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A poor script, bad direction, and lack of story combined to land a major blow to 20th Century Fox’s plan to secure the fate of a key franchise. Controversial director Josh Trank‘s Fantastic Four opened to a dismal $26.2 million from 3,995 theaters at the North American box office after being rejected by …

The fan-favorite journeys from the hit-animated series The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra continues with the Dark Horse books. This September, get ready for a double dose of the Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korrauniverse as Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru present the first chapter of Avatar: The Last Airbender—Smoke and Shadow and Bryan …

Warner Bros. Pictures, Hasbro’s Allspark Pictures and Sweetpea Entertainment are moving forward on a feature film franchise based on Dungeons & Dragons, the world’s most popular role playing game. Hasbro’s Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis, Courtney Solomon and Allan Zeman of Sweetpea Entertainment, and Roy Lee (“The LEGO Movie,” “How …

Over the weekend, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation opened to a better-than-expected $56 million in North America in a needed win for Cruise, whose star status has diminished outside of the spy series over the past decade. The movie, fueled by males (62 percent) and older moviegoers, easily came in No. 1. …

A deadly threat resurfaces halfway around the world when giant, man-eating worms attack a South African wildlife park in the sci-fi comedy, Tremors 5: Bloodlines, available on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on October 6, 2015 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Michael Gross (“Family Ties,” “Suits,”) returns as Graboid hunter extraordinaire Burt Gummer, with Jamie Kennedy (“The …

IMAX Corporation and EuropaCorp announced that The Transporter Refueled, the re-imagining of the successful trilogy in the studio’s highly profitable action franchise, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format and released into IMAX theatres domestically on Sept. 4, followed by a select international footprint in IMAX theatres. Starring newcomer Ed …

Ant-Man narrowly beat Adam Sandler‘s new action-comedy, Pixels, at the North American box office in another blow for Sandler, whose standing at the multiplex has been on the wane. Pixels debuted to an estimated $24 million from 3,723 theaters, not a good start for a summer tentpole that cost Sony and its financing partners at …

Another thrill-filled season of television’s most “deliciously deranged” (Matt Roush, TVInsider.com) series, Bates Motel: Season 3 comes to Blu-ray and DVD on October 13, 2015 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Starring Emmy and Oscar-nominee Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Conjuring) and Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Spiderwick Chronicles), Bates Motel has “…evolved into a deftly acted story of …

It’s fright lights, big city when the Monster High ghouls head to Boo York! Cleo de Nile is invited to attend a fancy gala celebrating the return of a magical comet and, of course, she brings along her beast friends. But their trip isn’t all fun and frightseeing because Nefera, Cleo’s sister, uses …

Credited for helping to modernize the Western genre when it premiered in 2011, the top-rated AMC mainstay, “Hell on Wheels”, enters its fifth and final season this July.  In the first seven episodes being aired in 2015, the rough and tumble drama delves into the conflicts between the Central Pacific …