McDonald’s is paying tribute to its lucrative merchandising past with a new set of collector’s meal cups that star past McDonald’s cup icons like Grimace, Hello Kitty, and Shrek. They’re plastic instead of glass, but they won’t leach heavy metals into your bloodstream this time either.
Two years ago, we heard that Ghostbusters: Afterlife writer/director Jason Reitman and his co-writer Gil Kenan (who ended up directing Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire) would be executive producing a new Ghostbusters animated series for the Netflix streaming service. Now Variety has broken the news that Netflix has officially given a greenlight to this series, and Elliott Kalan has boarded the project as writer, showrunner, and executive producer. Kalan has previously worked as the head writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, wrote for the Netflix revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000, co-hosts the podcast The Flop House, and wrote the Marvel comic book series Spider-Man and the X-Men.
Plot details are still under wraps, but Variety’s sources have told them that “the 3D animated series will be tonally in line with the recent Ghostbusters films.” It’s also not clear which characters this show will be focusing on.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife starred Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace as a family with single mom Callie and her two kids, Trevor and Phoebe, who move into a beaten-down farmhouse in Oklahoma only to discover that there’s something strange in the neighborhood. Unexplained quakes shake the town. There’s an old mine nearby that bears the name of Ivo Shandor, who built the Manhattan high-rise in the 1984 film that channeled the forces of evil. By the end of that film, the family had learned that Callie’s father was the late Ghostbuster Egon Spengler.
Callie, Trevor, and Phoebe, along with Paul Rudd as Callie’s love interest Gary Grooberson, were Ghostbusters based out of the team’s original New York firehouse HQ in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The Spengler family returns to the iconic New York City firehouse where the original Ghostbusters have taken ghost-busting to the next level. When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must unite to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age. Coon, Wolfhard, Grace, and Rudd starred in these films with original Ghostbusters stars Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Bill Murray, and Annie Potts, along with fellow new additions Celeste O’Connor as Trevor’s friend Lucky and Logan Kim as Phoebe’s friend Podcast.
This new Ghostbusters animated series is coming our way from Sony Pictures Animation, with, as mentioned, Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan executive producing for Ghost Corps, Inc. Production on the series will be handled by Netflix and Ghost Corps, Inc., which is based at Sony’s Columbia Pictures.
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At 69 years old, James Cameron is still one of the busiest filmmakers in Hollywood. This past weekend, new details about the third film in the Avatar franchise, Avatar: Fire & Ash, debuted at Disney’s D23 conference. The details teased what’s next for the Na’vi and what wonders fans can expect when the special-effects-driven spectacle takes cinemas by storm. Miraculously, Cameron found time in his busy schedule to engage in a rapid-fire chat with The Hollywood Reporter about upcoming projects, rumors, Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, his tendency to be “overbearing,” and more.
Digging into a project that Cameron isn’t directly involved in but has his stamp of approval is Netflix’s Terminator Zero TV series. The series stars Timothy Olyphant, Rosario Dawson, Sonoya Mizuno, Ann Dowd, and André Holland. The show chronicles the rise of Skynet and Malcolm Lee’s mission to invent a counter-program to prevent the apocalypse. When asked if he’s seen Terminator Zero, Cameron said, “It looks interesting. My relationship to that is very much like The Sarah Connor Chronicles — other people spinning stories in a world I set in motion is interesting to me. What’s their takeaway? What intrigued them about it? Where are they going with it? It looks like they’re going back to the root cause of Judgment Day — the nuclear war — and whether that’s an ultimate timeline. I’d be curious to see what they’ve come up with. I’m working on my own Terminator stuff right now. It’s got nothing to do with that. Like with The Sarah Connor Chronicles, they occasionally touched on things I had been playing with completely independently. So there’s some curiosity there. It’s not a burning curiosity, but, obviously, it’d be nice to see it succeed.”
Unfortunately, Cameron says his secret Terminator project is classified, and unless we want deadly robots to extract information from our brains in an unceremonious manner, we should let him cook.
When asked about his screening of Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, Cameron seized the opportunity to set the record straight about his involvement with the film. Cameron says he saw a cut of the film six months ago and enjoyed it. He shared a few notes with Alvarez, but nothing major. He hopes Alvarez succeeds with the film and doesn’t have much else to say. Cameron stresses he was never involved with the film as much as people thought he was.
THR also touched on the rumor that James Cameron is involved with a Fantastic Voyage reboot. Roland Emmerich said he’s exiting the project at Comic-Con, going so far as to call Cameron “overbearing.” Cameron, surprised that this is even news, responded:
“I’ve never said anything negative about Roland. But anyway: Yes, I’m overbearing. Damn right. When it’s a project where I’ve contributed to the writing, I might actually have an opinion on it. I actually don’t even remember talking to Roland Emmerich about Fantastic. I remember the other directors that we worked with for months on end trying to develop that project. If I talked to Roland, it was for two minutes. I have a pretty good memory and I don’t remember that at all.”
When asked if he was still interested in exploring Fantastic Voyage, Cameron said to forget about the project and move on to another subject. The next subject is the recent 4K transfers of Aliens and True Lies, which, if you’ve been paying attention, could have been better received by fans. Cameron, always proud of his work and unafraid to ruffle feathers, thinks cinephiles obsessing about pixel-perfect transfers need to get a life. Do you think I’m being facetious? Observe:
“When people start reviewing your grain structure, they need to move out of mom’s basement and meet somebody. Right? I’m serious. I mean, are you fucking kidding me? I’ve got a great team that does the transfers. I do all the color and density work. I look at every shot, every frame, and then the final transfer is done by a guy who has been with me [for years]. All the Avatar films are done that way. Everything is done that way. Get a life, people, seriously.”
While Cameron touches on other projects in the interview, like his upcoming OceanXplorers series, the conversation eventually turns to the future of his Avatar franchise. With Avatar: Fire & Ash well on its way to theaters late next year, the question of passing the directorial torch for Avatar 4 and 5 hangs in the air.
Cameron loves the Avatar franchise and will direct the fourth and fifth chapters of the series if he has his way. He reread the scripts for both movies a month ago and thinks they’re “cracking stories.” Hollywood would have to pry the Avatar director’s chair from his cold, dead hands, it would seem. I get it. Avatar is Cameron’s baby, a powerhouse for his special effects prowess. Surrendering the reins to a film series as powerful as Avatar is unlikely, especially with so much of the filmmaker’s blood, sweat, and tears poured into every chapter. Who would want to take the franchise over? Who would be brave enough?
For more details about James Cameron’s OceanXplorers series and more, make sure you read THR‘s full interview. In the meantime, what do you think Cameron’s secret Terminator project is about? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the next main entry in Ubisoft’s long-running open-world historical stab-a-thon series. The big game arrives later this year, and when it does, it will have had the longest development cycle in the franchise’s nearly 20-year history.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the next main entry in Ubisoft’s long-running open-world historical stab-a-thon series. The big game arrives later this year, and when it does, it will have had the longest development cycle in the franchise’s nearly 20-year history.
The cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 prides itself on being a tough game. It’s got enemies that love to overwhelm players, and the higher the difficulty of the mission, the more heavily armored and massive they are. The recent Escalation of Freedom update has upped the ante with a fresh crop of nightmares to face off…
The cooperative shooter Helldivers 2 prides itself on being a tough game. It’s got enemies that love to overwhelm players, and the higher the difficulty of the mission, the more heavily armored and massive they are. The recent Escalation of Freedom update has upped the ante with a fresh crop of nightmares to face off…
Who wants to travel back to a time when the most significant threat to the nation was a red-scaled demon with a bifurcated tail and great taste in music? That’s right, folks! Satanic panic is back, thanks to Peacock‘s Hysteria! teaser trailer! Hide your kids! Say your prayers! Prepare for a moral panic that is more appealing than anything you see on today’s news!
Here’s the official (and lengthy) synopsis for Hysteria!:
“What are those kids up to? Whatever it is, it can’t be good.”
That fear haunts every generation. Children of the Atomic Age went on to terrifying their families by turning on, tuning in and dropping out in the sixties. Those same “free spirits” went on to vote for Reagan and called for censorship of the “obscene” and “satanic” heavy metal bands their own kids worshiped. Now, those kids are adults who rail against pronouns, TikTok, and a movie about Barbie. The cycle doesn’t end. And it’s hard to escape the feeling that someone, or something, is sitting by watching it all and laughing.
Hysteria! is about both sides of that generational fear. It’s about the thrills of being young, rebellious in spirit, and aspirational at heart – and the horrors of growing up and realizing that the world you thought you knew has shifted beneath your feet.
Our hope is that parents and children (of the appropriate age, of course) can enjoy the chills, the laughs, the music, and the heart of Hysteria! together. Growing up is scary. So is parenting.
When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the “Satanic Panic” of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported “supernatural activity” triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.
In Peacock’s Hysteria! teaser trailer, Julie Bowen (Modern Family, Happy Gilmore) dances to Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” before getting interrupted by a supernatural phenomenon that would have the Ghostbusters booking it to her house. After what appears like aftershocks from a minor earthquake subside, Bowen returns to her chores. However, there’s something sinister inside her microwave, and all hell is about to break loose.
Julie Bowen (Totally Killer, Hubie Halloween), Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, The Help), Emjay Anthony (Chef, Krampus), Chiara Aurelia (Luckiest Girl Alive, Tell Me Your Secrets), Kezii Curtis (Dolemite Is My Name, The Thundermans), and Nikki Hahn (Adventures in Babysitting, Pretty Little Liars) star in Hysteria!, with Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead, Burn Notice) in a guest-starring role. Garret Dillahunt, Nolan North, Elijah Richardson, Milly Shapiro, Allison Scagliotti, and Jessica Treska guest as well.
Hysteria! debuts on Peacock on October 18, just in time for Halloween pre-gaming! The show consists of eight hour-long episodes. USA Network and SYFY will simulcast the first episode on October 18, with USA Network airing episodes each Friday.
What do you think about Peacock’s Hysteria! teaser trailer? Let us know in the comments section below.
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You can subscribe to services for music, food, and underwear. Why not a subscription for kids party venues as well? Chuck E. Cheese, once the home of beautiful and haunting animatronics, is launching a new membership for free games and discounted food that can’t wait to get added to the list of automatic payments you…
You can subscribe to services for music, food, and underwear. Why not a subscription for kids party venues as well? Chuck E. Cheese, once the home of beautiful and haunting animatronics, is launching a new membership for free games and discounted food that can’t wait to get added to the list of automatic payments you…