chaos Walking,” Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley live in a dystopian world where a force called The Noise allows all living creatures to hear everyone else’s thoughts and feelings.

Ridley however is the last woman alive in this world, and she may be the source of the mysterious Noise.

Lionsgate is releasing “Chaos Walking,” which is directed by Doug Liman and is based on the trilogy of YA sci-fi novels by author Patrick Ness. And though many labeled the novels as somewhat “unfilmable” because of its unusual premise about information overload flooding the minds of young people, this first trailer shows the ambition on display, with Ridley explaining how strange it is to not just hear but see everything Holland is thinking.

“You know it’s strange for me too not knowing everything that’s going on in your head. I don’t know,...

Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley in the trailer for Lionsgate’s upcoming sci-fi movie, “Chaos Walking,” set for theatrical release on Jan. 22.

The film is based on Patrick Ness’ book “Chaos Walking: The Knife of Never Letting Go,” the first iteration of a trilogy set in a dystopian world where every living creature can hear each other’s thoughts.

In a not-too-distant dystopian future, all women in the world have died and the remaining men have been stricken by “The Noise,” a strange power that puts all their thoughts on display. One day, a mysterious girl named Violet (Ridley) crash lands on the planet and is discovered by a boy named Todd Hewitt (Holland), who vows to protect her. Along their journey, Todd discovers his own hidden power and unlocks the dark secrets of the past.

Doug Liman directed the movie, while Allison Shearmur and Doug Davison produced. The screenplay was written by Charlie Kaufman,...

Half a decade ago, the ascendance of the alt-right was about as plausible as the election of Donald Trump, and we all know how that worked out. Like the 2016 election, director Daniel Lombroso’s provocative alt-right portrait “White Noise” isn’t all that surprising, but that doesn’t lessen the terror within. In capturing the racist trifecta of alt-right pundits Mike Cernovich, Laura Southern, and Richard Spencer, the documentary shows how they became emboldened by celebrity stature, and comes so close to letting them run the show it risks trumpeting their cause. Fortunately, it doesn’t take the most discerning bullshit detector to realize that “White Noise” has been engineered to expose a fundamental danger to whatever moral fabric America has left.

However, for the lucky few who somehow avoided any of this movie’s subjects and their small armies of white nationalist devotees, “White Noise” provides a handy primer...

Neil Young isn’t releasing his 10-disc collection Archives Volume 2: 1972-1976 until November 22nd, but paid subscribers of The Neil Young Archives website now have access to the previously unreleased song “Come Along and Say You Will.”

The tune was recorded at Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch on December 15th, 1972 with drummer Kenny Buttrey, bassist Tim Drummond, and pedal steel guitarist Ben Keith. They were weeks away from launching an extensive North American tour where Young would debut several new songs that ultimately wound up on the 1973 live album Time Fades Away.

Exclusive: Prolific author James Patterson has inked a first-look deal with Sharp Objects studio eOne and has set an adaptation of his upcoming novel The Noise as the first project through the deal.

He has signed the deal via his production company James Patterson Entertainment, which has previous credits on series including CBS drama Instinct and Zoo and Netflix’s recent Jeffrey Epstein mini-series.

The deal will include television and new media, including scripted and unscripted with eOne managing worldwide rights and serving as the studio on all projects under the partnership.

James Patterson Entertainment previously struck a first-look deal with CBS Television Studios back in 2014.

His upcoming book The Noise, a thriller surrounding a deadly scientific mystery, will be the first project development under the deal. The book, which is set to be released next year, is told through the eyes of two young sisters living in the Oregon...

Neil Young’s 2019 European summer tour with Promise of the Real will be chronicled with a double album and concert film titled Noise and Flowers, which is slated for an early 2021 release.

The nine-date tour kicked off June 29th in Odense, Denmark, just eight days after the death of Elliot Roberts, Young’s manager of over 50 years. “[Daryl Hannah] and I were on the bus, on our way to New York to catch a plane to Europe, when we got the call,” Young wrote on the Neil Young Archives. “After...

The New York State Department of Health is investigating a concert headlined by the Chainsmokers in the Hamptons over the weekend, which appeared to violate social distancing and other Covid-19 guidelines.

The Safe and Sound charity event was touted as a drive-in concert where guests would be allowed to sit outside their cars in designated areas that were at least six feet apart. The Chainsmokers headlined the show, which also featured performances from DJ D-Sol — the stage name of Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon — singer-songwriter Matt White, and Southampton town...

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Yusaku Matsumoto was born in Kobe in 1992. He entered the Osaka Visual Arts College and started directing commercials when he was 21. He is also the director of Extreme Vr. “Noise” is his film debut and was officially invited to the 41st Montreal World Film Festival and 25th Raindance Film Festival. We speak with him about the film, Akihabara, extreme crimes and the motives behind them, Kokoro Shinozaki and other topics.

The film uses the Akihabara Massacre as its base, and I read that you have a personal connection to the incident. Could you tell us a bit about that?

At the same time of the Akihabara indiscriminate killing case, a friend of mine, a high school student committed suicide. Suicide with suicide. Although these two events are completely unrelated, I felt there was a link to the junior high school student. That was the...

Berlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal has acquired Colombian film “Night of the Beast,” produced by Fidelio Films and directed by Mauricio Leiva-Cock — the emerging showrunner behind Netflix’s “Green Frontier” and Movistar’s “Capital Noise.”

Leiva-Cock’s debut feature, “Night of the Beast,” is an urban road trip that follows two Bogota teenagers trying to get into the first Iron Maiden concert in Colombia, a historic event that had been awaited for three decades by fans of the metal band which eventually came to pass in 2008 in the Colombian capital. Metalheads of all ages pawned their instruments and saved for months to get the tickets.

Still in post-production, the film features a soundtrack of songs from Iron Maiden such as “Aces High” and “The Trooper” alongside Colombian metal bands like Vein, Agony, Masacre, Darkness, La Pestilencia and others.

Vargas and Chuki, the lead characters, cross the city in what comes across...

Anthrax will mark the 30th anniversary of their fifth album, Persistence of Time with a comprehensive reissue that features many previously unreleased tracks. The original album featured a generally darker, more brooding sound for the thrash-metal group, as well as a hit cover of Joe Jackson’s “Got the Time”

The deluxe edition, which will come out on August 21st, will be available either as a set with two CDs and a DVD or as four LPs; it will not be available digitally.

The reissue will feature the original album,...

Johnny Depp‘s career has been filled with wonderful movies like What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, Edward Scissorhands and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Unfortunately, though, it’s also been filled with a handful of stinkers like The Astronaut’s Wife, The Ninth Gate and Mortdecai. Yet, it’s somewhere in between these two vastly different levels of quality where you can find some of Depp’s most interesting work, even if the material itself doesn’t make for the best of his films.

One of the famous actor’s appearances that hovers in the realm of underrated movies is 2009’s Public Enemies, which was directed by Michael Mann and stars other great actors like Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard and Jason Clarke. For those unfamiliar with the pic, it’s an American biographical crime drama that adapts the story of Bryan Burrough’s non-fiction novel, Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime...

HBO has set not one, but three showrunners for J.J. Abrams’ upcoming sci-fi drama series “Demimonde.”

Kira Snyder (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and producing partners Rand Ravich and Far Shariat (“Life”) are all acting as co-showrunners and executive producers on the project, which follows a family searching for their missing child.

All three are under over-all deals with the network. Synder just signed one while Ravich and Shariat are extending their existing one.

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Channel 4’s “Jerusalem” creator Bash Doran was previously set at showrunner and executive producer back in June of 2018, but exited the project last year.

Now, Abrams will write and executive produce along with with Snyder, Shariat, and Ravich. Ben Stephenson will also executive produce, and Rachel Rusch Rich is a co-executive producer.

Snyder is an executive producer on Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale.

J.J. Abrams has tapped a trio of showrunners to head “Demimonde,” his mysterious sci-fi drama at HBO, Variety has confirmed.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” executive producer Kira Snyder, and “Life” duo Rand Ravich and Far Shariat have been chosen to co-showrun the project.

Plot details for “Demimonde,” which was the subject of a bidding war between HBO and Apple, are still being kept under tight wraps, but the series is described as an epic and intimate sci-fi fantasy drama that deals with a world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force, exploring the lengths a family will go to find their missing child. Abrams will write and executive produce, with Ben Stephenson–head of television for Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions–also serving as an executive producer.

The series will be produced by Bad Robot in association with Warner Bros. Television and HBO. Bad Robot and Abrams are currently under a bumper...

Exclusive: Kira Snyder (The Handmaid’s Tale) and longtime producing partners Rand Ravich & Far Shariat (Life) have been named co-showrunners and executive producers of Demimonde, J.J. Abrams’ high-profile sci-fi drama series for HBO.

Snyder has signed an overall deal with HBO, while Ravich and Shariat have renewed their overall pact at the network. The duo first inked an overall deal with HBO in 2018 and have been developing a still-in-contention Game Of Thrones spinoff as well as a series adaptation of the cult classic novel Freaks’ Amour under that agreement.

Demimonde, the first TV series solely created and written by Abrams since Alias, is a sci-fi drama about the lengths a family will go to find their missing child. It hails from Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and HBO.

Snyder, Ravich & Shariat will executive produce with Bad Robot’s Abrams and Ben Stephenson; Rachel Rusch Rich serves as co-executive producer.

Career brought five Oscar nominations.

Allen Daviau, the cinematographer and frequent Steven Spielberg collaborator whose credits included E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and The Color Purple, has died of complications related to coronavirus. He was 77.

Daviau earned five Oscar nominations in his career for the two aforementioned films, as well as for Empire Of The Sun, also for Spielberg, and Barry Levinson’s Bugsy and Avalon.

The cinematographer had been living at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital retirement community in the Los Angeles area.

Born in New Orleans, Daviau moved to Los Angeles and directed many commercials, educational films and documentaries.

At the Moosic Lab 2018, the short film “Made in Japan” by Yusaku Matsumoto was awarded the Audience Award, the Special Jury Prize and a Best Actor Award. The ensemble of actors that Matsumoto has engaged for his fast-paced and extremely concise social satire is indeed extraordinarily impressive. The strength of the film is based on the dynamics between the characters, which in all its compactness makes a relevant and haunting impression.

It all starts when Kyoichi is made aware of an article in the newspaper by a work colleague. A man has been burned alive and the culprit hasn’t been caught yet. In the picture Kyoichi recognizes a former colleague and swaggers about it in the social media. He does not have to wait long for the media to take an interest in him. Since the easy money seems to beckon, Kyoichi agrees to release more and more information about Ikea,...

Mohammad Reza Keivanfar was born in 1985 in the North of Iran, Golestan Province. He was Abbas Kiarostami’s workshop student. He direted several short features selected in many worldwide film festivals, such as, Noise, Death of Lagoons and Diatome (2013), Child Labor (2014) and After Spring in 2017. “Among the Hills” is his debut feature.

On the occasion of “Among the Hills” screening at Fica Vesoul , we speak with him about Abbas Kiarostami, education and fundamentalism, the details of the movie, Iranian cinema and other topics.

Can you tell us about your cooperation with Abbas Kiarostami?

I was post-producing my movie, and I got in touch with Mr. Kiarostami and told him I had a project. He asked me to send it to him and I did. When I got in touch with him, he told me that he was coming to my city, and when I asked him why he told me...

We may remember Independence Day, The Matrix, The Phantom Menace. But what about these forgotten 90s sci-fi films? And are any worth seeing?

Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.

But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.

So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck,...

The saddest part of Mortdecai's abysmal debut this weekend was how expected it seemed to be. Johnny Depp's latest starring vehicle, in which he plays a daffy British bon-vivant jetting around the world to find a stolen masterpiece, aimed to be a kind of Pink Panther-esque caper—but American audiences stayed away in droves, and the critics unloaded. "In the end, we must lay the badness of Mortdecai at the feet of its star," wrote New York's David Edelstein. "I envy Depp’s capacity for self-amusement, but it’s a pity he’s so rich and enbubbled that...

We’ve reviewed every summer movie season since 1980 to find out which are the best, and which are the worst. Last week we posted our picks for the worst, and here we post our picks for the best.

2015 and 2016 may just be the most overthetop summer movie seasons yet. It seems like nearly every movie slated for a summer 2015 or 2016 release is heavily anticipated. Because of these impending summers of movie awesomeness, we’ve decided to take a look back at summer movie seasons of years past. The idea of the summer movie season is currently in full swing, but it didn’t catch on immediately. Hollywood had to do its fair share of experimenting to determine what types of films would be most successful. As a result, some summer movie seasons have been better than others. We’ve reviewed them all for you and ranked them from worst to best.

Our continuing look back at some of the biggest summers we've lived through takes us back 15 years to one of the best recent movie seasons overall. In honor of the 2014 summer movie season, Team HitFix will be delivering a mini-series of articles flashing back to key summers from years past. There will be one each month, diving into the marquee events of the era, their impact on the writer and their implications on today's multiplex culture. We continue today with a look back at the summer of 1999. It was the summer I became Moriarty. To be fair, I had been contributing to Ain't It Cool for a little while already by that point, and I had been slowly but surely embracing the potential of the website and the audience that I was reaching. I had already taken a few trips to Austin, including a memorable stay at the third Quentin Tarantino Film Festival,...

Fighting interstellar war or saving the world from invaders is tough, but it's nowhere near as hard as raising the next generation...

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Please note: this feature has a big spoiler for Armageddon, and light spoilers for Face/Off, Contact, Village Of The Damned, The Astronaut's Wife and Deep Impact.

One look at the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar tells you that it's offering a meal of science fiction with a side order of parental issues, and there’s nothing new about that. The big franchises all dabble in the maternal and paternal, from Star Wars to Alien, Star Trek to Terminator – they address what it means to be responsible for the next generation, and for all the generations to come.

How come sci-fi has such a connection with the issue of parenthood? Perhaps that’s natural, considering it deals with the future of humanity. But it’s...

On Twitter Watch, Donna Murphy wrote 'Once upon a time a witch needed 2 text some1 from the woods. In honor of the new year trying this twitter thing. pic.twitter.com2JZ2X7Zb5DMurphy received the first of her two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as 'Fosca' in Passion. Her second Tony for her portrayal of 'Anna Leonowans' in the 1996 revival of The King and I. Her Daytime Emmy Award came from her first television film, HBO's Someone Had to be Benny.This talented and respected actress has had a diverse career, making a number of appearances on both the big and small screens, working in such films as The Bourne Legacy, Tangled, World Trade Center, Spider-Man 2, The Door in the Floor, Star Trek Insurrection, Center Stage and The Astronaut's Wife. Murphy has also appeared on television shows The Mentalist, Damages, Law amp Order and The Practice.

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The overlooked greats of the year 1998 come under the spotlight in our list of its 25 underappreciated movies...

Dominated as it was by the financial success of two giant killer asteroid movies, gross-out comedy hit There's Something About Mary and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, 1998 proved to be an extraordinary year for cinema.

Okay, so history doesn't look back too fondly on Roland Emmerich's mishandled Godzilla remake, and Lethal Weapon 4 was hardly the best buddy-cop flick ever made, despite its handsome profit. But search outside the top-10 grossing films of that year, and you'll find all kinds of spectacular modern classics: Peter Weir's wonderful The Truman Show, John Frankenheimer's rock-solid thriller Ronin, and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.

Then there was The Big Lebowski, the Coen brothers' sublime comedy that has since become a deserved and oft-quoted cult favourite.

After a trip to the grid in Tron Legacy and to the distant future in Oblivion, Joseph Kosinski is now getting ready to enter a dimension of sound, sight and mind - one of shadow and substance, of things and ideas. Joseph Kosinski is entering The Twilight Zone. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the sci-fi filmmaker is now in on-going discussions with Warner Bros. to direct the new, long-in-development Twilight Zone movie. This is the first news we've heard about the project getting a director since Matt Reeves signed on all the way back in October of 2011 (he eventually moved on to make the upcoming Dawn of the Planet of the Apes). While the project has seen a number of screenwriters attached over the years - including Rand Ravich (The Astronaut's Wife), Jason Rothenberg, Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes), and Joby Harold (Awake) - the script is getting yet another makeover...

The Fall TV Season presentations for all the new network shows take place this week with the first announced today. Here's a full breakdown of which concepts have made the final list over on NBC.

The Peacock did not have a good year. Only one of its new shows, "Revolution," was a true hit. Another, "Chicago Fire," got renewed by the skin of its teeth whilst the fate of a third, "Hannibal," remains uncertain.

None of last year's new comedies survived, neither did two mid-season dramas, which leaves the network with some big holes to fill. Three dramas and three comedies will debut in the Fall ahead of three more dramas and two comedies mid-season. Two further dramas and a comedy are presently unscheduled.

Several other pilots didn't make the final cut and won't become series including the high-profile Charlize Theron-produced drama about the Hatfields and McCoys, the Bruckheimer-produced...

There was a time when Charlize Theron was just another pretty face in Hollywood. Sure, she'd scored roles opposite hot leading men like Keanu Reeves in The Devil's Advocate, Johnny Depp in The Astronaut's Wife, and Ben Affleck in Reindeer Games, but none of these movies made audiences or critics take notice of Theron's skills as an actress. Then came 2003's Monster, a biopic about serial killer Aileen Wuornos in which Theron stripped away all the glamor and gorgeousness we associate with her, and in doing so redefined her career. She won the Oscar for the movie, and notably, it was one she formed off-camera as well as on, producing the pic under her Denver and Delilah banner. Since then Denver and Delilah Productions has created a handful of films, including the wickedly funny R-rated comedy Young Adult, wherein Theron awed critics with her grown up mean girl role. Next...

"The function of life is survival."

Whether you love the works of best-selling author Stephenie Meyer or not, there's no denying the incredible influence her Twilight series of books, and the movies based on them, has had on the horror genre and vampires, in particular. Meyer's tale of the star-crossed lovers Edward and Bella transformed the concept of vampires as unholy, unclean monsters to be feared and reviled into beautiful, tragic creatures capable of undying love. And, if the new movie based on one of her books, The Host, is successful, Meyer might well accomplish the same thing with alien invaders that she accomplished with vampires, ushering in a new wave of romantic alien possession movies.

Until then, we are left with the legacy of the invading lifeforms that want to take over our bodies and minds in alien possession movies being the stuff of nightmares, rather than of fairy tales: malevolent,...

Over the last century, the world of science fiction has managed to predict and shape the future with surprising regularity. Masters like "Star Trek"'s Gene Roddenberry, "2001"'s Arthur C. Clarke and the late, great Ray Bradbury correctly foresaw innovations like the personal computer, cell phones and commercial space flight. But today we have a new giveaway so amazing, even those legendary fabulists couldn't possibly have thought it up: Seven sci-fi films on Blu-ray, absolutely free.

Man, is living in the future awesome or what?

So just which films will our one lucky winner get to spend the rest of their own future with? Well, how about "The Astronaut's Wife," which teams up Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron for the sexiest look at our space program ever put together? Or Michael Crichton's classic medical thriller "Coma," which stars a young Michael Douglas as a doctor investigating a mysterious new illness?...

In all honesty, the only item I would point you toward this week with any level of seriousness is Margaret, but more on that in a second. Probably even more important is the 50% off sale going on over at Barnes and Noble where the majority of their in-stock Criterion Collection titles are all 50% off. I've taken advantage of this sale in the past and if you'd like to see if anything meets your approval just click here to browse their selection. If you're wondering how much money you can save, it's different depending on the title. For example, the recently released Samurai Trilogy is $34.99 at Barnes right now while it's $47.96 at Amazon. Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush is $19.99 at Barnes and $28.95 at Amazon. One of my all-time favorites, Breathless, is $19.99 at Barnes and $23.98 at Amazon and The Seven Samurai is $24.99 at Barnes and $34.95 at Amazon. So, yes, it's a deal.

This week: Stifler and the rest of his East Great Falls gang reunite for a wild weekend of MILFs and memories in "American Reunion," the third and final sequel in the theatrical "American Pie" comedy franchise.

Also new this week is a return to form for Robert De Niro in "Being Flynn," Anna Paquin in the long-delayed "Margaret," plus the Blu-ray debuts of "Altered States" and "Chariots of Fire."

'American Reunion'

Box Office: $57 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 43% Rotten

Storyline: The gang of East Great Falls reunites in this fourth and final theatrical "American Pie" movie. Twelve years after graduating from high school, Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) have gotten married, Oz (Chris Klein) is an NFL sportscaster that grew apart from Heather (Mena Suvari), Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Vicky (Tara Reid) have split, while Stifler (Seann William Scott) continues to suffer from prolonged arrested development. Meanwhile,...

While working on Shutter Island, producer Brad Fischer, writer Laeta Kalogridis and star Leonardo DiCaprio were all taken with Jack El-Hai's book The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness. The tome is a history of Walter Freeman, the doctor who was the first proponent of the frontol lobotomy in the United States. He developed the trans-orbital lobotomy method, using a tool derived from a standard kitchen ice pick [1]. (As seen in Brad Anderson's film Session 9.) The Fischer/Kalogridis/DiCaprio trio were interested enough that they optioned the book and brought it to HBO as possible fodder for a series. Now a drama is in the works, called The Lobotomist, and Robert Schwentke (Red, The Astronaut's Wife, R.I.P.D.) will direct the pilot from a script by Daniel Thomsen. Variety [2] has the news, saying that the fate of the potential series is not yet set.

Currently with $10.63 million at the North American box office, The Rum Diary has the dubious distinction of possibly ending up as the biggest Johnny Depp flop in "very wide" release — movies screened at more than 2,000 locations. Among 38 Johnny Depp titles found on Box Office Mojo's inflation-adjusted list, The Rum Diary ranks no. 31. With luck, The Rum Diary will ultimately settle somewhere between What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Astronaut's Wife, and Cry-Baby. With inflation-adjusted box-office totals ranging between $15m-$19m, those are all releases from the 1990s — before Depp became a worldwide box-office superstar as a result of Gore Verbinski's international blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in 2003. In case The Rum Diary manages to outgross The Astronaut's Wife, it'll be Depp's second-lowest-grossing movie in "very wide" release. In order to achieve that feat, The Rum Diary will have...

With a nearly unprecedented hold, Puss in Boots easily claimed first place for the second straight weekend. Openers Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas both came in on the low end of expectations, though neither was an outright disappointment. Overall box office was down at least 20 percent from the same frame last year, when Megamind and Due Date opened to $46 million and $32.7 million, respectively. Puss in Boots eased just three percent to $33.04 million in its second frame. That's the smallest non-Holiday drop ever for a saturated release (2,500+ theaters), and also smallest for a very wide release (2,000+ theaters) since My Dog Skip gained 3 percent in its second wide weekend in 2000. The miniscule decline can be attributed in part to suppressed grosses last weekend from Halloween distractions and inclement weather in the Northeast, though solid word-of-mouth (it received an "A-" CinemaScore last weekend) was surely a factor as well.