The question on everyone’s lips right now is: Switch 2 when? Now in its eighth year, the current handheld hybrid is more than a little long in the tooth, and the evidence continues to mount that fans still have a bit of a wait to go before Nintendo launches its next console.
Back in 2022, it was reported that Jamie Foxx’s directorial debut, All-Star Weekend, was shelved and the reason has pointed to the controversial casting of Robert Downey Jr. in a role that has only been described as “Mexican.” Foxx and Downey Jr. have collaborated in the past and Foxx has been supportive of Downey Jr. when criticisms surface of his satirical role in Tropic Thunder when he appears in black face. Foxx spoke of the shelving, “It’s been tough…with the lay of the land of comedy…We’re trying to break open those sensitive corners where people go back to laughing again.”
While Foxx has moved on to other projects, this past week, he has taken to his YouTube channel to “leak” a trailer for All-Star Weekend. His strategy brings to mind when Ryan Reynolds spent years trying to get a Deadpool movie off the ground and it didn’t see momentum until test footage of the highway fight scene had leaked and the overwhelming response got it greenlit in very short time.
Foxx posted the trailer with the hashtag “#leak” and wrote in the description, “The movie we couldn’t realease a while back…but I got a sneaky feeling we might have to drop this bitch.. the vibe is right…. UNOFFICIAL TRAILER… #leak What do you get when you combine 8 championships rings with 4 gold medals 3 Oscars and some of my homies ALL STAR WEEKEND! … stay tuned 2025. And congratulations to the whole USA Olympic basketball team! Let’s laugh”
It turns out Downey Jr.’s role in All-Star Weekend would have been more of a cameo, as he reportedly was only on set for four hours. The movie would have reunited Foxx and Downey Jr. after 2009’s The Soloist and 2010’s Due Date.
All-Star Weekend stars Foxx and Jeremy Piven as two basketball-obsessed truck drivers who score tickets to the NBA All-Star Game. (Foxx also stated he has another role as a “white, racist cop.”) It was originally intended to be released in 2018 around the time of the NBA All-Star Game and then again in 2019, before being shelved altogether.
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With just a week and change left until Concord hits the ground running, the team behind the first-person hero shooter has announced its plans for the PlayStation 5 console exclusive’s future. A roadmap confirms at least three seasons of post-launch updates, as well as a microtransaction store coming in October.
With just a week and change left until Concord hits the ground running, the team behind the first-person hero shooter has announced its plans for the PlayStation 5 console exclusive’s future. A roadmap confirms at least three seasons of post-launch updates, as well as a microtransaction store coming in October.
Musical biopics have picked up in activity as of late. Recently, the Bob Marley movie One Love encapsulated a notable story from the Raggae icon’s life. This year has seen the release of Back to Black, which told the story of Amy Winehouse. And this Christmas will see the premiere of A Complete Unknown, which brings James Mangold back to the music world with Timothée Chalamet occupying the shoes of Bob Dylan. Not to mention, in the future, we’re getting a Bruce Springsteen film with Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, and Sam Mendes is bringing The Beatles’ story to theaters across four feature films.
Deadline is now reporting that a Boy George biopic is now in development over at TriStar. It’s still in the early stages, but the movie is set to be written by scribe J.C. Lee, who co-wrote the film adaptation of his own play Luce. Lee has also written for television with credits that include ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, HBO’s Looking and Girls, and The Morning Show for Apple. The movie is set to be produced by Woman King producer Cathy Schulman, George’s manager Paul Kemsley, Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin King Templeton, along with Primary Wave Music. Boy George will also be attached as an executive producer.
Lee will be adapting the script from Boy George’s autobiographies, Take It Like A Man, Straight and Karma and it is said to be focusing on the successful years of George’s group, Culture Club. Boy George can recently be seen in the Sky Original film Arthur’s Whisky starring Diane Keaton. And earlier this year, he teamed up with Ariana DeBose and Nile Rodgers for the song “Electric Energy,” which was the tie-in single with the Matthew Vaughn spy comedy Argylle. He had also taken the stage when he recently headlined the Broadway run of Moulin Rouge! The Musical.
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This month, the latest entry in the long-running Alien sci-fi franchise hits theaters. Alien: Romulus, starring Cailee Spaney (Civil War) and Isabela Merced (Madame Web) from noted horror director Fede Álvarez, debuts August 14, and from the trailers and early reactions, it looks like a fantastic entry in the…
This month, the latest entry in the long-running Alien sci-fi franchise hits theaters. Alien: Romulus, starring Cailee Spaney (Civil War) and Isabela Merced (Madame Web) from noted horror director Fede Álvarez, debuts August 14, and from the trailers and early reactions, it looks like a fantastic entry in the…
Cleveland rocks! And so does Plex because that streaming service is now offering The Drew Carey Show, marking the first time that the long-running sitcom has ever been available on such a format for free. So crack open a Buzz Beer and let’s get this binge-watch going!
Just this month — 20 years after its ninth and final season concluded — The Drew Carey Show finally got a proper streaming release for free. While you’ll have to sit through ads, just be happy that it’s here in the most widely available way since it aired on ABC.
So what took so long? Like so many series, The Drew Carey Show, it comes down to music rights. This was something Carey himself had previously discussed, telling TV Insider the show was “not in syndication…because of music rights and stuff…We’re going to try to change that around and get it back out there.” Well, sure as a five o’clock world exists, that time has finally come. It should be noted that Warner Bros. only ever released the first season on DVD because of later music rights issues. Fans of the show will remember that it was “Moon Over Parma” — performed by Carey — that served as the show’s theme that season before switching over to “Five o’Clock World” and later, most famously, “Cleveland Rocks” as performed by The Presidents of the United States of America.
It’s easy to see why The Drew Carey Show would hit that music rights wall, as the show made great use of it throughout its run. Take a look at the official soundtrack and you see an array of songs from the likes of Iggy Pop, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, The Edgar Winter Group, and Joe Walsh — who had a recurring role as guitarist Ed — and you can see see just the surface of what they might have needed to clear to keep the show as intact as it could be.
Other great shows that have recently worked through their music rights issues and have found streaming homes include Homicide: Life on the Streets — which will be headed to Peacock later this month — and Moonlighting, which hit Hulu earlier this year.
Will you be doing a rewatch of The Drew Carey Show on Plex or are you too busy jamming with The Horndogs?
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Just before Halloween back in 2022, it was announced that Willa Fitzgerald and Kyle Gallner – who both have experience working in the Scream franchise, as Fitzgerald was in the Scream TV series and Gallner appeared in the 2022 Scream movie – were set to star in the “cat and mouse thriller” Strange Darling. Earlier this year, we learned that Magenta Light Studios will be giving Strange Darling a wide theatrical release in the United States on August 23rd – and with that date right around the corner, a new trailer for the film has arrived online, along with a pair of posters. The trailer can be seen in the embed above, and the posters can be found at the bottom of this article.
Reviews from audience members who saw the movie at Fantastic Fest last year indicate that it will work best if viewers have as little information as possible going in. We previously heard that it has something to do with a spontaneous hookup gone terribly wrong. The official synopsis reveals that nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Strange Darling was written and directed by J.T. Mollner (Outlaws and Angels), and filming took place in Portland, Oregon. The film was produced by former Miramax CEO Bill Block, Chris Ivan Cevic, Steven Schneider, Roy Lee, and actor Giovanni Ribisi, who also served as the director of photography.
Fitzgerald and Gallner were joined in the cast by Oscar nominee Barbara Hershey (The Entity) and Emmy nominee Ed Begley Jr. (Better Call Saul). According to IMDb, the cast of the film also features Madisen Beaty (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Bianca A. Santos (Ouija), Steven Michael Quezada (Breaking Bad), Eugenia Kuzmina (Bad Moms), Denise Grayson (The Social Network), and Duke Mollner – who happens to be the director’s father, and also had a role in Outlaws and Angels.
Select theatres will be getting a Live Q&A Early Access Event on Wednesday, August 14th, which will feature a Q&A with Mollner, Ribisi, and Fitzgerald, moderated by Carla Gugino (The Fall of the House of Usher, The Haunting of Hill House). Tickets are available at strangedarlingfilm.com.
Are you looking forward to Strange Darling? Check out the new trailer and let us know by leaving a comment below – and take a look at these posters while you’re scrolling down:
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Back in 2022, one of the most unexpectedly big games of the year was a cute little cult simulator. Cult of the Lamb, developed by Massive Monster and published by Devolver Digital, made a huge splash when it launched two summers ago and spoke to all the little freaks and deviants out there. Its hybrid of Animal…