Road House is currently streaming on Prime Video, but the film’s director, Doug Liman, wishes audiences were watching it in theaters. According to the acclaimed filmmaker, Amazon is “giving audiences the shaft” by not hosting the film on the silver screen, and he feels as if he’s lost a public battle for the project’s worth. In a video posted by Casey Neistat, the notable YouTube sensation gets Liman’s uncensored version of the story and chronicles the director’s trip to the Road House premiere, which, adding insult to injury, takes place in a packed theater.

When Neistat and Liman meet in the room where the sound for Road House was mixed, it becomes apparent that Liman designed the film for theaters. Different studio spaces represent different mixing environments. If a movie will stream in living rooms, sound engineers mix the audio in a smaller space to replicate living room environments. Liman’s sound team mixed the audio for Road House in a theater-style space, lending weight to his argument that he designed the feature for cinemas.

“I was in a shop in Aspen, and Jeff Bezos, who I don’t know, came riding in on a horse into the store with a cowboy hat,” Doug Liman, who also wears a cowboy hat in the video, tells Niastat. “I’m kind of at war with Amazon. It wasn’t lost on me the scale difference of Jeff Bezos on his huge friggin’ horse in the middle of this store with his cowboy hat.”

Liman discusses the difference between independent filmmaking and answering to higher powers for big-budget projects as their chin-wag continues. Liman says Hollywood plays by a different rule book than indie filmmakers shooting a project without limits. “In Swingers, we couldn’t afford the people that told you what you couldn’t do. So, we just did everything,” Liman says about his early days of filming. He also points out that The Bourne Identity includes “shaky cam” footage because he lacked the permits to shoot in specific spaces. He was stealing shots, and audiences assumed the janky camera movements were a creative choice.

After biking through New York City streets, past Amazon’s gigantic Road House billboards, Liman and Neistat arrive at a sound studio. Speaking about the film, Liman says he used IMAX cameras to capture some of the action, with big stars like Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor chewing the scenery. “It’s a party,” Liman says about the vibes of Road House. “Some movies you watch alone, whatever. Then some movies are a party. Road House is a party! It’s like great music and great bar fights. There’s obviously more to it, but at the heart of it, it’s a party.”

Liman then notes a Bloomberg article saying Amazon plans to invest $1 billion a year in movies for theaters. “It turns out Amazon had no intention of putting it [Road House] out in theaters. They wanted to put it on their streaming service and sell toilet paper and toothbrushes.” 

“I’m not the only filmmaker Amazon is doing this to,” Liman continues. “There’s a string of filmmakers who are promised a theatrical release and then their films are dumped onto streaming. They’re giving me the shaft. They’re giving the public the shaft.”

After boycotting the event, Doug Liman attends Amazon’s Road House premiere in Texas. Niastat, confused about the decision, asks why Liman decided to show up. “It’s tough to do, but sometimes you just have to acknowledge that you lost. You took on Amazon, you fought for your movie. I literally did everything in my power to get this movie into theaters, and I lost,” Liman shrugs. “If this is literally going to be the only screening where people can buy tickets, and go see the movie, I want to be there.”

Per the official logline: “In this adrenaline-fueled reimagining of the ’80s cult classic, ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Gyllenhaal) takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.” In addition to Gyllenhaal, Road House stars Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim De Almeida, and Conor McGregor. The film aims to pay homage to the original while providing its own unique and exhilarating spin to introduce Dalton, the roadhouse, and all its chaos to a new generation.

What do you think about Doug Liman’s comments? Are you upset about not seeing Road House in theaters? Let us know in the comments section below.

Road House is currently streaming on Prime Video.

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Season 12 of the anthology series American Horror Story, which is also known as American Horror Story: Delicate, started airing back in September… but due to the writers and actors strikes, the season had to be split in half. (Just like Chucky season 3.) The second half of the season is set to start airing on FX on Wednesday, April 3 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The return episode will then be available to watch on the Hulu streaming service the next day. The second half of this season consists of four episodes, which will air on a weekly basis. With the season resuming in just under two weeks, a trailer for the second half has been released and can be seen in the embed above.

Deadline notes, “The series will be available on Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories at a later date.”

American Horror Story is an anthology series where each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings in the same fictional universe, and a storyline with its own “beginning, middle, and end.”

American Horror Story season 12 is based on source material, which is a first for the show. The material in question is the novel Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine – which is why season 12 is subtitled Delicate. Valentine’s novel Delicate Condition was just published last year, courtesy of Sourcebooks Landmark. (You can pick up a copy at THIS LINK.) It’s said to be a “gripping thriller about a woman who becomes convinced that a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens.“ Here’s the full description: Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she’s gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her. Then her doctor tells her she’s had a miscarriage―except Anna’s convinced she’s still pregnant despite everything the grave-faced men around her claim. She can feel the baby moving inside her, can see the strain it’s taking on her weakening body. Vague warnings become direct threats as someone stalks her through the bleak ghost town of the snowy Hamptons. As her symptoms and sense of danger grow ever more horrifying, Anna can’t help but wonder what exactly she’s carrying inside of her…and why no one will listen when she says something is horribly, painfully wrong. The TV adaptation is described as “a feminist update of Rosemary’s Baby“.

The cast of this season includes American Horror Story regular Emma Roberts, Cara Delevingne (Carnival Row), “reality star, entrepreneur, podcaster and pop culture icon” Kim Kardashian and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, who earned an Emmy nomination for her performance in the FX television series Pose, a series that American Horror Story creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk created with Steven Canals.

Kardashian is taking on a role that was written with her specifically in mind. This season of American Horror Story is being written and showrun by a single writer, Halley Feiffer. Murphy, Falchuk, and Feiffer are executive producing American Horror Story: Delicate with Alexis Martin Woodall and Scott Robertson.

Did you watch the first half of American Horror Story: Delicate, and will you be tuning in for the second half? What did you think of the trailer? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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According to a YouTuber, The Pokémon Company requested that YouTube remove a seven-year-old video showcasing modded Pokémon monsters in a Call of Duty: Zombies match.

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According to a YouTuber, The Pokémon Company requested that YouTube remove a seven-year-old video showcasing modded Pokémon monsters in a Call of Duty: Zombies match.

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The live-action TV series based on the Goosebumps books written by R.L. Stine that was released through the Disney+ and Hulu streaming services last October (read our review HERE) drew inspiration from five of Stine’s Goosebumps stories (Say Cheese and Die!, The Haunted Mask, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom, Go Eat Worms!, and Night of the Living Dummy). More Stine stories will be brought to the screen in Goosebumps season 2 – and just last night, it was revealed that Friends‘ David Schwimmer has joined the cast and is set to play a character named Anthony (described as “a former botany professor and divorced parent of teenage girls who is juggling the responsibilities of overseeing an aging parent while having his kids for the summer“). Now Deadline has learned that the new season’s cast of young series regulars consists of  Sam McCarthy (Dead to Me) and Jayden Bartels (Side Hustle) as fraternal twins Devin and Cece, respectively; Elijah Cooper (That Girl Lay Lay) as CJ; Galilea La Salvia (Party Down) as Frankie; and Francesca Noel (R#J) as Alex.

The twins Devin and Cece are the children of Schwimmer’s Anthony. Variety reports that Ana Ortiz is also in the cast and will be playing Jen, “a dedicated police detective who remains rooted in her Brooklyn neighborhood after experiencing a tragic event that involved her friends in adolescence.”

The first season of Goosebumps centered on a group of five high schoolers as they embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle — while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past. The show is taking the anthology route, so we can expect a second season that has “an entirely new cast and setting based on Stine’s iconic Scholastic book series.” Season 2 will also consist of eight episodes, two shorter than the first season.

Season 2 will pick up when teenage siblings discover a threat within their home, setting off a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, the duo find themselves entangled in the story of five teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.

Rob Letterman, who directed the first Goosebumps movie, created this series with Nick Stoller, and Hilary Winston serves as showrunner on the new season. Stoller is executive producing the show through his company Stoller Global Solutions. Letterman and Winston are also executive producing Goosebumps alongside Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Conor Welch of Stoller Global Solutions, and Erin O’Malley. The show comes to us from Sony Pictures Television Studios.

Are you a Goosebumps fan? What do you think of the cast that has been assembled for season 2? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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After years of rumors and speculation, Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot looks like it is finally heading into production. Set to be directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer, and written by Dan Gregor and Doug Man, fans expect a lot from this reboot. While many have tried (and failed) to update the franchise, and it’s hard to imagine anyone stepping into Leslie Nielsen’s iconic shoes at Lt. Frank Drebin, it’s pretty interesting that the team pairing on this is the same one that teamed on Disney’s much better than expected reboot of Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. All involved are really funny, so if anyone could make this work, it’s them. With a release date tentatively set for July 18th, 2025, here’s everything we know about the Naked Gun reboot.

Liam Neeson will be the star.

While some may wonder why Liam Neeson, a man not especially known for comedy is being cast as Frank Drebin, fans of film history will immediately understand why it’s a brilliant idea. While Leslie Nielsen is remembered now as one of the greatest comedy stars of all time, before he signed on to Airplane, he was best known as a deadpan character actor, without a single funny bone in his body. For proof, watch his sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, or The Poseidon Adventure. His casting was against type, and even when he headlined the TV show that spawned The Naked Gun, Police Squad, he was still showing up in serious roles, such as in Creepshow. It was the first Naked Gun that changed his career. This could theoretically do the same for Neeson, especially he adopts the same deadpan manner he did in this classic clip from Ted 2. That movie’s director, Seth McFarlane, who also worked with Neeson on A Million Ways to Die in the West, will be one of the producers here.

Who else will be in it?

No one knows (yet) who will join Neeson in the cast, but a hot rumour that went around recently was that Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Huller would co-star. While that would have been a delightfully off-kilter piece of casting, the rumour turned out to be bogus, which is a shame. There’s also a rumor Mads Mikkelsen will be playing the bad guy, which sounds almost too good to be true.

The original creators aren’t happy.

Sadly, two members of the original team behind The Naked Gun, David Zucker and Pat Proft aren’t happy about the reboot, with them telling THR that they actually came up with a draft for Naked Gun 4, which was rejected, and that if another movie in the series was going to be made, they should be the ones doing it (even if they hold no ill feelings towards Schaffer, who they praised).

When we get more info about the Naked Gun reboot, we’ll drop it here. Do you think Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot sounds like it’ll be good? Let us know in the comments!

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After years of rumors and speculation, Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot looks like it is finally heading into production. Set to be directed by The Lonely Island’s Akiva Schaffer, and written by Dan Gregor and Doug Man, fans expect a lot from this reboot. While many have tried (and failed) to update the franchise, and it’s hard to imagine anyone stepping into Leslie Nielsen’s iconic shoes at Lt. Frank Drebin, it’s pretty interesting that the team pairing on this is the same one that teamed on Disney’s much better than expected reboot of Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. All involved are really funny, so if anyone could make this work, it’s them. With a release date tentatively set for July 18th, 2025, here’s everything we know about the Naked Gun reboot.

Liam Neeson will be the star.

While some may wonder why Liam Neeson, a man not especially known for comedy is being cast as Frank Drebin, fans of film history will immediately understand why it’s a brilliant idea. While Leslie Nielsen is remembered now as one of the greatest comedy stars of all time, before he signed on to Airplane, he was best known as a deadpan character actor, without a single funny bone in his body. For proof, watch his sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, or The Poseidon Adventure. His casting was against type, and even when he headlined the TV show that spawned The Naked Gun, Police Squad, he was still showing up in serious roles, such as in Creepshow. It was the first Naked Gun that changed his career. This could theoretically do the same for Neeson, especially he adopts the same deadpan manner he did in this classic clip from Ted 2. That movie’s director, Seth McFarlane, who also worked with Neeson on A Million Ways to Die in the West, will be one of the producers here.

Who else will be in it?

No one knows (yet) who will join Neeson in the cast, but a hot rumour that went around recently was that Anatomy of a Fall star Sandra Huller would co-star. While that would have been a delightfully off-kilter piece of casting, the rumour turned out to be bogus, which is a shame. There’s also a rumor Mads Mikkelsen will be playing the bad guy, which sounds almost too good to be true.

The original creators aren’t happy.

Sadly, two members of the original team behind The Naked Gun, David Zucker and Pat Proft aren’t happy about the reboot, with them telling THR that they actually came up with a draft for Naked Gun 4, which was rejected, and that if another movie in the series was going to be made, they should be the ones doing it (even if they hold no ill feelings towards Schaffer, who they praised).

When we get more info about the Naked Gun reboot, we’ll drop it here. Do you think Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot sounds like it’ll be good? Let us know in the comments!

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Pete Davidson is laying his comedy series Bupkis to rest ahead of its planned second season. Davidson says while the semi-autobiographical comedy has been a great experience, it’s also an emotionally taxing show to bring to life on screens.

Davidson said about the sunsetting of Bupkis, “I’ve always seen Bupkis as a window into my life, since it is so personal and about my struggles and family. After nearly a decade of my personal life being in the media I wanted a chance to tell my story my way,” Davidson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Of all the work I’ve ever done, Bupkis is by far what I’m most proud of. I am so grateful to Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video, Peacock, Universal Television and the amazing cast and writers for helping me create something honest, funny and heartfelt. I do also feel that this part of my life is finished. I’m very excited for this next chapter and for you guys to see the work. Thank you to all who support me for I am forever grateful.”

There’s much to say about ending a project before it can sour. If the passion is gone, is it not better to end things on a high note? Pete Davidson is perpetually in the news and tabloids, with paparazzi shadowing his every move. I’m not surprised he wants to step away from something so personal when the media bleeds him dry of privacy daily.

Filming for Bupkis Season 2 was supposed to start in the summer. Still, sources say Pete Davidson emailed Peacock earlier this week about his intentions but failed to tell Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. While many shows have been canceled because of industry-wide budget cuts, Bupkis differs. Davidson is ending the show on his terms, even if it’s a surprise to specific parties associated with the project.

Created by Pete Davidson, Judah Miller, and Dave Sirus, Bupkis follows Pete Davidson’s life, combining grounded storytelling with some absurd elements from the worldview for which Davidson is well known. Edie Falco, Joe Pesci, Philip Ettinger, James A. DeSimone, Brad Garrett, Oona Roche, and Derek Gaines star alongside Davidson in Bupkis.

What do you think about Peter Davidson walking away from Bupkis? Were you hoping to catch another season of the show? Let us know in the comments section below.

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We all know Godzilla as the King of the Monsters and one of the most powerful terrors that ever hit the mainland. But you should never judge a book by its cover because the kaiju took a brief hiatus from destroying city centers to stomp into an entirely new role: Tokyo police chief…although the gig only lasted one day.

That’s right, Godzilla put his fire-breathing, skyscraper-leveling ways to the side so he could educate the people of Tokyo on – ready for this? – road safety, which is awfully ironic considering just how many roadways and bridges have been utterly destroyed by his invasions. According to Australia’s 7NEWS, Godzilla is “one of several Japanese characters chosen to raise public awareness about staying safe in Tokyo’s busy traffic.” As such, footage shows the legendary character on stage in front of a crowd and moving through the streets of Tokyo, complete with a sash…although we do suspect this is just a dude in a rubber suit.

But this isn’t the first time Godzilla has been entrusted with such significant duties, as he was named resident and tourism ambassador of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward in 2015. This shows just how important Godzilla is to Japanese culture, that they would embrace him in such a way after all of the destruction he has left in his wake since his first appearance in 1954.

Godzilla is looking at reaching new heights in pop culture popularity. Not only did Godzilla Minus One become the first of the 35+ movies to be nominated for the Best Visual Effects Oscar (going on to win, an astounding achievement considering series stigma and miniscule budget compared to fellow nominees) but the franchise has another American entry out this month with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which will help the kaiju celebrate 70 years on the big screen.

Godzilla earned the MTV Movie Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1996, joining the likes of Jason Voorhees, the Three Stooges and Jackie Chan. No word yet if Pamela’s baby boy will be taking on a leadership role in the New Jersey Swim Safety Alliance.

What is your favorite Godzilla movie? Give us your pick in the comments section below.

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One of the last movies we’d ever link to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is Showgirls. The Razzies, sure, but the Oscars? But the much-derided film is finally getting some due, with a special 35mm screening at the Academy Museum this week. Yes, it sold out.

Elizabeth Berkley – who played aspiring dancer Nomi in the 1995 movie – made a speech at the Showgirls screening, cheekily telling the audience, “So tonight I’d like to thank the Academy…Museum.” She went on to note the importance of the story that its initial audience missed, expressing her gratitude to those that have continued to support the movie nearly 30 years on. “[Showgirls] really pushed the boundaries at that time that now have been embraced — not misunderstood but truly embraced. And I’m so grateful that the film has found its way not only in your hearts but especially the LGBTQ community…You stood by the film…You always believed as did I and for that I’m eternally grateful.”

What’s most incredible is that those who have come to love Showgirls don’t necessarily watch it as a so-bad-it’s-good movie. OK, so the acting remains absolutely dreadful and plenty laughable at its lowest points, but Showgirls – for all of its campy glory – is actually an overall well-crafted movie with energetic direction from Paul Verhoeven and cinematography that bleeds neon and sequins.

And the Academy isn’t the only prestigious group to be recognizing Showgirls as of late, as The Criterion Channel featured it in their “And The Razzie Goes To…” retrospective. We don’t see Freddy Got Fingered screening at the Academy Museum! While newfound genuine appreciation for Showgirls is welcome, it will always be that Razzies darling to most. It would go on to win seven Golden Raspberries, later being named the Worst Picture of the Decade. Paul Verhoeven made awards history when he became the first person to accept his statue in person, showing that the cast and crew has always been loyal to the movie.

If you like Showgirls, I also recommend the 2019 documentary You Don’t Nomi, which does its part in putting a new light on the film.

How do you feel about Showgirls in 2024? Do you genuinely love it or is it as bad as the consensus says?

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